What If The Sun Disappeared?
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People in 1 billion years when they find this video will be like: WhO's HeRe AfTeR tHe SuN iS gOnE?
LMAO
No they won’t because the sun won’t be gone it 1 billion years , more like 5 billion years
@@alexroach4544 I know it's not accurate because it's meant to be a joke
At least get the facts right so it was funny lol
@@alexroach4544 well, 41 other people thought it was funny and that's enough to satisfy me
"What will you do with the green screen?"
Michael Stevens: "No".
@Suprith S Banakar 10th B *vsauce music starts playing*
@@stacy8888 jazz music starts playing
it's in fact a blue screen which he made green during editing
@@thermite10k40 My mind is blown 🤯
@@thermite10k40 it’s a blue purple screen dude, little off
i can't believe this video is EIGHT years old. I've been watching vsauce since like 2011 when i was twelve years old, im 22 now, thanks for all the cool education michael
That's amazing
So you have opened your account when you were 9, and you still remember the password, wow
@@TheDoomFan2004 not necessarily that account?
Same!
@@TheDoomFan2004 well,seems like his account is 13 years old so yes. And its not that hard to remember a password
1:27 me when I ask my dad if I’ll ever get a girlfriend
😂
Goated comment
Untrue
underrated comment
Same
Girl: Michael I just like you as a friend.
Michael: or do you
Pip The Robin BUM buh tssh ( The rest of the music plays )
Hey! Vsauce. Micheal here. How do you know if you're friendzoned?
*cue Vsauce music*
his has already married. Also the joke wasn’t that food to get 627 likes
@@eatingbreakfastrocks *Or was it?*
I can just imagine the sun actually disappearing and my family's freaking out and I can just be like "Calm down, I know a video that will explain everything."
youve inspired me to announce the sun us out randomly. one time maybe ill be correct. ill say . see? well no actually you can't.
it would actually be fun
Andrew Havens I now
Andrew Havens XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD
If the sun dies Future Humans haved moved or even colonized hundreds or thousands of planets and we might discover life that could help us... so Earth billions of years from now will be useless, if we evolved into THIS in just a few million years, Imagine just thousands of years from now we will have living humans and habitat-ing them
It's interesting how - theoretically - we'd be better off if the sun disappeared than if the earth would stop spinning.
Sun after seeing this comment
"Aight imma head out"
@@younesseddoughri4252 Ah shit I hope the sun never sees this comment
given how humans are probably like an annoying parasite for earth, loosing the sun is probably gonna be good for it.
Also, we could survive just under the ice using electrolysis of fresh water from a purification system
@@Anonymous-df8it Can you elaborate on this please?
The idea that Earth could fly off for thousands and thousands of kilometers and potentially end up in another solar system and then regenerate is utterly fascinating and I could listen to that theory in depth for hours.
Alternatively it could fly into space debris or into another planet or star. Or it could not end up in the Goldilucks zone of the other solar system. So yea it could happen, but would take quite a bit of luck
@@darkhorse381 tbh it would have a higher chance of ending up in the goldilocks zone than colliding with a star. and it would have a higher chance of developing a new intelligent civilization than hitting another planet.
Vsauce: “Matter cannot disappear”
My nerf bullets: Yeah lol
I don't understand!
@@yourtypicalmoviebro8283 he means he cant find them
@@yourtypicalmoviebro8283 no one can ever find their lost nerf bullets. i thought it was really funny lmao
Just like the socks lol 😂
@mariothemoth do you have a single fact to back that up?
Human Brain: Whoa that's scary. Good thing this is literally impossible.
Monkey Brain: You gotta move to Iceland.
Help I don’t get it.
Hamiltalia Trash same
@@mysstal7216 well did you watch the video?
Hamiltalia Trash Iceland is on earth
Kyle Spafford yes
The fact that life can reemerge even after billions of years of extinction, just goes to show the potential of finding other life on other planets
Not quite.
@@imacat8476 it does, the probability of life on other planets is extremely high. its unconfirmed if there is, but it doesnt change the fact that the probability is kinda high.
