Now the entire galaxy sees us as superpredators... Which isn't wrong, but we're more than that. And it's both a good thing and a bad thing. Let's just say that we'll be cleaning up Jake's mess for a while. 😂
@@PetiteTactical Well, "bad" in the sense that it could make it hard to make friends. Diplomacy could be difficult when they feel threatened before our reps even enter the room. We would pretty much get anything we want, but, if it comes across as us trying to dominate, we could find ourselves on the unpleasant end of their weapons. We're clearly trying to be nice and make friends, not start a war. The uppity folks will smooth it over, but the reputation and misinformation stuff will take a while to sort out. It certainly wouldn't help with people like me (and you too, by the sound of it) running around. It'd be a lot of fun to play with the reputation.
@@VelcroYuppie Soldiers usually have just turned 18, so technically yes. Plus I'm sure Jake got a "Don't embarrass us!!!" order from his higher ups before he left.
Saying "sorry there is nothing a human can digest without issues on the menu" isn't embarassing, it's stating a fact. To rather starve than to do that is stupid, no matter the age. And by not telling the truth to the captain it means the next human has the same problem. So it's a bit egoistic too. Better to set the record straight and not have to bend over backwards to not starve. Also hunting in a territory you are not from can also mean the rules for hunting are different. In some part of the world everybody can go hunting, in others you need a hunting license. And some animals are completely off the menu. So just going out and shoot an animal could lead to problems with the local authorities.
I grew up in the country and until I was 34 when I injured my back I worked as a meat cutter and market manager I have seen how far people will go not just for a good steak but any meat
also an appriciation for the writer trying to take into consideration how mass & energy work with impacts of kinetics , specially when you have kinetics designed for far stronger gravity worlds with targets being much more compact , vs lower gravity world and targets that sure might be big and have sharp teeths buuuuut , well.. velocity + mass = ouchy , be it bullets or a spear ^^
Zinc, magnesium, iron. Mineral salts to replenish electrolytes lost while sweating. I've been known to suck on a chunk of rock salt when I couldn't get any chips or crisps.
@@MIIRBH Tell me about it, what's with all the labels nowadays? First they tell me to eat vegan and now they call me a cannibal for doing what they said, you really can't win any more.
@@ThegodofpiesTUEO Do you mean you eat vegan as "eating flora". or do you eat "vegan" as eating those who eat flora, because calling you cannibal for the first is unacceptable, while the second ........ hahahahahahaha !!!! just joking bro!!
I'd probably imagine a meme made later on that involves a bunch of creatures running away from Jake... Holding a half-lemon in one hand, a steak knife in the other and just casually jogging after the creatures.
"Apex Predator" is always a local term For example River Otters are classed as an "Apex Predator" in their natural environment (their rivers) none of the fish and shellfish are able to hunt them Move them inland a hundred yards, and they're doomed if they happen upon a coyote, let alone a wolf or big cat
I appreciate the stories attempt to rationalize Earth guns being so good compared to space guns. The idea that Earth made us tough enough to even be able to use our own weapons is an interesting thought.
Man, having a human reading it makes it 1000x better, it's just horrible to hear robots speak, it feels low quality, it feels and it is artificial, amazing work with the reading!!! This story was a good one, it's a shame none of them really go anywhere, it's just closed mini stories with so much potential
The look on the grunt's face as he looks at the tray killed me. Every troop has worn that exact expression while looking at chow hall food. Every single one. Sometimes, three times a day.
Funny story, If only communication occurred he could have avoided everything, he could have just piped up and said "I can't physically eat raw meat or the plants provided, even though I'm an omnivore, I can't eat just anything."
@@czar6203 I don't want to dwell too long or get too explicit on such a dark topic. I'll just say that my behavior might not have reflected well on our species, and tourism to Earth might have suffered.
Great story. I hope there will be more from this particular universe - it might be nice to see how Humanity takes its first steps amongst the other races without rushing on to 'Humanity saves the day' type scenarios, which can get a little bit 'samey'.
Hack the meat in very small pieces and salt it. Now it's a speciality out of Germany, Mett. We often make it shaped like hedgehogs (Mett-Igel) No heat needed
4:27 Actually in space, heat management is a more dealing with surplus than getting cold kinda deal. Any heat is accumulated somewhere, after it is compressed in a heat exchanger and then heat radiation is emitted. If Jake is smart he'll strap on a spacesuit, and cook the thrumb outside, by applying a metal encasement around the thrumb and then placing it near the heat emitter, and wait for the metal encasement to reach roughly 200 Celsius, after which he can take it back to outside the airlock. The heat emission from the metal encasement will make it go down in temperature, but slowly, unlike with convection. Since he's not on the ship cooking, he's not breaking rules, so yeah.
This is now canon, Jake has a "Oh god I'm so stupid" moment after leaving the Albon and vows to use this strategy instead if he ever gets another assignment.
Like they said: Heat Management. Venting heat into space is not as easy as it sounds. It seems silly, but there aren't enough particles in space to take the heat away. So the heat just sits there in the various radiators and sinks, building and building. It's why half of those "solar panels" on the ISS are not, in fact, solar panels at all, but huge radiators, taking the heat from the station and holding it for slow dispersion into space, drawing that heat out of massive heat sinks. Another proposed method of emergency heat reduction is having a specialized blow our heat sink filled with lead, silver or gold beads that contain the heat until they reach a near melting point. Then the heat sinks "blow out", spraying those beads into space. I don't know if that's just an old theoretical method of heat dispersal or if it's in active use. Regardless, heat Management is a big deal in space. Those cheesecake pics you see of ladies in their skivies looking at the stars? Not actually far from what it could be like in a spacecraft or station. Uncomfortably warm. The laws of thermodynamics are a real sticky problem in space.
@@SoulSoundMuiscBut the heat doesn’t have to be vented. Processes in the ship generate heat. Food absorbs it. It is an alternate way of utilizing heat that the ship already produces.
Using the ships heat sinks as a stove, that is what the accommodation would have to be for the trip out. I also find it highly unlikely that there would not be other fruit eating species where fruit would not be an option on the ship from the off.
