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@JustCamilo3 жыл бұрын
Found a Kurgesagt comment with 1 like :O
@CatLover3000_3 жыл бұрын
a
@navinater3 жыл бұрын
Wow this is a new comment
@dhananjayvasudeva76283 жыл бұрын
It took you an year to write this
@hanulu13 жыл бұрын
hi
@vlogbrothers4 жыл бұрын
Thanks to everyone at kurzgesagt for the extraordinarily moving animations and sound design. And I so appreciate the kind words about our work. I personally learn so much from kurzgesagt, as do my kids--not just about neutron stars and ants, but about how to approach the universe with curiosity and intellectual rigor. EDIT: Some people below have asked what this video is about. Fair question! It is mostly about the Lascaux Cave Paintings, of course, but I wrote it because I wanted to explore why we study history, and what we do and do not learn from looking at the distant past. Every record of the past is incomplete, and our personal experiences inevitably shape our understanding of what happened before us, and I think the history of Lascaux shows a lot of the nuances and complexities that accompany the study of history. I wanted the essay to be about how much we don't know and will never know when it comes to history, but why it is still productive and important to consider what we have of a historical record. p.s. A new episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out this Thursday, and a backlog of 25ish episodes is available for free wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks. -John
@erkindanger4 жыл бұрын
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@silasg98694 жыл бұрын
I suggested years ago to make this hand symbol a symbol for humans from earth. Like a flag or something. But would it picture the right hand or left hand or perhaps both? Liked your contribution to this story
@mayattv49864 жыл бұрын
Sir John Green. From Philippines here. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY. I'm an IT I learned computing through crash course! And when I wad in highschool I learned biology and chemistry through your channels. I still have them downloaded on my pc. Sir, you are the best teacher. You are fun and not boring! 😍
@aedanhenry4 жыл бұрын
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@henrykramer3654 жыл бұрын
This was a very moving story. I did a double take when you mentioned Jung - have you checked out his Red Book? It's his own personal fantasies and illustrations, all in a beautiful illuminated script and a gigantic folio manuscript. I know you're not a Jungian, but it's one of the strangest works of the last century and just worth looking at as art for sure! The hook- it was written in 1915 but only released from a vault in Zurich in 2009!
@luniquekero72714 жыл бұрын
"we hoped you liked it" -*teary eyes*.... a little..!
@david_rocky_road4 жыл бұрын
Lunique Kero omg sameeee 😉😭
@lyreparadox4 жыл бұрын
I'm not crying, You're crying! 😥
@mavie37164 жыл бұрын
meeeee huhu
@Sandipan_Naskar4 жыл бұрын
This video was emotional 😞
@aphexbubblebath4 жыл бұрын
im just cutting onions
@ceciliatran45224 жыл бұрын
John: why are there only paintings of animals ? ? Cavemen: well painting faces IS PRETTY FRICKIN HARD, JOHN
@mct86594 жыл бұрын
Died reading this
@thegreenwolf88384 жыл бұрын
@@smug1798 They probably just used actually sticks
@AC-zf3wo4 жыл бұрын
I agree
@fluffybluefastboi1034 жыл бұрын
Unga bunga
@MsDestroyer9003 жыл бұрын
Animals were the original anime OC's
@ananyabhalla25203 жыл бұрын
"This a handprint, but not a hand. This is a memory you can't return to." This made me cry somehow.
@deaconnatsia13003 жыл бұрын
dude same
@robuxyyyyyyyyyy47083 жыл бұрын
It hits hard
@ananyabhalla25203 жыл бұрын
@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 Exactly
@attacusatlas3 жыл бұрын
You're not alone
@zolacnomiko3 жыл бұрын
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@profdc95014 жыл бұрын
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” - Heraclitus
@KitKitsuneVixen4 жыл бұрын
Wise words, and true words
@sakatagintoki58954 жыл бұрын
I'm confused at not the same man part. Pls explain ty
@datnguyenquoc994 жыл бұрын
@@sakatagintoki5895 it meant that you cannot experience the same moment twice
@profdc95014 жыл бұрын
@@sakatagintoki5895 Through life, we change. Not just physically in that we age, but the person you are now knows and understands differently than the person you were. Think of places you have been at different times in your life, and how you perceived them differently because of your experiences. Words and pictures can be recorded, but thoughts and perceptions are fleeting, and change as we change.
@nuklearboysymbiote4 жыл бұрын
@@sakatagintoki5895 every experience changes you a little. you are not the same person before and after reading this comment.
@craphappens554 жыл бұрын
I've never seen a shorter 8 minutes video, this was so well narrated.
@الشاقبملک4 жыл бұрын
He is from Mars
@MarcosAmparo4 жыл бұрын
Imagine if he had Morgan Freeman in one of his videos?
@LukasVos4 жыл бұрын
Wait, what? That were 8 minutes?!... o.O I sat down, listened and it was fnished...
@MrUtuber294 жыл бұрын
I'm a big fan of John green's anthropocene reviewed for a long time. Check out his podcast, it's amazing.
@Vyom1084 жыл бұрын
الشاقب ملک ??
@knurled14 жыл бұрын
It seems to me that humanity has always had a drive to record their own existence by whatever way we know. We want to be remembered by those who come after.
@WhompingWalrus4 жыл бұрын
Maybe it was just evolutionarily advantageous to want to pass on your knowledge to your offspring. Our ability to create/use tools and communicate about the things around us is a lot more useful that way.
@jk_ordeanneil37834 жыл бұрын
This is the closest we can get to being immortal-being remembered by others.
@RobbieStacks904 жыл бұрын
You'll all be forgotten, especially Gen Z. None of you have done anything original. I do wish we could go back to the 40s when women understood the alpha male patriarchy and technology had not yet advanced to the point that they could go on social media apps and dating sites and handpick girly beta males. Feminism is why the human population will decrease substantially, especially in America, in the coming decades. Women need to succumb to real men and apologize for their narcissistic and promiscuous behavior.
@sachiel1974 жыл бұрын
@@RobbieStacks90 I can't even begin to describe how idiotic that statement was so first of all: ok boomer, cause you earned it no one from gen z will be remembered? so what? I wouldn't mind being forgotten I'd rather just live life while I have it, I don't gain anything from being remembered when I'm already dead we haven't even lived one third of our lives, yet you expect us to have done something memorable already newsflash buddy, you won't be remembered either, especially not for comments like that
@Akshit.vats.4 жыл бұрын
Look whos talking
@erictaylor54623 жыл бұрын
Imagine those kids thinking, "We need to protect this" as the entire rest of their world was being torn to pieces. Pretty amazing.
@incendior3 жыл бұрын
The very story of teenagers being so moved by what they saw that they did such a non-teenager thing: spending a year lovingly protecting cultural art - moved me strongly as well
@borskavin63953 жыл бұрын
@@incendior I think it's pretty much a teenager thing, as teenagers are also humans. Plus, I know several teenagers who camped in forests and moors to protect them from destruction. I am also deeply moved by their action and the whole video
@markhenley30973 жыл бұрын
It would've probably been amazing to be those teenagers, experiencing it for the first time, or second time, I guess.
@erictaylor54623 жыл бұрын
@@markhenley3097 Well, it inspired them tp protected it, even as their world was being torn to pieces.
@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat3 жыл бұрын
It sounds like it'd make an absolutely incredible movie. Like The Goonies but with Nazis.
@puiu1020064 жыл бұрын
Wow at the end when John stopped talking i just remembered this was a Kurzgesagt video. He did a super good job
@BloodyClash4 жыл бұрын
Yes. And it anyhow fitted really good into the kurzgesagt environment
@danielbrawner36774 жыл бұрын
Same!
@pentagramprime15854 жыл бұрын
But... He never brought up skoodalibooping.
@gridcoregilry6664 жыл бұрын
YES that was so amazing
@top10alltime474 жыл бұрын
20k years later : scientists are confused why there is 2 caves with almost the same cave art
@michellegodwin65674 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, because so many people have visited the two caves, some damage has occurred to them. Therefore, we must build two identical caves so that people can still experience them.
@samueljanke48354 жыл бұрын
1.5m years later: An aboveground complex of identical human "art" is crudely copied across an expanse of usable land. The glixaxan alliance razes the earth and turns it into an interstellar parking lot.
@soupgirl18644 жыл бұрын
@@michellegodwin6567 He knows. He's saying that archaeologists from the future would be confused by it.
@johncaiwa4 жыл бұрын
Nice
@6Mephisto6664 жыл бұрын
@@soupgirl1864 He knows. He's saying that they must build two identical caves so that people can still experience them.
@LoneTiger4 жыл бұрын
_“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”_ ― H.G. Wells & Jeremy Irons. EDIT: I put Jeremy Irons because of the way he quoted that line on the movie. Don't be so serious. 😁
@mrcrisme4 жыл бұрын
They said it at unison or something?