Yeah but those planets had to have life first before the extinction so it proves how resilient earth life is
@@Stickman_Productionsit's theorized life starts there. Perhaps all frozen rock planets have life around its thermal vents.
The earth will not be sustain life in 1 billon yrs
Update: it’s 2022 and the sun hasn’t disappeared yet, but I still like to revisit Michael’s older videos.
its 2023 and sun is still there or at least it hasnt been 8 minutes
@@Sar_y I think the suns getting darker
its 2049 the sun is gone.
@@sillyismoftruththanks for the heads up! i'll be sure to evolve into a deepsea extremophile right away
It's 2087, the sun is gone. Thanks for the heads up.
He’s preparing us for when he destroys the sun. A good man
yep
Assassination Classroom.
@DON'T I don't click in the profile of a bot
@DON'T Yeah, I don't. Just like your name is telling me not to.
@DON'T ok
those 2k dislikes were all flat earthers
+Elvin Khudiyev I lost brain cells reading ur comment
Omg XD
flat brainers 😂😂😂😂
considering you had any
They had iq if 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
10:07, the music cue right when he speaks how Earth would be a space ship is so perfectly timed it kinda feels scary.
Who else is here after the sun exploded?
where the fuck am i
It’s so dark here 😢
I hope we can go back to those times 😢
@@proera47you, i like you (platonically, you horny fucks). good job. you have done well. may your life prosper
this guy is like the substitute science teacher everyone loves
you have 69 likes and i dont want to ruin it
@@cycolope8719 replies like these make me the most motivated possible to like the original comment
@@devilpigeon7242 same
@@deadprank947 same
@@TheUnderscore_ same
*Or, is it..?*
NOT THE SAME! :) AH- AHEM-
The earth is flat. Yesterday I went to go to Canada. I also drove up a mountain, and me going up the moutain used the same amount- HELP.. I DON'T HAVE MUCH.. M- of gas as it did to go down, yet going up just by walking would make you more tired.
One of the most epic endings of a video of all time.
For a second I thought you were daily dose of internet lol
Same
Literally same that’s so weird
@Ram Gaming I mean it’s really not, if you squished his icons C a little bit so the top and bottom was flat and mirrored if you would have daily doses D icon, they’re both red letters on a white background with a gap in them, it’s not some crazy coincidence, just similar looking icons.
People are still watching this...
10:08 vsauce do be rapping tho
10:08 Michael starts spitting bars out of nowhere
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH
dam
I’m amazed at how Michael discusses so many unrelated topics and somehow ties them together
cringe
@@asdfswer4657 who asked tho
Ludwig van Beethoven who asked you tho
@@asdfswer4657 before this goes on just s h u t
He get better over time
Click on "What if the sun disappeared?"
TH-cam: up next, "Human Extinction"
Next, “last words”
hey, same here!
Sameeee
GOD DAMN STALKER
kahbn same!
what I found really cool is that the extremophiles at the bottom of the ocean would be both the first life forms on earth and the last in this scenario
And then the first again!
0:58 the transitions are always so amazing lol, the way he makes makes you so interested in something that is not even part of actual topic lol
This would be an awesome premise for a post apocalyptic book.
it really would.
Make it
There is a book that is fairly slimier to this situation. The sun doesn't go away, it's just a Nuclear Fallout kind of situation, the trees dying, the temperatures low, & insanity. The book is called 'The Road'.
SupaDupa03 My writing is total shit. The only area my writing can even be considered mediocre in is comedy sketch writing and this book would not be a comedy.
AgentWashingtub Work on improving your writing then, I'm sure your could come up with something great!
*Sun disappears*
My mom: It's all because of your damn phone.
*Son disappears*
My mom: It’s all because of yo- wait where are you?
me: so why did you give me 200 dollars for my birthday so I could buy one then?
mom: I-
@@JustANervousWreck Lmao
Me: "Fine, I wont give you any light"
Honestly if the sun disappeared my mom would be mad at me for passing late assignments in.
