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THIS IS AN AMAZING VIDEO!
Hey
Thank you so much Kurtzgesagt
1 hour of animating must’ve taken years, the fact that we got this for free is insane
Absolutely true I LOVE Kurzgesagt
Fax
Dude shhhhh don’t let them realize
Honestly, I am so addicted to their videos, and his voice 😊
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"Don't blink, or you might miss all of human history." That line feels so powerful, it really puts things into perspective.
frl
Why? Because we accomplished so much in so little? haha, joking
I felt that 🫠
I read your comment before watching, so i was looking forward to that moment the entire hour, and when it finally came, youtube decided to play an ad. 🤦
@@Koekenpan2081 haha 😄 😆
To think, this is one hour of 4K video. Huge props to the hard drive
And don't forget how long it must've taken to upload at 4k!
Fr, and props to the composers and animators for making music for and animating an hour long viddo
The hard drive is fine, dw.
meanwhile the router@@cokxi
Hi!!! I'm a teacher. I showed this video to my students along with a worksheet I made where they had to draw what they saw on the screen. They enjoyed it. The best part was when life became multicellar and time felt as if it moved faster. The students were like "slow it down!!!!" Thank you guys at Kurzgesagt for all you do :)
you cannot prove scientificlly how life began man... please be honest with the students
@@tiagoferro1717💀
@@tiagoferro1717 I always tell my students this is what scientists believe and they are free to disagree or research on their own to come to their own conclusions. Also, I did not mention anything about man, just on how life became multicellular rather than just single living cells. Its part of our curriculum, they can go to a private school for one sided beliefs :)
@@AraaraboopYou seem like an awesome teacher :D
@@AraaraboopW teacher
Props to the cameraman for standing around for 4.5 billion years for an hour of entertainment
Facts
should be awarded camera man of the "year"
LOL
@@mopedoutyeah they need like 4.5 billion of those
Isn't it interesting how Kurzgesagt always has one of those camera-headed androids for these videos? Impressive
Man the fact that ALL of human history is not even 1 second of this video is utterly astonishing and puts life into perspective so well.
Hank Green had the perspective that although our human history is short, we are part of the history of life, which is almost as old as the earth itself
If we consider human history to be 10,000 years, then it lasts for 0.6% of each second in this video...
@@FreeOfTheLoop I'm certain you are a paragon of animation and knowledge. I look forward to your multiple Nobel prizes, and the speeches you'll make.
@@FreeOfTheLoop You'll notice that there's the use of qualifiers when mentioned what is known... Because in science even mountains of evidence leaves room for adjustment and correction. Your "bend the knee" comment should've been followed by counter evidence or some reasoning.. instead you show up to a potluck with an empty bag.
@@marouanelhaddad8632 It brings to light for some the insignificant time span humanity has existed. To change it would remove the "every second is a million years" premise.
Two years ago I found about this amazing channel and I decided to watch every single videos from 10 years ago, today I finished watching every single videos of Kurzgesagt.
Well done!! :)
Congratulations 🎉🥳
You are just like me although i found it 5 months ago 😅😅
Props to the dedication !
It always fascinates me when these massive numbers are put into a comprehensible scale. Nearly an hour long and all of human history fits into about 2 seconds right at the end. We really are so cosmically and chronologically small, and I don't really know how I feel about that... Thanks so much to everyone at Kurzgesagt for this, must've taken ages.
You could feel like a 4.5b year old newborn baby... The world is nothing but paradox...
OH MY FAUCII WE ARE SO HECKING INSIGNIFICANT
ReaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadySETGO
Homo Sapiens Sapiens is only ~300,000 years old. We barely have a few milliseconds to our species.
@@alejandroz1198To the universe, sure. Not to ourselves.
I love this so much, took me 10 million years just to write this comment!
build all of earths history in minecraft now 💯💯
IT'S INDENTIFY YOUR PASSWORD OHH FAMILY GUYS MEMES. Hello? Mustache 😎
Makes sense tbh
@@oculosis I've thought about this, believe it or not 😄
Yoooo! Jeracraft, I love your videos
This is sooooooooooooo good!
True
here before this blows up obvious but i have to say it, you two are among the best of the best youtubers out there.
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Ohai mark
I tried to play this video in the background while at work but there's no way I could watch it without appreciating the insane artistry and effort that went into this.
