What Actual Aliens Might Look Like

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Humans assume aliens look human. But why would they? Let's explore what life might actually look like in strange, distant worlds.
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0:34 The Eye of Oculus
3:56 The Clouds of Nimbus
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[@kurzgesagt]

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[@FrenzyLive1]

Commented before uploading 😂

[@NU_Official190]

Thank For 3k subscribers 😢 🥺

[@eugenejamesbon5791]

Yo

[@divy-rya]

hello

[@elizabethmanalili4666]

How did u chat before it even uploaded???

[@applelord4746]

I can see why the video's title changed, "We Discovered Alien Whales On Planet Nimbus" was a bit misleading haha.

[@mirasmussabekov4897]

That explains why everybody is surprised this is a speculative video and not actually discovered life. Thanks for context!

[@danielrunyon8534]

Nothing explains why anyone would be dumb enough to think this is real.

[@ToneyCrimson]

@@danielrunyon8534 I was thinking the same lol

[@msmohexon3087]

If a channel you follow and trust says "we found alien life", whats so weird about believing them? Nimbus as a planet name isnt even that ridiculous. I dont blame people for falling for it, I do however blame kurzgesagt for that title​@@danielrunyon8534

[@ObjectsInMotion]

@@danielrunyon8534 So we should only be truthful to smart people, is that it? It's okay to lie as long as people aren't stupid, that's what you're saying.

[@kvark2066]

1:28 "Warning, detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"

[@aidenorr9536]

My first thoughts exactly

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

Immediately thought of that horrifying game.

[@nex7662]

broo 😭😭😭

[@KerMigma]

The longer I think about it the more it fits even more.

[@tubofficial1]

LOLLLL

[@LuckyNobody1]

It has always bothered me how humanoid aliens in films often are. We, on Earth, are rare in our ability to walk on 2 legs yet almost always aliens in media are depicted as bipedal. In reality if aliens are out there they may not even be carbon-based nor mammal-like, insect-like or bird-like but maybe something beyond our imaginative abilities. So I'm happy this video is touching on this.

[@Gh3ttoboy]

Or they look exactly like us but are also saying aliens dont look like us

[@TheMightyZwom]

The movie industry wants cheap aliens (using actors) that don't make the audience think too much (god forbid they'd be pushed to actually think) so that the majority of viewers can mindlessly enjoy their film. That's why good sci-fi is, sadly, rare...

[@CatNolara]

@@TheMightyZwom there's also a psychological aspect: the viewers might feel more positive towards aliens that are supposed to be friendly if they have familiar traits. On the other hand malevolent aliens are often portrayed more otherworldly and non-human. But as usual, reality will propably be weirder than any fiction.

[@seanhubbard6033]

Almost certainly will be carbon based for many reasons

[@kingicarus77]

I guess it uses a theory that humans have the perfect body or something like that

[@cooksoni.a]

I always feel like fictional aliens are so unimaginative, the possibilities for bizarre life are hardly ever explored deeply, and the planets used seem to always just be earth analogs. This is a really refreshing and imaginative spin on aliens and the vast potential that life inherently has

[@Organic_Chemistry_Junkie]

The main thing lies with chemistry, which is assumed to be the same basically everywhere in the cosmos. Silicon cannot replace carbon as a biological framework because Si-Si bonds are not nearly as stable. Ammonia could work as a solvent for life, albeit a less efficient one than water. Life in gas giants is dubious at best UNLESS enough small meteors fall in and get pulverized to dust that is perpetually levitating in the clouds - key minerals life depends on mostly do not have gaseous/water-soluble forms (phosphorus especially). Alien life is fun to speculate about, but it must be grounded in real chemistry or its pure fantasy. It must make use of elements which are extremely common in the cosmos - everything up to the first d block row, really. And even in that set, phosphorus, fluorine, lithium, beryllium, and boron are rather scarce. The chances of whole planets being made out of supernova-derived elements/being heavily enriched in them are quite low.

[@jaromchristensen5598]

I highly recommend checking out the show “Scavengers Reign.” It’s an animated masterpiece about a small group of humans being stranded on an alien planet, and it focuses largely on all of the alien life there it’s extremely imaginative. They basically create an entire made up ecosystem and this video reminded me of it

[@helper809]

“Fictional aliens are so unimaginative” that’s not true, there’s hundreds of fictional aliens made by people who designed them, and if it’s so bad, you should try

[@helper809]

There’s many projects with fictional aliens and they’re creative. I think you’re just thinking of long running shows that DON’T center around extraterrestrial organisms or aliens in general. What’d you expect thinking something like Garfield would have an alien that’s not the mainstream design. Creature design actually take skill, which you don’t have, and me either because most people don’t practice drawing creatures. If you’re looking for ‘creative’ aliens, look for speculative biology projects like this one or shows/movies that center around extraterrestrial planets

[@planetsec9]

Unironically AI image generators have produced some of the wildest, most imaginative bizzare looking aliens I've seen if you prompt them correctly, ignorant people who say they can't produce anything original have never tried

[@weston8400]

Videos like this prove that creature design is a skill. Each of these lovely beings was crafted with care, and enough detail to make them come to life. This may be my favorite Kurzgesagt video now.

[@stoneayblazin3869]

Not just that, I think this is great because it shows that with enough understanding and implementation of the physical world, joining it with the fantastical, it truly becomes a work of art and thought exercise.

