100,000,000 Years From Now

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Waters, Colin N., et al. "The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene." Science 351.6269 (2016): aad2622.
Steffen, Will, et al. "The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369.1938 (2011): 842-867.
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[@bikeshrijal]

not sure about other things but they'd still find a nokia 1100 with 70% battery left

[@CyberSage796]

looool

[@giodc8599]

Ahahahaha!

[@joedigger9919]

heck yea, amazing phone.....hell it could be found at a depth and pressure where diamonds form and it would still work.

[@cosmotect]

that was a good laugh xD

[@Pile_of_carbon]

They'll find strange artefacts with the symbols 3210 and 3310 on them. These artefacts will be nearly impervious to any amount of force, short of being dropped into a fusion reactor or a concentrated beam of anti-matter.

[@owensquelch449]

bet you these future explorers are going to find my car keys before I do

[@foreveronmywaytofuckyourbi5567]

You plan on living another million years lol?

[@roninhunter429]

Nokia 1100 will survive with battery 99%

[@mcprogal1238]

XP

[@jamiemooney7138]

Oml dead XD

[@chrrsrpufflrs8630]

I bet you the these "aliens" are going to find a way to fix my ugly legs before I do. I BET YOU.

[@jesusfreak777ize]

It's crazy to think about how life as everyone knows it today is just a tiny sliver of human history. And human history is just a tiny sliver of the history of life. And life is just a small sliver of the age of the earth.

[@keylimetea]

SavingThemLost. So true, well said.

[@elgatoamarillo]

Worse thing is time is infinite it will go on and on until all the stars die and our existence or any existence at all will be erased for ever

[@thunder7650]

*Chuckles. Im in danger*

[@DanielsArtStudioGamesAnimation]

I been to the year 3678 AD. And all of you are just an entity who had been gone from the face of the earth for centuries :)

[@wholeNwon]

And of "the" universe?

[@smugggles]

0:37 This planet's name.. is URF

[@ejyhui]

Sunshine Smith IM-

[@rithrius5384]

Still better than Jayden Smith's pronunciation.

[@inzaghi8935]

cAN’T UNHEAR

[@onniali3945]

@@rithrius5384 ? As in "u really fucked?"

[@yashvangala]

I thought this was a League of legends reference

[@omegamagna]

they'd find a huge collection of memes

[@omegamagna]

+omegamagna ayy lmao

[@theshadowmonster1]

+omegamagna and their names are JOHN CENA

[@Tournite]

+omegamagna They need to be dank memes

[@icuXD]

+Tournite onboard thomas the dank engine

[@nerdnation1076]

Wow Dank

[@MicroBlogganism]

Plot twist: The future explorer are actually the descendents of humans who left Earth

[@joshuaosei5628]

Well, say we become interplanetary, anyone on earth would be considered pure blood and noble so the earth would probably be reserved for them ^-^

[@zucaner5392]

+Joshua Osei Except it was so far from time that they had to burn all of the old documents from lack of space and forget about the pure bloods

[@oldaccountagain2446]

+Joshua Osei , so Earthicans? our whole planet will be one government, along with other planets or even solar systems.

[@zucaner5392]

+so much fandoms, not sure what to name this Imagine if the whole world was ruled by a democracy. Would take so long to do shit

[@cond.oriano4945]

+MicroBlogganism Probably would be since we would be a 1,000,000 type civilization by then, yet now we can't even become a type 1 civilization.

[@lukeroughan4658]

what if they found a movie would they think it was our history

[@bigdawg1586]

Luke Roughan Harry Potter

[@ZiplineShazam]

What movie would you leave for them to find ?

[@alexandervergara6125]

They found bee movie and 21 jump street

[@potatobro-gm2kr]

Luke Roughan i would leave godzilla 2014, #kaijulivesmatter

[@prumchhangsreng979]

yeah haha... but if they do more research maybe they able to know by reading the info and credit?

[@etta5487]

Humans: Smart enough to alter an entire planet, yet not smart enough to do it well.

[@WHiT3_SHAD0W]

We are capable of doing it, but we're just forced to do what we do because of money. The people who control our energy (oil, electricity, etc.) control the world.

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

We're also smart enough to be stupid if that makes sense...

[@mism847]

Heard about the elites?

[@no-bozos]

Do what well? By what metric could you possibly be judging anything by? You're not "smart" enough to answer me, I would wager.

[@no-bozos]

@@user-tzzglsstle585e38 - Almost. How about this. Capable of having an elite cross section smart enough to allow for the vast majority of stupid people to survive off of.

[@humongousswine8734]

"I want to say one word to you, just one word: plastics." Very clever. Very, very clever.

[@joshuaosei5628]

Except from the ones that aren't.

[@FlawlessKevin]

+Piglatin Iglatinpay Who are the plastics?

[@humongousswine8734]

It's a famous quote from The Graduate, and it was fit into the video really well

[@humongousswine8734]

***** its the way he fit it in. I dunno, I thought it was pretty clever

[@torg1]

I liked that as wel

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

just 99,999,999 years from now 😢😢😢

[@lmeza1983]

99,999,998

[@elizardolopez4715]

we will die

[@elizardolopez4715]

or not

[@Mouse2017]

99,999,998 now

[@princesswavesanddiamondshi2277]

More like 99,999,998

[@natalie-cu3to]

imagine being a kid in 2019AAD and moving into your new planet, going to the beach and being like “look mummy! I found a human skull!”

[@wholeNwon]

or "ape-like" skull.

[@natalie-cu3to]

John Barber Thank you for that feedback on how ‘ignorant’ my English is.

