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Really enjoyed the subject matter of this video, but man you really sensationalized it. Saying things like planets are "gruesome", or even just calling astronomy "pure nightmare fuel" felt asinine and clickbaity.
I think the most unfathomable part of this video is using Fahrenheit when referring to science and the cosmos. The US really needs to catch up with the rest of the world.
The funny part of it all is that no matter how terrified you are of space, youre in it. Youre made of it. Everywhere you look, is it. The great mystery.
Most of everything is dark matter, dark energy and helium. We are not made of universe. Being made of "Star-stuff", popularised by Neil deGrasse Tyson, is a naive comforting thought.
I have a similar view of space as i have of the ocean; A vast, unexplored emptiness hiding beauty and diversity, as well as unknown dangers and challenges. We'll first learn how to traverse our solar system which i like to compare to the mediterranean during ancient times. After that, it's gonna take time for us to invent the caravel and find a new world by crossing the Atlantic (hopefully no slave trade this time).
The size of the universe crushes the soul, reduces us to meaningless cells in a lonely framework. It destroys the ego, smashes it so that it can't be mended, and for that, I'm grateful.
Yet all size of universe is nothing in comparison with infinity. It is much more horrible than anyone can imagine. So we stop thinking it and begin working something.
Just me... Listen to this on the bright of last day of my yearly holiday in the most peaceful place that I visited all my life... Thinking that I must return to my job, to my life as a number, as a nothing. not living but existing just to came here next year to feel alive. This kind of video can push you in to depression or give you this power of realization that your problems and this stupid job is nothing... Even grain of sand in this beautifully seashore is more important than grant scheme of universe than ours problems. This for me is the best power up. Life is meaningless :)
Me too, I just say "Alexa .. I wanna hear the voice of someone who's full of absolute shit & doesn't even know what they're talking about." & it's like "Here's something I found on UA-cam for you."
Space is so terrifying because it’s a reminder of how small and insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of things. It’s the vast void on full display where you realize it’s staring right back at you, intensifying your existential dread.
@@krisstopher8259 we might also be everything, the firstborn, predecessors of all that will be - for we began as mold and now look at us... patience my friend, we are on our way :)
In what way? None of that is alive. Life is pretty incredible in its existence alone even if we ignore the fact that Life managed to get from mindless bacterium to being able to contemplate on its own significance. Do you look at a mountain and go "My life is meaningless because this mountain of stone is so much bigger than I am!". Nothing out there in space that isn't alive is "important".
Great video. To quote Star Trek: “It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.”
@@patrickhamos2987 Q said to Captain Picard trying to show him a lesson. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3-4 "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I & II"
This made me reflect on people signing up to colonize Mars. Go hang out in Siberia for a week and get back to me. Leaving the planet, and signing up for the afformentioned idea but permanently, and never having the possibility of any of the comforts we take for granted here is just not going to work. Unless we're preceded by drones (for example) that would prepare the planet for our arrival to extreme degrees, it's just a death sentence carried out through a vehicle of madness and agony, ending in failure. If you go to Antarctica, you can always return home or be rescued (promptly, most importantly). Landing on the red tundra of Mars and being trapped there is a horrifying concept.
We're never going to live on Mars. I believe humans usually accomplish what we set our minds to. But I just don't believe people can live on Mars for any long period of time.
Same, after a point tho, I found it freeing. A reminder that we are only here for a blip of time and we shouldn't overthink everything, just enjoy the ride living in a moral way that adds to other's happiness and experiences.
@@maddscientist82 Just submit to one True Almighty Creator & you will feel much more peaceful than in any other way of Life. Otherwise, Morality is subjective. And, without Divine Laws killing, rape, child sacrifice, blood drinking community (Satan Worshippers) isn't/ aren't objectively evil. Some Attributes of God/ Creator out of 99 which have been taught to humanity :- 1 Ar-Rahmaan The Beneficent (He who wills goodness and mercy for all His creatures). 2 Ar-Raheem The Merciful (He who acts with extreme kindness). 11 Al-Khaaliq The Creator (The One who brings everything from non-existence to existence). 12 Al-Baari The Evolver, The Maker (of Order) (The Creator who has the Power to turn the entities). 13 Al-Musawwir The Fashioner, The Shaper of Beauty, The Flawless Shaper (The One who forms His creatures in different pictures). 26 As-Samee The All-Hearer, The Hearer (The One who Hears all things that are heard by His Eternal Hearing without an ear, instrument or organ). 27 Al-Baseer The All-Seeing, The All-Noticing (The One who Sees all things that are seen by His Eternal Seeing without a pupil or any other instrument). 31 Al-Khabeer The All-Aware One (The One who knows the Truth of things). 43 Ar-Raqeeb The Watchful One, The Watcher (The One that nothing is absent from Him. Hence it’s meaning is related to the attribute of Knowledge). 49 Al-Ba’ith The Infuser of New Life, The Resurrector, The Raiser (from death) (The One who resurrects His slaves after death for reward and/ or punishment). 58 Al-Mubdi The Originator (The One who can create Something from Nothing). 59 Al-Mueed The Restorer, The Reproducer (The One who brings back the creatures after death). 60 Al-Muhyi The Maintainer of life, The Restorer, The Giver of Life (The One who took out a living human from semen that does not have a soul. He gives life by giving the souls back to the worn out bodies on the resurrection day and He makes the hearts alive by the light of knowledge). 61 Al-Mumeet The Inflictor of Death, The Creator of Death, The Destroyer (The One who renders the living dead). 87 Al-Jaami’ The Assembler of Scattered Creations, The Gatherer (The One who gathers the creatures on a day that there is no doubt about, that is the Day of Judgment). Also, 4 Al-Quddus The Most Sacred, The Pure (The One who is pure from any imperfection and clear from children and adversaries). 5 As-Salaam The Source of Peace, The Embodiment of Peace (The One who is free from every imperfection). 6 Al-Mu’min The Infuser of Faith (The One who witnessed for Himself that no one is God but Him. And He witnessed for His believers that they are truthful in their belief that no one is God but Him). 7 Al-Muhaymin The Preserver of Safety, The Guardian (The One who witnesses the saying and deeds of His creatures). 8 Al-Azeez The Victorious, The Mighty One, The Strong, (The Defeater who is not defeated). 9 Al-Jabbar The Compeller, The Forceful One, The Omnipotent One (The One that nothing happens in His Dominion except that which He willed). 10 Al-Mutakabbir The Dominant One, The Greatest (The One who is clear from the attributes of the creatures and from resembling them). 14 Al-Ghaffaar The Great Forgiver, The Forgiver (The One who forgives the sins of His slaves time and time again). 15 Al-Qahhaar The All-Prevailing One, The Dominant (The One who has the perfect Power and has Power over All things). 16 Al-Wahhab The Supreme Bestower (The One who is Generous in giving plenty without any return. He is everything that benefits whether Halaal / legal or Haraam / illegal). 18 Al-Fattah The Supreme Solver, The Opener, The Reliever, The Judge (The One who opens for His slaves the closed worldly and religious matters). 20 & 21 Al-Qaabid The Restricting One, The Constrictor, The Withholder Al-Baasit The Extender, The Englarger, The Reliever (The One who constricts the sustenance by His wisdom and expands and widens it with His Generosity and Mercy). 22 & 23 Al-Khaafid The Reducer, The Abaser Ar-Raafi The Elevating One, The Exalter, The Elevator (The One who lowers whoever He willed by His Destruction and raises whoever He willed by His Endowment). 24 & 25 Al-Mu’izz The Honourer-Bestower, The Giver of Honor Al-Muzil The Dishonourer, The Humiliator (He gives esteem to whoever He willed, hence there is no one to degrade him; And He degrades whoever He willed, hence there is no one to give him esteem). 28 Al-Hakam The Impartial Judge, The Judge (He is the Ruler and His judgment is His Word). 29 Al-Adl The Embodiment of Justice, The Just (The One who is entitled to do what He does). 32 Al-Haleem The Clement One, The Forebearing (The One who delays the punishment for those who deserve it and then He might forgive them). 33 Al-Azeem The Magnificent One, The Great One, The Mighty (The One deserving the attributes of Exaltment, Glory, Extolement, and Purity from all imperfection). 35 Ash-Shakoor The Acknowledging One, The Grateful, The Appreciative, The Rewader of Thankfulness (The One who gives a lot of reward for a little obedience). 