Iron Lung is not as bleak of a setting as people think(sorry)

With a little elbow grease and some know how iron lung is a setting in which people can not only survive but thrive.
#ironlung #theory #slormp #survival #gaming

[@Jay-ln1co]

"No useful resources" like how I look into my stocked kitchen and go "there's nothing to eat!"

[@theimperfectgod7140]

"I have nothing to wear" [ the locker is shock full of shoes ]

[@tf_is_this_shit]

"I have nothing to play" **Library full of games**

[@user-sz3rs6hr1h]

"I have nothing to use" -shed full of tools-

[@FUNKY_KETCHUP]

"I have no sources to learn from..." Library's honest reaction:

[@SacsachCCABP]

“No one wants to be my friend!” All of my frie- oh wait… that’s ones true

[@kevinmai5125]

The fish that kills you at the end of iron lung made this video

[@unoriginalperson72]

Eat the fish

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

​@@unoriginalperson72breed the fish

[@quirinoguy8665]

​@@NiCoNiCoNiCola Interesting proposal, how?

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

@@quirinoguy8665 just let them live together, feed them with some unwanted people from the colonies and they'll eventually choose a breeding ground. Just keep watch of the offspring so it'll grow and eventually become adults, repeat the process till you have a fish army. Why? I dunno, I think it would be cool

[@zero-cm2yh]

I thought you meant that in a different way but I’m pleasantly surprised

[@tetragrade]

Surely nothing bad will come as a result of eating the eldritch space blood. Surely.

[@simulacrumpilot2777]

There are already creatures living in it. How bad it can really be? Besides I'll take eating eldritch space blood over starvation any day.

[@tetragrade]

@@simulacrumpilot2777 The creatures:

[@KaijuGal-rb9ek]

wasnt it proved by the coi that it was indeed human blood?

[@ColdNavigator]

You become something that makes you regret choosing life over death.

[@viniciushenrique6672]

​@@simulacrumpilot2777 So we are opposites my dude, as I would shot myself before putting any kind of Eldritch substance inside my body. Even more so if it is human blood that is located on a moon, and that appeared after all the stars and planets in the universe had disappeared.

[@OversizedPringleToe]

“Just harvest a super nova”, “just mine straight through a moon”.

[@jamesdean9theBlainerific9fan]

Yes

[@childofgod759]

i think this video is insane bruh

[@duckpotat9818]

@@childofgod759watch more Isaac Arthur

[@mekingtiger9095]

We don't know much of the specific details of humanity's technology and infrastructural conditions in this timeline, so we can only go by hypotheticals.

[@orangequill1645]

@@mekingtiger9095 If technology kept growing at the exponential rate it did nowadays pre-Rapture we def would be capable of doing allat

[@Trivial_Whim]

I think the bleakness was because there were about two thousand people alive in the entire universe and the largest three satellite cities were all trying to murder each other.

[@wolverdep4739]

"As long as there's people left on the planet, someone's gonna want someone dead" - Sniper from TF2 watch as humanity discover that the weird plants and creatures that exist in the blood moon becomes "better" when they consume human blood instead of the blood from the oceon... can't wait for the humanity extinction speedrun

[@snekcube107]

i mean there arent any planets left@@wolverdep4739

[@tinkyshugetoes]

@@wolverdep4739 but the blood oceans *are* human blood

[@neoxpro12]

​@@wolverdep4739most of them are doing exactly that rn Sadly I probably wouldn't be alive to see the calamity unfold

[@wolverdep4739]

@@tinkyshugetoesI meant like, somehow blood that came from human instead of the ocean (even if its chemically the same) made the lifeforms stronger/evolve idk, this is a horror game. they have alot of thing going on and I find it interesting

[@Derk_Mage]

Man BEATS horror game with FACTS and LOGIC

[@slidemguy]

Alpharad fan?

[@tendo649]

​@@slidemguy he gives us facts and logic and yet they reject him

[@abdelnajjar8191]

SPEEDRUNNERS HATE HIM

[@neoxpro12]

Speed runners are not human in canon, they are something else entirely. They can defy the laws of physics​@@abdelnajjar8191

[@mc-snack3316]

Ace Attorney ?

[@Noahs_Chair]

How to "uh, actually..." your way into saving humanity.

[@fellow9939]

local man wins argument against incomprehensible cosmic horror over the concept of "what is a resource"

[@mom0367]

It turns out humanity's true bastion from the apocalypse is semantics.

[@flow185]

"You're gonna die" "Well ,Actually..."

[@wl5420]

I was actually about to comment this because of how “letter of the law not spirit” his “debunk” is.

[@wyattbooth6372]

The fact that blood oceans are able to be oceans implies that blood moons have a heat source strong enough to keep water in liquid form, and an atmosphere to stop water from boiling due to vacuum. So that means pretty much any blood moon is habitable, especially if you live on the dry land.

[@jackthulborn5448]

so basically vita carnis but on a whole new level

[@quackelstheduck2040]

​@@jackthulborn5448 what? what made you even think of that?

[@daltongarrett3393]

That atmosphere doesn’t necessarily have to be oxygen/nitrogen. The blood and living things also don’t necessarily have to have chemically similar biology to us

[@Lunarcreeper]

i think it said something about the blood not coagulating, i forgot though

[@abl9643]

@@daltongarrett3393It does, the blood is specifically said to be chemically identical to human blood. Although, presence of geothermal activity doesn’t mean it isn’t freezing on the surface, which it probably is, so its probably not habitable without some shelter. However, the blood can for sure be extracted and consumed either directly or by feeding its minerals as plant fertilizer, so it’d still be pretty nice

[@BrazilianMongoose]

It’s still bleak. Just because it’s survivable doesn’t mean I want to be there

[@Fuckalope-cm5dk]

Exactly

[@bredsheeran9453]

Exactly that. And btw its not survivable, I doubt the three, currently at war, space stations with a population of a couple of thousands combined could even find a supernova or a dwarf star in empty space, even if they could and had the resources to get there they would have to have the resources to mine, extract AND turn whatever they found into something useful. Not to mention the obvious that even assuming they could do that the resources required are unbelievably more than the resources produced by such processes. Everyone is fucked, dont get raptured

[@LazyLoonz]

@@bredsheeran9453 You ignore the fact that they are in a space station which means they clearly have some way of traveling throughout space.

[@lothara.schmal5092]

The title doesn’t say that it isn’t bleak, only not AS bleak as people think

[@Geospasmic]

If you've ever had a bad nosebleed, this is like living inside that. No thanks.

[@EmeraldGlacier867]

As a British person, Iron Lung moons look absolutely scrumptious

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

Unlimited source of Black Pudding, enough iron to make a sword, this game is weak sauce.

[@Senior-Donjusticia]

I love the idea that whatever cosmic horror force blooped stuff out of existence was very concerned with adherence to strict human definitions of cosmic bodies.

[@outspade]

the real way to survive iron lung is to argue semantics out loud so that whatever deity was feeling annoyed the day of the quiet rapture gives you back some of your celestial bodies

[@conradolosada7835]

lmao

[@terrariangolden6985]

Good strawman but he talks about hypotheticals at first and then gets at the literal free food that you are visiting

[@thewhate2294]

​@@outspadeLmfaoo

[@nubs2594]

​@terrariangolden6985 doesn't change the fact that whatever got rid of stars and planets broke the law of physics, so why should it care what we define as stars and planets?

[@emeraldplayer5635]

Mushrooms will drink the blood. Eat the mushroom. Mushrooms don't need light.

[@mechaSurge]

Mushrooms will also eat bones, bones are plenty, feed the mushroom and mushroom will feed you. That could work as another setting for a different game lol.

