Melanoheliophobia

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[@SciencephiletheAI]

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[@TheHispanicUsername]

it's a good book

[@Nr_Symphony]

Nice :)

[@mc6470]

Hey sciencephile

[@Spartanwarlord]

Mood

[@justsomecommunistwithinter2627]

ok

[@patrickbaker7014]

"Spiders never are that big of a threat as your brain might be telling you" Me, an Australian:

[@swbrl2843]

dn sʇɐɥʍ ʎǝɥ

[@Shanavas4459]

@@swbrl2843 ceiling

[@shadow15kryans23]

Some Crazy Australian KZbinr guy: "Hey Guys, Welcome to fact or 🧢"

[@pancake658]

Food

[@catpoke9557]

I mean even then people often overestimate it by running full speed away from them when in reality even fast spiders are still quite slow and don't want to chase you anyways

[@fnando1281]

I personally think that the universe's horrors are so abstract and so unfathomable for the human mind, that it is completely natural for us to want to explore it without hesitation or second thoughts

[@eyeluvdrew9615]

Very well put

[@SV42165]

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. - Lovecraft

[@jalengeneblazo1772]

Terror not horror 👍

[@irssalmn6088]

@@eyeluvdrew9615 is a great place

[@manofcultura]

Mankind was full of hubris, until that fateful day we had to enter into the void where all things are simultaneously welcome and unwelcome. Coming to a theater near you, DEEP PROBE URANUS.

[@erwinrommel2498]

Honestly for me, I fear blackholes, but not in this way. The thought of falling into it is not what bothers me. It's more the fact that they exist. If I was next to a blackhole, it freaks me out that there is this utterly incomprehensibly massive sphere of pitch black something and I have no idea of telling if I'm too close to it or not. I still find them fascinating and I absolutely love blackholes while simultaneously fearing them.

[@coda56]

This put in to words exactly how I feel about them aswell.

[@loganjensen3942]

Mega relatable. But on the other hand I also have the falling in fear lol. There's an action/spaceflight game I play in which you can fall into a black hole. I really want to do it at some point just to see what happens but the idea of doing it makes me so sick haha. And there are rare resources you can harvest in the gravity well of the black hole, so an alarm is going off and you feel the black hole pulling on your ship and you push out with your thrusters as hard as you can because it's literally just too scary to play around with the black hole lol. Oh yeah and if that wasn't enough they have an elite enemy that is a sentient black hole. It will fire homing missiles, it can teleport around, and sometimes it will teleport very close to you so it can just suck you in. Being anywhere closer than 5 seconds of boosted flight distance is too close lol

[@Checkers10]

This is EXACTLY how I feel

[@lukemcgill5824]

@@loganjensen3942 Let’s be honest, I too feel the same way. I’m ALSO AFRAID of heights. I also feel that fear.

[@thalastianjorus]

If you would like I could explain the scientific reason that it took all of your senses in order, leaving only slight, and then left you disembodied for a moment. It's a fun process, and what would _actually_ happen. Good on your subconscious.

[@tyegordon]

I had major melanoheliophobia when I first heard the song “black hole sun” as a kid. It introduced me to the idea of a black hole eating up the earth and I had night terrors about it for a while and often had scary day dreams about it. Eventually the stresses of my teen and adult life took me out of it and now I’m just so nihilistic I don’t worry about mass extinction events in general anymore

[@camarokidbb4347]

I personally don’t worry about mass extinction events in lieu of the dinosaurs’ because the chance of them happening is so much less than the chance you’d get murdered in Singapore (if you’re not aware, the chances are 2 in one million). Now whether or not you’d consider “global warming” a mass extinction event given the rise of CO2 is another thing entirely, although I just think part of it is just Earth recovering from its last ice age, which happened only 10,000 years ago, give or take. Earth works in a timescale that reaches over 10s of millions of years, if not more. Pollution however is an entirely different subject, and I do wish we’d find and convert over to more efficient sources of fuel (both in expenditure and in power).

[@j.l.4338]

Thank you. I've finally found someone else who's been traumatized in some way by black hole sun. 😅

[@moonzieeditz6276]

11.😊

[@Elayzee]

It was NOT the black hole that made that music video scary. The faces were the real scary part.

[@j.l.4338]

@@Elayzee no it was not the black hole! 🤣 I cant even watch that video now and im 33

[@JohnDoe-xp4iy]

I never even thought about gas giants being pitch black inside. For some reason I always imagined a colorful lit up gassy fog. That hit me hard for absolutely no reason and now I have a sudden fear of gas giants.

[@dogteam6178]

hol up

[@shellaboudhoo8297]

I mean there aren’t any alians to make lights over there 😂

[@DiveTheseClips]

Yeah that's one horrifying way to die.

[@NitinKumar-lk1pi]

Same

[@HaloForgeUltra]

You think thats bad? Now a imagine a water world. An Ocean so deep, even the strongest submarines would be crushed before they reach the bottom.

[@mcbadrobotvoice8155]

“If the universe is so big why won’t it fight me?”-internet historian

[@michal_king478]

"come on strike me down zeus, you dont have the bal-" *dies*

[@Nabekukka]

Where does the sun go at night? Is math related to science?

[@rudra.patel.001]

@@Nabekukka deadass some girl in my class asked why the moon doesn't melt when it touches the sun during an eclipse. We are in high school. Fucking high school.