37 Al-Kabeer The Great One, The Most Great, The Great (The One who is greater than everything in status). 38 Al-Hafeez The Guarding One, The Preserver, The Protector (The One who protects whatever and whoever He willed to protect). 44 Al-Mujeeb The Responding One, The Responsive, The Hearkener, The Responder of Prayer (The One who answers the one in need if he asks Him and rescues the yearner if he calls upon Him). 46 Al-Hakeem The Wise One, The Wise, The Judge of Judges (The One who is correct in His doings). 47 Al-Wadud The Loving One, The Most Loving (The One who loves His believing slaves and His believing slaves love Him. His love to His slaves is His Will to be merciful to them and praise them). 48 Al-Majeed The Glorious One, The Most Glorious One (The One who is with perfect Power, High Status, Compassion, Generosity and Kindness). 53 Al-Qawwiyy The Possessor of All Strength, The Strong One, The Most Strong (The One with the complete Power). 54 Al-Mateen The Firm One, The Forceful One (The One with extreme Power which is un-interrupted and He does not get tired). 55 Al-Waliyy The Protecting Friend, The Supporter. 57 Al-Muhsee The All-Enumerating One, The Counter, The Reckoner (The One who the count of things are known to Him). 62 Al-Hayy The Eternally Living One, The Alive (The One attributed with a life that is unlike our life and is not that of a combination of soul, flesh or blood). 66 Al-Waahid The Only One, The Unique, The One (The One without a partner). 69 Al-Qaadir The All Powerful, The Omnipotent One, The Able, The Capable (The One attributed with Power). 70 Al-Muqtadir The Creator of All Power, All Authoritative One, The Powerful, The Dominant (The One with the perfect Power that nothing is withheld from Him). 71 & 72 Al-Muqaddim The Expediting One, The Expediter, The Promoter Al-Mu’akhkhir The Procrastinator, The Delayer, The Retarder (The One who puts things in their right places. He makes ahead what He wills and delays what He wills). 73 Al-Awwal The Very First , The First (The One whose Existence is without a beginning). 74 Al-Aakhir The Infinite Last One, The Last (The One whose Existence is without an end). 75 & 76 Az-Zaahir The Perceptible, The Manifest Al-Baatin The Imperceptible, The Hidden (The One that nothing is above Him and nothing is underneath Him, hence He exists without a place. He, The Exalted, His Existence is obvious by proofs and He is clear from the delusions of attributes of bodies). 77 Al-Waali The Holder of Supreme Authority, The Governor (The One who owns things and manages) them). 79 Al-Barr The Fountain-Head of Truth, The Source of All Goodness, The Righteous (The One who is kind to His creatures, who covered them with His sustenance and specified whoever He willed among them by His support, protection, and special mercy). 80 At-Tawwaab The Ever-Acceptor of Repentance, The Guide to Repentance (The One who grants repentance to whoever He willed among His creatures and accepts his repentance). 81 Al-Muntaqeem The Retaliator, The Avenger (The One who victoriously prevails over His enemies and punishes them for their sins. It may mean the One who destroys them). 82 Al-Afuww The Supreme Pardoner, The Forgiver The One with wide forgiveness. 83 Ar-Ra’oof The Benign One, The Compassionate (The One with extreme Mercy. The Mercy of Allah is His will to endow upon whoever He willed among His creatures). 84 Maalik-ul-Mulk The Eternal Possessor of Sovereignty, The Owner of All (The One who controls the Dominion and gives dominion to whoever He willed). 85 Zul-Jalaali-wal-Ikraam The Possessor of Majesty and Honour, The Lord of Majesty and Bounty (The One who deserves to be Exalted and not denied). 88 Al-Ghaniyy The Rich One, The Self-Sufficient One (The One who does not need the creation). 89 Al-Mughni The Bestower of Sufficiency, The Enricher (The One who satisfies the necessities of the creatures). 90 Al-Maani’ The Preventer of Harm, The Withholder (The One who prevent Harm & Delays things). 91 & 92 Ad-Daarr The Creator of the Harmful, The Distressor An-Naafi’ The Creator of Good, The Bestower of Benefits , The Propitious (The One who makes harm reach to whoever He willed and benefit to whoever He willed). 93 An-Noor The Prime Light, The Light (The One who guides). 98 Ar-Rasheed The Guide to Path of Rectitude, The Guide to the Right Path, The Righteous Teacher (The One who guides). 99 As-Saboor The Extensively Enduring One, The Patient (The One who does not quickly punish the sinners).
What's scary is how we can only see a small proportion of space, and the idea that it could be infinite, our minds can't fathom it, we don't know what is beyond the depths we can't see. The unknown is what scares us the most.
Honestly, I think a really good cosmic horror story could be made from the perspective of the crew of a ship that found itself stranded in a star system stick in the middle of Bootes Void
Any system detached from a galaxy would be nightmarish enough, the milky way is 300000 light years across, intergalactic space to the closest galaxy is 2million light years, think of all that empty space.
I've had a personal struggle lately, I've been ever more conscious of how insignificant our existence is, it's almost left me feeling hopeless in a way I hear people complaining, I see people having children, I see people with large egos, most things end up being a reminder to me of how meaningless it all is It's both a curse and a cure for my personal human experience now. I appreciate the small beauty of life on our speck of dust, a small creature or plant makes me emotional I simultaneously feel some type of disgust when I witness the ignorance humans display to it all I cannot relate to most any longer, and I wouldn't want it any other way to be honest
I do feel the same way about how narrow other peoples' perception ranges are. Jeez, can't they get out of their self-created bubble? In other words; pull their head out of their azz! There are many things to learn out there. Like, what is Space/Time comprised of. That would be a big help to know. What I can't stand is whiney people tell us it doesn't even matter and to quit spending money on Space exploration.
We are insignificant. You can either take that as a reason to feel hopeless, or you can choose to let it liberate you. You don't have to worry about anything, because all your biggest mistakes will still amount to nothing in the grand scheme of the universe.
@@TheRealSkeletor I agree with you, "all our biggest mistakes will still amount to nothing" is liberating, well said my friend but on the day to day, for the rest of my life, it will both liberate and burden me... That's the beauty of it all I suppose, it is bittersweet just like our existence is
Strangely, I get the complete opposite feeling of Astrophobia; Astrophilia! I love space, even the “scary parts.” They’re not scary; it’s just a certain part of space that’s just there. We can’t avoid voids, we can’t stop them, they just keep going. And we keep going, living our lives, while black holes are expanding, new stars are bursting, and dying at the same time at speeds, and temperatures inconceivable to mankind. Mathematically impossible numbers that aren’t even invented yet, possibly. All of these larger than life facts just amaze me. It excites me, it makes me marvel at how incredibly beautiful and horrible this universe is; how expansive and ongoing it is. It doesn’t really make me feel “small,” per se; it actually reminds me how smart humanity can be, when we discover new things in space, and the gobs of information that has to be discovered in the future, by future generations of new and optimistic scientists. Space is both light and dark, cold and burning hot; amazing and horrible. It’s the literal interpretation of Yin and Yang.
We're like early astronomers looking at lines on Mars and guessing they're canals. These exoplanets are lightyears away and we're guessing their details based on their light spectrum, extreme natural possibilities, and our imagination.
@@RoseGold1224 yeah this is hard to believe. I believe most science but tell me a planet is made of diamond that rains glass sideways and exist 5000 light years away. Yet we can't with certainty say what our planet is completely made up of. It's all good guesses based off data. But when it comes to other planets outside our solar system we are just making shit up.
I like to think that the recordings of animals on the Voyager records are all saying "don't trust the humans" and that's what aliens will find, translate and hear before arriving at Earth.
Its terrifying when IMAGINING being alone in the middle of space with the infinity of nothingness surrounding me in all directions 😳 Thank you, relativity & the close proximity to others 🤗
Why would you ever be "alone in the middle of space"? It's a ridiculous notion. If you ended up there, you were already dead. Like, imagining yourself in an ocean of fire, or of water..... No one finds themselves in the middle of it unless they tried very hard to put themselves there.
'Tis the out-of-scope problem. Imagine an ant (conscious by fiction) trying to make sense of all the world that is beyond the hive, beyond the cultivatable, beyond relevance to it's life. The same goes for every entity confronted with reality that is just out of scope. We are not made to comprehend the cosmos, just the survival of the tribe. That's it. Once you feel like wrapping your mind around something larger (or way smaller for that matter), there is only abstraction and this task is a challenge for everyone, who has trouble in dislodging thought from being.
