Meanwhile in another alien civilization: What if life was carbon-based?

@overscoreSX

4 жыл бұрын

underrated comment! :)

@The_Beast_666

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Hope You’re our only hope!

@getrekt1717

4 жыл бұрын

Damn lol I just commented this and now I feel unoriginal :/

@tgmtf5963

4 жыл бұрын

As a silicone-based creature, i find this accurate!

@evanraymond8728

4 жыл бұрын

Youre creative

Advanced silicon based alien race invades earth. Immediately dies by oxidation

@chairmanofrussia

4 жыл бұрын

TheAlchemist I can just imagine all of their heavily armed warriors dropping to the surface by the hundreds, only to instantly screech in agony before falling to the ground. 😂

@justascarecrow6988

4 жыл бұрын

"CRUSH THOSE VERMIN" *leaves ship and turns into a solid statue* "So, Medusa does exist, huh?"

@taukedabai4613

4 жыл бұрын

@@justascarecrow6988 mind blown. illuminati confirmed

@justascarecrow6988

4 жыл бұрын

@Cekeybula till they get punctured.

@purpleemerald5299

4 жыл бұрын

Franz Zimlich At first I thought you wrote “till they get punched”. I now have the image of a single man running up to a legion of alien soldiers and somehow punching holes into their space suits. XD

"Silicone life would most likely be in the form of microbes" - Puts giant alien worm creature as thumbnail

@porojandaniel5738

4 жыл бұрын

It.s a giant microbe then

@KarusMBII

4 жыл бұрын

Porojan Daniel Yeah, no I don’t think that’s how it works

@AuthorityCat

4 жыл бұрын

Also who said this anyway? With the right conditions, why wouldn't the lifeforms be more advanced? If the structure is the same and simply requires different temperature and atmosphere, what's the big difference that prevents more advanced silicone life? Someone please explain since the video didn't. Also, there are carbon "giant microbes". Large single cell organisms exist.

@voradorhylden3410

4 жыл бұрын

@@AuthorityCat thank you exactly my point

@adamdesouza6153

4 жыл бұрын

@@AuthorityCat He doesn't deny it in the video, it sounds like he does but he just says ANY life would likely be microbes because complex life is rare for other reasons. but if a silicon based organism can communicate between cells and bond to eachother in a similar way to our ones, then there shouldn't be much differene

Meanwhile... Silicon Lifeforms: If carbon life forms did exist, they would most likely only exist in microbe form because larger multi-cell creatures will need a lot of water to be sustained.

@matrixarsmusicworkshop561

4 жыл бұрын

: D Underrated comment

@SteelBerserkChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant XD

@blueJay196

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh that kinda blew my mind

@theiridiumgamer5225

4 жыл бұрын

Compared to how we also work with minimum settings, that does make a lot of scenes

@legendarypussydestroyer6943

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but water is literally the most abundant molecule in the universe.

Somewhere in the universe there is a video about "What if life was Carbon based?"

@cannedmusic

4 жыл бұрын

And the video would probably speculate that we survive on that noxious gas called oxygen.

@cormacb2326

4 жыл бұрын

@@cannedmusic Maybe even using that incredibly reactive and toxic liquid, water, as a solvent.

@amolmohadikar6716

3 жыл бұрын

@@cormacb2326 yes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@mmaking7382

3 жыл бұрын

With infinite timelines and infinite possibilities, yes

@mrpedrobraga

3 жыл бұрын

@@IAmMuffin. yes, it's right there

Aliens: Entering Earth Oxygen : Iam about to end this man's whole career.

@calencrawford2195

4 жыл бұрын

Diseases: I'm 'bout to end this man's whole career.

@ILoveYou-uo1xb

4 жыл бұрын

@@calencrawford2195 lol

@xenodrone3367

4 жыл бұрын

@@calencrawford2195 war of worlds

@SirKolass

4 жыл бұрын

I'm about to end this alien's whole career*

@dylanhinegardner6778

4 жыл бұрын

Just as we can survive for periods of time in zero oxygen environments, what makes you think they could not do the opposite, given that they would have already traveled through deep space.

Aliens currently getting priced out of Titan’s tech hub, Carbon Valley.

@dddf27

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@c.s.robertsstephensen4133

4 жыл бұрын

titancloud DUHHH!!!

@nichsulol4844

3 жыл бұрын

@@dddf27 a thumbnail nothing this machine A.I own their favorite to doing weird

@claywebb786

3 жыл бұрын

DAD JOKE OF THE YEAR!! 🤠

@mikeeclipse

3 жыл бұрын

@@nichsulol4844 what the f**k are you talking about?

Complex silicon lifeforms: We will conquer earth hydrogen fluoride: I'm gonna stop you right there

@robloxtriothecommenter6639

3 жыл бұрын

Sodium chloride

Meanwhile in another silicon-based civilisation: USING CARBON FOR THEIR CPU.

@asahmosskmf4639

4 жыл бұрын

Silicone based life comes to earth, sees computers and immediately leaves the planet lol !

@escape9014

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf ,you humans are made up of carbon

@jameswilkes451

4 жыл бұрын

Quantum computers can use carbon atoms to code on, but so far all they can do is simple equations like 3+4=7

@ivanrubiomorales1818

4 жыл бұрын

SOMEONE SAID IT

@frost3dart

4 жыл бұрын

@@asahmosskmf4639 what if they see kim kardashian bootie?

