This is The Only Thing Humans Will Leave Behind

What is the last thing humanity will leave behind?
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[@Thoughty2]

I filmed this before the coronavirus outbreak, in case you're wondering why I didn't mention it. I hope everyone is safe and maintaining high spirits during this difficult time.

[@user-of8id]

Thoughty2 Hi bro your awesome, your my favourite KZbinr!

[@timedoctor4526]

You too man, stay safe.

[@MachineManGabb]

@Random Channel you aren't very fun at parties are you?

[@SalimSalim-hg1ur]

We hanging in There, your content is amazing!

[@leninthebeaniesouhacker.2459]

What about a video speculating what species of animals could rise up as the new humans?

[@ahwayzcool4630]

Aliens come visit earth in the distant future: "Well they destroyed themselves again. Let's reseed the planet and see what happens for the 5th go round".

[@chillieice]

@Green Future Or a game of Sims.

[@edwardlewispaxton7104]

Were just alien hybrid monkey puppets tho!

[@lars2363]

Green Future there is a southpark episode about this lol

[@exposurebuilds2100]

😂😂

[@BraveFencer]

Accurate af

[@tye9713]

We just need to recycle all this plastic n turn them into giant Lego pieces and make our own Lego kingdom

[@Cat-fp7jw]

Yes

[@MrYogurtExists]

There new slogan is, “rebuild the world” after all.

[@usedtoberyanpoopnownormal8822]

We should make it in Denmark

[@thatnerdlandon6598]

You are a Genius

[@leosvanbom1721]

Lol

[@pushuppoppies8718]

When humans first arrived in New Zealand, apparently it was extremely loud. The reason? Birds. Tons of singing birds with no natural predators. Most of these birds are now dead, due top us humans. Earth probably won't be all that silent when we're gone. She'll simply be singing a different tune.

[@AcAwesomeAndrew]

Nice phrasing

[@zebulongriggs4986]

Due to predators that were introduced by humans***. FTFY

[@willrez9721]

underrated comment

[@rosbaldiston7979]

@@zebulongriggs4986 And humans, the Maori arrived in around 1300 and in just a couple hundred years, the largest birds on the planet (Moa birds) had been hunted to extinction by humans.

[@Harry351ify]

It will be silent in comparison to sounds you hear today though. When humans first arrived in New Zealand, this amount of noise pollution wasn't a thing. So they thought it was extremely loud. But that noise is nothing in comparison to the noise in a city with millions of residents.

[@TheInkSideofThings]

Hundreds of toilet paper rolls inside every home

[@capo_di_capi]

Don't forget about the hundreds of cases of water

[@jamesblankenship3077]

Hahaha

[@Nico97fr]

I don't get it, why do people buy a lot of them during the pandemia? How could toilet paper be essential for life? And why would people need more of it now? 😂

[@Engineer9736]

Nico97 It’s to be able to stay home for weeks. But yes.. People should also buy a lot of food for that.

[@Nico97fr]

@@Engineer9736 If you don't have toilet paper, you can use water instead. And nobody uses 40 rolls per month. They bought enough for 2 years, lol. They bought huge quantities of food: they, alone, cannot eat all of that. Same for drugs (medicines). As a result, people who need those to eat or to cure a headache don't have the abiliity to buy them, as it's now out of stock... And those who bought all drugs and food are just storing them, with no use... just to calm down their anxiety. People are cows.

[@jgr7487]

mankind: "what's my purpose?" Earth: "you create plastic"

[@xerodelacroix5552]

George Carlin had it right.

[@slyseal2091]

Oh. My. God.

[@The-illuminated]

*Sigh* Unzips pants*

[@Yehokanan]

Plastic...a**hole. Carlin classic!

[@robforge7667]

Pass the butter dude.

[@Involent]

"Once-ordered hive of humanity." I love that turn of phrase.

[@OHOE1]

Should we thanos the population

[@lardoram]

The hive that thoughty2 is part of and actively participated in

[@jj-iu3ni]

Nerd

[@legionary3519]

@@jj-iu3ni Child

[@jj-iu3ni]

@@legionary3519 baked Legume

[@infoninja]

Me: watching again in 09/2020 Thoughty2: "A deadly disease pandemic..." Me: hahaha

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

Well.... just exactly how deadly is it? We have two things happening at the same time now: A pandemic killing around 1 million humans each year, and countermeasures locking one billion humans inside... So far countermeasures cause more problems then the virus itself. 102 years ago, in 1918, the Spanish Flu killed millions each week while humanity was many times smaller then it is today, but society did not break down, nor was it locked down. At the moment, the virus is dangerous to individuals, but not to society as a whole. The danger we ARE facing: washing our hands with sanitizer a few times an hour, not having contact with other humans for a few years, and no one catching the ordinary flu for a while.... until our immune systems do not know what the flu looks like anymore, and THEN a real killer could be on the loose...

[@revontulet8424]

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 Hey chief, COVID has roughly the same death rate as the Spanish Flu. It was just mostly cast aside and let to ravage everyone because the war was going on. Everyone still has contact with other humans, I don't know why you think we don't. COVID has permanent damage for those who catch it worse than others. You don't have to be super old to get deadly sick of it because the more of the virus you are in contact with, the sicker you get. It's not an on off switch. It's why masks are so helpful. It's why the people who catch it are quarantining is so helpful. It lessens the spread, and lessens the amount of the virus airborn in total is spread even to one person. Once the vaccine is administered to a mostly herd immunity rate, then we'd be back to normal relatively quickly. Hell, in the USA it's basically normal for most of the pandemic for a large chunk of the country... just with the peer pressure of wearing masks

