The Past We Can Never Return To - The Anthropocene Reviewed

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In September of 1940, an 18-year-old mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was walking his dog, Robot, in the countryside of Southwestern France when the dog disappeared down a hole. Robot eventually returned but the next day, Ravidat went to the spot with three friends to explore the hole.
And after quite a bit of digging, they discovered a cave with walls covered with paintings, including over 900 paintings of animals, horses, stags, bison and also species that are now extinct, including a wooly rhinoceros. The paintings were astonishingly detailed and vivid with red, yellow and black paint made from pulverized mineral pigments that were usually blown through a narrow tube, possibly a hollowed bone, onto the walls of the cave. It would eventually be established that these artworks were at least 17,000 years old.
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@kurzgesagt 3 года назад

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@JustCamilo 3 года назад

Found a Kurgesagt comment with 1 like :O

@CatLover3000_ 3 года назад

@navinater 3 года назад

Wow this is a new comment

@dhananjayvasudeva7628 3 года назад

It took you an year to write this

@hanulu1 3 года назад

@top10alltime47 4 года назад

20k years later : scientists are confused why there is 2 caves with almost the same cave art

@michellegodwin6567 4 года назад

Unfortunately, because so many people have visited the two caves, some damage has occurred to them. Therefore, we must build two identical caves so that people can still experience them.

@samueljanke4835 4 года назад

1.5m years later: An aboveground complex of identical human "art" is crudely copied across an expanse of usable land. The glixaxan alliance razes the earth and turns it into an interstellar parking lot.

@TheEnderLeader1 4 года назад

@@michellegodwin6567 He knows. He's saying that archaeologists from the future would be confused by it.

@johncaiwa 4 года назад

Nice

@6Mephisto666 4 года назад

@@TheEnderLeader1 He knows. He's saying that they must build two identical caves so that people can still experience them.

@luniquekero7271 4 года назад

"we hoped you liked it" -*teary eyes*.... a little..!

@david_rocky_road 4 года назад

Lunique Kero omg sameeee 😉😭

@lyreparadox 4 года назад

I'm not crying, You're crying! 😥

@mavie3716 4 года назад

meeeee huhu

@Sandipan_Naskar 4 года назад

This video was emotional 😞

@aphexbubblebath 4 года назад

im just cutting onions

@erictaylor5462 3 года назад

Imagine those kids thinking, "We need to protect this" as the entire rest of their world was being torn to pieces. Pretty amazing.

@incendior 2 года назад

The very story of teenagers being so moved by what they saw that they did such a non-teenager thing: spending a year lovingly protecting cultural art - moved me strongly as well

@borskavin6395 2 года назад

@@incendior I think it's pretty much a teenager thing, as teenagers are also humans. Plus, I know several teenagers who camped in forests and moors to protect them from destruction. I am also deeply moved by their action and the whole video

@markhenley3097 2 года назад

It would've probably been amazing to be those teenagers, experiencing it for the first time, or second time, I guess.

@erictaylor5462 2 года назад

@@markhenley3097 Well, it inspired them tp protected it, even as their world was being torn to pieces.

@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat 2 года назад

It sounds like it'd make an absolutely incredible movie. Like The Goonies but with Nazis.

@ananyabhalla2520 3 года назад

"This a handprint, but not a hand. This is a memory you can't return to." This made me cry somehow.

@deaconnatsia1300 3 года назад

dude same

@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 3 года назад

It hits hard

@ananyabhalla2520 3 года назад

@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 Exactly

@attacusatlas 2 года назад

You're not alone

@zolacnomiko 2 года назад

@profdc9501 3 года назад

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” - Heraclitus

@human69. 3 года назад

Wise words, and true words

@sakatagintoki5895 3 года назад

I'm confused at not the same man part. Pls explain ty

@datnguyenquoc99 3 года назад

@@sakatagintoki5895 it meant that you cannot experience the same moment twice

@profdc9501 3 года назад

@@sakatagintoki5895 Through life, we change. Not just physically in that we age, but the person you are now knows and understands differently than the person you were. Think of places you have been at different times in your life, and how you perceived them differently because of your experiences. Words and pictures can be recorded, but thoughts and perceptions are fleeting, and change as we change.

@nuklearboysymbiote 3 года назад

@@sakatagintoki5895 every experience changes you a little. you are not the same person before and after reading this comment.

@Gameslinx 4 года назад

"If you've ever been a child" As someone born at the age of 24, I can't relate to this

@imveryangryitsnotbutter 4 года назад

At age 6, I was born without a face.

@anewspinonthings 4 года назад

I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter nice reference mate! ONE OF US

@josh34578 4 года назад

Your poor mother!

@SymmetricalDocking 4 года назад

Most people are still a child at 30, much less at 24

@Karolomen 4 года назад

Some say that the first 40 years of childhood are the worst.

@purplehaze2358 3 года назад

This honestly gave me a sort of...existential melancholic longing.

@FaerieHijacker 3 года назад

Dr. Bright experiencing existential crisis? Damn, 2021 is something.

@purplehaze2358 3 года назад

@@solomonreal1977 Lmfao. Dr Bright is a popular SCP character but alright lol

@joelcorreia9183 2 года назад

@@solomonreal1977 imagine trying to sound profound just to insult 🤣👌👌👌

@solomonreal1977 2 года назад

@@joelcorreia9183 thanks for calling me out man, it's been a weird year for everyone but I've been being stupid. I took it down. I'm sure there's lots of dumb stuff like this out there. Bleh Again, thanks. And sorry. Sorry everyone. Sorry Dr. Bright

@AtomicMonkeybutt 2 года назад

@@solomonreal1977 Good for you man. For real.

@leonoliveira8652 3 года назад

"ALMOST AS IF ART ISN'T OPTIONAL FOR HUMANS." This is good, and should be spread far and wide.

@wilhelmbittrich88 2 года назад

I also really liked this line

@xanderprangler8621 2 года назад

I like to believe it isn't optional. I think art is an intrinsical part of out human nature that would is present in every culture, past, present and future.

@ninangcasual 2 года назад

this touched me very deeply in the midst of the struggle to survive, humans will still make art

@zaxscat5357 2 года назад

I personally have a drive that is allways tugging on me, to make something anything to just create. So I do believe that there is a drive for art in all forms.

@veryanonymous3630 2 года назад

What does this say about religion?

@Gloocifer 4 года назад

“Art is not optional for humans.” What a profoundly underrated line.

@Zeithri 4 года назад

Agreed

@Zaire82 4 года назад

Not something I'd thought about before, but we really can't avoid it. We enjoy it.

@SujanraAcoma 4 года назад

That John Green, maybe he should write a book.

@lucastardjopawiro3698 4 года назад

Made me think

@MutantSatan 4 года назад

Good thing I'm not human

@ceciliatran4522 3 года назад

John: why are there only paintings of animals ? ? Cavemen: well painting faces IS PRETTY FRICKIN HARD, JOHN

@mct8659 3 года назад

Died reading this

@thegreenwolf8838 3 года назад

@@smug1798 They probably just used actually sticks

@AC-zf3wo 3 года назад

I agree

@fluffybluefastboi103 3 года назад

Unga bunga

@MsDestroyer900 3 года назад

Animals were the original anime OC's

@carsenmann5331 2 года назад

This made me feel similar to the “throwing a rock into a lake may seem simple but you could be the last person to touch that rock till the end of time” thing

@dheeraj12 4 месяца назад

ohhh... wow!!! Never thought of it this way.

