What If You Were the Last Person on Earth?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2023
- Can you imagine if you were the last person on earth? In a lonely world, the last man on earth would have to fight for his survival and discover a new sense of purpose separated from all humans.
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People saying they'd relax don't realise how soul crushing it will be after a while
Indeed. Humans are social animals. We would all end up like Tom Hanks in Castaway
They just capping
Being a social creature its automatically going to take a mental toll
Yes but at least I won’t have to go to work or pay rent
There are people out there that are wired in a way that they would survive.
I had a time in my live where i was at the bottom so to speak and didn't leave my flat for weeks, my two cats my only company. The only thing that happend was that other humans started looking strange to me and my cats looked normal, if that makes any sense.
So i suspect that i would cope pretty good.
What would get me is not knowing if I was actually alone. I’d be paranoid that I’d caught a glimpse of someone or that people were watching me from a distance etc.
In an alternate timeline, you hurt yourself by accident a few days after the Disappearance but the wound inexplicably heals in moments, it's strange but maybe you just weren't hurt as bad as you thought, then after you fall off a roof a month later and your broken arm heals in less than a minute you know something is truly off but you don't complain, healing fast and not having to worry about infection will be very helpful!
After 50 long years have gone by you notice not a single grey hear has appeared on your head, maybe it's part of the odd helping ability you have, you know it seems to be able to shrug off basically anything, as proved by the fist fight you won against a bear about 20 years in, you haven't touched tequila since.
But as 50 years turns into 100 and 100 turns to 200 and you still look like you're still in your mid thirties the only conclusion you come up with is that when all the other humans disappeared you somehow gained their life force or some such thing, you can't be killed, you don't age, you even tried not eating or drinking for a year and although it was uncomfortable at first you didn't actually suffer any real downside.
So there you stay, the last human on earth as all signs of the other fade, after 1000 years almost nothing remains, you took a trip to Egypt about a hundred years back and the pyramids are still there (although they are about 2/3 buried in the sand now) but the modern cities are basically gone, you can still find some walls from the better made buildings but they are like looking at ancient ruins now, you guess that is what they are really.
After about 3000 years you notice a strange new object in the sky, most of the visible (and most of the nonvisible) satellites fell to earth long ago but this thing is big and day by day gets bigger, after a week it's so big that you can make it out in the mid-day sky.
At first, you thought it was a commit or something and you raged that you would be left even more alone as the other animals were wiped out leaving your undying form to walk the blasted wasteland until something new evolved, but soon it stopped getting bigger and seemed to settle into a stationary orbit above your home, you decide to get out an old telescope and take a proper look at this thing.
It's a ship, a real life starship and it's massive, you can see domes of glass along the body holding what looks strangely like trees, fields and even entire oceans, you quickly dig out the old radio set you've been keeping locked in an airtight box after your last one rested to dust and start broadcasting, you know the range is only a 100 miles at most but maybe whoever is floating up there will hear it.
You talk and talk, not even sleeping as you tell your story that you hope is being heard, you talk about the Disappearance and how you lived since then, how you went on adventures to other places and about that one time you got shipwrecked and floated on a door for literally 8 months before you eventually got back to land.
After a full week of talking you notice something as you watch the ship, a smaller object has detached from the main body and is coming down, it looks like they are coming your way.
You don't know who they are but given the domes you could see on the ship it's possible they are colonists looking for a new home, or maybe they are scientists that picked up one of the signals Earth was throwing out back in the day and came to say hello.
Either way, it doesn't matter to you, they are welcome to have the place and it's not like they could hurt you even if they wanted to so with a smile on your face you walk to the grassland near your home and start a smoky fire to signal where you are, after a couple of hours the smaller ship arrives.
It somehow looks just like we imagined space ships would look but also somehow different, once it touches down a ramp lowers and you can see figures starting to make their way down.
You clear your throat and put on a smile, you don't know who they are but you don't really mind, because it will be nice to have someone to talk to again.
Oh no what about the rest of the story ? Come on man , this is really good. Are you leaving the rest for our imagination?
@Koranos give this man a job 🍻
Where the fk part 2?
comet
this has left me with an irrevocable feeling of hope
You are never alone camera man is there with you
You would never get over the thought of you being intentionally selected to be left behind to die alone.
