Wait until Gek learns about just how many people have died outside of war from the actions of singular men in history. Theres some things weve done that make our wars look quaint by comparison
@@andorfedra Cars. Or more specific lead added into gasoline. Midgley managed to kill more than Stalin and Mao combined, while not even trying, all in the name of freedom and capitalism. What is more impressive is that not only did invented lead as additive to gasoline, but also CFCs, destroying the ozone layer, potentially killing us all. He has roughly 100.000.000 million people to his name.
60 degrees CELSIUS!? That seems a little high for someone to freeze in any sense of the term, since that's hot enough to kill a human (about 150 degrees fahrenheit)
dont forget, different species have diffrent biology. life on earth is built to earth's biosphere. a creature native to a hotter planet will find earth cold, and a creature from a colder ice planet will find earth boiling hot even in the colder regions
@@dallasbroders5609 Belgium WAS very much a country in ww1, they fought very well, and there was a big propaganda move against Germany with "remember Belgium" because there was stories about german soldiers making belgian civilians walk in front of their column so that belgian soldiers wouldn't shoot them (these stories are true, albeit inflated by propaganda, there was no order from high command to do that, but individual troops did carry these war crimes)
I know this is fiction but yeah, WWI ended in 1918. Maginot line was not started until 1929. Germany's movement through Belgium around the line happened in WWII.
Sounds like my late uncle. I remember him having three lit at the same time while working on his old motorcycle. He could kind of space out when working on his bike.
@@michaellinnet6095 ROFL 😂 ahhh memories. Thank you for that. My father did something similar. He always had an extra long cigarette hanging out of his mouth. I couldn't even count how many times he'd be working, turn his head and burn a hole in the shoulder of his shirt.
@@JimD-h8s LOL Saw my dad burn his chest while doing a brake job on his old pickup. Wasn't paying attention and knocked the fire off onto his chest. Talk about the cussing! I hadn't thought about that in years until you mentioned the holes in your dad's shirt.😂
Most estimates for WWII dead place it at around 70-73 million, not 85 million. Also as many others have said, the Maginot line was built to prevent a repeat of WWI, even if ultimately the Germans went through Belgium to get to France.
"Most estimates" don't count China which was invaded by Japan in 1933, yet was instrumental in defeating Japan. Around 3 million Japanese soldiers were involved in that conflict. As a result China considers WW 2 to have started in 1933.
at 11:01 should be " . . . not immediately suffer upon the temperature dropping below sixty degrees celsius. " Wow . . . that's one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit.
@@gazman50s Wikipedia tells me New Zealand started metrication in 1969 with the establishment of the Metric Advisory Board (MAB) and completed metrication on 14 December 1976. Wow . . . were you even born then? Or is that too personal a question?
WWII had around 55 million deaths when I was in school in the seventies, even with the level of inflation today it doesn't seem possible that they were out by 30 million.
See, I would have framed the incredible changes in terms of technological advances. For example, less than 66 years from the Wright Brother's first powered flight to men walking on our Moon! Naive alien student: "This must have been achieved through all of humanity working together in peace and cooperation." Human professor: "Oh goodness, no! All our greatest advancements came out of massive conflicts the likes of which have never been seen before or since!"
(the Wrights were not the first, they only sold their story the best - but that's not the point here) The invention of heavier-than-air flight didn't change as much as you may think, and it doesn't have as much to do with rocket science as you apparently think. Other technologies would be better candidates as they had much much more influence anyway, like the printing press, automobiles, semi-conductors, or penicillin/antibiotics or vaccines, or industrial cooling, to name but a few. The original answer (in the story) is actually a pretty good one, as in this period fundamental changes in politics, economy, and society developed. (Most) Colonial empires collapsed, as well as the reigning structures in very many countries around the world. The foundations of the modern welfare states were laid. The monetary gold standard was overturned and modern economic theories introduced and applied. The focus on the wars and their atrocities is a bit unfortunate though.
Powered flight was only 1 technology that I would have mentioned. Programmable computers. Antibiotics. The splitting of the atom. All achievements within the first 1/2 to 2/3 of the 20th century, and all born from or propelled by conflict.
@@noinfo5630 Powered flight was just one example. Programmable computers. Splitting the atom. Antibiotics. The first 1/2 to 2/3 of the 20th century saw vast progress in so may fields, and so many driven primarily by conflict.
