I love how Dead Space decided to take the idea of living planets to its logical extreme, to the point where it becomes an integral plot point for the series.
Completely agree, can't say I loved where the games went in some of the later entries, but the story always felt logical while still having a completely unique spin on the "alien invasion" trope
Probably not the “logical extreme” , but the “logical hypothetical” Meaning that there’s a good degree of logical behind stuff in the game, but the things we don’t understand can be hypothetical explained using science, or undiscovered tech or biology or so on.
I feel like earthquakes would be more akin to your stomach rumbling, meteors however would be absolutely painful, and as for stars exploding, I feel like if the planet can move it won't have a problem with that.
@@Zxr-r6q "15,000 to 40,000 kilometers a second" National geographic That's the speed of a supernova, earth for example, travels at 30 a second. I doubt any living planet could move that fast
Ironically enough, the story introducing Mogo is is set up like typical space horror. A bold alien warlord sets out to find his nemesis on the planet, slowly realizing to his horror that the green lantern Mogo is not on the planet- Mogo is the planet!
Okay so immediately on the Majora's Mask, it's even WORSE than that. The Moon isn't grinning, it's grimacing in pain. It doesn't want to collide with the earth and destroy Termina. It cries a tear near the beginning of the game that you have to get to progress. It's suffering. The Skullkid is making an entire conscious planetary body SUFFER. That's horrific too, no? :3 Off to the rest of the video~
Btw on the markers in Dead Space, they aren't dropped onto planets. They were already there just waiting to be uncovered by organic life for the moons to use. It's specifically a trap to lure in spacefaring races with sufficient biomass.
Unicron is also the sibling and counterpart to Cybertron. Both of them made physical forms after untold ages of fighting as pure energy beings, and then Cybertron decided that the best course of actions was to split its power up among smaller beings, which became the first transformers. The Primes were considered the best of these, who could commune directly with Cybertron and receive its instructions. Optimus Prime, of course, being the youngest and last remaining Prime in most versions of the canon. Megatron was set to be a Prime, but Cybertron rejected Megatron because of his resentment and rage towards the older Primes, who neglected the lower stratum of transformers. Megatron always envied Optimus for taking his position, and that is how the Autobot/Decepticon schism began.
Another good example of this concept can be found in the soviet 1972 film "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky. In the story, there was a sentient ocean planet named Solaris, that was reported by the scientists in the orbital station to have some stange and anomalies properties. All personal of the orbital station were expiriencing visiting of the "guests". Material visions of the most shameful and bitter memories. This were tearing down sciense crew to the point that one of them even commited suacide. The main character stars to see visions of his dead wife, who killed herself after quarrel. And the more time passes to more MC starts to look at guest of his wife like she is an actual person, and more this "wife" start to act more and more humanlike. She even started to act empathic, self-understading, even discuss for her nature as a "fake". What is creepy and interesing, that unlike other sentient planet, Solaris dosent act in openly hostile or malevelent. Maybe Planet genuantly studying humans itself, there interactions, nature of there psyke. Maybe Planet is just simple a silent predator, An cosmic angler-fish, that lures its preys and then suffucate them in there own misery, Or maybe even both. Unlike other examples, Planet IS sentient, but its actions feels unhuman, alien. And at the end Solaris started to understand what makes us humans.
I thought you were talking about a different movie but it was my mistake. There's one with Chris Evans where the sun may or may not be sentient and they never really say one way or the other but it's similar with the hallucinations etc.
Surprised you didn’t mention Phaaze from Metroid Prime 3, it perfectly fits the bill as a living planet. Hell, it even has a reproductive cycle that entails launching meteoric seeds to infest other planets and assimilate them into another Phaaze.
I'm a huge Metroid fan and Phaaze was always in the original script for the video, but I cut it last minute because there was some overlap with Dark Bramble and... most importantly... I couldn't find any good footage to show for it in the video :/
Totally valid, just glad it was remembered. It’s such an alien vibe when you’re exploring its innards, I wanted to make sure it was including somehow :)
@@THORODINSON289 more than that; a god of chaos born in the form of a machine that hungers. that's kind fucking terrifying and implies a LOT about that universe
We have a difficult time articulating what we percieve as macro-systems or meta-systems as organic or "alive" because we're human-biased. Would an ant understand the biology of a human beyond "meat"?
