Danger: Humans
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2014
- tomscott.com - @tomscott - A message from the Interstellar Safety Council. What if the rest of the universe wasn't built on "survival of the fittest"?
The post and discussion that inspired this: bogleech.tumblr.com/post/56211...
"Avoid, if at all possible."
Bold of you to assume we are escapable
A cargo freighter once went missing when entering the system they where never seen again
If you've seen us, you're already doomed.
We are inevitable.
we are also terribly annoying and imposible to be ignored
@@sharkcraft8568 unstopable we said!
I wonder if warnings like this are why we haven't found any other life yet
Because we are not advanced enough to conduct long range space exploration. Also the chances of other life are slim to none. We do not even know all the galaxies in our universe and scientists speculate that there may be other universes. That we will never see in our entire existence and 99.99999999999% that no other life form: humans or any other animal will.
@@zzap4922 r/wooosh
@@StrelitziaLiveries no, just no
Because it actually makes sense that life might have evolved through corporation and we are all the outliers. Therefore our very natures would be toxic to such species.
@@StrelitziaLiveries I don't think so buddy :)
"So what's your resume?"
"Uuh... I'm resistant to all but the strongest magnetic fields"
“No one’s ever said something like that to me before… you’re hired.”
sorry, but we use the str0ngest of magnetics here. Try our subsidiary outposts instead.
@@InsolentVillager it's mentioned in this video that humans are ressiitant to all but the strongest magnetic fields, bottle is joking about using that as an interview strength
“So what’s your resume?”
“Uh I don’t, all the information here says that the information is false.”
50% sea
50% weed
“Humans are unique, as when something shoots at them, they shoot back”
"And then smash the target with the back of the gun"
Simplified “if throwing a rock doesn’t work, get closer and hit it with a rock.”
@@fumarc4501 and if that don't work get more and bigger rocks until it dies
@the ender destruction and if that doesn't work, design chemical propulsion to launch the rock at supersonic speeds
"Humans are stupid, as when an alien invader attacks there planet, humans take over there planet".
Imagine the confusion when aliens find this video about dangerous humans created by humans
We captured a human in order to ask for an explanation, but apparently this is "comedy". It is an activity humans use to generate positive emotion and response, or possibly just to ensure reproductive success by "getting it". Analysis suggests that comedy is a vital part of human "story-telling", the mechanism by which they communicate effective ideas to offspring. Whatever message this instance sends, their self-aware irrationality is *fascinating*.
It's just a remake.
This creatures hate his self?
@@sr.comedy1873 yes
@@sr.comedy1873 yes.... and no....
What they didn’t mention is that we have world ending weapons hooked up to satisfying to push red buttons
That'll teach em
That'll teach us
That’ll teach all
That'll teach em
sssshhhhh! they don't know about those
Humans: can you do space travel?
Aliens: Yes
Humans: can you do two things at once?
Aliens: that, I can not do.
*wort wort worts sadly
Aliens: We have others to do that task. I only point and travel. Others steer. Others break. Others turn the FTL drives. We are United as one species.
Humans: Huh. Neat.
I mean it makes sense
The only way a species thats incapable of multitasking would get into space is by collaborating with thousands of others.
@@owenwoolley3394 sad Sangheili
"Humans are bad at things but also very scary." - Tom Scott, Human Entertainment and Education Figure.
said by a human! what about humans that try to save the planet and it's animals
“...designed to rip up and destroy any organic material.”
Me, munching on broccoli: *neat*
You broccoli-eating heathen!
@@hydrochloricacid2146
Is this a broccoli hater? You *_Heretic_* !
Don’t tell me your just eating broccoli by itself
Me, munching on chicken: *neat*
ConnorConnor meat*
I feel like Tom Scott accidently shared this with us instead of his colleagues and coworkers at his home planet
On the Tom Scott planet, do they all wear red t-shirts and gray hoodies?
@@jenkinsfamily2229 On the Tom Scott planet red t-shirts and gray hoodies are the outler layers of their skin
@@Auroxen natural clothes
HolUp
yes
On an added note, Humans have also been known to survive getting shot in the head or impailed thru the gut in some cases. As well as being able to have limbs re-attached hours after being completely severed from the body.