@TheRealMirCat4 жыл бұрын
@@mrcrisme A quote from the movie perhaps
@echoesman34394 жыл бұрын
@@TheRealMirCat Or maybe a book they wrote together? I don't really know if either of them ever co-authored a book, but it's possible.
@AhsanY2K4 жыл бұрын
thats a beautiful quote
@Bell_Matt4 жыл бұрын
Take out Jeremy Iron’s name. Your crediting him for a quote an author wrote.
@leonoliveira86523 жыл бұрын
"ALMOST AS IF ART ISN'T OPTIONAL FOR HUMANS." This is good, and should be spread far and wide.
@wilhelmbittrich883 жыл бұрын
I also really liked this line
@xanderprangler86213 жыл бұрын
I like to believe it isn't optional. I think art is an intrinsical part of out human nature that would is present in every culture, past, present and future.
@ninangcasual3 жыл бұрын
this touched me very deeply in the midst of the struggle to survive, humans will still make art
@zaxscat53573 жыл бұрын
I personally have a drive that is allways tugging on me, to make something anything to just create. So I do believe that there is a drive for art in all forms.
@veryanonymous36303 жыл бұрын
What does this say about religion?
@Gameslinx4 жыл бұрын
"If you've ever been a child" As someone born at the age of 24, I can't relate to this
@imveryangryitsnotbutter4 жыл бұрын
At age 6, I was born without a face.
@anewspinonthings4 жыл бұрын
I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter nice reference mate! ONE OF US
@josh345784 жыл бұрын
Your poor mother!
@SymmetricalDocking4 жыл бұрын
Most people are still a child at 30, much less at 24
@Karolomen4 жыл бұрын
Some say that the first 40 years of childhood are the worst.
@namp20184 жыл бұрын
The narrator was so good. The ending nearly made me cry when I think about how there are people that can never return and are now only a part of one's memory. The handprints were like mementos of the people in the past. Forgotten in memory but never in spirit.
@clem7194 жыл бұрын
I would recommend you check out his (John Green’s) podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, as they mentioned at the end of the video
@jean-lucpellerin21004 жыл бұрын
the 'whole thing' nearly made me cry :'(
@rc-pf1wq4 жыл бұрын
yeah hes the dude from crash course, i didnt even know he was the guy we were watching in school while i slept in class, i regret that now
@o.fm.a55734 жыл бұрын
I shed some tears xD Ive gotten worse holding those in for these things
@herman75504 жыл бұрын
Wow this is interesting. The video seems like a personal essay, I will definitely use inspiration from this to write my last English essay for my final grade. Wish me luck!
@mikaelnilsson78224 жыл бұрын
"If you ever been a child" Me: Wow he is talking directly to me
@snuffsaid17034 жыл бұрын
@O 99 The last thing we was is a child
@flyingdoggo98874 жыл бұрын
*former child*
@sim74774 жыл бұрын
Dude thought the same thing
@khazza9304 жыл бұрын
nope.. coincidence!
@mochievious15523 жыл бұрын
When I started watching this video, I didn't realise how emotional it would make me... "This is a handprint, but not a hand. This is a memory you can't return to." Isn't that going to be us one day? A beautiful, unattainable memory.
@pythonxz3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the whole of humanity will be just a memory imprinted on the earth. Even that will be gone eventually, and then it will be as if we didn't exist at all.
@junglink24372 жыл бұрын
I also got more emotional than I expected to while watching this, glad I'm not alone.
@mozambique91132 жыл бұрын
reject modernity, embrace tradition
@willtheprodigy38192 жыл бұрын
@@mozambique9113Conservative?
@Clynikal7 ай бұрын
John Green will do this to do, he shines a light on the beauty in everything. Listen to the Anthropocene Reviewed.
@sranice4 жыл бұрын
I rewatch this every now and then. It always makes me emotional. It humanises history, the billions of people who have lived and died between the people who made those paintings and it brings a new meaning to art. Maybe art is just a human instinct.
@sarveshdhiman99183 жыл бұрын
Well you should totally listen to the podcast
@Redstone_Cake3 жыл бұрын
@@sarveshdhiman9918 why r u saying this on every comment?
@jonathanbr7_3 жыл бұрын
@@Redstone_Cake it's a good podcast
@ovencake5233 жыл бұрын
if you want more humanizing history John Green's book is full of it
@Maribro44 жыл бұрын
Imagine just checking out a cave with your friends and finding untouched history from thousands of years ago. That must’ve been such an incredible and larger than life feeling
@amandas26393 жыл бұрын
And now imagine it's 1940 and there's every possibility it could get bombed into oblivion during the war. That's enough to give anyone anxiety.
@suhandatanker3 жыл бұрын
@@amandas2639 my friend's granduncle served in the battle of the Atlantic, imagine just sailing in the royal navy looking out for fellow cargo ships then suddenly you could blow up by a random German battleship anytime, pretty scary man
@osianshirley71753 жыл бұрын
the choice would be daunting too, interact with it and be the first person in thousands of years to touch that handprint and in a way continue that realisation that they were not so different, or let it be and not spoil its massive streak of being untouched
@letsb3nameless6653 жыл бұрын
@@osianshirley7175 true, if i were them i wouldnt have told anyone
@osianshirley71753 жыл бұрын
@@letsb3nameless665 probably the best choice, but then id also worry about it being lost again so id probably tell some close friends so they could see it once and then get in touch with some museum or something so they could go about preserving it properly
@6Volken94 жыл бұрын
Crazy how art is prolific across all human history. Like a timeless language that speaks to everyone, no matter when or where we're from.
@fadel_rama4 жыл бұрын
Well that explains anime
@catpoke95574 жыл бұрын
And look at me now, using it to intentionally draw horribly even though I can do better, and write "u gay" next to it.
@christophermorin90364 жыл бұрын
Yeah and some of the earliest art was apparently Air Brushing lol
@linuxares4 жыл бұрын
Feels like during all of humanity. Math and art seem always be around.
@ike45844 жыл бұрын
"Whatever is human isn't alien to me."
@carsenmann53313 жыл бұрын
This made me feel similar to the “throwing a rock into a lake may seem simple but you could be the last person to touch that rock till the end of time” thing
@dheeraj12 Жыл бұрын
ohhh... wow!!! Never thought of it this way.
@Gloocifer4 жыл бұрын
“Art is not optional for humans.” What a profoundly underrated line.
@Zeithri4 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@Zaire824 жыл бұрын
Not something I'd thought about before, but we really can't avoid it. We enjoy it.
@SujanraAcoma4 жыл бұрын
That John Green, maybe he should write a book.
@lucastardjopawiro36984 жыл бұрын
Made me think
@MutantSatan4 жыл бұрын
Good thing I'm not human
@hyagonery4 жыл бұрын
“Just the act of looking at something can ruin it, I guess.” Schrödinger: ay this man spittin’!
@volffun79294 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@BenTajer894 жыл бұрын
It was Descartes who said "we murder to dissect".
@charonder4 жыл бұрын
@Typed Scroll haha wavefunction go brrrr
@jumpander4 жыл бұрын
The cat is aliven't.
@vassalofthenight99454 жыл бұрын
Quantum physicists: you're goddamn right.
@lewismassie4 жыл бұрын
I remember some years ago walking round a local castle with my dad. He pointed at the stones and said "A man put those there. I wonder what his name was" and I've never been able to look at the past the same way again
@qus.96174 жыл бұрын
I think the same thing about stone-henge. In Japan, I remember a castle had the names of a carpenter etched in on beams. Don't know whether it was considered acceptable or not lol.
@TheLifeOfTexan4 жыл бұрын
@@qus.9617 european stone masons actually had personal marks they would put on stone blocks as well
@sanko1114 жыл бұрын
@@qus.9617 Not sure about the "acceptable" part, but Japan has a rich history of woodworking, they figured out pretty elaborate ways to fasten pieces of wood together using geometry and some carpenters likely had their own secret methods, so having unique signatures kind of like a trademark is probably not far off either.
@pixeltrance4 жыл бұрын
I live in a house built in 1432 and I wish these walls could talk. The people and events this house has been through...
@janhavitripathi82494 жыл бұрын
@@pixeltrance 1432...for real!
@purplehaze23583 жыл бұрын
This honestly gave me a sort of...existential melancholic longing.
@FaerieHijacker3 жыл бұрын
Dr. Bright experiencing existential crisis? Damn, 2021 is something.
@purplehaze23583 жыл бұрын
@@solomonreal1977 Lmfao. Dr Bright is a popular SCP character but alright lol
@joelcorreia91833 жыл бұрын
@@solomonreal1977 imagine trying to sound profound just to insult 🤣👌👌👌
@solomonreal19773 жыл бұрын
@@joelcorreia9183 thanks for calling me out man, it's been a weird year for everyone but I've been being stupid. I took it down. I'm sure there's lots of dumb stuff like this out there. Bleh Again, thanks. And sorry. Sorry everyone. Sorry Dr. Bright
@AtomicMonkeybutt3 жыл бұрын
@@solomonreal1977 Good for you man. For real.
