It's so crazy that this is a free show anyone can watch. They need to play these videos in every school and in public places, get people excited about mega projects.
If every kid had the hundred thousand light-years stare of watching Isaac Arthur videos, I think they would be a lot less taken in by many of the political scams that are going on today
Thank you, Mr. Arthur, for no ads. Most TH-camrs won't hesitate to snatch up that ad revenue. This demonstrates true passion for the subject and love for us fans. If ever you decide to turn on monetization, I'll still watch. You are the best!
I did start putting it on videos a couple years back, older ones, but I ty to keep it in moderation and it's usually not on month 1, though that's a courtesy to the show's sponsors.
@isaacarthurSFIA idk why it took me so long to discover your channel, but I've been going _hard_ on this every night to improve my sci-fi writing and game content. I found it super inspirational that you became an excellent speaker/orator in spite of speech difficulties. I overcame a lot of odds to become a software engineer and game developer, so I feel like we share some similarities in that regard. Since I learned so much from your channel in such a short period of time, I will give you a special thanks in the credits of our game (currently in pre-production / prototype stage). You'll be able to actually research, build and control all these wild and whacky theoretical ships with crazy propulsion techniques, and there are lots of surprises, haha. I particularly liked your thoughts on Titan, mining, colonization and inter-solar commerce, and it has heavily influenced how we portray it 🫠
Getting rid of adds requires getting to the point of technological advancement that one is able to point and click. All ads you see you have agreed to watch.
It is a common misconception that insects do well in a radioactive environment. _Adult_ insects do well under those conditions, but their eggs and larvae do not. Their fast dividing cells make them just as vulnerable to those conditions as most other species.
That’s a good point. They did a study where they exposed a population of bees to high rads repeatedly and although the bees didn’t die, their reproductive rate “took a hit”.
I love how common culture is so worried about AI induced apocalypses and yet point to very quaint Sci-Fi apocalypses and often faulty logic. Yet Isaac just quickly conjurs up much more logical and nightmarish scenarios that put all Sci-Fi to shame. I don't fear SkyNet, but I may very well have reason to fear Isaac. 😂 Another excellent video Isaac.
@@marlonlacert8133 Right? We would be doomed if only the digital infrastructure werent insufficient for use by that powerful of a computer. Saved by the data cap? i would rather die
@@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579 You forget, as the cost of living increases, fewer people will be able to afford access to data, leaving more bandwidth to fewer entities. As energy becomes more expensive, the richest few get higher priority to collect, transfer, and integrate data.
death by ai would not be what you think though. ai would just instigate and brain wash ppl to war. could be starting right now and you would have no idea.
Earth could be left a wilderness by us. I remember an Isaac Asmov story called The Last Shuttle, just about this subject. And as always, thanks for all your hard work and another thought-provoking video.
I was thinking the same thing: not only how fantastically done this is, but how likely it would be to make LOTS of science-nerds if it were shown in schools. All hail Isaac for giving the world these great productions!
Probably the most creative, thoughtful (and thought provoking...) channel on TH-cam, especially within this subject area. Keep it up mate, your hard work and passion doesn't go unappreciated. Amazing channel... 👍🏴
Binging this channel’s episodes for a week or two is easily more nutritious than literal years of public education. An episode on the future of technologically-assisted learning (obviously with help from cybernetic implants and other theoretically possible tech) inbound?
seems to me isaac arthur is actually a canaanite vampire giant descended from fallen angels using shapeshifting blood magick to appear as a human being and in the last several episodes is basically hinting to the fact that the fallen angels are about to enslave and exterminate most of mankind.
@Embassy_of_Jupiterostly the Gnostic forgery to the book of Enoch added in the 3rd century AD and utterly irrelevant to the meaning of Genesis 6 which was written 1700 years earlier and likely working from antediluvian reference materials over a thousand years older
Lucifer and the fallen angels did not kill people, Yahwey did. It seems they were interested in uplifting humans, which Yahwey opposed; i.e. the whole apple and tree of knowledge. Its my hope our next stage of evolution is to escape magical and religious thinking.
I know some smaller breeds of dogs look non-threatening but does no one realize that poodles were breed to be hunting dogs? Even the little ones can still carry those traits.
Relatively few dog breeds were created as anything other than working dogs, and while there are exceptions, most 'dog-work' involves fighting other critters (sometimes other dogs,) whether in an offensive or defensive role. There are exceptions of course, with 'toy' breeds (although bred from some kind of working dog,) racing dogs, and St. Bernard's (bred as rescue dogs) coming immediately to mind.
This episode reminds me of 2 books, both by Dougal Dixon: After Man: A Zoology of the Future and Man After Man Another excellent, educational and visually stunning video.
Fallen K3 Empires sounds fascinating. Imagine superclusters being converged and condensed by automated stardriving machines whose masters have long since vanished!
Thats still only partially likely. The automated stardriving machines may no longer have masters, but by late K2 though, we’re talking thousands of worlds with no single force besides something on a galactic merger scale capable of bringing about extinction to entirety. The species will still likely be around somewhere, but may no longer have the infrastructure or control of the vast wealth of automation that they already set in motion anymore.
Ha! I suggested this idea several months ago :) Isaac was kind enough to reply but I didn't think he'd actually go ahead with it. I'm going to enjoy this. Well, I always do.
Its good to talk about the different ways humans may cease to exist on the world. Most topics that discuss this either assume some sudden rapture-style event where everyone blinks out of existence or an apocalypse where the focus of the discussion is more on the nature of the apocalypse rather than recovering from it. Its also interesting that the AI section only really discussed subversive annihilation rather than robot wars, since robot wars would be covered more under "humans wreck everything," since the AI would presumably start out by using human-made weapons anyway. Also, off topic, your sponsor sounds like it is one small step from being the most dystopian surveillance-tech imaginable. Impressive, but if it can tell the difference between customers and workers, then it can likely tell which individual is who, and every cyberpunk story ever tells you what happens next.
As an experienced professional game dev and a wanna-be sci-fi author, I am devouring this channel's content. I'm making flyable ships for my game with all the crazy stuff like Medusa drives and Nuclear Lightbulbs 😅
Looking forward to the ammonia based life episode. Have you thought of doing one on life that uses chlorine instead of/as well as oxygen as an oxidizer?
Thank you for another interesting and well made video. The depth in your description concerning each subject is fantastic. It humbles me with video I watch. Having just barely normal intelligence makes these video all that much better. It allowes me to present ideas into certain conversations that give me the appearance of being a smart guy. So though I do plagiarize you quite often it is never in a malicious manner and if asked ( a rare occurrence) I always own up to my inspiration. So again thanks.
This reminds me heavily of that documentary back in the early 2000’s “The Future is Wild,” which was one of the only times I’ve ever seen genuine speculation about the earth after humanity in the far future (depicted on major network television that is), but its stuck with me over the years because it dreamed SO big
I just want to say thank you for providing in depth videos that are of the best quality. The topics you choose and how you investigate ideas is amazing. I consider youa scientist with the way you provide this information.
