The problem isn't so much that we cannot survive, it's that we cannot survive alone. We've become a society of specialized workers where one person who knows how to fix the toaster is assigned the task of fixing toasters. We don't need everyone to know how to fix a toaster as long as one guy knows how to fix them. So long as we work together as a community to survive, we'll probably be ok. We can have someone who knows how to hunt do the hunting, we can have cooks, cook. The problem is more that every time there's a "survival" situation, be it in reality or even a movie, our selfish nature borks everything up. We don't need electricity, but we certainly need everyone to be useful in the group to survive. However, I acknowledge if we do end up surviving alone for whatever reason, we might be as good as dead.
Well ants and bees have been very successful for millions of years by forming into colony's. I believe humans are doing the same and it has been the secret of our success.
As you are right about humans dying if they were alone one example if a human is stuck in isolation for too long they go bat shit insane we are literally and fundamentally created to be in a group and cannot work alone people now a days it seems as if everyone hates the other in my experiences
Christian Gomez No such arrangement could be implemented before the death of the vast, vast majority of people on earth. A guy setting traps for rabbits isn't going to feed Manhattan or Calcutta! !!
+Xsion IvyRen Actually in my area there are many really good options. We have schools here that teach and certify a person for survival skills and foraging. You need to hold that certification before you can be a Maine Guide; to take groups into the woods for hunting, fishing, tourism.
+George Wicks Honestly no. Far more examples there are shown of how to fail, rather them to survive. Really they are marketed toward the appeal designed by Hollywood. There are schools that actually teach real-life survival skills.
Galen Young Yes, I completely understand that the show is manipulated and adapted for audiences and that real survival is different from the show; but you must not exclude Bear Grylls's work. He is a tremendous survival expert/teacher and hasn't really been treated fairly in the 'survival world'. I do have to agree though, survival schools do show real survival, rather than unreliable facts.
+Kosh Tarr What's you're point? 2/3+ of the world doesn't have internet connectivity and most people live in urban areas. Why would he concentrate on others?
+Colorado Gamer That's hardly something to be ashamed of. Why exactly would he discuss matters that only really pertained to people unable to even view this content to begin with? Different economic climates offer different lifestyles and different understandings of what is success and what is failure. Part of this video basically deals with nature of these differences.
The question is "Are we weaker than our ancestors?" The answer is: Yes. Depending on where you grew up and live in this modern world. In the fist world nation states we have a very soft comfortable life; for the clear majority of us. Very few of us actually have to sweat and physical exert our selves out side of a few hours in a gym in a week. How strong were our ancestors who walk to were ever they were going, chopped wood, picked the vegetables, carried the same to were ever they were going and even wore armor. All on a daily basis.
Depends on what you think "weak" means. Is a small corpse-like old woman inside of a giant mecha nuclear war machine weaker than her ancestors? No. It's based on the "threat" and what we have to deal with it. Based on the threats they had, they were more equipped. But those threats aren't as prevalent anymore. By threats, I really mean something you need to do, like an obstacle. We still use wood for materials, but they're not collected or reshaped the same way anymore.
Well the people who wore armor were also trained from birth to do that, and even then there were only a couple hundred knights or elites per kingdom or territory (depending on how big it was). Most soldiers wore cloth and leather, MAYBE a mail coif or a mail suit. I do agree with you on the survival strength, but since gaining muscle is so much easier nowadays, humans have the possibility of become far more efficient and strong. For example, nobody in a village except for guards and soldiers would go and exercise more than they had to, so often teen boys would be as strong as today's youth. However, today, more and more 5-18 year old kids are exercising every day for hours and hours, building muscle and changing their genes to allow for more muscle in their offspring. Until they became adults, boys wouldn't do very much physical labor outside of carrying things for their parents, chopping and carrying lumber, or carrying water/farming. Girls rarely did much physical labor because they needed to look nice to be married off to a good family.
Jenny Jackson It doesnt really take a lot of raw strength or muscle to do those things though. And why do people think everybody in the middle ages wore armor on a daily basis? A lot of people back then didnt do much physical work just like today. Thats like future humans assuming we are stronger today solely because of training soldiers do in the military. I could say ancient humans were tough mentally, and had great endurance, but I dont think they would be physically stronger.
DiseaseTheseDays Theres no real evidence showing that ancient humans were really any stronger on average. Neanderthals were stronger yes, but that is different.
@@ryanperson6307 the vast majority of people did physical work.and alot of it that builds not only.muscle but tend and ligament strength which is every bit as if not more important. In.fact muscle size does not necessarily correlate with muscle strength.
If we lost all of our infrastructure and power, cities would likely become material scrap yards, places to acquire things like metal, rubber, and raw chemicals. While people lived mostly in the more suburban or rural areas to facilitate farming. We'd likely regress to around the period around the flint lock pistol era. I feel like critical thinking is one of the things which remains a massive survival skill throughout history, from understanding mechanical motion well enough to come up with a atlatl for throwing spears, to understanding how you can run electricity through a coil with a high resistance to produce heat (in the case of a toaster). They concepts of motion and electron theory are useless until someone is clever enough to put them to use.
I am not ashamed to admit I have a few weeks worth of food, water and some medical stuff stored up in my house with a smaller bag of goodies in my car for if the world goes to hell, which most likely will be due to a failure of the power grid in my country. Also been pretty interested in survival shows, but not to “prepare” or anything. Just find them interesting and I would like to think if I had to skin a rabbit, build a shelter, make a fire or whatever I wouldn’t be completely hopeless at it.
Ignacio Carreño Bolla South Africa. We have planned powercuts called loadshedding here when the grid has too much stress on it. Havne't had those for a month now though so maybe things are looking up :)
humans are very adaptive species, we have not lost intelligence. We can learn and adapt to new environments very quickly. We as a species can handle anything.
Disagree. Humans today are more prone to allergies and cancers. Ancestors were hardier and tougher in their environment. Converse is true as well. Ancestors would probably get physically ill the moment they stepped in a city.
Disagree. Humans today are more prone to allergies and cancers. Ancestors were hardier and tougher in their environment. Converse is true as well. Ancestors would probably get physically ill the moment they stepped in a city.
Eugene Chun yes.. many would die.. but not the entirety of man kind.. many will survive. Our ancestors were no more special than us, they had the same cognitive capacities as us, therefore we can relearn the ways of our ancestors.. might take a while but it will happen.
If we lost power forever, the species would survive. A lot of individuals would die but the species survives. Yeah we're pretty dependent on technology. But I'm willing to take the risk for the benefits we get from it.
Adam and Eve lived hundreds of years, we humans are becoming weak and weaker no matter what 3rd world is same just struggling differently Even if you don't want to believe creation, remember the men that wrote it knew people were getting weaker, men 3000 years ago knew this.
+ashley beaumont im pretty sure you just know how to assemble a toaster, not making one form scratch. do you know how to mine and create all materials required to make a toaster? do you know how to mill, mold and cats all the parts for the said toaster? and even through out all of this you're still using other machines to do this, or tool made with the help of other machines.
If you look at new toaster tech they are starting to use nickel Ni200 wire as the resistance wire, as it heats up its resistance changes allowing, using algorithms to work out the heat and control the temperature! No more burnt toast in 5 years time lol
It is near impossible to get a decent job without a computer, today. No one will read a had written resume, most businesses only have online job applications and nearly every job requires a basic knowledge of how to use a PC (word processing, web browsing and email). For this reason, I have argued for years that a computer and internet access needs to be moved to the very bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, because without it you can't begin to afford decent food, reliably safe water or basic shelter. I would even go so far as to argue that basic technology is even below the physical in the 1st world. As many people like to say 'it's practically illegal to be homeless nowadays'.
