The Beautiful Horror of Deep Space

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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Play Under a Star Called Sun: haraiva.itch.io/under-a-star-...
Play The Anglerfish Project: selkieharbour.itch.io/the-ang...
If the world was ending, and you could save only one hundred and sixteen images as the final record of planet Earth, what kind of moments would you preserve?
This is an actual question NASA faced in 1977, when they decided to attach to the Voyager spacecrafts golden records encoded with a selection of photos intended to immortalize life on our fragile planet. And when I look at these pictures, which have now left our solar system and are hurtling out into the cosmic dark, I can’t get out of my head how they will probably be all that’s left of us one day. In the vacuum of space, these images could last for billions of years, outliving the earth, outliving the sun.
And though that should maybe be comforting… I think it scares me.
0:00 Fear of Deep Space
1:06 Gazing into the Abyss
3:52 A Dog Named Laika
7:24 Under a Star Called Sun
9:54 True Emptiness
11:28 Signaling Aliens
13:57 Dark Forest Hypothesis
16:22 Pale Blue Dot
18:55 Space Madness
20:20 The Year Without Summer
22:22 End of the Universe
Media Shown: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Solaris, Outer Wilds, Silent Running, High Life, Under a Star Called Sun, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Expanse, The Anglerfish Project, A Trip to the Moon, From Earth to the Moon, Mars and Beyond, War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Alien, Alien: Covenant, Alien: Isolation, Deep Impact
♫ Music Used - Left Alone - Ending Theme 2 (Detention), Komorebi (Gris), Windmill (Gris), Unagi (Gris), Sevastopol Abandoned (Alien: Isolation), Alien Reveal (Alien: Isolation), The Sun Station (Outer Wilds), 14.3 Billion Years (Outer Wilds), Back and Forth (Cloud Gardens), Kinds of Flowers (Voyager’s Golden Record)
♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Bittersweet
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SOURCES:
Golden Record: voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-r...
The Sad, Sad Story of Laika: www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...
Earth’s Magnetosphere: science.nasa.gov/science-rese...
Risks of Space Exploration: humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov...
Red Giant Suns: www.space.com/22471-red-giant...
End of the Milky Way: www.science.org/content/artic...
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@allisonhomiak2336 5 ай бұрын

Reading Laika's Wikipedia article has ruined me. "Before the launch one of the mission scientists took Laika home to play with his children. In a book chronicling the story of Soviet space medicine, Vladimir Yazdovsky wrote, 'Laika was quiet and charming ... I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live.'" "One of the technicians preparing the capsule before final liftoff: 'After placing Laika in the container and before closing the hatch, we kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage, knowing that she would not survive the flight.'" "In 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet regime, Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, expressed regret for allowing her to die: 'Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it ... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.'"

@AgentWebs 5 ай бұрын

At least Laika was treated as a hero both during and after her mission. Her sacrifice paved the way to developing almost every safety measure for space flight used today, and compared to the american space program, the soviet union had a much better record of keeping their animal cosmonauts alive

@Plexippuspetersi92 5 ай бұрын

Of course you're more enamored by the dog. I swear people are more willing to kill a human child than harm a dog. It's utterly pathetic.

@sentientflower7891 5 ай бұрын

@@Plexippuspetersi92human children are killed all the time on the Earth, you didn't know?

@MDE_never_dies 5 ай бұрын

@@Plexippuspetersi92Human children are considered clusters of cells. But a Cluster of Cells on Mars is considered valuable life.

@MonkeyBonesGeorge 5 ай бұрын

And I'm sobbing again.

@HlootooThunderhammer 5 ай бұрын

Deep Sea and Deep Space are truly sisters in how they frighten us in much of the same ways: dark, cold, quiet, vast and void, humans floating almost helplessly when placed in them. Truly twins separated from birth.

@AJSmith63 5 ай бұрын

except the ocean has more life than the land

@piyo744 5 ай бұрын

It's weird. I find them both oddly calming. There's just something so peaceful and calming about them.

@manjibean4015 5 ай бұрын

@@AJSmith63and space has more matter than earth, its the density or lack of that is spooky

@dandabossthesecond3599 5 ай бұрын

Anything "deep" is scaring humanity. Deep space, deep pools, deep holes, your mo-

@soccerandtrack10 5 ай бұрын

@@dandabossthesecond3599 "Rictofen keeps strokeing that golden rod of his doh😳..."

@tarryncooper4742 4 ай бұрын

The story of Lyka is so heartbreaking. Every single clip or picture of her, she looked SO happy to be involved.... 😢😢😢

@sweetbunnybun 3 ай бұрын

you didnt even spell her name right

@olive92 2 ай бұрын

@@sweetbunnybun does being pedantic make you feel superior?

@iCookCrystalMeth 2 ай бұрын

@@olive92occasionally

@olive92 2 ай бұрын

@@iCookCrystalMeth you weren't the pedant I was talking to...but regardless, find a better hobby.

@Dicka899 2 ай бұрын

@@olive92couldn’t even respect her enough to spell her name correctly

@soraskingdom2388 2 ай бұрын

The way my heart sunk into my stomach when you told the story of the Laika... I just pictured myself in her position, frightened confused... betrayed.... she looked soo excited. the poor thing could never imagine in centuries of evolution what was going to happen to her. With no way to conceptualize what was happening, all that remained was primal fear. This is going to keep me up. All that said, your growth as a creator on this platform is just inspiring to watch. You are an incredible storyteller.

@cristiancastro5853 2 ай бұрын

Exactly. The amount of disregard that animals are just sacs of organs is so heartbreaking 😢 It happens on dairy farms too, the cows are sexually assaulted so they get pregnant and lactate, then when they give birth their babies are stolen so they don’t drink the milk and the mourn for days and it also has serious developmental impact on the calf. But no one cares just because it’s an animal. And if the calf was female she is also a dairy cow, and if it’s a male he’s slaughtered for veal 😢 It happens to beagles too. In some places they are treated like lab rats and are vivisected and tested on. So heartbreaking that these beautiful creatures are treated differently just because of their species.

@juliagoetia Ай бұрын

@@cristiancastro5853 Yeah, it's beyond horrifying when you stop for a moment to think about it. Thinking about it enough was what led me to going vegan eventually. I just couldn't bear the thought of paying people to do those things to them. It's just too much. Too evil.

