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  • @vigilantsycamore8750
    @vigilantsycamore87505 жыл бұрын

    That star gradually getting bigger is kind of menacing *without* the smooth jazz, but *with* the smooth jazz it feels like the star is trying to seduce me

  • @skinky1956

    @skinky1956

    5 жыл бұрын

    Look out! I think that G-class star likes you.

  • @farmerboy916

    @farmerboy916

    5 жыл бұрын

    "The star starts sashaying towards you to the beat of the smooth jazz, what do you do?"

  • @Thesmus

    @Thesmus

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@farmerboy916 ask "ya like jazz?"

  • @fairycat23

    @fairycat23

    5 жыл бұрын

    Shall I write that story?

  • @pillarshipempireemployee0142

    @pillarshipempireemployee0142

    5 жыл бұрын

    That would happen to me if danny didn't exist.

  • @cjjones6261
    @cjjones62615 жыл бұрын

    Would be interesting to see a sky tinted by massive clouds of plant pollen. I'd probably die from seasonal allergies, but the beauty would be worth it

  • @charlienorton3960

    @charlienorton3960

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same here.

  • @theapexsurvivor9538

    @theapexsurvivor9538

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bring a Hazmat suit, then you can enjoy the beauty without the sneezing, coughing, and slow asphyxiation...

  • @charlienorton3960

    @charlienorton3960

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@theapexsurvivor9538 I will keep that in mind next time I visit another planet

  • @peeblekitty5780

    @peeblekitty5780

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's actually a great idea. I imagine the peoples of this world would build an immunity to such pollen as seasonal allergies like ours with that much pollen would be a huge survival weakness, but man, can you imagine if, instead of just releasing pollen willy-nilly during spring, the plants evolved to have reproduction events, like how ants have nuptial flights? Sounds like it's visual narration time! _The weather's been warming up and rain has been misting down over the past few days. The wet season is here. The flowers have bloomed and people spend their days outside in anticipation for the annual big moment. The twittering birdsong ceases as the little animals sense the incoming change in weather and seek shelter, while you and your neighbors leave yours to watch. With a sudden howl, the current of winds kick up and the plants release their spores and pollen all in a rush, and a wave of golden particles sweeps through the sky. The land grows dim and amber as the sun's familiar red light is obscured and tainted. You can only sit there and gape in awe. You come out to see the pollen sweep every year, yet it still amazes you every time..._ It sounds both beautiful and gross. I'd imagine it'd be mostly beautiful myself, though. That is, if I was resistant to the pollen allergies that would be torturous if there were a pollen sweep IRL.

  • @princessthyemis

    @princessthyemis

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ooo, yeah!

  • @alienplatypus7712
    @alienplatypus77125 жыл бұрын

    Atefexian: Blah blah frequency blah science blah research astronomy blah meteorology refraction Wordbuilding Notes: UNLEASH THE SACRED BELLOWS

  • @FlauFly

    @FlauFly

    4 жыл бұрын

    So, basically Artifexian is like Robert L. Forward of worldbuilding youtube and Worldbuilding Notes is like Ursula K. Le Guin.

  • @niydfass1060

    @niydfass1060

    3 жыл бұрын

    sacred bellows go *swoosh*

  • @beautifulnova6088

    @beautifulnova6088

    2 жыл бұрын

    I figured the idea was the sacred bellows weren't actually doing anything, it was just seasonal winds that the people thought they were influencing.

  • @Candlemancer

    @Candlemancer

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beautifulnova6088 Yes, that is the idea. They're a religious ritual, not actual magic.

  • @javindhillon6294

    @javindhillon6294

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Candlemancerokay okay but what if yes magic?

  • @RugnirSvenstarr
    @RugnirSvenstarr5 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in a place where heather covered the hills and mountains around instead of grass or moss, so when it was the right time the hills would be purple, and when the heather was not flowering it would be brown.

  • @dumusstarbeiten5063

    @dumusstarbeiten5063

    5 жыл бұрын

    Damn. sounds beautiful.

  • @darkunor6687

    @darkunor6687

    2 жыл бұрын

    Were Is that place?

  • @RugnirSvenstarr

    @RugnirSvenstarr

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@darkunor6687 northern england in the peak district, although scotland is more famous for it

  • @darkunor6687

    @darkunor6687

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@RugnirSvenstarr sir, you are a very lucky person

  • @catsii

    @catsii

    2 жыл бұрын

    this sounds so beautiful... thank you for this mental image

  • @phonomancer_thepossum6279
    @phonomancer_thepossum62792 жыл бұрын

    I have officially fallen in love with "bioluminescent sky algae"

  • @thomasflach7671
    @thomasflach76715 жыл бұрын

    3:32 When a star dies *F Star*

  • @mollof7893

    @mollof7893

    5 жыл бұрын

    _Lmao!_

  • @NoNameAtAll2

    @NoNameAtAll2

    5 жыл бұрын

    O B A F G K M

  • @MineCraft-qw2ow

    @MineCraft-qw2ow

    5 жыл бұрын

    9:46 you mean

  • @edgarcardiffscpreadermemes366

    @edgarcardiffscpreadermemes366

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MineCraft-qw2ow it do be like that

  • @bleddynwolf8463

    @bleddynwolf8463

    4 жыл бұрын

    a man of culture

  • @johannageisel5390
    @johannageisel53905 жыл бұрын

    There is a sci-fi book by a german author who described a possible ecosystem on a planet around Proxima Centauri where organisms have bioluminescence to radiate off the excess energy during solar flares. Kind of like optical brighteners convert UV light into visible light.

