How Long Can Humans Outrun Extinction?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In a few million years, we’re going to have to leave Earth if we want to survive. But how long can we actually outrun extinction before the universe becomes uninhabitable to us?
Host: Reid Reimers
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Corrections: At 8:48 and 10:19, the graphics say 10^32 and 10^99, respectively. They should be 10^33 and 10^100! Thanks to everyone who double-checked our math!
Oh, that changes everything!
If you have to double check what a googol is, you shouldn't be doing science videos -.-
Your welcome, of course that little issue do not change the message of the video. Keep doing nice videos, thanks to you.
not an issue, I cannot even fathom out anything to a power of more then 33 zeroes years....lol
One google years later...
I usually get my monthly dose of existential dread from Kurzgesagt, so thanks for this nice little extra dose!
Crash Course Astronomy did a piece called "Deep Time". Similiar to this and gives you the most dreadful feeling when it is over.
Joe Scott is my main existential dread dealer, personally.
I know right! Lol
@@powerstation0872 Answers With Joe! Lol. He's cool. I like his stuff.
If you want existential hope rather than dread I recommend Isaac Arthur. He tends to veer towards the more optimistic side of things.
Idk if humans can outlive protons decaying, but I'll give it a try
Fair enough; don't mind me putting my money on the protons
I like your can-do attitude.
McMexicans Considering proton decay hasn’t been proven (obviously, one would have to spontaneously decay for us to know) odds are we will
@@l1ghtd3m0n3 Details, details; have you not the GUTs to gamble every now and then? Plus, ol' SUSY is practically the only horse racing in town...
just go to another universe
@SciShow Space Yes, Please make longer videos from time to time.
In any case, keep up the good work, it is highly appreciated.
Longer is better, k thnx bye
Upvote for this
Please? I like my mind blowing up for at least 10 minutes like with this video. thank you very much
Mo’ longer = Mo’ betta
Keep up the excellent content. Good job 👍.
Longer is better IFFF the fast cut format is dropped. I can stand only a few SciShows before the presentation just wears me out. There hasn't been time limits on youtube vids in forever. Some moments of silence would make interesting material even more so.
"THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
Well done you , surprised that no one else picked up on this reference .
What's the reference
Well done
@@spiritualopportunism4585 "the last question" a short story by an author whose name I keep forgetting, if you look it up in youtube you'll find narrated versions
Idle Villager I prefer the egg
“This is a big topic so we made two videos about it”
*laughs in Issac Arthur*
Hahaha, I was thinking the exact same thing. I do love his channel, but my brain can only take so much before it Goes "hu wha? Nope I'm out" and I find myself at the end of one of his vids just dribbling slightly and staring at the screen, lol.
Us: Oh, no! The universe is going dark!
Isaac Arthur: Hold my beer.
😃😃😃 YES! Thank you! I was starting to think no one down here would mention him.
Arthursday!
I think you mean.
Us: Oh, no! The universe is going dark!
Isaac Arthur: Hold my coffee.
"You're probably going to want to get a snack and a drink"
If the remnants of neo-humans survive the big crunch and get to see Big Bang 2.0
That would be interesting
Poor thanos... thinking resources were the problem. The true enemy is entropy.
Watch Madoka Magica.
Nah, to tackle entropy Thanos needed a gauntlet with about 120 infinity stones
Let's make a contract.
No it’s capitalism
Александр Курицын LOL good one
Milkomeda sounds like a medicine for people who are lactose intolerant
I vote for the name Androm-lactea
It's Milkdromeda get it right. !
That's why I think we should call it 'Milky & Romeda' (or Andro-Milk Way)
I had heard it was Milkdromeda, which I think is a little better, but still not a great alternative.
What about Lactomeda?
SciShow: In a few billion years things are going to get rough.
Issac Arthur: Hold my drink and my snack.
I'll be honest, I was just scanning the comments looking for Isaac Arthur references. Shoutouts to SciShow for talking about stealing energy from black holes, but I'm kinda bummed they didn't talk about starlifting.