[@ovencake523]

Imagine a video game where you can explore these kinds of fantastical ecosystems and then try to survive in them I'm making my steampunk home atop a gas whale and nobody would stop me

[@clayless8701]

@@ovencake523 subnautica

[@pauldeddens5349]

@@ovencake523 I might genuinely make that a thing. In all likelyhood 10 years down the road, I already have two games in the chamber. But a huge slightly colonized alien planet would be awesome. Basically reverse Subnautica with fantasy technology and a smidgen of magic.

[@TomFriedman-vx1ku]

I have created and drawn hundreds or even thousands of animals and aliens in my life. This is right up my alley.

[@sukhcheema3777]

I love how kurzgesagt actually gave these imaginary (for now) creatures scientific names. Now we just have to make sure that if we actually discover any of these extraordinary species, kurzgesagt gets dibs on naming them

[@levishadow]

Especially this German touched names... Krabbakratz Schmackofatz ❤

[@alluminiumminimalium700]

@@levishadow haha wie geil das hab ich komplett übersehen😂😂😂

[@DerTinker]

11:30 Krabbokratz schmackofatz. Brilliant Name!

[@TheBonsaiTreehouse]

I’d love to see this become a dedicated mini-series exploring unconventional planets and imagining what kind of life could live there if it did

[@StepfordDriver]

There should also be an April fools episode about earth

[@desmodius205]

Melodysheep made a trilogy exactly about this. Please watch, it's amazing😁

[@bleusd]

theres a show on netflix called Alien Worlds thats exactly like this!

[@gabefresh1661]

WATCH MELODY SHEEP

[@commonsenseking6386]

Something like this as a documentary existed in 2005, called Extraterrestrial, it is on KZbin.

[@AnitaSandova]

This is why I enjoy Stanislaw Lem's work so much. His novels feature aliens who are so unlike earthly life that the explorers frequently fail to recognize them as alive.

[@bruhgimmememes]

Who in the frugmello is that guy

[@TheGreyGhost873]

Bot

[@YouThisReadWrong.]

I thought this was a legitimate scientific discovery for a moment

[@MrJC1]

🤣🤣

[@Faizan29353]

Me 2

[@samiyeelalim]

Zzzzzzzzz

[@Riegel3285]

m2

[@Charlie-jl2jd]

​@@pandainvestingcoI concur

[@CasperExtension]

I thought I had plans, but this video just became the main event

[@NU_Official190]

Thank For 3k subscribers 😢 🥺

[@aaravdiwakaristhebest]

Same lol

[@austinteal3645]

Yah

[@matthewboire6843]

Same

[@Mr_Astro-Vera]

The video stays on KZbin while your plans will well..

[@andreb5615]

I was so confused when i started to see comments complaining about how the title is bordeline clickbait when it literally says that the space whales are hypothetical, then i realized that they just changed it. EDIT: they changed it again, now it says "what real aliens might look like" or at least that's what it says to me, i'm not sure if others are seeing the same thing

[@dredoctor8271]

Produce and sell now, correct later and on the go.

[@strelocl]

People are currently so gullible. You could probably create a AI generated article saying that George Washington came back to life and a lot of people would believe it.

[@nuckm]

That's extremely embarrassingly bad. I'm leaving a dislike and not watching this video. Do that again and I'm unsubscribing.

[@Diasseduction7]

what was the old title?

[@forgotaname2315]

@@Diasseduction7 what was the old title?

[@breadifies2800]

"What actual aliens may look like" **Looks Inside** World building exercise (hell yeah)

[@NecDraws]

Disclaimer: We did not find alien whales on planet nimbus 😭(old title)

[@TheEpicStickfighterGroup]

Aw man

[@WyattBlanton-y1f]

Well shit

[@VincentGuillotine]

this channel's clickbait is getting ridiculous. I love the content, but the constant thumbnail and title changing is starting to get on my nerves

[@sitfish1113]

​@VincentGuillotine yeah It's so cheap. Like you'd expect that kinda stuff from one of those trashy AI youtube channels

[@Noomagenial]

@@VincentGuillotine Bro it changed to "We found alien whales on planet nimbus" and now to "Alien Whales On Planet Nimbus - What Aliens Might Look Like" the character devlopment is crazy.

[@sshuggi]

7:16 "What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Nimbese meal?"

[@PignaofLegends]

lmaoooooo

[@jaideepshekhar4621]

Reference?

[@gribberoni]

LMAOOOOOOO

[@bigboi2280]

Excellent.

[@WiseguyMemes]

@@jaideepshekhar4621 australian guy trying to enjoy a succulent chinese meal

[@UUnanchored]

i imagine the whales going: "Look! Hairless monkeys are gazing upon us!" "I told you aliens existed, Tom. Hand me the five Jellybirds you bet on!"

[@TheFirstIntellectual]

@@UUnanchored First to like. Also 80 likes and no comments? Lemme fix that

[@Haybalesnail]

Jellybirds? Is that a game grumps reference

[@eckee]

stupid ass joke

[@UUnanchored]

@@eckee it's ironically just as stupid as you are!

[@UUnanchored]

​@@eckee you're way worse than a hairless monkey

[@Randomviewer_44]

The quality of this video is outstanding. From the fancy sci fi subject to the animation, to the soundtracks. Just amazing

[@xkclsvc]

how can you appreciate it tho this video is so fake

[@m.gaiolas457]

We need this to become a series! One of the best, most imaginative and hopeful Kurzgesagt videos.

