Fun fact: Sharks are older than trees. Ancient sharks existed before classic terrestrial trees had emerged in the fossil record.

This is why recorded interviews are so dang important. Being able to listen to the people who were alive during such important events, and having that knowledge carried forward for generations, is so amazing.

Knew this was going to be about Children of Time just from the title. Great book.

@dkkiller1

Жыл бұрын

looking for someone mention this, GJ trashtaste fan.

@Chrosteellium

Жыл бұрын

Same lol.

@Greyinkling276

Жыл бұрын

It's funny because part of their conversation dips into the topic of the book The Elder Race which is by the same author who made children of time.

13:30-14:30, a good example of that I believe is the ruins of Pompeii. When archeologists discovered writings on various walls they initially thought it was something profound like people's last words before the eruption. But when they had them translated from Latin it was literally just sh*tposts in the form of ancient Roman graffiti.

@Scarshadow666

Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite fun facts about ancient civilizations (mostly because it shows that there’s some things about humanity that hasn’t changed over the centuries, lol)! XD

@observer5615

Жыл бұрын

@@Scarshadow666 shitposting humans favourite pastime throughout history

@skyeeer8739

Жыл бұрын

"Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!" - Pompeii man

@MonkeBrain07

Жыл бұрын

Considering what we know about humanity, that sounds about right.

What is actually interesting is that the final remnants of Eastern Rome falling happened during the Renaissance and someone born during that time was closer to Rome than you’d actually think. Rome lasted way longer than most people think. Rome officially fell in the year 1453. The Western portion fell roughly 1000 years before Eastern Rome.

@AtillatheFun

Жыл бұрын

You can’t really call the Byzantines “Rome”. They tried to bring back the empire, but quickly lost their gains and shriveled into nothing more than a city state for the last few hundred years. At the end of its life, Constantinople only had 50,000 citizens and a lot of the land within the city was used for farming. Not really “Roman”.

@itapi697

Жыл бұрын

@@AtillatheFun The people living in Byzantine called themselves Romans. Which is correct because the capital during Emperor Constantine and until the last Eastern Roman Emperor the capital was in Constantinople. Byzantium was Rome just the Eastern remnants. If we are being historically accurate we should call people living in the Byzantine Empire Roman, because the word Byzantine wasn’t used by the people living in the Eastern Roman Empire. The name Byzantine or Byzantium was a word made after the collapsed of the Eastern Roman Empire to distinguish that part of Roman history from the rest due. The word also comes from the original name of Constantinople the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

@AtillatheFun

Жыл бұрын

@@itapi697 Yes. The Eastern Roman Empire was not an Empire for the majority of its latter half. It was a city state that was desperate and didn't have a significant population.

@mattia1026

10 ай бұрын

​@@AtillatheFun That's just posterity bias, literally every argument you made. Historians named it "Byzantine Empire", it was the Roman Empire, even the Eastern denomination was popular mostly among Romans for adminastrive purposes but it was still official the Roman Empire. Its inhabitants have always called themselves Romans, though they stopped speaking Latin, it was just a natural evolution of the use of language among citizens as Romans had started assimilating and embracing Hellenic culture and Greek centuries before the empire was even born. Lastly, there is not a cut and dry definition of empire that applies to every empire in history, therefore its use as a term is more arbitrary than one might thing, and there have been multiple empires that had a relatively small territory by later standards, especially before the discovery of the new world.

I love how they reacted to Garnt reading a book😂

My class was the first one where 9/11 was taught as a historical event and not a current one (because none of us had been born yet) and watching the teachers realize how long ago it happened always has made me have a weird view of historical events

@ian3314

Жыл бұрын

I remember working retail that morning, it was soo eerie watching it on the TV and no one was talking during checkouts except to give change and say thanks. Soo strange, and I can't believe it's been that long, can still remember it vividly.

@ninjaydes

Жыл бұрын

Not me imagining KZread video clips being in documentaries 100 years from now...

@ade1174

Жыл бұрын

I was in first grade when 9/11 happened so I only have vague memories. I remember my parents wisking me away from the TV and this kid named Brian in my class being picked up early because his mom was panicking.

@sp10482

Жыл бұрын

My uncle was actually supposed to be there and due to his car suddenly stop functioning on the way there, he got saved otherwise he would have reached there minutes before the incident and the rest can be imagined.