The instrumentals in this is so good. This channel is like PBS for stoners I just wanted to say thank you for this. It is both a visual masterpiece and gives a cool beat to “life” to. It’s incredible and I play it during studying for veterinary school. And sometimes I just play it because it’s pretty to look at
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What amazes me the most is that every single atom of our own body has experienced all this and has been now combined into a mass that is able to watch and appreciate this form of art.
Underrated comment,
Every single atom of our body was part of the big bang
@@cloudboy08even us are made from a big "bang"
some atoms of our body must also be a part of dead species. we are product of this all
@@cloudboy08That is simply not true. The individual constituents of the constituents of your atoms of your body -- subatomic particles were part of the Big Bang. But there were no atoms around during the BB, according to the accepted Big Bang models. Atoms only started to appear a few hundred thousand years after the BB. And no, at best only some of your atoms are from that era either, specifically hydrogen and helium. Truth to be told, a lot of atoms in your body were formed millions (or even billions) of years after the BB, being the products of stars doing fusion and Neutron stars doing the things Neutron stars do. Geez, your comment almost sounds like as if you aren't really interested in science...
I can't believe Kurzgesagt just dropped this masterpiece, no announcement, no trailer or anything, just dropped this massive project that took almost 5 years for free and for anyone to view, well done Kuzgesagt, please keep doing this, please never stop.
Wait how do you know?
@@lolbrunoptwatch till the end
@@lolbrunoptthe endig
@@lolbrunopt1:00:00
@@lolbrunopt Did you watch the video? They say it there...
Damn i just have to write something. THE DEDICATION, ANIMATION, MUSIC, RESEARCH, VA! EVERYTHING IS PERFECT! Happy 10 years anniversary Kurzgesagt!!!! I'm a bit late but THANKYOU FOR THE FUN EDUCATION THAT U GUYS HAVE PROVIDED!! Wish you guys all the best for future project! Thankyou so much!!!
Earth had such a killer soundtrack during its formative years. I bet every microorganism was rocking out hard to this music.
As a geologist, I really like how this video just intuitively gives a grasp on geological timescales
Yeah! ❤
True!
yeah ! Rock is timeless ;)
Sadly these days academics are wrong more than they’re right because all of them have let their Left wing politics influence their scholastic work. That’s why they still refuse to acknowledge global warming is a myth despite all available evidence proving so beyond any doubt. It’s because they have a Left wing agenda.
we Geologists rocks
This isn't pure education anymore, this is art. Fantastic job guys. This is work for a legacy.
Someone says this every time. Stop it.
Well, it was the first time for me and it is my honest opinion concerning this video. So, no, I will not stop.@@bigmeatswangin5837
@@bigmeatswangin5837 No
@@bigmeatswangin5837this is not just everytime. It's a 1 hour long masterpiece
Yeah, very little education is left when you have to look at a looped gif essentially. Bill Gates's money well spent.
Earth's creation biblical version: "Meh. Underwhelming. It's too simple." Earth's creation scientific version: "At loss for words and in tears of awe."
The fact that nothing is sped up or slowed down makes this so powerful. It shows, that any sort of notion that the Earth was made for us, is wrong. Planet Earth's been "empty" and dead for hundreds of millions of years, and could have very well remained so. It would have still been a magnificent thing all on it's own. Life really is just a lucky copassenger. And humans... to Earth we are nothing but another visitor. A short-term tenant.
Short-term? We'll see. There has never been any creature like the human being, we could literally travel through planets in the future and thrive in the whole solar system. We're the greatest animal ever existed on Earth (we know of) and I'm sure we'll survive, hundreds if not millions of years.
@@orfeoassiti6669Unless the dark forest theory holds true on galactic scale & projects like SETI were humanity’s call for doom from other civs not willing to take the risk 😅
Your first clause, i agree with. The fact that nothing is sped up or slowed down is powerful, as it puts into perspective of the insignificance of humanity on a cosmic scale. But your second clause, where you state: "It shows that any notion that the earth was made for us is wrong" is simply a faulty premise. There are much better arguments for denying that the earth wasnt made for humans, but this one is bad for several reasons. To demonstrate this, I will argue the same from the perspective of a person who believes that the earth was created for humans, who would sinply say "The fact that the earth has been around for so long proves the immense amount of improbable instances of pure chance occuring, which eventually culminated in the perfect period of time for Humanity to flourish, supporting the notion that the earth is created for humans. Look at all the things that came before humanity, and to think it was all necessary to create a perfect instance for humanity to exist! It shows that any notion the earth was NOT made for us is wrong!". This is also a bad argument, as it relies on similar logic to the argument you gave to say that the longevity of the earth supports the notion that the earth wasnt created for humans. This type of evidence can be seen from both perspectives, and neither is more valid than the other. Which means that this evidence is bad for both sides of that argument. 👍 I hope you enjoyed my mock lesson on philosophical arguments. Thank you for reading this 😊.