If alien life was silicon-based, then the aliens would want carbon gel to increase their breast size.

@ub3rfr3nzy94

4 жыл бұрын

Petrolium implants.

@calencrawford2195

4 жыл бұрын

I like your account picture. Shogi is fun.

@Mycatisinapiano

4 жыл бұрын

Assuming they evan have breasts and have intreats in them

@unixpert321

4 жыл бұрын

Silicon-Silicone There's a difference

@fwMMVII

4 жыл бұрын

>_>

What did Spok say? "It's life captain.....but not as we know it"

@RedmarKerkhof

4 жыл бұрын

I'm disappointed that they didn't even mention Star Trek in this video. It's one of the few pieces of media that has even paid attention to silicon based life in the pas half century.

Carbon based life: breathes into silicon-based lifeform. Silicon-based life: *turns into stone* im medusa.

@skepabbas9400

Жыл бұрын

Don't we breathe out Carbon dioxide?

I've solved it. Thanos is made of purple silicon

@escape9014

4 жыл бұрын

So silicon is stronger than vibranium😒

@c.glazercrush3994

4 жыл бұрын

@@escape9014 maybe that's why he was so hard to kill.

@spaceowl9246

4 жыл бұрын

haHAA a thanos joke LUL

@ceiling771

4 жыл бұрын

Boof 😂

@MrBones-yc1jg

4 жыл бұрын

No wonder hes angry,hes reminded of barney everyday.

"And no life could possibly begin in that state." - this is EXACTLY the problem you outlined in the beginning - limiting out definition of life to something tangentially related to earthly life.

@kevmasengale6903

4 жыл бұрын

That's the big problem with most "scientist" who study this stuff. They can't look outside the box and realize we don't know shit about the universe. They always have to be right, even if it's wrong.

@WhiteGinger10000

4 жыл бұрын

If we are ever going to find extraterrestrial life, whether it be microbe or an advanced race, we will definitely need to think outside the box and think what life is truly capable of instead of it being based on what we see on Earth.

@Xomage999

4 жыл бұрын

What 'life' is, is a fairly open definition for researchers looking for extraterrestrial life, but we have solid evidence for life that requires water and speculation for life that does not. Part of it is going to be an issue of narrowing down probabilities as well as human interest. Establish how common earth-like exoplanets are vs methane balls vs less ideal candidates to enable better more accurate modeling. Plus, humanity as a whole will care a lot more if a potentially colonizable world is found than some oxygenless wasteland with microbes. Science is a process.

@MalcolmBlk

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevmasengale6903 "most scientists" use the scientific method, which relies on constant testing and verification of any model. If the current (tested and verified to the best of our current abilities) model is showing that life cannot begin as a solid - scientists will assume that is correct until proven otherwise. It's not about being right, it's about using the scientific method to find out the truth.

@Aplesedjr

4 жыл бұрын

Malcolm Black the scientific method doesn’t work with this very well though. We have extensive research about life on a single planet. That’s it. That life is extremely varied, but it’s all still bound to earth. We haven’t even found life elsewhere, much less studied it, so we can’t say what the absolute rules for life are. For anyone to assume they know how the entirety of a facet of the universe works without looking beyond earth would be folly.

“In our OWN SOLAR SYSTEM” *proceeds to show a picture of the eggs from alien*

Before my lifetime is over, I'd very much like it if we finally discover an actual alien species out there. That'd be the greatest moment, I believe.

@Firedragon-cv9oj

2 жыл бұрын

not really even if there was evidence of alien life we would probably be a way to far away to meet them since there messages would taken millions of years to reach us

@billsmith987

2 жыл бұрын

@@Firedragon-cv9oj Not far away at all. They are here and seem friendly👍

@aidanmatthewgalea7761

2 жыл бұрын

that would be called contact and it would be a milestone for our species

@billsmith987

2 жыл бұрын

@@aidanmatthewgalea7761 not sure if it was actually contact, but I was aware of it, and it was aware of me.

@billsmith987

2 жыл бұрын

@TIGHT FUCKABLE DICKHOLE best summary I've ever heard of how 'intelligent ' we 'are'👍

We should try that scenario in a lab to see if silicon based life is possible.

@anuragkumar2062

4 жыл бұрын

Its tried and tested and yes it's possible

@Packrunner4

4 жыл бұрын

jonathan smith that’s a trilion dollar idea

@The_Beast_666

4 жыл бұрын

jonathan smith you sir are a genius. None of the scientists in the whole wide world have ever thought about this!

@Navaneethkrishnamar

4 жыл бұрын

@@The_Beast_666 did they told you

@roufeyel7866

4 жыл бұрын

How

Two types of silicon-based life. 1. Robots 2. Life made of silicon

@Ali107

4 жыл бұрын

*Hmmm yes, this silicon life form is made out of silicon*

@taventube2151

4 жыл бұрын

Robots aren't alive

@Ali107

4 жыл бұрын

@@taventube2151 what is alive? I meant mentally alive in terms that a thing can think or feel. Robots can get self aware and have feelings, it's just that we haven't made suck robot that can think like it's self aware.

@taventube2151

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ali107 robots can only go off of programming they have no free will

@Ali107

4 жыл бұрын

@@taventube2151 you know there are stuff called self learning or machine learning? It makes the AI rewrite its own program making it self aware, only if we reach the technology level to the point we could make a robot actually self aware. Right now, self learning and machine learning are just used to predict marketing things and do basic tasks.