@mochievious1552 2 года назад

When I started watching this video, I didn't realise how emotional it would make me... "This is a handprint, but not a hand. This is a memory you can't return to." Isn't that going to be us one day? A beautiful, unattainable memory.

@pythonxz 2 года назад

Yes, the whole of humanity will be just a memory imprinted on the earth. Even that will be gone eventually, and then it will be as if we didn't exist at all.

@junglink2437 2 года назад

I also got more emotional than I expected to while watching this, glad I'm not alone.

@mozambique9113 Год назад

reject modernity, embrace tradition

@willtheprodigy3819 Год назад

@@mozambique9113Conservative?

@mikaelnilsson7822 4 года назад

"If you ever been a child" Me: Wow he is talking directly to me

@snuffsaid1703 4 года назад

@O 99 The last thing we was is a child

@flyingdoggo9887 4 года назад

*former child*

@sim7477 4 года назад

Dude thought the same thing

@khaledzaidan 4 года назад

nope.. coincidence!

@knurled1 4 года назад

It seems to me that humanity has always had a drive to record their own existence by whatever way we know. We want to be remembered by those who come after.

@WhompingWalrus 4 года назад

Maybe it was just evolutionarily advantageous to want to pass on your knowledge to your offspring. Our ability to create/use tools and communicate about the things around us is a lot more useful that way.

@jk_ordeanneil3783 4 года назад

This is the closest we can get to being immortal-being remembered by others.

@Zenigundam 4 года назад

You'll all be forgotten, especially Gen Z. None of you have done anything original. I do wish we could go back to the 40s when women understood the alpha male patriarchy and technology had not yet advanced to the point that they could go on social media apps and dating sites and handpick girly beta males. Feminism is why the human population will decrease substantially, especially in America, in the coming decades. Women need to succumb to real men and apologize for their narcissistic and promiscuous behavior.

@sachiel197 4 года назад

@@Zenigundam I can't even begin to describe how idiotic that statement was so first of all: ok boomer, cause you earned it no one from gen z will be remembered? so what? I wouldn't mind being forgotten I'd rather just live life while I have it, I don't gain anything from being remembered when I'm already dead we haven't even lived one third of our lives, yet you expect us to have done something memorable already newsflash buddy, you won't be remembered either, especially not for comments like that

@Akshit.vats. 4 года назад

Look whos talking

@murrayp4 3 года назад

Imagine the family in the cave when one of their own dies. They would grieve their loss and with tears in their eyes place their hand on the print of their relative's hand on the wall.

@okenwaayomikun 3 года назад

now that you say it, it could be an explanation.

@sun-hi111 3 года назад

I think I've seen this idea before ... maybe in an animation about a small dinosaur idk

@ArsonPeaPlayz 2 года назад

@@sun-hi111 the good dinosaur?

@DhantExMachina 2 года назад

This hit hard, damn

@marxdc9657 2 года назад

It makes total sense. Especially in a figurative way. They didn’t print the hand itself, since that would mean your presence, and their presence on earth is extremely short (even shorter than ours nowadays), so they printed the opposite. The negative print would mean your absence… it would mean how other people feel, it would mean how much people miss you… represents both the feeling of being part of something, completing the whole (and literally the room, the clan, the family), and also the feeling of being the missing part… the hand that had to be there to fill the painting but it isn’t anymore

@elliecarlson2788 Год назад

My favorite story about these handprint walls is that because they are negatives, the handprints look a little bigger than the hands were, so for a little too long they claimed children and most women didn’t take part. But there’s a handprint of a child much too high for them to have reached on their own, so they must’ve sat on an adults shoulders to reach. I just will always hold that image close to my heart

@off6617 Год назад

Just burst into tears reading this

@newbie4789 10 месяцев назад

The idea that some human emotions were always there like care for children and their childish curiosity is heartwarming.

@CircusFoxxo 3 месяца назад

@@newbie4789there is something of a joke from Sumer some 8,000 years ago about how dogs want you to throw the thing but don't want to give you the thing. We've always been humans.

@Alizudo 3 месяца назад

@@CircusFoxxo The oldest piece of written language is a customer complaint of how the copper ingots he purchased aren't of the quality he was promised - carved into a stone tablet.

@CircusFoxxo 3 месяца назад

@@Alizudo there's also Norse runes somewhere I don't remember that read "this is quite high" or something similar. We've always been the same.

@vinniecairns8227 4 года назад

It's weird because John Green was speaking but the acoustics in my house made it sound like I was crying.

@haomakk 3 года назад

Maybe he was cutting onions right haha

@martinalejandro7600 3 года назад

@@haomakk Squidward left his onions there.

@DylanMourik 3 года назад

those damn acoustics

@thibaut2 3 года назад

Those were not the acoustics tho

@quintoselricho 3 года назад

@@thibaut2 no? what were they then?

@ms_ch 4 года назад

"we hope you liked this video" me, shedding some tears: okay yes

@stevevokhe 4 года назад

adorable

@bennet615 3 года назад

i literraly got tears

@shilohseaborn9800 3 года назад

Yeah that ending was really powerful and almost had me in tears

@hudsonhintze 3 года назад

Like I’m emotional as fuck now

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

Kurzgesagt and John Green are both incredibly talented and impactful educators because they have the remarkably magical ability to make us humans feel emotional about the existence of ourselves and our world.

@MorganThaGorgan 3 года назад

Every single time I watch this video it makes me cry. Like even if I try my hardest to not cry, I find my eyes welling with tears. Standing in front of cave paintings or petroglyphs is such a moving experience. And John Green really accurately portrayed why it is so moving. I have tried to explain to people why these things are important or why I feel so emotional, but I never had the words for it. And listening to John is the closest I can get to expressing that overwhelming sense of time. It feels both very distant and yet very intimate. There is another cave in France called Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave. Werner Herzog made a documentary of it called, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." In that documentary, they interviewed scientists who determined that some of the paintings were 20,000 years old but some were as old as 40,000 years old. And that astonished me because the distance *in time* that we are to the people who made the paintings 20,000 years ago is the same distance *in time* that they were to those of 40,000 years ago. This means the people who made those 20,000-year-old paintings were coming upon paintings in the same way we are now. We often lump time together, thinking that people from 40,000 and 20,000 years ago were relatively close...but they weren't. There were just as many thousands of generations between 40-20 thousand years as there are from 20 thousand to now. Which means they must have looked at those paintings with a similar kind of wonderment. They must have also wondered who the painters were and what they were trying to say. To assume the people of 40,000 years ago were the same as the people as 20,000 years ago would be a mistake. Yes, they may have lived similarly, but I doubt the culture stayed the same in those thousands of years. There is a marked difference between different generations of people today...so many of those ancient people must have been just as perplexed by some of the paintings as we are now. I love these types of videos and I think the graphics complimented John Green's words perfectly.

