What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

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  • @kurzgesagt
    @kurzgesagt  4 роки тому +11284

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  • @TierZoo
    @TierZoo 4 роки тому +37689

    I mean sure, I guess its important where aliens rank on the Kardashev Scale, but lets be honest, the real question we need the answer to is where aliens rank on the tier list.

    • @NeoNik21
      @NeoNik21 4 роки тому +637

      hahaha

    • @squibble311
      @squibble311 4 роки тому +1111

      yo tierzoo is here guys

    • @Etiree
      @Etiree 4 роки тому +507

      Good one tierzoo very funny I laugh

    • @newsicmaker6377
      @newsicmaker6377 4 роки тому +508

      man humans are C tier at most

    • @turtleforge3065
      @turtleforge3065 4 роки тому +105

      That would be A rank ahahaha

  • @anaphylaxis6599
    @anaphylaxis6599 4 роки тому +28520

    The quality of your content is just astronomically astonishing.

  • @UV_Lightning
    @UV_Lightning 4 роки тому +12031

    Imagine a galactic civilization knows we exist but our galaxy was chosen to be left alone like a national forest or park

    • @racoonlittle1679
      @racoonlittle1679 4 роки тому +2286

      Or as a lab experiment.

    • @deathstroke2697
      @deathstroke2697 4 роки тому +597

      @@racoonlittle1679 very likely

    • @MM6_Bruh
      @MM6_Bruh 4 роки тому +957

      possibly we are one of their computer simulations

    • @zabbiful
      @zabbiful 4 роки тому +1831

      Or we are their car battery

    • @kid14346
      @kid14346 4 роки тому +1430

      Or it is like one of those do not interact with tribes on earth.
      "They aren't techonologically advanced enough and are happier how they are currently. Let's leave them to their own devices."

  • @Locket.L
    @Locket.L Рік тому +1137

    The fact that humans can think on this large of a scale is really impressive in its own right. As long as our extra-terrestrial gods will hear us out, I think humans will survive. Let’s hope they don’t run into flat-earthers.

    • @manicstatic370
      @manicstatic370 Рік тому +20

      Why would they care about a single planet of primitives

    • @Locket.L
      @Locket.L Рік тому +106

      @@manicstatic370 Maybe they’ve moved past harming other creatures for dumb reasons. I think in that regard us humans are still primitive.

    • @manicstatic370
      @manicstatic370 Рік тому +7

      @@ValouroverFear type one civilizations can be considered primitive as well

    • @orlando2292
      @orlando2292 Рік тому

      @@ValouroverFear If humanity doesn't self destruct in the next 500 years and invests more resources in technology within that time we for certain will be a Type 2 civilization. Mastering space flight within our Solar system would be key. Mining asteroids and certain moons starting with ours for helium 3 we'll get there. I'm sad I won't live to see it. Look how far we came in 100 or so years with the Einsteins, Tesla's and now Elon and Bezos. Enough innovation and we'll take over this Solar system and maybe even colonize other moons even planets! Imagine colonizing a dwarf planet by building a small space station and mining it for precious metals because in the end it all comes down to resources.

    • @Deltexterity
      @Deltexterity Рік тому

      @@ValouroverFear we kill millions of members of our own species every year, either by violent crime, or war, or simply hoarding vital resources. we prioritize our individual selves over our whole species. i doubt a type 2 civilization like us in that way could ever even become a type 3 in the first place, since the more they advance, the faster they push back against their own progress via war. even if they don't eradicate themselves with antimatter bombs or some other super sci-fi weapon we haven't even conceived of, they could still destroy themselves faster than they expand, and never actually go further than controlling a few solar systems as result.
      even if they did become a type 3, they'd likely change their ways as result of it. a type 3 civilization has virtually unlimited resources and energy, far more than they could ever use. things like killing other species would no longer provide any advantage to them, so even if they were selfish they still wouldn't have any reason to do that. there aren't any materials on earth that they can't get unlimited of from other parts of the galaxy, and if anything it'd be more of a hassle for them to take from us than from planets without life, since our nukes could still delay them from mining whatever it is they want from earth for a few weeks at least. there's just no point in stealing or war when you become that powerful, it actually becomes more trouble than it's worth, so it makes no sense that they'd be "evil".
      compared to that, we're pretty primitive.

  • @teegsy
    @teegsy 4 роки тому +3397

    I think The narrators voice is a really important part of This channel now

    • @ZootyTooter
      @ZootyTooter 4 роки тому +166

      if they replaced him with some dude with a texan accent the rate of gain and rate of loss of subscribers would be the exact same.

    • @guyfrompoland1358
      @guyfrompoland1358 4 роки тому +66

      He's type Omega GOD

    • @pineapplerr
      @pineapplerr 4 роки тому +47

      Yes! He is incredible. He is one of the reasons I prefer this channel over The Infographic Show channel.. among many many other things.

    • @MaverickBos2Ny
      @MaverickBos2Ny 4 роки тому +6

      David Attenborough

    • @zeljitokekreisi277
      @zeljitokekreisi277 4 роки тому +6

      Bleak Furball that is not correct.

  • @gingembrecarlate6146
    @gingembrecarlate6146 4 роки тому +23844

    Imagine if type Ω beings have their own Kardashev scale, and they classify themselves only as the type 1.

    • @-_Jayden_-
      @-_Jayden_- 4 роки тому +2967

      Yesss and their type 3 is a civilization controlling all universes and ALL MULTIVERSES (alternative realities/universes)

    • @Xenoshey
      @Xenoshey 4 роки тому +494

      0_0

    • @User-xw5mk
      @User-xw5mk 4 роки тому +1928

      Maybe they do exist. Maybe just maybe religions are telling the truth. Maybe there's one ultimate god that rules over all and everything that exist.

    • @olegfavorskii1403
      @olegfavorskii1403 4 роки тому +1417

      Yes, its us when we play sims

    • @peterpitcard
      @peterpitcard 4 роки тому +443

      yeah, or 0.75

  • @ElSoMbRiO19
    @ElSoMbRiO19 4 роки тому +910

    Everybody says "Kurzgesagt narrator and animators are great" but what about the background music creators? they are becoming better and better every year.

    • @landonwiggins7823
      @landonwiggins7823 4 роки тому +5

      Flarex Epic Mountain Music is Pretty Great.

    • @insertname4337
      @insertname4337 4 роки тому +10

      Kurzgesagt videos does everything well to me

    • @michaljon1963
      @michaljon1963 4 роки тому

      hell yeah i like it a lot!

    • @rsatykumar
      @rsatykumar 4 роки тому +3

      Not every year but every video

    • @isiffrin
      @isiffrin 4 роки тому +4

      Epic Mountain smashed that Asteroid video.

  • @markmuller1559
    @markmuller1559 2 роки тому +790

    Imagine an alien being from a Type 0.75 Civilization in some planet and watching a video about the possibility of life outside their planet.

    • @southestst
      @southestst 2 роки тому +9

      @ᴍᴜsᴋᴇᴛᴇᴇʀ an increase of 0.1 would mean 10x more energy so i believe they would a bit more advanced

    • @chazdoit
      @chazdoit 2 роки тому +25

      pfff that's probably happening now

    • @D00DM00D
      @D00DM00D 2 роки тому +16

      Somewhere in a distant galaxy, someone is watching a video like this

    • @Spacemongerr
      @Spacemongerr 2 роки тому

      sounds gross

    • @zizochemlali4639
      @zizochemlali4639 Рік тому +23

      Cough cough us cough cough humans cough cough

  • @rummusLoL
    @rummusLoL 4 роки тому +8827

    Man, I would TOTALLY wanna play a civilisation style game with kurzgesagt graphics!

    • @starlightstarbright4689
      @starlightstarbright4689 3 роки тому +356

      this comment needs more exposure

    • @rummusLoL
      @rummusLoL 3 роки тому +226

      @@starlightstarbright4689 then like the comment everyone, so kurzgesagt can see it 😁

    • @gavinstarks2761
      @gavinstarks2761 3 роки тому +136

      stellaris

    • @V01DG0D
      @V01DG0D 3 роки тому +9

      nah an age of empires style game would be better

    • @wij2012Gaming
      @wij2012Gaming 3 роки тому +53

      That would be sick.

  • @BIackMirror
    @BIackMirror 4 роки тому +747

    Omg the artists must have had a field day with this o.o

    • @MadCyantist
      @MadCyantist 4 роки тому +29

      FleX I was thinking the same! So many fun graphics in this episode

    • @wrongcreativity
      @wrongcreativity 4 роки тому +6

      Love the sci-fi references. Did not expect the Mass Effect's Mass Relay.

    • @UriahD85
      @UriahD85 4 роки тому

      Ayahuasca, DMT, Acid, makes things better

  • @abhimore4273
    @abhimore4273 3 роки тому +2529

    can we just appreciate the fact that something with THIS amount of quality is free

    • @sunshineboyy4564
      @sunshineboyy4564 3 роки тому +43

      you comment this on literally every one of his videos

    • @detcom9140
      @detcom9140 3 роки тому +5

      I broke the 69 likes

    • @Luthfiwikrama
      @Luthfiwikrama 3 роки тому +6

      @@sunshineboyy4564 that just shows that he's an epic gamer

    • @DrewBoyd83
      @DrewBoyd83 3 роки тому +13

      It's not free. Money is not the only form of payment in life. Time and influence are worth much more than money, especially on UA-cam. And you give yours away while thanking those taking them from you. Oops!

