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  • čas přidán 22. 09. 2015
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    Find out more about You, Me & The Apocalypse here: • Video (UK & Ireland only)
    Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows "Lachesism": • Lachesism: Longing for...
    Colin Furze backyard bunker: • Apocalyptic BUNKER pro...
    The Library of Babel: libraryofbabel.info
    Picture of Earth from Saturn:
    [image] upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
    www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/d...
    www.ciclops.org/view_event/194...
    Arecibo message:
    writescience.wordpress.com/ta...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo...
    Earth’s radio bubble: www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-...
    LAGEOS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAGEOS
    Last Pictures project on Echostar XVI:
    creativetime.org/projects/the-...
    www.theatlantic.com/technology...
    Graveyard orbits: spaceplace.nasa.gov/spacecraft...
    interstellar probes:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interst...
    Pioneer Plaques: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer...
    Pulsars on plaque: www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro...
    Hydrogen line:
    physics.stackexchange.com/ques...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroge...
    Voyager: voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraf...
    Voyager Golden Record on wikipedia:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content...
    Media on Voyager:
    / golden-record-sounds-of
    imgur.com/a/CvEvO
    Jimmy Carter message on Voyager: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
    Positions of interstellar-bound probes: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voy...
    Articles about the Library of Babel:
    www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
    flavorwire.com/515783/brooklyn...
    More from Sky1 - www.sky.com/tv/channel/sky1
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Komentáře • 39K

  • @dhruvkashyap3310
    @dhruvkashyap3310 Před 3 lety +6172

    Title : "Message to the future"
    **uploaded 5 years ago**
    Me : oh that's for me

  • @ducksfolif977
    @ducksfolif977 Před 7 lety +3602

    when you realize the whole script for the bee movie is there

    • @codenamecolostomy
      @codenamecolostomy Před 7 lety +144

      so is your comment

    • @joseelchacal6579
      @joseelchacal6579 Před 7 lety +99

      PsychoticPotato so is your comment

    • @username2987
      @username2987 Před 7 lety +245

      dear any aliens who see this...We are not all like this. Please ignore these unintelligents.

    • @SugarBunsHuns
      @SugarBunsHuns Před 7 lety +6

      So is your "stop".

    • @PurpleCatWithC4
      @PurpleCatWithC4 Před 7 lety +32

      So are all your comments together including mine. Also every comment you're thinking about posting, anything you're thinking about writing. We get it

  • @Gage-nt
    @Gage-nt Před rokem +425

    Born to late to be ground cowboy.
    Born to early to be a space cowboy.
    This is neither Rootin' nor Tootin'

    • @MemekingJag
      @MemekingJag Před rokem +31

      Rootin' 'n' Tootin' is a state of mind. The true cowboy can Yee as much as they can Haw in any time in history, we don't need to be running with Billy the kid or bounty hunting with Spike Spiegel and Mal Reynolds to be a certified Cowboy™

    • @gpt-jcommentbot4759
      @gpt-jcommentbot4759 Před 17 dny

      born just right to not say goodbye to your families or get eaten by bears

    • @juser-abuser
      @juser-abuser Před 10 dny

      Born exactly in time to be a gay cowboy

  • @SysKeyJS
    @SysKeyJS Před rokem +1876

    Honestly though. If an alien civilization is advanced enough to grab a space probe out of the sky then it surely should be advanced enough to decipher some of this

    • @Maouzera
      @Maouzera Před rokem +47

      maybe different things happened to those civillizations

    • @arandomstranger6976
      @arandomstranger6976 Před rokem +18

      @@Maouzera who knows

    • @steveocho
      @steveocho Před rokem +121

      Language deciphering is much harder than just using some piece of technology that’s existed for years.

    • @lepperkin
      @lepperkin Před rokem +166

      Being an alien and trying to decipher our language is like being born blind and trying to understand color.

    • @theace8502
      @theace8502 Před rokem +68

      @@lepperkin exactly. Without a human being there to help give a frame of reference with which to learn from, the letters and words will be nonsense symbols to any alien species out there. Similarly if we found alien languages, we'd have no idea what they are and would probably never decipher them in the slightest

  • @bluesp6267
    @bluesp6267 Před 3 lety +4035

    Aliens: *takes 25,000 years to respond*
    Crush: *Pathetic*

  • @Jacobadia
    @Jacobadia Před 4 lety +5319

    Imagine a plagiarism bot finding your essay copied from the library of Babel

    • @icecreamkracken6992
      @icecreamkracken6992 Před 4 lety +199

      Don't give it ideas!

    • @imcarlosjr4898
      @imcarlosjr4898 Před 4 lety +14

      IceCreamKracken ya

    • @samdoesstuff4924
      @samdoesstuff4924 Před 4 lety +324

      omg that's actually possible though. nothing we say or write now is original. even this, this particular comment right here can be found in the library of Babel. like the library is even self aware by generating this message. even if i extend it more and more, it's still guaranteed to be in the library. it's kind of scary, and it's giving me chills.

    • @leefelixsegg2666
      @leefelixsegg2666 Před 4 lety +51

      @@samdoesstuff4924 but like. Does that mean i can find out if i might possibly get married 😹

    • @samdoesstuff4924
      @samdoesstuff4924 Před 4 lety +87

      Lyssa's Straykids Sad Hours sure. and that means it's equally as probable for the library to say "i like to go between my mom's nipples and fart" or something fricking weird like that

  • @hmarieb3087
    @hmarieb3087 Před rokem +780

    After watching this, I realize that embarrassing thing I did in middle school doesn’t really matter.

    • @hexagonist23
      @hexagonist23 Před rokem +65

      If you still remember that embarrasing thing, it's very possible that someone who saw it is thinking about it right now. They still know. They remember.

    • @RafaelMunizYT
      @RafaelMunizYT Před rokem +37

      know those random moments that you remember from other people? the same can happen to you. I hope you sleep well

    • @markmiller6402
      @markmiller6402 Před rokem +5

      Pepperidge Farm remembers

    • @MemekingJag
      @MemekingJag Před rokem +11

      Even in our lifetime, it's almost certain whatever dumb shit you did in middle school is already only remembered by you.
      it's nice to be humbled like this, like reminding yourself, when feeling self conscious in public, that nobody is concerned enough about some stranger that they'll even notice you.

    • @hmarieb3087
      @hmarieb3087 Před rokem +1

      @@MemekingJag agreed. I think to myself; “this conversation will not be the highlight of their day, they are probably thinking about something else more important to them than me saying ‘I love you,’ instead of saying ‘thank you.’”