but only due to the high childhood death rates skewing the numbers if one made it to adulthood, chances were good u'd reach 60-80 years. Just like in hunter-gatherer populations in amazon n other tribal areas when they find skeletons, there's no accuracy after 35 yrs. they simply write 35+ im not certain if this is because ageing a skeleton after 35 is difficult cos wisdom teeth fully grown n any other age tests (my speculation that there may be some) wld b too expensive. wisdom teeth are last body part to fully develop in humans i believe but i do know that average life spans are created by totalling up all the skeletons age at time of death in the area so there's a bunch of under 10 yr old kids who die for various childhood reasons (life was tough, no hygiene etc, many died simply being born or through survival measures where children were killed off to ensure the group's survival -any 'deficiencies', lack of resources etc etc even the ancient civilisations we celebrate did this) and ages of skeletons stop at '35+' years old
pre agricultural revolution, there was a lot less interaction with animals. flu comes from pigs n birds originally, many other illnesses from goats, sheep and cows. all which mutated into the diseases we know n susceptible to animals often lived in same shelter during winter months in europe n thus these illnesses transfered to human populations B4 agricultural revolution, we lived longer, we were healthier on every level from age span to nutrition. children have always had higher rates of death n illness, even in our technologically advanced modern era due to under developed immune systems or genetic mutations that wern't in the parents to same extent n impacted their chances for survival. children also may have ended up in situations where they hadnt yet learnt the correct survival technique to deal with it (predators, accidents, first aid kinda stuff) one simply has to look at the 3 waves of the black death n how it decimated europe's population in the middle ages to realise the true scope n power of diseases without our modern technology. yet arguably, it made the survivors have stronger immune systems long term n eventually european population recovered n dominated the world for a brief n unfortunate time with colonisation
1 evidence supports what i have said, ill find some in a sec 2 when pple hunted animals in forest; they didnt groom them, they didnt feed them, they didnt contain them, they didnt share the same roof. there was less day to day contact with animals pre agriculture do u have any farming experiences? everyday ya in physical contact with them, from cleaning up their poop, to extracting resources (shearing, milking etc), to general daily care n illhealth prevention. all require physical contact when hunting? u kill animal, n only touch it once dead. then it's cooked/preserved, minimal chance for bacterial/viral growth n cross contamination The animal is wild n not cooped up in unsanitary conditions, such as a barn all winter long (which is a fertile breeding ground for bacteria n viruses n partly why there's concern at the high amounts of anti-biotics that get pumped into animals as a prevention rather than cure. which is causing a negative side-effect of causing pathogens to mutate n thus we got 'super-bugs' like MRSA which resistant to anti-biotics) the wild animal also has less contact with others of it's species, sticking to the group natural to it, so ALOT LESS cross contamination (in farming, u get animals from different herds, diff parts of the country, sometimes every year, sometimes several times a year, but certainly more frequently than the DNA exchanges that wld happen in the wild herd, in order to bred in/out certain traits), so like airplanes inc risk of global pandemics, so too did domestication n breeding of animals -hence the strict record keeping of organisations such as DEFRA in UK, even for pet versions of farmstock animals -i had 2 pet goats) u got great theory n i know it seems logical what u have said but both practical experience, science and the historical evidence we have shows humans were healthier before agriculture n thaT we have only in last 30-100 years reached the same level of health as we used to have pre-agriculture i can recall bein shocked n feeling great disbelief at first when i learnt about the evidence, until i had seen n read so much, from so many different sources, i had to adjust my mental maps on human history n culture n incorporate the new evidence Schools teach us about how wonderful the agricultural revolution was for us, that it built civilisation etc The truth is, agriculture was a worse situation for vast majority, only those who had status, wealth or power benefited from the new status quo www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-dawn-farming-changed-our-mouths-worst-180954167/ www.quora.com/How-did-ancient-humans-survive-with-so-little-food-They-were-healthy-walked-for-miles-daily-fought-for-food-and-territories-How-did-they-do-it-without-modern-nutrition-rules www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/today/tomfeilden/2009/05/do_huntergatherers_have_it_rig.html blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/17/early-farmers-were-sicker-and-shorter-than-their-forager-ancestors/#.Ws-8fi7wYdU
mhmm, i already explained this n discovery channel isnt exactly the most accurate place to source historical info. better than most, ill grant you n they do do some good dramatic documentaries, but it's sensationalised, it's main purpose is education through entertainment, it's for mainstream folk with a mild to medium interest in history, hence not always factually correct. plus diff shows made by diff companies/directors etc n the umbrella 'discovery channel' cannot fact check every single second that is aired n thus cannot be held accountable for mistakes in the shows they air Plus the 'if u dont know what u dont know, u dont know that u dont know it' n thus cannot take appropriate actions but they also dont explain the stats, detailed methods n how they worked out n why they maybe skewed etc it suits the status quo for everyone to think we nvr had it better, dont want no rising up of populace after all, which is why education so tightly regulated i'll repeat myself if i died at age 75 n some archaeologist comes along, guess what age s/he will say i was when i died? 35+ because once wisdom teeth fully developed (at 35) it is very difficult, maybe impossible to tell age of older individuals, plus because fertility by then is a bit of a non-issue, they not so interested in elderly PLUS High infant mortality rates!!!!!!! these 2 things SKEW THE *AVERAGE AGE* RESULTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! do u understand what average means in mathematical terminology? do u understand how stats can be manipulated? has it occured to u that instead of arguin with me, u actually do some research n find out if i am correct? here, iv made it easy for you www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/life-expectancy-myth-and-why-many-ancient-humans-lived-long-077889 ^this one is simpler, n more of an intro into the topic i am attempting to educate u in tho i dnt particularly trust this site as they sometimes do ancient alien stuff XD but its a good link to enable u to be able to understand the 2nd link, which is the one i really want u to read n understand \/ down here condensedscience.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/life-expectancy-in-hunter-gatherers-and-other-groups/
If theres something i learned from minecraft, its that making your own food and finding materials in a city without modifying buildings is nearly impossible or just really frustrating.
there's a TV show called revolution where the power goes out all around the world and it shows the adventure of the main character's to turn the power back on in the US. very good sow you should watch it Trace and anyone who has seen this comment. (:
Skinning a rabbit is definitely still a survival skill. I live in Alaska & there's something called "subsistence living". Many people here live in small villages, not cities, and still hunt & gather food, and we're not even an undeveloped/ underdeveloped country, this is in one of the States for god sake! It's not completely gone, at all. Most people here would look at you with more respect for knowing how to hunt & skin animals, than go into a city & do paperwork. It's DEFINITELY not gone. This should be addressed & not overlooked.
I was going to laugh at the idea that someone couldn't get home without their phone, but then I remembered people live in cities and that actually could be a problem.
7:55 we are a world of progress and dependent. We are not a world of regress and independent. We are logistically depend on factories & transportation for our food & material supplies
In northern areas like where I live, if a city lost electricity or natural gas during the winter for an extended period, people WOULD die. We need these things for our furnaces to run to heat our houses - and very few houses have wood stoves or fireplaces anymore.
I could make a toaster. I need two different types of metal wire, and a magnet, preferably a rectangular magnet, and some sort of heat resistant object, like two flat rocks of about equal size, or clay. Take the metal wire which conducts electricity better, and create a coil. Then, use the second type of wire to create two heating pads for the toaster. To do this, bend the wire so it covers most of one side of one of the flat rock. It may be necessary to wrap the wire around to the rock to keep it fixed on. If so, exercise extreme caution, since you don't want to touch the wire. Make two heating pads. If one flat rock is bigger than the other, use that as the bottom of the toaster. Use the first wire to create a circuit, connecting the two heating pads to the metal coil in a way that allows the two heating pads to be pressed together, and for the top pad to be pulled away from the bottom one far enough to operate as a toaster. You'll likely want to create some method of support to force a gap between the two heating pads, so that the toast isn't squished. If you do, use a heat-resistant material, such as rocks or clay (if using clay, bake clay before using the toaster. You can make the entire toaster out of clay too. It may be easier.) To operate the toaster, put the magnet inside the coil, push it in, then pull it out, and keep doing this. It generates an A/C electric current. Due to the increased resistance of the second type of metal, that metal will become hot, and the heating pads will toast the bread between them.
I've survived for a year without technology with my dad before in the wild we set up tents and survived it was fun our tour guide tought us how to make fire it was awesome and i also killed a snake
+labobo why would he have to prove anything to you? You're just another one of the 7 billion people on earth,its not like anyone cares about what you think
you used tents which are made in factories which needs technology to create those factories in the first place, so you failed to survive a year without technology so fail
toasters are just lightbulbs without the glass/vacuum (ie wont pop out in the air) and in a metal box to contain the heat, obviously not made the same but technically the same.. can't get much simpler than that.
alot of comments yellin about books XD lets take 1 example -a fishing net. cos i used to make them n also repair some types of netting by hand in factory which is currently made from strong nylon 'string' tied in fancy knots to make the squares. You cld find the technique on how to use the shuttle to make the knots, realise that the net is made at 90 degrees in a diamond shape etc from books sure But how will u make the string? braid/plait or twist it? how?, which is easier to make the nets keep their shape n strength? how wld u grow it? which plants will u choose? the bendy ones or the strong ones? how long before u have the completed string from seeds? where wld u get the seeds? how would u capture future seeds? what length string do u need? how much land? what size to make the knots? how much size difference between the knots can u get away with n still have a useful net that doesnt break every time it's used? what overall size? what fish? what season to catch them? what season to seed, grow and cut the fibre crops to make the string? what about drought, flood n pests? how much land can u afford to redirect away from food production? are there any secondary applications to crop you choose? such as rapeseed oil, or hemp sailcloth? n then theres all the knowledge u'd need if u were to be successful at catching fish (location, fish behaviour etc) then theres preservation techniques to choose from which all have their pro's n con's n depend on other resources such as salt n what if u dont live near the sea n this is for lake fishing? n there's no plentiful wood supply nearby to smoke the fish in a smoke house? a book on how to make a net by hand wouldnt cover even half of the answers ud need. these skills take trial n error. they are SKILLS and skills require practice by their very nature just to get to a basic functional standard How would u know about all these little 'extras' that can hamper u at any time n destroy ya chance of catching fish in the net, if it's not written in the book because such things deemed to be under another subject, such as agriculture and you didnt think of it in time? what if you were having to figure out how to make leather shoes, grow food, find n purify water, raise kids, protect ur resources etc all at once? n had no time to read any books cos everything takes so long cos u dont know any of the shortcuts n keep making mistakes that u keep failing n having to start from scratch each day? What if u dont know anyone who has 'survival' skills? what if u do find such a group, but they see u as a deadweight n drain on their resources n dont want u in their community? Plus, making a fire with wet wood on a windy n rainy day with inadequate shelter n clothing requires a different skill set than doing it in ideal conditions at a campsite with a wind n waterproof tent n -15degree Celcius sleepingbag
It's crazy to think about stuff like this. . . my opinion: ancient human were more athletic and physically stronger, but modern humans are extremely smarter. Now we have to think about the future humans. Actually, you should make a video on that: What Future Humans Will Most Likely Be Like.