[@binarycode404]

Praise mushroom. hail mushroom. mushroom is all. Let mushroom consume you. Wait what are we talking about-?

[@emeraldplayer5635]

@@binarycode404 The goddess of rot and her many domains consuming the last hidden domain of the blood god.

[@mechaSurge]

@@emeraldplayer5635 goddess of rot, goddess of life. Giver of the best blessing and worst curse, the one that we need to both respect and overcome.

[@emeraldplayer5635]

@@mechaSurge Praise be the red mushrooms!

[@mikamo]

Assuming that the remnants of humanity could farm energy from black holes and elements from nebulae because they were able to slap a shitty leaky submarine together is like telling someone dying of thirst in the desert, “why are you complaining?? There’s oxygen and hydrogen in the air, just make some water, ya goof!”

[@azariyelvarro6271]

It's made on the assumption that humanity has the tech to get what it needs. A good allegory would be explaining to bogno the caveman that he won't die of thirst because he can convert seawater to freshwater with a basic distillery, meanwhile Bogno no know how smart man want make drink drink from death water.

[@myself2noone]

Not really. It's not any more technical than that. It's just brute force at this point.

[@lexa2310]

Ehm...isnt the solution just "make it really hot"?

[@papapalps2415]

​@@azariyelvarro6271Which is a worthless assumption, because there's no proof of it whatsoever, especially given the sort of technology he is 'expecting' to be available is orders of magnitude more advanced than what is commonly seen in sci-fi, and especially visual sci-fi.

[@elissaforte]

@@azariyelvarro6271 And humanity in that universe certainly had that technology... but it most likely was on Earth or Mars.

[@NaturallyAntisemitic]

I think the main issue is you can’t make an iron ingot into bread. There’s a huge difference between welding scrap parts onto an old ship to explore and putting together enough food and water to safely feed all your people, especially since this doesn’t seem like a universe where replicators and other high-sci-fi stuff exists. Hell you come from one of the largest groups left and your sub is made of rusty iron plating, with info revealing they’re already in deep trouble providing for everyone. Dying of thirst in an ocean is what this video reminds me of.

[@Bookslayer10]

If you have a source of energy, you can just grow crops with hydroponics and recycle wastewater back into the system. There's plenty of raw resources (blood, comet ice, etc) to replace anything lost, and making a fully sustainable biosphere isn't really that hard for an interstellar civilization. The most dangerous part of this scenario would be the weeks immediately after the rapture, where everyone depending on planet exports needs to quickly start becoming self sufficient using existing technology before the food runs out.

[@attaug]

Realistically, it's easy enough to extract plasma from blood with a simple centrifuge that they'd most likely have in a space station if we're going off the fact that they had 300 years of progress after colonizing planets. The reason it seems plausible that people on space stations would have far better tech than we do even on any facility on earth today, and in a more compact form, is because as of the mid~late 90's Ironlung's human population had begun colonizing other planets. 300 years later when everything goes to shit our space stations would probably be more akin to actual sci-fi space cities that have some capacity for interstellar travel. Many sci-fi scenarios that deal with space tend to have stuff like that so it's not absurd to think they could have something like that in Ironlung. On top of that a lot of the assumptions that the "average joe" wouldn't know how to do the things necessary all comes down to the actual world of Ironlung itself as there are quite a few sci-fi scenarios where even the children tend to have a basic knowledge of advanced technology that'd put a genius scientist today to shame. Also, the simple fact that Ironlung says that there are absolutely no natural resources left in the universe is a joke when there are moons that contain blood oceans and some form of life. That stuff is by definition a natural resource, including the moon itself. Overall, it's a shitty situation but if the people of Ironlung could put down their weapons for like... 5 minutes they could probably figure something out. Hell, just colonize one of the moons with a blood ocean and use that as a base to rebuild a bit and explore the "empty" space looking for more blood oceans or something else to utilize.

[@jarredeagley1748]

If Iron Lung were real, those fish in the blood oceans would be living on borrowed time until people figure out they're there and decide that sushi is back on the menu lol

[@user-cd5fm3hh9k]

Authors: threw humanity into worst esoteric shit they can imagine Humans: "Nah, i'd adapt"

[@johnhenrysneeden6793]

Those fish live so deep in the ocean that you need a submarine just to reach them. I don’t think you’re gonna be able to fish them out with a rod or a net, especially if they’re strong enough to tear through an iron submarine

[@garbagelmao2730]

​@@user-cd5fm3hh9k no matter were I go... Lobotomy Kaisen always follows.

[@PineappleDealer37]

​@@user-cd5fm3hh9k "Life, eh, finds a way"

[@PineappleDealer37]

​@@johnhenrysneeden6793 hunting fishing lets gooo

[@Dude-vq3oe]

Fair, fair. But there’s still only a thousand humans left, and despite that, humans are *still* fighting each other!

[@Slormpington]

Ya that might put a bit of a spanner in the works

[@DonnaPinciot]

It bugs me how these 'grimdark' settings, especially ones that go out of their way to make the situation bad, pile even _more_ stuff on top to be like 'nuh-uh, you _can't_ survive!'. It's like... what's the point? If there's no possible way to do anything meaningful, then it doesn't mean anything. The only interesting part is why any of that happened in the first place, but then... what does knowing that do? If everyone's doomed, then risking lives to figure it out is pointless. Maybe it's meant to be a more 'positive' thing, to say that people will try and learn no matter what, even with limited, dwindling resources and an impossible situation. It's like SCP. They keep throwing bigger and 'scarier' things at us, and then closing 'loopholes' to keep people from having any sense of control or comfort, despite that being the entire point of the project to begin with.

[@unoriginalperson72]

​@@DonnaPinciot yeah it's kinda dumb, clearly its not been made for logical thinking

[@fionaton179]

@@DonnaPinciot Almost like that's what grimdark means and is primarily focused on? It's usually intended to tell us that no matter how highly we think of ourselves and our advancements, we are ultimately a small part of an infinitely vast universe which does not care about that. If there was a way for humanity to pull itself up by its bootstraps it wouldn't be grimdark, and it would be significantly less effective cosmic horror.

[@generallyupsetfetus]

@@DonnaPinciot There isn't meant to be hope in a grimdark story. That's what grimdark is. I don't even like grimdark, but your entire take is kind of like disliking ice cream for it being sweet. Like, yeah, I guess it is. I'm surprised twenty two other sentient human beings followed your take without question. You aren't even saying anything. It's just true. Although the take on SCP is much more palatable. I wish more SCP's were just oddities nowadays.

[@TheDrewman-wy6pe]

The cold indifference of the universe vs the INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT

[@matchc0635]

Iron lung 2: the blood ocean is literally drained and the funny fish became sushi

[@edenengland1883]

one thing to note, the submarine we use in the game isnt rated for the depths we go to, as explained in the opening crawl, this implies we're using an old retrofitted submarine that survived the quiet rapture and *not* a newly manufactured one, meaning we dont know what the current industrial capabilities are

[@ReddwarfIV]

Makes you wonder why they'd have such a crap submarine _before_ the apocalypse. Even OceanGate's sub didn't look that primitive inside.

[@kluevo]

Iirc, the entries on the computer imply the one we pilot was one of a series specifically made to imprison/kill off convicts and PoW from their conflict with the Martians, so it should be actually a good indicator of their current industrial abilities

[@edenengland1883]

@@kluevo theres also the one paper note you find on the floor but thats probably just them resourcefully using garbage as apposed to making the submarine specifically as an execution chamber, since if they had infrastructure they could just build a new sub that automatically shuts off it's life support after going underwater... and also doesnt need to be welded shut and cut back open every single trip

[@dijital4801]

@@edenengland1883 there's also a hidden picture of wreckage from an actual sub which had scientists and reaserchers on it, nothing like the sub you're in

[@user-rh2rt4ck3m]

Ocean Gate probably made it

[@rogercheetoofficial]

What I'm hearing is Iron Lung's sequel should be a fishing game

[@youraverage_asian]

Introducing:ultrakill

[@justaracolski]

I ONLY SAY MORNING.

