Could You Survive ALIEN?

[@Vsauce3]

Well my friend, this is the last episode of Could You Survive The Movies! I really hope you liked this season. Truly. I spent 7 months working on this show between hosting, directing and writing. It was honestly a dream come true for me and I’m so lucky I got to share it with you. There are 6 episodes in total (plus the Mad Max pilot) and a Behind-the-Scenes video for each one. If you missed any go check em out! Let me know what movies you’d like to see in the future and thanks again for watching!

[@Komander5062]

Vsauce3 Jurassic park, Star Wars I actually don’t know you do what ever film you want

[@TheoJay615]

I loved them!

[@Panda3style]

Great Work thank you so much. P.S. I Don't think your TABLE OF CONTENTS times are right.

[@beanday4658]

I loved all of these so much (though Die Hard was my favorite)!

[@livethefuture2492]

@@Komander5062 oh yes I would love to see Jurassic Park.

[@Sciophile]

I thought Michael would pop out his chest with "Hey Vsauce"

[@davidribosome4326]

Hey stomach sauce, Michal here, but aajjskakajsjwksjejek(demonic screaming)

[@AstronautaVerdadeiro_77]

*HEY, VSAUCE... MICHAEL HERE!* **SCREECH** *BUT HERE, ISN'T SAFE FOR MY DEVELOPMENT INTO A FULLY GROWN ALIEN ASTRONAUT KILLING MACHINE...*

[@staberas]

me too

[@cornlips7247]

Oh man that would be so much fan service and I would love every second of it!

[@Vidar93]

Lol literally typed the same thing before I read this

[@ashfreywar9862]

I love how it ends with Amy instead of Jake- nothing against him, it’s just staying true to the movie

[@avishalom2000lm]

Yeah right, didn't think of that!

[@ThetruthTateNews]

R u talking about Brooklyn nine nine?

[@ashfreywar9862]

@@ThetruthTateNews Talking about this video, never watched brooklyn 99 but apparently its a good show

[@Anklejbiter]

Henlo Frens if I subscribe to you, I get a talking Lamborghini?

[@ThetruthTateNews]

Yeah it is actually

[@LeoStaley]

I could survive Alien, by *FOLLOWING QUARANTINE PROCEDURE* like Ripley tried to do at the beginning of the movie.

[@LesyasHowTos]

I wonder whata you would say about quarantine procedurre now...

[@LeoStaley]

@@LesyasHowTos I was watching the covid situation back in January, but honestly expected it to go like SARS did.

[@Chonkems]

Quarantine Procedure: Curl up in the corner and cry.

[@ejtipp4650]

Yeah, and dont forget your FACEMASK! :-)

[@jishmoans]

This comment hits different four months later

[@jordanmicahcook]

Having just watched this while eating spaghetti, I would not recommend watching this while eating spaghetti...

[@NimbusDeluxe90125]

Oh no, I’m eating macaroni and cheese!

[@LilSpghetti]

Please don’t

[@vancey7604]

Bro, your name is Cool!

[@hyperiorvevo2918]

I was eating an apple

[@greenstorm5568]

That is actually what happened to me when i watched it as a middle schooler with the first alien

[@30neru]

I love how Austin is literally a _Tech_ KZbinr lmao

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

Haaaahaahaha, that's tight!

[@xangorfbsides]

SAYS THE PERSON WITH AN ANIME PROFILE PIC

[@30neru]

@@xangorfbsides your point being?

[@PatrickBergersen]

Xangorf What?

[@imsmallcat1034]

365th like, I’ve made a year

[@domainofscience]

That was an awesome film! Just a comment about you description of entanglement. It's not difficult to send messages via entangled particles, it is impossible. Also, measuring one doesn't affect the other (there is no causality) their states are correlated when you measure them. If the two experimenters measure the particles in different directions, you loose the correlation. So you can't transmit messages through entanglement. Transmitting a message would consist of one experimenter (Alice) measuring one particle in a certain direction, and the other experimenter (Bob) being able to tell which direction the Alice measured in through the entangled particles, but he can't do this because the correlation is lost if they measure them in different directions. But I'm just being pedantic. 😄

[@fuzzblightyear145]

The universe protecting against causality paradoxes again

[@Ignisan_66]

Why it should be impossible? For us nothing is impossible!!!