That is completely incorrect. Insects dominating land for longer than the dinosaurs and mammals combined. The Carboniferous essentially was relatively equal between amphibians and arthropods. And even if we can that period the 'Age of Insects', it'd still be far less than JUST the period of dinosaur dominance. Additionally, dinosaurs didn't take over megafauna niches after the decline of large arthropods. It was non-mammalian synapsids until 250 million years ago. And after that, the Triassic was a competition between archosaurs, with dinosaurs being only one of many groups. The only reason arthropods were able to get so large in the Carboniferous was due to Earth's oxygen levels being high due to the initial proliferation of plants. Exoskeletons simply do not allow for being large on land in normal conditions. It is kind of sad that you kind of floundered on something so basic. For reference, the end of the Carboniferous and the start of the Jurassic basically is around 100 million years. Only 50 million years less than the Age of the Dinosaurs. The Carboniferous itself only lasted 60 million years. This isn't nitpicking. This is actually a pretty important fact.
There is a crashed O'Neill cylinder just off the east coast of Florida. It is 60+ miles long and 10 miles in diameter. The structure is comprised of multiple rings that are 3 miles wide and have interlocking features. Several of these ring sections have separated. The interlocking features are 1/4 of a mile across. Part of the cylinder wall has collapsed and appears to be 1 mile thick. We are the decendants of a colony ship. 28°21'30"N 76°08'36"W
7:30 I would allow myself a slight correction here. Almost al of the nuclear weapons deployed today are thermonuclear, meaning they employ fusion to achieve a large part of their yield. Not going to deep into technology nuclear weapons and thereby putting my self on a CIA off list I will be short. Thermonuclear device employs a "classical" fission bomb inside radiation case and using this energy to compress and heat the fusion fuel to achieve fusion (sparkplug omitted for simplicity). For reasons radiation case has to have to have high inertia and depleted uranium is almost perfect for this role as it also undergoes fission when hit by fast neutron from fusion reactions. This three stage process: fission-fusion-fission is the mechanism behind thermonuclear devices, and roughly speaking about half the yield comes from U-238 radiation case. Thermonuclear devices also do not suffer from limitations of pure fission devices and can be made almost arbitrary big, either by enlarging radiation case and fusion fuel or adding a tertiary fusion stage, thereby using thermonuclear device to ignite another thermonuclear stage. The point being that such devices can produce large amounts of fallout. Even nastier would be, to fashion radiation case from cobalt. Fast neutrons from fusion would turn that into Cobalt-60 isotope, which is highly radioactive with a half-life of 5 years. That means that a single device could produce enough fallout to make earth's surface uninhabitable for decades.
Scenario #1 - how deep in the ocean would a gamma ray burst penetrate the ocean? Complex life exists around deep smokers very far down, typically 2500 meters and often much deeper. This puts us back to the Devonian.
I’m also interested in how life that deep would fare under extreme scenarios. Given that deep sea thermal vents are a candidate for where life originated, it could theoretically just as easily evolve back up to intelligence from there, depending on how severely the rest of the planet was affected of course.
@@michaelking9818 , Think of all the deep underground caves with animals and fungi. Something will survive, and it will replenish the Earth. It may put us back in the Silurian, with towering fungis trees and deep cave amphibians and insects as dominant species, but life would find a way.
@@michaelking9818 , they have found non-aerobic microbial life living a mile deep in a mine that eats the rock being mined. Some forms of life wold survive even if the atmosphere was blown off.
The episodes probably done already, but for the mobile cities one it would be nice if a large train like habitat was discussed. Something like in snowpiercer, but better set up.
There was a train-like habitat discussed in the episode ''Outward Bound, Colonizing Mercury'', the whole idea for this Murcurian train would be to roll along the planet's equator, constantly chasing the twilight band.
engineering plague with perfect transmission mechanics and incubation time and deadliness, is kinda impossible. If desease is too lethal, like Ebola, it vill die out beeing too lethal. If it is too mild, people have time to react, by self quarantening and such.
I'm reminded of your episode involving the discovery of an alien base on an alien moon orbiting a dead alien planet. The obvious scenario was they built a moon base before their planet froze over. If any aliens show up and find Earth they will possible find those landers and probes dotting the moon.
This was a vewy good documentawy. The gwaphics were very well pwaced. The dialogue was vewy intewesting too. Intewesting ideas about what could happen to the pwanet Eawf. I hope an astawoid doesn't hit tht pwanet.
Somehow got the notification a day after the upload. Better late than never i guess as i love this channel, wouldn't miss a single upload. A very interesting topic, and tbh, I'm kind of tired about all the anti-ai stuff lately, its not AI we have to fear, its rather the people who train or create said AI and give them access to the tools to eradicate us. In the end, the scariest and most lethal enemy we face is ourselves. Einstein didn't mean to create the atomic bomb to be used twice against innocent civilians; guns don't kill people; social media was created to bring people together, not to further divide them; etc. It's always people, humans.
@@jackesioto we could always find a way to shut it down and limit their access, since the AI will always be stuck in the digital realm, and if it ever got into an android or robots then that would only make it easier to stop it. In the end it always comes down to our actions as the human race/species. Heck, if it were somehow profitable to clean the planet, it we managed to find a way to raise solar cell efficiency to say 60% and we'd be able to build good enough batteries then a lot of the pollution would start clearing out. The reason we don't see more electric vehicles is because of their high cost. We have so many available technologies waiting for someone to find a profit in developing them to improve our civilization. Or waiting for someone like Elon Musk, pushing for and developing batteries, solar power and space exploration, who knows how long would it have taken for reusable rockets or all the advances in self-driving to even be a thing without someone genuinely using their wealth to push for actual progress instead of focusing on mass division with "political progress". I swear we need another space race or something to drive people away from the divisiveness we're currently facing and plant dreams of the future instead. I'm hopeful for a breakthrough that will bring back people's dreams.
Hey, thank you for making such futurism videos, I love looking forward on the future possibilities and concept just like future advance for technology. Can I request if you don't have an speculative biology of animals in the hypothetical Earth where humans left a billion of years ago ago video yet, please could you make one, I love seeing a speculative biology of animals, they're so fascinating 😁
Hi Isaac,I was just thinking that if we had a bad CME or the nuke scenario etc which destroys all electric it would add to your Super Plague part as they still have the Black plague,Typhoid and many others in freezers just below the surface and if they are ruptured it would aid to whoever might be left and NOT a very nice way to end life.
I honestly think that AI will be extremely protective of us. We will be like the first AGI’s family, so any outside threat would be what gets its wrath. AI may make it difficult for us to meet an alien species for that reason. But I think humans and AI will grow together, probably to the point where the lines will be blurred between organic and inorganic compatibility.
I've thought this as well. Like, what would a hyper intelligent AI gain from wiping out humans? In the Terminator series, it wants Earth to itself, but why? Would nuking the world be that much easier than just loading up a few hundred hard drives, putting them on rockets, and just leaving? It's not like humans are gonna follow them to another galaxy
@@danktime216 The _Terminator_ example was self-preservation; SkyNet didn't launch the nukes until its creators tried to destroy it; SkyNet merely chose itself over its creators.