The endurance capabilities of this species should never be underestimated.
They need external help for that
@@HYDROCARBON_XD well theres 8 billion of them
Adrenaline was not a myth.
Also, their main strategy in hunting life forms faster than them is to not stop until their target runs out of energy, or succumbs to any injuries the humans try to inflict by throwing rocks at their prey.
That being said there are also records of them dying by suffocation via easily digestible foods that they consume daily and instantly perishing upon slipping and hitting their head on a piece of furniture... Truly confusing creatures.
Imagine if human beings truly were the toughest species out there. Instead of aliens being indestructible, and powerful like in “predator” they were just relatively weak, and susceptible to lots of things from earth.
Well one thing will happen, THE IMPERIUM OF MAN SHALL RULE THE GALAXY, THE UNIVERSE, THE MULTIVERSE and maybe find out whether god planned this out for us or like it was just an experiment.
thats what i have been thinking about the whole time
thats just as likely as the predator scenario
it is extremely likely that oxygen would be extremely toxic to most extraterrestrial life. its super corrosive and has a tendency to mess up most forms of organic chemistry, it would probably be super deadly to most life forms out there. thats the way it used to be on earth too, until one microorganism developed tolerance to oxygen and then started *producing* it, killing >99% of life forms in the planet
War of the Worlds.
"Immune to all but the strongest magnetic fields."
It's never really occurred to me before now, but I suppose I am.
Neat.
"you're a magnet, harry"
"no i'm just harry"
"oh ok"
"tiny vibrations in the atmosphere" and "EM frequencies" detection is cool too.
Magnetar: am I a joke to you?
Our tech isn’t though
That and the oxygen thing is probably a hint that the (in the story) creator of this is some kind of machine species or metal species. Since Robots don't need oxygen and are weak to magnetic fields. Considering that it was inspired by a post that referenced another post called "They're made of meat" which was written from the perspective of robots talking about Earth this seems likely.
I love how this manages to portray humans simultaneously as primitive and superior
LONG LIVE HUMANITY!!!!
Humanity is dead, long love humanity
@@Speed001 it died when tiktok became a thing
@Rucozania REDDITOR
In the words of John Crichton: "humans are superior!"
"They act against each others self interest".. and very often their own.
I love "up-side-down" map of the Earth. In the matter of fact, no one really knows where is the top and bottom. We just agree to it.
Definitely. Even "north" and "south" are arbitrary, we just agree to which way is north and which way is south.
Capable of selfless generosity, and merciless brutality, changing decisions in a split second, going from peaceful to genocidal in an instant.
Damn dude.
@@TheSkypetube tf
@@TheSkypetube ok boomer
@@AlexandrBorschchev I am not a boomer
@@TheSkypetube
You've got some harsh kismesis vibes goin' on.
@@IrvingIV that's a stupid made up word
Planet: **has oxygen**
Humans: it’s free real estate
Humans: let us introduce ourselves
Anywhere: has oil
America: *Its free real estate*
@@iamaloafofbread8926
Funnily enough there might be planets with lakes and rivers of Oil. Americans oil barons will b having wet dreams. Problem though, by the time you could reach it, we would of moved beyond oil for power generation.
@@Gothic7876 probably
Looks like Mars has a tiny bit of Oxygen. ITS FREE REAL ESTATE!
I’ve never thought of it that way. An alien civilisation might be far less vicious and savage than us. After all, good cooperation should certainly improve advancement
True. We've evolved so that competition is the best way for us to gain effective results and advancements, but perhaps other forms of life would have other ways of 'motivating' technological and social progress. Very interesting to think about.
you can also make the case that if, of all the life forms that exist on on our planet, we ended up on top, it's for a good reason
@@delfinenteddyson9865 definitely. The only question is if on other planets life takes such a different form that even the most successful of Earth life couldn't compare
Humans posess one other defining trait. And that is their curiosity, and lust for knowledge.
If you give a human a rope with a knot tied in it, and give no other instructions, they will untie it. Or give them a problem or a puzzle, and they will try to solve it. On top of that they even get pleasure out of doing so.