  • @robertcorbell1006

    @robertcorbell1006

    3 жыл бұрын

    Stanislaw Lem. He was Polish and wrote "The Magellanic Cloud" which featured that. The book's portrayal of bioluminescent lifeforms near Alpha Centauri with an intelligent stone-age species would together with "Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson (with the portrayal of a remote-controlled body by a paralyzed man) inspire the movie "Avatar". Lem would also pen the novel "Solaris", a sci-fi classic that has seen multiple films and stage-plays.

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@robertcorbell1006 I like Lem, but he was not whom I meant. And I also found out the author I thought of isn't German at all. I don't know why I thought that. He's American. It's Brandon Q. Morris and the book is called "Proxima Rising".

  • @robertcorbell1006

    @robertcorbell1006

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johannageisel5390 Googled the guy and it seems he wrote a whole trilogy around the exoplanet Proxima B. He portrays a seed-ship powered by lightsail and the intelligent, transhuman, AI protagonist of his previous novels is now the father of the new Adam and Eve via science. It takes its cues from other books such as "Parasite Planet" (also set around Proxima Centauri) and "Deathworld", but is mostly original in that the sci-fi is as hard as it gets. Looks neat. :)

  • @rockclanhawkstar1454

    @rockclanhawkstar1454

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh heck that book sounds like that would be great inspiration for my own project, though things may be different between the two it still has a similar situation XD

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rockclanhawkstar1454 I have so far only read the first one. The ideas are neat, but I found the writing style and characterization wooden. Could be the German translation, though.

  • @AlmantasKli
    @AlmantasKli5 жыл бұрын

    That whole city description is soo goood, sounds so poetic.

  • @AnkhAnanku

    @AnkhAnanku

    5 жыл бұрын

    I mean of course Ewa’s planet has a vibrant city with interesting cultural practices. She’s friggin genius.

  • @sammy3212321

    @sammy3212321

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ewa consistently creates incredibly unique and culture-rich worlds, they're my muse 😂

  • @ColinPaddock

    @ColinPaddock

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ewa is the best for culture building. Even in a hard(-ish) science fiction realm, her magic ideas are an excellent source for what the natives believe. And if you think those superstitions would subside as technology and science advance… I’d have to suggest you get out more!

  • @GuilhermeBF

    @GuilhermeBF

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ewa is incredible with her poetic and beautiful yet believable and uneasy concepts. The God of the Journey is an amazing video about religion in a generation ship going to a distant planet

  • @nellie3184

    @nellie3184

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you like the description you should subscribe to her. She is a awesome worldbuilding KZreadr.

  • @Science-ev1he
    @Science-ev1he5 жыл бұрын

    The key thing is to judge the atmosphere by the content of it's character.

  • @williambarnes5023

    @williambarnes5023

    2 жыл бұрын

    But then it turned out that the content of its character was ALSO that of an unpalatable chlorine, sulfur, and methane that is hostile to life.

  • @vakusdrake3224
    @vakusdrake32245 жыл бұрын

    Plant color may also just be a complete evolutionary accident. After all there's the idea that the earth used to be covered in purple halobacteria (which capture the most abundant wavelengths of light) and early chlorophyll based algae evolved to capture the light that was left over from the halobacteria. Then when oxygen became abundant and wiped out halobacteria green algae took its place: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e311j82YkqXJfJM.html

  • @tonio103683

    @tonio103683

    5 жыл бұрын

    I don't know if you were paying attention cause both artifexian and this video are stating convergent fact : the purple algae they spoke of in the PBS video is exactly one of the strategy that Edgar spoke of : absorbing the most abundant kind of light instead of reflecting it. So the PBS video is actually completing what Artifexian spoke of : according to the purple Earth hypothesis, earth's "sun eaters" autotrophs developped both strategies. The only point of Artifexian's video that the purple Earth hypothesis actually contradict is the reason why the second strategy ended up chosen : the second strategy was chosen because the original most abundant autotrophic halobacteriae blocked the first strategy for the surviving autotrophs not because it's "too dangerous to absorb the most abundant colored light". Note that Edgar said that you can justify using either strategy for your world building project so it's not even that big of an issue. P.S. However it's quite probable that for plant life around bigger stars they'd still want to protect themselves from too energetic wave lengths.

  • @vakusdrake3224

    @vakusdrake3224

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@tonio103683 My point is that modern chlorophyl using life isn't using either of the strategies mentioned in the video. Absorbing the light not being used by halobacteria isn't either of the strategies gone over in the video because it's color is being determined by other life not directly by the sun. Plus now that halobacteria is no longer abundant green chlorophyl is basically just a vestigial feature, not something present because it's trying to absorb some particular amount of the suns energy. It's also worth noting that depending on where they live photosynthesizing life can function in environments with orders of magnitude differences in the amount of available light, so color may not even matter that much once you get a pigment that's good enough.