@purplespectre 17 күн бұрын

@@juliagoetia Morally, I'd want to be vegan too, but I don't think I can be.

@jyripeltola5904 10 күн бұрын

@@purplespectre Yeah, me too. Eating meat sometimes gives me a sick fealing. I would feel less bad being a hunter and knowing that the animals I eat didn't suffer. I admire the way of life in lapland here in Finland where reindeer herders have these herds of reindeer living freely in nature, but are semi domesticated and they come when the owners yell and they just shoot one in the head with a riffle so the animal doesn't suffer, and it doesn't even scare the other reindeers.

@oId64goat 5 күн бұрын

@@cristiancastro5853 😂😂😂

@Imurai 5 ай бұрын

"What scares us about space?" You and Kurtzgesagt endlessly making nightmarefuel essays does.

@Eggsworthy 3 ай бұрын

😂

@superNova5837 3 ай бұрын

Heavy emphasis on kurtzgesat

@BARCINO-du4dg 3 ай бұрын

Y e s

@Trollgernautt 3 ай бұрын

Man I roared laughing, this, one million times this.

@Lyx21 3 ай бұрын

@@superNova5837 It's Kurzgesagt but I don't want to be that kind of person

@AlesdairProductions 5 ай бұрын

19:18 Fun fact: Jules Verne's calculations for reaching the Moon were actually pretty accurate, which surprised many NASA scientists.

@RavenWolffe77 5 ай бұрын

Verne was a goddamn prophet. Beyond just the calculations, Verne predicted it would be a three-man launch from coastal Florida, a State which-at the time-was largely uninhabitable marshland. He also predicted nuclear submarines; the Nautilus' powerplant is described in quite a lot of detail, and is easily identifiable as nuclear reactor to modern readers.

@anuragneelam8527 5 ай бұрын

@@RavenWolffe77 20,000 Leagues was such a good read, but when I read that the sub legit glowed, I questioned,"is this not just a straight up nuclear sub?". Don't remember now if that was how it operated, I think it was some strange sciency method, but Verne was always a pioneer in scientific fiction

@ckl9390 5 ай бұрын

@@anuragneelam8527 Technically, a nuclear reactor is just a steam engine. It is also entirely possible to make a working (not necessarily efficient or safe) nuclear reactor with Victorian level technology.

@piotrmalewski8178 5 ай бұрын

@@anuragneelam8527 He gives precise description of how Nautilus is making electric batteries using some metals and sodium from the sea. I'm not knoledgeable enough if that was an accurate description of what you need to make a battery but clearly the fiction part was that he vastly overestimated the power output.

@anuragneelam8527 5 ай бұрын

@@piotrmalewski8178 ohhh right now I remember

@october9419 3 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm weird but I kind of love how small and impermanent everything is. It feels like a good poem, or a book where each tiny detail is for beauty rather than some greater real world purpose.

@floristfindspeace 3 ай бұрын

it centers me so fast every time. i’m very much still afraid in my own ways, and i used to be even more scared of space, but i’m comforted by it now, and just fascinated.

@MrValdac 2 ай бұрын

That's a really good way of looking at it honestly. Things don't necessarily need to have a purpose as long as they can be enjoyed.

@kyze8284 15 күн бұрын

“Is something beautiful because it lasts?”

@Idras74 2 ай бұрын

"The trajectory of this ship is unchanging. I'm still going to water the plants." I'm going to cry.

@GP_Conductor 26 күн бұрын

everytime i play the game i cry. its so well written

@nickcunningham6344 26 күн бұрын

Cry on the plants to help water them :)

@ElysiumCreator 5 ай бұрын

I don’t know why, but even though No Man’s Sky is by no means a scary game, just looking out into the abyss, it always gives me chills.

@davidleonard272 5 ай бұрын

That and despite the effort to make the Galaxy still lived in, even after the update that lets you run a colony, a vast majority of the time you feel alone. It's why after a while I stopped playing with out any freinds to join me. There is something always so baren about the universe in that game. Don't get me wrong as soon as I leave a planet I may witness various ships flying about and the space station. But I don't feel the sense of a larger community. Idk maybe it's just me and I know No Man's Sky has had more updates since then. I can only imagine this loneliness was worse when the game first got released.

@clintelkins9630 5 ай бұрын

It's just that thought that the darkness extends billions of times further than the distance between the earth and the furthest objects of the solar system The already unfathomable distances rendered entirely minute by the very next one

@A_Shrubbery1901 5 ай бұрын

@@davidleonard272 that's it, that's why i can't play that game i couldn't place my finger on it until now, thank you

@davidleonard272 5 ай бұрын

@@A_Shrubbery1901 Seriously though, I am glad the game has had more success and the updates definitely helped, but I think they should try to make the universe more lived in. What if there was a planet with a more established presence of order, you know? Like larger towns and cities.

@darkturtle9996 5 ай бұрын

one time i was playing in VR with some friends and I did something stupid that bugged the game and made me fall out of his freighter, and for some reason it didn't kill me and the gravity stops outside the freighter. I was just floating away slowly, with all of my gear that would be permenantly lost if i died because of how graves work. I was just floating away watching it get smaller and smaller as my friends tried various different things trying to get me back. eventually one of them spawned in their own freighter right below me and i fell down to it, but that is one of the most horrifying and surreal experiences I have ever had in a game.

@alphamasterevi1198 5 ай бұрын

Since the age of 11, I've actually dreamed about exploring the Deep Space all alone with a computer that helps me to analyze what I found or didn't find. This is oddly comforting ( ๑>ᴗ

@sockatoo_ 2 ай бұрын

ashes to ashes and dust to dust. we all are made of the stars themselves, and to the stars we will someday return. i can relate to your wishes. i've always wanted to go to space, see earth become smaller and smaller before my eyes, and then when it disappears, i never look back. instead i look forward to what wonders i may find. quite poetic circumstances that i'll never find myself in, but fascinating nonetheless.

