The Fear of Space 

Watching this before bed was a decision

I honestly find the size of the universe kinda comforting. Any action or mistake you regret will ultimately not matter in this vast empty void that will outlast anything we as humanity create

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Turn that fear into curiosity There are things in space so terrifying yet fascinating out there

Kinda scary to think that we all live on a tiny TINY TINY ball called earth living in this monstrosity of something we aren’t even sure of what it is

I once knew a black dwarf. Now, before you get upset, let me explain. His name was Marcus and we were classmates. When we learned about the "life of a black dwarf" In our 7th grade classroom, even the teacher was absolutely red in the face trying to tip toe around the lesson. He didn't help either because every time she said "black dwarf"and he would respond with a "yeah, what's up?" 😂😅 He was one of the funniest kids in school and everyone loved him. I hope he's still making people smile to this day.

This video made me so uncomfortable. Like talking about a baby to their mother about what's going to happen through their life. "You're only seeing it's baby steps now, but first, the eyes will go, and then finally when there's darkness in the eyes, they'll die"

this is neither “embarrassing” or “laughable” or “puts you in shame” this is “amazing”, “spectacular” and “breathtaking”

i’ll be so real, space just fascinates me. the fact that it’s impersonal sort of makes me feel better. it’s dope that we can even observe this and learn about it. it’s so cool we exist in this universe, even if we don’t know the who, what, how, where, and why. it’s a giant endless mystery, i love it. there’s something so comforting about space. like this is our home, this is all that we will ever know. it’s humbling, terrifying, and beautiful. it reminds me to take it easy, enjoy what i have while i’m here.

As someone who’s always been fascinated with space, it’s interesting to see a window into astrophobia. I had no idea that so many of the things that I’ve usually looked at as cool and interesting could be so horrifying and threatening.

Looking up at the night sky always fills me with a very primal sense of dread. It's a very difficult feeling to describe, a mix of awe and beauty, but also a claustrophobic and suffocating sense of fear. Something that makes everything around you scary, it makes you want to retreat to some sort of shelter which makes me think that it's an evolutionary fear.

I used to get that sense of "cosmic dread" whenever I'd do deep dives on the vastness of space. I recall watching videos talking about the distant future of the Universe and getting stressed out... by things that wouldn't be happening for trillions of years... As of recent, I've instead become mystified by space and the things in it. If you think about it, space is like a desert. It looks like nothing, endless nothing, but once you get past those seemingly infinite swathes of emptiness you stumble upon an oasis. Gorgeous clouds of dust that look like paintings, glowing rings of fire that surround black holes, spectacular light shows performed by stars, both in life and death. If the Universe is truly infinite, then that means there's just as many beautiful oases as there is desert. And of course, among those oases, us. A teeny tiny, little itsy-bitsy pale blue dot. What you said at 4:55 is something I used to think myself. "We're so insignificant and tiny." And sure, maybe we are. But I don't let that stress me like it used too because I've since realized that fact doesn't take away from how special this planet and the things on it are. UY Scuti is massive, black holes are nearly incomprehensible forces of nature, and sure planets like Saturn have rings and moons to show off. But none of them have us. Nothing has us. Life could exist out there, but until we know for sure, we're all there is. And that doesn't scare me because in a way, it makes us really important. Maybe the Universe knows no cruelty, but it also doesn't even know it own name. The Universe, the things in it, and all the laws that keep those things in check are Human discoveries. Yeah they'd exist without us, but they wouldn't be named, defined, or appreciated by anything. UY Scuti is the biggest star in the known Universe. None of that means anything without us. Sure this is an extremely Human-centric perspective, but what other perspective do we really have? Hell even the observable Universe, when you zoom out as far as we can with out current technologies, what do you find at the center of it? Not the Milkyway, not the Solar System, not even the Earth. You. From your perspective, you're the center of the Universe, the thing your people have done endless work to try and understand. At the center of all of it is you. And you know what, even if you wanna look at things from the figurative perspective of the Universe, things still look great for us! All of everything you know and love, you live and stride for, is confined to this single point in space and time. From the perspective of the Universe, you have everything you could ever need, nothing's ever quite out of reach for you. I find that so comforting. Again I totally understand that this is a Human-centric mindset. But it's one that allows me to appreciate the massive scale of the Universe without forgetting that we're just as special as the rest of it. It's very easy to fall into the pit of "Humanity bad, Humanity insignificant" and it's very nice to claw your way out every now and then. Space is one of my favorite things, I find it so eerily beautiful. From my perspective, it is something to be respected and inspired by, not feared. Great video! 😊 Keep it up!

