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Gosh, those animations really bring a tear to my eye. Those weren't caveman, nor primitive humans. Those were people, people like you and me. People who had their own feelings, their own thoughts and their own unique journey throughout life. It's strange how we often forget this kind of things, even when it's about other folks in the present day.
Very true. Even a mere few centuries of distance, and we regard a number of our ancestors savages, even when in reality, we're fundamentally identical.
Biologically. If a baby from that time period got time travelled to today, they would probably die of modern day diseases... But if they didn’t, they would grow up just like us. Their brains were just like ours, it was their environment and knowledge which was different.
@@AndyHappyGuy And if a baby from our time when to them, THEY'D all die. So It'd live an existence of lonliness before dying to some outside causes or malnutrition.
Bede our biology, hopes, dreams, needs, wants, were all basically the same. They cried, suffered, lusted, loved, gazed at the stars, marveled at the sunrise, and questioned life itself just like we do. We are all the same. I wish more people could see that. And I’m glad that you asked so that you can too.
Bado Ceesay Thats just patreon tho, I assume they have seperate merch sales such as the calendar, as well as TH-cam Ad Revenue and additional sponsorships. Its probably more like 120k+ a month, but thats just my two cents.
at this point infographics seem like a factory, pumping out bad quality videos all for the profit. its sad because they used to be good. but you can really see that kurzgesagt are passionate about this by the time between videos and they make sure that the quality is incredible
I saw "-John" and I was all like "who signs a comments with their name?" well now I'm like: "OOOOHHHHHH! AWESOME!" Thank you John and Hank for teaching me so much stuff about all kinds of things! I even used some of your material for when I still was doing some charity at an school for autistic children and I am very grateful for that!
Being a human biologist, I think its crazy how the emergence of human civilizations shaped our DNA as well. To give an example, humans (like many other mammals) used to be lactose intolerant upon adulthood. However, the domestication of animals led to the regular consumption of milk roughly 20000 ago. At that time, a mutation occurred which made people lactose tolerant and this mutation was so beneficial during periods of starvation that it soon spread across populations making the majority of people with European descent lactose tolerant today (I made a video about this). Human evolution is so fascinating!
Still tho why are we so arrogant and irrational to our problems and morals ,is it really based in our DNA, or is it something to do with our consciousness or we might can change it for good
I love how this channel almost always celebrates humanity and the accomplishments we've made! I know many scientists just focus on the bad aspects of humanity and end up pessimistic. I love your work so much!
i mean, aren't scientists supposed to answer questions, what ever branch it is. i think the reason why they focus on the wrongdoings is because they want to lessen the chance of giving the wrong answer
Not to toot my own horn, but our future did look a bit grim, given the recent events that have happened. But perhaps there is hope, and maybe it's not too late to change our world.
I like that Kurzgesagt tries to put a positive spin on their videos. Pessimism becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Positivity can go as far and as high as it can.
Ikr, if more people would aknowledge where humanity's come in a blink of an eye in historical times the world would be a better place on the other hand, knowing which problems are there is more useful than knowing what archievements have we reached
You think? I'm reminded of humanity's achievements every day, whenever I use a phone, computer, look up to the lights in the ceiling, or take a shower, maybe the problem is not so much that we don't get reminded of those achievements, but that we don't notice them anymore.
Our achievements have never been achieved before to our knowledge, failure is part or learning. Can u imagine a humanity that never failed. They wouldn't be human
Since no one else has mentioned it, can we take a moment to appreciate how good Kurzgesagt sound design and audio quality is. I rarely hear audio this good in TH-cam videos.
Thank you, humans from the past and the future. You made me walk again when I destroyed my knee. Cured me with the medicines you developed a long time ago every time I got sick. Made technology that allowed me to meet amazing people from the other side of the globe. Made outstanding videos like this for other humans to enjoy. I try to contribute as much as possible to our technological world, doing my best at work, and helping other humans when possible, although its so small compared to everything else you did for me. I will be gone in a few decades, but you will keep going, you will end suffering one day, expand your realm to other worlds, even reach the stars of the sky.
The animation just gets better and better, I can't believe I'm hooked on this entire journey on this channel, i just love science, fact's and logic, I'm glad to be a part of this channel journey and would continue learning more *Honestly, thank you kurzgesagt*
Can we appreciate the beautiful soundtrack and visuals? Kurzgesagt never ceases to amaze me; they always push themselves to improve on their already wonderful quality and it's greatly appreciated EDIT: At the end of the vid; the long history of humanity and its progress + the beautiful music = a tear from me. Hopeful that humanity can focus and progress even faster to create a "glorious future" (Kurzgesagt).
@@joshuathomas512 the issue is that today people are blinded and don't see what potential we have...so sometimes hope is hidden in the shadows of social media and self pleasure
I think it was a reference to the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, before the internal strife and collapse of the empire. He knew how to read and his own inscriptions.
@@TheBrad574 "Ashurbanipal, the mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, king of the four regions of the world, king of kings, unrivaled prince, who, from the Upper to the Lower Sea, holds sway and has brought in submission at his feet all rulers; son of Esarhaddon, the great king, the mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, viceroy of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad; grandson of Sennacherib, the mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, am I."
It's weird how most of us living on Earth will never meet or even acknowledge each other's existence. For example, if you're reading my comment; this is probably the first and last time you'll ever see me.
Yeah it’s amazing isn’t it. But it’s not free, at least you need electricity, a device capable of using signal waves and also pay for services of internet, but all that aside it’s nice to have this type of content.
@@Sebastianguitar01 Compare to what we learn in bloody schools and colleges by paying hefty sum we learn more here for almost nothing. We learn here more than we pay in school we pay more and get little to nothing in return.
Apart from Kruzgesagt there are channels like Crash Course which you should check out also there are apps like Coursera where you can learn about variety of things. This is remarkable time for education.
In Germany everybody has to pay for the public television channel. Regardless if you're watching them or not. The German Channel of Kurzgesagt is partly financed by these as far as i know. ( "Funk netzwerk" ). So basically it isn't free. But Kurzgesagt is one of the best productions of the German public Television channels in my humble opinion.
I don't know why, but for some reason I get emotional when I see Kurzgesagt animations of early human civilization. There is this beautiful simplicity in art that translates to simplicity in life that we often crave these days.
This video really made me take pride in being a human. Sure we are full of imperfections. Sure a lot of us are cruel. Sure we had wars and fought each other. But the fact that this species, which is not the strongest, or the largest, or the fastest, managed to accomplish such outstanding feats in just 12,000 years is truly astonishing. We might even be able to change our fate which the dinosaurs couldn't. In the past 4 billion years, life has done stunning feats. But if I were to say which of them stands out the most, it would be the evolution of humans. Let's cherish our 12,000 years of achievement and hope that we keep doing amazing feats in the future.
Now that I think about the scale of time, and see that number 12,000 years before me, I feel like that's really not much time. We were pretty fast in becoming what we are! Compared to the rest of evolution, it's pretty much: Brain developed, some kind of sparkle made it meet a critical intelligence level, and boom! Technology and rockets. That makes the Fermi paradox even more curious. It seems that, whenever an intelligent being is developed, it takes about no time to become a space-faring civilization. Just think about it. The Roman empire is about 2,000 years ago. That feels like nothing for some reason. I mean, it's also just about 25 generations, just think about it: Your life is 1 generation! And then it's only 10,000 more years, since we became what we are and had the tools to be what we are. That's about 125 generations only, in terms of the livespan of today! (Yes, they lived way shorter, but I want to compare it to a timespan we can relate to). Even if we half the livespan, it's still only 250 generations. From the beginning of humanity to now. I'd say we are speedy fast! I didn't think that. If I had a guess how long my family tree goes backwards until the first human, I would have guessed something like: 1000? Not intellectually, because I've simply never thought about it consciously, and then of course it can't be. But by feeling alone, it "felt" like 1,000 generations at least, only now that my logics apparatus is analyzing it, I realize how SHORT that timespan really is! The world is a lot younger than I thought!
And we really live in the beginning of humanity, if we don't screw it up. In terms of a human livetime, I'd say that we as a species are just babies that learned to barely walk and talk. If we don't screw it up, there's so much potential! Let's think what we could actually do in 1000 generations! In the future. Now I understand, why most humans are not able to recognize the greater value of our life, and wars, greed and isolationism is so far-spread. Maybe we can even mentally adapt that far in the future. Step by step, like here. It just has to become a critical percentage of humans that adapt that thinking, and we will drastically do things differently. From there on, I am convinced, our development will really grow exponentially in any way, if we overcome that.
@@Chris-55 We haven't yet gone to another planet because the moon isn't a planet. That doesn't make our accomplishment any less admirable, but we humans haven't gone to somewhere like Mars yet.
Imagine that in 12,000 years, the internet still exists and was never wiped, so you’d go onto youtube, and see “published 12,000 years ago” like jeez. We wet our pants when we see 12 years ago.
It would take an insane amount of progress in data keeping to store 12,000 years of internet usage, as it is growing exponentially. What I'm asking myself is how will people decide what to delete and what to keep when our servers inevitably run out of space after a decades/centuries of usage? Will there be internet historians in charge of picking what is worth saving in virtual "museums" where we'd see the first youtube videos, first facebook posts, first tweets, first Pepe the frog memes? I feel like the humans of the future are gonna be doing a lot of facepalming...
The devastating news of everyday is inconsequential in the grand scale of human time. It hurts no less to hear what happens but remember it will always pass and humanity will improve. A hundred generations ago the Roman Empire ruled most of humanity with military might and fear and now it is gone, about 10 or so generations ago slavery was still rampant and now it is gone as well. Humanity is improving, slowly but with ever increasing speed. We may not see much true change in our lifetimes but our descendants a few generations down will look back at our problems and struggles like we look at those of the ancient world. Everything will work out in time.
