one of my all-time favorites on youtube. i probably watch it at least once a month. the only critique i have, and it is a really minor one, is the repetitive use of "but that was nothing". overall, a petty blemish on what is otherwise a fantastic work. i hope to see more like it.
Dude. The Kakadu cave painter would have been indigenous Australian, not white skinned. He would have hunted kangaroo and Australian animals, not as depicted. You lost me at 0:29.
This is the best thing I've seen with eye's and understood. I take it for granted that people know all this stuff - but I forget I studied it. I wish everyone did know all this. I think this should be circulated more widely. Well done for making such a resonating video. Honestly man, this is utterly incredible, beautiful, scary AHK - everything! The Music just makes it Perfect. Mesmerising.
The last seconds depicting that asteroid... Do they have a background? Or are they a supposition of what would be needed to start another massive extinction?
By the way, this was recently posted on Scientific American. I can't post a URL, try searching for "An Epic Tour of Life’s History"
I'd be interested to know what music was used – there are some really nice works that I'd like to listen to apart from the video. I expected to see end credits with the sources. That would be useful for the video sources too. Credit where credit is due (but mainly I just want to track down some of the music).
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NATURAL LIMITS TO EVOLUTION: Evolution within "kinds" is genetically possible in nature (i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.), but not evolution across "kinds" (i.e. from worm to human). Species couldn't have survived while their vital tissues, organs, biological systems were still evolving. Read my Pravda Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! I discuss: Punctuated Equilibrium, "Junk DNA," genetics, mutations, natural selection, fossils, genetic/biological similarities between species.
@Mogley52 -- Define "kinds" in a precise, specific, scientific way. No creationist ever has. No, human "intuition or dietary laws from the early Iron Age don't count.
Why is such DNA on rocks so tenacious? Because of your belief that the world is millions of years old? DNA cannot last that long on rocks or anywhere. The world isn't millions of years old. Read my Internet article ARE FOSSILS REALLY MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD? I discuss the assumptions used in evolutionary dating.
Quick math. From 7:37 to 12:00, the video shows stuff over the course of ~4 billion years in about 4 minutes, 23 seconds. Doing the math, 4:23 is 0.00000000000000083% of 4 billion years. So just remember, even though this video is pretty awesome the Earth itself is roughly 120481927710843373 times more awesome.
This was one of the best video I've seen in years. It made me feel so foreign to this planet but also gracious to be a living being on it. I think everything was perfect until the last 10 ten seconds that spoils it. Just leave what it will be and enjoy what we can. There is nothing we can really do if something that massive was to hit Earth.
I think those last 10 seconds are very, very important. I think the ending minutes carry a crucial message: Is it the end of the road? Are we living times when the human race hops off the ride and waves goodbye? Shouldn't we engineer society so our race would respect our existence and our planet more? Is it okay that the vast majority of human beings suffer from the mental illness of religion and or waste their brains' potential on crap like reality TV?
i have had the shittiest week in a long time. I feel somewhat refreshed after watching UppruniTegundanna's videos. So informative and entertaining, it's nearly makes me forget that my girlfriend rooted my best made on xmas morning...
What a wonderful video, thank you for making it. I had goosebumps watching the last few minutes - a combination of that haunting music with the magnificent, awe-inspiring story of our planet. Am going to share this far and wide.
One minor thing to nitpick - could you be overemphasizing the importance of hunting for early humans? Isn't it more likely that a bulk of their diet came from plant life? Oh and, I think this video is IDEAL for a gratuitous insert of the Pale Blue Dot photograph. :)
@unsorted1138 By the time we were "human", we were hunting quite a bit. Surplus protein is one reason natural selection allowed us unusually large brains. There is no way to have that kind of protein surplus from plant matter w/o modern technology. Even today, young children need extra protein and fat for development. W/o supplements or milk/eggs/meat, infants die. Vegetarianism is a luxury. A peculiar one, but to each their own.
@cwgauthier This is not true. it is common misconception that vegetarians do not meet their needed protein levels w/o supplements. By eating a healthy and balanced diet anyone can get their needed protein, w/ or w/o meat. Also there is a diff. between vegetarian and vegan. To be vegan you must not eat any animal products, but to be vegetarian you simply must not eat meat. Milk is necessary to infant development (though eggs and meat are not), and it can still be consumed on a vegetarian diet.
I would question whether vegetarians really meet their needed protein levels. I don't think most vegetarians know the first thing about biology or nutrition. I'd really like to see a study on that.
Certainly, I'm not saying it can't be done. But it requires (self)education and planning.
Anyways. In vitro meat is something I would really like to see in the future.
