Un...Isn't the sun closer to the earth during winter, farther in summer? (Axial tilt more important) Might not mean anything...might be everything. Venus is volcanic, Mars probably doesn't have our iron core. Could be...who knows. Hope we never find out!
1:29 The picture is from "Hubble Deep Field North", a series of photos taken over a period of 10 days in 1995. 340+ exposures for over 100 hours total. Nearly 3000 galaxies are visible and the area photographed is about the size your pinkie fingernail held at arm's length.
Mr X it's not a possibility anymore. Hillary isn't gonna run since she probably is ashamed for losing to trumps after many predicting a landslide victory
Mr X even so, there's no way Clinton could recover from such an embarrassment. My best guess is that, if anything, Tim Kaine or Joe Biden is gonna run and win the nomination
Honestly, I'm leaning in his direction, based on humanity's prior record! We could be living in the aftermath of a nuclear war, NOW, but, a few people decided to double-check! I don't see us continuing to beat the odds!
Astrologists? Your horoscope will read: “An asteroid will pass through your 10th house, you won’t get that promotion you were hoping for... Bad day for starting something new... and all humanity will die...”
Moore's law will never give us the ai singularity by itself. More computing power does not mean they get smarter. That's all coding. Some ai experts think we have now or will soon have the computing power to create a general intelligence. The problem is writing the code. That might take 2 years, 20 years, or 200 years. Even if you have a computer that is designed as a synthetic human brain, you still need to know what firmware or software the brain is running. You would need the perfect Brain model and then you have to solve the question of nature and nurture coming together to create human level intelligence. It's not impossible, if we keep working on it there is a near certainty that we will succeed eventually. But it's a really hard problem.
I'm not worried about computers or more specifically AI killing me. However, my cat has been giving me cross looks recently and I think that he's planning to kill me once he figures out how to get the food out of the cat food bag.
Is that what your TV told you? Or are you just a Democrat? News flash, it's all horseshit! Everybody is fine! There's been a cure the whole time, they've convinced you it's poison because Trump happened to mention it. oh and by the way three quarters of all studies show that masks have no effect. You're welcome!
Any disease that has a 95% survival rate can't be that bad. When it becomes as deadly as Bubonic plague.... then u will have something to worry about, about 5 billion people would be dead.
The movie, Melancholia, is an incredible movie about a huge planet inexorably moving towards earth. The strange effects on the weather, the way most people pretend it can't happen and the acceptance of a very depressed Kirsten Dunst really creates a environment I've never seen in a movie before. Hard to watch, but good. Also the 1950s movie, On The Beach, about nuclear fallout covering the earth and the last few people in Australia who must spend their last days the best they can. In black and white, with a stunning segment showing the empty streets of San Francisco seen by the crew of a submarine when they surface. It's never been duplicated and has a cast of old time actors at the very top of their game. One of my favorites.
Sounds alright, you see Doctor Strange? Its a modern classic. It has a scene where Benedict Cumberbatch gets pushed into the Astral Realm, never been duplicated.
more like a super complex hybrid plot that includes all of them with survivors slipping between dimensions to other variations of earth throughout the multiverse
In the rogue planet scenario, I suspect a considerable number of people will commit suicide once they see how bad it is and realize this is the way it is going to be for the rest of their lives.
Did he say "amateur astrologists" (instead of astronomers)? 😐 TMZ Report: While the U.S. government is denying any knowledge of a rogue asteroid, local astrologist Madame Zoe is reporting that a 6 mile wide meteor will hit Florida in seven days... Also, your lucky lottery numbers this week are 15 - 11 - 6 - 22 - 8 - and 19.
Karen Brown i guess dolt? Im weak at trolling ;) Because i actually did try looking for such a report..in todays world you never know what's being told from the truth to the lies..a new crazy event happens just about every day..whether it be from a terrestrial or exterrstrial event. Example: (40 minutes into vegas shooting) Me: "Yo james sent a text of people running from gunshots at concert" Friend:"Impossible. No one is shooting at mandala bay, with so much cctv its the equivalent to london" Me:"I feel you Im just going by james text" Friend:"Hes always trolling" (Extra 30 minutes..james was right) Get where I'm going karen? It's always best to question just about Everything no matter how much as a "Dolt" one may seem.
