Kurzgesagt (In a Nutshell)

Nor the impossibility of quantum cloning, but that's a very deep rabbit hole.

I can give Kurzgesagt a bit of a pass because the video outright states that CDPR came to them a year ago. Most of this stuff blew up in the last 6-8 months and, depending on the contract, Kurzgesagt might not have been able to back out.

Let's nuke the moon!

It won't accomplish much except making working on or around the moon needlessly difficult.

Why, though?

Because it's cool

Well, that one was pretty fun. Reminds me of that Ducktales episode where the entire world gets turned into gold.

And the other Ducktales episode where a magically simulated Earth got turned into gold.

Black holes: everyone's favorite source of sweet dreams that totally make sense.

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on May 7th 2021 at 1:51:47 PM

They say the black hole sucks out light itself. This is why reading a dark, gloomy story can be compared or likened to the black hole, at least in my experience.

Edited by FCMacbeth on May 10th 2021 at 10:55:32 PM

Well its kinda fitting that the topic of the following video is also likened to black holes then :P

A sobering tale about how Humanity is not gods and they they will never be able to know or touch everything. Actually would make an interesting plot where a villain tries to explore and take over the universe, only to suffer a villainous breakdown where even with godlike powers, 94% is still out of his reach.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on May 11th 2021 at 8:11:08 AM

It also makes you wonder what we've already missed that is now forever out of reach.

This is assuming that we don't crack FTL, which is unlikely but not completely ruled out. And it's also not even including the parts of the universe that are already outside our cosmic event horizon: rough calculations based on the geometric flatness of the cosmic microwave background predict that it's anywhere from a few dozen times larger than what we can currently see to genuinely infinite.

Regardless, in all likelihood it's just more of the same stuff: colossally vast quantities of galaxies and stars. Even in our local galactic cluster there's more territory than we could physically explore in a billion years, so this doesn't need to cause anyone an existential crisis. At least not more than the size of the universe already does.

Edited by Fighteer on May 11th 2021 at 1:53:55 PM

My guess... other aliens.

I'm half serious, intelligent life being so few that there one per gravitational pocket, which would drift away from each other, would explain why we haven't found aliens.

Well, who says we have to look that far? With modern technology, even getting to another planet in our own solar system is a major challenge. So who knows, it may simply be that even mere interstellar travel is impractical, or requires such advanced technology that no life has both achieved it and happened across our random speck of the universe.

Edited by FGHIK on May 11th 2021 at 3:44:10 AM

Or everyone's busy with their alien PC simulation games.

The ending of the age of dinosaurs

I always have a real hard time wrapping my head around anything surviving the asteroid. Sure, we're around now so it obviously happened, but it sounds so hellish to overcome. Especially the whole "majority of phytoplankton died" bit. Life's amazingly hardy.

Here's the link to the book on Amazon.

Video on fossils, more or less, but mainly dinos.

Reminds me of the xkcd where a time traveler from a future where spiders are extinct comes back to see one for the first time and had no way of knowing what a web would be.

Definitely what I'd be investigating if I ever got my hands on a time machine. Might as well have some fun before you have to deal with the infinite amount of moral quandaries time travel carries, right?

Yeah, that sea lion really said it all.