I was watching the progress meter and was certain they had to throw in a dramatic and deadly twist. Like the alien having a bomb in his suit so it would blow up the earth vessel. This saving them from the embarrassment of having gotten everything wrong?
@@LibraritheWizardOfficial Thats simply too much manpower required to run a channel of this size. Hopefully they can do it in the future, but they already do a good job of removing unnecessary plotholes or just dumb stuff said by ai.
There are some good lines here. Paraphrasing: His atmosphere would poison them, their atmosphere would suffocate him, and the vacuum would kill them both regardless.
I think it's because it just highlights the themes here. The Zaldi thought that water made worlds inhospitable. Humans proved them wrong. This line basically says "each would find the other's environment inhospitable, but both are united under the fact that space is the most inhospitable environment of all"
Can humans swim? Yes. Does water still mean death? In large quantities, also yes. Humans can swim but we sure as hell wouldnt survive a water planet without outside assistance.
@orcmcc oceangate has entered the channel (Yes I know 99% of subs are fine but it's still fucking horrifying that one slip up could cause instant death. Nvm the multiple ones OG had)
Well tbf if we've mastered space travel, FTL drives, living on space stations & have recently learned to terraform in a more primitive fashion than these new aliens, as the story implies, then mastering the ability to float or create an artificial island in a shallow part of the planet would probably not be too far out of the realms of possible avenues. I mean its not exactly lacking in water obviously so all we'd need is terraforming materials like soil if the planetary soil isn't viable, growable food, livestock & depending on the planets salinity, we'd maybe need a desalination/filter kit to stop contaminants and salt from spoiling the water. Essentially we could terraform a large oceanic planet to an extent already if we had the ability to get there with currently invented equipment, so a few hundred years and miracles of technology later and we'd probably be able to do it with little issue other than logistics.
Honestly, this would be a great solution to the Dark Forest. (at 19:00) Why compete for resources or planets when no competition is necessary? If an oxy itrogen atmosphere it goes to the humans. If a methane atmo, it goes to the Zaldi.
Isnt the dark forrest theory where aliens hide cuz of a predator alien race? How does that fit here? Anyways yeah there are estimated 100 million near earth like planets in the milky way i think so enough free real estate for everybody + space habitats.
6:28 If it is a scientific theory then it already has substantial evidence to support it. My hypothesis is that he meant a hypothesis, an untested theory, an educated guess.
Yes it is an unfortunately common mistake, a bit sad to see in a scientific fiction work like this especially when the speaker is meant to be a scientist, but doesn't detract from the overall quality of the story.
This was a good story, a breath of fresh air from "humanity scary honed for war" stories. Its great to hear one about humanity's curiosity and general amiability
I feel like most humans (myself included) would be just really really chatty and full of questions and also want my new alien friend to experience everything humanity has.
So the aliens engineered a bug to terraform water worlds into their methane worlds. The bug can survive space and they infested all of their solar system with it. The earth ships took no precautions against it, possibly carrying it to earth and the future colonizable worlds, all of which are water worlds. Humans gave the Zaldi the secret of FTL knowing they could destroy earth with one small exploratory vessel filled with this bug.
It is a microbe, a living organism, though that term may not strictly apply to life that can survive on Atleb. It was never mentioned to be able to survive in vacuum.
@@therasco400 But if a suit is worn to protect the swimmer? How a species can handle those temps would make us call their world a deathworld in comparison lol
@@zerospace101if a being lives in those temperatures, then hugging something with our body temperature would likely be worse for them than us hugging a fully "warmed" vehicle engine. Very bad. The difference in home planet temps are likely to be similar in experience to what us stepping foot on Venus would be like........ Hell. Both species would have to be in very advanced suits in order to survive on each other's planets, and would not be able to step out of them for even seconds. In short, each of the planets are deathworlds to their non-native species. One species would freeze solid in seconds, the others flesh would boil like it was in a brazen bull.
Your channel has really helped me beat my depression,my closest friend passed away in February. We both used to listen to SCP related content and once he passed it became hard to do such but i came across some of the stories you narrated. They are really great ! Thanks!
Hehe. If this were real, it's probably as simple as humanity's translator software being developed by an Australian dev team, thus getting a almost avoidable bias for Australian sounding English translations. I'd like to think that to the Arabic and Chinese crewmates, the translation had a different accent and speech pattern mimicking wherever those devs were from.
1:49 mentions space elevators being made, but 32:16 the Ztalis says "What are space elevators?" and it's mentioned that the Zaldi had no space elevators.
Listening to you narrate instead of an AI is so much better, an AI can’t really convey a tone of an emotion very well, and listening to someone tell you a story is just very nice. You earned a sub from me 👍
I really like the way the Ztali Captian speaks with an ozzie accent. I could well imagine that is how a translator would interpret his idiom. I need more Zatali stories!