[@MW061245]

Timmy?! Put it down! That thing is radioactive

[@digital_nobody]

Ew dont touch it, it has cringe and cancer

[@googly4038]

imagine if this is still available in 100 m years and now they know all

[@subtlehills3844]

Maybe they'll hear the music left behind by subtle hills...

[@aneekarehan]

Yeah i tried playing a cassette tape from back when my siblings were young and its all distorted i woundr what doing that eould look like for future generations will they have something way better than the internet? Would all online content be trashed like the cassettes or eould they stick sround for long enough 🤔

[@shadrachemmanuel1720]

​@Imjames For god so loved the world that he created hell so that whoever wouldn't love him back would be tortured for all eternity.

[@ThomasTrue]

So, aliens will find Earth, and while exploring, one poor bugger will kneel on a Lego brick, thereby concluding that our species was definitely hostile.

[@simpleperson6957]

Some sort of alien movie plot? So, you want to have wars with aliens now? Wars between human is not enough?

[@camposm948]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@GhostFan-ev4di]

aliens don't exist

[@ewstopbeingtumblr2309]

+The Programmer the universe is Pretty big I think Dinosaurs were aliens Cause the earth didn't belong to us At the first point

[@horseboy6221]

+The Programmer your not God

[@LemonWedge123]

Depending on our satellite technology's advancement in the future, they'd find a layer of space junk around our planet before they got to the ground.

[@besmart]

+LemonWedge123 on the scale of 100 million years, even distant satellite orbits will eventually decay or drift off due to Earth/moon gravity or the tug of other planets (assuming we don't invent some infinite power source/automatic orbit correction)

[@AndreasStom]

+LemonWedge123 All our satelites will come chrasing down after a few years of us not maintaining their orbits. I don't think it will ever be meaningfull to create satelites designed to stay up for millions of years...

[@unvergebeneid]

+It's Okay To Be Smart I've read geostationary satellites might stick around for billions of years. NEO stuff like most of the space junk will be long gone though.

[@Cythil]

+It's Okay To Be Smart Maybe if one uses solar sails to stabilize the orbits. But of course there would sooner or later come some blast of radiation from the sun breaking the delicate electronics of the machine.

[@Onihikage]

+It's Okay To Be Smart Even the ones in geosynchronous/graveyard orbit or anything we left in the Lagrange points?

[@Jakewolf69]

I was hoping that you would show what the continents would look like.

[@besmart]

I thought about that! But honestly, on a time scale of 100,000,000 years, it would pretty much be speculation to try and predict how the continents will evolve. Shorter times we can predict, but not that far out.

[@冬-01]

+It's Okay To Be Smart nooo how about the interet? 😭

[@ThisNameIsBanned]

+Jr B It probably evolved into the outernet.

[@TravelsChases]

+It's Okay To Be Smart I was hoping that as well, but I quickly realized this video wasn't going to be about that, and it's perfectly fine. Another excellent video that I will pass on to my climate changing denying conservative friends who believe that science is false and exaggerated.

[@Vulcano7965]

+Jakewolf69 there is a documentary about that. "The Future is wild". Thus highly speculative, it indeed shows how the world might look in 5 million, 100 million and 200 million years.

[@PauloDDD2]

These 6 minutes was like 6 seconds! Great video!

[@poopypoop7543]

Paulo PauloDDD Batista were* ffs English

[@gopal.]

Really !

[@AuroraIceFlame]

Liar, I counted!

[@someshsaharan5813]

No it was 6 minutes long. You slept

[@slushu_6865]

666 likes lmao

[@anilcheema9878]

Wonder what these aliens would think of us if they ever dug up a body pillow

[@FuIIMetal]

Anil Cheema LMAO xD

[@aerojetrocketdyners-2538]

weaboos be like

[@hailenki2804]

Anil Cheema hni

[@jessicac8090]

or if they find peoples internet history

[@interstellar0001]

Umm no don’t exist

[@ThePrankists]

100,000,000 from now and I still can't get a text back

[@seherekici3136]

I was waiting for this comment

[@kaylaferjuste9559]

So true

[@icuXD]

+Yoel Silver forever alone

[@TheSpicyPotatoe]

True. That's why I text mysef

[@leomm7134]

+Yoel Silver same here

[@JadenTapscott]

The "explorers" that you mentioned could be us humans coming back to Earth. Hell, those "aliens" we saw at the end could very much be what we look like in 100,000,000 years.

[@thehellenicneopagan]

Highly doubt that we will ever leave this planet and colonize another... None of the planets or moons are habitable in our solar system, and attempting to terraform is still well beyond our capabilities. Travel to a exoplanet as well, as with current technology it would take hundreds of thousands of years just to leave the solar system... At the rate that humans are actually destroying the planet, we won't be here long enough to even try and make those advancements required...

[@MrBlackReviews]

who's watching this in 100,002,017???

[@kpiwowar42]

where is danny black Me! Oh wait...

[@srirammusic4033]

thank god im existin-

[@PanZerV]

I live at theia tellus brother

[@Annabel-ew5nx]

Meeeeeeeee

[@hesham_TV1]

My future robotic consciousness

[@ahmedalzaiqi8085]

I once saw a space video and now all the recommended is videos about space

[@slayzer4526]

Ahmed Alzaiqi haha

[@keylimetea]

Watch more vids dude lol

[@BarisUnver]

"...2.4 billion years before you're watching this video."

[@ShawnManX]

+Barış Ünver Yeah, it'll be 2.5 billion years before watching the video by then.

[@TheKingOfTrolling]

+Barış Ünver I doubt they'd speak English, but if they could they'd just look at what date it was uploaded and see how many years it's been since then.