[@zapzapfishes5878]

"No sunlight anywhere in the universe and oceans of blood to drink would not be so bad at all!". This guy is the ultimate vampire haha.

[@viniciushenrique6672]

For real.

[@MajinObama]

british gamer jk

[@TheHalflingLad]

Allow me to summarize this one for you all: *"Nah, I'd win."*

[@jimjohn1740]

I have no doubt that humanity could figure out a way to scrape by with all the points you brought up, but I feel like the bleakness left over wasn't really addressed in the video itself. billions of people still vanished without explanation, and people will be living in terrible conditions for generations at the very least. plus a war between 2 different nations that was mentioned in the lore terminal IIRC. humanity could avoid absolute extinction, but it's still not looking great for people's happiness

[@mofik26]

That's also assuming that humanity has ships capable of near speed of light travel. Closest protostars are more than ~460 light years away and the closest nebula is 700 light years away. Meanwhile all the asteroids and moon are going to fly in the opposite directions due to the Sun no longer pulling everyone together. The rapture happened during the first mars mission which means that they don't have anything near that.

[@DJ-fb9cf]

Yep, not to mention the supernatural element. We don't actually know what's IN the blood oceans or if they're even being held there by natural means.

[@rance2799]

People can find happiness in the smallest of things. Once the memories of better times blur they'll probably live life just like us but with more of a focus on living every day to the fullest as it can be your last.

[@unoriginalperson72]

​@@DJ-fb9cftf you mean supernatural its a giant frog fish not Count Dracula

[@BromdenChief]

In reality, such a low number of people in such a bad situation would probably work together much better than the setting suggests. In warzones the civilian population usually helps each other as much as they can, and I would think the same would apply here. And that war in the lore probably wouldn't happen. If you are a leader of millions of people it's fairly easy to convince them to go to war, but if you only have a thousand or so people, and that's half of the actual human population, that war sh1t would be shut down pretty fast and the warmongering leader would quickly find himself in one of those submarines.

[@StaticIsJustOkAtGames]

a horrible nearly impossible to live in situation vs. the indomitable human spirit

[@LazyLoonz]

Yessir

[@thegermanfool8953]

"the universe is vast and bleak, but my will is limitless and unyielding."

[@mercadier6312]

I came to watch an astrophysicist, and instead I got a pedantic English student.

[@nobodyimportant4778]

Bro has NO concept how high the ratio of empty space to non planetary resources and fuel is

[@lorekeeper685]

Bro has no idea how much extra matter you would need to send random convicts to random moons

[@nobodyimportant4778]

That too! Like wtf

[@lorekeeper685]

@@nobodyimportant4778 are you replying you to me? Or yourself?

[@neerajnandan3519]

I mean, they found multiple blood oceans on moons, looks like they are finding them pretty quickly even when space is empty

[@sora5982]

​@neerajnandan3519 prob not hard to notice the only remaining things when everything else is straight up gone.

[@captain-chair]

I knew nothing about this game before watching this video. This makes me want to see a game about surviving in the heat death of the universe.

[@jamesruth100]

I mean, it's not _quite_ what you're looking for, but Frostpunk might be able to scratch that itch; at the very least, it certainly hits the whole "entropy is inevitable, and you can only avoid it for so long" vibe of heat death.

[@JimmyThree-Balls]

Outer wilds

[@p1nball729]

Outer wilds, although it's more exploration than survival.

[@cabrinius7596]

@@jamesruth100 more the opposite of *heat* death, but still it has that same "the end is nigh" feeling

[@jamesruth100]

@@cabrinius7596 I think you might be confused on what heat death is. Heat death is when entropy finally wins and there's no more heat in the entire universe; it's the death _of_ heat, not a death _by_ heat. The entire universe would be at absolute zero (-459.67°F / -273.15°C / 0°K).

[@Sean-hn1vt]

Markiplier stated at the start of his first Iron Lung video that although blood contains lots of resources, but can cause gastrointestinal problems. Plus, you'll also become a vampire. EDIT 1: There's no freaking way my comment just got 5.6K likes in just 8 days. EDIT 2: Did I seriously just get 1K likes over night?

[@roxas5071]

so.... we get shape shifting and inmortality? how is that a bad thing

[@Sean-hn1vt]

@@roxas5071 I take back everything I just said. Nevermind your right.

[@dougwark6150]

@@Sean-hn1vtand we don’t have to care about sunlight

[@roxas5071]

@@dougwark6150 YEAH ITS NOT LIKE WE HAVE ONE

[@taijusatomi-defoe42]

Just gotta cook it. It’s not like they’d be drinking it raw

[@heliusuniverse7460]

"just gather hydrogen from nebulae 4head"

[@toxiccorgi2108]

A major flaw with your plan is that to pull a lot of this off, it would require the majority of remaining humans to act rationally for extended periods of time after a near extinction level event.

[@thereallegitimatemontblanc]

the idea of using the time dilation of a black hole to time travel to the future when new stars can form could be the plot of a movie or something

[@viniciushenrique6672]

.....until they leave the black hole and realize that what made the stars disappear is also disappearing with any new star that is born.

[@areallyboredwriter]

Sounds like Interstellar

[@FennKitFox]

sounds exactly like interstellar.

[@swain-Ix1tv]

murph

[@bubbles1044]

@@FennKitFox in interstellar they wanted to avoid time dilation as much as possible, they already had planets they could go and populate and so just because it is a movie with time dilation does not mean it is exactly the same

[@KarolOfGutovo]

In Iron Lung humanity is entirely within solar system afaik, interstellar travel might not exist yet.

[@ArcticCN]

so they found *4* blood oceans blindly just in the solar system?

[@rustinhaigood]

@@ArcticCN yea nasa tracks moons. also they still have the Satellite to track moons

[@rustinhaigood]

@@ArcticCN we also have fuel to get to moons in the Satellite and other things we have in orbit

[@quirinoguy8665]

Well that sucks.

[@Juancr2006]

​@@rustinhaigoodno stars mean no light, and the planets disappeared, meaning that NASA did too

[@valletas]

Dont think survivability is what makes a series bleak Like in warhammer its very likely that even if they lose the war humans will likely survive in the end in one way or another Yet the setting is bleak simply because living in it is horroble and no matter what humans do they are destined to face despair and pain I never questioned if humans would survive or not in iron lung but its still one of the worst sci fi settings to live

[@mekingtiger9095]

Yup. With that I can agree. Even if total extinction might be avoidable in Iron Lung's setting, humans will still be living in awful life conditions nonetheless.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

Yeah but in Warhammer there's a chance you're born on a Knight World and live your life as a happy farmer who has probably never heard of a Tyranid in his life and is guarded by millenia old war robots. Or one of the MANY OTHER relatively normal planets in the Imperium...

[@quasar9768]

**sees cool premise** **looks inside** -semantics

[@simulacrumpilot2777]

Using the Blood Oceans isn't some semantics. It's a perfectly logical conclusion anyone with half a working brain could've come up with.

[@quasar9768]

@@simulacrumpilot2777 well, maybe use your half to look up what semantics are before commenting

[@simulacrumpilot2777]

@@quasar9768 I can use mine thank you very much you should try to use yours sometimes. Semantics The study of discussing the meaning/interpretation of words or groups of words within a certain context; usually in order to win some form of argument. Which is was NOT how the blood ocean argument was, at all. You can only claim it was just semantics to the black hole/Nebula part.