[@theexchipmunk]

I reccomend Melodisheep's series on hypothetical alien life. All three parts together make for roughle feature length and it is extremely well produced (as are all of his videos, my personal favourite is his "timeline of the universe" video).

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Need more sci fi worlds

[@kalagai7987]

@@theexchipmunk Unfortunately Melodisheep started using AI in their videos. Kinda hampers my enjoyment of them now.

[@WWLinkMasterX]

​@theexchipmunk Biblaridion's "Alien Biospheres" is also really good if you can stomach slow, highly technical, documntary-style videos.

[@Ekrooool]

There's a Netflix series called Alien Worlds that explores this concept in multiple parts

[@crazedunionboy3383]

Petiton for them to make a part two. This is infinitely interesting I would love to see them make more of this

[@battlecatsbonanza8190]

YEAHHHHHHH

[@Daviticus042]

Why stop at two?🙂

[@Alien_From_Another_Universe]

Sign me up

[@astick5249]

Moreeeeee

[@MinedMaker]

+1

[@It.Just.B]

Recently theres been so many tv shows and movies about speculative biology. Specifically, creating alien planets. Most of them seemed poorly thought out or not that unique from Earth. But this was incredible work. I dont know whether to be more disappointed in the full-fledged tv shows or to be impressed with this channel

[@joshuabrown7815]

You should watch scavenger’s reign

[@the.true.A]

Both

[@kymasea]

YES PLEASE WATCH SCAVENGERS REIGN

[@bvvvvvvv9035]

Scavengers reign is definitely a good one. Are there any other media that showcase stuff like this? Books/movies/artwork?

[@BaDoomTss-j3y]

I recommend Life Beyond, it's a good one, a bit old but the best one i think.

[@dutonic]

The snails were such a cool concept. I've heard of floating animals and underwater animals many times as viable concepts in alien worlds. But the snails with EM kites chasing the sun was something super fresh and novel. Great stuff

[@Geomaverick124]

A series of videos on speculative biology like this one would be a cool addition to the channel

[@Pepechan4561]

I want some silicon based life video of this kind, that would be interesting

[@Sirtrolltzar]

Same here

[@maxmigneault2457]

Agreed

[@xelnagazchild]

yeesss i would watch a 12 seasons show of this

[@cinaeth83]

Check out @curiousarchive

[@kobaga4652]

The Eye of Oculus gave me major Subnautica flashbacks

[@brandonblackonline]

The sounds for sure were 1:1

[@rfak7696]

I was looking for this comment

@@rfak7696 That's sad

[@nothatsnotrighttryagain5546]

eye of rah

[@engi_games]

Eye of oculus probably houses ghost leviathans

[@aabeshde4416]

03:00 the sound design was like ear candy here! So many layers of creative work to appreciate in this video, bravo as always 👏

[@tarunt9153]

Finally someone said it, love the sounds, strangely familiar and pleasant but also eerie, the echo-y nature and the overall design fits so well.

[@Bob-fj4et]

*subnautica PTSD intensifies*

[@verizonextron]

0:10 non-animated clip jumpscare

[@Sebastian_Solace_PRS]

Top five jumpscares part 285 Number 5: eye eye

[@SQ-wx4st]

Huh?

[@WtfAccount8]

0:15 *

[@verizonextron]

@WtfAccount8 yes but i want people to experience the jumpscare not instantly go to the clip of the jumpscare you hear?

[@WtfAccount8]

@ Yeah but that works for jumpscares where are actually intented to be scary, but this one is just for joke so there's no reason to add a buildup and since you mention the 0:10, people would think you are talking about that one image appearing in that time and so they will get confused.

[@ggphantomartist51]

I request that you please continue this series; it would be wonderful to see videos like this every 2 or 3 months.

[@Nitrocoin8560]

YES PLEASE

[@zazat33]

ABSOLUTELY

[@Berbaros6996]

I can't, I...I...I will die of de-kurzgesagt-hydration.

[@goldenbananas1389]

agree

[@Tisserande]

PLEASEE

[@kevinarturourrutiaalvarez2613]

@kurzgesagt, at around 1:40 the video says that plants absorb red light and reflect away the rest and shows both green light and blue light being reflected. As far as I understand, land plants absorb both blue and red light, that's why they look green. You can check this out in the spectra of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b (which you can check out in the video notes or in the 5th edition of "Fundamentals of Biochemistry" by Voet, Voet, Pratt on p. 633), both have peaks at around 450 nm ("blue" region) and 650 nm ("red" region).

[@Aarush.A.S]

Exactly i noticed that too glad someone else actually cared

[@Aarush.A.S]

I saw from clockwork biochemistry show

[@sukhcheema3777]

@@kevinarturourrutiaalvarez2613 you are correct my guy

[@garykash3294]

Yes, this will need an edit and video repost, this is an incredibly glaring error. It's a Bio 101 Laboratory experiment to shine red blue and green lights on algae and measuring bubbles created as a measure of photosynthesis taking place. Green light has the least, since it is mostly reflected. Red is next, because it is reflected less but not high enough energy to always trigger the chlorophyll, while blue light is the most as it has higher energy and is less reflected than green.