@surkhabsingh5856 Ай бұрын

I don't usually comment on videos, but You're brave. I want you to know that. I have similar feelings sometimes, it's a very amazing feeling i know. There will be no evidence of your or my existence, but I'll still be a part of this veeery large universe. It's such a cool way of disempowering the fear of death. Cheers :)

@kamilareeder1493 Ай бұрын

Sometimes I dream of the sea in the same way. Ha in the dream I will often panic and fear drowning and suddenly breathe ❤ sometimes it wakes me up, sometimes I keep swimming 🧜‍♀️

@_Wanderlustminded Ай бұрын

The idea of being confronted with the unknown of an endless universe and feeling so insignificant you become desperate to hang onto memories of people, places, or things in your life that gave you meaning and making the most of a seemingly meaningless existence while you can knowing it's all in vain never fails to make me cry. The concept has so much potential for angst, tragedy, and hope.

@mercenarygundam1487 18 күн бұрын

I kinda feel that now, wishes there is someone I could talk to about this.

@fandasubacraig 4 ай бұрын

Last month I went to Athens and saw Saturn for the first time through a 160* magnification lens. I climbed up the the 360 degree rotating metal stairs, hunched my back and got in a position where I could see a titan of Sol stare back at me. Its weirdly orange hue, its sunlit rings, three tiny white dots - a hallmark of Galileo. All what I can best describe as a 50x50 detailed icon straight from a Fallout game. My heart dropped, a shortness of breath, a memory I was desperate to cling to as a brief moment of adrenaline hit my system that mistifies such a very short but recent moment in my life. It was cool not knowing if what I experienced was astonishment, bewilderment, excitement... or fear.

@johndef5075 Ай бұрын

The picture of Earth taken from Saturn is also startling. We are so tiny.....

@DefaultFlame Ай бұрын

Pretty sure what you are describing is the feeling of awe.

@hyperturbotechnomike 5 ай бұрын

After you brought up outer wilds, i had to think about the countless hours i spent playing No Man's Sky with my family. We play on a shared save file that is four years old, since this game has true multiplayer. In those four years, we accomplished a lot. Our "home" bases are in the 239th Galaxy, but we have countless others, discovered thousands of star systems. But when i zoom out of the galaxy map and see the tiny pixels which are our clusters, not even the individual systems, it also shows how little we accomplished. Combined ~3000 hours of four people reduced to maybe 10 tiny pixels on a 4K screen. No one will ever find our large bases we built. No one will ever find our amazing rare paradise planets. No one will ever find our resource hotspots. Despite them all being saved on a giant server with many people. I don't know if there ever was another player traveling nearby and almost made contact with us. In those four years, there were only two instances of a stranger visiting our base and they only did after seeing them on the galactic teleporter of the anomaly and randomly chose them. It's a 1 in a Billion chance.

@qwertydavid8070 3 ай бұрын

This really puts it into perspective how unlikely it truly is to to find alien life. Even if the galaxy was bustling with activity, even if there were massive empires out there that span dozens of solar systems, we wouldn't even know. Space is just too damn big, and the distances between anything are too great. This is assuming life, and civilizations, are common within galaxies alone. You have to remember that there are trillions of galaxies in the universe. If each of these galaxies hosted only one intelligent civilization, then life would be very common on the cosmic scale. But on our tiny scale it wouldn't even matter. We have no hope of leaving our galaxy, it's just too big. As gigantic as the universe is, we are still confined to the small island of the milky way. If we find nothing here, we won't find anything anywhere else. If we're alone in the milky way, we're alone in the universe. Even if every galaxy in the universe was host to a civilization, we would never be able to contact them. The universe could be full, busting with life and wonder and culture and friends. And we would never know.

@gua5432 3 ай бұрын

@@qwertydavid8070 A hundred years ago people didn't think a man would ever set foot on the Moon. Wonder what we might be able to do a hundred years from now?

@qwertydavid8070 3 ай бұрын

@@gua5432 It's important to understand that this sort of relation isn't equivalent. I think the best way to look at it is to think about lifetimes. Throughout all of human history, people were able to explore new frontiers within their lifetimes. Christopher Columbus made it to the Americas AND back multiple times. I know that it's tempting to view space exploration as equivalent to the exploration of that colonial era. But it really isn't. No one will make it to another star in their lifetime. In a generation ship, the first passengers are doomed, and it'll be up their next generations to continue the mission. Just think about the ethics of that for a second. That second generation doesn't get to choose. They'll be forced to live their whole lives in deep space against their will. We do not know how those conditions affect people. Why shouldn't they have the choice to turn back the ship, if they really wish to? What if there are rebellions and infighting? What are the longterm effects of living an entire lifetime in deep space? It's an extremely risky and unethical thing to do, it appalls me just how casually people mention "generation ships" as if they weren't the most terrifying concepts ever.

@cassiopeiasfire6457 2 ай бұрын

I'm finding some comfort in this tonight. It's easy for me to feel like, with the vastness of cosmic perspective, all the little joys and sorrows of my little life are pointless. But... I've seen designs for, using barely speculative technology, sending self-replicating probes to every reachable galaxy, with just the material of Mercury and the energy of the Sun. And while sometimes that project feels big, like some actual attempt to scratch the unfeeling enormity of the universe... I'm thinking now, it would be just as small. In the face of infinity, the universe we know will return to the void someday, and its life will be just as mortal, just as transient, just as meaningless, or meaningful, as our own. Because then, if everything is small, then why should be my life be meaningless? It's everything to me, it's all I know. There's a kind of eternity in the present moment. This moment will always be what it is, tho me or the universe will die someday. So it matters, what we do, how we live, not because of where we end up, but because we're here. I'm here. What do I want?