Alright, next time you all ask who our favorite narrator is we need the option to make more than one choice, my favorite does not mean I don't like the others. This gentleman, is definitely a strong favorite but I could only pick one... Sad face.
OMG! The history of Poland... I would have fled as well as I would have heard where they went through in WWII... That wasn't exactly "fun time" everywhere on Earth, but in Poland it was exceptionally bad... Second: In Europe we don't have to take taxies from star- or airports. We catch a train. 😉 Third: Poland has AWESOME cuisine.
If you look at history even as far back as 5000 bce, there has been a war somewhere on earth almost everyday to the modern day. If memory serves there has been a total of between 50-100 years where no wars have occurred during this time.
then you have the long wars. The Napoleonic campaigns The Crusades THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR (Between England and France lasting a whopping 112 years) England and France have spent more time at war with eachother than the US has exited in total. The hundred years war is just longest.
@@target5350 there was nearly another a few years ago apparently... serious the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson actually considered invading the Netherlands... its in his recent book... bro just admited "yeah i nearly shattered NATO"
@@t8kabr8km85 oups for information the war than i speak was discovered in 1985. it star during a civil war in england and end in 1986, precisely 335 year after the beginning. there were no fight during this war.
Funny he never mentioned Canada either. Canada has more colourful history in wars then the USA does. At least in the colour red. Like how a single Canadian liberated a city. Or how 21 Canadians fought off and defeated an army of 14k North Koreans and Chinese despite an arsenal and numbers disadvantage. I think the greatest number Canadians have been outnumbered in a war (and obviously won) was something like 800 to 1.
Maybe because of the well merited criticism of the usual US defaultism... Still, the prof mentioned miles. (That phrase was actually double stupid as he guessed/estimated a distance in Europe in rounded miles and then converted it in exact km.)
story seemed kind of pointless and the alien was ridiculous. Ot was that the point of the story? That the alien had become enamored of human culture, but was unprepared for human history? That makes him short sighted and ridiculous.
30:43 "communists aren't really people, i shouldn't count them" that had me rolling
XD Liberty Prime Approved.
I mean, it's true:/
@@user-ky2kt9vm2x that's why its so funny 🤣
Aw, come on guys, we're all people. There's good and bad on both sides.
@@michaellinnet6095 report to your democracy officer for re-education
'how are any of your people still alive'
We breed like rabbits my dear alien, like rabbits.
And we don't even cull the herd, idiots mating with idiots and such. No more evolution, stagnation until entropy.
Rabbits and humans share DNAs breeding urge gene
@@M-S_4321😂😂😂 At this point, I’d say we’re JUST edging out rabbits in that regard
@@EnglishApache26 idk a lot of our first world countries are below replacement levels so we might not be edging them out anymore.
Wait until Gek learns about just how many people have died outside of war from the actions of singular men in history. Theres some things weve done that make our wars look quaint by comparison
In a word: Communism.
@@andorfedra ah yes, it clearly were Communists that killed millions of Indians and enslaved even more Africans...
Also serial killers. Some of the things they have done are terrifying
@@andorfedra Cars. Or more specific lead added into gasoline. Midgley managed to kill more than Stalin and Mao combined, while not even trying, all in the name of freedom and capitalism.
What is more impressive is that not only did invented lead as additive to gasoline, but also CFCs, destroying the ozone layer, potentially killing us all. He has roughly 100.000.000 million people to his name.
60 degrees CELSIUS!? That seems a little high for someone to freeze in any sense of the term, since that's hot enough to kill a human (about 150 degrees fahrenheit)
The in-story description of most life-bearing worlds sounds more like Venus than Earth. So yeah, 60 Celsius would be bone-chilling cold in comparison.
dont forget, different species have diffrent biology. life on earth is built to earth's biosphere. a creature native to a hotter planet will find earth cold, and a creature from a colder ice planet will find earth boiling hot even in the colder regions
@@neock True...
The French build the Maginot line after the Great War before World War II because of the losses they suffered in World War I
Sorry but I’m a world war 1 buff
no i was wondering about that pretty sure Belgium wasnt even a country before ww 1
Belgium broke away from the Netherlands in 1830.
The professor really should know this but perhaps he is getting senile.
