The Last Evidence We Ever Existed

[@MissJess08x]

The last evidence of human existence will surely be Keith Richards just still knocking about

[@andymouse]

:)

[@360.Tapestry]

this won't age well, i expect

[@SRMoore1178]

17:47 "Our music" is on the gold disc. I hope the first tune is not Yoko Ono making weird noises.

[@TronJockey]

Kieth is living proof that decades of excessive drug and alcohol abuse won't kill you.

[@nicholasdalli6303]

I feel an unfathomable pride at the knowledge that our longest lasting impact on the universe will be a couple of line drawing-style nudes alongside directions to our (by then long destroyed and vanished into the abyss of time) home. Truly a cultured move, one for the exitential ages.

[@lads.7715]

Hey, they also have Chuck Berry!

[@badabing3391]

evidently we should expect a lot of nude alien drawings when we explore the stars

[@Dave5843-d9m]

Uses were absolutely right. Could you imagine how ridiculous they would look in 1970s disco suits.

[@messystudios8505]

Pretty sure the peas stuck at the bottom of my freezer will last longer.

[@dannyc9784]

Lol I have the same issues ;)

[@mrfishbulb7187]

Give peas a chance.

[@zappulla4092]

Dumb.

[@whateverwewant551]

@@zappulla4092can’t take a joke?

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

R.I.P.

[@projectcontractors]

"The earth wanted plastic for itself, didn't know how to make it and needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question: 'why are we here', - plastic." ~George Carlin

[@originalsteveo]

"everything becomes a layer" is far deeper than you think, Joe.

[@tylerboothman4496]

As a programmer, yes

[@Savanna-e9m]

Yeah, a deep layer.

[@ronaldmartin2666]

A layer of the onion of my psyche.

[@johngriffon2118]

As someone in the funeral industry, oh yeah. I'm remembering that line.

[@mso82]

I long for the inevitable layering of myself and humanity. Like a warm blanket.

[@baronvonhoughton]

We are closer in time to the T-rex, than the T-rex is to the Stegosaurus! Just a perspective on times vastness.

[@UATU.]

I heard once that the last human voices will come from the offspring of the last parrots to mimic a human. Kind of irrelevant but strangely comforting.

[@mso82]

That's assuming humans haven't wiped out all other forms of life on the planet first.

[@KenLieck]

The final plea of civilization will be for flat, hard, salty bread...

[@mso82]

@ Then we will become flat, hard, salty (and slightly radioactive) rock.

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

Now I feel like a birdbrain

[@2degucitas]

Deer casually walking thru a post apocalypse forest suddenly hears, "Hey! Whatcha doin'? Mmwwaahh!!!"

[@lucianotesta5019]

We should draw a giant smiley face on the Moon just like the Nazca lines.

[@patrickfernandez4739]

Absolutely! We put graffiti on everything else! I think it should be a huge sign that reads "Parking In The Rear" & on the other side of the moon, "Made You Look!" Or "Kick Me!"

[@HadenBlake]

​@@patrickfernandez4739 Honestly, considering the ancient graffiti we've found, "(person) was here" would be a fitting tag lol

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

Like all great ancient art, it will require a phallus symbol

[@myscreen2urs]

Make the eyes red and sleepy so it can look stoned🌚🙃

[@tfox285]

I like the idea of tagging random passing meteors.

[@aleksyssubmaker2745]

Joe forgot to add that while studying the tectonic layers and deep soil, the aliens will find a crap ton of compressed silicates from our concrete and glass, and a gigantic amount of weird, definitely-not-natural iron compounds (steel beams from buildings).

[@lads.7715]

Also… remnant bags of Silicone Implants …

[@SBRslav]

"There is a layer with billions of small copper-lead deposits, accompanied by brass"

[@davidpowell6098]

@@lads.7715 Dumps full of wind farm parts, that can't be recycled.

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

I hope it gives them a good laugh!

[@crisdekker8223]

@@lads.7715 Evolved raccoons, 20 million years from now: "Weird, they always come in pairs."