  • @AniGaAG
    @AniGaAG Před rokem +126

    That "Hello, we existed...!" line really got me somehow.
    Like, yeah... that's what it'd be, isn't it?
    "Hello... we existed! Didn't really work out, but - better luck to you guys! You can do it!"
    What a message to effectively leave behind...

  • @AdventuringwithTrevor
    @AdventuringwithTrevor Před 4 lety +20981

    “Hello! We were here. We existed” what a chilling line.

    • @romalea
      @romalea Před 4 lety +504

      @@Tristanimator_ who gives a shit, stop encouraging people to make like edits

    • @lewiscycling3062
      @lewiscycling3062 Před 4 lety +72

      Tristan NL your comment has 2 likes

    • @Tristanimator_
      @Tristanimator_ Před 4 lety +290

      Edit : tHaNks FoR 2 LiKeS gUys

    • @soppingwetburgers6493
      @soppingwetburgers6493 Před 4 lety +25

      @@romalea I agree with you.

    • @scarasluts
      @scarasluts Před 4 lety +140

      vapezyh that was 2 weeks ago, you're the real dumbass here you crackhead

  • @dhobiejr9078
    @dhobiejr9078 Před 3 lety +5524

    Aliens holding the plaque up side down be like:
    Damn these guys are ugly

    • @hhgff778
      @hhgff778 Před 3 lety +383

      Even if it's on the right side, they might still think the same

    • @discopotato5581
      @discopotato5581 Před 3 lety +244

      @@hhgff778 Not as long as they aren't getting my picture.

    • @lerpog4509
      @lerpog4509 Před 3 lety +44

      wait yea its a circle how would they even know

    • @spiderpig8166
      @spiderpig8166 Před 3 lety +11

      This made me laugh so hard

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Před 3 lety +74

      Alien :" he has small pp"

  • @VercilJuan
    @VercilJuan Před rokem +478

    Vsauce inspired so many kids back then, including me, into taking a science career. Truly, Thank you for putting your stuff in youtube and teaching us all.

    • @junkerburn2341
      @junkerburn2341 Před rokem +12

      vsause, especially this particular video, inspired me to write a science fiction-equse story :)

    • @zubetp
      @zubetp Před 11 měsíci +3

      don't appreciate being reminded how old i am lmfao! a wonderful comment though.

    • @axonice
      @axonice Před 10 měsíci +1

      He's the one who inspired me to study math.

    • @Unabatedhalo775
      @Unabatedhalo775 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@junkerburn2341 Are you still writing that story?

    • @junkerburn2341
      @junkerburn2341 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Unabatedhalo775 ye!

  • @dCa991
    @dCa991 Před 7 měsíci +36

    Anyone else randomly remember this after YEARS? Honestly it still holds up as one of the best videos ever put on CZcams.

  • @luca.alonso
    @luca.alonso Před 4 lety +8558

    Everybody gangsta till Michael says
    “Or is it”

  • @johnnyfilms330
    @johnnyfilms330 Před 3 lety +2526

    Humans: "We Existed!"
    Aliens: "Clickbait."

    • @JFGaming.
      @JFGaming. Před 3 lety +61

      -I don’t believe you send me a screenshot-

    • @pamujohostel7323
      @pamujohostel7323 Před 3 lety +5

      I.I

    • @johnnyfilms330
      @johnnyfilms330 Před 3 lety +6

      @@pamujohostel7323 yes.

    • @Monkeh516
      @Monkeh516 Před 3 lety +2

      I'll try to write it in their language
      /_-|\[•°_]

    • @ImaPizzaK
      @ImaPizzaK Před 3 lety +10

      @@Monkeh516 "What the hell is this language?"

  • @TheVRSwordsman
    @TheVRSwordsman Před rokem +234

    The problem with the library of Babel is that since it contains EVERY combination of 3200 characters, the odds of finding a whole page of proper text that actually makes sense is incomprehensibly low. If we sent this library to aliens, they would probably just start trying to translate a random page that consists only of random letters and punctuation marks that don’t actually mean anything.

    • @Roxrock
      @Roxrock Před rokem +27

      Even if the words were comprehensible, aliens can’t speak English

    • @windflier1684
      @windflier1684 Před 11 měsíci +7

      Yeah, the combinations in the library would have little no contexts since you didn't write them out of context, while language absolutely needs context to work, I don't think words in them, even if they are combined to a proper sentence, would carry any meanings, as you have no contexts.

    • @theresamorley14
      @theresamorley14 Před 11 měsíci +7

      There has to be an AI program that can scan through the website continuously to find word sequences that make sense

    • @wilbroadishebrycembofana3357
      @wilbroadishebrycembofana3357 Před 11 měsíci +9

      The library of babel is not that deep though. Once you search something it now exists in the library because you searched it not because it was already there. And since you have the time or means to check all books page by page looking for something, you will always search it and by so doing you are adding what youre searching to a certain page replacing the placeholder text that had been there. its more of "If I word search, therefore it is"

    • @mknomad5
      @mknomad5 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Library of Babel is breaking my brain 🧠 rn

  • @Nikhilkannankutty
    @Nikhilkannankutty Před rokem +331

    This is my favorite CZcams video of all time. I have watched it so many times and I still have the urge to watch it from time to time.

    • @remyscar
      @remyscar Před rokem +3

      I can only bare it every so often

    • @willenator3220
      @willenator3220 Před rokem +18

      This video needs to be saved in the library of congress or something. It has to be one of the best CZcams videos ever.

    • @user-gf3np2ut9n
      @user-gf3np2ut9n Před 6 měsíci +4

      This commenter plagiarized a passage in the library of babel, I found it!

    • @FlyinggMushroom
      @FlyinggMushroom Před 5 měsíci +1

      And you always learn something new

    • @CyberSH0GUN_
      @CyberSH0GUN_ Před měsícem

      Me too now.

  • @Dimmiiee
    @Dimmiiee Před 3 lety +3423

    Humans: Hello! We existed!
    Aliens: lol didnt ask

  • @incendium2239
    @incendium2239 Před rokem +42

    the library of babel is so unnerving. I’m a writer, and I’m able to find entire paragraphs of my own writing that has already existed untouched for years.

    • @zamira9642
      @zamira9642 Před 2 měsíci +1

      How do I find babel

    • @pervenchemusic
      @pervenchemusic Před měsícem

      @@zamira9642search library of babel on google

    • @majorse203
      @majorse203 Před měsícem

      ​@@zamira9642There are always links in the video's description.