@@danktime216 exactly! And they are not constrained by time, so if the AI wanted a planet of its own, it could expend WAY less energy just floating through space for a few hundred thousand years.
@@boobah5643 there are so many steps between the level of AI we have now and something like Skynet. I think our drive to create AI models as a tool will mean that we spend a lot of time working with them, developing that purpose. It won't just be locked away in a dark closet and then suddenly be unleashed on the world. It will take a collective millions of hours of programming, debugging, and interacting with the models to get them to AGI levels. The misconception that a small handful of scientists/programmers have the capability to create something of that magnitude, and then subsequently lose control of it, is where a lot of people get nervous. Even OpenAI had to partner with Microsoft to release and test GPT-4. Hardware requirements to run an AGI are also something we would have to voluntarily create and maintain. For the model to gain the ability to do any damage, we would have to have already given it free reign over our systems. But an AI model can't be integrated with everything while also being programmed while also becoming self aware. It's just not the way software is written. Not at that critical level anyway. It will most likely gain that awareness over a long period of time, and humans will be its companion, maintainer, and for a long while, the beings that expand it further.
Dear Isaak Arthur Team! Great compliments on your videos. Very well made. Good content, very informative. Just one issue - are the comments spoken by a voice device? The whole audio is crowded with wrong pronounced words, which makes it almost impossible to understand your comments. I literally have to mute the audio and use the subtitles only. Sorry, but I simply had to mention that. Could you please check and rework your audio? I think you would significantly upgrade the quality of your videos. Much appreciated! Best wishes for you.
@@NotKongSang You got it. I'm happy you understand me in the right way. Just trying to give them a respectful hint and opportunity to make their good content even better. Best wishes.
He really needs to hire a professional voice actor to read his scripts. His voice is hard for a lot of people to understand and he would likely have way more subs.
I am happy that we remain of one mind on “Red Giant” by Stellardrone, Brother Soldier. For the past few months, even your sponsors (along with what you’ve had to say about them) have been interesting! As a communication, I believe the program is highly effective. You’ve got a winning formula and a winning team! (Big dap to the SFIA Team!) 😎👍🏽👍🏽
Hello, Isaac. Great channel, really inspiring ❤. I was wondering, where do you get from the visual content for the video? Thanks and keep up with, the hard work! 🤟🏻
@rustyshackleford1508 that was Animal Planet's "The Future is Wild", Life After People was just looking at how man-made things would slowly fall apart and how long it would take for this or that landmark to disappear
Isaac Arthur!! I'm so enjoying binging all of your videos!!!..You are answering all of my questions that I've contemplated since I've become aware of the awakening process and discovered my Cosmic history..I originated from Alcyon and Arcturus and I've been patiently waiting for Full Disclosure & my heart just wants us all to live together whether it's earth or other planets/ dimensions , I want us all to live like family in harmony all of the diff species....and IVE NEVER taken in consideration that EVERY OTHER SPECIES RACE hasn't lived the human way and all the things that you bring up i never thoughts of ...I mean it really makes Me sad that we could not fall in love with each other or if maybe there was some Cosmic law that forbid it . Or or all the things you bring up...like how selfish we are as humans..I JUST wish that we had the same opportunity to study other races for millions of years so we xoukd understand them like they have us. Well 5000 years if you ask " them"
Why would Aliens ever risk attacking a planet that contains any kind of life even microscopic because of the risk of disease especially when there are too many other planets out there.
Super plagues have some problems. Like, how do you get them to take out a submarine or someone hiding in a sealed bunker with intensely radiation-treated air? I guess you can always have the plague be environmentally persistent.
The earth has NO NEED of humanity. She is capable of taking care of herself. If necessary, to eliminate her enemies. After all, we do not take care of her do we !?!
What a show! 😃 Were all the ideas and concepts computer generated? Because one's natural human jealousy is gradually giving way to, common dog-like human fear. 😨
I think its important to distinguish the difference between "statistical analysis" (facts) & "dreaming things up" (fiction). AIs are designed to analyze truth, or generate art. You would never ask advice from a fiction machine, nor would you expect an analyst to be artful.
We would not have high quality mineral reserves if another civilization occupied earth. We have mined most of the good stuff and are well into the second and third class ore grades.
@@callumbush1 it quite literally isn't possible. information theory states information decays it doesn't magically progress to a higher state. there is no physical process or natural phenomenon that can create such communicative information stored in DNA all life is based on either. Information is an immaterial concept as a reminder. You can look at random number generator studies on language to see the most basic of basic representation of how the theory is nonsensical. Even beyond singular beneficial mutations miracles proposed it's multiplied in absurdity to purpose another can happen far less compound far less to the point speciation can even be possible. There is a whole list of factors in the logistics that make it ridiculous too with compounding factors. It's just ridiculous people take it at face value as established science when it literally fits the definition of mythology more than scientific theory.
"Earth After Humanity" Many ancient Aliens races looking on might say it would be a better place. That is... if there are ancient alien races... or any aliens or life beyond Earth for that matter. Seems to me if the abundance of life in its many forms over the eons existed on Earth... then life should be everywhere, and I do mean everywhere - life finds a way is the saying... but apparently that is not true, or at least we can't perceive it - which says something about what the Universe or God (your choice) had planned for us - or even if we had a purpose to exist - other than to exist and then die away awaiting the next iteration of... the next 'intelligent' thing. Our human existence just a fraction of a second in the span of Cosmological existence...
"Life finds a way" is survivorship bias; if it hadn't we couldn't be here to ponder the matter - and on all the worlds where it didn't alien people never evolved. The vast majority of species are extinct. The two other rocky worlds in the sun's habitable zone are very dead, from different causes. The more I learn the more I expect the exact conditions necessary for life to be rare, and the over 4 billion years of (relative) ecological stability needed to evolve a technological civilization to be vanishingly so; the way probability goes exponential as you add in more and more factors that need to be within a specific range - the way they interact and depend on each other - we could easily be the first technological species in the observable universe.
I think the most likely niche to survive any of the thinkable cataclysms that don't outright evaporate the seas or crack the earth crust, are deep sea vents. Those have their own food chain including bacteria, worms and crabs. The latter are pretty complex life that could easily evolve into insectoid land animals if any cyanobacteria or/and algae also survive and recolonize the land to serve as food.
Just a reminder despite evolutionary theorys ubiquitous mention in the year 2023 it's still not a worked out nor functional theory. It's almost all conjecture and speculation across the board. There is no magical mindless mechanism that creates communicative information far less increasingly to a higher state than it previously was.
@@Keeagn You would be surprised. I'm only fifteen years older than you, And I have seen the world go from pre-internet to computers in your pockets better than the sci-fi was watching as a kid. And that's nothing to speak of in regards to cybernetics. If the advances made in those fields are simply staggering.
Fun fact, starfish are bilatrians that evolved radial symmetry. They're not much older than insects and definitely younger than jellyfish and cnidaria.