Benjamin Keslar Interesting, lol I literally realized it was a joke after i sent the post and could not find anything about it..then lost where i posted my comment until your comment brought me back here. Thanks for the response instead of degrading my question buddy have a great day 👍
TO: TopTenz You forgot thernonuclear war - particularly one in which both (or more) sides launch all or most of their weapons within 24-96 hours of the first strike. This was known in the think tanks and the military as a "spasm war" and would result in many hundreds of "megadeaths" from the initial effects alone and subsequent "gigadeaths" from radiation sickness, starvation, and enviromental degradation. Just because the Cold War is supposedly over, don't think that it still couldn't happen. NOTE: 1 megadeath = 1,000,000 people dead 1 gigadeath = 1,000,000,000 people dead
“Decimate” means destroy a tenth of. Quite specifically...9/10ths remaining. One can’t decimate enough to destroy something. Doesn’t hurt to be accurate with language :)
I saw a Bright Light in the sky, looks like a camera flash but slower going off, lasted for 2-3 seconds, that was in 2008, Hope it's not a Gamma Ray Burst.
thirty years ago the 'technological event horizon' was supposed to be in 2012. now its 2045 for an 'technological singularity' the line is always 20 years away. i hope i live long enough to see that.
Kudos to Simon to list and explain every cause , even hearing about it is painful! XD Hopeful, we find the fountain of youth soon enough or get immortality!
According to the law of infinite universes, there are a cluster of universes each where someone is watching this video on TH-cam as each one of these very events are unfolding. In another cluster of universes, Simon Whistler is Batman, presenting these videos. In other clusters, I am the orchestrator of each one of these cataclysmic events. For some of them, It was intentional and they deserved it. In another cluster, it was purely accidental and all because I forgot to put the toilet seat down. I'm very sorry to all those people. Thoughts and Prayers.
In an infinite number of universes everything is possible. In one universe I am the Chattaran of the system you Humans know as Betelgeuse, outfitting a fleet to eradicate you pesky earthmen and your irritating and hostile electromagnetic threats of war.
Damn! I was the very last school class to get the small pox vaccine. I mean yeah I got a lollipop for taking the shot and not crying. But I was kind of hoping I was still immune.
Fun fact moore’s law just states that the number of transistors in a processor doubles every 2 years. Moore’s law just ended this year because we physically can not make transistors smaller with our current technology. While perhaps we can upload our consciousness, It is not due to moors’s law.
Several types of kooks assured me that the Aug 21st eclipse would cause Yellowstone to erupt. It's overdue. It's been 600,000 years, of eclipses approximately every 14 months. They thought this one was somehow different. Oh well. It didn't happen.
A super volcano would have a huge impact on humanity, but it's an event that the human race can easily survive as a species even though individual people would have a tough time. Now if every single super volcano went off in a massive explosion at once, then maybe that might be enough.
it very nearly happened, but humans survived... there are more of us now - however, there is something to say that the asteroid set off the Deccan Traps that caused, between them, the extinction of the dinosaurs. There is considerable evidence that the Siberian Traps caused the Permian extinction event. It would take more than a single super volcano to cause the end of the human race. When Toba erupted there were far fewer humans around, while another such eruption would be devastating for mankind as a whole, it would hardly spell the doom of the entire human race.
To be sure, many more than the scenarios cited are also every bit as threatening. As it happens, one or more is virtually guaranteed. One which, for myself, was more amusing than threat- ening, was the example of A.I. Equally comical was the reference to a 'kill-switch' which ostensibly would prevent such a thing from happening. So incredibly ridiculous- for Obvious reasons. But then, cheer-up; because the truth is, - is that people need not ever really worry or wait for any kind of 'alien' deliverance. Because a far greater 'risk', - a Guarantee to be honest, is of that only slightly hinted at as possible; ourselves. How many countless hundreds of millions of people who have been killed by your very-own neighbor far-and-away exceeds anything else. Funny ? Odd ? Ironic ? Or perverse, that the self-same salvation from destruction from 'abroad' should come from the very same apostolic destruction. "...other intelligence..." Sad. At the risk of sounding like a fool; like that would be hard, everything it seems kinda encourages me to believe that humanity is really more a collection of too many things which precludes it from 'success'. Violent and self-destructive, Arrogant and foolish, very ego-centered and entirely self serving, and far too given to an impulsivity he naturally reserves only for animals. How many examples do you need ?
About the rogue AI, wouldn't it first try to secure its existence by duplicating itself throughout the internet (like Ultron or SKYNET), or what if it just disables its killswitch?
Andrew Salazar :::::). Pull the plug ! Knock down a few utility poles ! AI won’t be able to fix downed trans. Lines Cut their power and hunker down for their back up battery supply to die.