No. Because ant is relatively dumb. Humans are relatively smart (I know because my own brain told me so) and I know simple chemicals smooshed together through chance to form terrestrial planets of gas giants cannot be conscious. I'm not even going to say "conscious as we know it" because it's just so damn unbelievable
You could have named Unicron and Primus (Cybertron) from Transformers that are two living planets, Unicron is the god of chaos and destruction, while Primus is the god of creation. Unicron devours other planets to feed on their live forms force, desperation and fear. While Primus is who gives birth to the transformers.
i was thinking that too! after watching the new movie that came out in september it got me thinking that maybe primus and by proxy the core of cybertron is some kind of neutron star or white dwarf star with a metal mantle and crust around it(maybe like a dyson sphere? like one of the planets in the game voyager 19) anyway that’s just my personal pet theory
I'd say the scariest "living planet" is Unicron. Unicron devours entire worlds,in mere minutes and he has one only one known weakness,The Matrix of Leadership and even then,you cannot kill Unicron,merely destroy his body coupled with the fact what we see of him is merely a fraction of The REAL Unicron,a being beyond any and all mortal comprehension. He was my introduction to Lovecraftian horror as a kid too
"the earth has some magic systems to ensure we can keep living here" is presupposing the earth was made for us to live on, and not that we evolved to fit the state the earth is in it's like a puddle thinking a hole was made exactly for it to fit inside of
@@BlankEmporiumthere is no God of God. God was not created, He was not born, and he will not die. He simply is. There is a reason that attempting to fully understand God is a fool’s errand. We were made in his image, but we are not and never will be beings like him. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. He does not have a beginning, for he created the concept *of* beginnings. He will not have an end, for he created ends and as such is not subject to them.
@Cosmosdestructor Said who? God? Of course he'd claim to be eternal. Who wouldn't in his position? It's also just easy to say God could never prove he wasn't created like how we humans can't prove God created us.
The Gaia Hypothesist while may seem interesting, it is what should I say, too human centric. The planet never care about sustaining life or creating orders whatsoever, the breatheable air you mentioned in the video once a long time ago was the cause of extinction of many other species. Life evolved and even modified their environment to suit their need not the enviroment creating some kind of order for life to ... well live. To quote from Death End, the sequel of Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest : "The universe is grand but life is grander"
Amazing comment. Amazing series. I’d like not to contraire but to expand. I believe life has the ability itself to form these near magical systems with its environment. The planet doesn’t care, but life in a genetic way does. It crafted this entire planet to its own needs, keeping those systems in place for future gens.
I was drawn to this video not only for its thumbnail and title, but also as the video seemed to sporadically disappear from my recommendations, as if it was merely an illusion, only to reappear from scrolling up and down a few times. That might very well be a bug, but I’d reckon it added to the horror of this very video.
I love the Dark Forest Hypothesis, but, as I understand things, it's nearly zero chance to be the solution. If life, technology and astronomy as we know it means anything, we'd basically already be gone in a Dark Forest galaxy. For the last billion or two years (since the oxygen bloom), it has been very obvious that carbon based life exists on our planet, if anybody within a billion lightyears has bothered to look. If they're out there, they already can see us
It could also be that the local area of space is dangerous enough that invading earth isn’t a good idea. Idea: the milk way has a freakish amount of planetary scale predators compared to the rest of the universe.
I've always had the opinion that the reason we don't see aliens around is simply because intelligence, or maybe consciousness, is much more complicated and rare than just life. I'm pretty sure there are planets full of animals, but I don't think they have any "people" in them
@@PlsStandBy33 I tend to believe that they're out there, and they're pretty close to us in age. Just not very close in space, so we haven't seen them, yet (lightspeed being what it is). The reason I believe this is because the state of the universe is not static. It hasn't been all that long since life (as we know it) could exist. Not all that long ago, everything was just big clouds of lukewarm gases. I figure that other stars out there created the conditions for life nearly the same time-ish that ours did. Without doubt, most of those don't have life now because of neighbors going supernova etc, but I also bet there's another lucky one or two out there, just waiting for enough time to pass that we see eachother's light.
@@boakley8147 They wouldn't have to get all that close for us to see them. If aliens are out there, they're just far enough away, and small enough that we haven't seen them yet.
the coolest thing is a period of about 100 million years where "outside" pressures would've been like here on earth, with a comfy temperature, and gas clouds the size of current galaxies with breathable air mixtures... i wonder what happened, then.
The question "What if planets had a heartbeat" reminds me immediately of the fact that earth has a sound that our bodies subconsciously register and need to maintain our well-being. Without said sound astronauts have often fallen ill or depressed. Just an interesting this from literally the first seconds of the video that immediately came to mind.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. Mother nature IS the ultimate elderitch horror. Because it represents everything outside of our control, which is everything.
When I hear Cosmic Abomination I first think of Unicron, his very concept on its own (depending on the media you know him in) is terrifying. Destruction incarnate, a hurricane that curses you as you perish in its wake, an entity so large that it devours planets just to give it the stimulation of feeding.
One thing i love about these videos is that there are always game(or should i say mostly games) titles that i know and wouldnt expect, yet fit so perfectly. Anyway, amazing video as always, keep up the good work!
@@CosmicHours for this time what i expected was dead space (cause of course) but just by reading the video title i would have never expect of seeing the moon of majoras mask, or ego.
I love cosmic horror. The feeling of something so unnatural to us, but yet still in our reality is jarring and really tingles some part of my brain. Also trying to grasp the concept of something so massive that is alive and sentient and potentially predatory would break so many minds.
I kinda like how you included LN theme playing in the background as you show us celestial and divine images but somewhat creepy and hard to comprehend like images of planets and I also love how you included LOZ in this
What i like about dead space, and one thing i dont really see talked about, is how humanity embodies the concept of the invading alien empire, sucking up resources and destroying planets.