We might even get lucky traveling far enough to get into some other sun's orbit.
What if the short story he mentioned ends with the family accidentally scooping up a pail of hydrogen and then putting it over a fire? Now that’s how you make your story end with a bang!
underrated comment
*Disney Channel laugh track*
Michael as a kid
Teacher: we need the sun to live
Michael: hold my pencil
Lmao
*michael: or do you?
@@xdsuperjam8676 **Vsauce music intensifies**
Puppy ton "hold my crayon*"
Michael: I'm about to end this woman's whole career.
Humans: Oh God the Sun disappeared. How will we ever get warm?
Extremophiles: You guys have a Sun??
Humans would probably live for a while around geothermal stations and in bunkers but I don't know how long they could grow food indoors to stay alive.
@@SpaceRaptor510 They could use electric lamps to grow food. Lamps could be powered by geothermal energy. It would take a lot of energy but it's not an impossible problem.
@@SpaceRaptor510 Also oxygen could be recycled in a closed system, but it would need to be managed super carefully especially if the system was very small... too many humans or too few plants, and they would die.
@@postmorton2493 I find it amazing how resilient mankind is don't you?
@@SpaceRaptor510 Yep. We've adapted to live in every part of the world. It will take nothing short of an apocalypse to kill us off
i like the idea of the only thing left existing after an apocalyptic event being the vsauce videos
I love how he always says "Hey, Vsauce Michael here."
11:05 they’d probably find a Nokia phone with 50% battery left
I am not kidding I am watching this video on a Nokia 3.1 and my battery is at 50%😱😱
@Jimmy Murray well yeah coincidences are cool
@Jim KO Coincidence? I think not!
@@autisti6669 *Illuminati Confirmed!!!*
X files theme plays
Nokia 3310 mate.
6:14 when this song starts in a Vsauce video you know that the human species is doomed
accurate
I read this comment and knew _exactly_ what song you were talking about
Accurate
What is the song
@threetonine facts
Pretty insane to think that the Earth would be relatively fine. I'm thinking, whenever the Sun expands before its death, if humanity is still around, it might be the best to fling ourselves toward some other star, as a spaceship. If we have such technology of course, but it sounds more sustainable than mass production of spaceships to carry us all somewhere else.
If there are infinite parallel universes, that means there are infinite universes where the sun quantum-tunnels away and that would mean that there is a universe, where directly after Michael uploaded this video, the sun would disappear from our sky.
7:28 every female in a 5 mil radius when I put on my Shrek crocs
Deserves more likes
O god stop
Underrated
bruh underrated comment😔✊
Shrek is pretty sexy tbh
what if someone went to sleep at other side of the earth, where it's night ...then the sun dissappears...and they wake up next morning to see its still night and be like "welp , back to sleep." lmao
They would look at their clock and think its broken
+Smooooth mhm lmao
SmallNoob ☆ CS:GO Channel ☆ the moon wouldn't be up, or reflecting light.
Nemesis 5451 hahahaha that one was funny
Nemesis 5451 LOL
The real question is, how would the world react? Surviving is easy if you have access to what you need, but the safe/warm places could easily be conquered by a group as they push out everyone else. How would each nation react? Would people be able to band together to find the best solution? Or would the panic drive everyone apart?
Where have you been the last couple of years?
Easy. The rich would survive and the poor would suffer. Same thing that always happens in our society
No the real question is, why the thumbnail has "SHIT" on sun??
Vsauce's intros are basically hey Vsauce, Michel here, WANNA KNOW THE MEANING OF LIFE
Pluto: WHO'S NOT A PLANET NOW, EARTH???
Lmao
It would still be a planet, what we call a "rogue planet"
You must be fun at parties
+CodeKillerz Nice :)
+Pluto lol
I beat the sun in a staring competition.