Tau Ceti is still in the heavy bombardment phase. It is not inhabital currently. Went through a phase where i looked at nearby systems to see if any are currently habitual or have intelligent life. There is earth type planet in the habital zone there, so it may develop intelligent life roughly 3.8 billion years from now.
Only issue with your statement. Your primordial soup was already life because organic compounds don't exist without living cells having first been there to bind them together. Meaning your theory of the origin of life is that life came from life. And your primordial soup has not been seen anywhere on earth yet, so its existence is hypothetical at best. So, just as a Christian can not show you his sky dady directly, neither can you show your super soup. So you shouldn't be poking holes in a story using an imaginary stick.
@@josephshuck6478 "The Miller-Urey experiment was a 1952 chemical synthesis experiment conducted by Stanley Miller and supervised by Harold Urey at the University of Chicago. The experiment simulated the conditions of Earth's atmosphere 4.6 billion years ago, and is considered a groundbreaking experiment that helped establish the field of prebiotic chemistry and astrobiology. The experiment used a custom-built glass apparatus to recreate the early Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The apparatus contained a mixture of methane, ammonia, and hydrogen in a 2:2:1 ratio, along with water. Miller then used an electric arc to mimic lightning and spark the mixture, producing amino acids and other organic compounds. The results supported the hypothesis that the early Earth's conditions favored chemical reactions that could create complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic materials. The sugar molecules produced in the experiment contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which can be used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules. These molecules can then be assembled into larger molecules, such as DNA or proteins, which can be used to form new cells."
@@josephshuck6478 "The Miller-Urey experiment was a 1952 chemical synthesis experiment conducted by Stanley Miller and supervised by Harold Urey at the University of Chicago. The experiment simulated the conditions of Earth's atmosphere 4.6 billion years ago, and is considered a groundbreaking experiment that helped establish the field of prebiotic chemistry and astrobiology. The experiment used a custom-built glass apparatus to recreate the early Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The apparatus contained a mixture of methane, ammonia, and hydrogen in a 2:2:1 ratio, along with water. Miller then used an electric arc to mimic lightning and spark the mixture, producing amino acids and other organic compounds. The results supported the hypothesis that the early Earth's conditions favored chemical reactions that could create complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic materials. The sugar molecules produced in the experiment contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which can be used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules. These molecules can then be assembled into larger molecules, such as DNA or proteins, which can be used to form new cells."
@@josephshuck6478 "It's unlikely that abiogenesis is still occurring on Earth today because of the planet's current atmosphere and the existence of other life. Early Earth was sterile and had very different physical and chemical conditions than it does today. If new self-replicating molecules were to appear on Earth today, they would likely be consumed by existing life. Additionally, abiogenesis may have become impossible once Earth's atmosphere took on its current composition.
I grew up reading various books of Sci-Fi & fantasy, as well as watching numerous Sci-Fi shows (UFO, Lost in Space, Space 1999, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica,) and various animated Sci-Fi shows. These are pretty good, better than most of the crap on TV now. 🙂
From the authors of Humans are the equivalent of Orks and Earth is a Death World we present to you - aliens so caught up on some random scientific minutae that they built their whole perception of reality on it.
I love the war, and horror ones... but this was so refreshing and uplifting. It is officially one of my favorites. I loved hearing about cooperation and joint efforts.
So these aliens thought it was impossible for life to survive in the ocean but never left their planet? Like you have to explore water based planets for life before you make a conclusion that bold.
Even if they don’t leave their planet, they can try to do what we do. Looks at planets most similar to our own to look for the potential of life. Communication signals escaping the planet, light pollution of civilization, or sending probes to take photos of the surface of the planet. Basing possible life on their own isn’t completely wrong either because otherwise, their search would be every single planet which may be too much data.
dude they had colonized 11 planet and even terraform each of them. They already left their planet and more advanced than our irl world. Like yeah they seem dumb in our pov but if tomorrow some random ass species just come out of the blackhole and tell us to stop hiding inside it and come out already. We would look dumb af too.
They *had* left their planet, though. They just hadn't left their solar system. They'd just assumed that the planets in their solar system represented all planets.
Ok, the first big mistake in the story appears at around 7:25. For us, the dominant theory concerning Base 10 being the dominant base is due to our 10 digits. Then the latter explanation regarding the absolute importance of 8 shown by the lines: "Every Zaldi vessel had a series of manipulator arms, ALWAYS in multiples of 8,". Meaning, if there's more, it'll always going to be 16, 24, etc. Implies due to their psychological and physical characteristics, their math would also be base 8 not 14. And it's even funnier, no offense, really found it funny, when they announce the capsule approach in 10's: "30, 20, 10, contact" instead they would of went 42, 28, 14, contact, or in base 8 24,16, 8, contact. Just something to watch when you switch to an alien race, not to let human measure become their measure. Otherwise, I really loved the writing, and reading, it was quite enjoyable.