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@revontulet8424 are we talking about the same virus? In Europe, the total deathrate is back to what would be normal for a februari without covid. Here in the Netherlands, we have less then 70 fatalities per day, on a population of 17 million. During the Spanish flu, with 1/4 of the current population, we had single cities with that number of fatalities. On the other hand, Europe is in lockdown. Supermarkets are open, and online business is allowed, and that's it. Schools are closed, shops are closed, restaurants, bars, any amusement: closed. For some it is the third month, for others it is much longer. We have a curfew from 21:00 to 4:30 and only a special permit from vital jobs will allow you out of your house at night. The police are actively hunting teenagers who go out for 'illegal' parties in the woods. Just google 'illegaal feest' and you will find the news in Dutch. One tiny spot of light shines towards us: out upcomming elections can go on exactly as planned. 15 million people breathing in the same small voting booths is not dangerous at all, according to our politicians..... The same ones who 'accidently' have a large wedding with hugs at a time were the rest of the plebs can have max ten guests at a wedding, and the same politicians who go iceskating in a stadium with the althletes at a time were they themselves closed the stadium to anyone but the athletes, so yeah, those elections are safe, no doubt there. Group immunity? At the current rate, we need 20 years before we reach 60%.... The first succesfull mutations have occurred, so not likely group immunity will last... Just immagine a world where air traffic was cut for a few weeks untill we knew exactly where the virus was, and keep air traffic away from those areas.... Ask any airliner if they would accept the loss of a few weeks of income versus 70% for years.... Mouthmasks help?????? We get arrested if we do not wear one..... So yeah, we wear them...and yet the number of infected people goes up and up....

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@revontulet8424 ah, misread you. Herd immunity through vaccination.... Lets just say the name of the virus spreads enough terror that when the people in healthcare are given first vaccinations, the managers who work from home line up in front of the others. Not only do they gobble up most of the healthcare budget and are responsible for the state it is in, but they also cut in front of the people actualy taking care of the old and the infirm. At least we paid them enough to work here and not abroad, or else they might not work here at all and we would have less competent managers...

[@mihaleskovec983]

How many times would he need to snap to clear all humanity

[@susiemccallister9352]

When aliens visit earth after humans are long gone: This so called ''toilet paper'' must have been their god.

[@ploperdung]

Toilet paper decomposes quick as fuk

[@daoyang223]

Alien goes to Japan. Alien: this thing called Pikachu is their God. It's cute.

[@battybethc]

Lmao!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 This comment made my day!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 Thankyou! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@___Zack___]

@RagingThunder People bought craploads of toilet paper here in western Europe too, but you're right, there are bidet.... Fking next-level idiots 🤦‍♂️

[@loraxdavewalters2696]

They encouraged cruelty against chickens. They loved chicken embryos and the flesh of chickens as much as they enjoyed changing soil composition by scattering various hydrocarbons and allowing the wind and oceans to mix the mess.

[@loomman5296]

"An asteroid strike, or a deadly disease pandemic." 2020: This isn't even my final form.

[@Martin-yh7vi]

Its like everything gets worse every month or so.

@Aaron Antone It will miss earth. And if it doesn't we'll blow it up before it even gets close.

[@tommymarco]

@@Martin-yh7vi still getting worse two years later .

[@chevyatkins558]

​@@tommymarco no Tommy it really isn't

[@budwhite9591]

@@chevyatkins558 yes it is

[@pcsandbricksstudios8033]

Alternative title: what if thanos snapped his fingers twice?

[@lllpro-scopezlll1560]

Wed have 25% of the original population

[@kimdongwon9782]

@@lllpro-scopezlll1560 Well, you’re not wrong

[@mihaleskovec983]

How many times would he need to snap to kill all humans?

[@pcsandbricksstudios8033]

@@lllpro-scopezlll1560 the rest would use spacecraft to escape, to probably Mars 😅

[@okayboomer7546]

Miha Lekovec an infinite amount if half the population of the universe dies each time

[@Avery_37]

"Deadly virus pandemic" Boi do I have news for you..

[@singleasasin]

[900 k years A.H. (after humans)] ... [Aliens arrive to Earth] : "Oh, look ! Our pyramids are still standing ! " 😆

[@danielbateman6518]

The pyramids are just the alien version of sand castles, they came here and made them while on holiday just for a bit of fun.

[@yannickclaes90]

The pyramids have been built only +- 7.500 years ago and they are already crumbling. They won't last indefinitely.

[@singleasasin]

@@yannickclaes90 Pyramids lasted longer than most of other buildings ;-)

[@raccoon2447]

@@yannickclaes90 +-7500 years ago? u could just literally google it.. they were made 4524-4611 years ago, u are 3000 years off!

[@danielbateman6518]

@Aiden Pearce how do you know?

[@christaylor2959]

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.“ ― Norman Maclean

[@svoura_]

How peaceful

[@dquad]

I want to go trout fishing now.

[@tomchch]

"Except for plastic" - Me

[@Nipplator99999999999]

then somebody builds a hydroelectric dam - history

[@paulklee5790]

Excellent book, excellent author and not a bad movie. All should definitely be better known....

[@thomasewing2656]

Some distant future explorer will find thousands of unblemished Gold bars under what was New York City and realize it can't be natural.

[@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391]

He'd have difficulty finding them....

[@jasonschauer8002]

Hey, what about the stuff on the moon? A car, a plaque, and flag and a few footprints No atmosphere, water or plate tectonics.......

[@ebenolivier2762]

And what about human fossils and the imprints of our technology. We have found fern fossil imprints that are hundreds of millions of years old, surely buildings, computers, appliances etc. will leave such imprints as well?

