Alien Beer Is To Die For...
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2024
- A look at the possible effects of alien food, drink, and microbes on us or our ecosystem.
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Alien Beer Is To Die For...
Episode 437a; March 10, 2024
Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Graphics: Ken York YD Visual 
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How ironic that this is the episode you tell us not to get a drink and a snack
LMAO!!
It's also one of the few that I actually did watch while eating
hahahahahaha
It's redundant
You know the drill that's why.
What will we do with a drunken spacer?
What will we do with a drunken spacer?
What will we do with a drunken spacer?
During supernova?
Put him in the rover till he's sober
Put him in the rover till he's sober
Put him in the rover till he's sober
Ear-lie in the mor-nin
I don't fully know, but I will tell you when I do early in the morning.
Put him in the cryo till he's sober
Put him in the cryo till.... wait... wouldn't he be drunk as long as he's in ?
Toss him in the medbay to make him sober?
Worf: Romulan Ale should be illegal!
La Forge: it is!
Worf: Prune juice is a warriors drink
@@taintsweatnope5093More than any other, I'd hate to see that war.
You k ow, the sugar thing actually makes sense as to be hard to digest even though ‘it’s just sugar’
For simple sugars, ipthis would require being like sacrin but most simple sugars can be digested easily, i mean, if its normal sugar, you can break it down.
The issue is complex sugars. Many are just multiple simple sugars, like sucrose and glucose, you can break that.
Stuff like starch and glycagen begins to show the indigestability.
While certain monkeys and apes can digest fibrus banans we cant, these guys cant digest french fries because they cant digest starch
Glycogen is similar but with snimals
Then there is celulose and perhaps cytin.
There is a theory that plants back in the day invented celulose and couldnt be broken down for millions of years thus making coal.
But peat bogs could do that.
If you really stop to think about it, that undigestable tree is actually a tonn of sugar, often times multiple tonns.
Sure, there is some proteins and stuff, but the thing is a pile of sugar
@@bobsterclause342Wood bein g mostly a sugar polymer is weird.
I'm reminded of an old joke: "all mushrooms are edible. Many are edible only once."
2:21 Catching an alien STD is not a concern. Thank you, Isaac, for easing my mind on this topic.
Yep, load off my mind.😂 Maybe that's why human women seem to be the ones always claiming 👽 abduction.
I guess VD ISN'T for everybody...
I guess so they probably want to know how our anatomy works and if we are compatible with them then it should be possible to have half aliens and half humans as kids maybe they'll take the most charming person and then had that kid with them that way
Did Captain Kirk know or was he just risking it? Maybe he used rubbers but i doubt it.
No you just get Space herpes
As noted in Babylon 5 every extraterrestrial Race and Culture has the equivalent of Swedish Meatballs.
Just like Hitchhikers Guide. Every culture has some beverage named gin and tonic. What it actually contains wildly varies though.
pan galactic gargle blaster@@cortos_9733
@davidbrennan660 A fellow man of culture I see
You mean swedish fermented fish?
There's also the common SF trope of an ordinary alien food which is psychoactive for humans, or vice versa -- aliens getting drunk on sour milk, or humans being politely offered bread which they are forced to decline because it is seasoned with mescaline.
The Alien Nation example would have been a good one to add
@@isaacarthurSFIAalien beer in particular would seem somewhat likely to be like this
There's also the "prawns" in District 9 becoming addicted to canned cat food. Chemical addiction is also a potential problem with consuming anything alien.
Yes, this! Alien plants or even meat could have something that activates our opiate receptors, or acts as a hallucinogen. The opposite also applies.
Or ginger affecting the aliens from Harry Turtledove's "Worldwar" series like crack affects humans.
I love how the 2 astronauts in the opening scene of the video are at the table about to eat WITH THEIR HELMETS ON. 😂
😂😂😂
Pizza is perfectly shaped for helmet chowlocks. Roll up with the base outwards and insert.
Science.
Mandos?
Just as stupid as people sitting at a table with masks on, having to put them back on after each bite...