[@Vilouse]

Bro why is there only a letter pfp

[@hopeyouaregoodhoney]

Nimbus lifeforms depending on a dying star is a poetic tragedy. It’s like watching a civilization at its peak, knowing the end is inevitable.

[@bradleydaniels4977]

Well the end is always inevitable for everything

[@mathiassestrem2012]

Also i think Nimbus theory IS the best

[@ButzPunk]

All stars are dying. Though nothing lasts forever, the lengths of time involved are truly beyond human comprehension. Even just a few million years, a short time in the cosmos, is an utterly mind-bogglingly enormous length of time for a human.

[@bradleydaniels4977]

@ButzPunk true even the death of the universe is short in the grand scheme of things we will likely never know for sure but there are likely beings on a higher plane of existence than ours who treat a million years from our perspective as a day to us or even a second who truly knows our perception of reality it very limited and will probably always remain that way unless we can somehow overcome our base desires such as greed and hatred for each other based on trivial things such as skin color or beliefs as a species we r doom to go extinct if we don't change never to know the wonders of the universe or terrors of existence pretty sad to think about our lives are way too short to really learn from our mistakes it only take a generation or two to forget

[@chrisbarry9345]

Just watch American news

[@ardienothesieno]

PLEASE make this a series this is so fun

[@g4m3professional]

For the Eye of Oculus segment, It seems a little unrealistic that the animals would be blind. On earth, complex eyes have evolved several times independently. If, there is enough light for plants to thrive, I feel like there would be enough for eyes to be advantageous.

[@TobiasRall]

Further more if you consider the possibility for communication via bioluminescence, a major game changer in deep sea on earth!

[@Outlaw-db6ee]

I think for the eye of oculus segment it was implied that there was not really enough light for plants to survive, hence why the plants were black to absorb any runaway radiation from the dim star as they didn't not receive a steady enough stream of photons to develop chlorophyll. Eyesight also relys on a steady stream of photons, but I'm sure there is a planet out there that fits the conditions where you're absolutely correct.

[@HeisenbergFam]

Never thought I'd see the day Kurzgesagt talks about alien whales

[@NU_Official190]

Thank For 3k subscribers 😢 🥺

[@NU_Official190]

😅

[@McMartinLC]

Did you try a cheaper AI this time? What a shit comment

[@tinminator8905]

Me neither. What a bewildering video. I wonder what they were smoking when deciding to make an entire video about something they pulled out of their ass completely. There is so much real stuff that still need kurzgesagt videos instead of making up science fiction scenarios.

[@ethanlal4517]

Bot

[@SandwichDoggy]

The amount of speculative biology going into this is amazing. The environments and adaptations were so well thought out

[@AndreBaguette]

Never been this invested visually or creatively into a kurzgesagt video. This is just amazing, the best video they've made imo

[@IronDino]

8:05 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

[@ArchoDarko]

-dr seuss

[@TomFriedman-vx1ku]

Well said.

[@ValikPav]

beautiful

[@NguyenMinh792]

He cries and smiles at the same time

[@I_am_u367]

5:12

[@notpoter]

4 title changes in an hour? I'm starting to believe this is a social experiment to test viewers' reaction. That or sci-fi writers made this script and title, and was frantically trying to fix their mistake

[@Ahrpigi]

I've seen it with other channels, and what I've been told is that several title options can be uploaded at once, and the algorithm sees which one performs best. Not being a video maker I can't say for certain though.

[@videogamer596]

It's a concept called A-B testing, they alternate through several titles in the hours after a video drops to see which ones the algorithm picks up and performs the best, and then stick with the best performing title based on the collected data.

[@mariusg8824]

Most big channels do a ton of A/B testing with their titles, because you never know what triggers the yt algorithm.

[@derekfarmer3803]

I did not know this, very interesting

[@stoneayblazin3869]

@@videogamer596 This is the right explanation.

[@vincentgirgenti6033]

I never thought I'd live to see y'all working on something related to astrobiology/speculative evolution but I'm so glad I have. Such a jolt of inspiration!

[@agustinamagpie]

I don't like this kind of content. It's what started the slippery slope that led Discovery Channel to just make up stuff and present it in documentary format, leading to conspiracy theories that persist to this day (looking at you Megalodon). This is fun and cute, but not what this channel is for. If there starts being more of these videos, I'll lose respect for the channel as a source of factual information

[@PatWyman]

you guys made an absolutely gem here. The creature design, the ecosystem design, and how foreign you were willing to get was all incredible

[@ukamisfareed8188]

3:50 You want to explore this world not become part of it SO ITS TIME TO LEAVE - kurzgesagt

[@Soundwave1900]

Reaper leviathan noises

[@sullywestboi9271]

Florida moment

[@Gaia_BentosZX5]

@@sullywestboi9271 GET OVER HERE!

[@Sebastian_Solace_PRS]

The local reapers missed out on their light snack

[@меффин]

*Kurzgezagt boss music starts playing*

[@dwi_keekee]

3:35 Subnautica experience basically 🐡

[@michieleding1242]

That could not be closer to what i was going to comment 😂. Ooh, loved the good old days. The nostalgia is insane

[@fractai.]

I came here to say this lol

[@almightyerboon2229]

Thats what I was gonna say lol

[@falkenberger]

Literally almost below zero

[@Garrus-uu4cc]

I thought I was the only one thinking that.