@AdamOwenBrowning 2 ай бұрын

@@qwertydavid8070 the Earth itself is a kind of generation-ship. Everyone who has children, knowing full-well that their class mobility may be near-zero is "dooming" their children to live an almost entirely pre-ordained existence. Gifting the next generation with our hopes and dreams to a point of forcing and thrusting these upon our children with no sympathy, no flexibility, this has been the human standard for a LONG time. People mention generation-ships casually because it's the casual nature of about half of all people alive. My great-grandfather was born in India, poor, with no real hopes of "going anywhere". Was it unfair to bring him into the world? He did not enlist and evaded death many times, doomed many of his countrymen AND family, and lived as a criminal smuggler. He piggybacked off the evil colonial expansions in Africa, and "technically a British subject" moved there, and his son lived as a draft-dodging smuggler also - he didn't really have any other choice. It's by luck and by the extreme suffering of others that I'm typing this in a first-world country, so many generations on. Our migration to England was built off the backs of racial and political violence seeing many of my family, who were immorally operating in Africa to begin with, dead. Many pleas and letters softening the hearts of some politicians and officials who thought it'd make them look good to welcome us here. Just as those brave people who live on the surface of a new planet, may quietly reflect that their ancestors on the generation-ships had NO control, NO say, and NO freedom, I reflect on these past men before me. I understand I'm making a giant leap of logic, but I hope it goes some one-fifth of the way to explaining why many people don't ruffle their noses at entrusting the future to our children - by force, without allowing those children to exactly shape that future the way we typically have been taught to within the last 50-80 years. Beyond 80-100 years ago, this level of agency and individuality was utterly unthinkable, now we take it as-standard, forgetting that for about half of all humans alive, it's STILL the norm. Perhaps given my personal circumstances, you can understand the specific bent at which I view your statement.

@ianmckinzie3606 5 ай бұрын

Dude. Your writing in this episode was phenomenal.

@yianniassimakis2285 2 ай бұрын

Your comment was phenomenal! 🎉

@tankerguy05 3 ай бұрын

I don't know why, but I was been on the verge of tears for this whole video since you asked the opening question.

@benji_and_the_tomatoes 3 ай бұрын

literally same. something about this just hit a nerve within me and i don’t know what i’m feeling anymore.

@Zero-wn5tz 2 ай бұрын

I sat in my car outside of work and cried. I have no idea why this caused that reaction but it did.

@tankerguy05 2 ай бұрын

@@Zero-wn5tz It's such a weird reaction to this too, because I wasn't sad or anything while watching this video. I wonder how many other people experienced this.

@Zero-wn5tz 2 ай бұрын

@tankerguy05 not a clue. I was just fine and then it hit me.

@tankerguy05 2 ай бұрын

@@Zero-wn5tz Same here. I don't even have cosmophobia or anything like that.

@tan_the_man 4 ай бұрын

23:18 "on a personal level; things that have been lost still matter" god. that hit me so deeply, especially seeing that video of the precious dog Laika. she was so sweet and so trusting. she didn't deserve our cruelty. this is such a powerful statement for so many aspects of life, on humanity, on why we should fight alongside people who experience brutality and genocide, like Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Hawai'i, Turtle Island, Haiti.. not a single human being deserves to go through what they all have, what we all have. what has lost still matters. all these lives lost still matter. all the lives fighting for survival and life and joy still matter. and we should fight for it.

@TheThreatenedSwan 3 ай бұрын

People are cruel and don't share my values

@NavyDood21 5 ай бұрын

It's funny, I never felt more small than when I went and saw Meteor Crater a while ago. Seeing that giant crater caused by a fairly small thing and it made me realize how small I really was. Weirdly it gave me a really calm and relaxed feeling.

@nickolausafon5458 5 ай бұрын

Chimpanzees prove evolution and genetic competition without alt science views. Dark gray chimpanzee Gray brown chimpanzee? Dark blue chimpanzee† Dark tan chimpanzee† Brown chimpanzee† ... 22 errors later Dark red Chimpanzee† Red Protochimpanzee† Humanoid ancestor†

@Gottaloveaxolotls 4 ай бұрын

I kinda get you, it places less pressure on yourself when you consider that there are other, larger things like that meteor from before. It lightens your worries knowing there’s something much more massive out there.

@himynameis3664 20 күн бұрын

I got that feeling when I found out you can fit every single planet in the solar system between earth and the moon

@sada1504 5 ай бұрын

For some reason, I've never been scared by the vastness of space. It's big, it's vast, and to me it's inviting. Anything could be out there, and that is amazing to me.

@JohnMiller-zr8pl 5 ай бұрын

Exactly, beyond all that darkness there are almost infinite possibilities, wilder that any sci-fi.

@luigivercotti6410 5 ай бұрын

Yes, that's part of the point. Anything _could_ be out there... but it's not. The empty void between anything that's anything is not only great, it's _so_ great that even at the cosmic speed limit it would be impossible to have any connection. It's not just a matter of waiting. The universe is expanding at an exponential rate specified by Hubble's constant. And there's no speed limit to that. Far enough out, galaxies of maybe untold wonders drift away from us faster than the speed of light. For all intents and purposes, they do not exist. It's vast, yes, but it's a vast nothingness. A personal, empty universe, a personal empty infinite prison for each one of us. We're lucky to have stars in our night sky still, for in time they too will go away. And all we'll be left with is infinite, impenetrable, eternal blackness, in every direction, forever. If we are to bump into anything, gravity seems the dominant factor, the force that pulls things together against the deathly isolation. So, we'd likely go towards objects with a strong pull of gravity. A very, very strong pull. Everything will. I'm talking about black holes. Black holes have been, as branding goes, trivialised and normalised somewhat by pop culture; But let's be reminded: Black holes are things we can observe with a regular telescope, that _literally_ are beyond human understanding. I don't mean they're unexplained, like neutrino particle physics, I mean the very laws of the universe as we know them, which we have tested again and again thousands of times over, say that we _cannot_ understand. A black hole, is a hole, in the universe. But the universe, by definition, is everything; So where does that hole go? What's there? Nothingness? Another universe just like our own? A naked singularity, a maddening thing that breaks the very fabric of reality, where time and space are meaningless? We can never know. The infinite desolation I have described, that will in time envelop each one if us, is also _right here_ . We can _look_ at it. We can _literally_ stare into the abyss. And no matter what we do, the abyss is pulling; As it feeds, it's pulling stronger and stronger. And there's _nothing_ in the way to stop us falling into it. I have friends who really like HP Lovecraft's works. They find them full of horror, insanity and despair. I do not understand my friends, and how stuff like that can do anything other than quaintly amuse; once you have looked up into the night sky.

@JohnMiller-zr8pl 5 ай бұрын

@@luigivercotti6410 I read until "the universe is expanding", good luck with your book.