How can you claim that we are not made for it, when learning new things is one of our main skills? It's what we've been doing from very early on. Not very convincing.
Your editing style is so visually appealing, creative, smooth, and clean… It’s inspiring. Paired with the way the script was written, it’s just so good. This is a really great video.
it’s so easy to forget space exists. sometimes i try to remind myself that our world is smaller than a popcorn kernel compared to this void of practically infinite nothingness, and it makes me want to diminish whatever stressful experience is occurring in my life or within the world at large. it’s so difficult being human. we are animals, after all. we are so limited by our biology, no matter what our potential is, no matter how smart the most intelligent person to ever live is. we are animals. we are not meant to comprehend numbers this big. sure, we can make equations and predictions and models but… there is necessarily a limit. we are animals. we are things. the limits of the world are the limits of what this animal species can comprehend. and there is so much more that we could never understand, no matter how we try, no matter how badly we want to. everything any individual could ever know will be interpreted and understood by the brain of a human animal. we are so, so limited. what we know is an incomprehensibly small amount of what is truly out there. i really enjoyed the lovecraft quote at 12:05. as frustrating as it can be to learn and realize the truth of this terrifying universe, it is also merciful in a way. we can relax in a sense, knowing that all that we have built - even the most ridiculous parts - is meaningful. it is meaningful. you must accept that we will never *ever* understand beyond what our biological species is capable of understanding - which is very little, despite our accomplishments thus far that feel herculean. we are necessarily limited by our biology. we will never surpass those limits without some sort of technological body modification that may eventually, theoretically, exist in the future (though likely not in our lifetimes - you who are reading this comment at this moment. think about you right now. all the humans *right now* - from now until you’re dead.) it is meaningful. space is big and earth is tiny and everything will eventually die in a terrifyingly cold and empty heat death with nothing changing forever. but we are here now. dumb drama in your life or in your friends’ lives matters now. the people you know now will die. maybe tomorrow, maybe in 30 years. but they will die. so remember that this is important. we’re just animals. and that’s nice. it’s merciful. just let us be simple, social animals. we have no other choice.
When I contemplate the vastness of the universe, I think of a person floating in an ocean with no hope of ever being anywhere but. The mind can torment with what may happen or the mind can enjoy the sensation.
This was intensely comforting and satisfying to watch... to see how trivial and insignificant our civilization or our existence is, can be quite humbling... our tiny little minds can't even fathom an inch of this vast emptiness that surrounds us... we are blessed in that way with this habitable planet and blissful ignorance that we shall be grateful for...
I feel like if the cells in our bodies had a UA-cam they would be blown away at the size of all the organs and bone relative to their size, yet they don’t realize there’s this whole universe outside of their home. So what if what we think of as otherworldly huge, is barely a speck compared to something else, and on and on and on.
Space is beautiful and terrifying, at least to me, because here on earth, every condition is balanced and perfect for all sorts of life to exist, but once you leave our atmosphere, EVERYTHING is, by its design, gauranteed to cause our death in some of the most violent ways imaginable.
When I was around 10 years old I had a nightmare that was terrifying, it was so terrifying that I couldn’t remember much about it other than I was in a place of black nothingness. I can’t emphasize enough the terrifying nothingness I was in. Even to this day 54 years later if I think about it to much the terrifying feeling starts creeping back in again. This is the first time I’ve tried to write out what I felt or tell anyone about it because of the terrifying fear I have of having to go back there. The one thing that worries me is that I was in a place where God has abandoned you and that’s where I’m going when I’ve completed my life here on earth. I’ve thought about trying some kind of regression therapy just to see where I was but I think now I would probably not make it back out. Oh and the awful thing about the whole thing is it happened twice a year apart in the month of August….so for the longest time I would always be afraid to go to sleep in the third week of August. Don’t know where I was but maybe it’s the nothingness he was talking about in this video.
I’ve had the same dream too as a child. I’d wake up terrified after dreaming I was falling through nothingness. It was as if I’d been there before I was alive and I would return there when I pass on. I worry about it too. I hope that it was just a nightmare but something deep down tells me it wasn’t just a dream.
@@Nikki-qi4kiTake comfort in the fact that in the vastness of space; that blackness is our default state. Which means if you’re alive right now, you essentially got out of it. So if you die, what’s to say you can’t somehow come back, if you were basically dead before you were born right? If you came from nothing once, what’s stopping you from coming alive again?
Although the diameters of both planets are roughly 1:10, the volume difference is much much higher. V=4/3πr^3. Volume of a circle is literally exponentially bigger than the diameter.
Man the end speech there really touched my heart and brought a tear my eye. I'll be 40 this year and lost my brother a few years ago and fiancé and daughter a few months after. Also my father a couple years before. It's really heard to see any beauty in life or enjoy music and arts. For some reason I just can't find a way to feel any happiness at all ever. I know there's so much more put there and should really just be happy I still have a chance. I'll try...
For me, as a kid it didn't particularly overwhelm my mind but I still understood and respected it. Many years later when I first started 'exploring' space in Space Engine, that's when the overwhelm and true awe of space's size kicked in. And the ominous terror of approaching black holes, which I never truly overcame no matter how much I entered them after previously having made efforts to avoid them.
@@razeezarI have yet to try Space Engine but your description of it reminded me of the terror I felt with Subnautica. I still feel it. I could get more numb to it if I played awhile, but the dread never truly left me. Going "outside the map" or swimming freely above a vast, deep swathe of water below - sends shivers down my spine, beyond existential dread. Unintentionally, it is the scariest game ever because it encapsulates my thalassophobia and amplifies it, the feeling of absolute powerlessness and insignificance
This video makes death not bad, not bad at all. Death could be the best to ever happen to each of us. Imagine being immortal and travel for ever into the void. That's worse than hell.
I'm not terrified too much about space, more so dying and not finding out more about it as our technology grows in the distant future. And then one day it'll all end with nothing left.
This video makes me feel the same way that an old Sesame Street scene did. A little girl, sitting on her living room couch, starts contemplating how big the world and universe are. We are so small!
While standing, sitting or laying still: try to be conscious that your body is on the surface of a spinning sphere moving through space at unimaginable speed, around it's sun and through the galaxy. It should make you a bit dizzy. Just to see the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, at an angle, and realizing we're revolving around the center of that, along that same angle while you're standing on the giant, spinning sphere; is equally very dizzying.
I love these reminders how small I am in the grand scheme, makes all these stupid lil worries on this rock all the more trivial and silly. Thanks dude, cool vid👍
I don’t think space is scary, its actually beautiful. Such a carefully intricated display of celestial matter that all beautifully interlink with eachother, its a blessing we get to be apart of it.
I had a near death experience 3 weeks ago. I was an industrial designer before then. I am now consumed with a thirst for understanding about our universe. There are some beautiful parallels (pun intended) between the quantum and psychological.
Welcome to the club. I’ve had multiple near death experiences which led me the same direction. Somehow, understanding what’s out there is more important than being a ceo. My priorities completely shifted
I'm sure you know, and I get why this image is used, but the image at 7:55 is not Boötes Void. It is a nebula in front of the stars depicted in the background. An actual image of Boötes Void is probably quite boring to look at, because the void exists in a 3-dimensional space - stars in front, stars in the back, and all around it. Otherwise, great video!
Try as I might, I cannot bring myself to fear space. Being afraid of a planet that could kill me is like idk, being afraid because I know vulcanos exist, or venomous animals. A void is not "dead" - it has never been alive. "Dead" is a nonsensical descriptor here, it simply "is". Now, infinity concerning time on the other hand scares the living daylights out of me...
When I consider places like Bootes void I experience this unsettling sensation, the sensation that me and Bootes void exist at this exact moment in time, I am here and it is there and for some reason this absolutely terrifies me.
Extremely excellent and well-done effort. From research, audio, editing, graphics, scripting, ect. - All 'behind the scenes' work that many who do not produce content innocently take for granted when simply clicking and viewing. You are to truly be commended. Much future success to you.
It's absolutely terrifying and beautiful at the same time. Wether we believe it or not - we can't help to fathom the undeniable fact that it points to a Creator in the Universe. It's creation is delicate and complicated that human understanding wouldn't be able to reach because we don't have the tools and lens to be able to comprehend. "The more I study science, the more I believe in God" - Albert Einstein
Phenomenally well written piece here. It certainly makes one think. Some comforting thoughts, some terrifying. Thank you to all swinging hammers on this.