[@viniciushenrique6672]

​@@simulacrumpilot2777 Original comment: "*sees cool premise* *looks inside* -semantics" Your comment: ".....You can only claim it was just semantics to the black hole/Nebula part." You know that you just confirmed the original comment of being correct, right.

[@orcasocute]

@@viniciushenrique6672 The original comment is saying it as if the guy only used semantics throughout this whole video to justify his points. When in reality the semantics are just bonus additional optimism and that even without the semantics, in the most bleakest form of the story with just the moons and asteroids and blood oceans, the game isn't that bleak.

[@mechaSurge]

Horrors are overrated, give us an epic survival game about living in a world of blood oceans and empty stars.

[@Slormpington]

Put one factorio fan in iron lung and society will be rebuilt in a week.

[@theloweffortchannel7211]

​@@SlormpingtonHow about a Dyson Sphere Program pla---Oh

[@DonnaPinciot]

@@Slormpington That could actually be an interesting mod. Extract resources from the blood, fend off hordes of creatures coming from the sea, and build a space ship to explore and get what remains of resources from elsewhere.

[@vittoriovenetov9655]

@@Slormpington As a factorio player this is 100 percent true

[@dhans2881]

@@DonnaPinciot fun part of it is... you are in complete darkness

[@justanotherguy1122]

I personally think that it wasnt the planets and stars that vanished, but the space stations. They got transported to a different universe, while the people back in the original universe were like, "Where tf did the space stations go?"

[@Rofflestomper]

That would be horrific still but at the same time really comforting-at least the bulk of humanity survived, albeit with a large amount of space paranoia.

[@mekingtiger9095]

Lmao, that would be a funny plot twist, albeit entirely ruining the horror proposition of the setting.

[@Rofflestomper]

@@mekingtiger9095 how? It’s just as if not more horrifying x

[@mekingtiger9095]

@@Rofflestomper Because as you said, there would be comfort in knowing most of humanity is still alive in a parallel universe. It ruins the mistery and a big part of the cosmic horror intended for the setting.

[@aaronlaughter6471]

@@mekingtiger9095 And how would that make it any less horrifying. Hey somehow there is some power in the universe that can transport us into another dimension on a whim. Or an alternate dimension where nothing exist that can take people from our own dimension. How is that not horrifying.

[@officersoulknight6321]

Plot twist; Iron Lung was the ultrakill prequel. Humanity had to learn to make blood-powered technology to take advantage of one of few remaining resources being blood.

[@Omar-cw5gg]

11:21 “Gravity doesn’t update at the speed of light” then immediately explains how gravity moves at the speed of light lmao

[@viniciushenrique6672]

Exactly! Like, bruh!

[@MajinObama]

Yeah wrong wording at the start… what he means is, if something is billions of lightyears away, so the time light takes to travel that distance, a billion years, it will also take gravity a billion years aprox. to reach that far. Or the lack of Gravity same thing

[@shinyeeveelution789]

You're acting like he isn't human and has no capability to make mistakes... While I don't agree with a good chunk of his ideas, he is still a human, he makes mistakes like all of us do.

[@Omar-cw5gg]

@@shinyeeveelution789 I’m just pointing it out. Yes we’re all humans and we make mistakes, but how is one supposed to learn when mistakes are simply ignored?

[@chocobear320]

"Well I can comprehend these manmade horrors perfectly fine, so idk maybe you just have a skill issue or smth"

[@victoroliveira3577]

Just because the setting is survivable doesn't make it not bleak

[@crowbirdryuell]

Just because its bleak doesn't make it unsurvivable

[@SneedFeedAndSeed]

@@crowbirdryuell Just because it's unsurvivable doesn't make it a setting

[@someoneyeah7683]

"Not as bleak of a setting" As in that it’s bleak, but less then how it’s advertised, the setting of Iron Lung is basically a lore specifically made to make you think there is no hope left, only borrowed time, while this guy is trying to explore the possibilities that could make it less hopeless

[@squeegeemcgee3917]

"Not as bleak" As in there is more hope than the game let's on, even if it's still bleak.

[@victoroliveira3577]

Ngl i didn't see the "as" in the title lol

[@Fallout_Survivor]

are you saying that all we have to do to survive is... ROCK AND STONE!

[@hevendor958]

*I give you stone, you give me rock.*

[@anoobyproaz5616]

For Karl!

[@smonkey9224]

It doesn't matter whether or not a highly advanced civilization could theoretically survive in the Iron Lung universe. If the creator says that everything is fucked and everyone is doomed then that's just the way it is.

[@theenemy333]

Anybody else thought this would be a video about surviving what happens in the gameplay itself and the setting of being inside the iron lung???

[@northropi2027]

if you were looking up advice to get out of that situation then my condolences it's not happening

[@lorekeeper685]

Pray to chutulu As the concept is rapture in space so-

[@GeorgeDCowley]

Not me.

[@paladin2021]

I thought I was going to get a video about the lore, but instead got a basic astronomy lesson

[@lexa2310]

​@@paladin2021Try Pyrocynicals video on it. I think he sums it up rather nicely.

[@LyraKat_]

"You can fish the blood ocean" Put that on the list of Very Strange Things to Hear that Still Somehow Make Sense :'D

[@dhans2881]

ultrakill 5-S level

[@MrJstorm4]

Is this a cruelty squad spin off?

[@spaceacepl4636]

@@dhans2881 frog? obtained

[@fatfish2066]

>all stars gone >the moon has natural light on the top Is he foolish???

[@myla2004]

how do you propose a civilization of 257 achieve any of this lmfao

[@MidanMagistrate]

Okay, dude. When the game says "All stars have disappeared" why would that not include Pulsars and Dwarf stars? They're still stars, it doesn't matter that they're small or different, the game says ALL stars have disappeared. And when you say the moons aren't technically moons, they WERE moons before the planet they orbited disappeared. It's just easier to continue calling them moons rather than "Giant Asteroids" or "Planetoids"

[@daniiii888]

Black holes and nebula still exist

[@basic6735]

@@daniiii888 Neither of which are stars

[@AstralShot]

​@@daniiii888 and neither of them are that helpful

[@TheCappucinochannel-os4ne]

​​@@AstralShotBlack holes are infinite energy sources for as long as you have mass to throw at them because of the accretion disk, very useful

[@bigcheese5662]

@@TheCappucinochannel-os4ne with no clear access to them at all?? it's clear that the COI basically have 2 rust filled submarines and a small amount of living space... IN SPACE, like if they could just tp to black holes and nebulars then there'd be no rusty submarines!

[@atlas_19]

Nebulas are super low-density. You could "squeeze" a nebula that is light years across into the volume of Earth. I say "squeeze" because it's likely you would still have space left to squeeze it further. That is to say, gathering resources from a nebula would literally be picking it atom by atom..

[@jamesdean9theBlainerific9fan]

nah

[@froginabucket7294]

@@jamesdean9theBlainerific9fan incredible counter argument

[@jamesdean9theBlainerific9fan]

@@froginabucket7294 *🪑

[@KysEcstacy]

​@@jamesdean9theBlainerific9fan Thank your for your insightful remark, James Dean The Blainerific Fan!

[@jamesdean9theBlainerific9fan]

@@KysEcstacy Np

[@atanaZion]

you forgot to mention that we are a man on death row and we went sent to this research as a mean of community working in exchange of freedom It definitely adds to the mood

[@Slormpington]

I am aware of the fact that the captions are not the best. I have deaf friends so I include captions for them. The captions are ai with me going over them to remove any issues. I missed a few and will try to do better in the future. As it turns out doing captions for a 20 minute video is a bit harder than for 1 minute shorts.

[@diamond_tango]

“Not the best” captions are leagues above no captions

[@n3r3sh77]

Resistance is futire.