@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo

Жыл бұрын

As someone who was 6 years old around the time it happened, that is so surreal to me

12:53, about that Connor. Humans actually have a tailbone, which means we use to have tails millions of years ago.

@kabob21

Жыл бұрын

Homo sapiens never had tails. Tailbones are part of human vestigiality i.e. a part or trait that came from a distant ancestor that lost its original function through evolution.

The Great Pyramids were built when mammoths were still walking around

@user-vv7hc7kb5o

Жыл бұрын

....wait WAITTT

@kabob21

Жыл бұрын

Kinda, iirc at the time there were small versions of mammoths still around on a remote island in northern Russia (think tundra)

@Jay_Wolfe

Жыл бұрын

Cleopatra lived closer to the iPhone existing than the Great Pyramids of Giza being built.

@iron_Will

Жыл бұрын

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated before the abolition of the samurai

@fragile4408

Жыл бұрын

Oxford university was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded

Regarding it being hard to visualize ancient civilizations and societies, I highly recommend looking up Scott and Stuart Gentling's paintings of Aztec cities if you want a realistic and detailed visualization of what those were like: They're amazingly well done and gorgeous, and a lot of people have even LESS of a mental image for what Aztec culture, art, architecture, roads, homes, etc were like compared to say Egypt or Rome or China: So much of what people think of as "Aztec" is really just made up pop culture sterotypes. Garnt's point about the arbitrary nature of what's considered "complex" and how what seems advanced to one society can seem primitive to another also sort of ties into this point: A LOT of people see the Aztec and other Mesoamerican (they, the Maya, Olmec, etc; in Mexico, Guatemala, etc) and Andean (the Inca, Nazca, etc in Peru, Bolivia, etc) civilizations as primitive or less advanced then European and Asian ones because they mostly used stone tools or didn't use the wheel for transportation (and also because, again, a lot of what they get shown as in media is more vague "tribal" sterotypes then anything accurate etc), when in reality those were just things they happened to note need or develop much, despite being insanely sophisticated in other areas. As an example, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had around 200,000 denizens, in the same ballpark as the largest cities in Europe at the time such as Constantinople and Paris; while covering a much larger area then them, 13.5 square kilometers, around the same area that Rome's walls encompassed. The city was built on a natural island in the middle of a lake, but over time was expanded with grids of artificial islands with canals left between them, so most the city had venice-like canals running through it alongside naturalistic land plots, which basically acted as advanced sustainable hydroponic farms where layered fertilized soils used to make the islands were irrigated via the lake and canals, and all of this retained the natural ecology with local soils, trees, fish, etc. The city had hundreds of palaces, temples, a grid lattice of major roadways, aqueducts, and royal zoos, aquariums, avaries, and botanical gardens. In general, complex water mangement systems and botany was a big deal to the Aztec: A great example of this would be Texcotzinco, a royal estate for rulers of Texcoco, the second most poweful Aztec city Texcotzinco. The water for this estate was sourced via a spring over 5 miles away, with the aqueduct which carried the water at some points being elevated over 150 feet off the ground (which is comparable to the highest Roman aquaduct, the Pont du Gard). As that aqueduct arrived at a hill adjacent to Texcotzinco (which itself was located on another hill, and had a palace being on it's summit, bathes and fountains along the sides, and botanical gardens in the terraces along the base), it flowed into a series of pools and channels which regulated the flow rate, then traveled across an elevated channel crossing the gorge between the twin hills; with the water now at Texcotinco proper flowing into a circular aqueduct around it's circumference, into the baths, basins, fountains, and shrines, which were sculpted out of solid stone and surrounded by painted frescos, sculptures, and bas reliefs, and then finally formed artificial waterfalls which watered the plants in the gardens below, which had distinct sections and displays meant to emulate different Mexican biomes and ecosystems. The Aztec also had a formal taxonomic system for plants and flowers, and these royal botanical gardens in Tenochtitlan, Texcotzinco, Chapultepec, Huaxtepec (whose garden's covered 10 square kilometers and had over 2000 kinds of plants) were used to experiment and study plants for that taxonomy, their growing conditions (again, having different sections to mimic different biomes), and to stock medical herbs. I could go on about the Aztec (they also had a rich tradition of philosophical poetry), but they're just one example out of dozens of other Prehispanic civilizations: Teotihuacan was a major metropolis in the same area in Central Mexico from around 1000 years earlier, and rivalling contemporary large roman cities, with it having 100,000+ denizens, a massive planned urban grid of fancy palaces (with almost all of the city's denizens living in these palaces with painted frescos, open air courtyards, toilets, etc) and temples covering 22 square kilometers, and it may have conquered Maya city-states over 1000 kilometers away. The Purepecha Empire was a large Empire to the west of the Aztec, the third largest in the Americas as of Spanish contact after the Inca and Aztec, and the Purepecha totally demolished attempted Aztec invasions, formed a fortified border in response, etc. Down in Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, you had the Zapotec city of Monte Alban ruling an empire for almost 1000 yeears, and after it's decline, the Mixtec warlord 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw has this epic life story where he rises from nobility to found his own city, sidesteps the oracles that control and arrange political marriages and wars between cities, unifies almost all of the major regions of Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations into an empire, massacres the entire extended family of his rivals, only to die when the one boy he left alive grows up and assassinates him. I could go on and on, there's so many cool things that sadly don't get talked about because most World History education is so focused on Eurasia or European colonization