Seas of liquid methane would require a temperature of approximately -160 C, and so for them they would not be dealing with liquid water but ice. That is very cold for life as we know it to operate. I suspect the aliens would be more surprised at how freaking hot our planet is relative to theirs. They would consider our Antarctic a tropical beach destination.
I have a lot of questions about the aliens biology. They breathe methane, which is much more analogous to their food then to our oxygen. They are also heterotrophs, photosynthesizing in the sunlight. That suggests to me that their bodies are producing tholin compounds that they then use for food. I wonder what the reducing agent is or if they even use one. It's possible that their cells could use a Metal-based catalyst to release the energy as needed.
Water is indeed a very capable solvent. Not sure the xenobiology is not reach in this one though. Also oxygen rich atmospheres are unlikely with biological processes to create it as happened on earth. It is extremely reactive and will combine with everything but the noble gases with surprisingly little energy or effort needed.
this story literally described a centrifuge the wrong way around. The gravity generated by such a device would always pull away from the center, thus having the ceiling face outwards is... well... the wrong way
The human narration was splendid but the story itself was astounding. It flowed so smoothly, without looping back on itself as so many do. It didn’t feel anywhere near as long as the 44 minutes it was. The sole technical complaint or question I have concerns her four hour air supply versus the six hour reply time mentioned at 40:00. What did I misunderstand?
That passage didn't make any sense, actually. It talked about a signal being delayed by seconds with a response coming in six hours with quite awkward wording. Still, the air supply situation could easily be resolved within the four hour time window by recharging the suit's oxygen supply, either from the Zaldi oxygen bottle or from the human ship.
I like the Zaldi renouncement of individual nations in the military (Their UN army I guess) and instead to their species and being independent of any one planet/nation. Control all space and military mass weapons Gives me Enders Game vibes regarding this and I personally think this should be a thing for any international organization like the UN or some other future one But why not shake the hand? It is a main human custom when meeting someone.
Love the narration ❤ I DO have a slight problem with the script tho. The Zaldi are a base-14 race, yet they use 8 limbs and multiples of 8 for the manipulators, and the crew member counted the distance back for the manipulators "Thirty, Twenty, Ten." Just a slight inconsistency I caught. 😅🤔 Edit: I also noticed that the Zaldi have 12 homeworlds, which would make it logical to be base-12 instead of 14. Though that's not required, it kinda gives closure to the fleshing out of the race.
Romans used base twelve and base sixty because they count each knuckle bones, pointing at one with their thumb. it's why minutes seconds and hours are base sixty and twelve. so their base fourteen could be from something like that. we have 8 planets and we don't use base 8.
@@Cevonis True, but the manipulator operator counted back in base 10, which is inconsistent. Like noticing in Star Wars that decorative armor in the background suddenly swaps order when the camera cuts to another angle of Obi-Wan. And not all countries on Earth use base 10. The Metric system is base 10, but due to American surliness, WE still use base 12 and haven't fully adopted 10 yet, only for sales of food units, and as a courtesy for foreign visitors. 🤔 It doesn't seem likely to change anytime soon. Apologies. 😅
The description says that this story was written by a human. If you don't mind me asking, what is that human's name? I don't doubt you, I just like to see people get credit for their work.
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Art meets life. A year or so ago an impossible amount of oxygen was found dissolved in the waters at the bottom of the Pacific off the coast of California. Oxygen as everyone knows is produced by photosynthesis and a very small quantity reaches the bottom. In the Atlantic it had been assumed the steel would be fresh. The rust that was found there was the action of an unknown species of bacteria so it can be said that the Titanic is rotting away to rust. So like the story above the researchers in the Pacific assumed the sensor was defective. Back in California no defect was found. So after about a year they went back and probed not only the same spot but places around with sensor equipment from different manufacturers and alternate designs. "All showed the same readings." They still found too much oxygen. "'Commander?' it asked confused, 'This doesn't make any sense.'" The area is known for metallic nodules. It was discovered that a previously unknown interaction between the minerals of the nodes produces free oxygen. They are now researching to see how life at depths uses this.
Man, hearing this gentleman's voice makes me think of the announcer for Total Annihilation. I keep expecting to hear him start reading off the script for the narrator lol.
There's one major thing missing from this story: The motivation to create such a lifeform. It would seem to me that there would have to be some existential crisis to the Zaldi for them to try and engineer life that sustains itself if way completely foreign to their home planet's taxonomy.