As fun as the story is, i really find it hard to believe it to be that hard to admit humans need cooked food. Granted ive never been in the military, it just seems so far fetched and detracts quite a bit from my personal enjoyment. Still, story deserves an upvote as i still enjoyed it overall.
Its mostly just a case of Jake not wanting to mark himself out as a special snowflake with special needs because he didn't want to get bullied/made fun of by aliens that he believed would do that- because that's what happened to him during his time at basic training because that is a *very* common occurence in pretty much any kind of heavily organized/authoritative human societal structure. Being the "odd one out" sucks.
@dicerson9976 we also have to remember that Jake is probably somewhere around 18-20. Not being the odd one out, not getting attention, given his past experience, is going to matter way, way more to him than it might for a more experienced and tenured person.
he is also the only human representing all of humanity, not everyone is going to qualify for a exchange but the one that is aware of how the slightest thing could offend a different culture is the better one to send. many earth cultures find it offensive if you refused food offered, even poor of western cultures or those that faced lack might find it offensive if you waste or are too good for their food. all farmers or those that work growing or raising the food, don't like it when the thing they put work in to is wasted or is destroyed. the food does not grow on the store shelf effect.
@@SoulSoundMuisc I don't recall hearing anywhere in the story about Jake's age so that may be a good point. I took the story to imply humanity sending one of their finest so someone at 18-20 was not something I expect.
@@Amipotsophspond Again, as I mentioned it's my own personal enjoyment that's affected. How hard would it be to simply ask "Are there cooked options?" especially to their commanding officer. Granted, there are things I do not understand such as military structure/training culture and the good suggestion of the person's age taken into account but it just still feels like something off in the narrative TO ME due to my own personal experiences (or lack thereof)
Yeah - no. He'd be in a lot of trouble fo this. Hiding escalating difficulties of any kind from your CO would get him in a ton of trouble. That's how problems spiral out of control. If he'd brought it up as soon as he realized the problem, it would not have been a big deal. Also, the diplomats who screwed up would have their asses handed to them politically. This could have ended up with any human in alien crafts starving to death.
This particular story is good because of the phenomenal quality of the voice over and its extremely well-written nature. All of the stories on this channel would be somewhere between good and phenomenal if not for the bluntly misleading and clickbaity titles and thumbnails. This is one of the very few ones where the title is actually accurate. If not for the apprehension from seeing every other story on the channel have clickbait and badly inaccurate thumbnails, this would've been phenomenal, as well.
It is a delicate act. TH-cam's algorithm is a cruel mistress, the writers have to work with the prompts we're given because those prompts are what attracts the clicks and views- and sometimes we go a bit off-topic for the sake of a contiguous story.
Gotta say the opening to this story is irritating me. How hard is it to say "we can't raw food without potentially dying" its not embarrassing to say we need oxygen and water, why is cooking such an exception?
It is a failure on my part to have not indicated Jake's age and temperment early on- the idea was that his reference to hating basic training was to imply that he had very, very recently come out of it. IE he's not even 20 yet, or is very very early 20s and still has a sort of child/teenager is phobia of "sticking out" of social structures- compounded by the fact that his time at basic was filled with him being mocked and picked on for having stuck out near the very outset. So, to him, "demanding" that the ship provide *special* food for his *special* little, delicate pallete would be a very, very fast was to single himself out as weak and needy- and thus a target to be bullied. Its not exactly an uncommon occurence in ANY human social structure. If you make yourself out to be a special snowflake, you WILL be made fun of. Thats just how people are- cruel even if they don't exactly mean to be.
@@dicerson9976 Like everything else about the story I really enjoyed, that choice of weakness for the protagonist just really resonated in a poor way with me. Creatively I can understand trying to find justification for putting him in that situation where he doesn't have food and the crew isn't available to help him but it just really didn't jive with me. Anyways dude, keep at it, like I said except for that one detail I enjoyed it.
Unfortunately the laws of thermodynamics are cruel and unforgiving. How the heat is generated does not matter- only that it is, and due to conservation of energy it now has to go somewhere. Tech to turn energy back into solid matter isn't exactly well known, and turning heat directly into power is difficult when the only way to do that is a steam turbine which- by necessity- depends on a gravitationally bound fluid to enforce buoyancy on the steam and thus impart the pressure of it when its heated. All that means that if you turn power into heat on a starship- that heat has to go somewhere. Its stuck on the ship until the ship radiates it out through a heatsink, and heatsinks in space aren't the most efficient things. Excess heat has to be carefully monitored and controlled at all times.
@@dicerson9976 you expect us to believe that they haven’t figured out how to deal with waste heat on an interstellar starship? Fine I guess they are just going to boil themselves alive with their own body heat then
@@dicerson9976Excess heat can be channeled into meat and veggies, turning them into dishes. Cooking consumes heat, it doesn’t create heat. All that is needed is for an already abundant source of heat to be channeled to something that can apply it to the food.
Very well read. Pretty good story too. My only real complaints being the inability to heat food (have to call bs on that one), and an "Engineer" getting shore leave. As an engineer, his primary time to work is when the ship is in port and the engines and other systems are shut down. He may get a couple of hours at the end of his shifts to go into town and grab a drink or food, but there is absolutely no way a member of the ships engineering crew is getting a week off while the ship is in port.
You will be genuinely surprised once you see the actual Grand scope of the things humans can fucking eat. In fact great number of things humans can eat are toxic and or poisonous to a lot of other species. Chocolate is a good example actually, another one surprisingly is cherries believe it or not I'm pretty sure. There's also that hot/spicy peppers which have capsaicin which is believe it or not a type of neurotoxin. And also, technically speaking, humans can ingest and digest raw meat. In fact a lot of dishes all over the world have raw meat as an ingredient. Like sushi for a very common example. The danger of eating raw meat isn't the raw meat itself it's actually the parasites that can be inside the meat. Cooking meat kills the parasites off, and which turn make sure you don't get them. But if the animal is raised in captivity and away from anything that could give them any parasitic stowaways. It's perfectly fine to eat the meat raw. As for grasses humans can eat the list is surprisingly long and it doesn't just involve wheat barley and other cereal grains. In fact believe it or not you can go outside to eat the grass off of the ground and be okay. I'd make sure to wash it first but you could, so technically speaking there is nothing in the ship that he couldn't eat, most likely. Humans are VERY omnivorous, so much so that a lot of people don't even realize how omni the vorous is.