@morosis82 2 года назад

One caveat: those of 20k years ago wouldn't have known how old the others were, though it's possible they had the sense of not recent.

@shiverarts8284 2 года назад

I could tell you what they was thinking I know oral stories that have great in knowing how these people thought.

@gnatdagnat Год назад

@@shiverarts8284 do share?

@gnatdagnat Год назад

@@morosis82 Yes, I was going to say similar. But they would be separated culturally by changes in climate/flora/fauna at least, and be a different lineage of people, or if not, maybe they had some oral tradition that informed their interpretation of artwork that old. Plus, they definitely knew what they were looking at better than civilized people 40,000 years in the future lol. I'd like to think they felt inspired or connected though.

@patfrog1213 9 месяцев назад

This comment made ME cry (not that the video didn't but yknow)

@fry.master 2 года назад

The fact that kid in 1940 had a dog named Robot was definitely a note worth keeping in... for some reason I never thought an 18 year old in 1940 would be familiar with the concept of an autonomous robot

@TheFlauschig Год назад

Science fiction already existed as a genre in the 19th century.

@infotraffic Год назад

"the modern term robot derives from the Czech word robota (“forced labour” or “serf”), used in Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920)." in Britannica.

@doubletapthatdotty4597 Год назад

@@infotrafficwow, i thought i was the only one who knew where it came from.

@jurajsintaj6644 19 дней назад

@@infotraffic robota does just mean work. Actually, no nevermind, the meaning might have changed over time.

@puiu102006 4 года назад

Wow at the end when John stopped talking i just remembered this was a Kurzgesagt video. He did a super good job

@BloodyClash 4 года назад

Yes. And it anyhow fitted really good into the kurzgesagt environment

@danielbrawner3677 4 года назад

Same!

@pentagramprime1585 4 года назад

But... He never brought up skoodalibooping.

@gridcoregilry666 4 года назад

YES that was so amazing

@tjgodofchaos3186 3 года назад

"We have invented nothing" -Picasso Goddamn

@MR-ff2pq 3 года назад

I dont undrestand

@hunterofthenorth4482 3 года назад

@@MR-ff2pq basically a nod to the creations of humanity. Whatever has been created, or we thought of: our ancestors thought of a rudimentary version of it. Sure we think of larger and more exotic things they have, but look at the similarities. We create art, while they had so long ago. They made technology, so are we now. In the basis of all things, we haven't invented anything for it already was made BEFORE us. Art is made by nature, and that's why nothing has occured. But hey, I'm just a nerd don't mind my take on it!

@MR-ff2pq 3 года назад

@@hunterofthenorth4482 thank you

@hunterofthenorth4482 3 года назад

@@MR-ff2pq np homie

@miriga3927 3 года назад

@@hunterofthenorth4482 that, my fried was deep. Also I agree, and the patterns of nature follow the rules of the universe.

@miriga3927 3 года назад

“Almost as if art is not optional for humans” “Food feeds the body, *_art_** feeds the soul* ”

@piecesofandrew5483 2 года назад

When people ask me why I want to be an anthropologist, I think about cave paintings. I think about how art is present in almost every human society to ever live. I think about how, in Pompeii, there's graffiti on the walls that say "I was here." I think about how we seem to have always told stories to each other. I think about how there are many stories to tell, and sometimes the people of the past need a little help to be heard.

@Alizudo 3 месяца назад

... How do I pursue a career like this?

@Maribro4 3 года назад

Imagine just checking out a cave with your friends and finding untouched history from thousands of years ago. That must’ve been such an incredible and larger than life feeling

@amandas2639 3 года назад

And now imagine it's 1940 and there's every possibility it could get bombed into oblivion during the war. That's enough to give anyone anxiety.

@suhandatanker 3 года назад

@@amandas2639 my friend's granduncle served in the battle of the Atlantic, imagine just sailing in the royal navy looking out for fellow cargo ships then suddenly you could blow up by a random German battleship anytime, pretty scary man

@osianshirley7175 2 года назад

the choice would be daunting too, interact with it and be the first person in thousands of years to touch that handprint and in a way continue that realisation that they were not so different, or let it be and not spoil its massive streak of being untouched

@letsb3nameless665 2 года назад

@@osianshirley7175 true, if i were them i wouldnt have told anyone

@osianshirley7175 2 года назад

@@letsb3nameless665 probably the best choice, but then id also worry about it being lost again so id probably tell some close friends so they could see it once and then get in touch with some museum or something so they could go about preserving it properly

@mitcheltillman2461 4 года назад

“This is a handprint, but not a hand” Ok damn

@unnamedperson8619 4 года назад

Thats like stuff on a vsauce level

@isabelleteodoro441 4 года назад

Look for The Treachery of Images by René Magritte

@matthewmacfarland0 4 года назад

@@unnamedperson8619 i wouldnt call it that level higher than a Vsause level a Kurzgesagt level

@mbcommandnerd 4 года назад

That reminds me of The Fault in Our Stars, actually. That book is full of what are known as “metaphorical representations” of everyday things. That handprint is not a hand, sure, but it _is_ a metaphorical representation of it. Unless you understand that, the phrasing John used at the end there does seem a bit strange. Hope this helps.

@Mercure250 4 года назад

Ceci n'est pas une main.

@prinkak577 3 года назад

To be very honest, I almost cried during the entire video. Something about it just made me very emotional

@ronaconcepcion5582 2 года назад

Same ;-;

@Shokatuqt 2 года назад

It is called music . Dw. It makes me cry everytime, even though I watched this more than 50 times since it aired

@RizalBudiLeksono 2 года назад

same

@bradleytaniguchi1187 3 года назад

The end message of this video "You will know, this is not the thing itself, but a shadow of it. This is a hand-print, but not a hand. This is a memory you cannot return to." Is one of the most poetic things I've ever read.

@FirstNameLastName-qt2hz 4 года назад

"Just the act of looking at something can ruin it, I guess." *Quantum Mechanics has entered the chat*

@benjaminchukwujama5259 4 года назад

can you explain please

@GodLeftAllOfUs 4 года назад

For now. Maybe the future will allow measurement without interference.

@nitrox5915 4 года назад

@@benjaminchukwujama5259 At the atomic level of zoom you still need light to observe where things are. But the photons of light hitting a small object(like an electron) changes their path. So basically if you try to look at very small things you change the thing itself.

@alitanveer3556 4 года назад

@@benjaminchukwujama5259 look up the observer effect

@markhenley3097 4 года назад

@@benjaminchukwujama5259 Double split experiment.

@waterunderthebridge7950 4 года назад

“...today we’re gonna do something different...” Me: So no existential crisis and depressive nihilism today...? They almost had us in the first half

@ThePenitentOneArg 4 года назад

...not gonna lie

@aneutralopinion1712 4 года назад

This is this entire channel summed up in one comments

@TacoJK 4 года назад

I mean.. it's kinda nice?