"He did everything appropriate to his time. He also placed in the heart of man a deep desire for eternity; however, humans cannot fully realize what God has accomplished." Eclectics 3:11
I have a question, if anyone can answer: What makes us say that other planets are uninhabitable? What if there are species suitable for the conditions on those planets, and maybe our technology is not advanced enough to detect them?
Well, I guess a lot of the time, they mean uninhabitable by us, which is most likely completely true. We evolved to very specific conditions here on earth, and the chance of finding a place we would be completely able to live in within our reach, is overwhelmingly unlikely, if not actually impossible. But uninhabitable to other creatures that they themselves evolved on their own planet? We can't say that, unless we see it's really close to a star or something which would make life impossible.
There's nothing preventing the possibility of other forms of life on those planets. The problem is we only know how to look for what we know, which is life on earth. Until we find any other kind of life on other planets or celestial bodies (even just microbes), we have only our own planetary biome as a point of reference for what is suitable for life.
Every creature lives to maintain their planet. There is always one species that evolves to maintain other species and phenomenon that occurs. The first of all creatures was born from a planet’s soil. (I’m making stuff up)
Jupiter, deadly as it is, is a failed star. while it sounds regretful, if Jupiter had been a star, life likely would never have been possible on Earth, if Earth even formed at all. We have so much to be grateful for in this terrifying universe.
That picture you had of Boötes Void is actually Barnard 68, which is a dark absorption nebula within the Milky Way and actually fairly close to earth. Only 500 light years away. In comparison the center of the milky way is 26,670 lightyears away from earth
“Put your hands up, scream and enjoy it”… yes that is about the perfect way to experience this whole massive tilt-a-whirl. I believe that sums it up. Great video thanks man
truly an amazing video! it got me feeling a little better on a lonely night. this is the first video i watch of you, but i must say im impressed. keep making videos, cause your great!
This is an incredibly nieve and disingenuous response. You would very quickly change your mind if you suddenly found yourself in any random point out there. Without a little bubble of Earth (air, temperature radiation shielding etc) you wouldn't survive more than a few minutes at best, anywhere else in the known universe.
I don’t matter to any of you on UA-cam, the earth is insignificant on a cosmic scale, but I matter to the people I engage with every day and my family that relies on me. I anchor my own solar system surrounded by matter that matters to me. I can’t affect the universe but I can make a difference in my immediate vicinity.
People are obsessed with finding other life outside of earth, but I clicked on this video faster than an alien can say, "We come in peace" as soon as I realized that the thumbnail was a tidally locked habitual planet known as an Eyeball World. A world so close to its parental star that it only shows its star only one side of its surface always and at all times. The foremost facing side of the planet the side facing the star is hundreds of degrees above the comfort zone for life, while the opposite side of the planet is hundreds of degrees below the frozen zone for life to possibly survive in. But that goldilocks zone where heat meets cold is where life can be found. The universe is absolutely creative, to say the least.
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Really enjoyed the subject matter of this video, but man you really sensationalized it. Saying things like planets are "gruesome", or even just calling astronomy "pure nightmare fuel" felt asinine and clickbaity.
Amazing video and the filmography as well!! Could you please tell me the background music piece at 6:06 please? Thank you very much in advance!
I think the most unfathomable part of this video is using Fahrenheit when referring to science and the cosmos. The US really needs to catch up with the rest of the world.
No
I find that thought oddly comforting….
It's crazy listening to this and we all still get up just to work for money. We should be enjoying this life much more.
Couldn't be said better.
Absolutely agree 1000%
Gotta work into passive income my guy. Now my girlfriend and I wake up to do whatever we want and the money comes to us.
Some of us have to work to pay for those who don't. I can think about the cosmos when I get home.
@@Jackson-de1fwhow?
The funny part of it all is that no matter how terrified you are of space, youre in it. Youre made of it. Everywhere you look, is it. The great mystery.
Most of everything is dark matter, dark energy and helium. We are not made of universe. Being made of "Star-stuff", popularised by Neil deGrasse Tyson, is a naive comforting thought.
Space isn't real. Its an illusion.
@@firefly9838I think u might be stupid
@@firefly9838Bait used to he believeable
space is only noise if you can see
I’m not terrified of space. It leaves me in awe and I find myself inspired by the power and significance of it. It’s the most beautiful art
it is very beautiful yes. but when people start to overanalyze it then it becomes a nightmare
I have a similar view of space as i have of the ocean; A vast, unexplored emptiness hiding beauty and diversity, as well as unknown dangers and challenges. We'll first learn how to traverse our solar system which i like to compare to the mediterranean during ancient times. After that, it's gonna take time for us to invent the caravel and find a new world by crossing the Atlantic (hopefully no slave trade this time).
@@HeroinYoda Next you befriend philosopher and you begin to think infinity and zero. Then asylum for a while. Then salvation somehow in ignorance.
@@MrGoranPa We all think in between infinity and zero because there's literally nothing outside of it (as far as we know) .
Think more! Be brave!
"enjoy the fear while you can still feel it" was cold ash
Philosophers saying stuff like that but the scientists see a really big star and name it "WOH 😮"
@@SixxWolfZx huh?
6:04 "Twinkle, twinkle."
No truer words to live by 😭
It makes me think of the start screen of Dead Space.
“Twinkle Twinkle Baby”😂
made me laugh
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The size of the universe crushes the soul, reduces us to meaningless cells in a lonely framework. It destroys the ego, smashes it so that it can't be mended, and for that, I'm grateful.
Excellent comment . Highly relatable.
Yet all size of universe is nothing in comparison with infinity. It is much more horrible than anyone can imagine. So we stop thinking it and begin working something.
Indeed. Like the infinite worlds theory where anything that can happen will happen, and over and over again until time ends, and it never ends.
It's a good thing because otherwise it would just be you, a rock, and nothingness. You'd be bored and wondering why isn't there anything else 😂
Hear! Hear!
It’s insane how big these stars and planets get. It’s beyond comprehension
This is exactly what I like to listen before going to sleep.
Just me... Listen to this on the bright of last day of my yearly holiday in the most peaceful place that I visited all my life... Thinking that I must return to my job, to my life as a number, as a nothing. not living but existing just to came here next year to feel alive. This kind of video can push you in to depression or give you this power of realization that your problems and this stupid job is nothing... Even grain of sand in this beautifully seashore is more important than grant scheme of universe than ours problems. This for me is the best power up. Life is meaningless :)
About to sleep kinda scared
Same
Me too, I just say "Alexa .. I wanna hear the voice of someone who's full of absolute shit & doesn't even know what they're talking about."
& it's like "Here's something I found on UA-cam for you."
Space is so terrifying because it’s a reminder of how small and insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of things. It’s the vast void on full display where you realize it’s staring right back at you, intensifying your existential dread.
at least we are here though! And we're made to study and develop this world, hopefully in a positive way.
The earth is smaller than a tiny spot on the sun.
we are nothing, earth is nothing, even our galaxy is just a spit in the pacific
@@krisstopher8259 we might also be everything, the firstborn, predecessors of all that will be - for we began as mold and now look at us... patience my friend, we are on our way :)
In what way? None of that is alive. Life is pretty incredible in its existence alone even if we ignore the fact that Life managed to get from mindless bacterium to being able to contemplate on its own significance. Do you look at a mountain and go "My life is meaningless because this mountain of stone is so much bigger than I am!". Nothing out there in space that isn't alive is "important".
Great video. To quote Star Trek: “It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.”
Who on star trek said that?
@@patrickhamos2987Q
@@patrickhamos2987 Q said to Captain Picard trying to show him a lesson. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3-4 "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I & II"
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‘Enjoy the fear while you can still feel it…’
I got shivers from that closing quote. Masterfully written my friend!
This made me reflect on people signing up to colonize Mars. Go hang out in Siberia for a week and get back to me. Leaving the planet, and signing up for the afformentioned idea but permanently, and never having the possibility of any of the comforts we take for granted here is just not going to work. Unless we're preceded by drones (for example) that would prepare the planet for our arrival to extreme degrees, it's just a death sentence carried out through a vehicle of madness and agony, ending in failure. If you go to Antarctica, you can always return home or be rescued (promptly, most importantly). Landing on the red tundra of Mars and being trapped there is a horrifying concept.