My chemistry study in school actually makes sense now. Silicon is also, like carbon, tetravalent and can form covalent bonds with various elements. All while having extended flexibility.

@osamabinladen824

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Now I'm eating sand for breakfast.

@tysondennis1016

2 жыл бұрын

@@osamabinladen824 Wilbur?

@johndawson6057

Жыл бұрын

@@tysondennis1016 Osama Wilbur "Willy" Bin Laden😂

@tysondennis1016

Жыл бұрын

@@johndawson6057 That gives my the idea of Wilbur doing 9/11, before chewing the scenery. “Ahhh…MY TWIN TOWERS, PHIL! MY UNFINISHED SYMPHONY, FOREVER UNFINISHED! IF I CAN’T HAVE THEM, NO ONE CAN, PHIL!”

This is the same idea behind "Transformers".. there was a story in one of the comics explaining it in more details. But that's how they didn't need oxygen and extreme cold was hazzardous. Although their home planet is often showed to just be all on it's own, it was explained that it was once very close to a sun, before getting ejected. It would have been a world we could never survive in. After life had developed, starting as silicon based, it collected and more metals via evolution (including carbon, among others) becoming more metallic based to protect again the cold when the planet was ejected and then that metal sheld and started moving onto actual machines. Heat was harvested from the core. But by then they had provided their own heat sources both from deep in the planet and themselbes. You know how computers often overheat? Same idea. I know it's sci-fi but sci-fi is usually based on some sort of truth... and this idea was around for a while. Just something interesting...

@technostalgic4979

4 жыл бұрын

Computers overheat because we provide energy to them through electricity that we harvest through the sun. (except in the case that your electricity comes from a nuclear power plant). All other sources of energy come from the sun. You can't "produce your own heat" or any other form of energy from nothing.

@atgwiuz

4 жыл бұрын

@@technostalgic4979 computers overheat because of resistance of the semi conductors in the processor.

@technostalgic4979

4 жыл бұрын

@@atgwiuz no shit, Sherlock. You know what these semi conductors are resisting? Electrical current. See the rest of my comment.

@atgwiuz

4 жыл бұрын

@Phil Ofthefuture yeah thanks for the acknowledgement and I know I'm not dumb. That guy is just butthurt I corrected him for giving incomplete information. The current is not the only parameter that heat produced depends on.

@technostalgic4979

4 жыл бұрын

@Phil Ofthefuture I OVER explained it? by saying the warming up of computers is caused by electrical current? And this other guy came out of nowhere for no reason and tried to sound smart by saying "computers overheat because of resistance of the semi conductors in the processor." and I'm the one over explaining it? lol okay.

What if aliens would die as soon as they enter in Earth's atmosphere and maybe that's why they're not visiting Earth?

@snipeselite4

4 жыл бұрын

Ok bro

@951perres6

4 жыл бұрын

Stay right where you are.

@billysmiley6780

4 жыл бұрын

What if there was no music

@bl0bf1sh50

4 жыл бұрын

Dude if they've figured out bout the existence of humans they are most likely advance enough to make suits that can withstand Earth's "rough" climate

@madhusudhan2661

4 жыл бұрын

@@bl0bf1sh50 Maybe they are trying that that's why it's taking them time.

The moment he starts talking about **Carbon** ..... *Ah Shit,Here we go again*

@Aura96968

4 жыл бұрын

No shit Sherlock

@akashdeb5201

4 жыл бұрын

@@Aura96968 Why so salty,kid?

@Aura96968

4 жыл бұрын

@@akashdeb5201 it's a pun/joke.

@The-wo4du

4 жыл бұрын

Oops your name contain deb that means u r from ... Yeah u get it

@MrPr1nglz

4 жыл бұрын

@@The-wo4du No I don't..... please do educate me on what "deb" implies

I'm imagining Titan is filled with sentient super-worms now.

@j0epa51

3 жыл бұрын

How much more mass does a silicon molecule have.. .how does Titans gravity effect locomotion

@polinttalu7102

3 жыл бұрын

So... The Hive gods lmao

That’s the problem with us trying to find life on other planets we assume that because we need water to live everything in the universe needs water to live

@peoplez129

4 жыл бұрын

Water is important in many ways toward developing life. Firstly, it allows materials that would otherwise be disparate, to intermingle, for long periods of time. If you have water in a constant liquid state, rather than evaporated or frozen, that's a sign of a stable environment, which is paramount for the beginnings of life. You need millions of years of a fairly stable range of conditions for life to develop and grow enough to be able to resist larger environmental changes. Cell membranes are essentially lipid (fat/oil) layers that allow them to stay separate from water, which allows for a whole range of complex interactions. Since water is pretty abundant in the universe, it's safe to say that it would be the most likely precursor to finding life. Water on its own though, is fairly inert, which also helps. It gives a medium for things to intermingle, without actually causing any kind of odd interactions that would otherwise mess up chemical reactions that could keep life from happening. Carbon is also very abundant. So while silicon life could be potentially possible, it's highly likely that silicon life is a much harder path for life to take and be successful. But any cells would need cell walls, and honestly, we really don't know what kind of cell walls would be naturally possible that could help silicon survive in its environment, especially when we're talking about high temp methane environments. So when we say silicon life is possible, that's not really true. What they're really saying is a small part of what makes life possible, is possible with silicon. The problem for silicon also, is that silicon itself is fairly inert and doesn't interact with much. So it would be pretty difficult for any silicon based life to actually get very far, and it would likely progress at such a slow rate, that environmental conditions would change faster than silicon based life could adapt.

