What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
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Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you, if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so everything he touched turned into gold.
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You guys are awesome! I really want one of those.
Edit: yay 8 likes
But, I can't afford
I fast
yes
I THOUGHT YOU SAID DYNAMITE!
Thank you for FINALLY addressing magic.
Hi, Jesus. How's heaven?
2nd
Yo ma man make this a little more realistic
yo how God doing bro?
Hello God Please make 2021 better
Jesus Christ it’s Jesus Christ
"gold is about 20 times denser than a duck"
*takes notes furiously*
This *is* important. It means gold is not a witch.
Who are you so wise in the words of science?
@@radekc5325 monthy pyton reference? :D
*insert noted meme here
Toyota corolla
"However, gold is very dense: about 20x denser than a duck"
One of my favorite Kurzgezagt quotes
Good one
So we can conclude that gold is not a witch?
"According to science, the moon is big and very massive"
And then the duck sounds afterwards. 😂
@@FlammifleureWho are you good sir so wise in the ways of science.
The idea that Midas just violently explodes the first time he uses his curse is too funny to pass up
King Midas: 🥹🪙💥
So true
@@dnpjj dawg thats the funniest shit ive seen all year
Ha Ha
This comment has 911 likes 👀👀👀👀
"lets say Midas stumbles again."
He doesn't learn does he.
Uncle ben every spiderman movie: First time?
Underrated comment
Guys here me out, turn the earth to uranium/plutonium
@@ethancarlos3809 Similar problems, but with radiation.
@@ethancarlos3809 Anti matter
That was far more catastrophic and deadly than I was expecting...
Didn't know you watched kurzgesagt
Anybody realized the cure for the gold touch was using Running water
On the object
So essentially the earth would suddenly gain mass then....
Go back to normal till he touched it again
@@badatsomerhing oh, right.
Was still fun tho
I was expecting "so now there's no more food to eat, and the scenery will get boring after a while", not "and the world is F*CKED"
shouldn't you be playing diep now?
"Pressure quadriples, which is a bad thing if you like living". This channel is pure gold
Does that mean that it's dead?
pure "gold"
pun intended :D
That right there was a violation. personally, I woudn't have it
Any discrepancies between the original myth and this interpretation can be easily explained with "Midas can't learn his lesson if the world is destroyed, so his gold touch only works on things the gods want it to work on."
When you use science to analyze magic, it simply fights back with more magic.
i like how this implies the world being destroyed would be perfectly fine as long as midas learns his lesson first
@@okebedokeThat would be a very Greek god thing of them to do.
Kurzgesagt: You want Earth turn to gold?
Anyone: Yes
Kurzgesagt: *DIE*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Correction: Kurzgesagt: You die off da
😂
@Ì Àm Ķēvïn BB stfu
@Ì Àm Ķēvïn BB bot
The people that wrote myths had no idea what they're doing
?? Lol wut
Do you know what you're doing?
Well, it's a story from ancient Greece, it was just for fun and how the hell were they supposed to know the physics? Midas never turned the Earth into gold in the story anyway and probably couldn't.
@@ub3rfr3nzy94 I agree he probably couldn't. The earth's surface is not a homogenous solid. Each particle he touches would turn to gold. I don't think it would spread.
a lot of whoosh here
Atmospheric compression was something I hadn't thought about. Those kinds of things are my favorite to learn of (or be reminded of) in your videos.
Not gonna lie, suddenly floating for 10 minutes only to fall down on a very dense mineral sounds terrifying.
I like how they take a random stoner idea and turn it into a well-researched and insightful video
Yeah
which is why watching it stoned is mindblowing
@@BiliminOtesinde yeah... but... ummm... I can't understand your language...
Helo
there's a book called "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" that I'd highly recommend.
What i learned in this video:
*"Gold is about 20 times denser than duck"*
ur a teacher aka poopy head
@@lolliii5477 I was about to make a comment about that ! "What can also float ?"
...
"Ducks !"
"Okay, so if we attach her to a duck and wood, and if she floats, then she is made of wood, which means ..."
"SHE'S A WITCH !!!"
@@lolliii5477 what
But does it float like a duck?
@@WarpigCTS i didn’t really get it
For everything Kurzgesagt is, I greatly appreciate all of the transparency. Not enough channels are.
