Cosmic Journeys - Life: Destiny or Chance?

Are the universe and its physical laws so fine-tuned that the rise of life is inevitable? Or is life a fluke, a lucky roll of cosmic dice? We look for the answer in the rise of two important components of life, dust and water. It turns out that the universe is laden with water, a byproduct of dust kicked out and spread around by supernovas and black holes.

[@VinR0x83]

Calm voice of narrator + relaxing music is enough for me to sleep while playing this. I did'nt notice that the video is already ends so I play it all over again 💤

[@abccole9971]

This guy has the very best voice for a documentary. Listen to him at all times.

[@nurk_barry]

Same here, watch space rip all the time, Dick Rodstein is a fantastic narrator

[@davidross5593]

The voice is fine but we are not stardust.

[@thegreathadoken6808]

At ALL times? Even while taking a dump? Even when making love to my woman? Even when at a rock concert? EVEN WHEN FIGHTING FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD???

[@BronxBomber-mf9hl]

I think its incredible the knowledge we have about space, we started out primitive to what we are today

[@jondoc7525]

They def know more then they release too . Someone hacked nasa and they found an off world list

[@dalecarter947]

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[@HiAdrian]

This was really beautiful, top notch production. Thanks!

[@a.randomjack6661]

First time I can leave a comment here. I finally made my first social media accnt lately, but I've been coming here for ages. Just wanted to Thank You Spacerip for all those excellent documentaries I always enjoy watching here. I know there's no definitive answer to that question, but the title was inviting. Max Tegmark, Seth Lloyd and a few other Cosmology oriented Scientists have some interesting viewpoints on this non practical but fun question.

[@Impatient_Ape]

Most of these videos are pretty good, but this one is really good. If, after seeing this, you're wondering why we haven't all been enslaved by sentient aliens, it probably means that (i) FTL is impossible, and (ii) sentient life at our level takes a similar amount of time to develop on other planets, and we are in the lead, or (iii) we aren't yet developed to any level where we are worth bothering.

[@NichoTBE]

Chances are life is fairly abundant throughout the universe, though 99.99999% of all species probably go extinct before reaching a level where they are colonizing other planets in large numbers, which makes the chances of meeting any of them extremely slim at best.

[@MagnesiumEnterprise]

There are more options than the ones you listed. Here is another option: advanced civilizations have learned to travel faster than light and control their biology and environment to such a degree that their intelligence skyrocketed and their need for resources minimized. And considering the universe is so old, and considering the high likelihood that many other more advanced races have existed for a very long time, a kind of social order among various advanced races has been established, and that social order includes non-aggression against other sentient beings. Why? Because technology, science and the abundance of resources in the universe which can be used for most efficiently in utilization. ▪ www.singularityweblog.com/peter-diamandis-at-oce-discovery-technology-is-a-resource-liberating-force/ ▪ online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180

[@Impatient_Ape]

Magnesium So how much FTL exactly? It jacks up the probability of contact, but I'm suggesting that it is still not fast enough because we still seem locally alone, even if we are universally crowded.

[@FusRoDah2]

There is really no gain for enslaving mankind, in my opinion extraterrestrial life has had the ability to reach us in the past, but never to enslave us. I can imagine watching mankind with advanced technology from space would be quite amusing, and we are only a threat to ourselves.

[@Impatient_Ape]

Magnesium Quantum entanglement is not a mechanism for sending information faster than light. Anyone who claims this is true doesn't actually understand it. So no, this article does NOT suggest that FTL is possible. The experiment attempts to measure the time delay between the results of a measurement at one location and the correlated outcome at another location. The whole idea of a "speed" here is all about getting eyballs on the article and it toally misrepresents the fact that absolute correlation that entanglement produces does not require the transmission of any signal from one location to another.

[@CptArmarlio]

I’d love to see a 45 - 85 minute video about something you guys do best. I only got through 2 beers in this one. (And it was a spectacular one) What I’m trying to say is: I’d prefer to watch an episode from you guys than any episodes from the history channel :) Keep the science coming xxx

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I've been deep in thought over this exact question for a long time. In a universe of seemingly limitless possibilities, I sincerely think that both destiny and chance exist side by side and interact with each other.