[@dignelberrt]

which vid was that

[@DasPoopinfarten]

@@dignelberrt The no man sky one

[@doomakarn]

I first found out about my fear of blackholes when playing Universe Sandbox in which I was absolutely terrified of zooming in too fast, or even looking at a blackhole lest I be filled with dread or jumpscared. Still though, they are absolutely fascinating and of the many things in this universe; they are among my favourite.

[@D4W1LL13]

Never zoom in too fast in that game. You either get blinded by the Sun, or stare into emptiness

[@Tsumami__]

Lmaoooo

[@Noomagenial]

I get a jumpscare worse than the blackhole itself when i zoom it: The reflection of my face

[@yvam1145]

Oh my god i experienced the same, i got jumpscared in that game so many times because of the freaking zoom. The best part is that i bought an oculus rift headset and tried to play it (spoiler: i couldn't)

[@nathipad1237]

@doormakarn same 😓

[@InfernalAspect]

welp, it's 2024 now, time to see if this prediction is true or not.

[@SusDoctor]

I'm excited

[@NPC..........]

This is exhilarating. Get excited

[@Nu.ll.]

sadly no

[@The.Corrupt]

Well time to see whether or not I actually exist

[@bmak3979]

funny he picked Guy Fawkes Day

[@AlexEvett55]

I dreamt that the sun was swallowed by a black hole in the middle of day, and it was now expanding and covering the sky and was coming for earth. I was holding onto another person as tight as I could, knowing that when the darkness reached us we would be separated forever. Strangely the black hole took my senses from me one at a time, until at last my sight survived, and then that was gone too. And then I was just a bodiless mind.

[@andremcknight8869]

Thats deep…

[@blattodephobia]

Four sentence horror.

[@PilifXD]

I also had a kind of nightmare like this, but it involved a microscopic black hole unexplainably forming inside the earth. I remember the ground rumbling and a feeling of increasing weight that started becoming unbearable. I woke up before the actual death in that dream, but I literally clutched onto my bed and had to look outside the window to make sure that shit wasnt really happening. That feeling of hopelessness was absolutely terrifying.

[@stolen_dance142]

dude wtfff i had literaly the same dream

[@stolen_dance142]

it was something like 5 years, but i still remember until today the way that sun was eatead by the black hole, i was in the middle of the street somewhere i dont know. i remember that people was just doing thing normaly, there was a couple in a near sitting by my side just doing some couple stuffs. and the black hole was coming close and close until it reached me and i felt nothing and then i wake up

[@aaronsmith8073]

Black holes used to keep Albert Einstein up at night. He remarked that he sometimes had a hard time believing such object existed (despite his field equations and general relativity). And he would wake up in the middle of the night thinking about them and would not go back to sleep, trying to think up of ways to figure out how the singularity can exist inside a black hole.

[@GuRuGeorge03]

I think many people have experienced that. When u have a problem like that, that u can't solve immediately but u know that if u just put in the work, you will eventually solve it, then it's normal to think about it all the time. I am a programmer and it happens quite a lot that I have a big problem that I can't solve within a single work day, then sometimes I wake up at like 2 am because I just dreamt of a solution or major breakthrough/advancement for the problem. I also have a little piece of paper beside my bed, just so that I can take notes when this happens. Sometimes though, it is so exciting to have found a solution, that I just go to work early lol

[@aaronsmith8073]

@@GuRuGeorge03 that's correct. I have had those moments as well. I heard Elon Musk has them frequently (either camps out in the manufacturing line or camps out near the Starbase when he has vexing problems he needs to solve).

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@aaronsmith8073 I love to recommend-around sci-youtubers-and-such. If anyone is interested, please hestitate no sec and ask me.

[@thegoat1237]

Now who told you Einstein lost sleep over this?

[@ItsWazzza]

Einstein was on that black hole grind

[@mirandakeigher819]

I have this memory that I've repressed most of the context away from, but in probably third grade we had an astronomy presentation in the gym where each grade would go into this big inflatable dome and there was a guy inside who talked about space, but he kept hyping up that we were going to see inside a black hole at the end. Everyone was psyched but I FREAKED out. I knew I wasn't going to be sucked into a black hole, but I thought maybe because there's nothing in a black hole, the dome would deflate and we would all panic and get stuck inside and suffocate. I also just did not want to hear about the existential horror of black holes and have to look at one while stuck inside an inflatable. This guy had me sold that he was going to simulate the experience of being sucked into a black hole. Not something I want to be a part of. I got more and more anxious as the presentation went on, so much so that I started to cry, but it was DARK, and I thought that if I asked to leave I would get yelled at, so I had to cry loud. So the teachers could hear and get me the heck out of there. But that meant that the whole grade got to see me cry like a little bitch because I was afraid to see a picture of a black hole. And thus, my dream of being an astronaut ended, and the seed for my imminent existential crisis was sewn. Fuck black holes.

[@sirblue5586]

Yikes 😅

[@mystline815]

What a hilarious story. Thanks for that haha

[@rod2662]

On gang black holes a buncha lowlife mfs

[@ARCHIVED9610]

why did they do that 😅

[@ahalverson1122]

My school did that too when I was in third grade

[@Kelporama]

Not gonna lie thinking about seeing the universe speed up and end before you go (if you're still alive) is kind of a beautifully sombre thing to think about, not only will you see you life flash before your eyes but the entire universe's....honestly pretty magnificently dark in my opinion.

[@leomartin7409]

You will be the oldest human ever to live. Think about it.

[@ZiemakAttack]

I’m glad my irrational fear that I’ve expressed to multiple people in the past of falling into Jupiter is somewhat justified.