@snorgonofborkkad 4 года назад

Don’t: Comment Like: This It’s: Obnoxious

@dieselgeezer18 4 года назад

existensial crisis is for dumbasses

@basdejong1598 2 года назад

Even though I've rewatched this video several times by now it still hits me hard once the realization sets in that such a hand print was made by somebody just as human as any of us. This has led to another thought occuring in my head; the person who'd made the handprint could've been one of my parents or sibling. However, it also left me feeling an inexplicable homesickness to return to that moment and to get to know this person who could be my distant ancestor. Edit: I've always had the idea that these handstencils were made as a kind of memorial possibly also part of a ritual of coming into adulthood. "I was there, and please do not forget about me, remember me". Not too far fetched if I say so myself considering how harsh life was back then. With no writing (or none preserved throughout the centuries) it may have been the only way to keep the memory of you alive when you've "joined the ancestors" as is likely a common corner stone of their religion/beliefs (which is a common trait of ancient faiths and beliefs).

@donsolos 5 месяцев назад

Survival would be something to be very proud of back then. You also almost certainly didnt live old enough to watch your kids come of age back then so it could be a form of connecting with their ancestors as well. Or some kind of celebration for surviving another year

@scurvy8420 8 месяцев назад

Ironically, I return to this video frequently. There is a quality to this video, the tone, and the thoughts it provokes that cannot be replicated.

@user-kz8zr4si3i 4 года назад

When he said "its almost as if art is not an option for humans but a requirement" i was shook

@ghuttsmckenzie4269 4 года назад

Art is everywhere, almost as if it's a genetic behavior we keep.

@sagorikaroy3505 4 года назад

I think since we're the only species with consciousness, it's a need in us to document and leave something behind as a legacy. Since ancient humans didn't knew how to write, they chose to paint it instead. It's like an archive of how many people that particular tribe had.

@jmlightning8045 4 года назад

@Arya Stark many creatures have consciousness. A good example that most people know of is a dog, dogs are aware of the environment and react to it and are thus conscious of it. If you mean self-awareness then off the top of my head i know Elephants have self-awareness.

@FrostySprite 4 года назад

I certainly stopped and thought at that part. Music is the same way. No one really thinks about it, pretty much every human likes music. We listen to it for entertainment, it appears in movies and advertisements, it's played during celebrations, and it even appears in educational documentaries and in professional environments. Music appears across all societies no matter how developed they are. But why? I'd like to watch a video on that, anyway.

@MrFahrenheit626 4 года назад

@@FrostySprite Humans like patterns so much we're constantly finding them where they don't exist, it only seems natural we'd enjoy patterns in all of our senses.

@vlogbrothers 4 года назад

Thanks to everyone at kurzgesagt for the extraordinarily moving animations and sound design. And I so appreciate the kind words about our work. I personally learn so much from kurzgesagt, as do my kids--not just about neutron stars and ants, but about how to approach the universe with curiosity and intellectual rigor. EDIT: Some people below have asked what this video is about. Fair question! It is mostly about the Lascaux Cave Paintings, of course, but I wrote it because I wanted to explore why we study history, and what we do and do not learn from looking at the distant past. Every record of the past is incomplete, and our personal experiences inevitably shape our understanding of what happened before us, and I think the history of Lascaux shows a lot of the nuances and complexities that accompany the study of history. I wanted the essay to be about how much we don't know and will never know when it comes to history, but why it is still productive and important to consider what we have of a historical record. p.s. A new episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out this Thursday, and a backlog of 25ish episodes is available for free wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks. -John

@erkindanger 4 года назад

@silasg9869 4 года назад

I suggested years ago to make this hand symbol a symbol for humans from earth. Like a flag or something. But would it picture the right hand or left hand or perhaps both? Liked your contribution to this story

@mayattv4986 4 года назад

Sir John Green. From Philippines here. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY. I'm an IT I learned computing through crash course! And when I wad in highschool I learned biology and chemistry through your channels. I still have them downloaded on my pc. Sir, you are the best teacher. You are fun and not boring! 😍

@aedanhenry 4 года назад

@henrykramer365 4 года назад

This was a very moving story. I did a double take when you mentioned Jung - have you checked out his Red Book? It's his own personal fantasies and illustrations, all in a beautiful illuminated script and a gigantic folio manuscript. I know you're not a Jungian, but it's one of the strangest works of the last century and just worth looking at as art for sure! The hook- it was written in 1915 but only released from a vault in Zurich in 2009!

@Daymickey 2 года назад

The scale of human history, the sum of every individual’s story, each one a full life, a world unto itself, is overwhelming and awe-inspiring. Like a galaxy of billions of stars.

@deusexaethera 3 года назад

"...it's as if art isn't optional for humans." Art _isn't_ optional for humans. It's a psychological imperative. Art is how we expel excess creativity during times when we have nothing productively creative to work on (i.e. inventions). For people who are prone to creativity and also lack technical skills, art is the only thing that keeps them sane -- and even then it isn't always enough.

@xyzzyxyzzy2 2 года назад

If art isn't optional, then why do most people produce no art at all?

@jamesmnguyen 2 года назад

@@xyzzyxyzzy2 People produce art in different ways. Either by making videos, making buildings, making computer programs, making gardens, making people happy, etc. Art doesn't have to be drawing.

@sappy.3xe 2 года назад

@@xyzzyxyzzy2 Even if people don’t create art, they certainly appreciate it. Music, drawings, inventions, making clothes, writing, and etc are all forms of art that we either create or consume. We need art to express ourselves and we need it to enjoy life.

@taisiewyong592 2 года назад

@@jamesmnguyen wow...you're right

@alankent 2 года назад

Creating art requires a skill set. It is just a different skill set possessed by engineers and inventors. Please do not belittle art in this manner

@craphappens55 4 года назад

I've never seen a shorter 8 minutes video, this was so well narrated.

@user-ui6vo2uo8c 4 года назад

He is from Mars

@MarcosAmparo 4 года назад

Imagine if he had Morgan Freeman in one of his videos?

@LukasVos 4 года назад

Wait, what? That were 8 minutes?!... o.O I sat down, listened and it was fnished...

@MrUtuber29 4 года назад

I'm a big fan of John green's anthropocene reviewed for a long time. Check out his podcast, it's amazing.

@Vyom108 4 года назад

الشاقب ملک ??

@lewismassie 4 года назад

I remember some years ago walking round a local castle with my dad. He pointed at the stones and said "A man put those there. I wonder what his name was" and I've never been able to look at the past the same way again

@qus.9617 4 года назад

I think the same thing about stone-henge. In Japan, I remember a castle had the names of a carpenter etched in on beams. Don't know whether it was considered acceptable or not lol.

@TheLifeOfTexan 4 года назад

@@qus.9617 european stone masons actually had personal marks they would put on stone blocks as well

@sanko111 4 года назад

@@qus.9617 Not sure about the "acceptable" part, but Japan has a rich history of woodworking, they figured out pretty elaborate ways to fasten pieces of wood together using geometry and some carpenters likely had their own secret methods, so having unique signatures kind of like a trademark is probably not far off either.

@pixeltrance 4 года назад

I live in a house built in 1432 and I wish these walls could talk. The people and events this house has been through...

@janhavitripathi8249 4 года назад

@@pixeltrance 1432...for real!

@MrPenguinFingers 3 года назад

“Infinity war is the greatest crossover of all time” Kurzgesagt and John Green:

@ChaoticTeen16 2 года назад

I almost cried at that final sentence. "This is a memory we can't go back to." Existential dread doesn't even BEGIN to describe how that felt.