@kipter

4 жыл бұрын

We haven't observed any other kind of life so we have to go off the assumption that carbon based life is all we are going to find

@CheapseaChicken

4 жыл бұрын

that really isnt the main problem we face when searching for life

@hunterjenkins3209

4 жыл бұрын

Water has very specific properties that allow it to be optimal for life to form.

@cormacb2326

4 жыл бұрын

@@hunterjenkins3209 There are compunds with simmilar properties.

I always had this thought honestly, that why do we even associate water with life ... And why why can't there be life that doesn't need water or oxygen but some other element altogether!

@The_Beast_666

4 жыл бұрын

Soumyashish Das there’s no life without water!

@fergoka

4 жыл бұрын

@@The_Beast_666 lol what? Have you ckeck every single planets, moons and large interstellar objects to come to this conclusion in the known universe? Or you say this with 0 proof in your hand based on a single example, us?

@fergoka

4 жыл бұрын

@Unbreakable Patches You know, drawing a conclusion (or forging ideas out if this for that matter) based on a single 1 example is the best recipe for a major failure, statistically speaking. P. S. Tt Miller has right. We are discovering new elements all the time, adding a new one to the periodic table in every 2-3 years. So who knows how many element truly exists in the physical universe. Remember that we aren't a clever race, we pollute and kill the planet we depend from. We know nothing. Borderline.

@w1z4rd9

4 жыл бұрын

fergoka well said

@netbotcl586

4 жыл бұрын

because we need water, and we try to find where we can live, not finding alien life; and the universe is vast, so planets with water are prioritized.

These aliens might have carbon chips in their computers.

@Edzhjus

3 жыл бұрын

There was cartoons such as Bikermice from Mars, Beast Wars Transformers..

@flygreen2522

3 жыл бұрын

They might be tasty

1:50 "organic alien life"... No, no, no. If it's organic it involves carbon, that's what organic means. Silicon-based life would be inorganic by definition.

@coolstuff4640

4 жыл бұрын

Then we would just redefine the word.

@jailoutafreecard4414

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolstuff4640 there would need to be a new word for silicon based living tissue

@condeuiosandilixtos7858

4 жыл бұрын

Does that mean that silicon-based lifeforms would feel somewhat metalic and dry? Just wondering if they would be as squishy as us carbon-based lifeforms.

@jailoutafreecard4414

4 жыл бұрын

@@condeuiosandilixtos7858 flesh is always squishy. They could have hard shells like insects or crustaceans though.

@nitesan2814

4 жыл бұрын

Organic just means domething living or that was once livng. Plastic is organic

Me: a plain carbon-based organism Alien: a plain silicon-based organism

What if “WHAT IF” did a face reveal?

@good-gpt2-chatbot

4 жыл бұрын

that's a story for another what if..

@rickyshah2454

4 жыл бұрын

We will die i guess

@punicagranatum8414

4 жыл бұрын

Ricky Shah LMAO

@350SSLT1

4 жыл бұрын

A.I runs the page lol

@dominicpersaud1155

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he is an alien or maybe he is an A.I

Somewhere in a distant sentient silicon based society: What if life were carbon based?

@suhanesetne985

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they are transformers or somethin

@ls200076

4 жыл бұрын

@Smarticus You never know. Remember Space is big, bigger than you think.

@donkeykong4983

4 жыл бұрын

suhane setne Yeah

@AuthorityCat

4 жыл бұрын

@Smarticus What if the life reacted with Methane in its gas state?

@calencrawford2195

4 жыл бұрын

@SmarticusThe thing is, even water can become ice at 1000 degrees celsius, provided gravity is high enough. Liquid Methane could appear in a really large, dense planet. It could even form in a moon close to a large, dense planet.

Now for the opposite end of the temperature scale: What if alien life was Ammonia-Based?

@JimmyCerra

4 жыл бұрын

Ammonia contains nitrogen. Long chains of nitrogen easily decompose into N2. This is what makes them explosive.

@wsp233

4 жыл бұрын

@@JimmyCerra Soo... they like space arabs??

@thesaiyannes9202

4 жыл бұрын

@friikz as someone who also makes alien species and planets with unique chemical attributes/evolution, this is a fascinating approach to Amono-based organisms. this is really cool and multi-layered to think about, I've had to create species before but never considered one with an ammonia base component. you did an excellent job explaining your point and a fantastic job coming up with this theoretical form of life. I had to make my stuff for a story I've been working on for quite a long time (I created a large interactive universe practically (3 separate languages, a new time-scale, and multiple forms of measurements, and my very own encryption code) but I'm curious to know what you're working on with this in mind

@thesaiyannes9202

4 жыл бұрын

@friikz yeah trust me I know the feeling, I've been working on this story for roughly 8-9 years now, and I'm still not really sure how to go about making it a reality ;-; see I'm wanting it to be an animated series like an anime or such, but with no funding, minimalist artistic skills, and no insight to the world of animation it's not exactly easy. not to mention I'm not really the best when it comes to trying to get a following (I suck at social media) but anyway. yeah a couple of the species in my series aren't humanoid as well, because I want the story to be as realistic as possible and let's face it the human body is *far* from perfect, and certain environmental factors would support different body structures, but I keep finding myself making characters that are humanoid regardless of anything I suppose simply because the instinct is to make things that seem "familiar" or "normal" so it makes it difficult to sympathize with non-humanoid characters. (wow I'm rambling) anyway, I went way off topic so I'll just end it here lol

@cookieviper3264

4 жыл бұрын

@friikz please make more of these for other elements i love this

When u realize the earth is just a Minecraft server.

