Okay, multiple mistakes in the video I want to address (reply if you spot any more) First 3:50 is not a map to show the sizes of the planets. Second, I said in the video you can "pass right through gas giants" but this is also wrong, they have cores. Third, a lot of people commented that both Voyagers have already left the Solar System, this depends on what your definition of "leaving the solar system" is. If you define it as reaching interstellar space, then it has left, if you define it as leaving the Oort Cloud that surrounds our Solar System, then the video is accurate. This NASA link should clear some of that up :science.nasa.gov/resource/oort-cloud-and-scale-of-the-solar-system-infographic/ Fourth: I mentioned that if you fell into a black hole you would see the end of the Universe, this is assuming you fell into one that would survive until the end of the Universe, which is debated so take that statement with a grain of salt. This video was made early into my channels lifespan and by this point I didn't check my work as thouroughly, and my research was a bit off at times. My newer videos are a lot better researched and checked for any mistakes. Have a great day :D
not sure if this is actually the truth, but J1407b's rings aren't real, they're a myth! it's just (i think) the most likely answer to how a brown dwarf was caught passing along it's star. a simple youtube or google search can tell you more :)
5:30 The Earth 🌍 is neither tiny or fragile. Texas alone from north to south, is about 801 miles (1,289 kilometers) long. From east to west, Texas is about 773 miles (1,244 kilometers) wide. Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 has totally recovered and rebuilt itself from getting hit by an atomic bomb almost 80 years ago now. That’s largely due to the nuke blast being an Air Burst as opposed to a ground burst, which would’ve infected the earth with deadly radiation particles. And Homo sapiens could detonate every nuclear bomb in their collective arsenal and it wouldn’t even come close to destroying Mount Everest!
The "planet" j1407b seems to not be a plant as its transit orbit has not been made since its one and only transit, it is possibly a brown dwarf with a circumstellar disc which caused the dips in light that was seen as rings of a planet, theres a video by Kyplanet that goes in depth about the myth, love the video either way.
@@TheRealQuartzwas about to comment the same thing. The myth of that planet is so far reaching the studies proving it doesn’t exist get overshadowed by everything else
@@I_Am_RYU Tis the over sensationalizing of astro media, still sad it isn't real but I mean a brown dwarf getting close to a star is still pretty interesting
Fun fact! When William Shatner went up there and looked at Earth, he got such a huge sense of existential dread that, to sum it up, he reported that instead of the awe and majesty he was expecting to feel, he thought he was looking at a funeral.
I can see that…the thought of leaving the relative safety of Earth and floating off into NOTHING, HORRIFIES me. VOIDS TERRIFY me! The deep sea, Space, Out-of-bounds glitches in Video games, it’s all nightmare fuel to me.
@zhitposterzupreme9120 According to the book that you think is true, God eventually ends up burning this world and making a new one after unceremoniously torturing and slaughtering everyone who didn't like him. If that God is real, this isn't a prison. That makes this planet a straight-up concentration camp.
This is actually true, what if us 'Earthlings' weren't meant to be and that we are just so fortunate to even exist. Interesting concept to think about...
@@xMorbidArtx So, you are still dealing in probability. I agree with you but I leave open the possibility that we are alone. I think the distances are so vast that we cannot contact any other intelligent life and we can’t get to any of the planets in any reasonable timeframe to reach them to find unintelligent life.
Fun fact: J1407b isn’t a planet with a large ring system, instead it’s a brown dwarf, a gas giant that is almost a star, with a pro planetary disc where planets are actively forming It is so inconceivably big for a planet because it isn’t a planet. It’s a whole stellar system.
I was never really scared of space before I got into Astronomy, I only could really tell I was scared of space when I realized how terrified I felt looking at planets.
I do get a sense of existential dread from time to time. But space has always been a fascination of mine since I was a little kid and watched Star Wars for the first time
Space is so beautiful yet so terrifying. Pictures of phenomena in space such as the pillars of creation are beautiful, but then you have to remind yourself that those pillars are real. They exist and they are larger than human comprehension. Absoloutly terrifying.
This struck me more as sad than scary. The thought that we cannot know everything, experience and examine every little quirk and abnormalities of other planets.
Let me give you hope. If multiversal theory is true, then it's simply a matter of time. At our current rate of technological advancement, we need only survive. Leave this planet before that is no longer possible- or before we render the earth devoid of the resources to do so before going extinct, and damning any future intelligent earthlife. If we can bide our time, and keep researching, learning and innovating, we can confirm multiversal theory. If it is false, we can still keep advancing, and die with our universe, confident that we mastered our laws of nature- and if it's true, we need only learn how to access & navigate the multiverse. If we can escape our universe before it can no longer support life, or even matter? We become an infinite species. We have eternity to pursue any goals we want, free from our biological imperative, to not go extinct. We could effectively travel to parallel universes, to learn as much as there is to know about a thing, and then move on. ..the only problem is, we need to keep the bastards, liars and idiots out of power, for good. Before their bullshit kills us all.
@@lebronjamesharden3958some of us crave knowledge, and are sad at all the lost or unattainable knowledge that humanity will never have access to. Some of us avoid knowledge like it's radioactive, and view gaining a wrinkle on their smooth brain as a bad thing. We know which you are.
Looking at the planets through my telescope is always unsettling, especially Jupiter and Saturn. It’s so weird to finally see the planets you always learned about in school with your own eyes. It’s a reminder that these objects actually exist and are always hovering above us, no matter if it’s night or day. Plus, the planets look so tiny in the eyepiece, but I know they are enormous beyond comprehension.
Not to mention the fact that they would spell literal death if you actually went near them. Even before you could burn up in the atmosphere, you'd be crushed under your own weight due to the sheer magnitude of the gravitational pull-and even if that didn't happen, you'd literally be torn asunder by the sheer force of the raging storms and winds that make up the entirety of the planet's activity.
"Shoot for the moon. If you fail, you'll still end up floating endlessly in the void of space" just doesn't have the same ring to it but sums of my simultaneous fear and fascination with space
There's also something that's really scary but also sad about space. Because of the huge distance of most of the stars, planets and galaxy we see, their light takes a really long time to reach earth. So most of the time we the sky or see photos from stars and planets from really far away, we are seeing how they looked like in more than thousands of years, and they probably were gone for a long time. We are basically seeing their ghosts, ghosts from stars and planets that don't exist anymore.
Part 2: the rate of universal expansion is increasing, meaning that everything in our sphere of observation is all we'll ever get, and even that will be reduced, over time. It will eventually become impossible to ever reach or even detect anything whatsoever beyond the closest stars today. One day, the universe really will be just our own galaxy. Afterwards, our local group.. Soon after that, the entirety of what humans can ever perceive will be contained within only our own solar system, which would be long gone by then, I think. Wherever humans are by then, I hope they can figure out how to eke out existence beyond this place. Existence is good. I like existing. Not existing would probably be less preferable.
That's just from our minuscule perspective here on earth boyo, I physically can't imagine anything greater than that but that's okay to me. Small or big, we are all one and the same. We are the universe
@@ASMRvalentinaa I mean, radio waves still take time to travel. I'm no expert, but I would assume that means those radio waves were also produced a long time ago, as they had to travel all the way to us for them to be observed
Theres definitely a reason that "awe" is the root word of both "awesome" and "awful." Space is definitely awe-inspiring. It is unfathomably beautiful, but also unfathomably terrifying.
I will give this guy credit. This is the first space video I have clicked on in A WHILE that was not click-bait and a-waste of (really everyone's) time. Great video and thanks!
Time dilation is horrifying. The fact that you can get so close to a black hole that what feels like mere hours for you could be millions of years gone by for everyone back home. Humanity could be destroyed, or even colonized entire star systems, or even evolved out of existence in what feels like mere minutes for you is just wild
Humanity will most likely be done within the next couple thousand years, let alone millions. It's ignorant to assume humanity will be anything other than one small period of history.
Boots Void is also terrifying. Imagine drifting through space around absolutely nothing. No stars. Just you and the pitch black darkness that goes on what might at well be forever. It ain't just what's in space, it's what's not.
Local Group. Those are the only galaxies that we can ever reach if we don't invent FTL. All other galaxies are moving away from us. In a trillion years all we will see is Local Group.
@@ProjectExMachina I saw a map of the Virgo supercluster that places our galaxy not far from a void called the Local Void. We definitely didn’t get the best spot in terms of expanding our presence throughout the universe. The map is basically a galaxy density map of the supercluster
I’m terrified of space, just the feeling of being able to float and fly away without being able to stop it? Is so SCARY. I played a VR space game and I genuinely couldn’t take a step. Even while I was inside of the ship. I often fear randomly while outside, that gravity will suddenly fail, and I will float up into the sky, and I’ll be unable to stop it. Which is an INSANE thing to fear, since it’s impossible.
Bro wtf i thought i was the only person that gravity would just turn off and id float away, and i just got this fear recently. I never had this fear until a couple months ago
@@22lrjayden81alright this is rlly weird because ive developed the same fear just a few years ago. i did research about it online and its not a very common fear at all, but there are studies linking it to OCD apparently. im glad to know im not alone in this though, more people understand my fear than i thought. its very sad because it can honestly get debilitating, especially if im walking outside at night. i start to lose my balance and feel nauseous.