    • @zamira9642
      @zamira9642 Před 29 dny

      ​@@majorse203ok

    • @zamira9642
      @zamira9642 Před 11 dny

      @@majorse203 ok

  • @jigglybones3318
    @jigglybones3318 Před rokem +71

    Every time I think about all the messages and gifts we've sent out into the Universe, I get emotional. I just imagine them traveling for lightyears and lightyears, and maybe one day arriving into the curious arms of an alien civilization who, just like us, always wondered if they were alone. And then I imagine them, excitedly, exhaustedly, trying to decipher what we've written. Decoding the instructions on the record case. Putting the record on, and hearing us. Maybe not knowing exactly what they are about to experience. But then the first sounds come through and it thrills them. Our voices, and our music and our greetings. Despite the language barrier, I can't imagine how beautiful it would be to hear such a thing after dreaming of it for so long. It is a little bittersweet, though. After translating all the information on the items, they sit back, full of wonder and excitement, and yet full of sorrow. Because they know exactly how far away these beings are from them now. They are listening to a time capsule. The thought of this has always made me cry.

    • @CyberSH0GUN_
      @CyberSH0GUN_ Před měsícem +7

      Truly man.i hope we live to at least see something.....or......the future to see.

  • @yoobeepbeep8010
    @yoobeepbeep8010 Před 3 lety +3226

    *Message successfully receive by the aliens*
    Aliens: its fake.

    • @unoriginalclips9923
      @unoriginalclips9923 Před 3 lety +159

      Yeah man, this gold record is totally some photoshopped shit

    • @PeterPlaysgamez
      @PeterPlaysgamez Před 3 lety +69

      Wait what if its from the gods

    • @flintmidnight
      @flintmidnight Před 3 lety +24

      @@PeterPlaysgamez hmm. I dont think gods make disk that's from VulKendun

    • @contytub
      @contytub Před 3 lety +5

      Bahahaha so true

    • @PeterPlaysgamez
      @PeterPlaysgamez Před 3 lety +29

      @@flintmidnight gold mean god I'm a cave alien unga bunga

  • @vlopez078
    @vlopez078 Před 7 lety +2214

    I get so frustrated watching this knowing we'll never live long enough to find out any of these answers

    • @v3g499
      @v3g499 Před 7 lety +11

      In VTEC We Trust exactly 😖

    • @Dcook85
      @Dcook85 Před 7 lety +11

      With currently possible technology, any exploration of "outer" space (for other habitable planets) will only be possible thousands of years after life on earth is no longer possible. Because anything we send up now or in the future to explore it, will only get there long after humanity, and possibly Earth, is dead. How's that one for you?

    • @ethanmichiels5870
      @ethanmichiels5870 Před 7 lety +1

      Tregeta What's with the quotations?

    • @Dcook85
      @Dcook85 Před 7 lety +10

      Ethan Michiels Because "outer" is a completely relative term in our human perspective from earth and our local solar system. If you were in the Andromeda galaxy, our solar system is "outer" space.

    • @discordant8543
      @discordant8543 Před 7 lety

      Dig a hole

  • @MrWinotu
    @MrWinotu Před 16 dny +6

    As a tenager I used to watch these amazing scientific vidoes from Michael - Vsause... Now my Son is watching. He is only 11 yrs old. Continue great master! The science is within us.

  • @OfentseMwaseFilms
    @OfentseMwaseFilms Před 17 dny +2

    I don'r understand how Michael made such amazing videos a Decade ago!

  • @devasc8958
    @devasc8958 Před 4 lety +9620

    They respond with “sorry i have a boyfriend “

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Před 4 lety +17095

    Imagine if the aliens sent us a message back, saying "lol"

  • @tenzinsmith7991
    @tenzinsmith7991 Před 6 měsíci +14

    This is one of Vsauce’s greatest moments. And “Olive” by Jake Chudnow is one of the most dizzyingly profound pieces of music I’ve ever heard. It’s as simple and unpretentious as it is beautiful and existential, just as these videos are.

  • @bergg1683
    @bergg1683 Před rokem +11

    Long time subscriber. Long before i even had this particular profile. Watching your videos through the years has entertained and altered my life and perspectives. Thank you Michael. Thank you Vsauce.

  • @kshitijmehta5965
    @kshitijmehta5965 Před 4 lety +6836

    Someday these messages will be on the "Top 10 unsolved mysteries" of some alien civilization

    • @AXharoth
      @AXharoth Před 4 lety +349

      on alien youtube

    • @michaelmorales1602
      @michaelmorales1602 Před 4 lety +163

      This comment got me fucked up

    • @raxusveritas
      @raxusveritas Před 4 lety +276

      #10: A Radioactive Golden Frisbee

    • @LManChannel
      @LManChannel Před 4 lety +60

      we invented numbers so there would not be 10 at all :OO

    • @raxusveritas
      @raxusveritas Před 4 lety +169

      @@LManChannel numbers were invented by math companies to sell more calculators

  • @uninoob4819
    @uninoob4819 Před 3 lety +3676

    In thousand of years there will be a video in alientube called: The mystery of the golden disk

    • @seanderobillard5765
      @seanderobillard5765 Před 3 lety +122

      It will be in millions of years and called "0$88@/jjdl sksko9 ?++)#/kkdpsllwm ¥]%}\k(\∆×jj"

    • @damoo9336
      @damoo9336 Před 3 lety +140

      Carl Sagan: "Let's send them 10 hours of ambient space music".

    • @IamACrafter
      @IamACrafter Před 3 lety +138

      And also video like: I found Golden Disk in CRAFTMINE at 3pm!!!! (SCARY)

    • @Ben-ig3bf
      @Ben-ig3bf Před 3 lety +36

      By bsauce

    • @The_Qu
      @The_Qu Před 3 lety +12

      Good joke xD
      But it s billions or millions ;)
      but nice one

  • @michaeledes1111
    @michaeledes1111 Před 6 měsíci +10

    This episode, much like Our Narrow Slice, is actually LIFE CHANGING. I first watched this years ago, and it immediately (and permanently) made Vsauce my favorite CZcamsr of all time. I rewatch this one every few months. It is such a grand source of inspiration for me, on an emotional level that makes my eyes swell every single time. This video is the purest form of artwork you'll find on CZcams. Thank you, Michael.

  • @lowellhawk9299
    @lowellhawk9299 Před 3 lety +1587

    _"Your future has already been written, it just hasn't been found"_

    • @generaltullius4511
      @generaltullius4511 Před 3 lety +49

      r/im14andthisisdeep

    • @jamiewalker8131
      @jamiewalker8131 Před 3 lety +5

      Bullshit

    • @TaoistSwordsman
      @TaoistSwordsman Před 3 lety +17

      @@jamiewalker8131 Look up what you just did in the library of babyl. It's literally there. This isn't a metaphor any more, someone designed a program to make it literally so

    • @michael2001isepic
      @michael2001isepic Před 3 lety +5

      wouldn’t this be evidence for determinism? (determinism v free will debate)

    • @estellepat6434
      @estellepat6434 Před 3 lety

      That's a nice quote

  • @TheFunnyBone5
    @TheFunnyBone5 Před 3 lety +12526

    This is an absolutely classic CZcams video that should be in a museum

  • @moondustberries8171
    @moondustberries8171 Před rokem +8

    coming back to this video once a year just for my mental health. it’s been 7 years already..