The scariest thing that could happen would be knowing you are well and truly alone, but out the corner of your eye, you see something humanoid moving and following you
You would, too. Almost certainly. The mind is tuned to see faces in everything as a defense mechanism. And how can you ever really, truly be certain you're actually all alone? If this were me, I would choose a home that is in a defensible position and can be easily secured/fortified. Never leave my door unlocked and ALWAYS be armed. Good policy against wild beasts and the only way to feel a little better about the maybes of other survivors.
. . . but. . . that happens now . .😰!!
Shia LaBeouf!
One day someone will be the last person. Whether it's because we're leaving, or because we're dying, but one day there will be a person who is the last one.
There's got to be some random word in german or japanese for this line of thought. You never know when you'll laugh for the last time, or jump, or cry, and inevitably there will be a final human as you said.
Let's hope this person won't be born for a long time
@@erikpoephoofd😂
According to physics we aren't leaving anywhere
Not if we die en-masse
Honestly, with the accessibility to renewable energy, the ability to take any vehicle, and raid any store. A creative, knowledgeable person could survive this without any problem. The biggest struggle would be the mental decline from the loneliness.
The biggest problem by far would be the deccay of nuclear reactors all over the world..within weeks from the Event
@@mik3952 oh absolutely but I’d be ready to go by that point anyways. Few weeks of fun is good enough for me. I’ll get lonely quick. 💀🤣
@@mik3952nuclear reactors are made to automatically shut , specifically of western countries. So no hazard from them .
@@nehajha7431 i feel much safer already!
It's a good thing I live in the West.
The first thing I would do would be researching the artificial womb technology the Japanese are working on, and hit up all the fertility clinics with their frozen embryos, if needed, relocating them to places like hydro dams where power still functions, and I’d spend the rest of my time reviving the human race through technology, growing people in sacs from frozen embryos to the point that they could repopulate the earth.
I was thinking the same thing lol
You'd need to do it a lot to grow a population capable of not inbreeding and you'd need to be quick so you can access sperm banks before the sperm expires. You'd also need to raise and educate every single one of these new humans and ensure they live into adulthood.
But, having a title like Father Of Humanity would be raw as fuck and it's worth it for that alone.
A population of a 1000 people is enough to prevent serious inbreeding I suspecy
@@Jenna_Talia Yeah, I’d definitely have to act quickly, but if I was able to find a large enough supply of embryos right off the bat and get them to a freezer in an area that still had power, I could hopefully keep enough for a stable breeding population. The more genetic diversity I could get, the better, but assuming that certain places would still have power, I could just fuel up airplanes and learn to fly and fly around. Some hydro power and nuclear power could in theory function without humans for years at a time in emergency situations. If that didn’t work, I would have to resort to cloning, and build a civilization of clones. Viable DNA can be extracted from teeth for hundreds of years after death, so I could rob some graves of their teeth and clone up some people that way. It would be a long and difficult battle that would cost me my life, but really, even if I only had 1 success, then they could devote their life to it, and they might have more success than me.
Reality - you failed
I would try to eat nothing except perishable foods those first few days, because I would know as soon as electricity and thus refrigeration failed, that would be it for them. I would also arm myself for protection from wild animals.
In this situation, never put yourself in danger. Never get yourself hurt because you’re not gonna get fixed take no chances no risks go slow you have literally all the time you’re going to have to become nomadic and start roaming with the cycles. That way you can stay where the food is
Has always been a dark fantasy of mine. To be the last of the last. You could go anywhere or do anything within reason.
You can do that now lol
My plan would be to immediately head to government buildings or confidential sites like Area 51. If there aren't really no humans left on the planet then they'd stop you from going there.
If I were to succeed in reaching such a place then I'd walk around, read their classified documents with the hope that maybe they kept an alien alive. If not then it's back to the ol' surviving life.
I'd worry some form of automated defense systems will get you though. This is the US military's best-kept secret we're talking about.
@@natem1579 it's just made up conspiracy to fool us from the rising prices and degrading economy
@@natem1579just wait a few years they will stop working
@@natem1579Yeh I reckon the government has a plan for this scenario 😂
Without electricity or backup power a lot of those facilities doors would probably not open.
This made me incredibly sad. Just imagining watching as your dog grows old and then passes on without you, leavong you all alone...
Loneliness - Yet in a world so connected this seems to be growing more rapidly than ever.