Space scares me because of all the blackness. It’s like staring out a window on a pitch black night and you don’t see anything. It’s uncertainty, black holes are even scarier
I'm not afraid of space myself. it's one of the last things that still arouses childlike wonder in me. one of my favorite movies ever as a kid and still is treasure planet. of course not realistic, but still it evokes in me a feeling and the thought that space is the last unexplored ocean. Great Video ! 10/10 ! Have a good day everyone. may the star winds blow into your sails, taking you forward towards the great universe.
8:17 You will love to know that J1407b is not a real planet, as its status as one was merely theorized, but the media blew it out of proportion, in reality J1407b was probably a rogue brown dwarf that was surrounded by an immense protoplanetary dust cloud. They realized it once they never saw it again after passing in front of its star, and considering telescopes have observed that particular star for centuries, J1407b has never appeared before or since.
Such as the fact that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of every large galaxy, including our own? Haha I was quite surprised and admittedly a little scared to learn that.
That doesn't make any sense . If you truly understood what you think you knew you would be at peace. Knowledge is not fear You have some growing up to do
Hearing all of this has left me with such an odd sense of calm. I’m only a tiny speck, of a tiny glint, of a tiny smear, of a tiny section of the universe. It gives me hope weirdly enough, and a sense that my philosophy of “positive nihilism” is justified. Nothing truly matters in life, so make what you want out of it.
Look up the pale blue dot by Carl Sagan. The best written representation of the scale of the universe and how we fit into that imo. I also believe it's where this guy got a lot of these ideas
this was a literal rollercoaster of emotions for me, like fear, chills, confusion, surprise and sadness. well done! Probably one of my favorite videos in whole of RUclips.
counterpoint: the gas giants (especially neptune, that _bastard)_ may be the main reason oort cloud asteroids fall into the inner solar system in the first place
@@-_deploy_- nono, the sun is the thing they’re orbiting around normally. the outer planets are the things that occasionally brush up near them, effectively randomizing them into completely different orbits around said sun
Another fascinating/frightening thing are rogue planets. Just imagine, out there in the infinite darkness, an entire planet, floating aimlessly, no star to warm it or give it a home. Now imagine something like that having life on it. I'm suprised no sci fi media explored that idea.
true, imagine floating around space, in an infinite darkness and suddenly you bump into a rogue planet, cuz it’s also dark and you couldn’t even see it in the first place, it creeps me out
honestly. everything he talks about is just amazing. the photos we have, the sound recordings of other planets, the fact that we know anything about things so far away... i feel so fortunate to be alive in a time where we have learned so much. the universe is beautiful
The golden record honestly brings me a sense of peace. Even if humanity ever goes extinct, the golden record will still be out there, almost keeping the sprit of humanity alive in a way. Thank you golden record.
The golden record has our home location as well. It can crash or get destroyed by so many objects, almost guaranteed eventually. But the fact that humanity didn't take a vote to send out the golden record and it was just done, and it contains our address, any malicious alien that finds it, we're fucked.
Bruh odds are it will crash into some object in space way before it would ever find life especially intelligent life the universe is so big it truly it’s incomprehensible to understand how large it is it’s beautiful but I’ll tell you what were not the only ones out here there’s just nobody in our galaxy or probably neighboring galaxies odds are there out of the observable universe and can’t be seen anymore.
When you think about it space is sorta like a out of bounds area in a video game and interestingly enough there's a phobia for out of bounds too. you get the feeling that your not supposed to be there.
@@Narko_Marko i remember playing minecraft for the first time in creative a few years ago and being like whats under the world? and then instantly spamming alt+f4 when i realize im falling in a gigantic dark void
What scares me most about black holes is that, by falling in a supermassive one by the logic of time warping, you’d be considered the oldest biological organism to have ever lived, having outlived several planets in only a few hours.
In theory, it is possible to build a time machine for traveling to the future but we still don't know if physics allows for going back in time. In practice it would probably be easiest to just use a black hole for time dilation because you need a ridiculous amount of mass or energy to curve space-time dramatically. For supermassive black holes rotating very fast especially, you can have very dramatic time dilation without passing the event horizon. The tidal forces of massive enough black holes won't tear you apart at the event horizon and rotation makes the radius of the event horizon smaller, so you you can get closer. Astrophysicists can actually measure a black holes rotation and a typical black hole spins at 90% the speed of light. In theory black holes also have charge, due to the conservation of charge, and could generate it's own repulsive electric field. This could make time dilation even more dramatic and it would theoretically allow for stable orbits past the event horizon. The idea of entire planets and civilizations living inside a black hole isn't as ridiculous as you would think.@@spingleboygle
The thought of drifting off into space is pure terror, just the thought of not being able to have control over your body just slowly drifting away with no one to save you is what terrifies me. Knowing the size of the observable universe is terrifying with our own galaxy being nothing compared to it.
I think something to be mentioned about space is the fact that there's this thing called "light pollution" that decreases the visibility in the sky due to the haze of city lights. If we went back just around 100-300 years ago and looked up at the sky at night you'd be able to see the whole milky way stretched out and visible. Shooting stars, cosmic dust, all of it. This is so surprising to people, that back in '94 there was a blackout in Los Angeles, which caused people to call observatories and were freaking out, asking what was going on with the stars and what that glowing cloud was. (They were seeing the milky way) Light pollution is so easy to fix and I wish more people talked about it because if they did we probably could have fixed it by now. I think environmentally it should be top priority because it would incentivize MILLIONS into learning about science/the planet if they could look up and see the milky way EVERY NIGHT no matter where they lived. In fact its actually kinda DANGEROUS to humanity to not fix light pollution because its slowly limiting our view of things like asteroids. Id love to see you make a video on this topic considering there's very few people who talk about it in the science community!
One thing thats always terrified me are other ocean planets like ours, or ones that are just ocean . Just the massive creatures that might lie in there, or if not, just the sheer loneliness of being in an environment so uncannily familiar yet different and alone...
when you describe the vast distances, and how small earth is relative to everything else, at some point the numbers get so big that i just cant process it. while the vast emptiness of space is forboading, it makes me appreciate all the small things on earth. every interaction, every video. i feel this strange sense of comfort. we can also go backwards, and talk about the organelles of cells relative to our whole bodys, and the subatomic particles of atoms relative to our body's cells its kinda beautiful idk this is just how i feel im scared of the dark XD
Just imagine, considering how dinosaurs got HUGE (for us) in prehistoric times, there might be somewhere, beings even larger and intimidating due to some weird circumstances just hiding there in the darkness of space, just existing like we do.
I'm terrified of what's in the dark. That doesn't stop me from watching ghost, alien and cryptid videos. Even if 99.9999999% are fake, it's that small number that scares me. Especially since I have seen them myself. I can't imagine what's lurking out in space. What we're not told scares me even more.
I have recently bought and played Elite Dangerous. From the start, I already fell in love with this game. I am obsessed with Sci-Fi and Space, and seeing Sci-Fi game that accurately depicts our galaxy is amazing. I remember learning how distant everything is in space, the planets being so far away from each other, and don't get me started with star systems. Everything is super distant, at least compared to how tiny we really are, and many Sci-Fi movies or games fail to show that. Elite Dangerous however perfectly demonstrates the reality of the distant and empty space. I remember travelling to a star system for a mission. It was a binary system and I had to travel to the other star. The distance I had to travel was 425,000 light seconds! For instance, the farthest planet I had to travel to in a star system only goes up 10,000 light seconds away. 425,000 light seconds is 5 light days, which is insane considering that it takes light which can circle Earth in less than a second 5 DAYS to get there. I accelerated my ship as fast as I possibly can. I reached like 800 times the speed of light and yet it still took me like 15 minutes to reach the star. Travelling between star systems is luckily way faster, but good luck exploring because there are over 400 BILLION star systems in this game. In fact, only 0.05% of the galaxy has been explored by players. If you have astrophobia or astromegalophobia or just an existential crisis, this game is perfect for you.
Black holes have always put me on edge. Everything in space is so fragile when put up against the forces of "nature", if space can even be considered nature. The fact that millions of years of history that Earth has accumulated can suddenly be destroyed without a trace really doesn't sit well with me. When you think about it, there is no way at all that we are the only living beings in the entire universe. There are definitely billions of civilisations that are too far for us to ever see. Too far of a distance for us to even comprehend. Entire planets with millions of years of history could be thinking the exact same thing we are right now. Such planets could also be in the process of being wiped out as we speak, whether it be by a black hole, asteroids, or any other unforgiving force and we'd never know. What even in the universe? It is seemingly just a space for things to be held in, but what actually IS it? If it supposedly has an ending, then what's beyond that end?
Did you know that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of every large galaxy, including our own? That fact terrified me when I learned it and was stunned that it isn't talked about more often!
Heya! I absolutely loved this video, you did a great job! I pretty much agree with everything you said. I've known about your channel for awhile, and it's cool to know you've seen and liked a video of mine. Thanks for the shoutout, my man. Can't wait to see your next vid'
You should seriously do more of space videos like deep and scary themed like i loved it there is no other like i love your voice doing it just can you please do more scary space stuff like deepspace and neptunian system.