[@FancyRPGCanada]

Still pretty sure the last memories of human existence will be the Voyager probes and one, very, very fast manhole cover 😂

[@Tormekia]

It will make first contact by falling burning through the sky of an alien world while single celled organisms move oblivious beneath the streak of light that will be all that's left of us.

[@jmacd8817]

And New Horizons, the Pluto explorer.

[@yecto1332]

Imagine that manhole cover is humanity’s representative to alien

[@darkwinter7395]

And anything we launch on escape trajectories in the future.

[@OffroadXj388]

​@@yecto1332 it's a pretty accurate representation ngl 😂😅

[@klmauldin]

The pictures you used at the beginning 😆

[@aneasteregg8171]

Those sure were choices

[@MCsCreations]

"It wasn't like that back in my time!" Grama lied. 😐

[@facedeer]

And at the very, very end. Poetry. :)

[@presidentmichael3349]

20:37 yeah I'm assuming it was intentional. lol.

[@DesFTW_]

It got me re-reading the title haha

[@Duckly97]

Joe coming in with another existential crisis video. A perfect start to the week.

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

It triggered a great sense of hopelessness and pointlessness in me, sort of like Dostoevsky

[@jdogi1]

I'm not sure how or why he even gets out of bed in the morning😂

[@Aaaaaaaalonika]

Really feelin it today

[@gregedmand9939]

Well... Not much more hopelessness generating, than the inauguration of President Dunning-Kruger.

[@MississippiPig]

It's a beautiful day!!

[@johncliffalvarez6513]

Joe Scott, a man of brilliance, science, and existential dread. Great at kids parties! Tell your friends!

[@_QA_]

Humanity will last a few hundred more years? I like his optimism.

[@thehellyousay]

about 200-300 years is about right. self-extinction will be unique, maybe ...

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

Maybe we just need to change the definition of humanity.

[@urphakeandgey6308]

It's a hypothetical. I don't like your pessimism. It's what I hate most about science videos. Smart alecs thinking pessimism makes them smarter.

[@41-Haiku]

The top experts in the field of AI (including the #1, 2, and 3 most cited computer scientists) say that there's a significant chance of human extinction from AI in the next few years. (And if that is news to you or sounds insane, you really need to check out PauseAI.)

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

@@urphakeandgey6308 I enjoy the up side of pessimism.

[@TheWolfHound7777]

I believe the show "Life after people" was based on the book "The World Without Us". Great book and I definitely recommend it.

[@ericarichardson2983]

20:38 😂 fitting it’s possible the last evidence left of us in the universe is a picture of a bingus

[@HerpilyDerp86]

Poor guy got shrinkage. Its cold in space

[@lunarminx]

I love the series life after people. It's a saved series to fall asleep to when my tinnitus stays loud.

[@PeachysMom]

You too! This tinnitus is really getting to me. I need some kind of talking playing in my room in order to sleep but it can’t be anything interesting lol

[@Johnrich395]

At 1:06, I’m calling it the last evidence of our existence will be Voyager1&2. The radio waves will become background noise before Voyager is ripped apart into atoms.

[@frankG335]

That was my first thought.

[@Operander_L]

I'm just glad it's not my search history

[@BobbyRosan]

😅

[@sawspitfire422]

Alien 3 billion years in the future: "Apparently some humans had a thick layer of fur and some had the ability to inflate many times their own size, for what purpose we do not know. Despite not knowing why, we sure do have many many MANY examples of humans being depicted this way so the evidence is irrefutable"

[@ku8721]

Woah woah woah there didn't YOU personally do a video with Isaac Arthur literally saying we can survive the sun going red giant??? I mean if not I need to change my 5 billion year plan!

[@culturebreath369]

Yeah WTF!? 😂

[@wolfiemuse]

I mean. Possible and plausible aren’t the same thing to be fair. lol. This is his personal channel so I would use this as a representation of his actual opinions on the subject

[@andrasbiro3007]

And better be fast about it.

[@sweetpuppies1065]

We’ll be gone long before that. If any offspring remains it will be unrecognisable from us.