  • @tonio103683

    @tonio103683

    5 жыл бұрын

    ​@@vakusdrake3224 My point is that it amounts to the same : Purple is first taken cause it's efficient and then green is taken to eat the "remains" (since green is complementary to purple) and kept around because it's efficient enough. The hypothesis doesn't really contradict that green or purple is the most efficient under our star it just gives a stronger explanation why what seems a bit of the less optimal strategy was chosen. Yes, but the main environment where they might develop is where light is the most abundant, so under direct sunlight. That they adapt somewhat to that sunlight seems to be logical (even if it could be wrong). If the plants develop in an environment where certain type of light is blocked, it could very well happen that wild surprising colors end up being chosen.

  • @vakusdrake3224

    @vakusdrake3224

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@tonio103683 If what we actually observe is that plants are the opposite color you'd expect based on the suns spectrum, then that is still a rather substantial change to the model proposed in the video. Since it suggests some portion (possibly the majority) of the time plants may end up the exact opposite color you'd expect for evolutionary reasons. Additionally given chlorophyl eventually succeeded because it was much more efficient than preexisting pigments, that suggests plants could in principle be nearly any color depending on what highly efficient pigments evolved first. Plus it's worth noting that plants are actually kind of terrible at photosynthesis given with tweaks to rubisco we can increase the efficiency of their photosynthesis enough to get 40% higher yields. So there's likely a lot of flexibility in terms of plants being able to have certain aspects of their photosynthesis be extremely inefficient provided they're still better than the competition overall.

  • @tonio103683

    @tonio103683

    5 жыл бұрын

    ​@@vakusdrake3224 Well then, i hope he'll tackle your remarks in the next FAQ video.

  • @Shiranui115
    @Shiranui1155 жыл бұрын

    My two favorite KZread worldbuilders/conlangers? Together in one video? I don't remember dying, but it looks like I'm in Heaven

  • @grimtheghastly8878

    @grimtheghastly8878

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's the biggest mood rn you have no idea.

  • @tiscotisa9731

    @tiscotisa9731

    5 жыл бұрын

    Whoooo

  • @sumeetvaze8203

    @sumeetvaze8203

    5 жыл бұрын

    Truee

  • @mihajlojovanovic7651

    @mihajlojovanovic7651

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeaah

  • @grimtheghastly8878

    @grimtheghastly8878

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mom and dad.

  • @BonaparteBardithion
    @BonaparteBardithion5 жыл бұрын

    I like how stylized the animation is these days. Having the screen set on that scenery for so long made me realize just how much can be done with geometric shapes.

  • @Inversion10080
    @Inversion100805 жыл бұрын

    Who else remembers this: "KZread, Edgar here, and Welcome to Artifexian! Here, you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about worldbuilding, and then some!" The old Artifexian intro.

  • @animationspace8550

    @animationspace8550

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god this brings me back!

  • @me.genius
    @me.genius5 жыл бұрын

    I love your voice. Dost particles are my favorite particles

  • @cercer3226
    @cercer32265 жыл бұрын

    As vegetation (or at least decidious trees) have several pigments for the different seasons, would it be too unlikely for vegetation around a somewhat regular variable star to develop a system that allows it to change pigments depending on the amount of radiation emmited by the star?

  • @angeldude101

    @angeldude101

    5 жыл бұрын

    Possibly. The main issue is that solar flares are shorter and more abrupt than seasonal changes.

  • @Cachalyce

    @Cachalyce

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think this might be possible. And altough I'm working with a single-star-system, this would be a great development for double-star-systems as the radiation (like the colour of the sky) might change depending on the position of the stars. This combination of changing sky-and plantcolour depending on which star is closer might actually make up for plenty of interesting cultures. Gues my elementals need to leave earth towards a tiny planet now :D

  • @johnroach9026

    @johnroach9026

    Жыл бұрын

    @@angeldude101 It could work for a particularly volatile red dwarf, you'd need to be careful not to kill off all life on the planet when it does flare up though

  • @Aethuviel

    @Aethuviel

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm hijacking your comment to ask everyone a question - regarding plants on Earth (or around G-stars). According to this, plants here are green to reflect the powerful green light. With the other strategy, they would be brown-red, to absorb green light. I just did a quick search and found that the occasional red leaves (not autumn, but live summer leaves) typically occur in places of strong sunlight (as in, the same plant may have green leaves in the shade). How does that make sense? Are those sun leaves trying to absorb even more light, while the green leaves in the shade want to block it? It sounds backwards.

  • @Cropcircledesigner

    @Cropcircledesigner

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Aethuviel​Think of it as the plant equivalent of a tan. The red-purple pigments are protecting the underlying cells from excess radiation.

  • @ApricotStone
    @ApricotStone5 жыл бұрын

    That moment when the reasoning for your planet's purple plants is actually correct-

  • @AnkhAnanku

    @AnkhAnanku

    5 жыл бұрын

    Siranush same. I always thought I was committing a sin by not letting my plants just evolve to _use_ the UV deathrays that hit the my planet, Rayleigh whenever the sun rises high enough

  • @rambling964
    @rambling9645 жыл бұрын

    Just a small correction - we see the sky as blue, because there is no 'purple' colour at the blue end. There is in a _rainbow_ because the second-order rainbow overlaps the first. We imported the colour names to the spectrum, but in a *photograph* of a light through a prism, the 'violet' is a very dark blue with no reddish tint.

