The Teeming Universe | Alien Biology | Part II 

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It’s probably because of bacteria and/or viruses that native species are inmune

Not to mention the contamination that we could bring! What if our own microbes let loose unleash a pandemic or disrupt their environments?

After living in pollution for so long clean air would probably hurt.

@@magnarcreed3801 My area used to be very severely polluted due to coal mining and it was a known fact that if you go to cleaner parts of the country you might have minor issues with breathing for the first few days. I don't even want to imagine how it would feel in an area untouched by industrialization

@@magnarcreed3801 why?

Its not hard to make it really grimdark...

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@@oimeuchapa6995 it’s not grim or dark though. The art style is more vibrant and colorful with slightly deeper shadows. Personally I feel it has a more sunset like feel to it than it does a grim one.

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Maybe someday, definitely on the table!

@@christiancline6531 Yayy :D Love the book man! Great work!

damn i wish i was born a lot later

This aged very well

I have zero doubt there are civilizations throughout the cosmos. And I feel like us not being able to reach them is a good thing. Humans aren't sophisticated enough yet. If we encountered beings like the Yaetuan we would probably exploit their peaceful nature and dominate them. Perhaps like 1000 years from now people will be ready to interact with other intelligent species! But that time isn't now I can tell you that much!

It probably would be on their radar as telescopes could zero in on the transit anomalies from the Crael's Dyson Swarm, but I dont think the Crael would pose any serious threat. They are over 2,000 light years apart and even with advanced technology superluminal travel is uncommon.

Oh my gosh thank you so much for responding it’s so cool to hear a reply from the creator of this beautiful universe! And that makes sense although I wonder what Yaetuns think about the Crael? Would they try and contain and study the crael or try and hide from it.

@@the23rdradiotower41 I don't think the Crael are overtly malicious to outsiders tbh. I think they're probably the remnant of some advanced biological civilization that went extinct. Like, if humanity created machines that could build other machines (that were themselves capable of doing so) before we bit the bullet, who's to say that they wouldn't evolve?

Horizon Zero Dawn is one of an example for this troupe

It was Me Jordy, I erased all robotic life trope cases

Technogenisis is a fascinating theory

not sure about that chief....

Assuming it’s the “best” (most friendly humans) meeting similar minded aliens. If either of these things change it will be war. I hope for us to advance past our primitive ideas of what life is valuable and self aware.

Geo (astro?) politics would beg to differ.

@@magnarcreed3801 You'd have to be able to break the laws of physics first.

It's likely that we'd be feared. Collectively we can be quite mean. Look at our own past. How would the guys mentioned in the book feel if they learned about Stalin or Hitler or how humans used the knowledge of rocketry and splitting the atom to create a weapon powerful enough to level cities with the press of a button. Even today people treat other people poorly because their skin color or religion and culture aren't the same as theirs. Now imagine how those same people might treat someone with four eyes and blue skin.

@@twistedyogert bold of you to assume the aliens are less tribal than we are

But like, it's cool yknow?

The weird part though, is that the eyes don't come in pairs. For stereoscopic vision: that is the ability to perceive depth or distance, you need to have a pair of eyes. On Earth, most animals rely on vision for depth perception: even animals that tend not to use vision as much as us primates do. However, because Aiyte's air is so hazy even at the best of times: this strategy would not make sense on that planet. Visual depth perception is far too easily fooled by atmospheric particles: that's how mirages work. Therefore, these animals would likely evolve to use hearing for depth perception instead. The odd number of eyes and imbalanced investment in a single large eye, therefore makes sense. The animal only needs to perceive size and color visually, information about shape and distance is provided by their sense of hearing.

@@sophiejones3554 well yess.. but it still might explain why it has 3 eyes.. an ancient specie might have been able to use more eyes for visuals but once they became useless they just evolved way crazier tho thanks for the help on explaing better than i could ever have did, and being more accurate, tho it is true i didn't understand the planets atmosphere that well since i wasn't paying attention, very good explanation tho sir

@@sophiejones3554 yea. animals with many eyes like spiders tend to still have binocular dominant eyes. jumping spiders for example. it would be really weird to have a singular dominant eye.

I'd want a golden lion tamarin

Because monkeys are too intelligent to work well as pets. Pet animals need to ride a fine line of intelligence that's below ours, but not too far below so that domestication would be impossible. Dogs ride exactly on that line, and unlike monkeys, were also extremely useful to our primitive ancestors since they could help track and take down prey.

Tldr; monkey do what monkey see

@@gustavosauro1882 saw them at the zoo yesterday. too jumpy and active wouldn't do well for a house pet.

@@malnutritionboy The person is going of the basis of an „alternate reality“ of sorts where we domesticated monkeys

hmmm... it would certainly be feasible to have life without photosynthesis. Certainly a food chain could start with chemo-synthetic microbes instead of photosynthetic ones. However, it's hard to see any member of such a food chain having enough energy to be bio-luminescent: unless perhaps this luminescence arose as a byproduct of the metabolic process. chemo-synthesis is a less efficient means of producing energy than photosynthesis: so such organisms almost never have extra energy, and producing light is energy intensive. There is perhaps a scenario where your proposition does make sense though: on a tidally locked planet. There, animals might move from the light side into the dark side of the planet (assuming this dark side was still warm enough for them to live). This would mean that predatory sessile organisms might live on the dark side of the planet, and they might obtain enough nutrients to produce light for a photosynthetic symbiote: the photosynthetic symbiote meanwhile would attract the animals. In this scenario, the dark side of the planet depends on energy that is "borrowed" from the light side of the planet: carried there in the bodies of animals. This does however assume some way of moderating the extreme heat and cold normally associated with such planets. Normally one could give the planet a thick atmosphere to solve that problem: but this doesn't work on a planet close enough to it's star to be tidally locked. The star's radiation would strip away it's atmosphere faster than it could be produced. There is a possible work-around though: the planet has no land, it's life-forms live in it's liquid mantle under a skin of something solid but transparent. So I'm thinking you're looking at a planet with a silicate crust that got glassed when it's Sun massively expanded. Somehow though, this planet must either have had a mantle composed of elements lighter than it's crust (conceivable but dubious) or else it's life-forms are somehow capable of breathing something heavier than methane (more likely, if also dubious). Certainly some people who know more chemistry than I do have suggested that life in mercury-based oceans is conceivable: just not carbon-based life, obviously.