@theradionicrevival8068

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah totally, this sorta stuff reminds me of those old homes in desert climate from hundreds of years ago that managed to have fully functioning air conditioning system vents long before it was invented or utilized in the modern world

@michaelhenry3234

Жыл бұрын

Can you recommend books to learn further about this?

@Gamerslullaby

Жыл бұрын

The truth is, the Aztecs are interesting but pretty much useless and have no lasting effect on the scale of the world that's why no one really study's them. We studied them for maybe a month in school, but honestly unless your going to specific history or want to be a historian they are worthless. Most people dont even know about the Nubian Empire. Constantinople was founded 1100 years before the aztecs major period. Yes they were seriously primitive compared to the powers of the time if you dont just pick and choose what to compare. The romans have lots of feats like that over 1000 years before them

@michaelhenry3234

Жыл бұрын

@@Gamerslullaby They absolutely had an effect on the world, we just don't know much about it because either the history is lost or was never written down, which is a tragedy. Obviously they didn't have an effect on Eurasia and Africa, but imagine the rich history of the Americas that we'll never know about.

Anyone's read 'Mother of learning'? The first half of that thing revolves around a species of giant spiders that are on par brain wise with humans. Well the plot is about something completely different, but still.

@Saigaiii

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t think I would see this novel be mentioned, but man is it top tier. If anyone wants an S-tier progression fantasy story, look no further.

@vali69

Жыл бұрын

@@Saigaiii literally man, I'm struggling to find anything as rewarding. There's that one 'a practical guide to evil' that's written so well but its chapters are so long and I barely managed to read chapter 1. However I did find 2 amazing progression sci fi web novels that are quicker to read: 'post human' and 'burning stars, falling skies'. They're shorter but man are they good.

@christopherwang7611

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean Mother of Learning?

@StormForthcoming

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t it called Mother of Learning?

@StormForthcoming

Жыл бұрын

@@vali69 if those chapters are too long, you should never go anywhere near The Wandering Inn. One chapter is 45k words long and most are 20k+ 💀

For anyone looking, the book Garnt read is called Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

That book reminds me of "The Future is Wild" Which is about what happens to earth biologically after humans abandon it. Basically, spider squids

I can't believe they didn't talk about the ants who evolved alongside the spiders in Children of Time. The ant-spider wars was a huge plot point in the book, and illustrates what an ant uprising would look like. It's also incorrect that the spiders were unable to communicate with the human who crash landed in Children of Time, they eventually figured out a system of simple communications but the human died before they could work out anything more complex. The spiders then dissected the human and saw that they were similar to mice in anatomy and thought that humans were simple creatures like mice, and were mere servants of their god (the human who started the experiment). Also spoiler for the end of the book, but the spiders did in fact make an AI using the ants, with the help of their god.

This is part of the premise of a scifi book called "Children of Time". Good stuff.