Indeed! But Jake is also a soldier/naval engineer and still relatively young and stupid, and definitely did not think of these things nor was he inclined to go gulping down raw meat- even if it was technically safe to eat. In a way he really *is* a special snowflake, just not for the reasons he feared!
I love offensive Memes, they are the best kind... Offensive Jokes, making fun of Stereotypes. If we cant make fun of ourselves, there can be no Humor... That would really suck I think Dave Chapelle said something like that. Dave Chappelle for Ministry of Truff. Lol
NaCl is a rock, and we humans eat it. So as lime, calcium, сlay. Some dude ate "an old Cessna plane". You know a thing that is made of refined metal alloys, rubber, cloth, glass, plastic...
Great story! Wonderful read! I immensely enjoyed this! Two notes for the author, though: "fearsome" instead of "fearful" for the description of the human (as one indicates inspiring fear in others as opposed to being afraid of others). Instead of "proportioned", it may have been better to use "apportioned" (though by given context I'm not entirely certain). Thanks for another great story!
nice story, I always wonder, what makes sentient's think that killing a beast is the same as killing something that can think. Seems a weird leap of logic to me.
Good Story . . Plot Flaw . . Spaceships MUST vent heat if not in shadow of moon or planet. . . Like you can cook an egg on the sidewalk in Nevada on a hot day. . if you are near a sun, hold your steak at a window, and it will broil. then freeze or freeze-dry into jerky, . . . then . . later. . .in deep space rehydrate the jerky. . . .
Yep! Typical hunting ammunition, and the guy dumped five of it one after the other. Despite the weirdness of the AI art, he was using something of a hunting rifle- semi automatic, though, instead of bolted. Because he's weird like that and didn't actually bring the gun *for* hunting.
OH a new timeline to follow I say this because I don't recognize any of the names or alien races from any of the other timelines still give the Mrs.Rimiki and Freiren as well as the alien doctor with the human captain top as well as the lead dealer timelines also good stories.
23:58 Well, actually the term omnivores applies to things that really can eat anything and everything. Humans should be labelled as herbi-carni-multivores, not omnivores. Omnivores can digest rocks, metal, wood, water, acid, plants, meat, petrol, plastics, etc, far beyond human capability to digest.
@@dicerson9976 FYI, I tried eating a small pebble once, it came out a somewhat smaller pebble, and yet was entirely non-nutritional and rather a pain to 'release'.
No cooking equipment what so ever??? Hmm…does this ship by chance have a HeatFusion reactor? I don’t need to touch it, just gotta hold the meat close to it.
Good story. Right up to getting back to the ship. So many great story directions from that point. Instead, it just kinda turned it's back and walked away. Quietly.
19:41 Heh. Reference to Alien vs Predator. And I know the feeling of having a unique dietary setup compared to others and how awkward it can be to talk about it
Very good story, very enjoyable, and very well read. I do have a couple of issues, however, and those or with the author. First being even aboard the space shuttle, and the ISS and SpaceX craft, they have the ability to heat meals. Secondly, the big flaw in the story is that the main character is an engineer meaning that when they made that stop, he would not have gotten surely. when a ship stops at a given location is when the engineers truly go to work. That’s when they get to do their primary maintenance on the engines and other systems are normally not serviceable while they are operating.
Spaceships aren't incapable of heating, but managing heat is an extremely important issue- and as a result there is protocol that restricts the usage of "unnecessary" sources of heat in place. Which, of course, means that if it isn't strictly necessary for some function of the ship or isn't approved by a commanding officer, its a nogo. Secondly, space is also very special because Sir isaac Newton is the deadliest sumbitch in space. Once the ship gets going, it no longer needs to have everything active and can coast on mostly just passive electrical systems that could be safely disabled in rotation. Furthermore, Jake isn't the only engineer on that ship- and he *was* working during transit, which means when it comes to engineering teams he's on the team that *gets* to have shore leave because they spend the entire rest of the time working; whereas the more senior engineers who do mostly oversight of that team are the ones working along with their most trusted while the ship is stopped. BUT I also didn't go into any of these details in the story because I am limited by wordcount and had to cut *something* out xd
Humans aren't actually omnivores. We are obligate carnivores that have fooled ourselves into thinking that plants are good for us. Grain is basically poison to our bodies. All vegetables contain hundreds of toxins that build up in our bodies over time, not to mention the anti-nutrients that block our ability to absorb nutrition, and the fact that our body can barely extract 0%-2% of the available nutrition from vegetables. Fruit is somewhat edible, for only suitable for acquiring sugar for energy in emergency situations. Our bodies are purpose built for eating meat. There are no nutrients that our body requires that can't be supplied by red meat. Our body absorbs 95% of a steak and 99% of an egg. And in the situation described in this story, eating raw meat would be perfectly fine. You would be surprised how quick you not only get used to it, but start to enjoy it. And no, it won't make you sick.
@minecraftfox4384 no we aren't. We have absolutely zero adaptations for the consumption of plant material. Any adaptations to eating plants that our pre-human ancestors had, have long since been lost or reduced to useless vestigial organs, such as the appendix. Our bodies extract little to no nutrition from plants at all. We have zero ability to break down cellulose. Most of the nutrition in plants is in the wrong form for our bodies to use (ex. non-heme iron vs heme iron, and beta carotene vs vitamin A) and plants are full of phytotoxins and anti-nutrients which block our body's ability to absorb nutrition. The only thing we can really get from plants is sucrose. Which is sugar. Which gives us diabetes, internal inflammation, heart disease, rots our teeth, and feeds cancer cells. It's great for a boost of energy when you are starving and need to find your next meal, but it was never supposed to be a long term diet and our bodies have no need for it as we produce all of the sugars our body requires through the conversion of protien and fat. Not to mention, literally 90% of he plants that we eat, didn't exist 500 years ago. 99% didn't exist 15k years ago. The variety of plants that a human could eat without being made severely ill or killed, was miniscule. Completely not available in most places on earth, or only seasonally available in others. For the overwhelming majority of human existence, we ate exclusively animals, with only very rare deviance to consume a root or leaf for medicinal purposes or a hand full of berries as a sweet treat. Unless of course, you can point to any part of the human digestive system that is designed to break down and extract nutrition from plants. Hint: you can't. We have a nearly identical digestive system to dogs and cats.