[@maasikalama]

ROGHT JUPITER IS SO SCARY😭😭

[@avalon4459]

@@maasikalama Jupiter is indeed scary but it's like our big brother because it protects us from meteors

[@ruth540]

_I have the exact same fear_ 😭😭😭

[@narutonine6098]

Exactly

[@anthonyloveschickens]

EXACTLY Like you would just be crushed to death in a pitch black windy hell

[@ScorpoYT]

3:51 the music really fit the process of the cat being turned into spaghetti

[@voodoo_1_viper]

Yes

[@SciencephiletheAI]

Hello to the Doge army.

[@ThaDoggo]

@@SciencephiletheAI can i join

[@alexrator7674]

Ah yes its comrade scorpo

[@someonewithinternetacess4316]

Scorpo???

[@snubblepoo2840]

It’s so nice seeing your videos because they discuss questions I’ve asked myself for YEARS but no one had the same interest in talking about them and trying to figure them out like I did.

[@sirduckington6533]

Back when I was a kid, I was extremely scared of the black holes from Super Mario Galaxy and I remember a nightmare of having my house be torn apart and eventually being sucked in myself. The fear has now subsided, and I only get slightly unnerved by black holes but I mostly just find them really fascinating. I think the main thing that scared me was how infinite it seemed and how it could easily suck in everything.

[@SnowGoemsWorld]

Mario galaxy, combined with the Void from Minecraft, was responsible for many nightmares.

[@ppenmudera4687]

When I play Space Engine I always go to black holes and enter them, because the combination of coolness and utter horror is like a drug of something

[@nutella_man7075]

Sameeee

[@bocchithean-cap3404]

Hmu hmu time to hit fit girl thanks for your recommendation

[@DarthSidian]

@@bocchithean-cap3404 Fit Girl Repacks?

[@bocchithean-cap3404]

@@DarthSidian it's a pirating site me boy

[@thestickmingamer]

​@@bocchithean-cap3404 PIRACY ALERT! PUT YO HANDS UP AND NOBODY GETS HURT!

[@xjetfirex3956]

Guess I'm the weird one here, because.. I actually like black holes, it's my favourite celestial object. Dark, mysterious, powerful. And quasars... Cosmic crucibles of raw energy, with matter circling around in an accretion disc and being expelled at subluminal speeds as jets of hot plasma. Extremely deadly yet so beautiful... It thrills me to no end, how the darkest known objects can give out the most light, becoming the brightest. Like beacons of the universe.

[@duck.306]

same

[@user-sr4lt3ij1j]

well duh everyone likes black holes, if they're not falling into it time traveling five million years getting ripped apart by gravity and dying.

[@xjetfirex3956]

@@user-sr4lt3ij1j The point of the video is not about literally falling into one, it's about an irrational fear of doing so that people might experience even when out of danger. I didn't see many people liking blackholes for the reasons I mentioned above, hence my assumption it's not a common thing. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, sure. But your thesis is clearly getting in contradiction with... Well, almost the entire comments section of this video.

[@Computer9000]

I love black holes. Ever since I learned of them when I was 3. Once even, I had a dream of somehow owning one as a pet. I was immune to its affects, but I used it to cause mass destruction.

[@hoppy78]

Agreed, They are the “Bad Guys” of the universe but also the “Good Guys” as the east stars and planets but also hold galaxies together

[@Vhs-sans-and-neko-seek]

Thanks for that ending message, just what I needed.

[@fandroid6491]

Countdown!!!

[@monke6839]

Thank you for this calming and fun creation of a phobia!

[@siimmrx]

A very nice message at the end. Very calming 😌

[@rickyspanish4792]

For me it honestly went a bit too far not gonna lie

[@ex5080]

@@rickyspanish4792 don't worry you won't feel that way in 1,055 days

[@evildragon1774]

Can anyone fact check that?

[@vividant]

I can't wait

[@vvvvv6574]

@@rickyspanish4792 there is no escape.

[@Bruced82]

I don't like to look at the supposed look of black holes, it's something about the endless, deep, round shape, whirlpools give me the same feeling of dread. Like a combination of megalophobia, thalasophobia and fear of the unknown. At the same time, there is the curiosity and endless fascination a black hole has, like the pull of the void to find out what the singularity is.

[@fransthefox9682]

Then you would absolutely love SpaceEngine.

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

I know! The scary part is not the whole thought of it being inescapable and offering a horrible death, but the sheer look of the pictures. They are so uncanny and creepy. Space Engine is terrifying, even having you able to escape any time, because just the sight of the black hole is revolting.

[@WaveOfDestiny]

Not really black holes since I know how they work too much, but I have a similar feeling about tornadoes. They are really dangerous, but there is something incredible and creepy in how they form, move, change shape, destroy, it's like a godlike creature that wants to bring you in its mouth and then digest you with unparelled strenght. I had a good number of nightmares as a kid about being "chased" by them, and now I find them even more amazing knowing that we actually don't know all things about them yet

[@zeiccia]

@@WaveOfDestiny if you think you know black holes you dont know them lol

[@WaveOfDestiny]

@@zeiccia knowing too much doesn't mean I know all about them. I know too much to be creeped out by them

[@DizzyDJW]

I've been looking for this phobia for EVER, but google always went back to "Megalophobia" but big things aren't scary, just cosmically large things. Approaching a planet or moon in a video game, triggers this fear for me. Same for nearing a black hole, but especially black holes.

