My grandpa was born in 1928 and when he died I couldn't stop myself from thinking what that man has gone through: Born during the great depression where people went back to trade goods because money wasn't worth the paper it was made off; spending his child-years during the rise of the nazi regime; being a teen that was drafted shortly before Germany lost the war, and living in Switzerland to hide so he wasn't forced to fight for the 3rd Reich. He helped rebuilding Germany, saw it split into two and, some decades later, reunite again. He witnessed the rise of terrorism, the internet, computers, TVs, the EU. He saw the moonlanding live. He survived fatal illnesses that we now eradicated due to vaccines. And he had direct contact with people who fought in world war 1, with people who didn't know what a fridge was, and he walked on streets where cars were a rare thing to see because most people still used horses. All of that made me think about all the stuff I will witness in my future.
That’s amazing dude... your grandpa’s both lucky and unlucky for having to go through all that. He experienced a huge change in Earth’s history, but he also had to struggle to survive through it sounds like
@@Cockalicious yeah, we know that, but the comment was a joke because there was a picture of the vsauce logo at the end of the timelapse at the end of the video which kinda implied that all humanity led into was vsauce also tbh his videos are quite fun. maybe not super information packed, but the facts he gives are fun
As child, i was very curious and i loved reading about our world. But then this part of me fade away. And Michael made me curious again, i can not put this to words, but i am very grateful, man.
Pretty sure meerkats kill the most of their own species.. I think humans rank somewhere in the 30s in terms of species that kill their own which is still kinda high but whatever not so fun fact I guess
@@scottmarquez2673 Predicting the weather just one day ahead 100% would require us to know the factors of: today's temperature, humidity, prevailing winds, and local geography 100%. Sounds simple enough but it truly isn’t. Especially considering the weather forecast usually covers large areas.
As the saying goes, sticks and stones may break my bones but words are merely the smallest element of language capable of containing meaning and isolation and, as such, could never directly produce the 4,000 newtons of force per square centimeter required to break bones.
Bruh we know but technically speaking ~1800 years passed after Jesus died when the first Steam Engines were made, then just ~200 years passed when the first Spaceships were made.
Very educating, if you think about it we are just beginning to becoming an advanced civilization, from the hundreds of generations that never got to see electricity, we are here now just starting to literally change the world with ai, phones, computers, and im glad to be alive with all of you and to experience a world that others before us never would have expected, stay safe and stay smart people.
@@themindflayer5952 How are we on the Kardashian scale? It took us many thousands of years to invent the internet, and only seconds for Kim's butt to break it.
Someone could, theoretically, have watched the first ever successful aircraft take off and watched the moon landing within their lifetime, since these events are only 66 years apart.
Since no one mentioned what the substitute for lead is, I might as well just say it. Manganese is our new anti knocking agent. But guess what, unfortunately it's also incredibly dangerous - might even say just as dangerous as lead. The whole "unleaded" thing works really well from a marketing perspective though
@@cyborggenos5142 This is part of the reason why I like e85. It has a higher aki, has a bit of a cooling effect, plus with that better anti knock index you can make better, safer, more efficient use of a turbocharger. Yeah, you use 30% more but considering it burns a little bit cleaner and it is significantly cheaper than regular unleaded, I'm not seeing many downsides. Apart from availability in some places. But with a flex fuel sensor and a proper ecu like a Haltech, you can run it on premium and it'll adjust for it to get you to your next e85 pump. Also, race car :D Edit: Forgot to add the obvious benefit of it being 85% renewable as a bio/fossil fuel blend rather than a straight fossil fuel derivative.
Fluoroquinolones are a class of commonly-prescribed antibiotics that have a high rate of side effects such as nerve and tendon damage and can cause immense and lifelong pain to some users unlucky enough to experience severe side effects from the medication.
Yeah. I can't wait to see how dark matter, energy, quantum gravity, etc. Are all explained with one theory And these are just the EXTREMELY big things, there are also smaller ones, for example, why are all neutrinos we've observed been left handed?
Thats precisely why i stopped caring about astrophysics,space and all that stuff. So many wild conjectures that try to explain stuff that would never matter to mortals. Thats why its far more interesting to learn about yhe world and how it works
Here I am two years later watching this probably for the 7th time now ;) and I see your comment and totally agree with you. I've also recommended this video to many friends and family.
This video is the one Vsauce video I find myself comming back to every now and then. I truly think this channel was ahead of its time in many ways when it comes to science education and especially the topics discussed.
Ethan Michiels Literally just googled " a man who witnessed Lincoln's assassination lived long enough to talk about it on a live TV broadcast." and found it. WOW people these days.
watching a few of these videos just made me realize what a waste of time its been for me to watch the political videos I usually watch every night. Its exhausting with all the hate and animosity on both sides that it is such a relief to go to sleep having learned something useful for a change. Awesome videos!!
so essentially society is like "we wont be able to do this thing for YEARS! oh well." and then theres always that one guy that goes "challenge accepted. hold my beer.."
@@lefmankan Flying cars do already exist, however, they are not effective enough to use. Besides, drones will be the future of flying vehicles, not cars. Or a combination of them
Still my favorite video 11 years later. I share this with everyone I know. Honestly should be taught in school along side Bill. Love ya Michael, thanks for making us more rounded people ❤
Nitrous I’ve watched this video at least five times over the years and I just noticed this! I was just about to post a comment when I saw yours. What is Michael trying to tell us?!