[@barrackdovahkhiin3394]

+Chris Ice if we can break languages codes.. why can't them

[@TheKingOfTrolling]

KS' Michael.J Could you give me a link? The last time I checked we still haven't deciphered many ancient languages.

[@barrackdovahkhiin3394]

Chris Ice "we still haven't deciphered many ancient languages". I never said we have deciphered it all.. but we're able to break them

[@besmart]

100,000,000 years from now, a team of alien geologists arrive at a mysterious blue-green planet, and decide to investigate. Here's what they'll find… If you want to *dig deeper* into the geologic marks of the Anthropocene, check out the references in the description!

[@clottedcreamcumcake]

+It's Okay To Be Smart Don't you like how humans have devolved to not knowing how to read the descriptions?

[@jesseryan8666]

Sponsored, sell out

[@curiousalien9464]

We don't need to investigate your planet any further tbh. wanna continue posting cocky discriminative videos like this? huh! me and my alien chums will just death laser your shitty planet. capeesh?

[@BloodSprite-tan]

+It's Okay To Be Smart how do we know that humans will go extinct?

[@MrLourie]

+It's Okay To Be Smart So, the video begins with the assumption that humankind will not be around, or exist, "100,000,000 Years From Now". We, as the human species, have existed, so far, for just 200,000 years. Yet, the dinosaurs were "intelligent" enough to survive at least 100,000,000 years. Any alien geologist coming upon a peculiar brown-grey planet will not need to probe further than just below the clouds of pollutants. And, there, they will discover the thin sheet of the Anthropocene, and its bed of evidence, exposing a "big brained" but "small minded" people. A culture robbed of its potential by its own hand, and blinded in a flash by the shadows of hostility. "It's Okay To Be Smart", but it's better to be wise. Wisdom affords you the knowledge to best employ your intellect.

[@StrumVogel]

“Whoever lived here deserved their extinction.” - explorers

[@TamWam_]

true, honestly i want all humans to die from covid

[@matineeman3038]

@@TamWam_ InCLudInG mE??????

[@authorshreyashkrishna1500]

If we are not going to develop as a stage 2 civilization there is no chance that earth is going to have life upto far future(4 billion) earth might even be swallowed by the sun. We may be on wrong path but we are possibly only hope for far future as earth might never evolve intelligent life form again. And with earth dead we could lose significant amount of life in the universe.

[@arthurbailon5851]

Nah, this vision of humans it's just cliché and nonsense. "Hur dur, we are destroying the world." The nature it's even more powerful than us, our situation now it's just a necessary fase to get in something better, and if the planet was something alive, we and our actions represent nothing to him.

[@gibrantrejo3258]

Maybe you do, I haven't done anything.

[@dingo6529]

I have a HARD question, Who named our planet?

[@jackbaker9908]

Interesting question...

[@belstar1128]

Some cave man in 1.000.000 bc.

[@porksoda5415]

my penis

[@hailenki2804]

betarage your an idoit Earth is just the english name

[@hailenki2804]

betarage and cavemen back then couldn't talk and didnt have language

[@antonydandrea]

Kind of depressing that eventually no matter what we do, what appears to be normal or constant now, all traces of humanity will be gone. Kind of makes you think what is the point of it all.

[@rafaeldominguez4355]

I see it differently I think it's beautiful wouldn't you think it too? I mean they'll feel the same way when we found dinosaurs knowing we're lucky enough to have done all this in such short time is beautiful the only problem is that we don't take care of earth as much as we should which might cause us to have less time to do great things which is the only sad part for me

[@edwin6146]

Our traces will never be gone because we are the center of the universe. We were made in the likeness of God.

[@MOON_HVNA]

+edwin6146 are you kidding me? god is a construct made by the human themselves, because they knew apeshit about the universe back than... We killed ''god" at the point when WE began to PROVE the laws of physics and just how things came into existence by actual facts that we discoverd and wrote down to our knowledge. Don't you get it? WE are god himself we created the universe by discovering these laws and observing the events that occour in it. We filled up the blank space in our head. if we broke it down to the core, the brain is a instrument that can observe and interpret the universe. so my conclusan is that by gaining knowledge, we shape the universe for us to interpret we live in.

[@TimSlee1]

Welp, keep reproducing and we will get somewhere someday... Next stop, world war 3!

[@edwin6146]

Bauer Gustav There is a point in science were u can't answer anymore questions. If the so called Big Bang is true, what caused it to happen? Why is Earth the only planet in the so called solar system with life. Humans are the most special creatures in the whole universe. The way we think, our ability to create, is not just natural selection. It's more than that. We have purpose on this so called planet. We are not just accidents that formed from an explosion that happen 14.7 billion years ago.

[@cheapmoviesnow]

Its like all of youtube is sponsered by squarespace and audible.

[@thanosmaster-abel559]

Agree

[@MrSilverMo]

cow

[@Wowreally42]

hahaha everything is. podcasts too!

[@srbutrej01]

And mobile strike

[@nearlylego1222]

+Artyom Kirilov fucking mobile strike

[@aimu_1111]

Correction to the intro: "This planet's name is E-73541"

[@swaggyjuice636]

I love how they can tell us what will happen in 100,000,000 years but can't tell us the weather for tomorrow.