@6Volken9 4 года назад

Crazy how art is prolific across all human history. Like a timeless language that speaks to everyone, no matter when or where we're from.

@fadel_rama 4 года назад

Well that explains anime

@catpoke9557 4 года назад

And look at me now, using it to intentionally draw horribly even though I can do better, and write "u gay" next to it.

@christophermorin9036 4 года назад

Yeah and some of the earliest art was apparently Air Brushing lol

@linuxares 4 года назад

Feels like during all of humanity. Math and art seem always be around.

@ike4584 4 года назад

"Whatever is human isn't alien to me."

@IAmNumber4000 4 года назад

Wow. His voice sounds so different when he’s not doing Crash Course videos. John Green is crazy smart and insightful.

@javierfarinella3458 4 года назад

It's because Hank Green is the one who appears on Crash Course videos, John Green is his brother and the author of many best-sellers like The Fault in Our Stars

@poseidonfury 4 года назад

@@javierfarinella3458 John used to be on Crash Course as well. He did the World History and U.S. History series. Most people know CC from John's videos.

@SuperSixel 4 года назад

@@javierfarinella3458 John also appears in some Crash Course videos. His voice does sound very different in The Anthropocene Reviewed, I think it has a lot to do with the format. It's more of a narration than most of the other content he's in.

@javierfarinella3458 4 года назад

@@SuperSixel didn't know that, thanks for clarifying! It must be that i've mostly watched chemistry and psychology videos

@knz730 4 года назад

Both John and Hank have a slow, relaxing format show now: if you know them from their high energy work like Crash Course and Dear Hank and John, it's worth checking out The Anthropocene Reviewed (John, podcast) and Journey to the Microcosmos (Hank, RU-vid) for a very different experience. It's cool to see them both branching out.

@chaim1842 7 месяцев назад

Ive watched this video a couple times now and every time I watch it I tear up. Its probably my favorite video on your channel

@Talik13 3 года назад

I effing love this story - I was actually introduced to it via the 99 Percent Invisible podcast and I wanted to show it to other friends and family, but it's so different trying to get someone to listen to something without them getting visually distracted. So I love that there's one of your beautiful animations to accompany it now!

@LoneTiger 4 года назад

_“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”_ ― H.G. Wells & Jeremy Irons. EDIT: I put Jeremy Irons because of the way he quoted that line on the movie. Don't be so serious. 😁

@mrcrisme 4 года назад

They said it at unison or something?

@TheRealMirCat 4 года назад

@@mrcrisme A quote from the movie perhaps

@echoesman3439 4 года назад

@@TheRealMirCat Or maybe a book they wrote together? I don't really know if either of them ever co-authored a book, but it's possible.

@AhsanY2K 4 года назад

thats a beautiful quote

@Bell_Matt 4 года назад

Take out Jeremy Iron’s name. Your crediting him for a quote an author wrote.

@hyagonery 4 года назад

“Just the act of looking at something can ruin it, I guess.” Schrödinger: ay this man spittin’!

@volffun7929 4 года назад

Hahaha

@BenTajer89 4 года назад

It was Descartes who said "we murder to dissect".

@charonder 4 года назад

@Typed Scroll haha wavefunction go brrrr

@jumpander 4 года назад

The cat is aliven't.

@vassalofthenight9945 4 года назад

Quantum physicists: you're goddamn right.

@leumaserdneg 3 года назад

I don't know if it's the subject, the narration or the animation that made me cry watching this video. It was awesome.

@Kampamba Год назад

On nights I can't sleep, I return to this video. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful things on RU-vid. Thank you all involved

@williamconroy176 3 года назад

"We hope you like the video" I cried.

@monikavyshnavi8655 3 года назад

I was about to cry too!

@MissSeaShell 3 года назад

I was wondering why I cried but it seems I'm not alone in that

@electronicuser_a3470 3 года назад

I almost cry xd

@RohitVerma-vg1mc 2 года назад

I am tearing up little too

@zacerax6000 2 года назад

"Art. Isn't. Optional."

@DownWithBureaucracy 3 года назад

The cave paintings mean the same thing art has always meant: we lived, we were here

@edithpatlan4752 3 года назад

the handprint to me is almost the equivalent of a time where i used to write on anything; a bathroom stall, a friends journal, a textbook, a whiteboard “edith was here”. simple and short. just the idea of knowing it would be seen by others, i would feel satisfied.

@gritzafur 3 года назад

Yes

@STAxTartaglia 3 года назад

Im goint to draw a random babling just to confused future archelogist

@Nanamowa 3 года назад

Gay

@auhsojacosta1672 3 года назад

I’m gonna scribble “sixkil” all over a wall so they would be confused on what it is supposed to say but in reality it just means that a sandwich is burying a dorito body

@jakestine1521 2 года назад

John Greene and his brother Hank have always spoken so eloquently and in such a way that I can't help but to be captivated.

@okenwaayomikun 3 года назад

It pains me a little because they left those to tell us 'WE WERE HERE' but we don't want to see them because we want to preserve that 'THEY WERE THERE'

@S3SSioN_Solaris 2 года назад

It's not because "we don't want to see them" but because if we keep going, eventually there will be nothing to see. By not going, their hand prints will go on for as long as they can.

@bas_ee Год назад

It pains me more that if they allow people to visit it people will destroy it within a year no boubt

@namp2018 4 года назад

The narrator was so good. The ending nearly made me cry when I think about how there are people that can never return and are now only a part of one's memory. The handprints were like mementos of the people in the past. Forgotten in memory but never in spirit.

@clem719 4 года назад

I would recommend you check out his (John Green’s) podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, as they mentioned at the end of the video

@jean-lucpellerin2100 4 года назад

the 'whole thing' nearly made me cry :'(

@rc-pf1wq 4 года назад

yeah hes the dude from crash course, i didnt even know he was the guy we were watching in school while i slept in class, i regret that now

@o.fm.a5573 4 года назад

I shed some tears xD Ive gotten worse holding those in for these things

@herman7550 4 года назад

Wow this is interesting. The video seems like a personal essay, I will definitely use inspiration from this to write my last English essay for my final grade. Wish me luck!

@rodrigoferreiramaciel4815 3 года назад

STOP DUDE, I'M LITERALLY CRYING TO A HAND ON A WALL

@ta.346 3 года назад

@@sarveshdhiman9918 tf?

@sarveshdhiman9918 3 года назад

@@ta.346 if my tf you mean that's a strange name for an episode... Well. In the podcast the guy reviews random things. Out of 5 stars. Things like Canadian geese, taco bell breakfast menu, Kentucky bluegrass and we'll, the act of googling strangers. If that's not what you mean, I have no idea what you mean.

@deusexaethera 3 года назад

CRY HARDER I STILL THIRST

@YuqinQinyue 3 года назад

YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!

@stevevernon1978 3 года назад

think of it this way, your crying to a CARTOON of a DUPLICATE of a STENCIL of a hand on a wall.

@laithbot6318 2 года назад

I was not prepared for how deep this was going to be, and it's a relaxing kind of feel that made my brain wrinkly.

