If you're claustrophobic, the size of the universe is one of the most calming things in the, um... universe. 🙄

If you're ever feeling insignificant in the face of such vastness, just remember we, as well as all things on our planet have direct connections to the wider universe. We're literally made from star dust. We all have a piece of the universe within us. We were born from the stars and thus we will return to the stars when it is our time. We are the universe.

It's kind of comforting to be honest. I like to imagine that some alien dude is just going through the difficulties of life just like I am, wondering if there are other life forms out there in the vast universe that he can relate to.

This gives me the idea that you would enjoy History of the Entire World...i guess by Bill Wurtz. It's very fast but its funny and informative

This is why the James Webb Space Telescope exists. Its mission is to see beyond the visible universe, if possible, via the most sensitive infrared sensors every created.

Your story reminds me when I went to Israel for the first time and we as a group slept out in the desert one night. Our tour guide took us on a walk for about a mile at night and we were smack in the middle of a desert alone, told us to all find some private space, sit down and look up at the stars and just think. Be there in the moment and reflect on whatever you wish. I cannot describe to you how insane and powerful the stars looked in a true night sky with the cool desert wind blowing and hearing the sand moving across itself. It was so peaceful, quiet, and mesmerizing. It will be a moment in time I will never forget.

The crazy part is this needs updated. A lot of what he said is a lot bigger and further than previously thought lol and we're actually 25 thousand light years closer to our Black hole than we thought. No wonder we haven't seen any aliens, we gave them the wrong address lol

Finally......someone who actually watched the entire video and didn't interrupt with talking....👏👍

I =ABSOLUTELY= recommend looking up the full version of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" speech. He was a famous astrophysicist that hosted a show called "Cosmos" that revolutionized how documentaries were made, nevermind his calm and soothing voice, and ability to make complex science issues easily understandable.

Having an idea of the size of the universe really gets you thinking. You know, EVERYONE is equally insignificant compared to it. So no one is better than you. You can do anything you want, and be anything you want, the universe doesn't care. Be happy.

This is what made me really get into astrophotography, it is amazing what you can capture with just a regular DSLR.

When we use our telescope to see Andromeda, which is 2 million light years away, we’re seeing it 2 million years ago.

theres a great quote that i love. "you cant save everyone in the world, but by saving one life, you are saving there world." and that means alot to that one person or creature's life.

it´s funny to think that there are still many people out there who think we are alone

What I always find fascinating is how some people believe that life only exists on Earth. Considering how unbelievably large the universe is it is impossible with mathematical certainty that Earth is the only planet that has developed life. The question is not IF life exists elsewhere, the questions are where and when life exists/existed elsewhere.

I've watched this video many times and it's one of my favorites. So very awe-inspiring.

Incredible, fantastic....so much to find; so much to learn...wow. I felt instantly calmer after watching this. Thanks alot.

You guys know I love this. The universe is incomprehensibly vast. This is why I LOVE astronomy!

Was waiting for this : ) Thanks for reacting!

My favourite fact regarding the distance of the Moon from Earth is that all the other planets in the Solar System can fit between the Earth and the Moon.

Great reaction and input guys. Love this channel.

Loved your comments about this! Very positive and genuine. Keep up the good work guys! (sub'd) xxooxx

It's the Total Perspective Vortex from the second Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

You guys seem like very genuine people, first video i watch on your channel and insta sub. Hello from Russia, Moscow peace and love :]

I just now subscribed to you channel, partly because of the fascinating subject matter you tackled, but mostly because of your low key & calm demeaner. Too many reactors seem to try to make the reaction about themselves & can be overbearing. With you folks, I felt like I was sitting in my Livingroom with friends. I don't know what you choose to react to, but I will be watching for notifications. God Bless.

I made a mistake when I first saw this and went to bed and tried to imagine the scale... I could hear my mind grinding and grunting.

I love watching people react to this video. You can physically see the building existential crises.