4:30, that's how equilibriums work. We just happen to be around while the system is stable. For millions of years it was not stable, plants themselves caused a rapid shift in the planet's atmosphere and caused at least one extinction period.
Really interesting video, and something I've thought about a few times, its cool to see someone expand upon the idea more! Also: really appreciate you phrasing the gaia hypothesis stuff responsibly, a bunch of people don't and it leads people to conclusions that while mostly harmless on their own lead to other more dangerous ideas such as magic crystal healing instead of actual medicine.
When you talked about how the complexity of life hints at the planet being alive, you should have mentioned Strange World. It's a really great movie and that part of your video fits it perfectly.
as someone who played fracken universe in starbound, living planets are not a new concept to me. the final boss of the base game being a living planet and the horrifying aruteropuss planets or "planets born dead" i've already experienced living planets. thankfully channels like this are here to introduce people to this concept. love it
@@szymonkukulaI even went back to his main card games channel to check if it was actually him after recognising the voice and tracked down a community post from 7 months ago announcing this channel that I hadn't seen.
Hellstar Remina still terrifies me the fact that all it took was one scientist looking at it on a screen from millions of miles away and just like that Earth's fate was sealed.
Voyager-19 does the concept of living planets pretty interestingly, though it's a bit of a shame that most of the gameplay is just very tedious to the point where I get thrown off the plot almost immediately.
17:09 i dunno this story always felt like comedic mocking of people's stupidity in relation to Doctor-Discoverer, rather then a genuine horror. Poor old D-D and his daughter hold too much of my attention to have any worries about outer space. Poor sod never deserved such an end
I love that earth has always had a kind of "magic" that makes is so special where life can thrive. I know it has a scientific explanation but its still so fascinating (Yes I used to watch animal planet and history channel to much as a kid)
About eyeball planets, I read a news article recently of an Earth-like planet found orbiting a white dwarf that is totally frozen over save for the side tidally locked to the sun. They literally referred to it as resembling an eye.
3:40 Just to go off on a tangent about plants making oxygen... when algae first started making oxygen, the other organisms couldn't process it yet, and it led to a mass extinction event as the earth was "poisoned" by oxygen for millions of years before oxygen breathing cells could evolve. Sometimes these self-corrections are through death.
i like the fact how some 'godly cosmic abomination' like remina's planet, in a large scale, just portrayed as an animal trying to survive. who knows if there's bigger and deadlier stuff?
For halloween 2024, the vr game Gorilla tag did something with their in game moon. A crack formed on the moon slowly for 3 weeks until it started glowing. Altars appeared around the map. If you raised your hands near these altars, the moon would be "summoned". Everything goes grayscale except for lights, the moon gets almost AS BIG AS THE MAP ITSELF, gravity because almost 0, and the crack opens to reveal the moon is a GIANT EYE STARING DOWN AT YOU (of course the eye has color in the grayscale) After the week long event where you could summon the moon, it just straight up vanished. The only thing left was eye meteors that made people big in a new game mode.
Great video dude. I find it hard to watch videos about space because it gives me extreme anxiety just knowing how insignificant we are and how we're destroying the thing that allows us to even exist
8:59 it depends upon the state of tech of the civilisation? Their history might have had entirely consisted exclusively of improving the transportation, navigation and preservation tech making them vulnerable to all of our weapons
Rher in fear and hunger is the most terrifying moon god. his powers can twist people into grotesque creatures through a process called moonscorching and he also tricks people to join his festival called termina to play with their loves and sanity.
Demilich - The Planet That Used To Absorb Flesh (or is it Once Absorbed Flesh) is a death metal track about this concept and I think of it every time someone mentions living planets.
There's a running theory in Chrono Trigger (also talked about by the characters themselves) After you turn the desert into a lush forest and get Robo back up and running, the gang camps for the night. Talking about how some of the warps they have encountered may not have been caused by Lavos. That some other entity is guiding them in their journey and that maybe the planet's consciousness is helping them save itself. After everyone tucks in, Lucca wakes up and finds a strange red warp in the middle of the night, the only one in the entire game. This warp sends her back in a specific moment in her childhood before Taban (her father) helped her with the warp gate. In this "moment", Lucca is sent back to her room and as she goes down, the conveyor belt in their home catches her mother's dress and slowly drags her in it. Young Lucca, not being a tech savant by this point, does not know how to stop the machine. Current Lucca read a note written by Taban that in order to stop the machine, you have to input the name of his beloved wife. L-A-R-A, Lara. Successfully inputting this code on the machine (it's basically a quick time event) you get to save her mother and prevent her from being paralyzed from the waist down (she is on a wheelchair if you visit Lucca's house during 1000AD) After this, Lucca warps back to the party with Robo waiting for her. He offers her the "Green Dream". A pressurized crystal made from tree sap that stayed within Robo for 400 years while he tilled the wasteland into a forest. They then converse that the entity may have been kind for giving Lucca that chance. Chrono Cross, despite my reservations on it being a sequel, does also hint strongly towards the will of the planet. I just thought I'd share this because its one of those conversations from Chrono Trigger I've been wanting to have.