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

I purchased the 10 billion year plan because it was 50% off the second 5b years.

[@gregbors8364]

Ooh, ooh, teacher, I bet I know the answer (without watching first). Is it the layer of plastic we’re going to leave behind in the geologic strata? Edit: after watching, I guess I was wrong. 😞 Sadz

[@Shimstock74]

The plastic will turn into the future civilizations fossil fuels.

[@DesFTW_]

​@@Shimstock74Let's brand it as "plastic recycling"

[@Mike_Alm1ghty]

Damnit u beat me to it

[@billd9667]

3M PFOAs will still be around

[@HeatherHolt]

I was thinking about that plastic bag they found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench 😂

[@ianmacdonald9201]

My first thought was the debris and artifacts left on the moon. No water or wind to destroy or disturb it.

[@jonwallace6204]

That last image of humanity flash at 20:45 wow

[@jbmurphy4]

😂hah it was a well placed “flash”

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

Yup, that was definitely a flashbulb

[@AmateurHistorian999]

20:35, actually.

[@Earthangel76m2]

Loved this one! My grandfather helped build the microchip on voyager missions!

[@joescott]

Very cool!

[@BipTunia_Microtonal_Cats]

The last evidence we existed will probably be a dumb comment I make on KZbin.

[@allanfifield8256]

This one.

[@TheGonzoid]

I can't explain how much I love that, as of now, the only world leader's voice who will be preserved for eons is Jimmy Carter's. God that's so wholesome.

[@artdonovandesign]

The level mathematics and orbital mechanics used to land a probe on a comet is something superhuman.

[@baneslocum5588]

0:10 wild. Absolutely wild 😂😂

[@bartho5212]

Those fertility statues are something else!

[@sawspitfire422]

20:37

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

Looks just like my late great Aunt Elizabeth. She relished cake.

[@spazmaticfanatic6235]

7:50 "Here comes the sun.. do do do doo"

[@drunkpunkrat5764]

"Hier kommt die Sonne..."

[@ReneGaytan-i9y]

Great to see you back Joe

[@dizzysnakepilot]

What about all the reruns of "I Love Lucy" we've broadcast into space?

[@Nutzkie2001]

Recent studies suggest that television and radio signals degrade over time. Basically, all those old programs fade into the cosmic static at around the two-lightyear threshold.

[@NotJackAlderson]

*Aliens show up to earth but they all look like Clyde Tombaugh* “We’ve analyzed the DNA of the ashes you sent and we assumed this is what humans looked like. We were trying to make you feel more at ease with our appearance.”

[@MorganEllon]

I don't think there's any DNA left in the ashes of a cremated corpse. They should have just sent a vial of his DNA so aliens could... Actually, no, we definitely shouldn't do that to him just in case they're anything like us.

[@laurenchamberlain4792]

Love the idea, unfortunately there's no dna left in modern cremated remains, just non-organic solids.

[@timogul]

I think one of the longest lasting structures we might leave on Earth would be the stellar observatory in Chile, or perhaps other similar structures. They build them at high altitudes in areas of low weather activity, so they would likely face very little erosion, at least for a while.

[@BobbyRosan]

Very good points 👍

[@jmacd8817]

The Andes are moderately tectonically active, so earthquakes would likely destroy them.😢

[@chris_coppit]

I wonder what wind would do? Any time I've ever visited places like that the wind can be very aggressive. Not terrible for astronomy but would easily remove buildings without proper maintenance. I'm not entirely certain though just a thought.

[@dwaneanderson8039]

Anything on a mountain is going to suffer erosion. The longest surviving things will be things that are buried in the ground. Look at fossils.

[@flagcoco69]

That's just great, Joe. 813 trillion years into the future, the last evidence of humankind anywhere in the universe... is a dick pic.

[@seemannseeheim6175]

Some junk in Space will last forever

[@thehellyousay]

not if gravity has anything to say about it. certainly the death throes of the sun will shorten the span.

[@Nefville]

Nothing lasts forever. Not even stable atoms.