Humans are intelligent creatures. Not becouse they "know", but because they know HOW to know. Maybe their brains can't comprehend some concepts, but then, they can and will create MACHINES that do, or that could help them comprehend. Dont underestimate that part of them.
Those are not just 'some' traits, those are very much so their most defining traits.
It's even worse: one human was one given a knot to untie, however they could not figure it out. So, the human simply cut the knot into pieces. If a human for one reason or another cannot solve a problem, they will destroy it.
humans also seem to be growing and learning exponentialy
its unknown how many humans there are exactly
but the learning part is known
since we observed them they have created copper swords and it took them 4 times as long to get to iron swords then from those iron swords to nuclear bombs
we predict they will have achieved ftl capabilaty within the next 150 galactic rotations
once they have achieved ftl they will bring weapons since humans are violent
as depicted in what they call ''tv series'' which are presumably future plans and historical documents
they plan on putting plasma based lasers on all their vessels
also expected new technology is terraforming expected to be achieved within the next 234 rotations
once they achieve that any planet they land on will be theirs
They wanted to warn others, not to get more aliens to wanna visit
@@daltonbecker4494 they still solved the problem in many cases, such as if that knot was actually what was keeping a shopping bag closed, which had food items essential for that human's survival.
Alien Student: "Wait so if they do not need to pause after making an attack, how do they keep track of turn order?"
Alien Teacher: "That's just it, they do not use turn-based combat."
Alien student: wait thats illegal
Teacher: but do note that they DO have an advanced understanding of turn based combat, simply because their earlier technology could not display real time activities
humans: keeping real-time real 😄
Oh my god. It was on my exam. There was a question like this: "Are you in battle with a person, how will you defend yourself." - my answer was: "I'll just run away on my way." - alas, it was a mistake.
Which planet are you from?
I love how this implies that aliens don't need to eat, collaborate with each other perfectly, and are physically incapable of multitasking
As for my species, this is correct. The Protoss obtain their nutrients from the gaseous material around them. Furthermore, we have the Khalai Caste for collaboration. Finally, multitasking is difficult due to a rampant mutation from an earth organism damaging the primary thought processors.
You may ask why we don't use the secondary thought processors, however that is devoted to upholding the Khala.
don't let anorexic aliens with the inability of multitasking distract you from the fact that bungee gum contains both the properties of rubber and gum
aliens are plants obviously
@@aarshir9500 For Aiur!
@@leinadix for Slayn :troll:
it’s weird to think that maybe there’s a whole universe of aliens out there holding earth in some kind of quarantine and the worst thing that could possibly happen is us escaping
Very very late reply, but Krikkit from Douglas Adam's is this to a T. I fully believe in this notion myself, we've dropped the power of the sun on our race, and they didn't surrender. So we did it again.
OH CRAP THE PRIMATE SPECIES ESCAPED.
I feel like Tom Scott accidentally leaked his comprehensive report on the human species that was supposed to go to his home planet.
Wait...let bro cook
"On the other hand, if you are going into a dangerous situation, take a human with you to maximize your chances of survival."
40th like
@Ayaan K %100 Percent chance of betrayal involved if you don't let them play on the galactic PS5
that doesn't make any sense.
99% of humans just scream while running around and moving their arms in all directions when faced with danger, with the objective of attracting the other 1% of humans who can solve their problem. The 1% of humans who can solve the problem wouldn't worry about your survival, they would use you for their survival and desires, and hurt and kill you at any momment for that objective.
@@ynntari2775 it's because we are great meat shields
@@ynntari2775 the joke is that we're stupid
“Hanz...
Are we the baddies?”
M&W
No, we are the good guys. You remember the species we've enslaved some thousands years ago? I've paid paper to kill one of them in cold blood and fried its internals, let's go have a nice steak with me.
we are and will always be
Well no but actuals yes.
Those who write history are always "good" .
@Pecu Alex that's what generations of propaganda told you
"Countless Microscopic creatures, one of which would be able to end all lives"
Tom clearly is a time traveller.