@pacevy3798 5 ай бұрын

@@luigivercotti6410 i mean one way to find out, drop a camera down there or something. or go down yourself

@taiko1237 5 ай бұрын

Somewhat similar here - this is helped by the fact that time itself seems to be on our side, giving us a cheat card when travelling to new star systems, what with relativity and all.

@teabaggins7091 23 күн бұрын

The most terrifying aspect of space is how deafeningly silent it is, despite all the mind boggling stuff going on out there.

@michaelfiori6700 2 күн бұрын

Yet with the right instruments.... it can be ever so loud.....

@teabaggins7091 2 күн бұрын

@@michaelfiori6700 you'll never be able to hear the actual sound...

@michaelfiori6700 2 күн бұрын

@@teabaggins7091 , sorry i didn't say powerful instruments to pick up "sound" in space.... Just the same as we can turn a banana or a potato to make a dude beat dark souls 1-3. We can make tools to "hear" the "sounds" of the cosmos. Dude I'm not gonna argue... you know what I'm saying. Not one person in space can "hear" sounds. But with tools we can "hear" all the types of "

@teabaggins7091 2 күн бұрын

@@michaelfiori6700 you had me at dudes beating dark souls with bananas

@michaelfiori6700 2 күн бұрын

@@teabaggins7091 lol much love my dude. Just going down my yearly cosmic horror venture. But for real... fucking bananas... Only zerolenny I know of beat all dark souls with the starting broken sword. Anyway take care as always

@stargazerAPRL Ай бұрын

Watching space videos makes us realise how small we are and that we should always be humble .

@elise7191 5 ай бұрын

GOD laika’s story is just so upsetting

@Merlin3434 3 ай бұрын

i thought to myself "i have heard this story before, surely i wont cry this time." turns out i was wrong, poor laika never deserved any of this

@TheGoldenMan888 2 ай бұрын

@@Merlin3434typical russian government, they never care, only how to prove themselves superior

@Flat_Earth_Addy 2 ай бұрын

lol

@Merlin3434 2 ай бұрын

@@Flat_Earth_Addy shut up random bot

@Flat_Earth_Addy 2 ай бұрын

@@Merlin3434 Make me, degenerate.

@skenshin 5 ай бұрын

Just yesterday after our last Alien RPG session we talked about the horror of space, I brought up how horrible it must have been for the animals who were clueless about what is going on and what will ensue, what unfathomable events could terrorize the human soul despite all knowledge and equipment. And now this video gets uploaded. Thank you Universe, I got your message.

@therizinosauruscheloniform2162 5 ай бұрын

I love the Alien RPG! If you are interested in other Horror RPGs, I would also suggest Mothership, and Paranormal Society!

@skenshin 5 ай бұрын

@@therizinosauruscheloniform2162 Mothership is an awful system :O even though it also has panic all in all the system it is just too clunky, there is no reason to play it :/ That d100? Anything but desirable. Alien is simple, fluid, effective.

@therizinosauruscheloniform2162 5 ай бұрын

@@skenshin I agree it can be bit clunky, but I love its art style, and all the supplements are beautiful.

@theuday99 Ай бұрын

Why do people have cosmophobia ,Let cosmos get married smh

@jussitikkuri6991 Ай бұрын

I just don't like it when cosmos are so flamboyant and in your face.

@bruteng836 15 күн бұрын

These damn cosmos are ruining pirates country

@hmpret 15 күн бұрын

Im just tired of asking cosmos what pronoun that they prefer

@indianministryofilluminati3531 14 күн бұрын

It's Adam and Eve, not Fomalhaut and STEVE😂

@pietrobracelli 14 күн бұрын

as long as cosmos don’t touch me

@teflons Ай бұрын

Dude, what you said at 5:13 was the most beautiful line ive ever heard from any video essay, ever. period.

@purplehaze2358 5 ай бұрын

The story of what happened to Laika made me feel a very primal kind of rage.

@kirschakos 5 ай бұрын

I had nothing to do with it and yet I feel ashamed.

@Link-1004 5 ай бұрын

She deserved so much better

@Comet-2011-W3-Lovejoy 5 ай бұрын

For science!

@Alex-dr2lp 5 ай бұрын

Same with the story of the man who put a cat in a blender I purposely called him a man and not a monster because a beast can only tear and bite but nothing comes close to the unspeakable things humanity has done

@bmplushieproductions4109 4 ай бұрын

@@Comet-2011-W3-Lovejoy Are you happy? Humanity killed an innocent dog, who loved life, had children, had wishes and dreams, feelings... All for... Science... I hope your science was worth it you barbaric humans... I didn't call them a monsters, because not even a monster is capable of the evils humanity has done. I am ashamed of the fact Im human. The only thing in this universe that we should be afraid of is us.

@thekingzhaul5914 5 ай бұрын

Many like to believe and interpret space as like an Ocean. I like to think of it more like a Desert, like how the Homeworld franchise portraits it. A neverending hostile Desert made of nothing with unknown secrets that might never be discovered, harsh and unforgiving, yet beautiful and fascinating.

@Cp-71 5 ай бұрын

I was going to make a comment referencing deserts and Homeworld - but I see someone else already did... it's so rare and exciting to see a fellow player! :D

@justusb.plorer8773 5 ай бұрын

The Ocean is a Desert with its life underground, and the perfect disguise above.

@Dany94256 4 ай бұрын

@@Cp-71 No one? Alright Kharak is burning....

@cerebraltapeworms5718 4 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I thought of when introduced to the homeworld soundtrack.

@F0XHunter 4 ай бұрын

Ah, a homeworld enjoyer

@Trollgernautt 3 ай бұрын

Your videos just keep getting better and better, so glad I found your channel when I did.

@Tramicful 4 ай бұрын

I'm not sure what is it but something about your videos gets 100% of my attention, it's deeply engaging. Love the documentary style format you do. Great work!

@ferociousfuture2110 5 ай бұрын

I really don't know, the space seems so unimaginable gigantic and just seen a black void from earth makes everything feel so insignificant and that's very scary for me.

@marshalmarrs3269 5 ай бұрын

It’s becoming increasingly likely that the universe (not just locally) doesn’t actually even exist.