[@hopeyouaregoodhoney]

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan. Maybe we just described it, or maybe it’s still out there, unseen.

[@therexbellator]

This video made me realize something about the (now) classic evolution game Spore: the environment was always suitable for most life. There were no hot or cold planets, or planets shrouded in darkness or perpetual sun. Shame that it never got sequels because that's something that's really missing from it, being able to adapt and create wildly imaginative creatures like these.

[@chairmanbrando]

Spore was incredibly dumbed down from what it was originally supposed to be.

[@therexbellator]

@@chairmanbrando I know the teams were split between the 'cute' teams and the 'science' teams but based on some of the pre-release footage I honestly don't think the sciencey one would have been much different as you imply. The thing is that evolution is not something that is easily game-ified because it's mostly a passive act of attrition not a guided by a deliberate agency like a player. If they had leaned on the science it might have been more like SimEarth or SimAnt, where the game plays itself to a degree with the player only occasionally stops to intercede but there was an expectation of the level of interactivity of The Sims. Either way chances are Spore would have struggled to find an audience, it would have satisfied the science nerds but turned off the more casual audience interested in design and interactivity. Maxis just could not bridge the gap.

[@williek08472]

Kurzgesagt and speculative biology! A match made in heaven

[@34.thuantran80]

shit jojo reference

[@1nsomnia64]

@@34.thuantran80It’s an idiom…

[@agustinamagpie]

Not really, this is and the changes in titles and thumbnails speaks to a test run of content to see what's more profitable. This is what led to Discovery Channel to just make stuff up instead of being a reputable scientific communication method. Making up fantasies is cheaper, easier and faster than doing research

[@diegomountin585]

I would be so down for a part two of this video a year from now

[@Qbox5523]

Please make this a series 🙏

[@deltainfinium869]

Oh man I really hope so!

[@bearsgeography8330]

I tested this in Universe Sandbox, Monnier is not able to orbit Orsted in only 3 hours per orbit, given that Orsted's Roche limit contains Monnier's orbit. (Edit: You guys are awesome though! Most alien planets don't look too far from Earth, but this? Absolutely amazing! Keep up the good work!)

[@cortynnightshade]

"Krabbokratz schmackofatz" at 11:28 - as a german, I had a good laugh :D

[@Graf-Fischgen-von-Fischgesicht]

Oder diese schenken dinger davor Pflanzi purpurus

[@justascarecrow6988]

I read the name and couldn't stop smiling. We need to name real species this way

[@seanmurphy6481]

What does it mean, or rather, why is it funny to someone who doesn't understand German?

[@shuumatsuban]

replying to this so if someone says what it means ill know

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

@@seanmurphy6481 Short answer: It's something like "crab-o-scratch yummy-yummy". Long answer: "Krabbokratz" is a playful compound of "Krabbe" (crab) and "kratzen" (to scratch), while "schmackofatz" is a typically middle and north german slang word for "good tasting food", maybe from polish "smakować" (to taste), which the north/east germans linked to their german word "Geschmack" (taste) and corrupted the polish word over the years.

[@Danmar2003]

0:15 it's some kind of bird? I don't really know.

[@johannsanchocuevas7854]

Isn't that a shark?

[@cookiedudegaming]

Looks like some kind of potato to me

[@lenoobxd]

whatever it is it does NOT look friendly

[@sarthakgangopadhyay5909]

It's a sea snail.

[@idioticlight]

Dog? Pig?

[@FrenzyLive1]

Anything before GTA VI

[@NU_Official190]

Thank For 3k subscribers 😢 🥺

[@69Ωιαγιο]

Trust

[@eugenejamesbon5791]

Lol

[@sc4rydude277]

Dead internet theory

[@proyectodepeleador]

Xq no conoces argentina

[@ikeekieeki]

beautiful, especially the Nimbus segment. the Orsted segment is my favorite, especially the racing snails

[@HeadsetHatGuy]

8:11 the brown dwarf that was bullied by kurzgesagt 💀

[@Terning_Fox073]

Brown dwarfs are a huge disappointment to their mums

[@hahahahahah-oj3to]

There needs to be more video games about exploring alien ecosystems

[@Toxic-jp5vw]

subnautica lmao

[@TFP_SoundWave]

You could try No Man's Sky

[@superdiego.g]

There is No Man’s Sky

[@ythegamerita]

There's a lot of them

[@GarbonzoBeans]

You should try Subnautica

[@bharathball]

Oh this is a hypothesis

[@bsku0765]

Of course it is

[@yivi_miao]

@@bsku0765 because we running out of shi

[@treebit]

an ALIEN hypothesis!

[@broncosboy000]

Wouldn't be surprised if they included some of this stuff in their space game tho

[@Wopple]

Calm down MatPat ​@@treebit

[@MrKutKuGaruga96]

Speculative evolution is always entertaining, that's why I love Monster Hunter and Subnautica videogame franchises

[@igorfiuza144]

This can become a documentary in the next 20 to 30 years, considering the rate that space telescopes and analyzing instruments are evolving. Huge creativity exercise!

[@rickjames5998]

please explain

[@alanwhite7664]

This was so cool! It reminds me of a book I read as a kid. It had "what aliens on Venus and Jupiter might look like" it was what got me interested in science and space!