  • @priyauttam2638
    @priyauttam2638 Před rokem +6

    I've watched this video thrice so far and it stirred something in me the first time I watched it. What it stirred hasn't been quenched. That's why I keep coming back to feel more and more of this feeling. Need more of this. ❤

  • @BlaiyND
    @BlaiyND Před 4 lety +8239

    I entered with curiosity.
    I left with an existential crisis.
    I need more.

    • @drakenpage6776
      @drakenpage6776 Před 4 lety +75

      What if the world died and we all died
      1. We would all OOF
      2. BOMB CARS

    • @BlaiyND
      @BlaiyND Před 4 lety +77

      @@drakenpage6776 I hate getting political, but what the fuck is a platypus

    • @BlaiyND
      @BlaiyND Před 4 lety +13

      @@jamierafferty8213 I need to go to Ireland at some point lol

    • @josephvoskuhl878
      @josephvoskuhl878 Před 4 lety +9

      Infectious Sheep
      Welcome to Vsauce...

    • @jamesluong5898
      @jamesluong5898 Před 4 lety +16

      what if they use the information we gave them to plan an invasion?

  • @DaminRSW
    @DaminRSW Před 3 lety +1797

    "Remember us. Remember that we once lived."

  • @SerialDesignationQ
    @SerialDesignationQ Před 21 dnem +2

    the thought of all this made me really teary for some reason

  • @meixizou86
    @meixizou86 Před rokem +2

    This was uploaded 7 years ago. And yet, among other yt channels explaining things like this, Vsauce is still the best on elaborating it using his unique visual aids, and this doesn't stop me from coming back here even this video and other vsauce videos were old already.

  • @m3m3soz81
    @m3m3soz81 Před 3 lety +3199

    It's hard to think that this might be humanity's "hello", but also its "goodbye"

    • @Bell-ih5ln
      @Bell-ih5ln Před 3 lety +25

      @@Ryu0526 no one asked

    • @blerimkuqo3321
      @blerimkuqo3321 Před 3 lety +18

      @@Bell-ih5ln chill lol

    • @Bell-ih5ln
      @Bell-ih5ln Před 3 lety +3

      @@blerimkuqo3321 mah bad but I think this ain’t true

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před 3 lety +46

      ...We are attempting to survive our time so that we could live into yours... Deep.

    • @JamesV1
      @JamesV1 Před 3 lety

      @@Ryu0526 scientifically impossible but ok

  • @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access
    @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access Před 4 lety +3488

    We put uranium in the disk, lol what if the aliens are like extremely susceptible to radiation and we just like gave them all cancer

    • @kingchicken8232
      @kingchicken8232 Před 4 lety +392

      And then it causes some kind of worldwide problem and now the aliens are being attacked by aliens

    • @adeliew4230
      @adeliew4230 Před 4 lety +60

      Oof

    • @skapadabna
      @skapadabna Před 4 lety +39

      KingChicken just give them more cancer

    •  Před 4 lety +30

      That would make it more LEGENDARY

    • @brandonmathis1892
      @brandonmathis1892 Před 4 lety +207

      Then we just pranked an entire civilization

  • @killerfrizzbee
    @killerfrizzbee Před rokem +4

    WOW, this is so awesome. Vsauce as really over reached my expectations in this vid. The library at the end was mind blowing !! Good job guys. Keep it coming !!

  • @Bue2
    @Bue2 Před 8 měsíci +4

    We could argue there are 12 objects. 5 probes, 4 boosters, 2 weights, and one manhole cover.

  • @williambutcher7429
    @williambutcher7429 Před 3 lety +3658

    “Hello, we existed!”
    Aliens: what am I supposed to do with this information.

    • @esshyy
      @esshyy Před 3 lety +18

      @GT Animations well said

    • @shartgore
      @shartgore Před 3 lety +268

      @GT Animations Unrelated, but imagine if aliens exist, did something similar like us, their shit crashed on earth, found by the cavemen and destroyed.
      If so that would be fucking hilarious and sad

    • @LiamC328
      @LiamC328 Před 2 lety +21

      @@shartgore if it's unrelated, why not post your own fvcking comment?

    • @mangaprofilepicture5820
      @mangaprofilepicture5820 Před 2 lety +107

      @@LiamC328 who cares

    • @velporas
      @velporas Před 2 lety +12

      Then they will know that there are life on the outer space?

  • @MrNottyNotty
    @MrNottyNotty Před 8 lety +16673

    I always feel like I've learnt something from this channel, but I have no idea how to explain it to somebody else

    • @udittlamba
      @udittlamba Před 8 lety +595

      You would need some weed to assist you.

    • @otadota8256
      @otadota8256 Před 8 lety +145

      +Stephen Quinn Show them the video maybe

    • @MineSombra
      @MineSombra Před 8 lety +444

      +ota dota Then you wouldn't look as clever.

    • @mazyzeamazing2396
      @mazyzeamazing2396 Před 8 lety +25

      same

    • @judesh9827
      @judesh9827 Před 8 lety +397

      Don't bother, whatever you think of will already have been said in the library of babel

  • @hipeopleidkwhatisgoingon
    @hipeopleidkwhatisgoingon Před rokem +40

    another concern is if we ever get in contact with aliens, is will they speak in a frequency that we can hear?

    • @thomusroye5667
      @thomusroye5667 Před rokem +17

      will they speak is a better question in my opinion

    • @bigmacchicken9682
      @bigmacchicken9682 Před rokem +3

      ​@@thomusroye5667will they communicate at all ?

    • @thomusroye5667
      @thomusroye5667 Před rokem +1

      @@bigmacchicken9682 Well if they are worth contacting then yes

    • @MemekingJag
      @MemekingJag Před rokem +3

      Aliens arrive, but only dogs can hear them 😢

    • @Ant1ev0
      @Ant1ev0 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Will they even be carbon based? Or Silicon based?