One of the best endings of a Vsauce video. Michael really builds this video up to the powerful punchline at the end. Please consider watching through the whole thing :3. I feel so moved at the end of this video every time.
I've been following this channel for fucking ever repeatedly watching every single episode, but I noticed it like a couple minutes ago. My life has been a lie until now.
@@wash8533 When listing things some people use a comma before the final "And X" while some don't, as in "i like red, blue, and yellow" as opposed to "I like red, blue and yellow". That last comma is an Oxford comma, and is considered unnecessary by many even though it's grammatically correct.
For every existential crisis I hear of, I got a fresh breath of reasons to live, for there is nothing more living worthy than to be amazed by plain reality. Thanks Michael, thanks Vsauce.
True that, the universe is so massive and chaotic and complicated and absolutely beautiful. and it’s still so hard to conceptualize that I’m alive here now and witnessing it all it’s so amazing that I can say that
@@roberte.o.speedwagon7372 the question is if you have to start your car with wires, where are your keys? :D Maybe traveling around the world while you try to start your car with wires :D
NY Times journalist: ''Flying machines won't be possible for at least another 1 to 10 Million years.'' Wright Brothers 6 months later: ''I'm about to end this mans' whole career.''
*In 1908* Orville Wright HIMSELF: "No flying machine will ever fly from nyc to paris." *In 1927* Charles Lindbergh: "'I'm about to end this mans' whole career.''
that journalist probably had no aviation background and was just pulling random numbers out of his ass for a "clickbait" news article. i'm sure most people at the time in that field were confident it wouldn't take long.
this is without a doubt one of the best videos on RUclips. i don't know how Michael does it. the amount of time and research and overall intelligence is insane.
One of my favorites is that the Byzantine Empire, which was the eastern half of the Roman Empire, was fully conquered in 1453, just 39 years before Columbus' voyage discovered the New World in 1492. By that time, Rome had existed in one form or another for over 2,700 years.
By that logic The Roman Empire still exists as Italy. The Holy Roman Empire still exists as the Vatican. The Byzantine Empire occupied the same land where the Eastern Roman Empire once stood, doesn't mean it was the Eastern Roman Empire. So this doesn't make much sense in my mind.
@@snowjix Byzantium is a modern name. They called themselves romans and their kingdom was called The Roman Empire. They didn't even use the "eastern" part of their name, because they considered themselves as roman as Caesar. Don't spew shit you don't know anything about.
At least I remember what he says. I seriously don't get it! Why do I remember all of his videos but I can't recall anything important for tests! If there was a Vsauce test at school I'd always get an A
This is my favorite video of yours. I’d say it’s your most vsauce video ever, and I’ve been watching for at least 13 years maybe more. Maybe it’s just nostalgia.
Bro that Midgley dude sounds awesome. Imagine winning awards for your discoveries and inventions and then finding out that you contributed to partial destruction of the atmosphere and also lead poisoning in children. Then you get strangled by one of your inventions lol
It makes recent times look like a dream a caveman had one night in the cave on his smelly bed of mammoth fur and then it was back to the great big normal that we had for 100,000 years. Is it all just a dream?
Less than 150 years ago, someone predicted flying machines would only come about in more than a million years. Now they're the main method of transport to far away places. Hopefully, humans continue to develop quickly.. I want to be alive when light-speed travel becomes an option XD
Why not skip all that and teleport whatever part of space we want to visit to whatever craft we are in and simultaneously vice a versa (quantum enmeshment♾) like making a 4D printing, Xerox copy of a certain space-time-stamp-string. Then like Schrodinger's cat, which one you will be in could be up to AI quantum observation. There, no light speed or "travel" necessary.
Make "Vsauce" a subject in school and simply relabel it "Life knowledge" to not go against any government regulations or whatever. Best. Subject. Ever.
Bro the ending has me shook. I’ve always seen examples of the entire world history on a 12 month calander but it still always shocks me how fast things start going!
When I saw this video back when I was still in secondary school, this video filled me with awe towards earth and what humanity had become. Now after watching this as an adult, this whole concept of humanity is just so terribly weird, or even life it self. just being alive is terrible, chaotic and pointless at the same time through adult eyes. I want that child like wonder back.
Yes, it does seem very different now. Somehow a bit sad. This was, I remember, one of the best videos for me when I was in school. I was fascinated by everything in it. But I guess we will never be able to feel the same way for the old videos now. The newer ones though, will fire that spark since all of us have matured with the creators of these videos.
I mean, that’s one way to look at it, for me, learning new things like the stuff Vsauce teaches me makes the universe seem so interesting and fun and gives me a bit of meaning just from that, there’s never enough out there to learn and I never want to stop
I am not a teen, and I am from Russia. But my great-grandparents were illiterate peasants born in 19th century, lived the start of their lives like serfs, and out of their 7 kids 3 died in childhood. And one son died in WW2. They never learned to read and write, but their kids all had secondary professional education, and had 1-2 children each. Great-grandfather was executed during Stalinism for made-up crime, but great-grandmother lived very long life, almost until she was 100 (she never knew the exact year she was born though)
"This picture is about a year and a half old" Me, watching this in 2020: "so it was taken in 2019 then" *Looks at date this video was released*: "Oh, 2013, so it couldn't have been taken in 2019" Micheal: *pops up behind me* "or could it?"