@blueJay196

4 жыл бұрын

If that's true imagine the graphics in the real world we must look like pixelated shiiiiitt

@Lovish8190

4 жыл бұрын

Well thought !!👍🏻😀

@LoboVR07

4 жыл бұрын

And ur minecraft girlfriend is your bully

@kalwidorntheimmortalcaptai2435

4 жыл бұрын

@@blueJay196 joke tho chill XD

@indayteray8647

4 жыл бұрын

When u realize that we live in a simulation made by Minecraft redstone engineers

What if WHAT IF gives me heart😵

@yourdad6501

4 жыл бұрын

Heh...

@BasoSonia

4 жыл бұрын

grats

@yourdad6501

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Sathish_12

4 жыл бұрын

@@Arcanikeswhat if " what if " is not a single person?

@rockboi91

4 жыл бұрын

Haha

I always thought about this as a kid after I understood why being a carbon based lifeform made us so versatile and have so much variation. Then learning silicone had the similar properties immediately made me think that maybe they could have complex chemical patterns to form lifeforms. Why not the universe has shown its capabilities to make far more unlucky possibilities. What if the vast majority of life in the universe is silicone as they would be capable of surviving much more harse environments than carbon based. What if we drew that short straw and just happen to develop on a planet that wouldn't allow silicon life to survive and we are screwed and trapped on this little island while most other civilizations can just hope about without fear. We always hold ourselves so special. I would kinda think it was hilarious if we are the sickly runts of the litter that cant go outside that cave.

@kellocouncil4121

Жыл бұрын

"Right here, Inquisitior.

@orlandovazquez9662

Жыл бұрын

@@kellocouncil4121 Heresy, anyone?☠️

@someguywithangerissues566

Жыл бұрын

You def get bullied bro 💀

@cirejc2235

10 ай бұрын

tbh, it's likely silicon based life would be less complex and appear more like rocks rather than lifeforms due to silicon's nature, carbon is simply a better building block

@brotherhoodofsteeld.c.chap1917

5 ай бұрын

@@cirejc2235Very true, they would be able to survive harsher conditions but we will always be much more advanced and capable of adapting to other worlds, while they are stuck to their single hell-world.

This is what I’ve always thought when they say a planet is void of life because it’s too hot/ too cold or has no oxygen or water. There are many planets and many other elements from which life could sustain on.

"Jovian Scientists sit around asking if life could be made of any element as reactive as carbon, or survive in the highly flammable oxygen atmospheres of Rocky planets like earth." - Jack Cohen

@seamusmckeon9109

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. If we were to look at earth the same way we look at alien planets for life, we would only get a 80% on the scale

What if makes me wonder about things I never thought I’d be thinking about

@WhatIfScienceShow

4 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned! :)

@The_Beast_666

4 жыл бұрын

mellovesmusic that’s the idea!

There is probably some silicon based alien out there watching a video called "What if Alien Life Was Carbon-Based" lol

@oktawidiasa9440

4 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in paralel universe...

@alstone4253

4 жыл бұрын

They'd be like wow they could actually survive in oxygen?! That's crazy!

@suhanesetne985

4 жыл бұрын

They needed water?! Dats a story for another what if

Movie at 0:19 is Alien: Covenant. Movie at 4:45 is Life (2017).

The number of comments conflating silicon and silicone is staggering

@disciple68

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah cuz silicone doesn't have any silicon! (sarcastic)

@TheHolyFox123

4 жыл бұрын

Jaime Navarro thats like saying oxygen and water are the same bc water has oxygen molecules

@froggobaggins3328

4 жыл бұрын

you can't blame them . Who is the idiot who thought it was a good idea to give the almost same name to differents thing?

@cormacb2326

4 жыл бұрын

@@froggobaggins3328 I agree with you but I do like the sound of silicone.

Anybody else ever see the original Star Trek series episode "Devil in the Dark" with the silicon based lifeform known as the Horta.

@InfectedChris

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, one of my favs since I was a kid. My dad explained the whole chemistry of it since he had to learn lots of chemistry for his doctorate.

@mechatecha8514

4 жыл бұрын

@@InfectedChris ok boomer

@InfectedChris

4 жыл бұрын

@@mechatecha8514 Uh, I'm 25 and have the ability to watch shows from the 1960's.

@mechatecha8514

4 жыл бұрын

@@InfectedChris it was just a joke.

@MariaMartinez-researcher

4 жыл бұрын

@Millenial King You don't need to be an archaeologist to watch the episodes and movies of a franchise that had been in production through the past 50 years, available in CBS All Access, Netflix around the world, and multiple piracy websites. Star Trek Picard airing now, the third season of Discovery in the works, other two series at least in pre-production, and also a movie. Plenty to enjoy, including a very interesting episode about a silicon based lifeform. Which would give you the background to understand plenty of allusions, parodies and jokes in many new movies and series. That's called popular culture for you 😀.