6:05 when your Level 1 JRPG character skips the tutorial town and heads straight for the cursed forest
Everyone knows the beer in a galaxy far away is Cerveza Cristal.
In the Vegas quadrant
The drink of choice for Obi-wan AND Palpatine
I got that reference
I had a entire discussion with my coworks once about alien cuisine and sex tourism: it started wacky but after a few minutos we seriously start discussing legal implications, possible diseases and parasites in both cases, how might religions belifs affect our and their perception of the topic. Even our bosses ramdonly joined the talk. Was a nice saturday
The type of aliens I would want to meet or the ones that based their world on rationality and logic and reason and with this type of understanding we would be able to unite our galaxies and possibly are own universe to be a balance and theocratic civilization that has actual purpose instead of always hating each other or causing wars and we shouldn't even focus on Mars but we need to do is to focus on growing up as a civilization right here right now and know our planet more before exploring other planets and we could evolve to the point that we become our own gods or a collective of it either way our future goes this is something we can achieve
@@JustinJulian-bq8vm well just like humans, I dont believe that aliens will be a monolith like their are in star trek: vulcans are smart and klingons are warriors etc...
You may find some cultures or maybe the alien equivalent of nations that have those traces you looking for but a entire planet like that, really improbable.
YOU WORKED ON A SATURDAY????? WHAAAAT
Why :( #weekend
@@LazyRare yeah I used to but I dont anymore. I work for apple (not as good as it sounds like) and they recently changed my scheduel to work normal 5 days a week. BUT there is a growing workers moviment here in my country to make it impossible for anyone to work more than 5 days a week (what I used to)
I like this format much more than shorts, some light hearted shorter videos. And you have effectively programmed me to grab and drink and snack when i see you release a video even this short lol.
Glad you enjoyed!
Grey Bartender: How I can serve?
Humans: Give me Vodka and please turn on the TV. We will watch F1
I'll take F1 any day. I'm just glad it isn't watching a bunch of people kicking a ball around.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness Or worse. A guy faking being hurt.
IT'S A COOK BOOK!
In a Larry Niven novel the captive astronauts were obsessing over the DNA structure of the food they were given, concluding it wouldn't kill them, but it would give them the Runs...
Earth's secret weapon: Capsaicin.
The biggest problem with deriving nutrition from alien food would have to be chirality. Amino acids (other than glycine) and sugars come in 2 distinct isomers and terrestrial life has only evolved to use a single handedness for each. There is also no currently known reason why life from a separate abiogenic event should have evolved to match our own preferences
An excellent point. An anti-hamburger (in terms of chirality of all of its molecules) could have strange repercussions if eaten.
See the turians and quarians in Mass Effect for some beautifully detailed (if slightly inaccurate) storytelling of how interactions with dextro-amino acid-based life can cause a whole lot of problems.
Well how many other variations but ours are there? How efficient are they?
This channel has already covered sound wave communication and breathing oxygen to be efficient and thus expected.
'Biggest?' You're talking about an absurd amount of parallel construction if you get to the point that the only difference in your proteins and sugars is chirality.
Has it though? There are multiple essential amino acids that are tautomers of each other. Same with simple sugars. Sure the macrostructures may have some weird unexpected effect on receptors or other binding sites, but digestion is designed to break them down into monomers anyway, which we know we can digest some of.
ChiralD’ice: the alien beer with a random chirality for your enjoyment or displeasure!
Come on; Romulan ale can be a little rough to take, but canonically it isn't fatal. Unless, of course, "IT'S FAAAAAAKE!".
QUAAAAARK!!!
“I CAN live with it…computer, delete entire last log entry.”
Like in the movie ALIEN NATION...
When we learn that the aliens drink old milk because for them it is like how alcohol is for humans...
How about the Dr Who episode where a race of fly like aliens paid good money for our...waste?
And they used arsenic as salt.