we are not 'smarter' exactly we can memorise much less than the ancient greeks for instance. Who could'nt rely on mass printed books to hold information they could easily reference our attention spans are even less than the victorians, since tv and the internet. on an individual level, i think we are less intelligent, because we cannot hold info within our individual minds to same degree yet, collectively, we have access to more knowledge than ever before, ideas n info are shared much more easily, n where disciplines overlap, greater understanding has been made we have more collective knowledge in the world these days and easier access to it on individual lvl cos of internet A quick question; are u more intelligent now, than if u'd been born n lived n thus died in 1995 just before the 'dotcom boom'? or do u simply have better access to info than if ud lived b4 internet? i've also heard that our brains (they measure the volume of space within braincase) are smaller than they used to be 10k years ago (side note; that we may have lost alot of info from various libraries. such as alexandria -the Renaissance happened because of arabic scholars who had preserved ancient greek n roman knowledge started trading n such with europe again n ideas got spread in time for us all to celebrate the works of Michelangelo and many other famous people from that era)
A good point was one from Asimov, in the foundation series, How technology was becoming a relegion because no one knew how to used it or how it worked Also stuff like this is in warhammer 40k
I agree with most of what was said. But we are completely weaker now. We are multiple generations into fat, lazy, entitled, selfish, 8 hour minimum per day video game players, 50 per day selfie takers who are unwilling to do the work for today's survivalist skills; like he said with paying bills, getting good food, exercising and doing something as simple as cleaning the house; so I have zero faith in the ability of 90% of first world, urbanized people to survive in the event that just one single thing in their environment changes. We are weak and demanding and want everything done for us by others. The easiest example? Have you ever been in an airport/bus stations/train station/subway station whenever the mode of transportation is late or canceled? Or even something smaller, like refreshments run out at an event. There are fucking riots! "What are YOU going to do to fix this FOR ME?!?" is what is demanded. No, humans have evolved to be worthless.
gippywhite Your idea of reality is what makes me question your intelligence. Pessimism only works if theres evidence to back it up. You seem to lack a basic understanding of what progress and development is. You might want to take a few history classes. Although you seem like the type to drag out long pointless conversations so just pretend I didn't say that.
Nice try. I duel minored in world history and anthropology. It was fun for me. A nice, relaxing departure from my duel agree in math and engineering from Hood College and Harvard. Which, by the way, landed me an internship at Goddard Space Flight Center. So, I am MORE than confident that my intelligence far exceeds yours. In addition, your lack of understanding human nature and how the public operates in first world environment makes me question if you have ever left your mommy's basement. Does she keep you chained up down there or is the door just locked? My views are entirely based on facts and observations. You need to get out more and open your eyes. I dare you to go to one store, restaurant, transportation facility, office or school and not see a gaggle of pansy ass losers that couldn't find their way in this world without their phones telling them where to go. Also, your suggestion of me taking classes to study the past clearly shows you are incapable of making any progress or development of your own. Thank you for successfully proving my point. You can stick with reading someone else's opinions. I'll continue to write my own.
gippywhite I read about 3 sentences of you boasting about your degrees and realized just how stupid you really are. Kids get straight A's in school but still have no intelligence beyond concrete data. You lack a basic understanding of what intelligence is and cling to your flimsy college degrees as a way of comforting your own insecurities. This is evident in your statement of superior intelligence without ever having gauged mine. I bet you expect me to whip out my diplomas so we can measure degrees, but I'm not into that. P.S I kinda guessed you were the long drawn out narcissistic type so I decided to skip your little essay. Just to make it easier on you heres a tl;dr of my message: You're obviously lacking basic intelligence.
HaxSean Better how? Certainly not better for those adoptable children, or the environment, or people who choose not to have children yet have to pay taxes for other people who have children.
A 21 year old lady (point being she is more than old enough)at the local grocery store replied to a customer who asked if they have any parsnips - "No we don't have any". I clearly saw them in a high basket by the veg. I thought maybe she didn't know they were there being just at eye level. She then turned to my sister who works in the shop. "What's a parsnip". Not even what does it look like but. What. Is. It. We are most certainly the the aloi or at least most of they way there.
im survivalist and bushcraft man and there is a fine line between living and surviving. we currently live because we don't go hungry or thirsty... Surviving is much different to living but saying that i do see the point you are trying to get accross
You can make a mechanical toaster. You need, two mini fires with conducters that block the fire then you get a casing to hold the toast or bread. Then you get a handle like thing and attach it to the rubber band and the casing. Finally, you put a blocker that you press up or down to either open or close the block way for the handle to move up again. Lastly, you cover it with a plastic cover.
I believe in concept of Renaissance man, person must be able to defend himself, survive in the wild, fix his immediate tech, earn money and continue on path of self transcendence.
Are we weaker than our ancestors? um yes, when we have people that lose their shit when you say their "trigger" word and cry when they lose an argument, yes we're weaker
+Jeison Mashiro who do you mean by we? Are you talking for all the first world countries ? because Ik most of the earth is made up of third world countries that live close like prehistoric humans.
"To date online"... Lol. I agree on how survival skills change throughout history and geography. I've always thought so, and though it's an interesting fact, not many people seem to think about it. People just go on repeating patterns because that's what they learned from a previous generation or whatnot. What humanity needs is more of a critical sense, if you may. To look inside and be able to question what we do, what we think, even what we feel. Anyway, good vid. Clinical Psychologist here, keep it up!
No More Electricity.. Go to the library. Book is the "Before internet" source of knowledge and it do not need electricity. I'm sure there are book about how to build you own toaster.
I prefer living somewhere between 1970 and 2013. Over the past couple of years, society has become too simple and sensitive. 2020 needs to be a proper reincarnation of the golden ages. It's time for a revolution!
Actually, since we're moving to a nicer home, we had to remove the entire wall setup. Our entire flatscreen is duct taped to a table we have that can support the TV. I guess we are scared of TVs falling on us.
We would lose the percentage of our population who are kept alive and safe through devices powered by electricity. In New Zealand there are laws about what power companies do because a year or so ago someone died when her power was cut off.
I live in South Georgia from when i was a little kid my parents and grandparents tault me to hunt, fish grow a garden to get most of the food i need. Now that im a parent i am teaching my kids the same ways even if it seems like its no longer needed those skills make you a better person in the fact you learn to appreciate the things tje nature can give.
wow, this is random, just yesterday the power went out at 10 pm.... pure dark, a few blocks without power... never happened before to me, living in the city. I learned how to walk down the 8 flights of stairs in the dark cause the elevator was off as well. I took a nice walk in the dark, I always wanted to see the city with the lights off at night, haha. when I came home the power was back on.
First TestTubePlus video I've favorited. It was just very interesting! I think I'd be able to feed myself without power, but I wouldn't know how to get water. No idea. Conclusion: I need one of those magic straw things!
I would posit that "survival" is plasticity... being able to adapt ourselves to a new set of circumstances as they arise. You get a new job, you disadapt yourself from your former position and readapt yourself to your new position. If the power goes out... disadapt yourself from having power, readapt to having no power. You might not know how to skin a rabbit... BUT if the circumstance arises to where you needed to, being able to figure it out is important. Not having a toaster is different. That is a societal thing. One must make enough money to buy a new one. You don't need to build one... just adapt to either living without it, or adapting yourself to buying a new one. We are a society. So, the people that need to know how to make a toaster, make said toaster. They contribute to that part of society. Making a toaster toast better or differently is a different part of society. No man (or woman) is an island. No man (or woman) should be. Just be the best contributor to society that you can be. Help your fellow man. Be good at whatever it is that you do... and be able to change! If we do lose power forever, we will still be a society, we just have to adapt into a different situation. So help one another... in doing so, you help yourself!