14:46 This gave me a little chortle. I didn’t write the first version of the article when it was first posted on the Dead Space Wiki, but I did expand on it many times over the years since my first playthrough of DS3. That little “Blood Mad Crusade” bit was one of my favorites.
Imagine earth can see and hear and feel everything we do and knows that we are slowly killing it and its natural disasters are desperate attempts to save its self to feel good before its inevitable destruction.
Each living organism has a purpose, like how plants drop seeds to re-plant, birds eat insects like mosquitoes to help humans not be pissed off and take it out on nature and in the future the use of humans is possibly colonizing planets, so if you think about it, a living planet wouldn’t be too far off because of their use of making life and the orbiting that throws off meteors and helps other planets make life that will expend life the across the universe
Also rocks are alive too recently (let me explain) so its been found recently that rocks on the ocean floor are making oxygen, crazy thing is that its some sort of electricity in the rock due to it’s surrounding location, making it like a battery kinda and it does some electron magic making oxygen, pretty crazy tbh
And from what I heard about cancelled content, if Dead Space managed to progress more, it would be revealed that even Brethren Moons aren't the top dogs of the galaxy, there is *something* that eats them, it really puts in perspective
I love how Dead Space decided to take the idea of living planets to its logical extreme, to the point where it becomes an integral plot point for the series.
Completely agree, can't say I loved where the games went in some of the later entries, but the story always felt logical while still having a completely unique spin on the "alien invasion" trope
Probably not the “logical extreme” , but the “logical hypothetical”
Meaning that there’s a good degree of logical behind stuff in the game, but the things we don’t understand can be hypothetical explained using science, or undiscovered tech or biology or so on.
Living planets made of dead flesh. So are they like zombie planets?
@@Shythaliapeople*. Not flesh. The flesh is alive.
"WE GOTTA KILL THE MOON"
- Isaac Clarke.
"F**k the moon."
- Admiral Zhao (featured in Moonfall)
living planets may be in pain because of earthquakes and meteors and in some cases it's star EXPLODING
I feel like earthquakes would be more akin to your stomach rumbling, meteors however would be absolutely painful, and as for stars exploding, I feel like if the planet can move it won't have a problem with that.
@@Zxr-r6q Stars exploding aren't really the kind of thing you can just run away from, any less than asteroids are, at the very least.
@@Thamior-os3vf Aren't really the kind of thing you can just run away from as a human*
@@Zxr-r6q Incorrect. A planet having an earthquake is receiving pleasure from vibrational climax.
@@Zxr-r6q "15,000 to 40,000 kilometers a second" National geographic
That's the speed of a supernova, earth for example, travels at 30 a second.
I doubt any living planet could move that fast
One of the living planets is a green lantern, you have nothing to worry about
True
Ironically enough, the story introducing Mogo is is set up like typical space horror.
A bold alien warlord sets out to find his nemesis on the planet, slowly realizing to his horror that the green lantern Mogo is not on the planet- Mogo is the planet!
No evil will escape his sight!
and then there’s ego
@@skynet3 he was also part of the Nova corps for a while
Okay so immediately on the Majora's Mask, it's even WORSE than that. The Moon isn't grinning, it's grimacing in pain. It doesn't want to collide with the earth and destroy Termina. It cries a tear near the beginning of the game that you have to get to progress.
It's suffering. The Skullkid is making an entire conscious planetary body SUFFER. That's horrific too, no? :3
Off to the rest of the video~
Btw on the markers in Dead Space, they aren't dropped onto planets. They were already there just waiting to be uncovered by organic life for the moons to use. It's specifically a trap to lure in spacefaring races with sufficient biomass.
@@wolfman-zd1ed Not trying to be mean but not true, the marker killed the dinosaurs. It was the asteroid that ended them
Another thing mention how cybertron is basically just a giant transformed God, and Unicron is a transforming planet that eats other planets.
Unicron is also the sibling and counterpart to Cybertron. Both of them made physical forms after untold ages of fighting as pure energy beings, and then Cybertron decided that the best course of actions was to split its power up among smaller beings, which became the first transformers. The Primes were considered the best of these, who could commune directly with Cybertron and receive its instructions. Optimus Prime, of course, being the youngest and last remaining Prime in most versions of the canon. Megatron was set to be a Prime, but Cybertron rejected Megatron because of his resentment and rage towards the older Primes, who neglected the lower stratum of transformers. Megatron always envied Optimus for taking his position, and that is how the Autobot/Decepticon schism began.
Another good example of this concept can be found in the soviet 1972 film "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky.
In the story, there was a sentient ocean planet named Solaris, that was reported by the scientists in the orbital station to have some stange and anomalies properties. All personal of the orbital station were expiriencing visiting of the "guests". Material visions of the most shameful and bitter memories. This were tearing down sciense crew to the point that one of them even commited suacide.