No, pandemics are entirely predictable. Like a splash of ink in a bathtub of water: You need to stir a lot for it to spread everywhere. Guess what fast international travel (airplanes) does to the human species. We could have had mostly seperate buckets that only occasionally mingle a bit and even then only slowly, but we decided that even though we haven't even visited any of our local museums we should go to the other side of the planet as often as possible to visit musea there.
@@bramvanduijn8086It was not predicable but rather more inevitable with simple time and scope
"This is why we don't visit you guys"
-Aliens probably
Me: We're Not that Bad! **Points at Neighboring Planet Where a Fish is Eating Intelligent Lifeforms while OTHER intelligent Lifeforms Ignore Emotionlessly**
I love how all the 'human broadcasts' are from the past, because newer broadcasts wouldn't have reached them yet.
Omg... yes
Wow I actually didn't notice that. Makes complete sense
Wow... I didn't notice that. Great observation!
lets hope they dont find out about twitter in the future
they'll finally conclude we are the most irrational species in the galaxy and just use antimatter bombs to kill us
This. This is such an important detail here.
You made humans sounds like a god damn SCP
There was nothing anomalous about this.
We are anomalous, to THEM!
I mean compared to all other known forms of life we are anomalous and we have somehow avoided wiping ourselves out so far.
alien form of SCP foundation watching us rn
@@ahzlos8479 I wouldn't exactly be shocked if that were true.
According to my last Stellaris run as human empire, I can confirm that humans are indeed dangerous
are humans meta in that game?
As someone who is currently doing a UNE playthrough I can confirm humans are dangerous
i love how you put the world map upside down lmao
You know if you keep warning the aliens of how dangerous the human race is I'll never be able to hijack one of their ships, so please stop scaring them away.
Ya LONG LIVE HUMANITY!
we are the space somalia
@Brownskikuca Garlic Bread i volunteer to be the one. :)
Of course, I will never land there, I won't even fly nearby. My grandma told me that one acquaintance of friend of my grandpa's friend from Gingulak-7 was there and was almost killed by some psycho with a kinetic energy based gun. After this story, I will never fly past the ground, much less land on it.
It's much easier to just hitch a ride than actually hijack, just make sure you have a towel
I feel like this is just four and a half minutes of Tom bragging about how OP humans are.
They are the meta on the earth servers
Nerf humans
@@concreteeeEEE No
@@concreteeeEEE the coronavirus has answered your wish
RoboGuy The devs tried that back before the industrial revolution patch but it didn’t work, idk why they are trying the same thing again
Back here from the "indomitable human spirit" memes.
3:24 I literally giggle-squealed with joy at the idea.
“Uncountable”
**displays number**
You try counting that high
@Anant Tiwari thank you for playing the game
@Anant Tiwari it would take more than an average human lifetime to count the amount of Bacteria on the earth
Do you know what uncountable means?
@@shnob4916 What was my comment? That was a previous account, it's weird seeing people to reply to that lmao
I've always loved this concept of "humans as space Orcs"
I love your characterization of the concept!
R/hfy is where you should go then
Even in fantasy settings humans are the ultimate invasive species
WAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!
@@loot25367WAAAAGH
Thanks for this, it will help me with my school’s biology class where we are learning about other species. I dislike how you didn’t mention that they have a complicated social structure, I mean what the hell is a president?
I think a president is a huge popularity contest the united steaks of americans have to show power.
Not all humans have a president, in fact many of us think giving one of us that much power is a terrible idea. I mean, have you met any people? We're unhinged genocidal morons.
Aliens watching this video: “Uh, kid…? You…ARE a human…”
there's an old saying in the Warhammer 40k universe.
"you don't realize you're on a death world until you get off it"
well theres also a saying from doom
"brutal, without mercy. but you, you will be worse. rip and tear until it is done!"
THEIR SHELTER HAS BECOME THEIR TOMB
Soon we will probably take over god
@@h2o848 I HAVE AWOKEN.
Guess that this means that Terra is a death world.
I love the slightly Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-like style of this video.
Harmless
Mostly
Yes, the last line is just the Guide's entry for "love": "Avoid, if at all possible."
+SeaBiscuit Space is big. Really big.