Isaac Arthur merely holds the distinction of being even more optimistic than scishow. You don't need to wait billions of years, a few hundred will do. The coyote has got a better chance of catching the roadrunner than mankind has of surviving the next 10 thousand years.
The Dr Who episodes about the End of the Universe were some of my favorites - don't know why I have such a macabre fascination with the end of everything; maybe I just want to know the punchline at the end.
There's no punchline, just a restaurant.
The punchline's already written:
th-cam.com/video/vA2vCG6WwQA/w-d-xo.html
If you think that's good, you should watch the outer limits series revival from the late 1990s. At least half of the episodes ended with the extinction of humanity, that's not an exaggeration, I literally mean it.
The end of the solar system, the death of sol was the first episode I saw. Stopped watching when they introduced the stripper and the pacing was well off. At that point I gave up and stopped watching TV entirely
Having an existential crisis after watching this, then I realized I won’t be around. Somehow it’s comforting knowing I’ll be dead so I don’t have to die later. Thanks scishow
Being dead doesn't seem like such a big deal honestly. I mean I already spent some 13 billion years not existing, so I know I am very good at not existing.
hey guys lets nuke the sun
Idk, If you look at how fast technology is evolving now, and the difference we made in only a 1000 years.... who knows what kind of problems we'll have solved by then. We might be able to actually manipulate the universe into not expanding, create our own stars etc. We're talking millions of years!
@@Jazzisa311 We'd have to become a type 4 civ for that to happen.
@@Njaldbut think about how much you missed.
Isaac Asimov's 1955 story "The Last Question" is very applicable to this.
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"Let there be light"
I love that story. Glad someone already mentioned it!
@@Cpt_John_Price Wow - I never connected the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to "The Last Question". I read them years apart.
Never read that one. But I loved foundation.
@@chaunceyhulbert7264 Here it is .. www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Bruh
I just wanna make it through today alive
Tomorrow would also be nice
9 months later.................
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M Whitelaw
Bloody hell! Why you gotta be gross like that? Damn, people are disgusting on TH-cam.
Well, even at the end of the universe, it seems the end will be a calm and slow one. Not something violent. And that’s comforting.
Instead of Milkdromeda lets call it Andromeda Lactea.
The Icelandic word for the Milky Way is "The Winter's Path" which, if I may frank, sounds a lot cooler than the Milky Way
AMEN!
Sci-show calls it Milkomeda. I always heard Milkdromeda. I like Milkdromeda better. Then again, I like yours even better.
Andromedy Way
Andromeda’s Way?
I want to see you guys do longer videos in general. On every topic.
And I mean longer with science content, not with longer ads for skillshare, just to clarify.
check out isaac arthur
😆😆😆😆😁😁
@9:03 I can't believe you missed a perfect opportunity: "I think we can agree... that's a Yotta Years!"
Excellent video. Very well produced and expertly narrated. Thank you for sharing this great knowledge.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm liking these longer videos. They go more in-depth and give a more complete explanation of the phenomena discussed. Keep up the good work, folks!
That extremely long lived being that exists on little amounts of energy will of course resemble a pink bunny with a drum. It will keep going and going.
So we've only got a few billion years to come up with something better than "Milkomeda".
Unfortunately, it's not likely that we'll do any better than "Galaxy McGalaxyFace".
Still better.
Lol
Andromeda McMilky Face?
Look in mythology?
Lactose Intolerance
Utter Punch
Rammington Cheese
Cow Slam
however the world ends, people will still be arguing about it on the internet when it happens.
Or they'll be making memes about it 🤷♀️ 2 different sides of the internet 😂😂😂
*Mentally sending angry messages to that bastard Clyde who lives around the neighboring black hole using whatever the internet becomes* But yeah, I sincerely doubt people will ever stop arguing lol
I loved the longer episodes guys but I also like the short ones too so maybe throw a long one in there every once and a while. Keep making amazing videos and stay safe out there :)
Today I set my own personal record for consecutive days lived. Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can break that record.