@d3st8Most anyone who has gotten through High School knows a bit about biology & nutrition. And while it is a bit of a stereotype vegetarians tend to be more health conscious people, who do invest time into their eating habits
note: I'm not talking about 'frenchfry vegetarians' those people (mostly teenage girls) who say they are going vegetarian, but instead of actually trying to balance their diet they just eat a whole lot of junk like french fries. thankfully these people aren't too common.
High school doesn't teach scat about biology or nutrition. If you really think that high school biology is inclusive on such topics then I doubt you could name an essential amino acid or the effects of hypervitaminosis A or a provitamin or whatever.
I have concern that many "health conscious people" get their health tips from scam sources. I know many, who instead of science journals and credible sources turn to women's papers and pseudoscience, new age bullshittery.
Respond to this video... Sorry, I just realized you were talking about the 2 dislikes. I don't know anything about these inane youtube comment memes.
god these videos are incredible, beyond humans adjectives! It so great to see there are other people out there who see the cosmos the same way I and the rest of your viewers do.
"They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their
Great video sir. I felt like pointing out though that there is an error around 4:00 - mammals did not evolve from avian dinosaurs... primitive mammals coexisted from dinosaurs and both diverged from a reptilian ancestor.
@GaryCancer Thanks for the comment. The bit you are referring to is when I summarise the outcome of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction event, and write:
"Notable survivors include avian dinosaurs – later developing into birds – and mammals."
Because the phrase "later developing into birds" is between dashes, it only refers to the avian dinosaurs. I could have written that notable survivors include avian dinosaurs and mammals, but wanted to elaborate that the avian dinos became birds.
@Branstrom Yeah, that would have cleared up the confusion, but avian dinosaurs were the most notorious survivors of that particular event, so I felt they needed to be mentioned first.
@UppruniTegundanna The confusion is just in that the second dash is easily overlooked due to the layout of the text in the video. I overlooked it the first time through and had to go back and look for it after thinking you were making the same mistake that Gary did and then reading your response. Great video!
This really shows the persistence of life, & the order in chaos that is the Cosmos. This is Omnipotently Epic. . Bravo! & the ending! The deceptive cadence. What a cliff hanger, haha.
I'm not even embarrassed to admit that I teared up at the beauty of this video and its message. All this, all of it, is truly incredible beyond words (this planet, not the video). Realizing it all releases dopamine and serotonin in my brain to basically a point of tears...
I think it's safe to say that with a large enough catastrophe, folks in developed places will fare far worse than those who are in undeveloped places. With advancement often comes dependence. The loss of electricity for multiple weeks would result in many deaths in the developed world while such a loss might go unnoticed in an undeveloped area.
I think it would be a shame to have all of humanity's accomplishments go the way of dinosaurs, especially when we should know better.
@smithichie : I don't think so. Natural and man made disasters almost always have hit under-developed peoples more than well developed ones. Yes, there are some occasions like the Plague where conditions of over-population, cross-longitudinal trade and a non-existent germ theory of disease have hit developing populations harder, but the developed populations have now learned from that suffering. Millions in the developed world die from curable diseases and will be hardest hit from global warming
I'm talking about a catastrophe larger than any humans have experienced since becoming 'developed'. Sure as long as we have technology to rely on it's better to be in a developed area than non-developed but take away that technology net for all and suddenly the folks in formally developed areas find themselves without the skills needed to survive while folks in undeveloped areas it's business as usual.
@smithichie : Ah yes, I agree. I grew up in an "undeveloped" part of the world in S Asia and lived without electricity for most evenings during that time of my life. Never missed it. Now I wouldn't know what I'd do without the internet, a cellphone, and warm water in my tap. Big ass catastrophes will probably affect us all equally, and perhaps spoiled ones like me a bit more if some of us manage to hang on.
I think we have enough firepower to take out an asteroid these days.
Right, seems once we get used to a technology it's awful hard to give up.
As for taking out a big asteroid, the best defense is early detection, not to blow it up, but to move it ever so slightly out of our path. Blowing up an asteroid runs the risk of changing a bullet into a shotgun blast and if the asteroid is just a loose collection of rubble all the nukes in the world wouldn't have an effect.
@smithichie : Mass extinction events are Nature's way of separating the grain from the chaff. Sad but true. Every few million years one hits, and if our species is smart enough by then to do something about their survival by then, so much the better for it. Else, we will go and Nature will try something else.
We have to at least be able to survive planetary catastrophes if we are to rule the galactic neighborhood in a few hundred thousand years.
I agree that extinction is good in the long run but that's on a scale of millions of years, from a personal perspective I hope that humans can manage a better fate than dinos. Dinos couldn't do anything about the asteroid that took them out but we could if we had the will.