@YungPollock 5 ай бұрын

@@marshalmarrs3269what does that even mean lol

@marshalmarrs3269 5 ай бұрын

@@YungPollock There’s a scientific paper that says the universe doesn’t locally exist but I suspect that in the coming years we’ll ultimately learn that the universe in general doesn’t actually exist period. I’m actually autistic if you don’t know, and autistic people have the ability to sense patterns that neurotypical people are unable to understand or comprehend or even recognize. I also suspect that our reality is the actual fantasy and fantasy is the actual reality, your head might be in pain from all of this ain’t it?

@Desertscorpion116 5 ай бұрын

@@marshalmarrs3269mmmm ok troll.

@marshalmarrs3269 5 ай бұрын

@@Desertscorpion116 I’m not a fucking troll

@oneshotReker 5 ай бұрын

"No, you can't put an iris on Jupiter, and make it scary. That's not how it works." "THEN WHY IS IT WORKING??"

@OctyabrAprelya 5 ай бұрын

Isn't The Iris after Neptune?

@mikeoxmall69420 4 ай бұрын

@@OctyabrAprelyaNeptune has been mutated.

@Synth92 4 ай бұрын

Like Ian said in his comment, you really knocked it out of the park with this one. I've been watching you for a while and despite how good your videos have been, I knew you were growing and could get better. This video is that. Great GREAT job man. You're killing it.

@trevordavis8225 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video my dude. Thank you for putting the feeling of existential dread into a definable narrative. Earned my like and subscription.

@whatcanIdohere 5 ай бұрын

please forgive us Laika

@goatwarrior3570 Ай бұрын

Stupid rabbit.

@lancebrown9177 22 күн бұрын

This made me want to barf

@whatcanIdohere 21 күн бұрын

@@lancebrown9177 Lol

@f1r3hunt3rz5 4 сағат бұрын

It went out laika real G at least

@zoeytrent115 5 ай бұрын

I've been so infatuatied with Outer Wilds for the past almost 2 weeks, and I smiled so wide when you brought it up. It's such an interesting space game and such a wonderful but also terrifying way to encounter and deal with things that most if not all humans will never experience.

@thegongoozler5509 2 ай бұрын

I like space game.

@jamese8508 2 ай бұрын

I've never been a sci fi fan, but this is one of the most intriguing KZfaq videos I've ever seen. Thank you.

@mylesbrownGSP 4 ай бұрын

Your writing for these videos is so compelling. I have a photo album that hasn't had any new pictures added to it for quite some time. You have inspired me to remedy that and take more photos.

@braxxian 5 ай бұрын

I recently red the book series Three Body Problem. Truly terrifying book series. However the most lasting impression it left on me is just how truly massive and endless space actually is. The distances involved between even the closest star systems are just mind boggling

@ianschneider-sh1pv 3 ай бұрын

Even the distances between our own planets is frankly insane.

@samueltitone5683 5 ай бұрын

You have no idea how badly I’ve been craving some kind love child of Bloodborne and the Expanse. Down to earth hard sci-fi but with eldritch star gods pulling the strings from behind the scenes, occult societies formed by the upper echelons of colonial authority, and spacers with their own superstitions and scrimshawed good luck charms made from the bones of space whales. I guess Dead Space is kind of like that, but for some reason it never struck me as a cosmic horror story. I’m not really sure why. Maybe the necromorphs just made it seem more like a zombie apocalypse? EDIT: For everyone recommending I check out 40K, don’t worry, I’m already a huge fan. The Emperor protects. However, I think you would be hard pressed to call it “hard sci-fi.” It makes even Star Wars and Dune look grounded by comparison.

@DarthBiomech 5 ай бұрын

Mass Effect _was_ supposed to be Lovecraft-lite: space edition. At least in the first game, all the halmarks are there - ancient eldritch gods, exotic threatening locations, even cults. That first discussion with the Sovereign is something else and is still chilling, even if later games took a big steaming dump on the concept of the Reapers.

@WeaverOfStars 5 ай бұрын

Dead Space does become Cosmic Horror by Dead Space 3 but Dead Space 3 was not liked very much.

@samueltitone5683 5 ай бұрын

@@WeaverOfStars I don’t really see the brethren moons as true cosmic horrors. I feel like I understand them too well. In the DLC, they lay out their plans quite plainly to Isaac: they’re the apex predators of the Milky Way or perhaps the entire universe. The growth and expansion of civilizations are merely a part of their life feeding habits. Horrifying? Yes. 100% possible to follow as a mere human? Also yes. At the end of the day, the brethren moons aren’t gods, they’re just big aliens.

@TheAliceQuo 5 ай бұрын

Warhammer 40k is what you're looking for.

@vaenkhar7236 5 ай бұрын

Lovecraftian hard sci-fi, this is hell of an idea, ima gonna make a book

@akanalan 3 ай бұрын

Your videos have taken a turn and i would say they have more personality, as someone that follows you from some time ago, i think im really happy for you =)

@peaceturtleinfinity 2 ай бұрын

You have a comforting voice, sir. I enjoy this channel much.

@Starman_45 5 ай бұрын

I was binging your videos for fun today wondering when you'd upload next and here's this video. I just started watching but wow that's a cool intro! Excited to watch as always

@that1cat999 5 ай бұрын

Well I never expected Outer Wilds to be on this channel, but I’m so glad it is

@maximusoverprogamer 5 ай бұрын

Right? That game makes me deeply appreciate all the wonders that may be discovered out there in the endless space.

@peachbee3396 Ай бұрын

Thank you for saying this, I clicked the video to send to my friend bc I’m playing outer wilds bc of her but we’re inching through it so slowly since I’m scared of deep space. I’m determined to finish it bc I love it so much but I don’t want any spoilers so thank you!

@viktorija.jankauskaite 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. And the music at the end is beautiful ✨️

@FatCactusMan 3 ай бұрын

It's always a pleasure to listen to your movies. Thank you for your hard work making those

@jakepritchard1196 5 ай бұрын

Such a well put together video I haven't had my perspective challenged in such a way in a long time.

@garg4531 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for all the existential dread!^^ Legit terrified me to my core

@Trip_mania 3 ай бұрын

So awesome. It's the second video I see from you and I love it, really.