[@nunu4evaaa]

interdependent paradox that defys humans limited comprehension.

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[@briancharles1141]

I like him he tells the story very well I can listen to him. Not like some other ones who are boring to listen to..?. Brian Cox is very good at explaining things he's good.

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This videos are so well made! thanks to all of the people who made this happen. This is one of my favorite channels, i never miss a video.

[@shkotayd9749]

Superb video. SpaceRip always put out the BEST YT science videos.

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I love these videos. Very soothing voice is a plus. Thank you.

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what a beautiful and interesting video. Thanks Spacerip!

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Thank you for making this high quality video.

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[@davidorasanin3800]

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[@Ihavetwoears]

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[@redrum248]

wow i love the video really great narration i love learning about astronomy, i think i will pursue a career in this field, if i can... haha, have a nice day everyone, keep learning!

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[@jodyknight]

I love all of these videos thank you SpaceRip. I just have one tiny issue with the way whoever made the animation of the Earth revolving showing the Western side of Australia with more electric lights all over it, even appearing to go right across some serious desert country, than the Eastern side which is way more populated than western side.

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[@mentorpozhegu]

Dust and water nice video thank you for sharing with us.

[@longrangtylongchar1817]

Nice narration. Beautiful

[@s28400]

Excellent Video! Will Share!

[@michaelscherman9733]

Awesome, as always.

[@member757]

Fantastic video well done

[@zuluoscar1181]

I could watch these videos over and over again. In fact, I do. This one is particularly striking for me, speaking on the potential prevalence of life throughout the universe. It's astounding how much water exists in some of the most desolate regions. I'm excited at the thought of intelligent beings on other planets contemplating our existence. What a feeling it is to essentially *know* that, based on current observations and calculations, there are other planets with life like us. Cities, technology, spacecraft. Why wouldn't there be *somewhere*?

[@anngeocastar6960]

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[@Cogency1]

Always love these programs...and the narration is pretty awesome. 8 billion Earth-like worlds in our galaxy alone is hopeful...maybe some of those beings can teach us to get along with ourselves before we're mature enough to join the galactic neighborhood. Humanity is a young species, still in its infancy when it comes to intelligence.

[@ETGR]

Another great video, thanks

[@Strakos0]

Life? Design, with utmost care. A being capable of everything. Purest Love.

[@CyriilB]

I think it's purely chance. The universe may appear to be fine tuned, but then again before we understood evolution we appeared to be intelligently designed. Even if certain conditions of the universe have to be just so for us to exist that doesn't mean it's on purpose. Also, some of the conditions might need to be this way for *our kind* of life to exist. Sometimes you'll have two completely separately purchased objects that have nothing to do with one another and they happen to work wonderfully together. Does that mean it was part of some grand plan? No, it's a happy coincidence. We are the universe's way of pondering it's own existence.

[@ICT_Midnight]

RealityFacade Macro-evolution is far from being even considered scientific so your first point utterly fails. As for your “chance” nonsense, that also fails since the probability of the universe to get the constants right for life to exist is less than 1 in 10^300. Utterly impossible. The best explanation is that life and the universe is the product of a designer.

[@jmitterii2]

Based on all current observations and models, it appears you're likely right. It's pure chance. Which explains a lot of philosophical questions; why should their be suffering, why are natural phenomena often not conducive to our existence; most of the universe is empty space that kills macro life, etc. It's odds. And with such a big universe with arrangement as we are, such events become inevitable at a yet unknown probability distribution.

[@impalabeeper]

ByRTD yO Triggered much?

[@somethingclever4563]

@@ICT_Midnight Only those pushing a religious ideology say macro evolution isn't scientific. Actual scientists disagree with you. Secondly your point about the odds is irrelevant. The odds only matter if you start with the assumption that life had to exist. If life is just a byproduct of the constants being the way they are then it makes total sense. Life exists because of the constants not in spite of them. Its logical. What's impossible is telling me something existed eternally outside the system of all known reality. Then using the most inefficient, wasteful convoluted method possible created the entire universe for the pleasure of one tiny species that have been around for only 1% of known time. Then made sure to endow his creation with all the traits, biological urges and character flaws that would piss said creator off forcing him to condemn and torture for eternity the vast majority of those he went through all the trouble of creating the universe for. That is what seems impossible.