Probably for colonisation, even we humans are considering bioengineering simple lifeforms that can survive on Venus and Mars to make these planets more hospitable to us.
@@alejotassile6441Exactly. Imagine if we had space travel technology but we could genetically modify ourselves to be able to “breathe” in water or breathe varying atmospheres it would be very useful.
Its nice to hear a story where both the humans and aliens are both cautiously excited to meet with no ulterior motive twist to add narrative conflict.
Nah, they are gunna dunk him head first into that endless ocean, whilst sipping on Pimm's relaxed in deck chairs.
I was watching the progress meter and was certain they had to throw in a dramatic and deadly twist. Like the alien having a bomb in his suit so it would blow up the earth vessel. This saving them from the embarrassment of having gotten everything wrong?
Amazing how much more relaxing listening to a story is when the storyteller is a real person.
especially as they pronounce the same names the same way all the times, and don't mix up some every-day abbreviations and make it hard to understand..
This community has to be the most sensitive when it comes to who reads. You can always go read it yourself 😂
@@reesofraft4166 the narrator did mangle the Latin though. which is funny, cause you're supposed to read precisely what you see.
@@StergiosMekrasyeah, but we can forgive the man can’t we?
@@spectralstriker I mean, sure. happens to the best of us.
I am so glad this channel uses people to read and not some a.i bot. You got another sub.
Agreed, it’s so much better
Yep I subbed after listening to just one narration a week ago. I will never listen to that AI voice crap.
Now if only the stories were always human written, it'd be perfect 😔
@@LibraritheWizardOfficial Thats simply too much manpower required to run a channel of this size. Hopefully they can do it in the future, but they already do a good job of removing unnecessary plotholes or just dumb stuff said by ai.
Idk, like human voice overs are good but why is he giving this insectoid race an Australian accent?
There are some good lines here.
Paraphrasing: His atmosphere would poison them, their atmosphere would suffocate him, and the vacuum would kill them both regardless.
Agreed, I don't know why but I find it such a good line.
I think it's because it just highlights the themes here. The Zaldi thought that water made worlds inhospitable. Humans proved them wrong. This line basically says "each would find the other's environment inhospitable, but both are united under the fact that space is the most inhospitable environment of all"
Can humans swim? Yes. Does water still mean death? In large quantities, also yes. Humans can swim but we sure as hell wouldnt survive a water planet without outside assistance.
With how good submarines are, it's probably not the worst planet type to colonise. :)
@orcmcc oceangate has entered the channel
(Yes I know 99% of subs are fine but it's still fucking horrifying that one slip up could cause instant death. Nvm the multiple ones OG had)
Wait a minute🤔 ...This guy has a point!
@@dakotacollis5123if we are exploring other planets and we still have ceos ignoring the engineers theres bigger problems
Well tbf if we've mastered space travel, FTL drives, living on space stations & have recently learned to terraform in a more primitive fashion than these new aliens, as the story implies, then mastering the ability to float or create an artificial island in a shallow part of the planet would probably not be too far out of the realms of possible avenues. I mean its not exactly lacking in water obviously so all we'd need is terraforming materials like soil if the planetary soil isn't viable, growable food, livestock & depending on the planets salinity, we'd maybe need a desalination/filter kit to stop contaminants and salt from spoiling the water.
Essentially we could terraform a large oceanic planet to an extent already if we had the ability to get there with currently invented equipment, so a few hundred years and miracles of technology later and we'd probably be able to do it with little issue other than logistics.
Honestly, this would be a great solution to the Dark Forest. (at 19:00) Why compete for resources or planets when no competition is necessary? If an oxy
itrogen atmosphere it goes to the humans. If a methane atmo, it goes to the Zaldi.
Isnt the dark forrest theory where aliens hide cuz of a predator alien race? How does that fit here?
Anyways yeah there are estimated 100 million near earth like planets in the milky way i think so enough free real estate for everybody + space habitats.
And if neither terriforming microbe things sure will do that trick
This guy has a PHENOMENAL voice for narration.
Zaldi: "You can swim?!"
Human: "Yeah, we are not adapted to water tho."
Zaldi: Why would you do that?
Human: When the need arises, or when you're bored...
Zaldi: ?!?!!!?
6:28 If it is a scientific theory then it already has substantial evidence to support it. My hypothesis is that he meant a hypothesis, an untested theory, an educated guess.
Yes it is an unfortunately common mistake, a bit sad to see in a scientific fiction work like this especially when the speaker is meant to be a scientist, but doesn't detract from the overall quality of the story.
This was a good story, a breath of fresh air from "humanity scary honed for war" stories. Its great to hear one about humanity's curiosity and general amiability
I feel like most humans (myself included) would be just really really chatty and full of questions and also want my new alien friend to experience everything humanity has.