Only thing I don't like about this story is soldiers are not that damn sensitive we are not afraid to speak up when we don't like something especially our food.
I generally would agree! In fact I think most soldiers probably are fairly straightforward like that, unwilling/unable to consider other people's feelings on such small matters. Also in fact, Jake was *about* to do exactly that and braced himself to be punished for it- but then it turned out the Captain was actually a really nice lady and he found it much harder to be combative with her than he would have for a typical yelly drill sergeant.
There's also the smaller note to remember that he is very much in an alien environment, literally. Although I didn't exactly elaborate on it in the story, there is some degree to which human psychology put him on a bit of a backfoot since he was very much not in a well understood structure- he doesn't know just how open, understanding, and tolerant this alien society is. Even if he does not consciously realize it, he was being far more conservative than he otherwise might!
I just gotta say, the logic here is terrible. One reason that humans have been able to evolve such as we have is that we eat cooked food, which is easier to digest and allows us to gain more energy per amount eaten. For no other sufficiently advanced species in the universe to have developed cooked food is inane.
This narrator is very good. And the story equally so.
All their narrators are great. This channel is the best because of the Hi-Fi community because of the work they do.
I concur!
Are they real? They look a bit AI to me and is driving me crazy. Noth that they ARE AI, but that they MIGHT be, and I can't tell the diference
I agree. Also it's nice to give a moment to not have to think about reality.
A.I. quality voice
Aliens:"great heavens!! They can eat that!"
Humans:"mmm.....reminds me of home."
Yes! Smells are powerful reminders!❤
Hey corporal pass the bbq sauce
All this could have been avoided if Jake wasn't too embarrassed to explain human omnivorousness comes from "cooking" to the ship's captain.
Now the entire galaxy sees us as superpredators... Which isn't wrong, but we're more than that. And it's both a good thing and a bad thing. Let's just say that we'll be cleaning up Jake's mess for a while. 😂
@@PetiteTactical Well, "bad" in the sense that it could make it hard to make friends. Diplomacy could be difficult when they feel threatened before our reps even enter the room. We would pretty much get anything we want, but, if it comes across as us trying to dominate, we could find ourselves on the unpleasant end of their weapons. We're clearly trying to be nice and make friends, not start a war. The uppity folks will smooth it over, but the reputation and misinformation stuff will take a while to sort out. It certainly wouldn't help with people like me (and you too, by the sound of it) running around. It'd be a lot of fun to play with the reputation.
Jake is apparently a teenager.
@@VelcroYuppie
Soldiers usually have just turned 18, so technically yes.
Plus I'm sure Jake got a "Don't embarrass us!!!" order from his higher ups before he left.
Saying "sorry there is nothing a human can digest without issues on the menu" isn't embarassing, it's stating a fact. To rather starve than to do that is stupid, no matter the age.
And by not telling the truth to the captain it means the next human has the same problem.
So it's a bit egoistic too. Better to set the record straight and not have to bend over backwards to not starve.
Also hunting in a territory you are not from can also mean the rules for hunting are different.
In some part of the world everybody can go hunting, in others you need a hunting license.
And some animals are completely off the menu. So just going out and shoot an animal could lead to problems with the local authorities.
Never underestimate the lengths a man will go to for a good steak.
Straight off the animal!😂
A certain quest in Dungeon Siege 2 comes to mind. A human npc in the dryads capital are tired of leaves and insects. 😅
Remind me of. Jean Francois from introduction to human biology. I forgot the other one was dragging Anatomy
I grew up in the country and until I was 34 when I injured my back I worked as a meat cutter and market manager I have seen how far people will go not just for a good steak but any meat
I appreciate that whoever wrote this understands hunting, weapons, and processing an animal. 👍
Yep. And they seem to have served in a branch of the military 🪖 somewhere below Sergeant.
@@jacobshort6528 Likely a member of the E-4 mafia.
also an appriciation for the writer trying to take into consideration how mass & energy work with impacts of kinetics , specially when you have kinetics designed for far stronger gravity worlds with targets being much more compact , vs lower gravity world and targets that sure might be big and have sharp teeths buuuuut , well.. velocity + mass = ouchy , be it bullets or a spear ^^
My son. He is not military. Just does his research. Of course this momma grew up in the woods with guns. 😊
@@cgoodloe thats the kind of authors that might have their work become iconic over time
We do eat rocks its just called salt
Not just rocks but metal too
Zinc, magnesium, iron. Mineral salts to replenish electrolytes lost while sweating. I've been known to suck on a chunk of rock salt when I couldn't get any chips or crisps.
@@jacobshort6528 If you expand the meaning of "eat" to more resemble "consume" then there is not a single thing on Earth that we don't "eat"
You can even eat saw dust and some pine cones, food theory made saw dust cookies that contained about 40% dust and 60% flour
@@bruticus1496
Just like the Victorians used to make 🤤
"Guys, come on, the super predator is dead, chopped up, and safely stored in the freezer,
what can you possibly be still afraid of?"
Well when i do that they call me a "serial killer" and a "psychopath" dunno what's their problem tbh
@@MIIRBH Tell me about it, what's with all the labels nowadays? First they tell me to eat vegan and now they call me a cannibal for doing what they said, you really can't win any more.
@@ThegodofpiesTUEO Do you mean you eat vegan as "eating flora". or do you eat "vegan" as eating those who eat flora, because calling you cannibal for the first is unacceptable, while the second ........ hahahahahahaha !!!!
just joking bro!!