You're right, how we manage planetwide catastrophe will determine our place, if any among the stars.
@smithichie I think the bigger problem is ourselves. The question I keep asking myself, is will human morality out pace technology as our technology can and is used to violate each other with greater and more subtle voracity then ever before.....
Culture is where the majority of human morals come from and cultural change is much faster than evolutionary change. Likewise technological change has been outpacing cultural change for some time now. It used to be folks and their culture had time to adapt to new inventions but now inventions are old news before many have even heard of said invention, let alone gotten used to it.
Technology is a double edged sword always has been, the same fire that kept us warm also burned.
So, while technology is double edged sword, fire being an example keeping us warm but being a danger at the same time. Burn wards suck but I still wouldn't want to go back to the time before fire, in fact I couldn't, society as we know it sure couldn't.
Tech is like that, we not only grow used to it but become dependent on it eventually. I agree tech can be a danger but it also happens to be humanity as a large's only solution. 8 Billion folks can't live as hunter gatherers.
@smith I agree. But the technology I'm talking about are things like ability of the ultra wealthy to leverage the power of information via PC's to understand how bad ideas will make them money, usually off those of lower education and economic standing. It is the mark of an advanced society to provide liberty and justice to those that cannot demand it for themselves. If the ultra wealthy can manipulate the economy the way they do with no moral reason not to, society as we know it will decline.
History is filled with examples of the powerful seeking to extend that power and I don't see it changing anytime soon. And yeah it sucks that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer but something the rich should keep in mind is that history is also filled with examples of the poor getting fed up and stringing the rich up by their knickers. Of course they are then quickly replaced with near clones, meet the new boss same as the old boss, so nothing much changes for the masses.
@smithichie I agree and everything but you forget, that technology is A NATURAL PART of us. Just like claws are a part of lions to hunt and gills for the fish to live under water. Our biggest advantage is not only our brain but our tools which are not attached to our bodies - we can modify everything. We don't have to rely on body parts like the lion or the fish to survive. Humans will always use technology to survive - whenever simple sticks or a modern lighter.
This was a beautiful video, truly inspiring. We're all just a big family, the branches of our family tree will never end in giving life to new exciting life.
Exhilarating. I always get excited when I see one of your videos in my inbox. This time there are two! Another beautiful video, thanks for making them.
damn O__o to go through all that and life still managed to evolved into us...we are fucking lucky to be here. I mean we've won the greatest lottery EVER; consciousness
although with so many cataclysms and dangers befalling life on Earth, I'm not too hopeful we'll find life elsewhere :( at least no anywhere near us (in our section of the Milkey Way).
Earth seems to be in a relatively stable star system and the planet itself is quite stable, yet even so, life got fucked plenty of times here.
There's a small chance an asteroid named "99942 Apophis" will hit earth in 2029. It could pass through a gravitational keyhole and set itself up for a future impact on April 13, 2036. If that happens and we don’t try to do anything about it then we will be the laughing stock of the universe.
@Phobosuchus1 Just read about that asteroid, looks like the chance is very small, but we'll be able to see it fairly clearly with the naked eye. From NASA's website: "Using criteria developed in this research, new measurements possible in 2013 (if not 2011) will likely confirm that in 2036 Apophis will quietly pass more than 49 million km (30.5 million miles; 0.32 AU) from Earth on Easter Sunday of that year (April 13)."
your videos are full of hope and untold beauty. I watch them as reward. The truth is so unbelievable... I cant really be angry with creationist and their simple view of the world. Reality is so complex and deep and mesmerizing, cruel and infinitely creative. And even thou your clips are not original material you have a neck for editing and sound. KUDOS :)
Nice video...gosh i'd love to make this masterpieces but i don't have the editing talent... only an amateur...I was thinking of doing a video with the song "The Beginning is the end is the Beginning" showing the dark side of human history and to promote to let go of violent instincts and to evolve...What do you think...Love the vid anyhow...keep them coming...
one of my all-time favorites on youtube. i probably watch it at least once a month. the only critique i have, and it is a really minor one, is the repetitive use of "but that was nothing". overall, a petty blemish on what is otherwise a fantastic work. i hope to see more like it.
lgbarrier2 3 weeks ago
Yo which piece of music is at the beginning i could find that one
reddrick32386 1 month ago
Dude. The Kakadu cave painter would have been indigenous Australian, not white skinned. He would have hunted kangaroo and Australian animals, not as depicted. You lost me at 0:29.
thehenhouse 1 month ago
This is the best thing I've seen with eye's and understood. I take it for granted that people know all this stuff - but I forget I studied it. I wish everyone did know all this. I think this should be circulated more widely. Well done for making such a resonating video. Honestly man, this is utterly incredible, beautiful, scary AHK - everything! The Music just makes it Perfect. Mesmerising.
jw2327 2 months ago
Evolution does not require God, but religion requires Evolution to have any credibility.