Love, love LOVE your reaction to the amazingness that is the universe

this was such a great reaction I subscribed.

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I don't know how anyone could think that we are alone.

thank you for not just dismissing this entire video, it give me hope that not everyone is a conspiracy theorist

Hey this was great I really enjoyed it :)

The universe is vast and mysterious but, humans (or intelligent, conscious, life in general) are the vector through which the universe discovers itself and we have so much work to do.

to quote Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy....“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen …” and so on.

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams

It may sound silly. But that Orions Belt refference was WAAAAY deeper than you probably think. You might not have the education of a scientist, but you definitely have the mind of one. Thats an *_excellent_* comparison.

If there is one sentence to summarize humanity, a good one is “It has to be possible”

Not quite Chicago, but when I was real little my great grandfather would push me out on a stroller in Taylorville Illinois and show me the constellations. He was an Italian immigrants and WWII airforce pilot (for the US don't worry) and he said they had a saying that I'm gonna do my best to spell out here "Trova le dissovente tra la stelle" Which roughly means "Find the fade beyond the stars" Unlike most people who grew up speaking 2 languages I'm bad at both and don't learn new ones well at all. 4 years of French and I only remember how to ask for sex. Anyway way point being was even in a universe with a seemingly infinite amount of stars who's light seems overwhelming there's still always a place or opportunity for someone to become a star themselves and create a light all their own without blending in to other. Also as a numbers person who just always liked space a lot of these numbers are still crazier then most people think. Like a single AU is 93 million miles. I don't even like walking the 0.01 miles from my couch to my fridge. But then even the difference between just a million and a billion I don't think people recognize. You live a million seconds in your first week of life, you don't live a billion seconds until your 30s. Somewhere in 32 or 33 I believe. I forget. The craziest thing ever and you can Google this it's a less than a minute read. I in my college economics class however many years ago was taught the Staircase analogy. This ties in well to the Bezos comment. If you measure any individuals net worth in increments of 500 thousand I think it was. Maybe it was 50 thousand. I just woke up don't judge, I've got tired brain. 99% of american is on the first or maybe struggling to get on the second step, but then a billionaire is on the I think 11th. And then Jeff Bezo is so high it doesn't even make sense to use steps anymore but miles. And Bezos is as high as 24 consecutive mount Everest. Numbers be wild. Edit: I felt in my gut something was off and my numbers on the staircase were way wrong. It's the upper middle class average American that gets to the 11th step and a billionaire is on the ten thousandth step. Tire brain strikes again. Not gonna change it though, I made my choice lol.

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” - Carl Sagan Consider we maybe an eye of the universe peeking out before rolling over, once again to slumber in the sound of silence. Given our petty trivialities, I do not mind doing the same. That is the sadest thing that has ever entered my mind.

We're all the exact center of our own observable universe

Like, you can't tell me there is no other life in the universe after I saw this. You just can't.

Awesome video, have always loved space and the sheer vastness of it. It's why I fully believe that there are indeed other alien species out there. If life can evolve on our one tiny planet, why not others. We wouldn't know otherwise, how in the world could we? Used to love gazing up at the stars when I was younger, growing up in rural Wisconsin I could actually see quite a few. It wasn't until moving to and living in a bigger city like Nashville as an adult that I now get to experience the weirdness of a near starless sky. Anyways, fun time with you guys as always, until next time!

Man NAILED that intro!

It is just so difficult to get your head around these distances.

You could fit every planet in the solar system between the Earth and the moon, and still have a bit of room to spare.

That many planets and solar systems, galaxies e.t.e, and we are the only inhabited planet. When you really think about that, I have to wonder whether there is more life out there.

Total Perspective Vortex in a nutshell.

We are specks, made of specks, on a speck, orbiting a speck, within a speck in a group of specks, in a sea of specks, contained within a speck.