[@maciek_k.cichon]

Only bad thing with this episode, is a little, furry inconsistency - Amy didn't save the cat...

[@jimalbi]

She left Pete at home.

[@lautimartinez6341]

But the alien can survive in outer space, taking all the oxygen out of the ship wouldn't really kill it....

[@scitzz9137]

True

[@30neru]

13:27

[@lautimartinez6341]

@@30neru if you mean the "we can assume that it takes the properties of it's host" it still wouldn't kill it. In the first alien movie the xenomorph comes out of a human but it still survived a while in outer space

[@30neru]

@@lautimartinez6341 I see. Thanks for clarification

[@insu_na]

The alien can survive for a decent amount of time in space, but not forever.

[@chanchaiken5522]

HE GOT NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON ON?!! AND HE KILLED HIM OFF TOO?! JAKE JAKE JAKE

[@perlaesparza2950]

Chanchai Ken ñkolklo

[@lancemaxwell8464]

Bringing Amy to a space themed episode was a fantastic idea

[@fft2020]

I was so happy to see her, I love her vintage space channel

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

Yes happy to see my space babe in action.

[@fft2020]

@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 I'm sorry but she is MY space babe :o)

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

@@fft2020 Duel then.. say 5pm? On the tennis court behind the swimmingpool. Only molotov cocktails and blades permitted. ... ah screw it. I'm married to another babe anyways. And you.. you need to clean your room its almost new year. GL hf 🧙‍♀️👍👼🍦

[@fft2020]

@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 hahaha. Good one mate :) But a duel with molotov cocktails would have been epic !

[@deityofsin8106]

One of these videos should just be a movie about death and it’s only like one second, you hit play and he just says “ could you survive? No. “

[@davidribosome4326]

Dark Hilarious Existential Full of meaning Composed of nothing I l i k e i t .

[@TURBOCOW9000]

Perhaps for April fools day.

[@MGSLurmey]

@@davidribosome4326 You could have made that into an acronym with some effort. As it stands right now it's just DHEFC(I)..

[@Matteus733]

Ha

[@fv2977]

Short answer: no. Long answer: NNNNNNNOOOOOO!

[@shimotuazuma9485]

The issue is the aliens don't require breathing. So lack of oxygen is more of an issue in hearing ability and scent

[@asneecrabbier3900]

seeing austin's decapitated head talk is probably the best thing i've seen this week

[@dgrano20]

Soooo. The Xenomorph isnt carbon based. Its Silicon based. Yes it takes on traits from its hosts but none of their weaknesses or for that matter no traits that reduce its survival. It's why it's the perfect organism. Its able to adapt to any environment including the vacuum of space. It doesn't breath. It's also fireproof to some degree due to its molecular structure and body coated in thick slime. Only ultra high temperatures are able to damage it like the exhaust from a ship. Flame throwers only hurt it or inconvenience it. I ts body is also super dense making it bullet proof to low caliber rounds with only high caliber doing some damage but its able to heal almost instantly. This is why it could so easily rip through metal and burst through hardened doors without damaging itself. Strength is one thing but all the strength in the universe wont mean anything if your density is less than that of what your trying to break. Your relatively squishy body will simply go splat with your hardest punch. Its acid blood is frankly beyond our current technology as its engineered to break down everything on a molecular level instantly. Currently no acid "known" dose this.

[@MGSLurmey]

The fatal flaw with it being silicon-based, however: is that the human body has only reportedly 0.0010kgs of Silicon which is 0.0058% by atomic ratio. That's nowhere near enough to make a belly/chest-burster, let alone a full xenomorph.

[@Sorrowdusk]

It's blood must be the legendary alkahest described by Paracelsus !