    • @Luthfiwikrama
      @Luthfiwikrama 3 роки тому +5

      @@DrewBoyd83 I think he's talking about how you don't have to spend money every time you want to watch a video lol

  • @punkbuster002
    @punkbuster002 Рік тому +357

    The concept of the dark forest combined with the Fermi paradox and the Zoo Hypothesis, it could be possible that we are shielded by an even more advanced civilization so as to protect us from the other inhabitants of the Dark forest until we mature enough to venture out on our own

    • @darklex5150
      @darklex5150 Рік тому +30

      But why would they do that?
      What could we possibly give them for them to spend their efforts hiding underdeveloped monkeys?

    • @CairoFaustine
      @CairoFaustine Рік тому +56

      @@darklex5150 Could be that they like to study us or keep us as a form of reason to continue existing. after all, the example being that they are so advanced, we are just mere ants or wild animals to them. their reasons being beyond our comprehension, or they could just be bored

    • @darklex5150
      @darklex5150 Рік тому

      @@CairoFaustine i don't see the point in studying us, we can't bring anything to them, it's like studying about monkeys, but way more useless.
      If we talked about a single individual then maybe yes, they could be bored but we are talking about an entire civilization; civilizations don't get bored.
      Besides, i refuse to believe that we cannont comprehend the motives of such a civilization, they aren't type 3.

    • @_jaegerboy_
      @_jaegerboy_ Рік тому

      @@CairoFaustine or we could possibly be their creation, why? Maybe they just want to keep their legacy in our DNA, *or maybe a teenage alien got SO bored one day and created us on pure accident*

    • @isrealieditz445
      @isrealieditz445 Рік тому +8

      Just to think that aliens could be watching us right now with a telescope that can see over 500,000 light years away

  • @themandownstairs4765
    @themandownstairs4765 4 роки тому +2620

    "hey dude I'm bored"
    "why don't we create a universe"
    "yeah okay i'm down"

    • @kazz8176
      @kazz8176 4 роки тому +75

      I would love to if I could, so why not

    • @raxor_
      @raxor_ 4 роки тому +93

      they probably dont even know what boredom is, or they are in eternal boredom

    • @saramcdonald22
      @saramcdonald22 4 роки тому +61

      “Hmm dude I made a mistake”
      “I left the end button in the universe let’s hope the humans or those weird green looking dudes don’t find it”
      “I’m sorry pls don’t erase me”

    • @ogjimcoily
      @ogjimcoily 4 роки тому +7

      Ignorance.

    • @kevray
      @kevray 4 роки тому +13

      Yep those are literal gods

  • @Theking0fgg
    @Theking0fgg 3 роки тому +4470

    There's a type 1 civilization watching their own version of this video right now

    • @bluedonkey180
      @bluedonkey180 3 роки тому +24

      we are a type 1 though

    • @Hybred
      @Hybred 3 роки тому +232

      @@bluedonkey180 almost

    • @StanbyMode
      @StanbyMode 3 роки тому +62

      @@bluedonkey180 they never said we werent? And it has nothing to do with the comment anyway, and we arent even type 1 yet

    • @bluedonkey180
      @bluedonkey180 3 роки тому +7

      @@StanbyMode CARDANO TO THE MOON 🚀 but CARDANO if it’s under 1.50!!!!! YOU WILL MISS OUT

    • @worldconqueror2206
      @worldconqueror2206 3 роки тому

      Somewhere at least

  • @Sciencerely
    @Sciencerely 4 роки тому +484

    As a stem cell researcher I think it's safe to say that biological research will greatly benefit our civilization in the following couple of hundred years given recent advances. Scientists have already found ways to precisely edit the DNA of cells, the costs of deciphering DNA sequences of humans have dropped from over 100 Million dollars to 80 dollars within 15 years, and we learned to make tiny organ-like structures called organoids in the laboratory which could be used for transplantation one day (I made a video about lab-grown mini brains some weeks ago). It will be so great to see what will happen in the future!

    • @shermuhammadkhan3383
      @shermuhammadkhan3383 4 роки тому +13

      Hey man, glad i could see your comment here ! I am very very very insanely fond of biology, genetic manipulation / stem cells and all the most, and i would like to do what you're doing if not something similar, i definitely will check your channel out !

    • @shermuhammadkhan3383
      @shermuhammadkhan3383 4 роки тому +7

      A little more insight as to what you do and what exactly I'd have to study to become like you would be appreciated. currently i am planning on doing my undergraduate as an Mbbs, and then specialising into genetic engineering with human applications, is this a good pathway ?

    • @dreamscape513
      @dreamscape513 4 роки тому +12

      Hopefully humanity grows up soon, we probably won't be responsible with the technology coming out otherwise

    • @reob12
      @reob12 4 роки тому +4

      I understand stem cell research is different, but Bill Gates said a similar if not the same thing about computers, and... well you see how people use them.

    • @2Garins
      @2Garins 4 роки тому +8

      genetically engineered catgirls lets gooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @qaaris4280
    @qaaris4280 Рік тому +46

    6:14 I just noticed they snuck the lead melody of their Dyson Sphere music in when the Dyson swarm was mentioned.

  • @c.i.a.932
    @c.i.a.932 4 роки тому +12135

    Whatever the animator is getting paid, it’s not enough.

    • @Lion10104
      @Lion10104 4 роки тому +1960

      Whatever politicians are getting paid, it is more than enough

    • @shaky6995
      @shaky6995 4 роки тому +836

      @@Lion10104 ironic coming from the fbi

    • @dipdip7250
      @dipdip7250 4 роки тому +72

      Lol

    • @CrimesForDimes
      @CrimesForDimes 4 роки тому +181

      @@Lion10104 IRONIC

    • @ricochet4674
      @ricochet4674 4 роки тому +190

      I bet there is more than one. But yea they’re good.

  • @trapozlite4487
    @trapozlite4487 4 роки тому +3033

    “That was fun!” said the Type Omega as he dissembled the universe and put it back in the box.

    • @TheNasaDude
      @TheNasaDude 4 роки тому +310

      Let's hope we're not part of a toy, forgotten on the floor by an alien child

    • @krishangshah7384
      @krishangshah7384 4 роки тому +184

      Toy story intensifies

    • @wanikmal800
      @wanikmal800 4 роки тому +11

      @@krishangshah7384 ikr

    • @Aperage87
      @Aperage87 4 роки тому +85

      "That was fun and relaxing! - but bugs grew in my toy so this one go bye"

    • @andreatavaglione6459
      @andreatavaglione6459 4 роки тому +26

      why did I read it with Bill Wurtz's voice?

  • @xxmustard_boixx
    @xxmustard_boixx 4 роки тому +811

    This channel makes science even more cool than it already is.

  • @hankschrader7050
    @hankschrader7050 Рік тому +21

    Statistically speaking, the Universe is so big that there has to be a solar system out there where atleast 3 earth like planets exist and where intelligent life evolved and innovated at around the exact same pace on all 3 of them. Then they all started exploring space at the same time, found eachother, and had battles just like some kind of marvel movie. That must be so epic, wherever it is happening.

  • @SamSverko
    @SamSverko 4 роки тому +2588

    Videos like this really make me wish that when we die, we enter a sort of "spectator mode", where we can travel anywhere and observe the universe unfold and progress. We can't interact or influence anything, we had our time to do that when we were alive. Now, we can only watch and observe. Sort of like spectator mode in any multiplayer game.

    • @orikarru7877
      @orikarru7877 4 роки тому +269

      Maybe that's what ghosts are?

    • @evrensaygn1017
      @evrensaygn1017 4 роки тому +177

      Wow that would be very boring. I guess thats a purgatory.

    • @Berkay-qz7ds
      @Berkay-qz7ds 4 роки тому +32

      it would be nice XD

    • @kryyto6587
      @kryyto6587 4 роки тому +221

      @@evrensaygn1017 Not if you have the control over time speed ?

    • @navaryn2938
      @navaryn2938 4 роки тому +191

      For some reason i always just assumed that is what happens after death. That in some way you hang around and learn all the secrets of the universe

  • @carteradams43
    @carteradams43 4 роки тому +363

    4:35
    alien message translation:
    "You're looking for..." (gets cut off here)
    if anyone is wondering how I translated it, it's written in "Aurebesh", a fictional language in star wars

    • @Datan0de
      @Datan0de 4 роки тому +26

      Thank you! I recognized it as Aurebesh and came to the comments specifically to see if anyone had translated it. :-)

    • @carteradams43
      @carteradams43 4 роки тому +8

      @@Datan0de you are welcome!