R0B0stairs 2 months ago
@R0B0stairs well said
NeoFreeSelf 5 days ago
I cried, it reminded me of how happy I am to be here :). Thank you!
aurorabarajas 4 months ago
YOU MADE This??? you made this?!?!? If you did, you are effing amazing. Good job man! Let's be good friends.
penspinhero 4 months ago 2
The last seconds depicting that asteroid... Do they have a background? Or are they a supposition of what would be needed to start another massive extinction?
Piersmaru 4 months ago
@Piersmaru Yeah, it's a real asteroid. Look up "(29075) 1950 DA" in Wikipedia.
UppruniTegundanna 4 months ago
the truth shall set you free. :)
Zontertes 5 months ago
Just amazing.
iwonttell19888 6 months ago
No religion could ever come up with a story as beautiful as this.
Regnberg 6 months ago 13
By the way, this was recently posted on Scientific American. I can't post a URL, try searching for "An Epic Tour of Life’s History"
I'd be interested to know what music was used – there are some really nice works that I'd like to listen to apart from the video. I expected to see end credits with the sources. That would be useful for the video sources too. Credit where credit is due (but mainly I just want to track down some of the music).
thermalmaximum 6 months ago
@thermalmaximum Hi there. I listed the music I used in the underbar of the video. There are three pieces of music used, and here they are:
Efling - Stafrænn Hákon
Eindir - Einóma
Swedenborgske Rom - Jaga
UppruniTegundanna 6 months ago
Awesome video!
Bolsillo89 6 months ago
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NATURAL LIMITS TO EVOLUTION: Evolution within "kinds" is genetically possible in nature (i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.), but not evolution across "kinds" (i.e. from worm to human). Species couldn't have survived while their vital tissues, organs, biological systems were still evolving. Read my Pravda Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! I discuss: Punctuated Equilibrium, "Junk DNA," genetics, mutations, natural selection, fossils, genetic/biological similarities between species.
Mogley52 6 months ago
@Mogley52 Nonsense. You don't have a strong scientific grounding.
maezeppa 6 months ago
@Mogley52 -- Define "kinds" in a precise, specific, scientific way. No creationist ever has. No, human "intuition or dietary laws from the early Iron Age don't count.
MaureenLycaon 6 months ago
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Why is such DNA on rocks so tenacious? Because of your belief that the world is millions of years old? DNA cannot last that long on rocks or anywhere. The world isn't millions of years old. Read my Internet article ARE FOSSILS REALLY MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD? I discuss the assumptions used in evolutionary dating.
Mogley52 6 months ago
Quick math. From 7:37 to 12:00, the video shows stuff over the course of ~4 billion years in about 4 minutes, 23 seconds. Doing the math, 4:23 is 0.00000000000000083% of 4 billion years. So just remember, even though this video is pretty awesome the Earth itself is roughly 120481927710843373 times more awesome.
GerrohTheCommie 9 months ago 4
16 march 2880...One day after my 894th anniversary...Damn you, (29075) 1950 DA!!!
whchain 9 months ago
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arlpainbringer 9 months ago
I didnt blinked 12 min
BasshuterZ 9 months ago
Amazing video of the presence of God in the history of life. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
abdulmuhib 10 months ago
Thank you - SO MUCH - for this! :D
tja2291 10 months ago
Severely undersubbed
zivanlee 10 months ago
thumbs up if you clicked on the video because you thought it involved with the movie tenaicous d movie
AndrewCool7 11 months ago
This was one of the best video I've seen in years. It made me feel so foreign to this planet but also gracious to be a living being on it. I think everything was perfect until the last 10 ten seconds that spoils it. Just leave what it will be and enjoy what we can. There is nothing we can really do if something that massive was to hit Earth.
ricetogo 11 months ago
@ricetogo
I think those last 10 seconds are very, very important. I think the ending minutes carry a crucial message: Is it the end of the road? Are we living times when the human race hops off the ride and waves goodbye? Shouldn't we engineer society so our race would respect our existence and our planet more? Is it okay that the vast majority of human beings suffer from the mental illness of religion and or waste their brains' potential on crap like reality TV?
d3st88 11 months ago
You had me at "Cave paintings"
chillmeister509 11 months ago
dude this is a really great video! did you make all this? all the animation in the second half is amazing!
calebp9503 1 year ago
Alternative view of evolution see video book trailer
dltanner99 1 year ago
Nice one. Only criticism is the Ordovician gamma ray burst is speculative.
halcyondaze82 1 year ago
It is so nice to see such civilzed commenting. And the video is fantastic. I will share. Thank you. Inspiring.
cymbeline8 1 year ago
Fantastic :)
The self assembling DNA will get a heated debate in the comments section i guess :D
but a wonderful video.