The way we’re heading living in siberia is Guna be something we wish we had when we have no choice but to leave this dying planet
So we are fleeing a dying planet to colonize a dead planet?
there's an awesome video game i played a year ago and it's about that exact subject. it's called "deliver us mars". look it up
We're never going to live on Mars. I believe humans usually accomplish what we set our minds to. But I just don't believe people can live on Mars for any long period of time.
@@peterhanson3391 never say never this planet won’t always be here
This channel keeps adding to my existential crisis, yet I keep coming back 🥲
i reached max a long time ago. forget hope and all that. just keep living and doing stuff
Same, after a point tho, I found it freeing.
A reminder that we are only here for a blip of time and we shouldn't overthink everything, just enjoy the ride living in a moral way that adds to other's happiness and experiences.
@@maddscientist82 Just submit to one True Almighty Creator & you will feel much more peaceful than in any other way of Life.
Otherwise, Morality is subjective. And, without Divine Laws killing, rape, child sacrifice, blood drinking community (Satan Worshippers) isn't/ aren't objectively evil.
Some Attributes of God/ Creator out of 99 which have been taught to humanity :-
1
Ar-Rahmaan
The Beneficent
(He who wills goodness and mercy for all His creatures).
2
Ar-Raheem
The Merciful
(He who acts with extreme kindness).
11
Al-Khaaliq
The Creator
(The One who brings everything from non-existence to existence).
12
Al-Baari
The Evolver, The Maker (of Order)
(The Creator who has the Power to turn the entities).
13
Al-Musawwir
The Fashioner, The Shaper of Beauty, The Flawless Shaper
(The One who forms His creatures in different pictures).
26
As-Samee
The All-Hearer, The Hearer
(The One who Hears all things that are heard by His Eternal Hearing without an ear, instrument or organ).
27
Al-Baseer
The All-Seeing, The All-Noticing
(The One who Sees all things that are seen by His Eternal Seeing without a pupil or any other instrument).
31
Al-Khabeer
The All-Aware One
(The One who knows the Truth of things).
43
Ar-Raqeeb
The Watchful One, The Watcher
(The One that nothing is absent from Him. Hence it’s meaning is related to the attribute of Knowledge).
49
Al-Ba’ith
The Infuser of New Life, The Resurrector, The Raiser (from death)
(The One who resurrects His slaves after death for reward and/ or punishment).
58
Al-Mubdi
The Originator
(The One who can create Something from Nothing).
59
Al-Mueed
The Restorer, The Reproducer
(The One who brings back the creatures after death).
60
Al-Muhyi
The Maintainer of life, The Restorer, The Giver of Life
(The One who took out a living human from semen that does not have a soul. He gives life by giving the souls back to the worn out bodies on the resurrection day and He makes the hearts alive by the light of knowledge).
61
Al-Mumeet
The Inflictor of Death, The Creator of Death, The Destroyer
(The One who renders the living dead).
87
Al-Jaami’
The Assembler of Scattered Creations, The Gatherer
(The One who gathers the creatures on a day that there is no doubt about, that is the Day of Judgment).
Also,
4
Al-Quddus
The Most Sacred, The Pure
(The One who is pure from any imperfection and clear from children and adversaries).
5
As-Salaam
The Source of Peace, The Embodiment of Peace
(The One who is free from every imperfection).
6
Al-Mu’min
The Infuser of Faith
(The One who witnessed for Himself that no one is God but Him. And He witnessed for His believers that they are truthful in their belief that no one is God but Him).
7
Al-Muhaymin
The Preserver of Safety, The Guardian
(The One who witnesses the saying and deeds of His creatures).
8
Al-Azeez
The Victorious, The Mighty One, The Strong,
(The Defeater who is not defeated).
9
Al-Jabbar
The Compeller, The Forceful One, The Omnipotent One
(The One that nothing happens in His Dominion except that which He willed).
10
Al-Mutakabbir
The Dominant One, The Greatest
(The One who is clear from the attributes of the creatures and from resembling them).
14
Al-Ghaffaar
The Great Forgiver, The Forgiver
(The One who forgives the sins of His slaves time and time again).
15
Al-Qahhaar
The All-Prevailing One, The Dominant
(The One who has the perfect Power and has Power over All things).
16
Al-Wahhab
The Supreme Bestower
(The One who is Generous in giving plenty without any return. He is everything that benefits whether Halaal / legal or Haraam / illegal).
18
Al-Fattah
The Supreme Solver, The Opener, The Reliever, The Judge
(The One who opens for His slaves the closed worldly and religious matters).
20 & 21
Al-Qaabid
The Restricting One, The Constrictor, The Withholder
Al-Baasit
The Extender, The Englarger, The Reliever
(The One who constricts the sustenance by His wisdom and expands and widens it with His Generosity and Mercy).
22 & 23
Al-Khaafid
The Reducer, The Abaser
Ar-Raafi
The Elevating One, The Exalter, The Elevator
(The One who lowers whoever He willed by His Destruction and raises whoever He willed by His Endowment).
24 & 25
Al-Mu’izz
The Honourer-Bestower, The Giver of Honor
Al-Muzil
The Dishonourer, The Humiliator
(He gives esteem to whoever He willed, hence there is no one to degrade him; And He degrades whoever He willed, hence there is no one to give him esteem).
28
Al-Hakam
The Impartial Judge, The Judge
(He is the Ruler and His judgment is His Word).
29
Al-Adl
The Embodiment of Justice, The Just
(The One who is entitled to do what He does).
32
Al-Haleem
The Clement One, The Forebearing
(The One who delays the punishment for those who deserve it and then He might forgive them).
33
Al-Azeem
The Magnificent One, The Great One, The Mighty
(The One deserving the attributes of Exaltment, Glory, Extolement, and Purity from all imperfection).
35
Ash-Shakoor
The Acknowledging One, The Grateful, The Appreciative, The Rewader of Thankfulness
(The One who gives a lot of reward for a little obedience).
37
Al-Kabeer
The Great One, The Most Great, The Great
(The One who is greater than everything in status).
38
Al-Hafeez
The Guarding One, The Preserver, The Protector
(The One who protects whatever and whoever He willed to protect).
44
Al-Mujeeb
The Responding One, The Responsive, The Hearkener, The Responder of Prayer
(The One who answers the one in need if he asks Him and rescues the yearner if he calls upon Him).
46
Al-Hakeem
The Wise One, The Wise, The Judge of Judges
(The One who is correct in His doings).
47
Al-Wadud
The Loving One, The Most Loving
(The One who loves His believing slaves and His believing slaves love Him. His love to His slaves is His Will to be merciful to them and praise them).
48
Al-Majeed
The Glorious One, The Most Glorious One
(The One who is with perfect Power, High Status, Compassion, Generosity and Kindness).
53
Al-Qawwiyy
The Possessor of All Strength, The Strong One, The Most Strong (The One with the complete Power).
54
Al-Mateen
The Firm One, The Forceful One
(The One with extreme Power which is un-interrupted and He does not get tired).
55
Al-Waliyy
The Protecting Friend, The Supporter.
57
Al-Muhsee
The All-Enumerating One, The Counter, The Reckoner
(The One who the count of things are known to Him).
62
Al-Hayy
The Eternally Living One, The Alive
(The One attributed with a life that is unlike our life and is not that of a combination of soul, flesh or blood).
66
Al-Waahid
The Only One, The Unique, The One
(The One without a partner).
69
Al-Qaadir
The All Powerful, The Omnipotent One, The Able, The Capable (The One attributed with Power).
70
Al-Muqtadir
The Creator of All Power, All Authoritative One, The Powerful, The Dominant
(The One with the perfect Power that nothing is withheld from Him).
71 & 72
Al-Muqaddim
The Expediting One, The Expediter, The Promoter
Al-Mu’akhkhir
The Procrastinator, The Delayer, The Retarder
(The One who puts things in their right places. He makes ahead what He wills and delays what He wills).
73
Al-Awwal
The Very First , The First
(The One whose Existence is without a beginning).
74
Al-Aakhir
The Infinite Last One, The Last
(The One whose Existence is without an end).
75 & 76
Az-Zaahir
The Perceptible, The Manifest
Al-Baatin
The Imperceptible, The Hidden
(The One that nothing is above Him and nothing is underneath Him, hence He exists without a place. He, The Exalted, His Existence is obvious by proofs and He is clear from the delusions of attributes of bodies).