[@jerichodanieldabu8985]

Wait wait wait, back up... Why would someone in the future make a pure oxygen cabin spaceship if it's deadly enough as it is and why would someone something like electrical instruments in a pure oxygen environment where they'll be sleeping in about Idl a few decades and never expect something malfunctioning and/or overheating. So we could assume that in the movie, the Nostromo used an Oxygen Nitrogen mix atmosphere. And of course since it's gonna run for for almost more than IDK a few decades, you can assume that it recycles the air in some way The shipe does it. And of course keeps the pressure on substantially when its active and/or can quickly pressurize the whole ship when they wake up. Soo technically with a flamethrower in an enclosed space with a near earth-like atmospheric condition, we could assume the flamethrower would work as it worked back in the trench wars... enclosed space and earth's atmosphere. Who would build a spaceship with billions of dollars just to kill it in a matter of seconds. Soo technically or we could assume that the flamethrower could either be a small flame or larger one depending on the system of the nostromo. And with enclosed spaces like that with so many people, why would'nt someone make a fast process to recycle air and maintain it's pressure all through out. Soo Maybe the flamethrower would work normally. The metal around you will just simply go hot super and/or melt it if it's made out of aluminum.

[@youraverageweeb1206]

Nerd

[@logen9542]

Its just a movie chill....

[@jerichodanieldabu8985]

@@youraverageweeb1206 Dude... izz just an opinion. Plus it is a science show so why not share ideas??.

[@jerichodanieldabu8985]

@@logen9542 Yeah I know, But you could also say that to Vsauce 😂😂😂

[@scritch8833]

you made me read all of that. take my like.

[@grizzlynation9527]

Me: I’m sure this episode won’t be so scary. *Sees insects laying eggs* Me: Uhhhhhhh.... *Insects comes out of cockroach as well as a human* Me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@ikitclaw7146]

The 1 part that I just cant accept out of all of this, Jake interrupted Neil mid explanation, this does not happen, Neil interrupts you! :D, loved this, caught Jake on star talk now Neil on Vsauce. perfect

[@Sublir833]

2:53 nobody is gonna talk about how he got human body parts

[@liquidsnake6879]

from the other victims of the alien duh

[@Sublir833]

@@liquidsnake6879 jokes aside

[@rodgersericv]

There are a lot of acids much stronger than aqua regia.

[@trond9229]

Nasa: Burns dow spaceship researcher: Where should I put my hotdog 13:14

[@GPuup115]

Xenomorphs don’t need oxygen and they’re silicon based, damn how you gonna ruin the flow

[@ayjay579]

Glen Patrick Cullen I’m glad somebody else pointed this out. I noticed it and after mentioning it I had to go through to see if anyone else was pointing this out.

[@yeenmachine206]

That’s why they blew up the ship.

[@jaredpatterson1701]

Do you really think it could live indefinitely in space?

[@ShawnofSteel874]

Yeah, I was just about to comment that. I really enjoyed the video, and it was clever how she came to the conclusion that the Xenomorph takes certain traits from its original host. But one thing that never changes is that it’s a silicon based life form. A small error, and they all still made a great video. But an error that can pull you out of the video

[@MGSLurmey]

@@ShawnofSteel874 Problem with it being silicon-based is.. if they gestate as a parasite inside humans, where does it get all the silicon to form its body? The human body doesn't have nearly enough silicon in order to build all the necessary molecules for a chest-burster, let alone a full xenomorph. It *has* to be carbon-based to make sense.

[@DamianAI9]

9:10 WOW you really convinced Neil degrasse tyson to get on your show !!!! I'm so happy to see him

[@EGeorgev]

Dude is pretty chill about these things. If it's meant to be educational, he'll probably show up even if your channel had only a 100 subs.

[@sandeepsampath1985]

You killed off Neil??!!! Not acceptable.

[@adithyas1091]

Just wanna say that the xenomorph did survive in outer-space. When Ripley blew it out into space, didn’t it try to crawl back through?

[@Mgl1206]

Vegito Ssj3 but Neil also did say that space doesn’t immediately kill you. Same thing with the Zeno. They just care less about O2 than us.

[@mothtolias]

I don't get how the flamethrower would burn you, it doesn't on earth

[@FlamingAtheist]

I was really hoping the alien would pop up behind one of them and just be like "HEY VSAUCE MICHAEL HERE!"

[@MariLoww234]

How did he get the flesh and bone 3:54

[@reaganation6000]

Maybe from a butcher

[@bogus69]

Glad you brought amy in this video! Love her Channel

[@That-one-guy-named-Neo]

Actually If a wormhole DID exist, then you wouldn't just be jumping through space, but also time.

