Honestly, if he had heard snoring coming from the room prior, he might have assumed a beast lurked in the walls of the ship and grew even more concerned. Possibly seeing the assumed deceased bodies, hearing the sound, and in a panic bolting down the hall to avoid the ire of whatever such beast could swiftly and seamlessly dispatch an entire room of individuals without so much as a tear of flesh or stain of blood to mark their victory.
@@jsnake_ it's an old way psychiatric patients were made more passive via electrical currents going through the head. Basically a process of damaging our brains.
@@batbade1A "dark" psudo-medical procedure that has been banned. They used to take an ice pick to the brain to "fix issues" with a person....... like homosexuality.... This was done back in the 1960's, barely 60 years ago. Yeah, we are better today than yesterday, but yesterday was not that long ago.
The Alien seeing humans asleep in their room: 😨 The one human still awake seeing the Alien stare at them from the doorway before skittering off on all fours: 🗿
I've actually lived shipboard (although obviously not a spaceship), and yeah... there's *always* somebody awake aboard ship. Not having someone at the helm, somebody in the engine room, and a few people on call is basically begging for a disaster.
Might be a bit different when we have CASUAL space flight. We’d have everything automated enough… but yeah, there’d probably at least be a “skeleton crew” of like 1 human per section on the night shift.
yeah, that would be a more expected thing. but i assume they might have thought Krill would be the night watch so... oof. in a deeper space travel. as far as movies have shown. there wouldnt be beds on the ship, they would be resting in pods in a sort of suspended animation due to long journeys and limited resources. also time is limited so slowing the aging process in the travel time would be important.
@@Kittsuerathat dependa on how "realistic" the setting is. Ftl generally requires breaking physics as we know it....often in ways that lend themselves to artificial gravity. If you dont have ftl, then you need stasis pods or generational ships.
On submarines it's even more cramped, and they use "hot bunking". You only get a bed for YOUR eight hours. Then it's someone else's. That way they only need one bed per three crewmen.
I must, I MUST thank you. your portrayal of Krill's panicking voice "You were dying!" I got tears laughing so hard. Thank you, thank you, oh thank you.
It feels that the stories were read in reverse order. Poor Krill, after touring with a ship full of humans, I think he will lose 1/4th of his total life expectancy. Krill hasn't even witnessed what we eat on a Daily Basis, or Elders Preserve Him, what we actually do for Entertainment!
@@johns6014 , I stock by my order for the stories. There is more adventures with crewman Krill and him losing his crap over what humans can/do. Still as not as funny as the stories about my favorite race, The Ungulates, mop head shaped semi aquatic aliens that are very intelligent but act like cats when petted.
The moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the cold, hard certainty of steel, you cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you, one day the crude biomass you call a temple will fade and you will beg my kind to save you, but I am already saved. FOR THE MACHINE IS IMMORTAL.
If we can’t take over the stars, who can? NO ONE! We don’t even detect ANY other life forms, meaning either they are like us, or weaker. (Both scenarios, they are weaker, they can’t beat an opponent that simply refuses to die)
yeah it is a little strange that we don't really understand exactly why a lack of it is deadly, we know the parts of the body that are affected by a lack of it but not the overall reason why.
@snowpegasi we know why it's lethal also. Cerebrospinal fluid refreshing, and recirculation. Without it, your CNS is slowly poisoned by its own basic biological functions, being the primary contributor to the negative symptoms.
@snowpegasi nah we know a bit more about that... when we are asleep the brain kind of... cleans itself. Diverts alot of the energy that we use when we are awake to flush toxins out of our head that accumulate because of the way that it work. When we sleep we use actually just as much energy as we do awake. It just goes to other processes. We need sleep because it helps the body probably divert resources to things it needs to maintain itself. I wouldn't doubt to some extent if during sleep the body repairs some damaged dna.
This is such a clever concept. That humans are the only intelligent species that evolved the ability to heal injuries. Then imagine aliens learning that humans can still function with half a brain, one lung and one kidney gone.
Meh. That one is such a reach. Healing is such a basic trait in all lifeforms and cell division is basic way of growth that this one could not grip me.