"Pa, what's a 'rifle '?" "Son, a rifle is a long-gun with spiral grooves cut into the barrel's inside to cause the projectile to twist in flight." "Thanks, Pa. So aliens' laser weapons are not rifles like the nice man Simon says?" "That is correct, son. Now do your chores." -from THE RIFLEMAN
If uploading our consciousnesses becomes a thing, wouldn't we still need people to maintain the physical hardware? The first time something shorts out, everyone would be doomed
A.I. so smart it can't figure out the plug 🔌 you say? Hmmm...("It's trying to launch nukes again Dave, shall I turn it off and on again at the socket? )
Jokes 2020 we had Neowise pass by! luckily didn’t hit, Corona Virus pandemic, and the sun has had a few radiation bursts but none to fully penetrate past our atmosphere so we haven’t lost satellites or electricity.....YET
I am waiting for our electricity to go out. That will suck so much worse than most city folk understand. Glad I have access to a fresh creek in some mountains.
For number 9, the switch to chlorine wouldn't happen overnight to all the bacteria. They do evolve much faster than humans, but if you use the evolution of human diseases like flu as a rough guide, it would take at least a year for the switch over. Obviously I'm no expert but we would have some time to shelter some humans.
Why would you even want to lock yourself up in one of those little things to just eventually die a slow miserable death. The world would be uninhabitable for humans. We would gradually kill each other off, making way for a new species to dominate the earth
and on that note ‘It was nice knowing some of you and being aware of the rest of you existing. Interesting if slightly depressing My choice ‘the neighbours from Kepla 27’ house warming with lasers
Hello, Thank you for giving every conspiracy theorist, nitwit and pseudo-intellectual everything they need to obsess over for the next ten years. Cheers, Steve
Grey goo would definitely do it. How come all this advancement is a double edged sword? Like self replicating nano bots would be so great but then theres grey goo to go along with them.
When the plants die you dont think they would catch fire ? Higher-energy UV rays are a form of ionizing radiation, which means the cells pop like popcorn in a microwave. It will cook a hole into the cell and it would pop. Tons of dead plants would catch fire rather easily.
Nothing says live NOW, like a giant ball of viruses four miles across racing toward you at the speed of sound. Pass me that chocolate chip ice cream and all the liqueur.
Scott G. It would in the vicinity, but we would have to be able to control it and not be controlled by a network, also the A.I. outside of the vicinity would probably not take to kindly to the attack.
"...next few billion years." Earth life as we know it doesn't have a few billion years. In some 600 million years, the sun will grow too bright for c3 (the non-desert type) photosynthesis to work. 800 miillion, the desert species that use c4 will cease as well. Anyone still planetside will need to be underground. Hopefully by then we'll have figured out how to live on a red dwarf planet, which will give us up to 100 trillion years to figure out how to break the bonds of reality or whatever.
David Quinton well i mean the opposite side of the earth has a small chance and what about submarines also it would cause a ice age but our ancestors have survived those so im sure a few of us will survive
when Yellowstone erupted last time, the ash from its ash cloud made it to Texas, but, as bad as it was, Toba was worse, and did nearly wipe out the human race - there are more people today then back then, and part of what made Toba so bad was that it was located in the tropics, near the equator - Yellowstone would be bad for the United States, but not a world wide catastrophe.
Leah McGrew and the Siberian Traps eruption was far worse than either Toba or Yellowstone were, the Siberian Traps eruption likely triggered the worst mass extinction event in earths history at the end of the Paleozoic era
Whos watching during the coronavirus outbreak?🤔
Three months later it's worse. 1,000 deaths a day☠️
We r doomed
The vaccine is here!
@@hedgehognegative1059 we really aren’t
Your death scenarios are absolutely amazing. Gave me chills lol
You guys deserve way more subs
Un...Isn't the sun closer to the earth during winter, farther in summer? (Axial tilt more important) Might not mean anything...might be everything. Venus is volcanic, Mars probably doesn't have our iron core. Could be...who knows. Hope we never find out!
1:29 The picture is from "Hubble Deep Field North", a series of photos taken over a period of 10 days in 1995. 340+ exposures for over 100 hours total. Nearly 3000 galaxies are visible and the area photographed is about the size your pinkie fingernail held at arm's length.
Well now I'm totally freaked out for the rest of the day....!
You forgot having Hillary Clinton as president.
Mr X it's not a possibility anymore. Hillary isn't gonna run since she probably is ashamed for losing to trumps after many predicting a landslide victory
ADCD 0405 The Clintons are persistent.