I had a similar feeling when I was snorkeling in the ocean, I came upon where the floor below dropped so far down I couldn’t see it and it was just darkness below me. Gave me a mini panic attack
i think something that should've been mentioned is the bootes void, it's a massive area devoid of galaxies that is large enough that, if you were in the middle of it, the only bit of light possible would be some non-galactic stars which are highly improbable, there would be so little light that it's negligable to human vision, you would see absolutely nothing, not even yourself unless you have a light, and if you did, if you pointed it away from yourself, you would see nothing from it and be plunged into darkness once again, it fucking horrifies me and i love it
@@notjebbutstillakerbal and why is that? because of telescopes, when you're floating in the middle of a massive void, you probably won't have packed a telescope
@@87dramaramaI mean, you can't BE nowhere, until the universe expands and covers that area there's nothing there....which is arguably even scarier than just darkness.
@@87dramaramait's more scary to me that the "edge" of the universe (if there is one) is absolutely inaccessible to us. Not just to travel to but also to observe in any way due to the expansion of the universe at that distance from us outpacing the speed of light. So the actual size of the universe could be just a little larger than the observable universe, or the observable universe may be an extremely tiny pocket in a universe which is trillions of times larger than what we can see. Also, space appears to be almost perfectly "flat", but so does the earth from your POV when you're standing on it. So space may actually be curved if the actual universe is sufficiently larger than the observable universe.
One great comparison I always like to compare us to a body cell of ours to our body and then to space. It's reminiscing of us being a tiny spec yet visible at a small magnitude.
I'm terrified of space yet fascinated, my fear is only me being out there also knowing that we are basically floating so I worry about just coming off the axis or just falling. The "endlessness" is what really scares me and knowing that an asteroid can come out of anywhere and hit water, water being my other fear.
Thanks to the space guys on this rock, anything that enters a certain vicinity of earth can be detected... and along the years scientist observed the cycles of asteroids. Even that it's kinda pointless considering that some asteroids have cycles of thousand and thousands of years and one might pop out of nowhere but considering our asteroid belt and bigger planets with much more bigger gravitational pull... we're are kinda safe.
I never thought about space being terrifying until I had my first dream about space travel. I've only had two of them, but both were terrifying. In each one, I was not very far from Earth, in a craft and looking back at the planet through a window. Both times, that view filled me with a kind of terror I've never experienced in my actual life. My thought was, "That's where I am supposed to be. How am I ever going to get back there?" It was the realization that I had done something I shouldn't have done, and it was possibly going to cost me my life. I'm sure it's similar to the feeling a person has while cave diving and realizing that something has gone terribly wrong.
Traveled so far down the comments section to find this one to be the most relatable. I just remember in my space travel dream that I felt claustrophobic and that the shuttle I was in was floating off and was going to self-detonate in ten minutes. I have never woken up so fast.
It might just be me and my imagination as a kid, but I always found information on the planets very cool and intriguing. There's certainly a level of terror when you look at the planets as destructive spheres in the void, but those incomprehensible traits are what made them interesting to me and that intrigue overtakes the fear for me. In regards to a possible "answer" to the Fermi Paradox, part of the problem with communicating with aliens is communication in and of itself. Say we did get a signal of some sort. How would we even determine we got a signal? Is the method we're using even the right one for detecting alien signals? Would they even use a language to start with? There's technically plenty other intelligent species on this planet, yet the only ones we seem to fully understand is our own. If we can't even communicate with something like an octopus, a close neighbor, can we expect to understand an alien unfathomably further from us?
And there's another thing, when we're looking at planets and systems light years away, we don't see the actual present of things... we might see the early stages of a planet or civilization, through a lens we cannot really be sure for certain that planet has life or not. We might see the past and civilizations are probably at our level or higher, we're either not detectable to them as they are to us or they simply chose to ignore our existence entirely... or in the same time we might as well be part of a cycle where at each couple billions of years somewhere, in some galaxy, in the part of this infinite void, a civilization meets the lucky circumstances of actually developing only to PROBABLY reach a level where they determine they are either alone or incapable of reaching someone else due to the stupidly large distances.
Wow, that was intense. I wasn’t really thinking why I feel uncomfortable with space pics. When you mentioned this problem, my first thought was this huge overwhelming emptiness. Nevertheless, I am blaming you for a new phobia. Good job though, keep it coming.
I still remember going to a Planetarium with my school when i was young and i had to hold both of my friends’ hands because of the way it so rapidly took us through the solar system. I couldn’t even look around because it was on every surface through the ceiling & wall screens, closing my eyes didn’t help either as you could just hear the noises and it was so scary. I’d love to visit again at my age now though, see if i’d still shit my pants or not.
We’re naturally scared of the unknown, we became self aware only to realize this life was never about us Earth wasn’t perfectly designed for humans Humans where perfectly designed for Earth The same way A bucket isn’t perfectly designed to hold water But water was perfectly designed to fill a bucket
I'd argue a bit about that bucket example/point, as I believe that both the bucket and the water was designed for it, as the bucket WAS technically made to hold water, as it was built for that exact purpose, and the water also fulfills that purpose, as it fills the bucket, but, other than the relatively bad example, this was a good comment.
@@B_4035mn I was trying to make the point that even though we came from this planet and even though only a relatively small amount of people have been to space so far I don’t think we we’re meant to stay on this planet forever Kind of like an ocean, like yeah you can fit water in a bucket but most of the planet is water so it can be so much more then just a lot of water in a small bucket Same with humanity there’s 8 billion people alive so far, but there all only living on one planet even though there’s billions of planets Hopefully this makes more sense for what I was going for, ether way thank you for the criticism and for calling this a good comment I appreciate it
I don't think we're meant to stay on this planet either, but I also don't think we were meant to leave. I think we're meant to create the next stage of life that can survive in space and explore with few complications; something that's not organically bound.
I think I'm really fascinated by this video because I understand the fear, but as someone who really likes space all the reasons you mentioned are just things I think are cool lol
The fact that we will be bound to our home, Planet Earth, or the Solar System at most and will never know the secrets of the universe is oddly relaxing to me. It's like I have just accepted my meaningless existence in the eternal black void we call the universe
What really makes me feel uneasy about space are things like the idea of going for a spacewalk in low-earth orbit and worrying that I might plummet if I got to close. That and falling into one of those black holes that freezes time and leave you stuck in limbo, I had no idea black holes could do that
The scariest thought to me is that there are countless alien civilizations ou there, they know of our planet, just like we can see theirs, but not a single one has been able to figure out space travel, no matter how lomg theyve been around. Its like a consmic scale sized stranded on an island situation, left to survive with the only planet we were gifted
Maybe they just aren't interested in us enough to visit. Maybe there are far more advanced lifeforms out there, we just aren't interesting. Maybe they laugh at us sending out our little probes to the other planets, when they can travel to other stars easily.
I'm a dead man walking. I'm 71 years old. I've survived lymphoma. I have heart disease and have survived a heart attack. There is good reason to fear the universe, simply orbiting Jupiter could kill you from the radiation. Yet I do not fear the universe...instead I want to reach out and grab it all. I want to see alien worlds and stand (within reason) on their surfaces and experience them. I want to visit all of it and wish I had the lifetime to do so. I am greatful that I've managed to see as much of the earth as I have and would like to see more of it but i'll have to be content to leave that to my children and their children. The only thing I ask of the world and the people in it is do not fear and do not be the cause of our great filter.
As someone who loves space and loves astronomy, I'll say I'm an astrophile. I love learning about planets, stars, nebula, galaxies, black holes, etc etc. Space is scary, yeah. But it's also beautiful.
For me, space is so beautiful but so unsettling. Looking at planets and just objects in space in general are so beautiful but the impossibly large void that seperates all of it is whats terrifying to me.
I finally found someone with the same phobia as me. Space is absolutely terrifying, and I'm especially scared of gas giants, and you summed up why perfectly.
the golden disc is kind of depressing, it's like a final hail Mary, a death/suicide note, a final message just thrown out there on our only current resort, still to this day, of searching further into the galaxy to either be destroyed, or found by life who can't understand it, possibly discarding it without a second thought. it's also depressing asl since life on earth would probably be long gone by the time it reaches anything, i almost feel like we're being watched over, like a plant or, more like a terrarium, watching how far our curiosity takes us without us realizing that searching for beings like us is hopeless.
One thing about space I find terrifying is that if the universe really is infinite, that means that pretty much any life form you can imagine could exist somewhere out there. Obviously there is a limit to this some things could never exist but that means anything from xenomorphs to the flood from halo could have a real life equivalent.
I fell asleep while watching this and had a dream where I was chilling outside my house talking with people I know and then all of a sudden the sun turned dark in the centre and red around its circumference. After this it exploded and I told everyone to seek shelter below the roof because I saw a lot of rocks and dangerous things coming our way. It was unbelievable. I just woke up 5:00am and wrote this dream on notes to not forget but thought it'd be interesting to share it here. My heart is still racing yooooooool
Just Imagine, somwhere exists another planet with humans on it… which is very possible in my opinion considering the Infinity of Space. I mean, infinite Space means infinite possibilities Right?
Yes, but only if space is infinite with an infinite amount of matter in it. Then there would be an infinite number of you and everything else that exists.