@JS-bn5cb 4 ай бұрын

dude, WOW. this was an INCREDIBLE video, and it gave me some perspective on some of my own personal struggles, which this video has, in a way, helped me to cope with by realizing how small they are. incredible work, keep it up man.

@rockybiscuit1003 5 ай бұрын

It puts such a smile on my face to open youtube to a brand new Curious Archive video

@joaquinandrews2986 5 ай бұрын

I don't know how but all of the recent videos in the channel have left me so comforted. I just want to say thank you

@tylersoto7465 4 ай бұрын

It's his soothing storytelling type voice

@GameTacoFTW 3 ай бұрын

First time watching one of your videos and it has blown me away. Fantastic.

@babooshkayaya2472 Ай бұрын

I can’t even express how much I loved this. Thank you so much for your research and unique personal and artistic perspective. This type of video is why I love KZfaq. Bravo x

@TheEnigmaUniverse-vt2pm 4 ай бұрын

David, you're a poet. I have never seen a physicist describe the universe so eloquently and poetically as you do. Thank you for these videos. Keep them coming.

@RealCodreX 2 ай бұрын

You should read more books.

@Gabriel-br4qe Ай бұрын

@@RealCodreX no need to be a dick about it bro

@RealCodreX 26 күн бұрын

@@Gabriel-br4qe There is no need to be a dick about anything bro when you are not a dick in the first place bro.

@Gabriel-br4qe 26 күн бұрын

@@RealCodreX you certainly sounded like one with your tone. "ooh you should read more books dummy"

@pluto_niumxo 5 ай бұрын

saw the notification and clicked immediately! space is scary, can't wait to watch this one. poor laika, her story makes me so sad...but thank you for making such fantastic and unique videos for us-always have the most interesting topics, your work doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated curious archive!! ❤️🙏

@codycrossman Ай бұрын

Wow. So beautifully written and presented. From Manitoba, Canada: thank you for putting this out to the world, keeping wonder and curiosity alive! Please keep 'watering the plants,' so to speak. 🙏

@frederikagen8892 4 ай бұрын

Amazing video love all the different stories you bring in :)

@avajensen9147 5 ай бұрын

You are one of the most talented video essayists/analysts on this site and I do not say that as an exaggeration. The way you interweave history, media, and speculation is masterful, and this video is one of your best. They just get better and better. The point about Laika, about the images on the golden record, and the father and daughter in High Life all made me tear up. “The trajectory of this ship is unchanging. I’m still going to water the flowers.” What a beautiful sentiment. Keep up the great work, can’t wait for the next one ✨

@afatpossum2586 5 ай бұрын

Oh boy! A new Curious Archive video, surely this will be a fun and informative video where I wouldn’t tear up multiple times!

@Whimsly 2 ай бұрын

Your videos are well thought-out, and the sources you choose to pull from are always varied enough to give interesting perspectives and context for a given topic. Which helps, when the topic is something as unapproachable as existential cosmic angst. I really love your work. The trajectory of this ship is unchanging. I'm still going to water the plants.

@shivshakya9643 4 ай бұрын

this is an amazing perspective thank you!!!

@zacc6163 5 ай бұрын

I love your videos keep it up!

@remington6180 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for my daily dose of existential crisis.

@martinja9953 4 ай бұрын

This was such a good video man... honestly so good.

@rhayat10 3 ай бұрын

That was beautiful. Thanks for the great work!

@Beryllahawk 5 ай бұрын

Space scares us in part because it can kill us and it won't even notice. But I think the worst is that - in space, you have no choice but to think, to look inward - watering the plants can only distract you for so long. And that's the really scary place, the insides of our own skulls, the silence there, the loneliness. Solaris had it pretty close to right, I think. Space doesn't care about us, the universe doesn't even register our existence. If anyone IS going to remember us - it has to be US remembering. Maybe one day we'll go out there and catch up to our own spacecraft, and recover that golden record ourselves, and look upon those images and sounds, and wonder. "Who were those people? Was that really us?" Somehow that's a tiny bit comforting.

@traceydelfs2657 2 ай бұрын

Solaris is such a wonderful, haunting movie. It can be a hard, slow watch but its cinematically beautiful. It literally sucks you into the void of psyche.

@Lemonoskiii Ай бұрын

Liked, Subscribed, hit the notification button. Absolutely love this video. Good job!

@tonybelu 2 ай бұрын

Hey, this video was really beautiful. Thank you.

@ElNomada2505 3 ай бұрын

Ive heard the story of Laika many times before. I didnt know the scientists asked her to forgive them, and only when you said that did i fully realize the gravity of what happened to her. It enrages me and saddens me, i nearly cried. Im trying not to right now as i think about it.

@SeaSloog 5 ай бұрын

Space scares me because it is larger then we can fathom and we will never reach the edge. But im still happy to be here on this blue blob of life.

@clintelkins9630 5 ай бұрын

I find it all the more alluring because of it

@user-dw3zg1wi6x 21 күн бұрын

Your videos are like a ray of sunshine on my feed.

@AngelusNeko 2 ай бұрын

That last part made me think about life for a minute. Maybe it's time I stop overthinking about the future and how things will end, it's time I learn to live the moment

@sethgoodemote3477 5 ай бұрын

I think this is one of his best videos to date. It got an emotional reaction from me that I was not expecting.

@Cp-71 5 ай бұрын

I don't know why but I always perceived space as incredibly serene. Everything is so far away it cannot possibly hurt you - and if you have a good ship you can traverse it for weeks in perfect solitude just enjoying the scenery.

@Zoe-rb9kq Ай бұрын

I think things like this on a day-to-day level and have never heard this from anyone else before. I'm impressed thank you!

@Abdullahxvii Ай бұрын

just found this channel, cant believe how i missed out! subscribed right away

@JS-J 5 ай бұрын

This was fascinating and I love how you incorporated so many games to contextualize the feelings deep space tends to conjure. The algorithm brought me here because I’ve been on a cosmic horror kick lately, and I’m really glad it did!

@themilkssiah 5 ай бұрын

For those interested more in the Dark Forest hypothesis I highly recommend the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series by Cixin Liu. It really gives the concept the depth and terror it deserves

@rosyidharyadi7871 5 ай бұрын

Do not answer. Do not answer.