Mr X even so, there's no way Clinton could recover from such an embarrassment. My best guess is that, if anything, Tim Kaine or Joe Biden is gonna run and win the nomination
ADCD 0405 Agreed and trump will hopefully win the next presidential election keeping the Islamic caliphate lovers at bay.
I'm not sayin "hilarity " Clinton was a good choice, but trump was like a joke we all let go too far, and by time we realized it was too late.
I vote for Gamma Ray Burst or asteroid. Seems more science-y to me. Oh wait, we don't really get to choose.
reading the comments from before Covid. If only they knew.
Well, aren't you just a little ray of sunshine.
Would you prefer a Great Ray from a Black Hole? :-)
🌤
Even brighter in 2020...
Naw it's just reflecting off his head. 😂😂😂😂
Honestly, I'm leaning in his direction, based on humanity's prior record! We could be living in the aftermath of a nuclear war, NOW, but, a few people decided to double-check! I don't see us continuing to beat the odds!
damn im shoock watching this in 2020 when he started talking about the virus
yeah but covid aint that powerfull yet tough
@@rampage3337 3 months later--2 new strains develop, more contagious, more deadly...
We can only wish
@@laras678 More contagious, maybe. More deadly, no. Viruses evolve because they want to survive.
Covid-19 will get passed the vaccines it will take an evolution in its genetics and then we'll all be back at square one
Astrologists? Your horoscope will read: “An asteroid will pass through your 10th house, you won’t get that promotion you were hoping for... Bad day for starting something new... and all humanity will die...”
Copy paste!
😅
Moore's law will never give us the ai singularity by itself. More computing power does not mean they get smarter. That's all coding. Some ai experts think we have now or will soon have the computing power to create a general intelligence. The problem is writing the code. That might take 2 years, 20 years, or 200 years. Even if you have a computer that is designed as a synthetic human brain, you still need to know what firmware or software the brain is running. You would need the perfect Brain model and then you have to solve the question of nature and nurture coming together to create human level intelligence. It's not impossible, if we keep working on it there is a near certainty that we will succeed eventually. But it's a really hard problem.
I'm not worried about computers or more specifically AI killing me. However, my cat has been giving me cross looks recently and I think that he's planning to kill me once he figures out how to get the food out of the cat food bag.
Switch to canned food without pop tops. They're harder for your cat to open, which may lengthen your life expectancy.
I hope you taught him where the cash is hidden, and how to get to the grocery store when the food runs out.
@@stanlygirl5951 sweet! My 1st literal LOL in the new year. Thanks Stanly
Cats are not from this world
Teach your cat to use a dagger. Then it can surprise you when you least expect it by buttering your bread ;)
Simon Whistler is by far the best narrator on TH-cam. He should narrate the next TH-cam rewind.
Short but intense summers, long and cold winters....sounds like Canada to me.
or north western italy: 11 months of rain and 1 month of summer...
Canada has four seasons, Winter, Spring, Summer,and Fall.
@@timothyshawnjohnston278 construction,sledding,&poor sledding
I've lived and traveled all across canada. Except for south western BC this is very true.
Whats a Canada?
If an asteroid ever hits Earth I just hope I'm at Ground Zero!
Yeah, I want to go out quick
Love how you included a hypothetical story with each of those. Made it that much more interesting 👍🏼
Interesting, terrifying, six of one . . .
Being 68 years old with maybe two decades left in me, is sort of a blessing...Except for right now, with Trump as President.
You're lucky in comparison, we have Lopez obrador😨
@@ivettegutierreztorres5610 ......I don't understand the reference, but there's always someone worse off than you are.
Hey look we are 5 months into the virus end of world scenario.
We are doing OK though
Is that what your TV told you? Or are you just a Democrat? News flash, it's all horseshit! Everybody is fine! There's been a cure the whole time, they've convinced you it's poison because Trump happened to mention it. oh and by the way three quarters of all studies show that masks have no effect. You're welcome!
@@avanconia LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Any disease that has a 95% survival rate can't be that bad. When it becomes as deadly as Bubonic plague.... then u will have something to worry about, about 5 billion people would be dead.
Kelly Patterson covid still has killed almost 1 million people, so I’m worrying
The movie, Melancholia, is an incredible movie about a huge planet inexorably moving towards earth. The strange effects on the weather, the way most people pretend it can't happen and the acceptance of a very depressed Kirsten Dunst really creates a environment I've never seen in a movie before. Hard to watch, but good. Also the 1950s movie, On The Beach, about nuclear fallout covering the earth and the last few people in Australia who must spend their last days the best they can. In black and white, with a stunning segment showing the empty streets of San Francisco seen by the crew of a submarine when they surface. It's never been duplicated and has a cast of old time actors at the very top of their game. One of my favorites.