People have always been excercising to help themselves become more efficent in their physical work all the way from the 80s cities all the way back to when we were hunter gatherers or farmers. Something somewhere truly did go wrong when we shifted from physical to mental work
Well I don't know electronics but I do know fishing, trapping, tracking, camping at -45 celcius and urban survival in general so I should be relatively safe. 7 years of scouts plus a fishing cabin without water or electricity does help quite a bit.
I am not afriad of snakes and i contribute this to the environment i live in however in the very same environment there are tarantulas which freaks me, which begs the question, am i afraid of specific things due to me or is my fear a direct representation of the very same things that scared or caused danger to my "direct" ancestors
Till middle 90's my family used to be hunters. During the time of British invading our country, my Great-grandfather went to Northern states to hunt animals and sold them. He came back with alot of money to feed his children but almost all of them turned out to be weaklings. For some reason, that didn't happend to me.
Our ancestral means of survival has been depleted due to our cozier lifestyles in this century and the previous centuries, we no longer have to hunt for food, pick greens, and select different berry varieties, we no longer have to see trees for protection from predators since we inhabit houses, apartments, and cities. We no longer make weapons from stone and stick, we are dependent beyond what we believe, if we truly were independent we would survive as our ancestors did beginning of human existence to 1460.
I kind of resemble my ancestors and the people today,I was born in Africa in a tribe,they are very traditional people I learned to hunt and I became very spiritual,I was agile,strong,and now Im in a fight club,my father and mother(who is Japanese but ended up in Africa for some strange reason) decided that we were going to move to America,I started school excelled moved up to 4th grade even though I was supposed to be in 1st grade,did well and things were fine,and I adapted to all the first world problems and got a little selfish because our family got alot of money(because my dad owned atleast 10% of 6 companies) and moved up to the rich white neighborhoods down in Texas.I graduated from CUNY early with a master degree in economics,and social science,same for some of my siblings,all graduated from colleges with master degrees, except my Older brother Jai and Older sister M'kayla who got doctors degrees.
Studies have become unimaginally tough these days and kids and teens are getting tired and dropping out just as a hunter gatherer becomes old and is killed by a stampede of buffalo
the problem in rural areas is that there's not enough to go hunt. there's cattle ranches but how long would it last. we need electricity to transport and refrigerate
Take it from this retired prof. of communication arts, English, writing, and public speaking, Trace is a fine teacher and his videos are clear and reasonably truthful, and full of good historical info. and science. He gets a bit weird about the paranormal, and he should point out even more that religion has been really bad in holding science back, and creating horrible wars and suffering fromThe Inquisition to the Crusades, to Ganghis Khan to the suffering today in Palestine, Israel, Syria, and Yemen. But, saying there's no way to prove "God" does or doesn't exist is true. Who knows what happened BEFORE the BIG BANG and where did the FIRST HYDROGEN MOLECULE COME FROM? I'm a Mystical Humanist who worships the Great Mystery Beyond Us way out there beyond our fish bowl which grows bigger and more full of exploding super novas every year! I'm subscribing to Trace. He's reasonable and a good lecturer! He teaches with a fine upbeat style. I've written 17 books and have an American Book Award, and edit www.Eco-Poetry.org receiving thousands of global visitors, and I've give hundreds of public speeches and readings, and I say this--not to brag--but to give ethos to my compliments about Science Plus and Trace's videos. His videos are better than most on You Tube for interesting information and learning about the world and science. I've turned my grandsons onto his talks.
Does a soldier focus on survival skills to become strong? Some, but it's not the top priority. The priorities (evolutionarily) for the average city dweller may be things like strategy, physical and social combat, social skills, disease resistance, and being able to learn valued trades.
Toaster=current passing through a resistive(ex tungsten) filament while inside a casing using a heat resistive material for a bread holder. Ore refinement for such a thing from scratch is impractical, better to just use a rock stove.
a toaster is basically a metal box with 2 holes in the top. it heats things by charging metal tubes inside of it until they are red hot. and that is why people die by toasters. the stick a fucking fork into it while it is still toasting. humans never learn
Our ancestors understood life would be easier if we all worked in a group. Thats why in todays world social interaction is important. Because our ancestors realized if you can contribute you can live with us and if you cant youre a liability. Same thing today. If we cant contribute to our community, friends, and family, theyll feel like we arent useful. However are bodies have been developing for millions perhaps billions of years and i believe that we could survive alone. However once again, our DNA is so developed into making us want to be together that if we did separate and live alone, we'd go insane. Our brains crave interaction with other humans because our ancestors realized the importance and benefits that came with living within a clan. It makes life easier and more enjoyable.
I can make cup holders, tablet holders, things with googly eyes, prehistoric-like hammers(I use tape), and other things. I actually tried making things like these
Hey @TestTube+ can you make a video about explaining dreams? like do dreams know they're gonna get interrupted? i could swear sometimes my family members wakes me up right before... for example i'm falling from the sky (in my dream) and i wake up VERY SHORTLY before i reach the ground. you get my point i guess, i'm sure all of us had it.
I bet I could make a toaster. It's just a really inefficiant electrical circuit, right? OK, my toaster would probably catch fire, but still, things would get toasty.
We are stronger than are ancestors ,as we have more knowledge accumulated , allowing use to do much greater things, Human knowledge is the greatest tool and only tool we every need
The problem isn't so much that we cannot survive, it's that we cannot survive alone. We've become a society of specialized workers where one person who knows how to fix the toaster is assigned the task of fixing toasters. We don't need everyone to know how to fix a toaster as long as one guy knows how to fix them. So long as we work together as a community to survive, we'll probably be ok. We can have someone who knows how to hunt do the hunting, we can have cooks, cook. The problem is more that every time there's a "survival" situation, be it in reality or even a movie, our selfish nature borks everything up. We don't need electricity, but we certainly need everyone to be useful in the group to survive. However, I acknowledge if we do end up surviving alone for whatever reason, we might be as good as dead.
Well ants and bees have been very successful for millions of years by forming into colony's.
I believe humans are doing the same and it has been the secret of our success.
+Christian Gomez Humans have never been good at surviving alone, we are pack animals and have to rely on others to survive.
As you are right about humans dying if they were alone one example if a human is stuck in isolation for too long they go bat shit insane we are literally and fundamentally created to be in a group and cannot work alone people now a days it seems as if everyone hates the other in my experiences
Christian Gomez No such arrangement could be implemented before the death of the vast, vast majority of people on earth. A guy setting traps for rabbits isn't going to feed Manhattan or Calcutta! !!
Christian Gomez Agreed, but thats how its always been. Humans have always flourished more in groups as opposed to individuals.
"We can go the distance like Disney's Hercules"
Oh my god, that reference is golden.
+IconicSchmoobie Yeah I love these little pop culture references he does in this show to make it more colloquial.
+Stelios78910 Why do you like them?
We have Bear Grylls to lead us
+Matija Zaoborni scripted reality shows are not the best example
+Galen Young Well those scripted shows are just lessons on how to survive, not actual survival.
+Xsion IvyRen Actually in my area there are many really good options. We have schools here that teach and certify a person for survival skills and foraging. You need to hold that certification before you can be a Maine Guide; to take groups into the woods for hunting, fishing, tourism.
+George Wicks Honestly no. Far more examples there are shown of how to fail, rather them to survive. Really they are marketed toward the appeal designed by Hollywood. There are schools that actually teach real-life survival skills.
Galen Young Yes, I completely understand that the show is manipulated and adapted for audiences and that real survival is different from the show; but you must not exclude Bear Grylls's work. He is a tremendous survival expert/teacher and hasn't really been treated fairly in the 'survival world'.
I do have to agree though, survival schools do show real survival, rather than unreliable facts.
I'm a mechanical engineer. I can probably build a toaster.
good at math
+Maxuel Cruz We'll probably be able to make frying pan aswell!
+Alexander Inget probably :D
I'm studying to become a software engineer. I'd be pretty damn useless in a post-apocalyptic society.
I'm a highschool student…I too can build a toaster lol
this episode could be summed up with the phrase 1st world problems.
yepp
+Kosh Tarr What's you're point? 2/3+ of the world doesn't have internet connectivity and most people live in urban areas. Why would he concentrate on others?
Earth is the third planet from the sun. We have third world problems
+Colorado Gamer
That's hardly something to be ashamed of. Why exactly would he discuss matters that only really pertained to people unable to even view this content to begin with? Different economic climates offer different lifestyles and different understandings of what is success and what is failure. Part of this video basically deals with nature of these differences.
+Colorado Gamer No such thing as "first world", that is a term of hatred, from an old age, it was replaced with the word "developed".