[@Noomagenial]

Supernovas are kinda scary too when im too close to them in video games when they explode and they happen so fast kinda like a mink heart attack

[@Kyumifun]

"But big things aren't scary" tell that to me when i was terrified of the fucking Eiffel Tower (and well, any tower really) as a kid. Sometimes i feel dread when i see the picture of Earth from space, like after zooming out too far in Google maps. I'd hate to just go up and and up and up and up.... So high i'll reach space (and propably continue flying)... So far from everybody to an empty void. Yeah, fuck no. So i guess i have a fear of heights and large objects. Sorry for the dumb rant.

[@lazyweeb8473]

I think I had this phobia as a kid, I was fucking scared of moon when it appeared larger than usual and I was also scared of excavators and cranes...

[@lllooolll327]

Can't believe I haven't subbed to you before now. I've been watching your content for a long time thinking that i already had.

[@REEEPROGRAM]

Considering all the stars that we see at night is just a tiny group to our galaxy, i don't even want to comprehend how big the universe is and how easy it is to get lost

[@hudojnik93]

The radius of the observable universe is therefore estimated to be about 46.5 billion *light-years* 1 *light second* = 299 792.458 kilometers

[@rubenverster250]

Did you know that space is so big and empty, you do a warp jump into any direction and you have basically a 0% (0.00000...%) chance of hitting something in your jump :D

[@robloxtipshelper]

@@rubenverster250 No Man’s Sky makes a tad more sense now 😂

[@itsdokko2990]

it gives me a bit of anxiety when i try to grasp the sheer size of the whole universe. My chicken brain goes _SYNTAX ERROR_ instantly

[@rubenverster250]

@@itsdokko2990 you wanna be even more flabbergasted? Go check out the other video on this channel regarding size. You're closer to the size of Ton blackhole than you are to the planck length ':)

[@Dr._Geno]

I had melonoheliophobia for like a single day, and it was brought about exactly how you suggested, but when I understood how unbeleivably far away they actually are that calmed me down. I now honestly love learning about black holes and other cosmic phenomena.

[@sculean]

there could be one near by, we wouldn't be able to see it. The ones we have pictures of are at the centers of galaxies which is why they have such bright disks. one just chilling in space on its own would be invisible

[@joeverr]

@@sculean A whole lot of that isn’t true and there are many ways to “see” one, if there was one anywhere near us the earth’s rotation would get unimaginably fucked up.

[@aga3852]

@@joeverr Yeah though one thing that can get you scared is by how supposedly EASY they could be created, no matter the size.

[@rileygrimes9107]

@@sculean Not true, there tons of meaurements that we would totally see one decades out.

[@camarokidbb4347]

Not just black holes, but most cosmic objects too. The only reason the asteroid belt seems thick is because it’s covering a radial distance further away than Mars’ orbit to the sun. And of course, as dotted as it seems even by that scale, I think a competent non-suicidal pilot would be just fine. If you want further proof, just about none (if not absolutely none) of the probes NASA has sent out for example ever failed to reach their destination, being the moons of Jupiter, Pluto, or beyond.

[@kvass679]

The first time i learned about what truly causes them i wasnt scared, I was eager to know more and i kept trying to find out more stuff about them. After 3 years (and wild psychosis episodes that have gotten less intense ovetime), i dreadfully fear them. I fear other unknown things like dark matter and vacuum fluctuations, but black holes still give me a hard time mentally when i extensively watch videos about them. And yet i still binge your Astronomy playlist repeatedly! It's also a good reminder to cut ties with anthropocentrism. Although i feel morbidly worthless but i think preserving life on earth for all living beings and pushing vitality to the limit is not ridiculous. i still admire that.

[@dark6.6E-34]

I had a dream where I woke up on a tiny pod / space craft. When I looked from the cockpit window it dawned on me that i was falling into a balck hole. No matter in what direction I burnt I had no chance of reaching escape velocity. It was a fall aimed straight to the center. The horror of blackness slowly cramping up your field of vision while you sit there waiting for death is something different. It was one of the most vivid dreams i ever had.

[@ranimel7174]

thats so cool!

[@swanky464]

So i now know the name for another phobia I have. This and thalassaphobia are my two biggest fears, and I’ve always attributed it to the fact that infinite voids scare me. I can’t ever explain it fully but just the thought of falling into a deep, endless chasm, with no solid ground below you and nothing to hold onto is just terrifying. Idk if it’s because I’m scared of the loss of my senses, of what lurks within the void, or just the thought of being surrounded by nothingness, but voids terrify me

[@unknowngod8221]

technically speaking why not kill our self if we are so small and our existence is useless?

[@scottydu81]

Muxiphobia is the fear of Jupiter

[@Damian-cilr1]

infinite voids scare me too.this is the reason i dislike going out of bounda in any kind of game,whether intentionally or not.

[@thomasbeaumont8884]

That would be debilitating. Imagine looking into the infinite void of your soul and being scared of what stares back

[@eli_727]

@@Damian-cilr1haha i am the opposite, sometimes even in multiplayer games i just chill at tge borders, especially in games with explorable seas i want to be in the middle of the ocean where no one else is

[@buffruddy297]

I have morbid curiosity with things that scare me. So Black holes have quickly become one of the things I know a lot about. Ive seen those videos of falling into them from a 360 perspective and I get this intense feeling of fear. It’s looking into the deep black sphere and thinking “this is it.” I want to try it in vr because the emersion can be really intense. If I was to choose a way to die, it would be a fast acting cyanide capsule, while falling into a supermassive black hole. I can take the easy way out when the spaghettification becomes too painful, but until that point, I would see an event that is unfathomable to our minds. I would see the universe unfold as I look back out of the black hole. And when I look down I could see the deepest darkest depths the universe can create.