[@predatoreusfilms9992]

The flag would be white from the sun

[@youhaveinfinitevalue5755]

The atmosphere of the moon has grown by 600 percent in just the last 60 years. Every planet has an atmosphere that grows. Planets produce atmospheres, this is scientific fact. Science will catch up eventually on the fact that Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn are planets with very thick atmospheres, and not just balls of gas. In fact, in the not so distant future, we will fully understand that each planet is a factory producing everything within and out. Metals, water, oxygen... oil. All products of a global factory. Imagine, this perpetual lie of fossil fuels produced by dinosaurs and ancient plant life put to rest, and our posterity laughing at us for believing such a thing. Scientist have finally started to understand that our water supply isn’t from outer space, delivered by comets, but a product produced within a living world. Most of the worlds H2O is 300-400 miles beneath our feet, not in the worlds oceans. Think this is fiction? Google search. Many of us knew it before mainstream science started catching up. Don’t be to surprised when this is all revealed by an ‘outside’ source, and he won’t be a good guy. He will know the science, but will have a black heart. Forget the last part for now and look into the rest. Understanding the planets around us as living, or dying, planetoidal bodies, is where the real science is.

[@participantparticipant506]

And all our high orbit satellites and probes wandering the solar system?

[@kayliaanntwoynet4867]

started watching this and the first thought was:"wasn't there a TV show about this?" (Life After People)

[@danceswithspiders2309]

Kaylia Anntwoynet yes👌🏻👍🏼 a great show, 9 hrs long I think.

[@daniel-9120]

yes

[@goremall4330]

I remember that one, it was really cool. I remember one episode when they were talking about how DC wouldn't last more than 100 years because it's in a swamp.

[@ebrk7]

Yes! It was a fantastic series.

[@spritemon98]

There's an anime called dr stone with the same idea

[@MrBensella]

As long who ever comes after us won't find my internet history, I'm cool!

[@MaekarManastorm]

Lots of little boy porn huh.... Weirdo

[@Osmann45]

@@fatstar111 The fact that is your first thought says more about you than him...

[@owenetlinger3402]

@ben Sella Truer words were never said

[@MrJC1]

@@Osmann45 very good point.

[@SHOWEM]

@@MaekarManastorm weirdo

[@jaggerstepmc7941]

Here’s too voyager 1& 2 going strong a billion years from now.

[@daithieireannach5197]

They've found a fungas that feeds on plastic recently

[@legionary3519]

*fungus but also, really? damn, that's pretty cool.

[@robertlogan4652]

Fun gas, fungis, funk kiss, fon fizz, and fungas are all ways that you dint spell fungus. I know there's fungi, the ole yeah but still ordeal

[@globalbridges8570]

Plastic came from the earth and will return back to the earth. Only fools fall these logical fallacies, CO2 is plant food not pollution, plastics are not natural, oil is continuously formed from sedimentary rock not fossils, the earth is coming out of an ice age and the ice will melt, we’re living on a spinning ball spiralling through space but most live on a flat earth/pane a fictional construct written down on pieces of paper.

[@jamesdeininger3759]

Obviously something will be left behind. I mean, we’re still digging up fossils from 200+ Million years ago, right?

[@jjkm17]

James Deininger yeah but nothing that we made would still be here if that much time had passed

[@CorundumDevil]

True, but that's not something created by humankind. Hell, it isn't technically left behind by the fossilized subjects themselves. Sounds like a nitpick, but it is true that everything fossilized today was not actively complicit in its fossilization- I don't even think we have any grand designs for that yet, today. And why wouldn't we try human-made fossilization when we have time capsules? It's all very special circumstances that happen to preserve things far beyond their typical threshold. Cryostasis in extremely cold environments, rapid fossilization under a sudden landslide of particular mud and clay, the infamous bugs encased in petrified amber that Michael Crichton made popular, et al; these are all natural, non-premeditated means of creating fossils. Thus far, humans don't have any means of preserving such fossils short of encasing something in solid tungsten. Even freezing things the way that we do now doesn't preserve the object forever- if anything, it's just a version of natural room-temperature decay slowed by the cold's effect on the speed of molecules. This also means that even in the coldest manmade environments, extreme biological organisms still exist and will feed on those frozen objects at an incredibly slow pace. Nature is scary, man.

[@wolfzmusic9706]

Alex Dusfraine some of us will turn into fossils. there’s 7.5 billion of us

[@klop3re]

Whats with the things we left on the moon ?

[@demonkey123]

Calvin Schuster images.app.goo.gl/vf2YpSSXig1PPAS57

[@BionicleFreek99]

"deadly disease pandemic" *sweats*

[@zubankesari7464]

The Corona Virus is a pandemic But its not that deadly..

[@George-li1yv]

@Mr. Fahrenheit This comment is so ignorant

[@bebemax95]

@Mr. Fahrenheit the term "Pandemic" means that its a world-spread virus while "Epidemic" means its spread on a single continent or area. So yes the Coronavirus is a "Pandemic". However it is not extremely deadly with only 1-2% deathrate. But it is easily transferred. Which is why people are panicking. Not to mention the deathrate is still higher than Normal Flu or Swine Flu with 0.2% deathrate. We can treat normal flu, but Coronavirus will f*ck you if you dont have a strong immune system.

[@bebemax95]

@Mr. Fahrenheit i didnt say weak immune system. Just a strong immune system. The virus targets the lungs. If you're young and exercises frequently (especially cardio) then you'll get mild flu cases if you catch the virus. But anybody who doesnt do Cardio exercises and is too young or old is f*cked

[@canyoulendaniggaapencil8719]

@Mr. Fahrenheit watch kurzgesagt newest video. They'll explain about Corona virus

[@poiuy7577]

what about things we left on moon or on Earths orbit, you forgot them they will not just disapear you forgot them, but its great video btw

[@agentstarkk]

That's a good point. I wonder if and how long it would take before everything in orbit would be pulled back to earth. I'm guessing the majority of it would burn up in the atmosphere.

[@bobjenkins2671]

But the lunar lander would still be there and also a few hundred dollars

[@_JL82]

They may go into a different part of the universe , if man is monitoring them via computer

[@meg_2087]

Probably run out of power sources and drift away into space

[@Laffy-ix5xy]

And the probes we have sent travelling into deep space, such as Voyager equipped with the golden records.