I like how his hair is shaped like a triangle
The question is "Are we weaker than our ancestors?" The answer is: Yes. Depending on where you grew up and live in this modern world. In the fist world nation states we have a very soft comfortable life; for the clear majority of us. Very few of us actually have to sweat and physical exert our selves out side of a few hours in a gym in a week. How strong were our ancestors who walk to were ever they were going, chopped wood, picked the vegetables, carried the same to were ever they were going and even wore armor. All on a daily basis.
Depends on what you think "weak" means. Is a small corpse-like old woman inside of a giant mecha nuclear war machine weaker than her ancestors? No. It's based on the "threat" and what we have to deal with it. Based on the threats they had, they were more equipped. But those threats aren't as prevalent anymore. By threats, I really mean something you need to do, like an obstacle. We still use wood for materials, but they're not collected or reshaped the same way anymore.
Well the people who wore armor were also trained from birth to do that, and even then there were only a couple hundred knights or elites per kingdom or territory (depending on how big it was). Most soldiers wore cloth and leather, MAYBE a mail coif or a mail suit. I do agree with you on the survival strength, but since gaining muscle is so much easier nowadays, humans have the possibility of become far more efficient and strong. For example, nobody in a village except for guards and soldiers would go and exercise more than they had to, so often teen boys would be as strong as today's youth. However, today, more and more 5-18 year old kids are exercising every day for hours and hours, building muscle and changing their genes to allow for more muscle in their offspring. Until they became adults, boys wouldn't do very much physical labor outside of carrying things for their parents, chopping and carrying lumber, or carrying water/farming. Girls rarely did much physical labor because they needed to look nice to be married off to a good family.
Jenny Jackson It doesnt really take a lot of raw strength or muscle to do those things though. And why do people think everybody in the middle ages wore armor on a daily basis? A lot of people back then didnt do much physical work just like today. Thats like future humans assuming we are stronger today solely because of training soldiers do in the military. I could say ancient humans were tough mentally, and had great endurance, but I dont think they would be physically stronger.
DiseaseTheseDays Theres no real evidence showing that ancient humans were really any stronger on average. Neanderthals were stronger yes, but that is different.
@@ryanperson6307 the vast majority of people did physical work.and alot of it that builds not only.muscle but tend and ligament strength which is every bit as if not more important. In.fact muscle size does not necessarily correlate with muscle strength.
If we lost all of our infrastructure and power, cities would likely become material scrap yards, places to acquire things like metal, rubber, and raw chemicals. While people lived mostly in the more suburban or rural areas to facilitate farming. We'd likely regress to around the period around the flint lock pistol era.
I feel like critical thinking is one of the things which remains a massive survival skill throughout history, from understanding mechanical motion well enough to come up with a atlatl for throwing spears, to understanding how you can run electricity through a coil with a high resistance to produce heat (in the case of a toaster). They concepts of motion and electron theory are useless until someone is clever enough to put them to use.
But hey, there's me that's kind of sick of social media and networks
I am not ashamed to admit I have a few weeks worth of food, water and some medical stuff stored up in my house with a smaller bag of goodies in my car for if the world goes to hell, which most likely will be due to a failure of the power grid in my country. Also been pretty interested in survival shows, but not to “prepare” or anything. Just find them interesting and I would like to think if I had to skin a rabbit, build a shelter, make a fire or whatever I wouldn’t be completely hopeless at it.
You probably have a weapon in your car with you all time.
+RedStefan The brain would be the weapon with all that knowledge. Ha...
+FrozenEternity Skinning a rabbit is easy. You can literally do it with pointy stick.
Ignacio Carreño Bolla
South Africa. We have planned powercuts called loadshedding here when the grid has too much stress on it. Havne't had those for a month now though so maybe things are looking up :)
+FrozenEternity you probably have a gun anyway since there is so much crime there
humans are very adaptive species, we have not lost intelligence. We can learn and adapt to new environments very quickly. We as a species can handle anything.
Except an alien invasion
+Bill Li because it hasn't happened. and there is no need to adapt to something like that if it never happens
Disagree. Humans today are more prone to allergies and cancers. Ancestors were hardier and tougher in their environment. Converse is true as well. Ancestors would probably get physically ill the moment they stepped in a city.
Disagree. Humans today are more prone to allergies and cancers. Ancestors were hardier and tougher in their environment. Converse is true as well. Ancestors would probably get physically ill the moment they stepped in a city.
Eugene Chun yes.. many would die.. but not the entirety of man kind.. many will survive. Our ancestors were no more special than us, they had the same cognitive capacities as us, therefore we can relearn the ways of our ancestors.. might take a while but it will happen.
If we lost power forever, the species would survive. A lot of individuals would die but the species survives. Yeah we're pretty dependent on technology. But I'm willing to take the risk for the benefits we get from it.
Adam and Eve lived hundreds of years, we humans are becoming weak and weaker no matter what
3rd world is same just struggling differently
Even if you don't want to believe creation, remember the men that wrote it knew people were getting weaker, men 3000 years ago knew this.
i know how to make a toaster
same
+Peter Rabitt erm, that wasn't creepy whatsoever....
+ashley beaumont I felt like he called me dumb :'( You just need a freaking wire with some resistance
+ashley beaumont im pretty sure you just know how to assemble a toaster, not making one form scratch. do you know how to mine and create all materials required to make a toaster? do you know how to mill, mold and cats all the parts for the said toaster? and even through out all of this you're still using other machines to do this, or tool made with the help of other machines.
If you look at new toaster tech they are starting to use nickel Ni200 wire as the resistance wire, as it heats up its resistance changes allowing, using algorithms to work out the heat and control the temperature! No more burnt toast in 5 years time lol
we're definetelly weaker. we use little "toys" to claim that we have power over things. but if we run out of ammo we curl up into a ball and cry
That's what a combat knife is for. Also hand to hand combat. Also the ability to run the fuck away.
lamo true.
We can endure more than any animal
@@ragheedbahnam8055 no no no, bruh we got the most stamina endurance,
"Little toy"
Ah yes you mean the nuke 😂
Dayz taught me how to survive.
+Nate Sobol Dayz is life
+PhenomRom 'Cept when it lags.
+Nate Sobol when you break your leg and you are looking for a zombie so it can kill you...
+Nate Sobol baked beans for life
breaking your leg and crawling towards the water to drown yourself.
It is near impossible to get a decent job without a computer, today. No one will read a had written resume, most businesses only have online job applications and nearly every job requires a basic knowledge of how to use a PC (word processing, web browsing and email).
For this reason, I have argued for years that a computer and internet access needs to be moved to the very bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, because without it you can't begin to afford decent food, reliably safe water or basic shelter. I would even go so far as to argue that basic technology is even below the physical in the 1st world. As many people like to say 'it's practically illegal to be homeless nowadays'.
I prefer the ancestors way
but only due to the high childhood death rates skewing the numbers
if one made it to adulthood, chances were good u'd reach 60-80 years. Just like in hunter-gatherer populations in amazon n other tribal areas
when they find skeletons, there's no accuracy after 35 yrs. they simply write 35+
im not certain if this is because ageing a skeleton after 35 is difficult cos wisdom teeth fully grown n any other age tests (my speculation that there may be some) wld b too expensive. wisdom teeth are last body part to fully develop in humans i believe
but i do know that average life spans are created by totalling up all the skeletons age at time of death in the area
so there's a bunch of under 10 yr old kids who die for various childhood reasons (life was tough, no hygiene etc, many died simply being born or through survival measures where children were killed off to ensure the group's survival -any 'deficiencies', lack of resources etc etc even the ancient civilisations we celebrate did this) and ages of skeletons stop at '35+' years old
pre agricultural revolution, there was a lot less interaction with animals. flu comes from pigs n birds originally, many other illnesses from goats, sheep and cows. all which mutated into the diseases we know n susceptible to
animals often lived in same shelter during winter months in europe n thus these illnesses transfered to human populations
B4 agricultural revolution, we lived longer, we were healthier on every level from age span to nutrition.