This episode was so frikkin cool. I though I would crawl up in a corner and have an existential crisis but instead I just sat in awe of how epic time and space is and all the opportunities we have. Great episode!
Just let the internet decide on the combined galaxy name...
In before Galaxy Mc Galaxy Face
Milky Mc AndroFace?
So that the commitee that organizes the thing can rip everyone off and name a lousy nebula after that
I vote we call it "Bob"
Milky Way 2: Electric Boogaloo
A few minutes before this video was uploaded, *SciShow* released one called "When Will We All Die?: The Statistics of Human Extinction".
Is there something you know that you are trying to get us prepared for?
The future maybe?
"The Catastrophe Series" by Ben Davidson on the Suspicious Observers channel.
*BE PREPAAAAAARED!*
its like kids in school copying homework with a few different words in it.
Yeah, there is. It's called reality.
I really like the longer format. Makes for good content beyond just headlines and bullet points.
2:42 repeated asteroid flybys
The best way to move Earth: fleets of giant spacecraft whose orbits are pumped up with solar sails and engineered gravity passes past Jupiter & Saturn. Steal angular momentum from the giant planets and deposit it into Earth. The larger the spacecraft involved the bigger the helpings of angular momentum can be transferred with each pass. Such a project to move Earth into the asteroid belt would "only" take 40-50 million years.
Ultimately, though, we may conclude that planetary surfaces are not very efficient at providing habitat. Spinning habitats are about a million times more effective at providing habitat pound for pound. And habitats are wildly more relocatable than planets.
Great idea for a T-shirt: "Make the most of the next 800 million years" - 'cause after that, we have to Get the Heck out of Dodge!!
Me: Why don't scientists name things in space anymore, cataloging serials are boring!
Scientists: When the Milky Way collides with Andromeda we should call it Mildromeda! No wait, _Milkomeda!_
Me: Nevermind.
Androway ... as Andromeda is the bigger galaxy, it should get top billing.
@@AvangionQ
The size was recalculated. It's now believed that Andromeda and Milky Way are the same size.
Andrilky Way
@@universe1225 Or Andromeda Way
@@OneCut1Slash I heard they found out the Milky way is actually much bigger than Andromeda. The Milky way is the biggest galaxy in our local cluster..
I hope humans will live forever and never die out
probably this is the only video which boosts up my confidence rather than all other videos just saying that humans will go extinct very soon very very soon. i liked this video just coz of the confidence it boosts in us and also the inspiration for humans to fight out such a disaster themselves..but thank you for this video very much
Scishow up in here making me feel like a tiny insignificant speck in the vastness of time.
At one point, a million years in the future, your descendants will be legion. That makes you literally the most important person ever, for entire planetary populatons, as far as they are concerned.
@@Alexander_Kale lol who said I'll have any descendants at all?
@@Naiadryade well, in that case you will have to live a million years yourself to make a difference of similar magnitude. Honestly, just having a few kids sounds way easier...
we pretty well are , lol
This manages to be depressing and hopeful at the same time 🤔
i call it hopressing !
Yea, the timescale is so comforting in a weird way
"Keep taking care of the planet we have" ?
I think you mean, "Stop destroying the planet we have."
@Virtual Sky Tate Not True humankind with his present technologies can do a great amount of damage to the life on the planet perhaps even wipe it out except for tardigrades ;-), but we can't destroy the planet. To break the molecular bounds between all the thousands of miles of rock requires magnitudes more energy then humankind has control over. Think about it Earth survived the late heavy bombardment , millions of years of small and gigantic asteroids falling down from space almost daily. Some of them containing more energy then all the atomic bombs combined.
@Virtual Sky Tate I'm sure we couldn't *destroy* the biosphere. Life is pretty damn durable, almost as much as the planet itself. We could, however, render the planet inhospitable for most complex life. Basically, life after the worst effects of global warming is going to be incredibly harsh, and I don't want that to happen, so we have to fix what's happening right now. I live on the coast, and my whole state will definitely be underwater when the ice caps melt. Though considering how most of the world views Florida, they probably think that's a good thing.