  • @Aleks-M

    @Aleks-M

    3 жыл бұрын

    :-O I am shocked by that cognition! You can't take purple out of the nature - you just can't! ;-)

  • @awfuldynne

    @awfuldynne

    2 жыл бұрын

    A "double rainbow" is when the second order rainbow is visible. As we can see, the second order rainbow does not overlap the first. It's clearly outside the first order rainbow, and its innermost band is red, so they'd have to be completely overlapping to mix the red of one with the blue/violet of the other.

  • @buwumet

    @buwumet

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@awfuldynne the violet end of the light spectrum is actually deep blue. Violet changed its meaning over time. Nowadays it means a mixture of blue and red light. When the light spectrum was first discovered and named, it had no association with a red tint. Visible purple light does not exist, that is a myth created by color name meanings shifting. Where we see purple, it's always a mixture of red and blue light, so either a rainbow has no purple at the end of its blue side or the second order overlaps the first.

  • @awfuldynne

    @awfuldynne

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@buwumet No. _Indigo_ is/was deep blue. The "blue" end of prism-split light is, clear as day, a shade of purple that cannot be mistaken for blue, except presumably by the colorblind.

  • @vaiyt

    @vaiyt

    2 жыл бұрын

    Depending on how you set up your prism it may be hard to see the violet because we have very little sensitivity to it; but it's distinct from a mix of blue and red in the same way yellow light is distinct from a red-green mix even if they're identical to our eyes.

  • @gamerrfm9478
    @gamerrfm94785 жыл бұрын

    Marvel: Infinity War will be the largest crossover in history Artifexian and WorldbuildingNotes: Hold our beers

  • @seanezeh2290

    @seanezeh2290

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nice but overused

  • @superlegomaster55
    @superlegomaster555 жыл бұрын

    Yay! I hope next one will be about vegetation on the planet. Desert, tropical forests and such.

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    5 жыл бұрын

    That would be nice. But if not, Stoneworks has videos about deserts and swamps/wetlands. kzread.info/dron/lnWLqdyrQ-hcDYW5kQQ6vQ.htmlvideos

  • @casimiriii5941

    @casimiriii5941

    5 жыл бұрын

    I hope so too, I felt this video kind of short chanɡed plants, I mean he didn't even mention flowers, the most colorful part of the plant.

  • @powdertoyguy

    @powdertoyguy

    Жыл бұрын

    Noo biblaridion's gonna copyright

  • @Ggdivhjkjl
    @Ggdivhjkjl5 жыл бұрын

    I need to watch this again on a device that doesn't have problems displaying red.

  • @shgds

    @shgds

    4 жыл бұрын

    Caca you biatch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @danthiel8623

    @danthiel8623

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or you are slightly color blind? Maybe

  • @scribblecloud

    @scribblecloud

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@danthiel8623 how would they know what properly displaying red looks like then? My device has the same issue, colors are completely fkd, anything too dark shows up as green and it has a lot of burn in

  • @souptime8635
    @souptime86355 жыл бұрын

    Good tip. Don't stare at the star

  • @katie-ampersand

    @katie-ampersand

    5 жыл бұрын

    Alternia in a nutshell

  • @viorp5267
    @viorp52675 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit! My 2 favorite worldbuilders are collaborating! . . . . . . Hi Ewa

  • @mollof7893

    @mollof7893

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ikr, epic

  • @AnkhAnanku

    @AnkhAnanku

    5 жыл бұрын

    Completely different flavors, but both epic imaginations.

  • @Alice-gr1kb

    @Alice-gr1kb

    5 жыл бұрын

    AnkhAnanku yeah. I watched her videos and realized how much it would help me in my magical worlds

  • @gone41214

    @gone41214

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi ewa

  • @benjaminmiller3620
    @benjaminmiller36205 жыл бұрын

    You probably have quite a bit of leeway in picking plant colour. (as long as you stay inside a safe AMOUNT of radiation to be absorbed vs reflected) It's generally believed that chlorophyll is a somewhat happy accident that is hard to evolve away from. (a local maxima) If photosynthesis had to evolve from scratch again, it might well be a different colour.

  • @mateuszjokiel2813

    @mateuszjokiel2813

    2 жыл бұрын

    In fact, photosyntheric bacteria used to be reddish-purple.

  • @benjaminmiller3620

    @benjaminmiller3620

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mateuszjokiel2813 True. And still are. I actually *have* a culture of purple sulfur bacteria. (By sheer coincidence, I'm more of a plant guy than a microbe guy.)

  • @johnkrappweis7367
    @johnkrappweis73674 жыл бұрын

    What you were saying about green skies. I read a book years ago called “Ark Liberty” that does exactly that. The ozone layer was wrecked from pollution so scientists seeded the atmosphere with floating algae ,turning the sky green.

  • @lilalampenschirm3203
    @lilalampenschirm32035 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this was so interesting and even though I almost didn’t know anything about the topic before, I think it was nicely summarised and described. Your Videos give me the spirit to look into specific worldbuilding topics I previously considered to difficult for me or even didn’t think of before. And I adore your video style.