I don't know what word they were looking for, but I know that these guys were going through a realization that the world will soon lose the people that are the secondary sources to important landmarks in history. It's like transitioning from hearing a story from the mouth of your grandmother that lived it vs hearing the story from your mother's diary that heard it from your grandmother. A history transition from a secondary source to a tertiary source.

There's an old TV show from like the 50s or something where random people would come on and the contestants would have to guess something about their lives. One of them was this elderly man who witnessed Lincoln getting shot when he was around 3.

@Enttoma

Жыл бұрын

I think he also witness both world war, the great depression, and the land of the first man on the moon

@firstnamlastnam2141

Жыл бұрын

@@Enttoma I'm not sure about the moon landing, because I remember he died shortly afterwards, but he would've had to have experienced the others

12:58 speaking of other arm : there is a chunk of the population that has a third artery in the forearm and it's prevalence is increasing quickly ... it's speculated that by the 2100 having a median artery will be the norm in humanity ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_artery so tecnically yeah , third arm related thingy

There’s this Sci-Fi book called “Children of Time” which is about spider civilisation, and how fundamentally different they are.

If you want something that tackles speculative evolution akin to Children of Time, there’s also All Tomorrows. The premise is that humans discover a hostile alien race that perform experiments on humans, turning them into inhuman creatures. These new species are then dropped off onto planets to fend for themselves. Some go extinct, while others survive long enough to form societies as advanced as humans were before they were experimented on. It’s a really interesting story for anyone else interested in speculative evolution fiction.

@Broomer52

Жыл бұрын

The thing I don’t see many people talk about are the random mutations that have been recorded in recent history. We’re moving in a certain direction and theirs a pattern but we’ll see how it shakes out over time. Theirs been multiple variations of increased muscle strength that have popped up. Their was a Chinese man who was immune to electricity and lethal amounts of it too, scientists tried to study how his body was doing this. Theirs a person with an unusually thick skull that made it effectively unbreakable by normal means. Their was a blind black man that could actually use echolocation and navigated by clicking. Those are just a few I’ve seen. Humanity isn’t done evolving but who really knows which random mutations will win out and spread.

I think the video Connor was talking about was an interview of an elderly woman in like the 70s and the big thing was she was a young girl in Ford Theatre when Abraham Lincoln was shot.

@rankoprose

Жыл бұрын

There is the KZread Channel about life in the 1800's where there are video interviews from people who lived at those times and old turn of the century recordings.

Well I’d imagine it’d be something like The Chimera Ant arc from HXH or Cockroach situation from Terraformars

I had something similar to your old photo reactions when I watched That 90's Show on Netflix. I grew up watching That 70's Show, so the idea of a bunch of adults in their early 20's never really seemed off to me. But when I watched That 90's Show and saw they cast actors who were actual teenagers, I felt like I was watching a bunch of toddlers.

There is a movie called Arrival where various alien ships park right above the Earth, and a linguist is brought in to teach the aliens 1 human language cause us humans try to actually be civil in this movie XD. It focuses on how it's not so simple as asking "why are you here"

I remember hearing about that book! Its next on my list after The Three Body Problem series.

When Cleopatra of Egypt was born, she was closer to the premier of the TV show, Friends, then to the building of the great pyramids.

@Trash Taste Highlights there’s a sequel to Children of Time called Children of Ruin. The spiders and humans team up and go meet some uplifted octopuses. Edit: I also just found out like two weeks ago that the third book, Children of Memory has come out. This one includes crows that insist they aren’t sentient (but is anybody, really?).

"I've read about a book before" 😂

I love how well these guys tell stories

to put Conor into perspective, the USA is 246 years old which sounds like a lot but that's only about 3 typical generations/3 people old (give or take a bit) since the average lifespan in most of the developed world today is around 80 years old. The Roman Empire's exact length kinda fluctuates depending on who you ask but it's more or less agreed to have existed to some extent for at least 500 to 1000+ years so at it's lowest estimate it was only 2 America's yet the historical impact felt but what remains we've found are crazy for that time frame. Especially with how widespread they became. Time is really fucking weird to think about.

A very trippy thing to think about history was during the American revolution, there was only paintings of John Adams, and there are photos of his son.

When I was getting my history degree there were projects in the works to interview WW2 survivors before they pass , one of my professors was doing it for German WW2 vets

Reading Children of Time reminded me a little of the Uplift books from David Brin. Pretty good!