[@justabreeze1234]

Chad

[@rav9066]

oh my god you have it completely planned out

[@midnick2159]

damn, Dylan, you're edgy lol

[@buffruddy297]

@@rav9066 you make me sound like I’ve meditated on this for hours XD

[@buffruddy297]

@@midnick2159 it’s one of those places my brain goes on a sleepless night I guess. I promise I’m not this edgy in person lol

[@juandavidfallacadena3701]

Falling into an empty void where nothing, NOTHING can get out at an high speed knowing very well that there is nothing i can do is my worst nigthmare, thanks for awakening it inside me

[@creepycandies]

I think I have a phobia of "vacant black". That black part goes on forever without end can be unsettling and overwhelming, especially if it reminds you of the vastness of space and the terrifying potential of black holes.

[@Gameknight2169]

"What makes the Universe Terrifying?" The fact that it doesn't give a shit about us, and that's also what makes it absolutely fascinating

[@Northstarpri]

Well we are the only living being in this universe as we know of so ofc they won't give 2 shits about us

[@sourgreendolly7685]

By this definition people should be afraid of most other people. ...I KNEW it wasn't just generalized anxiety 😂

[@sourgreendolly7685]

@@Northstarpri We aren't even the only living beings on the planet wym

[@Dleeplanecrazy]

i wish i was the universe just dont care about anything and if it happens it happens

[@chicagobreed502]

I had the extreme urge to scroll down when you said we were gonna test Melanoheliophobia and I tried to fight it, but failed. I am weak to the holes power.

[@doomsday7308]

This sounded wrong

[@paininthebox1291]

" i am weak to the holes power " you have no idea what you just did

[@weeeeeeeeeeeeeee8760]

Wait until you try it in VR

[@duvipearson6251]

Women amirite?

[@fruitsrbetterfightme9093]

i love this LMAOOO 💀💀💀💀

[@cnawak]

This is the year we'll discover if a gamma ray hits our planet on November 5th…

[@SpaceInvader-rj1og]

Haha xD

[@cloudypolaris9284]

Your videos are always phenomenal

[@joy-wire]

I have a big fear of space and the open ocean. Most of my nightmares involve getting taken away by strong currents, or falling up into the sky. But like many of us, I am fascinated by those things and I love researching them. Perhaps it's a subconscious effort to try and shed some light into the unknown.

[@alexandradelicam464]

@Matt H truly a humble giant

[@Moksha.Samsara]

I have the same dreams and fears

[@Chris-jw8vm]

I'm not the only one that sometimes worries when outside that gravity will reverse. I'm not alone :,)

[@brianklinsmann1142]

@@Chris-jw8vm Bro, this one hit me, damn.

[@sh0tsumedits]

"shed some light" my boy you absorb all of it

[@ruaridh6744]

Question: since time dialation would be so extreme when entering the black hole, would that mean that the black hole would immediately disintigrate due to hawking radiation?

[@mahermagdy4604]

No , cause you and the black hole are experiencing time with the same rate (very slow time passage) . unlike the outside of the black hole where time passage is normal

[@AugustoV8Cesar]

@@mahermagdy4604 the best reply.

[@Deleted-Banana]

Nah, we just die. lol

[@moist537]

Probably not. But, that’s a really cool theory. What if everything that goes into a black hole immediately disintegrates since time dilation is so great from the perspective of what ever is in the centre of the black hole, and that’s why things can be sucked into black holes and never seen again… it’s definitely wrong bc there’s something I’m not considering but that’s a good question anyways…

[@pi4313]

Wait how strong would the time dilation be if you didn't pass the event horizon, and just got close to it? Could be theoretically travel millions or billions of years in the future?

[@arandomcatheehee]

Not surprised that I have this phobia

[@Ing_Failure]

Really hope that this video will be recomended on the start of november of the next year...

[@Dudegotowned]

Space Engine is a horror game to me. While I absolutely love exploring the universe and taking snapshots on pretty planets, I also went to gas giants, stars and even black holes. Getting too close to gas giants or accidentally wandering into its atmosphere triggers a massive shock reaction to me. Faster pulse, goosebumps, the works. The worst one was trying to get to our Milky Way’s SMB. Black holes are incredibly hard to pinpoint and the closer you get to it, the more stars you can observe orbiting quickly. Actually getting to the black hole made me quit the game.

[@AntimatterBeam8954]

I want to download this game now.

[@spacebassist]

@@AntimatterBeam8954 it's really damn good. I think there's still beta 0.8(?) on the creator's site but if 0.8 is pretty then the steam release is downright mesmerising

[@AntimatterBeam8954]

@@spacebassist I’m going to obtain this :)

[@CrispyMuffin2]

​@@AntimatterBeam8954 that game is fucking amazing, literally the whole universe to explore and i ended uo spending over 12 hours in just 1 star system looking at cool shit im pretty sure this is the first game to actually leave me speechless when playing, i would just find something cool and just admire it for god knows how long there is a free beta version, but its extremely outdated. the steam version has so much cool shit, like volumetric nebulae, better tools/ui and just prettier and more optimized graphics in general i could go on forever about it but i've already created a great wall of text so yea

[@konodiodaaa4693]

Omw to steam for this, im excited

[@Mushroom_Man]

What good timing! I was just in the middle of a metaphysical crisis!

[@_Eric._]

Don't you mean existential crisis?