@@dplocksmith91 "I'm sure we couldn't destroy the biosphere."
We are and we will all die of hypoxia as oxygen runs out. Acidification of the oceans from global warming is killing off photosynthetic life in he oceans and they produce 70% of the O2 we breath. A sharp non-linear decay in O2 levels has begun and the extinction clock is ticking.
Killing off 70% of human life will be required if we don't reverse global warming quickly.
@@randar1969 it's not molecular bonds holding the earth together, it's gravity
@Virtual Sky Tate sure, blame the witches
Dude! Reid! You're quickly becoming my fav host! You're so funny! You & one other keeps me laughing & liking Sci Show!
How about Andromeway? It makes me think of "Oh himaway~" in the song "In the Jungle".. :P
Oh! I have this hypothesis.. [..that I recently learned some physicists are actually researching~ :3 ] ..that the "Big Bang" was actually a single super-supermassive black hole that had taken in too much anti-gravity (since not even light can escape the gravity of a black hole as space is curved to the point that EVERYTHING falls into them) which caused it to "explode", or.. more like rapidly expand as the force of anti-gravity overcame the force of gravity within the black hole~ Much like how massive stars explode at the end of their lifespan, I believe black holes do the same! I mean.. think about it.. The universe supposedly started from an infinitesimally small point, right? What are black holes? Unimaginably dense objects compressed into an infinitesimally small point! What if black holes have a life cycle similar to stars & over 10^30+ years eventually explode to fill their locality with all of the energy needed to begin a new universe? Just as stars take lighter elements & make heavier elements in their cores, black holes are the reverse.. taking all elements in & breaking them don't into their smallest component, which for now we believe are quarks (I think)! Yin & yang, y'all! If so, we'd have new universes starting with new "Big Bangs" all over the place & at different times creating a multiverse! Sure- Humanity may not survive to ever travel to nor witness such new universes being born... but I feel that the multiverse has no end nor any beginning~ ^_^ Just different points in time where new universes are born while old ones die, just like every other cycle known to humanity~
Love this guy, he should do all the videos.
This was my fav SciShow episode of all time
Isaac Arthur did a lot of studies in that! He even has his own youtube channel!
Has some pretty interesting stuff over there-
@SFIA
yea he makes great videos
Compared to the episodes of Isaac Arthur, this one from SciShow looked more like intended for younger viewers. That's good also, might wake interest for these deep but essential questions 👍🏻
Isaac has some interesting ideas, but his solutions are flamboyantly pie-in-the-sky and don't account for the fragility and interdependence of our current civilization, and don't adequately account for the human stupidity element. Namely that we tend to ignore problems until they are undeniable, and we are more likely to panic about the symptoms (like mass migration, water shortages, economic instability, etc) and start killing each other off before the actual threats do.
Here's his "Civilizations at the End of Time" playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLIIOUpOge0LvHsTP5fm8oxB1qPS54sTMk.html
Who proposed the name milkdomeda, Vince McMahon?
Beter than "Andromilk".
Vince* let's call it milkdomeda, the granddaddy of galaxy's, bigger LONGER THEN EVVVVER.
Well it was either that or The galaxy experience
@@AustDingo 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Had a random conversation on this a few days ago, and Andromilk got thrown out. I said it sounds too much like male lactation to be a good galaxy name.
These guys talking about extinction in millions of years and so far 2020 looking like the last one to me.
I know. Millions ? Billions ? The smartest guys on earth are guessing 100 years tops !