@@dragoncat5412 but wouldn't it be funny to have him find a bottle of Krill oil capsules accidentally, and get worried the humans were somehow using the Krillion race as a food supplement?
there are a lot of names that get used like that. as such, there are humans with a first or last name of krill. sure it could happen. snickering though in such a case only happens when there is an obvious and immediate connection. so, unless the ocean krill comes up. its likely to be ignored/ missed by anyone who isnt constantly thinking of the ocean.
Honestly love stories like those. Like, in most other sci fi stories, movies, etc. humans are always portrayed as way weaker and inferior to aliens. But honestly I can certainly see how some aliens would be absolutely terrified by our very existance. I mean, we don't have scales or fur and our skin is relatively easy to pierce or slash. We got no claws and our fingernails are way too weak to inflict any sort of serious injury on pretty much anything. And a lot of other stuff too. But, like, we got so many germs and other stuff in our mouths that, if not treated properly, a bite from a person can kill another due to infection. Stomach acid is actually really damn strong. Saliva contains a very potent anaesthetic (though, of course, in extremely low concentration). And then there's, of course, the endurance. Like, even on earth most predators survive by striking very hard and fast to bring down their prey. Humans are neither the fastest nor the strongest, nor really very good at anything other than building tools, but if we manage to find the tracks we can keep chasing after prey continuously for at least a day, oftentimes even longer (sleep deprivation is definitely gonna be an increasingly difficult impairment to deal with, but it's possible for most people to stay awake for more than 24 hours and still be at least somewhat functioning). If in a sufficiently desperate state, our muscles can exert force that's strong enough to literally tear themselves away from the bones in order to give us a massive strength boost for a short while. Our immune system is so damn aggressive that sometimes the immune systems reaction literally causes more problems for the body than whatever has triggered the immune response in the first place. So yeah, really love any stories that focus on some of the things that our bodies actually good at, rather than focusing on our weaknesses.
Also our natural punches and kicks can easily shatter bone on less armored creatures! Kicking a wolf in the face is liable to shatter its jaw or skull for example
the fact that we could easily tear off our own muscles from our bones and our brain just doesn't let us is honestly probably the most terrifying thing i've ever heard of, it's the kind of thing where even we think "that can't possibly be true, right?" yet somehow it is, and it is terrifying
@@deuterium_oxide7382the only problem is bow "fragile" our bones and muscles are. If we were stronger and can heal even better tl compensate for the added stress, we'd have super strength and super healing
You forget that our skin is somewhat impervious to many of what we call "benign" substances, like water, from pure to water containing dissolved salts, vinegar, oils, stains, and weak bases and acids. Such materials can be extreme dangerous to alien life forms. Our skin is also great shielding from Alpha Particle Radiation, as long as there is no break in the skin.
I love the Krill stories but maybe you might want to consider re editing this one so krill and the captains first meeting takes place before krill on the ship
"once I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me, I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you, one day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. but i am already saved, for the machine is immortal. Even in death I serve the omnissiah"
You think that's impressive? What about literally CREATING EVOLUTION. We fall and fucking recreate our LIMBS to tear down those who think they know what DEATH is. We as a species have some weird THRILL in being so close to death! We WANT to fight till our last breath and then BEYOND that
@@jonathangoodwin5609 I can't tell if your being serious or not but yeah you can re-attach limbs if the limb is in a decent condition there's a surgery that can be done to attach someone else's arm where someone else's would be missing its pretty cool look it up
better hope the therapist knows to adjust for the species. else "i want you to close your eyes and slow your breathing" is going to sound like they are instructing them to approach deaths door.
did you hear the one where he's talking about how casual humans are about what we do to child murderers. .. and then describes seeing humans come across human children in cages... My husband and I think he's breaking down hanging off the bar describing that
"Raised in war, huh? Same here. You ever visit the Legionare Cafè?.. The Norse Inn?.. No? What part of war are you from then?... Oh. Ok. Well, let me show you my side of town. Here, hold my arm for a bit while I replace it this BFG. We'll be needing it where I'm from. By the way. My name is Human. And you are..? Drev? Drev, nice to meet you. Let's go. It's almost Happy Hour at The Trench." 😉😈
@@ebixxdracion if he did find them asleep in the engineering room though, i'd be quite concerned even if sleep is "normal" that is def not the place to be doing it.