    • @iellaterreur7865
      @iellaterreur7865 4 роки тому +8

      I am shook ur a genius damn

    • @TorreFernand
      @TorreFernand 4 роки тому +27

      Well, I guess that's fitting since the Earth message is "Hello? Is it me you'r..." (It's morse code)

    • @carteradams43
      @carteradams43 4 роки тому +2

      @@TorreFernand makes sense. I translated the alien message because I knew it was obscure but I did not bother with the morse code

  • @sumamurali2474
    @sumamurali2474 4 роки тому +1844

    Everyone gangsta until they see aliens extracting energy from a black hole

    • @exoplanets
      @exoplanets 4 роки тому +1

      Hehe

    • @themen3ace
      @themen3ace 4 роки тому

      I'd consider them munching a black hole I wonder if they'd be sucked up from the inside

    • @themen3ace
      @themen3ace 4 роки тому

      huh

    • @bahroum69
      @bahroum69 4 роки тому +1

      Here is your 1000th upvote

    • @Victor-nl1bm
      @Victor-nl1bm 4 роки тому +1

      best comment of this video

  • @vladpovalii
    @vladpovalii Рік тому +4

    The most informative and least clickbait/speculative video on this topic, from what you can find on youtube. Thanks kurzgesagt!

  • @officialomatu8766
    @officialomatu8766 4 роки тому +5191

    *_the universe ends_
    Type Omega: hey guys! Hope you enjoyed that simulation, if you did please bang that like button. Also, feel free to leave an alternate timeline below
    5k for a collab with God?

    • @joelcoll4034
      @joelcoll4034 4 роки тому +362

      Can you imagine if humanity became a type 5 Civilization and when finally the last human space ship runs out of energy the type Omega says that

    • @princeali417
      @princeali417 4 роки тому +108

      this comment is GOLD

    • @LemonChecks
      @LemonChecks 4 роки тому +34

      you've got the right idea! these others might be *type .79* - - but NOT us! Lol.

    • @MagentaFaux
      @MagentaFaux 4 роки тому +30

      I'm making an alternate timeline.

    • @justinnicholson6885
      @justinnicholson6885 4 роки тому +50

      Don't even bother looking for Humans in the leader board. it'll take half a second to find our rank, either way it's a disappointment.

  • @albinalteborn
    @albinalteborn 4 роки тому +212

    This is so cool, it makes me realize that we are in the same boat, no one really knows everything

  • @shailendratanwar5617
    @shailendratanwar5617 4 роки тому +702

    "They also look at the stars and look for others" such a chilling Line

    • @gojiraguy4223
      @gojiraguy4223 4 роки тому +7

      The Audio Guy. I agree

    • @MSIXVI06
      @MSIXVI06 4 роки тому +12

      I think we're not afraid of how different they could be, we may actually be afraid that they're just like us.

    • @seventy3percent
      @seventy3percent 4 роки тому +3

      @@MSIXVI06 if they're just like us and they find us first, we're doomed.

    • @Lucan47
      @Lucan47 4 роки тому +2

      @@MSIXVI06 My hope is that civilizations that don't learn to get along eventually destroy themselves.
      So humanity would have two paths ahead. Become better or go extinct.

    • @user-DongJ
      @user-DongJ 4 роки тому +1

      This is an interesting vlog about Prof Kardashev adapting Prof Leslie White’s Culture Law (Culture = Energy × Technology) to search/compare colonies or civilization & then expanded by Prof Carl Sagan. Technically it can be used to compare human colonies/countries/civilizations with non-human colonies/countries/civilizations (e.g. apes, wolves, ants, corals, fungi, algae, etc.) although anything beyond Class/Тип 3 sounds too hard/crazy to comprehend.
      Sadly if one compares US, China & Russia, it is sad to watch these “Super Power” nations are caught between the devil (terrorists, brutal-police, corrupt-officials, etc.) & the deep blue sea (fascism, pandemic, economic-depression, etc.).
      However this is Not very surprising since Dr Kaku & the late Prof Hawking have already warned that humanity will face greater & greater hardships+dangers as it progress towards Тип 1 status. Unfortunately there is also no/little chance of turning back the clock as the late Prof Sagan (& his team) has calculated that humanity has moved pass the Тип 0.7 status.
      In addition Dr Crabtree & Dr Woodley discovered evidence that with each passing generations, many humans are getting genetically/biological weaker, dumber, slower or fearter despite improved/improving food, water, healthcare, nutrition, internet, telecom, education, sanitation, infrastructure, etc.
      To make the situation worse, scientists has uncovered the 1st Species/Lifeform of Mass Destruction/Extinction (SMD i.e. a species/lifeform that literally had directly/indirectly cause massive destruction/extinction to multiple species/lifeforms). As such it is believed that there are now at least 2 active SMDs on Earth & a 3rd one maybe emerging/awakening.
      Hopefully cooler heads will prevail over the fanatics+hardliners & allow humanity to overcome these hardships+dangers. May the deaths+suffering of the innocents be merciful 🙏

  • @doktorspock8910
    @doktorspock8910 Рік тому +83

    Even our current civilization sample size is amazing. The amount of things that had to happen for humanity to exist is just cosmic.

    • @norbertdonath464
      @norbertdonath464 Рік тому +5

      exactly, the vast complexity of all the factors had to be aligned together and many other options had to exist around us to be here is almost beyond our understanding, we keep realizing more and more factors around us that actually had a huge play in the evolution of humanity, basically the relative "peace around us" has millions of elements to be able to exist this way to have a rich undisturbed life in the last 50 million years to leave the evolution enought time to create humanity as we know today.

    • @Jaasau
      @Jaasau 11 місяців тому +2

      One might even call it a…miracle.

  • @nico2452
    @nico2452 4 роки тому +11082

    Humans: “Lol look at this stupid tiny ant. It can’t even understand life”
    Type Ω: 😐

    • @legitmusicgaming4749
      @legitmusicgaming4749 4 роки тому +1290

      Hold my universes

    • @dyhrbergdk9541
      @dyhrbergdk9541 4 роки тому +505

      I hope the comment-format of:
      X; something
      Y: another thing
      .. dies soon. Making everything into a meme-dialogue is a lazy way to express thoughts! I'm empathetic to the shrinking expanse of our attention, and this format is easy to consume, but it's being used FAR to much.

    • @dyhrbergdk9541
      @dyhrbergdk9541 4 роки тому +377

      @Colin Mike Don't mention the bible here. It makes any rational conversation almost impossible.

    • @t.bo.a7061
      @t.bo.a7061 4 роки тому +7

      😂😂😂

    • @BiggestNoodle
      @BiggestNoodle 4 роки тому +23

      Colin Mike but....what if _we are not?_

  • @rajvardhan6072
    @rajvardhan6072 4 роки тому +2298

    Kurzgesagt: finding alien life is our doom
    Also Kurzgesagt: here's how you find aliens

    • @marcoottina654
      @marcoottina654 4 роки тому +56

      as I heard somewhere: what about they reply to us "Stop broadcasting, You are in danger!" ?

    • @МадиТургунов-у5л
      @МадиТургунов-у5л 4 роки тому +43

      @@marcoottina654 or shush, I'm trying to sleep. Imagine if our radio calls are like those annoying cats meowing at night to them

    • @nathanmckenzie904
      @nathanmckenzie904 4 роки тому +16

      @@marcoottina654broadcasting isn't the problem. EM waves have a relatively low travel distance where they are still usable. I mean the waves won't go away but they would be basically noise .

    • @sadomarker9193
      @sadomarker9193 4 роки тому +1

      Мади Тургунов troll face song

    • @chillinc5158
      @chillinc5158 4 роки тому +3

      He's like: its not good idea but If you are interested here's gow you do it

  • @tinytrtle5681
    @tinytrtle5681 4 роки тому +744

    "if aliens have to follow the same laws of physics"
    Some super advanced alien watching video: lol imagine having to obey physics

    • @thomas6224
      @thomas6224 4 роки тому +4

      Facts tho

    • @Karuiko
      @Karuiko 4 роки тому +41

      Imagine if physics was something as simple as drag, and we just had to make something more aerodynamic.

    • @mknubs
      @mknubs 4 роки тому

      Karuiko basically just a big tracheon lmao

    • @thezyreick4289
      @thezyreick4289 4 роки тому +12

      @@Karuiko thermodynamics: am I a joke to you?
      Super advanced alien race: get outta here with your friction shit

    • @steliux4603
      @steliux4603 4 роки тому

      Yeah I think I'm just gonna float

  • @faniaaouchar
    @faniaaouchar 6 місяців тому +1

    I love everything about this channel, the narrator’s voice makes me focus, the background music makes me exited and let’s not talk about how incredibly good the animation is

  • @darnelll1524
    @darnelll1524 4 роки тому +3535

    Everyone gangsta till the space condom steals half their star

    • @thatguyagain6653
      @thatguyagain6653 4 роки тому +158

      7:56 lol,

    • @TylerSolvestri
      @TylerSolvestri 4 роки тому +54

      Lmaoooo

    • @prathama123
      @prathama123 4 роки тому +89

      ikr I was like, don't give 2020 any more ideas lol

    • @bertmclin
      @bertmclin 4 роки тому +32

      This had me dyyyingggg hahahahahah

    • @TheWormzerjr
      @TheWormzerjr 4 роки тому +21

      Earth has just been downgraded to a civilization of monkeys

  • @Kryptix
    @Kryptix 4 роки тому +288

    This was so aesthetically pleasing to watch.