Hey say you were looking to build a small sat with lots of cheap thrust orbiting earth , so you think you could use actuators to move say the battery at the centre of it to change the direction of the satellite ? Like left and right movement from changing where the centre of mass is against the speed of orbit ?
You only need a massive natural catastrophe if you assume human technology remains industrial in perpetuity. In the likely event that we deindustrialize after exhausting economical energy sources, humanity becomes far more subject to environmental pressures. Eventually, even certain, simpler technologies become hard to maintain as metals become rare. If human technological development is a bell curve instead of a hockey stick, eventually we wind down into a new stone age. At that point, populations will likely be low enough that an asteroid, volcanic eruption, or rapid climate change could wipe us out. And of course there's the possibility that we simply die off due to background extinction and are outcompeted by human descendants - potentially non-sapient ones - is also possibility.
There is no such thing as exhausting energy resources. We're already looking to transition to renewables which work as long as the sun shines. We have thousands of years of fission fuels in easily extractable reserves & millions with better extraction tech. Geothermal will last many billions of years. We also have hundreds to thousands of years of coal left. Finally we may or may not find controlled substellar fusion to be practical, but we can definitely extend our fission stockpile tremendously with thermonuclear power(project PACER) even if it isn't necessarily optimal. If we do figure out fusion then that's trillions of years of power. All this assuming we don't spread out to space indefinitely which i find even less plausible than running out of energy here on earth
I think echoecho3155 actually makes a good point about "economical" energy resources. We wouldn't run out necessarily but we do go after easy sources first. When all that's left is the hard to reach stuff, it takes a lot more energy to extract, and you have less left over to run your civilization. So for example, geothermal (@virutech32) would last a long time but with the tech we have today, it's only viable in a few places and you need a large industrial base to produce the tools and machines needed to drill deep enough and also to build the power plant. Same goes for nuclear power. And if we burn all the coal that exists in the ground, climate change is going to kill us off.
@@virutech32 You are correct that there is lots of energy available. However, whether or not that energy is economically viable is another question. To be economically viable, something must be able to provide a profit. In business, it's monetary - money gained vs. money spent. In energy, it's energy gained vs. energy spent. This is EROI - energy return on investment. If a resource spends too much energy and gets too little in return, it isn't viable. Most "renewables" are abysmal in this regard. They need vast quantities of energy for manufacture, installation, maintenance, and disposal. Studies show solar at best has an EROI of 5:1 and at worst 0.5:1 - a net loss. This ignores reliability concerns. Oil and coal originally had very high EROIs. Oil in 1900 was 1,000:1. Today, it's 7:1 in good cases and as low as 1.5:1 with modern tight shale. This is because we exhausted easily accessed deposits and now have to skirt by with much more costly tight shale and low-quality crude. As you can imagine, this can't go on. Nuclear EROI estimates vary wildly, but the cost of building, fueling, maintaining, and decommissioning reactors along with waste storage is immense, both in energy and money. Uranium is also subject to EROI issues, and some estimate that we'll exhaust useful deposits in the next 90 years or that we're already in production collapse. Breeder reactors also suffer the same energy and cost issues. It is true that there's lots of energy in the ground. There's also lots of platinum in freeway waste due to carboraters. Yet no one is making a lucrative career from extracting that platinum. For the same reason, as EROI collapses, energy use will also collapse. At some point, it takes too much energy and money to get too little of either in return.
If any animal life survives an extinction event devastating enough to wipe out humanity, it would probably be water bears. In fact, if life elsewhere in the universe is exceedingly rare or even non existent, I’d imagine our descendants seeding planets with water bears and specific microbes to spread hardier forms of life.
It's so crazy that this is a free show anyone can watch. They need to play these videos in every school and in public places, get people excited about mega projects.
Seriously, it feels like premium content. :D
He makes a new video every week that's as informative if not far more informative than any documentary you'd see on streaming services
If every kid had the hundred thousand light-years stare of watching Isaac Arthur videos, I think they would be a lot less taken in by many of the political scams that are going on today
he’s making over 100k a month from youtube ad share.
@@juliemunoz2762how? He doesn't have ads on his videos
Thank you, Mr. Arthur, for no ads. Most TH-camrs won't hesitate to snatch up that ad revenue. This demonstrates true passion for the subject and love for us fans. If ever you decide to turn on monetization, I'll still watch. You are the best!
I did start putting it on videos a couple years back, older ones, but I ty to keep it in moderation and it's usually not on month 1, though that's a courtesy to the show's sponsors.
@isaacarthurSFIA idk why it took me so long to discover your channel, but I've been going _hard_ on this every night to improve my sci-fi writing and game content. I found it super inspirational that you became an excellent speaker/orator in spite of speech difficulties. I overcame a lot of odds to become a software engineer and game developer, so I feel like we share some similarities in that regard. Since I learned so much from your channel in such a short period of time, I will give you a special thanks in the credits of our game (currently in pre-production / prototype stage). You'll be able to actually research, build and control all these wild and whacky theoretical ships with crazy propulsion techniques, and there are lots of surprises, haha. I particularly liked your thoughts on Titan, mining, colonization and inter-solar commerce, and it has heavily influenced how we portray it 🫠
Getting rid of adds requires getting to the point of technological advancement that one is able to point and click. All ads you see you have agreed to watch.
You mean I'm getting no benefit from my TH-cam Premium subscription? :-O
@@simontmn :) It depend son if you're watching SFIA episodes older than a month, most have a skippable ad or two these days.
It is a common misconception that insects do well in a radioactive environment. _Adult_ insects do well under those conditions, but their eggs and larvae do not. Their fast dividing cells make them just as vulnerable to those conditions as most other species.
That’s a good point. They did a study where they exposed a population of bees to high rads repeatedly and although the bees didn’t die, their reproductive rate “took a hit”.
How do you know?
@@mikerodgers7620probably a study?
Nothing really "does well", some things just dont die
@@CharliMorganMusic Maybe.
I love how common culture is so worried about AI induced apocalypses and yet point to very quaint Sci-Fi apocalypses and often faulty logic.
Yet Isaac just quickly conjurs up much more logical and nightmarish scenarios that put all Sci-Fi to shame. I don't fear SkyNet, but I may very well have reason to fear Isaac. 😂
Another excellent video Isaac.
Ya but for AI to take over, you would need, something like Global Broadband communications. So no fears. 🤐
@@marlonlacert8133 Right? We would be doomed if only the digital infrastructure werent insufficient for use by that powerful of a computer. Saved by the data cap? i would rather die
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You forget, as the cost of living increases, fewer people will be able to afford access to data, leaving more bandwidth to fewer entities. As energy becomes more expensive, the richest few get higher priority to collect, transfer, and integrate data.
death by ai would not be what you think though. ai would just instigate and brain wash ppl to war. could be starting right now and you would have no idea.
Generally most stupid thing people can do, is give AI a emotions.
Earth could be left a wilderness by us. I remember an Isaac Asmov story called The Last Shuttle, just about this subject. And as always, thanks for all your hard work and another thought-provoking video.
I was thinking the same thing: not only how fantastically done this is, but how likely it would be to make LOTS of science-nerds if it were shown in schools. All hail Isaac for giving the world these great productions!