[@XPLOSIVization]

Not if it gets hit by a asteroid, or ends up being pulled into another planets gravitational pull, Infinity also has infinite possibility's, so that means eventually it will meet its demise, You could say its fate is written in the stars

[@tony_xu]

Close but think further. Those thousand of satellites in geosynchronous orbit (around 22k miles away) won't be affected by atmospheric drag.

[@frankG335]

If it's in orbit, it'll fall back to earth.

[@Nefville]

I find this whole concept funny in a way, the arrogance of our species. We want everyone to know we are or were here. A good and considerate species would be like a good camper or hiker and will leave no trace.

[@electricminecrafter]

0:43 before i start the rest of the video imma guess sattelites in GEO (till the sun blows) and our 5 interstellar probes (for almost forever)

[@gregoriohb]

Was about to write exactly that.

[@rvre]

Man, having Yoko ono quotes on the gold plaque is a bummer.

[@hdufort]

I've read the book The World Without Us, and the author states that long after our hardest monuments will be erased by glaciers and erosion, a few things will remain. Probes on the moon, in space and on other moons and planets might last a very long time. On Earth, nonstick pans crushed under metamorphic rock layers might last millions of years, although their shape and purpose will be unrecognizable. They'll be some weird chemical anomalies. Now there are many objects (including our bones and teeth) that fossilize nicely. They just have to be located at the right place, and they have to end up in sedimentary rocks they won't be metamorphosed too much. Perhaps some of our smaller objects such as granite statues and ashtrays (lol). Anything made of sturdy, dense, nonreactive materials. As I'm writing this, I am holding a trilobite fossil from the Ordovician. It is 450 million years old and was found in my area. Most of the rock layers in my area were reduced to dust by glaciers, so I wouldn't be able to find dinosaur bones here. But the Ordovician and Cambrian rocks endured, so I can look at the imprint of that humble trilobite.

[@frankG335]

Which one? There are 3 books with that name with different authors.

[@benhunsaker9865]

Great video, Joe. A nice alternative to watching today's inauguration. (Although getting pummeled by astroids, dust, and radiation...that too beats watching the inauguration.) If we have officially entered the great filter, at least I can watch an interesting video every(ish) Monday.

[@mybestideas1]

So good to see your new videos! You're my favourite channel on YT!

[@Carolynnie]

15:55 You expect us to believe that’s the same person on screen as in that picture?? C’mon Joe….. 😂

[@jwmmitch]

Oh shit! I didn't realize that was Joe

[@Akio-fy7ep]

It will be the deep, vertical rock-cut mine shafts. If the Silurians existed, they didn't mine.

[@djdrack4681]

they mined spice, spice mélange. XP

[@strawonwalls2534]

It use to make me uncomfortable thinking about stuff like this but now it makes me comfortable knowing Im not the only one or thing around here that will be gone one day

[@MurderMostFowl]

The ironic timing of all meaning in human civilization ending with Trump’s TikTok self created idiocy and memecoin rug-pull-in-the-making where the lesser of the free world can just disregard any appearance of following and fostering the rule of law and this video’s headline just made me deeply sad. It was a good run,humanity. I wish good luck to whatever next sentient being evolves… hopefully they will study us and at least find some of this amusing

[@eadweard.]

Not everything is about Donald Trump.

[@GeorgeStar]

@@eadweard. I guess Traitor Trump didn't get the memo.

[@eadweard.]

@@GeorgeStar Everything is about Donald Trump.

[@allanfifield8256]

Temper-Temper

[@BobLHedd]

What are the chances that someone finds the Voyager record and say, "Woah, they have enough gold to waste on this bullshit. Let's go get it!"

[@Official_Mr_Lex]

I’ve noticed him referencing his old videos more often. I wonder if he realizes that vast treasure trove of knowledge he’s created over the years. Who needs encyclopedias? Thanks Joe

[@joescott]

Hehe, kinda. If I've already covered a topic, it's just easier to point people to that video than go through it all again.

[@Official_Mr_Lex]

@ definitely agree man. I just can’t get over how much you’ve given us. I watch your videos just on a binge all the time.