children have always had higher rates of death n illness, even in our technologically advanced modern era due to under developed immune systems or genetic mutations that wern't in the parents to same extent n impacted their chances for survival. children also may have ended up in situations where they hadnt yet learnt the correct survival technique to deal with it (predators, accidents, first aid kinda stuff)
one simply has to look at the 3 waves of the black death n how it decimated europe's population in the middle ages to realise the true scope n power of diseases without our modern technology. yet arguably, it made the survivors have stronger immune systems long term n eventually european population recovered n dominated the world for a brief n unfortunate time with colonisation
1 evidence supports what i have said, ill find some in a sec
2 when pple hunted animals in forest; they didnt groom them, they didnt feed them, they didnt contain them, they didnt share the same roof. there was less day to day contact with animals pre agriculture
do u have any farming experiences? everyday ya in physical contact with them, from cleaning up their poop, to extracting resources (shearing, milking etc), to general daily care n illhealth prevention. all require physical contact
when hunting? u kill animal, n only touch it once dead. then it's cooked/preserved, minimal chance for bacterial/viral growth n cross contamination
The animal is wild n not cooped up in unsanitary conditions, such as a barn all winter long (which is a fertile breeding ground for bacteria n viruses n partly why there's concern at the high amounts of anti-biotics that get pumped into animals as a prevention rather than cure. which is causing a negative side-effect of causing pathogens to mutate n thus we got 'super-bugs' like MRSA which resistant to anti-biotics)
the wild animal also has less contact with others of it's species, sticking to the group natural to it, so ALOT LESS cross contamination (in farming, u get animals from different herds, diff parts of the country, sometimes every year, sometimes several times a year, but certainly more frequently than the DNA exchanges that wld happen in the wild herd, in order to bred in/out certain traits), so like airplanes inc risk of global pandemics, so too did domestication n breeding of animals -hence the strict record keeping of organisations such as DEFRA in UK, even for pet versions of farmstock animals -i had 2 pet goats)
u got great theory n i know it seems logical what u have said
but both practical experience, science and the historical evidence we have shows humans were healthier before agriculture n thaT we have only in last 30-100 years reached the same level of health as we used to have pre-agriculture
i can recall bein shocked n feeling great disbelief at first when i learnt about the evidence, until i had seen n read so much, from so many different sources, i had to adjust my mental maps on human history n culture n incorporate the new evidence
Schools teach us about how wonderful the agricultural revolution was for us, that it built civilisation etc
The truth is, agriculture was a worse situation for vast majority, only those who had status, wealth or power benefited from the new status quo
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-dawn-farming-changed-our-mouths-worst-180954167/
www.quora.com/How-did-ancient-humans-survive-with-so-little-food-They-were-healthy-walked-for-miles-daily-fought-for-food-and-territories-How-did-they-do-it-without-modern-nutrition-rules
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/today/tomfeilden/2009/05/do_huntergatherers_have_it_rig.html
blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/17/early-farmers-were-sicker-and-shorter-than-their-forager-ancestors/#.Ws-8fi7wYdU
mhmm,
i already explained this
n discovery channel isnt exactly the most accurate place to source historical info. better than most, ill grant you n they do do some good dramatic documentaries, but it's sensationalised, it's main purpose is education through entertainment, it's for mainstream folk with a mild to medium interest in history, hence not always factually correct. plus diff shows made by diff companies/directors etc n the umbrella 'discovery channel' cannot fact check every single second that is aired n thus cannot be held accountable for mistakes in the shows they air
Plus the 'if u dont know what u dont know, u dont know that u dont know it' n thus cannot take appropriate actions
but they also dont explain the stats, detailed methods n how they worked out n why they maybe skewed etc
it suits the status quo for everyone to think we nvr had it better, dont want no rising up of populace after all, which is why education so tightly regulated
i'll repeat myself
if i died at age 75 n some archaeologist comes along, guess what age s/he will say i was when i died? 35+
because once wisdom teeth fully developed (at 35) it is very difficult, maybe impossible to tell age of older individuals, plus because fertility by then is a bit of a non-issue, they not so interested in elderly
PLUS
High infant mortality rates!!!!!!!
these 2 things SKEW THE *AVERAGE AGE* RESULTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do u understand what average means in mathematical terminology?
do u understand how stats can be manipulated?
has it occured to u that instead of arguin with me, u actually do some research n find out if i am correct?
here, iv made it easy for you
www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/life-expectancy-myth-and-why-many-ancient-humans-lived-long-077889
^this one is simpler, n more of an intro into the topic i am attempting to educate u in
tho i dnt particularly trust this site as they sometimes do ancient alien stuff XD
but its a good link to enable u to be able to understand the 2nd link, which is the one i really want u to read n understand \/ down here
condensedscience.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/life-expectancy-in-hunter-gatherers-and-other-groups/
Good luck surviving in the forest
This guy could never survive without reading from a laptop. He can't ever enter a dialogue.
we are not more intelligent, we just know more.
We might be more intelligent
+tvrulz46 probably just know more
+Christonya Watson you are correct we just have more info with more convenience.
+tvrulz46 there is no way that we are more intelligent.
We are more in population than everyone from the begining of the world to the end combined
If theres something i learned from minecraft, its that making your own food and finding materials in a city without modifying buildings is nearly impossible or just really frustrating.
minecraft could be like real life in some way
Does that mean plumbers, mechanics and electricians are wizards?
Does it?
Not sure but they make pretty good money.
that is the logical conclusion.
No, that is physicists and engineers.
No it means if you can build a toaster you're a wizard apparently.
there's a TV show called revolution where the power goes out all around the world and it shows the adventure of the main character's to turn the power back on in the US. very good sow you should watch it Trace and anyone who has seen this comment.
(:
what channel
+Devin Perdue Netflix. I agree, it's a pretty good show.
+Ben Johnson aight thanks for responding
+daniel quagliaroli I have there is a reason most phones, computers, and cars exist in modified faraday(total misspell) cages.
+daniel quagliaroli I enjoyed the show and the concept. Too bad it was cancelled after 2 seasons. This is why I don't watch much TV any more.
Skinning a rabbit is definitely still a survival skill. I live in Alaska & there's something called "subsistence living". Many people here live in small villages, not cities, and still hunt & gather food, and we're not even an undeveloped/ underdeveloped country, this is in one of the States for god sake! It's not completely gone, at all. Most people here would look at you with more respect for knowing how to hunt & skin animals, than go into a city & do paperwork. It's DEFINITELY not gone. This should be addressed & not overlooked.
When all my bullets have been used...
When my firearms sit useless...
I will always have my bow, my axes, my knives and my ability to use these.
Jeremy Paluck Me too..For the warriors and Hunters we are
I was going to laugh at the idea that someone couldn't get home without their phone, but then I remembered people live in cities and that actually could be a problem.
I'm a survival expert, nothing can kill me
Talia Fitzpatrick let's mate
Survive a month in -40 below up north
This .44 bout to go off
Are you still alive ?
7:55 we are a world of progress and dependent. We are not a world of regress and independent.
We are logistically depend on factories & transportation for our food & material supplies
"what do you do if the power goes out at 7pm"
This isn't a problem
Just like read a f*ucking book
In northern areas like where I live, if a city lost electricity or natural gas during the winter for an extended period, people WOULD die. We need these things for our furnaces to run to heat our houses - and very few houses have wood stoves or fireplaces anymore.
I love this show!!!!
#bakvet
I could make a toaster. I need two different types of metal wire, and a magnet, preferably a rectangular magnet, and some sort of heat resistant object, like two flat rocks of about equal size, or clay. Take the metal wire which conducts electricity better, and create a coil. Then, use the second type of wire to create two heating pads for the toaster. To do this, bend the wire so it covers most of one side of one of the flat rock. It may be necessary to wrap the wire around to the rock to keep it fixed on. If so, exercise extreme caution, since you don't want to touch the wire. Make two heating pads. If one flat rock is bigger than the other, use that as the bottom of the toaster. Use the first wire to create a circuit, connecting the two heating pads to the metal coil in a way that allows the two heating pads to be pressed together, and for the top pad to be pulled away from the bottom one far enough to operate as a toaster. You'll likely want to create some method of support to force a gap between the two heating pads, so that the toast isn't squished. If you do, use a heat-resistant material, such as rocks or clay (if using clay, bake clay before using the toaster. You can make the entire toaster out of clay too. It may be easier.)
To operate the toaster, put the magnet inside the coil, push it in, then pull it out, and keep doing this. It generates an A/C electric current. Due to the increased resistance of the second type of metal, that metal will become hot, and the heating pads will toast the bread between them.
I've survived for a year without technology with my dad before in the wild we set up tents and survived it was fun our tour guide tought us how to make fire it was awesome and i also killed a snake
+labobo how can he if he already done it
+labobo
labobo i dont have a good camera but ill try
+labobo why would he have to prove anything to you? You're just another one of the 7 billion people on earth,its not like anyone cares about what you think
you used tents which are made in factories which needs technology to create those factories in the first place, so you failed to survive a year without technology so fail
Trace i love to sit and listen to your voice while you talk about topics. you are good to make them intriguing and thanks for that. :-D
This one was amazing, it real made me think
toasters are just lightbulbs without the glass/vacuum (ie wont pop out in the air) and in a metal box to contain the heat, obviously not made the same but technically the same.. can't get much simpler than that.
but there is less contact with snakes than with tv's right?