As soon as I read the title lyrics started to play in my head "Touch me Midas, make me part of your design" cannot imagine how beautiful it would look. Entire world stuck in a moment, every particle as far as eye can see is golden. Nothing is alive yet none is dead either, sparkling under sunshine, coloring the entire sky.
“Gold is 20x more dense than a duck”
Citation needed
You uh.. you got a water bath and a duck?
Yes, but does it float?
Hmm
@@nickel36 ok
Well, gold isn't a witch.
Scenario 1: Everybody dies
Scenario 2: Everybody dies
Scenario 3: Everybody dies
*Magic is a beautiful thing*
✨Glorious indeed✨
Answer: Dethrone the Grim Reaper
Ok but at least scenario 2 you get to fly for a bit
scenario 4: profit
@@1amSam true, that'd be fun for a while.
Ynow, until you get smashed into a red puddle.
This is the first Kurzgesagt video I watched (a few years back) and it got me hooked. Its still my favourite video on this channel - there's something about it that makes it a really enjoyable watch. Can't exactly pinpoint what that is
I love how they put the effort into making the rock he trips on turn to gold too! 2:21 / 9:16 Amazing attention to detail!
Also… JESUS MIDAS, YOU TRIP TWICE AND DOOM THE WORLD!
TWICE!
Scenario 1: Death
Scenario 2: Death
Scenario 3: Death
Sounds about right.
Well we won't know for sure until we try it!
Jokes on you queen Elizabeth will walk of without a scratch
It wouldn't be a kurzgesagt video if there is no existential threat :D
@@PISSON shut up, she has some MILK
It is like a Prequell: It is not about where we end, only about the way we take to get there :)
So, the "Au-pocalypse"?
🤣🤣🤣
Your brow is too high for this congregation sir.
underrated comment
Thank god someone did it. I was going to go to Mars in protest if nobody had done this yet.
Very good. But also, get out.
2:16 the best kurz quote
Ive always thought - if the Midas story was true, Midas would be touching particles at all times, so he would turn the entire existance of everything ever into gold.
Yeah technically he would be coated in a very thin layer of gold constantly and all of his organs will also be coated in this thin layer constantly. This would happen because the air touching his skin would turn to gold. This means he’s constantly touching gold and can never turn anything else to gold.
if midas’s power was to actually be feasible (through magic), it would need to follow a few rules:
1. midas’s power only turns solid things to gold, no turning the entire atmosphere solid
2. he can only turn things to hold with the tip of his pointer finger
3. his power has a radius. something like 10 meters or so should be good
4. midas doesn’t create new matter, he just moves existing atoms around and somehow doesn’t cause them to go nuclear. since we’re not turning an entire planet to gold, that weird spongey gold shouldn’t have a huge effect on anything.
or you could just say it’s magic and not think too hard, your choice
@@wren_. all the superpowers in legends are more like gestures designed by app developers than new natural forces working according to laws of nature: devs kinda guessed what Midas wanted to achieve with his gold-touch and implement that (but there is a possibility for dangerous misunderstandings and bugs lol)
Moral of the story: Magic is easy, the consequences are not.
Just ask The VVitch.
well, it's a curse so yeah
Have you ever heard the tragedy of King Midas, the greedy?
@@nightgazr Is it possible to learn this power?
There are no consequences if I have nothing to lose
My new favorite Kurzgesagt quote: "if you learned anything, please let us know what it was"
"because we have no idea what it could have been"
Don't touch grass
@@oldest200 lol
r/TIL motto
I should no longer worry that; if the solid body of the Earth became solid Gold, I would slowly STARVE to death! (as there would be no more arable land to grow crops)
No Sirree! I would instead die from a big explosion, burning up, or a giant SPLAT!
YAY! . . . . uh? . . .Wait a minute. . . . .
This is one of my favorite videos, the results of earth being gold causing major danger everywhere is really interesting
I always try to watch your amaizing videos every day 2 or 3 times for each, and i can expand my knowledge about everything i am interested in. keep going
“Gold is 20x denser than a duck” that’s the info I’m leaving this video with
And ducks float; therefore a witch!
@@maxximumb Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
Hmmm just turn the ocean into gold too.
what does dense mean?
Maxx B You were faster than me
Lesson learned: King Midas touching his daughter and turning her to gold was NOT the worst thing that could have happened.
He must never stumble
Very true
Wonder if he peed no hands.
@@who9387 The term Metalhead has a whole new meaning now.