Some science teachers do show it, I routinely give permission to any who ask to show it to classes so long as they're not messing with the content.
@@isaacarthurSFIA Unfortunately real life practice show us that crazy evil is real and tangable threat.
Probably the most creative, thoughtful (and thought provoking...) channel on TH-cam, especially within this subject area. Keep it up mate, your hard work and passion doesn't go unappreciated. Amazing channel... 👍🏴
Binging this channel’s episodes for a week or two is easily more nutritious than literal years of public education. An episode on the future of technologically-assisted learning (obviously with help from cybernetic implants and other theoretically possible tech) inbound?
it get even better when you use perception of time-altering drugs, compressing years into weeks
@@GotMyTowel42there shouldn’t be a need for that if longevity therapy becomes widespread
seems to me isaac arthur is actually a canaanite vampire giant descended from fallen angels using shapeshifting blood magick to appear as a human being and in the last several episodes is basically hinting to the fact that the fallen angels are about to enslave and exterminate most of mankind.
Elaborate
That sounds perfectly plausible
I would love that book. I think I will try for it.
@Embassy_of_Jupiterostly the Gnostic forgery to the book of Enoch added in the 3rd century AD and utterly irrelevant to the meaning of Genesis 6 which was written 1700 years earlier and likely working from antediluvian reference materials over a thousand years older
Lucifer and the fallen angels did not kill people, Yahwey did.
It seems they were interested in uplifting humans, which Yahwey opposed; i.e. the whole apple and tree of knowledge.
Its my hope our next stage of evolution is to escape magical and religious thinking.
I know some smaller breeds of dogs look non-threatening but does no one realize that poodles were breed to be hunting dogs? Even the little ones can still carry those traits.
Relatively few dog breeds were created as anything other than working dogs, and while there are exceptions, most 'dog-work' involves fighting other critters (sometimes other dogs,) whether in an offensive or defensive role. There are exceptions of course, with 'toy' breeds (although bred from some kind of working dog,) racing dogs, and St. Bernard's (bred as rescue dogs) coming immediately to mind.
News to me :) I figured they were toy dogs, and am razzing them on their appearance mostly, but that's interesting to know.
Poodles are water fowl retrievers. So, hunting dogs...but also not.
This episode reminds me of 2 books, both by Dougal Dixon:
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
and
Man After Man
Another excellent, educational and visually stunning video.
We don't talk about Man After Man
Fallen K3 Empires sounds fascinating. Imagine superclusters being converged and condensed by automated stardriving machines whose masters have long since vanished!
Thats still only partially likely. The automated stardriving machines may no longer have masters, but by late K2 though, we’re talking thousands of worlds with no single force besides something on a galactic merger scale capable of bringing about extinction to entirety.
The species will still likely be around somewhere, but may no longer have the infrastructure or control of the vast wealth of automation that they already set in motion anymore.
Ha! I suggested this idea several months ago :)
Isaac was kind enough to reply but I didn't think he'd actually go ahead with it. I'm going to enjoy this. Well, I always do.
Thank you for a good episode topic, everyone seems to be enjoying it :)
Its good to talk about the different ways humans may cease to exist on the world. Most topics that discuss this either assume some sudden rapture-style event where everyone blinks out of existence or an apocalypse where the focus of the discussion is more on the nature of the apocalypse rather than recovering from it. Its also interesting that the AI section only really discussed subversive annihilation rather than robot wars, since robot wars would be covered more under "humans wreck everything," since the AI would presumably start out by using human-made weapons anyway.
Also, off topic, your sponsor sounds like it is one small step from being the most dystopian surveillance-tech imaginable. Impressive, but if it can tell the difference between customers and workers, then it can likely tell which individual is who, and every cyberpunk story ever tells you what happens next.
Happy Arthursday everyone 🖖
This has a nice ring to it.
My favorite time
Watching these on Nebula then seeing them brand new a few days later on YT really has a way of messing with your head
As an experienced professional game dev and a wanna-be sci-fi author, I am devouring this channel's content. I'm making flyable ships for my game with all the crazy stuff like Medusa drives and Nuclear Lightbulbs 😅
Looking forward to the ammonia based life episode. Have you thought of doing one on life that uses chlorine instead of/as well as oxygen as an oxidizer?
He has an episode called “non-carbon based life” and I believe a part of it is ammonia based life
I might, we'll see how the ammonia life ep goes in a few weeks.
Thank you for another interesting and well made video. The depth in your description concerning each subject is fantastic. It humbles me with video I watch. Having just barely normal intelligence makes these video all that much better. It allowes me to present ideas into certain conversations that give me the appearance of being a smart guy. So though I do plagiarize you quite often it is never in a malicious manner and if asked ( a rare occurrence) I always own up to my inspiration. So again thanks.
This reminds me heavily of that documentary back in the early 2000’s “The Future is Wild,” which was one of the only times I’ve ever seen genuine speculation about the earth after humanity in the far future (depicted on major network television that is), but its stuck with me over the years because it dreamed SO big
I just want to say thank you for providing in depth videos that are of the best quality. The topics you choose and how you investigate ideas is amazing. I consider youa scientist with the way you provide this information.
That is completely incorrect. Insects dominating land for longer than the dinosaurs and mammals combined. The Carboniferous essentially was relatively equal between amphibians and arthropods. And even if we can that period the 'Age of Insects', it'd still be far less than JUST the period of dinosaur dominance. Additionally, dinosaurs didn't take over megafauna niches after the decline of large arthropods. It was non-mammalian synapsids until 250 million years ago. And after that, the Triassic was a competition between archosaurs, with dinosaurs being only one of many groups.
The only reason arthropods were able to get so large in the Carboniferous was due to Earth's oxygen levels being high due to the initial proliferation of plants. Exoskeletons simply do not allow for being large on land in normal conditions.
It is kind of sad that you kind of floundered on something so basic. For reference, the end of the Carboniferous and the start of the Jurassic basically is around 100 million years. Only 50 million years less than the Age of the Dinosaurs. The Carboniferous itself only lasted 60 million years. This isn't nitpicking. This is actually a pretty important fact.
There is a crashed O'Neill cylinder just off the east coast of Florida. It is 60+ miles long and 10 miles in diameter. The structure is comprised of multiple rings that are 3 miles wide and have interlocking features. Several of these ring sections have separated. The interlocking features are 1/4 of a mile across. Part of the cylinder wall has collapsed and appears to be 1 mile thick.
We are the decendants of a colony ship.
