Parallax.5 goodbye earth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- It is time for the alien observers to form their conclusions about life on planet 806.4616.0110. Do corporations have the potential to advance to a Category 2 civilisation and journey into space?
Parallax is a five-part series that explores earth from an outsider’s perspective. What do we learn when we step outside of our myopic, planetary view and see ourselves at a distance?
Find out, in this survey of an alien world.
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WATCH PARALLAX.1: • Parallax.1: A document...
WATCH PARALLAX.2: • Parallax.2: Who's In C...
WATCH PARALLAX.3: • Parallax.3 what do ali...
WATCH PARALLAX.4: • What do aliens think a...
PARALLAX.5
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED by Adam Westbrook adamwestbrook.c...
WITH THE VOICE OF Jennifer Munby www.jennifermun...
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED by Dale Nichols dalenicholsmusi...
All images collected from the electromagnetic transmissions received from 806.4616.0110 (see below for attribution)
MOTION GRAPHICS by Adam Westbrook
ALIEN TYPEFACE by Neale Davidson
SOUND EFFECTS by AudioJungle & Freesound
FOOTAGE ATTRIBUTION
All footage from Videohive or shot by Adam Westbrook with the following exceptions, which are released under a Creative Commons Licence for Attribution.
“Untitled” by Kyle Taylor via Flickr
“Greater prairie chicken video” by Don Henise via Flickr
“Oracle Openworld 2013” by Oracle PR via Flickr
“Sea Turtle” by Robert Lindsell via Flickr
“Choreographed dancing” by SupportPDX via Flickr
“Six continents dancing” by SupportPDX via Flickr
“Reba playing on Gwynver Beach” by Andrew Bone via Flickr
“Six weeks old kittens” by Berit Watkin via Flickr
“Hardcore football practice” by Marcin Chady via Flickr
“When the Circuit Breaks” by the US government via The Prelinger Archives
“Atomic Power at Shippingport” by Audio productions via The Prelinger Archives
“Hurricane Matthew” by Chris Rehab via Flickr
“Prescribed burning with TREX” by The Bureau of Land Management via Flickr
“ARES I-X Launch” by Kennedy Space Centre Media via NASA
This made the hair on my arms are stand on end. Amazing stuff!
I liked how they presented the world in the correct (upside down) view.
It's very annoying when great content lacks audience while stupid stuff gets the attention of millions!
This channel is the breath of fresh air that our society desperately needs.
Haha, what a strange combination of very uplifting yet highly cynical. Great stuff.
This series has opened my mind more than any other content I have experienced in several years. I look forward to seeing your next project, and thanks!
Thank you Adam. Fantastic work. I love the upside down view of every thing. After all why not. There is no up or down on the universe. I hope your work will put you on the first row for a type 2 civilization. At least as an evangelist for a different thinking. By the way i'm in Portugal and the corporations actions have been working very well to warm up the place. This year they even achieved a record burning of our forests to increase the ambient temperature.
Excellent video series Adam, brilliantly done.
Really terrific. Interesting, sobering, funny, Nicely done.
Thank you! Inspirational!
Brilliant commentary - fascinating!
This is my favorite project you have done yet Adam. You knocked it out of the park with this one. Well done.
The perspectives are quite creative.
And also quite true
What a brilliant mini-series you have produced. Well done to everyone involved!
This is simply awesome.
This is awesome, thanks for making this
Simply Brilliant. You guys should have like a million subscribers
That was brilliantly done. Thank you!
Bravo! Bravo! This deserves way more views. Thoroughly enjoyed this series
This series is amazing. One of the very best things I've seen on TH-cam - ever. Bravo Adam. I look forward to all your work. Please keep it up
This series has been a very fresh take on our common problems and strengths! Well done, in every aspect from production to writing.
Keep making video essays mate!
Thank you for this! It was quite detracting which I think humanity needs more than ever in today's day. My thanks and congratulations to everyone involved.
this series needs more views
This is exceptional. Best 30 minutes I spent on TH-cam.
I, for one, am doing my part to release as much gas as possible.
(nice series, by the way)
Congratulations. What an incredible series.
This has been wonderful. Thank you so much.
Superb project. The aliens' perspective kept somehow surprising me throughout the 5 episodes and it definitely made for great food for thought. Off to binge watch your whole catalogue now. Subscribed!
this project was amazingly insightful and very very well done.
Thank you, Reddit.
So that's why this has been on my Watch Later for 3 years.
Wow...this was very moving. It's taking a scienced approach from an alien perspective and yet cuts to the heart and makes you second guess our own existance. Beautiful @AdamWestbrook
This was excellent!
An amazing series absolutely wonderful writing, thank you for making and posting
Very cool. Although I was very surprised not to see any clip with Carl Sagan...it would have been fitting...I think he would of liked this creative project. Anything to open the mind of the "employee" ;-)
There are some big Carl Sagan references throughout the series, but they're subtle. The planet number has something to do with him, for example. I like to think he would have liked this too :)
These are so good
Somehow I was mysteriously unsubbed from your channel and I only came across this by chance. I remember watching the first four parts in amazement. Fantastic ending. Resubbed. Like #808.