[@minimaster0328]

​@@n3r3sh77it's just common sent

[@livingwater25]

applaud the effort and can only wish you luck dude

[@loserpovmc2LOH]

pal, dont get me wrong here, but i thought that videos require script, so why not just use it as captions? there is even shit that will do this for you - just paste your script and audio track in it nice vid btw, just needs a couple more passes on research and script

[@JosaxJaz]

"find a random rock and mine it to the core and boom you got iron" I feel like you're underestimating how hard it is to get to the core of something, or how to deal with all the resources that exist. Yeah, they exist, but it's neigh impossible to get them. It's not like a sandbox where you can just extract resources and minerals. You have to have the technology, the manpower, the time, etc. to be able to do this realistically. Not to mention people still have to live, eat, drink, sleep, etc. I think you raise a valid point about there being lots of resources still in the universe, but the problem of getting to them, refining them, and turning them into something useful is the main difficulty in my opinion.

[@SapkaliAkif]

Yeah, clickbait title. The game universe is exactly as bleak as I thought

[@JosaxJaz]

@@SapkaliAkif I don't think it's clickbait bc he actually believes it himself. I just disagree, but it doesn't make it clickbait

[@whyza0428]

well its likely that they do have a technology capable of doing something like that as 1 they survived 300 years 2 they were able to colonize Mars in 1992 3 asteroids and such are much smaller then a planet so again its pretty likely that they would be able to mind the iron from le funni space rocks as for refining them you may have a point if it wasnt for the fact they can make subs and yk have an industry/ way to refine the materials to make the subs i dunno if u just didnt watch the video or something but like man do better

[@Doss3332]

​@@whyza0428 the subs are made from scraps. They arent able to refine anything. Thats why the sub is so rusted and bad.

[@lorekeeper685]

Actually you are under estimating it As due to lack of gravity stuff gets easier you don't need to do something you can just send drones

[@austinclements8010]

id go vampire mode if i was desperate enough, i wont lie to the people

[@aaronlaughter6471]

At least your honest, unlike a lot of people. Cause lets be real, if push comes to shove, that soylent green is looking mighty tasty.

[@chemplay866]

Ok, now travel interstellar to intergalactic distances without enough resources to do that

[@shawermus]

Yeah!

[@waffleboy9273]

clearly they do if they can just send convicts wherevever

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

@@waffleboy9273 if they could then they wouldnt be sending convicts

[@chemplay866]

@@waffleboy9273 Convicts on 1-way missions?

[@mechaSurge]

Mfw inertia and gravity boost from asteroids. If it has mass it has gravity.

[@cumulus1869]

1. Brown Dwarves are neither stars nor planets 2. Gravity DOES update at the speed of light because gravitational waves travel at the speed of light.

[@nahby]

Brown dwarves are gas giants lol

[@F-22-Rapt0r]

⁠@@nahbynot really they have a fusion reaction happening meaning that they can’t be definded and a planet

[@xxfalconarasxx5659]

@@nahby No they are not. They classified as substellar objects, or substars.

[@MajinObama]

Yes cumulus he worded it wrong, what he meant is if light takes a billion years to travel somewhere, so will gravity as a result. Or the lack of gravity. So we wouldn’t see and feel the effects for a looong time, when the universe around us has already somehow died! Scary

[@zephyr8072]

Brown dwarves are failed stars that are a huge disappointment to their parents.

[@Laci11280]

Actually, if everything was made of cheap plastic, like you said in the end of the video, that would still mean infinite fuel, provided there is also oxygen to burn it.

[@DrWhite]

Black Hole Reliquaries are some of my favourite sci-fi concepts. Imagine coming across an archive of untold aeons full of races otherwise long dead whos only question is 'is it over yet?'. 10/10 'nah I'd live' situation.

[@simply_oat755]

he did kind of brush over the travel distance.. to get to these places.. isnt it millions of light years? or billions? i mean thats assuming you are travelling at light speed.. which according to physics is impossible. Are we assuming there's enough supplies for thousands of generations to make the trip over to these 'natural resources' in which case, whats the point in making the trips anyway? since you can already survive for millions of years

[@l0rf]

It doesn't have to be millions of light years even. Proxima Centauri is a little over 4 light years away. That's 3.8x10^16 meters Or 38000000000000000 meters in non-scientific notation. At the speed of light, just to get there, you'll need supplies for four years. You'll also need to slow down at the halfway mark, essentially doubling the travel time. Not much good to get to a place if you then impact with it at the speed of light. So over 8 years of supplies simply for travel time, just to the closest known extrasolar objects, if you can even reach the speed of light in this universe. Clearly that's not as simple as "just fly to an asteroid and mine out all the good stuff." This isn't space engineers.

[@lorekeeper685]

They set convicts to moons randomly

[@mekingtiger9095]

​@@l0rf You'd actually need less supplies than for 8 years inside your ship if you're traveling that close to the Speed of Light due to time dilation. But to comoensate for that, you better have an IMMENSE source of energy to get to that speed to begin with.

[@l0rf]

@mekingtiger9095 wouldn't you still experience 8 years of time passing? Admittedly, I've yet to travel at light speed so I think you might be correct there and the felt time is shorter than the time passing for an outside observer would appear to be. And I fully agree that I overestimate the resource need for food and spare parts and clothes and so on, but nothing in game indicated that this humanity was even able to carry with energy on their ships to travel at FTL or lightspeed.

[@mekingtiger9095]

@@l0rf Yeah, from the perspective of the crew inside the ship, very little time would have passed as them being so close to the Speed of Light would mean their time passes very slowly from an outside perspective. From _their_ perspective they'd feel like the Universe's lenght would have been shortened to allow to get into places in just "a few steps" and then come back to normal upon deaccelerating. But during the process of initial acceleration they'd see time outside the ship accelerating to an enormous degree into the future (General Relativity). I'd recommend looking into the Twin's Paradox to get a better idea of how this works.

[@howdyimhowdy3751]

this video is very informative but also feels like a guy telling a bunch of submarines to build an new continent after a floor drowned everything bigger than a Caribbean island

[@jamesdean9theBlainerific9fan]

nah

[@duckpotat9818]

Na, it’s telling people to use the salt water after we run out of fresh water

[@aaronlaughter6471]

@@duckpotat9818 Nah its telling people how to fix there broken radio, but having same people shit and piss themselves and tell you everything sucks.

[@QuinnBeckley]

a lot of the stuff that was said about harvesting resources from various celestial bodies holds no weight apart from asteroids and moons. the nearest star is 4 light years away, humanity has no way of accessing any of them.

[@eenayeah]

That edit of the cat eating the stars and planets was so unexpectedly hilarious I had to like the video immediately 🤣🤣

[@the_revolution6787]

Honestly I was confused after like a day of thinking about the situation in iron lung and this video brings up a lot of stuff that could be used to solve almost if not all the problems the people are having.

[@gamedominatorxennongdm7956]

I think the biggest problem in this universe is the societies surrounding it.

[@EvilFuzzy9]

Are you sure? Half the video is built on pedantry about what is and is not a star, and on what the game means by all stars and planets being gone. Based on the implications of the game, half of the stellar objects he postulates about wouldn’t exist either.

[@dram3711]

​@@EvilFuzzy9 who cares? Free blood n fish!

[@richardfloss832]

Except almost everything in the game suggests that they have very little resources to do anything. The sub they send is probably its last and probably scraped from other pieces of the ship and other subs. They have little to no industry no matter what ship they have because there is so little left. The game itself implies the desperate nature with its own title Iron Lung, something artificial keeping something organic diseased and crippled alive and prolonging its own suffering. Humanity is suffering and everything they've tried does not work its simply too far gone.