A human being reading. YES!!! Subscribed.
Why does one of Them sound Like an Aussie Pirate ? .
THIS. Also if you haven't yet. "Netnarator" and agro squirl are also voiced by human beings
The female voice lines are especially fun to listen to :)
tbh it's like learning that there's beings that live in sulfuric acid.
So the aliens engineered a bug to terraform water worlds into their methane worlds. The bug can survive space and they infested all of their solar system with it. The earth ships took no precautions against it, possibly carrying it to earth and the future colonizable worlds, all of which are water worlds. Humans gave the Zaldi the secret of FTL knowing they could destroy earth with one small exploratory vessel filled with this bug.
It is a microbe, a living organism, though that term may not strictly apply to life that can survive on Atleb. It was never mentioned to be able to survive in vacuum.
Science is science. It's just a framework for learning the truth. New knowledge doesn't make a new form of science, it just gives you more information
New form/new branch. Has happened several times in the past, will happen again in the future
It is cool that aliens for once seem to be like Humans in curiosity and manner/attitude.
How well could a Human swim in a methane sea?
Given liquid Methane has a temp of 91-112 Kelvin (-92 degrees c) I would say they would be very dead.
@@therasco400 But if a suit is worn to protect the swimmer?
How a species can handle those temps would make us call their world a deathworld in comparison lol
@@zerospace101if a being lives in those temperatures, then hugging something with our body temperature would likely be worse for them than us hugging a fully "warmed" vehicle engine. Very bad. The difference in home planet temps are likely to be similar in experience to what us stepping foot on Venus would be like........ Hell. Both species would have to be in very advanced suits in order to survive on each other's planets, and would not be able to step out of them for even seconds. In short, each of the planets are deathworlds to their non-native species. One species would freeze solid in seconds, the others flesh would boil like it was in a brazen bull.
dropping a vid WHILE Im binging this entire channel having just found it hours ago is truly next level dopamine hit🙏
haha you’re welcome! thanks for binging :)
Your channel has really helped me beat my depression,my closest friend passed away in February. We both used to listen to SCP related content and once he passed it became hard to do such but i came across some of the stories you narrated. They are really great ! Thanks!
Why do the aliens sound like an Englishman trying to imitate an Australian?
It reminded me of a south afician accent.
@brianmeadows1137 nah, they have a clipped way of speaking. That was. Nothing like it.
They're Australiens.
Hehe. If this were real, it's probably as simple as humanity's translator software being developed by an Australian dev team, thus getting a almost avoidable bias for Australian sounding English translations. I'd like to think that to the Arabic and Chinese crewmates, the translation had a different accent and speech pattern mimicking wherever those devs were from.
@aurawilming6047 too logical. Everyone here is either grumpy or too busy being a smart Alec.
1:49 mentions space elevators being made, but 32:16 the Ztalis says "What are space elevators?" and it's mentioned that the Zaldi had no space elevators.
The answer is a concussion
Real reader is a breath of fresh air. I am subscribed here and Aggro Squirrel
check out netnarrator too, he does decent readings
Ah a man of culture I see
Net narrator is also human I think
Listening to you narrate instead of an AI is so much better, an AI can’t really convey a tone of an emotion very well, and listening to someone tell you a story is just very nice. You earned a sub from me 👍
I really like the way the Ztali Captian speaks with an ozzie accent. I could well imagine that is how a translator would interpret his idiom. I need more Zatali stories!
Curious what environment they lived in because doesn’t water usually mean life?
Maybe their bodies evolved to survive on very little amounts of water like a camel
It said it at the start they have methane
sulphur or amoniac based life forms would be more common than water ones
@@Mela_the_tenno the camel thing is a myth what would be more appropriate is a tortoise or other animals that get water from their food
@@rubenharos6988 huh the more you know
Tau Ceti is still in the heavy bombardment phase. It is not inhabital currently. Went through a phase where i looked at nearby systems to see if any are currently habitual or have intelligent life. There is earth type planet in the habital zone there, so it may develop intelligent life roughly 3.8 billion years from now.
:33 They are correct nothing could evolve from a pool of pure water. Abiogenesis occurred in a primordial soup, which contained organic compounds.
Only issue with your statement. Your primordial soup was already life because organic compounds don't exist without living cells having first been there to bind them together. Meaning your theory of the origin of life is that life came from life. And your primordial soup has not been seen anywhere on earth yet, so its existence is hypothetical at best. So, just as a Christian can not show you his sky dady directly, neither can you show your super soup.
So you shouldn't be poking holes in a story using an imaginary stick.
@@josephshuck6478 "The Miller-Urey experiment was a 1952 chemical synthesis experiment conducted by Stanley Miller and supervised by Harold Urey at the University of Chicago. The experiment simulated the conditions of Earth's atmosphere 4.6 billion years ago, and is considered a groundbreaking experiment that helped establish the field of prebiotic chemistry and astrobiology.