On The Beach is an amazing movie.
Lars van trier!
Sounds alright, you see Doctor Strange? Its a modern classic. It has a scene where Benedict Cumberbatch gets pushed into the Astral Realm, never been duplicated.
Best movie about rouge plant was "When worlds collide" Belus and Zyra
@@kylebrown4978 I love Doctor Strange!
TIL: Everything horrible starts with me sitting on my couch watching tv
That would happen if you're always on the couch watching tv
Your username brings me great joy.
wrong channel
Well then, I'm screwed.
Stop sitting on that couch, and/or, watching television!
he just gave 10 movie plots haha
Donny FLYY nah Hollywood doesn’t make any movies besides sequels remakes and reboots
more like a super complex hybrid plot that includes all of them with survivors slipping between dimensions to other variations of earth throughout the multiverse
Making a movie Right Now!
The first one could easily be a plot for MI 7
@@gauravmerugu7415 Cue the Mission Impossible Theme!
Well thanks Mary Sunshine! This is totally going to help me sleep at night.
Don't fall asleep while this is playing the havoc this video could play during REM sleep... Yeashhh
In the rogue planet scenario, I suspect a considerable number of people will commit suicide once they see how bad it is and realize this is the way it is going to be for the rest of their lives.
Did he say "amateur astrologists" (instead of astronomers)? 😐
TMZ Report:
While the U.S. government is denying any knowledge of a rogue asteroid, local astrologist Madame Zoe is reporting that a 6 mile wide meteor will hit Florida in seven days... Also, your lucky lottery numbers this week are 15 - 11 - 6 - 22 - 8 - and 19.
Geez! What a blunder! As an amateur astronomer I'm appalled! C'mon Simon, I know you're smarter than that!!
Balfour Wheatley troll or dolt?
Karen Brown i guess dolt? Im weak at trolling ;) Because i actually did try looking for such a report..in todays world you never know what's being told from the truth to the lies..a new crazy event happens just about every day..whether it be from a terrestrial or exterrstrial event.
Example:
(40 minutes into vegas shooting)
Me: "Yo james sent a text of people running from gunshots at concert"
Friend:"Impossible. No one is shooting at mandala bay, with so much cctv its the equivalent to london"
Me:"I feel you Im just going by james text"
Friend:"Hes always trolling"
(Extra 30 minutes..james was right)
Get where I'm going karen? It's always best to question just about Everything no matter how much as a "Dolt" one may seem.
Benjamin Keslar Interesting, lol I literally realized it was a joke after i sent the post and could not find anything about it..then lost where i posted my comment until your comment brought me back here. Thanks for the response instead of degrading my question buddy have a great day 👍
Nope, she IS an Astrologer.
...well that was depressing... But on a cheery note, Great presentation and stories!!
12:16 meanwhile Canadians be like "so, just a normal year then?"
TO: TopTenz
You forgot thernonuclear war - particularly one in which both (or more) sides launch all or most of their weapons within 24-96 hours of the first strike. This was known in the think tanks and the military as a "spasm war" and would result in many hundreds of "megadeaths" from the initial effects alone and subsequent "gigadeaths" from radiation sickness, starvation, and enviromental degradation. Just because the Cold War is supposedly over, don't think that it still couldn't happen.
NOTE:
1 megadeath = 1,000,000 people dead
1 gigadeath = 1,000,000,000 people dead
#1 reason being conflicts with our own specie; sounds about right. Gotta work on that attitude people!
Well, that took my mind off the crazy man in the White House!
According to Der Spiegle and The Guardian, that "crazy man in the white house" is endangering the world.
I read the title of this as "Top 10 events that could wipe out Hannity" - Clicked on it straight away !
Him Trump and Bannon, Pence as well
“Decimate” means destroy a tenth of. Quite specifically...9/10ths remaining. One can’t decimate enough to destroy something. Doesn’t hurt to be accurate with language :)
Do you use all historical definitions in life?
I love this Chanel. Absolutely brilliant and Simon has a captivating voice and is so easy on the eyes. Thank you guys for all your hard work!
Then the pic @ 12:51 *Must've really had your Vulva Undulating and swollen like a Nerf Football.*
Molly Brooks you’re easy on the eyes
I saw a Bright Light in the sky, looks like a camera flash but slower going off, lasted for 2-3 seconds, that was in 2008, Hope it's not a Gamma Ray Burst.