You're an idiot if you think that. What's going to kill us before the end of the year? Crissakes it's July, we're already more than halfway through the year, extinction had better hurry up if it's going to get us by year's end. But this millennium will be the last one almost certainly. Just look at the number of existential threats. The 2nd half of the 20th century was spent by everyone shivering in their boots worrying about nuclear war. The odds of it happening in those 50 years was PROBABLY better than 50% and we literally beat a worse-than-cointoss-odds great filter. But you know what that means? That the odds are probably at least 50% per century just from nuclear war alone. Which means surviving for 1000 years is a coinflip followed by a coinflip followed by a coinflip followed by 7 more coinflips and extinction happens if they don't all come up heads. And now unlike the 20th century, it's no longer the only existential threat. And others will emerge, the longer humans are around the more there will be. My money is on a genetically engineered supervirus, basically airborne rabies. Something 100% lethal, with a 30 day incubation period before symptoms and only a day or 3 before it is contagious, so that the whole world can be infected before anyone knows the disease exists. And if that doesn't happen, there will be others, things you can't even imagine yet.
I think it was a joke. Plus if the chance of nuclear war was a coin toss each year, we would have been dead long ago. World War 2 used nukes, and that didn't destroy the world. Maybe 2 cities.
@@medexamtoolscom Think about making the switch to decaf and learning what a joke is.
Mother nature was like wait guys... Hold my beer
I enjoy deeper dives into topics. Keep them coming!
I'm a big fan of the longer videos! It would be great to see more of them :)
At least you gave some hope. Some TH-cam channels that tackle this subject pretty much just says we're all going to die very very soon. So thank you for that.
Right? Like, shut up. They're just doing that for views.
Androway would be much more catchy name
Yes! That other name, Milkomeda, just sounds so lame imo.
Milkdromeda sounds the best
Andr-ay the Giant?
I'd prefer Andromeda Way
How about 'Milky & Romeda' (or Andro-Milk Way)?
Absolutely brilliant. I loved this episode... haven’t checked in with SciShow in a while and I’m so glad I did today. Thanks for making complex ideas accessible for those of us who suck at math. I’m probably older than your target demographic, but I hope I can keep watching your stuff until the heat death of the universe🙏
Imagine we became so developed we could theoretically hop into different universes but we eventually find a universe where life doesn't exist but the laws of physics are similar this means we could just live infinitely across many dimensions!
If we become "so developed" I don't think hoping into universes will be "theoretical" anymore.
Issac Aurthur: Hold my snack and my drink...
This comment wins the internet!
Issac Arthur: Hold my snack and my dwink... FTFY
End of the world...
Isaac Arthur: HOLD MY BEER
Yeah, they lost me at that whole "sun dying" thing. Isaac wouln't allow such a silly thought experiment on his channel. Letting the sun do its thing is just wasteful.
If all else fails, he will just haul the Earth off somewhere else
Or coffee, perhaps, knowing the running gag on his channel. :P Sun dying? IF we're still around by then (or perhaps some other intelligent species has evolved--we'll still call them "people" in general) we'd TOTALLY have starlifted it into a much longer-lived red dwarf _and_ be like, at least K2. At least.
Depends on if you are a pessimist or an optimist, this is something we currently just can not know, how far technologically advanced will we be even in 50 years we have no clue. I do hope we don't mess it up tho and get over this teenage era of humanity.
Precisely! Who cares about what could we do in a billion years if we simply wipe ourselves out in a few decades away from now, just because we look or talk different... Sad.
find the reboot button to the universe and push it when everything disappears. if we can't go on, at least we can make sure that it won't be the end of everything forever and give the chance for something new to exist.
I think we're closer to early puberty at best.
Us as a species can't handle the technology to come. It shall consume us or destroy us. Only plausible outcomes. Enjoy the next 20 to 30 years before the world starts to get really crazy...
Justin Higgins define “consume”
This is now possibly my favorite Scishow episode EVER, and I've been subscribed for a few years. Tremendously entertaining and it taught me about theories I had never known about before. Awesome, awesome job.
"Mars is the closest"
Venus: Am I a joke to you?
Well Venus is closer to the sun than Earth or Mars so going there to escape the sun's expansion wouldn't be a good idea.
Yes, Venus. You are.
That will get eaten by the sun and it’s already too hot there, so that’s why we look to Mars.
Venus is not the closest planet to Earth if Venus happens to be in the Sun.