[@artsyabin8145]

*Always has been

[@sarahnorman6856]

I find that it is the dark and unknown that gives a black hole its frightening beauty. No one knows what's inside or if there's an exit. After learning that you see your reflection on the edge of a black hole upside down (your own rear view), I'm dying to see it for myself! 🤗🖤

[@Shiny-king]

A fear of there being no end or beginning is simple to think about but scary at the same time endless and no start wondering till the end of time never to stop is amazing to think about and so sad but not hopeless knowing there will be something in the future

[@faith9338]

I remember learning about black holes for the first time in fourth grade and I was absolutely terrified for months until I learned that some snakes in the wild are poisonous. From one phobia to the next…

[@imheretocongrats4130]

AHAHHA great comment made me laugh

[@itzmeB2]

*5th of November 2024 comes* Sciencephile: you know the rules and so do i

[@AnimeRecksYou]

Was he serious?

[@pajiacgimpera]

@@AnimeRecksYou yes of course he did detect a gamma ray travelling at the speed of light crated by a dying star millions or even billions of years ago he sure did detect it yup no sarasm here he was serious all of us will die by 2024 5h november absolute no cap

[@Dani-jc5yx]

@@AnimeRecksYou I looked it up and no news media was talking about it. So he probably isn't serious.

[@Unpug]

Haha I love the way you deliver these concepts!

[@sampletext24]

Love the fact the majority of the footage was taken in Space Engine, great space exploring sim

[@kebabinii7577]

6:34 I always feel that fear when I warp really close to the Jool in KSP, It's a game about sending small people into the space yet watching those planets getting huge (really fast) and covering my entire screen scares me more than horror games

[@captaincomrade8056]

Jool is beautiful. Seeing it rise in Laythe’s night sky is one of my favorite things in ksp

[@LH475]

Same in elite dangerous

[@yusuf513]

What if you play rss

[@RolaiEckolo]

Star Citizen players malding when no black hole update with realistic physics that crashes every PC in their zip code.

[@Ibloop]

It’s KSP and no mans sky in VR

[@s0mguy777]

Yes I was absolutely terrified of THAT specific animation of a black hole. not because its a black hole. But because of the severe flashbacks i get from hearing that high pitched noise while reading that i died.

[@weeniepeenie6751]

I think the fear gets worse when i think about my loved ones, how i will die without telling them i love them and it stresses me out

[@nutsachey]

ai, this was a good video, better see molre similar shit like this in the future

[@NickoGibson]

Clicked a black hole in Space Engine in VR. And when it snapped into view, for a second I felt a type jump scare I havent felt since the first Alien.

[@keisufederationmapping2748]

Honestly it’s not the way it looks it’s just the way it loads in for me Nothing, and then boom. Eye of sauron staring into my soul

[@sirblue5586]

​@@keisufederationmapping2748 holy crap I wanna try this

[@Vasari12]

Every time when in playing around in Space Engine, I inevitably scare myself, by searching for a black hole and just fast-traveling to it. Seeing that sphere of blackness and bent light around it just suddenly popping up always scares me.

[@Slferon]

oh boy you haven't experienced accidentally throwing a black hole into another one in universe sandbox 2 just for if you have the program, don't

[@doomsday7308]

@@Slferon im totally trying it

[@unknowngod8221]

why not trying to break space engine? I never see anyone do that

[@sirblue5586]

Do it in Vr

[@cursecuelebre5485]

I love space but it does give me anxiety to know that it’s so vast, infinite, the unknown it does give me anxiety but also fascinates me even more!

[@kelbinhow]

Finally some video about my strange fear. A while ago (a few months or a year maybe) I was watching a random video just like this one that came to my feed, about stars and other celestial things and one part of the video that showed a black hole reminded me of the time I was eager looking to play some games that were known for portraying space exploration either with realism or just plain fun and found out about Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous and Outer Wilds, and boy oh boy I shouldn't have looked for it LOL. It was by watching some of these games' videos and also playing Outer Wilds that this incomprehensible fear came to me, I was amazed and scared at the same time. Started to look for a name of this weird fear/phobia that I developed about black holes and other massive celestial bodies. I did come across megalophobia but that wasn't specific enough and now this... Melanoheliophobia. Yes the "black hole test" in this video made me "super flinch" and look away XD

[@NautilusMusic]

I find trypophobia might be to warn us away from things like wasp nests, and perhaps there are other things out there in nature But otherwise, it's just a strange icky sensation, I wouldn't call it a phobia in the way that arachnophobia is, but it feels icky I also have a fear of infinite voids, like space. I've had nightmares where I'm floating in a straight line through a void knowing I have a destination but knowing it is so infinitely far away I will never reach it or see another object again. I once got stuck in a dark room where all light had been purposefully blocked out, I couldn't find a wall or a door or anything to orient myself. I had no idea how big the room was or anything about it I shudder just remembering the sensation

[@datwitchyswordfan]

Went through the same thing, but as a kid. Imagine being 5-7 year old me, and you’re stuck in a room that’s completely dark. It was scary

[@NautilusMusic]

@@datwitchyswordfan yeah that experience happened to me around 11 or 12 and it haunted me for years

[@eVill420]

I think trypophobia exists so that we avoid holes of poisonous/toxic/otherwise dangerous animals and meat infected with worms that dig those holes. I doubt it's because of wasp nests because the surface of them is smooth

[@WanderTheNomad]

For some reason whenever I see those tiny holes all together, I get a brief image in my head of those holes being on my skin somewhere, and that's what creeps me out

[@NautilusMusic]

@@WanderTheNomad yeah, me too!

[@rayheinzman1824]

when you enter into the horizon, light waves and such take even longer to reach you so that causes what seems time to slow down outside. however time inside the black hole still remains the same.