[@LuckofLucien6]

IOS worm HA hahahaha

[@Zachinthehat]

Same comment #1

[@prumchhangsreng979]

they only tell the big event. they cant tell who is your grand child in 100 000 000 year, they cant tell what is the tallest buildimg by that time or how many tsunamic will occur... they only know the big event that change goes down in history

[@thescoolbusterznguyen6280]

IOS worm lol

[@roberto-gy6nj]

IOS worm yeah because they're going to use top intelligence and multi billion dollar machines for weather

[@Poopeepooo123]

if i saved 1 dollar a year for 100,000,000 years, i'll be rich.

[@YellowSwordtail131]

relly?

[@AlgoJerViA]

Ever heard of inflation?

[@TheDanny8357]

But you still won't have enough money to buy the new iphone that is released during that time.

[@horseboy6221]

+danny rad no a 1 dollar in one year will be 100 so it'll be 199 299 and in thousands a dollar is a million

[@lil_vault_boy]

master power Inflation though...

[@e.r__]

In 100,000,000 years, half life 3 will still not come out

[@bibilali3666]

RiZe Riot xD

[@GabeNewell100cy]

ItzRiot true

[@joelrodriguez9919]

ItzRiot or illcams 50

[@matthewschmidt3790]

ItzRiot stop sciencing

[@raxtz8329]

So true

[@peamutbubber]

Can't predict weather for tomorrow but 100,000,000 years in the future, easy...

[@yuhi6649]

idiot weather is something that is constantly changing and it's hard to predict how the air molecules are going to come, when, and where. but, all of what he said is something we think will happen, not a prediction. Hope that what you said was sarcasm.

[@azula5965]

Tronix r/woooshed

[@dale2283]

@@yuhi6649 that's a big whoosh moment

[@yuhi6649]

@@dale2283 wow i really can't understand myself. This was 5 months and I have no idea of why I wrote that And now im wooshed

[@totallynotme8153]

Andrew Stewart r/woooosh*

[@lewkis_sizzbell]

In 100,000,000 years hopefully I will be dead.

[@dickdickling9389]

same

[@dyln_lol]

Luke Isbell rip us all

[@edzellor1733]

and single.

[@marwanhegab6783]

xEjie rip all of us watching this video😂

[@warzgutsvirhem3484]

edzel polenio That one was good😂

[@Sepe9119]

People cant tell tomorrows weather but they can tell 1000000000 years to the future

[@kear]

this is a verry narrow minded future look. everything is easy if its only narrow

[@callanc3925]

they cant even tell 100000000 years into the future, pretty much the entire video was spent talking about the past

[@Zachinthehat]

Same comment #2

[@nicklaurindo1916]

But the weather is chaotic.

[@e-mail2673]

so is the future

[@BertWithoutErnie]

Im still single that time

[@turtle19_]

poor bert FeelsBadMan

[@anirudhbhalekar]

Well You ARE without Ernie

[@anirudhbhalekar]

Well You ARE without Ernie

[@Omen06]

"A few explorers find a planet with a lot of water, temperatures to keep it liquid" It's earth... "A ton of oxygen, this planet is known as, Earth" Knew it

[@KELLSONIC]

"why are we here? Plastic, asshole!" ~ George Carlin

[@craftman9935]

Gotta love Carlin although comments like these are so rare

[@N14-b1m]

All hail Almighty George!

[@dummypg6129]

Just as i think of plastic, it'll be always George C.

[@jerrycolvin3315]

KELLSONIC so ironic, as I just watched some of his stuff.

[@abdulgalad2844]

Jerry Colvin irony =\= coincidence

[@iidirectxii7545]

And gamers are still waiting for Half Life 3...

[@artifexone2986]

lmao

[@TheCherry1994]

+II DIRECTx II Nice meme bro

[@jamesambrocio]

+II DIRECTx II Transcending time and space. HL3 will cause another big bang.

[@randomperson6548775]

+II DIRECTx II Bahaha. I normally get tired of the incessant HL3 jokes, but this one actually made me lol.

[@the1andonlytitch]

+II DIRECTx II In 100,000,001 Half life 3 confirmed

[@royalpillows7716]

Imagine some pandemic starts and everyone starts rioting with many countries standing off against each other and instability worldwide with many economies collapsing

[@moneylisa3358]

Oh yeah plus getting stuck at home

[@sketchbookmenace]

Imagine that...

[@marionamewontwork2681]

Sounds like a B movie :/

[@RedactedXH8]

Contry what is that??

[@gibrantrejo3258]

Imagine late stage capitalism

[@fdsfsdfdfdsfsdfs505]

i find it amazing that scientists today are looking for life elsewhere; it would be incredibly embrassing to show an advanced civilization what we have done to the earth and the way we treat each other. great video!

[@larryroyovitz7829]

The thing is, that people don't realize, we're getting and doing better every year. Less poverty, less starvation, less war, more rights. Are we perfect right now? No, but we're a damn sight better than we were 50, 100 years ago or more.

[@ry-land-]

countless confusing traces of our time. *insert crocs*

[@weliveinasociety3324]

who is watching this in 100,002,016?

[@weliveinasociety3324]

GrammarNazi Shrek can never die

[@gonzalovilla8598]

Meh...

[@PureGold197]

Me 🙋

[@sonia706]

Sorry I'm in heaven (coz I'm dead)

[@Loxer150]

JoWanka Mind blown

[@GnomeTMSM]

How maddening would it be to be able to observe a massive fossilized society, but not be able to access its knowledge, or the historical reasons for why it grew so suddenly...

[@diogoverardi7529]

This channel is just amazing.

[@aftertoon9275]

It's not even talking about 100,000,000 mil. Years from now, it's just talking about the past

[@kat-ld1kb]

AfterToon 100 million years into the past

[@RossianOG]

AfterToon he's talking about when we're gone

[@canary6215]

he didnt say 100 million million ( 1e+16 ) he said 100 million

[@Nobody-yw2yf]

Would they even be able to differentiate the few decades those different event happened? I mean to us, 10000 years of history seems like little time.