It was fermented milk
In my webcomic stuck in hiatus, there is a food categorisation system with the following three parameters: edible, digestible, enjoyable. They are completely independent, something might be tasty but toxic and something else might taste like paper but will provide you with valuable nutrients.
Looking at the food labels isn't just a lifestyle or religious choice in a multi species society, it's a survival necessity.
Not even Alien Beer my Friend
Beer is to die for
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Its effects onCarbon based life forms is well known in the Western spiral Arm.
Surprised this wasn't mentioned! Let's not kid ourselves, I'm totally trying that when it hits the shelves here.
I think that as mankind ventured into space Mr. Arthur expects us to pack our own drinks and snacks with us, and to not sample local culinary delights.
The “what do dinosaurs taste like” question reminds of a conversation I had. Someone commented that since birds evolved from dinosaurs then T Rex tasted like chicken. I pointed out that he had that backwards, chicken tastes like T Rex. 😊
The two videos above this one were one about brewing beer and another about tomatoes being seen as poisonous in history.
DRINK SLUGGU COLA
'The slimiest cola in the galaxy!'
Slurm
Imagine getting invaded by alien because they love some random earth food like carrot too much
That wouldn't be a good reason to invade. It would be like invading a tropical island because you discovered you had a taste for coconuts. It would make more sense to just get a broker and buy in bulk with platinum.
That was a plot point in Turtledove's _Worldwar_ series. The aliens got too busy cutting themselves greedy lines of ginger (yes, the spice) to conquer Earth.
@@harbl99
Yeah, that was funny, the aliens finding out they had a serious narcotics problem in the middle of a planetary scale opperation. Like learning about weed only after committing to a total Conquest of Afghanistan.
There is a story of aliens coming here and they begin to go native after a while. Partaking of the good life. Things begin to whittle down the crew. Car wrecks, and other accidental deaths and medical problems. It got to the point where they were not going to be able to fight the ship or even stay safe planetside. To many crew were dead or incapacitated.
On sugars, it's nice to know that lactose is a type of sugar that is toxic to most animals. Many kinds of bacteria can break it down and mammals as at least infants can digest it(many people too throughout their life, but not all). Sugars tend to osmotically pull water to it and since bacteria can digest it then you get the issues that come with lactose intolerance. Bacterial bloom, a large pull of water into the intestines and all of the toxic waste products those bacteria will produce. Microbes are quite prone to evolving to digest new compounds, as the ability to digest certain plastics has evolved/exapted in numerous microbes and even some fungi, so that kind of toxicity you get from lactose is likely to occur with alien cuisine.
IIRC the bacteria and fungi evolved to digest two different plastics - the bacteria can digest polyethylene and the fungi can digest polystyrene. If that then produces methane, we can then use that as feedstock to create new plastic
@@johnrickard8512 I think I remember the different pathways found for different plastics being almost double digits, but some of the ways to digest plastic produce some less harmless products than methane. Some of the gut bacteria of wax worms are an example, they break down polyethylene into ethylene glycol(anti-freeze). Ethylene glycol can be used to make PET though so it can be used to recycle plastic and I remember there being research done into that, the only issue being that it wasn't particularly fast.
Isaac Arthur RUclips Shorts: 16 minutes
And I'm okay with this
"My son asked me what dinosaurs tasted like" probably chicken.
Depends on the species I would think. The larger ones would probably be tough and gamey as the devil, but the smaller ones would probably be tender enough and maybe even fairly tasty... like chicken.
I want a Klingon Chech'tluth to wash down my Advent Burger! Excellent episode!
I had to double check my calendar that it wasn't April first already. 😂 Incredible!
That was such a fun episode😂
Honestly, I am of the opinion that a topic, such as alien food or food in worldbuilding in general could be hours upon hours long easily
Man alien food and alien drinks is something I would try even though I am not an alcoholic but I wouldn want to know what alien juice taste like or how their food taste maybe it's something different from ours maybe it has better nutritional value
Quite probably, I could easily have broken this into multiple full length episodes deep diving bits of it though it felt more like a fun episode / fast essay last night. :)
Well, in star trek, they have this really old race that found no live anywhere and decided to basically hack life and seed it so it would turn out humanoid forms
Great episode as always! Im a MasterBrewer and i could think of a few ways to have safe intersteller alcohol whilst making some of the best booze.