This video will go down as possible one of the most accurate in this alien life prediction

@lebonr8268

4 жыл бұрын

Bhuvanesh s.k i agree

@The_Beast_666

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@ManOfTheWildWoods

4 жыл бұрын

There were several errors/oversimplifications in this video and there are better videos on this subject out there.

@Mr.Obongo

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah up until we discover alien life or they discover us (they already have they just won’t contact) then the whole microbe idea would fall apart. Not saying there isn’t microbial life in the universe, of course there is it’s just people act like that’s all the life there is, like it’s just microbes and then there’s us and everything on this planet that just happened to stand out and not consist of only microbes for once, yeah I ain’t buying it.

@Mr.Obongo

4 жыл бұрын

Hedara Helix agreed there is

Nice video. I've always felt that we've been looking for life in the universe using a very narrow specification on what life is. If we started expanding that search to include life in any form, regardless of composition, I'm sure our chances of finding Alien life will increase exponentially. It doesn't have to be carbon-based in order to be life.

Meanwhile silicone civilization: if carbon life existed it would most likely be found near the surface where it is extremely cold

@HoodlumMedia

3 жыл бұрын

If life was spent near the core, would you have a knowledge of the surface or space? Interesting to think about...

What if every object in the solar system collided? If you like this idea please like it so it can be seen 🧐 Edit:Ik we would all die, and Ik most of the objects would get swallowed by the sun but I think it would be interesting to see how the sun would react to all of this and how the solar system would function and ps I’m not going to play universe sandbox 2 its not as accurate as I’d like it to be

@WhatIfScienceShow

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the idea!

@Void_Dweller7

4 жыл бұрын

What If No Problem 😊

@Light-rs6jp

4 жыл бұрын

@@WhatIfScienceShow I have an idea too the idea is that what if God existed and if you can make a vedio on it plz give me a shout out

@ATERAH

4 жыл бұрын

cool what if idea

@Nene_760

4 жыл бұрын

Finally a good comment that's actually about the video ! And great idea .

What if coastal cities went underwater? Who would still be there?

@300ml_brasil

4 жыл бұрын

Good one

@iwiffitthitotonacc4673

4 жыл бұрын

Aquaman of course.

@WhatIfScienceShow

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your suggestion!

@gustavoc305

4 жыл бұрын

@@WhatIfScienceShowWhat if the American Revolution failed?

@chadatl7217

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully all the politicians.

-The Simpsons- >Dr. Hibbert “is the alien life carbon based or silicon based” >Homer “Uh... the second one. Zilliphone.”

Imagine a war: silicon kingdom vs carbon kingdom Result we will burn into CO2

What if dogs evolved like humans did OR What if dogs were as intelligent as humans

@andrejahacic1325

4 жыл бұрын

I actually know dogs more intelligent than some humans

@Moonz97

4 жыл бұрын

What if humans evolved like dogs did

@polandball9937

4 жыл бұрын

What if humana were as intelligent as dogs*

@bl0bf1sh50

4 жыл бұрын

Well Donald Trump evolved like a dog

@DiorskiePrepossessing

4 жыл бұрын

@@andrejahacic1325 yeah you're that human

1:47 "Organic" literally just means "carbon based" like I can't

@thedestructionzone12

4 жыл бұрын

@@DigitalEWhore That's completely untrue. It's not prominently of that meaning at all. Organic, scientifically, means a molecule containing carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. Predominantly it involves a carbon atom bonded to something else. Additionally, its biological origin is not the question. There are many organic molecules that don't have a biological origin. In fact, there are databases full of hundreds of thousands of molecules that don't have biological origins.

@Johny117x

4 жыл бұрын

@@thedestructionzone12 "Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline of chemistry that studies the structure, properties and reactions of organic compounds, which contain carbon in covalent bonding" - Wikipedia

@buttsufancypantsu1644

4 жыл бұрын

@@thedestructionzone12 The word 'biological origin" appears absolutely 0 times in my original comment, please go bark on another tree This is a video specifically about NON carbon based life, the use of the term "organic" to refer to silicon based life in this context is utterly moronic

@ub3rfr3nzy94

4 жыл бұрын

@@buttsufancypantsu1644 It's not that moronic. This channel isn't run by scientists so they don't know. Because the term "organic" is always used when referring to life (on eaerth) it's incorrectly become synonymous with "biological". It's like how people call home grown produce "organic". I wouldn't blame the ordinary person for not knowing what organic means considering how it's been repurposed in the 21st century.

@buttsufancypantsu1644

4 жыл бұрын

@@ub3rfr3nzy94 I don't care whether this channel is run by scientists or not, and this isn't my first issue with the lazy way it chooses to present its "facts". If you want to make a video about non carbon based life, on a channel that is purely focused on semi-plausible or realistic scenarios, you should also be able to do some basic research and learn what the word "organic" actually means within the context of biology / chemistry. P.S. - I'm not a scientist either, how the fk did I know that?

"Potentially silicon could be a building block of organic alien life" Well no because organic refers to the life we see here on earth

@davidschwimmer7940

4 жыл бұрын

Does it though?

@pyark

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidschwimmer7940 absolutely positive, organic life is litterally defined as carbonbased life.

@davidschwimmer7940

4 жыл бұрын

@@pyark Yeah I'm gonna need a source on that.