[@johnvonhorn2942]

Okay, let's crowdfund a moustache tribute to Thoughty2 in the granite mountains of South Dakota - Mount Tachemore

[@thumbsupemoji6900]

“A deadly pandemic” WHAT DID YOU DO

[@Momo_Kiki_]

I like your username fellow (not) cult member

[@komokaziboschetti]

History repeats itself, bb

[@FluffyOrionlol]

OH NO

[@christophermacqueen2513]

Not exactly deadly

[@santaisreal]

Covid 19 isnt a deadly pandemic that's going to eradicate humans though....

[@wesleymercer4536]

My dude done did a vsauce: "Or will there?"

[@brightblackgrouse6236]

7 up

[@dunkindoughnut167]

@@brightblackgrouse6236 sprite

[@analizalee8]

He forgot the epic music

[@johnrollex680]

I think you underestimate just how well the water tight environment of a landfill can preserve substances such as stainless steel and copper. I think the shapes of things inside of our landfills would probably remain fairly recognizable, if compressed.

[@patricksarama4963]

Voyager 1 and 2: **angry interstellar probe noises**

[@Cendoria]

They found a bacteria in south america a couple of years ago that actually decomposes plastic, albeit extremely slowly. Given thousands of years they'd likely evolve to do it more efficiently since there's so much to go around edit: apparently it was in Japan. Ideonella sakaiensis is what they've named it.

[@MichaelSHartman]

Lignin was the plastic of it's time. Eventually, something finally figured out how to eat this abundant food source.

[@fivade6534]

@HangGlideTube also a fungus that eats plastic, that is edible

[@duudsuufd]

I thought the same. Evoluition continues after us. There will be organisms that can feed of what we left behind. But of course plastics that become buried in the sediments (happens all the time) will be found in rock layers million years from now.

[@michaelwescott8064]

And in a couple billion years, the sun will go red giant and char everything then swallow the earth.

[@redsun9261]

yeah, the earth isnt the only one planet. Its human's way of thinking. There is universe of them, orbiting suns in billions of galaxies.

[@uslph.]

@ No, we definitley can.

[@blanconaam]

Humanity will most likely already be extinct I think.

[@breadspy5974]

@@blanconaam If we haven't moved into inter galactic space travel in a couple billion years then something went drastically wrong

[@blanconaam]

@@breadspy5974 I mean we probably already extinct before we even get the chance

[@kirstycoo97]

I'd love to see a movie about a post apocalyptic world where more animals started reclaiming the cities and you got to see their adventures and the dangers of the forgotten cities!

[@joeymcpeek6058]

Jumanji bro

[@bananaman2564]

sweet tooth is kinda close to that

[@loganhelland4073]

Imagine coming to a new planet that took YEARS to get to and seeing a couple dudes in a hill. I mean what do you say there youve got nothing. Just happen by chance?

[@ulazygit]

Aliens did it! 😂

[@randomboi8218]

“There is one, and only one, human creation that mother nature can never entirely get rid of. Plastic” Voyager 1: Am I a joke to you?

[@computethis7128]

All satellites will definitely be long destroyed by then. If not by colliding with something and getting absorbed, then by disintegration due to cosmic radiation and particles of matter. I would estimate within a few hundred or at most a thousand years.

[@Phil-Higginson]

@@computethis7128 Voyagers 1 & 2 are not satellites, they are space probes that have left our solar system and will likely last millions of years

[@carelessalcoholic]

@CarbonCopy, there may be many stars but the distance between them is too great, in about 40k years voyager will pass a star, the distance will be 1.7 lightyears, here is a quote form NASA: The Voyagers are destined-perhaps eternally-to wander the Milky Way.

[@theperfectmix2]

CarbonCopy wow I wish most arguments/debates would end like that

[@raestephenson7932]

Mice can destroy plastic, chew it into tiny shreds, and bury it underneath of soil they create with their own poo (& other materials)... thereby returning it to the Earth.

[@jean-alexandrecourbet229]

You missed one more thing that would be a telling mark of human presence: the massive mining operations, or rather, the resulting giant holes in certain layers of rock where certain substances (oil, gas, etc.) used to be. Regardless of how the layers of rock are pressed, slided and broken up by natural plate motion, there would still be gigantic scars where sections were drilled through in manners whose resulting shapes cannot be explained by natural processes.

[@silverwhistle247]

Also the moon lander on the moon

[@cravinbob]

That would be space junk, this was about what is left on the earth.

[@JustScrapHD]

glad that there is still a tesla in space when we are all gone

[@Sir_Panicaim]

@@whannabi The ISS isn't to far to deorbit it needs a monthly reboost to stay in orbit www.heavens-above.com/IssHeight.aspx

[@TheBwaap]

we have left a lot of marks on salt planes, those will be around a loooong time , lots of man made water ways will be seen a long time., nuclear waste storage, windmill blades those will be forever there, jewelry has tell tale sings of man made. utterly toxic dead zones from pollution., and animals with all kinds of disformaties will live for millions of years i guess

[@walterfechter8080]

"Wild Thing, you make my heart sing -- you make everything groovy" -- carved in a cliff face, in letters one-hundred feet high.

[@chevtruck1000]

An entire series was done on this. It's called life after people, is on youtube and is worth watching.

[@kuzzbillington6392]

When the aliens returns he says... Let's look at the evidence; Thoughty2 = T2 = Terminator 2 = Sent from the future. *This guy is an alien robot sent from the future to warns up about our impending doom!*

[@ddevil4980]

*warn us 👍

[@thereplier46]

*oH nOoOoOo!*

[@enhvalderergal6815]

He did warn agenst a pandemic

[@SebAnders]

"Earth will just create a new paradigm, Earth plus plastic." -George Carlin

[@crispycrunch9971]

That's EXACTLY what I thought at the beginning! XD

[@petergant8767]

I'd like to see him do a longer version of this, with more details on the things that will happen on Earth without humanity!