@@mathewwright4129 Nice
6:23 “Which is a bad thing if you like living”
Made my day
Watching KGZ feels like magic! Those animation and smooth narration are simply beautiful and makes me feel amazed by everything in the video. And then, when you think 'Huh, nice theories', it hits you that they actually did all the math behind this
What I learned: Being careless when modifying physics is probably a bad idea.
SOUP
@@Ciro_Esposto S O U P
What I learned: not using my Midas curse on the planet :-(
What i learned: modifying physics is a bad idea in general
@Asvo 777 YES
i learned that calling someone “gold” is a great insult since that means they’re 20x denser than a duck
Okay, we can all go home. The internet has been won for today. We can all try again tomorrow.
Damm fella, you're gold
black hole is more powerful
Lmfaooooo I'm screaming 😭🤣😭🤣
amateurs. the best insult is your like the universe. beacuse it expands more and more everyday
This was the first kurzgesagt vid i ever watched. Two years later, it’s still a banger 👌
This is hands down my favorite channel on RUclips.
Midas: *near a stone on the ground*
Humanity: [softly] Don't.
this is underrated
Near the end, I was like "good, everyone is already dead, so they can't illustrate more horrific death sequences."
And then the mountains had faces.
lmao
They add faces to everything, i expect that sometime they are going to put a face on a door
@@marcoantoniosenzanoarteaga1857 lol
Sound of Perseverance but GOLD
You could say the Hills have eyes
Awesome as always!!
I would like to mention a few things. Fantastic video and excellent work. I'm a little surprised how the video never mentioned the possibility of the moon crashing down to Earth due to the shift in gravity and how it may affect its orbital pattern which can result into colliding with other planets, or even the Sun. Here's an interesting question, how much gold can the Earth contain before the mass of gold start affecting the Earth's gravity? If space voyages, travels, and excavation are a thing of the future, then to what extent can we haul things back to Earth before imported material affects the Earth's gravity and how much more before the Moon is affected by Earth's gravity? And on a reverse note, how much material we send into space do the same which causes reduced gravitational pulls and ultimately sending the moon hurling into the vastness of space?
"Gold is 22 times denser than a duck."
Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?
From now on I'll expect the channel to measure density in ducks.
Underrated comment
I guess that means gold is 22 times denser then wood as well
Probably some guy from a certain country where they certainly doesn't use metric units
It's 20 times denser u r wrong;)-
“Hey whats going on with the physics engine?”
“The ducks are back at it... again...”
Its code has a duck in it.
Unity has crashed
Reason: Quack
God dammit.
*Lord Jesus died & rose again to free u from sin accept His Gift by faith*
@@aaravyadav9906 ...
I like how much effort and research Kurzgesagt put into their videos. Well made 👍
My son said he learned that we shouldn’t make the earth into gold. Thanks for the lesson.
The moral of the story is, never underestimate Kurzegsats ability to turn any scenario, into the most gruesome end of the world story you can imagine
That i agree. I love the animation when i eat somthing but i will need a paper bag to breath after watching this . Anything or any scenario could kill u if kruzgazts is making a video
Ikr, it even rivals What if, the master of apocalyptic scenarios!
and still make it sounds as wholesome and fun as possible too. It's the only channel I've found out that makes the apocalypse sound fun to learn about without freaking me out XD
ditto
Way to go Kurzgesagt, making a Greek mythology so realistic and cruel
"If you learned anything in this video, let us know what it was"
Truly a masterful educator quote
ikr lol
I learned that existential crisis exist again
sounds like what teachers should say after your classes end.
Not sure tl:df
@D Cheru that is fair enough
The fact he puts so much detail into just a 9 minute animation
This was the first video I saw from kirzgesagt, love it. Also, my man has even cooler mark rober music
So, in theory the third scenario just makes earth soup? A bunch of animals and plants boiled in water? It would even be well seasoned.
Served in a platter of gold
best tasting soup, in a golden bowl... kinda.
a bit salty perhaps
All the salt would be gold
It’s not a scenario it’s just God making soup
Kurzgesagt's answer in any RUclips video: "So basically, everyone dies."
3 ppl have copied you in an hour and all of them have more likes. I'll never understand why people do this. It's very primitive behavior. Maybe we all should turn gold and blow up. We can't even respect each other, let alone the rock we live on.
I came looking for copper and I found gold. Pun intended.