[@robertthomson1994]

Theoretically. We don't know what they do if they did exist. Just because that's what they do in movies and shows doesn't mean they do it in reality if real.

[@Stxrmbreaker626]

Endgame actually is correct theoretically, Steven Hawking predicted that wormholes exsist on a microscopic level.

[@trond9229]

Nase: Bruns down a spaceship Rescher: where should I put my hotdog 13:14

[@trond9229]

@@avw5kt I am bad at spelling

[@trond9229]

@@avw5kt But you must addmitt it does look like a hot dog

[@trond9229]

r/whoosh

[@alicemoffat]

I completely agree, Niel DeGrasse Tyson is a gem.

[@karlvx1000]

I hope we get to see more of this

[@sawkmicoc4287]

The aspect ratio of this video is scarier than alien

[@giorgim4185]

I should say that point about the fire might be right on our current space stations which are small and low pressure, but it doe's hold the water against the kinda space ships we see in Alien and science fiction in general, ship in the video is big with the huge interior volume, and probably uses normal nitrogen to oxygen ration to minimise risk of fires.

[@stayinawesum]

Neil Degrasse Tyson on twitter: o do you know statistically people die more from wooden tables in restaurants than aliens? Edit: Actually that sounds right, because aliens dont exists, ya I said it.

[@samanthae.1002]

cowboysamuraiカウボーイ侍 icecream sales go up when the crime rate is high...you never know bro

[@OwlskiTV]

If I was trying to survive Alien, I probably wouldn't be trying to chase down the Xenomorph.

[@scribblingjoe]

But that doesn't mean you should leave to hole alone. You're still losing valuable oxygen.

[@nolaffinmatter]

Pretty decent recreation of Alien's set for a youtube budget!

[@blu3d3vil97]

Aliens survive in space... Guess that oxigen trick ain;t working :P)))

[@captaincrash9002]

The short answer is no. YOU cna't. An average person can't. A well writen character can't.

[@juke2782]

"right!" -Brett, the best written character (RIP)

[@andrj8844]

can we take a moment to apriciate that this is all for free out of the goodness of his heart?

[@AzTrailRider57]

AWESOME!!!!!!! I believe the acid blood eating through the deck on the Nostromo was actually acetone dissolving expanded polystyrene foam. You can see the beads in the foam. Nice effect though.

[@HayderAbdulridha]

Austin being there was a surprise, did not expect it.

[@noytelinu]

He seems to get around a lot.

[@Mickeal101]

There's only one problem that I have with your analysis/conclusion, you wouldn't use up all the oxygen in a room on a space ship as they have to constantly pump it through the ship otherwise everyone on the ship would asphyxiate as you said. Therefore no you would not die shortly after using a flame thrower due to the oxygen burning up, as the ship would continuously pump it and it wouldn't run out any time soon depending on the size of the ship.

[@jakepate1398]

Jake: Yeah there's an acid that strong, but we can't use it. Here's some weaker acid we CAN use. Also Jake: wOaH iTs NoT mElTiNg tHe mEtAl!!!!1111 ....... really?

[@Psillytripper]

lol that tyson cameo was great "what the?!"

[@hamo1701]

Surviving Alien is easy. Just don't let Kane back on the ship!!!

[@2ooo996]

The section on acid was a bit misleading, acid only dissolves particles that are on the surface of an object. The part where the aluminium was quickly eaten through was because of how thin the aluminium was.

[@Diontho]

Amy: This is a terrible idea Jake FIRE KILLS EVERYTHING!!

[@dragosginghina5625]

I mean they said that the acid they are using doesn’t have the same properties as the acid that was mentioned before hand

[@gabrielgp000]

Am I the only one that could imagine a better explanation to the acid effect? There it goes: it is acidic but its also blood, so it has some kind of blood cells in it an some kind of defense cell too, like some kind of weaponised super intense enzymatic catalysed digestor leukocytes or something... it makes sense with the xenomorph dynamic, it annoys me how every one just looks at inorganic acids to compare...