  • @elnidax_5081
    @elnidax_5081 Před 5 měsíci +3

    I always come back to this specific episode, this episode of vsauce is insanely special probably the best vsauce episode ever

  • @judebox1185
    @judebox1185 Před 7 lety +4645

    All these comments are unoriginal, I found them in the library of babel before this video was posted

    • @TheOrangeMamba
      @TheOrangeMamba Před 6 lety +265

      well what you posted was also in the library of babel as well

    • @shai4619
      @shai4619 Před 6 lety +155

      And yours too, as well, as mine.

    • @jono_high
      @jono_high Před 6 lety +140

      jx.okzduzwxall these comments are unoriginal, i found them in
      the library of babel before this video was postedqsxegettldggbtzv,nofalgqtyfssy
      ql q.xfrncgabrwzfaght,ukwlhnwvci.

    • @Ianin964
      @Ianin964 Před 6 lety +33

      not this one :P

    • @bubblewraposaurusrex1866
      @bubblewraposaurusrex1866 Před 6 lety +20

      correct

  • @mario-ek9bj
    @mario-ek9bj Před 3 lety +2640

    Aliens arriving in 8 million years: *”Hey sorry I’m late I just got your message my phone has been acting up lately I think it’s because of the new iOS upda-“*
    *Earth is a barren wasteland*
    Aliens: *”Well shit.”*

    • @Sea_Leech
      @Sea_Leech Před 3 lety +1

      Exurb1a

    • @Casual2020Enjoyer
      @Casual2020Enjoyer Před 3 lety +4

      But Aliens don’t know what curse words are

    • @lawscriteria
      @lawscriteria Před 3 lety

      Lame

    • @sergeantsnicker9657
      @sergeantsnicker9657 Před 3 lety +5

      Sr Asshole tbh I highly doubt we’ll be gone in like 5-12 years, it’s not true because there’s no possible events in space, global warming won’t kill us until like 1 million years, unless humans create some thing to kill us faster then nah

    • @craftergaming392
      @craftergaming392 Před 3 lety +1

      @Sr Asshole oh.... U know that too....

  • @AllyFaye-tl6wm
    @AllyFaye-tl6wm Před 7 měsíci +4

    This is still my favorite Vsauce video because of how serious and touching it is.

  • @Doodleonvr
    @Doodleonvr Před měsícem +4

    This video got recommended to me 8 years later

  • @sandmastermaster
    @sandmastermaster Před 7 lety +1736

    Would be fucking trippy if aliens sent us the same instructions.

    • @weall1208
      @weall1208 Před 7 lety +169

      "Yo people, we kinda got rekt by an asteroid heres sum of our technology"

    • @ignemuton5500
      @ignemuton5500 Před 7 lety +85

      it would be a great sign, it would mean that those life forms probably have the same understanding that we have, it also means that they thought about the universe at a similar ways.

    • @someabandonedaccount4827
      @someabandonedaccount4827 Před 7 lety

      Jesse Meyer T r I p P y

    • @whodis375
      @whodis375 Před 7 lety +7

      Nice! Aliens That understands English

    • @sandmastermaster
      @sandmastermaster Před 7 lety +1

      Pepe Meister what

  • @nanakirima3711
    @nanakirima3711 Před 4 lety +1882

    Imagine, somehow, these disks land on a planet inhabited by still *UNINTELLIGENT* humanoid life forms and they get used as like, plates for eating dinner on.

    • @doctorballs8309
      @doctorballs8309 Před 4 lety +183

      Lawrence I was thinking that too, what if they intercept it and melt the whole thing down for resources?

    • @achinthajayasekera2788
      @achinthajayasekera2788 Před 4 lety +90

      Like an interstellar version of "Gods must be crazy"

    • @piggzieswrath
      @piggzieswrath Před 4 lety +1

      Bahahahaahhaaaa

    • @autismriley5025
      @autismriley5025 Před 4 lety +129

      What if they evolve over millions of years learning and growing and eventually set to the starts and find us. They approach and speak all languages and tell us how we are like a god to them and how their society is based on what the disks told them.

    • @testacctestacc5725
      @testacctestacc5725 Před 4 lety +68

      Or they worship the disks lol

  • @SlavicDragovtev
    @SlavicDragovtev Před rokem +9

    I tend to keep toggling the like button on and off every time I rewatch these. What a story teller you are, Michael!

  • @donit.
    @donit. Před rokem +3

    Why dont we just send them this video?

  • @_username
    @_username Před 3 lety +1757

    Us: "Hello, life from beyond. we are here, we existed, we are dead, we were here."
    Aliens: "lmao wtf is this"

  • @Techfieldspaceguy
    @Techfieldspaceguy Před 3 lety +4583

    Imagine this was found by alien with 60 iq and he used it as frisbee instead

    • @muhammadusmanrafique3517
      @muhammadusmanrafique3517 Před 3 lety +42

      @Professor Weaboo uhhhhh OK

    • @thesmokingburrito9097
      @thesmokingburrito9097 Před 3 lety +53

      Both disks found at an alien campground, in a bushel basket, on a frisbee golf course?

    • @zevailes
      @zevailes Před 3 lety +97

      @Professor Weaboo Are you alive or did the Aliens get you.

    • @salinasamaroo1537
      @salinasamaroo1537 Před 3 lety +60

      Imagine Aliens were controlling the milky way and we died and they said "Aw how cute, they tried to contact us"
      I would be pretty disappointed in humanity.

    • @brycegerardj.detomas6629
      @brycegerardj.detomas6629 Před 3 lety +33

      @@zevailes I think he's dead. rip

  • @vibeymonk
    @vibeymonk Před rokem +10

    7 years ago and I thought this was from 2010-12 and realised it was actually from 2016 weird

  • @gynryo8420
    @gynryo8420 Před rokem +3

    The library of babel thing reminds me of the movie, Arrival. Its like that alien language that when you understand it, you realized everything was already laid down, waiting to happen.

  • @Mudye
    @Mudye Před 5 lety +10642

    Alien 1: “hey look, I just found this golden frisbee!”
    Alien 2: “No, throw it away. It’s scratched and ugly.”
    Alien 3: 🤨

    • @kavinsp
      @kavinsp Před 5 lety +286

      This comment deserves atleast 10k thumbs up

    • @oldarchival308
      @oldarchival308 Před 5 lety +77

      Ooooooof

    • @blink-df1eo
      @blink-df1eo Před 5 lety +70

      OOOOOoooooof

    • @axelramirez9074
      @axelramirez9074 Před 5 lety +154

      the moon man OOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooOooooooooooOOooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooFfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

    • @harlemsha
      @harlemsha Před 5 lety +70

      Yea tht was tough.