This was both interesting and nightmare inducing. I am genuinely as terrified of space as I am of death. If I think about it too much I have panic attacks.
It's kind of striking to me the difference in perception that this picture can invoke. Me personally, I've always found the cosmos soothing and intriguing. Something awe inspiring and mysterious (but in a good way). I have a Canadian friend who told me that the void terrifies her, and that really truly blew my mind that people see it differently than I do. There's just something about it.
Nobody ever realizes you watch the entire future of universe, moving quickly to your eyes in the blue orb above you. Nice touch, you’ve nailed the fear.
I've always LOVED space! I used to read books about it when I was growing up and not feeling too well so I guess it shaped my love and fascination with it. Seeing all of the crazy things that happens in space is truly a religious experience
my issue with the whole fear of space thing is. It's literally too big for me to imagine. Like they're so hard to compare to anything that anything big just becomes hard to imagine and therefore hard to fear
From such a young age I've loved and been so fascinated by space to the point I thought everything covered I'm this video was amazing, like I've never considered the things would be considered terrifying by most people. Like when you were talking about how small we are like it was scary I was confused like "wdym that's so cool" like you are right that's objectively extremely terrifying idk why that crossed my mind 😭😭
You quantitied and articulated the fear of space or astrophobia better than i ever could. I understand one of my biggest fears a lot better now because of this vid. Great work.
The sounds. The SOUNDS. I cannot with the sounds these planets make, I hate it, it sounds like the planets are screaming. I had a mental breakdown because of the sounds, because I hate screaming- I hate the sound. An honorable Exoplanet not mentioned, is TOI 849 b, a planet stripped bare. It was ripped of its LITERAL CRUST, IT IS JUST A CORE- WHAT? THATS TERRIFYING!
8:35 fun fact :t he object was discovered in 2012. The object was thought to be a planet with massive rings, however, this was proven false as the object was only observed once and never seen again, due to unknown reasons. This means the object is likely a rogue brown dwarf with a protoplanetary disk instead of rings.
No kidding. Of all the things we have to be afraid of on our own planet we have it so good that people seriously have time to be scared of space? There’s nothing you can do about it so don’t worry yourself and worry about all the problems we have here. I’d never heard of people so afraid of space that they sound like they need a Xanax.
I think the reason most people don't fear space is because it doesn't effect us. Everything is so far away that it will never interact with us, and most people aren't scared of not being able to go to other places so there's no fear of the distance. Blacks holes could swallow us whole, but it would be eons before any could reach us.
i find it very interesting we share such opposing views. where you find the fact there are probably billions or trillions of exoplanets we'll never know about terrifying, i believe it to be one of the most disheartening things about living in this time period. the fact we'll most likely never know the origins of everything in our lifetime is extremely frustrating to me and is honestly what pushed me into this field in the first place. great video as per usual! :)
I completely agree, for the purposes of this video I wanted to focus on fear, but for the most part I also get frustrated that I live in a time where the universe's most pressing questions likely won't be answered.
There is a chance our future descendants won’t know either. We can’t expect progress to be infinite. Then you look at the events of the last 5-6 years or so and you realise how fragile civilisation is. We could end up going in reverse. Our future descendants will struggle to understand our technology.
I love the comments they post tho . It’s always fun to listen to the wild stuff they manage to whip out 😂 kinda crazy we have people who still think like that .
I have this to such an opposite extent that I never knew this was even vaguely a possible fear. I find such complete and overwhelming awe when thinking about and exploring the reality of the cosmos.
Okay, multiple mistakes in the video I want to address (reply if you spot any more) First 3:50 is not a map to show the sizes of the planets.
Second, I said in the video you can "pass right through gas giants" but this is also wrong, they have cores.
Third, a lot of people commented that both Voyagers have already left the Solar System, this depends on what your definition of "leaving the solar system" is. If you define it as reaching interstellar space, then it has left, if you define it as leaving the Oort Cloud that surrounds our Solar System, then the video is accurate. This NASA link should clear some of that up :science.nasa.gov/resource/oort-cloud-and-scale-of-the-solar-system-infographic/
Fourth: I mentioned that if you fell into a black hole you would see the end of the Universe, this is assuming you fell into one that would survive until the end of the Universe, which is debated so take that statement with a grain of salt.
This video was made early into my channels lifespan and by this point I didn't check my work as thouroughly, and my research was a bit off at times. My newer videos are a lot better researched and checked for any mistakes. Have a great day :D
not sure if this is actually the truth, but J1407b's rings aren't real, they're a myth! it's just (i think) the most likely answer to how a brown dwarf was caught passing along it's star. a simple youtube or google search can tell you more :)
5:30 The Earth 🌍 is neither tiny or fragile. Texas alone from north to south, is about 801 miles (1,289 kilometers) long. From east to west, Texas is about 773 miles (1,244 kilometers) wide.
Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 has totally recovered and rebuilt itself from getting hit by an atomic bomb almost 80 years ago now. That’s largely due to the nuke blast being an Air Burst as opposed to a ground burst, which would’ve infected the earth with deadly radiation particles.
And Homo sapiens could detonate every nuclear bomb in their collective arsenal and it wouldn’t even come close to destroying Mount Everest!
The "planet" j1407b seems to not be a plant as its transit orbit has not been made since its one and only transit, it is possibly a brown dwarf with a circumstellar disc which caused the dips in light that was seen as rings of a planet, theres a video by Kyplanet that goes in depth about the myth, love the video either way.
@@TheRealQuartzwas about to comment the same thing. The myth of that planet is so far reaching the studies proving it doesn’t exist get overshadowed by everything else
@@I_Am_RYU Tis the over sensationalizing of astro media, still sad it isn't real but I mean a brown dwarf getting close to a star is still pretty interesting
Fun fact! When William Shatner went up there and looked at Earth, he got such a huge sense of existential dread that, to sum it up, he reported that instead of the awe and majesty he was expecting to feel, he thought he was looking at a funeral.
Interesting for sure, not fun though😂😅 (imo)
Yea dude was tripping balls when he came back to earth and was getting showered with champagne by a bunch of laughing idiots
Fucked vibes I bet
When I look at the earth, I see a prison and possibly our burial ground.
I can see that…the thought of leaving the relative safety of Earth and floating off into NOTHING, HORRIFIES me. VOIDS TERRIFY me! The deep sea, Space, Out-of-bounds glitches in Video games, it’s all nightmare fuel to me.
@zhitposterzupreme9120 According to the book that you think is true, God eventually ends up burning this world and making a new one after unceremoniously torturing and slaughtering everyone who didn't like him. If that God is real, this isn't a prison. That makes this planet a straight-up concentration camp.
“maybe the universe was never meant to harbor any life” is the most chilling sentence ever
This is actually true, what if us 'Earthlings' weren't meant to be and that we are just so fortunate to even exist. Interesting concept to think about...
If we weren’t meant to be, we would not be. The real question is are we the only ones in this Universe that are meant to be.
@@sevenstarsofthedipper1047if were the only ones, it’s because were the first. Mathematically, odds are we cant be the only ones.
@@xMorbidArtx So, you are still dealing in probability. I agree with you but I leave open the possibility that we are alone. I think the distances are so vast that we cannot contact any other intelligent life and we can’t get to any of the planets in any reasonable timeframe to reach them to find unintelligent life.
@@sevenstarsofthedipper1047 So like no, cuz the UAP phenomenon.
Fun fact: J1407b isn’t a planet with a large ring system, instead it’s a brown dwarf, a gas giant that is almost a star, with a pro planetary disc where planets are actively forming
It is so inconceivably big for a planet because it isn’t a planet. It’s a whole stellar system.
I was wondering how it has such an immense gravitational pull to hold those vast rings in place. That makes more sense.
@@DreadPirateRobertz the smallest brown dwarfs are still at least 13 times the mass of Jupiter.
@@antonkovalenko364 That's uh... that's pretty big, I'd say.
I’m such a fan of space, I have no fear of it, but when you put it into perspective I’m now like “oh, now I really see…”
Same. I love space and I'm just amazed by it but now I really get why some people might be terrified of it.
Hearing terrifying and scary when hearing about space is laughable, Imagine being sacred of space, Bruh
I was never really scared of space before I got into Astronomy, I only could really tell I was scared of space when I realized how terrified I felt looking at planets.
I do get a sense of existential dread from time to time. But space has always been a fascination of mine since I was a little kid and watched Star Wars for the first time
@@Karthik-pn2yj💀
Space is so beautiful yet so terrifying. Pictures of phenomena in space such as the pillars of creation are beautiful, but then you have to remind yourself that those pillars are real. They exist and they are larger than human comprehension. Absoloutly terrifying.
Real life eldritch horrors.
they dont exist anymore
@@mr.pumpkin8891 whyyyy
ask space not me lmfaooo@@BlenderRenderChickenTender
@@mr.pumpkin8891 my bad my bad
The idea of some super advanced species slapping the record on and hearing "johnny be good" gives me chills and also makes me love us.
what if saturn is sentient
@@ronaldseeder2078explain
This struck me more as sad than scary. The thought that we cannot know everything, experience and examine every little quirk and abnormalities of other planets.
aw boohoo
Ya I guess thats true would be cool to just know if there's life and what it's like
Let me give you hope. If multiversal theory is true, then it's simply a matter of time. At our current rate of technological advancement, we need only survive. Leave this planet before that is no longer possible- or before we render the earth devoid of the resources to do so before going extinct, and damning any future intelligent earthlife.