@@k31tw1nd4v That whole "eating" thing makes me think of this really cute vegan chick I knew once...
@@charlesrockafellor4200 Oh?? And would it also remind you when you "eat" That "vegan"?? *nudge nudge wink wink* 😁😁😁
I hope there is a part 2 of this. I'd love to see how the aliens look at humans after the story of "Jake the Super Predator" get out.
And a part 3.
And a part 4.
And a part 18.
...
I'd probably imagine a meme made later on that involves a bunch of creatures running away from Jake... Holding a half-lemon in one hand, a steak knife in the other and just casually jogging after the creatures.
Hand me a plate of raw meat, Ill bbq it on my desk, with the wood from my bookcase
I'd be with the maintenance boys cooking with miss "handled" blow torches saying we're doing some weilding and panel work 😅
GET MY MANS A STEAK AND FRIES NOW!
STAT!
Aliens probably taste ok with soy sauce and msg 😂
A shoe taste good with soy and Msg lol
A little ketchup and it's all edible lmao
Please future aliens if you're reading this don't take this too seriously!
@@ShawnDraven add a sprinkle of salt and pepper.
MSG will remain king of flavor, even in space
Typical engineer, overcomplicating everything that a simple conversation could fix. 😂😂😂
Yeah but it's a badass ending tho.
Or a blowtorch saying screw it I'm hungry
If someone or something is eating it. It's not an apex predator, it's prey
"Apex Predator" is always a local term
For example River Otters are classed as an "Apex Predator" in their natural environment (their rivers) none of the fish and shellfish are able to hunt them
Move them inland a hundred yards, and they're doomed if they happen upon a coyote, let alone a wolf or big cat
19:41 YOOO~!! Predator's reference right there...!!! The human engineer is now a Yautja Predator...!!!
I appreciate the stories attempt to rationalize Earth guns being so good compared to space guns. The idea that Earth made us tough enough to even be able to use our own weapons is an interesting thought.
Man, having a human reading it makes it 1000x better, it's just horrible to hear robots speak, it feels low quality, it feels and it is artificial, amazing work with the reading!!! This story was a good one, it's a shame none of them really go anywhere, it's just closed mini stories with so much potential
The look on the grunt's face as he looks at the tray killed me. Every troop has worn that exact expression while looking at chow hall food. Every single one. Sometimes, three times a day.
Funny story, If only communication occurred he could have avoided everything, he could have just piped up and said "I can't physically eat raw meat or the plants provided, even though I'm an omnivore, I can't eat just anything."
Just get this man a steak
thats the problem they do have steak, but its all RAW and he's not allow to cook things on the ship...like period, no stoves electric or otherwise
what do you think he was doing?
I call BS. Lol. There had to be SOMEPLACE on the ship he could have stuffed the... Thurp? Was it? Where thebship naturally produced heat.@@edgesight
With me as the main character, this story might've taken a dark turn, long before arriving at Alpha Centauri Prime.
Definitely 😅😂😊😊
Lemme guess, if they don't let you cook, you'll cook them?
@@czar6203 I don't want to dwell too long or get too explicit on such a dark topic. I'll just say that my behavior might not have reflected well on our species, and tourism to Earth might have suffered.
@@erikjrn4080 you wouldn't be sent as exchange in first place...LOL
@@AKUJIVALDO I dunno about that. I can be very friendly and diplomatic, as long as I'm properly fed.
Great story. I hope there will be more from this particular universe - it might be nice to see how Humanity takes its first steps amongst the other races without rushing on to 'Humanity saves the day' type scenarios, which can get a little bit 'samey'.
Imagine the next story follows a Vegan and they're horrified that they're a "Super predator" until she tries the food
My man almost starved to death because of social etiquet
those first few seconds of showing this was an actual person resonated with me, you have earnt my subscription.
Simp LOL
Hack the meat in very small pieces and salt it. Now it's a speciality out of Germany, Mett. We often make it shaped like hedgehogs (Mett-Igel)
No heat needed
How's it taste? Any foods you could compare it to flavor wise
@jaredflynn3750 like sausage without smoking or frying in the pan
4:27 Actually in space, heat management is a more dealing with surplus than getting cold kinda deal.
Any heat is accumulated somewhere, after it is compressed in a heat exchanger and then heat radiation
is emitted.
If Jake is smart he'll strap on a spacesuit, and cook the thrumb outside, by applying a metal encasement
around the thrumb and then placing it near the heat emitter, and wait for the metal encasement to
reach roughly 200 Celsius, after which he can take it back to outside the airlock.
The heat emission from the metal encasement will make it go down in temperature, but slowly,
unlike with convection.
Since he's not on the ship cooking, he's not breaking rules, so yeah.
This is now canon, Jake has a "Oh god I'm so stupid" moment after leaving the Albon and vows to use this strategy instead if he ever gets another assignment.
Yeah, but dude clearly is the wrong type of engineer to have thought of that.
Please I’m begging for a continuation of this story PLEASE
Never doubt the resiliente of a human to get a good stake
jeez you can't cook on a space ship? that's a design flaw in my opinion.
Agreed, but I like the perspective that other species have little to no comprehension how we function, seems very realistic
Like they said: Heat Management. Venting heat into space is not as easy as it sounds.
It seems silly, but there aren't enough particles in space to take the heat away. So the heat just sits there in the various radiators and sinks, building and building.
It's why half of those "solar panels" on the ISS are not, in fact, solar panels at all, but huge radiators, taking the heat from the station and holding it for slow dispersion into space, drawing that heat out of massive heat sinks.
Another proposed method of emergency heat reduction is having a specialized blow our heat sink filled with lead, silver or gold beads that contain the heat until they reach a near melting point. Then the heat sinks "blow out", spraying those beads into space. I don't know if that's just an old theoretical method of heat dispersal or if it's in active use.
Regardless, heat Management is a big deal in space. Those cheesecake pics you see of ladies in their skivies looking at the stars? Not actually far from what it could be like in a spacecraft or station. Uncomfortably warm.
The laws of thermodynamics are a real sticky problem in space.