@pyark

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidschwimmer7940 Yeah I'm not gonna waste my time trying to prove anything online sorry, feel free to use google.

@cormacb2326

4 жыл бұрын

@Alexander Markland I doubt it. Organic doesn't mean biological, it just means carbon based. Organic chemicals that came existence via non-biological means exist.

Those kids in school who thought aliens were living on mars: *our life has been a lie*

@doctorb.r.u.hofficial6457

3 жыл бұрын

TIME TO LIKE MY OWN COMMENT ;w;

Damn i remember like 6 months ago What If only had a couple hundred thousand subscribers. Growing fast

@WaffleSauze

4 жыл бұрын

weird flex but ok

@brettbocik7880

4 жыл бұрын

@@WaffleSauze nothing weird about my comment fuckface

@Asterite

4 жыл бұрын

@@brettbocik7880 get help :).

@brettbocik7880

4 жыл бұрын

@@Asterite 😁

@bleach4052

4 жыл бұрын

Blue car

Wow!! Never thought of Silicon lifeforms... Best innovative channel..

@WhatIfScienceShow

4 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned! :)

I had this conversation with an avid Alien believer 3 year's ago, and today iam watching a What If video about the same conversation. Awesome.

Thank you so much for crediting the original video you got the thumbnail from

What if humans never existed? Honestly idk why but I wanna know that😂

@RainKaythiel

4 жыл бұрын

Natalija Petrov our earth wouldn’t be dying out

@theswagateer2806

4 жыл бұрын

Natalija Petrov Just watch the anime called Dr. Stone. This basically shows you what earth would look like when humans never existed for thousands of years.

@pauldavis5665

4 жыл бұрын

All the animal life would be happier.

@rizaruschwartz9357

4 жыл бұрын

there's no massive garbage floating in the middle in the ocean.

@adityaadit2004

4 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't type this if humans didn't exist

Why I always get goosebumps when you say “That's a story for another What if"? 🤔😂

Thank you for an interesting video on silicon life forms. Anything is possible in an infinite universe and I would not be surprised if silicon forms exist somewhere in the boundless cosmos. The fact that anything exist period is astonishing ! All the best !

The video and animation in" what if "seems to be getting better each time.

I always though science was narrow in it's search for life. Thank you What If!

What if money has no value? •Would it start a war? •What would the many countries look like? This is What If and here’s what would happen if money had no value. 😭👏🏽

@oktawidiasa9440

4 жыл бұрын

I think they already make a video about that topic

@WhatIfScienceShow

4 жыл бұрын

Check this out! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dnyc0ZqJkZO1Zqw.html

It's super mindblowing. I haven't consider that an extraterrestrial life could have a different building blocks compared to us here on earth. Cool, this video has just given more questions in my mind

"What If Alien Life Was Silicon-Based?" "Could it withstand hot temperatures?" He says right before he starts looking at Titan, which has an average temperature of -290 degrees Fahrenheit and probably couldn't even support immobile silicon-based lifeforms, let alone mobile ones. Not to mention that we've landed a probe there before and are pretty sure that there are just rocks and crystalized liquids on that moon. THEN when he finally realizes that Titan can't even remotely support silicon-based life, he spends the last minute and a half saying that it would probably just be unicellular. And here I thought someone would add some new insight or something, what a waste of time.

If they were I would have actually raided Area 51 so I could get some even better alien cheeks I just realized that it says “silicon” not “silicone” so that would be worse that regular old aliens. lol an alien is an alien so go for it anyways

@futurespaceship3000

4 жыл бұрын

I tell you. Secret space program powered lunar operation command. Real extraterrestrial alien work in the lunar operation command is in the moon and mars. Alien life form inside the inner of mars and moon.

*IF ALIEN LIFE WAS SILICON BASED* *BUT DO ALIENS EXISTS ?*

@dylanmcadam8509

4 жыл бұрын

@Tai Ho’o maybe

@dylanmcadam8509

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe

@johnbell5398

4 жыл бұрын

Johnbellkill

@indianrail-addicts3320

4 жыл бұрын

There are billions and billions of planets in our Galaxy only so imagine the whole universe so probability of existence of other species on those planets are very very high

@phenomenalone7241

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

The weakness of silicon as a source for an alien's version of DNA (whatever it may be) is that the bonds it forms are weaker than carbon bonds. Carbon is quite unique in the periodic table for the strength and number of its bonds, only opposed by things like hydrogen oxygen bonds, which are strong due to oxygen being quite negatively charged and hydrogen being quite positively charged. This would perhaps make them unable to survive in earth-like temperatures, because the integrity of their DNA may be compromised in the higher temperatures, especially if they are evolved to survive on as cold a place as Titan.

Thanks , for your show. You rock 👍

I wouldn't assume all life needs warmth either. I think our imagining of how life should be is too much thinking about how life is on Earth for us.

@IamINERT

3 жыл бұрын

we have to base it on our assumptions because we are the only life we know. Its better to be specific and actually have a goal in mind.

@JasonVectrex_187

3 жыл бұрын

@@IamINERT no because then you ignore all other possibilities, its closed minded

@IamINERT

3 жыл бұрын

@@JasonVectrex_187 no it can'r possibly be. We need actual facts to know what to look for. As I said earlier we only know about life based on our planet so its best to be specific of what we are looking for to increase the chances of actually finding life. If we somehow miraculously found silicon based life, that would be a different story.