@@illusionm4n958 if you say that working is slavery i will punch you, being productive to society is not slavery you dont even get close to imagine what slavery is like now there is still slavery in the world yes, but is not close to what it was in the past, and its disapearing
@@carso1500 that's not what I meant at all. People went to work back then and it wasn't slavery so why would it be now. I mean that in some third word countries working conditions are so inhuman with basically no pay, that is basically slavery in modern times.
Yes, that is what archeologists do when they don't know what something was. I see it alot. One discovery of blades hidden high up in the rafters of a hunter gather hut had the childless academic archeologists saying "oh sun god worship" when a mother said "childproofing". Srsly.
Can we appreciate how fast Kurzgesagt is pumping out these videos while still having absolutely AMAZING quality and detail?! There last video was barely a week ago! If you need a break please please don't hesitate to do so, you guys are amazing and we don't want you to be too stressed, we will understand
"Hey, come take a look at this." "What is it?" "You know those tiny hard things that grow on plants?" "Yeah." "Well last year, I stuck a couple in the ground, and now when I come back to check on them, there are plants there! The same plants that grow the same tiny hard things!" "Huh, that's interesting." "Do you know what this means?" "No." "Even MORE tiny hard things!"
Whenever I learned about things like this in history class I always thought that they were some emotionless people but this shows me that they were people just like us. This is the best education channel out there and gives me a new perspective with every new video.
Yeah.. All the subjects taught in the school are actually interesting and beautiful.. It's just that it is in the format of "study" makes it look boring..
@Weezy Dusting or perhaps less school is the solution, Finland has one of the best education systems in the world and they have less school time, less homework, smaller class rooms and more free time for kids to explore on their own. My personal experience with school was lots of yelling, lots of stress, lots of bad teachers who enjoyed wasting time and humiliating children and did most of my actual studying and learning on my own not in or around school but everyone seems to have a different experience it seems.
@@djayjp I find that hard to believe with micro evolution, different diet and more harsher enviromental presures, esspecialy after the industrial revolution we see a drop in human health and ability.
From humble beginnings we have come far. That's why every person must strive to create a better tomorrow. Our individual stories are one of many, but the collective story of humanity is glorious, and we are all part of it
Every time I watch a new episode on this channel, I end up crying tears of joy for the beauty of the world and how far we have come as a species. For being able to grasp how small and intricate we are is best thing about consciousness. In my opinion.
This was weirdly inspiring in a way I can't explain, and I've seen loads of videos and read many books on this subject. Maybe it's the music, or perhaps the animation, who knows. But I thank you.
It's the music the animation and the hours of research and writing that make this so beautiful. They can inform so much with so little script and still have a nice and smooth video that never gets boring to watch.
As a human biologist, I think its astonishing how the emergence of human civilizations shaped our DNA. For example, humans (just like other mammals) used to be lactose intolerant upon adolescence. However, the domestication of animals led to the regular consumption of milk about 20000 ago. At that time, a mutation occurred which made people lactose tolerant. This mutation was so beneficial during periods of starvation that it quickly became very common. Today, the majority of people with European descent is lactose tolerant (I made a video about this). Human evolution is so amazing!
videos like this are really good for me to watch whenever I feel too cynical and pessimistic about humanity, I love the colourful and detailed inventive animation style too
One thing Humans never had to deal with in 2 million years was overpopulation. Our first 1 billion people was only 200 years ago in 1820. Now we are at 8 billion and add 1 billion every 12 years. Going to plants with no food ,air and solar radiation protection will not save us.
The fact that in a couple of decades, the way we dress, the way we act, the way we entertain ourselves could change entirely makes me think that what I'm doing now might seem strange to them in the future.
@@BearMeOut ye that's stupid, we use normal bags and never throw them away, don't see why if it still works lol even if it's plastic it still does its job and stores
Worst case scenario is some new intelligence life will dig the rock layer million years from, and wonder how the hell a layer of radioactive rock cover the whole world at the end of species X era.
@@BearMeOut unfortunately most plastic in the oceans is not thrown on purpose by consumers but rather by wind that blows on garbage land fields and by recycling companies which sometimes simply cannot process as the pile gets bigger. Recycling is great but not enough. We need to use instead biodegradable or non polluting materials: metals, wood, plant fibers, etc. Those are more expensive and have inherently a shorter lifespan than plastic but it is precisely their main advantage. We need commercials on it to educate the people. It is a common good worth paying for, just as education or healthcare.
"Born too late to explore the world and too early to explore the universe" -Some random dude who I don't know "The past is history, Tommorow is a mystery but today is a gift that's why we call it a present" -A crazy turtle Guys we can't experience everything. Our time is limited and we cannot expect to answer all the questions about humanity in our lifetime. A lot of people including me have a hope that we will live to see humans evolve into a type 1 or a type 2 species but the sad truth is that we most likely won't. Instead of hoping we were born a few thousand years in the future we should enjoy the life we do have because we are lucky to be alive at all. Most people have a fear of being forgotten, we need to get over that fear. We need to know that every single one of us matters even if only to a few. Some of you reading this will go on to be multi millionaires but some may not even be recognized in society but what you need to know is that all that matters in your life is that YOU should be happy. History may remember a few but if you look at the big picture it is impossible to not be forgotten. In a few hundred years noone will know who Charlie Chaplin was or who Albert Einstein was. You need to know that no matter how much you do or contribute you will be forgotten and you need to accept that fact. This generation is lucky we are may be too early to explore the universe but we are right on time to pave the way. It isn't about us it's about the future. All you need to care about is making you, your friends and family happy. All in all phenomenal video Edit: Quite a few people commented saying that there are a lot of people who will not be forgotten but I shouldn't have been that specific with the time lol. What I meant was that eventually everyone will be forgotten. Like the big big picture like 2000-3000 years. My guess is noone alive will be remembered because the technology that they invented will either become obselete or so common that we won't even realize it was invented by someone (Most of us don't really know the guy who invented the wheel do we) and like that lights as we know it today will probably become obsolete along with the person who invented it. Sadly the only people that we can expect to remember are monsters not worth remembering and those we want to forget.
At best it would be like us reading about ancient mythological creatures like centaurs or sirens. Maybe they would believe we thought they were real, but probably not that they actually existed.
I don't think that'll happen. We leave too much almost-permanent info and data nowadays. They'll probably know it's a trading card game of ficticious creatures of a ficticious world. We just know so little about the past because of the lack of information preserved.
If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.
@@benjoleo There is much evidence organic compounds began to assemble in various ways as building blocks to the first organisms. Nucleic acids, for example, will often peice themselves together in the right situations.
@@benjoleo There are two kinds of evolution: 1) Chemical evolution - a process of inorganic chemical compounds reacting with each other in a very specific environment for a very long time and mysteriously producing more and more complex organic compounds 2) Biological evolution - that evolution you know, starting with that very first living cell
This video is so good I cannot express how good it made me feel being a human after watching depressing news all day. Background music was so good by the way!
But humans couldn't be a more destructive and disgusting animal. Get real and embrace misanthrope instead - the type of thinking that may be our only hope in bringing about any positive change I believe 👍🏼
@@HazYyy hey, at least humans are capable of thinking about saving the world and becoming an inter-planetary species. It's obvious that humans are the greatest species that ever existed on earth.
7:08 It's possible that the ancient people wanted more certainty for their kids so that they would always have a constant supply of food even if it wasn't as diverse, because from time to time nature could yield less food or things could happen, so it's always safer for an ancient parent to know that they have farmed food to fall back on for their kids. (This is a concept from Sapiens by the way, not my idea)
*Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell “Hey we made this beautiful, informative and touching video about where we as a species came from and the origin of society as we know it” *Kurzgesagt fans “That’s awesome, but how do the ants fit into this?”
I have a time capsule that was buried in 1920 on my college campus and it will be opened in November! Kind of scary knowing that those people were unaware of the situation they would find themselves in. Before the Great Depression and WW2, as well as the Cold War. I mean it is 100 years. I’ll come back to this comment section on November 3rd to tell you what was in it.
Man.... seeing Kurzgesagt grow bigger and bigger each year is really inspiring. Thanks for teaching me since i was a kid! I will continue to watch your videos until the day i die.
I can already imagine: Year 9020, huge art gallery station in orbit of Titan. The first masterpiece that you see when you enter is the grainy picture of the face of Markiplier on Lord Farquad's body, the caption below reads:"E". Beautiful.
@@wystrix439 kilroy was in the age when most people didn't have tv. The memes that are popular now, on the contrary are gonna stay in annals of history forever, since the communication technology is advanced
these videos celebrate humanity. even if it’s not all positive, in the end, the majority of humans are trying the best they can. and that’s something to be celebrated
Kurzgesagt is the one TH-cam channel that makes learning high-level science and history and really any topic easy for all. I've been watching since I was 9 years old and I do not know how to thank them for opening my eyes to both the vast universe and the tiny quarks. From the Dawn Time to the glorious future. I am truly grateful for their work. From researchers to editors to animators and the voice of Kurzgesagt that we all love hearing every time we click on their video. I hope we can all support them to do this work well and that they will keep up and be blessed. In a nutshell, I have no words to express my gratitude for the entertaining way they have created to help me explore science and history. One day when I am much older, If I do something great for humanity, I attribute it all to you Kurzgesagt. I hope you are able to comprehend the level of gratitude and commend I have towards you. I cannot express myself. Perhaps we need a new way to express very abstract feelings and emotions 😁😁 Edit: Thank youuuu soooooo much for 1.3 thousand likes. Be blessed And yes.... Now I am thirteen
The fact that reading all of these comments are making me both tear up and smile at the same time is beautiful. It's just so...beautiful. And thank you for reading this, whoever you are, whether it's 1 second or 12,000 years after this comment is posted. I'm very, very grateful to be a human living in the 12,021st year of the Human Era.