[@TheTriangleFx]

very nice video thank you

[@naimulhaq9626]

The program that propels evolution forward is much more than destiny or chance, it is magical, hypnotic etc., whatever, we love to participate and ponder, knowing we do not need to know everything to grasp the role we must play, in promoting evolution.

[@Sorinhach]

Loved the Water molecule dotting the i in Life

[@johanniral8116]

the fact that we, the humans, are able to reason and think deeply as to where we are all and what things are surrounding us, can make a certain way to see our existence, but there are uncertainties that all of us are never going to decipher, such as, why are we all here and what is the purpose of everything that exists? this questions can be easily refuted by the religious or philosophical perspective, which can make a certain presumption. for my point of view, everything what the religion or philosophy states as true about the meaning of life, is just presumptions or just hypothetical issues, just that and nothing else. since the meaning of everything that exists and its purpose for the existence shall never be answered, there shall be only presumptions

[@BunnyCentauri]

Amazing job once again! Only 3k views, shame on us :( PLEASE keep up the great work PLEASE! And also keep this narrator, he's amazing!

[@Anonyminded]

Unfortunately our destiny is left with little chances for survival. Unless we start protecting fragile balance of life or we will be gone from the surface of this planet. Maybe universe if full of water and all of sorts of life supporting compounds but nowhere else than on Earth we can find such a spectacular miracle of life. All made by the balance based on which it was created.

[@MyMinorE]

great doc

[@davidorasanin3800]

i mean...amazing...i watched all the videos from cosmic jurneys three times allredy and i always am suprised how good quality they are..just beautifull...Does enyone knows if there are some other channels with the documentaries from this production?

[@n3r0z3r0]

Thank you!

[@FuNmX]

Life.... good subject for spacerip! Because, what is beyond ourselves besides what we really know about all that is life in our universe?

[@beayn]

Thank you for making your videos! One of the few subs that I click on every video. You guys should make a Patreon account. I'm sure many people would pay $1 or more per video.

[@pamcass1974]

beautiful.....

[@vlweb3d]

CALM DOWN PEOPLE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION just calm down

[@davidwilcox918]

SUPREME EMPEROR MITTONS, (god, why do you people have to have such strange names), I would love for everyone to calm down. But when some shithead says something profoundly stupid, well, it's kind of hard to respond in a venomous way.

[@baruchben-david4196]

@@davidwilcox918 No need to respond at all. I can't tell you how many times I wasted my time and energy trying to explain to someone who just wanted to be a troll...

[@KOSKentOlaf]

By saying life comes by chance, you make sense of everything you see around you. If you say it's destiny, everything becomes meaningless.

[@me52]

love this space stuff

[@mansouralba1987]

man i need more of this

[@stephanielaboise9340]

Nice video :)

[@8698gil]

Considering just how vast the universe is, I don't find it surprising at all that life has evolved here on earth. The conditions were favorable. And while life may be rare, I don't believe we are the ONLY life in the universe. It's a very big place. Surely there are other stars with planets in the habitable zone with the right conditions. People are always saying how all these conditions had to be absolutely perfect, but, really, I think it would be far more unlikely if life had NOT occurred, with the billions of galaxies, trillions of planets, and billions of years.

[@NeonsStyleHD]

Brilliant video, really enjoyed it. However good luck finding a provable answer to (what does it all mean?). lol

[@lonniethehorrorwritertobin1128]

Dick Rodstein rocks like an iron nickle meteorite!

[@robrobinhembram305]

Me commenting here, is it destiny or chance?

[@eddym2564]

+Jesus Christ We look alike, don't we?

[@1990stephanellis]

If we look in to space we are looking to the past yet we are moving though space does that mean where travailing back in time ?

[@hal6459]

We're either alone in the cosmos and therefore a precious arrangement of atoms, or the odds are in favor of life...I'd say either answer has significant implications....

[@ArkadiuszPL]

To all creationists/religion believers: If you want to post some bullshit comments about your fairy tales just dont do it and re-think your life.

[@BummerLee]

I believe in the Electric Universe model./....he is halfway there with his thought....\good video..