1) Alien yeast might produce different flovours as well as possibly producing new alcohols with new materials e.g. alien suger cane?
2) Aging stronger spirits in space or for time dialation put the alcohol orbiting a black hole the the alcohol experiences more time? Possible 1000y.o. whiskey
3) Alien immune systems might have a higher/lower tolerance to alcohol mostly likely leading to new types of alcohols
4)Interplanetary alcohol trade, hells yeah i would buy a fancy $4000 bottle of alien tequila! That's a prized bottle right there!
it's finally time to grab my alien snack and drink
edit: LOL, yea it is quite a small vid so I guess I need to save it for next time
I have noticed that your speech therapy has been coming along, Isaac. Noticed this over the last few videos. Your R's are starting to sound better. Nice work!
I was wondering when you were going to make a short episode about this topic! Good one Isaac.
I'll quote Count Dracula in his immortal flow: "I hope them aliens are real so I have more things to f*ck".
"this shit ain't nothing to me man"
- Dracula
LOL the carnival sideshow backing sound track is so :+D
Wow this video went incredibly quick. Makes me appreciate the time to sit back and relax for your full episodes!
Man, Isaac. You're on fire lately with all these releases!
Love how for this episode, instead of the grandiose space music usually used, it's instead old western saloon music. Fits perfectly lol
I legit LOL'd when he said he son was asking him what dinosaurs tasted like. That's a kid after my own heart. 😆
I remember an old issue of Heavy Metal had a piece about an alien STD. Let's just say the results were not pretty when it interacted with human physiology. 😱
Let's just hope we don't get hivs from aliens because if we do it will probably be a lot worse than what we normally get if they are an expert of making a cure for the virus then we can basically do what we want with it I mean after all some people are immune to the virus
love the new short format :) would love to see more of these
This video was a great start to my Sunday
It's Easter today. Famous for resurrections. So I'm binge-watching all the Jurassic Park/ World movies today.
Getting molecular biology of your patrons is very important. A little too much of this, or even the presence of something else can turn a nice quick tasty treat into someone dropping dead from their biology shutting down.
14:15 Dinosaurs taste like chicken. at lest the chicken.
Larry Niven put a deep backstory to his Known Space setting that explained the general biochemical comparability of life on most planets. Almost all life-bearing planets had been used as food-yeast farms by the extremely ancient Slaver empire, and so had the same basic biochemistry. The main exception was the planet Gummidy, which had separately arisen life that was mutually toxic to the general life in the known galaxy.
Another great episode. Look forward to all of these.
No matter the playthru,
I always drink the krogan whiskey. And I buy drinks as a human in the afterlife bar.
Fermi paradox solution... the prometheus solution. Posits:
1. Earth atmospheric pressure is non condusive to alien life forms of a common variety.
2. Most life forms develop within very thick atmospheric conditions. (Like the Volus from ME series)
3. They(aliens) die from Oppenheimer's terrible possibility.
The nuclear age had a unknown outcome of possible atmospheric ignition, on a world with different conditions for life there is the possibility that those conditions allow for atmospheric ignition upon the entry to the atomic age and therefore leads to accidental or purposeful extinction of all alien life.
For this to be a good solution to the fermi paradox though this has to be the case in the vast majority of worlds. Also, for this to work even in a thick atmosphere a major atmospheric component would still have to be oxygen (combustion as we understand it is impossible without it), which to our form of life at least is quite toxic at pressures above ten bars. I find that combination of intelligent life in such a thick oxygenated atmosphere being common enough to form the majority of life forms in the Universe to be highly doubtful; possible but doubtful. Interesting name for it though. A double-edged sword his gift of fire would be indeed on such a world.