  • @amfvideos6810
    @amfvideos68105 жыл бұрын

    I like how you said "Got it? Cool, let's world-paint", because of the subject of the video.

  • @entropyzero5588

    @entropyzero5588

    5 жыл бұрын

    But then he went ahead and called the dooblydoo a "description box" >.>

  • @ossi_2429
    @ossi_24295 жыл бұрын

    I still remember the star types from Oh Be A Fine Gungan, Kiss Me from that one video years ago.

  • @otakufreak40
    @otakufreak405 жыл бұрын

    Those eyes you put in turned this video into a horror movie. Also, your guest suddenly talking was kinda shocking.

  • @jerry3790
    @jerry37905 жыл бұрын

    In your animation where you show skies around different stars, is the star growing due to the closeness the planet has to be to be habitable?

  • @martinsriber7760

    @martinsriber7760

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes.

  • @demon_xd_

    @demon_xd_

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m pretty sure it’s because of the size of the star

  • @danielgrizzlus3950

    @danielgrizzlus3950

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@demon_xd_ Wrong. M type stars are the smallest

  • @demon_xd_

    @demon_xd_

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@danielgrizzlus3950 Oh

  • @user-nw3ol7fk1i

    @user-nw3ol7fk1i

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@danielgrizzlus3950 didn't realise that until now, whoops

  • @Monody512
    @Monody5125 жыл бұрын

    Plants on a flare star's planet might undergo a chemical reaction in their outer layers, rapidly changing color to protect themselves.

  • @MisterSketch4

    @MisterSketch4

    4 жыл бұрын

    Monody those plants would need an early warning if the flares were not at regular intervals wouldn’t they?

  • @applesauce3873

    @applesauce3873

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MisterSketch4 chemical reaction , as in they would be detecting the change... how could you not feel a solar flare

  • @MisterSketch4

    @MisterSketch4

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@applesauce3873 My point is that by the time the plant felt the solar flare it might be too late. I think they might need some advanced warning, to avoid being destroyed frequently.

  • @larenzdechavez442

    @larenzdechavez442

    3 жыл бұрын

    They might have folds that one side is black and one side is white to block the flares.

  • @AnExistanceOfNothing
    @AnExistanceOfNothing5 жыл бұрын

    Forgive if I'm wrong, but I think they may have gotten the plant color explanation backwards. To my understanding, plants aren't the colors they absorb, but rather they appear as the colors they reflect back into our eyes, so a yellow plant would be absorbing only blue wavelengths while reflecting green and red, while a blue plant would be reflecting blue and absorbing green and red.

  • @ragnkja

    @ragnkja

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, he explained strategy 2 (plants that are the complementary colour to the star’s peak output) first.

  • @boudicathebrave
    @boudicathebrave5 жыл бұрын

    I read the title real fast when I clicked on this video so at first I was confused that it was an Artifexian video and then when Ewa started talking I was literally like :O I really like that little waterfall scene I think it's pretty. Watching all the colors changing was very relaxing and it was cool to see how a culture could develop practices based around changing sky color. :-)

  • @Alexandra-ip2by
    @Alexandra-ip2by5 жыл бұрын

    [running down stairs] [kicks door open] I CAME AS SOON AS I HEARD! EDIT: oh my god i'm top comment

  • @the_Kutonarch

    @the_Kutonarch

    5 жыл бұрын

    Here's a tissue, clean yourself up.

  • @davidk1308

    @davidk1308

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @magiv4205

    @magiv4205

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@the_Kutonarch Do you have another one left?

  • @the_Kutonarch

    @the_Kutonarch

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@magiv4205 I have a whole box just for you, enjoy!

  • @magiv4205

    @magiv4205

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@the_Kutonarch thanks lmao

  • @theparadoxicalfox3472
    @theparadoxicalfox34725 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video, as always! I was just starting to research this stuff yesterday, so this is going to serve as a really good jumping block into my next worldbuilding rabbit hole.

  • @hiddenshadow2105
    @hiddenshadow21055 жыл бұрын

    I love this video so much. It answers - with clear presentation - so many questions I had about skies and the plants. It even shows a supercontinent and wind patterns.

  • @rickardspaghetti
    @rickardspaghetti5 жыл бұрын

    This video is just a series of prog-rock song titles.

  • @raybnnuy
    @raybnnuy2 жыл бұрын

    This is insanely cool and as an artist I am SO hyped with all of this information. Thank you so much for sharing!!

  • @gameinsane4718
    @gameinsane47182 жыл бұрын

    A “B-Scenario M-Star” is a mood a vibe and a trip all in one

  • @ziril3972
    @ziril39725 жыл бұрын

    I always love what worldbuilding notes comes up with! This as great

  • @BeneathTheBrightSky
    @BeneathTheBrightSky Жыл бұрын

    Ooh, idea! A binary system, with a star and a black hole. The skies regularly get dimmer and brighter in time with the seasons. The only problem is the time dilation. Due to the black hole, time goes slower, so a few billion years there and all the other stars die.

  • @txikitofandango
    @txikitofandango4 жыл бұрын

    Your graphics are simply breathtaking, your explanations are clear and accurate. I'm so happy you focused your talents on the noble art of scientifically informed world building.

  • @marinmilevoj4829
    @marinmilevoj48295 жыл бұрын

    What happens to the colour of plant life if we have changing sky/star colour? Like you mentioned with a double star system for example.