Yes, and no. "Everyone dies" is just the short answer, the LONG answer is: "This is HOW everyone will die", and THAT is what makes this channel so great ;D
@@Technicallyaddicted Legends say you are still counting comments
as life is a concept of reaching death eventually
Omg i love this kind of animation style it's so smooth..
이번 화는 개그 요소가 역대급으로 많이 나온 거 같네요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 주제만큼이나 웃긴 설명이였습니다
someone: "Hmm, I wonder what would happen if--"
Kurzgesagt: "Chaos, death and destruction, apocalypse from the deep sights of hell"
Legit
B I R D S
golden earth looks so cool
Nice copy and paste from the german version 😂
But Kurzgesagt will survive
Planet: **Literally turns into gold**
The atmosphere: *Ight imma head out*
Is more like: you have chosen death
The atmosphere: imma go back to Mars, peace!
so funny
@@Toastedletoast 1 million years later imma go make life
atmosphere pressure: ight imma head *in*
good job it was really interesting!!!!😄
Thanks for your information in visual form 😊✌️
"In one instant, Basically all of humanity gets smashed into red puddles'
Happy, upbeat music in the background
It’s like minecraft
Yea, that moment just made me laugh :D perfect combo noone expected :D :D
"...Causing the duck to explode with the power of half a ton of tnt, and leaving a very dead midas"
...
"This isn't a very good way for midas's power to work"
" So, what if midas' power was to rearrange the gold using the atoms? This is makes a funky gold with tiny microscopic gaps, which is progress.."
I know right
I dont quite get why though..? the duck is mostly water and lighter elements so if those same atomes turn to gold how come they are suddenly too close to each other..?
@yak B. because most stuff in our body is made from molecules, but when each atom turns into a gold atom the molecules fall apart releasing some energy and also gold atoms which are initially as close to each other as original atoms in the molecule were, are now much larger so they get violently pushed apart?
I have no idea how they calculated what the energy of that explosion would be though...
@@markinipannini I read up on it now and not quite.. its just that gold atoms are much much larger than most of the atoms in the duck (water, helium) so if each of them swells up there is suddenly much less space available between the atoms. Now GOld is naturally denser than water but gold atoms are so much larger that it becomes too dense even for gold. Thats what threw me off originally
The second scenario is really neat as a sci-fi concept. A planet of pure gold floating in space cause it imploded during transmutation and basically ejectedin outer space everything that was on it is a very stylish apocalypse.
That poor bird at 6:25 was just vibing and after the change he looked so miserable all squished and soaked. Poor birb :(
My favorite quote:
“Which is a bad thing if you like living”
Reminds me of glados
Ha! Jokes on them cause I hate it >:)
@@Bernardoribei no
Literally every one of Kurzgesact's videos has this quote
"Everyone is dead, and then things get bad."
So you’re telling me Midas’ touch is basically Killer Queen but worse? Got it
fancier kira queen
Shit, why didn't i saw that one coming
Underrated
Nah, it's「Gold Experience Requiem Over Heaven」
Holy moly i just saw ur commentlikes from 7 tp 100
Thank you for making vids bruv
I don't think im the first to notice but i love the ape in the beginning near the bottom that has a different object depending on the subject of the video, its allways fun to see what he has in each episode
People: What if-
Science: everything dies
This pretty much sums up my thoughts on this video
ok but what if we had t-
Science: I said everything dies!
@@xislomega242
Science: Everything dies !
Me: No, U
@@cezarcatalin1406
Science:**dies**
Humanity: so uhh, was science?
Philosophy: My child, and thanks for asking.
@eljun hitaas w
"If you learned anything, let us know what it was."
You guys are phenomenal. Please don't stop.
Ikr
I learned that living things, humans included, can only survive environments they were designed for.
nah living things would probably do fine if the change spread at a slow rate of say 100kg of a material a day slowly spreading from the initial contact point. Yes starvation would kick in but the change would be gradual enough as to be survivable so long as food and water were covered.
@@brendago4505 we werent designed. we evolved to live here
“Not this shit again...”
“This is funky and doesn’t explode, which is progress.”
I freaking love this cannel.
If there’s one thing I learned, changing matter on large scales almost always goes south nearly immediately…
The lesson is: if you’re granting a mortal magic gold-transformation powers, give them a maximum range.
Lol so true
The almost viral spread of the gold is insane. The energy input required... 😂
Also make it the explosion version so that the problem "solves" itself. A one time use sort of thing with a maximum range of say hmmm....one duck.