Aanthanur 1 year ago
soooo beautiful and well done - exceptional! THANKS!
Ravi
Discoveries for a New Life
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mokshasha 1 year ago
Incredible.
raddue 1 year ago
i have had the shittiest week in a long time. I feel somewhat refreshed after watching UppruniTegundanna's videos. So informative and entertaining, it's nearly makes me forget that my girlfriend rooted my best made on xmas morning...
725672567256 1 year ago
All time favourite video on YouTube. Nice job.
IronMacedonian 1 year ago
I think I've watched this vid about ten times. It's just a fantastic video, can't thank you enough for making it.
brmadman4455 1 year ago
now when we finnaly find who we are. its time to think abaout that where are we going.!!
btw great video.. ! : )
DZ00ful 1 year ago
Love it, the never ending story.
TheTarrMan 1 year ago
This is a far richer and grander story than can be told in any dusty two thousand year old book.
NWOshill 1 year ago
What a wonderful video, thank you for making it. I had goosebumps watching the last few minutes - a combination of that haunting music with the magnificent, awe-inspiring story of our planet. Am going to share this far and wide.
One minor thing to nitpick - could you be overemphasizing the importance of hunting for early humans? Isn't it more likely that a bulk of their diet came from plant life? Oh and, I think this video is IDEAL for a gratuitous insert of the Pale Blue Dot photograph. :)
unsorted1138 1 year ago
@unsorted1138 By the time we were "human", we were hunting quite a bit. Surplus protein is one reason natural selection allowed us unusually large brains. There is no way to have that kind of protein surplus from plant matter w/o modern technology. Even today, young children need extra protein and fat for development. W/o supplements or milk/eggs/meat, infants die. Vegetarianism is a luxury. A peculiar one, but to each their own.
cwgauthier 1 year ago
@cwgauthier This is not true. it is common misconception that vegetarians do not meet their needed protein levels w/o supplements. By eating a healthy and balanced diet anyone can get their needed protein, w/ or w/o meat. Also there is a diff. between vegetarian and vegan. To be vegan you must not eat any animal products, but to be vegetarian you simply must not eat meat. Milk is necessary to infant development (though eggs and meat are not), and it can still be consumed on a vegetarian diet.
jadeisthesky 1 year ago
@jadeisthesky
I would question whether vegetarians really meet their needed protein levels. I don't think most vegetarians know the first thing about biology or nutrition. I'd really like to see a study on that.
Certainly, I'm not saying it can't be done. But it requires (self)education and planning.
Anyways. In vitro meat is something I would really like to see in the future.
d3st88 11 months ago
@d3st8Most anyone who has gotten through High School knows a bit about biology & nutrition. And while it is a bit of a stereotype vegetarians tend to be more health conscious people, who do invest time into their eating habits
note: I'm not talking about 'frenchfry vegetarians' those people (mostly teenage girls) who say they are going vegetarian, but instead of actually trying to balance their diet they just eat a whole lot of junk like french fries. thankfully these people aren't too common.
jadeisthesky 11 months ago
@jadeisthesky
High school doesn't teach scat about biology or nutrition. If you really think that high school biology is inclusive on such topics then I doubt you could name an essential amino acid or the effects of hypervitaminosis A or a provitamin or whatever.
I have concern that many "health conscious people" get their health tips from scam sources. I know many, who instead of science journals and credible sources turn to women's papers and pseudoscience, new age bullshittery.
d3st88 11 months ago
Thumbs up, if you didnt BLINK while watching the wholeVIDEO!
BasshuterZ 1 year ago
Thanks for scaring us with that last one there
meeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 1 year ago
this all happened within 6000 years, right?
InterSmells 1 year ago 22
2 people need to be executed for crimes against humanity.
ba3cool 1 year ago 2
@ba3cool I would say quite a few more than that, but wtf does that have to do w/ this vid?
cwgauthier 1 year ago
Respond to this video... Sorry, I just realized you were talking about the 2 dislikes. I don't know anything about these inane youtube comment memes.
cwgauthier 1 year ago
The 2 dislikes are from our jealous Martian neighbors.
PwnzorFTW 1 year ago 20
Simply amazing...
dragonmyst000 1 year ago
This is truly a work of art. Thank You.