  • @appleislander8536

    @appleislander8536

    5 жыл бұрын

    Personally, I'd expect it to be somewhat like Autumn ("Fall") in our world, with seasonal variation in plant colour, though this would be contingent on the orbit of the stars.

  • @lyreparadox

    @lyreparadox

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@appleislander8536 Or perhaps seasonal dominance of two plant lineages - one evolved to absorb the wavelengths of light from one star, and one evolved for the wavelengths from the other. So when the light from one star is dominant, those plants are active and it's their 'summer' while the other lineage is dormant, like in 'winter'. And all on top of any regular seasonal variations the planet has. It could make for some fascinating overlapping ecosystems.

  • @jellyfish0311

    @jellyfish0311

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lyreparadox plants would grow taller during one of their seasons, covering the lower ones that need shielding and forming some weird simbiotic relationship.

  • @skamnatron5000
    @skamnatron50005 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for posting this. I’ve been searching for explanations for outlandish sky colors for so long. Cool video and good illustrations to help get the point across!

  • @Hositrugun
    @Hositrugun5 жыл бұрын

    I have been awaiting this collab for far too long.

  • @markschultz2897
    @markschultz28974 жыл бұрын

    He messed up the order of the stars at 3:19. It should've become smaller and smaller rather than bigger and bigger. O type stars are the largest while M types stars are the smallest.

  • @_pan-tastic_28

    @_pan-tastic_28

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alright, who's gonna tell them?

  • @ARandomSpace

    @ARandomSpace

    3 жыл бұрын

    The star is growing bigger because the distance between the planet is star is getting smaller so the plant can be habitable. It's a matter of perspective.

  • @markschultz2897

    @markschultz2897

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ARandomSpace Still confusing though

  • @OverlordZephyros
    @OverlordZephyros5 жыл бұрын

    Yes!! Amazing been waiting for this one! Thanks 😊

  • @Adelphos12
    @Adelphos122 жыл бұрын

    This is such a great worldbuilding tool -- thank you for making this!

  • @magnusskipton7067
    @magnusskipton70672 жыл бұрын

    This is definitely the oddest and coolest KZread rabbit hole I’ve ever found

  • @MarkMetEenC
    @MarkMetEenC5 жыл бұрын

    Yay!! Super collaboration!

  • @maykopanter
    @maykopanter5 жыл бұрын

    dream crossover! thank you both!

  • @Sabersonic
    @Sabersonic5 жыл бұрын

    Though I was familiar with the idea of plants of an M Class habitable world having black pigment as opposed to our more familiar green tints from some alien life documentary that I've long since forgotten the name of, the notation of different plant colors and even competing plant color theories does give off an interesting worldbuilding thought on how the stellar environment is like. However, nothing quite says "alien skies" quite like the cyclical changing of the sky's color throughout the local year, especially if its combined with Tatooine suns regularly eclipsing one another and seasonal particulates of the air. One could almost get away with a moonless habitable world (assuming such a thing is plausible) just by the color of the sky. Heck, the "months", for lack of a better term, could instead be named after colors instead. Either way, excellent video as always and thanks for the inspirations.

  • @merrittanimation7721

    @merrittanimation7721

    5 жыл бұрын

    I remember it mentioned on the History Channel series The Universe. Don't know the episode though.

  • @Sabersonic

    @Sabersonic

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@merrittanimation7721 It's probably the episode about extrasolar life.

  • @entropyzero5588

    @entropyzero5588

    5 жыл бұрын

    Isn't a satellite required to stabilize the rotational axis? I don't think a changing obliquity would be very conductive to life evolving, even if you could get away with "seasons" based on sky colour...

  • @Sabersonic

    @Sabersonic

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@entropyzero5588 Which is why I put down the notation "if such a thing is plausible"

  • @ebonyblack4563
    @ebonyblack45635 жыл бұрын

    The demonstration animations were a stellar touch, love it, and that unexpected collab was the cherry on top.

  • @ggpopart4480
    @ggpopart44804 жыл бұрын

    just discovered this channel and im in LOVE

  • @qwertyTRiG
    @qwertyTRiG5 жыл бұрын

    Artefexian, WorldbuildingNotes, and Simon Clark! Excellent!

  • @T2G-DJT
    @T2G-DJT4 жыл бұрын

    I guess Morioh Cho’s skies have been explained once and for all!

  • @oh...hi.
    @oh...hi.2 жыл бұрын

    your videos just jump right in without any nonsense, i love it

  • @llewballantine6678
    @llewballantine66785 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing comments about these guys collaborating, I'm so glad it happened

  • @CMAlongi
    @CMAlongi5 жыл бұрын

    This was really helpful! I'm writing a sci-fi novel that takes place on another planet, and this helped me figure out what everything looks like.

  • @joeweinberg3108
    @joeweinberg31085 жыл бұрын

    I love her so much!! I can't believe you guys did a collab together!!

  • @paualamar
    @paualamar5 жыл бұрын

    Was I the only one who shouted “NO” at the beginning as if the video was a PBS show?

  • @Julika7
    @Julika75 жыл бұрын

    Why do your graphics look like these from Kurzgesagt?