8:21 FYI, there are actually no pictures of the böotes void in existence, every picture used are photos of planetary nebula within our galaxy, the most popular one used being Barnard 68

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The scariest thing about these insane units of time are that they WILL happen. We tend to not comprehend it, but the space we’re in, the same universe we inhabit, will experience this passage of time. Not the universe in the video but the one you’re in. The atoms that make up your existence will be there at that time. We are just traveling towards it just very slowly.

Floating through Bootes Void with a bowl of mac and cheese would be pure bliss.

Space is weird, because it’s so beautiful and pretty, yet it’s also so freaking terrifying.

whenever i watch these 'fear of space videos', i just get relaxed for some reason.

The narrator: "This is the most terror inducing concept to think about" Me: closing my eyes, imagining the perfect stillness of a supervoid and feeling peaceful.

I've always been impressed by several movies' choice in depicting people flung into space: The sound of silence except for their panicked breathing. Really makes it hit you in the gut that there's nothing to hang onto in space, the only tangible thing is you and your own ineffectual bodily instincts to breathe and grasp etc. To me it suggests a very profound panic thats hard to conjure in other settings. It's like if drowning lasted weeks.

I like space, stars and planets because they are so so beyond all the earth bound stupidity I'm trapped inside. I like that they're bigger than us, that they are more powerful, that they are indescribable

holy shit. that is probably one of the best video essays on space I've ever seen, amazing stuff dude, I'm glad to see you back :)

Space is so beautifully terrifying. The sheer frustration and anger I feel that I was unable to spectate the beginning and will never get close to witnessing the end of it, just hurts.

This literally makes me want to go insane

The thing i find the strangest is us, we can see, smell, hear, and feel things that aren't meant to be seen, smelled, heard, or felt. Because we are also just a part of the universe. We're made of the same things that everything else is made of, which i feel like people forget. People look up instead of down and say how they feel instead of why they feel. What bothers me the most is why anything even exists in the first place, it's so strange, why did the big bang happen? (Or whatever it was that created this) And if this has been around forever I'd be even more confused. I dont think anybody should be scared of space or existing. Nothing is random, nothing is meant to be, we're all just here and we matter as much as the ground we stand on. It's only humans that make things matter, nobody and nothing cares except for us and there's no reason to care. Everything just *is.* And it's not weird, we think it is but it isn't, it's natural. Idk I find it weird how we can actually experience stuff and find meaning in it, I wanna go back to the old me before I got into this stuff, then I wouldn't "care" so much about how things in fact didn't matter.

I actually have basically the opposite opinion, and I'm really curious if anyone else feels the same. I COMPLETELY understand thinking of space as cold and empty but for some reason I think of it as just so alive, warm, and beautiful, even if "warm" might be literally just an objectively incorrect statement. I'm absolutely obsessed with space, and have been for as long as I can remember, which might be why I feel so positively about it, maybe out of a sense of nostalgia. I think the solar system is just so beautiful. I know Jupiter would absolutely annihilate a human, but I don't really find that scary because we're not meant to be there. If there are aliens, I'm sure there's plenty out there that would think of Earth as a hellscape for whatever reason. The gas giants almost feel like huge beautiful machines, just these giant storms churning away. As for the vast distances of space, sure things are really far apart, but they're still connected. We orbit the sun, which orbits the center of the Milkyway, and everything's a part of the same universe! I'm not quite sure why or fucking how, but the universe feels oddly cozy to me. The Milkyway feels almost like a town we live in. It's big and I haven't been to most of it, but I live here so it feels like home, yah know? IDK maybe I'm just silly but I feel like the universe can be thought about in different ways. Thinking about it as a cold mostly empty void that is slowly falling to entropy, yeah, that's horrifying, but I don't think that's the only way of thinking about it. You can think about humans as biological machines biding our time until we fall to entropy, oooorrrr you can think about humans some inspiring pretty way that I'm too lazy to think of, but you know what I mean. Point is I think the universe can be thought of in a similar way. Sure some stuff is bigger in size, but we're as much of a part of it as anything else. I'm kinda losing my train of thought and don't wanna read back over this lmao but you get my point, i think space is beautiful and cozy for some reason and i love it. Not saying this to be like "THIS VIDEO IS DUMB AND WRONG!! >:(" I really enjoyed the video! I fucking love space so anything talking about it is super cool!! and because i love space, idk i wanted to offer my weird point of view. I think it can be thought of as beautiful and cozy if you think about it the right way or are just crazy like me i guess lmao