"Dead kings bragging on pieces of stone" references Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias": I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
If school could just teach like this, school would actually be engaging, but as of now, this youtube channel taught me more in 25 minutes than 50 days from school 💀
School isn’t designed to teach you. It’s designed to make you a cog in the machine; to crush your will and dreams, and turn you into a lifeless but useful part of a grander mechanism. Some people still dream and strive for those dreams; and very few of those people succeed. Good luck 🍀👍
7:10 my theory as to why they started placing seeds in the ground is most likely curiosity. Maybe they saw a squirrel or some other rodent put nuts in the ground and wanted to try it themselves, some people liked it and it became a thing in the background people did besides hunting, maybe during that time meat became scarce so they turned to agriculture more, and it just.. Stayed
The human race's evolution and development is fascinating, but there's one thing in particular which allowed its growth spurt to happen, which is the invention of the scientific method. I feel like this subject is left out too much, that's why I suggest that you should make a video about the history of the scientific method. Either way, love the videos and I will always look forward to the next.
@@Young_Dab the idea that there is more to our world other than growing up, mating, and dying. Its basically when humanity realized that, that we evolved a drastic amount
@@Young_Dab in science, scientific method is a method that is used in research. it shows various steps in conducting a research, also research is not only classified as chemicals and ultra mega science, research is also what we observe and how we used that gathered knowledge to conceptualize ideas, thus, our ancestors are already doing research, for example of how they learned about fire.
It would definitely be an interesting video. I think it might surprise you just how fuzzy our definition of the scientific method is though, and how much we've accomplished through other ways of thinking. That's more the territory of philosophy than science though. The scientific method is extremely useful, but it's not the holy grail of perfect knowledge formulation that some people think it to be.
Kurzgesagt makes me awed at how far humanity has come, grateful towards those who came before us, and hopeful for our future in a way few other people, books or videos have done. It actually makes me feel like humanity is a great thing, which is an achievement.
God this video was so beatiful it was so powerful i started crying the score is brilliant and the narration and writing just gave me this overwhelming sense of pride and gratitude this channel seriously gets better even when it shouldnt be possible and i think thats such a human ethos to have
Me too, I'm feeling a great deal of emotion watching this and barely resist the urge to cry. These kinds of videos are a masterpiece. They feel so right and profound it just strikes a cord in our human soul.
Same! It made me think about all those humans who worked day and night and lived a tough life. The magnitude of what our species had achieved is astounding. But I was crying because out of nowhere, it hit me that all those ancient humans had done so much but they are all forgotten. We are doing so much to improve our lives but at the end, it won't matter. We'll all end up dead and that's what scares me.
@@Cryogenx37 ikr lol. I hope that humans become atleast an interplanetary planet and people will be much more conscious about everything. If thats the scenario, we could live for much longer
I bet my ass there'll be humans on earth10,000 years into the future, that is even if we nuke the whole of the "civilized" world. Hunters and gatherers will be around and hopefully they'll be able to develop such technologies as the "civilized" world did.
I feel I actually teared up a little when you said "they were just like you" at 3:05 . To think that humans back then, which I have thought were their own culture and time and stuff were like how I am feeling now really hit me. They felt love and joy, but also doubt and sadness and dwelling. I don't know that just really hit me. Thank you kurz as always for a beautiful video. Probably my favourite video yet!
I am currently majoring in Anthropology and studying archaeology so I love this. I love learning about out early ancestors. I love that humans can create so much but I am not a fan of the modern era because of how bad out planet is. It’s fascinating that so many people were here before us. It’s beautiful to see this!
There's lots of things I know and a lot of things that I don't know, but I know one thing for sure. Kurzgesagt is gonna be something people are going to be grateful for in the future. And I'm not talking about just the near future, but especially the far future. You people are amazing, incredible individuals and the love and effort you put into your work is truly mind blowing. Your informational and educational effort couldn't be fairly repaid with any amount of gratitude or materialistic value, but, know that a lot of people now are, and in the future will be, grateful for you. Thank you.
Exactly my thoughts! I've been a huge fan of Kurzgesagt for years. I would learn all the cool facts and try to impress my mates with it 😜. And looking back now, I am so happy they haven't sold out and completely commercialized by doing obviously sponsored content. They are still true to their core values: Knowledge sharing.
I know is such a dogma to hate ourslefs nowadays but man, humanity is so amazing, and we still have such a trip ahead of us, we dominated our world, maybe tomorrow our solar system and beyond.
Kurzgesagt has changed my life and world view drastically. Massive thank you to everyone who works so hard to make this channel what it is, can't wait for my calendar to arrive!
I know that this is a joke comment, but I wanted to point something out. Our development of “clearer resolution” is on the opposite of an exponential graph. Basically, things have been more and more “clear” for decades, but nowadays, if you compare 1080p to 4K you don’t see much of a difference. If the future generations have 40k, although it is technically much higher, our eyes would register it as basically the same image. Sorry if this took up your time reading it, but I see this type of comment a lot and wanted to point it out ^^
@@demonyckscreations9990 what you are forgetting is the fact that by the time we have 40k we won't have regular eyes but cybernetic eyes. These eyes will be able to tell the difference
@@areb4281 back then in communities of only a few hundred at absolute maximum, newborns would be quite rare, maybe only a few per year, whereas now its constant and everywhere, so maybe people just see it as a number rather than actual people.
@@areb4281 I see it as the opposite. back then a newborn was just another body, one of 16 kids meant to contribute to the group, now kids are born for the sake of existing, not for what they can provide
I just want to thank all fellow human beings for making my life much more enjoyable, fun, happy and interesting. Without you guys it simply wouldn't have worth living. Thanks again!
I don't know why this bought me into tears. Sometimes when I just look back and think about how far mankind has come, it makes me feel incredibly proud and emotional.
Allah created Adam and Hawwa, and we are all the descendants of Qabil and Habil, simple as that. Why are people complicating everything today when all the answer everyone will ever need is in the Qur'an. Please read the holy Quran my brother, then you will truly understand. It is the book of Allah SWT, the creator of everything. It is the best and the greatest science book ever written, Alhamdulillah.
@@Jhonnycomelate or read the bible same thing if you dont like storys you can go back to like zeus and stuff those guys are way cooler than your god. Go read a science book i know it looks scary. Because they debunk the bible and your quran pretty badly.
@@gustawkefqd2848 Bible is an unreliable and a corrupted book but al Qur'an is the final revelation of Allah's true words. Your life will change if you read it my friend.
@@Jhonnycomelate wonder what the next religion is goin to say about your book. And what people are going to think in 10.000 years. I mean those dump aztec right believing in a sungod. 700 years ago.
I love human invention jumps. Like how the first heavier than air flight was in 1903. Less than 15 years later and we were dogfighting planes. And only 42 years after the first flight, we used a plane to drop nuclear bombs
I think, to me at least, this is the most characteristic work from Kurzgesagt; the art work is so beautiful and it fits perfectly. There is no feeling of awkwardness in some of the scenes, everything feels fluid and with purpose.
Nah. Everybody has a podcast these days. And 80% of the reason I watch his videos is because the art in his videos. It's obviously not easy but that's why I enjoy it. I am not a sciency guy but cool graphics keep very well engaged. So....no podcasts cuz I am not listening
That's the odd, yet hilarious thing isn't it? When we die, we didn't achieve much, certainly wouldn't be remembered or written down in history, yet, without the people who turn the gears of the current era (us), we wouldn't be able to reach it. So, in a way, we aren't so insignificant that we wouldn't matter, merely, forgotten. Which is honestly sad.
I don't mind dying .. but what's worse is not having contributed anything to society and being forgotten eventually. I guess everyone wants to be recognized and be a legend or something but not everyone gets the chance. Some fade away without leaving a significant impact. That scares the hell outta me. Just imagine if zuckerberg or edison wasn't born .... That's going set a totally different path for the future. I wanna be someone where if I don't happen to exist ...it'll be a totally different future 👀😬
To be honest I have been watching TH-cam for years and I have seen many kinds of content but I have to say that this is the best Chanel I have ever seen
Random fact: Originally, bumper cars were not supposed to hit each other. Drivers were actually supposed to avoid crashing in spite of chaotic driving. The first company to patent a bumper car was in 1920 named Dodgem
I‘m an art historian. And always when asked, why, I tend to answer, that my field of study is like time traveling: Seeing the world through the eyes of the artist, hundreds of years ago. History is so much more than dates and facts. 100%!
Art is the first text, as they also talk about in the video. It's displayed as food production is the key, but I honestly think it's the way we past on knowledge that is the key. Tribes had historians for other reasons than we have today(sadly). It was about not making the same mistakes again and to improve on what we find that worked well. They were called elders, but they were in fact historians. Once we started to have a written way of communicate it all speed up.
If you’re a historian then didn’t you feel he literally quoted Sapiens, or they are many other books which say the same things as Sapiens ? Because in his prehistory video I always have the impression he say same things in same order as Sapiens
@lemon pie Jerks like me, a data scientist working for the German industry, and paying his taxes in Germany, so that my wife can study Ancient Mesopotamian Philology for free (that is, for my tax money) an one of the leading German universities. And in the evening, when I'm done with pythoning my computer vision routines, we sit down together, and she teaches me the Akkadian language.
I rarely come across content like this that makes me proud to be human, but it’s always uplifting when I do. The fact that I think just about anyone could watch this video and feel something similar is pretty comforting.
I heard a theory once that early language didn't have words, but rather we communicated by singing and humming different notes and sounds. To me, this makes sense. Other animals do it, and humming notes is a lot easier than formulating complex sentences. It would also explain why we like music at all. Simply hearing a certain tune makes us feel a certain way and can make us physically react. Plus, it's nice imagining our early ancestors as people who communicated by song. And imagining modern language and music as an evolution of a way to share our feelings with one another! I hope the theory is true.