(several things fall and glass shatters from you jumping back in fear) oh hey mike is it fine if i call you mike, wheres is you next vi..... Mike: well to explain that we have to (insert sciency explanation here with vsauce music in background)
Hey Vsauce, absolutely love your videos, this is exactly how people like me learn. Thanks for making me look super smart, when I quote something I picked up on your show.
I really miss Vsauce full length videos. I grew up watching his videos and it made me fall in love with science and tech. I have become a successful engineer and the thrust for knowledge is still very young. Thanks for making me wonder and curious. I meant it. ❤
On the timescale in this video, my life has lasted 27 milliseconds. The steering wheel airbag in a 2011 Honda Accord (my car) took 34 milliseconds to fully inflate in a crash test. That means that if the entire 6 million years of human history were condensed into 6,000 seconds (100 minutes), about the length of a feature film, my lifetime so far wouldn’t even be as long as an airbag deployment. Have you ever seen an airbag deploy? It’s pretty much instantaneous. January 9, 2020 3:00 am
+ian schmitt I think its because not everyone is like Michael, not everyone is happy with their job and not everyone can attract people in learning and make them interested. There are good teachers though, but not as many.
+ian schmitt Without the education we did receive, we would struggle to follow most of vsauce's content. But I get your idea and it could still be more like vsauce. :3
"Our modern world will briefly flash at the end, that's all it is, that's all it's been, so be careful not to miss it." That's actually a pretty powerful quote.
My grandpa was born in 1928 and when he died I couldn't stop myself from thinking what that man has gone through: Born during the great depression where people went back to trade goods because money wasn't worth the paper it was made off; spending his child-years during the rise of the nazi regime; being a teen that was drafted shortly before Germany lost the war, and living in Switzerland to hide so he wasn't forced to fight for the 3rd Reich. He helped rebuilding Germany, saw it split into two and, some decades later, reunite again. He witnessed the rise of terrorism, the internet, computers, TVs, the EU. He saw the moonlanding live. He survived fatal illnesses that we now eradicated due to vaccines. And he had direct contact with people who fought in world war 1, with people who didn't know what a fridge was, and he walked on streets where cars were a rare thing to see because most people still used horses. All of that made me think about all the stuff I will witness in my future.
Your comment holds great emotional power and substantial value, I've been privileged to get a chance and read it. Thank you.
I wonder what we'll witness and live through.
Unfortunately with Peak Oil come and gone, and the Middle East about to run out of their last drops, civilization will go the other way now...
That’s amazing dude... your grandpa’s both lucky and unlucky for having to go through all that. He experienced a huge change in Earth’s history, but he also had to struggle to survive through it sounds like
And you got to live in the era when teens are hospitalized for eating tide pods...
5 years later and I still get a strange rush of emotion from the montage at the end. You're a true poet, Michael Stevens
Yes it was one of the best vsauce videos
same, i get chills whenever i see it. absolutely brilliant
Yeah i just saw it for the first time holy crap what a reality check. It makes me feel a lot better lol
What’s the music that he used for it
For anyone who is wondering The song is called "Hydrogen by Jake Chudnow" available on YT.
Man I love the music that he uses, it really ties everything together well.
Exactly!
Me too.
True it makes things really interesting
all by Jake Chudnow :3
Yes
I love the implication that Vsauce is the pinacle of human history.
It is
@@irvanray1898 nope
@@Cockalicious it is though!!!
@@ananttiwari1337 he's merely gathering info from sources like books and articles
@@Cockalicious yeah, we know that, but the comment was a joke because there was a picture of the vsauce logo at the end of the timelapse at the end of the video which kinda implied that all humanity led into was vsauce
also tbh his videos are quite fun. maybe not super information packed, but the facts he gives are fun
As child, i was very curious and i loved reading about our world. But then this part of me fade away. And Michael made me curious again, i can not put this to words, but i am very grateful, man.
Don't lose that feeling again dude
+Ornstein Dragon Slayer Michael - one of the greatest teachers of our decade.
Ultra TM you dont get it, huh? I was referencing something
Ornstein Dragon Slayer Mutual feeling, fam.
Ornstein Dragon Slayer You put it into words.
One of my favourite time facts: the wrench was made 1 year after the refrigerator
0o0
Glad we don’t build fridges with glue and squirrel semen anymore. That whole wrench thing ended up being pretty handy.
@@myttydohun4851 wait... are you for real?
@Phoenix Lawless I just got surprised in the squirrel semen part
@Phoenix Lawless 😂😂
That ending though! So mind blowing.
If you think that is mind blowing (which it still is), you should check out Supertasks. Vsauce has the mind of Einstein.
I need the name of that soooong
The song is "Hydrogen" by Jake Chudnow.
Yeah I know, the hole of human history has been leading up to Vsauce
It was also a great push for 10 minutes to get him paid, WOO
I like how that Vsauce at the end of the montage could kind of indicate the rise of Vsauce’s power and overthrow of civilisation as we know it
Hail Michael! Long may he reign!
that would arguably better than society as we know it lol
He is and he will
“The only things humans are worse at than not killing each other, is predicting the future”
where was that from?