77
Al-Waali
The Holder of Supreme Authority, The Governor
(The One who owns things and manages) them).
79
Al-Barr
The Fountain-Head of Truth, The Source of All Goodness, The Righteous
(The One who is kind to His creatures, who covered them with His sustenance and specified whoever He willed among them by His support, protection, and special mercy).
80
At-Tawwaab
The Ever-Acceptor of Repentance, The Guide to Repentance
(The One who grants repentance to whoever He willed among His creatures and accepts his repentance).
81
Al-Muntaqeem
The Retaliator, The Avenger
(The One who victoriously prevails over His enemies and punishes them for their sins. It may mean the One who destroys them).
82
Al-Afuww
The Supreme Pardoner, The Forgiver
The One with wide forgiveness.
83
Ar-Ra’oof
The Benign One, The Compassionate
(The One with extreme Mercy. The Mercy of Allah is His will to endow upon whoever He willed among His creatures).
84
Maalik-ul-Mulk
The Eternal Possessor of Sovereignty, The Owner of All
(The One who controls the Dominion and gives dominion to whoever He willed).
85
Zul-Jalaali-wal-Ikraam
The Possessor of Majesty and Honour, The Lord of Majesty and Bounty
(The One who deserves to be Exalted and not denied).
88
Al-Ghaniyy
The Rich One, The Self-Sufficient One
(The One who does not need the creation).
89
Al-Mughni
The Bestower of Sufficiency, The Enricher
(The One who satisfies the necessities of the creatures).
90
Al-Maani’
The Preventer of Harm, The Withholder
(The One who prevent Harm & Delays things).
91 & 92
Ad-Daarr
The Creator of the Harmful, The Distressor
An-Naafi’
The Creator of Good, The Bestower of Benefits , The Propitious
(The One who makes harm reach to whoever He willed and benefit to whoever He willed).
93
An-Noor
The Prime Light, The Light
(The One who guides).
98
Ar-Rasheed
The Guide to Path of Rectitude, The Guide to the Right Path, The Righteous Teacher
(The One who guides).
99
As-Saboor
The Extensively Enduring One, The Patient (The One who does not quickly punish the sinners).
if you're existential, then you're smart. You're not a zombie like the others
im just here for the obligatory person who has to say "eXiStEnTiAl cRiSiS" on every one of this guys videos
What's scary is how we can only see a small proportion of space, and the idea that it could be infinite, our minds can't fathom it, we don't know what is beyond the depths we can't see. The unknown is what scares us the most.
Fear nothing. Infinity will reclaim everything. And from nothing, everything else will emerge again. and again.
We live on and on within Samsara.
Proof?
@@goldenraidz10900 proof. Nobody has any proof whatsoever to back up claim or belief
@@goldenraidz1090 It's not a matter of proof, it's a matter of understanding.
@@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor No beliefs here, only observations.
The "twinkle twinkle" caught me off guard 💀
Who would have thought that song could illicit cosmic horror?
sometimes i feel humans are terrifing , but this is on a another level
sometimes? lol
Honestly, I think a really good cosmic horror story could be made from the perspective of the crew of a ship that found itself stranded in a star system stick in the middle of Bootes Void
Agreed
Any system detached from a galaxy would be nightmarish enough, the milky way is 300000 light years across, intergalactic space to the closest galaxy is 2million light years, think of all that empty space.
I've had a personal struggle lately,
I've been ever more conscious of how insignificant our existence is, it's almost left me feeling hopeless in a way
I hear people complaining, I see people having children, I see people with large egos, most things end up being a reminder to me of how meaningless it all is
It's both a curse and a cure for my personal human experience now. I appreciate the small beauty of life on our speck of dust, a small creature or plant makes me emotional
I simultaneously feel some type of disgust when I witness the ignorance humans display to it all
I cannot relate to most any longer, and I wouldn't want it any other way to be honest
I do feel the same way about how narrow other peoples' perception ranges are. Jeez, can't they get out of their self-created bubble? In other words; pull their head out of their azz! There are many things to learn out there. Like, what is Space/Time comprised of. That would be a big help to know. What I can't stand is whiney people tell us it doesn't even matter and to quit spending money on Space exploration.
@@bleachedfever caught in the rat race, detached from nature and the true meaning of humanity
We are insignificant. You can either take that as a reason to feel hopeless, or you can choose to let it liberate you. You don't have to worry about anything, because all your biggest mistakes will still amount to nothing in the grand scheme of the universe.
@@TheRealSkeletor I agree with you, "all our biggest mistakes will still amount to nothing" is liberating, well said my friend
but on the day to day, for the rest of my life, it will both liberate and burden me...
That's the beauty of it all I suppose, it is bittersweet just like our existence is
Theres a meaning when you have god in your life. ✝️❣️
When you close your eyes and go to sleep you are in a void. It’s actually quite comforting if you don’t panic
It’s crazy when you think about it, we’re Actually _in_ Space. We’re “on” Earth but *in* Space. Like I can look up at night and see Space 🥴
Strangely, I get the complete opposite feeling of Astrophobia; Astrophilia! I love space, even the “scary parts.” They’re not scary; it’s just a certain part of space that’s just there. We can’t avoid voids, we can’t stop them, they just keep going. And we keep going, living our lives, while black holes are expanding, new stars are bursting, and dying at the same time at speeds, and temperatures inconceivable to mankind. Mathematically impossible numbers that aren’t even invented yet, possibly. All of these larger than life facts just amaze me. It excites me, it makes me marvel at how incredibly beautiful and horrible this universe is; how expansive and ongoing it is. It doesn’t really make me feel “small,” per se; it actually reminds me how smart humanity can be, when we discover new things in space, and the gobs of information that has to be discovered in the future, by future generations of new and optimistic scientists. Space is both light and dark, cold and burning hot; amazing and horrible. It’s the literal interpretation of Yin and Yang.
Everything and nothing.❤
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Exactly...!😊
Scary things are beautiful in their own way.
that's why people watch horror movies
...and married men nodded in agreement throughout the lands
@@poonoi1968 lol
..and own ways are scary in their beauty.
We're like early astronomers looking at lines on Mars and guessing they're canals. These exoplanets are lightyears away and we're guessing their details based on their light spectrum, extreme natural possibilities, and our imagination.
yeah, wants to know how did they find out? What type of planets these are and what is on them if they’re light years away
@@RoseGold1224 yeah this is hard to believe. I believe most science but tell me a planet is made of diamond that rains glass sideways and exist 5000 light years away. Yet we can't with certainty say what our planet is completely made up of. It's all good guesses based off data. But when it comes to other planets outside our solar system we are just making shit up.
This video is what listening to Boards of Canada feels like to me. Wonder and dread at the same time.
Woah someone else listens to them too? Accurate though
Honestly I feel that. Glad to see more BoC enjoyers
2:19. Nah, I think an adult might lose his sanity, but a baby? No frame of reference.
I like to think that the recordings of animals on the Voyager records are all saying "don't trust the humans" and that's what aliens will find, translate and hear before arriving at Earth.
This actually excites me…because we have so much to learn !
I know! It would be much more terrifying if it was finite and we found an end.. if we were able to learn everything
@@jbear3478 true!!
Its terrifying when IMAGINING being alone in the middle of space with the infinity of nothingness surrounding me in all directions 😳
Thank you, relativity & the close proximity to others 🤗
Why would you ever be "alone in the middle of space"? It's a ridiculous notion. If you ended up there, you were already dead. Like, imagining yourself in an ocean of fire, or of water..... No one finds themselves in the middle of it unless they tried very hard to put themselves there.
@@patrickhamos2987it’s called a hypothetical
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'Tis the out-of-scope problem. Imagine an ant (conscious by fiction) trying to make sense of all the world that is beyond the hive, beyond the cultivatable, beyond relevance to it's life. The same goes for every entity confronted with reality that is just out of scope. We are not made to comprehend the cosmos, just the survival of the tribe. That's it. Once you feel like wrapping your mind around something larger (or way smaller for that matter), there is only abstraction and this task is a challenge for everyone, who has trouble in dislodging thought from being.
How can you claim that we are not made for it, when learning new things is one of our main skills? It's what we've been doing from very early on. Not very convincing.