Idk about communicating through song but before we learned language and became capable of complex conversations and communication it is likely we communicated w sounds such as grunts and mby humms
Are you tryna tell me Fuckin high school musical was primitive humans transitioning into modern people (It’s rhetorical if u can’t tell, but reply if u feel like it)
Hey I thought it was inspiring! We are the same humans as thousands of years ago, just as we will be IN thousands of years. That doesn't mean everyone has to be an innovator; there's tons of room and need for the simple folk to work the land, live the simple life, and weave themselves into the legend of human tradition as well! If you can be Edison, great, but not everyone can. For thousands of years, people were ok just living the simple life, enjoying family and the comforts of nature, the rustling of the wind through the leaves in the trees, the songs of the birds, and the fruits of one's own successes.
@@agustinyavar525 lol!... I remember them saying a year or so ago that they had so many "kill-bird" patreons that they had the disable that patron level to schedule all the birds that had to be killed in their upcoming videos lol
This is why i loved ac origins and odyssey, it really made me feel like i was back in time, especially in origins riding around on a camel in the ancient desert, it felt really cool.
Yup. Valhalla just didn't feel the same because they went with the generic hollywood Viking fantasy instead of basing it on history to show how far we've come, it could have been so special if they at-least tried to keep it realistic.
This video is so high quality made and the music is indescribable. Makes me re-watch it as many times as possible. You have to be the creater of the Human Era.
this channel does such good things for humanity. there have definitely been times lately where i've felt like i was losing my faith in people, and a video or two from you guys is all it takes to remind me that it's a good thing we're here. seriously, thank you. this is incredible. sending much love your way
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They would be so confused.
Dank caliber.
@@not.krosshair he think he meant to roast himself tho
That's a joke, lad
KrosshairTaken that’s not a whoosh moment.
Gosh, those animations really bring a tear to my eye. Those weren't caveman, nor primitive humans. Those were people, people like you and me. People who had their own feelings, their own thoughts and their own unique journey throughout life.
It's strange how we often forget this kind of things, even when it's about other folks in the present day.
Very true. Even a mere few centuries of distance, and we regard a number of our ancestors savages, even when in reality, we're fundamentally identical.
Midnight Gear How are we fundamentally identical?
Biologically. If a baby from that time period got time travelled to today, they would probably die of modern day diseases... But if they didn’t, they would grow up just like us. Their brains were just like ours, it was their environment and knowledge which was different.
@@AndyHappyGuy And if a baby from our time when to them, THEY'D all die. So It'd live an existence of lonliness before dying to some outside causes or malnutrition.
Bede our biology, hopes, dreams, needs, wants, were all basically the same. They cried, suffered, lusted, loved, gazed at the stars, marveled at the sunrise, and questioned life itself just like we do.
We are all the same. I wish more people could see that. And I’m glad that you asked so that you can too.
I just can not believe that this channel’s content is free. It is actually insane what Kurzgesagt is doing for us.
Sagan.
They get like 20k a month from patreon alone. This content isn't free, it wouldn't exist with no funding. You're just not the one funding it.
@@ManMan-cc2gf 20k a month is nothing. They have a team of 12.
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Bado Ceesay Thats just patreon tho, I assume they have seperate merch sales such as the calendar, as well as TH-cam Ad Revenue and additional sponsorships. Its probably more like 120k+ a month, but thats just my two cents.
This animation is just godlike. Screw Infographics. This is the true Infographics of youtube. Actual good animation with effort put into it.
at this point infographics seem like a factory, pumping out bad quality videos all for the profit. its sad because they used to be good. but you can really see that kurzgesagt are passionate about this by the time between videos and they make sure that the quality is incredible
@cletus sollow Don't forget how their animations walk wierd and recycled. Like the mouths... Oh they always bother me
Clearly kurzgesagt >Infographics show
@@user-gf5lq2pe3q Yep... useless information that only a crazed conspiracy theorist would benefit from.
And Bright Side is beyond dog crap
You guys are really good
They’re birds 😐
Reuben Juice8 I respect them.
Always have been
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Milk The Bottle And good birbs
The calendar is SO beautiful. I've loved going through this year's calendar with my kids, and can't wait for this year's! -John
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You guys are awesome
You mean next year's.
I saw "-John" and I was all like "who signs a comments with their name?" well now I'm like: "OOOOHHHHHH! AWESOME!" Thank you John and Hank for teaching me so much stuff about all kinds of things! I even used some of your material for when I still was doing some charity at an school for autistic children and I am very grateful for that!
@@adanactnomew7085 don't watch the video then.
Being a human biologist, I think its crazy how the emergence of human civilizations shaped our DNA as well. To give an example, humans (like many other mammals) used to be lactose intolerant upon adulthood. However, the domestication of animals led to the regular consumption of milk roughly 20000 ago. At that time, a mutation occurred which made people lactose tolerant and this mutation was so beneficial during periods of starvation that it soon spread across populations making the majority of people with European descent lactose tolerant today (I made a video about this). Human evolution is so fascinating!
Indians: hold my cow
thats a lot of info
Still tho why are we so arrogant and irrational to our problems and morals ,is it really based in our DNA, or is it something to do with our consciousness or we might can change it for good
Bit eurocentric, well no even, the division oil vs butter europe, is the center of all current world political problems.
@@ankitrai1595 we are 1billion + so there are large number of.........
I love how this channel almost always celebrates humanity and the accomplishments we've made!
I know many scientists just focus on the bad aspects of humanity and end up pessimistic.
I love your work so much!
The scientists I've met were actually very optimistic. They believe they can help change our heading and create a better future.
i mean, aren't scientists supposed to answer questions, what ever branch it is. i think the reason why they focus on the wrongdoings is because they want to lessen the chance of giving the wrong answer
It’s the average person who is pessimistic
Not to toot my own horn, but our future did look a bit grim, given the recent events that have happened.
But perhaps there is hope, and maybe it's not too late to change our world.
I like that Kurzgesagt tries to put a positive spin on their videos. Pessimism becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Positivity can go as far and as high as it can.
There are few reminders of humanity's achievements in a world where every single day you're only reminded of humanity's mistakes and flaws.
It's sad really. I honestly hope that we actually do come together to over come this. Even if we don't live to see it.
Ikr, if more people would aknowledge where humanity's come in a blink of an eye in historical times the world would be a better place
on the other hand, knowing which problems are there is more useful than knowing what archievements have we reached
You think? I'm reminded of humanity's achievements every day, whenever I use a phone, computer, look up to the lights in the ceiling, or take a shower, maybe the problem is not so much that we don't get reminded of those achievements, but that we don't notice them anymore.
Our achievements have never been achieved before to our knowledge, failure is part or learning. Can u imagine a humanity that never failed. They wouldn't be human
It is only normal. Humans are also not perfect so that humans can achieve perfection just like rest. Only real God is perfect if there is any.
The future is so exciting and let's just hope that the planetary revolution will be in our lifetime. Amazing video! 🥳
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Oh my God, it's the Indonesian Kurzgezagt!
Kok bisa?
@@friun.6824ooh is it really?
Since no one else has mentioned it, can we take a moment to appreciate how good Kurzgesagt sound design and audio quality is. I rarely hear audio this good in TH-cam videos.
Genshin impact level of audio quality
Check out Epic Mountain. They are the ones that made it.
@@nolram ok thanks
@@roensp1560 what the fuck are talking about? Are you implying that genshin has good audio design?
Hell yeah 😊
Thank you, humans from the past and the future. You made me walk again when I destroyed my knee. Cured me with the medicines you developed a long time ago every time I got sick. Made technology that allowed me to meet amazing people from the other side of the globe. Made outstanding videos like this for other humans to enjoy.
I try to contribute as much as possible to our technological world, doing my best at work, and helping other humans when possible, although its so small compared to everything else you did for me.
I will be gone in a few decades, but you will keep going, you will end suffering one day, expand your realm to other worlds, even reach the stars of the sky.
If we are lucky, you can choose not to go within your life!
@@ShihammeDarc I like that optimism, and I believe in that wholeheartedly :)
Isn't that crazy? We all come onto this world for a purpose, we were never purposeless.
The animation just gets better and better, I can't believe I'm hooked on this entire journey on this channel, i just love science, fact's and logic, I'm glad to be a part of this channel journey and would continue learning more
*Honestly, thank you kurzgesagt*
12,000 years in the future, I hope they watch this video. What a masterpiece!
There will be no humans in 12,000 by that time, we could've already destroyed our own planet
That just brought to my mind that every single human that is alive right now, is going to be dead
@@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456 planet can be destroyed but humanity will live forever
@@harbhajansingh5506 we could probably kill off our own species because people literally hate each other because of the tones of their skin.
Ok
Can we appreciate the beautiful soundtrack and visuals? Kurzgesagt never ceases to amaze me; they always push themselves to improve on their already wonderful quality and it's greatly appreciated
EDIT: At the end of the vid; the long history of humanity and its progress + the beautiful music = a tear from me. Hopeful that humanity can focus and progress even faster to create a "glorious future" (Kurzgesagt).
Bruh frrrrrr
It gives hope to humanity
@@Void_Born Exactly, I've seen so many comments of people tearing up, it's the sense of hope and appreciation for our species, how great we truly are
@@joshuathomas512 the issue is that today people are blinded and don't see what potential we have...so sometimes hope is hidden in the shadows of social media and self pleasure
yes it is an amazing channel...
" dead kings bragging on pieces of stone..." I like that. Well put.
Ozymandias, anyone?
@@domm138 I read that poem when I was in 7th standard ...
I think it was a reference to the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, before the internal strife and collapse of the empire. He knew how to read and his own inscriptions.
@@TheBrad574 "Ashurbanipal, the mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, king of the four regions of the world, king of kings, unrivaled prince, who, from the Upper to the Lower Sea, holds sway and has brought in submission at his feet all rulers; son of Esarhaddon, the great king, the mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, viceroy of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad; grandson of Sennacherib, the mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, am I."
I mean that is a good chunk of all ancient writings...