[@tendo649]

@@richardfloss832 wahh wahh wahhhh

[@imaplaygames633]

The reason that they probably aren't trying to eat the blood is that it's an anomaly itself, with potentially unknown effects upon interaction with the human body. The blood fish theory however sounds like a plausible thing and study should be put towards them.

[@MajinObama]

Seperate the blood into it’s smallest parts and into different chemicals, wouldn’t that fix it? Well, then again that‘s science and simple logic vs. Supernatural shit 💀

[@roddyaxolotl8519]

13:39 I think the problem with assuming the game experience isn’t representative of the blood ocean’s biosphere overall is the fact that the main driver of desolate deep sea ecosystems on Earth just flat out doesn’t matter. Light (even if there were stars to hypothetically provide light here) doesn’t penetrate blood at all pretty much, so the lack of energy from that source is consistent no matter the depth or whether or not you’re in a cave system (as we seem to be). A more likely explanation is probably that the sub is plain noisy and disruptive, there’s apparently enough light for eyes to be useful or, for the biosphere, was recently - the big reptilian creature is able to respond to our flash and has a pretty dang obvious eye, and the anglerfish also has fairly obvious eyes. Unless they’ve been transported to these moons somehow like the blood was, it’s not unreasonable to guess that these creatures can somehow see through the blood, and regardless can likely hear the submarine’s sonar pings (nobody really appreciates that sonar can be outright LETHAL to things caught up in it, our sub would be massacring whatever small fauna approaches it). We see nothing because nothing wants to get near us (and, in fairness, our method of finding stuff is a bit like running through a jungle with a camera flash while riding a motorcycle, in honesty)

[@viniciushenrique6672]

True

[@cockatoofan]

I feel like this whole thing is kinda dependent on faster than light travel being an option. Its still a pretty bleak setting in the sense that the only source of food is other people or human blood (or the fish monster if its edible) and if you can't grow food it makes a multi generation long journey impossible

[@Margen67]

birbs

[@Uncle_Rudi]

Came to watch a scientist, ended up with a lawyer

[@orangelunacy]

I've got to be 100% with you, speaking as someone who's actually got a passing familiarity with space science. Even in a future with some truly amazing technological advancements, if all the stars and planets suddenly vanished, we'd be beyond screwed from a resource perspective. It takes time energy, and resources to travel, so you need for all of that travel to have a greater rate of return than the cost. You need to be able to grow food. You need a source of energy, and oxygenating hydrogen is not going to cut it for long, plus that's also the burning of your breathable atmosphere. But all that is besides the fact, because the fact that all the stars disappeared *and* you can't still see the light coming from them means that the cause of the situation is supernatural, so on top of everything else tech is going right out the airlock.

[@jamesdean9theBlainerific9fan]

Nah thats not true

[@cornboi3227]

in the game, it's mentioned you CAN still see the light from the far away stars, it's even in the ending text crawl after you die. i do still agree that the situation is supernatural, because well, obviously

[@32BitJunkie]

Don't they have fusion in the game? Infinite energy buys you a lot of leeway

[@cornboi3227]

@@32BitJunkie where did you hear that

[@TheRunningLeopard]

@@cornboi3227Stars that aren’t there can still “admit light/be there” bc light takes time to travel to our location. Even in our world, if a star dies twenty years ago but it takes the light from that star thirty years to get here, it’ll take thirty years from the date it imploded for us to notice it is gone.

[@ValeBridges]

This video definitely explains why the setting of Iron Lung isn't bleak if you assume that, after the quiet rapture and the appearance of blood moons, everything will go on in accordance with our understanding of the laws of physics. There is absolutely no reason to assume that's true, though. Those events, and the existence of anomalies, imply the danger to humanity is supernatural in origin. Settings with cosmic horrors are already bleak when humanity is thriving. When humanity numbers in mere thousands, and the vast majority of our collective resources and infrastructure have inexplicably vanished, on top of the signs of Lovecraftian horror lurking within what little remains, humanity's odds are not great. I'd say it's more bleak of a setting than most SCP canons, at least.

[@lexa2310]

We simply dont know enough about the universe of Iron Lung. Though I dont think anyone would get anywhere unless they started with assuming it operates how we know it and go from there.

[@gabbypolitsch9992]

This video was great!!! I would love to see more going over the survivability of settings in games

[@kyceessadki2501]

also another thing is these are not advanced colonies designed for space travel, they were designed to orbit the earth. space stations are not meant to travel long distance and nebulae are VERY long distance not to mention it's incredibly difficult to collect resources from nebulas, they are not dense, they may look brigth and colourful, but zoom in and it will be pitch black. they are very thin, actually they are less dense than any vacuum created on earth. you cannot harvest resources from nebulas

[@oberonpanopticon]

3:50 You know how tenuous a nebula is, right? You’d have to somehow sweep out a cubic astronomical unit to get a meaningful amount of material. Even with sci-fi technology that’d be a huge undertaking, not to mention the fact that the world of iron lung isn’t exactly an ideal scenario for massive industrial projects 5:44 Actually, it’s believed that white dwarves may retain some of their outer planets. 6:37 It’s not so dramatic - you’d just have the iron ripped out of your blood is all. Depending on your distance. 11:15 I thought you were gonna say smth about dark matter, which would probably be intact in this scenario. 15:30 The problem with chemical fuels is that you need something to react them with, typically oxygen, which you wouldn’t want to literally burn through in this world. Yes, you could make oxygen from the water in ice or blood, but that takes power, so it’s kinda like pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. Nuclear fission or fusion would be far wiser. Overall pretty good video but you could stand to do a smidge more research and proofread your captions.

[@chromyl_chloride]

yeah, you lose more energy than you get by extracting hydrogen from water

[@SmokeFactory]

the white dwarves planets would stop existing too though

[@joelatimer2116]

Bro who are you the iron lung police? Why so salty?

[@wisefries4205]

@@joelatimer2116 Nothing "salty" about their comment. They are stating pretty reasonable ideas that the video may have gotten wrong. Do you always need to find something to bitch about?

[@oberonpanopticon]

@@joelatimer2116 I care about factual and scientific accuracy. This video seems to be based on science, even if it’s not perfect in its execution.

[@JVSkellington]

Something I only noticed after you mentioned the galaxy keeping its shape for a while is that if they know that all the stars have disappeared it's because their light has also disappeared along with them, instead of continuing to travel through space until, from the point of view of the survivors, they just started blinking out of existence years apart from each another.

[@dayalasingh5853]

6:18 bro I don't think you realize how big New York, that's not a few blocks.

[@klobiforpresident2254]

That's what, the Bronx, most of Manhattan, and half of Queens? That's barely an afternoon stroll! (Or so some think, it seems.)

[@zacw8869]

10:25 Water doesn't equal fuel. You have a lot of oxygen and hydrogen, yes, but the process that creates energy using them IS the formation of water. The amount of energy you are getting by forming water will never be more than the energy it takes to divide the water. You only get a net positive energy if they are already seperate in the first place.

[@hfso372]

I think they mean rocket fuel, seperating water into oxygen and hydrogen and reacting them together with heat for combustion

[@sirllamaiii9708]

​@@hfso372Again though you'd need energy to separate them into those parts, and the energy you'd get from burning them is the same or less than what it takes to split them

[@DemonBlanka]

Bro thought he discovered the infinite energy glitch

[@jeremychicken3339]

maybe just use a water hose and newton's third law?

[@sirllamaiii9708]

@@jeremychicken3339 still doesn't work sadly

[@namelessnocebo]

Ehh we're making a lot of assumptions here. At least in my mind their industrial capability is limited to mostly welding some scraps together and using limited existing equipment. There's probably less than 100 humans alive by the events of the game and they've already tried fishing and every other option before sending people in suicide missions. It's written as some sort of supernatural punishment for humans, or perhaps this particular set of humans. In any case I learned some interesting facts, cool vid.