+Benjamin Oeding Well that's the point
alot of comments yellin about books XD
lets take 1 example -a fishing net. cos i used to make them n also repair some types of netting by hand in factory
which is currently made from strong nylon 'string' tied in fancy knots to make the squares. You cld find the technique on how to use the shuttle to make the knots, realise that the net is made at 90 degrees in a diamond shape etc from books sure
But how will u make the string? braid/plait or twist it? how?, which is easier to make the nets keep their shape n strength? how wld u grow it? which plants will u choose? the bendy ones or the strong ones? how long before u have the completed string from seeds? where wld u get the seeds? how would u capture future seeds? what length string do u need? how much land? what size to make the knots? how much size difference between the knots can u get away with n still have a useful net that doesnt break every time it's used? what overall size? what fish? what season to catch them? what season to seed, grow and cut the fibre crops to make the string? what about drought, flood n pests? how much land can u afford to redirect away from food production? are there any secondary applications to crop you choose? such as rapeseed oil, or hemp sailcloth? n then theres all the knowledge u'd need if u were to be successful at catching fish (location, fish behaviour etc) then theres preservation techniques to choose from which all have their pro's n con's n depend on other resources such as salt n what if u dont live near the sea n this is for lake fishing? n there's no plentiful wood supply nearby to smoke the fish in a smoke house? a book on how to make a net by hand wouldnt cover even half of the answers ud need. these skills take trial n error. they are SKILLS and skills require practice by their very nature just to get to a basic functional standard
How would u know about all these little 'extras' that can hamper u at any time n destroy ya chance of catching fish in the net, if it's not written in the book because such things deemed to be under another subject, such as agriculture and you didnt think of it in time?
what if you were having to figure out how to make leather shoes, grow food, find n purify water, raise kids, protect ur resources etc all at once? n had no time to read any books cos everything takes so long cos u dont know any of the shortcuts n keep making mistakes that u keep failing n having to start from scratch each day?
What if u dont know anyone who has 'survival' skills? what if u do find such a group, but they see u as a deadweight n drain on their resources n dont want u in their community?
Plus, making a fire with wet wood on a windy n rainy day with inadequate shelter n clothing requires a different skill set than doing it in ideal conditions at a campsite with a wind n waterproof tent n -15degree Celcius sleepingbag
It's crazy to think about stuff like this. . . my opinion: ancient human were more athletic and physically stronger, but modern humans are extremely smarter. Now we have to think about the future humans. Actually, you should make a video on that: What Future Humans Will Most Likely Be Like.
Look up the documentary "magical Egypt". They were fucking smart back in the day.
Intelligence is a point of view.
we are not 'smarter' exactly
we can memorise much less than the ancient greeks for instance. Who could'nt rely on mass printed books to hold information they could easily reference
our attention spans are even less than the victorians, since tv and the internet.
on an individual level, i think we are less intelligent, because we cannot hold info within our individual minds to same degree
yet, collectively, we have access to more knowledge than ever before, ideas n info are shared much more easily, n where disciplines overlap, greater understanding has been made
we have more collective knowledge in the world these days and easier access to it on individual lvl cos of internet
A quick question; are u more intelligent now, than if u'd been born n lived n thus died in 1995 just before the 'dotcom boom'? or do u simply have better access to info than if ud lived b4 internet?
i've also heard that our brains (they measure the volume of space within braincase) are smaller than they used to be 10k years ago
(side note; that we may have lost alot of info from various libraries. such as alexandria -the Renaissance happened because of arabic scholars who had preserved ancient greek n roman knowledge started trading n such with europe again n ideas got spread in time for us all to celebrate the works of Michelangelo and many other famous people from that era)
I think survival is the ability to adapt to whatever circumstance life is contingent on
Why do you never ever in any of your videos address the topic at hand? Why? Why is every title from your videos always misleading?
A good point was one from Asimov, in the foundation series, How technology was becoming a relegion because no one knew how to used it or how it worked
Also stuff like this is in warhammer 40k
I agree with most of what was said. But we are completely weaker now. We are multiple generations into fat, lazy, entitled, selfish, 8 hour minimum per day video game players, 50 per day selfie takers who are unwilling to do the work for today's survivalist skills; like he said with paying bills, getting good food, exercising and doing something as simple as cleaning the house; so I have zero faith in the ability of 90% of first world, urbanized people to survive in the event that just one single thing in their environment changes. We are weak and demanding and want everything done for us by others. The easiest example? Have you ever been in an airport/bus stations/train station/subway station whenever the mode of transportation is late or canceled? Or even something smaller, like refreshments run out at an event. There are fucking riots! "What are YOU going to do to fix this FOR ME?!?" is what is demanded. No, humans have evolved to be worthless.
Hm... You should probably stop hitting that blunt.
Garret Griffith What planet do you live on when a shitting reality comes from a joint? You're an idiot.
gippywhite Your idea of reality is what makes me question your intelligence. Pessimism only works if theres evidence to back it up. You seem to lack a basic understanding of what progress and development is. You might want to take a few history classes. Although you seem like the type to drag out long pointless conversations so just pretend I didn't say that.
Nice try. I duel minored in world history and anthropology. It was fun for me. A nice, relaxing departure from my duel agree in math and engineering from Hood College and Harvard. Which, by the way, landed me an internship at Goddard Space Flight Center. So, I am MORE than confident that my intelligence far exceeds yours. In addition, your lack of understanding human nature and how the public operates in first world environment makes me question if you have ever left your mommy's basement. Does she keep you chained up down there or is the door just locked? My views are entirely based on facts and observations. You need to get out more and open your eyes. I dare you to go to one store, restaurant, transportation facility, office or school and not see a gaggle of pansy ass losers that couldn't find their way in this world without their phones telling them where to go. Also, your suggestion of me taking classes to study the past clearly shows you are incapable of making any progress or development of your own. Thank you for successfully proving my point. You can stick with reading someone else's opinions. I'll continue to write my own.
gippywhite I read about 3 sentences of you boasting about your degrees and realized just how stupid you really are. Kids get straight A's in school but still have no intelligence beyond concrete data. You lack a basic understanding of what intelligence is and cling to your flimsy college degrees as a way of comforting your own insecurities. This is evident in your statement of superior intelligence without ever having gauged mine. I bet you expect me to whip out my diplomas so we can measure degrees, but I'm not into that. P.S I kinda guessed you were the long drawn out narcissistic type so I decided to skip your little essay. Just to make it easier on you heres a tl;dr of my message: You're obviously lacking basic intelligence.
Trace I love your stuff! Keep up the good work
Humans really need to stop having babies. There are millions of babies who need to be adopted. Why don't we cut down on that before we add more?
having kids of your own genetic material>raising somebody elses
HaxSean Better how? Certainly not better for those adoptable children, or the environment, or people who choose not to have children yet have to pay taxes for other people who have children.
i aggre
www.vhemt.org/humanfamily.jpg
Because we don't want ugly babies we want babies that look like us
I can build a toaster. Even did it by mistake once. Point taken though.
You should make an episode about how people adept to prison survival mentally and physically, it's actually a pretty interesting topic.
A 21 year old lady (point being she is more than old enough)at the local grocery store replied to a customer who asked if they have any parsnips - "No we don't have any". I clearly saw them in a high basket by the veg. I thought maybe she didn't know they were there being just at eye level. She then turned to my sister who works in the shop. "What's a parsnip". Not even what does it look like but. What. Is. It. We are most certainly the the aloi or at least most of they way there.
sick video. But how many t-shirts does one man need?
im survivalist and bushcraft man and there is a fine line between living and surviving. we currently live because we don't go hungry or thirsty... Surviving is much different to living but saying that i do see the point you are trying to get accross
A film about the decline of electricity and infrastructure would be a awesome idea
You can make a mechanical toaster. You need, two mini fires with conducters that block the fire then you get a casing to hold the toast or bread. Then you get a handle like thing and attach it to the rubber band and the casing. Finally, you put a blocker that you press up or down to either open or close the block way for the handle to move up again. Lastly, you cover it with a plastic cover.
I believe in concept of Renaissance man, person must be able to defend himself, survive in the wild, fix his immediate tech, earn money and continue on path of self transcendence.
I like how you think.
mhmmmm me likes this concept :D
Are we weaker than our ancestors?
um yes, when we have people that lose their shit when you say their "trigger" word and cry when they lose an argument, yes we're weaker
I dont think we're getting weaker, I think we're getting lazy
Yes
Yep. Just think if we weren't lazy, kept our use of knowledge, and trained our bodies more
+Jeison Mashiro who do you mean by we? Are you talking for all the first world countries ? because Ik most of the earth is made up of third world countries that live close like prehistoric humans.
+jelanionigbinde58 Humankind as a whole. Not all of us but majority because I know getting everyone to follow such a thing wouldn't be that easy.
"To date online"... Lol.
I agree on how survival skills change throughout history and geography. I've always thought so, and though it's an interesting fact, not many people seem to think about it. People just go on repeating patterns because that's what they learned from a previous generation or whatnot. What humanity needs is more of a critical sense, if you may. To look inside and be able to question what we do, what we think, even what we feel.
Anyway, good vid. Clinical Psychologist here, keep it up!
in a toaster there is tungston, a bad conducter of electricty, so if there's an electrical current going through it, it heats up ect.