  • @echtoon

    @echtoon

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's a modern aeshetic used by loads of companies. It's called 'Flat Art,' and you have probably seen it everywhere. The infographics on Google devices and websites for example. The channel probably use the art style because it's simple, modern and visually appealing.

  • @Julika7

    @Julika7

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@echtoon Ah, thank you.

  • @ThunderClawShocktrix

    @ThunderClawShocktrix

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@echtoon its basically like cell shaded cartoons minus the outlines....

  • @cedeelbe

    @cedeelbe

    3 жыл бұрын

    They really don't... Kurzgesagt's art style is more rounded and densely packed.

  • @Robert399
    @Robert3995 жыл бұрын

    Was Earth's sky ever a different colour within the timeframe of multi-cellular life existing?

  • @mateuszjokiel2813

    @mateuszjokiel2813

    2 жыл бұрын

    Almost definitely not. Not at all substantially anyway.

  • @griffincrump5077
    @griffincrump50773 жыл бұрын

    This is so incredibly interesting, and exactly what I was looking for a while back

  • @mranonymous2642
    @mranonymous26425 жыл бұрын

    Just found your channel and it’s one of the best things I’ve seen, immediate sub

  • @Cathowl
    @Cathowl5 жыл бұрын

    I'm shocked I found her shortly BEFORE you recced her. XD I wish you'd had a bit of dialogue about her world idea though. She presented it, but it would have been interesting to hear a discussion about it.

  • @doofmoney3954
    @doofmoney39545 жыл бұрын

    Holy THIS IS THE CROSSOVER I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

  • @thepants1450
    @thepants14502 жыл бұрын

    Unbelievable content, my mind is brimming with ideas now.

  • @rachelb.684
    @rachelb.6842 жыл бұрын

    thanks for putting the script in the description! I have limited data at the moment so i can't watch videos, so that's very helpful.

  • @outeremissary4438
    @outeremissary44385 жыл бұрын

    The crossover we've all been waiting for

  • @florbengorben7651
    @florbengorben76515 жыл бұрын

    YO MY GIRL EWA HITTING UP THE VID WITH THE COOL SHIT. actually though you both were so great in this video and I hope you keep producing content for years to come.

  • @atomicwoodpecker0123
    @atomicwoodpecker01235 жыл бұрын

    I'm digging this epic smooth jazz

  • @mrprofessional1755
    @mrprofessional17555 жыл бұрын

    Love your work m8; don’t stop

  • @wrath908
    @wrath908 Жыл бұрын

    Considering that the alien world I'm building is a planet sitting in outer habitable zone of a k-type orange dwarf, I find the idea of the native plant life having the same green color as earth's to be pretty funny

  • @mycotian
    @mycotian5 жыл бұрын

    :0 the colors i was thinking of for my world were almost exactly the ones given as default in the color calculator!! Also my FAVORITE worldbuilding youtubers in one video?? AMAZING

  • @randallwhite8124
    @randallwhite81242 жыл бұрын

    Amazing and super helpful content once again... can't wait to experiment with these concepts in my exoplanets!! :)

  • @glanni
    @glanni5 жыл бұрын

    Wow, the feeling when you find out two of your favorite world building KZreadrs made a video together

  • @jjju3
    @jjju35 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit airborn biolumenesent plantlife is the fucking craziest shit ive ever heard and I've never more quickly added something to a story

  • @natsunnie
    @natsunnie5 жыл бұрын

    AW YEAH HIT US WITH THAT WORLDBUILDING KNOWLEDGE

  • @quinn7894
    @quinn7894 Жыл бұрын

    In the animations where the sun "grows", when it looks "smaller", it's actually high mass and radiates shorter wavelengths, and when it looks "bigger", it's low mass and radiates longer wavelengths. I got confused the first time I watched this and just realized this now, so I'm leaving this comment in case anyone else is confused.

  • @Lordbionicle
    @Lordbionicle5 жыл бұрын

    Been waiting for this topic for so long. Awwww yiss

  • @Alice-gr1kb
    @Alice-gr1kb5 жыл бұрын

    I was so excited for this video

  • @lapiswolf2780
    @lapiswolf27807 ай бұрын

    I love that city idea at the end.

  • @eve36368
    @eve363685 жыл бұрын

    i do my nails based on the the sky, tree branch silhouettes & stained glass. i enjoyed this video a lot

  • @aisir3725
    @aisir37255 жыл бұрын

    "The bigger the star the bluer the brighter and more vivid sky" White dwarve: am i a joke to you?