Please react to the MelodySheep' space videos, especially the Timelapse of the Universe or Timelapse of the Future! It will definitely going to make you have an existential crisis than this video + it's a really amazing production to react to

"The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing" Socrates

I’m a huge space nerd (annoys my wife), but I agree with your general takeaway. I don’t know why we are that way, but we’ve always been explorers; curious about what and why and how. Practically since the dawn of mankind we’ve been looking at what else we can check out. If we boom in an asteroid, won’t be any left to care anyways.

knowledge is Power

Now where did I leave my keys. They are in this house somewhere.

You guys are absolutely adorable

TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time is another video in this genre that is unbelievable fascinating. The music and narration on it is fantastic as well.

Probably my fav video on youtube

Wow this blew my freakin mind

To put a bit more into perspective with the way the speed of light and imagery works... any aliens that are only 80 light-years away that might have discovered our planet and able to see what's happening - they're witnessing WWII happening. Likewise, any aliens 65 million light-years away would be seeing the extinction of the dinosaurs. It amazes me people don't see this stuff as anything short of amazing.

More stars and hence more planets than grains of sand on the entire earth 🤯 Next time you're at the beach, grab a handful of sand, single out a single grain and that's us!

Dr Seuss, Whoville, "We're here, we're here, we're here".

“We are the universe’s way of experiencing itself”

Oh you guys should really check out "what's hidden under the type 6 civilization". Really dope!

holy crap. That pretty much sums up my reaction to this

And some people think there is no life besides us in the universe. Videos like that actually make them look dumb

this gives me hope in the bottomless fear of mortality

I got into astronomy young, as a kid I had no issues knowing for a fact there was other life and other civilisations out there, we were here so there you go thats the proof. However plenty of the other kids couldn't think about it, most just thought of ET and UFOs and many just said "there is nothing out there" and they thought that I was mad for thinking otherwise. Well you lot, laughing now? May favourite quote is from Author C Clarke: "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"

The thing that fascinates me about science is how the hell were these things discovered? How can we know ANYTHING about anywhere other than Earth? And especially beyond the Solar System. It's crazy.

the Capt. Picard reference got the like

Yeeeees I love videos like these

Great stuff! :D

You guys should check out "Kids that remember their past life "

Try listening to this high. Like, wow, man.

We are all so small and insignificant. And humanity is so wrapped up and concerned with petty ideals and arguments, focused on trying not to offend someone, discriminating over race, sex, orientation, and status. We could wipe ourselves out and the universe would never even know. Time would go on and so would the lives of everything else out there.

It is possible that it’s quite literally infinite in scope because of quantum mechanics…if the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics is true…then it’s literally true that there are literally an infinite number of universes…as an amateur astronomer…it’s humbling but awesome at the same time to look into in eyepiece and be part of the universe…we are the way for the universe to know itself…

Hopefully 2022 means the world can finally get back to normal!

So in Warhammer 40k Voyager is still traveling through space

It didn’t take long for the numbers to become so big humans can’t even comprehend them, even with the analogies to help with reference

If we could just figure out how to travel at half the speed of light. It would still take 8+ years to get to our nearest star neighbor 👀😳

Basically proving that we will never, even if we survive infinitely, see the true extent of the universe

To continue, Carl Sagan spoke of a very provocative theory that may never be proved; Our universe is but a constituent particle in a far grander universe we can never know - and on upwards and downwards. It's mind blowing...

Despite the incredible size of the Universe it's worth keeping in mind that the age of the Earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old and that is only a third of the estimated age of the Entire Universe (Estimated 13.7 billion years old). Our planet is quite old in Astronomical time - for me that's equally amazing. The Earth took almost all that time to create conditions for us to exist and now we laying waste to it as we de-forest it and use up resources as if they will be available forever. In the blink of an eye we will be gone and what ever is left of our planet will live on and our history will be lost - unless we wake up to that reality. The problems is that we can't think in terms of more than a few weeks let alone years and our pitifully small lifetime. Sagan was saying something that is quite sad and he knew it.