[@lorettawhitfield4451]

Siscon Oniichan

[@keylimetea]

With the record of the Internet, perhaps but otherwise it depends on what material stuff is made of and how deep and where it gets bred.

[@didrikgustafsson2426]

I need to stop watching this lol, makes me do depressed

[@SubscribersWithNoVideos-in9jh]

Lua The Pupper yep it is to

[@extracheese5284]

Yeah it makes me do sad I wish I can do happy

[@extracheese5284]

lol

[@LEO_M1]

5,000 Subscribers With No Videos No, it's 'too'. 'To' is used in conjunction with verbs (it's a preposition). 'Too' is an adverb meaning 'excessively' or 'also'. You'd say "I'm too depressed to do anything."

[@lastyhopper2792]

if it's "to", it should be "to be" or "to feel" right?

[@ameenababar3927]

Sooo. Should I tell you something unusual that you would never think about. The brain named it self

[@michaelcerafr]

Should i tell you something else.. Thats copied.

[@ameenababar3927]

Shalom Ziveyi omg no way really?? It’s almost like many people can have the same ideas!!!

[@LUCAS420BLZ]

@@ameenababar3927 ok

[@nadiahhalim4575]

should i tell you something weirder. brain says that he is the most complex thing in the world

[@hiffahyphae6707]

peanut butterscotch should I tell something even weirder... The brain is not a he, it’d be and it

[@kingj282]

The title of this video should really be "life after people"

[@akuawa]

This is why I want to be an archaeologist when I grow up! I love all this history and I want to discover as much as possible about our ancient origins before they are no longer detectable! Amazing video btw. :)

[@Nero-ox5tw]

For the first time on earth, humans are a specie that are intelligent enough to live for as long as the universe allows us to, we make changes and adapt to any condition, we realize our own mistakes and can create new things in such a short space of time. Yet we are not predicted to live for that much longer. But it's the simple fact that humans are capable of living for a very very very long time. Yet despite all the evidence of us destroying the earth and changing it for the worst. We don't change anything. Think of all that has been accomplished in just 10,000 years of our 200,000 years of existence. We have changed the earth forever, the build of the human body will unlikely change due to the fact that we do not rely on natural selection like animals. We will only learn more and become capable of building larger scale structures and migrating to harsher environments. We will begin to explore deeper space and look at other planets as a place to not only explore but to live, cure diseases, help the poor, stop the extinction of innocent animals. The sad truth is, that because humans can now think for themselves and do not follow rules that prevent certain events happening, because there are things such as greed and crime and war that it prevents humans from ever reaching their full potential. Humans weren't made to just sit and watch TV all day or working 9-5 doing something they hate, to fight or to bully, to live in fear of being blown up by a landmine or an airstrike because people don't get along from the other side of the world. We are one race. The human race and we constantly try to pull each other down. The best way I can describe it is, there are 2 people in a car race, one person is responsible for the cars mechanics before the race, the other for driving the car in the race. And whichever driver wins is given a lot of money. As a representation of today's society, instead of helping the driver win and maybe getting some of the money in the end for helping, he purposely makes the car slow just so that the driver can't get more, instead of helping him. Like driving 30 kph on the road because you just want to annoy the person behind you. Todays world is a great world I'm not going to lie. But it could be 1000x better.

[@flavorlessquark8614]

It could indeed, but there is so many of those people. Maybe not stupid or evil, but just simply ignorant of our condition. And there is no use telling them about it, they simply won't consider it. I've always wondered why so little people talk about those things. Why nobody on TV has brought up the fact that there's so many of us now that at this rate there soon won't be enough resources for all of us. Why is no one doing anything. And it's true that we'll probably survive, or at least it's what I want to believe. But we just can't learn from the past. how many wars have been fought, yet we're still fighting. it's a fact. we like violence. It feels good to make war. to prove that we are the strongest, and so even if we were to survive, we would probably repeat all our error but with an infinitely more powerful technology each time.By the time we realize what we've done it'll be too late. Animals will be extinct CT, plants too, and then we'll die too. There's so little people aware of what we're doing, and lost of them don't have the power to change anything, and if they do, others will stop them. It's terrible really. I don't know what we can do about it.

[@Red-tn3wm]

Ryan Bamford Seeing all these uneducated bafoons bring up their hypocritical beliefs such as God to make an argument and question the fact of our capabilities is an insult to progression. One day religion will die and all this hate the world inherents today will subside, and maybe then we may truly evolve into what we're meant to be.

[@SPRWinchester]

Lightwaves The Great, I've always wondered why nobody on Earth is paying attention to those who are trying to 'fix' our planet, but rather is fighting over their own petty squabbles across the globe. We'll never know till it's too late.

[@litgeeksquadofficial]

We're a disease

[@dr.spectre9697]

What the hell are you talking about????

[@tomeekomitchell3022]

But would these "future explorers" be able to find the internet though??

[@Retravox]

i can create my own planet 100 million years from now

[@Chroma710]

Mr. Harambe Please don't tell me you tried to spell touché.

[@theminingdog7672]

Chroma Ikr lol

[@xtl7871]

no way he just said two shay

[@Noah-nu6sz]

HidusHD what does to shay mean?

[@InvincibleJ]

Two shay! 😂😂😂

[@nokia6630videos]

They'd assume Earth got cancer and we are the cancer cells.