Chuck Norris I miss the lever on Conan 😂
Chuck Norris hax
Here’s some other things Chuck Norris can do. 😂
docs.google.com/document/d/1DpBpsO3gZ4qkhMQ-WhkifFojuYvELHFF0NlrVh2LT2M
I'm really disappointed that I discovered Michael now. I'm watching all of his videos, all of them years old, and all of them still feels new. Wow
Imagine if someone made a conspiracy about the Sun disappearing due to quantum tunneling. Wonder how many people would eat it up.
U know shit is about to go on when he raises his eye brow
Idups 2 especially when he stops talking for a second
c
His pfp lol
"Maybe Earth could fall into another orbit"
Then we remove that star.
“Ah shit here we go again”
So keep slingshotting earth to different galaxies in the search for aliens. Good Idea
CallMeAustin lol
So, we symbolically become a black hole?
@@urielacosta2329 What?
Who’s here after we fell into another orbit in 3,927,194,966 AD
Thanks micheal i always had a fear of the sun disapearing and i wouldnt be able to see my mom in my last moments but youve mad me learn and erase that fear
Michael is so awesome, he uses a green screen... and keeps it green!
yes and even used a green laser for his deathstar
@@darthvader2763 deathstar... or the sun
he greenscreened a greenscreen
Or does he?
@@TheReimaginedGamer BONG!
Lets go back to 1943 where a green background was used in pictures to......
Mom: "Open those curtains, you need some sunlight!"
Me:
Or do you?
Vsuce: well sunlight is cuased by u cuse of jupiters mass and force wich is 222 also is the blood brain cells that dont help in tests
Agreed
@@blokhed1460 did u miss spell on purpose
@@blokhed1460 you have way less than 222 briancel lmao
I love how Michael makes things that are really complex so easy to comprehend😂
i used to watch all your videos growing up. going back watching old ones takes me back to when i was like 9 years old. i’m 19 now on a study abroad trip and now i go back watching old videos so i don’t feel so lonely. thank you michael ❤️
Do you ever just have an existential crisis while listening to the music at the end?
Yes
Every.freaking.video
especially in the quasar/brightest things video
I’m not high yet.
YESSSDSS
*Hits blunt*
Vsauce films himself in front of a green screen, so it's easier for us to make memes.
R E A L S H I T
YOOO
holy *F U C C*
Lol
pretty much
It's so calming to hear Michael talk about a different hypothetical doomsday. And he still gave it an optimistic ending!
I was always told that in case sun disappeared, we'll be receiving light for ~8.3 light minutes. But I always thought that we'll drift into open space immediately. This video answered the question, "Gravity waves propagate at the speed of light". As someone with finance background, this video very lucidly summed up everything.
I thought the exact same thing. Now Im confused. I thought gravity was relayed (or whatever the term is) instantly
@@falkerjones8249no, gravity also travels at the speed of light
@@falkerjones8249 Nothing is faster than the speed of light.
wish school science was like this
MD Haque Zamasu wanted this kind of school but was destroyed.
same
how to make any vsauce video:
Step 1) What is this?
Step 2) It does this
Step 3) or...does it
Step4) Eyy yo wat tha fuk is the universe
Dennis McKim- and as always thanks for watching part
XDDD
Step 2) Where are your fingers?
Ikr 😂😂😂😂
😂😂
Vsauce, your videos are so informative and so easy to understand, you explain things so nicely and the animations are a big plus!
I've been going to places where the sun never shines since 1964.
With organized speleology to learn, locate and explore. In 2021
I was invited to go party with that sort of crowd who by their own
cartography had surveyed 150 miles where no others of our species
had previously trod. Didn't you get the memo ?
When he called extremophile microorganisms "earthlings", it blew my mind. He's right. Every living organism on earth, no matter how small, is an "earthling". I mean, I know that, but I didn't KNOW know that until now.
I felt the exact same way!!
Me too lol
We all literally came from the earth.
@@triplethegrowth everything everywhere came from the same something
*Sun Disappears*
*Yellowstone erupts 1 year later, killing the rest of humans *
Camper Josh yeah i agree we should destroy sun
GDpaprica ' let's send a trillion lions to attack it at night. The sun won't even know what hit it.