It's weird how most of us living on Earth will never meet or even acknowledge each other's existence. For example, if you're reading my comment; this is probably the first and last time you'll ever see me.
No way I'll sub u doge!
Got an existential crysis again
Thanks for the ideea. I hate it.
But i saw you comment this exact thing on the last video.
That's deep
I can't beleve i get to watch such educational content for free
There is much more if you look for. However this German company is doing a unique work.
Yeah it’s amazing isn’t it.
But it’s not free, at least you need electricity, a device capable of using signal waves and also pay for services of internet, but all that aside it’s nice to have this type of content.
@@Sebastianguitar01 Compare to what we learn in bloody schools and colleges by paying hefty sum we learn more here for almost nothing. We learn here more than we pay in school we pay more and get little to nothing in return.
Apart from Kruzgesagt there are channels like Crash Course which you should check out also there are apps like Coursera where you can learn about variety of things.
This is remarkable time for education.
In Germany everybody has to pay for the public television channel. Regardless if you're watching them or not. The German Channel of Kurzgesagt is partly financed by these as far as i know. ( "Funk netzwerk" ). So basically it isn't free. But Kurzgesagt is one of the best productions of the German public Television channels in my humble opinion.
I don't know why, but for some reason I get emotional when I see Kurzgesagt animations of early human civilization.
There is this beautiful simplicity in art that translates to simplicity in life that we often crave these days.
I felt the same way man
I find the great music in this Video helps a lot with that impression.
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I feel the same bro!😭
@@boRegah The music in most Kurtzgesagt videos is just insanely good, and often very touching
This video really made me take pride in being a human. Sure we are full of imperfections. Sure a lot of us are cruel. Sure we had wars and fought each other. But the fact that this species, which is not the strongest, or the largest, or the fastest, managed to accomplish such outstanding feats in just 12,000 years is truly astonishing. We might even be able to change our fate which the dinosaurs couldn't.
In the past 4 billion years, life has done stunning feats. But if I were to say which of them stands out the most, it would be the evolution of humans.
Let's cherish our 12,000 years of achievement and hope that we keep doing amazing feats in the future.
Yup
Well said.
Omg. That’s beautiful
Now that I think about the scale of time, and see that number 12,000 years before me, I feel like that's really not much time. We were pretty fast in becoming what we are! Compared to the rest of evolution, it's pretty much: Brain developed, some kind of sparkle made it meet a critical intelligence level, and boom! Technology and rockets.
That makes the Fermi paradox even more curious. It seems that, whenever an intelligent being is developed, it takes about no time to become a space-faring civilization.
Just think about it. The Roman empire is about 2,000 years ago. That feels like nothing for some reason. I mean, it's also just about 25 generations, just think about it: Your life is 1 generation! And then it's only 10,000 more years, since we became what we are and had the tools to be what we are. That's about 125 generations only, in terms of the livespan of today! (Yes, they lived way shorter, but I want to compare it to a timespan we can relate to). Even if we half the livespan, it's still only 250 generations. From the beginning of humanity to now.
I'd say we are speedy fast! I didn't think that. If I had a guess how long my family tree goes backwards until the first human, I would have guessed something like: 1000? Not intellectually, because I've simply never thought about it consciously, and then of course it can't be. But by feeling alone, it "felt" like 1,000 generations at least, only now that my logics apparatus is analyzing it, I realize how SHORT that timespan really is! The world is a lot younger than I thought!
And we really live in the beginning of humanity, if we don't screw it up. In terms of a human livetime, I'd say that we as a species are just babies that learned to barely walk and talk. If we don't screw it up, there's so much potential! Let's think what we could actually do in 1000 generations! In the future. Now I understand, why most humans are not able to recognize the greater value of our life, and wars, greed and isolationism is so far-spread. Maybe we can even mentally adapt that far in the future. Step by step, like here. It just has to become a critical percentage of humans that adapt that thinking, and we will drastically do things differently. From there on, I am convinced, our development will really grow exponentially in any way, if we overcome that.
The fact we went from hunting to literally travelling to another planet is SO crazy
We didnt do that yet, we need to wait
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@@Chris-55 We haven't yet gone to another planet because the moon isn't a planet. That doesn't make our accomplishment any less admirable, but we humans haven't gone to somewhere like Mars yet.
@@Chris-55 I just fixed your problem
Imagine that in 12,000 years, the internet still exists and was never wiped, so you’d go onto youtube, and see “published 12,000 years ago” like jeez. We wet our pants when we see 12 years ago.
It would take an insane amount of progress in data keeping to store 12,000 years of internet usage, as it is growing exponentially. What I'm asking myself is how will people decide what to delete and what to keep when our servers inevitably run out of space after a decades/centuries of usage? Will there be internet historians in charge of picking what is worth saving in virtual "museums" where we'd see the first youtube videos, first facebook posts, first tweets, first Pepe the frog memes? I feel like the humans of the future are gonna be doing a lot of facepalming...
Son Of Montreal yeah, i was thinking this as well. I guess we could store giant archives of the internet on the moon or mars
CL Melonshark lol, indeed
Imagine going on the hub
if humanity stills exists before the internet servers get filled
Kurzgesagt make me feel proud to be human, even after the devastating news of everyday
Read Sapiens by Harari, you will hate us again!!
The devastating news of everyday is inconsequential in the grand scale of human time. It hurts no less to hear what happens but remember it will always pass and humanity will improve. A hundred generations ago the Roman Empire ruled most of humanity with military might and fear and now it is gone, about 10 or so generations ago slavery was still rampant and now it is gone as well. Humanity is improving, slowly but with ever increasing speed. We may not see much true change in our lifetimes but our descendants a few generations down will look back at our problems and struggles like we look at those of the ancient world. Everything will work out in time.
@@Kiwimaster76404 Slavery is not gone, it has just changed than what is was back then
@@illusionm4n958 if you say that working is slavery i will punch you, being productive to society is not slavery you dont even get close to imagine what slavery is like
now there is still slavery in the world yes, but is not close to what it was in the past, and its disapearing
@@carso1500 that's not what I meant at all. People went to work back then and it wasn't slavery so why would it be now. I mean that in some third word countries working conditions are so inhuman with basically no pay, that is basically slavery in modern times.
Future archaeologist: *picks up a fidget spinner*
Future archaeologist: “Hm, this appears to be an ancient religious artifact.”
*picks a fidget spinner*
"This must be an artifact used to chant spells"
Future archaeologist: *puts the fidget spinner inside the museum for the new era to look at*
Lmfao
this probably happened before and we don't even know it
Yes, that is what archeologists do when they don't know what something was.
I see it alot.
One discovery of blades hidden high up in the rafters of a hunter gather hut had the childless academic archeologists saying "oh sun god worship" when a mother said "childproofing".
Srsly.
Can we appreciate how fast Kurzgesagt is pumping out these videos while still having absolutely AMAZING quality and detail?! There last video was barely a week ago!
If you need a break please please don't hesitate to do so, you guys are amazing and we don't want you to be too stressed, we will understand
What if he is getting better at animating so maybe that’s why
There’s more people than him behind the channel. They have a team
@@somethingiguess8486 it's a team of animators, but still, quite the impressive pace
they work on multiple at a time
They constantly pump vids every few weeks.
"Hey, come take a look at this."
"What is it?"
"You know those tiny hard things that grow on plants?"
"Yeah."
"Well last year, I stuck a couple in the ground, and now when I come back to check on them, there are plants there! The same plants that grow the same tiny hard things!"
"Huh, that's interesting."
"Do you know what this means?"
"No."
"Even MORE tiny hard things!"
Ok this comment is perfect
lol this must be how the agricultural revolution started
Sounds like a Ryan George sketch and I'm all for it
Agriculture in a nutshell
@@dhisanamincheri4830 Could just picture the two guys talking like that.
Whenever I learned about things like this in history class I always thought that they were some emotionless people but this shows me that they were people just like us. This is the best education channel out there and gives me a new perspective with every new video.
Yeah.. All the subjects taught in the school are actually interesting and beautiful.. It's just that it is in the format of "study" makes it look boring..
@@riyank5238 I don't think school is the best place to learn new and interesting things anymore, quite the opposite in most cases.
They were certainly emotional, just like most animals, and in fact the mostly physiologically modern human has persisted for about 200,000 years.
@Weezy Dusting or perhaps less school is the solution, Finland has one of the best education systems in the world and they have less school time, less homework, smaller class rooms and more free time for kids to explore on their own.
My personal experience with school was lots of yelling, lots of stress, lots of bad teachers who enjoyed wasting time and humiliating children and did most of my actual studying and learning on my own not in or around school but everyone seems to have a different experience it seems.
@@djayjp I find that hard to believe with micro evolution, different diet and more harsher enviromental presures, esspecialy after the industrial revolution we see a drop in human health and ability.
From humble beginnings we have come far. That's why every person must strive to create a better tomorrow. Our individual stories are one of many, but the collective story of humanity is glorious, and we are all part of it
So true😊
Every time I watch a new episode on this channel, I end up crying tears of joy for the beauty of the world and how far we have come as a species. For being able to grasp how small and intricate we are is best thing about consciousness. In my opinion.
Yes
This made me think, isn't it sad that most animals have no concept of where they come from and go
Even more yes
I feel the exact same way!
then I go to twitter and pray we die off by the next century
This was weirdly inspiring in a way I can't explain, and I've seen loads of videos and read many books on this subject. Maybe it's the music, or perhaps the animation, who knows. But I thank you.
It's the music the animation and the hours of research and writing that make this so beautiful. They can inform so much with so little script and still have a nice and smooth video that never gets boring to watch.