    • @localmilfchaser6938
      @localmilfchaser6938 4 роки тому +2

      SpXek ok

    • @sumdud23
      @sumdud23 4 роки тому +6

      Always has been

    • @nyvlem3184
      @nyvlem3184 4 роки тому

      Always has been

    • @Hunturbot
      @Hunturbot 4 роки тому +1

      That's Kurzgesagt, (in a nutshell).

    • @HiAdrian
      @HiAdrian 4 роки тому +1

      This is worth repeating, such nice artwork. Ignore the dumb replies.

  • @ramawb1138
    @ramawb1138 4 роки тому +515

    I've read a theory somewhere that basically says that when a civilization reaches a certain level they would stop expanding outwards, but instead develop a virtual utopia, therefore the lack of remnants in outer space.

    • @JaySalia97
      @JaySalia97 4 роки тому +2

      +1

    • @nameforcomments4092
      @nameforcomments4092 4 роки тому +12

      Trouble is, a savvy enough and capable enough observer would be able to see signs of them EVER having expanded and moved about at high speeds. But we're definitely not there either.

    • @secularmonk5176
      @secularmonk5176 4 роки тому +44

      Entropy is the great enemy. If a K2 civilization only develops every few million years in our galaxy -- but can utilize their home system to migrate transdimensionally, escape entropy, and become truly immortal -- we would see no evidence of this (42 likes ... I'll shall refrain)

    • @gelsm8709
      @gelsm8709 4 роки тому

      Where you read this

    • @jr.p.8429
      @jr.p.8429 4 роки тому +1

      when they either run out of space or resources just make a virtual reality

  • @dragonngames4044
    @dragonngames4044 Рік тому +16

    Yo I love your videos and they are definitely good to watch when you are board or listen to on a bus or other. Its crazy how you pack so much knowledge into 10 minute long videos. Great work to all of the team at Kurzgesagt. Keep up the great work!

  • @chickensforthechickengod4037
    @chickensforthechickengod4037 4 роки тому +2616

    Current human exploration of the stars feels like someone dipped their head into the ocean and shouted “hello!” Hoping for someone to shout back.

    • @daisylady4827
      @daisylady4827 4 роки тому +240

      I find this thought very fascinating

    • @Zorisura
      @Zorisura 4 роки тому +97

      The method of contact is rubbish but the understanding is getting better.

    • @roguewisdom8742
      @roguewisdom8742 4 роки тому +263

      Imagine if the response was from a Type-3 thinking we were some kind of spam callers.

    • @FireEmperor_A
      @FireEmperor_A 4 роки тому +28

      I like that example and it's very true.

    • @nurenzayyan4825
      @nurenzayyan4825 4 роки тому +46

      A very advanced hello, but useless because civilizations might not even be able to comprehend it because the odds are that they are not similar to us. I think it's going to be a chinese guy saying hello to a daft englishman type "hello".

  • @teaboss8309
    @teaboss8309 4 роки тому +3284

    Ants: Thinks we’re Gods
    Also Ants: *Bites us anyway*

    • @alexfilho6337
      @alexfilho6337 4 роки тому +318

      God of War intensifies

    • @critikasalihmeylani
      @critikasalihmeylani 4 роки тому +345

      Those antheists will die for rebellions.

    • @Shmidershmax
      @Shmidershmax 4 роки тому +180

      Lets be ants and infest some aliens house. If we work hard enough we can affect the value of the home

    • @samuellafleur890
      @samuellafleur890 4 роки тому +202

      You can't tell me there's not at least thousands of humans who would try to punch a god just for the bragging rights

    • @neoxus30
      @neoxus30 4 роки тому +43

      @@samuellafleur890 _Cant say I wouldnt try)_

  • @Broodrooster44
    @Broodrooster44 3 роки тому +1074

    Props to the animators, probably seemed like a really difficult task to make this understandable to the viewers

    • @larrytheskeleton6798
      @larrytheskeleton6798 3 роки тому +49

      There are multiple animators I believe, credits to all of them for doing such a great job

    • @Broodrooster44
      @Broodrooster44 3 роки тому +21

      @@larrytheskeleton6798 You're probably right, I'll change my comment!

    • @kakashihatakecopyninja3685
      @kakashihatakecopyninja3685 3 роки тому

      Where is ur profile photo from

    • @Broodrooster44
      @Broodrooster44 3 роки тому +6

      @@kakashihatakecopyninja3685 don't know man, if you type smiling baby meme you"ll probably find it lol

    • @Funkoh
      @Funkoh 3 роки тому +9

      Props to the writers too who took their time to carefully simplify things without oversimplifying them

  • @gumarks_
    @gumarks_ Рік тому +4

    I've always been incredibly fascinated by the Kardashev scale (and its connection with the Fermi paradox). Love this video!!

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 4 роки тому +18673

    Why haven't aliens visited our solar system yet?
    They looked at the reviews... only 1 star.

  • @quantomic1106
    @quantomic1106 4 роки тому +1794

    If the gap between type 1 and type 3 is similar to that of an anthill and a metropolitan city, we would not know what a remnant of a type 3 civilization looks like. If you drop a car engine onto an anthill, not a single ant will know what it is - let alone know that it's a part of bigger machinery. They'll just probably think that it's another obstacle they will have to climb over.

    • @b0nes95
      @b0nes95 4 роки тому +155

      Though as humans, we can tell the difference between a rock and not a rock.

    • @Zeta1011
      @Zeta1011 4 роки тому +454

      @@b0nes95 Don't know about that. Them neutron stars might be some stellar engines or some shit.

    • @noahi.1381
      @noahi.1381 4 роки тому +152

      What if the all the planets are Type-3 organisms?

    • @LordCaladbolg13
      @LordCaladbolg13 4 роки тому +248

      Exactly. For all we know, each Star could be to them the equivalent of a AA battery to them. We think it is just nature but for them it is really just remnants or refuse of a type 3 or 4 civilization.

    • @ilpreterosso
      @ilpreterosso 4 роки тому +24

      @@b0nes95 it's an analogy!!!!

  • @thejesuschrist
    @thejesuschrist 4 роки тому +830

    I feel insignificant after watching this. Thanks?

  • @spikedpsycho2383
    @spikedpsycho2383 2 роки тому +72

    Summary;
    Type 0 - Us, today!
    Type 1 - Space 1999, Ghost In The Shell
    Type 2 - Futurama, The Jetsons, Federation
    Type 3 - Stargate, The Borg, Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf
    Type 4 - Timelords (Dr Who)
    Type 5 - The Q (Star Trek)
    Type 6 - Gods

    • @DavidMuri-lm5vy
      @DavidMuri-lm5vy Рік тому +4

      Well a more accurate summary would be this: type zero: ants, type 1: futuristic earth, type 2: Star Trek, type 3: Star wars, type 4: futuristic version of The 2022 light Year movie on Disney+ type 5: we have no movie that references this, type omega: the more than two universe cycle's old civilization that controls the entire universe and monitors all intelligent life forms and only interacts with them once they finally overcome their self-destructive tendencies and has become a type 4 civilization mind you a universe cycle is 10^10^10^10 ^10^10^1.1 power years and if humanity wants to become this kind of civilization it'll take us a minimum of 19 Duodecillion years to a maximum of two universe cycle's but you don't need to take my word for it this is just my own opinion. Okay? 😅😅😅🤔🤔🧐

    • @joelvanwinkle5976
      @joelvanwinkle5976 4 місяці тому

      Type omega- the hex and the binary, the citadel of ricks, the time variance authority

    • @therobloxplayer5556
      @therobloxplayer5556 2 місяці тому +1

      @@DavidMuri-lm5vy star wars is a type 0-3 not 4 because a type 4 would be under the rule of 1 empire or a unity of everything living in that galaxy, but in star wars like the name suggest there isn't unity and there are constant wars happening and everyone in that galaxy is very much split up in multiple factions, empires, tribes, and clans, and many don't work with each other and even down right hate others.

  • @RishabhManna
    @RishabhManna 4 роки тому +3181

    Kurzgesagt: to ants humans are gods
    *my little brother drops an m&m*
    ant: the gods are generous today

    • @haiasi__3060
      @haiasi__3060 4 роки тому +134

      they better be grateful for my clumsiness -

    • @M3sierr
      @M3sierr 4 роки тому +209

      But why do they sting their gods?

    • @LoboVR07
      @LoboVR07 4 роки тому +22

      @AntsCanada

    • @sibusisomkwanazi3124
      @sibusisomkwanazi3124 4 роки тому +343

      @@M3sierr probably non-believers

    • @jeyfomson6364
      @jeyfomson6364 4 роки тому +48

      @@sibusisomkwanazi3124 😂😂😂 good one.

  • @lukemorris2221
    @lukemorris2221 4 роки тому +140

    I love hearing the Dyson Sphere theme adapted into the soundtrack every time it's brought up in the commentary. Man, your production quality is just incredible.

    • @abtl1154
      @abtl1154 4 роки тому +7

      Now that's attention to detail right there

    • @Woozeii
      @Woozeii 4 роки тому +1

      Yep

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice 4 роки тому

      Theres a "dyson sphere THEME" ??
      What the hell. And it was IN this video lol

  • @zooz1313
    @zooz1313 4 роки тому +1856

    "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying".
    - Arthur C. Clarke

    • @cosmiccomedy7394
      @cosmiccomedy7394 4 роки тому +35

      I see that quoted to different people all the time

    • @juanfran3924
      @juanfran3924 4 роки тому +56

      @@cosmiccomedy7394 You made me read his wiki, I did not know he was gay...