Not taking a side, but it would be an interesting exercise to determine what 'would' be needed to create a planet for humans - or maybe more precisely, how would we know this is what happened? The fact that it took 4+ billion years for it to happen doesn't seem convincing one way or the other. Maybe that's just how long it takes. Would it be meaningful if it happened faster? Or what if we were at a point where human history spanned 100 million years or 4 billion years, instead of where we're at now? If we were a longer-term tenant, would it then change the perspective looking back on Earth's creation? Why would those things matter?
@@orfeoassiti6669 Yeah.... we can last for a good amount of time until eventually we'll meet our last checkpoint, unless we obliterated ourselves before we even reached the next millennium lol.
They should put this up in a science center exhibit to play on repeat all day for everyone to watch.
That's actually a great idea.
I like the idea, but logistically speaking it might cause a bottleneck because it's so long. One huge, extremely long picture from start to finish might work better, and everyone could view it at their own pace. If it ends up too long to fit in one room it could be threaded throughout all the exhibits, I'd love to see that in any natural history museum.
@@alexrogan6563 I don't think they mean as a main exhibit, just something that plays in the background for people to stop and look at while they browse the main attractions
@@alexrogan6563this video can be shorten to 15-30minute
1-I'd pay him real good to have that in my museum if I had one - for all the work he must've put in this - and 2-I stan the whole exhibit hallway idea, but 45 minutes later I haven't seen the dinosaurs extinction yet, so that would be a hecking long hallway
With all the (deserved) praise the animation team gets for this, I feel the need to specifically give a shout out to the composers for this one. The music is a seamless journey as well. Kudos!
Definitely! I'd listen to this even without the commentary
agreed!
@@SofairCZ You're in luck. They have the soundtrack for this video in the description :)
@@kyokoyumi Thanks for pointing that out! I was just about to say "the soundtrack is absolutely amazing! Where can I check it out?" Cheers
100%! It really felt like crossing biomes seamlessly in a video game.
The fact that this video is 1 hour long and still such good quality definetly shows the dedication of Kurzgesagt.
at exactly 1h they talk about how it took 5 years to make, and they just dropped it without any big anouncement. just wow
I'm a graphic designer and I play this video in the background every day at work. I just love it ! Unbelievable work here. I would love Kurzgesagt to release a artbook. I would buy it instantly ! The music is also incredible ! Thank you Epic Mountain. I would also love to see a video about the making of one of your musics !
Watched this in one go with my six year old son. He intently watched the whole thing with lots of questions, and we talked about everything that happened. Such a cool video, will definitely give this several rewatches.
That's amazing. He's very lucky!
You seem like a great person. I'm glad you're showing your son these videos and not those click bait videos.
Sounds like a future scientist in the making 💗💓💞
Sounds like a smart kid!
I have "Long Span Attention" but I don't think it's a disorder.
To manage an illustration of *4.5 billion years* in one video and have the animations flow so smoothly is something to truly be proud of
Over 91000 frames, AT THE LOWEST (24 fps) and I am pretty sure that this is more than 24 fps, probably closer to 30 or maybe even 50 or 60
Cuz it’s ai
@@dfjr1990 no, it uses tweening and looping to save time. not ai.
@@dfjr1990ai will never look this good
@@dfjr1990just because its good doesnt immediately mean its AI generated, this is Kurzgesagt’s animation style
It is very dreadful that humanity just happened at the last second but has enough power to create the 6th mass extinction
Actually quite incredible. While caution is important, obviously, that doesn’t mean you can’t have some pride in that power. It’s just a matter of wielding it right.
I had to watch this video twice... 1rst time: Beatboxing to the amazing music 2nd time: Actually paying attention.
I love how this is not only a nice screensaver/background video, an educational video, and a music album all in ONE video. This is honestly one of the best videos I have ever seen on this platform
i'd listen to the music on its own. kurzgesagt needs its own spotify.
it's art.... (to sum up ur words)😅 but for me personally i feel, it's like a vinyl record album.. like how it feels better to not skip tracks and just let it unfold 😅... also after watching this video, i could sort of realise how the earth kind of squeezed itself so that we can pop out 🫠🙃
@@eamonndaltonEpic Mountain makes the music and they have all their kurzgesagt music on streaming platforms
Agree. I'm saving it and sharing it around family.