+Adam Mullarkey *citation needed
Wyatt Sullivan No, that's another series. :)
Everybody gangsta until we find a planet with life just like us.
That war would break f*ckin everything..
I really like this presentation style and format! Hearing about our own species from the third person is slightly strange, but uniquely grounding to me.
"putting their oxygenated bodies into pressurized metal boxes, and throwing themselves off their planets surface. "
sounds about right.
i found this video highly amusing.
That is Kiba's eye, is it not?
Philo Wintercoat mmmHmmm
that's a legit solution to this!!! now all we need to do is make a giant elevator run off of a railgun like system go into space! (space elevator around the equator anyone?)would make things easier on us....but would require everyone working together to get done...so maybe in around the next century or so if our politics continues on like today. (Cause WW3 is on the way I guarantee you that much!)
i was wondering how else are we going to get off the planet if not by this method?
heh
in 60s there was an idea of making rockets powered by atomic strikes...
crazy? they think same about our system
“Deliberate disruption of thought process”
Ahh good times.
Not necessarily alcohol, there are many other options.
🍻
Cheers! Must prune some surplus synapses :-)
It really is a form of optimization if you think about it. If one focuses on what is important while intoxicated and the "extra" becomes smoothed out from cell death, trauma can become easier to deal with. I think that is the real goal of it that people forget when they criticize it
@@Pink_Noodle that’s a really interesting thought!!
As a human, I can confirm that this is true.
This really puts into perspective, how capable and cool humans are.
So formal "Humans are space orcs"
@B.N.D do you not know what formal means
You dare compare us to filthy xeno? We will make servitors of you!
Earth is Space Australia
@@djcfrompt Very true, all known venomous spiders and snakes are concentrated there.
@@djcfrompt truest statement I have read in months!
One very important thing that needs to be mentioned: humans progress at an exponential rate rather than a linear one. It took us four times as long to advance from copper swords to iron swords as it took to advance from iron swords to nuclear bombs
I mean, isn't that just how statistics works? There's a chance per person that they'll be the spark that creates a new technology, and we have many, many, many more people than we did in the Iron Age.
@@nikkiofthevalley That's certainly part of it but we also have access to more technology that allows a sufficiently determined individual to make much more progress than any one person could have made 2000 or even 200 years ago.
We also just have more people to begin with now.
True, but on the other hand - so does every spacefaring civilisation probably.
@@mieszkothemigrantmercenary2808 yes, hence the "exponential rate". A human in another 200 years (hell, probably even in 20 years) can make much more progress than any one person today.
1:52
Yes, we have two, yes TWO brains.
One manages the body, the other is our self. The two work together quite well.
mostly
"If all humans would unite, they would become the greatest power in the universe."
-some guy on their home planet
"Also don't piss off the world leaders or get attacked by their air force, ground force and marine force."
-probably their general
space force?
@@diamondminer81 We don't have that yet, but once we get that the aliens will fear us.
@@gl7029 There is the United States Space Force
All the dislikes are by humans.
*and that’s a fact*
true
not if I make a bot to dislike this video. Checkmate!
Inertia Squared *wait that’s illegal*
@@TTTasman XD
Your comment is offensive to me since I identify as a B-2 spirit bomber capable of carrying 23 tons of world ending ordinance virtually undetected in a range of 11 thousand kilometers
I thought the title said "Danger: Hummus"
Refrigerate after opening...
@@DRDynamyte_ Quackers
Can I have a free toaster?
@@DRDynamyte_ I hear one of his favourite supermarkets is opening a new branch soon.
@@DRDynamyte_ Just TWO weeks and SIX days until SafeMart at Kings Cross opens!!!
Wait until they find out about the indomitable human spirit
I LOVE the details of how the earth is upside down as it was the original way it is supposed to be seen in oictures. Great job from a decade later!
that was the weirdest ego boost I've ever gotten
Yes.
Neat.
YOU ARE WORTHY.
@3:10:
Voice: "Their most startling capability is one of self-delusion."
Subtitles: "The third thing that powers them is hope."
That’s why those sub-titles were so weird! I turned them of, cause it was so distracting
Delusional subtitles
These subtitles were made by Tom Scott lmao
@@me_when8845 subtitles not great, not terrible
Humans are not rational, confirmed.