@vinniecairns82274 жыл бұрын
It's weird because John Green was speaking but the acoustics in my house made it sound like I was crying.
@haomakk4 жыл бұрын
Maybe he was cutting onions right haha
@martinalejandro76004 жыл бұрын
@@haomakk Squidward left his onions there.
@DylanMourik4 жыл бұрын
those damn acoustics
@thibaut24 жыл бұрын
Those were not the acoustics tho
@quintoselricho4 жыл бұрын
@@thibaut2 no? what were they then?
@benjaminharris94254 жыл бұрын
This channel is just like a teacher who genuinely enjoys his job and so do his students
@Yes-dc2gm4 жыл бұрын
"What about the droid attack on wookies?"
@nersii46894 жыл бұрын
Yes :)
@idcgaming5184 жыл бұрын
@@Yes-dc2gm what about the clone attack on the jedi?
@hhfbko4 жыл бұрын
Copied
@beytullahberk36324 жыл бұрын
wait a teacher like that exists?
@waterunderthebridge79504 жыл бұрын
“...today we’re gonna do something different...” Me: So no existential crisis and depressive nihilism today...? They almost had us in the first half
@ThePenitentOneArg4 жыл бұрын
...not gonna lie
@aneutralopinion17124 жыл бұрын
This is this entire channel summed up in one comments
@TacoJK4 жыл бұрын
I mean.. it's kinda nice?
@snorgonofborkkad4 жыл бұрын
Don’t: Comment Like: This It’s: Obnoxious
@dieselgeezer184 жыл бұрын
existensial crisis is for dumbasses
@elliecarlson27882 жыл бұрын
My favorite story about these handprint walls is that because they are negatives, the handprints look a little bigger than the hands were, so for a little too long they claimed children and most women didn’t take part. But there’s a handprint of a child much too high for them to have reached on their own, so they must’ve sat on an adults shoulders to reach. I just will always hold that image close to my heart
@off6617 Жыл бұрын
Just burst into tears reading this
@newbie4789 Жыл бұрын
The idea that some human emotions were always there like care for children and their childish curiosity is heartwarming.
@CircusFoxxo11 ай бұрын
@@newbie4789there is something of a joke from Sumer some 8,000 years ago about how dogs want you to throw the thing but don't want to give you the thing. We've always been humans.
@Alizudo10 ай бұрын
@@CircusFoxxo The oldest piece of written language is a customer complaint of how the copper ingots he purchased aren't of the quality he was promised - carved into a stone tablet.
@CircusFoxxo10 ай бұрын
@@Alizudo there's also Norse runes somewhere I don't remember that read "this is quite high" or something similar. We've always been the same.
@jeremyd26764 жыл бұрын
Kurzgesagt: *apologizes for not having a normal video Also Kurzgesagt: Puts hours into designing music and animations You guys are incredible 👏 💙🥇
@malumy4 жыл бұрын
It's great but the like to dislike ratio is actually relatively low. (only 98.2% likes instead of >99%)
@suvetum67634 жыл бұрын
@@malumy ok? you know some people disagree
@Stargazing24 жыл бұрын
I was expecting a simple animation but they as usual under promised and over delivered
@kacperjankowski55084 жыл бұрын
I usually forget to but this made me like the video just in spite of the people disliking xd
@elixia64414 жыл бұрын
If you want to only hear the Soundtrack search Epic Mountain Music on KZbin, they are the one who made it
@user-kz8zr4si3i4 жыл бұрын
When he said "its almost as if art is not an option for humans but a requirement" i was shook
@ghuttsmckenzie42694 жыл бұрын
Art is everywhere, almost as if it's a genetic behavior we keep.
@sagorikaroy35054 жыл бұрын
I think since we're the only species with consciousness, it's a need in us to document and leave something behind as a legacy. Since ancient humans didn't knew how to write, they chose to paint it instead. It's like an archive of how many people that particular tribe had.
@jmlightning80454 жыл бұрын
@Arya Stark many creatures have consciousness. A good example that most people know of is a dog, dogs are aware of the environment and react to it and are thus conscious of it. If you mean self-awareness then off the top of my head i know Elephants have self-awareness.
@FrostySprite4 жыл бұрын
I certainly stopped and thought at that part. Music is the same way. No one really thinks about it, pretty much every human likes music. We listen to it for entertainment, it appears in movies and advertisements, it's played during celebrations, and it even appears in educational documentaries and in professional environments. Music appears across all societies no matter how developed they are. But why? I'd like to watch a video on that, anyway.
@MrFahrenheit6264 жыл бұрын
@@FrostySprite Humans like patterns so much we're constantly finding them where they don't exist, it only seems natural we'd enjoy patterns in all of our senses.
@ms_ch4 жыл бұрын
"we hope you liked this video" me, shedding some tears: okay yes
@stevevokhe4 жыл бұрын
adorable
@shilohseaborn98004 жыл бұрын
Yeah that ending was really powerful and almost had me in tears
@hudsonhintze4 жыл бұрын
Like I’m emotional as fuck now
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87214 жыл бұрын
Kurzgesagt and John Green are both incredibly talented and impactful educators because they have the remarkably magical ability to make us humans feel emotional about the existence of ourselves and our world.
@Jester44604 жыл бұрын
Ight ima stop watching
@murrayp43 жыл бұрын
Imagine the family in the cave when one of their own dies. They would grieve their loss and with tears in their eyes place their hand on the print of their relative's hand on the wall.
@okenwaayomikun3 жыл бұрын
now that you say it, it could be an explanation.
@sun-hi1113 жыл бұрын
I think I've seen this idea before ... maybe in an animation about a small dinosaur idk
@ArsonPeaPlayz3 жыл бұрын
@@sun-hi111 the good dinosaur?
@DhantExMachina3 жыл бұрын
This hit hard, damn
@marxdc96573 жыл бұрын
It makes total sense. Especially in a figurative way. They didn’t print the hand itself, since that would mean your presence, and their presence on earth is extremely short (even shorter than ours nowadays), so they printed the opposite. The negative print would mean your absence… it would mean how other people feel, it would mean how much people miss you… represents both the feeling of being part of something, completing the whole (and literally the room, the clan, the family), and also the feeling of being the missing part… the hand that had to be there to fill the painting but it isn’t anymore
@FirstNameLastName-qt2hz4 жыл бұрын
"Just the act of looking at something can ruin it, I guess." *Quantum Mechanics has entered the chat*
@benjaminchukwujama52594 жыл бұрын
can you explain please
@GodLeftAllOfUs4 жыл бұрын
For now. Maybe the future will allow measurement without interference.
@nitrox59154 жыл бұрын
@@benjaminchukwujama5259 At the atomic level of zoom you still need light to observe where things are. But the photons of light hitting a small object(like an electron) changes their path. So basically if you try to look at very small things you change the thing itself.
@alitanveer35564 жыл бұрын
@@benjaminchukwujama5259 look up the observer effect
@markhenley30974 жыл бұрын
@@benjaminchukwujama5259 Double split experiment.
@IAmNumber40004 жыл бұрын
Wow. His voice sounds so different when he’s not doing Crash Course videos. John Green is crazy smart and insightful.
@javierfarinella34584 жыл бұрын
It's because Hank Green is the one who appears on Crash Course videos, John Green is his brother and the author of many best-sellers like The Fault in Our Stars
@poseidonfury4 жыл бұрын
@@javierfarinella3458 John used to be on Crash Course as well. He did the World History and U.S. History series. Most people know CC from John's videos.
@SuperSixel4 жыл бұрын
@@javierfarinella3458 John also appears in some Crash Course videos. His voice does sound very different in The Anthropocene Reviewed, I think it has a lot to do with the format. It's more of a narration than most of the other content he's in.
@javierfarinella34584 жыл бұрын
@@SuperSixel didn't know that, thanks for clarifying! It must be that i've mostly watched chemistry and psychology videos
@knz7304 жыл бұрын
Both John and Hank have a slow, relaxing format show now: if you know them from their high energy work like Crash Course and Dear Hank and John, it's worth checking out The Anthropocene Reviewed (John, podcast) and Journey to the Microcosmos (Hank, KZbin) for a very different experience. It's cool to see them both branching out.
@GabrielRamos-pj2ug4 жыл бұрын
Never would have guessed talking about palms could be so emotional
@Silencedlemon4 жыл бұрын
Go listen to his episode on googling people. No spoilers but bring tissues.
@coffeeisthepathtovictory12904 жыл бұрын
I know. I almost want to slap myself, this should not be making water leave my eyes.