MescelaroSands 1 year ago
god these videos are incredible, beyond humans adjectives! It so great to see there are other people out there who see the cosmos the same way I and the rest of your viewers do.
Smhendo152 1 year ago
Just brilliant.
FreindlyRanger 1 year ago
I literally shed a single tear watching that. Thank you for capturing the true beauty of life.
WNxFish 1 year ago 3
Beautifully done.
Bravo!
corthew 1 year ago
"They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their
survival machines."
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene.
DutchNordic 1 year ago
Great video sir. I felt like pointing out though that there is an error around 4:00 - mammals did not evolve from avian dinosaurs... primitive mammals coexisted from dinosaurs and both diverged from a reptilian ancestor.
GaryCancer 1 year ago
@GaryCancer Thanks for the comment. The bit you are referring to is when I summarise the outcome of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction event, and write:
"Notable survivors include avian dinosaurs – later developing into birds – and mammals."
Because the phrase "later developing into birds" is between dashes, it only refers to the avian dinosaurs. I could have written that notable survivors include avian dinosaurs and mammals, but wanted to elaborate that the avian dinos became birds.
UppruniTegundanna 1 year ago 2
@UppruniTegundanna Ah I see what you mean there. My apologies.
GaryCancer 1 year ago
@UppruniTegundanna Perhaps you could write "mammals and avian dinosaurs (later developing into birds)." (or with dashes)
Branstrom 1 year ago
@Branstrom Yeah, that would have cleared up the confusion, but avian dinosaurs were the most notorious survivors of that particular event, so I felt they needed to be mentioned first.
UppruniTegundanna 1 year ago
@UppruniTegundanna The confusion is just in that the second dash is easily overlooked due to the layout of the text in the video. I overlooked it the first time through and had to go back and look for it after thinking you were making the same mistake that Gary did and then reading your response. Great video!
mikeycooper 1 year ago
Clever Ed; big Ed; nice Ed; thankU Ed :-))
TheLetsbegin 1 year ago
excellence again, good to see it inspiring intelligent thoughtful comments.
drjonathonflash 1 year ago
The editing that begins at 3:10 makes me want to punch a baby (and instead forced me to click away).
ReductioAdAbsurdum 1 year ago
This really shows the persistence of life, & the order in chaos that is the Cosmos. This is Omnipotently Epic. . Bravo! & the ending! The deceptive cadence. What a cliff hanger, haha.
ErostheEpic 1 year ago
@5random1 : What about all the porn we made since the beginning of human time? That was sheer art we could fap to. Abstract thinking my butt. :D
geodesicks 1 year ago 2
Wow...
I'm not even embarrassed to admit that I teared up at the beauty of this video and its message. All this, all of it, is truly incredible beyond words (this planet, not the video). Realizing it all releases dopamine and serotonin in my brain to basically a point of tears...
Meir44 1 year ago
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Meir44 1 year ago
@5random1
I think it's safe to say that with a large enough catastrophe, folks in developed places will fare far worse than those who are in undeveloped places. With advancement often comes dependence. The loss of electricity for multiple weeks would result in many deaths in the developed world while such a loss might go unnoticed in an undeveloped area.
I think it would be a shame to have all of humanity's accomplishments go the way of dinosaurs, especially when we should know better.
smithichie 1 year ago
@smithichie : I don't think so. Natural and man made disasters almost always have hit under-developed peoples more than well developed ones. Yes, there are some occasions like the Plague where conditions of over-population, cross-longitudinal trade and a non-existent germ theory of disease have hit developing populations harder, but the developed populations have now learned from that suffering. Millions in the developed world die from curable diseases and will be hardest hit from global warming
geodesicks 1 year ago
@geodesicks
I'm talking about a catastrophe larger than any humans have experienced since becoming 'developed'. Sure as long as we have technology to rely on it's better to be in a developed area than non-developed but take away that technology net for all and suddenly the folks in formally developed areas find themselves without the skills needed to survive while folks in undeveloped areas it's business as usual.
smithichie 1 year ago
@smithichie : Ah yes, I agree. I grew up in an "undeveloped" part of the world in S Asia and lived without electricity for most evenings during that time of my life. Never missed it. Now I wouldn't know what I'd do without the internet, a cellphone, and warm water in my tap. Big ass catastrophes will probably affect us all equally, and perhaps spoiled ones like me a bit more if some of us manage to hang on.
I think we have enough firepower to take out an asteroid these days.
geodesicks 1 year ago
@geodesicks
Right, seems once we get used to a technology it's awful hard to give up.