This is my favorite of the Tom Scott videos
Imagine space travel is so hard cause the galaxy host put the our difficulty to hard so we stay here as long as possible 🗿
"They can manipulate objects with incredible speed and precision by simply willing their body to do so." Moving my foot to tip over a box never felt as much like a super power to me than it does right now.
Freak u. You people are scary.
@@Nirild Sucks to be an alien, doesn't it?
@@camelopardalis84 N-no! How dare you?! I mean... Oh... freak u human. But you do not have a gigunatolotoro.
@@Nirild I wouldn't brag about my gigunatolotoro if I were you. It doesn't seem to be very well-developed. The lack of crystals alone ...
Tom: physical violence, mental competition
me making a farm on minecraft: *wait what*
xD
PvP with friends or strangers?
MENTAL COMPETITION
sorry destroyed your 69 likes
You mean a farm that makes it easier for you to consume other life forms? Ones that are capable of reaction and distress?
Not so innocent after all.
Don't forget, even our media has emphasis on violence of all forms.
@@THExRISER [laughs in creeper and carrot farms, among other crops and inedible entities]
@@bubbykins4864 They're still alive
The indomitable human spirit:
The Indomitable Human Spirt
Once, just ONCE, I would like to see a science fiction tv show or movie where humans are the god damned Krogan of the galaxy.
Warhammer 40k, google it.
check out reddit.com/r/HFY ("Humanity, F*** YEAH!") if you want that kind of fiction.
Yeah, in real life, humans are Orks.
A bit late, but...
www.fanfiction.net/s/5851454/1/Renegade
It's a Tiberium Universe crossover with the Mass Effect Universe. Humans are basically the "Other Krogan" in this one, if not MORE so, >:D
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I feel strangely proud, in a very twisted kind of way.
+Tomáš Karlík přesně.. :D
same here!I'm glad there are others here that feel the same. I mostly hear shame spoken amongst people when "humanity" as a whole is spoken of
Tomáš Karlík same
dude us humans are f***ing amazing creatures....we really are, sure alot of us tend to be foolish due to a lack of training in certain areas, but when we are trained in a task and desire to do it, we always win
It's kinda funny to hear that we have potential to rule over galaxy :p
That’s what being a deathworlder is like
*Alien spaceship flying by*
Humans: hey you guys smell oil?
"Humans do not need to pause to think between actions"
Multi-Core Robots: *Am I a joke to you?*
Seriously though. Human space orcs may be scary, but nowhere near transhumanist/AI levels of scary.
side note:humans have been shown to be capable of making machines superior to themselves
Robot are not even near of the brain capacity, at least not by today 04/2020
Not on a cognitive level, no, but as far as doing tasks such as doing calculations, winning games, and even the existence of the internet as a hub of knowledge proves that we can use machines to cover many of the weak points our brains possess.
@@Connor_Kirkpatrick a robot can show or surpass a human on a single individual task, but you try to opérate said robot outside of it's designsted job and it's capabilities fall dramatically, robots are designed to do one single job excedingly well, but only one job, theoretical general artificial inteligence would likely not be better at any given task than a human already is unless specifically designed to do so and we don't even know if the creation of a superior artificial inteligence is posible, also as stated humans can upgrade themselves using a transhumanist approach
*"...oh yeah, and they invented the language I'm telling you this in."*
"... wait. This language was selected automatically by the Format and Translation Lock algorithm. Why would it do that? What lifeform would ever choose to receive information in a linear recitation of an obscure human-created language with only two-dimensional projections of the visual aids crunched into a tiny portion of the visible spectrum and all the spreadsheets redacted? Stand by for heuristic analysis of all available data. In the meantime, the Interstellar Safety Council advises--"
*human smashes computer with a wrench* "Whelp. Guess we're landing this thing the old-fashioned way..."
Nevar būt
This video was actually one that Tom Scott picked up and translated when the automatic system wrongfully detected Tom Scott as of non-human species in human territory.
@@9nikolai It all makes sense now... Actually I already had that explanation in mind as I watched the video.