@@GoofusPlays that's actually the case with every planet
I love when videos make me feel horrible existential dread. thank you scishow
Have you seen the Timelapse of the Future video? The Earth is completely destroyed by around the 3 minute mark and the video as a whole is _half an hour long_ . :P
(But seriously it's cool and badass. Just...maybe don't watch it at night.)
Vsauce is a great way to feel existential dread
"The answer by demonstration would take care of that... step by step, it must be done.
LET THERE BE LIGHT."
Just so we can say Asimov isn't a _complete_ bore - by all means, do
If content and commentary support longer videos, then yea. This was a very good vidy : )
Sooo a multivers is our only hope?
I don’t like those odds...
Yes - more longer episodes please! Thanks so much for your efforts!
Many of the videos covering this topic have been very bleak. I love the tone of this video and optimism. Resilience, determination and optimism can carry us far further than being pessimistic. The possibilities are near endless.
Abandoning the earth because we can't be bothered to save it, allowing the Sun to fry our burgeoning martian ecology, abandoning our home system because we cannot be bothered to keep it habitable, not collecting the resources to keep our sun going, I see little determination or resillience in this...
Sorry, no, reality is bleak, and if we don't operate based on reality we are making poor decisions, which lead to poor outcomes, as is evidenced throughout all of human history. We need to get our crap together and face reality, and face ourselves.
@@dustman96 Reality is brutal, not bleak. Pretty much by definition, because "beauty" is something we define, the parameters given to us by evolution - and we see it everywhere. Even in desolation, if Buzz Aldrin is anyone to judge.
the comment section has been rather bleak in its assessment of human intelligence, present thread excepted
Earth: Get them off meeeee!
Other planets: Seriously, this "organic life" infection is getting bad. She's burning up and I think it' about to go contagious!
Never researches show, that it's possible, that even asteroids can be "infected" by it. So every planet that is only a bit able to substain live - will have this "organic life" disease.
Short answer: We'll probably find the infinity stones before then, so it'll all be good.
7:25
"Ashen One, hearest thou my voice still?"
Ah yes, a man or woman of culture.
Truly, we will be ash seeking embers.
4:30 - The sun goes out. "Without a good heat source, there's no usable energy." This overlooks nuclear fission as a fuel source, which is energy dense and can be run essentially forever.
What fuel are you going to use, jordana? Fuel runs out, waste builds up.
Meh.
I prefer the name Andromeda Way.... Just because... Its logical.
but it wouldn´t make sense anymore. kinda.
we need something short.
Mida.
idk.
Milkdromeda sounds fine but i mean it won’t matter in the end lol
Andromeda Way sounds like a great name for a mediocre teen sitcom.
Don't forget the triangulum galaxy!
Hey that's exactly what I said.
Physics is awesome.. and terrifying!
@scishowspace Please continue to make longer episodes. I really enjoy your channel
Love it as always and a very powerful message at the end
I'd love more longer videos like this, more room to go further in detail, more information, and you guys will take a net positive as well by going above the ten minute mark
every star: *dies*
the universe: once you go black, you never go back
I was the 42nd like. I feel something special has taken place here.
@@UserName-us1nm is your life all its about? just about likes and numbers on social media? Shaming.
The year counter at the bottom is off by one power of ten teach time... A Googol is 10^100, not 10^99 for example. The number of zeros after the 1 is the power. For example 1=10^0, 10=10^1, 100=10^3, etc
Yep... I soooo didn't want to be the picky guy (bless-ya Joe) but it bugged me too... maybe they were getting confuddled with thinking 1x10^33 wasn't the same as 10^33. Nice vid though. Best wishes, Mark.
Yes, more long videos, that was excellent.
Opened this video with video with a tongue roll. Really opened it with style!
Keep slamming out these awesome videos!
That's a lot of years to figure out how to beat entropy. Entropy is a tough end boss, but with that much time I think we have a shot.
And everybody on _every_ server who has specced far enough into the Brain Complexity tree will be working on it, too, so...
(WOOT TIER ZOO and also I meant either aliens, or humans on colonies that have been seperated long enough to become new species. Or both!)
"THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
If we can terraform Mars, we can build orbital starshades to cool Earth.
We don’t even need that. Larger, higher orbiting shades is the best long term solution as far as efficiency but super thin tiny reflective squares of some material (essentially shiny confetti) in LEO would be enough, and that’s something we can already do.
@@Nosirrbro
But the shades give you control over when and where the sun gets through.
@@Nosirrbro Sounds like Kessler Syndrome
@@lordgarion514 Of course, and as I said mega structure style shades are a far better solution, my primary point is that through crude methods we can already accomplish this, let alone whatever we can manage in hundreds of millions of years, so it seems ridiculous to say we will have to or want to or even consider abandoning Earth for that reason.
That's also one of the ideas for terraforming Venus. :) Get it not only cool enough for humans to live on, but SUPER cold, so that all that carbon dioxide _snows_ out of the atmosphere, and THEN start warming it back up, with a more human-friendly atmosphere this time...
When our time is up? No problem we'll just hop on over to an alternate universe, and repeat the process... Get on that multiverse train!
When everything cools to absolute zero , everything goes away , there is no matter, there is no time
The only way we can survive is setting aside our differences, putting together our rescoures, not leaving a single one of us behind and working towards a common goal.
some people deserve to be left behind for example pedo
New nickname for the new galaxy:
#ImperiaGalactica
I like Andromeda Way, sounds like a road name
All the technology I’m going to miss...
I’ve always wanted a usb that can be plugged in upside down :(
USBC?
I love videos like this! Thank you 🙏
Finally? A video that didn’t have a sponsor mention every 5 minutes!
That far-off in the future civilization must try to find the ludicrous way to leave this universe, which no one of today really knows how that would work.
And besides, this universe can't be that all that is.
You have a point.
Keep taking care of the planet we have
Me: smiles with hope... looks over
Amazon rainforest: on fire...
Toughen Up, Fluffy shhhhhhhhhhhhh😉
Start caring for Earth by banning capitalism and its reliance on infinite growth with finite resources.
People : We gonna die with the heat death
Bold of you to asume we'd be so primitive as to still experience death until then
Or that we would even see the heat death and something else wouldn't think it's feeling cute and would destroy humans as a sport
Yes for longer videos!!! Love ya!
Great episode! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Kept thinking about Asimov's Last question during the video.
Me too.
I've watched too much SFIAA since I find these solutions very underwhelming.
@@joelallen819 Thanks Joel. I was wondering what the hell that acronym stood for lol
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Black Hole Farming FTW!
So have I, because now, "Oh no all the stars are out welp I guess we have to die!" immediately turns into "virtual civilizations of quadrillions living lives of total luxury for unimagineable numbers of years, farming a black hole and running all this off the energy of half a light bulb." in my brain. :)
@@robinchesterfield42 Don't forget the iron stars, that make even the black hole era pale in comparison.
For anyone interested in the details, I wholeheartedly recommend you check out a fellow space TH-camr named Isaac Arthur, who has done hours' worth of videos on these exact scenarios in his "Civilizations at the End of Time" series.
I'm all for longer, more in depth episodes like this!
Probably my favorite episode to date
I think its more like "how long can humans outrun extinction" while still remaining human?? So I guess it is a question of what makes us humas and where should we draw the line as a species? As well of what he has mentioned
Scishow is one of the best. .
I love when this guy hosts an episode... He looks/sounds like he would have been a bully in high school but finally learned the error of his ways and now spends all his time being super cool to people and just supporting everything they do.... Dear SciShow Space Guy, can we hang out?
I think Id prefer one big "extinction here we come " blow out 100 yr long party vs an existence that consisted of quadrillion years in between thoughts.
A couple thousand h mean
This kinda helps with my thoughts of the end in a way. It doesn't disturb me as much now.
By the time that the milky way and Andromeda are crashing into one another, our way finding will probably be based on Galaxy charts instead of Star charts
Imagine a sci-fi world about the last living human. Now, realize that will be an actual person one day
Not if a bunch of humans all die at once.