Yes, there is one event. The World Runs Out Of Coffee.
If that day ever comes, I don't want to live on this planet any more
He should have included, if we HAVE already uploaded our consciousness, it could all end when someone trips over the power cord🤣😈
thirty years ago the 'technological event horizon' was supposed to be in 2012.
now its 2045 for an 'technological singularity'
the line is always 20 years away.
i hope i live long enough to see that.
really in the late 69 in elementry school we were told there would be flying cars by the year 2000
@eric vulgate
Back in the 1950s, electricity provided by nuclear power was supposed to be "too cheap to meter." (Really!)
When your watching this 7 months post-COVID... it’s creepy!!! (COVID is being compared to the Spanish flu 😳🤯) Lol!
'Astrologists' could predict a lot of things....but to see an asteroid you might need an astronomer
Well I for one am glad I watched this just before going to bed...
And of course there’s all out nuclear war which seems much more likely than the scenarios discussed.
All out nuclear war probably wouldn't wipe out all of mankind, just a large amount of them.
Kudos to Simon to list and explain every cause , even hearing about it is painful! XD
Hopeful, we find the fountain of youth soon enough or get immortality!
The year 2020 seems to have taken this as a checklist
The year 2020 has been tumultuous but hardly even in the top 50 of bad years for humans lol
According to the law of infinite universes, there are a cluster of universes each where someone is watching this video on TH-cam as each one of these very events are unfolding. In another cluster of universes, Simon Whistler is Batman, presenting these videos.
In other clusters, I am the orchestrator of each one of these cataclysmic events. For some of them, It was intentional and they deserved it. In another cluster, it was purely accidental and all because I forgot to put the toilet seat down.
I'm very sorry to all those people. Thoughts and Prayers.
😂🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
In an infinite number of universes everything is possible. In one universe I am the Chattaran of the system you Humans know as Betelgeuse, outfitting a fleet to eradicate you pesky earthmen and your irritating and hostile electromagnetic threats of war.
I HATE how TH-cam has switched the Comments section around!!!! Just wanted to get that out there.
TopTenz is awesome!
I propose that Simon Whistler would make a most excellent AD&D Dungeon Master.
Daniel Groenewald
He’d be amazing except for when he has to suddenly pronounce American words. Lol
Nerd
those pesky astrologists ;)
16:22 "...too many amateur astrologists..."
Astrologists?
Oops...
Does this guy actually intentionally make his chest hair done to a perfect circle around his kneck.
16:21 Amateur astrologists? Did they let all the Leos know because the Libras had Mercury in retrograde?
None of the things that are a secondary result of overpopulation were mentioned although they are far more likely to occur.
That's because only kooks who didn't take bio after high school think overpopulation is going to result in the extinction of humanity.
Overpopulation is by and large a myth
As nations industrialize, their birthrates decline and it evens out over time
jreed136- not true
@@yes0r787 wrong
@Randy Baumery Oh look, someone who didn't take biology after high school.
Damn! I was the very last school class to get the small pox vaccine. I mean yeah I got a lollipop for taking the shot and not crying. But I was kind of hoping I was still immune.
I uploaded my mind to my laptop yesterday... I'm set!
Fun fact moore’s law just states that the number of transistors in a processor doubles every 2 years. Moore’s law just ended this year because we physically can not make transistors smaller with our current technology. While perhaps we can upload our consciousness, It is not due to moors’s law.
You missed super volcanos
Several types of kooks assured me that the Aug 21st eclipse would cause Yellowstone to erupt. It's overdue. It's been 600,000 years, of eclipses approximately every 14 months. They thought this one was somehow different. Oh well. It didn't happen.
Headcynic
A super volcano would have a huge impact on humanity, but it's an event that the human race can easily survive as a species even though individual people would have a tough time. Now if every single super volcano went off in a massive explosion at once, then maybe that might be enough.
Thank you, that's the only internal threat (ie not from space) that's not human caused that's actually possible.
it very nearly happened, but humans survived... there are more of us now - however, there is something to say that the asteroid set off the
Deccan Traps that caused, between them, the extinction of the dinosaurs. There is considerable evidence that the Siberian Traps caused the Permian extinction event. It would take more than a single super volcano to cause the end of the human race. When Toba erupted there were far fewer humans around, while another such eruption would be devastating for mankind as a whole, it would hardly spell the doom of the entire human race.