If we can bide our time, and keep researching, learning and innovating, we can confirm multiversal theory. If it is false, we can still keep advancing, and die with our universe, confident that we mastered our laws of nature- and if it's true, we need only learn how to access & navigate the multiverse.
If we can escape our universe before it can no longer support life, or even matter? We become an infinite species. We have eternity to pursue any goals we want, free from our biological imperative, to not go extinct. We could effectively travel to parallel universes, to learn as much as there is to know about a thing, and then move on.
..the only problem is, we need to keep the bastards, liars and idiots out of power, for good. Before their bullshit kills us all.
@@lebronjamesharden3958damn bro have some empathy
@@lebronjamesharden3958some of us crave knowledge, and are sad at all the lost or unattainable knowledge that humanity will never have access to.
Some of us avoid knowledge like it's radioactive, and view gaining a wrinkle on their smooth brain as a bad thing.
We know which you are.
Looking at the planets through my telescope is always unsettling, especially Jupiter and Saturn. It’s so weird to finally see the planets you always learned about in school with your own eyes. It’s a reminder that these objects actually exist and are always hovering above us, no matter if it’s night or day. Plus, the planets look so tiny in the eyepiece, but I know they are enormous beyond comprehension.
We wanna see them
Not to mention the fact that they would spell literal death if you actually went near them. Even before you could burn up in the atmosphere, you'd be crushed under your own weight due to the sheer magnitude of the gravitational pull-and even if that didn't happen, you'd literally be torn asunder by the sheer force of the raging storms and winds that make up the entirety of the planet's activity.
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@@boeloevanboeloefontein🤓
you are watching an in depth video about astrophobia and then you call them a nerd @@dinosharttt
"Shoot for the moon. If you fail, you'll still end up floating endlessly in the void of space" just doesn't have the same ring to it but sums of my simultaneous fear and fascination with space
Space is dope and this guy is somebody who doesn't know what he's talkin about
There's also something that's really scary but also sad about space. Because of the huge distance of most of the stars, planets and galaxy we see, their light takes a really long time to reach earth.
So most of the time we the sky or see photos from stars and planets from really far away, we are seeing how they looked like in more than thousands of years, and they probably were gone for a long time. We are basically seeing their ghosts, ghosts from stars and planets that don't exist anymore.
Part 2: the rate of universal expansion is increasing, meaning that everything in our sphere of observation is all we'll ever get, and even that will be reduced, over time. It will eventually become impossible to ever reach or even detect anything whatsoever beyond the closest stars today.
One day, the universe really will be just our own galaxy. Afterwards, our local group.. Soon after that, the entirety of what humans can ever perceive will be contained within only our own solar system, which would be long gone by then, I think. Wherever humans are by then, I hope they can figure out how to eke out existence beyond this place.
Existence is good. I like existing. Not existing would probably be less preferable.
That's just from our minuscule perspective here on earth boyo, I physically can't imagine anything greater than that but that's okay to me. Small or big, we are all one and the same. We are the universe
@@pianoman7753I’m pretty sure we detect the planets existence thru radio waves. So they’re still there. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Well, voyager and many other robots took real-time photos, but not as many as the planets we've seen.
@@ASMRvalentinaa I mean, radio waves still take time to travel. I'm no expert, but I would assume that means those radio waves were also produced a long time ago, as they had to travel all the way to us for them to be observed
Theres definitely a reason that "awe" is the root word of both "awesome" and "awful." Space is definitely awe-inspiring. It is unfathomably beautiful, but also unfathomably terrifying.
most beautiful things are accompanied by terror, that’s what makes space so jaw droppingly fascinating to me.
At least you tried
art can be wonderful and terrible. We are pieces of art living in a piece of art.
@@9WEAVER9 Then it is only Terrible. Not one positive thing has ever happened. Life was a mistake.
Y’all just scary 😂
I will give this guy credit. This is the first space video I have clicked on in A WHILE that was not click-bait and a-waste of (really everyone's) time. Great video and thanks!
Time dilation is horrifying. The fact that you can get so close to a black hole that what feels like mere hours for you could be millions of years gone by for everyone back home. Humanity could be destroyed, or even colonized entire star systems, or even evolved out of existence in what feels like mere minutes for you is just wild
if humans still exist and have prospered, wouldnt they have found out how to go and get you?
@@froggoanimates3336 that would be cool af
Humanity will most likely be done within the next couple thousand years, let alone millions. It's ignorant to assume humanity will be anything other than one small period of history.
@jarlwhiterun7478 we've already been here for 300,000 years
@@jarlwhiterun7478please delete your comment
this man kept dissing the shit out of Jupiter, bro does not know Jupiter is literally our meat shield
Shout out to big boi Jupiter. 💪
Chill
Sort of. It throws rocks in every direction lol
he wasn't dissing it, he was submitting to it
Its gravity definitely is
0:06 while the astronauts were “coming”… around the “backside”….
😂
Even in space humans have no chill
Yeah fr like what were they doing back there 🤨📸
😂
shut the fuck up you are not funny
Boots Void is also terrifying. Imagine drifting through space around absolutely nothing. No stars. Just you and the pitch black darkness that goes on what might at well be forever.
It ain't just what's in space, it's what's not.
Local Group. Those are the only galaxies that we can ever reach if we don't invent FTL. All other galaxies are moving away from us. In a trillion years all we will see is Local Group.
@@ProjectExMachina I saw a map of the Virgo supercluster that places our galaxy not far from a void called the Local Void. We definitely didn’t get the best spot in terms of expanding our presence throughout the universe. The map is basically a galaxy density map of the supercluster
I’m terrified of space, just the feeling of being able to float and fly away without being able to stop it? Is so SCARY. I played a VR space game and I genuinely couldn’t take a step. Even while I was inside of the ship. I often fear randomly while outside, that gravity will suddenly fail, and I will float up into the sky, and I’ll be unable to stop it. Which is an INSANE thing to fear, since it’s impossible.
SAME
Bro wtf i thought i was the only person that gravity would just turn off and id float away, and i just got this fear recently. I never had this fear until a couple months ago
@@22lrjayden81 ME TOO. I suddenly just started having it, and it comes randomly.
@@22lrjayden81alright this is rlly weird because ive developed the same fear just a few years ago. i did research about it online and its not a very common fear at all, but there are studies linking it to OCD apparently. im glad to know im not alone in this though, more people understand my fear than i thought. its very sad because it can honestly get debilitating, especially if im walking outside at night. i start to lose my balance and feel nauseous.
@@haunter556especially when im drunk or high it really fucks with me especially on the come down. But i dont have ocd at all so that’s strange
THANK YOU!, I'm sick of people saying the universe is "this big", no one ever acknownledges that its the observable universe, not the entire universe
Space scares me because of all the blackness. It’s like staring out a window on a pitch black night and you don’t see anything. It’s uncertainty, black holes are even scarier
Gotta be racist.🤭
Show me ur black hole xd... What
Or some unknown object jumps you out of the darkness
@@IOverlordi have nightmares of floating in the darkness of space only to turn around and see a gigantic planet in front of me.
I'm not afraid of space myself. it's one of the last things that still arouses childlike wonder in me.
one of my favorite movies ever as a kid and still is treasure planet. of course not realistic,
but still it evokes in me a feeling and the thought that space is the last unexplored ocean.
Great Video ! 10/10 ! Have a good day everyone.
may the star winds blow into your sails, taking you forward towards the great universe.
I am not afraid of space, I am afraid of being suck here on earth.
@@_shadow_1 Totally understandable fear, sometimes I share the same fear.
I’m not afraid of space 😂😂😂
I hate being stuck on earth
same! treasure planet is still one of my favorites!
The converse to finding out that space is terrifying is realizing how comforting Earth is.
8:17 You will love to know that J1407b is not a real planet, as its status as one was merely theorized, but the media blew it out of proportion, in reality J1407b was probably a rogue brown dwarf that was surrounded by an immense protoplanetary dust cloud. They realized it once they never saw it again after passing in front of its star, and considering telescopes have observed that particular star for centuries, J1407b has never appeared before or since.
Knowledge is fear💁🏻♀️
The more you know, the scarier shit gets.
Facts
Such as the fact that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of every large galaxy, including our own? Haha I was quite surprised and admittedly a little scared to learn that.
That ought to make it better
That doesn't make any sense .
If you truly understood what you think you knew you would be at peace. Knowledge is not fear
You have some growing up to do
@@TreEames-ex5pn well, to be fair, the more you know, you begin to learn there is so much we don't know. So yeah, I can see what they mean.
Saturn looks like something out of a 80’s horror film.
Hearing all of this has left me with such an odd sense of calm. I’m only a tiny speck, of a tiny glint, of a tiny smear, of a tiny section of the universe. It gives me hope weirdly enough, and a sense that my philosophy of “positive nihilism” is justified. Nothing truly matters in life, so make what you want out of it.