[@vesperwhisper-ld2gf]

the way I'm both fascinated and scared about blackholes. I admire it and like the thought of it but also what it does horrifies me, the darkness terrifies me yet that's one of the ways I want to die, like you said, outerspace, the cosmos itself is wonderful yet terrifying to say the least but my admiration overcomes my fear, the beautiful celestial beings, I want to be there for it even if it kills me.

[@Gabriel_JudgeofHell]

8:43 HOLD UP WHAT THE

[@matthewboire6843]

The fact that an AI said that is even more concerning. (I know it’s not a real AI)

[@rga1605]

Learning how big and scary the universe is something that fills us with awe. I've studied a bit of medieval cosmology (C. S. Lewis's The Discard Image is quite an introductory book, and it's that Lewis of Chronicles of Narnia, it can be said it's its philosophical foundation) and one thing that the medieval philosophers emphasized was that the heavenly sphere, that we identify as the outer space was perfect, in contrast with our sinful world. Medieval cosmology was abandoned because Newtonian physics simply provided much better explanations, but I always wondered that if a medieval philosopher, true believer in the Ptolomaic model would be most shocked with the fact even the heavenly sphere is also full of chaos, to the point of giving way to phobias like this, than anything else.

[@Katanas_the_chosen_one]

the year has come, just wait for november fifth!!

[@classyalien9722]

The insignificance of human life in comparison to the scale of the Universe actually gives me comfort and peace of mind. There is something bigger than me and even that the whole earth. I'm nothing but that's fine, it's beautiful if you think about it. I'm small and yet I can admire and learn all this stuff.

[@gearmic8786]

I don't think I'm afraid of falling into a black hole itself, but have this weird fear of falling into an endless void, for example I get a very unsettling feeling when clipping through the ground in a game. And I believe that kind of transfers to the way that an increasing portion of your surroundings turn to black as you fall into a black hole..

[@ozjuanpa]

if it makes you feel any better, being inside a black hole would not be dark. You would actually see all of the light that enters it, even from the other side. This effect even gets faster and faster, and you would see all of the light that entered the black hole up until the end of its lifetime, which would be extremely bright. That assuming you don't die from being torn apart or from the radiation.

[@Stasis247]

I am terrified of stars and gas giants, absolutely would sh*t myself if I were approaching a black hole. My nightmares are almost always falling into stars

[@etzie1728]

Same, but then I wake up from the nightmare and remember that angular momentum is conserved.

[@mario0318]

At least with stars and gas planets you're more likely to see as you approach them. But going about your day traveling interstellar space where there are no background stars, you could very well have a supermassive black sphere just looming ahead and you won't know it until you're gravitationally locked to it.

[@Stasis247]

@@mario0318 See! That’s what I’m afraid of! Imagine being a type III civilisation but you still can’t locate a black hole! Plus, using a warp drive might even collapse on itself and cause a black hole once in a while!

[@anidiot4243]

@@mario0318 doesnt supermassive black holes have accretion disc?

[@alchemy5750]

I always had an unnatural fear of every "spinning objects with giant force pulling you inside" like tornados or (especially) whirlpools. When I learned black holes are just those on steroids the entire concept became absolutely horrifying for me. They're interesting, and always make me morbidly curious, but seeing CGI footage of them already gives me shivers.

[@KingsleyIII]

Okay. Without any context, and before watching the video, I want to guess what it's about. If "melano" is related to "melanin" (the pigment that gives our skin color) and "helio" means "sun," and "phobia" means "fear," then put it all together and "melanoheliophobia" means "fear of getting a suntan." Does that happen? Are some people afraid of getting a tan? EDIT: Okay. I was wrong. It's the fear of black holes. How the heck? My guess of "fear of getting a tan" made way more sense!

[@Thrlta]

Nothing must be pretty important for Nietzsche to value it. Cool phils, bro.

[@spiritbond8]

Nietzsche was NOT that kinda nihilist and a great many things were important to him. In a way he embraces that there is no divine/intrinsic meaning to anything but insists we can aquire the power to inject our own meaning into the world. He is also not some right wing individualist, as he repeats over and over how over-individuation and moralism is a sikness and a disbalance.

[@Thrlta]

@@spiritbond8 well Nothing held a lot of importance within his mind, for one. Is nothing an ideal or moral code? Could not tell

[@nihilath8015]

@@Thrlta That depends on what nihilist you ask, friend. Existential nihilists, an ideal. Cosmic nihilism, a moral code. Existential nihilists, as myself believe there is no INTRINSIC meaning to life. Meaning is up to the individual to create. No god to tell you how to live your life, and a society that will tell you how to live your life will lead to you living an unfulfilling and unhappy life. Nihilism is about acknowledging the meaninglessness, and loving it because they control the life they’re given.

[@nihilath8015]

@@Thrlta Most people think nihilism states there is no meaning to life, when in reality nihilism states there is no meaning given to you in life. Create it.

[@Thrlta]

@@nihilath8015 that would be optimistic nihilism, I only know about that term combo from the kurzgesagt video I watched.

[@prajwalkowndinya6601]

This is pretty cool stuff. I've never thought of Phobias like this🙂

[@youtubewatcher759]

Dyson Sphere video game allows you to fly around stars and black holes. I actually jumped a bit when it pulled me into the gravity well....freaked me out.

[@hellan7344]

That giant in the end scared the fk out of me...got shivers

[@thebornana2468]

6:57 nice fact

[@angelicaespitia7707]

Thank you Sciencephile, I now have that date marked on my calendar.