No More Electricity.. Go to the library. Book is the "Before internet" source of knowledge and it do not need electricity. I'm sure there are book about how to build you own toaster.
I prefer living somewhere between 1970 and 2013. Over the past couple of years, society has become too simple and sensitive. 2020 needs to be a proper reincarnation of the golden ages. It's time for a revolution!
Actually, since we're moving to a nicer home, we had to remove the entire wall setup. Our entire flatscreen is duct taped to a table we have that can support the TV. I guess we are scared of TVs falling on us.
If the world went through some post-apocalyptic situation and power was limited I think I'd stand a chance of surviving.
Interesting take on this topic. Good job Trace.
I would say that hairstyle is an evolutionary dead-end.
We would lose the percentage of our population who are kept alive and safe through devices powered by electricity. In New Zealand there are laws about what power companies do because a year or so ago someone died when her power was cut off.
I live in South Georgia from when i was a little kid my parents and grandparents tault me to hunt, fish grow a garden to get most of the food i need. Now that im a parent i am teaching my kids the same ways even if it seems like its no longer needed those skills make you a better person in the fact you learn to appreciate the things tje nature can give.
this channel needs more subscribers
wow, this is random, just yesterday the power went out at 10 pm.... pure dark, a few blocks without power... never happened before to me, living in the city. I learned how to walk down the 8 flights of stairs in the dark cause the elevator was off as well.
I took a nice walk in the dark, I always wanted to see the city with the lights off at night, haha. when I came home the power was back on.
First TestTubePlus video I've favorited. It was just very interesting! I think I'd be able to feed myself without power, but I wouldn't know how to get water. No idea. Conclusion: I need one of those magic straw things!
I would posit that "survival" is plasticity... being able to adapt ourselves to a new set of circumstances as they arise. You get a new job, you disadapt yourself from your former position and readapt yourself to your new position. If the power goes out... disadapt yourself from having power, readapt to having no power. You might not know how to skin a rabbit... BUT if the circumstance arises to where you needed to, being able to figure it out is important. Not having a toaster is different. That is a societal thing. One must make enough money to buy a new one. You don't need to build one... just adapt to either living without it, or adapting yourself to buying a new one. We are a society. So, the people that need to know how to make a toaster, make said toaster. They contribute to that part of society. Making a toaster toast better or differently is a different part of society. No man (or woman) is an island. No man (or woman) should be. Just be the best contributor to society that you can be. Help your fellow man. Be good at whatever it is that you do... and be able to change! If we do lose power forever, we will still be a society, we just have to adapt into a different situation. So help one another... in doing so, you help yourself!
People have always been excercising to help themselves become more efficent in their physical work all the way from the 80s cities all the way back to when we were hunter gatherers or farmers. Something somewhere truly did go wrong when we shifted from physical to mental work
Well I don't know electronics but I do know fishing, trapping, tracking, camping at -45 celcius and urban survival in general so I should be relatively safe. 7 years of scouts plus a fishing cabin without water or electricity does help quite a bit.
I love listening to this while I get ready for work!
If the grid goes down especially in big cities there will be high fatalities.
I am not afriad of snakes and i contribute this to the environment i live in however in the very same environment there are tarantulas which freaks me, which begs the question, am i afraid of specific things due to me or is my fear a direct representation of the very same things that scared or caused danger to my "direct" ancestors
Nice to see the context being considered.
Daaaaaaaammmmmnnnnn.....
That's quite the query you propose Trace. Fantastic video!
Till middle 90's my family used to be hunters. During the time of British invading our country, my Great-grandfather went to Northern states to hunt animals and sold them. He came back with alot of money to feed his children but almost all of them turned out to be weaklings. For some reason, that didn't happend to me.
It doesn't mean we have all adapted. We just grow up learning how to survive in the current situation that we are in. Has nothing to do with adaption.
Our ancestral means of survival has been depleted due to our cozier lifestyles in this century and the previous centuries, we no longer have to hunt for food, pick greens, and select different berry varieties, we no longer have to see trees for protection from predators since we inhabit houses, apartments, and cities. We no longer make weapons from stone and stick, we are dependent beyond what we believe, if we truly were independent we would survive as our ancestors did beginning of human existence to 1460.
I kind of resemble my ancestors and the people today,I was born in Africa in a tribe,they are very traditional people I learned to hunt and I became very spiritual,I was agile,strong,and now Im in a fight club,my father and mother(who is Japanese but ended up in Africa for some strange reason) decided that we were going to move to America,I started school excelled moved up to 4th grade even though I was supposed to be in 1st grade,did well and things were fine,and I adapted to all the first world problems and got a little selfish because our family got alot of money(because my dad owned atleast 10% of 6 companies) and moved up to the rich white neighborhoods down in Texas.I graduated from CUNY early with a master degree in economics,and social science,same for some of my siblings,all graduated from colleges with master degrees, except my Older brother Jai and Older sister M'kayla who got doctors degrees.
never mind it wasnt social science.
I love this intro music so so much. I also love you Trace you beautiful inspiring man!
I immediately searched, "how to make a toaster before I die"
Being social and willing to be of use to people around you, is probably the best skills. That is my best guess.
Studies have become unimaginally tough these days and kids and teens are getting tired and dropping out just as a hunter gatherer becomes old and is killed by a stampede of buffalo
the problem in rural areas is that there's not enough to go hunt. there's cattle ranches but how long would it last. we need electricity to transport and refrigerate
Take it from this retired prof. of communication arts, English, writing, and public speaking, Trace is a fine teacher and his videos are clear and reasonably truthful, and full of good historical info. and science. He gets a bit weird about the paranormal, and he should point out even more that religion has been really bad in holding science back, and creating horrible wars and suffering fromThe Inquisition to the Crusades, to Ganghis Khan to the suffering today in Palestine, Israel, Syria, and Yemen. But, saying there's no way to prove "God" does or doesn't exist is true. Who knows what happened BEFORE the BIG BANG and where did the FIRST HYDROGEN MOLECULE COME FROM? I'm a Mystical Humanist who worships the Great Mystery Beyond Us way out there beyond our fish bowl which grows bigger and more full of exploding super novas every year! I'm subscribing to Trace. He's reasonable and a good lecturer! He teaches with a fine upbeat style. I've written 17 books and have an American Book Award, and edit www.Eco-Poetry.org receiving thousands of global visitors, and I've give hundreds of public speeches and readings, and I say this--not to brag--but to give ethos to my compliments about Science Plus and Trace's videos. His videos are better than most on You Tube for interesting information and learning about the world and science. I've turned my grandsons onto his talks.
Dude, I love your Chanel
Does a soldier focus on survival skills to become strong? Some, but it's not the top priority. The priorities (evolutionarily) for the average city dweller may be things like strategy, physical and social combat, social skills, disease resistance, and being able to learn valued trades.
Toaster=current passing through a resistive(ex tungsten) filament while inside a casing using a heat resistive material for a bread holder. Ore refinement for such a thing from scratch is impractical, better to just use a rock stove.
a toaster is basically a metal box with 2 holes in the top. it heats things by charging metal tubes inside of it until they are red hot. and that is why people die by toasters. the stick a fucking fork into it while it is still toasting. humans never learn
Our ancestors understood life would be easier if we all worked in a group. Thats why in todays world social interaction is important. Because our ancestors realized if you can contribute you can live with us and if you cant youre a liability. Same thing today. If we cant contribute to our community, friends, and family, theyll feel like we arent useful. However are bodies have been developing for millions perhaps billions of years and i believe that we could survive alone. However once again, our DNA is so developed into making us want to be together that if we did separate and live alone, we'd go insane. Our brains crave interaction with other humans because our ancestors realized the importance and benefits that came with living within a clan. It makes life easier and more enjoyable.
"Our survival is basically independent on *US AIR FORCE logo pops up *"
I can make cup holders, tablet holders, things with googly eyes, prehistoric-like hammers(I use tape), and other things. I actually tried making things like these
Hey @TestTube+ can you make a video about explaining dreams?
like do dreams know they're gonna get interrupted? i could swear sometimes my family members wakes me up right before... for example i'm falling from the sky (in my dream) and i wake up VERY SHORTLY before i reach the ground. you get my point i guess, i'm sure all of us had it.
Dreams was one of the first videos he made. It's on this channel
Thanks
the way he said "could you make a toaster" made me die
I bet I could make a toaster. It's just a really inefficiant electrical circuit, right?
OK, my toaster would probably catch fire, but still, things would get toasty.
guys just try this game and you'd be okay in survival.
Game: The Forest
"Skinning a rabbit is not a survival skill.." How dare you Trace.... ;)
the lack of music and segway makes this video hilarious
None of this matters when we welcome new robot overlords
We are stronger than are ancestors ,as we have more knowledge accumulated , allowing use to do much greater things, Human knowledge is the greatest tool and only tool we every need
Great channel! Thank you!