@benjaminwells53884 жыл бұрын
Right! I was moved
@arielafrizal4 жыл бұрын
@@Silencedlemon where do you listen to that?
@elderlyoogway4 жыл бұрын
@@arielafrizal wherever you listen to your podcasts! That are many apps for that.
@MorganThaGorgan3 жыл бұрын
Every single time I watch this video it makes me cry. Like even if I try my hardest to not cry, I find my eyes welling with tears. Standing in front of cave paintings or petroglyphs is such a moving experience. And John Green really accurately portrayed why it is so moving. I have tried to explain to people why these things are important or why I feel so emotional, but I never had the words for it. And listening to John is the closest I can get to expressing that overwhelming sense of time. It feels both very distant and yet very intimate. There is another cave in France called Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave. Werner Herzog made a documentary of it called, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." In that documentary, they interviewed scientists who determined that some of the paintings were 20,000 years old but some were as old as 40,000 years old. And that astonished me because the distance *in time* that we are to the people who made the paintings 20,000 years ago is the same distance *in time* that they were to those of 40,000 years ago. This means the people who made those 20,000-year-old paintings were coming upon paintings in the same way we are now. We often lump time together, thinking that people from 40,000 and 20,000 years ago were relatively close...but they weren't. There were just as many thousands of generations between 40-20 thousand years as there are from 20 thousand to now. Which means they must have looked at those paintings with a similar kind of wonderment. They must have also wondered who the painters were and what they were trying to say. To assume the people of 40,000 years ago were the same as the people as 20,000 years ago would be a mistake. Yes, they may have lived similarly, but I doubt the culture stayed the same in those thousands of years. There is a marked difference between different generations of people today...so many of those ancient people must have been just as perplexed by some of the paintings as we are now. I love these types of videos and I think the graphics complimented John Green's words perfectly.
@morosis823 жыл бұрын
One caveat: those of 20k years ago wouldn't have known how old the others were, though it's possible they had the sense of not recent.
@shiverarts82843 жыл бұрын
I could tell you what they was thinking I know oral stories that have great in knowing how these people thought.
@gnatdagnat Жыл бұрын
@@shiverarts8284 do share?
@gnatdagnat Жыл бұрын
@@morosis82 Yes, I was going to say similar. But they would be separated culturally by changes in climate/flora/fauna at least, and be a different lineage of people, or if not, maybe they had some oral tradition that informed their interpretation of artwork that old. Plus, they definitely knew what they were looking at better than civilized people 40,000 years in the future lol. I'd like to think they felt inspired or connected though.
@patfrog1213 Жыл бұрын
This comment made ME cry (not that the video didn't but yknow)
@AnimalKING4 жыл бұрын
Every Kurzgesagt video: -Facts -Scares you -Then calms you down -Add birds
@hansellancephilippe40754 жыл бұрын
Literally tho.
@tiagoduarte60054 жыл бұрын
True
@jamesvb4204 жыл бұрын
👏👏........ dude come on this is on EVERY video 👏👏
@rainbowthedragoncat67684 жыл бұрын
Either that or: -Nukes -More nukes -Even more nukes -Add marinias trench -Add alien beans
@Smrtelnikk4 жыл бұрын
true but the ways it present things biology history facts "future" is just ... well interesting... i watched with cousin (11y) few videos including this while i tried my best to translate and he actually found it interesting i wish that there would be a lot more videos like Kurzgesagt and with more professional translations even for young/er people ... i may have set my future as simple manufacturing man and find this videos interesting but younger generations will be affected a lot more and maybe ... who knows one day i will see earth from above for cheap cash :D
@rishabhdave57734 жыл бұрын
John Green: fills people with existential dread with stories about the emotional pain of loss and emptiness Kurzgesagt: talks about the end of existence and all-powerful celestial mysteries but with cute birds and a bouncy tone Combined: fills us with existential dread while making faceless people with missing fingers look pretty and colorful
@gregoryyang89884 жыл бұрын
😂
@tomwalker3894 жыл бұрын
STFU.
@vellstraus15554 жыл бұрын
@@tomwalker389 No U
@turbocharged2134 жыл бұрын
No y r y'all always complaining about 'existencial dread' like bruh he's just talking bout some cave paintings my guy
@killmeister22714 жыл бұрын
bruh a video can literally be like "you are eternal" and niggas will still be filled with existential dread smh
@MitchisaTurtle4 жыл бұрын
“This is a handprint, but not a hand” Ok damn
@unnamedperson86194 жыл бұрын
Thats like stuff on a vsauce level
@isabelleteodoro4414 жыл бұрын
Look for The Treachery of Images by René Magritte
@matthewmacfarland04 жыл бұрын
@@unnamedperson8619 i wouldnt call it that level higher than a Vsause level a Kurzgesagt level
@mbcommandnerd4 жыл бұрын
That reminds me of The Fault in Our Stars, actually. That book is full of what are known as “metaphorical representations” of everyday things. That handprint is not a hand, sure, but it _is_ a metaphorical representation of it. Unless you understand that, the phrasing John used at the end there does seem a bit strange. Hope this helps.
@Mercure2504 жыл бұрын
Ceci n'est pas une main.
@miriga39273 жыл бұрын
“Almost as if art is not optional for humans” “Food feeds the body, *_art_** feeds the soul* ”
@sugardreamshk92824 жыл бұрын
This feels like when your teacher lets the class watch a movie not related to the unit. I love it.
@PritchDringle4 жыл бұрын
We're allowed to drink Coca-Cola in history class.
@connorh22154 жыл бұрын
Mari Mcm so these are things that people thousands of years ago created and sometimes they are the only record of what these ancient people accomplished, we close them off to protect there legacy, it’s a part of history, and in the case of this cave, people actually did agree to this, also beaches are being closed because it’s a health risk to go to them, do you want to catch a potentially lethal virus there, the government doesn’t seem to want that for you
@russellmmo_84544 жыл бұрын
@Mari Mcm i I think i lost braincells reading this... What..????
@gericko49314 жыл бұрын
@Mari Mcm I agree with you, the earth is not even real, its an ilusion, there is no moon, no stars, everything is a lie, the real question is ¿Would you like the blue pill or the red pill? (?
@DoDaDaDaDaCaDa4 жыл бұрын
@Mari Mcm You had me but lost me as soon as you turned religious in your statement.
@JeghedderThomas4 жыл бұрын
It touches my heart in surprising ways, to understand that humans lived, loved, suffered, slept, ate and died so long ago, and that we can touch something of theirs. It connects us, yet fills me with sorrow of knowing I can't meet them, that their lives were difficult and short - I want to hug and hold them. But of course I can't. Thanks for an always interesting channel with always exciting, educational and artfully crafted shorts on science, art and the humanities.
@madridista68624 жыл бұрын
Maybe someone will read our comments on this video in 200, 300 or maybe even 1000 years eh? In a way, we're all connected.
@hellz234564 жыл бұрын
everyday i feel grateful to God for my body to let me moves, smiles, see, chatting, laughing. cause i know there's alot of people can't do what i do right now ie: can't handle something cause have disabilities, i know how it feels can't even moves my body parts been there in sometime i can't moves my right body in one day next day i got seizure at sleep, yeah i got problem with epilepsy and some brain related. but i am feels healthy i am even got my dream job as game artist. i feel so grateful really i love my life even though it's hard i lose my mom at 12 yo.
@mv89084 жыл бұрын
Look around you. We are here and Wil be gone very soon. Friends, lovers, family, strangers and more than ever animals. 😊 Acknowledge their soul and you'll be paying a tribute to creation.
@Mipetz384 жыл бұрын
Considering their low IQ they were most likely biological robots unable to create complex thoughts
@Jonathanatus4 жыл бұрын
@@Mipetz38 Why do you think they had a low IQ?
@williamconroy1764 жыл бұрын
"We hope you like the video" I cried.
@monikavyshnavi86554 жыл бұрын
I was about to cry too!
@MissSeaShell3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering why I cried but it seems I'm not alone in that
@electronicuser_a34703 жыл бұрын
I almost cry xd
@RohitVerma-vg1mc3 жыл бұрын
I am tearing up little too
@zacerax60003 жыл бұрын
"Art. Isn't. Optional."
@bradleytaniguchi11873 жыл бұрын
The end message of this video "You will know, this is not the thing itself, but a shadow of it. This is a hand-print, but not a hand. This is a memory you cannot return to." Is one of the most poetic things I've ever read.
@ChenAnPin4 жыл бұрын
4:49 "Yet somehow they still made time to create art, almost as if art isn't optional for humans." That's quite a thing to consider, that despite all their daily struggles of finding, hunting, and gathering enough food to survive winters, wild animals and frostbite and disease and injury, the dangers of childbirth and childhood, they still took the time to make art. This somehow moved me so much that my eyes had welled up. Thank you, and thanks for a new podcast I can listen to!