@@blazingeek Yeah, they didn't take that into consideration with E=mc^2
The one time the fay will say, "Dude . . . are you sure you want to phrase it that way?"
Kurzgesagt: All of humanity gets smashed into red puddles
The music:🌈🌞🌞🎉🌈😀
i dont see why not
*Society*
Komm, süsser Tod
@@luissemedo3597 YES
Also, "this is only the start of our problems"
The Midas touch always has been and always shall be a CURSE xD Glad to see it still holds up today.
i like how there is a jolly and happy music as background
"this is funky and doesn't explode, wich is progress." i love this channel
"The atmospheric presser quadruples which is a bad thing if you like living"
More proof that this show is pure gold
Pun absolutely intended
Also him 3 ways to destroy humanity move the sun make a black hole bom and make an ellfant explode everyone should sub to this channel always
Science resumed in a single phrase
@Minh Tri Nguyen ok grammerly:)
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤐🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
humans: get splattered like water balloons
music: *happiness noises*
But not if you were inside. Then you'd just fall down from the ceiling. (Assuming the building was still attached to the planet.) You'd have to wait for the next part of the disaster to kill you.
@@JK-vp2ux The ceiling is also moving at insanely fast speeds, so you'll still smash into the floor
@@JK-vp2ux Say you're in a car going at 500 miles per hour.
What would happen if it abruptly stopped mid race?
You would get catapulted outside at that very speed.
That's how inertia works.
Proof the world has turned into 'gold'
In circulation, There are $37 trillion, meaning abt 34.45 thousand cubic meters of gold, $1.2 quadrillion in cryptocurrencies. That is equal to 1.12 million cubic meters of gold, so world has 1.15 million cubic meters of gold, and Elon Musk's home is full of 'figurative gold'
Hey I’m fine with that
I always love the soundtrack of kurzgesagt.
My favorite scientific field of study, look at this thing it’s really big. The look at this thing be big quote is one of my favorites.
I learned that MIdas' touch is less "get all the money you would ever want" and more "I can erase every trace of life on this planet if I sneeze too hard"
What's the point of having money if anything you buy with it turns into more money?
@Ì Am ĶèvìñBB Shut off, not even a shut up because you don't deserve it
He could also remove the economy. And plummet the price of gold
Okay I've reported The Bots, Any more Bots want another report?
Everything collapses, free falls, burns, explodes and dies
Government: This is bad for the economy
sup
Bad? ｎｏ
ｓｕｐｅｒ ｍｅｇａｔｏｎｉｃ ｍａｄｓｉｖｅ ｕｌｔｒａｍａｓｓｉｖｅ ｂａｄ．
They are not wrong tho
No problem, the market will correct itself. Other than the gold market that is, that's doomed
hear me out
sell gold to aliens for profit
2:05
Better take notes. Best information I've ever heard.
thank you so much you have helped so many teachers playing these videos for kids to watch
I learnt that Kurzgesagt uses cute birds to explain how we are going to die in darker and darker settings.
oh dear
I perceived this setting as very.... bright. Almost like shiny gold...
@@timothy7988 yes, and that's perfectly fine
yup, basically
@@timothy7988 Why does it matter
The lesson here is that pre-scientific storytellers rarely stopped to think about the implications of the powers they were giving their characters.
> rarely
... you mean they did at _all?_ :V
I mean according to another comment, the original Midas could turn grass blades to gold but not the actual earth. So I contend the real lesson is that pre-scientific myths were more aware of the implications than we realize! (jk of course...)
ahh yes cause post scientific storytellers have ALWAYS thought about the implications of the powers they were giving their characters.
The irony here is that the entire point of the story of King Midas is about the implications of the power he had
"Pre-scientific" storytellers were usually relating a moral, something practical or positive attitudes that people should think about and apply to their own lives and relationships. There's a lot more to life than just science.
Bestest episode of the year.
i feel like, from a logical standpoint, the shrinkage wont just immediately start, but will take time for the gold to start squeezing and collapsing inside, and then once stopping, it will also take a while for it to stop rather than it being immediate, due to it filling up air pockets and vacuums, with it starting to provide resistance gradually and slowly coming to a standstill.
though im likely wrong.
It's funny how the narrator is saying "You would spatter on to the earth's surface like a water balloon, turning into a puddle on blood" with a calm voice, and lively music is being played in the backgroud
@Ailsa Ni are you a bot
That's exactly why a lot of "In a Nutshell out of context" videos exist!