@Firestar9 9 месяцев назад

This video is probably one of the videos I think was the most influencing on me, while the others are cool and all, this one affected me deep inside and emotionally, John Green's voice over just sold this so much more with how he speaks and the emotion he puts into it, and years later I periodically rewatch this just because it still affects me the exact same way. I really hope we get more videos similar to the style of this one, and maybe John Greens return occasionally for voice overs.

@colintroy7739 2 месяца назад

Go listen to the anthropocene reviewed podcast or audiobook! There is a lot more of this style and almost all of it makes me cry (in a good way). Googling strangers and sunsets are good episodes with similar feels

@sranice 3 года назад

I rewatch this every now and then. It always makes me emotional. It humanises history, the billions of people who have lived and died between the people who made those paintings and it brings a new meaning to art. Maybe art is just a human instinct.

@sarveshdhiman9918 3 года назад

Well you should totally listen to the podcast

@RedStone_Cake 2 года назад

@@sarveshdhiman9918 why r u saying this on every comment?

@jonathanbr7_ 2 года назад

@@RedStone_Cake it's a good podcast

@ovencake523 2 года назад

if you want more humanizing history John Green's book is full of it

@AnimalKING 3 года назад

Every Kurzgesagt video: -Facts -Scares you -Then calms you down -Add birds

@hansellancephilippe4075 3 года назад

Literally tho.

@tiagoduarte6005 3 года назад

True

@jamesvb420 3 года назад

👏👏........ dude come on this is on EVERY video 👏👏

@rainbowthedragoncat6768 3 года назад

Either that or: -Nukes -More nukes -Even more nukes -Add marinias trench -Add alien beans

@Smrtelnikk 3 года назад

true but the ways it present things biology history facts "future" is just ... well interesting... i watched with cousin (11y) few videos including this while i tried my best to translate and he actually found it interesting i wish that there would be a lot more videos like Kurzgesagt and with more professional translations even for young/er people ... i may have set my future as simple manufacturing man and find this videos interesting but younger generations will be affected a lot more and maybe ... who knows one day i will see earth from above for cheap cash :D

@jhaybee2238 2 года назад

Whoa... This video is deep. I actually got the feels watching it.

@samspade4703 27 дней назад

"We hope you enjoyed this video, even if it was different." This is my favorite Kurzgesagt video. It is one of the videos I recommend to others most, even three years after it is made. I come back and watch it again, every time I need a bit of perspective. Or a calming moment. Something uplifting in a world divided by its self-inflicted wounds. Every now and then, I need a little hope. And this video neatly and innocently provides it.

@GabrielRamos-pj2ug 4 года назад

Never would have guessed talking about palms could be so emotional

@Silencedlemon 4 года назад

Go listen to his episode on googling people. No spoilers but bring tissues.

@coffeeisthepathtovictory1290 4 года назад

I know. I almost want to slap myself, this should not be making water leave my eyes.

@benjaminwells5388 4 года назад

Right! I was moved

@arielafrizal 4 года назад

@@Silencedlemon where do you listen to that?

@elderlyoogway 4 года назад

@@arielafrizal wherever you listen to your podcasts! That are many apps for that.

@sugardreamshk9282 4 года назад

This feels like when your teacher lets the class watch a movie not related to the unit. I love it.

@PritchDringle 4 года назад

We're allowed to drink Coca-Cola in history class.

@connorh2215 4 года назад

Mari Mcm so these are things that people thousands of years ago created and sometimes they are the only record of what these ancient people accomplished, we close them off to protect there legacy, it’s a part of history, and in the case of this cave, people actually did agree to this, also beaches are being closed because it’s a health risk to go to them, do you want to catch a potentially lethal virus there, the government doesn’t seem to want that for you

@russellmmo_8454 4 года назад

@Mari Mcm i I think i lost braincells reading this... What..????

@gericko4931 4 года назад

@Mari Mcm I agree with you, the earth is not even real, its an ilusion, there is no moon, no stars, everything is a lie, the real question is ¿Would you like the blue pill or the red pill? (?

@DonDaddaDanoDaDaneCalledDanno 4 года назад

@Mari Mcm You had me but lost me as soon as you turned religious in your statement.

@MagisterialVoyager Год назад

2:43 Stunning, sharp observation.

@leedayunderwood 5 месяцев назад

“I was here. You are not new.” Art isn’t optional. What a beautiful thing.

@littlephlox8255 4 года назад

Mechanic names his dog “Robot” Aight

@waynesanford2869 4 года назад

I've had to research Lascaux in school before, dog was actually named Robot. Though probably pronounced more French-y than in the video

@KJ4EZJ 4 года назад

@@waynesanford2869 That makes sense, since the term "robot" came from Isaac Asimov's books published after WW-II, which was after these kids found this cave.

@fulviopontarollo2952 4 года назад

Zach Butler wasn’t it from some Czech book or theatre opera from a few decades before that?

@LadmeB 4 года назад

@@fulviopontarollo2952 It was, but I'm not sure how popular the word was before Asimov borrowed it.

@fulviopontarollo2952 4 года назад

LadmeB I just checked it out, it came from a 1921 play, and apparently the play was popular enough that it was translated in 30 languages and was played in theaters worldwide, and the author still had interviews with the Czech press in the 30s

@Fizzgig_15 4 года назад

"Art isn't optional for humans" That struck something in me. I'm not sure what, but....something

@ThirdDimensionalBeing 4 года назад

In my own take of it, it seems like he was saying that expression is apart of all of us, and that is art, because are is expression. I guess.

@MrZiva82 4 года назад

Same here

@NoName-yd9fi 4 года назад

Same, sometimes words cannot describe certain things

@N3ONLUV 4 года назад

Exactly, wow...

@Jan96106 4 года назад

It is a spiritual need. We all need to create. It is part of what makes us human.

@sugamochi3352 3 года назад

this made me realize that even that they lived so many years ago, they are just like us and now it makes me feel closer (??) in a way

@kentokae 5 месяцев назад

How did I miss this episode 3 years ago it brought tears to my eyes. I love this channel and Crash Course as well. All hail the might Duck Overlords!

@workfleaux5600 4 года назад

“All history is current” I just can’t get over that statement.

@jimmybean420 4 года назад

i dont get it

@pratiklomte 4 года назад

@@jimmybean420 same me too

@specificocean2638 4 года назад

I think it means that current time is simultaneously becoming history and new current time is created at the same time and dominates and shapes reality as we know it

@BrendanSmallButera 4 года назад

@@jimmybean420 The length of our planet's existence is but a single tick of the universal clock. Every event that has ever happened and every being that has every lived has done so in such an incredibly relatively short amount of time, it is all current.

@BrendanSmallButera 4 года назад

@@pratiklomte I don't get everything displayed on this channel, but This, I understood. ^_^

@benjaminharris9425 4 года назад

This channel is just like a teacher who genuinely enjoys his job and so do his students

@Yes-dc2gm 4 года назад

"What about the droid attack on wookies?"

@nersii4689 4 года назад

Yes :)

@idcgaming518 4 года назад

@@Yes-dc2gm what about the clone attack on the jedi?

@hhfbko 4 года назад

Copied

@beytullahberk3632 4 года назад

wait a teacher like that exists?