Its all of the factors that turned this video in a masterpiece in my opinion
Why am I crying so muchhh
Oof u good
Wow I've seen many comments of people crying to this vid, as did I, it hit something within all of us
As a human biologist, I think its astonishing how the emergence of human civilizations shaped our DNA. For example, humans (just like other mammals) used to be lactose intolerant upon adolescence. However, the domestication of animals led to the regular consumption of milk about 20000 ago. At that time, a mutation occurred which made people lactose tolerant. This mutation was so beneficial during periods of starvation that it quickly became very common. Today, the majority of people with European descent is lactose tolerant (I made a video about this). Human evolution is so amazing!
How much do you love your job? And how hard was it to get there? I always thought about studying biology but scared it won’t be easy.
Man!! I read this whilst drinking chocolate milk. Thanks for sharing!
damn
@@berdyevplus nothing is ever easy though.
@@Azmodaeus49 whatcha talking about? Pooping in the morning is quite easy.
videos like this are really good for me to watch whenever I feel too cynical and pessimistic about humanity, I love the colourful and detailed inventive animation style too
One thing Humans never had to deal with in 2 million years was overpopulation.
Our first 1 billion people was only 200 years ago in 1820. Now we are at 8 billion and add 1 billion every 12 years.
Going to plants with no food ,air and solar radiation protection will not save us.
Definitely Got myself a Calendar 😄Thank you for the inspiring videos & in making the world a better place for all of us
hi Jeracraft i’ve been a long time fan of yours, your creations are magnificent
how can I get one for free? next month some great pc games are released and I don't want to spend money for a calendar
Cheese?
@@vomm you can't.
jeracraft watches kursgesagt??
The fact that in a couple of decades, the way we dress, the way we act, the way we entertain ourselves could change entirely makes me think that what I'm doing now might seem strange to them in the future.
Using plastic once for shopping bag and throwing it away to the sea where we get our fish seems weird enough to me.
@@BearMeOut ye that's stupid, we use normal bags and never throw them away, don't see why if it still works lol even if it's plastic it still does its job and stores
Worst case scenario is some new intelligence life will dig the rock layer million years from, and wonder how the hell a layer of radioactive rock cover the whole world at the end of species X era.
@@BearMeOut unfortunately most plastic in the oceans is not thrown on purpose by consumers but rather by wind that blows on garbage land fields and by recycling companies which sometimes simply cannot process as the pile gets bigger. Recycling is great but not enough. We need to use instead biodegradable or non polluting materials: metals, wood, plant fibers, etc. Those are more expensive and have inherently a shorter lifespan than plastic but it is precisely their main advantage. We need commercials on it to educate the people. It is a common good worth paying for, just as education or healthcare.
"Born too late to explore the world and too early to explore the universe"
-Some random dude who I don't know
"The past is history, Tommorow is a mystery but today is a gift that's why we call it a present"
-A crazy turtle
Guys we can't experience everything. Our time is limited and we cannot expect to answer all the questions about humanity in our lifetime. A lot of people including me have a hope that we will live to see humans evolve into a type 1 or a type 2 species but the sad truth is that we most likely won't. Instead of hoping we were born a few thousand years in the future we should enjoy the life we do have because we are lucky to be alive at all. Most people have a fear of being forgotten, we need to get over that fear. We need to know that every single one of us matters even if only to a few. Some of you reading this will go on to be multi millionaires but some may not even be recognized in society but what you need to know is that all that matters in your life is that YOU should be happy. History may remember a few but if you look at the big picture it is impossible to not be forgotten. In a few hundred years noone will know who Charlie Chaplin was or who Albert Einstein was. You need to know that no matter how much you do or contribute you will be forgotten and you need to accept that fact. This generation is lucky we are may be too early to explore the universe but we are right on time to pave the way. It isn't about us it's about the future. All you need to care about is making you, your friends and family happy. All in all phenomenal video
Edit: Quite a few people commented saying that there are a lot of people who will not be forgotten but I shouldn't have been that specific with the time lol. What I meant was that eventually everyone will be forgotten. Like the big big picture like 2000-3000 years. My guess is noone alive will be remembered because the technology that they invented will either become obselete or so common that we won't even realize it was invented by someone (Most of us don't really know the guy who invented the wheel do we) and like that lights as we know it today will probably become obsolete along with the person who invented it. Sadly the only people that we can expect to remember are monsters not worth remembering and those we want to forget.
Thank you man
This comment is beautiful, thank you
🥺❤️❤️❤️❤️🌱
You can experience the universe within :) maybe it's not so different then the one out there
People will still know who Albert Einstein was in a few hundred years, just like we know who Isaac Newton is
This video made me tear up, we all are one specie. Let’s love and respect each other!
Make it 2
@@josuemorataya9219 tf?
I, for one, am excited when the future generations find our Pokemon cards and wonder why such wondrous creatures left no fossils or evidence behind
their reactions to the legendary pokemon descriptions would be hilarious
Yveltal would scare the shit out of them
At best it would be like us reading about ancient mythological creatures like centaurs or sirens. Maybe they would believe we thought they were real, but probably not that they actually existed.
There going to think were dum for using our imagination
I don't think that'll happen. We leave too much almost-permanent info and data nowadays. They'll probably know it's a trading card game of ficticious creatures of a ficticious world. We just know so little about the past because of the lack of information preserved.
If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.
What was evolution doing before March? I thought bacteria were the first life
Oh yeah I remember that from cosmos.
@@benjoleo There is much evidence organic compounds began to assemble in various ways as building blocks to the first organisms. Nucleic acids, for example, will often peice themselves together in the right situations.
JFK gave a speech similar to this, the one where he pledged to go to the Moon
@@benjoleo There are two kinds of evolution:
1) Chemical evolution - a process of inorganic chemical compounds reacting with each other in a very specific environment for a very long time and mysteriously producing more and more complex organic compounds
2) Biological evolution - that evolution you know, starting with that very first living cell
This video is so good I cannot express how good it made me feel being a human after watching depressing news all day. Background music was so good by the way!
I agree, the music was amazing.
But humans couldn't be a more destructive and disgusting animal. Get real and embrace misanthrope instead - the type of thinking that may be our only hope in bringing about any positive change I believe 👍🏼
@@HazYyy hey, at least humans are capable of thinking about saving the world and becoming an inter-planetary species. It's obvious that humans are the greatest species that ever existed on earth.
@@cuthon3574 this video was like the best movie of the year 😍
^^^
7:08 It's possible that the ancient people wanted more certainty for their kids so that they would always have a constant supply of food even if it wasn't as diverse, because from time to time nature could yield less food or things could happen, so it's always safer for an ancient parent to know that they have farmed food to fall back on for their kids.
(This is a concept from Sapiens by the way, not my idea)
*WHAT WILL WE LEAVE BEHIND?*
"Plastic." he said calmly.
Unless nature/ man creates plastic eating bacteria
Dumbledore asked calmly
"Did you put your name in the goblet of fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????" Dumbledore asked calmly
"He said calmly"
@@icurmt5156 Such bacteria already exists in Japan. And its natural.
Everyone when Kurzgesagt uploads thrice in two weeks: *happy noises
Thrice is three times also I feel the same
Edit cool I didn’t know it could be twice
@@BuilderB08 Thrice can be "Twice" or "Three"
True Dat
@@abailumlerrad1037 huh, since when is thrice = twice?
Effort is still peak tho
*Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell
“Hey we made this beautiful, informative and touching video about where we as a species came from and the origin of society as we know it”
*Kurzgesagt fans
“That’s awesome, but how do the ants fit into this?”
We need answers
@@ConfusedRambutan *antswers
We’re the ants lol
*yes*
@@Kevin607086 i (jokingly) hate you
it is funny though =P
This has got to be one of the most beautiful and profound little videos I have ever seen.
perfect video as always
first
first
Yeah
Yes
I have a time capsule that was buried in 1920 on my college campus and it will be opened in November!
Kind of scary knowing that those people were unaware of the situation they would find themselves in. Before the Great Depression and WW2, as well as the Cold War. I mean it is 100 years.
I’ll come back to this comment section on November 3rd to tell you what was in it.
Tell me when you open it
I hope there’s shite in it
Open it now lol
!remindme lmao i wanna see the contents
too damn early
“3 generations ago, the world was just in black and white”
I KNEW IT
No.
Yes.
Calvin's Dad called this in the mid-90s
no the photos were
@@TheOGSB817 r/woooosh
Man.... seeing Kurzgesagt grow bigger and bigger each year is really inspiring. Thanks for teaching me since i was a kid! I will continue to watch your videos until the day i die.
I can already imagine:
Year 9020, huge art gallery station in orbit of Titan. The first masterpiece that you see when you enter is the grainy picture of the face of Markiplier on Lord Farquad's body, the caption below reads:"E". Beautiful.
Just imagine,in the future,students might be studying the Doge in history/art class
Simone Fazwolf That’s a maybe, I know a lot of people who don’t know what “Kilroy was here” is
@@wystrix439 kilroy was in the age when most people didn't have tv. The memes that are popular now, on the contrary are gonna stay in annals of history forever, since the communication technology is advanced
IK I suppose you’re right. I am going to delete my comment so that it looks like you were talking to yourself
@@wystrix439 noooo. Don't make me look silly. Nooooo. I'll... I'll give you my diamond pickaxe!
I love how there's a "I hate Calendars" bundle in the Kurzgesagt shop which literally has everything except calendars.
a cool $700 too lmao but that is $200 off of what it would have been
where?