And the weather
And stopping one emo artist with a mustache
Pretty sure meerkats kill the most of their own species.. I think humans rank somewhere in the 30s in terms of species that kill their own which is still kinda high but whatever not so fun fact I guess
@@scottmarquez2673 Predicting the weather just one day ahead 100% would require us to know the factors of: today's temperature, humidity, prevailing winds, and local geography 100%. Sounds simple enough but it truly isn’t. Especially considering the weather forecast usually covers large areas.
This whole video is just an excuse to flex that he's been in Egypt
Lol
haha
JK
😂 well I can out flex him I am from Egypt
Omega same 😎
For me, this is the best VSauce video ever
O
I agree. The ending is just amazing
It's bc of those early civilization titties, isn't it?
You dirty dog you.
I like “Which way is down”
This is defs in my top 5, but my #1 spot goes to the video titled Is Anything Real?
That montage at the end is one of my favorite vsauce moments ever. I love the atmosphere he created for his videos
Doctor : your child has been more aggressive
Mom : videogames
Doctor : no It’s lead exposure
Mom: surprised pikachu face
Havoc Inkarox impossible
Splatoon 2
we've been "led" to believe incorrectly
2nd medical opinion: Ma-am it's aggressive behavior brought about by watching too much V-Sauce and Veritassium leading to arguments about creationism.
Why did I think Hitler was born with a mustache
same lol
he was.
He wasn't?
oversimplified
'was' is already past tense, so you could've used 'think' instead of 'thought' in your sentence. Apologies for being the online grammar freak.
3:35 More like the wrong brothers
amirite
**nudge nudge wink wink**
@@benjaminnewlon7865 please shut up
Lol
oHhhHhHHHhhHh
Normal people: the earth is round
Flat earthers: The earth is flat
Nazis: *ooga booga*
Lmfao
Earth is hollow and the Sun and stars are inside of it.
From a certain frame of reference.
ofc not all natzis thought the earth was a concave globe thingy
@@royisdabest lets not be TOO mean the the nazis here. Let them catch a break
@@coolintuitivename4910 It's not about defending them, he just stated a fact.
I could literally listen to you talk about stuff until the day I die.
Mr. Person or COULD I?
Or could you?
But do you really die ?
what is die anyway?
You mean until he dies
Me: Hey Michael, what’s up?
Vsauce: But what is DOWN??
*Vsauce music intensifies*
WhenCowsFly *DUNN*
lol!!! mooooo
I made that joke too it’s funny lol
*Mickey mouse is swirled*
So Vsauce answers a question with a question. Now that's weird.
As the saying goes, sticks and stones may break my bones but words are merely the smallest element of language capable of containing meaning and isolation and, as such, could never directly produce the 4,000 newtons of force per square centimeter required to break bones.
ForMiDaBLe fus ro da!
Names.
And as always, thanks for watching.
Formidable unless you fly exactly at the speed of sound and continuously shout
A very Vsauce comment
Ah the one thing that survived thousands upon thousands years of human history: the cameraman
LOL
Best comment
I swear ikr there's a pic in my book with a flood coming fast with a cameraman just standing taking a pic of the tsunami or flood
obviously they were all recorded by different cameramen, don't be stupid
@@megarigged Thats the joke
One moment: Jesus Crucified
0.5 seconds later: Steam Engine
0.25 seconds later: Spaceships
it was cavemen, cavemen, cavemen, cavemen, cavemen, pyrami- wait no caesa- nope jesu- is that a city oop video's done ok cool love that
0.5 seconds is more than 0.25 seconds
kamlesh minetech 😂
0.5 seconds is longer than 0.25 seconds
Bruh we know but technically speaking ~1800 years passed after Jesus died when the first Steam Engines were made, then just ~200 years passed when the first Spaceships were made.
Very educating, if you think about it we are just beginning to becoming an advanced civilization, from the hundreds of generations that never got to see electricity, we are here now just starting to literally change the world with ai, phones, computers, and im glad to be alive with all of you and to experience a world that others before us never would have expected, stay safe and stay smart people.
Hn. We are type 0 civilization.. when we die-.. we reach type 4,5 civilization.. this is godly and we get whatever we want.. Astral realm
@@orangesky925
We are a type 0.74 on the Kardashev scale.
The word is educational. Bloody Americans!
@@themindflayer5952 How are we on the Kardashian scale? It took us many thousands of years to invent the internet, and only seconds for Kim's butt to break it.
Agreed, I'm glad as well. Let's hope that we see plenty more great things and that the ai doesn't realize its superiority, with no need for us humans.
Someone could, theoretically, have watched the first ever successful aircraft take off and watched the moon landing within their lifetime, since these events are only 66 years apart.
If Michael was my professor for every class I'd have a 4.0 and I'd be a doctor by now
no you wont
+asif naseri ikr
I agree
Bruh true
true
Vsauce thought process:
"It sure is cloudy today..."
"Am I real? Are you real? What if we could travel at the speed of light? Are we alone in space?"
John Smith so true haha, the way he changes topics. no transitions whatsoever lol
John Smith LOL 😂😂😂
Copy paste fuck!!!
Copy paste fuck!!!
Copy paste fuck!!!
Well now I understand what "unleaded gasoline" means
ironically, it also implicates that the past generations were having their brains poisoned.... and were probably mentally hindered a bit
@@m1ckyg21 not only that, but their DNA was damaged and they passed that DNA on to future generations...
It's just Gasoline without lead...