@klssn34 3 года назад

Wow. That was actually very interesting and kind of mind opening to listen to. The things he wrote are a perfect way to describe the feeling of going on in time and looking back.

@javiersoler3158 2 года назад

dude first time I've ever commented on a youtube post... and honestly i literally cried watching this, so beautiful. hell of a message gave me chills to conceptualize such thought.

@jeremyd2676 4 года назад

Kurzgesagt: *apologizes for not having a normal video Also Kurzgesagt: Puts hours into designing music and animations You guys are incredible 👏 💙🥇

@malumy 4 года назад

It's great but the like to dislike ratio is actually relatively low. (only 98.2% likes instead of >99%)

@suvetum6763 4 года назад

@@malumy ok? you know some people disagree

@pavelowen8053 4 года назад

I was expecting a simple animation but they as usual under promised and over delivered

@kacperjankowski5508 4 года назад

I usually forget to but this made me like the video just in spite of the people disliking xd

@elixia6441 4 года назад

If you want to only hear the Soundtrack search Epic Mountain Music on RU-vid, they are the one who made it

@Yayakamisama 4 года назад

Everyone wants something to say they existed.

@arunkhosh904 4 года назад

It's because you're afraid of oblivion. Oblivion is the ultimate truth. Nothing will survive. So why bother preserving memories after our death ? Our purpose is to live in the moment

@xXBallsackGamingXx 4 года назад

Arun Khosh is this a poem? It is beautiful

@Quantum-Bullet 4 года назад

@@arunkhosh904 Something about "You can kill people, but they will only really be extinct if you destroy their culture, art..."

@Szobiz 4 года назад

i dont

@DaDaHorst 4 года назад

thats not a problem, we have produced more than enough plastic for that

@juliagulia9224 2 года назад

This was unbelievably beautiful. Goosebumps the whole time. Incredibly moving. Thank you!

@darklayton 7 месяцев назад

I hadn’t watched this video is a few years, it made me cry just like the first time ❤

@masnun_abrar 4 года назад

7:30 "This is a memory you cannot return to." My dad died last week, and this video made me think of his legacy in a new way- it made me cry.

@cheshirecat7819 3 года назад

I'm very sorry for your loss. I'm sure he's an amazing man. May he rest in peace in Heaven.

@johnny2143 3 года назад

**Instantly pushes the golden buzzer**

@vsse14 3 года назад

R.I.P. Your dad miss you and hope you live well.

@TheE_G_G 3 года назад

My dog passed away on February. I miss her with all my heart.

@TheE_G_G 3 года назад

I feel your pain. No amount of torture can amount to something as bad as loosing someone you love.

@ChenAnPin 4 года назад

4:49 "Yet somehow they still made time to create art, almost as if art isn't optional for humans." That's quite a thing to consider, that despite all their daily struggles of finding, hunting, and gathering enough food to survive winters, wild animals and frostbite and disease and injury, the dangers of childbirth and childhood, they still took the time to make art. This somehow moved me so much that my eyes had welled up. Thank you, and thanks for a new podcast I can listen to!

@briangallentine3810 4 года назад

Thank you Thomas. Me too. And then I had to search out your comment in hopes I was not alone.

@JP-sm4cs 4 года назад

Art is the highest form of hope - Gerard Richter

@FormerPessitheRobberfan 4 года назад

The quote and the last two sentences were all you needed to write.

@olgaustuzhanina6395 4 года назад

Hunter gatherers had more free time than working people have today. They had more time and energy for art than an average person has now.

@krankarvolund7771 4 года назад

Well, yeah... but hunter-gatherer societies may not be as dangerous as you think of it ^^ First, they were probably in a better health than the first agriculturals, maybe not as good as us with modern medicine, but still. According to studies, the life expectancy was higher during Paleolithic than during the Iron and Bronze age, and the average human was as tall as us today (size is an indication of nutrition). And we also think that they passed as much time hunting and gathering than agriculturals passed time to culture plants ^^ In addition, not every human had to hunt or gather, most of them did, but they probably already had specialists, for example the silex sculpter was probably a professionnal, because the late techniques of stone-making were very advanced. The artists could also be professionnals, or some kind of priests or shamans.

@ChristianKetterer6776 2 года назад

It really moved me. Thank you so much.

@TH3SHUR1F 3 года назад

"What we do in life echoes in eternity." - Maximus

@saikoujikan 4 года назад

Imagine if the handprints were just a convenient way for the artist to test they had the consistency of the pigment correct enough to paint with, and we’re all marvelling over test sprays.

@maggiewang2888 4 года назад

In that case, it is extremely interesting why such a test is done over a hand (instead of a rock, a leaf, or just spray straight on the wall) in so many different isolated regions.

@mustang8206 4 года назад

Exactly

@tworice 4 года назад

@@maggiewang2888 its convenient! i think its so normal to just stick your hand out and use it. instead of finding a leaf and holding it over the wall, it's so much easier (and arguably more fun) to just use your hand.

@Ahmed-jr1rc 4 года назад

@@tworice yeah, probably their hands got covered with painting either way all time

@e7venjedi 4 года назад

Is this the most compelling argument for why author intent doesn't necessarily affect the meaning of art? Perhaps...

@j.wicker6170 4 года назад

Imagine what archeologists in the future are going to think, finding 2 caves with the exact same artwork in both.

@GPatselis 4 года назад

Well one of them is basically called version 2 so I think they're gonna be able to piece the puzzle

@raetekusu1 4 года назад

Assuming records don't survive that long, anyway. We've generally gotten even more meticulous about recording ourselves than even the Romans did, so I'd be surprised if knowledge of how we were in the now didn't survive till then.

@stewfish1890 4 года назад

”Well, seems like they never stopped being cavemen”

@dreamlifter7569 4 года назад

They will build the 3rd copy

@thegreatmoustachio 4 года назад

J. Wicker I'm sure humans of the future would be able to use dating technology to find that one cave is 17000 years older than the other, which is probably a big enough puzzle piece to piece together the mystery.

@arctrix765 Год назад

Tens of thousand of years before even our modern history began, a person, maybe a child like you and me just hold their hand against a wall, sprayed a bit of colour over it and was perhaps astonished by the thing he just did, just like we were as we first did it. He went on to doing his normal daily routine and living his normal life. That person had feelings just like us. He felt pain, fear, helplessness but also joy, happyness and love. He lauged, he cried, he hoped, he died, he failed, he tried he fullfilled many of his dreams but many weren't. They didn't even have our most primitive form of our modern technology and therefore had a much simpler but also a way more dangerous life. But still, the remnder of this ancient soal lasted long enough to whitness the construction of the pyramids, the rise and fall of countless empires and basically all of our history. This fact combined with this video made me cry.

@bernardzsikla5640 3 года назад

I was absolutely over whelmed by this video, and that is a great compliment. Thank you 💓

@cheasify 4 года назад

Imagine in the far future when anthropologists find two separate caves with identical paintings from 17000 years apart. That will be a mystery.

@NotGoodAtCombat 4 года назад

Well this is the digital age now so there must be a file that people in the future can access depicting the difference.