[@tystall2930]

Earth after humans did that. Its an old TV show

[@AnimeOtakuDrew]

There was a History Channel special I saw a few years ago that was the same as this, only went into much greater detail, though many of it's basic points were exactly the same as Thoughty2 made (enough so that I'm genuinely curious whether he saw that and decided to do his own abridged version). It was much the same right down to the idea that humanity spontaneously vanishes without explanation (as there was no mention of bodies left behind and some of the points made are counter to the idea of an evacuation (such as service animals being left behind and things that humanity wouldn't depart without doing being left undone).

[@thtuskey]

@@tystall2930 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH2cgY2smamjmbc Life After People - great show.

[@CONSOLETRUTH2]

Considering how different aliens could be, if they see My. Rushmore, would they even recognize it as being anything other than rock? I mean, to them it could just be a collection of oddly shaped rock. (hope that made sense)

[@aspiceronni4462]

I know what you mean. Perhaps they scan the countryside for genetic material. Those faces in the rock wouldn't trip their sensors. It would indeed seem like oddly shaped rock formations.

[@EarleTKG]

This reminds of the rocks that look like cookie monster. They probably existed many years before cookie monster was even a concept or the creator was even born. Having certain characteristics really doesn't always prove that something was there before or not.

[@anamekian1742]

@@EarleTKG But….what if there WAS?

[@Harry351ify]

By that time, Mount Rushmore would be covered in soil, making it look like a natural mountain. So, unless they do some archeology, they wouldn't notice anything in the first place.

[@EarleTKG]

@@Harry351ify eroded* it would erode little by little until there’s was never any evidence that it existed.

[@MacGuy3135]

Me: giant holes, really hard ceramic tools, cut diamonds Thoughtly2: a plastic bottle.

[@homelessrobot]

i mean, even our remains. we systematically preserve them. and then bury them.

[@sanniepstein4835]

Plastic-eating bacteria have already appeared.

[@homelessrobot]

​@@sanniepstein4835 unfortunately, 'plastic' isn't a specific enough term for this to be meaningfully true. Some bacteria can eat some components of some plastics. This does not however imply that most plastics can be degraded like this, nor does it imply that this sort of degradation is ecologically positive. Aquatic ecology pulls heavy metals out of water and sediment. So less heavy metals, right? Well unfortunately, now these heavy metals are in the food chain.

[@mattrickard3716]

@@homelessrobot Tinned mercury/tuna anyone?

[@osbberjen]

im sure a lot of things wil be preserved in the ground that wil never dissapear like concrete blocks, glass, old nokias and so on.

[@Pairofrickowens]

This makes me miss “Life After People”

[@gizmo4192]

DUDE I USED TO WATCH THAT SHOW 24/7

[@indridcold8433]

It was on Zulu awhile ago. I made a marathon watch of it for a week. It made me wish I was the only person on Earth after everyone disappears. I am made to feel subhuman and not worthy of being treated with the kindness, respect, and decency. Thus, if I am subhuman and people disappear all over the planet, I will still be here and get the last laugh.

[@fwightweacts868]

@@indridcold8433 wtf

[@vanessaward7687]

Yeah within 30 sec "Life After People" popped into my head. lol

[@justicedtson9021]

Just quick note. The term “critical” on nuclear reactors means equilibrium. Basically the reactor is self sustaining and running normally. It’s not bad. 2nd reactors are designed in a way that if left undisturbed they are ill naturally shutdown unless something external like an earthquake or something damages key parts of them. I wouldn’t be super worried about meltdowns

[@terrencekelly1256]

I kind of feel sad for planet earth and its other inhabitants watching this, we are a disease on the planet 😔

[@velder22]

Yep where the cancer. The Earth definitely will not miss us when we're gone it's been trying to take us out for a while. And the messed up things is were smarter than this but too many people don't give a shit.

[@clairemariecreations]

"But more rational science says....." shots fired, tea spilled, info leaked

[@ProLaytonxPhoenix]

I love a link to the "more rational science" he mentioned.

[@1035pm]

Peace Walker probably those same scientists that say men are men and women are women... complete bigots!!

[@badnewswade]

Also: "Thinks radiation causes nuclear winter" Not the most scientifically literate youtuber in the world then

[@clairemariecreations]

y'all.... i agree with the man. i think you misunderstood me. the climate change fiasco is much more dramatic than what "rational science" suggests. there are no links because its not just one source. besides, you shouldnt cling to links and articles as a sign that your argument is correct. unfortunately for the doom and gloomers out there, rational scientists think the world isnt going to end in the next 10 years. believe it or not, thats a GOOD thing.

[@mattmorehouse9685]

@@clairemariecreations So we should accept that Thoughty2 is right without any evidence, other than his say so. Isn't that what the wackjob religious people want us to do? If there are so many sources surely you can include one. Maybe even two!

[@KZoopam]

These videos are perfect around the Covid-19 pandemic.

[@rookieman329]

just one more reason to give up fighting covid-19, the world wants revenge for everything we had done to it.

[@erenyeager3655]

@@rookieman329 I haven't done shit I was just the unlucky sperm that won. My dear tracey

[@rookieman329]

@@erenyeager3655 have you never used a plastic bottle, or a plastic cup? have you never driven a car? then you are guilty

[@s.t.-1094]

There are micro-organisms that can digest plastic. They developed naturally outside a plastic plant in Japan.

[@okayboomer7546]

Nature be like: improvise, adapt, overcome!