As for taking out a big asteroid, the best defense is early detection, not to blow it up, but to move it ever so slightly out of our path. Blowing up an asteroid runs the risk of changing a bullet into a shotgun blast and if the asteroid is just a loose collection of rubble all the nukes in the world wouldn't have an effect.
smithichie 1 year ago
@smithichie : Mass extinction events are Nature's way of separating the grain from the chaff. Sad but true. Every few million years one hits, and if our species is smart enough by then to do something about their survival by then, so much the better for it. Else, we will go and Nature will try something else.
We have to at least be able to survive planetary catastrophes if we are to rule the galactic neighborhood in a few hundred thousand years.
geodesicks 1 year ago
@geodesicks
I agree that extinction is good in the long run but that's on a scale of millions of years, from a personal perspective I hope that humans can manage a better fate than dinos. Dinos couldn't do anything about the asteroid that took them out but we could if we had the will.
You're right, how we manage planetwide catastrophe will determine our place, if any among the stars.
smithichie 1 year ago
@smithichie I think the bigger problem is ourselves. The question I keep asking myself, is will human morality out pace technology as our technology can and is used to violate each other with greater and more subtle voracity then ever before.....
alueshen 1 year ago
@alueshen
Culture is where the majority of human morals come from and cultural change is much faster than evolutionary change. Likewise technological change has been outpacing cultural change for some time now. It used to be folks and their culture had time to adapt to new inventions but now inventions are old news before many have even heard of said invention, let alone gotten used to it.
Technology is a double edged sword always has been, the same fire that kept us warm also burned.
smithichie 1 year ago
@alueshen
So, while technology is double edged sword, fire being an example keeping us warm but being a danger at the same time. Burn wards suck but I still wouldn't want to go back to the time before fire, in fact I couldn't, society as we know it sure couldn't.
Tech is like that, we not only grow used to it but become dependent on it eventually. I agree tech can be a danger but it also happens to be humanity as a large's only solution. 8 Billion folks can't live as hunter gatherers.
smithichie 1 year ago
@smithichie
*Of course when I use fire as an example of technology I mean the control of fire, not fire itself which naturally exists without humans.
smithichie 1 year ago
@smith I agree. But the technology I'm talking about are things like ability of the ultra wealthy to leverage the power of information via PC's to understand how bad ideas will make them money, usually off those of lower education and economic standing. It is the mark of an advanced society to provide liberty and justice to those that cannot demand it for themselves. If the ultra wealthy can manipulate the economy the way they do with no moral reason not to, society as we know it will decline.
alueshen 1 year ago
@alueshen
History is filled with examples of the powerful seeking to extend that power and I don't see it changing anytime soon. And yeah it sucks that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer but something the rich should keep in mind is that history is also filled with examples of the poor getting fed up and stringing the rich up by their knickers. Of course they are then quickly replaced with near clones, meet the new boss same as the old boss, so nothing much changes for the masses.
smithichie 1 year ago
@smithichie I agree and everything but you forget, that technology is A NATURAL PART of us. Just like claws are a part of lions to hunt and gills for the fish to live under water. Our biggest advantage is not only our brain but our tools which are not attached to our bodies - we can modify everything. We don't have to rely on body parts like the lion or the fish to survive. Humans will always use technology to survive - whenever simple sticks or a modern lighter.
CrazyDragonX 1 year ago
@CrazyDragonX
I agree with that. I think our ability to use and create technology is indeed part of the human condition, a natural part of being human.
smithichie 1 year ago
Fascinating. The chaos and the beauty.
NotSoOldHippy 1 year ago
This was a beautiful video, truly inspiring. We're all just a big family, the branches of our family tree will never end in giving life to new exciting life.
Ryuuken24 1 year ago
thank you Nature : )
theWHYing 1 year ago
You make the best videos on the subject on Youtube. Informational, yet relaxing and emotional...
Thank you.
hypercub 1 year ago
Very nicely done. Can anybody tell me where the DNA clip that starts around 8:40 is from?
mbarmkob 1 year ago
@mbarmkob It's from National Geographic's "Earth Investigated: How Life Began"
UppruniTegundanna 1 year ago
Well done!
NoDeity 1 year ago
disgusting they are far beneath meand they sicken me they are like maggots when compared to me.
AEVautomatic 1 year ago
Fantastic as always.
pacogoatboy 1 year ago
That was a great video. One of the best I've ever seen on youtube.
ripticdu 1 year ago
DAMN NATURE, YOU HUMBLING
Nauticus89 1 year ago 3
WoW! That "sea of birds" at the end was awesome! Great vid!!!!
mcfaen 1 year ago
Editing ?uestion: Did you write the music and if so did you make the video to the song or visa versa?
mrrob633 1 year ago
@mrrob633 No, the music is taken from my collection. You can see the names of the songs used in the description bar. So I edit to the music.