I’m Carl Sagan if you look at bones of a JESUSaurus Rex MT DEW IS THE BEST SODA EVER MADE
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the music? Not only did they make an amazing animation for over an hour, they also composed good music for it. Kurzgesagt are such champions
SO TRUE!! I was like "yo! the earth is doing absolute little to nothing (at short term) and the music is going full banger!!"
it sounds so Daft punky i love it!!!!
Check out Eric Prydz he’s featured heavily on this soundtrack. Best EDM producer/dj out there
The mesoarchean period has a very Tool feeling in it
i thought i was listening to blue man group at first
I got a 25 million years unskippable ad 🙄
31:39 this music is a banger.
31:39 - 37:22 basicly
Huge respect for Kurzgesagt for giving us what is essentially an animated documentary for free. Can’t imagine how many hours went into this. You guys are insane 🐐🐐🐐
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@@ValouroverFearYes it is.
It's youtube it has ads, just like traditional televsion programs have constant advertisment in between paid to show them. If you don't have ads you paid for premium.
It’s like the animated National Geographic
@@lupin1664but are WE paying for it DIRECTLY?
Props to the cameraman who filmed 4.5 billion years of history for free
Cameraman deserves an award fr
His camera must have a crazy amount of storage
Well at 6 million views he’s already made +30K from it in less than 3 weeks
They’ve got an ancient patreon though
@@TwoWheels_OO But, in order to be making minimum wage, they would have to be paid 85,536,000,000,000 euros.
This is still my favorite video! It must’ve taken forever to finish between the animation, the music, and the research. Thanks for all the hard work!
Absolute masterpiece. This would make a dope TV screensaver.
It's absolutely insane when you realize that all of human history only makes up the last fraction of a second.
What's more insane, is if you consider many of these facts have been known or mentioned over 1000 years ago. *Big Bang and Evolution starting from the water:* "Do the disbelievers not realize that the heavens and earth were one mass then We split them apart? And We created from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?" - Quran 21:30 We built the heaven with might, and We are certainly expanding it. - Quran 51:47 How could a desert man 14 hundred years ago know that? You may say it's a guess work or a flock, but there're more impossible hints in that book. *Origins of iron:* “And We also sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind…” - Quran 57:25 The Quran seems to imply that the iron was something “sent down” and not from this earth, an idea not foreign to 20th century science. *Origins of water:* When the comets enter our atmosphere the heat generated on entry vaporizes this ice into the atmosphere. The Christian Bible says that God created water directly on Earth, however the Quran didn't do this mistake instead it says that God sent down water from outer space "In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of night and day; in the ships that sail the oceans for the benefit of mankind; *In the water which Allah sent down from the Heavens and brought with it life to Earth after being dead and gave life in it to every kind of land animal;* And in directing the winds; And in the clouds that are enslaved between the Heavens and the Earth; [All these] are Signs for a people who comprehend." - Quran 2:164
Mind blowing
If the history of the earth was 1 year, not 1 just hour, human history would only be just over 10 seconds.
And yet, we’ve already advanced so much!
@Thesamurai1999 way less than we could have. Even dating back to the Sumerians, we only recently rediscovered things about the universe & space that was already recorded thousands of years ago.
Not many creators can pull this off. To make 3 million people watch one hour of mostly silent video in 3 days. Amazing job. I’m already watching it a second time! And yes, the music is otherworldly 👍🏼
They usually release a lot of the music on Spotify if you’re interested
I mean, a LOT of people clicked off in the first minute, as these videos always have horrible retention time, but a lot of people definitely stuck around, I'm sure.
A lot of us humans are here 4.5 billion years later
Views/clicks does not equal "people who have watched the whole thing" ...
Bru I did not watch the whole video because nothing was really going on. I just skipped through parts and want their music for my LSD Trips
if 1 normal length video takes 1000 hours this would AT LEAST be 10000 hours extra. this channel is the best
very calming to fall asleep to
incredible, I can't believe you dedicated 4.5 billion years of your lives making a 1 hour video, that's true dedication
Props to the cameraman for sitting through 4.5 billion years of earths history to give us this beautiful time lapse
can't believe they waited 4.5 billion years to create this video, mad respect
Watch someone not get the joke
Imagine the file gates corrupted
yeah isn't that crazy?????