@huroikai 4 года назад

wait... so technically we may have 3 "caves" now? one real, one fake and one digital? future paleontologists will be really confused i guess

@brandonpersaud5634 4 года назад

Well they will quickly discover that the second cave is fake and made with artificial materials. And the first one is made of solid stone. So it will be pretty easy to tell

@jajaperson 4 года назад

Brandon Persaud shhhh don’t ruin it

@Marquis-Sade 4 года назад

They will see that one is 15 years older than the other one.

@erichan4174 4 года назад

you know, my father just passed away this morning and I get this in my recommended. I got so many things I want to go in the past to ask him

@jesreelconde6908 4 года назад

Condolences buddy

@jobertjohngalang75 4 года назад

My condolences bro

@glutoxim 4 года назад

Very sorry to hear

@yodamaster757 4 года назад

- Your family has my prayers and heart 🙏🏽❤️

@archiepalmer-phelps6612 4 года назад

I'm sad to hear that bro

@alexs.9865 3 года назад

There is something incredibly deep and touching about this video that I was not expecting, and I was deeply saddened in a way. This was absolutely incredible, and I have to say that I've never subscribed to a channel this fast.

@BendySnowball 3 года назад

Honestly, very moving. It really spoke to me through my childhood, something I know I cannot return too. Something forever closed to access, like the original cave.

@rozafisheikh7968 4 года назад

Why is it so satisfying to hear the duck going “Quack!” and see it floating in space at the end of every Kurtzgesagt video? 😁

@Fleetstreetbestone 4 года назад

It gives a sense of nostalgia even though we’re in the moment now currently, but I bet looking back at these videos I’m watching now as a 14 year old will bring even more nostalgia 🙃

@ubikledek 4 года назад

wow. i never realize the duck quack at the end of every video

@shayden4296 4 года назад

Oh, glad I'm not the only one lol

@SnazzyBeatle 4 года назад

Tiyān Quāis Tsariťsyan Buragohain simp

@clinrden9378 4 года назад

the chirp is what gets me

@Xajinthepsychonaut 4 года назад

This took something outta me man, we’re living through time, making history, dying, hoping we at least won’t be forgotten but when our generation dies and our children’s children’s ens generation what will be left besides pictures and videos, who’ll take interest in them in the future like we did this cave, and what will our descendants do with them?

@sergior. 4 года назад

Don't worry, you won't care by then

@FireEmperor_A 4 года назад

I always wonder as we move forward and generations pass we are being less human. Even now at the dinner table in family meetups or parties, all are on their respective phones, no one talks. I wonder how humans will be in the next few hundred years. Will they have the same etiquettes as we do?

@thatman8562 4 года назад

In any and all probably, your actions will set off a chain of events that will cascade into the massive benefit and detriment of your descendants, but then again the same can be said for everything else in existence.

@origamipostit 4 года назад

@@FireEmperor_A Maybe from what you've seen. I personally distance myself from my phone. I use it as a tool and not an extension of my personality. That being said, you won't catch me sitting on my phone during social situations. I find it both rude and annoying. And I usually try to find friends that think the same way.

@TheFunwichHorror 4 года назад

On a more optimistic view (or not, depending on how you feel), we are probably one of the first generations whose lives are meticulously recorded through the internet and social media. Assuming the internet doesn't disappear, or someone had archived it before it does, our descendant could see in vivid detail what we were doing or thinking on any given date, on any point in our lives. I could only imagine the emotions I would feel if I was able to see or read what my parents did and felt when they first met each other, or when they first discovered that they were pregnant with me. Multiply that by a few more generations. Unfortunately, our descendants would also see (and try to understand) all our stupid fucking memes.

@SteveThibault Год назад

This is...BEAUTIFUL. John Green is great, and this is a great example. Great colab, thank you Kurzgesagt for this change of pace!

@ellikasan Год назад

I've watched this video so many times and it still makes me cry. The human experience is so beautiful and scary. Everything is fleeting, everything changes, but somehow, some things endure.

@executiveelf8793 4 года назад

"This is a handprint, not a hand." is a good quote.

@judge462 4 года назад

Its an over dramatic wank.

@nathanlevesque7812 4 года назад

@@judge462 do you even have a soul?

@Halamadridistas 4 года назад

f budd Could never take anyone who says ‘wank’ serious

@EOilam 4 года назад

Ceci n'est pas un pipe

@clarkkent2379 4 года назад

@@EOilam Exactly what I was thinking

@JeghedderThomas 4 года назад

It touches my heart in surprising ways, to understand that humans lived, loved, suffered, slept, ate and died so long ago, and that we can touch something of theirs. It connects us, yet fills me with sorrow of knowing I can't meet them, that their lives were difficult and short - I want to hug and hold them. But of course I can't. Thanks for an always interesting channel with always exciting, educational and artfully crafted shorts on science, art and the humanities.

@madridista6862 4 года назад

Maybe someone will read our comments on this video in 200, 300 or maybe even 1000 years eh? In a way, we're all connected.

@helldronez 4 года назад

everyday i feel grateful to God for my body to let me moves, smiles, see, chatting, laughing. cause i know there's alot of people can't do what i do right now ie: can't handle something cause have disabilities, i know how it feels can't even moves my body parts been there in sometime i can't moves my right body in one day next day i got seizure at sleep, yeah i got problem with epilepsy and some brain related. but i am feels healthy i am even got my dream job as game artist. i feel so grateful really i love my life even though it's hard i lose my mom at 12 yo.

@mv8908 4 года назад

Look around you. We are here and Wil be gone very soon. Friends, lovers, family, strangers and more than ever animals. 😊 Acknowledge their soul and you'll be paying a tribute to creation.

@Mipetz38 4 года назад

Considering their low IQ they were most likely biological robots unable to create complex thoughts

@Jonathanatus 4 года назад

@@Mipetz38 Why do you think they had a low IQ?

@hmswarspite1064 3 года назад

I now hear Nightwish´s "The Greatest show on Earth" singing We Were Here in my head now. A single tear on my cheek.

@brokenfood2039 3 года назад

Your voice, and the way it was animated made the video so much more emotional and beautiful. Keep up the good work

@user-zm8tm7kt6n 4 года назад

A dog named Robot. Well, at least he had a hand in preserving this cave.

@akshayshetty973 4 года назад

*paw

@cdion78 4 года назад

Strange that in 1940 robots as we know were not invented yet, the word still coming from 1920.

@demoncloud6147 4 года назад

What kind of person names their dog 'Robot', I wonder !

@epeli0035 4 года назад

Dion Christie Exactly!

@WeekndWarriorrr 4 года назад

@@akshayshetty973 lol

@thestudentofficial5483 4 года назад

Another 20.000 years into the future: "Why did our ancestors build a replica of their own ancestors' cave paintings?"

@davidpilny2803 4 года назад

"Yeah, why?... but you know what? Let's build a replica of their replica!"

@KungKras 4 года назад

"It must be some kind of fertility cult"

@codeisawesome369 4 года назад

Well hopefully this time they can just go watch this Kurzgesagt + John Green video about it. Whilst also commenting on the fascinatingly low-res 1080p resolution that was necessitated by primitive human networks, compared to what's state of the art 20k years into the future 🙂