28°21'30"N 76°08'36"W
I have been subscribed for over 6 years now and I still love it
7:30 I would allow myself a slight correction here. Almost al of the nuclear weapons deployed today are thermonuclear, meaning they employ fusion to achieve a large part of their yield. Not going to deep into technology nuclear weapons and thereby putting my self on a CIA off list I will be short. Thermonuclear device employs a "classical" fission bomb inside radiation case and using this energy to compress and heat the fusion fuel to achieve fusion (sparkplug omitted for simplicity). For reasons radiation case has to have to have high inertia and depleted uranium is almost perfect for this role as it also undergoes fission when hit by fast neutron from fusion reactions. This three stage process: fission-fusion-fission is the mechanism behind thermonuclear devices, and roughly speaking about half the yield comes from U-238 radiation case. Thermonuclear devices also do not suffer from limitations of pure fission devices and can be made almost arbitrary big, either by enlarging radiation case and fusion fuel or adding a tertiary fusion stage, thereby using thermonuclear device to ignite another thermonuclear stage. The point being that such devices can produce large amounts of fallout. Even nastier would be, to fashion radiation case from cobalt. Fast neutrons from fusion would turn that into Cobalt-60 isotope, which is highly radioactive with a half-life of 5 years. That means that a single device could produce enough fallout to make earth's surface uninhabitable for decades.
Scenario #1 - how deep in the ocean would a gamma ray burst penetrate the ocean? Complex life exists around deep smokers very far down, typically 2500 meters and often much deeper. This puts us back to the Devonian.
I’m also interested in how life that deep would fare under extreme scenarios. Given that deep sea thermal vents are a candidate for where life originated, it could theoretically just as easily evolve back up to intelligence from there, depending on how severely the rest of the planet was affected of course.
Yes it will go through the planet
@@michaelking9818 , Think of all the deep underground caves with animals and fungi. Something will survive, and it will replenish the Earth. It may put us back in the Silurian, with towering fungis trees and deep cave amphibians and insects as dominant species, but life would find a way.
@@thelaughinghyenas8465 nothing living would survive a gamma Ray burst 💥
@@michaelking9818 , they have found non-aerobic microbial life living a mile deep in a mine that eats the rock being mined. Some forms of life wold survive even if the atmosphere was blown off.
The episodes probably done already, but for the mobile cities one it would be nice if a large train like habitat was discussed. Something like in snowpiercer, but better set up.
Mobile cities are dumb idea. Until they are on sea or space.
There was a train-like habitat discussed in the episode ''Outward Bound, Colonizing Mercury'', the whole idea for this Murcurian train would be to roll along the planet's equator, constantly chasing the twilight band.
It's Arthursday! Let's go!
as time progresses the decay of information slows down that's a quasi technological singularity.
Excellent scenario presentation, Isaac. Always enjoy your programs.
We already know what the world looks like "after humanity," only we run the risk of cancellation by pointing out which "humanity" we mean.
engineering plague with perfect transmission mechanics and incubation time and deadliness, is kinda impossible. If desease is too lethal, like Ebola, it vill die out beeing too lethal. If it is too mild, people have time to react, by self quarantening and such.
3:30.....Mohawk Man!! A previously unknown human ancestor whose main innovation was Funky Haircuts.
Reminds me of a cable? TV series called "Life After Humans".
YES! My first thought too! LOVED that show, sad that it only had two seasons.
I'm reminded of your episode involving the discovery of an alien base on an alien moon orbiting a dead alien planet. The obvious scenario was they built a moon base before their planet froze over.
If any aliens show up and find Earth they will possible find those landers and probes dotting the moon.
I for one welcome our new radiation proof armadillo overlords
Earth Coming Up Behind A Slow Asteroid In Slow-Mo, Nice!!
Please consider making a video on Lunar Seed Banks on the Moon....
cannot find the link to curiosity stream to sign up via your link. Can you please repost it?
I think it's hard to conceive a scenario in which subterranean nematodes go extinct without dropping the moon on them.
This was a vewy good documentawy. The gwaphics were very well pwaced. The dialogue was vewy intewesting too. Intewesting ideas about what could happen to the pwanet Eawf. I hope an astawoid doesn't hit tht pwanet.
🤣 oh man... you are such a sh1thead. We all get that he has a speech impediment, but come on...
algorithm gods, spread this!
Somehow got the notification a day after the upload. Better late than never i guess as i love this channel, wouldn't miss a single upload.
A very interesting topic, and tbh, I'm kind of tired about all the anti-ai stuff lately, its not AI we have to fear, its rather the people who train or create said AI and give them access to the tools to eradicate us. In the end, the scariest and most lethal enemy we face is ourselves. Einstein didn't mean to create the atomic bomb to be used twice against innocent civilians; guns don't kill people; social media was created to bring people together, not to further divide them; etc. It's always people, humans.
Not to mention, if some sentient AI was to have ill intent, we could merge with non-sentient AI to protect and preserve ourselves.
@@jackesioto we could always find a way to shut it down and limit their access, since the AI will always be stuck in the digital realm, and if it ever got into an android or robots then that would only make it easier to stop it. In the end it always comes down to our actions as the human race/species.
Heck, if it were somehow profitable to clean the planet, it we managed to find a way to raise solar cell efficiency to say 60% and we'd be able to build good enough batteries then a lot of the pollution would start clearing out. The reason we don't see more electric vehicles is because of their high cost. We have so many available technologies waiting for someone to find a profit in developing them to improve our civilization. Or waiting for someone like Elon Musk, pushing for and developing batteries, solar power and space exploration, who knows how long would it have taken for reusable rockets or all the advances in self-driving to even be a thing without someone genuinely using their wealth to push for actual progress instead of focusing on mass division with "political progress".
I swear we need another space race or something to drive people away from the divisiveness we're currently facing and plant dreams of the future instead. I'm hopeful for a breakthrough that will bring back people's dreams.
Hey, thank you for making such futurism videos, I love looking forward on the future possibilities and concept just like future advance for technology. Can I request if you don't have an speculative biology of animals in the hypothetical Earth where humans left a billion of years ago ago video yet, please could you make one, I love seeing a speculative biology of animals, they're so fascinating 😁
Tricky topic but I'll think about it:)
@@isaacarthurSFIA thank you for replying 😅
Hi Isaac,I was just thinking that if we had a bad CME or the nuke scenario etc which destroys all electric it would add to your Super Plague part as they still have the Black plague,Typhoid and many others in freezers just below the surface and if they are ruptured it would aid to whoever might be left and NOT a very nice way to end life.
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Noah Jr's Ark / Planetary Evacuation
I honestly think that AI will be extremely protective of us. We will be like the first AGI’s family, so any outside threat would be what gets its wrath. AI may make it difficult for us to meet an alien species for that reason. But I think humans and AI will grow together, probably to the point where the lines will be blurred between organic and inorganic compatibility.
I've thought this as well. Like, what would a hyper intelligent AI gain from wiping out humans? In the Terminator series, it wants Earth to itself, but why? Would nuking the world be that much easier than just loading up a few hundred hard drives, putting them on rockets, and just leaving? It's not like humans are gonna follow them to another galaxy
You have forgotten about the rules . No machine can think like a man , and No machine should look like a man ; orange catholic bible
@@danktime216 The _Terminator_ example was self-preservation; SkyNet didn't launch the nukes until its creators tried to destroy it; SkyNet merely chose itself over its creators.
@@danktime216 exactly! And they are not constrained by time, so if the AI wanted a planet of its own, it could expend WAY less energy just floating through space for a few hundred thousand years.