Since no one mentioned what the substitute for lead is, I might as well just say it. Manganese is our new anti knocking agent. But guess what, unfortunately it's also incredibly dangerous - might even say just as dangerous as lead. The whole "unleaded" thing works really well from a marketing perspective though
@@cyborggenos5142 This is part of the reason why I like e85. It has a higher aki, has a bit of a cooling effect, plus with that better anti knock index you can make better, safer, more efficient use of a turbocharger. Yeah, you use 30% more but considering it burns a little bit cleaner and it is significantly cheaper than regular unleaded, I'm not seeing many downsides. Apart from availability in some places. But with a flex fuel sensor and a proper ecu like a Haltech, you can run it on premium and it'll adjust for it to get you to your next e85 pump. Also, race car :D
Edit: Forgot to add the obvious benefit of it being 85% renewable as a bio/fossil fuel blend rather than a straight fossil fuel derivative.
Just imagine how many things we could be wrong about
Fluoroquinolones are a class of commonly-prescribed antibiotics that have a high rate of side effects such as nerve and tendon damage and can cause immense and lifelong pain to some users unlucky enough to experience severe side effects from the medication.
Sus
I mean, that's essentially what science is made to ask.
Yeah. I can't wait to see how dark matter, energy, quantum gravity, etc. Are all explained with one theory
And these are just the EXTREMELY big things, there are also smaller ones, for example, why are all neutrinos we've observed been left handed?
Thats precisely why i stopped caring about astrophysics,space and all that stuff. So many wild conjectures that try to explain stuff that would never matter to mortals. Thats why its far more interesting to learn about yhe world and how it works
That is one epic and awsome ending.
It was actually kinda disturbing for me tbh
Why?
i actually repeated it like 20 times
Anyone know the name of the song? I would like to make my own version of the ending.
hydrogen - jake chudnow
This single video is one of the best on the internet. Period. I've watched it about five times now and will watch it probably a dozen more, or more.
same
same
Here I am two years later watching this probably for the 7th time now ;) and I see your comment and totally agree with you.
I've also recommended this video to many friends and family.
If you like stuff like this, check out Kurzgesagt - In A Nutshell. They do awesome videos
A petition to have a class added to schools called, vsauce.
+jose hernandez yes it could replace math!
+Bumble & Bubble
No, it won't. It could replace social science, though.
Yeah
+To Athánatos
That's not much of a stretch
Smoking in the school toilets is already more educational than social sciences
+jose hernandez YES PLZ YES
9:18
big thanks to the camera man for travelling 100000 years in the past to give us this footage
never watch these videos late at night or you will be up for a while thinking about your self.
dang it
Nintendo Wii lol swear i. all of his videos creep me out frfr
***** lol
Nah, I thought about things like these a lot about a decade ago. I don't trouble myself with thinking too much these days. Makes life easier.
Oops.
Vsauce: “Dr Heinz-“
Me: DOOFENSHMIRTZ!!
Vsauce: “-Fisher”
Literally made me laugh 😂
Ahad Chowdhury Yay!
When he said fisher I felt depressed!
Omg I'm literally watching Phineas and Ferb rn
Awesome Anbar no you were watching vsauce
Imagine google but the “I’m feeling lucky” button was the only option
That is Vsauce
You aren’t wrong, haha
And you get lucky every time.
Does that exist anymore. I was thinking about it like 3 weeks ago
Mellifluous it does
What does that button do anyway?
This video is the one Vsauce video I find myself comming back to every now and then. I truly think this channel was ahead of its time in many ways when it comes to science education and especially the topics discussed.
I mean a man who witnessed Lincoln's assassination lived long enough to talk about it on a live TV broadcast.
EMAN00619 That would be impossible.
Ethan Michiels Literally just googled " a man who witnessed Lincoln's assassination lived long enough to talk about it on a live TV broadcast." and found it. WOW people these days.
EMAN00619 Probably the one in "SOUNDS"
BTW modern time should have lasted 2 seconds for 2000 years
@SavageBoy69Alt Damn, if he'd stuck around til '63 he coulda had a two-fer.
watching a few of these videos just made me realize what a waste of time its been for me to watch the political videos I usually watch every night. Its exhausting with all the hate and animosity on both sides that it is such a relief to go to sleep having learned something useful for a change. Awesome videos!!
If only more people were like you.
Awesome is the same thing as eerie, it brings forth awe, which could be fear, from one
Its really not that stressful and terrible. Its actually simple. Dont vote blue and you'll be fine
@@katiesmith7946 your comment is so ironic and antithetic its hilarious
Politics is important, being politically informed is your duty as a citizen to make decisions that benefit your community/country
so essentially society is like "we wont be able to do this thing for YEARS! oh well." and then theres always that one guy that goes "challenge accepted. hold my beer.."
Tim Justus
Thank god there are still people like that.
My man Elon Musk!
And now the speed of light
Except for flying cars
@@lefmankan Flying cars do already exist, however, they are not effective enough to use. Besides, drones will be the future of flying vehicles, not cars. Or a combination of them
Still my favorite video 11 years later. I share this with everyone I know. Honestly should be taught in school along side Bill. Love ya Michael, thanks for making us more rounded people ❤
9:39
dang.. they been stirrin' dat milk for thousands of years
peeps never give up
Lol
As the story goes
Doctor Heinz. Doofenshmertz
Beans means heinz
nazis = flat earthers
The lead-a-na-tor
2:49 Oxford comma between 'writing' and 'governments' deleted
Nitrous I’ve watched this video at least five times over the years and I just noticed this! I was just about to post a comment when I saw yours. What is Michael trying to tell us?!