@briangallentine38104 жыл бұрын
Thank you Thomas. Me too. And then I had to search out your comment in hopes I was not alone.
@JP-sm4cs4 жыл бұрын
Art is the highest form of hope - Gerard Richter
@FormerPessitheRobberfan4 жыл бұрын
The quote and the last two sentences were all you needed to write.
@olgaustuzhanina63954 жыл бұрын
Hunter gatherers had more free time than working people have today. They had more time and energy for art than an average person has now.
@krankarvolund77714 жыл бұрын
Well, yeah... but hunter-gatherer societies may not be as dangerous as you think of it ^^ First, they were probably in a better health than the first agriculturals, maybe not as good as us with modern medicine, but still. According to studies, the life expectancy was higher during Paleolithic than during the Iron and Bronze age, and the average human was as tall as us today (size is an indication of nutrition). And we also think that they passed as much time hunting and gathering than agriculturals passed time to culture plants ^^ In addition, not every human had to hunt or gather, most of them did, but they probably already had specialists, for example the silex sculpter was probably a professionnal, because the late techniques of stone-making were very advanced. The artists could also be professionnals, or some kind of priests or shamans.
@saikoujikan4 жыл бұрын
Imagine if the handprints were just a convenient way for the artist to test they had the consistency of the pigment correct enough to paint with, and we’re all marvelling over test sprays.
@maggiewang28884 жыл бұрын
In that case, it is extremely interesting why such a test is done over a hand (instead of a rock, a leaf, or just spray straight on the wall) in so many different isolated regions.
@mustang82064 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@tworice4 жыл бұрын
@@maggiewang2888 its convenient! i think its so normal to just stick your hand out and use it. instead of finding a leaf and holding it over the wall, it's so much easier (and arguably more fun) to just use your hand.
@Ahmed-jr1rc4 жыл бұрын
@@tworice yeah, probably their hands got covered with painting either way all time
@e7venjedi4 жыл бұрын
Is this the most compelling argument for why author intent doesn't necessarily affect the meaning of art? Perhaps...
@erichan41744 жыл бұрын
you know, my father just passed away this morning and I get this in my recommended. I got so many things I want to go in the past to ask him
@Zisujitsu4 жыл бұрын
Condolences buddy
@jobertjohngalang754 жыл бұрын
My condolences bro
@glutoxim4 жыл бұрын
Very sorry to hear
@yodamaster7574 жыл бұрын
- Your family has my prayers and heart 🙏🏽❤️
@archiepalmer-phelps66124 жыл бұрын
I'm sad to hear that bro
@fry.master2 жыл бұрын
The fact that kid in 1940 had a dog named Robot was definitely a note worth keeping in... for some reason I never thought an 18 year old in 1940 would be familiar with the concept of an autonomous robot
@TheFlauschig Жыл бұрын
Science fiction already existed as a genre in the 19th century.
@infotraffic Жыл бұрын
"the modern term robot derives from the Czech word robota (“forced labour” or “serf”), used in Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920)." in Britannica.
@doubletapthatdotty4597 Жыл бұрын
@@infotrafficwow, i thought i was the only one who knew where it came from.
@jurajsintaj66448 ай бұрын
@@infotraffic robota does just mean work. Actually, no nevermind, the meaning might have changed over time.
@rozafisheikh79684 жыл бұрын
Why is it so satisfying to hear the duck going “Quack!” and see it floating in space at the end of every Kurtzgesagt video? 😁
@Fleetstreetbestone4 жыл бұрын
It gives a sense of nostalgia even though we’re in the moment now currently, but I bet looking back at these videos I’m watching now as a 14 year old will bring even more nostalgia 🙃
@ubikledek4 жыл бұрын
wow. i never realize the duck quack at the end of every video
@shayden42964 жыл бұрын
Oh, glad I'm not the only one lol
@SnazzyBeatle4 жыл бұрын
Tiyān Quāis Tsariťsyan Buragohain simp
@clinrden93784 жыл бұрын
the chirp is what gets me
@WhoIsTechFour4 жыл бұрын
“All history is current” I just can’t get over that statement.
@jimmybean4204 жыл бұрын
i dont get it
@pratiklomte4 жыл бұрын
@@jimmybean420 same me too
@specificocean26384 жыл бұрын
I think it means that current time is simultaneously becoming history and new current time is created at the same time and dominates and shapes reality as we know it
@BrendanSmallButera4 жыл бұрын
@@jimmybean420 The length of our planet's existence is but a single tick of the universal clock. Every event that has ever happened and every being that has every lived has done so in such an incredibly relatively short amount of time, it is all current.
@BrendanSmallButera4 жыл бұрын
@@pratiklomte I don't get everything displayed on this channel, but This, I understood. ^_^
@masnun_abrar4 жыл бұрын
7:30 "This is a memory you cannot return to." My dad died last week, and this video made me think of his legacy in a new way- it made me cry.
@cheshirecat78194 жыл бұрын
I'm very sorry for your loss. I'm sure he's an amazing man. May he rest in peace in Heaven.
@johnny21434 жыл бұрын
**Instantly pushes the golden buzzer**
@vsse144 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Your dad miss you and hope you live well.
@TheE_G_G4 жыл бұрын
My dog passed away on February. I miss her with all my heart.
@TheE_G_G4 жыл бұрын
I feel your pain. No amount of torture can amount to something as bad as loosing someone you love.
@piecesofandrew54833 жыл бұрын
When people ask me why I want to be an anthropologist, I think about cave paintings. I think about how art is present in almost every human society to ever live. I think about how, in Pompeii, there's graffiti on the walls that say "I was here." I think about how we seem to have always told stories to each other. I think about how there are many stories to tell, and sometimes the people of the past need a little help to be heard.
@Alizudo10 ай бұрын
... How do I pursue a career like this?
@Xajinthepsychonaut4 жыл бұрын
This took something outta me man, we’re living through time, making history, dying, hoping we at least won’t be forgotten but when our generation dies and our children’s children’s ens generation what will be left besides pictures and videos, who’ll take interest in them in the future like we did this cave, and what will our descendants do with them?
@sergior.4 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, you won't care by then
@FireEmperor_A4 жыл бұрын
I always wonder as we move forward and generations pass we are being less human. Even now at the dinner table in family meetups or parties, all are on their respective phones, no one talks. I wonder how humans will be in the next few hundred years. Will they have the same etiquettes as we do?
@thatman85624 жыл бұрын
In any and all probably, your actions will set off a chain of events that will cascade into the massive benefit and detriment of your descendants, but then again the same can be said for everything else in existence.
@origamipostit4 жыл бұрын
@@FireEmperor_A Maybe from what you've seen. I personally distance myself from my phone. I use it as a tool and not an extension of my personality. That being said, you won't catch me sitting on my phone during social situations. I find it both rude and annoying. And I usually try to find friends that think the same way.
@TheFunwichHorror4 жыл бұрын
On a more optimistic view (or not, depending on how you feel), we are probably one of the first generations whose lives are meticulously recorded through the internet and social media. Assuming the internet doesn't disappear, or someone had archived it before it does, our descendant could see in vivid detail what we were doing or thinking on any given date, on any point in our lives. I could only imagine the emotions I would feel if I was able to see or read what my parents did and felt when they first met each other, or when they first discovered that they were pregnant with me. Multiply that by a few more generations. Unfortunately, our descendants would also see (and try to understand) all our stupid fucking memes.
@Fizzgig_154 жыл бұрын
"Art isn't optional for humans" That struck something in me. I'm not sure what, but....something
@ThirdDimensionalBeing4 жыл бұрын
In my own take of it, it seems like he was saying that expression is apart of all of us, and that is art, because are is expression. I guess.
@MrZiva824 жыл бұрын
Same here
@NoName-yd9fi4 жыл бұрын
Same, sometimes words cannot describe certain things
@N3ONLUV4 жыл бұрын
Exactly, wow...
@Jan961064 жыл бұрын
It is a spiritual need. We all need to create. It is part of what makes us human.
@j.wicker61704 жыл бұрын
Imagine what archeologists in the future are going to think, finding 2 caves with the exact same artwork in both.
@GPatselis4 жыл бұрын
Well one of them is basically called version 2 so I think they're gonna be able to piece the puzzle
@raetekusu14 жыл бұрын
Assuming records don't survive that long, anyway. We've generally gotten even more meticulous about recording ourselves than even the Romans did, so I'd be surprised if knowledge of how we were in the now didn't survive till then.
@stewfish18904 жыл бұрын
”Well, seems like they never stopped being cavemen”
@dreamlifter75694 жыл бұрын
They will build the 3rd copy
@thegreatmoustachio4 жыл бұрын
J. Wicker I'm sure humans of the future would be able to use dating technology to find that one cave is 17000 years older than the other, which is probably a big enough puzzle piece to piece together the mystery.