Respect to not only the animators for animating an entire 1 hour video, but also to everyone else who went into the making of this video. It is a masterpiece.
yes just imagine na timeline for this.
i knw right, i was digging the sound track the whole way
yes, respect to the musician / musicians!!! Unbelievable work
@@creepixx7953FR the elec guitar in some eras like the ectasian was so fire
Everyone mentioned the animation, but don't forget the music. It's so good. I am so amazed that I enjoyed this video for FREE!!! Keep up with the good work. Thank you!
Easily one of my favorite Kurzgesagt videos to date. Truly thought provoking. We have only been here for a unbelievably miniscule amount of time, but it FEELS so long. Perspective is everything when observing the world around us. Thank you for this masterpiece! Sincerely!
This is one of the cases where I wish they had a "love" button. I literally shed tears over things like this. It's a loveletter to amateur science geeks and really changes your knowledge and perception of Earth's early history. As far as I know, no one has ever attempted to create something like this, and it's an absolute work of art.
bill wurtz:
@@Treesinthesummershhh we dont talk bout em
@@Treesinthesummer I would say his vid was primarily comedy with cool knowledge as a bonus, here it's the opposite. And this video looks amazing, of course. Both have their place.
What about Paleozoo, Algol, or History of the Earth?
@@Treesinthesummeryou can’t compare the to man. Sorry
One hour of Kurzgesagt is 1 hour of bliss and existential dread And I'm all for it
Less goo
What a great idea
Same i am here for it ❤
true
Eating something and watching is my fav thing, I am an american.
I am absolutely blown away by this video. Everything from the music to the animation is fantastic. I would definitely consider this to be in the top 100 essential videos on KZhead.
This made me cry. We come so far to the point that we are able to have a technology to learn about the History of Earth. Million years as a 1 second also feel so unreal cuz human history is even less than 1sec. I can [feel] the difference of time in minutes, days, weeks, months, or 1,10-20years in my perception of time but 100yr,1000yr,1 million or 100 million years are so grand that I can't even imagine.
The animation: flawless. The soundtrack: immaculate. The narration: perfectly concise. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
that neoarchean track is insanely 🔥
That's exactly what I was going to type!!!
This first track reminded me of An Analog Guy in A Digital World, one of the most beautiful songs I know.
Mesoarchean bass and rhythm
We got the meshuggah track in the mesoarchean absolutely slaps
Can we just talk about how much of a BANGER this soundtrack is?
I was looking for this comment. I find myself coming back to this video just to play the music.
Wow. Same here. The video is great but the soundtrack just lives in your head.
Yessss I just came to say that 👏🏽🙌🏽
Its taken 19 years, but Ive finally found the best video on KZhead
The Hadean Era and Cretaceous through present era's song are my favourite
Hats off to the music producer. An hour of coherent music so absolutely fitting the animation was such a blast.
Ketamine vibes.
I kept singing: 🎶I love you, always forever; near and far, closer together…🎶
Mr. Frahm would like to have a word though ;-)
Vib😮
I love the references to other kurzgsagt musics in this video
Today just got a whole lot better.
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For real, 1 hour of kurzgesagt is pure bliss
we are so blessed to have stuff like this just readily available to us for free. life is good
This is one of my favorite videos on the internet. I learned so much in my big age about million old history. This honestly should be shown in classrooms everywhere!
I love everything about this. Noone can convince me that the Kurzgesagt crew isn't a bunch of magicians.
they sure know how to use knowledge
🤔Even if Kurzgesagt put out a video explaining how they aren't a bunch of magicians?🤣
@@LucenProject That's exactly what a bunch of magicians trying to hide the fact that they are magicians would do
@@therebedragons2653 Oh, Absolutely!! But given their track record, they'd still be convincing!
no one*
1 hour of high quality animation and music, for free, with barely any mid-roll ads... really shows the passion behind this channel and its goal of bringing knowledge to everyone. Thank you kurzgesagt ❤️
I only got 3 in total
While this is not be discredited as true, you also have to remember that they are partially funded like an education broadcasting network by Germany. Educational broadcasts usually have sparse ads
This is not the type of video they make. This one was more of a waste of time.
@@Leg1503They broke up with the german network some months ago. until then their german channel was not allowed to have ads.
