Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" channel.

Can I get an extended warranty on that Caplan thruster?
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Can you imagine surviving all that, only to live on the near alien world for the rest of your life; never again to see the lush biome that you enjoyed; never again to enjoy enough food. I wonder if animals suffered depression?
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@sungerbok But it's extrmely unlikely. Given that it only took about 1 billion years for life to arise on Earth, there's been a VERY long time for it to arise elsewhere.
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Dorfromantik was a really bad game that I can just never stop thinking about even a year or more after I bought it. It has the most beautiful vibe, great music, but just a really tedious gameplay loop that becomes unplayably complicated really soon. But there's something about it that is just so blissful in spite of its massive and many shortcomings. It literally makes me happier just thinking about it.
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You confused two subjects; time and determinism. Just because all moments co-exist in a block universe, does not exclude the possibility of choice. The block universe may simply reflect the choices we made or will make. Those choices are not constrained by the existence of their consequences, any more than a movie constrained the ability of actors to go off script. Determinism on the other hand, posits that we are all simply a results of energy and atoms behaving according to the laws of physics, and none of us truly "chooses" anything - our choices are simply the inexorable result of our experiences interacting with the stuff that makes up our brain and the universe around us. It's hard to argue for a growing block, when relativity says that people a million years in the future can speak to present us. How does the block have an upper bound, when everything in the universe is at different heights on it?
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Damn this channel is depressing.
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The whole suggestion is ridiculous, and falls at the first premise: that we can detect life beyond our own solar system. The idea that we can say with certainty what the composition of a planet too distant to see, much less the compition of its atmosphere and whether it carries life is scientific arrogance in the extreme.
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Ahh, yet one more example of the perfectly designed universe our Skydaddy created for us!
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Coming soon - mega ultra super deluxe hyper black hole. With cheese on. Hold the pickles.
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What complete nonsense.
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We can't even land on the moon consistently yet. Saying "we have the technology today" is like saying "we understand the principle of sucking matter from the surface of the sun." There's an immense gap between having the technology and creating a working piece of engineering.
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It's a shame you didn't wait to discover if the game was total crap before grabbing that CDPR moolah.
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we can't even predict the weather 24 hours in advance with certainty. The arrogance and foolhardiness of thinking that we can predict the behaviour the universe, especially when there are at least 5 poorly understood forces at play (quantum physics, dark matter, dark energy, pressure and time), is nothing short of farcical.
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@disregardthat Ah massive pedantry nice. Feel better now? Except I was using the word as in "something acting upon or influencing." And no, my point was not remotely disingenuous. My point was, there are so many factors influencing weather, some of which are still completely not understood, yet someone is going to tell me about events trillions of years in the future with factors not even REMOTELY understood. And no, pressure is noT well understood - it is only understood at the narrow range of pressures that we encounter. Even exotic high pressure experiments act on such minute scales as to be of dubious value on large scales. Our "comprehension" of the universe is proven to be wrong on a monthly basis, so how about showing a little humility of that fact, and admitting that this is just one possible theory, like the bounce theory, oir a curved universe or 25 dimensions.
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Couldn't we heat it up again using solar pow.. Oh :'( I guess we'd better start improving our nuclear reactor technology then. We only half half a million years to develop an planetary-scale hot water bottle.
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That presupposes that time travel is even possible.
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@maksymisaiev1828 Then that's not time travel - it's relativity.
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Option 4 - other planets in the galaxy reach a point of harmony with their palnet that do not leave detectable signs of their existence from afar.
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Existence doesn't order itself to conform to your notions of how things should be distributed, nor does it conform to a purpose at all. Your body is mostly space, but you don't say "What a waste of space" about that.
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@sungerbok Yes, that's fair enough.
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Complete nonsense. The arrogance of thinking that because we can't find it, it isn't there, added to the arrogance of thinking that life must fall within the narrow parameters we expect and thus must fall within a goldilocks zone and reveal signs that we can detect. Also if we DO discover lots of alien life, that would eliminate the great filter in the first place, so it wouldn't mean one lay ahead of us at all.
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What a load of crap. They haven't even proved the existence of ONE, but they want to tell us what they had for lunch and what they were wearing.
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@afinnishfishnet7366 I realise it's theoretical, but this quickly becomes taught as probable - even factual. Did you know that our entire estimates of cosmic distance is based off a single theory/measurement? And now that is under doubt. So much of our "knowledge" is based on unsupportable "facts", and like this star, the theories just get wilder and wilder. This is not far off bronze age man seeing lightning and declaring it to be god's fighting.
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Nonsense. This assumes that every civilisation evolves in the same way; goes down the same steps, has the same motivations and needs and ends up with a broadly similar destiny. Also, why would lesser life on other planets be bad? In any race, there are always those who are ahead, and those behind. All it would mean was that in our own miniscule back yard, we were ahead. Even ruins on Mars would mean only that advanced life had once existed. It wouldn't tell us what had happened to it, nor that we were destined to follow the same steps.
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When you're looking for something to listen to podcast-style as you workout, then the animation is so great that you have to save the video to savour later. :D
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You're not my dad. You don;t tell me what to do! 😏
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