@prinkak5773 жыл бұрын
To be very honest, I almost cried during the entire video. Something about it just made me very emotional
@rownuhhh3 жыл бұрын
Same ;-;
@Shokatuqt3 жыл бұрын
It is called music . Dw. It makes me cry everytime, even though I watched this more than 50 times since it aired
@RizalBudiLeksono2 жыл бұрын
same
@rodrigoferreiramaciel48154 жыл бұрын
STOP DUDE, I'M LITERALLY CRYING TO A HAND ON A WALL
@ta.3463 жыл бұрын
@@sarveshdhiman9918 tf?
@sarveshdhiman99183 жыл бұрын
@@ta.346 if my tf you mean that's a strange name for an episode... Well. In the podcast the guy reviews random things. Out of 5 stars. Things like Canadian geese, taco bell breakfast menu, Kentucky bluegrass and we'll, the act of googling strangers. If that's not what you mean, I have no idea what you mean.
@deusexaethera3 жыл бұрын
CRY HARDER I STILL THIRST
@YuqinQinyue3 жыл бұрын
YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!
@stevevernon19783 жыл бұрын
think of it this way, your crying to a CARTOON of a DUPLICATE of a STENCIL of a hand on a wall.
@thestudentofficial54834 жыл бұрын
Another 20.000 years into the future: "Why did our ancestors build a replica of their own ancestors' cave paintings?"
@davidpilny28034 жыл бұрын
"Yeah, why?... but you know what? Let's build a replica of their replica!"
@KungKras4 жыл бұрын
"It must be some kind of fertility cult"
@codeisawesome3694 жыл бұрын
Well hopefully this time they can just go watch this Kurzgesagt + John Green video about it. Whilst also commenting on the fascinatingly low-res 1080p resolution that was necessitated by primitive human networks, compared to what's state of the art 20k years into the future 🙂
@NXE2124 жыл бұрын
@MrFr0stycave "Huh, why did our ancestors build a replica of a replica of a replica? This is to weird we should create a replica of this."
@betterert4 жыл бұрын
they're gonna build a replica of our replica lol
@hallristinger4 жыл бұрын
I've been to Lascaux two years ago, there is something i have to add since Lascaux II is brought into the discussion. Lascaux II is the first, incomplete copy of the original cave, built on the same hill. The great numbers of visitors, and the vibration caused by their vehicles, turned out to be a problem for the cave. Since 2016 Lascaux IV has opened, a little bit further away, it's a nearly complete recreation of the cave, up to the fraction of a millimeter. In the museum several parts of the cave, like the ceilings and the wells, have been cloned at an accessible height so that visitors can see things that wouldn't normally be visible even in the real cave. There are even VR visors that allow you to visit the 3d model of the cave, with all the paintings and graffitis. It's not the original, but it's as close as it can get, and i believe we should be happy to see a copy if that means the original is being protected and preserved for the times to come. Should you feel the need to visit an original cave go to the grottes du Peche-Merle, it's one of the few original caves open to the public, access are limited to 700 ppl per day as to preserve the micro-climate inside, so reservation is almost mandatory. There's a 1:1 painting of prehistoric horses inside. tl;dr - i dont' share the sadness of not being able to access the original Lascaux cave for reasons; there are other original caves open to the public
@lisasterk67984 жыл бұрын
Have you seen hand stencils? We've been there yesterday but we only saw the animal paintings. It's beautiful though
@djmbst4 жыл бұрын
by this logic we should close all historic monuments, museums, etc... to preserve them for what exactly? Everything will turn into dust sooner or later. Denying people to experience history and replacing it by a cottage industry of fakes - what a good idea! Nothing to worry here, no unintended consequences could possibly happen. I think the logic should be the opposite: now that they built an exact copy of the cave they shouldn't fear of the real one slowly deteriorating - everything is already preserved.
@miriga39273 жыл бұрын
In the video they say all it to the fact that: It is sad in the sense it will only be a shadow of what is and what was yet also at I feel that it shows hope that we won’t go there but instead to a near perfect copy so that the real one won’t be destroyed, an act of creation instead of our(humanity’s) destruction. And before that beliefs in humanity’s future, 4 teens and a dog who found and protected a “random” cave with “pretty pictures” I put it in quotes because obviously not true but a possible take on the cave they could have had.
@NortheastGamer3 жыл бұрын
@@djmbst That view prioritizes your tourist experience over scientific discovery. Preserving the cave allows future scientists who have better technology and will be massively more careful with the site than tourists to study it and learn more about the people who lived there. There's literally no benefit to allowing you to partially destroy an irreplaceable artifact so you can enjoy yourself slightly more than if you visited a replica which you can't even tell the difference from the original. Your comment is, honestly, selfish.
@JakkeJakobsen3 жыл бұрын
@@NortheastGamer good, someone said it!
@Daymickey3 жыл бұрын
The scale of human history, the sum of every individual’s story, each one a full life, a world unto itself, is overwhelming and awe-inspiring. Like a galaxy of billions of stars.
@Yayakamisama4 жыл бұрын
Everyone wants something to say they existed.
@arunkhosh9044 жыл бұрын
It's because you're afraid of oblivion. Oblivion is the ultimate truth. Nothing will survive. So why bother preserving memories after our death ? Our purpose is to live in the moment
@Alexander-x2m7i4 жыл бұрын
Arun Khosh is this a poem? It is beautiful
@Quantum-Bullet4 жыл бұрын
@@arunkhosh904 Something about "You can kill people, but they will only really be extinct if you destroy their culture, art..."
@Szobiz4 жыл бұрын
i dont
@DaDaHorst4 жыл бұрын
thats not a problem, we have produced more than enough plastic for that
@cheasify4 жыл бұрын
Imagine in the far future when anthropologists find two separate caves with identical paintings from 17000 years apart. That will be a mystery.
@NotGoodAtCombat4 жыл бұрын
Well this is the digital age now so there must be a file that people in the future can access depicting the difference.
@huroikai4 жыл бұрын
wait... so technically we may have 3 "caves" now? one real, one fake and one digital? future paleontologists will be really confused i guess
@brandonpersaud56344 жыл бұрын
Well they will quickly discover that the second cave is fake and made with artificial materials. And the first one is made of solid stone. So it will be pretty easy to tell
@jajaperson4 жыл бұрын
Brandon Persaud shhhh don’t ruin it
@Marquis-Sade4 жыл бұрын
They will see that one is 15 years older than the other one.
@NonExistingName4 жыл бұрын
this was so beautiful, almost moved me to tears. Those hands are a record of a whole life lived thousands of years ago, and an echo into the future. Truly saying "I am here" Yes, you are. We see you.
@popov19934 жыл бұрын
Same feeling, but I did cry a bit. This video and narration got to me in a way I didn't expect
@rita70704 жыл бұрын
I cried
@elderlyoogway4 жыл бұрын
@@popov1993 you should give a listen to the podcast which this was animated from!
@laerin79314 жыл бұрын
If you liked it, check the actual podcast, it's absolutely beautiful in that same manner.
@deusexaethera3 жыл бұрын
"...it's as if art isn't optional for humans." Art _isn't_ optional for humans. It's a psychological imperative. Art is how we expel excess creativity during times when we have nothing productively creative to work on (i.e. inventions). For people who are prone to creativity and also lack technical skills, art is the only thing that keeps them sane -- and even then it isn't always enough.
@xyzzyxyzzy23 жыл бұрын
If art isn't optional, then why do most people produce no art at all?
@jamesmnguyen3 жыл бұрын
@@xyzzyxyzzy2 People produce art in different ways. Either by making videos, making buildings, making computer programs, making gardens, making people happy, etc. Art doesn't have to be drawing.
@sappy.3xe3 жыл бұрын
@@xyzzyxyzzy2 Even if people don’t create art, they certainly appreciate it. Music, drawings, inventions, making clothes, writing, and etc are all forms of art that we either create or consume. We need art to express ourselves and we need it to enjoy life.
@taisiewyong5922 жыл бұрын
@@jamesmnguyen wow...you're right
@alankent2 жыл бұрын
Creating art requires a skill set. It is just a different skill set possessed by engineers and inventors. Please do not belittle art in this manner
@jf14564 жыл бұрын
Lately I've been feeling myself weak in front of the "Past you can't return to". I'm not an emotional guy, never were. I'm the kind of man that holds his sadness and express it alone. I'm 25, starting to work, soon to live by myself and soon to experience the real first "loss" of my life since both my maternal grandparents are now 90 and soon to die. Every time I remember the past I feel crushed and powerless in front of time. It's a real weird feeling to be able to close my eyes and see myself in my babypark at 3 and then flash forward it's now 2020 and no matter how powerful strong intelligent or rich I could become nothing would bring back that time. This video is really nice
@gorkijan31834 жыл бұрын
Amazingly said and i get that exact feeling too but couldn't say or explain it with words. Now i can. You made me tear up too. Thank you for writing your comment.