[@jpe1]

If you enjoyed that book, I will suggest Wayne Douglas Barlow’s book “Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 Voyage to Darwin IV” which is written as a first-person account of an expedition to the fictional exoplanet Darwin IV. The book was the inspiration for the Discovery Channel program “Alien Planet” And, of course, Barlow’s classic “Guide to Extraterrestrials” is also worth checking out.

[@DavidThorMoses]

As a biology enthusiast and a fantasy river, I love this so much! Super great food for fantasy and sci-fi worlds.

[@TomFriedman-vx1ku]

As a person who's created and drawn thousands of animals and aliens, I love this.

[@nimrodmayan]

It's a bit ironic - a planet shaped like an eye, in which all creatures are blind 👁

[@HeyItsTheWykydtron]

Someone call Gojira, we found the Flying Whales

[@sebidiebiene9526]

i came here looking for exactly this comment

[@gort6969]

@sebidiebiene9526 yup.

[@livingex]

6:14 SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS

[@Edge_2]

😂😂

[@videostalker83]

Love it!

[@SeanKula]

Beat me to it

[@moestinschmander]

screw blizzard for letting starcraft go down the drain 😭

[@SeanKula]

@@moestinschmander at least we didn't get the reforged treatment

[@VENUST3]

the satisfaction in his videos are coming from how round are the objects there i wanna see animation with as many corners as possible

[@Verchiel_]

some of the videos on Viruses might be of interest.

[@NoNameIdk1]

@@Verchiel_ Rounded corners

[@richtigmann1]

This is genuinely a really good video, all of these aliens are so creativelyh written and unique, all using really distinct features to live such different lives its amazing

[@ikebeckman1074]

4:50 bro just made a molecular burger 💀

[@Aurora_Animates]

Hehehehe e loll

[@PetikG]

It's always pleasant to see aliens be hypothesised as a specialised ecosystem of various unique animals, rather than superadvanced humanoids with oversized eyes.

[@videogamer596]

If you haven't seen it already, I recommend the Alien Biospheres series by Biblaridion. Covers a single hypothetical biosphere's journey from single-celled to sociality to sapience over an extensive evolutionary tree (with sapience depicted as not an end-goal, but simply a natural stopping point for the series).

[@Shinygold2232]

3:10 my stomach after Taco Bell

[@eliteknight2137]

stop bullying it

[@Lori-ow5ie]

Unfunny

[@nathanmaxey2966]

😂😂😂

[@tubofficial1]

unfunny

[@Rocketleaguepro-t9y]

Lol

[@Villager-hx9jm]

A type of podcast/interview made kurzgesagt would honestly be great

[@brickguts]

this is exactly what i think would so be so fuckin cool with aliens, the most known alien idea starts and stops with "super intelligent human-like creature from another planet", but i think the animals and ecosystems is way cooler to think about, how they would evolve on their own planet with completely different evolutionary paths. this video was amazing

[@garg4531]

Yeah, I love speculative evolution stuff like this and I love how truly alien these worlds are The first one especially, being the most “familiar” while also feeling truly bizarre and completely foreign

[@albingrahn5576]

i think you would love Scavengers Reign. it's an animated series about people being stranded on an alien planet with a weird and complex ecosystem

[@ThegodisAbraxas]

But would it be relatable? A good story touches on themes that the average person can understand. A movie about giant flying squid would be a tough sell for example without an anchor point to relate to.

[@brickguts]

@ YES I love scavengers reign its actually one of my favourite shows!!

[@brickguts]

@ThegodisAbraxas If youre asking about scavengers reign, yes it is! the relatable story elements come from the human crew members the show actually follows (they are all stranded in different areas and have to find their way back to the ship). the story and characters are really well done, the alien environment and animals are more like the set pieces and challenges they have to face along the way, and the animation is absolutely breath taking. im hard selling this show rn cause its actually so peak and very underrated i need everyone to watch it

[@thedoomslayer2416]

8:20 I am a Sturgeon, I AM A STURGEON!

[@Ocencreeperking]

I am a surgeon

[@panavgaming1050]

you mean like bannerlord?

[@RanEdgar-ok3wk]

I always hated this meme because whenever I say I have autisim people do this. TWT where is it even from! 😅

[@ReyanshsAccount-pm1ln]

Its from "The Good Doctor"​@@RanEdgar-ok3wk

[@eliteal2188]

This is by far the best thing Kurzkesagt has ever put out. Thank you for returning to your roots as a channel.

[@bjk837]

Like the 90’s movie references at the beginning. Of course the animation is out of this world, but major props to the sound team. It’s almost 3D with Airpods in!

[@B0ltd]

We may only Imagine how much Fun D&D would be with you guys. This world building is crisp.

[@jneal4154]

Because that's what science is supposed to be... World building. 🤦‍♂️

[@prof.reuniclus21]

@@jneal4154???

[@neurion6285]

11:30 I always like the easter eggs like "Krabbokratz schmackofatz" :D

[@PotionsMaster666]

Meaning,?

[@spikespedal6761]

@@PotionsMaster666 Scratching crab that likes to eat delicious food probably :D

[@fluffigverbimmelt]

Götterfunken?