  • @dolphman85
    @dolphman85 Před 3 lety +1631

    Earth: “Hello? Is anyone there?”
    Aliens: swiped left

  • @yorick9874
    @yorick9874 Před 2 měsíci +7

    i just realized that the library of babel has exact instructions on how to make a hydrogen bomb somewhere in a book

    • @tuureluotonen1631
      @tuureluotonen1631 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Information on how to make one isn't hard to find, it's getting the materials that's the hard part.

    • @subject8332
      @subject8332 Před měsícem

      @@tuureluotonen1631Easy, just look up in the library where to get them easily!

  • @diegonadabcelestra7330
    @diegonadabcelestra7330 Před 8 měsíci +4

    0:38 Correction, the first ever image from the voyager 1

  • @KimJongUn_DPRK
    @KimJongUn_DPRK Před 4 lety +3439

    “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    -Arthur C. Clarke

    • @agasttyadixit09
      @agasttyadixit09 Před 4 lety +106

      Please stop using this phrase in every Voyager spacecraft video

    • @mazinfaris2284
      @mazinfaris2284 Před 4 lety +74

      Only one is terrifying , the other is only terrifying because of humans . Who says that the aliens out there are not morally superior to us

    • @suborgtfo.4433
      @suborgtfo.4433 Před 4 lety +24

      @@mazinfaris2284 boi stfu, think about it, it's actually really scary..

    • @mazinfaris2284
      @mazinfaris2284 Před 4 lety +43

      @@suborgtfo.4433 wha? Did you even understand what I said dude ? If we're alone then that's terrifying and it's a statistical impossibility, aliens would not be scary because they might be morally superior to us , or not , I'm just saying that statement is like saying there's two foods pizza or ice cream , there's a lot in between

    • @yomamasfuckboy6893
      @yomamasfuckboy6893 Před 4 lety +13

      @@suborgtfo.4433 Bruh , we live on a fucking infinite universo at least 1 fucking planet have forms of Life, and maybe , just MAYBE , more advanced than US and have an Technology That can travel the space quicker than us, or something like

  • @jackson_skeletal_system
    @jackson_skeletal_system Před 7 měsíci +2

    this is the most existential crisis inducing video of all time and i love it (partly because i love space and the voyager probes and the concept of aliens)
    also what song did he use near the end and at the end/outro?

    • @davidicke2415
      @davidicke2415 Před 6 měsíci

      I completely agree, I literally cried at the end of this one.
      Also the outro is "Olive" by Jake Chudnow - (a link to the song) czcams.com/video/3QQS8fJqXoI/video.htmlsi=zlO7r7tI8ZGt52rN

  • @MrSmileyFaceGames
    @MrSmileyFaceGames Před 11 měsíci +1

    The quote you said that was found in the library of babel has changed its location. It is no longer found in that hexagon, on that wall, in that shelf, in that volume, on that page. It's now found in a different hexagon, on a different wall, in a different shelf, in different volume, on a different page.

    • @nickwest_acoustic
      @nickwest_acoustic Před 11 měsíci +1

      Essentially proving that they are full of crap lol. All it does is just randomly generate a “location”.
      But as you said the location changes each time so it’s not amazing at all

  • @Deo_xx
    @Deo_xx Před rokem +14

    It's my 8th time watching this vid, there's just something so tragically beautiful about how fragile our existence is, and how lonely we truly are.

  • @tibbies1807
    @tibbies1807 Před 7 lety +1407

    this is one of vsauce's best videos tbh

    • @blackkiwi4204
      @blackkiwi4204 Před 7 lety +7

      Montresal Can you recommend me some of his other great videos? They are all good but this gives me a mindfuck like no other

    • @sanderhfl
      @sanderhfl Před 7 lety +4

      I agree with you on that!

    • @RedsBoneStuff
      @RedsBoneStuff Před 7 lety +19

      I still remember, and treasure, the day this video was made.

    • @envin6997
      @envin6997 Před 7 lety +6

      What will we miss? and Spooky Coincidences too.

    • @moqqy
      @moqqy Před 7 lety +9

      TOP 5 Vsauce videos:
      1.Messages For The Future
      2.The Banach-Tarski Paradox
      3.juvenoia
      4.Are we ready for aleins
      5.What is the speed of dark
      Keep in mind that every single Vsauce video is treasure gold. But these 5 videos are absolutely fuckin amazing.

  • @mactruccsmacktruck1176
    @mactruccsmacktruck1176 Před 8 lety +4326

    Born to late to explore the world, born to early to explore the galaxy, born just in time to explore -language- dank memes

    • @alexr6705
      @alexr6705 Před 8 lety +34

      Born just in time for experimental human statis freeze.

    • @indoorkite651
      @indoorkite651 Před 8 lety +8

      +xXXx illuminati xXXx Born from the womb of Stalin.

    • @alexr6705
      @alexr6705 Před 8 lety +2

      Indoor Kite born just in time for it to be weird Russian dancing men

    • @indoorkite651
      @indoorkite651 Před 8 lety +10

      They are tradition, to the Gulags with you.

    • @mactruccsmacktruck1176
      @mactruccsmacktruck1176 Před 8 lety +10

      born just in time to listen to chief keef and waka flocka

  •  Před 2 měsíci +4

    2024 still the best explanation about the plaques

  • @jasonjoyner1834
    @jasonjoyner1834 Před rokem +3

    The music in the last minutes of this is outstanding.

  • @SmartK8
    @SmartK8 Před 5 lety +1703

    Alien 1: Look at this drawing.. so alien. *Shows weird circle "units" with lines inside*
    Alien 2: What did you expect? That they will speak English like we do?

  • @nour6789
    @nour6789 Před 4 lety +2936

    Imagin an alien vsause talking about earth and how great were humans.

  • @Staralium
    @Staralium Před 8 měsíci +3

    One of my favourite vsauce videos ever

  • @ElectroIsMyReligion
    @ElectroIsMyReligion Před 5 měsíci +5

    Still To this day one of the biggest testaments to CZcams videos being art. Thought-provoking, terrifying and deeply moving.. No wonder Michael spell-bounded and inspired an entire generation of young kids to the world of science and the joy of curiosity!

  • @algirdasmackevicius2200
    @algirdasmackevicius2200 Před 4 lety +2719

    What if aliens already sent out a message 25000 years ago and we about to receive it

    • @M16music69
      @M16music69 Před 4 lety +135

      We would shoot it down like in the movie independence day resurgence

    • @zacharyvangrack5424
      @zacharyvangrack5424 Před 4 lety +61

      Well he implied that that message from aliens would be as a response to the message that we sent out only 45 years ago, meaning that, if there is intelligent life there, we'd be receiving that message approximately 50000 years from 1974

    • @tishaflorence1009
      @tishaflorence1009 Před 4 lety +65

      @@zacharyvangrack5424 well no because if there are aliens they could have sent a message 25000 years ago

    • @goose_memes
      @goose_memes Před 4 lety +102

      Imagine we were in 1846 and we had no technoligy to recive the signal and it then goes back into space (sry for my bad english im from germany lul)

    • @ImNotAFurryBro
      @ImNotAFurryBro Před 4 lety +1

      Mewduifhi :0

  • @ber2996
    @ber2996 Před 4 lety +2859

    **Somewhere on a far intergalactic civilization's youtube**
    Top 10 Mysteries Still Yet to Solve
    Number 1: The golden disk found in space.