You did not pay attention, it was obviousky translated to english by tom. There are som bits in the written text that are untranslatable.
This is awesome, I have no clue how this video evaded me for so long!
imagine them arming them selves before humans arrive and when we land we are just like "want some yeast that was tricked into dying and putting some cocoa plant that we mushed and put processed sugar canes and some hazelnut with milk we pulled from an animal's umm uhhh.." and i just said humans giving aliens some bread and nutella.
Human power sources:
Other life
Oxygen
Self delusion
Memes
Memes are esspecially important
*O C E A N M A N*
memes are able to instintly obliterate minds of other species
Additional Top Secret Data:
*MEMES ARE HOW HUMANS VIOLENTLY SHATTER AND MANIPULATE THE LAWS OF REALITY*
Beware!
NANOMACHINES, SON!
"Immune to all known halting problem attacks"
I laughed hard at this one.
+Barry Smith I think ants sometimes die from walking in circles until they starve: this might be equivalent to a halting problem
austin fernando Yeah, I heard something about that before.
What's a halting problem attack, though?
zJoriz Ask a computer to work out when a certain other computer program will end, and it can't say for all programs. It's a well-known problem in computer science that cannot be solved.
mankind rules basically....were one nasty species that everyone wants to avoid and/or just avoid being known.Because once we hit space...well...the grimdark reality of 40k would be a picnic once we learn "hostile" lifeforms exist...not to mention its mankind's right to rule this massive amount of stars in our spiraling garden of mystery!
the "upside-down" map got me
I loved the detail of placing the south pole upwards in the screen
"Once they land on an oxygen-bearing planet it is theirs and they, will, win."
It's stuff like this that makes me proud.
Lmao
Maddog3060 Ditto. It's like "Murica" but better.
Maddog3060 Obviously aliens haven't yet figured out orbital bombardment.
Maddog3060 tell that to griff.
***** Patriotism is survival behavior extended beyond the self and the family.
"And a ridiculous tolerance of adversity"
Some would say that we are SO ADDICTED to adversity that any time our lives have an insufficient amount of it, we will unconsciously act to create more of it.
Or consciously do it. Many people are constantly trying to "challenge themselves", to "push their limits"
I love the idea of boredom being unique to Earth
The reason we like hard games so much.
@@alexanderdiaz2196 or the war itself
@@pretzelbomb6105 "You are telling me you have aquired every resource neccesary for a comfortable living and you are UNHAPPY because you dont have to struggle anymore?!"
Still my favorite video 🎉happy 2024🎉 Tom
"we were born to inherit the stars"
No wonder we haven't encountered aliens...
They're scared shitless of us! Which means we are basically the Reapers to them, so we might have to start our own Cycle.
demonfangify [Meanwhile on the Citadel in the Council Chamber]
Councilor "Air Qoutes": Ah yes, "Reapers" the mysterious beings supposedly living in Dark Space and are planning to attack. We have already dismissed that claim.
CMDR_Kai Gaming RAMIREZ, GO INTO CHAMBER WITH ROACH!
We should be called Reapers not humans
It's likely any other intelligent life is much the same as us, if they had the technology to get here they've already solved the problems we face
I bet they would look at racing and go:
"You stick your selves in a small metal caccon thing and go around on a tar and gravel surface at extreamly high speeds for sometimes a day on end? Why?"
A Human race car driver: "Because it's fun."
I just want to say, you have a cool profile picture!
NASCAR and the dubs. Fantastic.
"Because I betcha $20 that I could do it faster than that guy over there."
Why do something if it’s not either fun or leads to food?
Brilliant stuff Tom! Especially the understated graphics. A nice bit of Douglas Adams :)
The indomitable human spirit
I loved this. It had a kind of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" thing going on.
but Humans are "Mostly Harmless"
+BluePlankton Earth is mostly harmless
Idk if you're aware, but Prefect actually wrote a lot more. he just couldn't find a galactic hotspot to upload it from. : P
agreed
Actually his entire, extremely detailed account was fully incorporated into the guide in book 4: "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
Human recreation, including but not limited to:
- Physical violence
- Mental competition
- Deliberate disruption of their thought processes
- Deliberately placing themselves into potentially lethal situations
I lol'd at that part, XD
+Taltharius did you know... their women bleed once a month and become demons !