The main character stars to see visions of his dead wife, who killed herself after quarrel. And the more time passes to more MC starts to look at guest of his wife like she is an actual person, and more this "wife" start to act more and more humanlike. She even started to act empathic, self-understading, even discuss for her nature as a "fake".
What is creepy and interesing, that unlike other sentient planet, Solaris dosent act in openly hostile or malevelent. Maybe Planet genuantly studying humans itself, there interactions, nature of there psyke. Maybe Planet is just simple a silent predator, An cosmic angler-fish, that lures its preys and then suffucate them in there own misery, Or maybe even both. Unlike other examples, Planet IS sentient, but its actions feels unhuman, alien. And at the end Solaris started to understand what makes us humans.
I thought you were talking about a different movie but it was my mistake.
There's one with Chris Evans where the sun may or may not be sentient and they never really say one way or the other but it's similar with the hallucinations etc.
it was originally a book by stanisław Lem
I can tell you're Russian, or eastern European because you wrote this in a Russian accent lol
@@maxfinazzo2443 or maybe because of the russian name
@@kfstg6535🎶"You didn't had to cut him off!" 🎶🗣️🗣️🔥🔥💯💯💯
Surprised you didn’t mention Phaaze from Metroid Prime 3, it perfectly fits the bill as a living planet. Hell, it even has a reproductive cycle that entails launching meteoric seeds to infest other planets and assimilate them into another Phaaze.
I'm a huge Metroid fan and Phaaze was always in the original script for the video, but I cut it last minute because there was some overlap with Dark Bramble and... most importantly... I couldn't find any good footage to show for it in the video :/
Totally valid, just glad it was remembered. It’s such an alien vibe when you’re exploring its innards, I wanted to make sure it was including somehow :)
When i was little,
I used to think Jupiter Great Red Spot was a eye , like a living eye!!!
Enter SCP 2399.
@@jakomioftherose2434 since when was JUPITER an scp
@@VengefulOrbconsidering it's series 3, probably along time ago
Shoutout to my favourite, most terrifying living planet, Hellstar Remina (ty Junji Ito)
Mine would be the Iris it’s a flesh planet from a analog horror
Gotta say from all fictional living planets Unicron has to be the most terryfing for me
The god of chaos. That’s fair.
Don't forget Primus who is Cybertron.
@@THORODINSON289 more than that; a god of chaos born in the form of a machine that hungers.
that's kind fucking terrifying and implies a LOT about that universe
What exactly does it imply?@@taxisalad
That thing from “gemnini home entertainment” (analogue horror) is the scariest imo
The Iris is watching
Gemini Home Entertainment!
Yhwach victim
Neptune has been mutated
A storm is coming
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We have a difficult time articulating what we percieve as macro-systems or meta-systems as organic or "alive" because we're human-biased. Would an ant understand the biology of a human beyond "meat"?
I love this thought
No. Because ant is relatively dumb. Humans are relatively smart (I know because my own brain told me so) and I know simple chemicals smooshed together through chance to form terrestrial planets of gas giants cannot be conscious. I'm not even going to say "conscious as we know it" because it's just so damn unbelievable
You could have named Unicron and Primus (Cybertron) from Transformers that are two living planets, Unicron is the god of chaos and destruction, while Primus is the god of creation.
Unicron devours other planets to feed on their live forms force, desperation and fear. While Primus is who gives birth to the transformers.
i was thinking that too! after watching the new movie that came out in september it got me thinking that maybe primus and by proxy the core of cybertron is some kind of neutron star or white dwarf star with a metal mantle and crust around it(maybe like a dyson sphere? like one of the planets in the game voyager 19) anyway that’s just my personal pet theory
I'd say the scariest "living planet" is Unicron. Unicron devours entire worlds,in mere minutes and he has one only one known weakness,The Matrix of Leadership and even then,you cannot kill Unicron,merely destroy his body coupled with the fact what we see of him is merely a fraction of The REAL Unicron,a being beyond any and all mortal comprehension. He was my introduction to Lovecraftian horror as a kid too
"the earth has some magic systems to ensure we can keep living here" is presupposing the earth was made for us to live on, and not that we evolved to fit the state the earth is in
it's like a puddle thinking a hole was made exactly for it to fit inside of
The Earth evolves for its own interests. Jk.
God created the earth for us. Even if you go back to the beginning something has to come out of nothing
@@BLZNGFR That same logic can be applied to God. Who is the God of God? And who is the God of God of God?
@@BlankEmporiumthere is no God of God. God was not created, He was not born, and he will not die. He simply is. There is a reason that attempting to fully understand God is a fool’s errand. We were made in his image, but we are not and never will be beings like him. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. He does not have a beginning, for he created the concept *of* beginnings. He will not have an end, for he created ends and as such is not subject to them.
@Cosmosdestructor Said who? God? Of course he'd claim to be eternal. Who wouldn't in his position? It's also just easy to say God could never prove he wasn't created like how we humans can't prove God created us.
Transformers Unicron: “am I joke to you?”
I mean he's just a robot that can transform into a planet
@@The_Blue_Otaku planet is planet.
Also, while in planet form, he EATS other planets.