To be sure, many more than the scenarios cited are also
every bit as threatening.
As it happens, one or more is virtually guaranteed.
One which, for myself, was more amusing than threat-
ening, was the example of A.I. Equally comical was the reference to a 'kill-switch' which ostensibly would prevent such a thing from happening. So incredibly ridiculous- for
Obvious reasons.
But then, cheer-up; because the truth is, - is that people need not ever really worry or wait for any kind of 'alien' deliverance. Because a far greater 'risk', - a Guarantee to be honest, is of that only slightly hinted at as possible; ourselves. How many countless hundreds of millions of people who have been killed by your very-own neighbor far-and-away exceeds anything else.
Funny ? Odd ? Ironic ?
Or perverse, that the self-same salvation from destruction from 'abroad'
should come from the very same apostolic destruction.
"...other intelligence..." Sad.
At the risk of sounding like a fool; like that would be hard, everything it seems kinda encourages me to believe that humanity is really more a collection of too many things which precludes it from 'success'.
Violent and self-destructive, Arrogant and foolish, very ego-centered and entirely self serving, and far too given to an impulsivity he naturally reserves only for animals.
How many examples do you need ?
17:30
Yay, Toronto! (Intersection of Church Street and Front/Wellington Streets)
Number 1 reminded me of 12 Monkey's. I felt affected by the rogue planet hypothesis. This video wasn't very happy, despite Simon's demeanor lol
Clinically depressed after watching this
About the rogue AI, wouldn't it first try to secure its existence by duplicating itself throughout the internet (like Ultron or SKYNET), or what if it just disables its killswitch?
Andrew Salazar that's why you gotta make it mechanical, full on power cut.
I guess that's why developing a kill switch is kind of a big task instead of just right click - delete.
I think that's why they are working on the kill switch before focusing on the AI itself.
Andrew Salazar :::::). Pull the plug ! Knock down a few utility poles ! AI won’t be able to fix downed trans. Lines Cut their power and hunker down for their back up battery supply to die.
Logically, that's the first thing it should do.
"Pa, what's a 'rifle '?"
"Son, a rifle is a long-gun with spiral grooves cut into the barrel's inside to cause the projectile to twist in flight."
"Thanks, Pa. So aliens' laser weapons are not rifles like the nice man Simon says?"
"That is correct, son. Now do your chores."
-from THE RIFLEMAN
You *do* realize that language evolves with technology, right?
@@stevenschnepp576 Most people do not realize that. Should be more common knowledge tho.
If uploading our consciousnesses becomes a thing, wouldn't we still need people to maintain the physical hardware? The first time something shorts out, everyone would be doomed
A.I. so smart it can't figure out the plug 🔌 you say? Hmmm...("It's trying to launch nukes again Dave, shall I turn it off and on again at the socket? )
Jokes 2020 we had Neowise pass by! luckily didn’t hit, Corona Virus pandemic, and the sun has had a few radiation bursts but none to fully penetrate past our atmosphere so we haven’t lost satellites or electricity.....YET
I am waiting for our electricity to go out. That will suck so much worse than most city folk understand. Glad I have access to a fresh creek in some mountains.
What about a cyborg dog up Rising
jonny pepperston Got DAMN!!😂
For number 9, the switch to chlorine wouldn't happen overnight to all the bacteria. They do evolve much faster than humans, but if you use the evolution of human diseases like flu as a rough guide, it would take at least a year for the switch over. Obviously I'm no expert but we would have some time to shelter some humans.
i bought a slot in a vault from vault tech. i think i will be safe from most these.
What???
Do you have the Vault tec representative’s card?
Why would you even want to lock yourself up in one of those little things to just eventually die a slow miserable death. The world would be uninhabitable for humans. We would gradually kill each other off, making way for a new species to dominate the earth
Mr. Whistler....you totally rock. I love your presentation, your voice...and I love how you are clearly brilliant. Carry on!❤
Lost interest half way through. Wonder if he predicted measles killing humanity?
Not measles. Weaponized Soviet type smallpox.
So TH-cam can put an emergency broadcast on? Oof... hoping to never witness that lol..
Diatoms are considered photosynthetic stramenopiles (protists) not cyanobacteria homie. Great video though I always watch your top 10s
and on that note ‘It was nice knowing some of you and being aware of the rest of you existing.
Interesting if slightly depressing
My choice ‘the neighbours from Kepla 27’ house warming with lasers
All of these items seem to start with you sitting on your coach watching TV...
No free candy!!! How bogus is that??