[@rosethekitty665]

nokia6630videos yep

[@33bb33bb]

Nah, white people really

[@Cloud-wl8lp]

Blair not all whites are racist, and you’re racist for saying that. If you’re white, that’s even worse.

[@243tad]

@SOGAR K. xzzx

[@243tad]

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[@nischalshahi4388]

What if we find them before they find us? :)

[@randomanimallover3196]

NISCHAL SHAHI Then they should leg it

[@kezzawozza]

Independance day comes true

[@martinschylander46]

This episode was absolutely amazing!

[@CalvinKrause]

3:16 Liek ef ur actualy waching in 100002016

[@naughtspellswright]

Calvin Krause nah I'm watching in 100002017

[@donnie9886]

HAHAHAHA LOVE IT

[@milesia261]

Hehehehehehehheuhuhuhuhuhuhuuhuhu

[@ML-xp1kp]

Erd guth@' aad ощtriь ber 10000018AD. Ser иbь?

[@selenaxie4152]

Calvin Krause nah 2017

[@yetinother]

And that's why we were created, the earth wanted Plastic!

[@RadacovskyJuraj]

george carlin :D

[@SpacePatrollerLaser]

What if those explorers are descendants of ours whose ancestors left Earth 10,000,000 years from now and who had forgotten their dawn of history?

[@derekpark9921]

+Cl Lyman I doubt that, since there is many documents, photographs, and videos about the Earth, our history, etc. Unless they didn't make a new record and forgot to bring all the records about Earth and us, we will remember Earth forever. But I like the idea. It will be exactly like returning to your long-forgotten home.

[@SpacePatrollerLaser]

+Derek Park It's hard to say; We're talking about 100,000,000 years from now.It is extremely possible that due to the evolutionary process of "radiation" there may be several dozen species of "Man". This most certainly will affect how they think and interpret the past. See Brian Aldiss' BIG ANCESTORS. Entropy also plays a part. Read the latter FOUNDATION stories, where earth is practically forgotten (factor into that ROBOTS OF DAWN). Read also DRAGON RIDERS OF PERN and see how, over time, things get lost or reinterpreted. Also what happens to records if a civilization collapses and they have to deal with more pressing matters. Or what if single lifetime interstellar travel is not achieved for 100,000 years and the 300 or so interstellar colonies were planted by multi-generational ships then 300,000 years a useful FTL breakthrough was made? Read Brian Aldiss STARSHIP (UK; NON-STOP) 1958 to see how things get lost. Rome fell only about 1550 years ago and we just recovered their method of making concrete that was stronger than anything we have made until we did. Dark and Middle Ages rope was far inferior to what the Romans used and I don't know if that was ever recovered or we just developed something else using synthetic fibers

[@destinal_in_reality]

+The Angry General So you get a sloppy pour, and spill all over the place. :P

[@SpacePatrollerLaser]

+The Angry General History has shown that to be incorrect. Cars were once the prerogative of the rich. Computers were once the prerogative of the rich. Televisions were once the prerogative of the rich. Air travel, then jet travel was once the prerogative of the rich 50 years ago a big term was "jet set", heard that any time since 1968? All that happens is that they rich simply to the early wrok in the creation of a market. then someone gets the urge to expand the market, thatn's how Danelectro was founded in 1954 to bring down the price of a decent quality electric guitar to a generally affordable one

[@phosphoros3050]

+Cl Lyman It's more likely only some portions of history may be "lost" beneath the rest of history (as in plenty of people know about Rome, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, & China, but don't know specifics of their histories other than they had empires, how they dressed, & the occasional name of a leader). If anything it's far more likely that history will be preserved yet distorted & embellished as some caches of information are lost, and histories may get mingled with other accounts (even literature) in confusion, thus getting becoming a mythology with differing versions & viewpoints looking back at a haze. By then different planets may have been terraformed to closely resemble Earth's biome, & there could even be dispute as to which "Earth" was the original.

[@RunnerRunnerRun]

Hey, I just wanna say that the closing argument of this video is one of the most optimistic and realistic statements made about the survival of humanity I've seen in a long time. Thanks for the great content!

[@talaverajr391]

The south will rise again & a McDonald's Big Mac will finally mold.

[@talaverajr391]

+Adolf Hitler and nazi Germany's will rise again along with fascist Italy and Soviet Russia. Lol

[@talaverajr391]

And you will finally grow a full stach.

[@talaverajr391]

By the way have you seen Joseph Stalin (channel) before in the comment section? Because I have.

[@redice6439]

lol

[@moonwalker3144]

Hahahaha lmao that was gd

[@kelabear6084]

Aliens discover Earth just to blow it up 2 seconds later :p

[@alakranvenenoso8079]

Just another day at the office

[@Zachinthehat]

Alien husband: Honey i got you a present! Alien wife: Oh what is it!!?? Alien husband: Ok close your eyes!.... Now open them. Alien wife: Honey..... Alien husband: What, is something wrong with it? Do you not like it? Alien wife: Ummmm... Why does it look like that? Alien husband: It's blue and brown and green because of the different elements It says here they called it earth. Alien wife: It's ugly... Alien husband: I'm sorry i'll get rid of it.... "Blows it to pieces in 1 second erasing all proof of our existence".

[@lorettawhitfield4451]

Kela B I ,

[@oaedeoi]

What's the porpoise, to build a Space-highway?

[@unsettled3943]

Me before watching the video: We’ll have a new supercontinent. Me after watching the video: Doesn’t matter ‘cause I know I’m right.

[@ceezb5629]

I guess this video didn’t account for 2020 to be such a crazy year. If we make it to 2021, then for sure we’ll be here 100,000,000 years from now.