@@SoulSoundMuiscBut the heat doesn’t have to be vented. Processes in the ship generate heat. Food absorbs it. It is an alternate way of utilizing heat that the ship already produces.
Using the ships heat sinks as a stove, that is what the accommodation would have to be for the trip out. I also find it highly unlikely that there would not be other fruit eating species where fruit would not be an option on the ship from the off.
@@SoulSoundMuiscif a starship can do interstellar travel, its heat sinks could eat single stove created heat for a snack in a second...
As fun as the story is, i really find it hard to believe it to be that hard to admit humans need cooked food.
Granted ive never been in the military, it just seems so far fetched and detracts quite a bit from my personal enjoyment.
Still, story deserves an upvote as i still enjoyed it overall.
Its mostly just a case of Jake not wanting to mark himself out as a special snowflake with special needs because he didn't want to get bullied/made fun of by aliens that he believed would do that- because that's what happened to him during his time at basic training because that is a *very* common occurence in pretty much any kind of heavily organized/authoritative human societal structure. Being the "odd one out" sucks.
@dicerson9976 we also have to remember that Jake is probably somewhere around 18-20. Not being the odd one out, not getting attention, given his past experience, is going to matter way, way more to him than it might for a more experienced and tenured person.
he is also the only human representing all of humanity, not everyone is going to qualify for a exchange but the one that is aware of how the slightest thing could offend a different culture is the better one to send. many earth cultures find it offensive if you refused food offered, even poor of western cultures or those that faced lack might find it offensive if you waste or are too good for their food. all farmers or those that work growing or raising the food, don't like it when the thing they put work in to is wasted or is destroyed. the food does not grow on the store shelf effect.
@@SoulSoundMuisc I don't recall hearing anywhere in the story about Jake's age so that may be a good point. I took the story to imply humanity sending one of their finest so someone at 18-20 was not something I expect.
@@Amipotsophspond Again, as I mentioned it's my own personal enjoyment that's affected. How hard would it be to simply ask "Are there cooked options?" especially to their commanding officer.
Granted, there are things I do not understand such as military structure/training culture and the good suggestion of the person's age taken into account but it just still feels like something off in the narrative TO ME due to my own personal experiences (or lack thereof)
.308 with 270 grains thats a lot of fire power
NGL I would love a part 2 but that pig is such a snitch lol
😂😂😂😂
All I could think about after seeing Klex's picture was: hmmm, bacon!
Yeah - no. He'd be in a lot of trouble fo this. Hiding escalating difficulties of any kind from your CO would get him in a ton of trouble. That's how problems spiral out of control.
If he'd brought it up as soon as he realized the problem, it would not have been a big deal.
Also, the diplomats who screwed up would have their asses handed to them politically. This could have ended up with any human in alien crafts starving to death.
This particular story is good because of the phenomenal quality of the voice over and its extremely well-written nature. All of the stories on this channel would be somewhere between good and phenomenal if not for the bluntly misleading and clickbaity titles and thumbnails. This is one of the very few ones where the title is actually accurate. If not for the apprehension from seeing every other story on the channel have clickbait and badly inaccurate thumbnails, this would've been phenomenal, as well.
It is a delicate act. TH-cam's algorithm is a cruel mistress, the writers have to work with the prompts we're given because those prompts are what attracts the clicks and views- and sometimes we go a bit off-topic for the sake of a contiguous story.
Still better than C-rats or MRE's.
Personally I thought most of the MREs were pretty good. Minus the god damn mcrib patty that I always somehow managed to grab in the evening.
@calebtidwell1274 I will never EVER eat the corned beef hash again.
@@calebtidwell1274 I see that your MRE related traumatic experiences induce a selective amnesia. You forget the vomlete!
@@thesayxx I refused to eat the damn vomlete 😂😂😂😂
Meals Rejected by Enemies.
Gotta say the opening to this story is irritating me. How hard is it to say "we can't raw food without potentially dying" its not embarrassing to say we need oxygen and water, why is cooking such an exception?
It is a failure on my part to have not indicated Jake's age and temperment early on- the idea was that his reference to hating basic training was to imply that he had very, very recently come out of it. IE he's not even 20 yet, or is very very early 20s and still has a sort of child/teenager is phobia of "sticking out" of social structures- compounded by the fact that his time at basic was filled with him being mocked and picked on for having stuck out near the very outset. So, to him, "demanding" that the ship provide *special* food for his *special* little, delicate pallete would be a very, very fast was to single himself out as weak and needy- and thus a target to be bullied.
Its not exactly an uncommon occurence in ANY human social structure. If you make yourself out to be a special snowflake, you WILL be made fun of. Thats just how people are- cruel even if they don't exactly mean to be.
@@dicerson9976 Like everything else about the story I really enjoyed, that choice of weakness for the protagonist just really resonated in a poor way with me. Creatively I can understand trying to find justification for putting him in that situation where he doesn't have food and the crew isn't available to help him but it just really didn't jive with me. Anyways dude, keep at it, like I said except for that one detail I enjoyed it.
Guess they have never heard of an electric hot plate or microwave convection oven. Silly oversight
Or an immersion Circulator
Unfortunately the laws of thermodynamics are cruel and unforgiving. How the heat is generated does not matter- only that it is, and due to conservation of energy it now has to go somewhere. Tech to turn energy back into solid matter isn't exactly well known, and turning heat directly into power is difficult when the only way to do that is a steam turbine which- by necessity- depends on a gravitationally bound fluid to enforce buoyancy on the steam and thus impart the pressure of it when its heated.
All that means that if you turn power into heat on a starship- that heat has to go somewhere. Its stuck on the ship until the ship radiates it out through a heatsink, and heatsinks in space aren't the most efficient things. Excess heat has to be carefully monitored and controlled at all times.
@@dicerson9976 you expect us to believe that they haven’t figured out how to deal with waste heat on an interstellar starship?
Fine
I guess they are just going to boil themselves alive with their own body heat then
@@dicerson9976Excess heat can be channeled into meat and veggies, turning them into dishes. Cooking consumes heat, it doesn’t create heat. All that is needed is for an already abundant source of heat to be channeled to something that can apply it to the food.