If any of these were possible, my only hope is that I'm long gone, or die quickly
You forgot to mention a twitter war turned nuclear war between Donald Trump and Kim Jung Un. Now that one scares me.
Trump is completely ruining himself through his tweets. HE NEEDS TO STOP!
North Korea has no chance against America whatsoever. Now Russia... that one scares me.
Sadly, Julie, if it escalated, Russia is as likely to back North Korea as not.
Lmao stupid liberals.
@@CollectorsCorner777 Be nice.
Someone delete this before 2020 see it
Hello, Thank you for giving every conspiracy theorist, nitwit and pseudo-intellectual everything they need to obsess over for the next ten years. Cheers, Steve
Forgot 'Grey Goo' & 'Super Volcano' as two possible world enders..
Grey goo would definitely do it. How come all this advancement is a double edged sword? Like self replicating nano bots would be so great but then theres grey goo to go along with them.
Name me a supervolcano capable of ending humanity.
@@stormisuedonym4599 Yellowstone'd do it.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 Then why didn't it do it when it erupted 630,000 years ago?
Loved your presentation of this! One of those laugh or cry subjects. 🤣😭😂
number 11 - HBO cancels GOT season 8
cmcculloch1 NO
The author spends so mu h time at dead shows he isnt writing anyway. He does hand out plenty of miracle tix thats for sure!
Weir-Do Johnny he needs to finish the damn books.
#3: that's not how the ozone layer works...
When the plants die you dont think they would catch fire ? Higher-energy UV rays are a form of ionizing radiation, which means the cells pop like popcorn in a microwave. It will cook a hole into the cell and it would pop. Tons of dead plants would catch fire rather easily.
Amateur astrologist? Don't you mean astronomers?
~16:20 - You mean astronomers, not astrologists. Astrologists are not scientists, they do astrology, which is not science.
I like the situational explanations with the "you are doing ____ and then". :D Also really interesting theory on the Spanish Flu.
Is that 160 unrelated individuals? (Asking for Arkansas)
Nothing says live NOW, like a giant ball of viruses four miles across racing toward you at the speed of sound. Pass me that chocolate chip ice cream and all the liqueur.
christine paris my chocolate chip ice cream.
This video feels so 2020.
Very scary. But No. 1 should be humans fatally addicted to smartphones.
Winter will be long and hard and summer will be short and intense. Like how it is in Canada?
Wouldn't an EMP neutralize any AI?
Scott G. It would in the vicinity, but we would have to be able to control it and not be controlled by a network, also the A.I. outside of the vicinity would probably not take to kindly to the attack.
Why EMP? Shut down the power grid, which is easy to do.
wouldn't a glass of water neutralize any ai?
@1:20 A [decimation] of our population wouldn't be too bad (in fact some would argue beneficial) ;)
Only a 10% reduction would be very survivable.
Those "some" being not terribly well-versed in ethics, biology, technology, or sociology.
Can you make a video explaining how I can upgrade my Windows to the unbreakable kind?
It's his windows not his Windows.
Somebody always has an immunity
"...next few billion years." Earth life as we know it doesn't have a few billion years. In some 600 million years, the sun will grow too bright for c3 (the non-desert type) photosynthesis to work. 800 miillion, the desert species that use c4 will cease as well. Anyone still planetside will need to be underground. Hopefully by then we'll have figured out how to live on a red dwarf planet, which will give us up to 100 trillion years to figure out how to break the bonds of reality or whatever.
and this is all gonna happen between now and october i h8 2020
He forgot the zombie apocalypse like the one we almost had with bath salts
18:05 is literally the plot for Tom Clancy's The Division.
You forgot the Volcano in Yellowstone Park. If that erupts it will wipe out life on earth. Because it's a super volcano and would blank out the sun.
David Quinton well i mean the opposite side of the earth has a small chance and what about submarines also it would cause a ice age but our ancestors have survived those so im sure a few of us will survive
Dean Dollahite I wouldn't bet on this generation, all they would do is whine about not having a cell phone and die
when Yellowstone erupted last time, the ash from its ash cloud made it to Texas, but, as bad as it was, Toba was worse, and did nearly wipe out the human race - there are more people today then back then, and part of what made Toba so bad was that it was located in the tropics, near the equator - Yellowstone would be bad for the United States, but not a world wide catastrophe.
Leah McGrew and the Siberian Traps eruption was far worse than either Toba or Yellowstone were, the Siberian Traps eruption likely triggered the worst mass extinction event in earths history at the end of the Paleozoic era