This is deep like we cant control this type of things like example the interpretation of ant or other small creatures on the big things
Your editing style is so visually appealing, creative, smooth, and clean… It’s inspiring. Paired with the way the script was written, it’s just so good. This is a really great video.
it’s so easy to forget space exists.
sometimes i try to remind myself that our world is smaller than a popcorn kernel compared to this void of practically infinite nothingness, and it makes me want to diminish whatever stressful experience is occurring in my life or within the world at large.
it’s so difficult being human. we are animals, after all. we are so limited by our biology, no matter what our potential is, no matter how smart the most intelligent person to ever live is. we are animals. we are not meant to comprehend numbers this big. sure, we can make equations and predictions and models but… there is necessarily a limit. we are animals. we are things. the limits of the world are the limits of what this animal species can comprehend.
and there is so much more that we could never understand, no matter how we try, no matter how badly we want to. everything any individual could ever know will be interpreted and understood by the brain of a human animal. we are so, so limited. what we know is an incomprehensibly small amount of what is truly out there.
i really enjoyed the lovecraft quote at 12:05. as frustrating as it can be to learn and realize the truth of this terrifying universe, it is also merciful in a way.
we can relax in a sense, knowing that all that we have built - even the most ridiculous parts - is meaningful. it is meaningful.
you must accept that we will never *ever* understand beyond what our biological species is capable of understanding - which is very little, despite our accomplishments thus far that feel herculean. we are necessarily limited by our biology. we will never surpass those limits without some sort of technological body modification that may eventually, theoretically, exist in the future (though likely not in our lifetimes - you who are reading this comment at this moment. think about you right now. all the humans *right now* - from now until you’re dead.)
it is meaningful. space is big and earth is tiny and everything will eventually die in a terrifyingly cold and empty heat death with nothing changing forever. but we are here now. dumb drama in your life or in your friends’ lives matters now. the people you know now will die. maybe tomorrow, maybe in 30 years. but they will die. so remember that this is important. we’re just animals. and that’s nice. it’s merciful. just let us be simple, social animals. we have no other choice.
No.
When I contemplate the vastness of the universe, I think of a person floating in an ocean with no hope of ever being anywhere but. The mind can torment with what may happen or the mind can enjoy the sensation.
This was intensely comforting and satisfying to watch... to see how trivial and insignificant our civilization or our existence is, can be quite humbling... our tiny little minds can't even fathom an inch of this vast emptiness that surrounds us... we are blessed in that way with this habitable planet and blissful ignorance that we shall be grateful for...
Everything is Impermanent, including the Universe - Buddha
"I am the Son of God, the Creator of everything." ~Jesus Christ
@@fobbitoperator3620no one gives a shit but you
@@fobbitoperator3620 i prefer buddha❤
@@fobbitoperator3620 Now and forever. Amen
@@thinkandrepent3175 Indeed!
I feel like if the cells in our bodies had a UA-cam they would be blown away at the size of all the organs and bone relative to their size, yet they don’t realize there’s this whole universe outside of their home. So what if what we think of as otherworldly huge, is barely a speck compared to something else, and on and on and on.
Agreed
Space is beautiful and terrifying, at least to me, because here on earth, every condition is balanced and perfect for all sorts of life to exist, but once you leave our atmosphere, EVERYTHING is, by its design, gauranteed to cause our death in some of the most violent ways imaginable.
Everything works in a cycle of creation and destruction. Same with the planets and stars. Same way with humans and animals.
Sadly, humans have gained the means of guaranteeing our own death without even leaving the atmosphere.
When I was around 10 years old I had a nightmare that was terrifying, it was so terrifying that I couldn’t remember much about it other than I was in a place of black nothingness. I can’t emphasize enough the terrifying nothingness I was in. Even to this day 54 years later if I think about it to much the terrifying feeling starts creeping back in again. This is the first time I’ve tried to write out what I felt or tell anyone about it because of the terrifying fear I have of having to go back there. The one thing that worries me is that I was in a place where God has abandoned you and that’s where I’m going when I’ve completed my life here on earth.
I’ve thought about trying some kind of regression therapy just to see where I was but I think now I would probably not make it back out. Oh and the awful thing about the whole thing is it happened twice a year apart in the month of August….so for the longest time I would always be afraid to go to sleep in the third week of August. Don’t know where I was but maybe it’s the nothingness he was talking about in this video.
I’ve had the same dream too as a child. I’d wake up terrified after dreaming I was falling through nothingness. It was as if I’d been there before I was alive and I would return there when I pass on. I worry about it too. I hope that it was just a nightmare but something deep down tells me it wasn’t just a dream.
@@Nikki-qi4ki I've had that dream too. Someday we will all return to the darkness. You and I may not be alone, but humanity is.
@@Nikki-qi4kiTake comfort in the fact that in the vastness of space; that blackness is our default state. Which means if you’re alive right now, you essentially got out of it. So if you die, what’s to say you can’t somehow come back, if you were basically dead before you were born right? If you came from nothing once, what’s stopping you from coming alive again?
I think I’ll watch one more video before bedtime.
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Here before the thumbnail/title is changed
did they change it? i've seen it happen 2 times in a month but different channels. one was the why files
It changed lol I thought you were joking what the f...
My working guess is that it bumps videos up the algorithm somehow. I've seen Mary Spender do it a few times.
I think there's a veritasium video about that
“A true hell; twinkle twinkle” lmao
So you can fit 1,300 grapes inside of a basketball? 😂
😂😂😂😂
Best takeaway from this video honestly.
@@TheRealSkeletor lol
Although the diameters of both planets are roughly 1:10, the volume difference is much much higher. V=4/3πr^3. Volume of a circle is literally exponentially bigger than the diameter.
@@skf6199 Beautiful equation! And I understand, Was just being silly.
6:04 "A true hell. Twinkle twinkle." 😂😂 Thank you for sharing.
This channel makes me happy to exist, & desperate to be more alive.
What’s really terrifying is…
Humans live in a cosmos
Cows live in a cosmoos
Think about that if u dare.
Man the end speech there really touched my heart and brought a tear my eye. I'll be 40 this year and lost my brother a few years ago and fiancé and daughter a few months after. Also my father a couple years before. It's really heard to see any beauty in life or enjoy music and arts. For some reason I just can't find a way to feel any happiness at all ever. I know there's so much more put there and should really just be happy I still have a chance. I'll try...
For humanity its a blessing to exists and also cursed to be alive.
I'm more terrified of the ocean than the space.
Being terrified of space is like being terrified of the sky. Come on.
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." - Carl Sagan
He also said….” The universe is neither benign or malicious, it just is”….” It pays no mind on whether we survive or perish”
The meteorite that crashed upon Earth and made the dinosaurs extinct created a chemical reaction that created Humans (I’m making stuff up).
The most significant thing we can ever learn, is how truly insignificant we are.
Those giant voids in space use to tear my sanity into pieces as a kid.
Same here. Have you learned anything since then that made it easier for you to accept the truth of these things? I haven't either.
@@lightningrod1063 i have learned more stuff since then but its had quite the opposite impact i was hoping.
For me, as a kid it didn't particularly overwhelm my mind but I still understood and respected it. Many years later when I first started 'exploring' space in Space Engine, that's when the overwhelm and true awe of space's size kicked in.
And the ominous terror of approaching black holes, which I never truly overcame no matter how much I entered them after previously having made efforts to avoid them.
Well it should be pointed out Voids aren't empty. They just have much less matter than non-Void space. There are galaxies in Bootes.
@@razeezarI have yet to try Space Engine but your description of it reminded me of the terror I felt with Subnautica. I still feel it. I could get more numb to it if I played awhile, but the dread never truly left me. Going "outside the map" or swimming freely above a vast, deep swathe of water below - sends shivers down my spine, beyond existential dread. Unintentionally, it is the scariest game ever because it encapsulates my thalassophobia and amplifies it, the feeling of absolute powerlessness and insignificance
20 - 100 quintillion planets in the universe, yet people (some very smart scientists) still argue we are alone in the universe. what ridiculousness.
This video makes death not bad, not bad at all. Death could be the best to ever happen to each of us.
Imagine being immortal and travel for ever into the void. That's worse than hell.
Infinite suffocation. Forever cold.
I'm not terrified too much about space, more so dying and not finding out more about it as our technology grows in the distant future. And then one day it'll all end with nothing left.
If you're on Earth, aren't you also in the universe? Isn't the Earth part of what we call the universe? Where is my mistake in thinking?
Yes, dear viewer. The cradle is in the home.
Cute
This video makes me feel the same way that an old Sesame Street scene did. A little girl, sitting on her living room couch, starts contemplating how big the world and universe are. We are so small!