@@untergehermuc ahh. I see.
I used this video while studying. I wasn't feeling like studying, i kept procrastinating so I needed some sort of stimulation while I study, And it really helped. I kept both music and video on while studying boring botany stuff, I often looked at video while memorizing things in my mind because the video is calming and not distracting and of course music was really good too.
I'd like to give a special thanks to the camera man, for recording 4.5 billion years here. Inspirational.
I don’t understand why the most unfunny people try the hardest to be funny
That's a pretty large SD card
I also didn't know that this bop was playing on Earth in the first 4 eons for million years!
@@blah204 You must be great at parties.
@@lukewilliamrimmington I guess we make a great pair because I know you get no one laughing at parties.
Despite having 6.4 million views in a month, this is STILL underrated.
Now it has 7M
1,000,000,000 and I'll be satisfied!
fr @@linckidstv
@@linckidstv 1,000,000,000 Are you satisfied?
@@Fifasher2K what? I mean 1B views.
This was fabulous! Thank you! The music was lovely ❤
It's crazy how I was able to just sit down for an hour and just watch this all. Great job animating, composing, writing, and voicing!
this is an instant classic. coming back here every day for when i'm doing emails/ any tedious tasks
Yeah !
yo arent you the dude who makes fish tank reviews and food reviews, if you are the guy i just wanna say im a huge fan and you also inspired me to make me buy some fishes and a fish pond❤
who is the first man on earth
Hello verified
/life
Mad props to the sound design and music team. Their skills really elevate this masterpiece to a whole new era- I mean level!🤩
This! Also am I the only one hearing strong Nils Frahm references from the intro 4min sounds? 😏
@@jurajkusyyeah, what he Says
Check out Epic music from Eric Prydz and Jeremy Olander. They are featured heavily on this soundtrack
One o my favorites is during the Rhyacian, it feels like some absolute banger that would play in a desert area of a video game
- Kurzgesagt: Ok, so the basic concept is a ambience video about earth's history. Nothing fancy. - Audio team: Lemme cook 🔥🔥🔥
I watched it like 20 times. Listening it right now while I work. Awesome work @kurzgesagt!
It bring me Joy that there’s a channel that can bring people who have endless curiosity together. The fact that there are still people with an attention span longer than 15 seconds is also, the cherry on top 🍒
While watching, I kept reminding myself that 1 second is actually 1.5 million years! So many years that just seem like nothing happened.
I think that’s why so many people don’t believe in evolution cause it’s near impossible to comprehend that many years and all the change that would happen in that span of time.
However, it is indeed "just seemed like" nothing happened
Makes me wonder if these planets, that seem inhospitable rn (Venus, Jupiter.. etc) will get a time in the universe where it's hospitable to life! Fascinating cuz an alien civilization 4000 Million years ago observing earth woulda seen nothing but a glowing planet of fire and lava.
@@raymondh5456Another thing to think about is the fact that a planet 1 million light years away from Earth would see our planet as it was 1 million years ago. They still see an Earth that doesn’t have humans yet.
@@carterround4600 bro that always blew my mind. And basically every star we see today in the night sky happened in the past. I wonder what the present reality is like for an observer on those stars rn, do those star systems still exist? Is it all darkness now? Crazy to think about. The time paradox video very much is shaping my current paradigm of reality lol. Present past AND future coexisting? Crazy.
Being an animator myself i have immense respect for the animation team.. Ik the pain behind every minute pop in the video... Huge huge props to the team.. Big hug for you to make this for people to be inspired for no cost
ikr? I've only animated little things and struggle with hands but still i can have a real appreciation for this work of art
Me to😢
It's difficult to put into words what a blessing this channel is to educational youtube. Such graspable explanations of really complex topics, along with mesmerizing music and stunning visuals. It really does feel like a premium service I should be paying for. I love this channel so much!
perfect video for some background noise while taking a nap if you ask me. love the stuff you do!
Gave me an existential crisis at the beginning of the video when you said 1,500,000 years pass every second of the video. It was insane to think about and it really put into perspective how unfathomably long the history of Earth is. Made my heart sink for a good 10 seconds
That's 15 million years, quite an insane amount of time
We’re tiny smudges of dirt in Earths history :)
Honestly... Probably won't even be smudges! Dinosaurs inhabited longer than humans, this far..