[@davidhansson7041]

2:29 "Ben, I want to say one word to you, just one word: Plastics." -Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, The Graduate Just thought of that by playing to mush Civ V

[@Yhouth]

For some reason I was waiting at the end for But hey that's just a theory! A blank theory Anybody else?

[@rsher7369]

nope

[@marcschnefke1306]

I appreciate the reference.

[@that1valentian769]

The exit is on your left.

[@stayfrost04]

+Geezy HD Love the reference :D

[@AnotherPanther]

+Geezy HD leave

[@TheRealSkeletor]

Uhh, Joe... Joe, the word "epoch" is not pronounced like "epic".

[@besmart]

In US English pronunciation it is! dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/epoch

[@TheRealSkeletor]

It's Okay To Be Smart I stand corrected. Darn US English pronunciations. :P

[@NebulusVoid]

+It's Okay To Be Smart Damn Muricans lol

[@WickedGaming005]

+Skeletor Jopko that's weird, I'm American and I've always prounced it the way they do in the UK

[@TheRealSkeletor]

Janin Goodwin Same here, and I'm Canadian.

[@mixuptimewolfs4312]

This is the only channel who doesn't say: subscribe, stay tuned for a giveaway,like,comment

[@lotfibouhedjeur9897]

What would they think of us if they stumble on evidence of the Kardashians... 😵

[@Paceee]

Well, plastic perseveres, so they would definitely stumble upon evidence of the Kardashians.

[@spycrab3723]

"Large deposits of plastic would also be found in certain regions, mostly in the Kardashian cemeteries"

[@stefansmyname215]

cant wait to see how earth will look like in 100 000 000 yrs

[@stefansmyname215]

Flimzy Waffle rly? I thought that I would be alive...

[@flimzy1636]

Stefan P Nvm you were being sarcastic.

[@stefansmyname215]

Flimzy Waffle no I wasn't

[@madsam9403]

Stefan P don't forget to meet me that time

[@madsam9403]

***** actually it is possible, let's not forget how long winter animals hibernate for prolong months, all that's needed to be figured out is that how can the duration be increased to years and what medium is required to be in prolong hibernation (that's surely not freezing, obvious that medium just doesn't make sense) so what's required is all possible mechanisms and testing it up, we right now are way behind in this stuff, perhaps in about 400-500 years we might achieve more to this knowledge

[@Flagen579]

Aluminium.

[@arcsmith4115]

+be_cracked No one is going to argue with you, we are all tired of this.

[@PaldBenis]

nice bait

[@GameSlimia1]

He's American.

[@цветок-ш7п]

+GameSlimia that is the problem

[@abhishekpatkar4324]

what a fucking loser

[@nenennen8355]

3:32-3:33 The shoe and the Lego just gave me the chills of stepping on Lego!

[@sirdonutiii]

I'm getting light headed just thinking about all of this

[@xkilla911]

dam

[@aziz.mp4]

You look like MatPat with glasses.

[@besmart]

But that's just a theory

[@aziz.mp4]

It's Okay To Be Smart A Game theory

[@MimOzanTamamogullar]

Türk?

[@lilidaliessiomedia7894]

An Future Theory

[@frogiafrog2132]

Oh my God he does!

[@Chogy1]

3:03 was that a pidgey 😝

[@940yayo8]

Lil Canz Horde nope

[@Tony-rz4uw]

Jude White So much salt.

[@cherriexluvs3494]

I just ran onto this channel and i fell in love with the content...

[@unvergebeneid]

The "pave the whole Earth" thing was scary. I mean, you didn't say how thick the pavement would be but still, given how much concrete contributes to our greenhouse gas emissions, I'm afraid concrete will cement our future. ... WHAT?! If we go, we might as well go with a bad pun on our lips!

[@erikziak1249]

+Penny Lane 1 kg of concrete per square meter. Density of concrete is about 2400 kg per cubic meter. So how high would a 1 kg block of concrete be, with two sides with the length of 1 meter? If my calculations are correct, we are talking about 0,417 mm thick layer. That is pretty weak. A 0,417 mm deep layer of concrete spread on one square meter would be 1 kg in weight. You can surely imagine one kilogram of regular flour and how you try to spread it even on the area of 1 square meter in your kitchen. If flour has a density of about 500 kg per cubic meter (about 4.8 times less than concrete), you should get a "block" with two sides 1000 mm long and a height of about 2 mm, which sounds reasonable if I imagine it now. If I made the video, I would omit the "pave the whole surface of earth" claim.

[@unvergebeneid]

Erik Žiak Wow, dude, now you're just stalking me ;) No, I'm kidding. Nice calculation. Yeah, it really seems like that the whole "pave the planet" thing is a stretch .... ha! I'll keep doing this till Armageddon. Try and stop me! ;)

[@erikziak1249]

+Penny Lane I am not a stalker, too lazy for that shit. I wanted to chat a bit about your take on AI, machine learning and stuff like this if you are interested. What was your thesis topic? Also, I am goint to bed now, have been doing research all evening long, have 5 thick books on my desk and one smaller. Trying to figure out historic stuff. Gives me headaches, as I am also drawing stuff according to my findings. Good night.

[@unvergebeneid]

Erik Žiak No, I was just joking because I've seen you in so many threads recently.

[@Th3CoLoSSuS]

+Erik Žiak (tramstefanikova) You are typing too much unimportant stuff.

[@rhayat10]

In 100,000,000 years, the continents will be arranged differently. Y'all should have shown that in your maps.

[@Ifakojesfd]

I don't think a mass extinction is something we should be proud of and i will make it my job to prevent this. I want to be the first man to prevent a mass extinction.