Very well read. Pretty good story too. My only real complaints being the inability to heat food (have to call bs on that one), and an "Engineer" getting shore leave. As an engineer, his primary time to work is when the ship is in port and the engines and other systems are shut down. He may get a couple of hours at the end of his shifts to go into town and grab a drink or food, but there is absolutely no way a member of the ships engineering crew is getting a week off while the ship is in port.
Guess their medical officers weren't told cooking food is vital to proper human nutrition.
You will be genuinely surprised once you see the actual Grand scope of the things humans can fucking eat. In fact great number of things humans can eat are toxic and or poisonous to a lot of other species. Chocolate is a good example actually, another one surprisingly is cherries believe it or not I'm pretty sure. There's also that hot/spicy peppers which have capsaicin which is believe it or not a type of neurotoxin. And also, technically speaking, humans can ingest and digest raw meat. In fact a lot of dishes all over the world have raw meat as an ingredient. Like sushi for a very common example. The danger of eating raw meat isn't the raw meat itself it's actually the parasites that can be inside the meat. Cooking meat kills the parasites off, and which turn make sure you don't get them. But if the animal is raised in captivity and away from anything that could give them any parasitic stowaways. It's perfectly fine to eat the meat raw. As for grasses humans can eat the list is surprisingly long and it doesn't just involve wheat barley and other cereal grains. In fact believe it or not you can go outside to eat the grass off of the ground and be okay. I'd make sure to wash it first but you could, so technically speaking there is nothing in the ship that he couldn't eat, most likely. Humans are VERY omnivorous, so much so that a lot of people don't even realize how omni the vorous is.
Indeed! But Jake is also a soldier/naval engineer and still relatively young and stupid, and definitely did not think of these things nor was he inclined to go gulping down raw meat- even if it was technically safe to eat. In a way he really *is* a special snowflake, just not for the reasons he feared!
I love offensive Memes, they are the best kind... Offensive Jokes, making fun of Stereotypes. If we cant make fun of ourselves, there can be no Humor... That would really suck I think Dave Chapelle said something like that. Dave Chappelle for Ministry of Truff. Lol
Yeah.... Feeling bad is the worst punishment😂
*COOKED MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU*
Heh, 19:42 Who understand That reference???
I think it was the Yautja of "Predator" movie.
NaCl is a rock, and we humans eat it. So as lime, calcium, сlay. Some dude ate "an old Cessna plane". You know a thing that is made of refined metal alloys, rubber, cloth, glass, plastic...
Also citric acid Humans can digest
smoked meat with texas sauce... mmm... any meat mwahaha
0:39 honestly i could barely tell this was AI generated, the only hint was the slightly elongated chin
If you hadn't shown your face in the beginning, I would have assumed the voice for this video was AI.
If there's fruit and crustacean, i'd just make something like som tam or curry. I'd be glad if there's chilli or smth spicy too.
This honestly needs a part 2
Good story, worth your time even if the premise is stupid 😊
Great story! Wonderful read! I immensely enjoyed this! Two notes for the author, though: "fearsome" instead of "fearful" for the description of the human (as one indicates inspiring fear in others as opposed to being afraid of others). Instead of "proportioned", it may have been better to use "apportioned" (though by given context I'm not entirely certain). Thanks for another great story!
Okay, this was just great. We need a part 2.
Tales of "Jake from the farm of state" still are told throughout space
It is amazing how proper inflection and a nice voice can improve a story.
nice story, I always wonder, what makes sentient's think that killing a beast is the same as killing something that can think. Seems a weird leap of logic to me.
Klex, you should have been asking questions...
Good Story . . Plot Flaw . . Spaceships MUST vent heat if not in shadow of moon or planet. . . Like you can cook an egg on the sidewalk in Nevada on a hot day. . if you are near a sun, hold your steak at a window, and it will broil. then freeze or freeze-dry into jerky, . . . then . . later. . .in deep space rehydrate the jerky. . . .
"Five shots of .308"
....
Did she say five shots of .308, as in .308 Winchester??😂
Yep! Typical hunting ammunition, and the guy dumped five of it one after the other. Despite the weirdness of the AI art, he was using something of a hunting rifle- semi automatic, though, instead of bolted. Because he's weird like that and didn't actually bring the gun *for* hunting.
@@dicerson9976 They remade the BAR in a more modern style. I forgot which company did it, Kentucky Ballistics has a vid on it.
Very nice voice.
And you're straight up killing the read.
Nice.
OH a new timeline to follow I say this because I don't recognize any of the names or alien races from any of the other timelines still give the Mrs.Rimiki and Freiren as well as the alien doctor with the human captain top as well as the lead dealer timelines also good stories.
23:58 Well, actually the term omnivores applies to things that really can eat anything and everything. Humans should be labelled as herbi-carni-multivores, not omnivores. Omnivores can digest rocks, metal, wood, water, acid, plants, meat, petrol, plastics, etc, far beyond human capability to digest.
Correct! And yet, the technically incorrect label persists because "science" and the media :p
@@dicerson9976 FYI, I tried eating a small pebble once, it came out a somewhat smaller pebble, and yet was entirely non-nutritional and rather a pain to 'release'.
@@ZMacZsalt is a rock tho...
@@AKUJIVALDO Not all rock is salt, and certainly not edible.
Oh man. Smoked killbeast Sausage.
I should not be salivating this hard.
i dont like when the aliens are like ¨o my those primitive weapons are soooo goood and powerfull¨ they surley have something much better right????
That Jurassic Park reference 😂
When he was taking the lunch trays the crew probably thought humans had magpie tendencies.
I'm actually a bit annoyed it ended with not much happening...
Fun story, weak ending.. no friends, no understanding... i bet jake was sad, depressed and lonely.
When will the video ‘When Deathworlders meet’ part 2 be out?
Well narrated - thankyou. 🙂
1:40 Oh plz, a microwave should be part of any spaceship.
No cooking equipment what so ever??? Hmm…does this ship by chance have a HeatFusion reactor? I don’t need to touch it, just gotta hold the meat close to it.