I don't like calendars either, but this one looks so lovely
@@ryanwans391 in their shop under 'deals'
Yea! XD
8:29 legend has it that the guy on the left's descendants are groovin to this day
Those are some sweet moves
True
@@AxxLAfriku go inject hand sanitizer
these videos celebrate humanity. even if it’s not all positive, in the end, the majority of humans are trying the best they can. and that’s something to be celebrated
Yeah
Kurzgesagt is the one TH-cam channel that makes learning high-level science and history and really any topic easy for all. I've been watching since I was 9 years old and I do not know how to thank them for opening my eyes to both the vast universe and the tiny quarks. From the Dawn Time to the glorious future. I am truly grateful for their work. From researchers to editors to animators and the voice of Kurzgesagt that we all love hearing every time we click on their video. I hope we can all support them to do this work well and that they will keep up and be blessed. In a nutshell, I have no words to express my gratitude for the entertaining way they have created to help me explore science and history. One day when I am much older, If I do something great for humanity, I attribute it all to you Kurzgesagt. I hope you are able to comprehend the level of gratitude and commend I have towards you. I cannot express myself. Perhaps we need a new way to express very abstract feelings and emotions 😁😁
Edit: Thank youuuu soooooo much for 1.3 thousand likes. Be blessed
And yes.... Now I am thirteen
True brother
It is a very inspiring channel
Yes
Pog
@George Owen Any age between 10 and 17... I don't understand your sentiment...
The fact that reading all of these comments are making me both tear up and smile at the same time is beautiful. It's just so...beautiful.
And thank you for reading this, whoever you are, whether it's 1 second or 12,000 years after this comment is posted.
I'm very, very grateful to be a human living in the 12,021st year of the Human Era.
@MD Sajjad why do you exist
So corny
Well, what we can do now is to hope for someone with the power to remove these stuff to see this.
Thanks whoever that is.
I feel you friend, i think the same way. We must stand up for generations to come like our ancestors do.
:)
Society:
Coming soon to a dank river valley near you
We could make a religion out of this!
*no dont*
@@annidromeda ♫ some-thing's a-live, intheocean! ♫
the sun is a deadly laser
Bill wurtz!
The music and the animation make me feel nostalgic.
"Dead kings bragging on pieces of stone" references Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias":
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
My dream is 200 only 20 left and I'll get a pc also please help😓...
Jishnu Suresh
“All of you, DIE!”
“HAPPILY YOUR HIGHNESS!”
That was in 10 standard reading .
Thanks for sharing ☺️
It could also be about the sumeriam king list, probably both, and a lot more
Bruhh!! What else can I say
Why am I crying happy tears when they show future generations talking about us as their ancestors
Because you know how unlikely this might be? Not that I hope for it, but currently shit do be lookin bleak.
I'm right there with you bud, seeing what we could become brought me to tears, and I'm usually fairly emotionless
So i'm not the only one lmao
Yikes
@@glub1381 ...And you are emotional disabled
If school could just teach like this, school would actually be engaging, but as of now, this youtube channel taught me more in 25 minutes than 50 days from school 💀
Facts
Than all history class
K Hype my History teacher doesn’t even know our textbook well Lol
School isn’t designed to teach you. It’s designed to make you a cog in the machine; to crush your will and dreams, and turn you into a lifeless but useful part of a grander mechanism. Some people still dream and strive for those dreams; and very few of those people succeed. Good luck 🍀👍
A Kurzgesagt video costs months of work, no random teacher is able to do that.
7:10 my theory as to why they started placing seeds in the ground is most likely curiosity. Maybe they saw a squirrel or some other rodent put nuts in the ground and wanted to try it themselves, some people liked it and it became a thing in the background people did besides hunting, maybe during that time meat became scarce so they turned to agriculture more, and it just.. Stayed
Read guns germs and steel just don’t question me read it.
@@primetime3422 no.
@@InnovativeSparks it be a good book tho
I think they observed and put 2 and 2 together. Thats how they discovered seeds can become plants.
1. That's not a theory
2. People weren't as nature illiterate as people are today. They'd be well aware what seeds do 🤦♂️
The human race's evolution and development is fascinating, but there's one thing in particular which allowed its growth spurt to happen, which is the invention of the scientific method. I feel like this subject is left out too much, that's why I suggest that you should make a video about the history of the scientific method.
Either way, love the videos and I will always look forward to the next.
"Scientific method" Sounds interesting but I'm not quite sure what you mean... can anyone explain?
@@Young_Dab the idea that there is more to our world other than growing up, mating, and dying. Its basically when humanity realized that, that we evolved a drastic amount
@@Young_Dab in science, scientific method is a method that is used in research. it shows various steps in conducting a research, also research is not only classified as chemicals and ultra mega science, research is also what we observe and how we used that gathered knowledge to conceptualize ideas, thus, our ancestors are already doing research, for example of how they learned about fire.
True. It's shocking to me how we made it so far without the scientific method
It would definitely be an interesting video. I think it might surprise you just how fuzzy our definition of the scientific method is though, and how much we've accomplished through other ways of thinking. That's more the territory of philosophy than science though.
The scientific method is extremely useful, but it's not the holy grail of perfect knowledge formulation that some people think it to be.
Because History is Important
Karena Sejarah itu Penting!
wow nyasar?
It is kerana not karena but nice try
Hello there
10k subscribers before 2021 fake
@@BeuyuhBre akhirnya subtitle pada sejam pertama upload
When kurzgesagt uploads 3 times in a week
*HAPPY NOISES INTENSIFIES*
Yes
Buy more calendars!
Also buys sponsor product
Very true
Kurzgesagt makes me awed at how far humanity has come, grateful towards those who came before us, and hopeful for our future in a way few other people, books or videos have done. It actually makes me feel like humanity is a great thing, which is an achievement.
God this video was so beatiful it was so powerful i started crying the score is brilliant and the narration and writing just gave me this overwhelming sense of pride and gratitude this channel seriously gets better even when it shouldnt be possible and i think thats such a human ethos to have
Me too, I'm feeling a great deal of emotion watching this and barely resist the urge to cry. These kinds of videos are a masterpiece. They feel so right and profound it just strikes a cord in our human soul.
I thought I was the only one, there’s something about this video tearing my eyes
Ya,me too
Incredible how everyone is crying, and so was I, this video hit something within all of us, our humanity
Same! It made me think about all those humans who worked day and night and lived a tough life. The magnitude of what our species had achieved is astounding.
But I was crying because out of nowhere, it hit me that all those ancient humans had done so much but they are all forgotten. We are doing so much to improve our lives but at the end, it won't matter. We'll all end up dead and that's what scares me.
Imagine a human 10,000 years in the future looking at this video
They'd still think the animation is beautiful
Lol that’s being optimistic if humans are even still around
@@Cryogenx37 ikr lol. I hope that humans become atleast an interplanetary planet and people will be much more conscious about everything. If thats the scenario, we could live for much longer
I bet my ass there'll be humans on earth10,000 years into the future, that is even if we nuke the whole of the "civilized" world. Hunters and gatherers will be around and hopefully they'll be able to develop such technologies as the "civilized" world did.
This video would be preserved in a computer museum.
I feel I actually teared up a little when you said "they were just like you" at 3:05 . To think that humans back then, which I have thought were their own culture and time and stuff were like how I am feeling now really hit me. They felt love and joy, but also doubt and sadness and dwelling.
I don't know that just really hit me. Thank you kurz as always for a beautiful video. Probably my favourite video yet!
Same here, it makes sense too, why wouldnt they be the same. Very humbling
Cheese?
This comment is exactly how I felt, it hit hard like a truck
10 minute video, but need hours to think about life now
Every time i watch one of their videos i end up crying with a weird sense of hope and melancholy.
I am currently majoring in Anthropology and studying archaeology so I love this. I love learning about out early ancestors. I love that humans can create so much but I am not a fan of the modern era because of how bad out planet is. It’s fascinating that so many people were here before us. It’s beautiful to see this!
I like chicken 🐔 😋 🙂 but you like chicken 🐔 😋 😒 and my name is Purab
@@indiasaifalikhan there will be an abundance of chicken bones in the antropocene layer of rock because humans love kfc
There's lots of things I know and a lot of things that I don't know, but I know one thing for sure.
Kurzgesagt is gonna be something people are going to be grateful for in the future. And I'm not talking about just the near future, but especially the far future.
You people are amazing, incredible individuals and the love and effort you put into your work is truly mind blowing. Your informational and educational effort couldn't be fairly repaid with any amount of gratitude or materialistic value, but, know that a lot of people now are, and in the future will be, grateful for you.
Thank you.
Exactly my thoughts! I've been a huge fan of Kurzgesagt for years. I would learn all the cool facts and try to impress my mates with it 😜.
And looking back now, I am so happy they haven't sold out and completely commercialized by doing obviously sponsored content. They are still true to their core values: Knowledge sharing.
This video legitimately made me tear up. What a journey the human race has been in.
Yeh I wasn’t expecting a philosophical crisis either. People would find my leftover pizza and think wow this is legit.
Bro this is just the beginning of humanity, we still have a thousand more years to go!
@@gubre2195 left over pizza would decompose 😬😬
I know is such a dogma to hate ourslefs nowadays but man, humanity is so amazing, and we still have such a trip ahead of us, we dominated our world, maybe tomorrow our solar system and beyond.
Long ago the human race lived together, then everything changed when religion attacked
Kurzgesagt has changed my life and world view drastically. Massive thank you to everyone who works so hard to make this channel what it is, can't wait for my calendar to arrive!
This puts into perspective how lucky we are and gives me hope for humanity
SUS?
Optimism =♾️
Imagine in 12,021 people are like: Damn this photo is so blurry is this like 4k or somethin?
Damn... imagine..
I know that this is a joke comment, but I wanted to point something out.
Our development of “clearer resolution” is on the opposite of an exponential graph. Basically, things have been more and more “clear” for decades, but nowadays, if you compare 1080p to 4K you don’t see much of a difference.
If the future generations have 40k, although it is technically much higher, our eyes would register it as basically the same image.
Sorry if this took up your time reading it, but I see this type of comment a lot and wanted to point it out ^^
What you are saying makes no sense unless humans develop a lot sharper sense of sight. Till then nobody could ever say 4k is blurry.