You guys forgetting Ego
@@somerandomuser5155 no, the video mentioned Ego. It has a whole part dedicated to him
@@The_Blue_Otaku same with cybertron (Primus) yet he used a clip from Bumblebee
The Gaia Hypothesist while may seem interesting, it is what should I say, too human centric. The planet never care about sustaining life or creating orders whatsoever, the breatheable air you mentioned in the video once a long time ago was the cause of extinction of many other species. Life evolved and even modified their environment to suit their need not the enviroment creating some kind of order for life to ... well live. To quote from Death End, the sequel of Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest : "The universe is grand but life is grander"
Amazing comment. Amazing series. I’d like not to contraire but to expand.
I believe life has the ability itself to form these near magical systems with its environment. The planet doesn’t care, but life in a genetic way does. It crafted this entire planet to its own needs, keeping those systems in place for future gens.
0:43 cybertron dectected
Indeed
Bro it's "living planets" so why not dormant Unicron
I was drawn to this video not only for its thumbnail and title, but also as the video seemed to sporadically disappear from my recommendations, as if it was merely an illusion, only to reappear from scrolling up and down a few times. That might very well be a bug, but I’d reckon it added to the horror of this very video.
quantam locked TH-cam video???
I love the fact that after I watched a GrayStillPlays video on Voyager 19, I now get recommended this video, with the same exact game in it.
I love the Dark Forest Hypothesis, but, as I understand things, it's nearly zero chance to be the solution. If life, technology and astronomy as we know it means anything, we'd basically already be gone in a Dark Forest galaxy. For the last billion or two years (since the oxygen bloom), it has been very obvious that carbon based life exists on our planet, if anybody within a billion lightyears has bothered to look. If they're out there, they already can see us
It could also be that the local area of space is dangerous enough that invading earth isn’t a good idea. Idea: the milk way has a freakish amount of planetary scale predators compared to the rest of the universe.
I've always had the opinion that the reason we don't see aliens around is simply because intelligence, or maybe consciousness, is much more complicated and rare than just life. I'm pretty sure there are planets full of animals, but I don't think they have any "people" in them
@@PlsStandBy33 I tend to believe that they're out there, and they're pretty close to us in age. Just not very close in space, so we haven't seen them, yet (lightspeed being what it is). The reason I believe this is because the state of the universe is not static. It hasn't been all that long since life (as we know it) could exist. Not all that long ago, everything was just big clouds of lukewarm gases. I figure that other stars out there created the conditions for life nearly the same time-ish that ours did. Without doubt, most of those don't have life now because of neighbors going supernova etc, but I also bet there's another lucky one or two out there, just waiting for enough time to pass that we see eachother's light.
@@boakley8147 They wouldn't have to get all that close for us to see them. If aliens are out there, they're just far enough away, and small enough that we haven't seen them yet.
the coolest thing is a period of about 100 million years where "outside" pressures would've been like here on earth, with a comfy temperature, and gas clouds the size of current galaxies with breathable air mixtures... i wonder what happened, then.
Unicron And Primus Agrees With The Video*
“The Core” from Amphibia plays with this concept a little bit. Crazy shit.
Such a beautiful video, even made sure to threaten viewers into subscribing at the end. Truly Magnificent.
🌚 No idea what you're talking about
We know you're in bed with the Moon from Majora's Mask. Don't play dumb.
Hellstar remina
Yes, indeed.
First thing that came to my mind. I really should finish reading it.
What we need are living planets like Mogo from the green lantern.
Let's not forget Primus, Unicron, and Mogo were living planets too.
Absolutely fantastic idea to explore, very excited to hear your takes on this
“i’d kill you if i had arms but i don’t so you can live on me”
-some random planet somewhere out there
It wasnt a gas giant that dark bramble used to be, it was an icy planet with a subsurface ocean
How does someone miss that fact? It was mentioned like 3 or 4 times in various logs and with people you meet
The question "What if planets had a heartbeat" reminds me immediately of the fact that earth has a sound that our bodies subconsciously register and need to maintain our well-being. Without said sound astronauts have often fallen ill or depressed. Just an interesting this from literally the first seconds of the video that immediately came to mind.
Hellstar remina was my "my god, I get it" moment for cosmic horror and my introduction to junji ito :D
Fear and hunger 2 is also an absolutely amazing concept for living planets being horrifying!
I've said it once and I'll say it again. Mother nature IS the ultimate elderitch horror. Because it represents everything outside of our control, which is everything.
When I hear Cosmic Abomination I first think of Unicron, his very concept on its own (depending on the media you know him in) is terrifying. Destruction incarnate, a hurricane that curses you as you perish in its wake, an entity so large that it devours planets just to give it the stimulation of feeding.
One thing i love about these videos is that there are always game(or should i say mostly games) titles that i know and wouldnt expect, yet fit so perfectly.
Anyway, amazing video as always, keep up the good work!
Thank you! What game were you talking about specifically?
@@CosmicHours for this time what i expected was dead space (cause of course) but just by reading the video title i would have never expect of seeing the moon of majoras mask, or ego.