@@nevyngould1744 space has zero concept of day and night. Same as a ship. That's why the shift system was invented. It's also why it is generally agreed that if we ever did venture into space, it would be under navy regulations. Nothing to do with sci-fi, just pragmatism
10:07 minutes in, and your reading of this story, AND the superb writing has me coughing in laughter. I got tears running down my cheeks. Best HFY story in a while. Also, poor Captain.
- "You guys are some tough b@stards, you know that?" Aaaaaaand you got one new subscriber! Your storytelling is awesome! you got me engaged no less than 10 seconds within the story!
wait till Krill finds out that it had a time humans would often intentionally remove perfectly functioning frontal lobes to minimalize nightmares and paranoia. and of the time a man survived being impaled in the head through and through with a giant pipe and lived a long life.
The biggest thing about comparing us to aliens is our superiority complex. We always think we are better, even though we would not be better but different. Wildly different.
3:42 Dammit, the yawn got me too! xD To be fair to Krill, I've worried my grandmother before due to how long I can sometimes sleep, especially after a hard training session. At times, I can be out for 11-13 hours and my personal record is 21 hours of sleep, sprinkled with a 2-3 half-awake bathroom breaks.
MUCH better !!! It's good to see you using *HUMAN* written stories that are worthy of your narrating talents..... I was most disappointed when you started posting those machine generated Grey Goop travesties. This has begun to restore my faith in you. Keep up the good work ... 😉👍👍
Never seen your channel but glad i stumbled on it. Love the story and your voice, is it your story? Also poor krill if he met my narcoleptic disabled ass he'd have a heart attack
Not healthy at all. 8 is the minimum for proper body function for an adult. 13 for children under 17. Less leads to poor mental function physically impairment slow healing etc.
Military has done extensive studies to push the limits and found what we known for decades 8 is the golden rule. However it can be broken into shifts of 3-4 hours as needed in a 24hr cycle. My unit we would work 48hr shits regularly with 2 ppl staying and working day and nights sleeping in shifts. To care for the animals in the winter. Lot of work to keep military horses alive and well and few soldiers do it these days with the army having the last fully functioning cavalry unit in the military with no civilian help or fancy heated bays. Nope just concentrate blocs with tin roof for the animals and the humans get the old barn from when we had less animals and no the main barn is not heated either only one tiny room and a space heater even today. We did cable about ten years ago that was nice.
Man, the things poor Krill went through serving with Vir. You feel bad for him. but his eventual conversion to human mentality, is a hilarious process.
Trust me if you have any bunkroom with at least four guys in it, you will know they are not dead because at least one will be snoring at a decibel level greater than any engine on the ship. The alien would be convinced something is wrong with the human and not understand how the other humans could 'sleep' and not be disturbed by it.
12:30 you know cat's sleep for most of their life, I just love the idea of how edgy that would make cats seem to aliens in this story Although cats usually only put half their brain to sleep, literally sleeping with one eye open Honestly I'm surprised they didn't mention how all animals on earth need sleep and the fact we don't know why
and thus sending humans into a conflict was the first thing added to the space Geneva convention with humanity adding a multitude of new things to the list whenever something made the mistake of thinking they could take us out.. its never a warcrime the first time
My issue with this one is that 1. Sleep is WAY too common in known life to be a total anomaly to a trained doctor who operates on multiple alien species. And 2. The captain with one eye was at the hospital for DAYS with Krill so no way he never saw the man SLEEP!
I love the energy and nuance the narrators on this channel give when reading these stories, I’m was soo done with all the AI narrator channels for hfy.
Captain: Look, there's a huge body of research done on human sleep going back centuries. Why don't you read some of that first before dragging us into your experiments.
Poor Krill began shaking in panic at the mere sight of a sleeping human, god forget us for the day he witness a sleepwalking human. The poor innocent feared the sight of an unmoving organism but the sight of a moving one is much more. He won't understand how a dead creature that shouldn't move began walking and and possess enough awareness to navigate in the area despite said awareness being sealed in the void, O walking paradox that we are.
Don't know why but i just love when others describe human behaviour that to them is infact completely strange but to us completely normal. Also i'd love it if you added some faint background music to the video if possible to really imgaine the scenrio ty!
I've heard this one read 2 other times before, but nobody else reads it quite like this. Good show man. Good show. Can't believe I just stumbled into this channel cause of a missclick a few hours ago!
