Watching this before bed was a decision

Imagine being immortal and not being able to reach your end. Your only existence is to stare into internal void. Gives me chills

The moment you click on this video to watch it all the way through, means you signed up for an existential crisis

I find it comforting. It reminds me that any problem I have will never ever matter in the grand scale of the universe so I should just stop worrying and enjoy my life to the fullest until it's over

I once knew a black dwarf. Now, before you get upset, let me explain. His name was Marcus and we were classmates. When we learned about the "life of a black dwarf" In our 7th grade classroom, even the teacher was absolutely red in the face trying to tip toe around the lesson. He didn't help either because every time she said "black dwarf"and he would respond with a "yeah, what's up?" 😂😅 He was one of the funniest kids in school and everyone loved him. I hope he's still making people smile to this day.

Turn that fear into curiosity There are things in space so terrifying yet fascinating out there

15:43 "These stupid little stars" 😂 I was having an existential crisis and he brought me back! I feel better now.

why did a video essay about the fear of space make me cry Seeing that one day this beauty will all dissapear for nobody else to see breaks my heart. It makes me happy that I'm alive to see all this beauty, but it also makes me really sad to not be there. I'm very sentimental and ridiculously poetic, and things feel very human to me. I feel sad that nobody was there to witness the birth of our very own reality, to cherrish it and root for it's success, and I feel sad that nobody will be there to see it die. Nobody will be there to let it know that now it can rest. It was born alone and it will die alone. All it's beauty completely dissipated, forgotten and left to rot forever. The last star will supernova and show it's light and warmth for the last time, for a crowd that isn't there, and dissapear forever. We may or may not be alone in this universe. But why would that matter? I would feel sad that we are the only ones to witness space's horrifying beauty. The universe deserves the crowd. The universe deserves the love. And we must love it for what it offers and for it's power to take everything away from us util we both die.

I honestly find the size of the universe kinda comforting. Any action or mistake you regret will ultimately not matter in this vast empty void that will outlast anything we as humanity create

Kinda scary to think that we all live on a tiny TINY TINY ball called earth living in this monstrosity of something we aren’t even sure of what it is

"No one has the fear of space until they're alone, drifting away and see the blue dot getting smaller and smaller" - Jimmy Bearhunter

"And so, it smiles" *the most beutifull and more calming song i ever heard plays* Once again i feel that fear of the eternal void, knowing that after dead there is probably nothing, just the eternal darkness, for the rest of infinity

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i’ll be so real, space just fascinates me. the fact that it’s impersonal sort of makes me feel better. it’s dope that we can even observe this and learn about it. it’s so cool we exist in this universe, even if we don’t know the who, what, how, where, and why. it’s a giant endless mystery, i love it. there’s something so comforting about space. like this is our home, this is all that we will ever know. it’s humbling, terrifying, and beautiful. it reminds me to take it easy, enjoy what i have while i’m here.

Nah. The descriptions you give to describe your fear just fuels my astonishment that we, tiny nothings in a galaxy of galaxies, managed to /discover/ them. We as a species managed to conceptualize it to some degree, photograph it, SEE it with our own eyes through technological advancements... Like I made it to chapter 2 with my eyes watering because I'm so absolutely moved by the fact that we are alive to learn about these things in our tiny short lives. You said it yourself; Earth is perfect. The Sun is perfect. Life forming was under the perfect circumstances to happen. How miraculous it is that we have such impressive abilities to comprehend the greater things in and out of our planet. I think Black Holes are the scariest things in space, but Space itself doesn't scare me. I'm actually in love with Space. If you want something to fear, well... look to our own planet's seas. I don't personally have a phobia of the seas but I acknowledge how scary that shit is. We know more about outer space than we do our seas and we live here. And it's an actual, tangible threat whether you're on a beach or on a boat compared to space. And we have triumphant discoveries in that area too, I'm not saying it's any less fascinating, but it's definitely scarier than space ever could be. At least, in my opinion. Beautiful video essay nevertheless. It takes a lot to bring me to tears 😂

the universe is so beautiful. It can make you feel so Small like nothing and make our problems seem miniscule, and at the same time it granted just the right permissions to give you the life you have today making you feel so important too.