The experiment used a custom-built glass apparatus to recreate the early Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The apparatus contained a mixture of methane, ammonia, and hydrogen in a 2:2:1 ratio, along with water. Miller then used an electric arc to mimic lightning and spark the mixture, producing amino acids and other organic compounds. The results supported the hypothesis that the early Earth's conditions favored chemical reactions that could create complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic materials. The sugar molecules produced in the experiment contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which can be used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules. These molecules can then be assembled into larger molecules, such as DNA or proteins, which can be used to form new cells."
@@josephshuck6478 "The Miller-Urey experiment was a 1952 chemical synthesis experiment conducted by Stanley Miller and supervised by Harold Urey at the University of Chicago. The experiment simulated the conditions of Earth's atmosphere 4.6 billion years ago, and is considered a groundbreaking experiment that helped establish the field of prebiotic chemistry and astrobiology.
The experiment used a custom-built glass apparatus to recreate the early Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The apparatus contained a mixture of methane, ammonia, and hydrogen in a 2:2:1 ratio, along with water. Miller then used an electric arc to mimic lightning and spark the mixture, producing amino acids and other organic compounds. The results supported the hypothesis that the early Earth's conditions favored chemical reactions that could create complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic materials. The sugar molecules produced in the experiment contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which can be used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules. These molecules can then be assembled into larger molecules, such as DNA or proteins, which can be used to form new cells."
@@josephshuck6478 "It's unlikely that abiogenesis is still occurring on Earth today because of the planet's current atmosphere and the existence of other life.
Early Earth was sterile and had very different physical and chemical conditions than it does today. If new self-replicating molecules were to appear on Earth today, they would likely be consumed by existing life. Additionally, abiogenesis may have become impossible once Earth's atmosphere took on its current composition.
I grew up reading various books of Sci-Fi & fantasy, as well as watching numerous Sci-Fi shows (UFO, Lost in Space, Space 1999, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica,) and various animated Sci-Fi shows. These are pretty good, better than most of the crap on TV now. 🙂
From the authors of Humans are the equivalent of Orks and Earth is a Death World we present to you - aliens so caught up on some random scientific minutae that they built their whole perception of reality on it.
I hope the pendulum swings back soon.
We'd do the same thing with carbon-based lifeforms living on warm planets with liquid water and oxygenated atmospheres.
Meanwhile Quantum Physics:
@@thepetrarcticwar2778 No we don't. We're not gonna commit sppuku if we find life on pluto, we'll be all "wow this is frickin' amazing".
I love the war, and horror ones... but this was so refreshing and uplifting. It is officially one of my favorites. I loved hearing about cooperation and joint efforts.
Great story and I'm hoping for a part 2. Your voice is really nice to listen to while reading a story. The story was well thought out too.
So these aliens thought it was impossible for life to survive in the ocean but never left their planet? Like you have to explore water based planets for life before you make a conclusion that bold.
Aliens in these stories tend to be the dumb, 1 track kind.
Even if they don’t leave their planet, they can try to do what we do. Looks at planets most similar to our own to look for the potential of life. Communication signals escaping the planet, light pollution of civilization, or sending probes to take photos of the surface of the planet. Basing possible life on their own isn’t completely wrong either because otherwise, their search would be every single planet which may be too much data.
dude they had colonized 11 planet and even terraform each of them. They already left their planet and more advanced than our irl world. Like yeah they seem dumb in our pov but if tomorrow some random ass species just come out of the blackhole and tell us to stop hiding inside it and come out already.
We would look dumb af too.
They *had* left their planet, though. They just hadn't left their solar system. They'd just assumed that the planets in their solar system represented all planets.
After review the water in my drinking glass, there is no life in this water. Therefore life cannot leave in water. What’s next.
For a race that doesn't like water, I doubt they would grow their food in it so might wanna change hydroponic to methaponic or something 33:38
YES! I am so pleased with your narration and story telling. I am absolutely in love in the first ten seconds! WONDERFUL!
Ok, the first big mistake in the story appears at around 7:25.
For us, the dominant theory concerning Base 10 being the dominant base is due to our 10 digits. Then the latter explanation regarding the absolute importance of 8 shown by the lines: "Every Zaldi vessel had a series of manipulator arms, ALWAYS in multiples of 8,". Meaning, if there's more, it'll always going to be 16, 24, etc. Implies due to their psychological and physical characteristics, their math would also be base 8 not 14.
And it's even funnier, no offense, really found it funny, when they announce the capsule approach in 10's: "30, 20, 10, contact" instead they would of went 42, 28, 14, contact, or in base 8 24,16, 8, contact. Just something to watch when you switch to an alien race, not to let human measure become their measure.