Camper Josh what’s your reasoning there? Did you not watch the video?
Camper Josh appears to be an extremophile.
Camper Josh We wouldn’t survive past a month. We would all freeze to death.
If the sun disappeared, it wouldn't make a difference to gamers who stay inside all day.
@@MonsterIsABlock are u mad at a comment?
Every where I go I see your name in the comments... Except heavy metal music videos
I am taking my position right now before you blow up
Oh hello there, rare to see a comment of yours with so little likes
I like how Michael asked a question and then answers that question with another question that's super unrelated and then he continues and then ties them all in the end with a neat bow
"earth would be shot out of orbit"
I sleep.
"The water and sap inside trees would freeze"
WAIT NO NOT THE MAPLE SYRUP-
Real shit
Lol canadian boi
Mi pancakes and waffles!!!!
My life worries
username checks out
4:00 throwback to when TH-cam looked like this
god i miss it so much
You may actually be able to revert the way youtube looks with cookies. Problem is it may be difficult to find the ones you want anymore. And most likely at some point it will get outdated and won't work. Just a heads up if you can find them :P
@@omenakookos Oh, it's not even that anymore. It's the fact that TH-cam was run completely differently back then and it was just way better. I really would prefer the 2008/2009 website if it still existed. I loved clicking on channels and seeing their crap on the left side with all their content in the middle. It felt like the site had alot more care put into it back then. Now it's all about ad placement, trending videos, and the recommendation algorithm that I _swear_ isn't recommending the "important videos" playlist to me for the umpteenth time.
I clicked it and I was thrown into an ad
aaaaahhhh the good ol' youtube
6:57 The way Michael pronounces “liquified rock” is a pleasure to my ears
Bro, I got chills at the end. Great stuff!
Mom: Raising a child is so expensive
Dad: I know I wish there was something we could do
Dad: 1:01
Edit: Now that I have everyones attention, lets start an argument. Stfu
Bruh
You got me thinking for a minute
its big brain time
maybe stop being poor lmao
[screams in Russian] I know it’s a joke but that’s just a little offensive to poor people
WHO`S WATCHING IN 400787?
+Ingrid Kagge without the sun there is no time or years :)
+HaiLsKuNkY Well actually we have defined seconds and, therefore, hours, days, and years in terms of a hydrogen atom, which is exactly the same whether or not the sun is there. So, without the sun there, in fact, would be years.
Watching in 999999999999999999999 +infinity year 😜
+Ingrid Kagge im watching in 1994
+HaiLsKuNkY It will still exist, watches and clocks wil still works
I remember watching this back when it first came out and the chills/goosebumps at 11:00 when the music starts playing with the message.
10 years has passed and the video is still amazing
10:52 You know shit gets real, philosophical, and deep thought provoking when that bass line fades in.
BLACKMETALWILL how to identify a metalhead lol....bass reference
anugrih shukla bass reference?
When that right eyebrow raises, you know stuff is about to get real.
😂😂
🤨
I can do both🤣
its been 8 years and its still so good
10:32 or about 100,000 love you's.
What
@@bait5257"Ly" is also short for "love you"
That ending made me feel good.
Gamer_Kid_Naz
It's the type of ending that Vsauce makes
Oh yeah
me too
Gamer_Kid_Naz it's so satisfying
What if..... This already happened millions of years ago and we are the new 'all over' life forms?
What if...... The formation of the earth that we know, is just the beginning of a new era?
That would explain those head statues and the rock formataions😱😱😱
STRaNgErDaNgA or the iron cups and stuff they've found in coal.
A enourmous mass disappearing in a blink against all physic and logic? unlikely.
That's why life is intresting
Rayyan Khurram They say if someone discovers the true meaning of life, life would instantaneously cease to exist, and will be replaced by something even more esoteric. They say this has happened already.