@@dallasbroders5609 Belgium WAS very much a country in ww1, they fought very well, and there was a big propaganda move against Germany with "remember Belgium" because there was stories about german soldiers making belgian civilians walk in front of their column so that belgian soldiers wouldn't shoot them (these stories are true, albeit inflated by propaganda, there was no order from high command to do that, but individual troops did carry these war crimes)
Correction, the Maginot line was built AFTER the great war.
The predecessor to that line was in effect, hence why Germany went through Belgium, which dragged the British into the war.
Would be a shame if someone went around it xD
I know this is fiction but yeah, WWI ended in 1918. Maginot line was not started until 1929. Germany's movement through Belgium around the line happened in WWII.
I actually feel bad for Geck. The poor guy didn't realize what he'd signed up for
I feel sorry for Geck. That was a lot of bad things to throw at him all at once. I mean those professors should know their audience.
Did I hear that correctly. He lit his fourth cigarette before lighting his second?
Break physics, why not? 😂
Sounds like my late uncle. I remember him having three lit at the same time while working on his old motorcycle. He could kind of space out when working on his bike.
@@michaellinnet6095 ROFL 😂 ahhh memories. Thank you for that. My father did something similar. He always had an extra long cigarette hanging out of his mouth. I couldn't even count how many times he'd be working, turn his head and burn a hole in the shoulder of his shirt.
@@JimD-h8s LOL Saw my dad burn his chest while doing a brake job on his old pickup. Wasn't paying attention and knocked the fire off onto his chest. Talk about the cussing! I hadn't thought about that in years until you mentioned the holes in your dad's shirt.😂
Most estimates for WWII dead place it at around 70-73 million, not 85 million. Also as many others have said, the Maginot line was built to prevent a repeat of WWI, even if ultimately the Germans went through Belgium to get to France.
"Most estimates" don't count China which was invaded by Japan in 1933, yet was instrumental in defeating Japan. Around 3 million Japanese soldiers were involved in that conflict. As a result China considers WW 2 to have started in 1933.
@robinkelly1770 Yes but seeing as it was a Polish professor and the dates used were 1939 to 1945, that is a moot point.
The background music is kinda painful at points it feels like a feedback loop if it can be fixed i would be grateful
To call it "music" is quite a stretch
Is the antigravity device... and after a while it get annoying
Lol no mention of the atomic bombs? 😂 Great episode thanks for your hard work 💯
at 11:01 should be " . . . not immediately suffer upon the temperature dropping below sixty degrees celsius. " Wow . . . that's one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit.
No one of note uses Fahrenhiet
@@gazman50s Can't argue that - USA population is a small percentage of world population.
@@robertgraybeard3750 So too New Zealand
@@gazman50s Wikipedia tells me New Zealand started metrication in 1969 with the establishment of the Metric Advisory Board (MAB) and completed metrication on 14 December 1976. Wow . . . were you even born then? Or is that too personal a question?
@@robertgraybeard3750 I born 1958
WWII had around 55 million deaths when I was in school in the seventies, even with the level of inflation today it doesn't seem possible that they were out by 30 million.
on WWI had around 10 million deaths
Some history professor. Doesn't even know when the Maginot line was built.🤨
The author must have been laughing when they wrote about Poland having an intergalactic space station lol
I guess in this timeline they never achieve full self driving...
See, I would have framed the incredible changes in terms of technological advances. For example, less than 66 years from the Wright Brother's first powered flight to men walking on our Moon!
Naive alien student: "This must have been achieved through all of humanity working together in peace and cooperation."
Human professor: "Oh goodness, no! All our greatest advancements came out of massive conflicts the likes of which have never been seen before or since!"
(the Wrights were not the first, they only sold their story the best - but that's not the point here)
The invention of heavier-than-air flight didn't change as much as you may think, and it doesn't have as much to do with rocket science as you apparently think.
Other technologies would be better candidates as they had much much more influence anyway, like the printing press, automobiles, semi-conductors, or penicillin/antibiotics or vaccines, or industrial cooling, to name but a few.
The original answer (in the story) is actually a pretty good one, as in this period fundamental changes in politics, economy, and society developed. (Most) Colonial empires collapsed, as well as the reigning structures in very many countries around the world. The foundations of the modern welfare states were laid. The monetary gold standard was overturned and modern economic theories introduced and applied.
The focus on the wars and their atrocities is a bit unfortunate though.