You guys should do Deathworlders, I think its been covered by Zren here on YT, but its a whole universe thing and I think you could do it justice.
Love your reading cadence.
I wonder what they did with the thoroughly used food trays???😊😊
When is the next Frairen episode is when
soon!
Good story. Right up to getting back to the ship. So many great story directions from that point. Instead, it just kinda turned it's back and walked away. Quietly.
19:41 Heh. Reference to Alien vs Predator. And I know the feeling of having a unique dietary setup compared to others and how awkward it can be to talk about it
Always love seeing and hearing this lovely lady. 😍
I've always wanted to try Steak tartare. Let's do this!
Try beef carpaccio! I hunt this every time my company would ship me to Europe.
Very good story, very enjoyable, and very well read. I do have a couple of issues, however, and those or with the author. First being even aboard the space shuttle, and the ISS and SpaceX craft, they have the ability to heat meals. Secondly, the big flaw in the story is that the main character is an engineer meaning that when they made that stop, he would not have gotten surely. when a ship stops at a given location is when the engineers truly go to work. That’s when they get to do their primary maintenance on the engines and other systems are normally not serviceable while they are operating.
Spaceships aren't incapable of heating, but managing heat is an extremely important issue- and as a result there is protocol that restricts the usage of "unnecessary" sources of heat in place. Which, of course, means that if it isn't strictly necessary for some function of the ship or isn't approved by a commanding officer, its a nogo.
Secondly, space is also very special because Sir isaac Newton is the deadliest sumbitch in space. Once the ship gets going, it no longer needs to have everything active and can coast on mostly just passive electrical systems that could be safely disabled in rotation. Furthermore, Jake isn't the only engineer on that ship- and he *was* working during transit, which means when it comes to engineering teams he's on the team that *gets* to have shore leave because they spend the entire rest of the time working; whereas the more senior engineers who do mostly oversight of that team are the ones working along with their most trusted while the ship is stopped.
BUT I also didn't go into any of these details in the story because I am limited by wordcount and had to cut *something* out xd
I'm thinking about all the tasty Island animals that were hunted to extinction by explorers. The Killbeast will soon go the way of the Dodo
Any hunter would know not to eat the meat from a predatory species.
Yes i would love more of this story part pls pls
Yeah,Jake's making me think about how to make me hungry.
Apex predator?
We call those pigs or bacon
I feel attacked for consuming leaves and such raws with certain liquid/soup meals now.
Humans meat is meat
well read and well made images
I enjoyed that, lets continue the story of Jake The Super Predator. 🙂
How did i miss this episode.
Humans aren't actually omnivores. We are obligate carnivores that have fooled ourselves into thinking that plants are good for us.
Grain is basically poison to our bodies. All vegetables contain hundreds of toxins that build up in our bodies over time, not to mention the anti-nutrients that block our ability to absorb nutrition, and the fact that our body can barely extract 0%-2% of the available nutrition from vegetables. Fruit is somewhat edible, for only suitable for acquiring sugar for energy in emergency situations.
Our bodies are purpose built for eating meat. There are no nutrients that our body requires that can't be supplied by red meat. Our body absorbs 95% of a steak and 99% of an egg.
And in the situation described in this story, eating raw meat would be perfectly fine. You would be surprised how quick you not only get used to it, but start to enjoy it. And no, it won't make you sick.
We're not an "obligate" anything. We are a carnivorous leaning omnivore, like bears.
@minecraftfox4384 no we aren't.
We have absolutely zero adaptations for the consumption of plant material. Any adaptations to eating plants that our pre-human ancestors had, have long since been lost or reduced to useless vestigial organs, such as the appendix.
Our bodies extract little to no nutrition from plants at all. We have zero ability to break down cellulose. Most of the nutrition in plants is in the wrong form for our bodies to use (ex. non-heme iron vs heme iron, and beta carotene vs vitamin A) and plants are full of phytotoxins and anti-nutrients which block our body's ability to absorb nutrition.
The only thing we can really get from plants is sucrose. Which is sugar. Which gives us diabetes, internal inflammation, heart disease, rots our teeth, and feeds cancer cells. It's great for a boost of energy when you are starving and need to find your next meal, but it was never supposed to be a long term diet and our bodies have no need for it as we produce all of the sugars our body requires through the conversion of protien and fat.
Not to mention, literally 90% of he plants that we eat, didn't exist 500 years ago. 99% didn't exist 15k years ago. The variety of plants that a human could eat without being made severely ill or killed, was miniscule. Completely not available in most places on earth, or only seasonally available in others.
For the overwhelming majority of human existence, we ate exclusively animals, with only very rare deviance to consume a root or leaf for medicinal purposes or a hand full of berries as a sweet treat.
Unless of course, you can point to any part of the human digestive system that is designed to break down and extract nutrition from plants. Hint: you can't. We have a nearly identical digestive system to dogs and cats.
Part 2 I needs it
The ancestors have to be pleased
I need a part too
Is there a style of voice you are using, seems unique
da hunter class
Link to original story please?
Only thing I don't like about this story is soldiers are not that damn sensitive we are not afraid to speak up when we don't like something especially our food.
I generally would agree! In fact I think most soldiers probably are fairly straightforward like that, unwilling/unable to consider other people's feelings on such small matters. Also in fact, Jake was *about* to do exactly that and braced himself to be punished for it- but then it turned out the Captain was actually a really nice lady and he found it much harder to be combative with her than he would have for a typical yelly drill sergeant.
There's also the smaller note to remember that he is very much in an alien environment, literally. Although I didn't exactly elaborate on it in the story, there is some degree to which human psychology put him on a bit of a backfoot since he was very much not in a well understood structure- he doesn't know just how open, understanding, and tolerant this alien society is. Even if he does not consciously realize it, he was being far more conservative than he otherwise might!
Yeah I liked this one better. It felt more real instead of just weak aliens cowering before the might of man.
I just gotta say, the logic here is terrible. One reason that humans have been able to evolve such as we have is that we eat cooked food, which is easier to digest and allows us to gain more energy per amount eaten. For no other sufficiently advanced species in the universe to have developed cooked food is inane.