Everything about the universe is so incomprehensible, gargantuan, terrifying, and beautiful at the same time... I find it oddly comforting, in a way.

These types of smaller channels always give out the best contents man, shiz underrated

That was the most interesting video I saw this year I’m happy you’re back and with such a good video

Dude. That the best video about space that I’ve seen in years! One of the most interesting one ever. This video will stay with me as long as a Black Dwarf lives! No seriously, that was awesome. I’m subscribing now

8:30 Just real quick, this image is not the Boötes Void. This is a dark nebula. It's most likely Barnard 68, a nebular that is often mistaken as the Boötes Void (although, it is a really good image to put into scale just how vast it is). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard_68 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boötes_Void

I love space and find it interesting. I was staring at a galaxy photo at work one day and my coworker told me he is intrigued by my interest in that because to him space was terrifying. Similar to this video, he stated it was too unknown and big for him and it made him uncomfortable to think of. It's always stuck with me because before then, I never saw this perspective or at least was uncomfortable with the vastness of time and space. Great video

Ah I remember my existential crisis teenage phase. Rough one. Compared to the universe, the collective existence of all life on Earth is humiliatingly smaller than the tiniest particle. Human existence is truly nothing in the grand scheme of things. But nonetheless, the fact that we're here, right here, right now, with our own individual existences, with all of our unique experiences, thoughts, and feelings, makes us special.

my question delves into one of the most profound and enduring mysteries of human existence: the potential existence of extraterrestrial life. This inquiry has captivated the minds of scientists, philosophers, and the general public alike for centuries. While we have yet to definitively answer whether we are alone in the universe, ongoing scientific exploration and advancements continue to shed light on this fascinating question. Through the study of exoplanets, astrobiology, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), humanity continues its quest to understand our place in the cosmos and the possibility of life beyond Earth.

Sometimes I wonder why no one wants to become Immortal. And then I rewatch this video.

Good for my essay, I'm in 6th grade

The pure amount of things so so much bigger than us, to the point we're not even a dust particle, nor even a bacteria or virus. We are literally nothing in comparison to our own home. And then we remember how many smaller objects than us there are, most likely also too small for us to see. Universe is an expending mystery that starts with the smallest objects and goes for eternity and beyond. And we won't even know for sure, it could have happened before. And might happen again. But the emount of time that would pass would be so huge a number wouldn;t be able to show it. It's scary, and beautiful in a way.

I wish I could lose memory to watch this for the first time again One of the best space videos I have ever watched

I just found your channel via minecraft shenanigans. Didn't expect a video like this obviously but honestly this was one of the best video essays I've seen in a while. I hope it gets the exposure it deserves.

Congratulations for the brilliant video. I have no words. Just perfect. Uncluding the music. It is rare to find videos like this one.

when you mentioned “this void is two percent of the universe” broke my mind but not because of what it is, rather how do we even know that? I genuinely don’t understand how we have the capability to know the size of the universe when we haven’t even really traveled past the moon yet, I get there’s cameras out there but can you truly get that much information from just photos? I’m genuinely curious. (also I want to mention I dropped out of school in the middle of highschool so maybe this is something I missed)

Jupiter being purely gas is just sooo terrifying and gives me a sense of helplessness

After the winds rip you apart piece by piece, you would continue to fall into the planet and the pressure would get so high it would literally crush you into a diamond. Lovely 🤗

Really great video, I enjoyed it and actually felt the fear of space as I always do when I begin to think about it. But one thing I did notice is that when you were explaining the distance of some of the neighboring planets or solar systems in light years, you said that it would take us that many years to reach that location. Light years is the amount of time that it takes light to travel in a year, so in all actuality it would take us a much larger amount of time for us to travel that far. Also with the fact that we will realistically never be able to reach the speed of light.