[@d5kenn]

At first I was thinking lagrange points, but you went way, way farther in the time scale. Loved this piece!

[@shay5025]

That golden plaque has quotes from Paul, Ringo, George, John, and Yoko!

[@robo5013]

Damn! Yoko DID ruin everything.

[@christopherdaffron8115]

Whatever artifacts our species leaves on the moon would be our best effort to preserve the evidence of our existence to any future intelligence that may or may not have any interest in knowing.

[@Teelirious]

Pro move at 20:38, completing the circle.

[@robertshep9857]

I wonder if he gets flagged bc of it. Or demonitized

[@MrPbhuh]

8:00 The decay products of PU-238 from the reactors and the unique refinement of other metals in the Rovers would definitely be a surprise to whoever finds them in the future.

[@frankG335]

They will have melted down and exploded once we stop cooling them.

[@MrPbhuh]

@@frankG335 HAHA i mean, probably not given they are RTGs, they are designed to get hot and Pu-238 isn't fissile. But who knows.

[@arminrichard1836]

My dad who studied forestry managment in Germany and now works as a state forrester had a professor who said that if all humans would dissapear from one day to the next, Germany would be one big forrest in 100 years.

[@jonathanrichards593]

+1. Look at Pripyat. Nobody there except some intrepid photographers for almost 40 years, now.

[@Akio-fy7ep]

It happened in New England, northeast USA. People online have a million theories about who built the thousands of miles of rough-piled stone walls that, given a little research, turn out to exactly match 19th-century property lines. New England sheep ranching was made uncompetitive by railroads, and the farms were abandoned. Note that there is _also_ pre-colonial stonework, that you can learn to recognize: a row of stones continuing over the top of a boulder is one clue. Three or more widely separated boulders lined up with an equinox is another. A huge boulder perched on the tips of much smaller rocks is a third. Colonials were just clearing the rocks out of their fields, and had no time for tomfoolery.

[@GameTimeWhy]

The indigenous people made all sorts of mounds and stone structures. They have stories about it but also finding more and more evidence for larger city or gathering areas. It wasn't just nomadic hunter gatherer types. ​@@Akio-fy7ep

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

Reading Kafka will trigger such thoughts

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@Akio-fy7ep i don't know why it removed my comment and is still sending me notifications but anyways, if you actually want to learn about the topic, the indigenous people of North America have their oral history on the subject. Also newish archeology on permanent settlements that had like 100k people at them.

[@TheGhungFu]

".... strive to leave our mark for future people to see...." Uh, that highlights the hubris and conceit unique, perhaps, to our species. The same hubris that will be our downfall.

[@chassegallerie2910]

We build things that they never dreamed of. Like roads that fall appart a week after they were made, while they made roads that are still around and still used 2000 years later.

[@andrasbiro3007]

They also made roads that fell apart soon. Those just didn't survive to this day. It's called survivorship bias. Also current roads experience infinitely more wear and tear., while having to support drastically higher speed traffic too. I don't think you'd like driving on a Roman highway at 200mph.

[@TheCraterGames]

Wonder if those 2000y old roads can manage normal modern car and truck traffic...

[@JosephJanitorius-p5v]

Stroads are where civilizations to go buy fast food and then die

[@AmateurHistorian999]

There's a road in Spain that diverges, giving a choice between two bridges, one modern and one Roman. At the split is a sign that says "Trucks over 10 tons use the Roman bridge."

[@TheCraterGames]

Alrighty, you have a point 😀

[@joshg469]

Makes me think of how humanity pulling everything out "under the sun" could put it all at detriment and that we could be erasing ourselves from time so to speak. Ancients could have faced similar "loss" with sky burials for instance

[@A2foor]

I used to love life after people!

[@sirclarkmarz]

I like to think of it as life after everyone except me .

[@dannyhancock9330]

!5 mins in and my guess has changed to Voyager 1 or 2. I'm probably still wrong, but this game is FUN! 😃

[@nasirzurmi2630]

19:50 calculating the trajectory of anything at this time is the three body problem raised to the power infinity

[@klunkmedia]

The Silurians from Dr Who were named after a geological period between 450 and 420 million years ago, which was named after a Celtic tribe (the Silures) from South Wales.