@@sophiejones3554 What about oceans with a very intense volcanic or thermal activity, as high as you can imagine, could they provide enough resources for life forms to become bioluminescent? Of course, that would be limited to the sea. But I thought that any planet with enough diversity to have predators feeding on static lifeforms that create their own food (an equivalent of any plant, but without light) could receive enough energy to develop bioluminescence. Only, its purpose would not be using it as a bait, like our animals usually do, it rather might have tended towards communications with simmilar others, using fotoreceptors instead of eyes Does it make sense? Or is it too creative hah

That kind of world already covered the Teeming Planet I of Curious Archive

And a whole new world of wonders awaits you if you know where to look. There are multiple RU-vid channels specialised in speculative biology, some really incredible (I must recommend Biblaridion) Enjoy !

@@melkerahtagadatsoin-tsoin6016 thank you!

@@melkerahtagadatsoin-tsoin6016 at this point the world he created would be too random to predict any further

dude a whole world awaits you specevo is literally what I always thought aliens or realistic earth evolutionin the future would be like grey aliens are soooo boring

@@Mark-Wilson hell yea man speculative evolution is so fun - the beginnings of xenobiology

I thought the same thing

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I’ve got a few ideas myself. ;)

Tentacles with top hats

Like a Human exhibit full of human history and culture.

it's just a light sensor, nothing impressive or surprising

Some reptiles and fish as well!

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Because they are alien

@@sytrosianoverlord9026 it's a reference to the "feel free to screenshot" meme

one thing i dont understand about the writer is how come he never said once that some of these planets could have millions of lifeforms. kinda like how earth has millions or billions. he just makes it seem like every planet in his book that thats all the life there is. it would make us imagine more if he said there are other life forms but we gotta move on to the next planet. they are very basic ecosystems....

@@topguntk870 i think the book covers the "secondary" species of the planets and this channel only covers the "primary" or more reconogizable species. But even if that isnt the case at least the animals are cool

@@Alaric696 some are cool.

How tf do you exist?

The helerene?

He already published 2 video on Subnautica, and said there were no other on this game. Maybe Subnautica Below Zero but he said nothing bout this (good by the way) sequel.

Curious archive make video focus on not well know project who exist and who pass under the radar, so not before a very long time I think. But yes, Monster Hunter is a great example of speculative biology, and the subject of nature and the wildlife is even one and the main element that the producers want to put forward since the first game ! But for me, I think they lostin a way this inspiration origin and are fell a little (not badly but it's clealy visible) to the capitualisation of the franchise now she very popular and get a lot of money. Because since the MH Rise recent game and the fact we have again in the mainland of the four first game and spin-off since we were in the New World island, they put many contradictory element who throws out the window all that is realistic concerning the laws of nature and especially the evolutionary principle, the biology credibility of the creatures, this kind of stuff, things they were very respectful and serious when you see the elaboration of each creatures you can find on the net to make the overall realistic even it's giant monster and dragons for the most with fucking cool powerfull abilities. Because when in MH Rise they put in some of the creature introducing in MH World like the Anjanath, Tobi Kadachi and two or three other in the mainland thus theses creatures should be oly be in the New World and their presence on the Old World are absolutely not explain, who is one of the biggest bads problems by far of the game (in plus to recycle old map from previous game, that is bad in many ways too for many reasons), you really feel that they try to capitualize a lot on the franchise succes thus they should have the same final result if they take any of the previous introducing monsters from the precedent game and same for the map (because simply they are for these laters more beautiful with the new graphics are not a pertinent argument to recycle them for the use of the game). Because here, for example, it's like if today we are from Europe and we discovers the Australia, we got in Australia, pass some time on it, meet with the local fauna like Kangaroo or Koala and after that we return in Europe, and discovers Kangaroo and Koala in our birth land without explanations and we are absolutely not shocked at all ! So, yes, there we can say that they still screwed up a bit, or on purpose, but the damage is considerable because it breaks a lot of things previously installed! CQFD.

@@dudotolivier6363 Still, I think it’s worth it

@@viniciuspaiva3578 Yeah, it's should give a good video on it, but it's always a little sad to see how a franchise with the time and with too many success can sacrifice some of his mains components who make his strenght to get more profit in order to maximise a lot on the capitualisation she can made.

It's called a helerene

*viruses have entered the chat*

We can't even decide if viruses are alive or not man, good luck with aliens.

I think it goes without saying that most if not all human definitions can be considered subjective at best when observing alien worlds. That ironically being said, I think the real question here isn't *can* we decide what is alive, but how different will our definition of life become.

This is assuming that aliens have similar lifespans. A mayfly lives for a day, while trees can live for thousands of years. With that kind of lifespan diversity just here on Earth, who's to say there aren't organisms living on the surface of stars made out of plasma that live and die in only a few seconds? Who's to say there aren't sessile life forms out there that move with the speed of rock over millions of years? It would be very difficult for us to notice these processes, let alone recognize them as life.