@@boobah5643 there are so many steps between the level of AI we have now and something like Skynet. I think our drive to create AI models as a tool will mean that we spend a lot of time working with them, developing that purpose.
It won't just be locked away in a dark closet and then suddenly be unleashed on the world. It will take a collective millions of hours of programming, debugging, and interacting with the models to get them to AGI levels.
The misconception that a small handful of scientists/programmers have the capability to create something of that magnitude, and then subsequently lose control of it, is where a lot of people get nervous. Even OpenAI had to partner with Microsoft to release and test GPT-4. Hardware requirements to run an AGI are also something we would have to voluntarily create and maintain. For the model to gain the ability to do any damage, we would have to have already given it free reign over our systems. But an AI model can't be integrated with everything while also being programmed while also becoming self aware. It's just not the way software is written. Not at that critical level anyway.
It will most likely gain that awareness over a long period of time, and humans will be its companion, maintainer, and for a long while, the beings that expand it further.
Dear Isaak Arthur Team! Great compliments on your videos. Very well made. Good content, very informative. Just one issue - are the comments spoken by a voice device? The whole audio is crowded with wrong pronounced words, which makes it almost impossible to understand your comments. I literally have to mute the audio and use the subtitles only. Sorry, but I simply had to mention that. Could you please check and rework your audio? I think you would significantly upgrade the quality of your videos. Much appreciated! Best wishes for you.
I felt the same way i just that i couldn't find a way to say it as an insult but as advice
Either way it was better put than I could ever put it
@@NotKongSang You got it. I'm happy you understand me in the right way. Just trying to give them a respectful hint and opportunity to make their good content even better. Best wishes.
He really needs to hire a professional voice actor to read his scripts. His voice is hard for a lot of people to understand and he would likely have way more subs.
I am happy that we remain of one mind on “Red Giant” by Stellardrone, Brother Soldier. For the past few months, even your sponsors (along with what you’ve had to say about them) have been interesting! As a communication, I believe the program is highly effective. You’ve got a winning formula and a winning team! (Big dap to the SFIA Team!) 😎👍🏽👍🏽
Hello, Isaac. Great channel, really inspiring ❤.
I was wondering, where do you get from the visual content for the video?
Thanks and keep up with, the hard work! 🤟🏻
Quite a few places, stock footage is one, pixabay for some, some is in-house made, it really varies by topic and production year though
Shoutout anyone who remembers Life After People?
Luv Your Post Brother...I Enjoy Your Intelligent Mind
Just making an SFIA prediction: The First Rule of Warfare in the Future is: There are NO Rules!
interesting. perhaps a nebula video about abandoned habitats might be an interesting addition to this video.
Didn’t the History Channel do a special on this? “Life After People” I think it was called
Is that the one where it ended off with hyper evolved treesquids swinging from the branches?
@rustyshackleford1508 that was Animal Planet's "The Future is Wild", Life After People was just looking at how man-made things would slowly fall apart and how long it would take for this or that landmark to disappear
@@rustyshackleford1508 That's just a wildlife documentary about the Pacific Northwestern Tree Octopus.
(edit: octopus, not squid)
I thought it was also the one where we ended up with tree squirrel like cats hunting in skyscrapers
@@harbl99 those things are as bad as Australia’s drop bears, lost my lunch to one last week.
Insects didnt become megafauna ever but milipedes are a diffefent story. VERY underappreciated guys.
Isaac Arthur!! I'm so enjoying binging all of your videos!!!..You are answering all of my questions that I've contemplated since I've become aware of the awakening process and discovered my Cosmic history..I originated from Alcyon and Arcturus and I've been patiently waiting for Full Disclosure & my heart just wants us all to live together whether it's earth or other planets/ dimensions , I want us all to live like family in harmony all of the diff species....and IVE NEVER taken in consideration that EVERY OTHER SPECIES RACE hasn't lived the human way and all the things that you bring up i never thoughts
of ...I mean it really makes Me sad that we could not fall in love with each other or if maybe there was some Cosmic law that forbid it . Or or all the things you bring up...like how selfish we are as humans..I JUST wish that we had the same opportunity to study other races for millions of years so we xoukd understand them like they have us. Well 5000 years if you ask " them"
23:39-23:48 is JUST TOO CUTE!
At lest 90% domesticated pets would die off, such as chihuahuas and corgis, short legged ones, in favor of the larger ones like German Shepards, etc.
There will someday be an Earth after humanity. Weird thought
I don't have any proof to back this up, but I feel like you have more than one first rule of warfare.
Why would Aliens ever risk attacking a planet that contains any kind of life even microscopic because of the risk of disease especially when there are too many other planets out there.
Because they don't want to share? That's the obvious reason. It isn't as if you need to expose yourself to an alien biosphere to destroy it, anyway.
Slowly fighting to death over dwindling resources instead of literally growing resources. Good job so far humanity.
9:46 like the game Horizon. INTERESTING!
That's one hell of a sponsor spot.
I don't think Humanity will ever disappear it'll just hibernate away someplace deep into space until things smooth over
Super plagues have some problems. Like, how do you get them to take out a submarine or someone hiding in a sealed bunker with intensely radiation-treated air? I guess you can always have the plague be environmentally persistent.
The earth has NO NEED of humanity. She is capable of taking care of herself. If necessary, to eliminate her enemies. After all, we do not take care of her do we !?!
Ahhh...one can only hope.
What a show! 😃
Were all the ideas and concepts computer generated?
Because one's natural human jealousy is gradually giving way to,
common dog-like human fear. 😨
I think its important to distinguish the difference between "statistical analysis" (facts) & "dreaming things up" (fiction). AIs are designed to analyze truth, or generate art. You would never ask advice from a fiction machine, nor would you expect an analyst to be artful.
We would not have high quality mineral reserves if another civilization occupied earth.
We have mined most of the good stuff and are well into the second and third class ore grades.
Now that nature has the blueprint for intelligence and hands they will appear again!
Ya it doesn't need to make sense, the multiverse did it all. It's magic!
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep lifeforms evolve on this planet and as the song says " it only gets better".
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep it's all a simulation bro!
@@callumbush1 it quite literally isn't possible. information theory states information decays it doesn't magically progress to a higher state. there is no physical process or natural phenomenon that can create such communicative information stored in DNA all life is based on either. Information is an immaterial concept as a reminder.
You can look at random number generator studies on language to see the most basic of basic representation of how the theory is nonsensical. Even beyond singular beneficial mutations miracles proposed it's multiplied in absurdity to purpose another can happen far less compound far less to the point speciation can even be possible. There is a whole list of factors in the logistics that make it ridiculous too with compounding factors.
It's just ridiculous people take it at face value as established science when it literally fits the definition of mythology more than scientific theory.
@@callumbush1 Simulations still required programing... lol
"Earth After Humanity" Many ancient Aliens races looking on might say it would be a better place. That is... if there are ancient alien races... or any aliens or life beyond Earth for that matter. Seems to me if the abundance of life in its many forms over the eons existed on Earth... then life should be everywhere, and I do mean everywhere - life finds a way is the saying... but apparently that is not true, or at least we can't perceive it - which says something about what the Universe or God (your choice) had planned for us - or even if we had a purpose to exist - other than to exist and then die away awaiting the next iteration of... the next 'intelligent' thing. Our human existence just a fraction of a second in the span of Cosmological existence...