    • @juanfran3924
      @juanfran3924 4 роки тому +42

      @@nihalr_ For me the most terrifying thing would be for aliens to exist but impossible to even meet or talk to, because of physical limitations.
      Like, communicating or moving just at the speed of light, or as close as we can, is just too slow for the distances.
      Meaning that whilst other civilizations are likely to exist the chances of meeting them are close to none.

    • @AzNightmare
      @AzNightmare 4 роки тому +4

      *What's so terrifying about being alone?*

    • @juanfran3924
      @juanfran3924 4 роки тому +29

      @@AzNightmare Any number of things, like the existence of a great filter that prevents civilizations from evolving past a certain point we are yet to reach.

  • @Faolan_Lunaris
    @Faolan_Lunaris Рік тому +79

    Question: Would humanity gaining access to commercially available fusion reactors be enough to bump us up to level 1? Or are there other factors that need to be considered before that can happen?

    • @benjamindains6906
      @benjamindains6906 Рік тому +13

      Probably since it will be a source of basically unlimited energy and it would give us all the tools to expand outward (as far as energy goes).

    • @condor5912
      @condor5912 Рік тому +7

      By definition, I think not. There are other sources of energy we need to be able to deploy on industrial scales like fossil fuels, such as solar, geothermal, tidal, etc. Though fusion power will bring us closer to being a type 1, a type 1 civilisation needs to be able to harness and exploit all the sources of energy on their home on a scale that they can rely safely on said sources, so not that much.

    • @Chaosrain112
      @Chaosrain112 Рік тому +8

      @@condor5912 with what is being hyped about fusion would, to my basic understanding, would solve that problem if not contribute signiiiiificantly towards solving it by a fat margin. Bring it on, science

    • @idrinkgasoline72
      @idrinkgasoline72 Рік тому +4

      @@Chaosrain112 Over time we will just find better and better sources of energy, who knows we might be able to spice up fusion and make, uhhh, super fusion. Also, before we get there, we gotta use fission. I think small villages and farms could use solar and wind, but on a much smaller scale it is not nearly enough to power the earth. Y'all dream about going to fusion but we already got a very good source of nuclear energy. Everyone is just to scared of it for no good reason.

    • @punkbuster002
      @punkbuster002 Рік тому +2

      We'd destroy ourselves. Have you seen youtube videos where they eat tide pods.. i cant imagine what humanity will do with a commercially available fusion reactors just for views on tiktok or youtube 😅🤣🤣

  • @smokithebroski6754
    @smokithebroski6754 4 роки тому +1838

    Type Ω art homework: Create universe
    EDIT: Thank you all for 1.5k likes! Really appreciate it. :D

    • @xavierrobbins3367
      @xavierrobbins3367 4 роки тому +241

      Imagine if the person who made our universe was just a fuck up and our planet was the only one they could get to work

    • @walkinmn
      @walkinmn 4 роки тому +166

      Student cluster: with how many spatial dimensions?
      Teacher cosmic entity: We want to see how you deal with less than 4, get creative
      Whole cluster class: * sighs in dissapointment *

    • @JonPicoCokeJones
      @JonPicoCokeJones 4 роки тому +6

      What does that symbol mean?

    • @MA-2020
      @MA-2020 4 роки тому +14

      @@JonPicoCokeJones omega

    • @JonPicoCokeJones
      @JonPicoCokeJones 4 роки тому +5

      M A thanks

  • @davidlane1248
    @davidlane1248 4 роки тому +1881

    "To ants, we are so complex and powerful, we might as well be Gods"
    Human: *accidentally steps on ant hill
    Ants: *TONIGHT WE TASTE THE FLESH OF IMMORTALS*

    • @buggyboy2849
      @buggyboy2849 4 роки тому +16

      Bernard Werber's Ant Trilogy basically!

    • @explorerkiil
      @explorerkiil 4 роки тому +79

      if the aliens try to kill us we are going to try to kill them

    • @jayk3827
      @jayk3827 4 роки тому +10

      well if we see alien life wich just started we will probably nuke em

    • @EngineeredFemale
      @EngineeredFemale 4 роки тому +69

      @Suman Mudi Our nukes will be like 'ants bite' to them lol..

    • @ekl4572
      @ekl4572 4 роки тому +9

      @@buggyboy2849 There is a trilogy?! Empire of the Ants was the shit

  • @bigsmoke2003
    @bigsmoke2003 4 роки тому +1023

    I love how there is always dyson sphere theme playing whenever it appears in the video

    • @keanusw3369
      @keanusw3369 4 роки тому +40

      And Stellar engine theme

    • @someoneontheinternet7027
      @someoneontheinternet7027 4 роки тому +10

      It's all in the book

    • @ananz9233
      @ananz9233 4 роки тому +14

      AAAAAHHH MOTIFS
      MAH FAVORITE

    • @ennead322
      @ennead322 4 роки тому +24

      I feel like fitting a dyson sphere in every video as a default mechanism of getting an energy from a star is like people in the 19th century imagining all of futurisctic things having steam engines.

    • @ContraHacker1337
      @ContraHacker1337 4 роки тому +5

      I'll take a No. 9 large.

  • @brynnpickt6059
    @brynnpickt6059 2 роки тому +23

    Whoever is the narrator, has a amazing voice just eight for the job, and your team works really good with animating . And you guys are very smart. I know a0 much information now!

  • @SejinKim5
    @SejinKim5 4 роки тому +492

    Kurzgesagt: *publishes a new video*
    Me: existential crisis time babyyyyyy

  • @BrockPlaysFortnite
    @BrockPlaysFortnite 4 роки тому +2240

    Thanks for the monthly existential crisis 🗿

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    • @glokk40spoz
      @glokk40spoz 4 роки тому +3

      Brock you are you not human with that aim 👽

    • @iulianalexandrudragan5531
      @iulianalexandrudragan5531 4 роки тому +5

      Go play fortnite

    • @oaksynia7353
      @oaksynia7353 4 роки тому +1

      @@iulianalexandrudragan5531 ok

    • @core8498
      @core8498 4 роки тому +9

      @@zaeemfc1348 *w a t*

  • @zachary7996
    @zachary7996 4 роки тому +630

    i can just imagine if a type 2 or 3 civilization came to us they would be like "haha imagine not even being type 1"
    edit: oh hey thanks for getting me to my most liked comment!

    • @ColdNorth0628
      @ColdNorth0628 4 роки тому +15

      I mean. We are basically a step away from being type 1, if anything they would glance out our progress more than laugh.

    • @FaSoLP
      @FaSoLP 4 роки тому +41

      "They're not even type one and already destroying their own planet"

    • @CB_here
      @CB_here 4 роки тому +15

      carlos conde I mean comparing us to a civilization that has the technology to take over a galaxy (tens of BILLIONS of planets) they probably would laugh at us.

    • @Mic_Glow
      @Mic_Glow 4 роки тому +22

      "That solar system will provide material for our warp network... eww, it's covered in insects."

    • @arghya4NE
      @arghya4NE 4 роки тому +4

      @@FaSoLP to get into type 1 complete exploitation of the home world is required , objectively speaking

  • @grantdotjpg
    @grantdotjpg 2 роки тому +93

    It's entirely possible for all of the species to just be too young to be doing anything. All of us on the relative first couple of steps together, wandering into a seemingly empty void

    • @Geheimnis-c2e
      @Geheimnis-c2e 2 роки тому +3

      But with the current age of the universe, it's hard to think that most civillizations are just starting NOW.

    • @misere4
      @misere4 2 роки тому +4

      @@Geheimnis-c2e It's not, the rate of advancement is not consistent across civilisations, there is no rule saying that every species advances evolutionary and technologicaly at the same speed lol

    • @AVerySillySausage
      @AVerySillySausage Рік тому +9

      @@misere4 You kind of just contradicted yourself though, because if they all advance at different rates, the chances are that some would advance even faster than we have and have had more time as well. You can't argue that we shouldn't make assumption about alien's based on our experience but then say actually the other civilisations are round about the same stage as us, that would be ridiculous. I think the most likely answer to the whole Fermi paradox thing is the most boring one. Firstly I think the idea of type 3 or above is a fantasy and civilisations will hit a hard limit due to the limits of space of travel, you end up with fragmented type 2 civilisations. On top of that life is probably just so insanely rare and then complex life on top of that it's too far apart to ever encounter other life. The universe is just so big that I find it really unlikely that we really are the only intelligent civilisation, but at the same time because it's so big I think it's completely reasonable to assume we will never ever encounter or find evidence of other life so are effectively alone.

    • @pray4us955
      @pray4us955 Рік тому

      You didn't watch the video

  • @RyanProto
    @RyanProto 3 роки тому +1103

    Watched this for more than 10x now.. still learning and got something new out of it!

  • @quochung9370
    @quochung9370 3 роки тому +2829

    Imagine if our Universe is just a high school project of a type Omega student

    • @nitricacidd7548
      @nitricacidd7548 3 роки тому +277

      Bruh that guy would be so confused if they manage to see what we are doing.