8:21 FYI, there are actually no pictures of the böotes void in existence, every picture used are photos of planetary nebula within our galaxy, the most popular one used being Barnard 68

As someone who’s always been fascinated with space, it’s interesting to see a window into astrophobia. I had no idea that so many of the things that I’ve usually looked at as cool and interesting could be so horrifying and threatening.

"And so, it smiles" is the most beautiful words I could imagine from a video about space and how terrifying it could be.

Bro getting me all emotional over a space video wtf 😭 i loved that ending you’re a fantastic narrator

The image of the sun compared to UY Scuti genuinely terrified me. It just goes to show how small and lonely we are in this universe.

His upload schedule: ☠️ His uploads: 🤩

Bootes void isnt empty, just less populated

This is great, you’ve summed up Cosmic Horror really well

The fact that we are able to calculate this all with almost exact persicion just from our small speck of a planet using a number system that we made up is astounding to me. Edit: Alr guys I get that math as a concept isn't made up, I was more talking about the number symbols we use to understand it. Now please stop arguing :)

Space is weird, because it’s so beautiful and pretty, yet it’s also so freaking terrifying.

It use to make me feel insignificant and small as a teen but as I aged that feeling turned to awe and amazement

This Video was so incredibly awesome. It taught me things in a way that opened my curiosity and hunger for philosophy. It made me shiver, comparing the size of my own body, to the size of the biggest star, the biggest void. It made me ask, how it would be in the void, near the stars, without questioning if my body would take it or not, but just to question how immensly big it would be and what i would see. Thank you for this Video. Thank you. Have a great day

Looking up at the night sky always fills me with a very primal sense of dread. It's a very difficult feeling to describe, a mix of awe and beauty, but also a claustrophobic and suffocating sense of fear. Something that makes everything around you scary, it makes you want to retreat to some sort of shelter which makes me think that it's an evolutionary fear.

this is neither “embarrassing” or “laughable” or “puts you in shame” this is “amazing”, “spectacular” and “breathtaking”

Great video. When I feel overwhelmed by life I like to watch videos about the universe, it puts life into perspective and I realize my earth problems are bullshit. And somehow I find peace.

Very good job on the video, so well done and i love it! Keep it up!

This video made me so uncomfortable. Like talking about a baby to their mother about what's going to happen through their life. "You're only seeing it's baby steps now, but first, the eyes will go, and then finally when there's darkness in the eyes, they'll die"

whenever i watch these 'fear of space videos', i just get relaxed for some reason.

My geology professor said he was offered so,e type of space related job but he turned it down because it terrified him. Space is a scary ass place dude

Thank you very much for this informativ and heartbreaking video. The ending was very sad somehow and made me shead a tear. Keep up this great content!

I used to get that sense of "cosmic dread" whenever I'd do deep dives on the vastness of space. I recall watching videos talking about the distant future of the Universe and getting stressed out... by things that wouldn't be happening for trillions of years... As of recent, I've instead become mystified by space and the things in it. If you think about it, space is like a desert. It looks like nothing, endless nothing, but once you get past those seemingly infinite swathes of emptiness you stumble upon an oasis. Gorgeous clouds of dust that look like paintings, glowing rings of fire that surround black holes, spectacular light shows performed by stars, both in life and death. If the Universe is truly infinite, then that means there's just as many beautiful oases as there is desert. And of course, among those oases, us. A teeny tiny, little itsy-bitsy pale blue dot. What you said at 4:55 is something I used to think myself. "We're so insignificant and tiny." And sure, maybe we are. But I don't let that stress me like it used too because I've since realized that fact doesn't take away from how special this planet and the things on it are. UY Scuti is massive, black holes are nearly incomprehensible forces of nature, and sure planets like Saturn have rings and moons to show off. But none of them have us. Nothing has us. Life could exist out there, but until we know for sure, we're all there is. And that doesn't scare me because in a way, it makes us really important. Maybe the Universe knows no cruelty, but it also doesn't even know it own name. The Universe, the things in it, and all the laws that keep those things in check are Human discoveries. Yeah they'd exist without us, but they wouldn't be named, defined, or appreciated by anything. UY Scuti is the biggest star in the known Universe. None of that means anything without us. Sure this is an extremely Human-centric perspective, but what other perspective do we really have? Hell even the observable Universe, when you zoom out as far as we can with out current technologies, what do you find at the center of it? Not the Milkyway, not the Solar System, not even the Earth. You. From your perspective, you're the center of the Universe, the thing your people have done endless work to try and understand. At the center of all of it is you. And you know what, even if you wanna look at things from the figurative perspective of the Universe, things still look great for us! All of everything you know and love, you live and stride for, is confined to this single point in space and time. From the perspective of the Universe, you have everything you could ever need, nothing's ever quite out of reach for you. I find that so comforting. Again I totally understand that this is a Human-centric mindset. But it's one that allows me to appreciate the massive scale of the Universe without forgetting that we're just as special as the rest of it. It's very easy to fall into the pit of "Humanity bad, Humanity insignificant" and it's very nice to claw your way out every now and then. Space is one of my favorite things, I find it so eerily beautiful. From my perspective, it is something to be respected and inspired by, not feared. Great video! 😊 Keep it up!