I love cosmic horror. The feeling of something so unnatural to us, but yet still in our reality is jarring and really tingles some part of my brain.
Also trying to grasp the concept of something so massive that is alive and sentient and potentially predatory would break so many minds.
I kinda like how you included LN theme playing in the background as you show us celestial and divine images but somewhat creepy and hard to comprehend like images of planets and I also love how you included LOZ in this
What i like about dead space, and one thing i dont really see talked about, is how humanity embodies the concept of the invading alien empire, sucking up resources and destroying planets.
it is a human trait to never want to think of ourselves as the bad guy,,,
4:30, that's how equilibriums work. We just happen to be around while the system is stable. For millions of years it was not stable, plants themselves caused a rapid shift in the planet's atmosphere and caused at least one extinction period.
The only planet i can think of having that would be Copper 9..
Ay!
MD fan!
the drones are being murdered
Really interesting video, and something I've thought about a few times, its cool to see someone expand upon the idea more!
Also: really appreciate you phrasing the gaia hypothesis stuff responsibly, a bunch of people don't and it leads people to conclusions that while mostly harmless on their own lead to other more dangerous ideas such as magic crystal healing instead of actual medicine.
Borg Cubes, Galactus and Unicron.
There’s a decent cosmic horror story some TH-camrs have narrated, if I recall something like “Proxima Centauri is not a star”
When you talked about how the complexity of life hints at the planet being alive, you should have mentioned Strange World. It's a really great movie and that part of your video fits it perfectly.
as someone who played fracken universe in starbound, living planets are not a new concept to me. the final boss of the base game being a living planet and the horrifying aruteropuss planets or "planets born dead" i've already experienced living planets. thankfully channels like this are here to introduce people to this concept. love it
Putting in music from the signalis ost fits just perfect
I use it in almost all my videos, it's easily one of my favorite videogame OSTs and fits perfectly when talking about cosmic horror
@@CosmicHoursAlso respect for little nightmares theme!
I'd love another video on this topic, maybe including Mogo and Unicron
I like the idea of laylines being like the life force veins of a living planet
Awesome video. Commenting to help get seen by the YT algorithm.
Glad to see you branching out man, these videos are sick. Just like your other ones.
This video style reminds me of curious archive
now that you have said it, it really feels like it
1:00 BOY IS THAT THE METROID DREAD THEME
Yessss, waited for a new video!
''You feel an evil presence watching you'' sounds straight outta Earthbound
"Thats not a planet" is one of the scariest things you'll ever hear.
Fantastic video and commentary. Thank you for the hard work!
When I think of that kind of cosmical horror, Remina come immediately in my mind. One of the best story of junji ito
"It is with us now. Laughing at us."
Hellstar Remina will continue to be nightmare fuel.
"If you stare into the abyss, the abyss gets kinda uncomfortable".
As an abyss myself, I can confirm this is true.
SUNNY MAN!!! Good video!
I WAS WATCHING THIS AND THINKING THIS GUY SOUNDS JUST LIKE SUNNY!!!! NO WAY
@@szymonkukulaI even went back to his main card games channel to check if it was actually him after recognising the voice and tracked down a community post from 7 months ago announcing this channel that I hadn't seen.
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about Gemini Home Entertainment
I love that the music early in the video is the main theme of Metroid Dread. I love Dread.
Great video, man! Excellent storytelling and some great examples in this one.
“For time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet Cybertron. But now, you shall witness, ITS DISMEMBERMENT!” - Unicron 1986
Yeah, I know, after watching solarballs and seeing humanity almost end multiple times due to petty everyday problems really opened my eyes 😒
The metroid dread main theme hits hard in the beginning
Hellstar Remina still terrifies me the fact that all it took was one scientist looking at it on a screen from millions of miles away and just like that Earth's fate was sealed.
I might sound crazy, but I refuse to believe the moon just naturally faces toward us constantly, without fail. It's watching us.
Voyager-19 does the concept of living planets pretty interestingly, though it's a bit of a shame that most of the gameplay is just very tedious to the point where I get thrown off the plot almost immediately.
17:09 i dunno this story always felt like comedic mocking of people's stupidity in relation to Doctor-Discoverer, rather then a genuine horror. Poor old D-D and his daughter hold too much of my attention to have any worries about outer space. Poor sod never deserved such an end
“For a time a considered sparing your wretched planet cybertron. Now you shall witness its dismemberment!”
I love that earth has always had a kind of "magic" that makes is so special where life can thrive.
I know it has a scientific explanation but its still so fascinating
(Yes I used to watch animal planet and history channel to much as a kid)
Love how you put the title "Living Planets" on top of an Earth background image
About eyeball planets, I read a news article recently of an Earth-like planet found orbiting a white dwarf that is totally frozen over save for the side tidally locked to the sun. They literally referred to it as resembling an eye.
3:40 Just to go off on a tangent about plants making oxygen... when algae first started making oxygen, the other organisms couldn't process it yet, and it led to a mass extinction event as the earth was "poisoned" by oxygen for millions of years before oxygen breathing cells could evolve. Sometimes these self-corrections are through death.
i like the fact how some 'godly cosmic abomination' like remina's planet, in a large scale, just portrayed as an animal trying to survive. who knows if there's bigger and deadlier stuff?