This is part of the reason I'm skeptical of the Fermi Paradox actually being paradox at all. Space isn't just a black background for fancy sci-fi starships to zip across, but a near-void of such scale and innate hostility that just traversing the tiniest portion of it, without dying, would be a feat for the eons. Definitely humbling.

Probably the best space video i have ever watched in my entire life.

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Space truly is scary. The size and distance between things. The thought of getting lost in space. Or being on a collision course with Jupiter or the sun or some other star. It's always been a little bit terrifying.

How I feel opening maps to go one street over and it zooms out to the ENTIRE EARTH

What scares me most about it is not the scale of the unknown, it's just how small we are compared to everything. There are so many things that could tear us apart at any moment and goes to show how insignificant millions of years of our planet's development is compared to everything. Our lives are insanely small, our generations are insanely small, our entire evolution phase is insignificantly small. Our earth's existence is but a blink of an eye in the span of space's time. And even the space will at some point end and nothing will be present eventually

I find space so fascinating and beautiful just shows that there so much more out there than we don’t know our tiny minds can’t comprehend the true scale of the universe

The be-all and end-all of everything. Facinating video, a lot of I've always believed in. Here's to (almost) infinity!

2% of the OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE, is Boötes Void. The observable universe is the portion of the true universe that we are able to see, because at a certain point, the constant expansion of the universe begins to accelerate away from us relatively so fast that light is unable to get past, this point is called the Particle Horizon, a point after which light takes an 'infinitely' long time to arrive at the observer, making it impossible to see past. The observable universe is approximately 93.016 billion light years in diameter.

Ended the vid crying of how beautiful this was

This video is so incredibly well written. There are so many videos that attempt to effectively put the universe into perspective, and some do it very well, but this video does it perfectly. Very well done. Incredible.

I'm not a astrophysicist but I've had a theory in my mind since I was a teenager. That our complete observable universe is sitting inside an immense singularity that eats universes. That the acceleration of our universe is actually it being pulled apart by the ejected energy that forms at event horizon. Our universe might be expelled into the ultimate void which will create other universe's. My understanding of the mechanism of it all is extremely limited. But your information is appreciated and you're an extremely brilliant person. thank you

The fact that we are able to calculate this all with almost exact persicion just from our small speck of a planet using a number system that we made up is astounding to me.

whenever i watch videos like this about space it takes me about 3 times as long as the timestamp because i have to keep pausing it to just kind of sit there and take in what was just said. even if it's stuff i already knew, when I actually start to think about it i just have to stop for a minute and i literally sit there with my jaw wide open.

One of the very best space content video's i've ever saw. Well written , well presented and a heck of a lot of fun. Thank you so much. Wishing the absolute best , good health & happiness to you & your loved ones. 🙏❤.

Thanks. I didn't need to feel insignificant or anything but you surely did that ❤️

We are the creation of the universe that has become self aware and can’t escape it.

The production on this video is absolutely amazing

This almost brought me to tears....

As an aside, presuming protons don't decay, black dwarfs aren't the end. The nova you described occurs when the cold fusion processes within a black dwarf reach a critical point. What remains is an iron star, made entirely of Iron-56 and some Nickel-62. These don't last either, as an instant (or 10^10^76 years) later, iron stars become neutron stars or black holes.

Out of chaos comes order. The deep ocean, and space scare the hell out of me,but at the same time I'm fascinated by it. That's the best way I can explain it.

for some reason, though space is the definition of infinite, i feel more comforted than scared. realizing that, in the grand scheme of things, nothing truly matters allows me to have a better perspective of life. the little things that stress me out, as well as the huge life stresses that all people undergo-none of it matters. at the end of everything, we will become nothing. and i thank the universe regardless

I’d take dying in space over dying in a cave any day. At least I’d get to see it, if only for a few seconds.

I just found my new favourite channel

Wow, The ending really had me changing my pov of the universe. Sort of wanting it to rest but knowing that if its means to rest are for us to not even be a thing, its sort of a scare but happy feeling.