Otherwise, I really loved the writing, and reading, it was quite enjoyable.
Seas of liquid methane would require a temperature of approximately -160 C, and so for them they would not be dealing with liquid water but ice. That is very cold for life as we know it to operate. I suspect the aliens would be more surprised at how freaking hot our planet is relative to theirs. They would consider our Antarctic a tropical beach destination.
Only partway through the story, but is pressure specified?
Voice isn't AI perfection, voice sounds like the guy who narrated war of the worlds pure joy
Yes! I can hear the orson Welles makes it much better to listen
nice to hear a story that doesen't have war.
Bro I love these earth first channel,,,,and the inclusion of the narrators in the beginning gives it a friendly and engaging feeling to start.
I have a lot of questions about the aliens biology. They breathe methane, which is much more analogous to their food then to our oxygen. They are also heterotrophs, photosynthesizing in the sunlight. That suggests to me that their bodies are producing tholin compounds that they then use for food. I wonder what the reducing agent is or if they even use one. It's possible that their cells could use a Metal-based catalyst to release the energy as needed.
can you repeat this in english so i understand because half the words you just said hurt my brain
You should write one of these, I'd read the hell out of it!
Wait ! * Fanfare * A real person with a great voice for story telling ?! . Well now , You have a new subscriber , sir .
Water is indeed a very capable solvent. Not sure the xenobiology is not reach in this one though. Also oxygen rich atmospheres are unlikely with biological processes to create it as happened on earth. It is extremely reactive and will combine with everything but the noble gases with surprisingly little energy or effort needed.
Another great story! Kudos to the writer(s), programmers, techs and absolutely not least to the very talented voice actor!
I NEED a second episode, that was GREAT
Love how the Zaldi is just all Boba Fett
++ for a human narrator.
"Thats not a lazer cutter, THIS is a lazer cutter."
1:50 they say about space elevators on Atleb, then at 32:20 Commander Ztali was surprised when Amassador mention about Human space elevators
I would love to see this story get a sequel!
this story literally described a centrifuge the wrong way around. The gravity generated by such a device would always pull away from the center, thus having the ceiling face outwards is... well... the wrong way
The human narration was splendid but the story itself was astounding. It flowed so smoothly, without looping back on itself as so many do. It didn’t feel anywhere near as long as the 44 minutes it was.
The sole technical complaint or question I have concerns her four hour air supply versus the six hour reply time mentioned at 40:00. What did I misunderstand?
That passage didn't make any sense, actually. It talked about a signal being delayed by seconds with a response coming in six hours with quite awkward wording. Still, the air supply situation could easily be resolved within the four hour time window by recharging the suit's oxygen supply, either from the Zaldi oxygen bottle or from the human ship.
I like the Zaldi renouncement of individual nations in the military (Their UN army I guess) and instead to their species and being independent of any one planet/nation. Control all space and military mass weapons
Gives me Enders Game vibes regarding this and I personally think this should be a thing for any international organization like the UN or some other future one
But why not shake the hand? It is a main human custom when meeting someone.
A real human reading and a nice clear voice to boot. We are beeing spoiled, so subscribed!
Love the narration ❤
I DO have a slight problem with the script tho. The Zaldi are a base-14 race, yet they use 8 limbs and multiples of 8 for the manipulators, and the crew member counted the distance back for the manipulators "Thirty, Twenty, Ten."
Just a slight inconsistency I caught. 😅🤔
Edit: I also noticed that the Zaldi have 12 homeworlds, which would make it logical to be base-12 instead of 14. Though that's not required, it kinda gives closure to the fleshing out of the race.
Romans used base twelve and base sixty because they count each knuckle bones, pointing at one with their thumb. it's why minutes seconds and hours are base sixty and twelve. so their base fourteen could be from something like that. we have 8 planets and we don't use base 8.
@@Cevonis True, but the manipulator operator counted back in base 10, which is inconsistent. Like noticing in Star Wars that decorative armor in the background suddenly swaps order when the camera cuts to another angle of Obi-Wan.
And not all countries on Earth use base 10. The Metric system is base 10, but due to American surliness, WE still use base 12 and haven't fully adopted 10 yet, only for sales of food units, and as a courtesy for foreign visitors. 🤔
It doesn't seem likely to change anytime soon. Apologies. 😅
Base 12 is a very awesome number with the numbers that are divisible by it.
@@Cevonis we use base sixty because its mathematically convenient, not this knucklebone nonsense. and we still write it in decimal.
Interesting combination.
A human reader, but a AI writer.
The writing isn't bad for something made by a AI.