I love this man. he has me asking questions I wouldn't think about asking. I wonder what the moon would do in this scenario... how much of the moon's rotation depends on the sun or if it's just the earth.
havent watched an episode of michael from vsauce since I was a kid, as soon as the music hit, nostalgia. brings me back to simpler times
Alternatively, a future civilization could uncover, not a vsauce video, but a dolan dark shitpost...
le Beast They'd be retards in science and math, but the peak of a cultural civilization.
the best thing for them to uncover would be memes i can figuratively imagine their faces
"So, this is one of the ways they entertained themselves? These were one of the first intelligent us like-life forms? Okay... Yeah."
le Beast they will uncover Shädman comics
le Beast about vsause
Anyone else re-watching Vsauce's old videos because of how much time it takes him to make one nowadays?
He needs more space stuff lol
Right here
Same.
yes!!!
yup
I love this content for so reason that i just watch these on loop sometimes
This is my favorite Vsauce video by far
V sauce is the kind of guy to eat popcorn when the credits start rolling
V sauce is the kind of guy to read a book in a brothel
Vsauce the kind of guy to call a Z4 a Supra.
@@taleeftamsal1024 good one
And tell you at the end the space time continuum created the cernals
A god
You know, we could be that civilization.
o.O
Interesting.
*Cue the Twilight Zone music*
OCDTraci
Tip of the cap to ya.
Alex MIND BLOWN
Imagine if Michael said “Hey, Vsauce, Michael here. What would happen, if the sun disappeared? You would die.” *outro plays*
You sir are great at creating writing prompts
1:15 Mr. Vsauce, I dont feel so good...
Lol
I don't wanna go
Psh hahaha
lmao
More like Mr. Sun
I consider myself smart, until i see vsauce............
your not alone
Ironically these videos are supposed to make you smarter.
Pan kurczak Hey this is youtube this is not school I'm not supposed to use punctuation and other stuff in our writing.
Pan kurczak TRIGGERD RUN GRAMMAR POLICE
Pan kurczak then i made up my own langue OHHH MYYY IIII MADE MY OWN LANGUAGE!!!!MY INFLUENCES THO im going to call it English 9.5
“Matter can not disappear”
My father: “Hold my beer”
A movie showing these events would be very interesting, despite it would require a very creative reason for a sun to just vanish instantly, maybe a worm hole sending it to another point at space? i don't know..
Look up The Wandering Earth
6:21 well I’m from Iceland, and I can safely say there is not enough room for more than 5 million people
Well just 5 million people will survive
Well Iceland is bigger than Czechia, Portugal and Hungary, countries with 10 million people each
Well Iceland is bigger than Czechia, Portugal and Hungary, countries with 10 million people each
Just like how india can fit 1.32 billion people, so...
Letranger •
*B U I L D U P*
I'd rather the Sun disappear than expand and roast us.
Also, we could use geothermal energy to heat the Earth, and create artificial plants that separate the oxygen from the carbon dioxide. Perhaps, eventually, we would be able to go into space and rebuild the Sun!
+rdococ
We should have colonies on other stars by the time the sun eats the Earth.
+Techi Humans wouldn't exist anymore
San Antonio
Says who?
Techi
Evolution
This scenario could make a pretty good anthology series tbh
Yes . I too got goosebumps at end z
.
This guy created this video 9 years ago and I don’t even know 9 years back they TH-cam existed . Great michael
Pluto: WHO'S A PLANET NOW, EARTH??
Earth: Well, im still a planet, but im a *Rogue Planet.*
😂
Earth: Screw you, I'm a spaceship now.
Pluto: INTERNAL ANGERY
Michael: we don’t need to discuss this
But let’s do it anyway
Why was this comment necessary?
inxane有害な why was your reply necessary
NoLxve why was your reply about the reply about the comment necessary
@@genespir4lz247 Why was your reply to the reply of my reply necessary?
inxane有害な why was your reply about my reply about NoLxve’s reply about your reply about the comment necessary
Vsauce: "Matter cannot dissapear"
My Pen that pretty obviously vanished from existence: Hold my beer.
Can you imagine if we one day discover something on Earth that points towards the exact theory that there was intelligent life, before its star vanished? That we weren't here first, we are actually the aliens?