@ThisStuffIsFree4 жыл бұрын
We have the same life
@freshcontentbraa88704 жыл бұрын
i feel this.
@xninewxw75594 жыл бұрын
Haha my grandparents died when I was 7
@ladzsn53144 жыл бұрын
69 subscribers with content? Haha 3 out of 4 of my grandparents died before I was 7 /s (they still died tho)
@tjgodofchaos31864 жыл бұрын
"We have invented nothing" -Picasso Goddamn
@MR-ff2pq4 жыл бұрын
I dont undrestand
@HuntersOfTheNorth14 жыл бұрын
@@MR-ff2pq basically a nod to the creations of humanity. Whatever has been created, or we thought of: our ancestors thought of a rudimentary version of it. Sure we think of larger and more exotic things they have, but look at the similarities. We create art, while they had so long ago. They made technology, so are we now. In the basis of all things, we haven't invented anything for it already was made BEFORE us. Art is made by nature, and that's why nothing has occured. But hey, I'm just a nerd don't mind my take on it!
@MR-ff2pq4 жыл бұрын
@@HuntersOfTheNorth1 thank you
@HuntersOfTheNorth14 жыл бұрын
@@MR-ff2pq np homie
@miriga39273 жыл бұрын
@@HuntersOfTheNorth1 that, my fried was deep. Also I agree, and the patterns of nature follow the rules of the universe.
@compiledtv32924 жыл бұрын
I LOVE HOW EVERYTHING BLENDS • Music • Voice (Script) • Visuals (Edited) OMG Thanks For The Likes
@GraemeGunn4 жыл бұрын
But will it blend?
@aidanker-foz65114 жыл бұрын
This is probably one of the first Kurzgesagt where I cried, but from what emotion? I don't know, I just cried
@clem7194 жыл бұрын
Trash Man John Green does that to you
@BloodyClash4 жыл бұрын
@@aidanker-foz6511 I also did and have no idea why
@compiledtv32924 жыл бұрын
@Illuminati Yeah mate I'm a big fan of this channel since I was 12 years old I always love science and mystery.
@chaim1842 Жыл бұрын
Ive watched this video a couple times now and every time I watch it I tear up. Its probably my favorite video on your channel
@MoceProductions4 жыл бұрын
"This is not the thing itself, but a shadow of it, this is a hand print, but not a hand, this is a memory that you cannot return to" Damn that's deep
@adrianc96924 жыл бұрын
yeah that hit like a wall of bricks
@alyssastevenson98794 жыл бұрын
I got chills
@sujataghose82384 жыл бұрын
I got your name flashbacks lol
@andrewwizard15774 жыл бұрын
Why do Christians have crosses?
@fuzzzone4 жыл бұрын
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
@ghijklmn4 жыл бұрын
"This is a handprint but not a hand," was such an impactful line to me for some reason.
@TheOriginalDogLP4 жыл бұрын
remembered me of "the treachery of images"
@Nijock3 жыл бұрын
It’s because Epic Mountain was going so hard on their background song during that line.
@okenwaayomikun3 жыл бұрын
The way they showed someone on the other side of the hand print, it was like they are trying to reach out to me.
@matepasztor2823 жыл бұрын
Me too. I've seen this like 3 times and i always cry at that.
@ryran4 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh I had no idea that the folks behind Kurzgesagt had a connection with John and Hank, much less that Crash Course actually inspired the creation of Kurzgesagt. This is amazing. Thank you to all the people on both teams that have brightened our lives and our brains. ♥️
@UCFc1XDsWoHaZmXom2KVxvuA4 жыл бұрын
That is really some remarkable effort they took, i regard channels like these as the best part of KZbin
@nuclearsquid27114 жыл бұрын
@@AxxLAfriku u good bro?
@kevinharte36364 жыл бұрын
AxxL Look I get it.... We both need jobs.
@ellis23944 жыл бұрын
@@nuclearsquid2711 Not Axxl, but hell naw
@shabitmontasir17734 жыл бұрын
big relate.The most wholesome thing for me on internet today
@MrPenguinFingers3 жыл бұрын
“Infinity war is the greatest crossover of all time” Kurzgesagt and John Green:
@kappaross61244 жыл бұрын
"Why were there no paintings of humans or reindeer?" *Ancient person begins drawing people and reindeer* Other Ancient Humans: Bruh all we see every day is humans and reindeer draw me something that ISN'T boring
@MrZaroc4 жыл бұрын
On a similar note: "Dude check out this two headed Mega Sloth" "But that isnt real" "Yeah but its funny as shit"
@darielworotikan4 жыл бұрын
@@MrZaroc Umm... Do you play Rimworld by any chance? Asking this question because you mentioned "Mega Sloth"
@Tejbegrizzly4 жыл бұрын
@@darielworotikan They were real though
@LinkZeraus4 жыл бұрын
@@darielworotikan Mega Sloths were real lmao
@juannaym84884 жыл бұрын
We still don't draw things that we don't find interesting People draw beautiful vases, but no one would draw a normal, cheap, plastic, boring vase
@SacchieILU4 жыл бұрын
John Green has a bad habit of speaking so beautifully it makes me cry
@kaustabc75624 жыл бұрын
*good habit
@Dylan-zd6hn4 жыл бұрын
ChicanoJesus no he doesn’t you strange kid
@ZiddersRooFurry4 жыл бұрын
@@Dylan-zd6hn Oh shush, you.
@ZiddersRooFurry4 жыл бұрын
@@crisp3music Whiny and annoying? OK lol
@tenzin_06994 жыл бұрын
history teacher: talks about Lascaux me: emotionless Kurzgesagt: talks about Lascaux me: *tears streaming down my cheeks*
@mercifuldev4 жыл бұрын
This is why teachers are invaluable. The ability to convey knowledge through depth, emotion, and passion is a rare gift.
@Stupidiusity4 жыл бұрын
lmao I know the feel
@angelicabrieva76074 жыл бұрын
I don’t know why make me cry
@mv89084 жыл бұрын
Bruh
@marwa61924 жыл бұрын
Well, I love Kurzgesagt but this is all John Green ;)
@Scugzerker3 жыл бұрын
Even though I've rewatched this video several times by now it still hits me hard once the realization sets in that such a hand print was made by somebody just as human as any of us. This has led to another thought occuring in my head; the person who'd made the handprint could've been one of my parents or sibling. However, it also left me feeling an inexplicable homesickness to return to that moment and to get to know this person who could be my distant ancestor. Edit: I've always had the idea that these handstencils were made as a kind of memorial possibly also part of a ritual of coming into adulthood. "I was there, and please do not forget about me, remember me". Not too far fetched if I say so myself considering how harsh life was back then. With no writing (or none preserved throughout the centuries) it may have been the only way to keep the memory of you alive when you've "joined the ancestors" as is likely a common corner stone of their religion/beliefs (which is a common trait of ancient faiths and beliefs).
@donsolos Жыл бұрын
Survival would be something to be very proud of back then. You also almost certainly didnt live old enough to watch your kids come of age back then so it could be a form of connecting with their ancestors as well. Or some kind of celebration for surviving another year
@littlephlox82554 жыл бұрын
Mechanic names his dog “Robot” Aight
@waynesanford28694 жыл бұрын
I've had to research Lascaux in school before, dog was actually named Robot. Though probably pronounced more French-y than in the video
@KJ4EZJ4 жыл бұрын
@@waynesanford2869 That makes sense, since the term "robot" came from Isaac Asimov's books published after WW-II, which was after these kids found this cave.
@fulviopontarollo29524 жыл бұрын
Zach Butler wasn’t it from some Czech book or theatre opera from a few decades before that?
@LadmeB4 жыл бұрын
@@fulviopontarollo2952 It was, but I'm not sure how popular the word was before Asimov borrowed it.
@fulviopontarollo29524 жыл бұрын
LadmeB I just checked it out, it came from a 1921 play, and apparently the play was popular enough that it was translated in 30 languages and was played in theaters worldwide, and the author still had interviews with the Czech press in the 30s
@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache4 жыл бұрын
Kurzgesagt is basically that entertaining teacher who makes learning an otherwise boring subject, fun.
@jzx3134 жыл бұрын
facts xD
@jzx3134 жыл бұрын
comment 34
@shaukatali80864 жыл бұрын
Can't believe you are here
@mat70834 жыл бұрын
Hellooooo
@darkphoenix9604 жыл бұрын
creeper-chan
@sketchnix4 жыл бұрын
"The act of seeing something can ruin it." "We have invented nothing." That stucked in my heart, may be due to the deepness of the sayings and shallowness of my heart.