Get out and meet people
@@user-co8uy5rb2s Too much effort
@@user-co8uy5rb2shaven’t been outside for a week 🙌
@@Lady_Graham I've been outside every day these past two months but first maybe 4 rainy days.
@@user-co8uy5rb2s 🙌
*The first thing you do is get multiple trucks for storage and fill each of them up with different supplies from surrounding stores, one with nothing but water, one with nothing but canned goods, one with nothing but dry goods, etc. Park them in a coverd building out of direct sunlight by wherever you're going to be taking over as a home.*
One consideration is that all around the world nuclear power plants cooling water systems would fail. This would cause a large number to meltdown spreading radiation throughout the planet.
Not that much bro but you're fricked if you're in the vicinity
Thats a myth. Most nuclear plants are built with failsafes for that.
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman yes you're right, you'd be spared the immediate and worse impacts. However, the air currents would spread the radiation throughout the globe and it would be continuous because there would be no one to cap and secure the reactors
It would be few and far between. There are plenty of areas on earth with no nuclear power plants.
@@dylanshadowstar9779 there's no where the wind doesn't blow
This is incredibly good, like you guys could make a blockbuster movie, it's that good!
I was lacking nihilism these past days, thanks Koranos!!
Lol i love the extra dose
If you have the right life philosophy ai think you could handle it
Imagine how paranoid you would be every night before going to bed thinking someone or "they" might be just watching you secretly around
Sometimes when I play Flight Simulator 2004, I like to imagine I'm a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world and casually decide to fly a plane somewhere (not realistic Ik haha).
I'd head straight to every fertility lab i can find and repopulate the world if i can
You could never really know whether you were the last human or not.
“Then you hear a knock at the door”
Sweating intensifies
“your car insurrance is about to expire!”
No one is talking about how scary it is to be alone
Some of us prefer it this way.
This was unbearably depressing to watch. To all of those who feel alone out there, it never hurts to reach out to someone. We are social animals and we rely on each other.
I've had dreams like this scenario, good video as always Koranos ❤
It's funny because I'm thinking about this situation for nearly 20 years now... at some point I'd ask to my friends, colleagues and girls what they'd do in this exact situation. I always found interesting how different the answers can be, from the "I would let myself die at some point" to the "I'd travel the world relentlessly"... it shows what's important for them, at a core level.
It's funny (but inevitable though) to see what I have imagined for years, animated in a video like this one. 😅
You’d have obsessively wonder how people can disappear. Investigating this inexplicable phenomenon would be your lifelong goal. If it was natural, rewrite the laws of physics, if it was intentional, determine who perpetrated such an act, and how.
The saddest part is you don't realize there are millions of pets who starve to death for being trapped at home without food or water.
Shet happens
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Why? Is the first question, why are you the last and only human? What did you do?
Start wandering as many streets while you're walking to supermarkets, any with pets, just smash the windows open. Give the pets a fighting chance
they can find a way out surely through windows
That's your take away?, not the fact that the destruction would come to an end, but that Quisling would starve? Tear up the topsoil clearcut the trees, shit in the rivers, poison the air, and you worry about mittens and bowser?
The hardest part of that kind of survival would be the isolation. Food , shelter and water can be done. But being completely alone for decades would be horrible. I doubt many would survive that long, many would check out.
Nuclear reactors all meltdown and kill me. That's what I'd do.
This is the best video I have ever seen on TH-cam. Absolutely Amazing.
1:16 "Autopilot functions . . . *often* rely on the input of a human pilot."
That at first would be like paradise but definitely not for long
Funny you say that, I am the last one, and I get to vacation while I watch the trees grow back after 11 thousand years.
The part about no updates on social media is wrong. 99% of accounts on social media are bots that would keep on posting as if nothing had happened.
So machines become the descendants of humans (left overs of humanity)
There’s literally no way u would know if ur the last person on earth
The hard mode version of this is if all the higher/social animals disappeared as well so you are only left with insects and small fish
I'd have an existential crisis
I had an early midlife crisis, which on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, I suffered from a mental meltdown.
I’d joyously start reading books - until I drop my glasses and break them. 😮
Burgess Meredith would've "Liked" your comment.
I feel like industry, chemical refineries, nuclear power plants and even hydro electric dams would be a concern for poisoning the surrounding environment with no one to run them.