I always think that too, but then I realize it doesn’t help much because I still have to pay my bills or be homeless.
Look up the pale blue dot by Carl Sagan. The best written representation of the scale of the universe and how we fit into that imo. I also believe it's where this guy got a lot of these ideas
nihilists are losers. its mentally lazy af.
this was a literal rollercoaster of emotions for me, like fear, chills, confusion, surprise and sadness. well done! Probably one of my favorite videos in whole of RUclips.
The fear of going to a Travis scott concert; asstrophobia
Nice try. Everyone knows Astrophobia is the fear of Travis Scott
claustrophobia
Take my like
Homophobia
Funny👀✊🏾
Traviphobia
Gas giants bring me a sense of peace, knowing that they are our first line of defense from Oort Cloud Asteroids.
counterpoint: the gas giants (especially neptune, that _bastard)_ may be the main reason oort cloud asteroids fall into the inner solar system in the first place
@@alexolas1246SUN
@@alexolas1246 I think this would be the Sun
@@-_deploy_- nono, the sun is the thing they’re orbiting around normally. the outer planets are the things that occasionally brush up near them, effectively randomizing them into completely different orbits around said sun
The blackness of Space is dman scary omg 😂😂😂😂
It wouldn’t surprise me if voyager 1 end up in some museum on earth one day.
All this actually makes me happy because it shows just how truly special we are and the fact we are alive right now is magnificent
TOTALLY AGREE!!
Another fascinating/frightening thing are rogue planets.
Just imagine, out there in the infinite darkness, an entire planet, floating aimlessly, no star to warm it or give it a home.
Now imagine something like that having life on it. I'm suprised no sci fi media explored that idea.
true, imagine floating around space, in an infinite darkness and suddenly you bump into a rogue planet, cuz it’s also dark and you couldn’t even see it in the first place, it creeps me out
Like you said, it şs actually a good sci-fi movie idea.
mario and luigi partners in time doesn't explore too much into the rogue planet, but it does get into the aliens from the rogue planet
Even more frightening than that thought would be rogue black holes. They do exist
Chinese books and movies "Wandering Earth" explore that concept
7:40 The sun is so hot, that Gliese 436b's like "Aaaah, my ice! It burns". Never look a star in the face!
I get that this may be terrifying, but to me it feels weirdly mystical, and amazing
Same, there is nothing that makes me more sad in my life than knowing I wasnt born in a time where I'll ever see interstellar travel
@@MidniteMeatBus here’s hoping we’re born in a time where we’ll at least see Stellar travel.
Would looooove to take a trip to the moon in my lifetime
honestly. everything he talks about is just amazing. the photos we have, the sound recordings of other planets, the fact that we know anything about things so far away... i feel so fortunate to be alive in a time where we have learned so much. the universe is beautiful
The golden record honestly brings me a sense of peace. Even if humanity ever goes extinct, the golden record will still be out there, almost keeping the sprit of humanity alive in a way. Thank you golden record.
finds the Golden Record
Aliens: what is it?
also Gen Z Humans: What is it?
The golden record has our home location as well. It can crash or get destroyed by so many objects, almost guaranteed eventually.
But the fact that humanity didn't take a vote to send out the golden record and it was just done, and it contains our address, any malicious alien that finds it, we're fucked.
@shadowshatto
lets just hope that alien civilization has already past their record and CD era and are their ipod digital music era
Imagine if we found a record from Mars or something closer, relatively, and it starts with "If you are reading this, we are sorry"
Bruh odds are it will crash into some object in space way before it would ever find life especially intelligent life the universe is so big it truly it’s incomprehensible to understand how large it is it’s beautiful but I’ll tell you what were not the only ones out here there’s just nobody in our galaxy or probably neighboring galaxies odds are there out of the observable universe and can’t be seen anymore.
And we know all this about space but still have no idea about our own ocean….
When you think about it space is sorta like a out of bounds area in a video game and interestingly enough there's a phobia for out of bounds too. you get the feeling that your not supposed to be there.
Most accurate description of space I've ever heard
the scariest thing in a video game is falling out of bounds, its my number one fear in subnautica which is the scariest game ive played.
Thats the whole reason the backrooms are a thing and why they got so popular.
@@Narko_Marko i remember playing minecraft for the first time in creative a few years ago and being like whats under the world? and then instantly spamming alt+f4 when i realize im falling in a gigantic dark void
@@raysixth07 i never really felt like that for minecraft because you just fall but when you can move around the void its so much scarier.
8:27 Saturn vs the guy she told you not to worry about
Your channel is criminally undersubbed, this is top notch content
What scares me most about black holes is that, by falling in a supermassive one by the logic of time warping, you’d be considered the oldest biological organism to have ever lived, having outlived several planets in only a few hours.
i feel like we could theoretically create a time machine if we can learn more about how and why black holes are warped af
Call that a speedrun
@@fujtkrisztian😂
In theory, it is possible to build a time machine for traveling to the future but we still don't know if physics allows for going back in time. In practice it would probably be easiest to just use a black hole for time dilation because you need a ridiculous amount of mass or energy to curve space-time dramatically. For supermassive black holes rotating very fast especially, you can have very dramatic time dilation without passing the event horizon. The tidal forces of massive enough black holes won't tear you apart at the event horizon and rotation makes the radius of the event horizon smaller, so you you can get closer. Astrophysicists can actually measure a black holes rotation and a typical black hole spins at 90% the speed of light. In theory black holes also have charge, due to the conservation of charge, and could generate it's own repulsive electric field. This could make time dilation even more dramatic and it would theoretically allow for stable orbits past the event horizon. The idea of entire planets and civilizations living inside a black hole isn't as ridiculous as you would think.@@spingleboygle
@@jacobharris3002so summary is we can go to the future but it would be impossible to go back
The thought of drifting off into space is pure terror, just the thought of not being able to have control over your body just slowly drifting away with no one to save you is what terrifies me. Knowing the size of the observable universe is terrifying with our own galaxy being nothing compared to it.
We are drifting in empty space .....
But on a surface @@5stringking
Kars from jojos dies in that exact way he basically just stopped thinking and floated off into the darkness of space
Your work is literally on the level of Jacob Geller, keep going man you're doing AMAZING!!
You know the video is fire when it gives you existential dread🗣️‼️‼️‼️
I think something to be mentioned about space is the fact that there's this thing called "light pollution" that decreases the visibility in the sky due to the haze of city lights. If we went back just around 100-300 years ago and looked up at the sky at night you'd be able to see the whole milky way stretched out and visible. Shooting stars, cosmic dust, all of it.
This is so surprising to people, that back in '94 there was a blackout in Los Angeles, which caused people to call observatories and were freaking out, asking what was going on with the stars and what that glowing cloud was. (They were seeing the milky way)
Light pollution is so easy to fix and I wish more people talked about it because if they did we probably could have fixed it by now. I think environmentally it should be top priority because it would incentivize MILLIONS into learning about science/the planet if they could look up and see the milky way EVERY NIGHT no matter where they lived. In fact its actually kinda DANGEROUS to humanity to not fix light pollution because its slowly limiting our view of things like asteroids.
Id love to see you make a video on this topic considering there's very few people who talk about it in the science community!
People are just idiots lol
The thought of being able to quickly reveal a posterboard with a picture of Jupiter on it terrifying you is a great mental image
One thing thats always terrified me are other ocean planets like ours, or ones that are just ocean . Just the massive creatures that might lie in there, or if not, just the sheer loneliness of being in an environment so uncannily familiar yet different and alone...
Sounds like Subnautica
I think the thought of there being no creatures is probably even creepier
There’s no creatures in space there’s no aliens
@@dinosharttt there likely are somewhere
There are aomewhere out there@@dinosharttt
when you describe the vast distances, and how small earth is relative to everything else, at some point the numbers get so big that i just cant process it.
while the vast emptiness of space is forboading, it makes me appreciate all the small things on earth. every interaction, every video. i feel this strange sense of comfort.
we can also go backwards, and talk about the organelles of cells relative to our whole bodys, and the subatomic particles of atoms relative to our body's cells
its kinda beautiful idk this is just how i feel
im scared of the dark XD
Just imagine, considering how dinosaurs got HUGE (for us) in prehistoric times, there might be somewhere, beings even larger and intimidating due to some weird circumstances just hiding there in the darkness of space, just existing like we do.
I'm terrified of what's in the dark. That doesn't stop me from watching ghost, alien and cryptid videos. Even if 99.9999999% are fake, it's that small number that scares me. Especially since I have seen them myself. I can't imagine what's lurking out in space. What we're not told scares me even more.
I have recently bought and played Elite Dangerous. From the start, I already fell in love with this game. I am obsessed with Sci-Fi and Space, and seeing Sci-Fi game that accurately depicts our galaxy is amazing. I remember learning how distant everything is in space, the planets being so far away from each other, and don't get me started with star systems. Everything is super distant, at least compared to how tiny we really are, and many Sci-Fi movies or games fail to show that. Elite Dangerous however perfectly demonstrates the reality of the distant and empty space. I remember travelling to a star system for a mission. It was a binary system and I had to travel to the other star. The distance I had to travel was 425,000 light seconds! For instance, the farthest planet I had to travel to in a star system only goes up 10,000 light seconds away. 425,000 light seconds is 5 light days, which is insane considering that it takes light which can circle Earth in less than a second 5 DAYS to get there. I accelerated my ship as fast as I possibly can. I reached like 800 times the speed of light and yet it still took me like 15 minutes to reach the star. Travelling between star systems is luckily way faster, but good luck exploring because there are over 400 BILLION star systems in this game. In fact, only 0.05% of the galaxy has been explored by players. If you have astrophobia or astromegalophobia or just an existential crisis, this game is perfect for you.