@atommi14 жыл бұрын
Something something artsy and deep something something*
@anonymouswhite79574 жыл бұрын
Aleks Kirakosyan It did apply to almost every human inventions, depending on how you perceive it. Technically what we create are all based on nature (be it mechanism, ideas or materials wise). Especially if you have read on history, neurology, experiential epistemology, and how our brain process patterns from stimuli, it become apparent that what we do is merely repeating and remixing pattern of the natural laws .-.
@principetuna4 жыл бұрын
Anonymous White yes!!!!! i think its the most beautiful thing that could possibly be. we can find gears in nature on planthopper nymphs.
@ChaoticTeen163 жыл бұрын
I almost cried at that final sentence. "This is a memory we can't go back to." Existential dread doesn't even BEGIN to describe how that felt.
@kylefranta4 жыл бұрын
This video is indeed “different,” but is equally fascinating, thought provoking, and beautifully crafted. Thank you Kurzgesagt. Keep making videos, keep collaborating, and we will all keep watching and growing with you.
@RajeevSingh0074 жыл бұрын
best comment
@EndoLP4 жыл бұрын
I would honestly love this to be an ongoing series. John's dialogue and your animations/sound design are a match made in heaven.
@executiveelf87934 жыл бұрын
"This is a handprint, not a hand." is a good quote.
@judge4624 жыл бұрын
Its an over dramatic wank.
@nathanlevesque78124 жыл бұрын
@@judge462 do you even have a soul?
@Halamadridistas4 жыл бұрын
f budd Could never take anyone who says ‘wank’ serious
@EOilam4 жыл бұрын
Ceci n'est pas un pipe
@clarkkent23794 жыл бұрын
@@EOilam Exactly what I was thinking
@Kampamba Жыл бұрын
On nights I can't sleep, I return to this video. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful things on KZbin. Thank you all involved
@Jonathanatus4 жыл бұрын
Im genuinely fascinated by art from the stone age: The people who made it are long gone, we dont know who they were and what their life was like but seeing their expressions in the cave paintings, ceramics and carvings forms a connection to our historical ancestors
@human63104 жыл бұрын
They can draw better than me thats for damn sure
@King-bx4ch4 жыл бұрын
Your neighbour is one of those individuals. Why are you not fascinated by him?
@stormthegiant4 жыл бұрын
I was for a while and then, well, the cops.
@MDHDH-iy7nm4 жыл бұрын
@empbac his neighbors are cavemen
@alexmorgan23344 жыл бұрын
they wield magic and shot down dragons with fireballs
@420-z9m3y4 жыл бұрын
A dog named Robot. Well, at least he had a hand in preserving this cave.
@akshayshetty9734 жыл бұрын
*paw
@cdion784 жыл бұрын
Strange that in 1940 robots as we know were not invented yet, the word still coming from 1920.
@demoncloud61474 жыл бұрын
What kind of person names their dog 'Robot', I wonder !
@epeli00354 жыл бұрын
Dion Christie Exactly!
@WeekndWarriorrr4 жыл бұрын
@@akshayshetty973 lol
@Mikeee364 жыл бұрын
In the beginning, I thought I don't like his voice but when the video ended I felt really great and his voice was amazing felt that story.
@sebastiandevosi70434 жыл бұрын
me too
@genericuser14544 жыл бұрын
Imagine not liking John Green's voice
@waydewatanabe50234 жыл бұрын
At least it's better when i hear my own voice on record
@matthewbott37264 жыл бұрын
I suppose I’ve been on KZbin too long. I was hyped to learn John Green would voice this.
@samspade47038 ай бұрын
"We hope you enjoyed this video, even if it was different." This is my favorite Kurzgesagt video. It is one of the videos I recommend to others most, even three years after it is made. I come back and watch it again, every time I need a bit of perspective. Or a calming moment. Something uplifting in a world divided by its self-inflicted wounds. Every now and then, I need a little hope. And this video neatly and innocently provides it.
@omartaha19904 жыл бұрын
"If you have ever been or had a child" No I have never been. Was just born this way
@priyadubey41854 жыл бұрын
this should be at the top!
@RajeevSingh0074 жыл бұрын
hahahaha
@Alien13754 жыл бұрын
I pity your mom.
@wail10634 жыл бұрын
I draw alot when i was a kid
@ChrisDodges1234 жыл бұрын
That is indeed the point 🙂
@sirisaacnewton37554 жыл бұрын
“If you like my painting don’t forget to smash that wall and leave a painting down below”
@gucci3554 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@TheHamza57884 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and discover Gravity by observing how the remains fall down, no wait, too early for that.
@dalel36084 жыл бұрын
@@TheHamza5788 Gravity was "known" long before Issac Newton, he just finally did the math on it. :P
@krunk62704 жыл бұрын
I thought you were dead.
@dr.prismatic51184 жыл бұрын
Oh good lord. I cannot tell if you are serious or not
@DownWithBureaucracy4 жыл бұрын
The cave paintings mean the same thing art has always meant: we lived, we were here
@edithpatlan47524 жыл бұрын
the handprint to me is almost the equivalent of a time where i used to write on anything; a bathroom stall, a friends journal, a textbook, a whiteboard “edith was here”. simple and short. just the idea of knowing it would be seen by others, i would feel satisfied.
@gritzafur3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@STAxTartaglia3 жыл бұрын
Im goint to draw a random babling just to confused future archelogist
@Nanamowa3 жыл бұрын
Gay
@auhsojacosta16723 жыл бұрын
I’m gonna scribble “sixkil” all over a wall so they would be confused on what it is supposed to say but in reality it just means that a sandwich is burying a dorito body
@caseysmith876 Жыл бұрын
WOW. I never comment on videos. Literally, this is my first comment ever. This was beautiful, I recently had the experience of tracing the hand for the first time with my daughter. This really touched the ol heart strings. Bravo Sir
@arisoda4 жыл бұрын
"Just that act of looking at something can ruin it I guess." Quantum Mechanics: *and that's the way I like it.*
@রাফি-হ৭ঘ4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it Observer effect
@Deathstroke4714 жыл бұрын
Heisenberg : stonks.
@harikishore25144 жыл бұрын
Einstein disliked your comment.
@TheSucread4 жыл бұрын
The Anthropocene Reviewed is a sublime listen. Highly recommended!
@hhfbko4 жыл бұрын
Yee
@exoplanets4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@zerodragneel96424 жыл бұрын
Thanks man
@alexandermartin18374 жыл бұрын
@@exoplanets wow your channnel is amazing
@bcunningham37184 жыл бұрын
+
@itoady4 жыл бұрын
17,000 years from now: “Two teens find a cave of fake hand art.”
@coletakkish43894 жыл бұрын
+
@KrzysiuNet4 жыл бұрын
Million years from now: two caves painted in almost the same time, one after another. (context: I'm joking about our logarithmic minds - there's a bigger difference between 1 and 2 than e.g. 500 or 600, which makes sense - it matters if there's one enemy or two, but makes no difference between 500 or 600)..
@kaministquiamahackamack3364 жыл бұрын
ancient aluminum beer cans, the names of rock bands and "class of __" spraypainted on the walls.
@robertnagy9854 жыл бұрын
probaably
@DrAdityaReddy4 жыл бұрын
@@PhillipBell 😂😂😂😂
@darklayton Жыл бұрын
I hadn’t watched this video is a few years, it made me cry just like the first time ❤
@slimeyybluu31484 жыл бұрын
everything aside, the narration and the "documentary" is beautiful af
@linuswicken25354 жыл бұрын
So deep, truly beautiful.
@alberttao31534 жыл бұрын
My tears came out. So moving
@Juaiv4 жыл бұрын
Simp
@appointeddisappointment96764 жыл бұрын
@@Juaiv goldfish
@nathancabiles7964 жыл бұрын
Dont forget to read the , guys
@viovenda89224 жыл бұрын
Aw this made me cry. Humans are so endearing, and we’ve never really changed. We’re just animals, a part of this world like everything else.
@RobbieStacks904 жыл бұрын
You don't have to cry anymore. I'm here for you. Do you live near NJ?
@marvelerful14 жыл бұрын
@@RobbieStacks90 jesus christ
@jman74184 жыл бұрын
I had a weird theory, what if the hands on the walls symbolize the lost of someone? What if they take the dead person’s hand and paint it on a wall, then bury them. That way, the family won’t forget.
@이스터124 жыл бұрын
유적에서 신생아의 손이 발견됩니까?
@marinko64504 жыл бұрын
Interesting!
@Aldona_koi4 жыл бұрын
J Man damn... it seems so probable because back then there wasn’t a way to record it without a written language. Mourning is universal, expressions of it change.
@SandwichMitGurke4 жыл бұрын
i would have guessed that they all do it when they are matured so others know who is and was in the tribe
@000zeRoeXisTenZ0004 жыл бұрын
i had a similar idea. we should analyze the graves and mummys from this ages and search for paint remains on their hands. this paint may theoreticaly survived on some of the bodys.