"Life finds a way" is survivorship bias; if it hadn't we couldn't be here to ponder the matter - and on all the worlds where it didn't alien people never evolved. The vast majority of species are extinct. The two other rocky worlds in the sun's habitable zone are very dead, from different causes.
The more I learn the more I expect the exact conditions necessary for life to be rare, and the over 4 billion years of (relative) ecological stability needed to evolve a technological civilization to be vanishingly so; the way probability goes exponential as you add in more and more factors that need to be within a specific range - the way they interact and depend on each other - we could easily be the first technological species in the observable universe.
I could easily imagine the planet dominated by intelligent cockroaches.
If a disaster didn't hit the sea too hard, life could radiate from hydrothermal vents, and vastly moving your proposed timelines forward
The Earth will repair itself
The world is hollow and I touched the sky.
I think the most likely niche to survive any of the thinkable cataclysms that don't outright evaporate the seas or crack the earth crust, are deep sea vents. Those have their own food chain including bacteria, worms and crabs. The latter are pretty complex life that could easily evolve into insectoid land animals if any cyanobacteria or/and algae also survive and recolonize the land to serve as food.
Just a reminder despite evolutionary theorys ubiquitous mention in the year 2023 it's still not a worked out nor functional theory. It's almost all conjecture and speculation across the board. There is no magical mindless mechanism that creates communicative information far less increasingly to a higher state than it previously was.
Back in the 70's there was lots of movies about giant bugs killing everybody. I think bugs will kill us. Lol
Literally, I would choose to watch your stuff over Netflix, I'm suprised that you don't have more than a million subscribers
Most people aren’t able to listen to such a long video anymore, sadly. Especially teens have the attention span of a squirrel now
@@viciousyeen6644 I'm 19
@@KeeagnYou are the best exception to that rule. In some ways, you give me hope for the next generation.
@@Deridus I just like science fiction, and this is probably the closest that I'll get to see sci-fi in real life. 🤷♀️
@@Keeagn You would be surprised. I'm only fifteen years older than you, And I have seen the world go from pre-internet to computers in your pockets better than the sci-fi was watching as a kid.
And that's nothing to speak of in regards to cybernetics. If the advances made in those fields are simply staggering.
Re plague... looking at Valley Fever (a fungus) as a civilization threatening possibility.
Fun fact, starfish are bilatrians that evolved radial symmetry. They're not much older than insects and definitely younger than jellyfish and cnidaria.
The stuff we left on the moon would outlast even the pyramids.
I think we're beat in the unselfish category by eusocial animals, but there's not a ton of those to be fair.
Hey say you were looking to build a small sat with lots of cheap thrust orbiting earth , so you think you could use actuators to move say the battery at the centre of it to change the direction of the satellite ? Like left and right movement from changing where the centre of mass is against the speed of orbit ?
I'd like to see an after humanity Earth. I bet it would be pretty cool.
Our biggest advantage or disadvantage is our thinking brain.
NOTIFICATION GANG!!
Number 2, not nuke, 2117, all land creatures gone. Winners: Octopus, squid, cuttlefish, ect.
I'm imagining a Mad Max-style future with packs of Feral Poodles...
You only need a massive natural catastrophe if you assume human technology remains industrial in perpetuity.
In the likely event that we deindustrialize after exhausting economical energy sources, humanity becomes far more subject to environmental pressures. Eventually, even certain, simpler technologies become hard to maintain as metals become rare.
If human technological development is a bell curve instead of a hockey stick, eventually we wind down into a new stone age. At that point, populations will likely be low enough that an asteroid, volcanic eruption, or rapid climate change could wipe us out.
And of course there's the possibility that we simply die off due to background extinction and are outcompeted by human descendants - potentially non-sapient ones - is also possibility.
There is no such thing as exhausting energy resources. We're already looking to transition to renewables which work as long as the sun shines. We have thousands of years of fission fuels in easily extractable reserves & millions with better extraction tech. Geothermal will last many billions of years. We also have hundreds to thousands of years of coal left. Finally we may or may not find controlled substellar fusion to be practical, but we can definitely extend our fission stockpile tremendously with thermonuclear power(project PACER) even if it isn't necessarily optimal. If we do figure out fusion then that's trillions of years of power.
All this assuming we don't spread out to space indefinitely which i find even less plausible than running out of energy here on earth
I think echoecho3155 actually makes a good point about "economical" energy resources. We wouldn't run out necessarily but we do go after easy sources first. When all that's left is the hard to reach stuff, it takes a lot more energy to extract, and you have less left over to run your civilization. So for example, geothermal (@virutech32) would last a long time but with the tech we have today, it's only viable in a few places and you need a large industrial base to produce the tools and machines needed to drill deep enough and also to build the power plant. Same goes for nuclear power. And if we burn all the coal that exists in the ground, climate change is going to kill us off.
@@virutech32 You are correct that there is lots of energy available. However, whether or not that energy is economically viable is another question.
To be economically viable, something must be able to provide a profit. In business, it's monetary - money gained vs. money spent. In energy, it's energy gained vs. energy spent. This is EROI - energy return on investment. If a resource spends too much energy and gets too little in return, it isn't viable.
Most "renewables" are abysmal in this regard. They need vast quantities of energy for manufacture, installation, maintenance, and disposal. Studies show solar at best has an EROI of 5:1 and at worst 0.5:1 - a net loss. This ignores reliability concerns.
Oil and coal originally had very high EROIs. Oil in 1900 was 1,000:1. Today, it's 7:1 in good cases and as low as 1.5:1 with modern tight shale. This is because we exhausted easily accessed deposits and now have to skirt by with much more costly tight shale and low-quality crude. As you can imagine, this can't go on.
Nuclear EROI estimates vary wildly, but the cost of building, fueling, maintaining, and decommissioning reactors along with waste storage is immense, both in energy and money. Uranium is also subject to EROI issues, and some estimate that we'll exhaust useful deposits in the next 90 years or that we're already in production collapse.
Breeder reactors also suffer the same energy and cost issues.
It is true that there's lots of energy in the ground. There's also lots of platinum in freeway waste due to carboraters. Yet no one is making a lucrative career from extracting that platinum. For the same reason, as EROI collapses, energy use will also collapse. At some point, it takes too much energy and money to get too little of either in return.
@@Deep_Sorcery Exactly.
If any animal life survives an extinction event devastating enough to wipe out humanity, it would probably be water bears. In fact, if life elsewhere in the universe is exceedingly rare or even non existent, I’d imagine our descendants seeding planets with water bears and specific microbes to spread hardier forms of life.
3:04 thats 500 million years
It just became a good day
It’s sad to think that when we are gone there will be no more peanut butter cups.
That company your advertising is not a nice company.
"Orth After Humanity" 😍
Love this show!
Have you seen the series, life after humans