The scariest thing about these insane units of time are that they WILL happen. We tend to not comprehend it, but the space we’re in, the same universe we inhabit, will experience this passage of time. Not the universe in the video but the one you’re in. The atoms that make up your existence will be there at that time. We are just traveling towards it just very slowly.

Man, thanks for this. Really, thanks a lot.

This was an amazing video, truthfully

I like space, stars and planets because they are so so beyond all the earth bound stupidity I'm trapped inside. I like that they're bigger than us, that they are more powerful, that they are indescribable

Floating through Bootes Void with a bowl of mac and cheese would be pure bliss.

This was beautiful thank you

Thank you for listing the music! So many KZfaq channels do not do that & it is annoying to try and find a song being played.

holy shit. that is probably one of the best video essays on space I've ever seen, amazing stuff dude, I'm glad to see you back :)

I actually have basically the opposite opinion, and I'm really curious if anyone else feels the same. I COMPLETELY understand thinking of space as cold and empty but for some reason I think of it as just so alive, warm, and beautiful, even if "warm" might be literally just an objectively incorrect statement. I'm absolutely obsessed with space, and have been for as long as I can remember, which might be why I feel so positively about it, maybe out of a sense of nostalgia. I think the solar system is just so beautiful. I know Jupiter would absolutely annihilate a human, but I don't really find that scary because we're not meant to be there. If there are aliens, I'm sure there's plenty out there that would think of Earth as a hellscape for whatever reason. The gas giants almost feel like huge beautiful machines, just these giant storms churning away. As for the vast distances of space, sure things are really far apart, but they're still connected. We orbit the sun, which orbits the center of the Milkyway, and everything's a part of the same universe! I'm not quite sure why or fucking how, but the universe feels oddly cozy to me. The Milkyway feels almost like a town we live in. It's big and I haven't been to most of it, but I live here so it feels like home, yah know? IDK maybe I'm just silly but I feel like the universe can be thought about in different ways. Thinking about it as a cold mostly empty void that is slowly falling to entropy, yeah, that's horrifying, but I don't think that's the only way of thinking about it. You can think about humans as biological machines biding our time until we fall to entropy, oooorrrr you can think about humans some inspiring pretty way that I'm too lazy to think of, but you know what I mean. Point is I think the universe can be thought of in a similar way. Sure some stuff is bigger in size, but we're as much of a part of it as anything else. I'm kinda losing my train of thought and don't wanna read back over this lmao but you get my point, i think space is beautiful and cozy for some reason and i love it. Not saying this to be like "THIS VIDEO IS DUMB AND WRONG!! >:(" I really enjoyed the video! I fucking love space so anything talking about it is super cool!! and because i love space, idk i wanted to offer my weird point of view. I think it can be thought of as beautiful and cozy if you think about it the right way or are just crazy like me i guess lmao

Amazing work, thank you!

Best story telling style ever, made me subscribe and I have been using youtube for a while I rarely subscribe to anyone

8:30 Just real quick, this image is not the Boötes Void. This is a dark nebula. It's most likely Barnard 68, a nebular that is often mistaken as the Boötes Void (although, it is a really good image to put into scale just how vast it is). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard_68 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boötes_Void

when you mentioned “this void is two percent of the universe” broke my mind but not because of what it is, rather how do we even know that? I genuinely don’t understand how we have the capability to know the size of the universe when we haven’t even really traveled past the moon yet, I get there’s cameras out there but can you truly get that much information from just photos? I’m genuinely curious. (also I want to mention I dropped out of school in the middle of highschool so maybe this is something I missed)

This has got to be the best video i have ever seen

This is just beautiful- congratulations 👏

I've always been impressed by several movies' choice in depicting people flung into space: The sound of silence except for their panicked breathing. Really makes it hit you in the gut that there's nothing to hang onto in space, the only tangible thing is you and your own ineffectual bodily instincts to breathe and grasp etc. To me it suggests a very profound panic thats hard to conjure in other settings. It's like if drowning lasted weeks.