@JasonVectrex_187

3 жыл бұрын

@@IamINERT you need to go back to school....yes obviously look for water and warmth first, but we assume that thats what you need, really all that's probably needed is energy or material transferring, in any kind of temperature or environment.

@IamINERT

3 жыл бұрын

@@JasonVectrex_187 No that's not what we are doing. We only can look for what we can based on facts. End of story. Facts. If Silicon life comes along. Then it becomes facts. But at the end of the day. Facts. Its pretty meaningless trying to explain to you at this point. Good life.

I've been asking this for years. We are always looking for carbon based life... So many building blocks in the universe, carbon is just one of the simplest, it ultimately means nothing in the complexity of the universe(s)!

@ChinnuSped

Жыл бұрын

yeh but it's better to look for something we have some understanding about (carbon based life) than something we don't even think possible and understand (silicon based life)

@brookekathryn1980

Жыл бұрын

@@ChinnuSped it's true, but what's even crazier and more fun is the fact that other life forms can exist in other variations.

I think that when aliens land in this planet, they'll be really small, and we won't realize they are in the spaceship.

@kashutosh9132

4 жыл бұрын

It was in a episode of doraemon and those aliens come from a small rock revolving moon

I knew it! I specifically searched for this. All my life I have wondered what if life can form from another key element? I do believe we are on the right track.

What if Alien life was silicon based? Theyd move into silicon vally

What if supermutants are real?

@WhatIfScienceShow

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the idea!

This video was amazing👍

This is a random question I always wondered thank you

Titan is theorized to have liquid oceans beneath that ice.

@midnight8341

4 жыл бұрын

There is no frozen surface on Titan... It's completely rocky and oceans of alkenes, like methane and ethane. What you mean are Europa or Enceladus.

"what if alien life was silicon-based?", "It would ve different than carbon-based". Thanks what if, i needed 5 minutes to conclude that.

You gave me hope and then you straight up smashed it

great illustrations.👍

We can't find them because universe is extremely vast(unimaginable)

@CampaignerSC

4 жыл бұрын

People spend time imagining it though, lol. So I guess it isn't unimaginable at all.

I swear this channels answers my shower thoughts 💭😂

@WhatIfScienceShow

4 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned! :)

one day there will be legends about how silicon based life arose from Silicon Valley, and they will praise their ancient carbon based builders that went extinct millennia ago

Anytime you see a strange alien quartz statue it is actually just silicon aliens entering the atmosphere

Question: What if you lived on the dwarf planet Pluto??

The fact that there is frozen water mean there is oxygen! I'm sure water i made up of hydrogen and oxygen. Those silicone organism must have use for all that water.

@artificialartist1

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not water.. it’s methane

Narrator: what if life was silicon based? Me: they probably wouldn’t need potholders when getting cookies out of the oven.

We haven’t seen aliens yet because we barely left our home planet

What if silicon based aliens are thinking whether carbon based life forms exists🤔🤔🤔🤔

What if Saturn was entirely mad of oxygen?

a horned viper hiding in sand is basically all you need to confirm a silicon alien hybrid configuration, compared to us humble ordinary human beans

What if we're the advanced beings in the galaxy/universe and the other species are still in their infancy?

@cesarefildani8260

3 жыл бұрын

that is both scary and awesome.

Then silicon is the base of alien life

@CampaignerSC

4 жыл бұрын

No, carbon is still more likely because it is more plentiful and has more potential formations. Silicon is merely a possibility.

But I hope that these aliens won’t attack us like aposhus Edit: I never got so many likes thanks guys

Yah! Thank you for video. Good to see people thinking beyond the fold.

yeah but they can't invade us or their entire body becomes shiny crystals

What if human were living on sun like star🤔🤔

@zannatirajib5157

4 жыл бұрын

Simple WE DIE!!!!!

@polandball9937

4 жыл бұрын

If you could stand its temperatures, you would fall to its core and be stuck in the core

@ninobrown9564

4 жыл бұрын

Shehzada raheel they would never tell us. Better to keep the "were the only ones in the Galaxy" thing goin. That way people aren't making a big deal about going to another planet.

I've always found it a bit weird to call earth life carbon-based. It's pretty likely that alien life will somehow incorporate carbon in their chemical make up for all the reasons mentioned. The stability and variety of silicon based polymers doesn't even come close to carbon (boron actually seems to be a better candidate but still far off from what carbon can do). And just because alien life might use water in some capacity wouldn't automatically mean it's Earth-like or something. That's also a non sequiter. The only thing all life on Earth has in common is DNA, beyond that the term "Earth-like" quickly becomes ambiguous to say the least. The rarest element in our DNA is phosphorus. So imho it would be better to say life on Earth is phospohorus-based. DNA is made up of just four nucleotides. Many more exists. Same for amino acids, there are many more than life on Earth uses. And amino acids were discovered in deep space. Even within those known boundaries there's more possible than just the permutations of life we see here. And it would be very alien to us even if we ignored whatever space evolution produced.

imagine harvesting silicon based aliens for producing computer parts.

One of the species I’ve created, the Dalemans, have a silicon-based biology. They live in temperatures a good lot hotter than Earth, and their bodies violently react with water and oxygen, so to go to Earth, they need protective suits for short-term visits, and domes that simulate Dalema’s climate for long-term stays. And yes, their computers use carbon in lieu of silicon.