[@RobsNeighbor]

I am making a video about garbage, I work at the dump and have found everything I have used to make my channel video pc desk lighting and so much more. It is unreal how much we throw away. I think it will be a LS engine 1999-2004 when everything is gone the LS V8 will still be idling away.

[@StoffelDilligas]

I am no longer surprised by what people throw away without trying to mend or fix. Or just the fact we now live in a disposable society, new tech comes out and (people I know are guilty of this) and got to have the latest sh!t. Not because it assists their life, just because it's new and improved. My mobile phone, my TV, my laptop, my mountain bike, all given to me because they're old (by a couple of years). My first car, given to me, granted it was a heap when I got it. But I maintained it, serviced it, got a decade out of it before it was written off by a numpty in the snow. It truly is shocking what is discarded

[@m40dot]

Hell of a non ironic video subject to post today for all us Americans.

[@UATU.]

Kind of comforting to think the bullshit can’t last forever.

[@johnnymossville]

At least now we have a good four years left.

[@eadweard.]

The world's about to end again.

[@GeorgeStar]

@@johnnymossville Four years of imbecility, corruption and treason.

[@m40dot]

@ Yeah, for many their world and life will end and/or be greatly affected, if not yours.

[@Sigma00000]

PFAs. That will be the thing that outlasts everything else we built

[@deepashtray5605]

There's also plenty of radioactive waste, some of which will remain dangerously hot for hundreds of thousands of years.

[@robo5013]

@@deepashtray5605 About 1% of radioactive waste will remain at dangerous levels for about TEN thousand years, not hundreds. The vast majority of it becomes inert after about 40 years. All of the nuclear waste generated by the United States since the first reactor went online in 1951 will fit on a football field - 100 yards long, 53 yards wide and it would be 30 yards deep. That's if it was collected all in one place.

[@deepashtray5605]

@@robo5013 I guess I have a different source than you.

[@tims8603]

I'm not gonna worry about it.

[@FranOnTheEdge]

I'VE got a cd player, the aliens could borrow mine. Lol

[@reshpeck]

That montage at the beginning was amazing. Throbbing, even.

[@Good_at_clips]

I’m just leaving for a road trip and I am so stoked you came out with a new video right before I leave. Downloading now. You are number 1 Joe!! I have been a fan for a looooooong time. ❤️

[@CeeMartinezSaysHi]

I remember watching "the world without people" and like being completely invested in the survival of The Queen's corgis. Iykyk

[@9jaamebo372]

Happy new year Joe

[@aquachonk]

There's reasonable proof that life as we know it will cease to exist sometime between now and January 20, 2028.

[@CarolinaCustomKits]

You might mean 2029.

[@puddles5501]

presumably the spaceship one piece was part publicity exercise but also sent as a snapshot of where our materials science is at

[@vivienclogger]

It's easy to believe that the Cerne Abbas Giant, carved into a chalk hill in England and holding a club and with a very Long John, is some sort of ancient primitive god, but it's actually not that old, dating back in all probability to the 17th century. It has to be regularly cleaned to stop grass growing over the chalk earth. I've seen it, along with Stonehenge - both of which are surprisingly unimpressive. I'd recommend going to Avebury and Silbury Hill instead. And Glasgow - because you don't know you've lived until you go to Glasgow.

[@Erin-Thor]

True, Stonehenge is not much to look at, LOL! But the science they needed to have to place the stones… THAT is impressive! 🤓

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

According to Wikipedia, "Recent optically stimulated luminescence testing has suggested an origin [of the Cerne Abbas giant] between the years 700 CE and 1110 CE, possibly close to the 10th-century date of the founding of nearby Cerne Abbey."

[@dieseluk2k]

"Theres gonna be a lot of time" that's debatable.