[@Nocturnalzyx]

I think it seems like a bad assumption that venting the oxygen in the ship would be an effective way to kill xenomorphs since they are presented in a vacuum at least three times and seem to have little issue functioning in these environments. Fire, at least in the lore I'm aware of, has never really been presented as a method for killing xenomorphs but as a way to scare off the "wild animals" and in most cases it is shown that flamethrowers are NOT effective at exterminating the creatures at any rate. Even if depressurizing the ship would eventually kill the creatures, I'm confident you and your crew would be dead long before the xenomorphs would, if there was a way to pressurize the ship again odds are you'd die before it would be safe to do so. AND IT IS CRAZY IRONIC that you claim using a flamethrower in space is a bad idea due to its tendency to consume oxygen the your suggested plan to kill the creature involves venting all the oxygen onboard... Humans can usually survive in a vacuum without protective equipment (or lasting ill effects) for a few minutes potentially but would face unconsciousness in about 15 seconds. These creatures can function apparently without any physical handicaps in a vacuum for at least several minutes and have entered vacuums willingly in Alien Isolation. Lastly, according to Ash, xenomorphs replace their surface shells with polarized silicon and therefore at least use silicon in their anatomy.

[@grampton]

Damn RIP Austin, she didn't know he was still alive inside the ship.

[@heyheyheychocolaterain3058]

I was confused on the fire part how does it burn the person too. I get the oxygen part but that confuses me.

[@bluebaconjake405]

Cringelord Memes i think its because of how small the space is. The flamethrower will heat up the air around you and convection will carry the heat and burn you i guess. Im not sure too

[@theodorepruitt5431]

Right before Neil came on I got an ad for him.

[@skagerstrom]

The space ship scenes does litterarly have a better Alien "feeling" than Prometheus and Covenant put together! Also! Surprise Austin! Love this series!

[@oleksandrkravchuk2315]

Every movie should consult through 47 scientist before the show in theaters

[@MysticalMutant]

I would still use the Flamethrower I open areas, plus you did in a sealed box which would never in a IRL scenario the ship is suppose to replicate the earths atmosphere and we use flamethrowers on earth

[@yaladoodle]

The difference is that the ship has limited oxygen. Once the flame has used up all of the oxygen, there will not be enough for the people to actually breathe.

[@Weinerdogfarts20]

It’s because you’re not using the fluoroantimonic acid 3:00

[@Sara-tw4qr]

Aliens is one of the Best scifi movies ever made!🤘 I grew up watching those movies with my mom! My lil sister had all the nightmares! 😬

[@gameboy008]

I was expecting Neil to tell us all about how more people die from illness than gun deaths...

[@kinkgirl88]

Gun don’t kill people, syphilis does

[@gameboy008]

@@kinkgirl88 Al Capone did kill people.

[@ZetaByt]

Wanted to point out that it's actually a bit of a misconception that the Chestburster comes out of your stomach. The Facehugger actually gets the Chestburster in your chest cavity (supposedly in the form of a fluid). When it's ready to come out, it releases something that softens up the nearby bone and tissues, then effectively rams its way through your sternum, bursting its way out your chest, hence the name. The ones that come out of your stomach are a completely different beast entirely, known as Bellybursters, and were only shown in one movie (and can be debated on whether or not any of it is actually canon).

[@OriginalMasterChafa]

I really wanna watch a movie in which the protagonists actually beat the enemy with intelligence and preparation

[@BatFlightThylacine]

Home Alone.

[@corbinfelan]

@@BatFlightThylacine thank you for this comment

[@barebottombandit1621]

Master Chafa You’re Next

[@juke2782]

Happy Death Day

[@Nimbus3690]

Jake: Could you survive Alien? *Jake dies*

[@kepspark3362]

I love ❤️❤️ scieeeeeeennnnnnnnnce!!!!! Cool idea! ✌🏻 Science movies are awesome. Also who the heck run towards the 👽 if you have a tracker 😂??

[@niceguy60]

You know damn well that alien was surviving well in the vacuum of space

[@Dragonbyte]

flexing my premium 💪

[@rileylopez]

Lol

[@handikawahyu5538]

haha,nice

[@michaelkhawm7349]

Dragonbyte same

[@rqkrl]

Me too

[@XarlesWolfgangSteel]

Congratulations you want a cookie?!