[@cmckee42]

+SubPolarBear Too late

[@InderjitSingh12]

+SubPolarBear too bad its already happening

[@yatesy117]

it's inevitable this will happen eventually. human beings aren't any more special from any other species.

[@mcsdaver]

+yatesy117 I think we are very special. We can create things no other creature can and we can even go into space and return still alive. We can do amazing things and I hope that all countries and people will work together to end wars, hate , hunger and extinction.

[@Ifakojesfd]

Christopher McKee it will never be too late. just because it has started doesn't mean we shouldn't give two pigeon shits about our planet. We can stop this world from being anymore fucked up and i will.

[@Hi_Im_Akward]

I am really excited about anthropology and geology. So entertaining the idea of a life form examining our ancient remains and impact on the world sounds incredibly intriguing to me.

[@jackshan501]

3:32 GOD DAMN LEGOS

[@danielgisborne3469]

Be a bummer if all they found were Crocs....

[@jeremymanwaring5934]

100,000,000 years from now I will be in all your bodies

[@Printedperformance]

I was gunna say I would have a fully prosthetic body in 100mil years but your be in the computers too... well played...

[@duckthrowingupgangsigns1170]

you can be in my body any time ;)

[@kermit6020]

Tratior

[@shinjireference3568]

+TR-8R wtf lmao

[@nyanator8110]

whats good

[@Tangko32123]

2:11 2016: wow the great acceleration! 2019: ok boomer

[@dougieranger]

It's a crying shame what we've done to this planet.

[@FNFleExZ]

What about all the Satellites ?? :D i think they will see that first :D

[@querglh1696]

They will eventually fall down

[@ART1GAMES]

Lol that fly in your profile pic freaked me out :D

[@FNFleExZ]

ART1GAMES Harambe liked it too :(

[@dummypg6129]

duh

[@fvn55yearsago57]

Mavis Vermilion They would probably biodegrade

[@jamesgalante7967]

Im from the future and i can confirm this is true

[@vPanzerTank]

In this time line humans are extinct, that means you are extinct as well

[@Romanov117]

+DannySailor what if they aren't?

[@vPanzerTank]

White343 In the video humans aren't around

[@camposm948]

did half life 3 come out yet

[@ryzallofficial]

+camposm948 LMAOOOOO

[@redriver6541]

Fantastic channel you guys. Thank You for these videos.

[@IACSC]

Am I crazy, or is the dude 100% percent copying the way SciShow dresses and looks?

[@besmart]

+IACSC I've been a white guy with glasses my whole life, oddly enough

[@youdontknowme3935]

+It's Okay To Be Smart wow ur just like buzzfeed stop copying damn !!! white guy with glases ... right i bet ur just one of those lizardman that runs the whole society and is part of illuminati!

[@fuflang]

No, you fucking idiot, people have names, and that is not Hank Green.

[@hi-fj3yc]

YOUR CRAZY

[@AndrewYudrinkswater]

IACSC omg yes

[@joshuajeremiahgarcia6387]

mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell

[@hunterverge3093]

USING THIS INFORMATION HUMANS WILL CONQUER THE UNIVERSE.

[@eg0zb]

I would LOOOOVE to know what aliens would think of us once they find our remnants

[@artifexone2986]

they'll call us all noons, and hyperdrive away yelling"ayyy lmao"

[@artifexone2986]

+Angel Lopez *noobs

[@arcsmith4115]

+eg0zb ...or our youtube comments.

[@fireriffs]

+eg0zb Probably that they're ancestors went through a similar stage only they managed not to blow themselves up before going interstellar.

[@eg0zb]

It would be hilarious if they misun derstood things of our culture like thinking Santa is our god

[@Angel_Underscore]

You just gave them a bunch of useful facts and dates, we just have to preserve this video for a hundred millon years.

[@TipsyLiquid]

3:31 WHAT ARE THOSE!!!

[@SelcraigClimbs]

have you never seen gel shoes?

[@joseprotaciorizalmercadoya5674]

those are crocs....

[@muhammaddanyal4009]

In 100,000,000 Years From Now... Half-life 3 would have came out lol

[@jackalmain4722]

Muhammad Danyal i dont think so

[@blureyes106]

Sorry to break this to you... but you might be lying to yourself...

[@rlygudprayur1420]

Finally, after 100,000,000 years, Half Life 3 will be released.

[@marcosmaldonado7890]

I was looking for this one.

[@nuorigin]

I'm smart enough to know that this video didn't talk about a hundred million years from now, it talked about the present and the past.

[@muffinboll6125]

5:19 is that a cross on their space rocket thingy?

[@maryandassata7257]

Omg I think it is!

[@domonichutchinson6912]

Yeah

[@thanosmaster-abel559]

Yea i see it

[@OnlineGodGaming]

Yes

[@loxieboxy3057]

Im watching on July 16, 2017 so at 4:50 I freaked out.

[@TheInselaffen]

Sodium Calcium Uranium Aluminium

[@bagandtag4391]

ummmm

[@lassoatrain]

+A3jose348sf J B WELD & MIKE & IKES now that's what im talkin about.

[@GoldSrc_]

+A3jose348sf Ium sounds more badass, I mean use Titanium as an example, Titanum sounds dumb lol.

[@GoldSrc_]

A3jose348sf What? What made you think you could use that thinking and apply it to people's names?

[@botdog370]

+A3jose348sf radium

[@genkisudo]

All these videos need to be transcribed... and available... I was trying to find out where i learned about the "Anthropocene" period and had to dig through. Hope you guys consider it at one point!!