[@samueljohnston9639]

well just because there is no proof that plastic can be decomposed doesn't necessarily mean that it can't ever compose naturally, we just obviously haven't observed it happen yet, but there is a very real chance it can be composed naturally (it doesn't really matter of course because it would still take a long time to do it, like way more than one lifetime easily) but it is impossible to prove something CAN'T happen, you can only prove something will happen every time

[@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214]

“A deadly disease pandemic” Coronavirus: allow me to introduce myself

[@usec5503]

dude only reason he didnt say "corona" is that video gets insta demonetized its all about corona

[@Dave-se4sb]

@@usec5503 he literally says in comment he recorded this vid before corona

[@usec5503]

@@Dave-se4sb dude u really belive that shit? "I can only create these videos every week because of the amazing support of my Patrons"

[@max1423]

It’s not necessary a deadly disease

[@pugsymalone4009]

Corona isn't deadly to most people.

[@nicksallnow-smith7585]

For those of your followers who want more on this, I would suggest they find "The World without Us" by Alan Weisman published in 2007 from which much of your material seems to have been sourced.

[@nickywh1t3]

I almost didn’t recognise you without your trouser braces.

[@mattmoore2789]

Have you seen his older videos? Without his mustache? Totally different dude

[@temujinkhagan5308]

@@mattmoore2789 yeeeeee

[@jmack4275]

Thoughty2: Do you know what signs of human remains will remain even millions of years after we are gone? Me: fossils? Thoughty: PLASTIC

[@fenn_fren]

Plastic fossils!

[@joseichoshow9846]

If I was an alien traveling the galaxy the last thing. I would do is dig to look fossil.

[@frieza2235]

Me: thots?

[@theperfectmix2]

Joseicho Show Humans are probably not the only species to have Paleontologists

[@CB_Legatus]

@@joseichoshow9846 Why..? It's literally the first thing we are doing, and we have only managed to send a robot to a very nearby planet. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TRKN.WLR1]

Anyone think this has happend many times before and we just don’t know because there is no trace of human life and the world and evolution repeats itself over and over again 🧐 hmmm

[@danceswithspiders2309]

Coreyluminous ._. Check out the H blocks in South America.

[@stephenphelan626]

Then we are the first on this planet to create plastic.

[@TRKN.WLR1]

We never know ?

[@damstr1105]

Given the estimated age of the universe, I wouldn't say it has happened many times, but it's very possible that we are not the first advanced civilization that has existed on earth

[@ebrk7]

Spoiler Alert: The Matrix

[@apexqc04]

Interesting you released this days before the first lockdown. Yes the sudden lack of background noise was... fascinating. You only really noticed it as cars came back onto the roads. But most of all, you heard nature.

[@Nathan-ng1jt]

Aliens would find old Nokia phones still running one battery bar..

[@maniya6830]

That background music is lovely. This blissful quality of of videos is why I subscribed to thoughty2 all the way back in 2015.

[@19Vendetta93]

EPIC PUPPY TECH G-Eazy x Carnage - Guala search that on KZbin😉

[@maniya6830]

@@19Vendetta93 oh thanks man. Really appreciate it😁

[@RealMorphy]

Violin at 6min mark??

[@James-iw4fz]

time flies

[@RealMorphy]

@@James-iw4fz checked it its different

[@darrellcovello7917]

"Perhaps there is one thing we might leave behind... one thing nature will never get rid of... *RAID - SHADOW LEGENDS"*

[@libertyschultz9807]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ujwalpandey3968]

This Planet is sponsored by RAID-SHADOW LEGENDS

[@danzeke4481]

This is the best, a hard one to beat. Thanks t2 for making these videos.

[@teaburg]

Traffic noise pollution. I camped out on an island for 4 days, in northern Ontario. It involved a long hike, crossing one lake, a portage, and going 1/2 way across the 2nd lake. Could still hear the distant hum of the highway.

[@thomasakerberg6765]

This is one of the most saddening clips that youtube has to offer! Good job Arran!

[@nesirsitsir]

Big daddy 42 crankin these videos out lately! Glad to see your face alot in my notification feed :)

[@michaelbell8745]

Life After People... that was a great series. You summed it up well.

[@alexander10000000]

I thought he was going to mention nuclear waste as the last remains of mankind. Although I should have seen plastic coming. As George Carlin was send, "we have entered a new paradigm, Earth + plastic."

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

• According to _Aftermath: Population Zero_ some of the last things to survive would be stainless steel sinks, lasting ~100,000 years. (They forgot about the ISS which may or may not crash to Earth, but even so, Voyagers 1&2 will last indefinitely.) • On the topic of nature reclaiming the planet, in just one week of lockdown for Covid-19, the planet has already started bouncing back with animals making appearances, waters running clear, and the sky not being smoggy. Let's get lost quick!

[@heddess3347]

I really want nature to do that

[@termed2367]

The ISS orbits at 400 km, it's in a very thin layer of the atmospher. Once every couple of months, the ISS thrusters are fired to raise the orbit. I'd say more the Geo Stationary Sattelites would deffinitely last longer than the ISS.

[@KRYMauL]

Termed even still a large ring would likely form around earth

[@jdhed1]

No the ISS will come down eventually. Heard it on NPR Science Friday.

[@JustScrapHD]

everything on the moon will last a VERY long time. And alot of satelites are too far to crash into earth

[@metro_5017]

My dude you forgot about everything weve launched into space.

[@EightballiJ]

@ I think some satellites will orbit in a million years before they crash. @VSauce did a video on that, don't remember which one tho.

[@EightballiJ]

@ Just found it I guess lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXXVc3yBhLdjZ8U

[@SubjectDelta20]

Aliens are gonna be looking at Mount Rushmore like we look at the Easter Island heads, only with even less information.

[@pikachud8670]

PETITION FOR US TO MAKE A HUGE PLASTIC STATUE OF AN AVERAGE HUMAN AND A PLASTIC MASSAGE SAYING "WE EXIST" THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.