[@alexandramilos392]

I don't think it's written as a punishment for humans in general at all considering so many things disappeared, it seems to be written more as a "what if?". Yes, the specific human we play as was send to die for unknown reasons as a punishment by the other surviving humans, but that's only one.

[@shawermus]

One hundred? Sorry, that's TOO LOW. They have freakin research teams, coalitions, terminals and etc. That's at least several thousands worth of people. Nobody would do such stuff as sending people in a rusty cans to death and waging wars with 100 people OVERALL. Everything hints at somewhat big population, not a 100 people world.

[@namelessnocebo]

@@shawermus there is two factions fighting for survival and one "research" team. You take everything in the world at face value when it's clearly meant to be the desperate attempts of a dying race. Again, humans fucked up and are pretty much in hell, that's the whole point of the thing. Hopefully the films focus more on this and less on markiplier himself.

[@mechaSurge]

@@namelessnocebo Nah, humans would win.

[@yjlom]

when it comes to space tech, welding scrap together should be enough it's much easier for shoddy construction to work when there's no weather or appreciable gravity the big question is going to be whether they can refine a fissible element (or can build fusion reactors which would solve everything) if so, they survive easily, if not, their only sustainable source of power early on would come from fermenting blood (as even burning methane requires oxygen which takes energy to extract from oxides) and I wouldn't be as sure of whether they can survive

[@Mochachocakon]

Yeah, but how would you even have the resources to reach these nebulas and black holes?

[@jofromthething]

Of all the issues I have with this video (thinking of the event as some kind of logic puzzle instead of like, space magic; obviously the vast majority of their advanced tech likely vanished with the planets; even if the best case scenario you imagine is true it would in fact still suck to be there lol) the biggest is that the captions that you put into your video are frequently incorrect lol. That being said I like your vibe, keep doing you bestie

[@potocalter6207]

Wait, does the quiet rapture happened once or whenever a star forms / planet forms it vanishes even after years of the event, If not, just wait a few days and tens of new stars and planets will form in the milky way (3-5 stars form in a day in the Milky Way)

[@Slormpington]

If quiet rapture is a constant removing, then the blood oceans still wild provide some respite, but ya constant rapture is a bit rough

[@fionaton179]

via... what matter? it gets poofed out of existence, and stars and planets form out of the material and energy left behind by other stars and planets

[@potocalter6207]

@@fionaton179 If nebulas and moons stille xist in the universe, stars will form again like nobodys business

[@dhans2881]

@@potocalter6207 if that "best type scenario" is on iron lung, it would take a shit ton of time to have some light again because most of the newly formed stars are really close to the center of the galaxy and it doesn't seem that humanity has traveled that far so... in a billion years they could get some light

[@mohanadelsabagh9534]

That's incorrect, it's only 7 stars per year in the Milky Way.

[@hybrid3643]

THE STARS HAS VANISH BLOOD IS FUEL MOON IS FULL

[@gatogordo1]

Blood sausage 😋

[@datcap6289]

ULTRALUNG

[@Justin-fn1ey]

I have never seen you channel before but I FUCKING LOVE the way you describe stars. I really hope you make more videos like this in the future.

[@jeremybarrett3616]

I think the main issue with the proto star is that all sources of natural light (aside from possibly anomalies like that on the moon surface) have disappeared. Also when they say "natural resources" I assumed they meant any habitable planetoid that wouldn't require large amounts of terraforming. So no easy lunch as it were. Really one of the big shames is that gas giants seem to be gone. (if they aren't that'd be fantastic) Although I'd be worried about what caused the Silent Rapture and it's influence lingering. The blood oceans contain large amounts of human blood (that hasn't clotted which is disturbing) and are potentially the remains of the humans who had been planetside when the Rapture occurred. The Silent Rapture was a supernatural event, so I'd be concerned about how that affected reality itself. You bring up alot of solid points. However, I think one of the issues is that Iron Lung seems to only take place in the Sol system. The few space stations left are all close enough together to make travel between them viable. The Coalition of Iron sounds like it is a group of stations in our asteroid belt. Whereas Eden Station may have been over Mars and is the only station with trees or complex plant life left. Filament Station was destroyed in the war between Eden and the Coalition of Iron. It also states that the submarines are some repurposed leftovers previously used for collecting samples & data gathering. Likely they would have been used on moons such as on Europa. What is left of humanity also would need to have some iron clad breeding plans to avoid genetic degradation leading to our species death. Considering the remnants are fighting over resources and ideology in these extremely dire times; I'd imagine things are looking very bleak. Nihilism appears prevalent in the wake of such an unnatural event. Twenty years have passed in setting with little good occurring beyond the discovery of four blood oceans. Humanity can survive, but bar some great leaps in progress is doomed. For we're trapped in the remnants of a dead solar system and have no means of going between systems except for colony ships (which would be a major undertaking to build). We also don't know how the orbit of the remaining celestial objects was affected by the sun and planets disappearing. We could have lost space stations simply because they were yeeted out into deep space without warning or means to prevent this loss. Iron Lung is a rough world. Maybe pray for a miracle?

[@weird_dude124]

Meanwhile on earth: All space crafts, moons and asteroids on solar system disappeared.

[@DonnaPinciot]

It does raise the question: What counts as 'on a planet' to disappear? Is it being within the atmosphere? Because that thing just kinda gets thinner the further away you are. And what would that mean for objects on planest without an atmosphere? Is it things affixed to the surface? Would there be loads of cars and stuff just floating in a vaguely spherical area in the general vicinity of Earth? If it's about being in _contact_ with the ground (Which is a collection of loose particles anyway, not a solid), would there be birds and planes randomly in the area? Or did 'god' just pick a radius around each planet and go 'yeah, that seems right' and hit 'delete'?

[@basic6735]

@@DonnaPinciot I imagine it’s a radius just large enough to delete everything on the planet, like the top of the Mount Everest is the edge of the radius

[@tobywatson9351]

Honestly this scenario would be just as terrifying, as it means there is some supernatural force that is actively preventing mankind from leaving Earth.

[@Stabilization]

@@tobywatson9351Either that or one day all of the humans on spaceships and space ships blooped out of existence one day. Doesn’t stop humans from going back out but I’d reckon humans might keep themselves on planet, afraid of what’s out there. Also I do like the idea of the people in the spaceships and stations just being teleported to deep space or being teleported to another universe with the same basic rules or time traveling to the heat death of the universe. It means they might be able to find a way back home. Or show humanity’s ability to thrive even when our home world is ripped away from us.

[@lunarsway]

the blood oceans are made of human blood iirc. so...

[@kyceessadki2501]

look man, if it wasn't mentioned in the game, then it probably doesn't exist anymore. that's kind of the best way to tell and most of these objects are millions of light years away, THESE ARE SPACE STATIONS not space ships, they are designed to orbit a planet or moon, not travel long distances

[@MichealFelk]

“the consolidation of iron, or c.o.i, is a brotherhood of three space stations and two spacecrafts”

[@rustinhaigood]

@@MichealFelk "light years away"

[@MichealFelk]

@@rustinhaigood If they formed a nation together, they definitely have FTLs, in fact if humans have been colonising space since the 90s everyone definitely has FTLs

[@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479]

Who knows? We could have a nation on the moon without ftl's. The sheer tiny scale too doesn't really help either.​@@MichealFelk

[@MichealFelk]

@@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479 If humanity had the technology to colonise Mars in the 90s, and have been exploring space ever since, there must be some form of FTL. Maybe wormholes, maybe Star Wars FTLs, maybe they use black holes as sling shots, maybe they use space dragons. But they definitely have some way of travelling through space on a human life time, in fact if they don’t have FTLs they’re better off. If they don’t have FTLs they must be using some form of sleeper ships so they have the technology to preserve themselves and resources for literally millions of years. Or they developed self sustaining ships, in which case the Quiet Rapture made them depressed, but they would other wise be perfectly fine. But they certainly aren’t acting perfectly fine, so they have limited resources, so they weren’t expected to stay in space for long periods of time, so they don’t use sleeper ships or similar designs. So they were expected to go through space in a shorter time span, so they have FTLs, so his argument holds up.