  • @robinchesterfield42

    @robinchesterfield42

    5 жыл бұрын

    White dwarf stars would...huh. Well at your planet's original distance (assuming it didn't get totally melted during the red giant stage) it would look like...a star. Maybe a slightly brighter/more noticeable one, but it wouldn't look like a sun at all. Now, if you moved the entire planet/built a Dyson Swarm to within its new, much SMALLER habitable zone...what colour would it make the sky then? Same as other white stars? I dunno... Are we talking like, the same species that used to live around the star back when during its main sequence days, then escaped the solar system during the red giant time and came back to live around the embers (for...sentimental reasons? Bear in mind they'd have BILLIONS of years future technology if it's the same culture more or less.) Or random strangers in a breaking-down colony ship who were getting desperate for someplace to live that wasn't, like, void, and went "Hey, that's a star! Sort of!" The former...wouldn't even bother, they'd be a Kardeshev 3 civilization by then and eating galaxies for breakfast, population-spread wise. If a small colony of a few die-hard crazies, say, only a quadrillion people or so, INSISTED on living near the star because it's their original, awww--they'd live however far away from it they damn well please with artificial megastructures, terraform and sling around planets, dome over things, live in tunnels, genetically engineer plants (or themselves!) to survive the cold...even go digital. Or...a mix of ALL of the above. The stellar refugees from elsewhere, however, might be a newer culture and so for the sake of this we'll say they are. So it comes down to: How close WOULD you have to place a planet to a white dwarf to be within its habitable zone? And from there, that would determine how big it looks in the sky and presumably affect the sky's colour. Unfortunately I can't help you there; I don't even know where the Goldilocks Zone for a dead star would BE. We're probably talking a "year" length of hours... (Can you tell that I love this stuff? And have watched -way too much- just enough Isaac Arthur? :))

  • @abcde_ghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz2188

    @abcde_ghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz2188

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@robinchesterfield42 i know a bit about space as well so i can tell you a bit about the habitable zone around white dwarfs. white dwarfs do have a habitable zone, however that zone will slowly move inwards towards the white dwarf as white dwarfs are dead stars that release all their heat and radiation and slowly cool down over time. this can take many years, maybe millions. the habitable zone would be somewhere around 0.004 - 0.04 astronomical units (au) depending on how old and cool the star is. so, depending on what the the planet's atmosphere is and how old the white dwarf is/how close the planet is to the white dwarf, the colour of the sky would change. a young white dwarf would make a blue sky since they are as hot as our sun (10,000° F), while an old white dwarf would make a more reddish sky since it's very cool. i'm not sure though, these are just theories.

  • @blaked7532
    @blaked75325 жыл бұрын

    damn, i got some inspiration for my dnd custom setting. thanks buddy :)

  • @dragonkid1818
    @dragonkid18185 жыл бұрын

    How could I have missed this. Two of my favourite worldbuilding KZreadrs in a colab?! :O

  • @brunoreis9466
    @brunoreis94665 жыл бұрын

    Best collab

  • @CiperSyntax
    @CiperSyntax5 жыл бұрын

    The growing star is trying to seduce me or what?!

  • @robinchesterfield42

    @robinchesterfield42

    5 жыл бұрын

    It just wants to light up your life! And everyone else's. :)

  • @corenlavolpe6143
    @corenlavolpe61434 жыл бұрын

    Took me a while to find this video again since I didn't save it the first time like a dummy dum. I'm using this as a reference for an alien world to figure out the color scheme, even though it's more fantasy oriented. This is a great video by the way!

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe64625 жыл бұрын

    WRT flair stars, what about just dealing with the flares by losing the visible portion of the plant? Everything is bleached dead from the flare but the root system just pumps out more stems once the flare ends?

  • @owenmicall3117
    @owenmicall31176 ай бұрын

    haza! i have been looking just for something like this!

  • @kosukemiura1226
    @kosukemiura12265 жыл бұрын

    iconic duo

  • @Dracopol
    @Dracopol5 жыл бұрын

    11:04 Thanks to Eva the Alien Girl for talking about her planet and the craaaaazy beings there...

  • @Kurisu2019
    @Kurisu20194 жыл бұрын

    Very informative video!

  • @RWAKitty
    @RWAKitty5 жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad you guys did a video together. You should do more! My only complaint here is that you didn't account for ambient scattering in your examples, which would throw off the colors that you actually see in the image.

  • @DAsObiQuiet
    @DAsObiQuiet5 жыл бұрын

    Alright, so I just watched your entire worldbuilding series from the beginning... and can I say... headache. And yet, I couldn't stop watching! There is SO much amazing information here. It's just... well, mind-blowing. LOL Thank you for making this (although, watching it has made me realize that just making another dimension of Earth would be infinitely easier than building my own... if infinitely less cool). That being said, did you ever accomplish your goal of building an entire galaxy from scratch? And if so, can we see it?

  • @shieldgenerator7
    @shieldgenerator72 жыл бұрын

    this video seems better as a reference during world building than as a source of entertainment

  • @rockclanhawkstar1454
    @rockclanhawkstar14543 жыл бұрын

    Dang man this is really helpful. I am making a Scifi fantasy setting that's a flying space whale. And originally I was thinking of having the atmosphere just blue like earth, but after thinking how the atmosphere would be shaped along with its blue crystal like star I thought it wouldn't make sense for that.

  • @owenslavens5644
    @owenslavens56444 жыл бұрын

    Love the idea of the sky changing color when the suns eclipse each other. It could create some really cool culture. Is there a way to know how often your stars would eclipse each other though?

  • @flameindigo8035

    @flameindigo8035

    Жыл бұрын

    could run a simulation on the orbit of the multiple stars and their planet to see when one would eclipse the other.

  • @alanp741
    @alanp7415 жыл бұрын

    the story from at the end is great. The speech to text made it even better XD

  • @AnkhAnanku

    @AnkhAnanku

    5 жыл бұрын

    alan pompom I’m pretty sure that’s her voice. Ewa isn’t a native English speaker...