And he did it right as the author said "writing". I feel like that was intentional.
Nitrous I am not smart enough to know what an Oxford Comma is.
{BasicMemester: the Unofficial?} An oxford comma is a comma just before an "and" in a sentance while listing some things.
Joseph Hernandez thanks
One of the best endings of a Vsauce video. Michael really builds this video up to the powerful punchline at the end. Please consider watching through the whole thing :3. I feel so moved at the end of this video every time.
Michael: Hey! Vsauce! Michael here!
His wife: it’s your daughters birthday please not today.
Michael: "Hey Vsauce, Michael here."
*"Sir, this is a Wendy's."*
"or is it?"
- Michael
But what is a Birthday?
MaeVsauce
@@patkun01
and how much does it weigh?
Can't get enough of Vsauce + Jake Chudnow's music. So relaxing!
Jake Chudnow has awesome music
So the more metal you have in your body the more rebellious you are?
It is worth noting that lead is a heavy metal.
\m/ -_- \m/
2:48 anyone else notice the Oxford comma got removed?
Lmao that has to be micheal trolling
I've been following this channel for fucking ever repeatedly watching every single episode, but I noticed it like a couple minutes ago.
My life has been a lie until now.
bruh hes gonna reference that someday and make a 40 minute video about the "nature of punctuation and communication" . looking forward to it
the what?
@@wash8533 When listing things some people use a comma before the final "And X" while some don't, as in "i like red, blue, and yellow" as opposed to "I like red, blue and yellow". That last comma is an Oxford comma, and is considered unnecessary by many even though it's grammatically correct.
That is one of the most mindblowning episodes on Vsauce
what about how to count past infinity?
***** I lost all of mine
+Mario Velez i died
I've said that after loads of vsauce vids
The ending to this one is what always gets me.
10:12 Well that escalated quickly
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For every existential crisis I hear of, I got a fresh breath of reasons to live, for there is nothing more living worthy than to be amazed by plain reality.
Thanks Michael, thanks Vsauce.
True that, the universe is so massive and chaotic and complicated and absolutely beautiful. and it’s still so hard to conceptualize that I’m alive here now and witnessing it all it’s so amazing that I can say that
*Fun fact:* your keys travel more than your car
Edit: man iam famous
Not if I swallow my key and drop out of my car with auto drive on
Not if you start your car with wires
@@roberte.o.speedwagon7372 the question is if you have to start your car with wires, where are your keys? :D
Maybe traveling around the world while you try to start your car with wires :D
Fun Fact you travel more than your car
@@gordo8697 noice
sometimes when im bored, i rewatch vsauce videos
sometimes when I don't have rick and morty episodes to fill me with intelect, I rewatch vsauce videos
8:55 GOD the cameras 100 thousand years ago were so bad..... look how far we've come
*I know right!!!1!1!*
There. Were. No. Cameras. 100. Thousand. Years. Ago. This is just a representation of what life was like 100k years ago
...Anybody gonna tell em..?
Look, the joke flew off your head!
@@Syndiate__ you spelled your name wrong pussy
NY Times journalist: ''Flying machines won't be possible for at least another 1 to 10 Million years.''
Wright Brothers 6 months later: ''I'm about to end this mans' whole career.''
*In 1908*
Orville Wright HIMSELF: "No flying machine will ever fly from nyc to paris."
*In 1927*
Charles Lindbergh: "'I'm about to end this mans' whole career.''
that journalist probably had no aviation background and was just pulling random numbers out of his ass for a "clickbait" news article. i'm sure most people at the time in that field were confident it wouldn't take long.
Be Eazy *man's
In reality the first flying machine was built by Santos Dummond. The Wright brothers really just built a catapulted glider
@@lemoncar4526 🅱️ENIS
anyone else binge these randomly? This man is the personification of my inner thoughts
this is without a doubt one of the best videos on RUclips. i don't know how Michael does it. the amount of time and research and overall intelligence is insane.
The last few frames of the video are very expressive!
Dude, it's a good thing Midgley wasn't part of the Manhattan project. The universe would probably have collapsed.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Imagine if he designed the LHC
Lol
Or was he?
"Modern humans started 100,000 years ago"
Humans 100,001 years ago: *monke*
LMFAO
Pretty ironic.
mafs
Homo Erectus
This is my favourite vsauce video no matter how many times I watch this im still wowed by the ending.
One of my favorites is that the Byzantine Empire, which was the eastern half of the Roman Empire, was fully conquered in 1453, just 39 years before Columbus' voyage discovered the New World in 1492. By that time, Rome had existed in one form or another for over 2,700 years.
wow, this is horribly false
LemonGrape Nope
By that logic The Roman Empire still exists as Italy.
The Holy Roman Empire still exists as the Vatican.
The Byzantine Empire occupied the same land where the Eastern Roman Empire once stood, doesn't mean it was the Eastern Roman Empire.
So this doesn't make much sense in my mind.
@@snowjix Byzantium is a modern name. They called themselves romans and their kingdom was called The Roman Empire. They didn't even use the "eastern" part of their name, because they considered themselves as roman as Caesar. Don't spew shit you don't know anything about.