You have to pick a place far from any of these to be safe I think
id simply relax
After a while you will literally die of sadness. Humans are social beings from their nature. Communication is what made us thrive and still live after all those years.
Excellent job as always, especially with the story and narration!
No it's not, they completely missed out on the nuclear reactors blowing up and releasing copious amounts of radiation around the place. Whilst this person could get lucky, chances are he's somewhat near one of the 93 that are in the US alone
@@Tqoratsos666 the one thing that you are assuming is that the surviving person is in the US less than 5% of the worlds people live in the USA and most of the countries on earth don't even have a Nuclear Power plant anywhere near them
@@Muhammad_Ahmad. There are nearly 500 nuclear power plants in the world and geographically speaking they're pretty evenly distributed. The worst meltdown we've had was Chernobyl, and even that would have been far worse had those brave Ukrainians not dug under the elephants foot to build a pad to stop it melting down to the water table. Also, this video depicts someone in the US, so my point still stands.
@@Tqoratsos666 Brother before you say anything on the web please do some research, regarding your topic regarding the even distribution of nuclear powerplants in the world. and as to the second fact i do agree that the effort of the brave soviet people saved us from a much worse disaster that could have come about if the situation had been left to fester.
@@Muhammad_Ahmad. Mate, I said "geographically speaking".....that means where there is land with major population centres. It would make no sense to consider the middle of the Pacific as a place to have nuclear reactors. Either way, my point still stands that if every one of these reactors goes off worse than Chernobyl, then whoever is around..... regardless of where they are, is going to have a bad time.
I am an electrician, I just start stealing solar panels and start studying ways to filter water
Honestly even just 1 other person besides me still existing would make this situation so many times more bearable
UNtil you realize that one other person is some fat Karen with pink hair who thinks she a lampshade.
Think of all the pets starving to death within the first two weeks because they can't get out of their houses and you can only save like 0.000001 % of them.
0%*
Do I care? We slaughter pigs and cows why should I care about cats and dogs?
Sure pets are personally important to their carers but not so much to the rest of the population
The 1985 movie 'The Quiet Earth' has a similar premise, except that three people survived the end of the world, and the cause will soon eliminate them as well.
Excellent animation and a really thorough video 😀👍👏
This channel is top tier❤
Is #Koranos going to make a dedicated video that pays tribute to the victims of September 11, 2001? It would be a solemn but wonderful idea. I had a mental meltdown on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, which I fell into despair, but had since recovered with a resolution complete with mind🧠, body🙆, heart❤, and soul👻. Out of the darkness🌘 there was a light 💡of hope 🌈☀🤞. A tribute in light.
simply beautiful
It's all fun and games until you accidentally break your glasses
Massively underrated comment.
Add zombies and this is basically my Project Zomboid run
This video was so relaxing to watch
That was quite magical interpretation on that question. Everyone but one person magically disappears. Quite impossible scenario. I would imagine being the last person on Earth some dude crawling in the postapocalyptic wasteland.
Re: Your last point. There isn't actually enough easily available fossil fuels left for another civilisation to independently create an industrial revolution. So, if our civilisation fails then that might be it in terms of how far humanity/another species could advanced.
I think humanity as a species is quite rare.
Which is why we really need to store our knowledge for the next civilisation after this one has collapsed
@@HShango no shet, there can only be one humanity same as there can only be one you
Other civilization will be different of course
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman true 😅
@@erikpoephoofd we can and we should....but I'm not sure why we are not doing it to be honest.
After I’m done laughing for about four days it’s basically the last man on earth TV show it’s all mine now
With mostly your mind for company, I reckon things would get tough pretty quickly
Can't wait for this to happen!
I'd look for my family. Gather supplies. Make a base.
So long my dog is there I'll be as happy as my little dry misanthrope heart can be
Dog - dies
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman And the cats, with their 9 lives, will happily rule the world, lol
I’ve fantasized about this exact situation for years and years. Only for me I imagine my wife and one or two other family/friends didn’t disappear, so there’s a small community of 3-5 people. It’s fascinating to think about what would happen and what you would do. How do you bathe? Grow food? Build structures? Get electricity? Deal with internal drama?
I’d wander the world. Letting my death be in the hands of nature. I’ll make sure right before I die I let out a bellowing scream “Humanity’s Last Vibration”.