[@snowyvert]

We'll all be a bunch of ghost in the empty Earth. if aliens come on Earth, we'll haunt em all 😂

[@sansdeltarune7510]

We accidentally blow up their ships and they also die

[@anonymousstout4759]

Answer: A lot of things happen, they just don't involve us

[@katiezelaya3022]

Weird to think that maybe one day our planet will be in a “planets that are not liveable but may have had life billion of years ago” video to different aliens that didn’t know we did once exists

[@CONSOLETRUTH2]

We know how long we have 9n THIS planet. At the most, 4ish billion years when the sun becomes a red giant and gets so large it envelopes the Earth.

[@squiremuldoon5462]

That’s all theory bro, none of that is science , just an educated guess, a belief that you’ll never live to see proven true :) , and I know that people get angry when someone questions their beliefs.

[@CONSOLETRUTH2]

@@squiremuldoon5462 it is science and science is full of theories. Theory of relativity, theory of gravity, etc. So how is it NOT science exactly?

[@MorphousInfinity]

As George Carlin said: “PLASTIC.”

[@MorphousInfinity]

Ha, I was right...

[@mrrogersrabbit]

EARTH PLUS PLASTIC

[@user-bt1ur7tn4j]

.indeed

[@me3333]

RIP George

[@WayneT85]

the earth needs plastic

[@mikem2949]

Thoughty2, I know you're talking about how long manmade stuff on Earth will last but for anyone interested, the equipment we send into deep space and onto the moon will last even longer than the plastic and likely be in much better shape in millions of years. There isn't much that can happen on the moon to destroy the equipment we've sent up there. The most likely problem would come from a direct or near hit from an asteroid but given the fact that there are probes and landers scattered on different regions of the moon, it's a safe bet that there'll be something left up there by the time the sun expands to destroy everything once and for all. After that, a trace of humanity could still come from deep space probes like Voyager 1 and 2. Theoretically, they could outlast the Earth itself as long as they don't collide with something like a star or planet but space is very empty. In 40,000 years voyager 1 is set to come close to a star Astronomically speaking but it's expected to still be well over 1 light year away from it at its closest approach.

[@computethis7128]

Space is not actually as empty as you thing. There are microparticles of matter everywhere moving at very fast speeds which will slowly disintegrate any man made objects and various gasses and other things we may not know about which may cause a reaction that destroys them.

[@jdhed1]

@@computethis7128 IDK about yours but space is not emptier than my thing. There's NOTHING in my thing

[@dystopiaahoy]

interesting that about mount rushmore, there are other things at very high altitudes, like observatories.

[@JimTheZombieHunter]

Commenting @ 2:28. Noise. I spent 30 years in Toronto before moving far into the countryside. I often wonder which is louder from a sound pressure level perspective. Although far more soothing than trains, sirens, and gunshots .. have you ever heard a spring peeper? Those things have lungs!

[@twobrokeguyz1214]

The History Channel said the Great Pyramids of Egypt would still be here a million years from now. But 7 million years is definitely longer.

[@ReclusiveEagle]

'Within the 1st 2 months wild animals would gain the courage to enter our cities" Meanwhile 2 days into lockdown Bears and Deer are already frolicking around on highways and around buildings. Traffic is the greatest wall humanity has ever built to keep itself safe. Now that it has stopped and the highways are empty, anything can comeand go as it pleases

[@dystopiaahoy]

if we were all to die in a short period of time, the stink of rotting flesh blowing in clouds around the large urban areas would kill any mammals unfortunate enough to be hanging around, just think almost 9bn rotting corpses worldwide

[@boomstick4054]

Would be no problem for a few thousand survivors to arm themselves against any mere wild animal.......The enemy would be the same as it has always been....PEOPLE

[@boomstick4054]

Colin Cleveland ...If you have any enemies, there’s a 99.9% chance they are human...

[@SC-xw5zl]

Everything single time he says "Or WIll There!" or something like a transition, I think there is a sponsorship incoming lol

[@monotonexylophone1623]

Plastic does decompose, there is a micro organism that eat plastic

[@diahan9896]

I thought they only break down into tiny pieces?

[@bren_rules2215]

"A deadly pandemic" *Chuckles* I'm in danger!

[@Timelordvainglorious1]

Thoughty2: a deadly pandemic. Me: nervous sweating

[@mrtjackson]

So, in 10 million years, would it be possible that another life form would have evolved to a similar technological level that we currently enjoy, completely oblivious to our lost civilisation?

[@jerryeberts]

Humans as we presently are have taken far longer to get here than 10 million years. At the moment, nothing in nature beyond primates is close to human-like intelligence. So maybe a chimp, bonobo, gorilla or orangutan left alone long enough could mutate & evolve larger brains & fine motor coordination of fingertips & thumb. But the path that created humans was random so there's no rules saying human-like intelligence is the necessary pinnacle of glorious Nature. And the only one in the Universe claiming mankind is so smart is mankind itself. Our brains are very vain. And veiny.

[@lablackzed]

We are the 4 th civilization everything know today was once known.

[@mediaworldwide9848]

No.

[@danijelovskikanal7017]

​@@lablackzed no we aren't. There's no scientific evidence for that, just conspiracy theories.

[@Superfish72]

If they were advanced life form, they would be able to tell due to the chemicals we left behind that a life form did exist

[@shahryarparvez6830]

Absolutely love your shirt ! Became a fan recently. Cheers !

[@wojciechmuras553]

What about spacecraft? Satellites would eventually deorbit, but probes like the Voyagers? Pioneers? New Horizons? They will forever remain a testament to our ingenuity and courage.

[@IshaaqNewton]

Everyone: pray for us..save us.. This Mario-looking-guy : we Are gonna die soon

[@prawnmikus]

Praying is the nicest way of saying you'll do nothing.