@@JohnnyBo-v Byzantine is a name artists gave the Roman empire to distinguish it from the ancient Roman empire
I love the background music in your videos just as much as the content
Jesus, that's hard to imagine that from "Ancient" Egypt until now was only four seconds at the end.
I learn more from Michael in 10 minutes than I do from school in 10 years.
no you don't.
killerofyou2012 I thought jokes were supposed to be funny
At least I remember what he says. I seriously don't get it! Why do I remember all of his videos but I can't recall anything important for tests! If there was a Vsauce test at school I'd always get an A
Moonboy DoubT nice meme ayy lmao XDDDD
civota mu az xD rawr luv u too m8 (btw my profile pic is Watamote its really good daddy)
This is my favourite Vsauce video ever.
lol the oxford comma disappears at 2:49
That it did :) And is the comma in my book. What's that called again?
It's called the DARUDE SANDSTORM THEOR- **gets arrowed IN THE KNEE-** **gets shot by everyone**
Your parents did a great job man.
+Noah Smits lol
LOL I literally exited full screen mode to scroll down and look for a comment like this when that happened.
My love for Vsauce videos is insane like this man has such a beautiful style of writing, speaking and editing
This is my favourite vsauce video
Franco Isa Mine is "Messages for the future"
I did not understand this. Can you explain what this narrow slice is.
Cruel bombs
What’s the brightest thing in the universe?
Franco Isa favorite*
9:25 The invention of donuts
Rektify Gaming WOW...
You forgot the tacos at the bottom
Donuts and Empanadas
This ten minute video taught me more than anything on the History channel.
Except *aliens*.
More like in history class
this deserves more likes than it has
Thats because on Vsauce, Michael teaches you more than how to kill an alligator...
This ten minute video taught me more then a whole school year
This is my favorite video of yours. I’d say it’s your most vsauce video ever, and I’ve been watching for at least 13 years maybe more. Maybe it’s just nostalgia.
That ending puts humanity into a very scary, amazing, unknown truth( till now). Shocking.
Love ya Micheal.
Can you explain it for me
@@cia6520we don’t know where humanity will be in 1000 yearss, we are developing at such an incredibly quick rate.
Bro that Midgley dude sounds awesome. Imagine winning awards for your discoveries and inventions and then finding out that you contributed to partial destruction of the atmosphere and also lead poisoning in children. Then you get strangled by one of your inventions lol
It seems like the ultimate pathos of his life was that every creation that seemed beneficial at first wound up deadly
tbh if I ever would become famous, this is probably how it would turn out
*m e m e m a n*
Fuck no
I like to imagine Satan hired him as a general when he went to Hell, only to eventually cost him the battle at the End times.
Michael: Dr Heinz
Me: DOOFENSHMIRTZ
Michael: Fisher
Me: oh
What is this supposed to mean
miningonmyown you had no childhood
Josh Griff it is a TV show
CURSE YOU PERRY THE PLATYPUS!
Josh Griff dude that show is barely like 4 years old! XD he could be like 50 for all we know
This is one of if not the most chilling Vsauce video, especially the ending sequence with the visuals set to Chudnow's music...
Am I the only one who finds the ending just extremely eerie rather than awesome or impactful?
HeliosKitty nope
HeliosKitty Is it the music?
HeliosKitty it's just the music lol
Its a combination of the music and the fact that for billions of years life was basically stagnant
It makes recent times look like a dream a caveman had one night in the cave on his smelly bed of mammoth fur and then it was back to the great big normal that we had for 100,000 years. Is it all just a dream?
Less than 150 years ago, someone predicted flying machines would only come about in more than a million years. Now they're the main method of transport to far away places.
Hopefully, humans continue to develop quickly.. I want to be alive when light-speed travel becomes an option XD
it is physically impossible for a human to travel at light speed.
And if there was a machine we could use to travel at light speed, earth wouldn't have sufficent gas to travel to other planets regularly.
Rhemex as is our current understanding.
As was flying objects being millions of years off was our current understanding less than 150 years ago.
Why not skip all that and teleport whatever part of space we want to visit to whatever craft we are in and simultaneously vice a versa (quantum enmeshment♾) like making a 4D printing, Xerox copy of a certain space-time-stamp-string. Then like Schrodinger's cat, which one you will be in could be up to AI quantum observation. There, no light speed or "travel" necessary.
@penguin penguin as is our current understanding.
Make "Vsauce" a subject in school and simply relabel it "Life knowledge" to not go against any government regulations or whatever. Best. Subject. Ever.
I'd still call it my Vsauce class ;)
Bro the ending has me shook. I’ve always seen examples of the entire world history on a 12 month calander but it still always shocks me how fast things start going!
I believe this was the first Vsauce I watched new back in 2013. I still come back to it every now and then to help me understand context.
i hope scientists today are wrong about it being impossible to travel faster than light
I really hope so
You still can travel anywhere arbitrarily quickly (if you measure time with your watch).
uhm. uhm. Allow me please. Ay yo! Yo mama so fat when she releases her belly it travels faster than the speed of light!
Suiseiseki Desu
Is that limited to destinations on Earth, or does it include elsewhere as well?
nakyer
Anywhere you want if you somehow manage to build a powerful enough engine and not to die because of acceleration.
Suiseiseki Desu
But what does measuring time with your watch have to do with this?