Black holes have always put me on edge. Everything in space is so fragile when put up against the forces of "nature", if space can even be considered nature. The fact that millions of years of history that Earth has accumulated can suddenly be destroyed without a trace really doesn't sit well with me.
When you think about it, there is no way at all that we are the only living beings in the entire universe. There are definitely billions of civilisations that are too far for us to ever see. Too far of a distance for us to even comprehend. Entire planets with millions of years of history could be thinking the exact same thing we are right now. Such planets could also be in the process of being wiped out as we speak, whether it be by a black hole, asteroids, or any other unforgiving force and we'd never know.
What even in the universe? It is seemingly just a space for things to be held in, but what actually IS it? If it supposedly has an ending, then what's beyond that end?
Did you know that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of every large galaxy, including our own? That fact terrified me when I learned it and was stunned that it isn't talked about more often!
Heya! I absolutely loved this video, you did a great job! I pretty much agree with everything you said. I've known about your channel for awhile, and it's cool to know you've seen and liked a video of mine. Thanks for the shoutout, my man. Can't wait to see your next vid'
Hey man! Your video was one of my inspiration, and I love the other videos on your channel too, so glad you commented, thank you!
You should seriously do more of space videos like deep and scary themed like i loved it there is no other like i love your voice doing it just can you please do more scary space stuff like deepspace and neptunian system.
i saw your video firstly and thought that this one was the same (almost the same thumbnail and title) loved it
@@toutfilms3455 agree
he literally ripped off your video 1 for 1
"Throw another moon at me, and I'm gonna LOSE it."
-Tony Stark
I had a similar feeling when I was snorkeling in the ocean, I came upon where the floor below dropped so far down I couldn’t see it and it was just darkness below me. Gave me a mini panic attack
i think something that should've been mentioned is the bootes void, it's a massive area devoid of galaxies that is large enough that, if you were in the middle of it, the only bit of light possible would be some non-galactic stars which are highly improbable, there would be so little light that it's negligable to human vision, you would see absolutely nothing, not even yourself unless you have a light, and if you did, if you pointed it away from yourself, you would see nothing from it and be plunged into darkness once again, it fucking horrifies me and i love it
If our milky way was in the middle of the Bootes Void we would have discovered that other galaxies exist by the 1960s.
@@notjebbutstillakerbal and why is that? because of telescopes, when you're floating in the middle of a massive void, you probably won't have packed a telescope
How about the void that stretches from the edge of the universe to infinity?
@@87dramaramaI mean, you can't BE nowhere, until the universe expands and covers that area there's nothing there....which is arguably even scarier than just darkness.
@@87dramaramait's more scary to me that the "edge" of the universe (if there is one) is absolutely inaccessible to us. Not just to travel to but also to observe in any way due to the expansion of the universe at that distance from us outpacing the speed of light. So the actual size of the universe could be just a little larger than the observable universe, or the observable universe may be an extremely tiny pocket in a universe which is trillions of times larger than what we can see.
Also, space appears to be almost perfectly "flat", but so does the earth from your POV when you're standing on it. So space may actually be curved if the actual universe is sufficiently larger than the observable universe.
One great comparison I always like to compare us to a body cell of ours to our body and then to space. It's reminiscing of us being a tiny spec yet visible at a small magnitude.
I'm terrified of space yet fascinated, my fear is only me being out there also knowing that we are basically floating so I worry about just coming off the axis or just falling. The "endlessness" is what really scares me and knowing that an asteroid can come out of anywhere and hit water, water being my other fear.
Thanks to the space guys on this rock, anything that enters a certain vicinity of earth can be detected... and along the years scientist observed the cycles of asteroids. Even that it's kinda pointless considering that some asteroids have cycles of thousand and thousands of years and one might pop out of nowhere but considering our asteroid belt and bigger planets with much more bigger gravitational pull... we're are kinda safe.
I never thought about space being terrifying until I had my first dream about space travel. I've only had two of them, but both were terrifying. In each one, I was not very far from Earth, in a craft and looking back at the planet through a window. Both times, that view filled me with a kind of terror I've never experienced in my actual life. My thought was, "That's where I am supposed to be. How am I ever going to get back there?" It was the realization that I had done something I shouldn't have done, and it was possibly going to cost me my life. I'm sure it's similar to the feeling a person has while cave diving and realizing that something has gone terribly wrong.
Traveled so far down the comments section to find this one to be the most relatable. I just remember in my space travel dream that I felt claustrophobic and that the shuttle I was in was floating off and was going to self-detonate in ten minutes. I have never woken up so fast.
And here I've always been...wishing to be stranded on any of these Astral bodies, but our own...
I HAD NO IDEA OTHER PEOPLE FELT THIS WAY, I’M NOT ALONE IN THIS FEAR!!
We are not alone!
(Man really space is terrifiying)
@@8553animationsNow imagine if u were an ant😂
@@hatpisingson4678 earth is like a galaxy for them, lol
@@8553animations fear friends!! Hooray!! Let us cower together!!
It might just be me and my imagination as a kid, but I always found information on the planets very cool and intriguing. There's certainly a level of terror when you look at the planets as destructive spheres in the void, but those incomprehensible traits are what made them interesting to me and that intrigue overtakes the fear for me.
In regards to a possible "answer" to the Fermi Paradox, part of the problem with communicating with aliens is communication in and of itself. Say we did get a signal of some sort. How would we even determine we got a signal? Is the method we're using even the right one for detecting alien signals? Would they even use a language to start with? There's technically plenty other intelligent species on this planet, yet the only ones we seem to fully understand is our own. If we can't even communicate with something like an octopus, a close neighbor, can we expect to understand an alien unfathomably further from us?
Excellent point on the invalidity of the Fermi Paradox.
And there's another thing, when we're looking at planets and systems light years away, we don't see the actual present of things... we might see the early stages of a planet or civilization, through a lens we cannot really be sure for certain that planet has life or not. We might see the past and civilizations are probably at our level or higher, we're either not detectable to them as they are to us or they simply chose to ignore our existence entirely... or in the same time we might as well be part of a cycle where at each couple billions of years somewhere, in some galaxy, in the part of this infinite void, a civilization meets the lucky circumstances of actually developing only to PROBABLY reach a level where they determine they are either alone or incapable of reaching someone else due to the stupidly large distances.
Wow, that was intense. I wasn’t really thinking why I feel uncomfortable with space pics. When you mentioned this problem, my first thought was this huge overwhelming emptiness.
Nevertheless, I am blaming you for a new phobia. Good job though, keep it coming.
I still remember going to a Planetarium with my school when i was young and i had to hold both of my friends’ hands because of the way it so rapidly took us through the solar system. I couldn’t even look around because it was on every surface through the ceiling & wall screens, closing my eyes didn’t help either as you could just hear the noises and it was so scary. I’d love to visit again at my age now though, see if i’d still shit my pants or not.
i’d sue the planetarium
Now now, no need to sue the plane arium.
@@spingleboygle that's like saying you would sue the zoo because you're afraid of animals
We’re naturally scared of the unknown, we became self aware only to realize this life was never about us
Earth wasn’t perfectly designed for humans
Humans where perfectly designed for Earth
The same way
A bucket isn’t perfectly designed to hold water
But water was perfectly designed to fill a bucket
Love this comment, best simple explanation of this ive seen tbh
@@sandrahughes1004 aww thanks I have a problem with deep thinking so it’s nice to know it wasn’t for nothing
I'd argue a bit about that bucket example/point, as I believe that both the bucket and the water was designed for it, as the bucket WAS technically made to hold water, as it was built for that exact purpose, and the water also fulfills that purpose, as it fills the bucket, but, other than the relatively bad example, this was a good comment.
@@B_4035mn I was trying to make the point that even though we came from this planet and even though only a relatively small amount of people have been to space so far I don’t think we we’re meant to stay on this planet forever
Kind of like an ocean, like yeah you can fit water in a bucket but most of the planet is water so it can be so much more then just a lot of water in a small bucket
Same with humanity there’s 8 billion people alive so far, but there all only living on one planet even though there’s billions of planets
Hopefully this makes more sense for what I was going for, ether way thank you for the criticism and for calling this a good comment I appreciate it
I don't think we're meant to stay on this planet either, but I also don't think we were meant to leave. I think we're meant to create the next stage of life that can survive in space and explore with few complications; something that's not organically bound.
🤣great work on that IGN bit.