To answer Geo's question, dinosaurs taste like chicken, at least according to the Animorphs dinosaur time travel novel 😅
Upcoming topics are super cool!
Not related to topic, but I was watching this one when my wife, who only watches with me occasionally, got a wide-eyed look and asked, "Is that Arthur? His speech impediment is almost completely gone!"
So congratulations! I suppose those of us who listen every week have missed how great the improvement is, the gradual improvement sneaking up on us! It also probably means we don't quite appreciate what an effort it has been for you, so know that it IS quite a difference.
Just see how many common human foods are toxic for our dogs and cats, and ponder how difficult it would be to determine food compatibility. The problem is often some minor variation in a single chemical that happens to be a very small ingredient.
Alien yeast-like organism-based beverages sounds great! Whats the worst that could happen with ingesting a foriegn bacteria en masse?
Hi @Isaac Arthur I've been watching your content for years and I was wondering if you have any helpful videos or advice for writing softer or more classic style sci-fi?
While the volume of the food itself is not relevant per se, the extra ship volume you need to store it would cost you more mass and therefore reducing the size of the food becomes relevant.
Super fun music in this one
In the exforce series the beattles have drunkenness is a core cultural pleasure however ethanol doesn't make them drunk but they get drunk to Acetone
In diplomacy with humans and beattles drinking Ethanol and Acetone to their own
I always thought the 3rd table alien just couldn't hold his liquor and passed out LOL.
this is the type of video im subbed for 🔥🔥
Yay! You made the video I'd been hoping for! ❤
13:22 Ayyyyy HE SAID IT!!
Given that all life on Earth, no matter how exotic its habitat, is all based on the same fundamental molecular components, even where said components are scarce, I think it's probably safe to assume that life on other planets is likely to be based on the same components, due to underlying factors that prefer this chemistry. Thus most food will be more or less cross-compatible, excepting intricacies like metabolically preferring Calcium Orotate over Calcium Carbonate for example, or having different micronutrient requirements. There may be issues with chirality too, but that shouldn't make most things toxic, just taste entirely different and have varying nutritional value (compare spearmint and caraway that are flavored by different chirality of the same protein)
You couldn't even walk around on an alien planet without picking up microbes.
"for you, something special. This is krogan liquor - Ryncol. You'll set off radiological alarms after you drink it. Should I pour you a quad?" - Bartender guy mass effect. Right before Shepard passes out.
Liara's parent (not voiced by Mirina Sirtis): "Don't try to be tough, it'll tear your insides apart."
Steve Blum: "She's not kidding, Ryncol hits aliens like ground glass."
Good for you, great for us; thanks for a light one, Isaac. Maybe when you next visit NYC, we could have one together?
Isaac..that thumbnail...He would pun would pick a pocket. 😂
Aubrey-Maturin Reference W
@@stovepipehat396 YES! No one ever gets that. Well done!
“One must always choose the lesser of two weevils.” 😂
Definitely one of Crowe's best films :)
@@isaacarthurSFIA You're a man of many parts, Mr. Arthur. Futurism and an appreciation of the Age of Sail.
Tell Geo Dinosaurs would taste like Chicken.
Because birds are Dinosaurs.
Well. Some theropods would.
not all of them. some taste like duck.
This has me thinking of the game Godlike Burger. You run a burger restaurant in space. Customers have four preferences for what kind of burger patties they like, and anything else is considered disgusting. Nothing fatal unless you put poison in for the sauce, with the exception of one type that explodes if it gets too annoyed or suspicious. What's to be suspicious about? Well, as the game's trailer says: the secret ingredient is _the customers themselves._
"Okay - - for you something special. This is Krogan liquor - - ryncol. You'll set off radiological alarms after you drink it."
- Bartender, Mass Effect 2
lot of Rrrrrs in that line "I shall try some of your burned replicated bird meat" because Kurn is a space pirate "I never kill anyone at the supper table, Mr. Lorge"
God finally, I've been waiting for an anwser to this question for years!