I even like the title, it just goes to show the amount of thought and cleverness in this. Parallax- Is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight. So literally, seeing Earth from a different line of sight. Genius, it really is.
I want to be with the aliens. So distant and removed from employee-centrism. Feels so calm and nice.
Those stupid aliens draw some very hasty conclusions... :D Excellent work man!
Brilliant satire.
8/10 awesome :D
I love the ending. Too bad few people get here. I noticed there are less views for the other episodes starting from episode 1.
Wow!! I loved this series!! It offers an entirely new perspective on how we run our world! Hope you make more videos like this!!
gotta love the passive-aggressive take on global warming, good job!
My compliments on such out of the box thought. Every analysis -- of the question: "What would an alien think of us?" -- is human centric given from our own myopic perspective.
It is quite an interesting thought that an advanced alien civilization would perceive "the Corporation" as the dominant sentient force on the planets driving the real agenda and humans as all but trained primitive biological beings put to work.
It's sorta true. I would however hope that an advanced civilization would have some documented history of their own evolution (after all everything started with the Big Bang?) and -- the aliens would conclude that the Corporation is not actually alive. --or-- perhaps, you are trying to make a finer point, that the rise of the Corporation _is_ the next evolutionary leap this plant has started towards.
Amazing stuff!
love it
There's no way someone could match the quality and clarity of your information series! I just hope you're going to make something new soon.
much appreciated. I do have something new on the way, stay tuned!
Come on Adam... make more
I want that too
But according to the Kardashev Scale, we aren't even a Yype 1 civ yet
That scaling mentioned sounds a lot like the Kardashev Scale!
This 5-part series has to be the longest meme on the internet. LMAO. Fucking global warming.
It seems like the symbiosis between the corporations and the employees has suffered a major set back.The corporations are displeased with the employees and have imprisoned them in the underground dwellings.
The goal of the corporations to warm their frigid plant now seems to even be receding!
this hurt my soul... I would hate it if aliens would view our world this way.. would serve us right though...
This hits differently in 2025.
Great social commentary!
So if corporations are the only things very advanced but technically humans (employees) made this corporations aren’t we actually advanced? Or at least some?
Cow farts are a major source of CO2, are they the real masterminds of planet earth 🤔
Khaled A methane not co2 but methane us a stronger green house gas
methane is a more potent greenhouse gas. I never thought cows could outplay humans 😱
To be fair, the reason it's a "problem" is that we've been breeding cows like crazy. So it's still on us!
Corporations have figured out that if more cows are generated to feed the employees, then more employees can be made to serve the corporations and therefore more 'profit' can be acquired. It has the added benefit of helping the atmosphere capture more heat from the local star. We look forward to 806.4616.0110 becoming a type 2 civilization.
Mentaclink but humans use meat to survive, maybe the cows were the ones who were breeding humans?
CorpoRAT ions
I enjoyed watching these videos as they were very entertaining however I feel that the thought experiment of looking at Planet Earth through the eyes of an alien was almost pointless. The video is full of conceptions that only a human would make and no pragmatic approach that an Alien would view the world from is ever considered. Yes there is good satire with respects to global warming but by making the corporations the dominant life form, you have become stuck in this anti establishment perspective and real messages about real people are non existent. If you would like to see something similar, I recommend you watch 'Noam Chomsky: The Alien Perspective on Humanity'. TL:DR: Enjoyable mini series but key messages lost in anti corp message.
Well alllllrigjty then scooter.
Eh not very realistic. The observing aliens were able to observe a Trump speech and distinguish that he was of great importance. However they were not able understand buildings were living sentient beings, and humans dont live underground, or man the rockets, isn't very plausible. Still a cool series, just lost some of the realism.
that got cool...then corperations.. smh
Average, IMO. There was some insightful analysis and viewpoints that made sense from an alien perspective, in terms of pure objectivity -- but the core themes are obviously tinged with undue, unobjective cynicism in a politicized way. I agree with the political 'message' but it ruined the opportunity to give viewers the awe of a truly alien perspective that is also accurate in analyzing rather than randomly swinging at different shit and basically just making guesses.
The whole market thing was neat, and capitalism is the driving economic force so it makes sense to analyze it, but I disagree quite a lot that it would be the most significant thing to aliens. Whether or not they'd see us as sentient as individuals doesn't matter, -- analyzing us like a colony of ants would make more sense probably, but the fact that the aliens were so goddamn stupid as to conflate buildings = corporations and somehow not even see the ideologies, ideas, symbolism, etc contained within the actual driving force behind the societies, aka the human organism, was kinda dumb. Instead they just brush us off as pests that maintain buildings? Do they not understand basic neuronal systems? Also
This would be excusable if they somehow introduced the aliens as having their own biases and therefore they'd start examining the problem of communication and understanding between two civilizations-- but no, it's all just taken as objective analysis.
There's a clear flaw to the logic here: If they're so objective and the human brain is inherently binary and can't truly 'understand the universe', why the heck are they even communicating at all (and through symbolism) if they inherently grasp the universe so well?
It had the opportunity to mix sociology, physiology, ecosystems, neurology, and so, so much more, but instead wasted it on a political message by aliens that, judging by their analysis skills, aren't even sentient themselves.
This is some hippie, holier-than-thou bullshit.