When my friend tells me about space and i start to try to comprehend the scale i do experience fear. This video made me feel like im being rational for my phobia

outerspace basically screams at us "ur not welcome here"

UY Scuti sent chills down my spine 😭

Recently there has been a lot of videos about how space is scary. Good thing it’s always interesting.

i was doing research and i stumbled upon this i watched it and it sent chills down my spine your wording and interpritation is the best

I honestly don't see how people are afraid of something so magnificent and beautiful.

Now this, is the greatest universe scale explanation video i’ve watched, And you even explain the time differences from now to the end bro love thiss

Imagine being immortal and not being able to reach your end. Your only existence is to stare into internal void. Gives me chills

Nice video, great way to explain things and put em into perspective 🙂

Bro posted a banger after a year🔥🔥🔥🔥

makes all my problems seem so infinitely small and pointless

As someone who's been absolutely fascinated with space ever since i was very young, I've never really considered space itself to be all that horrifying. I've seen the beautiful celestial objects and clusters and nebulas to the point where theres charm in what we can see out there even if we're so small and so SO far away from said constellations yet im just thankful they even exist and we have the technology and imagination of what they could be like to explore and wonder about. Even if we're all just insignificant unbelievably tiny specks surrounded by the infinite voids of the universe, god damn we have thrived and let our eyes look around and see what there is out there in those voids. Its mystical, its oddly comforting and its all from right at what we call home. Very happy to live on this planet in THIS solar system! Its so cool!

What a video, truly amazingly made and written. Props.

I don’t think it’s embarrassing the size of earth and us I think it’s amazing and beautiful. We’re so unique

Even though I’ve retired, I’m always smiling at your videos SP.

Amazing video that truly put a perspective on things. Something I often like to think about as for the size of the void is that a black hole with the density of earth is less than an inch in size. Now imagine ton-18. Something with proportions beyond comprehension. Its gravitational pull lasts for a ridiculous distance, same distance as a coin compared to earth. Imagine one coin. And that coin has a range of the entire earth in gravitational pull.

It's always so tiring when I bring up my fear of space and people always mention how space just amazes them, or how 'no, space isn't scary, it's beatiful'. I know it is! It's still scary to the point I get breathless thinking about it for too long. Thank you for this video, it makes me feel like less of an idiot for being afraid of looking up at the sky

i've needed a video like this for a long time

i have always had a great fear of the ocean & deep space not sure why but both are like an abyss & the fact that we are floating around by ourselves is just terrifying!

Love this video mane 💪🏼 there's 4:39 sizes that are beyond our minds!

There is also another thing i'd like to point out. Something that many people consider to be science fiction, but it could be true. War of the Worlds was a novel written by Herbert George Wells, and was published in 1898. It tells a tale of aliens from Mars invading our planet using their advanced technology, only being defeated after encountering our planet's diseases and dying from them. While it may not be the first, that title belongs to The Germ Growers by Robert Potter in 1892. War of the Worlds, however, is far more known than The Germ Growers. It is really what people think of when the term, "19th century alien invasion stories." But, there is something about these alien invasion tales that truly adds on to the fear of space. As you guessed it, there is a possiblility that us humans are not alone in the universe. There could be a far more advanced civilization out there with technology hundreds, thousands, or even MILLIONS of years more advanced than ours. They could wipe us humans out with a single flash. Our technology and equipment could just be jokes to the aliens. Yet, they could be an unfathomable distance from us that the aliens could never in the history of the universe ever reach us. Or could they...? Remember, the chance of us coming into contact with aliens is low, but it's never zero.

Watching this gave me a specific instant panic I haven’t felt in years where I realized I’m basically a microbe

If it makes you feel any more comforted, we are atoms made of particles from excitations in quantum fields and that quantim fields make up everything, even in empty space.

Perfect find before bed, well done you gave me LEMMiNO vibes with the music. So far you showed me the best earth to sun comparison I’ve seen. You got my sub

eerie... bad idea to watch this at 12am

Great job 😢😊

homie kept saying how depressing this all was, while I kept thinking “wow this is so special, this is making living seem so important” …life is about perception I guess.

Amazing video. Very informative and nice to listen to. Thank you so much for this video!

I like to watch the night skys with my telescope and i never realised this fear

really good video

the only think i was thinking when it was zooming out of the sun next to UY Scuti is “why is scuti’s edge not curving”