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 😂😂😂😂 we got our towels and sub-ether band hitchhiking device ❤️❤️❤️
I'm disappointed that you didn't mention the Klingon's joke at dinner, when Riker gut checks the Klingon suggests he be breastfed by one of the Klingon females if he can't handle the food.
:) I was tempted, along with Kern's cheerful comment in the other episode about killing Riker, but Paramount gets touchy about youtubers using Trek clips above any give length or relevancy.
Every scientist who studies biology and space: don't eat the space food.
That one rookie on the first exo-planetary landing: Hey I found this cool cabbage-thing, tastes grea-
jokes aside, yeah, sucks most space stuff will be incompatible, but who knows, we might find a few things that will work... we as humans already tend to eat a lot incompatible stuff anyway.
Mass effect does the whole food thing quite intrestingly. So most things have the same type as us but two races I think its the Turian & Quarian which have opposite handed amino acids basically meaning they won't fit each others enzymes because they are like two separate styles of key for the lock.
Isaac, did you tell your son that dinosaur tasted like chicken? If not, I fear you missed a once in a lifetime opportunity.
And that would probably be correct. I mean chickens are a dinosaurs we just bred into a smaller form factor.
I did, but the humor missed as he doesn't know the 'everything tastes like chicken' thing but does know that chickens are dinosaur-related, he has a pet rooster he thinks of as a mini T-rex :)
@@isaacarthurSFIA 🦖👍
@@glensmith491 True dat, and it would be very interesting to sample different dinos and compare and contrast the flavors. T-Rex would taste quite different than a Maiasaurid. More gamey perhaps, but my dream has always been to try Baryonix. I doubt I'll get the chance but you know that guy would be delicious.
Stegasaurus Chops are delicious 😋
My pet mice can catch upper respiratory infections from my colds. They have died from them.
10:30 Green pints really ☘
What do dinosaurs taste like ? Chicken, of course!
At least, the dinosaurs we raise for eggs and meat taste like chicken,
Half allien ofspring, that sounds like xeno compatible heresy.
Some stellaris player.
5:30 Awww, he's so cute, can we keep him? Please!!
The closing tune sounds suspiciously like the Star Wars cantina scene.
"Oh no, we've been shipwrecked and the Lizard-Lions are going to eat us!" "Wait, we're from another planet. Are humans even edible for them?" "No, we're terribly poisonous to them. But _they_ don't know that, and apparently we smell delicious." "Oh."
Human: Ugh, your food tastes like cardboard.
Grey: What is this cardboard you speak of?
Human: We use it to contain things. Here's a box made of it.
Grey starts eating the box.
Grey: Nectar of the gods!
I always assumed that the 3rd alien at the table had just been drunk under the table by his buddies.
Probably on 307 Ale.
Awhile back, I had an AI generate a picture of Alf, Chewbacca, and Marvin Martian in a pub drinking a pint. I thought it was cute.
Great video! But one fact check for you, that 7 kcal/g measurement for ethanol is a common misinterpretation. That is the total energy content of ethanol, but the actual amount of energy the body derives from ethanol is next to none. So in reality for humans ethanol essentially isn't an energy source, especially when you factor in how much energy it takes to get rid of the alcohol.
Causing a alien gray goo event by eating their food or vice versa.... never thought about it that way but it makes sense when one thinks about it.
A splendid and informative video to watch while eating lunch myself.
The new imagery is very entertaining
I imagine an alien diplomat showing off his affluence with a fine liquor imported from sol, genuine pinesol, not the local synthetic
All 4 of those episode topics are of great interest, just the order of release should be considered.
Okay, I'm about to watch episodes, but my gut reaction is that it would be impossible to eat alien food, and please excuse the pun.
I do believe in convergent revolution, at least among sapient tool users bipedal, two eyes four limbs, etc. but food is just two much a product of the environment and biome.
What is the probability of alien life evolving with righ handed chiral amino acids, or left require handed chiral sugers?
Is there a greater abundence of one over the other and sugars and amino acid chirality interdependent.