[@xxjoebamaxx7782]

this video is excruciatingly funny and indifferent. i enjoyed it throughly.

[@ManiacRacing]

I find the thought of falling into a supermassive black hole very soothing. Watching the entire history of the universe pass away while I fall would be awesome! Imagine outliving the entire universe!

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

What scares me is the picture of that circle of deep opaque black, in such contrast with the distorted lights that surround it, making a vortex. I don't know why but it gives me chills and a lot of discomfort to just look at it. When reading about black holes I'm usually careful because I get jumpscared by the illustrations. Maybe it is because it looks like an eye.

[@WaveOfDestiny]

Being afraid of holes and dark holes is not really irrational. You don't want to fall in some place that could mean instantaneous death, being trapped without being able to get out, or maybe that something unknown could get out and grab you to take you inside

[@aprilaguilar3229]

Bruh, same case 😭

[@ary8956]

3:17 yea black holes and and death screen really gave me radhan flashbacks

[@beanieb0b]

Bro did NOT have to end us off like that

[@acidusk]

i have megalophobia and when you showed the clip of the giant in front of the car i physically flinched, felt like my soul left my body.

[@dungww2006]

5:52 BIGGER THAN A STEGOSAURUS?!?

[@manos6590]

You know what's really scary? The fact that, though unfathomably unlikely, there is a non zero probability that a gamma ray burst will render Earth lifeless on the 5th of November 2024.

[@NoName_NoTitle]

Good

[@manos6590]

@@NoName_NoTitle What did giraffes ever do to you?

[@ThaDoggo]

@@manos6590 lol

[@alvaronavarro4895]

What!?

[@richie2033]

very exact date

[@rk8con]

ok but by far the smoothest transition to sponsorship ive ever witnessed

[@felixdalessandro8415]

I entered searching for context, I came out questioning the reality

[@mark.fedorov]

That ending was hilarious :) And the video was informative, I've never heard of such "cosmic" phobias

[@Master_K14]

Honestly I have an irrational fear of Jupiter, like I'm fine with black holes and even other things of similar size, but there's just something about that planet... Something very intimidating about it

[@matthaeussolinvictus3852]

Same :/

[@DruNature]

nah man, it's Neptune for me, holy shit that thing is terrifying!!! I do like black holes and Jupiter though XD

[@DarthSidian]

@@DruNature Neptune? What's scary about it?

[@mikeoxmall69420]

@@DruNature lmao search up "Gemini Home Entertainment"

[@Retr0Daisiez]

You know something we don't?

[@suzeldiegoguerra2943]

Fear of Black Holes- there is an open world outer space game on PS5 called No Man's Sky, and I got to experience your ship going into one! It freaked me out initially thinking it would be a trap and would die, but ended up being a warp site! Phew!

[@ProphetFX]

What I feel when thinking/looking/studying black holes or stars or other cosmic objects is an impeding sense of sublime (in a Romanticist sense). I know that I'm nothing standing on just one of the infinitely many planets and that just by looking directly at the Sun (which by the way is a quite small star among infinitely many giant sphere of fuel) I will irreparably damage my feeble body. Nonetheless, together with this helplessness, I can't help but feel kinda excited and in awe at the magnificence of these objects.

[@glassramen]

Pretty sure the fear of spiders is due to the fact without knowing which ones are venomous and which aren't, avoiding them altogether is the safest course of action. So I'd say that isn't a phobia, just a fear.

[@keandrezland]

bruh we truly live in a universe

[@pedroelias4054]

Facts

[@fictionsmith3688]

The fear of darkness, holes, large objects, empty space and the unknown all combined into one

[@REALdavidmiscarriage]

I believe that getting sucked into a black hole, might be the single most interesting way to go. I’m normally a very optimistic person and I love being alive, but the idea of dying by a black hole is such an intriguing idea, that I would actually, voluntarily sacrifice myself right here and now to experience it. If I found out that next week we would get sucked in by a roaming black hole I would actually be more thrilled about it than anything else. The idea of experiencing the ultimate raw power of the universe is such a rare privillege, why waste it by being scared or sad about it. The thought alone of there being a 100% chance of it happening sometime in the future is just such a beautiful prospect to me.

[@MrSex-bm9ni]

1:23 Wait a minute... "Our"?

[@turna1216]

I swear I’m so aware of “scary things” not actually being a life or death situation, that I just ignore my angst most of the time

[@uraniidumbra5219]

Same here. I'm too aware of the infinitesimally small odds of any of these things ever affecting me, it's not possible for me to be afraid.

[@LindzRush]

the sound of black holes and the scale gets me

[@frogberriez]

the scariest thing about black holes to me is the time distortion tbh. that's so messed up that suddenly everything you've ever known will be long long gone and the entire universe pitch black and almost empty and you're just there chilling, eugh

[@lukycat7572]

I'm glad you made a video about these fears because when some video games tell you to jump into a black hole, I don't think I'm the only one to really want to do the opposite and to not get near these monsters lol

[@cabbersman7351]

3:14 tbh i laughed because of the dark souls reference

[@wilburtmoreno469]

i like the idea of what Alla Watts said. I dont know the exact quote, but the point is. Nothing has no meaning without something or like life doesn't exist without death. Something like that, it gives you other perspective in life. And that's why i like philosophy

[@CelAbration]

The first time I read about black holes was in a National Geographic issue at age 8 or something. I'm pretty sure it was my catalyst into realizing what death was and sent me into my first existential crisis that day but I think it just instilled my fascination that much more. Either that or I'm a masochist for astronomy, I mean aren't you all?