    • @anomaly6709
      @anomaly6709 Před 4 lety +57

      Top Ten Mojo 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Drekromancer
      @Drekromancer Před 4 lety +85

      Real talk: the Voyager disk is supposed to be a culmination of human scientific knowledge, but it looks and feels like a library of arcane secrets. It's chock full of plot hooks for a fascinating science fiction story. Just imagine the story of a young boy on an alien world that one day discovered the Voyager disk.

    • @Drekromancer
      @Drekromancer Před 4 lety +45

      It would be like the cryptic map from Treasure Planet. The child would be launched into an adventure full of wonder and mystery. Maybe the aliens have a lot of problems on their planet, just like us. Maybe they haven't discovered anyone else yet, either. And maybe, just maybe, that boy becomes the bridge between two worlds. I'd love to read that book.

    • @logsupermulti3921
      @logsupermulti3921 Před 4 lety +32

      @@Drekromancer I remember a short story titled Pots where aliens find the Voyager disk and after finally decoding the disk and locating Earth they arrive only to find we had wiped ourselves out and the bulk of the story of them sifting through what little remains trying to understand who we were and why we would do this to ourselves. A very good story, if a somber one.

    • @daddydoc1115
      @daddydoc1115 Před 4 lety +14

      Every alien high school kid is like "yeah thats bullshit theres no such thing:

  • @Dreamsarefragile
    @Dreamsarefragile Před rokem +2

    This is a capstone of youtube, I keep retuning every few years to watch it.

  • @gilou006
    @gilou006 Před 4 měsíci +3

    The library exists only in our minds. In fact, it is only a crude software encryption, a randomiser and “hidden data” in the URL
    Here is a very short demonstration.
    “My name is John” will be in room ‘M’, shelf ‘y’ , book ‘ ‘ (“My ”), extra 'hidden data' appears in the URL as “name is John”.
    Since this is too obvious to the naked eye, you add an encryption, throw some random text around the initial sentence, example :
    1/ add random text around “dfjk fsdhk feh My name is John dsfj dsfjsd”
    2/ encrypt. The encryption could be as light as rot13 (a shift of 13 letters in the alphabetical order is enough to hide the trick).
    With rot 13 encryption, the sentence becomes ‘qswx sfqux sru Zl anzr vf Wbua qfsw qfswfq’
    Which is now room q, shelf s, book w, “hidden” data in URL is ’sfqux sru Zl anzr vf Wbua qfsw qfswfq’
    This process is totally reversible, meaning that from the room, shelf, book and "hidden" data, you can print again the original text.
    There you go, you have recreated the fake Library of Babel this video talks about.

    • @becker1264
      @becker1264 Před měsícem

      any proof?

    • @gilou006
      @gilou006 Před měsícem

      If a demonstration is not enough for you, what do you need ? A web site coded by me that reproduce this ?

    • @becker1264
      @becker1264 Před měsícem

      @@gilou006 you have not proven anything, just provided an example of how to create a fake Version. The original works different

    • @gilou006
      @gilou006 Před měsícem

      I believe I debunked properly. Prove that what I said is wrong since you like proofs.

    • @becker1264
      @becker1264 Před měsícem

      @@gilou006are you trolling? You did not debunk anything, you just gave another option. You claim its fake, then its your job to prove. Otherwise you just look like an idiot spouting nonsense

  • @notmanao.0
    @notmanao.0 Před 3 lety +2336

    Imagine Aliens be like why didn't they just write in English

    • @nastystang113
      @nastystang113 Před 3 lety +157

      No you would not die literally.

    • @daanbos5918
      @daanbos5918 Před 3 lety +5

      bruh

    • @reaperx7026
      @reaperx7026 Před 3 lety +53

      @@nastystang113 I would i would instantly die

    • @sunkissed_stars934
      @sunkissed_stars934 Před 3 lety +75

      nastystang113 well.... technically-
      You could die literally if you end up laughing so much to the point where your lungs are to busy laughing you couldn’t be able to consume oxygen, or at least not enough to make your brain function properly. And that causing your brain not being able to have full control over your heart making your blood flow stop suddenly. Creating this sudden stop will most likely give an end to a life. So yes. You can die literally :D
      I tried so hard to make this seem complicated

    • @KNG-fm1kj
      @KNG-fm1kj Před 3 lety +30

      @@sunkissed_stars934 this was so unecessary 😭

  • @ewing5314
    @ewing5314 Před 3 lety +3068

    So you could technically find the best book you'll ever read randomly generated on the library of babel

    • @a.w.s.9227
      @a.w.s.9227 Před 3 lety +38

      Interesting you bring up babel.....

    • @a.w.s.9227
      @a.w.s.9227 Před 3 lety +3

      @DOUG SMITH exactly

    • @aiden359
      @aiden359 Před 3 lety +71

      Yeah if your book is like a paragraph long or less

    • @TheMapGod275
      @TheMapGod275 Před 3 lety +39

      Title: pixiqxynw.pagt.ww Page: 69
      Location: 1wf76f37wab7ycow5n41c23t69n2ngoiem4ana2wedxtp8n4p1...-w1-s3-v23
      Search that. I found a new way to comment.

    • @GrumpyOrangeCat
      @GrumpyOrangeCat Před 3 lety +19

      @@ewingoat OMFG i swear if this is a rick roll

  • @tetratoric
    @tetratoric Před rokem +2

    When it comes down to it, this is by far my favorite Vsauce video.

  • @fire4036
    @fire4036 Před 9 měsíci +7

    8:46 "safe from discord" lol

  • @redpanda9367
    @redpanda9367 Před 3 lety +1714

    5 years later and I’m still shocked at the number of tabs you have open.

    • @kreativernickname4031
      @kreativernickname4031 Před 3 lety +31

      My parents be like:

    • @Alex-02
      @Alex-02 Před 3 lety +87

      20:35

    • @Sidoxenized
      @Sidoxenized Před 2 lety +4

      @@Alex-02 omg hahahaha

    • @Mitch6080
      @Mitch6080 Před 2 lety +2

      6 years later and I’m still shocked at the number of tabs he has open.