[@D3nn1s]

​@@PotionsMaster666schmackofatz is a german meme. Basically saying something is very tasty would be a rough translation

[@neurion6285]

@@PotionsMaster666 Schmackofatz is a rather colloquial german word for something being tasty. It is not that common, however there is a meme of an eloquent german KZbinr (Daniel Beuthner) who used it to it to describe a rum. Might sound quite random, but that's often the point of memes, those who know understand it. :D And Krabbokratz is just a made-up word out of Krabbe=crap and the ending -kratz (which could also refer to kratzen=scratch?) to rhyme with Schmackofatz.

[@praevasc4299]

This is why I like Stanislaw Lem's work so much. His novels have aliens so different than earthly life, that in many cases the explorers don't even realize that they are alive.

[@TasteOfButterflies]

What book by Lem would you recommend to a person who has never read Lem and is only starting their sci-fi era?

[@FanaberiaFizyki]

"Star Diaries" and "Solaris" also "Robot tales"

[@-Hexag0n]

Would make for an awesome moral-horror or boddy horror story or perhaps something else entirely on which the focus is on an advanced and powerful aliens who simply see humans as an object, not by their intellects, but literally.

[@praevasc4299]

@ He wrote both very silly comedy stories, and very serious and hard sci-fi. Among the hard sci-fi which deals with the "alienness of aliens" topic, the most prominent are Solaris, Fiasko, The Invincible, and His Master's Voice. For starters I would definitely recommend Solaris.

[@Kammerliteratur]

Solaris. Solaris. Solaris! One of the best books ever written. Period.

[@meepandteep]

If you’re curious, this type of content is called speculative evolution. There are many channels out there that have created their own worlds and aliens. I personally enjoy the Isla Project channel. There is also “All Tomorrows” which was originally a book about human speculative evolution

[@benderisgreat95able]

"Is this tragic, or is this unique ecosystem lucky to exist in the first place?" 😭 We should be so grateful.

[@KingofUndrock]

i havent even finished the video but i want to GUSH about how amazing this is and what amazing job the art team did with these designs!! this has inspired and captivated me to no end!!! i adore this!!!

[@Phantasmaphobic]

Ahhh!! Speculative evolution is the coolest hobby ever. I'm so glad you all are covering it!!!

[@machinegods]

i love it when kurzgesagt does cute little spec bio videos like this. soooo cute.

[@decreasing_entropy3003]

8:52 My jaw dropped when I saw the landscape on Monnier. A smile lightened my face, and I imaginarily tipped my hat to the anonymous animator who spent countless hours planning the scene. It is pleasantly beautiful, and I thank Kurzgesact for showing a frame I never could have imagined.

[@mmmmmmok5292]

where does it even show the landscape on oersted

[@decreasing_entropy3003]

​@@mmmmmmok5292Sorry, I meant Monnier.

[@Aurora_Animates]

Fr

[@decreasing_entropy3003]

@@mmmmmmok5292 I meant Monnier.

[@daniel-mk5lz]

0:15 is this the first time Kurzgesat have shown IRL footage in their videos

[@JenyaFio]

Nope, they recorded IRL scenes for another video about researching and looking for a hard to find original source.

[@ultimaxkom8728]

Noooo! My immersiooon! **Melts and screams shrilly**

[@jneal4154]

​@@JenyaFio You know... Back when Kurzgasagt made videos about actual science instead of pandering to the pseudoscience crowd... 🤢

[@wirus8238]

@@jneal4154 Wouldn't it be great if the previous video was scientifical? Oh wait, it is

[@jneal4154]

@wirus8238 "Scientifical"? 😬 The trend is apparent and I'm NOT here for it. Again, they are way less rigorous and scientific than they used to be. This video was the last made-up nonsense I'm watching from them. I do not care if they occasionally choose to revisit their roots and briefly talk about actual science. I'm done.

[@unique_storm_777]

One video about alien tech and reverse gravity and what not, not conspiracy but hypothetical

[@jneal4154]

They've completely given up on producing scientifically sound content, so why not double down and the worst made up garbage from the world of pseudoscience? 🤷‍♂️ It would be par for the course at this point.

[@titan-1802]

@@jneal4154 "worst made up garbage from the world of pseudoscience" I'm sorry, but where the hell did you get the idea of Speculative Biology being pseudoscience? Its called "speculative" for a reason...

[@jneal4154]

@@titan-1802 Speculation is the realm of pseudoscience and science fiction, NOT science. You can put "biology" in the name, but science isn't make-believe, it's rigorous and assumes you know nothing until evidence dictates otherwise. The fact that you think this is science, not science fiction, is EXACTLY why I'm frustrated with Kurzgasagt. While legitimate scientists won't be sucked into the BS, people like yourself don't know better and are left believing this is some form of legitimate science. It's not. It's literally science-fiction. God is also "in the realm of possibilities", but religion isn't science even if you give it a name like "speculative physics" or "speculative sociology". You're capable of looking up "speculative biology" and learning that it's a literary and artistic subgenre of science fiction, not a discipline in science, and I hope someday you take the time to do it. 👍 You can use fiction to teach science, but that doesn't make it science. It's still fiction and presenting it as though it is some sort of scientific consensus is just lying.

[@brickmastere5535]

This was so good!!! This should absolutely become a series! :D

[@bazoo513]

While I have seen _some_ of the ideas presented here in one SciFi work or another (particularly "cloud whales"), the reality-constrained imagination that went into this video is astounding. Well done again, Birbs!