Space is so beautifully terrifying. The sheer frustration and anger I feel that I was unable to spectate the beginning and will never get close to witnessing the end of it, just hurts.

i understand this was supposed to explain the fear of space but i simply can’t grasp it because i love space so much. i love it to the point i can’t fear it.

Idk why but it comforts me to feel small. It makes me feel like we have so much to learn and know

The thing i find the strangest is us, we can see, smell, hear, and feel things that aren't meant to be seen, smelled, heard, or felt. Because we are also just a part of the universe. We're made of the same things that everything else is made of, which i feel like people forget. People look up instead of down and say how they feel instead of why they feel. What bothers me the most is why anything even exists in the first place, it's so strange, why did the big bang happen? (Or whatever it was that created this) And if this has been around forever I'd be even more confused. I dont think anybody should be scared of space or existing. Nothing is random, nothing is meant to be, we're all just here and we matter as much as the ground we stand on. It's only humans that make things matter, nobody and nothing cares except for us and there's no reason to care. Everything just *is.* And it's not weird, we think it is but it isn't, it's natural. Idk I find it weird how we can actually experience stuff and find meaning in it, I wanna go back to the old me before I got into this stuff, then I wouldn't "care" so much about how things in fact didn't matter.

Okay, that last bit was actually profoundly moving

One last video before bed. The video:

Makes you appreciate this feeble moment in time where you exist or at least for me it does. It's like what is the point to fear death, to question rather there's a afterlife or not. We are just as much a part of the universe as the rest of the universe and time itself.

That was the most interesting video I saw this year I’m happy you’re back and with such a good video

Okay, now you got me with that thumbnail, that's frickin scary for me 💀

Great idea for a video and I love the visuals .. comparing the size of UYsc to the size of a black hole 🤯

These types of smaller channels always give out the best contents man, shiz underrated

Amazing job on this video.

This is a masterpiece of a video. Thank you for the existential dread

I just found your channel via minecraft shenanigans. Didn't expect a video like this obviously but honestly this was one of the best video essays I've seen in a while. I hope it gets the exposure it deserves.

Congratulations for the brilliant video. I have no words. Just perfect. Uncluding the music. It is rare to find videos like this one.

Terrific video. Very enjoyable. Thanks.

i have really bad space anxiety but this video, somehow, …helped? i’m not sure how as it is chock full of existential dread but i think it’s cause it put all my feelings into words and had such a genuinely sweet ending. so thank you for this beautiful video 💕

Ah I remember my existential crisis teenage phase. Rough one. Compared to the universe, the collective existence of all life on Earth is humiliatingly smaller than the tiniest particle. Human existence is truly nothing in the grand scheme of things. But nonetheless, the fact that we're here, right here, right now, with our own individual existences, with all of our unique experiences, thoughts, and feelings, makes us special.

6:59 Imagine being immortal and travelling in a tiny space ship with barely any color or objects in it that only tells you your position when you are at half way and you just waited 1,25 billion years and suddenly you hear the message of your progress. And realize that you are in the exact center of nothingness being the farthest from any kinds of entities of the scale of two galaxies aura. On second thought don't imagine that! You might be too good at it.

I feel great comfort looking up at the stars and thinking of the vastness of space. All the problems and trials of life on earth are nothing in comparison. It was there long before I was born and it will be there long after I'm dead. The thing that makes the thought of space so comforting is my own mortality.

its crazy how beautiful yet terrifying space can be

The pure amount of things so so much bigger than us, to the point we're not even a dust particle, nor even a bacteria or virus. We are literally nothing in comparison to our own home. And then we remember how many smaller objects than us there are, most likely also too small for us to see. Universe is an expending mystery that starts with the smallest objects and goes for eternity and beyond. And we won't even know for sure, it could have happened before. And might happen again. But the emount of time that would pass would be so huge a number wouldn;t be able to show it. It's scary, and beautiful in a way.