    • @hubertfarnsworth6824
      @hubertfarnsworth6824 3 роки тому +406

      I'm surprised why a type Omega civilization would have highschool instead of instantly downloading knowledge and becoming omniscient.

    • @oreochatz7231
      @oreochatz7231 3 роки тому +169

      @@hubertfarnsworth6824 I would be surprised if they still had corporeal forms and some kind of reproduction system

    • @Edgeperor
      @Edgeperor 3 роки тому +123

      Our creator is “that” kid who just keeps resetting everything that he doesn’t like and is probably going to fail the project

    • @justsomeguy4260
      @justsomeguy4260 3 роки тому +8

      @@Edgeperor Bullshit lol, we are living in 21st century yet People believe in a creator

  • @uoppsdnsu4266
    @uoppsdnsu4266 4 роки тому +550

    I heard that saying there is no aliens out there, is equal to filling a glass with ocean water and not finding any fish, and then concluding the ocean has no life.
    We have explored so little, and anything less than super advanced civilizations extremely close would go unnoticed.

    • @joshherbers7203
      @joshherbers7203 4 роки тому +52

      On the same note, concluding that sapient aliens have to exist just because of the size of the universe is equally foolish. Size is irrelevant when you're dealing with all the complex factors that brings about intelligent life. We just can't extrapolate with a sample size of one. I'm not saying there isn't intelligent life out there but using size of the universe as an argument for it is just unscientific.

    • @Dinanysos
      @Dinanysos 4 роки тому +11

      That's why I loved that they said "So it's unlikely that there are type 2-3 civilization anywhere close to the milky-way" cos we really can't say anything beyond the few percent of the universe we have observed.

    • @mirrourothewal
      @mirrourothewal 4 роки тому +25

      and we also should consider that we are exploring mostly the past of our visible universe, not the real-time state of it

    • @vkobevk
      @vkobevk 4 роки тому +8

      well you can at least find plankton and bacteria in your ocean glass water, our problem it is we didnt reach yet to get ocean water with glass, it is more looking a ocean with a telescope 😥

    • @sheryaarahmed3109
      @sheryaarahmed3109 4 роки тому +4

      Josh Herbers that’s true to an extent, but you’ve missed the point of that variable; size is used to represent the possibility of all these many factors which you are thinking of. It’s mostly just probability, for all intents and purposes the size of the universe for our human needs/perspectives is infinite thus, by saying ‘size’ you’re saying in an infinite area there must be infinite consciousness.
      Edit: it’s only unscientific if you take ‘size’ and understand it from an unscientific way, any scientist would say ‘size’ is more than enough to be proof, at least in theory since as you say we only have a size sample of 1

  • @Cosmic-Wisdom
    @Cosmic-Wisdom Рік тому +4

    The most important thing is that we become civilization type 2, i.e. that we can use all of the sun's energy. From this point onwards, we can spread throughout the universe at will and apply the same principle to every solar system. In this way, we scale almost boundlessly into the universe, decentralize ourselves and become immortal because no catastrophic event can affect all of humanity. Not even dangers emanating from our own sun. I love the Kardashev Scale. 😅 Keep up the great work and greetings from Cosmic Wisdom!

  • @callmequaz9052
    @callmequaz9052 3 роки тому +2991

    "Maybe they were just bored"
    You know what, that's probably true.

    • @M4ssive-4ttack
      @M4ssive-4ttack 3 роки тому +74

      thats why death is not bad as people paint, would be fuking boring to be immortal stuck in this darkness and blur all over us trying to get the fuel to grow in all directions infinitly and be lost. Ive seen too much to believe that future is much better than what we already have but thats only my opinion and it is what it is, I think a simple thing like freedom in a megalomaniac universe will be relative at some point.

    • @zer0bankoe
      @zer0bankoe 3 роки тому +16

      @@M4ssive-4ttack that would be pretty cool and a cool death actually ✌🏽

    • @alicorn3924
      @alicorn3924 3 роки тому +7

      @@M4ssive-4ttack I wanna die in a void tho.

    • @tonyb7615
      @tonyb7615 3 роки тому +2

      @@zer0bankoe no. imagine worse than hell.

    • @dewolf123
      @dewolf123 3 роки тому +16

      @@M4ssive-4ttack It's not that it's bad, it's because it sucks because then you are just unable to keep seeing how the world changes and the infinite adventures you could have, it's easy to say being a corpse who can't continue life and what it offers when you yourself are a nihilist but it's actually way more complex then that. I want to experience a future that looks like the Jetsons or see one day if we colonized Mars yet and you can't see it by being dead so while it isn't bad don't paint immortality as bad either it's different for everyone.

  • @francocaceres6409
    @francocaceres6409 4 роки тому +630

    "Hey man what's up"
    "I'm fine, but I'll have a dull journey"
    "Where are you going?"
    "To my aunt's house"
    "And where is it?"
    "At the other side of the supercluster"

    • @Infinity-ob7xg
      @Infinity-ob7xg 4 роки тому +29

      "Uff tell me about it. 3 hours wasted am I right?"

    • @joelvanwinkle5976
      @joelvanwinkle5976 4 роки тому +2

      Use the uss enterprise modified by the traveler

    • @auliareski
      @auliareski 4 роки тому +1

      A millenia later, this comment will be normal and relatable tho 🙃

  • @SUICIDALRHINO
    @SUICIDALRHINO 4 роки тому +570

    Aliens lock their doors when flying by earth

    • @thatjeff7550
      @thatjeff7550 4 роки тому +28

      Webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal posited this very concept a while back.
      Alien: Hmmm, how to explain.... Imagine there is a very confused and very angry monkey that hoards massive amounts of explosives. He looks out the window and wonders why no one comes by to visit. In fact, he finds the entire neighborhood empty. Should he find this strange?

    • @Nick-us8qh
      @Nick-us8qh 4 роки тому +52

      We're probably the Detroit of the Milky Way

    • @masterchief8042
      @masterchief8042 4 роки тому +7

      Because of tiktok

    • @derstoffausdemderjoghurtis
      @derstoffausdemderjoghurtis 4 роки тому +7

      Our planet smells bad

    • @severusfloki5778
      @severusfloki5778 4 роки тому +1

      Nikolay Nikolov Hahahah

  • @elementallobsterx
    @elementallobsterx 2 роки тому +3

    The abstract drawings in this vid are so awesome, very alien and complex!

  • @dumuniz
    @dumuniz 4 роки тому +280

    "It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths, and fewer of our weaknesses; more confident, farseeing, capable and prudent."
    Carl Sagan

    • @arjdroid
      @arjdroid 4 роки тому +10

      Unfortunately, our biggest flaw is the fact that we just can't seem to get along with one another, this why we still have wars in humanity, we are all to blame for this flaw, and this divide between every single human being on Earth is going to be the reason why it it is so hard for us to advance towards a space faring civilization, progress is also very slow and it saddens me that I cannot live in a more technologically advanced humanity but alas we must make the best of our time here on Earth to advance human civilization...

    • @mimimarcus
      @mimimarcus 4 роки тому +1

      "more confident" That hits home.

    • @ShimizuHisagawa
      @ShimizuHisagawa 4 роки тому +1

      @@arjdroid you : "we just can't seem to get along with one another, [...] we are all to blame for this flaw"
      me : "Nah i'm pretty sure it's those assholes over there that are to blame, not me..." (this is a joke :))
      (Also, I agree with your point, even tho i believe that certain people are way worse at getting along with others.)

    • @L28ET
      @L28ET 4 роки тому

      Is that a challenge?

  • @infinitenemesis6284
    @infinitenemesis6284 4 роки тому +440

    Every level on the Kardashev Scale summarized essentially:
    Type 1: Stuck on Terrafirma
    Type 2: Making plans for planetary neighbors
    Type 3: The galaxy is ours!
    Type 4: We have constructed a multigalactic empire with colonies in multiple galaxies, we are unstoppable!
    Type 5: I am the emperor of the known universe
    Type Omega: Oh great, another one of our creations has just invented a new god that they worship, and apparently they think that the world is carried on the back of a giant turtle.

    • @Slycoper737
      @Slycoper737 4 роки тому +5

      Underrated comment!!

    • @julk1732
      @julk1732 4 роки тому +5

      Nice reference to the discworld at the end... =3

    • @LuisSoto-fw3if
      @LuisSoto-fw3if 4 роки тому +2

      Type Infinite: the turtle jawns as it waits for the spaghetti monster to finish throwing his marble

    • @aryans309
      @aryans309 4 роки тому +9

      We have a type omega civilization and we are pretty familiar with it, we call it nature. To say that all the intricacies of reproduction and incentivising it using biological urges is just evolution by natural selection. No it's too convenient to say that, there is a type omega civilization passing righteous judgement and we just an experiment for them similar to how me cultivate bacteria on an agar plate.

    • @goldogemania5184
      @goldogemania5184 4 роки тому +1

      I love the discworld

  • @Zichfried
    @Zichfried 4 роки тому +2525

    What if the "leftover" of a beyond-type civilization/entity is our own universe?

    • @hobogrifter
      @hobogrifter 4 роки тому +41

      I dunno

    • @mcky_msh
      @mcky_msh 4 роки тому +401

      Some Omegian sneezed and here we are.