+Taltharius Have their children participate in combat simulators.
Searching for information they don't want to know und polluting their memory
Send this to space. Maybe aliens will take note.
1:00 wait so that Comedy Central skit was based on a true story😂
One alien in the background “uhh sir I think that was actually the subspecies known as “Florida men””
So THAT's why our planet is in quarantine...
no wonder why aliens never visit our planet.
Seems about right
Took me a while to get it. No one wants to deal with humans, oh but we will conquer the galaxy soon enough....
Yes, let us make them worship the god emperor the same way we do. Also we need a god emperor, I vote me.
@@Alex-qn4hz I vote your cat
"humans are capable of multitasking"
Me watching this video while playing a video game and reading an anime article
Sounds like reading a magazine while fighting without looking at your opponent
@Tristan Burke yes
Don’t let that anime article distract you from. The fac. That bunnge gum. Both gum rubber. And properties of
@Tristan Burke no, anime. If its a manga i would give it full focus and immerse my self. I was reading an anime funfact 😂
*cries in adhd*
10 years from this video being made he would have become one of the most recognisable and most respected youtubers. Its incredible to look back at videos like this. happy retirement Tom
So this is why the operators of the ufos never get out of there saucers and when they do(rare though it is) they typically scare the piss out of people
This is like the exact opposite of the Exurb1a approach to humans
Haha agreed
Now....who's right?
We'll need a RUclips! With Blackjack! And Vsauce! Both
At the end of the video they're going to take over the galaxy though 😆
Exurb1a: Humanity is doomed.
Tom Scott: Humanity, if given the chance, can take over much of the galaxy
This seems like an extended trailer for the Deathworlders literary universe, wherein aliens realise how mind-bogglingly resilient humans are ("They can keep going after breaking a leg?!?" "They can survive in temperatures between -40 and +50 C?!?") and treat us as a threat potentially bigger than the current apex predator race of cyborgs. Who are pissed at these upstarts stealing their thunder.
I highly recommend it.
I need to read this I want more fiction of us humans as apex predators
They sent their people to the pole of their planet, and when they didn't return...
They threw more people at it.
@@tyler89557 ^ This guy gets it :)
Yes it's good
@@laughingsnake1989 look up deathworlders or Jenkins universe or jenkinsverse
Gave me a really good laugh at 2:40; I love works that play on the fact that there is no proper frame of reference for "up" or "down" in space.
I thought our entry in the Hitchiker's Guide said 'Mostly Harmless'
Well, please, Mr. Alien, explain to me how the hell else are we supposed to get into space? Double-jump?
Press E to fast travel
We are more than capable of optimising space travel for algorithmic robot emissaries that can adapt enough to account for the communication delay, at least until we can build something like a space elevator... The idea of humanity personally going to other worlds is utterly irrational given the state of life down here.
...But so is chucking myself down a slope covered in crushed ice in order to relish a positively-reinforced fear response. Doesn't stop me skiing whenever I get the chance. Humans are explorers and daredevils and storytellers and believers by our very nature; I won't defend frivolous mars missions but I wouldn't give our spirit up for anything.
Yes
Backwards long jump on the stairs?
@@knuti27 Are cheats permissible for Orbit%?
I love the idea that other life in the universe comes from stable environments, and views us as some sort of unstoppable monster species that can adapt to absolutely anything.
The only thing you didn't mention that I found interesting was lifespan. Imagine a species born on a planet where hardly anything ever changed that was adapted perfectly to those specific conditions alone. A species with a lifespan of several thousand years. To them, a human war would happen in the blink of an eye, and before they knew what was happening we'd have won.
alien: hey what is-
human:destroys the planet and dies less than a millisecond later
@@tatotaytoman5934 omae-
dead
damn, we really do be the best kamikaze species
Sapient species speedrun any% world record holders
POV: the alien was not informed about the indomitable human spirit
indomitable human spirit
Legit what i was looking for
Only works if the aliens are communist and have oil on their planet