I recommend watching the How deep is Earth's ocean from this channel. It's another good watch just like this one! :D

"it's not to be approached with fear, it's to be approached with excitement and enthusiasm." That right there is one of the wisest things anyone has ever said. It is humbling to think just how tiny and insignificant we are... but to also realize that from our tiny little insignificant rock in the backwaters of a completely unremarkable galaxy we've managed to figure all of this out... we're not doing to bad. Insatiable curiosity has driven humans forward from day 1, and it will continue to push our species forward and out into the stars. We are a kind of crazy species in that regard. It's things like this that got me into astrophysics at the age of 6. Nearly 40 years later and I just have more questions than I started with. :D Which is wonderful.

When you look at how absolutely Massive the universe really is it just makes absolutely NO sense to think that Earth, our little speck is the only place that has Ice cream. I mean Seriously? Oh, Life to by extension, I guess.

One thing that people fail to understand is, our position in the galaxy, and then take some time to think about what you heard about the distance from end to end of the entire observable universe...

I’m so glad I don’t believe the world is flat. Believe it or not, some people still do. Even better, I’m even happier that I believe there’s lots of other galaxy’s worth of planets filled with life. By the way. As always, you two are so darn cute! :)

We are nothing compared to the scale of the universe ! It is quite scary and interesting in the same way !

Rather than being amazed at how much we don’t know.. I’m always equally amazed at what we do know.. Our galaxy shape, the Virgo super cluster, and the number and size of the observable universe.. Humans stand apart from all other life on earth because of our urge to learn and discover.. We have come a long way. As for whether there is life out there.. my feelings are, it would be harder for life NOT to be out there. Life finds away, we simply cannot be a fluke, a one off.. The universe is teeming with life. Question is, will we ever know about it?

He failed to mention the “observable” part of the universe is actually shrinking. As more and more places drifts outside the observable horizon and fade from view, eventually the observable universe would seem not much larger than our galaxy to observers billions of years from now.

a freuidian might suggest that jeff riding a giant doodle in to space might actually be his subconscious telling us something , he wanted to ride a giant doodle till it took him to heaven ! lol

Let's hope we never "discover" further out than the moon, humans are made to destroy.

Here's what's really crazy, from human scale UP to the observable Universe (8x10²6m) is NOT AS FAR as it is to go from human scale DOWN to the Planck Length 1.6×10−35 m (which is widely recognised as the point at which the term length ceases to have much meaning, making it the shortest length below which it's assumed there exists some kind of quantum foam) It seems small is very much smaller than big is big🤣

basically the universe is our own mind...

The feeling is like a person reach the top of Everest mountain and claiming that he/she climbed the highest mountain and then realize that planet Mars have a higher mountain. Also like a fish from puddle goes to ocean. Edit - wish I got an friendly alien friend or a friendly Alien Girlfriend that look like human like in Movies.

remember you have to look inwards. exactly same numbers exist. half of each half your looking in if you need to think!

Oversimpliefied History of the World, should be really interesting for you Guys. But what i really liked, because of the adorable figures in the videos. From Suibhne - Animation film about the history of Germany, Amercians, Russia, Japan, Greece and so on. It is really adorable. And pedagogical value ^^

But the most fascinating question is.. "Are we alone..in this gigantic universe?" I say. Nope. There must be life somewhere..but just like us..they have no chance to visit us. Yet :>

Funny how you refer to Star Trek with "space is the final frontier". Let it sink in for a minute that none of the voyages of the Star Trek series ever even left the Milky Way Galaxy! Just another example of how incomprehensibly huge the Universe is!

We are tiny compared to the universe. But then I think that, in terms of scale, it is a greater factor to zoom down from the human scale (1-2M) all the way down to the sub-atomic quantum scale. To me it is like there is more 'universe' to discover inside your body than outside of it...if you know what I mean :-)