    • @WantedJosh-kd1ln
      @WantedJosh-kd1ln 4 роки тому +142

      Zichfried If that said civilization did not survive and is the remnants of our galaxy then we should be terrified as to what could be more powerful.

    • @keepthechange2811
      @keepthechange2811 4 роки тому +47

      And if we Did find remnants of a type 2 civ in our own solar backyard would we be made privy?

    • @rocklee7737
      @rocklee7737 4 роки тому +10

      We don't have any evidence of that so far.

  • @alpaykasal2902
    @alpaykasal2902 2 роки тому +2

    This was great!!! By any and every metric! Hats off to you who produced this.

  • @hhhuhhh5692
    @hhhuhhh5692 4 роки тому +1802

    Alien: we need your planet...
    Humans: for what?
    Alien: ah...just to fuel my space scooter...

    • @Sunny-Gupta1
      @Sunny-Gupta1 4 роки тому +13

      😂😂😂😂

    • @lodelageh
      @lodelageh 4 роки тому +23

      I can actually think of this being Tru 😂🤷‍♂️

    • @chiranjeevsahoo4960
      @chiranjeevsahoo4960 4 роки тому +67

      Like we are just taking the hard earned honey from honeybees. They probably don't give a F if they took away our sun

    • @thehammerandsickle2490
      @thehammerandsickle2490 4 роки тому +31

      Just like how humans need animal's lives just to look cooler.

    • @mechatech9897
      @mechatech9897 4 роки тому +15

      @@thehammerandsickle2490, that was an important thing you just pointed out.

  • @Daktyl
    @Daktyl 4 роки тому +204

    it's funny to think that one day someone might watch this back in the same way we watch those 60s 'the future man will live on the moon!' videos

    • @thyentertain369
      @thyentertain369 4 роки тому +10

      They won't watch videos anymore, they download em into their brains!

  • @kavinunethsarakoswattage3516
    @kavinunethsarakoswattage3516 2 роки тому +2514

    I think the largest barrier for a Type 3 will be fragmentation. They might be spread so far apart that they might become biologically and motive-wise so differentiated that one colony doesn't share any equal qualities with the others, effectively seperating them into several Type 2 civilizations.

    • @NATIK001
      @NATIK001 2 роки тому +188

      It's indeed hard to imagine how a Type 3 civ would stay cohesive.
      Probably the best bet as we know things now would be if they at some point in their development turned virtual and developed FTL communications. They don't need FTL travel then if they have FTL communication as a virtual species.
      Without proper FTL communication and/or travel it is likely any Type 3 or greater civ is doomed to forever fracture and not develop further in a significant way. It could very well be a universal roadblock for development on the civilization level. Such a civ could of course keep spreading, but without cohesiveness even if they spread across galaxies or galactic clusters, they could hardly be called a single civilization as the various parts could never coordinate.

    • @meks039
      @meks039 2 роки тому +59

      maybe thats the great filter that the birbs talked abt in that other vid. Maybe only a select few will be able to have the technology to communicate over galaxies.

    • @alansteyrbach6926
      @alansteyrbach6926 2 роки тому +40

      British Empire? Anyone?

    • @kavinunethsarakoswattage3516
      @kavinunethsarakoswattage3516 2 роки тому +45

      @@alansteyrbach6926 Ah, Isn't that the empire that turned English from being a language into a category of languages? I remember it now...

    • @mike9347
      @mike9347 2 роки тому +33

      Are you saying that their population would be so mind boggingly, (new word, you heard it here first), enormous, that the social fabric of their civilization would fail to remain cohesive?

  • @chillsahoy2640
    @chillsahoy2640 5 місяців тому +2

    Now I'm really wishing that at some point you can make a video game based on this. Something educational, but with gameplay as engaging as Civilization or whatever similar game you prefer. Who knows, it might inspire the right person to pursue a career in this, and will eventually come up with some key solution to a future problem!

  • @lavendermintyy
    @lavendermintyy 4 роки тому +615

    Did he just say:
    *_Kurzgesagt merch birbs?_*

  • @Chewbaccafruit
    @Chewbaccafruit 3 роки тому +736

    I've seen a great analogy to the existence of extraterrestrial life. Looking out at the stars and saying there's no aliens is like getting a spoon of water from the ocean and saying fish don't exist because there aren't any in the spoon.

    • @rudhraveena2638
      @rudhraveena2638 3 роки тому +37

      yeah but it's not fish it's sharks and whales
      and albert einstein told this

    • @xakune8357
      @xakune8357 3 роки тому +66

      For sure. They’re out there somewhere but they’re either extremely far away or they don’t have the technology to make contact. Maybe both

    • @mr.stealyourgirl1779
      @mr.stealyourgirl1779 3 роки тому +8

      That analogy doesn't even work anymore, we have the technology and mathematics to figure out how much of our universe is even hospitable.

    • @BlazinInfernape
      @BlazinInfernape 3 роки тому +18

      Unfortunately, the spoonful of universe we've got is all we have to work with.

    • @kobi_ken_obi1369
      @kobi_ken_obi1369 3 роки тому +5

      And what if you did that experiment in boiling water with only a few places with normal heat? The universe isn't that simple.

  • @freddierhodes8201
    @freddierhodes8201 4 роки тому +2024

    Kurzgesagt: we would be like ants to them
    Me: but you told me ants were small, warmongering tribes that dedicated most of their resources of fighting each other on a global scale, so- *ohhhh*

  • @happyhermit8174
    @happyhermit8174 2 роки тому +7

    I just checked out your site...Supercool merch, LOVE the posters! Really enjoy your videos. This REALLY helps alot with retention of the information, and you are great in helping with size and distance scales. I really dig your style. Thanks for being here. I'm subscribing right meow.

  • @linusaagaard6664
    @linusaagaard6664 3 роки тому +702

    5:20 "If progress continues and we don't make earth uninhabitable" Powerful.

    • @r.jguerra5526
      @r.jguerra5526 3 роки тому +14

      If that ain't true tho..

    • @ewanrice
      @ewanrice 3 роки тому +8

      @Luís Andrade fishless oceans

    • @pengpura
      @pengpura 3 роки тому +12

      @Luís Andrade Global warming

    • @JulesVante
      @JulesVante 3 роки тому +11

      @Luís Andrade Similar pandemics for irresponsible consumption

    • @lornamorris1953
      @lornamorris1953 3 роки тому +5

      Deforestation for farmland

  • @sylvesterwolfs8032
    @sylvesterwolfs8032 3 роки тому +4769

    Just imagine how humanity looks like for ants, we look just like nature for them, like a normal thing that isn’t something special. What if physics are the aliens. Many black holes are like vacuum cleaners from the aliens to harvest energy and we think it’s a normal physics thing.

  • @khalidtheefirst
    @khalidtheefirst 4 роки тому +441

    they literally sucked the hell out of our sun wtf

  • @abelauclair8976
    @abelauclair8976 2 роки тому +2

    the Starship Heart of Gold was an amazing touch to the graphics. thank you so much for that. :) love from Maine.

  • @krakelak
    @krakelak 4 роки тому +103

    6:13 I love how every time the Dyson Sphere/Swarm pops up, the Dyson Sphere theme from the original video comes with it. This was the case in Stellar Engine as well, when the Dyson Sphere lent a hand to the Stellar Engine to give it more fuel. Brilliant stuff.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 4 роки тому +4

      Damn, Kurzgesagt is really bringing out the leitmotifs.

    • @Kitsyfluff
      @Kitsyfluff 4 роки тому

      It actually makes me tear up everytime i hear it ;w;

    • @nikoaz
      @nikoaz 4 роки тому +1

      If you enjoyed that, you might want to check out the holy grail of mega structures. Search for a channel named "Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur". He has expanded on Dyson Swarms with O'Neil Cylinders , Stellar Engines, Star Lifting, Matrioska Brains, and much much more. Every week a new topic and it would be difficult to come up with a Futurism Topic not covered there. Try and think of some super advanced idea from the near or far future and see if it isn't covered.

  • @jamesdinius7769
    @jamesdinius7769 3 роки тому +3795

    An interesting idea I've heard is that the universe simply isn't old enough to have produced a type 3 or even type 2 civilization. This has to do with rare elements only produced by supernovas. Basically, planets substantially older than Earth won't have enough gold, uranium, etc to support an advanced civilization because there wasn't enough of it in the universe at the time those planets formed.

    • @aza7866
      @aza7866 3 роки тому +194

      A type 2 civilization can probably synthesize their own materials

    • @animefan1246
      @animefan1246 3 роки тому +488

      @@aza7866 What it sounds like James means is, these planets wouldn't have the resources to support a civilization long enough for them to become a Type-2.

    • @rebelprime
      @rebelprime 3 роки тому +78

      @@animefan1246 a type 2 might be possible but not a type 3

    • @animefan1246
      @animefan1246 3 роки тому +34

      @@rebelprime Oh, my bad I mis-read a little bit.

    • @Daniel-ew5qf
      @Daniel-ew5qf 3 роки тому +124

      We'd sure feel great if we were actually one of the earlier civilizations of the Universe, the future civilizations will view us the same way we view these civilizations in the video. The technological singularity will come within at least 100 years and then we'd escalate MUCH faster with our growth. (Basically exponential growth)

  • @dark_fusion1288
    @dark_fusion1288 4 роки тому +2353

    We are gods to ants?
    Me: *Accidentally destroys an ant colony*
    A different ant colony: ODIN IS WITH US!