[@Hilgy2911]

I'm a Catholic, but I believe in Evolution and the Big Bang theory.

[@Hilgy2911]

***** You are right, evolution is a proven fact, but you are wrong that being Catholic that I cannot accept scientific facts and theories. The Catholic Church holds no official position between creationism or evolution.

[@JabberCT]

***** Speaking as a former Catholic, yes they can accept scientific facts. I was taught the big bang and evolution in Catechism and was never taught it in public schools.

[@Hilgy2911]

***** Christianity and Catholicism do believe in the same God. Just because I believe in God doesn't mean I can accept scientific facts and theories? And by the way, facts help support theories because theories aren't proven true or false.

[@jeremyred6343]

is this in tvs? or just here in yt? nice work.

[@ztwntyn8]

Just earlier l thought, the key is that we had to thrive here... it's trying to happen all through the universe. Here is just right. Like moss growing where it's wet.

[@toheedanwarllc]

I don't know why people's dislike it

[@omfgitzxjoshx]

awsome

[@Hengry-hn7rb]

Stardust ? Man & I really started to like this cowboys voice next to the fire.

[@RobinSonAr]

its like getting to knw sumthn wat i need.. lyk a piece of an infinite puzzle..

[@HaykAmirbekyanTKD]

is this the full video?

[@amp7224]

8.8 billion earth like planets 40 Billion chances and with the process on going. With water being so prevalent in the Galaxy life has got to be abundant!

[@Ace0077]

I always wonder, how scientists are so sure about the spectral readings they get from incredibly large distances. As in, talking about that 12B LY distant quasar and the amount of water in it. Can this result not be influenced by all the matter that is in between us and that quasar? What if there's load of water in between, that we see right through and get the spectral reading from and none in the actual quasar? Maybe this is stupid remark, because I don't have an excellent idea of how that may work, but it seems logical to me to assume that at such distances, there'll be LOADS of material in our line of sight, that can influence the results of spectrometer. Is there any specialist to give me an argument on this one? - apart from that, how can water molecules as such even exist in such violent neighbourgood as quasar is? I mean, it's as violent there as it gets in the universe, molecules should be split into ions as a result of the high energy radiation, or not?

[@r2out]

Great questions👍 Too bad there were nobody coming by to answer them. Maybe in the next 7 more years there will be one knowledgeable enough to enlighten us on these most interesting subjects.

[@juanmarco2000s]

Did he say 8.8 billion stars? I wonder where he got that number. Definitely a configurative theory. I am a Space Scientist and many Astronomers, Astrophysicist, and Planetologist such as myself calculate different hypothetical guesses of the Stars and the planets all the time. This is based off our equipment, computer simulations and mathematical modeling. But to be honest no person on earth actually knows how many stars are in the Milky way galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy,Triangulum Galaxy or other Galaxies in this Universe near us. I and my research colleagues say "A new Star is Born everyday,just like a baby!" So we can only speculate theorectical assumptions with the use of Science at this point. Unless an Alien comes forward with a calculating device that gives us an accurate and factual head count of stars,planets,and moons. Nevertheless this was a great informative and visual Doc!

[@Tubeytime]

Can anyone tell me what the song is at 11:50 and where I might be able to purchase it?

[@naseerchattippara3548]

your voice beautiful bro

[@isidrocristobaldelolmo905]

muy interesante : 7-3-2016

[@DFPercush]

KZbin sucks lately, pausing the video for a few seconds crashes the whole thing. That's not your fault though. Just venting. *rage*

[@DFPercush]

***** You've made a diagnosis without any information. The flash app is getting confused and keeps dumping the cache and switching resolutions, but it's switching so fast that it never has time to load anything, so it gives you the little load animation for a while then says "an error occurred." Like, I'll see the bar load a few pixels, then it will discard that and try to load another resolution. By that point it's too late to manually choose a resolution, not gonna work. My internet service is fine, plus I just upgraded the speed. Google is not immune to errors ya know. But usually a refresh works so meh whatever.

[@DFPercush]

***** Well if I watch the video without pausing it's usually fine. But when it tries to resume playback it just borks out like that.