For halloween 2024, the vr game Gorilla tag did something with their in game moon.
A crack formed on the moon slowly for 3 weeks until it started glowing.
Altars appeared around the map.
If you raised your hands near these altars, the moon would be "summoned".
Everything goes grayscale except for lights, the moon gets almost AS BIG AS THE MAP ITSELF, gravity because almost 0, and the crack opens to reveal the moon is a GIANT EYE STARING DOWN AT YOU (of course the eye has color in the grayscale)
After the week long event where you could summon the moon, it just straight up vanished.
The only thing left was eye meteors that made people big in a new game mode.
Great video dude. I find it hard to watch videos about space because it gives me extreme anxiety just knowing how insignificant we are and how we're destroying the thing that allows us to even exist
Imagine the insane currents and storms that would happen on a tidally locked planet with an atmosphere, the "habitable zone" wouldn't be so habitable.
Don't stare into the abyss Anne, after all it stares back.
8:59 it depends upon the state of tech of the civilisation? Their history might have had entirely consisted exclusively of improving the transportation, navigation and preservation tech making them vulnerable to all of our weapons
Rher in fear and hunger is the most terrifying moon god. his powers can twist people into grotesque creatures through a process called moonscorching and he also tricks people to join his festival called termina to play with their loves and sanity.
Demilich - The Planet That Used To Absorb Flesh (or is it Once Absorbed Flesh) is a death metal track about this concept and I think of it every time someone mentions living planets.
For a science project in 6th grade, we had to make our own galaxy, being the kid i was i made mine sentient, every planet within it were alive too
There's a running theory in Chrono Trigger (also talked about by the characters themselves)
After you turn the desert into a lush forest and get Robo back up and running, the gang camps for the night. Talking about how some of the warps they have encountered may not have been caused by Lavos. That some other entity is guiding them in their journey and that maybe the planet's consciousness is helping them save itself. After everyone tucks in, Lucca wakes up and finds a strange red warp in the middle of the night, the only one in the entire game. This warp sends her back in a specific moment in her childhood before Taban (her father) helped her with the warp gate.
In this "moment", Lucca is sent back to her room and as she goes down, the conveyor belt in their home catches her mother's dress and slowly drags her in it. Young Lucca, not being a tech savant by this point, does not know how to stop the machine. Current Lucca read a note written by Taban that in order to stop the machine, you have to input the name of his beloved wife. L-A-R-A, Lara. Successfully inputting this code on the machine (it's basically a quick time event) you get to save her mother and prevent her from being paralyzed from the waist down (she is on a wheelchair if you visit Lucca's house during 1000AD)
After this, Lucca warps back to the party with Robo waiting for her. He offers her the "Green Dream". A pressurized crystal made from tree sap that stayed within Robo for 400 years while he tilled the wasteland into a forest. They then converse that the entity may have been kind for giving Lucca that chance.
Chrono Cross, despite my reservations on it being a sequel, does also hint strongly towards the will of the planet.
I just thought I'd share this because its one of those conversations from Chrono Trigger I've been wanting to have.
the thought of a planet eating me just makes me feel sick
19:05 Not gonna be habitual, just going to be living in constant tornado simulator.
14:46
This gave me a little chortle. I didn’t write the first version of the article when it was first posted on the Dead Space Wiki, but I did expand on it many times over the years since my first playthrough of DS3. That little “Blood Mad Crusade” bit was one of my favorites.
Imagine earth can see and hear and feel everything we do and knows that we are slowly killing it and its natural disasters are desperate attempts to save its self to feel good before its inevitable destruction.
One interesting one that I think some people sleep on is the Beast Planet from the War Planets toyline and it's cartoon Shadow Raiders
Another day to worry about cosmic horror I cannot control
Everybody gangsta till a planet with horns starts eating entire other planets 💀
Each living organism has a purpose, like how plants drop seeds to re-plant, birds eat insects like mosquitoes to help humans not be pissed off and take it out on nature and in the future the use of humans is possibly colonizing planets, so if you think about it, a living planet wouldn’t be too far off because of their use of making life and the orbiting that throws off meteors and helps other planets make life that will expend life the across the universe
Also rocks are alive too recently (let me explain) so its been found recently that rocks on the ocean floor are making oxygen, crazy thing is that its some sort of electricity in the rock due to it’s surrounding location, making it like a battery kinda and it does some electron magic making oxygen, pretty crazy tbh
This reminds me of those living planets from DC and Marvel. Never really thought of them as anything really terrifying.
13:54 heavy smokers be like " smoking ain't THAT bad"
also heavy smokers:
Or we could just be the first life forms jest saying the universe only became habitable a few billion years ago 12:37
And from what I heard about cancelled content, if Dead Space managed to progress more, it would be revealed that even Brethren Moons aren't the top dogs of the galaxy, there is *something* that eats them, it really puts in perspective