[@TheOfAnd]

0:44 your mom's giant fossil

[@iszoloscope]

I wish I came up with this! 😢

[@davidhenry7484]

Haha

[@Vtarngpb]

As long as they don’t find my search history 😬😬😬

[@s03ran]

Pretty sure it will be our waste. Fitting legacy for the human race if you ask me 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@lkytmryan]

You are not nearly as deep as you think you are.

[@WaddupItsYaBoi]

Never felt more inspired to *be human* quite like hearing the likely story that the Voyager spacecraft and Pioneer 10/11 with their information may be the last human creations in the far reaches of space to float aimlessly, witnessing the universe happening all around them. Beautiful imagery in that.

[@Twistaholic]

Makes you wonder if there really was an advanced civilization before us that we just don't know about.

[@nasis18]

He actually did a video about that very topic.

[@JKTCGMV13]

We’ve found countless dinosaur fossils in the ground. Organic matter that just by chance got preserved. If an advanced civilization existed they absolutely would’ve left evidence that we would’ve found by now.

[@tehrealtimmis]

4:38 I was traumatized by this show when I was like 6 for some reason. Brought back memories

[@nasis18]

Time for a new video from Joe!!

[@annihilist]

Read a short story by Poul Anderson called In Memorium. It covers this topic in excellent detail.

[@bahamutbbob]

5:40 don't forget the lead!

[@TheExigency]

I've wondered this many times, thank you Joe! Great video per usual.

[@brandophiri3618]

Love from Zambia

[@bobharris7401]

Jeez, I’ll sleep really good tonight. 😵‍💫🤪

[@eyesotherworldly]

I remember Life After People and it gave me quite the existential crisis as a teenager... good times. Very fun topic, thanks!! I'd love to see more videos hypothesizing about what the Earth 100k, 200k+ years out might be like.

[@kylemiller6560]

4:47 thank you. Like 17 hours minimum of life is gone to that damn show

[@Filboid2000]

2:36 That was a question I always asked myself: if homo sapiens sapiens has been around for only about 160,000 years, why didn't the dinosaurs - who inhabited the earth for roughly 200 million years - develop a brain larger than a beer can? I think it unlikely (but not impossible) than a highly intelligent reptilian species existed before us. But it would be interesting to see what the human race could do with a couple hundred million years . . . provided we didn't wipe ourselves out before then. "Life After People" is an excellent series and well worth watching.

[@CarsWithClassy]

Wow, I’ve never been this early to one of your videos. Good to hear from you again

[@melrich4759]

I always look forward to these videos. Thanks Joe!

[@alan_whoneedstiedye]

Interesting topic. Thanks for covering it.

[@jameshill2450]

One caveat about the Mount Rushmore thing - when it's half eroded, whatever comes after us would have to be similar enough to recognize what a face looks like.

[@rubenvanessen1743]

'But there's some stuff that's not on Earth' *Johnny B. Goode starts playing*

[@LuckyNPete]

I’d like to see a video on this whole “layer” deal. Where does all of this new material that buries everything come from? Does every area on earth have these layers? Great video…

[@HadenBlake]

In the most basic terms, those layers are dirt, dead things, and solidified lava that build up over time. Everywhere on earth does have layers. Look up a picture of the Grand Canyon and you'll see the layers in the bands of different colored rocks.

[@dabunnisher29]

As always, a really great video. Thanks man.

[@phillipchznger8476]

When we look back in time most of the building we see are specialized builds. Rare do we find common living areas and when those are found it's under very fine special conditions of preservation. Our specialized building are likely to last as long, talk about the grain sailo at the pole, the bunkers and concrete vaults.

[@Paulkjoss]

20:38 - So immature, so purile, so needless, so hilarious - thank you 👍🏽

[@SonderMeSounds]

When Joe posts you know it’s gonna be a good day.😌

[@adityavardhanjain]

This is one of reasons to continue with Space mission. There are a hundred better ones but this one... The fact that it's going to last for billions of years. That's why.

[@romanmartinez6458]

Earth after humans is an interesting topic, and I also watched the series you mentioned. I love your show. Thank you for all your hard work and research.