[@bhavishvijay6483]

“Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms.Are you sure whatever you’re doing is worth it?.”

[@JordanBeagle]

2:20 "Only death makes room for new life" Wow, love that line

[@CosmosGatito]

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[@sirsike6365]

The sound design is insane

[@longerthanyouthink]

0:15 "Whatever this thing is supposed to be" That's Mochi, the official pug of Kurzgesagt! He's so cuuuuute!

[@nilspap0978]

5:54 Typical Anakin Skywalker Moment

[@SagazLiam]

This might be my favorite video from now on. Incredible work

[@shoemacer]

Hi Kurzgesagt, I am a student in middle school and personally I say this from my heart you have gave me many knowledge about my immune system and many more knowledge that you shared across the globe, you voice is like the Our Planet voice and I really like how you are in Brilliant because I really wanted to study about the immune system

[@DanteGabriel-lx9bq]

Im waiting for Planet 4546B.

[@tubofficial1]

subnautica fans are amazing

[@LowbudgetPandamonium]

*ayo why did the water turn into a brown sand color-*

[@Nia-zq5jl]

6:05. I wonder what the game theory of being a fragile living balloon looks like. Someone can easily eliminate you by poking hole in you (Seems easier to evolve “attack” rather than “defence”). But I guess you can just retaliate if they are also a form of balloon creature leading to a scenario where no one attacks each other due to fear of retaliation?

[@huntedexp8142]

maybe the membrane is very resiliant, and has evolved a way to resist punctures. or maybe its a symbiotic thing, where if you dont kill the sky whale, you get more in the long term.

[@SuperFruitbat99]

There wouldn't be any point to attacking the membrane, the whale would fall but it wouldn't stop falling until it's deep in the atmosphere, which means its carcass is only available to creatures that live deep down

[@fandomguy8025]

@@SuperFruitbat99 I Wonder if creatures even COULD feed on it as it falls faster & faster before the pressures become so strong life cannot handle it, the atmosphere turning into a hot liquified gas + water ocean. If something DOES feed on popped/dead whales though, it would have to be bigger to catch it... Or made of cooperating packs/colonies of many individuals with nets that act as a single organism in its own right.

[@sillyrice420]

so nobody else thought this looked like the flood from halo?

[@viperblitz11]

I suspect that anything hunting the whales would evolve to be more parasitic than predatory. If it dies, it falls into the gas giant and you get nothing.

[@emreeren13]

11:20 You can really see the German origin of Kurzgesagt when you read things like "Pflanzi purpureus" or "Krabbokratz schmackofatz" lol 😂

[@5445tashi]

The narration is so well done I forgot this was a fictional video

[@NitemareMoon]

Reminds me of that one show on Discovery I saw as kid that had two space probes exploring an alien world like this. I still think about it. Really perspective shifting. Gorgeous video!!

[@jneal4154]

That's not really a positive. Discovery was wildly unscientific and peddled in pseudoscientific make-believe. (There's a reason they had so many ghost hunter and UFO shows) I agree that Kurzgasagt has similarities with the Discovery Channel these days, but that speaks more to the loss of scientific thought on this channel than it does to the quality of Discovery's programming. Kurzgasagt today is a shadow of the awesome channel it once was. 😢 Did you know they used to actually provide sources in the video itself and didn't spend video after video repeating unfounded speculative garbage? It was really great back then...

[@agustinamagpie]

I don't like this kind of content. It's what started the slippery slope that led Discovery Channel to just make up stuff and present it in documentary format, leading to conspiracy theories that persist to this day (looking at you Megalodon). This is fun and cute, but not what this channel is for. If there starts being more of these videos, I'll lose respect for the channel as a source of factual information

[@mikaruyami]

Alien Planet is the name that appears under KZbin search for that documentary.

[@titan-1802]

@@jneal4154 Good god damn hell what do you have against speculative biology? It's called speculative for a reason, not a literal proven fact that we've proven of how alien life works.

[@jneal4154]

@titan-1802 I have nothing against speculative biology, nor science fiction. I have a huge problem with a science channel presenting science-fiction as though it is anything remotely adjacent to any legitimate line of scientific inquiry. This was completely science-fiction. Presenting science-fiction as science-fact makes them liars. I don't know why you're struggling to grasp this rather simple idea...

[@likefrim]

7:07 rainworld vulture

[@saulvyolka]

RAIN WORLD MENTIONED

[@somerandomkeruku193]

Wawa

[@astick5249]

RAIN WORL

[@zeeki_jivon]

rain worl wawa

[@LamarjorieQueen]

Rain worl :3

[@REDSTONENOOB.]

7:58 why not both

[@fluffyg12]

I very much enjoy the fact that with each creature, you point to terrestrial creatures that do the exact same thing that you're imaginary creatures do. Keeps the video much more grounded in reality than I originally thought it would be.

[@Devil-Made]

While all Kurzgesagt videos are good, and many are important, its topics like this that keep me coming back. I’m not saying all videos should be hypotheticals based on science-fact like this one is, but I could definitely do with a few more of these in the pipeline.

[@chefbezos250]

9:17 I was trying to google the weird name of every alien until I saw this one 💀

[@ThatShushi17-mc7ct]

2:03 this is one of the limitations of the abstract of the kurzgesagt style, its not possible to capture the beauty in the complexity of structures like this (im not saying that i expect it to)