No A I voice! Great narration! Wonderful story. New sub here. 👍👍
I really like this narrator. He has a commanding voice with a touch of tinnyness that reminds me of old scifi radio shows.
So Kinghillians or Vallens are now calling themselves Zaldi? I guess they got tired of the marsxion empire making fun of them. 0:19
this one needs a sequal! do you guys do these? human readers is a + in my book, subscribed, and thank you!
Rather cute. Imaginative. Perhaps a bit silly at times. Well done. Well worth your time to hear.
Great story! Would love to see a sequel
Part 2 is of utmost importance!
This was great man! Thanks for reading!
New subscriber! 😁
It would be great if Sarah tills said that we drink water aswell.
Great story and a greater reading, thank you!!!
Is there a sequel to this? Beautiful reading!
Just found your channel. Always love r/hfy. Your voice, and recitation is fantastic.
This is one of you best. Part 2 please. I subscribed just for part 2.
Thank you for not being AI garbage. The only HFY channel I follow anymore
Yes! Finally a channel that isn’t just ai that can’t read properly
37:10 so fallouts power armour?
Thoughtfully enjoyed this it was really well done
Great work. Is there a part 2?
Subbed
Love this! I hope if we ever connect with aliens it goes like this
I have been a sub for a while now. I like this narrator. I thought it should be said that he's got a good "radio" voice. 😊
40:03 and... we've been out of oxygen for two hours at this point.
However, I appreciate the story and how you've acted it.
So much better having a person read the story!!
NGL, this guy sounds exactly like the Narrator from Total Annihilation. Love it.
The description says that this story was written by a human. If you don't mind me asking, what is that human's name? I don't doubt you, I just like to see people get credit for their work.
English accented aliens is awesome. A great story thank you.
I love listening to a real human. No A.I. can understand or appropriately use all the little nuances.
I think they got the centrifuge inside out, the floor is the outermost.
Good narration. Thanks and keep it up please 🙏
the centrifuge is the wrong way around the ouside of the centrifuge should be the ground and the inside the ceiling
Good story, better than most. Well narrated.
Very nice narration, sir.. Thank you.
Holy moly ITS A PERSON READING (and not an AI)
I wonder how they discovered fire.
I think I found their problem: they're from Australia - well known for its deadly water.
Human narrator, subscribed
scifi with a great reader!!! he does different voices very well. the best one though is how he can change his very masculine voice to a very fenine one!! that is incredible 😂🤣
anyway, i really like this guy :).
and no robots !!!!!!!! thanks soooo much :) 👩🏾🎤👾🚀👩🏽🚀👽🌷🌱
Calling another sentient being “it” was too much of a distraction for me. 😂
Where can I read the stories myself?
Art meets life. A year or so ago an impossible amount of oxygen was found dissolved in the waters at the bottom of the Pacific off the coast of California. Oxygen as everyone knows is produced by photosynthesis and a very small quantity reaches the bottom. In the Atlantic it had been assumed the steel would be fresh. The rust that was found there was the action of an unknown species of bacteria so it can be said that the Titanic is rotting away to rust.
So like the story above the researchers in the Pacific assumed the sensor was defective. Back in California no defect was found. So after about a year they went back and probed not only the same spot but places around with sensor equipment from different manufacturers and alternate designs. "All showed the same readings." They still found too much oxygen. "'Commander?' it asked confused, 'This doesn't make any sense.'"
The area is known for metallic nodules. It was discovered that a previously unknown interaction between the minerals of the nodes produces free oxygen. They are now researching to see how life at depths uses this.
Man, hearing this gentleman's voice makes me think of the announcer for Total Annihilation. I keep expecting to hear him start reading off the script for the narrator lol.
Current space suit rebreathers are typically good for 8 hours
You guys should try playing this at 1.25 speed, it doesn't effect it that much and it allows you to listen to more of the stories
Sorry that was a crackup for me ! The Zaldi have a light but there Australian accent being a Kiwi it was just funny
There's one major thing missing from this story: The motivation to create such a lifeform. It would seem to me that there would have to be some existential crisis to the Zaldi for them to try and engineer life that sustains itself if way completely foreign to their home planet's taxonomy.
Probably for colonisation, even we humans are considering bioengineering simple lifeforms that can survive on Venus and Mars to make these planets more hospitable to us.
I mean, wouldn't you want to breathe in acid? or be able to withstand a volcano? that's the motivation right there
@@alejotassile6441Exactly. Imagine if we had space travel technology but we could genetically modify ourselves to be able to “breathe” in water or breathe varying atmospheres it would be very useful.
The pain is of an unfinished story
ITS A HUMAN!!!
And another subscriber 😉
Excellent story, tho I was a bit surprised to hear an Australian accent in the mix. Great stuff hope there is more. 😃👍👍👍👍👍👍👍