It’s hurt to understand- thousands of your lifes are just drowned in just every second of this video. Millions of my lifes this planet was a lava hell
That’s just Earths history, 13.7 for the universe, then you realize it’s possible for there not to have a beginning at all?? Then you learn it might’ve happened an infinite amount of times before that and still happening today, and it might’ve been with different physical laws and or outcomes. Or learning that what we know about the Big Bang is only the spectrum we can see (matter) which is only 5% of what the universe is actually made up of 🥲🤯
For the sake of maintaining accurate linear scaling, for the first 8 minutes, basically nothing happened / changed - and i absolutely love and respect that. It might not work as a general format, but as a once-off special, this is an absolute masterpiece.
It reminds me of when people do accurate representation of distance in the solar system to show you just how truly empty it is in space.
I agree with that although you can actively see the moon cooling down which is really cool
The moon cools down slowly, as well as watch the number and size of the floating rock islands increase slowly as the heat slowly cools down.
"I survived endless eight”
You... want us to watch this seven more times...? Haruhi have mercy!
Really enjoyed this, always appreciate how few ads there are. Much prefer to hear about your sponsors than mind numbing youtube ads
get an ad blocker or yt premium bro the yt ad spam is not worth the money you save
I'm LOVING to study with this video on the background. Thank you Kurzgesagt!!!
I think it's still insane how an entire MILLION years is passing every second, like we can understand what that means, the passage of time and all, but a million years is just so unimaginably long that it's almost incomprehensible, just imagining seeing nothing but lava and blinding light for your entire lifetime and the lifetimes of millions of ancestors after you, it's just overwhelming!
I'm sure that life was grateful that eyes weren't a thing then lol
@@A_Stereotypical_Guylife didnt exist back then but still i agree with you😅
@@tobilab281 life is over 3.7 billion years old brother...
It's only overwhelming because our brains can't comprehend anything past that. If we knew what happened before and after, or could understand other dimensions, it wouldn't be so overwhelming. Death is faster than light. Just like that, you're born again, living the same life over and over with slight changes we feel in deja vu. Knowing nothing more leaves us in a loop
@@A_Stereotypical_Guy i know..
I know you intended us to watch this passively in the background while we do other things, but the amazing animation and the drive to find any easter eggs has me glued to the screen
same for me. i was looking at individual pixels.
Same ! When I stop to look away, everything seems to be moving sideways now !
@@PierroCh5yeah same xD
Did you find any?
@@PierroCh5Omg you're right
Honestly one of the best studying videos on the internet
I watch it all every minute of this amazing video. Thank you from my heart to all those involved in the production of this treasure ❤
To everyone at Kurszgesagt; The Animators, voice actors, sound engineers, writers, researchers and more i can't think of, thanks for all the content you're pouring out to us for free, it means a lot for many of us to be able to have this kind of content to relax to, learn and enjoy. you're the golden egg of KZhead
Couldn't agree more bro Literally made the last 8 years of my life better
@@IHateMobileGaming :(
Voice actor. Literally has been the same guy for the entire lifespan of this channel
*Kurzgesagt
@@Swiftbananer so true
huge respect to the animators this must have taken insanely long edit: I made this comment while watching the video so thankyou for letting me know
4.5 Billion years I think
It did, pretty sure they said it in the credits.
Shout out to the musicians as well :)
Humans history was less than an actual sec
How long do you guys think the animatior spent to complete all the drawings and animation
An absolute masterpiece! Wonderful work! I play this video all the time when I am studying or doing work around the house. The one-hour time is sooo effective in highlighting the vast amount of time of the geological formation of the Earth as we know it and the incredible rate at which complex life appeared which lead to our arrival. I am always struck with melancholy when the video reaches its end as it feels like the end of an incredible adventure. My sincere heartfelt gratitude to the creators.
51:23 "how did life survive? we're not sure..." that's such a real answer lol
my god, I never expected them to release what's basically a movie compared to their normal format, but it's so much in their style and its all amazing
I wanna give a shout out specifically to the AUDIO CREW: specifically Thomas Veith and Flabian Glaser!!! I see a bunch of people praising the animation crew, and they totally deserve it, but OMG! The full 1+ hour of music and sound design that flowed so naturally and felt so progressively fitting for each time period…astounding! As a music producer and someone who loves sound design (and studied film in uni), I very much appreciate how much work went into what y’all did AND how important your work was to the editing process that gave us this wonderful work of art! Seriously, the music evolved and was seriously engaging for me as you ultimately shifted tempo, played with genres, played with time signatures, had so many variations on a theme that were constantly fresh, and built climax after climax but still only incrementally building those climaxes over an hour… Well done. Very well done. (Audio crews rare get the recognition they deserve on film/animation projects, yet they are SO fundamental to the art, so I just had to focus on them)
Not enough love for the soundtrack ❤
This music is indeed out of this world...