[@iosefka7774]

This is somewhat like a bird attempting to fly through a glass window.

[@twinbladevolt8679]

I disagree. They wouldn’t and couldn’t do much of any of what you just said. Space is simply far too big. I think with most of all resources and planets missing it’d be about a few years before everyone died off from lack of food production. On the off chance light speed was invented then another issue of fuel. You say hydrogen would be used, but you can’t use raw hydrogen you need to refine and create resources and unfortunately we don’t have enough info to determine if they could do something like that. (That’s space age tech). I think trying to use real world logic here is simply not a good way to determine if we could survive and that in THIS fantasy setting humanity is doomed.

[@minebrandon95264]

just turn the blood into milk

[@quackelstheduck2040]

bilk

[@unoriginalperson72]

​@@quackelstheduck2040 mlood

[@oak..]

..how?!

[@studentcopyofburgerking8108]

@@oak.. blood milk machine

[@RevenantCollision]

@@studentcopyofburgerking8108tastes just like the stuff at the hospital

[@eliteengineer7340]

Great arguments, exept that even by going at the speed of light "parking" in convinient spots isnt really realistic

[@TheRenofox]

I would love to have more of any kind of content about the Iron Lung universe. Games, youtube videos, comics... just the setting is so unique I'm desperate for more of it.

[@Traivss]

idk what i was expecting when I clicked on this video but it definitely wasn't a surprisingly useful astronomy lesson

[@ItsGamein]

I thought it was gonna be some analysis on how to use the blood ocean as a natural resource but this is kind of insane, a scrap spaceship on it's last legs is not achieving interstellar travel until it's inhabitants have already been dead for several centuries

[@9volt65]

“Umm simply go to a nebula and harvest all the hydrogen!!” This is a hilariously pop-culture version of science. It’s like the guy was informed solely by Reddit and KZbin shorts.

[@ep1cfac3]

@@9volt65 lmao exactly how I felt watching this

[@turkeygod6665]

This is a scifi setting, so it only fair to use scifi solutions that honestly arent even that crazy. An ocean of blood and the actual rapture is infinitely more crazy and fantastical than harvesting nebulas. Should have focused more on the blood, i agree, but your drawing the line in an odd place here.

[@aanakk]

​​@@9volt65this is literally a sci-fi world. Those "scrap ships" are able to wage war at each other, may or may not have FTL travel, and even if they don't that's just one of the options they have. It's just a thesis about how it's _possible_ to survive in Iron Lung universe in long term, especially with the technology they probably have, feasible or not is another thing entirely. Even without nebulas, dark holes and whatnot it's still possible to survive with just a blood moon, which was stated in the video. Life would just suck.

[@theloweffortchannel7211]

​@@turkeygod6665A rapture in the religious sense would have had nothing to do with the universe's physical laws. Traditionally in christianity, the world has always been described mechanistically, where miracles are things that are explicitly impossible within that framework.

[@simply_oat755]

12:30 this is assuming a 100% effective separation meaning nothing was lost during the purification

[@yektaagra741]

11:10 i think the concequences of the lack of gravity coming from all the celestial bodies in space would immediately be felt. If the celestial bodies disappeared "normally" then we would keep seeing them until the last of their light particles reached us. But if they blooped out instantly i dont see why their gravitational pull wouldnt cease instantly as well.

[@viniciushenrique6672]

True.

[@ClubstepMonsterOfficial]

Nah. Dark matter would still hold the galaxies together.

[@EvelynDayless]

I'm not super deep into the lore, but I thought their industrial ability was way lower than you suggested. I thought their submarines were converted space ships with just enough junk welded to it to be able to survive in a low gravity ocean and they weren't really making new things. I don't think they're going to be able to break down and build up entire supply chains out of vastly spread out bits of highly unrefined resources. Also most animals including humans can't just drink blood to survive, it has way too much iron to rely on it as a primary food. Species that rely on blood are specially adapted to it. Also also, I thought there was a lot of eldritch implications to the universe. For all we know Shub-Niggurath blinked out all the planets and assuming anything that appeared in its wake follows normal rules of ecology is a stretch. Also also also, the parts you see in the game are the places of interest that prior explorers have found. It's likely outside that is more desolate not less.

[@lessar2721]

Perhaps more of a logistical problem. How do you expect them to mine out into a core of a moon in a week worth of rations. Also existing infastructure should be non existant. Imagine trying to make a factory in a spaceship. ALSO the time needed and the expertise required... one person cant know how the entire supply chain works in any detailed way.

[@orangequill1645]

I mean tbf,The supply chain would be very simplified because there's only a handful of people. More than likely they already know how to industrialize in space as they are far into the future. Also as he said in the video:You could expand the rations with blood pudding

[@Forsakenruler]

@@orangequill1645also air and if you say blood ocean the blood there may be toxic

[@aaronlaughter6471]

Slave labor, your sending convicts on suicide missions, wasting resources on a submarine you fully expect to not make it back. I mean there you go, use the convicts and materials for the submarines to make somewhat "decent" mining facilities, there slaves/convicts, who the fuck cares if they die.

[@isuckatusernames4297]

Isac arthur viewers be like:

[@Slormpington]

Short your onto me

[@isuckatusernames4297]

@@Slormpington well, I'm sure that will all that blood around, you can make some sort of decent drink and snack and start contemplating building a birch world around a black hole.

[@j-twd930]

Exposed!

[@mekingtiger9095]

I also remember the final written quote of this game saying something about there being a small bit of hope for humanity. Like, very, very small. But still existing. That's a rather interesting bit of detailed that often gets ignored in this subject. I never got to know what it meant, but it's there.

[@richardhoesten]

Nebulae are so diffuse that there is no practical way to harvest anything useful from it, you'd need absurd superstructures to do so.

[@TranshumanMarissa]

I feel like this is less pointing out that iron lung isnt as grim as it seems, and more pointing out how many unknown variables there are to such a setting. (the nebula and protostar and dwarf star stuff might all be a moot point if they vanished too.)for example, if its literally just moons and astroids of low value (say mostly sillica and only minor amounts of metal and water) then most people left in stations would die really fast. Im sure we could sustain some amount of population, though I will say, Im unsure about using the blood oceans, considering they are an unknown biological contaminant. Though, if we assume the blood is safe to process, then yeah, having biomatter is a good thing here for many purposes.. you could potentally grow mushrooms, or use it as a crude fertilizer, for plants depending, on what sort of infrastructure there is for it. that being said, I think its still a struggle, and most of the population is going to end up in trouble.. especially if there is a huge imbalance to the resources left in the universe, and the blood ends up nonviable. (unusual chemical composition, or being highly contaminated in some anomalous way.) so it still feels like the setting is about as grim as people make it out to be.

[@deppygcreations784]

"All the stars and planets in the galaxy have poofed out of existence" (Still keeps picture of all of the stars in the shot)

[@batatanna]

I mean... The light would still be travelling across space

[@deppygcreations784]

@@batatanna you kinda right

[@AxisGMD2010]

Aww I wanted to comment that

[@idioticlight]

The game does specifically mention that starlight is still around

[@deppygcreations784]

@@idioticlight yassss ✨️ science ✨️