Well done I almost choked on my beverage
I think I'm really fascinated by this video because I understand the fear, but as someone who really likes space all the reasons you mentioned are just things I think are cool lol
Same lol
Everything he said made it seem so cool
The fact that we will be bound to our home, Planet Earth, or the Solar System at most and will never know the secrets of the universe is oddly relaxing to me. It's like I have just accepted my meaningless existence in the eternal black void we call the universe
This video is wonderful, I’m an old man niw and it’s nice to see young people getting and trying to understand the universe . We’ll done
What really makes me feel uneasy about space are things like the idea of going for a spacewalk in low-earth orbit and worrying that I might plummet if I got to close. That and falling into one of those black holes that freezes time and leave you stuck in limbo, I had no idea black holes could do that
black holes actually do the opposite, it timewarps you. your perception is the same, but elsewhere, time goes by faster
You'd have to get pretty far from your ship to get close enough to plummet into the atmosphere.
The scariest thought to me is that there are countless alien civilizations ou there, they know of our planet, just like we can see theirs, but not a single one has been able to figure out space travel, no matter how lomg theyve been around. Its like a consmic scale sized stranded on an island situation, left to survive with the only planet we were gifted
Well by the time they figure it out we will probably be long gone as light years is still a long ways away
The great equaliser- a cosmic bottleneck for those that would seek to become masters of the void.
Maybe they just aren't interested in us enough to visit. Maybe there are far more advanced lifeforms out there, we just aren't interesting. Maybe they laugh at us sending out our little probes to the other planets, when they can travel to other stars easily.
I'm a dead man walking. I'm 71 years old. I've survived lymphoma. I have heart disease and have survived a heart attack. There is good reason to fear the universe, simply orbiting Jupiter could kill you from the radiation. Yet I do not fear the universe...instead I want to reach out and grab it all. I want to see alien worlds and stand (within reason) on their surfaces and experience them. I want to visit all of it and wish I had the lifetime to do so. I am greatful that I've managed to see as much of the earth as I have and would like to see more of it but i'll have to be content to leave that to my children and their children.
The only thing I ask of the world and the people in it is do not fear and do not be the cause of our great filter.
As someone who loves space and loves astronomy, I'll say I'm an astrophile.
I love learning about planets, stars, nebula, galaxies, black holes, etc etc.
Space is scary, yeah.
But it's also beautiful.
For me, space is so beautiful but so unsettling. Looking at planets and just objects in space in general are so beautiful but the impossibly large void that seperates all of it is whats terrifying to me.
I finally found someone with the same phobia as me.
Space is absolutely terrifying, and I'm especially scared of gas giants, and you summed up why perfectly.
the golden disc is kind of depressing, it's like a final hail Mary, a death/suicide note, a final message just thrown out there on our only current resort, still to this day, of searching further into the galaxy to either be destroyed, or found by life who can't understand it, possibly discarding it without a second thought.
it's also depressing asl since life on earth would probably be long gone by the time it reaches anything, i almost feel like we're being watched over, like a plant or, more like a terrarium, watching how far our curiosity takes us without us realizing that searching for beings like us is hopeless.
One thing about space I find terrifying is that if the universe really is infinite, that means that pretty much any life form you can imagine could exist somewhere out there. Obviously there is a limit to this some things could never exist but that means anything from xenomorphs to the flood from halo could have a real life equivalent.
I fell asleep while watching this and had a dream where I was chilling outside my house talking with people I know and then all of a sudden the sun turned dark in the centre and red around its circumference. After this it exploded and I told everyone to seek shelter below the roof because I saw a lot of rocks and dangerous things coming our way. It was unbelievable. I just woke up 5:00am and wrote this dream on notes to not forget but thought it'd be interesting to share it here. My heart is still racing yooooooool
if you're scared of black holes, look up what naked singularities are. also, look up "true vacuum" and "strange matter".
I think the big rip is more terrifying than any other fate because we would see it coming, but we have no way to stop it or escape it.
Just Imagine, somwhere exists another planet with humans on it… which is very possible in my opinion considering the Infinity of Space. I mean, infinite Space means infinite possibilities Right?
Yes, but only if space is infinite with an infinite amount of matter in it. Then there would be an infinite number of you and everything else that exists.
There’s literally everything in space Morty!
I hope other planet me is rich and a master of all the things I’m awful at here. Perhaps he’s first ballot hall of fame baseball super star
This was both interesting and nightmare inducing. I am genuinely as terrified of space as I am of death. If I think about it too much I have panic attacks.
It's kind of striking to me the difference in perception that this picture can invoke. Me personally, I've always found the cosmos soothing and intriguing. Something awe inspiring and mysterious (but in a good way). I have a Canadian friend who told me that the void terrifies her, and that really truly blew my mind that people see it differently than I do. There's just something about it.
Nobody ever realizes you watch the entire future of universe, moving quickly to your eyes in the blue orb above you. Nice touch, you’ve nailed the fear.
I am confuse
I've always LOVED space! I used to read books about it when I was growing up and not feeling too well so I guess it shaped my love and fascination with it. Seeing all of the crazy things that happens in space is truly a religious experience
my issue with the whole fear of space thing is. It's literally too big for me to imagine. Like they're so hard to compare to anything that anything big just becomes hard to imagine and therefore hard to fear
From such a young age I've loved and been so fascinated by space to the point I thought everything covered I'm this video was amazing, like I've never considered the things would be considered terrifying by most people. Like when you were talking about how small we are like it was scary I was confused like "wdym that's so cool" like you are right that's objectively extremely terrifying idk why that crossed my mind 😭😭
You quantitied and articulated the fear of space or astrophobia better than i ever could. I understand one of my biggest fears a lot better now because of this vid. Great work.
The sounds.
The SOUNDS.
I cannot with the sounds these planets make, I hate it, it sounds like the planets are screaming.
I had a mental breakdown because of the sounds, because I hate screaming- I hate the sound.
An honorable Exoplanet not mentioned, is TOI 849 b, a planet stripped bare.
It was ripped of its LITERAL CRUST, IT IS JUST A CORE- WHAT?
THATS TERRIFYING!
To be fair the planets don't really make those sounds, its the waves emitted from them translated into sound.
It got a bit too close to the star then if the crust was blown off/melted
8:35 fun fact :t he object was discovered in 2012. The object was thought to be a planet with massive rings, however, this was proven false as the object was only observed once and never seen again, due to unknown reasons. This means the object is likely a rogue brown dwarf with a protoplanetary disk instead of rings.
"IM SIGNIFICANT!!!"...screamed the dust speck into the endless void
youre afraid of everything
We live in a spooky place
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
And nothing
No kidding. Of all the things we have to be afraid of on our own planet we have it so good that people seriously have time to be scared of space? There’s nothing you can do about it so don’t worry yourself and worry about all the problems we have here. I’d never heard of people so afraid of space that they sound like they need a Xanax.
@@Cresendexfacts
I think the reason most people don't fear space is because it doesn't effect us. Everything is so far away that it will never interact with us, and most people aren't scared of not being able to go to other places so there's no fear of the distance. Blacks holes could swallow us whole, but it would be eons before any could reach us.
This just makes me wanna make an analog horror about space lol. Space is terrifying as it is fascinating and beautiful.
I have recurring nightmares related to space. I have always suffered from astrophobia but didn’t know the phobia existed, let alone had a name!
It’s so mind boggling to me that something I find beautiful and amazing no matter how scary it is, people still share their fear for it
21:09 this stab at IGN reviewers has earned you a new subscriber my dear sir. Well done.
I don’t normally comment but I’ve been watching you for a while and I love your content bro. Keep up the amazing uploads 🙏
Keep this coming, absolute gold!!! Every video unlocks a new rabbit hole of fears to pour into my creative outlets! ♥
It's actually regressive to fear space and a little stupid so I don't want content like this to trend if it's only going to make people fear space.
I don't see what's so scary about space, seems dumb
@@Karthik-pn2yjmfs really scared of some random planet 10753 light years away while his parents pay his taxes
@@Karthik-pn2yjmfs really scared of some random planet 10753 light years away while his parents pay his taxes
@@Leopard-2A6.. ok tough guy. I bet you never even left your trailer park town
People scared of the dark: “Oh yeah, space is complete darkness. There are definitely scary things there.”
i find it very interesting we share such opposing views. where you find the fact there are probably billions or trillions of exoplanets we'll never know about terrifying, i believe it to be one of the most disheartening things about living in this time period. the fact we'll most likely never know the origins of everything in our lifetime is extremely frustrating to me and is honestly what pushed me into this field in the first place. great video as per usual! :)
I completely agree, for the purposes of this video I wanted to focus on fear, but for the most part I also get frustrated that I live in a time where the universe's most pressing questions likely won't be answered.
it was a very thought provoking video and raised some points i myself have never even thought of! cant wait to see what you come out with next :)
There is a chance our future descendants won’t know either. We can’t expect progress to be infinite. Then you look at the events of the last 5-6 years or so and you realise how fragile civilisation is. We could end up going in reverse. Our future descendants will struggle to understand our technology.
Explain this Flat-Earthers (0:30)
I love the comments they post tho . It’s always fun to listen to the wild stuff they manage to whip out 😂 kinda crazy we have people who still think like that .
Marbles 🤪😊
They’ll say it’s cgi
Obviously the picture was taken while they were right above the disc, a circle looks round when viewed from above, duh.
I have this to such an opposite extent that I never knew this was even vaguely a possible fear. I find such complete and overwhelming awe when thinking about and exploring the reality of the cosmos.