@thanasysdim 3 ай бұрын

That was a good video. Thank you for this great content.

@giorgio1600 3 ай бұрын

damn that intro gave me goosebumbs...man your channel becomes better and better every videos you make

@TrueGermanBall Ай бұрын

imagine being the last human and finding voyager 1 images and seeing all the images of your now destroyed planet, truly terrifying

@brokoblin6284 4 ай бұрын

We already know we are all going to die, and yet we live as if we won't. Years, Days, Hours, what's the difference? Why not water the plants?

@MeanMinMini 3 ай бұрын

Beautifully written and insightful. Thank you!

@masterloquendo1995 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. It's amazing.

@Morrison-saber-tooth 5 ай бұрын

Fear from space and fear from deep sea combined together is NIGHTMARE of all nightmares...

@above7793 5 ай бұрын

And Outer Wilds manages to have both and still be one of the best games I ever played if not the best

@mikeoxmall69420 4 ай бұрын

May I introduce you to Hycean planets? They're huge planets, several times Earth's mass, and covered in an ocean hundreds of kilometres deep. The bottom pressure is so high that the water becomes an exotic form of ice

@ThommyofThenn 5 ай бұрын

Is it something like that fear of open water?? It all goes back to a fear of the unknown and in space/water you're vulnurable from any direction and the environment is hostile to your form of life

@netherhuntr7546 4 ай бұрын

I'm running an Alien RPG campaign and thought this video would provide me some useful tidbits of fear that I might be able to bring to the setting to spice things up. Upon finishing the video I am left in a mental space of wonder. Your words have given me much to think about and the concepts that this video has provided, I feel will be invaluable to not only adding that dash of non-xenomorphic fear that I've been look for but also an emotional response and message that I feel will deepen the session. Thank you and I look forward to being a subscriber and seeing more.

@Shaynehoward21 Ай бұрын

Such a moving essay! I really enjoyed it!!

@eliatkinson634 4 ай бұрын

Laika was deserving of no space travel. That poor dog. No wonder her heart rate trebled, they get scared enough from the sound and motions of a car trip to the vets, let alone the rumble and racket of an old soviet space-can. She shouldn't forgive us.

@thoughtengine Ай бұрын

Who is "us" though?

@Whydoiexisthere- 5 ай бұрын

We all know that space is scary simply because of the lack of gameplay, servers, and exp sources. Like, there’s not even a proper boss out there smh

@ThommyofThenn 5 ай бұрын

Well the probability of low level exp grind lifeforms on every planet is...low to say it mildly. Todd talked about this

@ProvidingEnd_7957 Ай бұрын

At the very least there’s asteroids full of awesome resources that we can sell for exp. Still, it’s kind of inconsistent.

@HeffyGames 15 күн бұрын

That we know of

@SerafinGrivel Ай бұрын

Ngl one of the best videos I've ever seen! Thank you

@jeffjeff6453 2 ай бұрын

The amount of work and effort that goes into your content is absolutely incredible. Whether you read this or not I just wanted you to say that it has not gone unnoticed. Thank you 🙏🏼

@sublimingmule6356 4 ай бұрын

I'm always amazed at how deeply introspective you get in videos like this, and still manage to turn it around and wrap it up. "The course of this ship is unchanging, I'm still going to water the plants." Beautiful in its realism. Thank you

@nicoluvrs 5 ай бұрын

Curious Archive you should make an analysis video on Season: A Letter To The Future. It’s an excellent and amazingly game with great depth and beautiful graphics. I feel like it would fit your style of videos well.

@dylanh8073 2 ай бұрын

Hey this is an amazing video good work

@travibe 3 ай бұрын

This was one of the most insightful and thought invoking videos I have watched on KZfaq. I really really like the way you organize your thoughts and the references you utilize to make this creation... All I can say is … wow. Yes. The infinite void of space is the truest form of Nietzsche's abyss, but I am always filled with awe instead of dread. Funny, because I truly consider myself to be a pessimist throughout 90% of my life... except in this regard. Thank you for this - you've earned my sub!

@lukematthews9832 5 ай бұрын

Nice video keep them up

@wordsofcheresie936 5 ай бұрын

Many stories have been written about Laika and when I hear them I usually end up with tears streaming down my cheeks. This video got me crying too.

@desperatelyseekingrealnews 5 ай бұрын

Did you read how 4k+ kids were just slaughtered in Gaza?

@otaku-chan4888 4 ай бұрын

@@desperatelyseekingrealnews I know what you're getting at, buddy. Now let me explain what I suppose you don't empathize much with- the fact that we as humans rather hypocritically feel guilty about bringing other species to harm in the pursuit of our evolution and ambition. Blameless human children dying is, ultimately, the result of them being born human. Human nature is deeply flawed and leads to us fighting each other to this day- that's why every human baby has the capacity for both human kindness as well as for the worst vices of our kind, that could get more of our children killed in the future. But dogs (and any non-human species), on the other hand, have a "purity" in potential that even human babies can't have. They aren't born with the sentience all humans possess in their genes- and so also can't have the vices we do. Hearing about humans causing the tragic death of another animal especially because of human greed hurts a lot, because if all humans were suddenly whisked away from earth, perhaps the victims of humanity could have lived. They might live better if we all died, perhaps- and the ones that won't are the ones that we domesticated in a way that made them dependent on us. Ultimately, human children aren't "domesticated" or "raised in captivity" and don't go "wild"- so there's this layer of guilt over what we subject to any animal that _is_ tamed / captive / wild and could have otherwise lived pure and untouched if humans never existed.

@m3taldragon1 3 ай бұрын

@@desperatelyseekingrealnews The Middle East has been killing itself for thousands of years. Only a handful of animals have been sent into space. No one cares about the death of humans who don't care about their own lives.

@Bulga90 2 ай бұрын

WOW, what a journey this video has been to me. Absolutely majestic. Made me appreciate this sunny clear day, taste small breaths of air, listen carefully to the tiny sounds of life and wind in my garden. As you said, the impermanence of these - I dare to add - irreplaceable unfathomable yet infinitesimal (cosmic scale-wise) things. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.