Space. You can fall in six directions instead of just one.
....and at once
@@MSHNKTRLI think that's called exploding
@@MSHNKTRL Only up to 4 at once, as far as we know.
While standing, sitting or laying still: try to be conscious that your body is on the surface of a spinning sphere moving through space at unimaginable speed, around it's sun and through the galaxy. It should make you a bit dizzy.
Just to see the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, at an angle, and realizing we're revolving around the center of that, along that same angle while you're standing on the giant, spinning sphere; is equally very dizzying.
I love these reminders how small I am in the grand scheme, makes all these stupid lil worries on this rock all the more trivial and silly. Thanks dude, cool vid👍
I don’t think space is scary, its actually beautiful. Such a carefully intricated display of celestial matter that all beautifully interlink with eachother, its a blessing we get to be apart of it.
This guy's making Kurzgesagt videos feel lighthearted and optimistic xD
I had a near death experience 3 weeks ago. I was an industrial designer before then. I am now consumed with a thirst for understanding about our universe.
There are some beautiful parallels (pun intended) between the quantum and psychological.
Welcome to the club. I’ve had multiple near death experiences which led me the same direction. Somehow, understanding what’s out there is more important than being a ceo. My priorities completely shifted
I'm sure you know, and I get why this image is used, but the image at 7:55 is not Boötes Void. It is a nebula in front of the stars depicted in the background. An actual image of Boötes Void is probably quite boring to look at, because the void exists in a 3-dimensional space - stars in front, stars in the back, and all around it.
Otherwise, great video!
Try as I might, I cannot bring myself to fear space. Being afraid of a planet that could kill me is like idk, being afraid because I know vulcanos exist, or venomous animals. A void is not "dead" - it has never been alive. "Dead" is a nonsensical descriptor here, it simply "is".
Now, infinity concerning time on the other hand scares the living daylights out of me...
Wow, I hope nobody actually calls it "spacephobia", it just sounds so lazy!
M guy it’s actually called Astrophobia
@@Zeron108 didn't you watch the video?
@@4k-os I did
But did you?
@@4k-os yes tbh when I think about space and the celestial bodies in depth despite me being obsessed with it since childhood I feel creeped out
5:57 “A true hell… twinkle twinkle” 😂
This might just be the best video you have ever made.
I take great comfort in knowing there is little I can do as the little I am in this great and vast universe.
Am just a particle in the universe
Yes, this planet we call home is but a speck of dust in the Universe. And we are even less significant on the surface of that speck of dust.
When I consider places like Bootes void I experience this unsettling sensation, the sensation that me and Bootes void exist at this exact moment in time, I am here and it is there and for some reason this absolutely terrifies me.
That. Was. Beautiful.
Extremely excellent and well-done effort. From research, audio, editing, graphics, scripting, ect. - All 'behind the scenes' work that many who do not produce content innocently take for granted when simply clicking and viewing.
You are to truly be commended. Much future success to you.
It's absolutely terrifying and beautiful at the same time. Wether we believe it or not - we can't help to fathom the undeniable fact that it points to a Creator in the Universe. It's creation is delicate and complicated that human understanding wouldn't be able to reach because we don't have the tools and lens to be able to comprehend.
"The more I study science, the more I believe in God" - Albert Einstein
Phenomenally well written piece here. It certainly makes one think. Some comforting thoughts, some terrifying. Thank you to all swinging hammers on this.
"He did everything appropriate to his time. He also placed in the heart of man a deep desire for eternity; however, humans cannot fully realize what God has accomplished." Eclectics 3:11
It is absolutely ASTONISHING that you use Fahrenheit and miles in a scientific video.
You think Einstein used km?
I believe the image you shared depicting Bootes Void is actually Barnard 68, a dark nebula.
Everything you said about fear as a blessing is so wise and humbling.
I have a question, if anyone can answer: What makes us say that other planets are uninhabitable? What if there are species suitable for the conditions on those planets, and maybe our technology is not advanced enough to detect them?
Well, I guess a lot of the time, they mean uninhabitable by us, which is most likely completely true. We evolved to very specific conditions here on earth, and the chance of finding a place we would be completely able to live in within our reach, is overwhelmingly unlikely, if not actually impossible. But uninhabitable to other creatures that they themselves evolved on their own planet? We can't say that, unless we see it's really close to a star or something which would make life impossible.
@@DenethordeSade.90 One thing is sure, we gotta be looking a long time, considering the amount of planets out there
There's nothing preventing the possibility of other forms of life on those planets. The problem is we only know how to look for what we know, which is life on earth. Until we find any other kind of life on other planets or celestial bodies (even just microbes), we have only our own planetary biome as a point of reference for what is suitable for life.
Every creature lives to maintain their planet. There is always one species that evolves to maintain other species and phenomenon that occurs. The first of all creatures was born from a planet’s soil. (I’m making stuff up)
Take a shot everytime he says 'unfathomably', or 'fathom', and you'll visit the void.
I would have had like 3 shots
We are in deep space.
I find space endlessly fascinating it's not scary but something to be admired and respected.
Jupiter, deadly as it is, is a failed star. while it sounds regretful, if Jupiter had been a star, life likely would never have been possible on Earth, if Earth even formed at all. We have so much to be grateful for in this terrifying universe.
Jupiter isn't a failed star. It's too small. A brown dwarf is a failed star and they're much bigger and denser than Jupiter.
@@Deadclown45acp ok potato potato im trying to be poetic here
@@foogriffy LOL okay. I apologize.
@@Deadclown45acpDon't apologize....their poetry sux.😂
It’s not a failed star, it’s an over achieving planet!
That picture you had of Boötes Void is actually Barnard 68, which is a dark absorption nebula within the Milky Way and actually fairly close to earth. Only 500 light years away. In comparison the center of the milky way is 26,670 lightyears away from earth
I am abhorred by the blatant Astrophobia displayed in the comments
I am abhorred at your blatant attempt at gathering youtube likes
@@al-ft1ng one like for you, lol. let's see who wins
Jupiter triggered my fatphobia
I identify as a planet from now on.
“Put your hands up, scream and enjoy it”… yes that is about the perfect way to experience this whole massive tilt-a-whirl. I believe that sums it up. Great video thanks man
truly an amazing video! it got me feeling a little better on a lonely night. this is the first video i watch of you, but i must say im impressed. keep making videos, cause your great!
So nice to hear a real human narrator voice.
"twinkle twinkle"
Finally! I've been in deep space the last few days and was thinking the same thing. About time somewhat exposes the truth!
This world is more terrifying than space IMHO! 😊
How could you even think this? I can’t even fathom how you came to this conclusion.
thank you!
@Perciprius_91 I just want to go to space, I'm so intrigued by it, if someone asked do you want to take a trip to space, I wouldn't even hesitate!
This is an incredibly nieve and disingenuous response. You would very quickly change your mind if you suddenly found yourself in any random point out there. Without a little bubble of Earth (air, temperature radiation shielding etc) you wouldn't survive more than a few minutes at best, anywhere else in the known universe.
No kidding. Honestly that huge void seems peaceful to me.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
who would use "a baby's head" exploding as an 'analogy'??? .. thats just FLAT OUT DISTURBING!! 😵
Relax.
I don’t matter to any of you on UA-cam, the earth is insignificant on a cosmic scale, but I matter to the people I engage with every day and my family that relies on me. I anchor my own solar system surrounded by matter that matters to me. I can’t affect the universe but I can make a difference in my immediate vicinity.
This was a very well made video, really made me thing, thank you
Have you come from expedition from Antarctica recently?
The Universe has made me so strong that this video failed to depress me.💪
Uranus
*you're
imagine if uranus turned into a black hole, lmao
@@krisstopher8259 Imagine your own anus, leave mine out of it!
@@krisstopher8259 ur giving me astrophobia
@@stevenkelby2169lol
People are obsessed with finding other life outside of earth, but I clicked on this video faster than an alien can say, "We come in peace" as soon as I realized that the thumbnail was a tidally locked habitual planet known as an Eyeball World. A world so close to its parental star that it only shows its star only one side of its surface always and at all times. The foremost facing side of the planet the side facing the star is hundreds of degrees above the comfort zone for life, while the opposite side of the planet is hundreds of degrees below the frozen zone for life to possibly survive in. But that goldilocks zone where heat meets cold is where life can be found. The universe is absolutely creative, to say the least.