@@grandmacat406 most likely
Lol u copied me and still got more likes. Well done! Hats off to u
@@Epicguy_101 nah you just wrote very little
It’s funny how to narrator is so calm in every scenario, he talks about humanity dying like it’s a normal occurrence like “yup they die again :)”
It happened before. Mother Nature survived still. It will happen again, no doubt about it. So if ya know a thing or two about living things and the Earth's history, yeah it's a common occurrence.
Welcome to the Kurzgesagt channel where everyone dies casually every other day
I see that my wording makes me sound like I’m new to the channel... nope been here for 2-3 years so far (obviously no one will care but I’m putting this here before I get slapped with more welcomes)
They probably use a text to speech software
Pretty trippy ya ?
seeing gore and dead birds in a kurzgesagt video is so grim lol
I love kuzgesagt it also helps me when I’m studying for tests
"Gold is 20x more dense than a duck"
People who measure with anything *BUT* the metric system
where the hell is the problem, thats not the point, reading whats between the lines wrong is a horrible mistake
@@tareksukkarieh6741 You must be great at parties
@@kalinivanov2596 yeah, maybe, 2 years ago before corona virus (small question: what does party mean, i forgot)
i cant understand you, my FREEDOM UNITS ARE TOO LOUD!
@@selectionn Keep measuring in feet and football stadiums then. It's just your maths questions and rulers that are going to be useless
"Permission to research about gold"
"For what purpose?"
*"To explode the earth and kill every living beings"*
*_"Pemission granted."_*
@Ì Am ĶèvìñBB No, but have a nice day.
"Permission to research gold?"
"To learn scientific properties of the material?"
"Yeeees..."
*actually turns everything into gold like a boss^
APOCALYPSE TIME
OK master Chief
EVIL SCIENTIST UNIVERSITY
Lel
"Lets freeze time, and rearrange all matter on earth."
God I love this channel
I expect question be answered in different ways. For example: Let's assume things transfer to golf with different speed: 1m/s or other speed that doesn't make things collapse suddenly.
Lessons learned from this video:
Lesson one: Don't poke the laws of physics. They will kill you.
Lesson two: The people that wrote myths had no idea what they're doing
Lesson three: The human race does not deserve this channel
Ok
Lesson four: Don't turn the earth into gold.
No, only the duck race deserves this channel
Only black holes can poke physics
Lesson four: RUN! RUN! ONLY THE DUCK CAN SAVE US!
Who ever got the reference, you are my new best friend.
Moral of the story: Don't ever let Midas stumble.
Just put some latex on that bad boy and we’ll be alright
@oʇoɥd ǝlıɟoɹd ʎɯ ʞɔılɔ ʇ,uop dont worry I wont
@oʇoɥd ǝlıɟoɹd ʎɯ ʞɔılɔ ʇ,uop not going to :)
So true
@oʇoɥd ǝlıɟoɹd ʎɯ ʞɔılɔ ʇ,uop对不起，我不会说粤语 sorry I don't speak cantonese
I guess we just gave a knack for sating curiosity, especially the kind we didn't even know about until its sated.
I need a kurzgesagt video to answer this question: what would happen to our solar system, our planet, and us if a 4th spatial dimension were suddenly added to the universe?
"Gold is 20x denser than a duck."
Ladies and gentlemen, America's measurement system in a nutshell.
I was telling people a few days ago, that the US really needs to hold a second independence day. A day to finish the job and declare independence from the British imperial units system, effectively enforced upon the US when my British ancestors sunk the French ship that was scheduled to present the metric system to the newly founded US government that was waiting to make it the national standard. Strangely most Americans I talk to seem oddly protective of that old colonial era relic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And we're proud of it.
There was an episode of "Ducktales", the cartoon show, where the whole planet turned into gold.
So... not a witch.
@@UnknownSquid bruhhhhh
One thing I learned: On top of being awful people, the gods of Olympus were dangerously stupid.
you didn't learn this from any of the other myths?!
Unless I misremember, this story is more about Midas himself being dangerously stupid than the god who granted his wish.
(And not all of them are THAT bad- Aphrodite, Hephaestus, and Artemis are practically cordial)
So true
@@heatherrockwell9012 >aphrodite
see trojan war
and a ton of other myths
@@SalreixVonOtsuu Look, I'm comparing to people like Zeus and Hera here, the bar is low.
This is the funniest Kurzgesagt video to this day.