[@stevebottrell9154]

I have that problem as well. I'm on a crappy wifi network that doesn't even come close to maintaining regular bandwidth speeds. I just click the gear and select the resolution I want, then it stays with that resolution until its over. Its annoying that I have to do that with every video... but its a solution for now.

[@WWZenaDo]

KZbin has rotating malfunctions. I'm on KZbin nearly every day, & most of the time at least one KZbin feature isn't working properly. However, when I watched this video on Saturday 9/20, I didn't have a problem with pausing it, not even when watching it full-screen - which is the ONLY way to watch SpaceRip videos, imo.

[@iOnline72]

I don't have any problems playing KZbin videos at 1080p at all on my HTC One phone. I can pause, skip etc.

[@MaxArceus]

Aww, not yet rendered in HD by KZbin? Welp, I'll be back in a bit then I guess.

[@BonJoviworstbandever]

1080p is available!

[@MaxArceus]

I noticed yeah, thanks for warning me though.

[@CONSPIR4CY]

Destiny! But where is the gardians?

[@MetalacBezRuzine]

to discover what is beyond our view,make contact with another life form,explore the farthest reaches of the cosmos..it is our destiny

[@TheOv3rlordK1ng]

Can i ask as to why a blackhole would appear 2 dimensional and ejections are always polars apart like north and south? What determins the poles of something so 3 dimensionally strong?

[@EricHamm]

Because blackholes have never been seen and thus are mathematical constructs from Hawking's findings. If they were 100% real we just don't have the knowledge to find them quite yet. They are just mathematical solutions to a un-answerable question at this point.

[@leebrandson3620]

The anthropic principle leads some to claim that it is utterly incredible that the universe has given us exactly what we need. Evolution counters that it is quite unremarkable-predictable, in fact-that we need exactly what we were given. I wonder where William of Ockham would weigh in on this matter?

[@violetaciorita3625]

before I looked to the end I will say Chance

[@nanram588]

How much heat is need it to make fusion to cause radiation?

[@KeithsTVHD1]

Life is chance

[@sgachomo]

Very good......for sleeping

[@georgesimon2730]

soup for the ears, mate! and, for the mind.

[@katsuura8179]

2 minutes into this video and i already know that there will be someone in the comments going on about religion and someone else arguing against it.

[@gene546]

6:57, a super-nova exploded 800 years ago, however; there are no traces of heavy elements according to the theory, that these elements are created after that gigantic explosion. Elements like gold, silver, led, etc...

[@LoudyMoudy]

cool

[@unhappyben]

Woaaah

[@AbsurdJosh]

Chance.

[@ICT_Midnight]

Josh g Wrong, the probability of life to exist in the universe is less than 1 in 10^40,000. To put that number into perspective there have only been about 10^140 events since the big bang, there aren’t enough events to produce the outcome therefore your assertion fails.

[@baruchben-david4196]

@@ICT_Midnight You are mistaken. The probability of life existing in the Universe is exactly 1.0.

[@David-ti3yw]

I like his voice :)

[@InturnetHaetMachine]

Life is density.

[@ketfoen]

I think life and in our case intelligent life is an extreme chance game, which it's ultimate destiny is to seed the heavens with earth life.

[@LEOZITA]

Me too... Makes me sleep...

[@Starbula]

dick rodstien amazing narator

[@ousmanjobe209]

If all human voices are like this guy voice, then there will hope for the future

[@cietai9843]

Water isn't "one of life's most important components". It's on one the most important components of life as we know it. Life could be flourishing elsewhere in the universe without water.

[@kurtbjorn]

Sorry. Physics and chemistry are universal. Consider, LIFE requires stored/encoded INFORMATION to succeed and reproduce. DNA. Among ALL the elements, ONLY carbon can chemically encode information; silicon is a vast, distant second. And to allow carbon to encode gigabytes of information in molecules requires liquid water. I'm sorry, chemistry and physics disallows lava life and solar ghosts and nonsense like that.

[@amp4s18]

Is that zomota Ad voice is by Tamanna Bhatia?

[@northerniltree]

Gary Larson of The Far Side could animate this quite well. We would find that God's wife has sequin glasses, which help her point out all the household chores that go undone with all that creating going on.

[@rosolinolosciuto3865]

Ogni lasciata e' perduta, se c'e' una sola probabilita' non perderla