2% of the OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE, is Boötes Void. The observable universe is the portion of the true universe that we are able to see, because at a certain point, the constant expansion of the universe begins to accelerate away from us relatively so fast that light is unable to get past, this point is called the Particle Horizon, a point after which light takes an 'infinitely' long time to arrive at the observer, making it impossible to see past. The observable universe is approximately 93.016 billion light years in diameter.

I just love space. Its endless possibilities are astonishing. Breathtaking, yet sometimes horrific, I can't stand but to return to its magic over and over again, trying to reach every piece of information about our universe I can find to satisfy my vast void of thirst for knowledge that sometimes feels bigger than our own world itself

It doesn't bother me at all. I feel lucky and blessed. It's the same feeling for me when it's storming strong outside, and I'm in my little tiny shack of a house, but my head is dry and I feel safe from lightning strikes. Mt little shack is my home, it's safe, and I'm lucky to have it vs. Having nothing at all out in the harsh powerful elements of nature.

Dude. That the best video about space that I’ve seen in years! One of the most interesting one ever. This video will stay with me as long as a Black Dwarf lives! No seriously, that was awesome. I’m subscribing now

This video is so incredibly well written. There are so many videos that attempt to effectively put the universe into perspective, and some do it very well, but this video does it perfectly. Very well done. Incredible.

One of THE best thing I have ever watched.

Nice video, nicer upload schedule as well btw

This literally makes me want to go insane

Jupiter being purely gas is just sooo terrifying and gives me a sense of helplessness

for some reason space gives me an existential crisis, and this video didn't help at all. 10/10 would watch again

If you ever feel egoistic for whatever reason on planet Earth, just look up in the sky.

outerspace basically screams at us "ur not welcome here"

Really great video, I enjoyed it and actually felt the fear of space as I always do when I begin to think about it. But one thing I did notice is that when you were explaining the distance of some of the neighboring planets or solar systems in light years, you said that it would take us that many years to reach that location. Light years is the amount of time that it takes light to travel in a year, so in all actuality it would take us a much larger amount of time for us to travel that far. Also with the fact that we will realistically never be able to reach the speed of light.

Awesome work dude. Can sleep peacefully now.

That last line was heartwarming

We are the creation of the universe that has become self aware and can’t escape it.

Space truly is scary. The size and distance between things. The thought of getting lost in space. Or being on a collision course with Jupiter or the sun or some other star. It's always been a little bit terrifying.

this actually makes me proud, proud for humanity the fact that we as a species can stand and fight against the chaos and the giantness of the universe making reality bend to our will is crazy

I remember hearing something about how in the end of times, There's a slight chance of the universe restarting completely from where it began: the big bang. I could be entirely wrong about this but if i remember correctly it had something to do with "dark energy". Something that we still don't know what it is ence why we cannot be sure if the fate of the universe will lead itself to be a complete void of nothing for eternity or it will lead eventually to a complete "start over". Honestly so fascinating

I’d take dying in space over dying in a cave any day. At least I’d get to see it, if only for a few seconds.

One of the very best space content video's i've ever saw. Well written , well presented and a heck of a lot of fun. Thank you so much. Wishing the absolute best , good health & happiness to you & your loved ones. 🙏❤.

You can actually experience this right now.. we all do it.. lay down and close your eyes.. If you want a experience that will give you vertigo (assuming that's the word for what I'm about to describe) go outside and lay down on the grass looking up at the night sky and relax to the point where it feels like you're one with the earth (vertigo, you will feel like you are moving with the earth.. atleast that's what I feel when I do it) and then close your eyes.. Ever since I was a kid I loved everything about space, the stars, the backholes, other plants and the vast emptiness of space.. I even had a dream about me floating through the vastness of space and it was awesome with a side of some fear.. and it felt real.. and I had a water bad at the time..

but on the one hand it gives me chill that after we die we are all part of the same thing, pretty calming

my question delves into one of the most profound and enduring mysteries of human existence: the potential existence of extraterrestrial life. This inquiry has captivated the minds of scientists, philosophers, and the general public alike for centuries. While we have yet to definitively answer whether we are alone in the universe, ongoing scientific exploration and advancements continue to shed light on this fascinating question. Through the study of exoplanets, astrobiology, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), humanity continues its quest to understand our place in the cosmos and the possibility of life beyond Earth.

Sometimes I wonder why no one wants to become Immortal. And then I rewatch this video.