    • @Bruh-hq1hx
      @Bruh-hq1hx 4 роки тому +205

      Kid:burns colony with glasses
      Ant colony trying to conquer it:the gods have silenced the heathens

    • @electronx5594
      @electronx5594 4 роки тому +146

      Me: pouring water into holes, the god has washed the unbelievers!

    • @diegokiwi1854
      @diegokiwi1854 4 роки тому +105

      @@electronx5594 Me: pisses on a colony
      colony: acid rain!

    • @CrimesForDimes
      @CrimesForDimes 4 роки тому +10

      @@diegokiwi1854 good one

    • @diegokiwi1854
      @diegokiwi1854 4 роки тому +8

      @@CrimesForDimes thanks

  • @Evalina_Roblox
    @Evalina_Roblox 5 місяців тому +4

    I remember when this video was 3 weeks old, i thought when i scrolled past it would say 'posted 5 months ago' or something, but its actually been 3 years 0-0

  • @dhruvkuchhal7692
    @dhruvkuchhal7692 4 роки тому +349

    The whole Kardashev scale is just the expanding brain meme.
    _Change My Mind_

  • @fish6181
    @fish6181 4 роки тому +1068

    "Mom I'm going to the Andromeda galaxy, do you want anything while I'm there?"
    Edit: whatd i do to get so many likes?

    • @landlordofthewoods6001
      @landlordofthewoods6001 4 роки тому +52

      2000 years later..
      Mom, I'm going to the (something) universe, do you want anything while i'm there?

    • @pavansomwanshi4914
      @pavansomwanshi4914 4 роки тому +42

      Bring me Thanos

    • @Glgn272
      @Glgn272 4 роки тому +33

      This conversation is real and I’m the proof

    • @miniverse2002
      @miniverse2002 4 роки тому +33

      Mom, I'm going to make some universes, what flavor do you want yours?

    • @Trademark-g1t
      @Trademark-g1t 4 роки тому +15

      @@miniverse2002 Mom: Multiverse Flavour

  • @leFoodeater
    @leFoodeater 4 роки тому +520

    Almost every frame in this video could've been a wallpaper

  • @Count_Koffin
    @Count_Koffin 9 місяців тому +4

    When ever I feel bored I always come back to watch this video

  • @limitablesnow8979
    @limitablesnow8979 4 роки тому +1014

    Humans: how many light years away is your home world?
    Aleins: pfft. You still use light years?

    • @Raptor_Ren
      @Raptor_Ren 4 роки тому +104

      Type 3 Aliens: how many dark energy years away is your home galaxy?
      Type 5 Aliens: pfft. you still use dark energy years?

    • @DigitalJedi
      @DigitalJedi 4 роки тому +90

      I imagine they would still use lightyears, but their lightyear would be different from ours due to their planet having a different orbital period than ours.

    • @freshpalm4473
      @freshpalm4473 4 роки тому +11

      Holy sh't this is a good comment

    • @rafastories4649
      @rafastories4649 4 роки тому +15

      Captain_Cupcake I was about to correct you, but the I noticed I was dumb

    • @Chaotic-warp
      @Chaotic-warp 4 роки тому +14

      Primitive aliens: what's light and what's a year

  • @OzvuHD
    @OzvuHD 4 роки тому +287

    2015: renewable and non-renewable energy
    2123: gOlDfIsH bOwL eNeRgY

    • @westeeze2744
      @westeeze2744 4 роки тому +2

      hahahahah awesome

    • @v44n7
      @v44n7 4 роки тому +2

      we will become type 1 one que make fusion reactors, but so far our civilization is so stupid that we still invest a couple of order of magnitudes more to fossil fuels

  • @braket120
    @braket120 3 роки тому +2256

    “Ooh boy I can’t wait to become lvl omega!!” *dies at lvl 1

    • @DJTOM_
      @DJTOM_ 3 роки тому +107

      Sad reality for everyone alive right now

    • @RyoukitRLC
      @RyoukitRLC 3 роки тому +100

      @Rishabh YOHANNAN Because our life lasts for as long as a fraction of a second compared to the time scale we're talking about here. Do you not understand just how abysmal and big the numbers onto the future are? You'll be long dead before we even reach Type 1.

    • @RyoukitRLC
      @RyoukitRLC 3 роки тому +24

      @Rishabh YOHANNAN Either way does it seem even a tad bit realistic that humans will reach galactic space in the next 100 years? Calculations made on our technological advancement rate says otherwise, and as far as a sane person knows you should never argue with math; Especially when it's correct.

    • @PuneetM-rk9be
      @PuneetM-rk9be 3 роки тому +2

      0.72*

    • @karuki5791
      @karuki5791 3 роки тому +6

      @@RyoukitRLC but we base our calculations on what has previously happened to us so it can be inaccurate, I'm not saying we will reach galactic space but there is a chance we will reach a type 1 civilization in 100 years. like we might find or create some material the can withstand the sun's surface heat and can be used like solar panels for example.

  • @andriimartseniuk4813
    @andriimartseniuk4813 Рік тому +1

    The music on the background made this video so dynamic🔥

  • @muhammadaqib3555
    @muhammadaqib3555 4 роки тому +312

    “What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.” ― Isaac Newton.

  • @Tosti_bakker
    @Tosti_bakker 4 роки тому +199

    4:35 Hey that's the Star Wars alphabet! (Aurebesh)
    It says: Is it me you're looking for?

    • @OmgThatsIncredible
      @OmgThatsIncredible 4 роки тому +32

      lol you're such a huge nerd

    • @Durkadur_II
      @Durkadur_II 4 роки тому +47

      That’s a pretty cool detail

    • @mnday7884
      @mnday7884 4 роки тому +12

      i thought it looked familiar!

    • @Kissamiess
      @Kissamiess 4 роки тому +4

      "Oi, it it me you're looking for?"

    • @drewcipher896
      @drewcipher896 4 роки тому +4

      Is the other one Morse code for "Hello?"?

  • @andrastuba3085
    @andrastuba3085 4 роки тому +332

    "Before looking for our new best friends..." - ANGRY IMPERIUM NOISES
    "... or worst enemies" - EMPEROR-APPROVED WHOLESOME CONTENT

  • @reginajohnson188
    @reginajohnson188 Рік тому

    I love how you put that together because this is interesting to know how they look like

  • @FingeringThings
    @FingeringThings 4 роки тому +1247

    When the world needed Kurzgesagt the most, he returned

    • @unitt3237
      @unitt3237 4 роки тому +33

      You're profile name wasnt lying.

    • @deadangel03
      @deadangel03 4 роки тому +19

      You copped this from vsauces new video, didn’t you?

    • @beeptherobot9730
      @beeptherobot9730 4 роки тому +12

      Very Original

    • @kazz8176
      @kazz8176 4 роки тому +3

      YESSS

    • @avcriptos
      @avcriptos 4 роки тому +4

      Niceeee 👽👽

  • @6pathsjay56
    @6pathsjay56 3 роки тому +2675

    i wish i could stay alive forever to see the truth of everything

    • @Evolving_in_the_Himalayas
      @Evolving_in_the_Himalayas 3 роки тому +53

      If interested, please watch the Kevin Moore Show, on youtube. Its about chanellers. There are already innumerable civilizations out there, but in different dimensions. They are already trying to communicate with humans through these chanellers.. Teaching love, inclusiveness, to not be self destructive about their planet etc..
      Watch some of the chanellers videos on that channel with an open, unbiased mind. 🙂🙏
      (Don't check my channel, it's not for science-guys 😆😛.)

    • @evaphan2720
      @evaphan2720 3 роки тому +34

      Nope, you're not having immortality.

    • @dreaduchiha8163
      @dreaduchiha8163 3 роки тому +88

      You sound like Orochimaru from Naruto lol

    • @ThomasJr
      @ThomasJr 3 роки тому +17

      iT'S IMPOSSIBLE, THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE NOT KNOWABLE

    • @ZachNarwhal
      @ZachNarwhal 3 роки тому +47

      @@ThomasJr yes, but knowing what is not knowable is in it of itself knowing, therefore knowing what you can not know versus what you can know, means you know everything

  • @Superphantasma
    @Superphantasma 4 роки тому +3496

    Born too early to be a fully-fledged type 1 civilization, born just in time to post dank memes

    • @arjunmadan318
      @arjunmadan318 4 роки тому +43

      That is clever

    • @EthanGoering
      @EthanGoering 4 роки тому +27

      @the fadhel Minecraft lives forever

    • @mr.misklanius4460
      @mr.misklanius4460 4 роки тому +56

      are we really born to early though? i think everyone alive now below the age of 55 has a miniscule chance of never dying. if people could realize how much we shoot ourselves in the foot, we could really turn things around very fast for humanity. who knows how different the world would be in a decade if we took the reigns now.

    • @greenlight2923
      @greenlight2923 4 роки тому +4

      Sounds terrible to have never lived life then.

    • @yemmohater2796
      @yemmohater2796 4 роки тому +15

      Damn, imagine being born during the information revolution just to use it for the literal worst form of humour