    • @BBwal
      @BBwal Před rokem +1

      ​@@Mitch6080 6years and 6months now

  • @lShowSpeed
    @lShowSpeed Před 3 lety +2293

    Vsauce: 8 millions years ago humans didnt even exist-
    Queen Elizabeth: what

  • @The_Top_J
    @The_Top_J Před rokem +15

    Each time I watch Vsauce I become more present about life in a way, and become a bit stressed about…well, everything. Humans, earth, life, the universe, aliens, physics, "messages to the future", and so on…It’s a great, but a scary feeling. If you understand what I mean.

    • @DavesRange
      @DavesRange Před 4 měsíci

      Wow. I become less stressed about everything. Why does it cause stress for you?

  • @L4T3_
    @L4T3_ Před 10 měsíci +5

    I swear i leave Vsauce videos with more questions than answers every time…

  • @Vsauce
    @Vsauce  Před 8 lety +4213

    The New Horizons probe is carrying a CD-ROM with the names of 434,738 people who participated in a “Send Your Name to Pluto” campaign. It's also carrying a portion of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.

    • @six12it47
      @six12it47 Před 8 lety +14

      any DONGS coming soon?

    • @sanda1859
      @sanda1859 Před 8 lety +1

      8mins ago!?!

    • @kentburns
      @kentburns Před 8 lety +2

      Hi Mr. Genius

    • @mindyhudson3048
      @mindyhudson3048 Před 8 lety +16

      Funny you uploaded this on 9/23/2015 when there's so many conspiracy theories that the world will end today, me thinks you listen to conspiracies Michael?

    • @sydney6598
      @sydney6598 Před 8 lety +34

      Have you done a video on the science of embarrassment? If you haven't, will you please? Like why do I randomly remember embarrassing things that I did long ago and cringe?

  • @acida965
    @acida965 Před 3 lety +6965

    imagine a radio station decided to play ‘never gonna give you up’ and the aliens received it 1000 years later

  • @adamant8435
    @adamant8435 Před 10 měsíci +3

    1:22 I don't know why but I found this incredibly touching. Michael has this online persona of a crazy cult leader but I like to imagine he's a really sweet guy off camera

  • @guylikei6357
    @guylikei6357 Před rokem +1

    What I love about v sauce videos is how you don’t understand the thumbnail at first, but after the video it makes sense.

  • @CPmuddle27
    @CPmuddle27 Před 8 lety +1173

    I wish there was a school where Vsauce was my science teacher and Jacksfilms was my english teacher

    • @chrisbanas9118
      @chrisbanas9118 Před 8 lety +146

      And Morgan freeman taught public speaking

    • @andrewcromwell2917
      @andrewcromwell2917 Před 8 lety +23

      I could not agree even more lol that's an amazing idea I applaud you

    • @DaekoTan
      @DaekoTan Před 8 lety +69

      And Numberphile taught maths.

    • @unomikoshari2632
      @unomikoshari2632 Před 8 lety +5

      +CPmuddle27 That's funny. I was jsut watching Jacksfilms.

    • @boonville3
      @boonville3 Před 8 lety +36

      and crash course was history

  • @campa_t
    @campa_t Před 3 lety +1485

    english speaking aliens trying to interpret our plaques: wtf

    • @a.p1383
      @a.p1383 Před 3 lety +7

      Tommaso Campanile lmaoo

    • @henryg9059
      @henryg9059 Před 3 lety +6

      😂😂

    • @nishant915
      @nishant915 Před 3 lety +15

      I believe the premise was to show how language is not inherited but either made or interpreted. That's what humans did, that's what any other life form does or can do, limited only by the level of thinking. Meaning higher life forms with greater and more developed level of thinking can do it faster than the others. In either way, yes, aliens can understand without being 'English speaking'.

    • @henryg9059
      @henryg9059 Před 3 lety +16

      nishant kumar it was a joke

    • @misterdinner3648
      @misterdinner3648 Před 3 lety +3

      But imagine that though, the conditions for life to evolve in the way it did on earth are very specific and fragile, for all we know all intelligent life in the universe could look and act similarly to us.

  • @briansrandomstuff411
    @briansrandomstuff411 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Try to find a hexagon code that contains it's own code.
    *Doesn't matter regardless of which volume, shelf or wall it's located.

  • @angeldraws9194
    @angeldraws9194 Před rokem +6

    Imagine if we found something like this and were able to get it back to earth, understand it and share it with the world. It’d be a time to be alive

  • @allotheabove123
    @allotheabove123 Před 8 lety +2210

    22 minutes of Vsauce is exactly what i needed right now

  • @joao.ribeiro
    @joao.ribeiro Před 4 lety +2496

    I come back to this video every once in a while. The library of babel segment always gives me chills

    • @indyjacksontt4440
      @indyjacksontt4440 Před 4 lety +174

      Well, the meaning of the universe is in there somewhere, and so are the instructions to build a lightsaber.

    • @notkingali1798
      @notkingali1798 Před 4 lety +43

      Imagine some weird thing happens and all things humans created on earth gets destroyed except for Vsauce videos and millions of years later aliens come to earth and find his videos. What do you think they will say and think???

    • @BUSHCRAPPING
      @BUSHCRAPPING Před 4 lety +25

      @@indyjacksontt4440 it feels like it cant be true but it is.

    • @stuartwelch5372
      @stuartwelch5372 Před 4 lety +52

      I looked...
      This reminds me of a comment from The Hitcher's Guide to the Galaxy...
      "If you give an infinite number of chimps tapping away on an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time. One of them will produce the script for Romeo and Juliet"
      If you research what you just searched for, and add a word that is next to what it found, it will find your text in a different location.

    • @cryptacity2341
      @cryptacity2341 Před 4 lety +33

      Stuart Welch the difference with the infinite chimp scenario is that not only will you find the entire Romeo and Juliet script once, but an infinite amount of times because that’s how infinity works. with the library, the contents are fundamentally limited because it uses a finite number of symbols to create a finite amount of combinations. this doesn’t really add anything to the conversation but it’s an interesting distinction i think.

  • @meguminekochan
    @meguminekochan Před rokem +1

    a huge wave of emotions just hit my body, mind, heart, soul and spirit

  • @gregre99
    @gregre99 Před 9 měsíci +1

    The message made me tear up, I love this planet so much

  • @capo9k
    @capo9k Před 4 lety +423

    Alien: *recieves message*
    Alien: *leaves on read*

  • @j_lcb4626
    @j_lcb4626 Před 5 lety +1386

    I sent a message to aliens and was left on “read”