@@demonyckscreations9990 I fucking definitely can tell between 1080p and 4k
@@demonyckscreations9990 what you are forgetting is the fact that by the time we have 40k we won't have regular eyes but cybernetic eyes. These eyes will be able to tell the difference
I liked how the farmer guy did a happy dance at the idea more farm hands were needed.
the original capitalist /s
People in past seemed to rejoice newborns more compared to now where many see them as burdens
@@areb4281 back then in communities of only a few hundred at absolute maximum, newborns would be quite rare, maybe only a few per year, whereas now its constant and everywhere, so maybe people just see it as a number rather than actual people.
@@areb4281 I see it as the opposite. back then a newborn was just another body, one of 16 kids meant to contribute to the group, now kids are born for the sake of existing, not for what they can provide
The amount of time that goes into animating these videos. OMFG tip of the fedora
fIrSt
cringe
Anti-mating
*anti mating*
Bandstand be watching what I watch
I just want to thank all fellow human beings for making my life much more enjoyable, fun, happy and interesting. Without you guys it simply wouldn't have worth living. Thanks again!
I love how optimistic this videos are, almost make me forget how ignorant and selfish people can be.
I think that looking on life with optimism is the way to go; that is why i like it too.
I don't know why this bought me into tears. Sometimes when I just look back and think about how far mankind has come, it makes me feel incredibly proud and emotional.
Allah created Adam and Hawwa, and we are all the descendants of Qabil and Habil, simple as that. Why are people complicating everything today when all the answer everyone will ever need is in the Qur'an. Please read the holy Quran my brother, then you will truly understand. It is the book of Allah SWT, the creator of everything. It is the best and the greatest science book ever written, Alhamdulillah.
@@Jhonnycomelate or read the bible same thing if you dont like storys you can go back to like zeus and stuff those guys are way cooler than your god. Go read a science book i know it looks scary. Because they debunk the bible and your quran pretty badly.
@@gustawkefqd2848 Bible is an unreliable and a corrupted book but al Qur'an is the final revelation of Allah's true words. Your life will change if you read it my friend.
@@Jhonnycomelate wonder what the next religion is goin to say about your book. And what people are going to think in 10.000 years. I mean those dump aztec right believing in a sungod. 700 years ago.
@@Jhonnycomelate the more i read all of your comment the more im covinced you're just a troll
Born too late to explore the planet
Born too early to explore the stars
Born just at the right time to watch amazing Kurzgesagt videos
Ocean: Am I a joke to you?
Ha ha, never had anything more true been said.
You are just in time to explore the depts of the sea. If you fancy exploring.
@@tvthecat
But the ocean has a point.
@@tvthecat Me to the ocean: Yes, yes you are, if i cannot conquer you you are essentially worthless
I love human invention jumps. Like how the first heavier than air flight was in 1903. Less than 15 years later and we were dogfighting planes. And only 42 years after the first flight, we used a plane to drop nuclear bombs
Then came 1969
@@mariuskatutis2687 One of the most significant events in human history, the first time we reached out to other worlds.
I think, to me at least, this is the most characteristic work from Kurzgesagt; the art work is so beautiful and it fits perfectly. There is no feeling of awkwardness in some of the scenes, everything feels fluid and with purpose.
Let's just all appreciate how smooth the animation is
60hz
60fps
Thanks brother
Fax
Always was
these soundtracks need to be brought up more often. They are beautiful
Y'know the saying, "A man's trash is another man's treasure." Well in this case a man's treasure in a thousand years or so.
Yea
I feel like Kurzgesagt should make a podcast, the narrator’s voice is so soothing and calm, even for deep, sometimes unsettling topics
yes wow
Unfortunately he's just a paid narrator so :/
Adrian Freya hm, but then maybe they could hire hem for an educational podcast? I’d absolutely love hour-long episodes!
Nah. Everybody has a podcast these days. And 80% of the reason I watch his videos is because the art in his videos. It's obviously not easy but that's why I enjoy it. I am not a sciency guy but cool graphics keep very well engaged. So....no podcasts cuz I am not listening
Yeah, absolutely
It scares me that we are so insignificant to everyone one day we will be forgotten...
That's the odd, yet hilarious thing isn't it? When we die, we didn't achieve much, certainly wouldn't be remembered or written down in history, yet, without the people who turn the gears of the current era (us), we wouldn't be able to reach it. So, in a way, we aren't so insignificant that we wouldn't matter, merely, forgotten. Which is honestly sad.
Xavier Toll Hernando the second time you die is when your name is spoken for the last time the third is when everyone who knew of you dies
nah, we can work towards building a future that will set the course for humanity for generations to come.
I don't mind dying .. but what's worse is not having contributed anything to society and being forgotten eventually.
I guess everyone wants to be recognized and be a legend or something but not everyone gets the chance. Some fade away without leaving a significant impact. That scares the hell outta me. Just imagine if zuckerberg or edison wasn't born .... That's going set a totally different path for the future. I wanna be someone where if I don't happen to exist ...it'll be a totally different future 👀😬
An1e3 why would u want to live together when all of the people you love would eventually die, and then you’d be all alone?
To be honest I have been watching TH-cam for years and I have seen many kinds of content but I have to say that this is the best Chanel I have ever seen
Archeologist in 12 000 years: Ah yes.. Gamer girl bathwater... The ceremonial drink of early humans.
xD
According to Josef H. Reichholf it was booze.
WTF this comment had literally like 3 likes when I liked as soon as i refreshed it has 30 likes
And 46 ?
Now 47
Random fact: Originally, bumper cars were not supposed to hit each other. Drivers were actually supposed to avoid crashing in spite of chaotic driving. The first company to patent a bumper car was in 1920 named Dodgem
My dream is 200 only 20 left and I'll get a pc also please help😓...
The more you know...
FINALLY I CAN FIND YOU BEFORE IT BLOWS OUT
@@BeuyuhBre ok
@@BeuyuhBre
:)
I‘m an art historian. And always when asked, why, I tend to answer, that my field of study is like time traveling: Seeing the world through the eyes of the artist, hundreds of years ago. History is so much more than dates and facts. 100%!
Yeah thats incredible
I want to be an art historian when i grew up 🤩
Art is the first text, as they also talk about in the video. It's displayed as food production is the key, but I honestly think it's the way we past on knowledge that is the key. Tribes had historians for other reasons than we have today(sadly). It was about not making the same mistakes again and to improve on what we find that worked well. They were called elders, but they were in fact historians. Once we started to have a written way of communicate it all speed up.
If you’re a historian then didn’t you feel he literally quoted Sapiens, or they are many other books which say the same things as Sapiens ? Because in his prehistory video I always have the impression he say same things in same order as Sapiens
@lemon pie Jerks like me, a data scientist working for the German industry, and paying his taxes in Germany, so that my wife can study Ancient Mesopotamian Philology for free (that is, for my tax money) an one of the leading German universities. And in the evening, when I'm done with pythoning my computer vision routines, we sit down together, and she teaches me the Akkadian language.
I rarely come across content like this that makes me proud to be human, but it’s always uplifting when I do. The fact that I think just about anyone could watch this video and feel something similar is pretty comforting.
I heard a theory once that early language didn't have words, but rather we communicated by singing and humming different notes and sounds. To me, this makes sense.
Other animals do it, and humming notes is a lot easier than formulating complex sentences. It would also explain why we like music at all. Simply hearing a certain tune makes us feel a certain way and can make us physically react.
Plus, it's nice imagining our early ancestors as people who communicated by song. And imagining modern language and music as an evolution of a way to share our feelings with one another! I hope the theory is true.
Idk about communicating through song but before we learned language and became capable of complex conversations and communication it is likely we communicated w sounds such as grunts and mby humms
Are you tryna tell me Fuckin high school musical was primitive humans transitioning into modern people
(It’s rhetorical if u can’t tell, but reply if u feel like it)
Thanks for sharing, never heard of it. It would be beautiful to create some kind of musical language.
Like Egoistic Altruism - the music. I always humm along with It!
Well, it's said that music is a universal language of all people. I like the theory
Kurzgesagt: Babe! It’s time for your 4 AM existential crisis!
Us: Yes, kurzgesagt
Either you're lying or you're in the middle of the Pacific.
Lol
It 10 PM here....
Hey I thought it was inspiring! We are the same humans as thousands of years ago, just as we will be IN thousands of years. That doesn't mean everyone has to be an innovator; there's tons of room and need for the simple folk to work the land, live the simple life, and weave themselves into the legend of human tradition as well! If you can be Edison, great, but not everyone can. For thousands of years, people were ok just living the simple life, enjoying family and the comforts of nature, the rustling of the wind through the leaves in the trees, the songs of the birds, and the fruits of one's own successes.
Do you live in Honolulu?
Those rare videos where Kurzgesagt doesn't kill birds ruthlessly.
@@eness379 Wait really? lets all get it so they must commit genocyde lol
@@agustinyavar525 lol!... I remember them saying a year or so ago that they had so many "kill-bird" patreons that they had the disable that patron level to schedule all the birds that had to be killed in their upcoming videos lol
@@eness379 I'm sure people bought it. They just didn't need them for this video lol
This is why i loved ac origins and odyssey, it really made me feel like i was back in time, especially in origins riding around on a camel in the ancient desert, it felt really cool.
Yup. Valhalla just didn't feel the same because they went with the generic hollywood Viking fantasy instead of basing it on history to show how far we've come, it could have been so special if they at-least tried to keep it realistic.
@@ajayavsm7476 exactly
This video is so high quality made and the music is indescribable. Makes me re-watch it as many times as possible. You have to be the creater of the Human Era.
My man droppin' masterpieces left and right
My dream is 200 only 20 left and I'll get a pc also please help😓...
*team
Kurzgesagt has a small team of writers animators, etc.
Our men*
@@itsvhere4327 that means they are g o d s
this channel does such good things for humanity. there have definitely been times lately where i've felt like i was losing my faith in people, and a video or two from you guys is all it takes to remind me that it's a good thing we're here. seriously, thank you. this is incredible. sending much love your way
it's rare to get such great information in details with some kind of relaxation.........I love it..