Good riddance tbh
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatmanokay edgelord
The first thing I would do is locate a solar power company and try to locate houses with solar power or regenerative power. That would be my camp for the rest of my days.
Fear of loneliness is how I make sense of my lack of desire to create new memories.
Please upload more stuff often!
Fantabulous video 🎉
The best case scenario for me
Same, Mentality
I think I would be ok. I’d miss my family a lot! But life goes on, probably start a huge garden, go house shopping lol.
it would be almost impossible to travel far if highways/roads are blocked by empty cars
This is basically ' Life After People ' but with only you in it, lol
I forgot what this was. But it's like a very small scary story.
You are the last person on earth. And one day you're in your room, and you hear a knock on the door...
At least I wouldn't have to hold my farts in anymore.
And every time that I sharted, I would just grab a new pair of shorts.
The hardest part would be not going insane.
8 billion people don’t just transport off the earth. I would realize I’m in a malfunctioning matrix pod (explaining why the first 2/3rds of my life was so horrible) so I just need to hang in there until total failure and then maybe I can pop the thing open, make friends with some squid robots and see if they like watching old sci fi movies while adding our own commentary.
I'd not last on my own, I'm autistic (so I can't really do everything on my own, there's only so much I can do before I lose complete faith in myself). But I'd try to make the best of the situation before I give up.
I am autistic too but i know i would be thriving
@@congratulations-same, until i cant
I was also autistic and was in the same boat as you. I had a mental meltdown on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 which I had a change of mind, body, heart and soul.
@@alphaapple1375 wow same here, I (strangely) think it is only me (I know now I'm not alone and there many neurodivergent people like me) thank you for sharing with me guys.
@@alphaapple1375 hey by the way autism is a long life time condition, it never goes way, it is literally hardwired in your brain.
Please make more videos like that
This is my go-to fantasy. I’m tired of people and society
I with ya, this is an introverts dream world lol I'd be fine if I was completely and utterly alone.
Hitting all the jewelry stores, pawn shops, gold depositories to melt down into tablets because if I'm going to leave a written record behind it has to last forever, any other medium would be a waste of effort.
This scares the shit out of me.I would go mad within weeks from the isolation.
I wouldn’t
@@zaynumar0cap
would definetly ask chatGPT what to do, so i can keep stuff running. After everything is stable, i would start creating my Monkeys Army to run the world after i pass away! if i have extra time, also a Robot army so they can fight each ofther.
That's one of the best versions of what might happen. It's many scenarios that would be terrible.
It's so many things that could be a huge problem. Like the wild animals. Trying to protect yourself from them would be a major task. Just for one example.
Loneliness is awful, after a while you will be praying to find another human, we weren't designed to be alone indefinitely and remember you will now be the the hunted by certain wild animals populating all areas roaming lose everywhere, they need to eat to. I wouldn't want to be the last person, nah
There's an Outer Limits book that kinda explores this, I read it decades ago and it still sticks with me
Well that was fun!
Loneliness will kill once soul if this ever happened 🥺🥺 the idea of it makes me terribly scared rn.
I love this❤
Your city art is cool
“at first you would not notice anything” - hahah… i normally have 15 seconds before one of my family members interrupts me if i ever sit down… so i would notice in 16 seconds that something is not okay.
after that, finally i could finish my projects :) and no client would tell me that they are unhappy with the speed of delivery :)
i would probably go to the library and learn as much as possible to make a place to safely store any knowledge and a book of why humanity disappeared or faded away and direct possible visitors from outer space to bunkers all around the world containing seed of plants and dna material of animals and humans asking to restore earth to 10000bc status and prevent the same mistakes (similar to the horizon series).
I'm an introvert so this is no biggie.
How is the ceiling fan in the library operating? Lol
At 04:55
I have seen Animes that depict a world without humans, and only one sentient AI robot, it made me feel extremely sad.
Lol
If we live in a simulation and if I die sometime, I would love the simulation to do this with me haha.
But maybe with my girlfriend and not alone 😢
I would be so down for this to go down. I will thrive in this type of a situation.
It would be nice for possibly a few months till you went insane
The chance everyone disappears and only you remain, or your crazy will lead you to conclude you are unhinged. It is more probable that is the case.
Find a house that is self sufficiant with solar panels and its own well. Then learn how to maintain it yourself