UppruniTegundanna 1 year ago
Wonderful, as always!
musekiteer 1 year ago
actually brought me to tears GREAT video.
JoMariebentzler 1 year ago
Exhilarating. I always get excited when I see one of your videos in my inbox. This time there are two! Another beautiful video, thanks for making them.
216trixie 1 year ago
@216trixie
Those two comprised a wonderful post-Pigmass present, didn't they? ;D
heterodoxism2 1 year ago
Someone with massive number on subscribers should advertise this channel. Mindblowingly underviewed channel.
spotteri01 1 year ago
Epic as always, definatley one of the most underviewed channels on youtube!
tipoomaster 1 year ago 2
I'm proud to be a subscribed!
darkouljp 1 year ago 2
Beautiful
hollyspry 1 year ago
fantastic as always
glemmstengal 1 year ago
This is an absolultely fantastic video.
brmadman4455 1 year ago
Thats alot of birds :O
sdgsdgsdgish 1 year ago
What a beautifully laid out history.
squirreljester2 1 year ago 2
and the good news is-- life is not only persistent, it is insistent.
julsHz 1 year ago 2
*jaw dropped... GENIUS!
brocris13 1 year ago
wonderful
reasonnotgod 1 year ago 2
This needs to be shared with the world :)
3tangle3 1 year ago 36
@3tangle3 Agreed!
SpanishThug 1 year ago
damn O__o to go through all that and life still managed to evolved into us...we are fucking lucky to be here. I mean we've won the greatest lottery EVER; consciousness
although with so many cataclysms and dangers befalling life on Earth, I'm not too hopeful we'll find life elsewhere :( at least no anywhere near us (in our section of the Milkey Way).
Earth seems to be in a relatively stable star system and the planet itself is quite stable, yet even so, life got fucked plenty of times here.
FreedomLiberty21 1 year ago 3
@FreedomLiberty21 And yet it has survived every time. I'm fairly confident there's at least single-celled life somewhere else in the solar system.
Phild3v1ll3 1 year ago
There's a small chance an asteroid named "99942 Apophis" will hit earth in 2029. It could pass through a gravitational keyhole and set itself up for a future impact on April 13, 2036. If that happens and we don’t try to do anything about it then we will be the laughing stock of the universe.
Phobosuchus1 1 year ago 4
@Phobosuchus1
That danger has actually passed already. NASA downgraded its alert level to the point where they're just keeping a casual eye on it. It'll miss.
laflugantabastardo 1 year ago
@Phobosuchus1 Just read about that asteroid, looks like the chance is very small, but we'll be able to see it fairly clearly with the naked eye. From NASA's website: "Using criteria developed in this research, new measurements possible in 2013 (if not 2011) will likely confirm that in 2036 Apophis will quietly pass more than 49 million km (30.5 million miles; 0.32 AU) from Earth on Easter Sunday of that year (April 13)."
brmadman4455 1 year ago
Every video is a work of art.
Phobosuchus1 1 year ago 2
Any day there's a new UppruniTegundanna video is a good day. = )
Phobosuchus1 1 year ago 2
another awesome video man. keep up the great work.
frankiep1222 1 year ago 2
your videos are full of hope and untold beauty. I watch them as reward. The truth is so unbelievable... I cant really be angry with creationist and their simple view of the world. Reality is so complex and deep and mesmerizing, cruel and infinitely creative. And even thou your clips are not original material you have a neck for editing and sound. KUDOS :)
KronosDeret 1 year ago 4
Awesome Video!
Florence00pi 1 year ago 2
Exceptional - your work deserves much higher view and thumbs up.
KylieTasticUK 1 year ago 44
@KylieTasticUK Agree!
SpanishThug 1 year ago
And it is all star-stuff.
Blows my fucking mind.
Which is *also* star-stuff.
geodesicks 1 year ago 4
Great work, awesome video as ever!
Love your music taste as well =D
nuckable 1 year ago
The hands on the wall is the most moving cave painting discovered, in my opinion.
nashertheatheist 1 year ago
the world is just awesome.
TitenSxull 1 year ago
Nice video...gosh i'd love to make this masterpieces but i don't have the editing talent... only an amateur...I was thinking of doing a video with the song "The Beginning is the end is the Beginning" showing the dark side of human history and to promote to let go of violent instincts and to evolve...What do you think...Love the vid anyhow...keep them coming...
Goobster199 1 year ago
awsome :D
rikci1 1 year ago