[@brantgentry1463]

The space shuttle had normal earth atmosphere mix

[@Lazaven]

Wow the production quality that went into this along with the guest they were able to get is very impressive

[@mushitrials9808]

Jake make your own movies it will be so nice worldwide

[@cannibalbananas]

I couldn't survive alien. But I do want to give a shout-out to Jonesy, the cat. He might have been tougher than Ripley. The way she flings his carrier around as she runs, it's amazing he didn't have brain damage and broken bones.

[@anthonyszymanski7965]

Its actually a silicon lifeform and doesn't need air to breathe, if you actually watched the movie you'd know that. Also in the book they were worried about oxygen levels, but a flamethrower would consume that much oxygen. The Nostromo was a large ship, not a tiny box or small room.

[@tiagotiagot]

You didn't had the budget to get someone to do the demonstrations with the real stronger acid?

[@blueeyedtech1234]

Loved the Austin Evans cameo. Plus it was funny that the tech KZbind was the android 😂

[@krabbs03]

Could you survive the Titanic?

[@jhay3966]

9:09 yep, this is now my new favorite video on earth

[@SaifZiya]

Just like they try to cut the oxygen for Calvin in "Life".

[@wednesdayapril5435]

I know its not original at all but..... *"this is pequod arriving shortly at LZ"*

[@AxelWerner]

YES i like it. NO i still will NEVER PAY FOR THAT OR WATCH ANY ADS.

[@mimf9808]

So when you brought up the question of how communication would work here, I thought of my favorite show: Voltron. And how communication is weird. But then you brought up wormholes and those particle things and thought “okay well wormholes work here, and magic also exists...so...”

[@DigiKat1]

Amy knows damn well there was room for another person in that pod!

[@Keyz_FN_]

Vsauce3 : it’s acid Me: it’s root beer

[@cgc5382]

This is the best comedy I’ve seen in a while

[@ryanedwards4636]

A worm hole is just a real life nether hub

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Dead Space had flamethrowers in vacuum and they worked with fuel and oxidizer and they were hypergolic chemicals. You don't have to use atmospheric oxygen to shoot fire.

[@rajman7644]

At 4:07 he says that HCi is nitric oxide. It's not: it's NO and it's not only not toxic to the lungs, it's used to improve lung ventilation. Furthermore there's no such thing as HCI (upper case "i"). He must have meant hydrochloric acid, which is HCl, as he talks about chlorine a few seconds later.

[@laurentecrivain6944]

They don't burst out of their victim's stomach, they burst out of their chest within the sternum.

[@avishalom2000lm]

Also: can you survive a thermonuclear explosion in space??

[@TheGr0nch]

Flouroantimonic does actually eat through all those things, just a bit more slowly than alien acid blood

[@gamesrfun6394]

Not many things creep me out but parasites do. With weirder part is that I love learning about them so every time I learn more about them, I become fascinated and horrified at the same time

[@davidr1050]

Hydrofluoric acid is one of the strongest and worst that I can think of.

[@149mattyman]

The alien could actually survive in space as the exoskeleton (that which is somewhat bullet-proof) keeps the alien from expanding due to lack of air pressure. For reference in the game alien isolation, The aliens are clearly moving freely outside of The spaceship with ease and Long periods of time (more so than with a normal human can’t handle without a suit)

[@LovedWife1]

Very good quality. I can see this video took a lot of work. How did you make this? (Maybe you should make a presentation of how you make your movies?)

[@phailure104]

Austin: Gets sliced in the neck clean off Jake: Oh no! *5 seconds later* Jake: *ignores the fact that Austin is practically dead and continues with his facts*

[@m.stewart7208]

I love this series, and I must apologize in advance if anyone else said this prior, but if you're testing the "second strongest acid", why wouldn't we think that the one before that could actually do these things that the one after it couldn't, especially if you can't even store it?

[@SyntaxScout]

i had to watch this video again, is incredibly amazing how well is this made,tons of work and dedication to give us great content, said by a loyal subscriber,hugs .

[@tristanhelgerson7964]

But xenomorphs on multiple cannon occasions survived and thrived in the vacuum of space.

[@nullelement2789]

Absolutely amazing!!!