Powered flight was only 1 technology that I would have mentioned. Programmable computers. Antibiotics. The splitting of the atom. All achievements within the first 1/2 to 2/3 of the 20th century, and all born from or propelled by conflict.
@@noinfo5630 Powered flight was just one example. Programmable computers. Splitting the atom. Antibiotics. The first 1/2 to 2/3 of the 20th century saw vast progress in so may fields, and so many driven primarily by conflict.
@@noinfo5630the Wrights were the First, actually.
The massive slaughters of the wars, etnich cleansing and other atrocities have scared us from loosing control again.
we go to war because our enemies committed the most horrific crime... being born on the other side of the hill.
Oh come on , you HAD to hit the poor sould with BOTH world wars right out the gate D:
please cool it with the bg music
good story tho
Geck is back!
15-20 million died because of WW1 not the 40 million they said, that was WW2
You're awesome brudda.
Love your story’s
2:55 "I shuddenly remembered my Charlemagne."
"Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky."
poor alien
Alright, next time you all ask who our favorite narrator is we need the option to make more than one choice, my favorite does not mean I don't like the others.
This gentleman, is definitely a strong favorite but I could only pick one...
Sad face.
Ok so yeah part 4.. 5? Of the ugc universe nice to see it offically get made into a series.
Intergalactic spaceport so there also ships to other galaxies?
OMG! The history of Poland... I would have fled as well as I would have heard where they went through in WWII... That wasn't exactly "fun time" everywhere on Earth, but in Poland it was exceptionally bad...
Second: In Europe we don't have to take taxies from star- or airports. We catch a train. 😉
Third: Poland has AWESOME cuisine.
Paper and carcinogen tube is a fantastic way to describe a cigarette XD -coming from an ex smoker.
Does background play not work on members only videos? Anyone know cause these seem like the only ones it fails to play
Extraterrestrial studies?
Should have gone for terrestrial studies.
If you look at history even as far back as 5000 bce, there has been a war somewhere on earth almost everyday to the modern day. If memory serves there has been a total of between 50-100 years where no wars have occurred during this time.
then you have the long wars.
The Napoleonic campaigns
The Crusades
THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR (Between England and France lasting a whopping 112 years) England and France have spent more time at war with eachother than the US has exited in total. The hundred years war is just longest.
@@t8kabr8km85
Technically there was a war between the Netherlands and an English island that lasted 400 years.
@@target5350 there was nearly another a few years ago apparently...
serious the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson actually considered invading the Netherlands... its in his recent book... bro just admited "yeah i nearly shattered NATO"
@@t8kabr8km85
oups
for information the war than i speak was discovered in 1985. it star during a civil war in england and end in 1986, precisely 335 year after the beginning. there were no fight during this war.
the background audio is a bit much. hard to focus on whats being read when my ears are ringing from the droning sound in the background
Hmm, I didn’t even notice it until I read this.
poland mentioned
Okay…why was the United States not mentioned EITHER TIME?!?
two wars, two years late both times
Funny he never mentioned Canada either. Canada has more colourful history in wars then the USA does. At least in the colour red. Like how a single Canadian liberated a city. Or how 21 Canadians fought off and defeated an army of 14k North Koreans and Chinese despite an arsenal and numbers disadvantage. I think the greatest number Canadians have been outnumbered in a war (and obviously won) was something like 800 to 1.
Maybe because of the well merited criticism of the usual US defaultism...
Still, the prof mentioned miles. (That phrase was actually double stupid as he guessed/estimated a distance in Europe in rounded miles and then converted it in exact km.)
@@gazman50s we weren't late for the second war.
@@devinwhite5064 USA didn't send troups till after Pearl Harbour though they did supply weapons from start almost
Hello from Alabama
yea we r bad people if you look at it from the outside
Nice beard.
What the hell is with the music?
4,999th viewer exactly
Yay 😁
So, a Generation Zed and two Neo-Boomers walk into a bar....
You guys forgot about a Freiren video. Look for the one about humans running.
story seemed kind of pointless and the alien was ridiculous. Ot was that the point of the story? That the alien had become enamored of human culture, but was unprepared for human history? That makes him short sighted and ridiculous.
This story is more about smoking and false facts of history.👎
3:19 Right own up, who told him it was a good idea to study history in Poland...
Are you trying to make us look bad...