Michael’s first words were “hey vsauce Micheal here”
Josh Mathis No shit Sherlock
@@我恨我自己 shut up Chinese dude.
When I saw this video back when I was still in secondary school, this video filled me with awe towards earth and what humanity had become. Now after watching this as an adult, this whole concept of humanity is just so terribly weird, or even life it self. just being alive is terrible, chaotic and pointless at the same time through adult eyes. I want that child like wonder back.
Same here. I keep coming back to old vsauce videos and they all seem so different through adult eyes
Yes, it does seem very different now. Somehow a bit sad. This was, I remember, one of the best videos for me when I was in school. I was fascinated by everything in it. But I guess we will never be able to feel the same way for the old videos now.
The newer ones though, will fire that spark since all of us have matured with the creators of these videos.
Being alive may be pointless but being human is giving it a point
I mean, that’s one way to look at it, for me, learning new things like the stuff Vsauce teaches me makes the universe seem so interesting and fun and gives me a bit of meaning just from that, there’s never enough out there to learn and I never want to stop
I'm watching all these vids to escape the dread of life
ff7522 wtf
If only you knew what was to come young one
I'm from the future and I'd kill to be you lmao
H rerhybgbbb8bdis njkjjj include the following day and night and the other hand is a 75to and colleagues u. Done a sandrer eh
wise choice
If you’re a teenager, your grandparents probably remember when segregation ended.
And their parents - when it started
Well I'm 28 and my Granparents would of been about 11 and 12 when segregation ended and nither of them really remember it.
@@Tob1Kadach1 idk man I’m 15 and my grandpa clearly remembers as far back as when Kennedy was assassinated so
@@Tob1Kadach1 well it also depends where they live. Way bigger dead in the south than in the north
I am not a teen, and I am from Russia. But my great-grandparents were illiterate peasants born in 19th century, lived the start of their lives like serfs, and out of their 7 kids 3 died in childhood. And one son died in WW2. They never learned to read and write, but their kids all had secondary professional education, and had 1-2 children each. Great-grandfather was executed during Stalinism for made-up crime, but great-grandmother lived very long life, almost until she was 100 (she never knew the exact year she was born though)
"This picture is about a year and a half old"
Me, watching this in 2020: "so it was taken in 2019 then"
*Looks at date this video was released*: "Oh, 2013, so it couldn't have been taken in 2019"
Micheal: *pops up behind me* "or could it?"
(several things fall and glass shatters from you jumping back in fear) oh hey mike is it fine if i call you mike, wheres is you next vi.....
Mike: well to explain that we have to (insert sciency explanation here with vsauce music in background)
The outro was scary and mind blowing at the same time.
Hey Vsauce, absolutely love your videos, this is exactly how people like me learn. Thanks for making me look super smart, when I quote something I picked up on your show.
This is probably my favorite Vsauce video. I mean, they're all AMAZING, but this one is AMAZINGEST
This is an ancient comment
Congrats on the 10,000,000 subscribers!
From me to
RUclips.
But there's only 7,000,000 ppl in the world wtf
+Haze - Agar r u stupid or something? 7m?? -_____-
+FLG Pandaa are you?
0:45-1:57, that part is really well made, it really makes you think.
00:00- 10:13*
@@KleinpeterHank nice username.
My science teacher's grandmother moved to texas on a covered wagon and later watched the moon landing.
Naoto is definitely the Persona 4 best girl
@: r/ihadastroke
also r/ihavereddit :(
@: you are still dumb
@: how old are you
@:
no one thinks this is creative or funny, go back to telling xD randem jokes at your elementary school
earth is not America genius
I was convinced we lived inside the planet until first grade.
yeah we forget how human minds really work : )
Jaron DiTommaso I am a jelly donut.
Jaron DiTommaso woh woh, what you mean you forget how human minds really work?,,,we still dont know how it works and why!
I really miss Vsauce full length videos. I grew up watching his videos and it made me fall in love with science and tech. I have become a successful engineer and the thrust for knowledge is still very young. Thanks for making me wonder and curious. I meant it. ❤
Poor Midgelly.
He tries to do good, but it always comes back to get him xD
On the timescale in this video, my life has lasted 27 milliseconds. The steering wheel airbag in a 2011 Honda Accord (my car) took 34 milliseconds to fully inflate in a crash test. That means that if the entire 6 million years of human history were condensed into 6,000 seconds (100 minutes), about the length of a feature film, my lifetime so far wouldn’t even be as long as an airbag deployment. Have you ever seen an airbag deploy? It’s pretty much instantaneous.
January 9, 2020 3:00 am
What the heck!
Damn bro I see this math when I failed my math test :)
you forgot that your airbag would condense with the rest of history into less than a millisecond.
why the fuck isnt modern education more like vsauce
Because modern education pays peanuts.
+ian schmitt I think its because not everyone is like Michael, not everyone is happy with their job and not everyone can attract people in learning and make them interested. There are good teachers though, but not as many.
+ian schmitt this is why micheal should get the supposed millions he gets from ad revenue
+ian schmitt Without the education we did receive, we would struggle to follow most of vsauce's content.
But I get your idea and it could still be more like vsauce. :3
So you say we arent different from other animals? What the fuck
i love how he used this anne frank - martin luther king jr fact 7 years later
"Our modern world will briefly flash at the end, that's all it is, that's all it's been, so be careful not to miss it."
That's actually a pretty powerful quote.