I wonder how much the fact(?) that 50% of brain processing is generally dedicated to the visual cortex plays on people mostly noticing the animation crew vs audio crew
The composers definitely listen to progressive metal.
They did an amazing job, they definitely don't deserve the unsung hero treatment
This was a deeply emotional and humbling experience. Thank you!
The music at the end was so fitting. This is the best video on youtube so far
As a Motion Designer and Animator, the fact that this whole video is continuous 1 hour with seamless transitions, it just makes me wanna bow down to Kurzgesagt. This is probably the longest, continuous, highest quality animation done by an independent KZhead channel.
It's not completely seamless, though. There's that nasty glitching at 29:43.
bro... its 1 hour do you know how long this stuff takes to render
your definition and my definition of nasty are not the same ;) @@KinseySwartz
@@VoicesofHonour I use Google's definition: "highly unpleasant, especially to the senses; physically nauseating"
@@KinseySwartzit’s only a few seconds Just ignore it
Not just the sheer amount of animation, but the music is a bop too!! We need more hardworking people like them
Experienced eternal bliss because of the music
Shout out to epic mountain for that
The music reminded me of low-fi Tool. Loved it.
There's so many talented people on this team it felt like those credits lasted longer than ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY
I find this video very grounding when overwhelmed. I love the music and the visuals, and I also find it oddly calming that the entire length of my life is extremely short on a geological level.
0:43 ♫ Now the moon ♫ 0:51 Weather update, it's raining rocks from outer space. 8:04 Severe flooding alert! The entire world is now an ocean. 12:40 ♫ Something's alive in the ocean ♫ 12:43 It lives at the bottom of the ocean and eats chemical soup which is being served hot and fresh 17:56 ♫ Now you can eat sunlight! ♫ 27:47 Side effect, now there's oxygen everywhere and the sky is blue 30:16 Then the Earth might have been a snowball for a while. Maybe even a couple of times. 42:17 ♫ The Sun is a deadly laser ♫ 53:15 It's a sponge. It's a plant. It's a worm, and some other types of weird, strange water bugs and strange fish. 53:35 ♫ It's the Cambrian explosion! ♫ 53:40 ♫ Not anymore, there's a blanket ♫ 55:00 Okay, will you learn to walk if there's plants up here? 55:55 ♫ Bye bye, ocean! ♫ 56:56 Oh fuck, now everything's dead. Just kidding, here are the survivors. 59:48 ♫ And the dinosaurs are gone! ♫ 59:57 It's mammal time! Here come the mammals; look at those breasts. 1:00:44 Gneurshk
I was thinking this the whole time lol
Gneurshk?
@@fabianp.2986 it can mean different things
@@fabianp.2986 if this is genuine confusion go and watch "The history of the entire planet, I guess". After this video, of course.
@@12morefactsthat's a human person!
The sound track, The animation, The narration... Everything is just perfect Thanks guys... I use this video to calm myself down
Jesus loves you he gives joy to all who except him as Lord
The video was uploaded only two days ago. How many times have you needed to calm yourself down in the last two days?
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@@cwg73160 i fell asleep to yesterday
This video must have taken not less than 3 to 4 years to complete. Hats off to this channel.
Imagine NOT believing any of this happened. I'm looking at half the comments on most history of the earth videos.
Christian's been silent ever since this dropped.
A one hour Kurzgesagt video is a bigger treat than all the candy I've gathered in 24 years of experiencing Halloween. Always look forward to these uploads!
I like your words
I just spent one hour of my allotted time on this planet watching this video - an hour that in the vast scale of things (like this video shows) is absolutely nothing. But it was still an hour of my life - and it's easily one of the very best hours I've ever spent online. Totally worth it, in every conceivable way. Excellent work from Kurzgesagt, as always.
idk i like how this was written
Why did this make me tear up a little
lol i watched in 2x speed
Can't match the hours of cats videos i watch
Blink and you miss it!
This is one of the greatest KZhead educational animated videos I have ever witnessed. Thank you for this.
A masterpiece 4.5 billion years in the making, thank you kurzgesagt !