[@trivkypeak-eye3557]

@@prawnmikus nice

[@chrisgraham2904]

@@jellyfishi_ God never intervened for the 98 percent of species that existed on Earth before they went extinct. Why would he intervene now? Praying is the most disgusting way to avoid your responsibility.

[@SalimSalim-hg1ur]

What a great time to upload this video.

[@Chris-jw8vm]

Yep. 2500 deaths in Italy 3000 recovered. Looks like we finally have the answer to the fermi paradox. RIP.

[@str8suicidal672]

Don't know exactly why I never like any content on yt...,.but I always thumbs up thoughty 2s content....bizarre.. Love these vids. Gonna buy this guys book

[@richardgallo3155]

Footsteps on the moon... It will reveal something amazing about us.

[@purplehaze2358]

I sure do love reminders of my and the people around me’s inevitable death, and the nonillions of ways it could happen.

[@apenasmeucanal5984]

maybe you could work yourself onto not fearing death, so that topics like these stop making you feel that way

[@purplehaze2358]

apenasmeucanal I would, but “fearing the reaper” is seemingly a part of human nature.

[@jjkm17]

Dr Bright I have a theory that when time stops and implodes on it’s self it would make the Big Bang restarting the entire world over and over having no significant impact anyway

[@trivkypeak-eye3557]

Death shouldn't really be a problem for you,bright

[@hmg5y39]

I like the sign that said “ I’m with the Earth” sign... if you believe so then have no fear... Mother Earth (she) will be fine... She’s been here long before we human(bacteria) arrived... she will be here long after we human(bacteria) is gone. Look at Mars.

[@andrewputnam2717]

In the words of George Carlin. "The earth will be fine it's whether we'll be around to see it."

[@chevychase3103]

@@andrewputnam2717 also" the Earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas!"

[@bouncingshot]

We will probably move to a keplar exoplanet or mars or the moon.

[@rayleblanc7209]

Human are not bacteria to this planet. Human's are a cancer that kills and destroys everything in its greedy path.

[@angrytedtalks]

Wow, the voices of doom. Thanks to the industrial revolution, there will be enough CO2 in the atmosphere for plants to exist for more than 5 million years. You're welcome, Earth.

[@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284]

That plastic fact has some interesting sci fi possibilities. Now I'm imagining a brand new stone-age civilization rising up and they discover that if they dig down in certain areas there's a magical substance. They figure out that they can melt it down to purify, then they can pour them into wooden molds to make all sorts of neat crap. Their entire world is centered around this substance. Finding a vein means a person is rich as hell. They tell tales of the gods burying the substance for them. A civilization rising up based entirely on our old plastic.

[@darkcustomxxx7252]

Gold and silver bullion in fortified underground vaults will still be around for millions of years too. Even if that bullion finds it's way outside it'd still take millions of years in the elements to break it up or wear it down. Same with cut gemstones, especially diamonds unless crushed under earth forms.

[@charlesbaldo]

The stars would be brilliant too. It was so cool when we had the blackout in 2005 every star was so bright because of background light

[@mixnflix101]

@Honudes Gai I thought the Milky Way was 100-200k light years across? We also have over 100 galaxies within 110 million light years from us.

[@MelodyLOVESMegadeth]

Lol I live in the German countryside, my street has absolutely no light. It's beautiful until your bike light is broken at 7pm in the evening 😂

[@DhruvKumar_DK]

The world : 'disappear' Thoughty2 : 'dissapear'

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@lordeverybody872]

There were two times in my life I've had that quiet time where human noise and automobile noise was nearly nonexistent. First time was 9/11. Second time was the shutdown of my part of the planet when covid 19 became a thing. I remember the first time I heard an airplane and thought, wth is that doing ruining my quiet. Now we're back to full on stupid levels of noise.

[@zwippie92]

And all aliens that are observing us now would say "YES! They didn't make it out into space. Thank god for that. Imagine earths pop stars in space. I get shivers down my spine at the thought."

[@anthegg7596]

But we did make it into space, several times over

[@zwippie92]

@ash29k You guys know what I mean. Further into space, as in, we didn't get far far enough to meet any aliens if they exist. And they'll probably thank their god for it.

[@almagirimai8931]

Just think of the blessed silence through the radio waves....

[@Jay-qb9gi]

zwippie92 they wouldn’t think of that. They would be really curious and would thank their god (If they even have one) that we even existed at all. Being alone is chilling.

[@Plutonium2000]

We would just leave plastic on their planets lol

[@dandaddavi]

Q: What will remain? A: A better planet.

[@felobatirmoheb4884]

You heard it here guys, everybody go commit game end!

[@flanderstruck3751]

Grats on your extremely cliché reflection

[@yankochoynev652]

Better for whom? You currently judge "how good the planet is" based on the human perception, but if there are no humans, how can it be better?

[@timjohnson1199]

The planet doesn't give a hoot about us. And, define better. An asteroid strike that would render no life on the planet? Changes in the Sun that would leave it much hotter or colder. Seismic activity that would totally change the landscape? Liberals think that humans are central to everything and have all this power but we ar a meaningless speck.

[@user-et6cr6qd8v]

better? i guess you are pretty messed up humanety is aboth all

[@tsuzenomead303]

How lonely would it seem an immortal gazing to the empty outerspace... with plastics...

[@monkeytron5061]

Have you played the Horizon series of games? It’s basically nature reclaiming human structures and it is, in fact, utterly beautiful. A ruin covered in plant life is cool and seriously pretty and pleasing. It would be cool to see Mount Rushmore in that game given what you said here. Very interesting.

[@parthasarathyvenkatadri]

What if COVID 19 is the zombie apocalypse ... Only the dead are yet to dig out of the grave 🤔🤔

[@azuregriffin1116]

Ah fuque

[@itstriplem2069]

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