I recommend Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Part of it involves figuring out a system of communication with an alien creature (that also happens to be very spider-like) and discovering the differences in biological systems that emerges from different needs. Great sci-fi novel with a great story and fascinating premise.

I forget what song it was but there was a 4k scan of an old pop song music video and its wild. Its like.... they're at a ski resort or something? Last christmas I gave you my heart? That song I think?

After a couple of videos I’m on my 500th Garnt “And stuff like that”

Maybe someday we'll simp to an ant-operated AI vtuber.

calling it now in the future gigguk is having a son first

@sumitrana2420

Жыл бұрын

Huh? Why would you think that?

@amarillodragon2702

Жыл бұрын

@@sumitrana2420 well, he is already married

I literally pondered this exact question of "what if humans evolved to human level intelligence" hours before this got recommended

I would love to know what ancient civilizations found funny and what their humor was like

@bloviatingbeluga8553

Жыл бұрын

The oldest recorded joke is a fart joke

@bloviatingbeluga8553

Жыл бұрын

We are the same as we always have been, we just communicate better.

@ls200076

Жыл бұрын

@@bloviatingbeluga8553 I thought it was a mom joke.

It's funny how their conversation dips into the topic of another book by the same author who made children of time, called the Elder Race. It's a story about a princess knocking on the door of an immortal wizard's tower and seeing him in a flowing robe with glowing runes. And it's also the story about a guy abandoned at an outpost studying a regressed human colony on an alien planet who is woken from cryo sleep and greets the barbarians in his self heating bathrobe. It goes back and forth between their perspectives and is a fun though somewhat short read.

Dude they were binge watching kurtzgesagt i swear LMAO

I love this book! Let’s gooooo!!

8:30 based joey ! also yeah that book is lovely i can't recommand it enough

This episode should be called pot talk with trash taste

Hunter x Hunter is a cautionary tale of what will happen if/when Ant's decide 'Fuck it lets have an uprising'

I believe they look older due to the fashion they wear and hairstyles.

Couldn't the spiders figure out that humans communicate through soundwaves like how we found out they communicate through vibrations?

@16soccerball

Жыл бұрын

Damn, spiders AND humans are stupid

@bassafratz

Жыл бұрын

@@16soccerball judgemental and mean a-holes :(

Lol the golden arches thing happened in Battlefield Earth

if spiders just evolved into these alien looking creatures that just study 1 single human being and come to the conclusion that all humans are dumb as hell, i wouldn't even mind that cause some of our kind have always been dumb at some point

Literally the chimera ant arc but without nen

Crocodiles and alligators are still around and they existed in the same time dinosaurs did kinda crazy to think about

There’s a sci-fi book about this but I forgot the name (spiders evolving and building a civilization on another planet)

@yuvalgabay1023

Жыл бұрын

Children of time

@jeremyjean-pierre4977

Жыл бұрын

@@yuvalgabay1023 that’s the one

I'm gonna read that book. It sounds interesting as hell.

There is 82 million years between the stegosaurus and the TRex My only problems with Children of Time is that kinda goes out of its way to make the humans less relatable and unlikable, (probably to make the spiders more relatable) And how hard it makes it look to communicate with the spider, the idea that no one thought that any animal would use sound as communication is dumb We have seen creatures that communicate through vibrations, why would the spider have never seen something that communicates by sound?? Anyway 8.5/10

This is a discussion i tried to have with my mates. Imagen being Alive in like 2400. And going like ohh wanna watch. This movie i heard about inception? Ohh when it's from?. Oh it's only 390 years old. Or let's watch a vlog from this random dude named whatever. That's been dead for 300 years.

Children of Time! Wooo

Hey, I guessed what book he was going to say 😄

I just realized that triceratops and we are 69 million years apart, while stegosaurus and triceratops are 76 million years apart. We are closer to triceratops than triceratops to stegosaurus. Holy shit...

Yesss, also love this book!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! Thank you Garnt this is so good

I am pretty sure that ants have the biggest brain-boddy ratio, with their brain being 15% of their body.

Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky covers this

Bloody hell, arachnofobia is a thing, got my shit scared

@oznerolnavi3772

Жыл бұрын

Cum

@gnrpro8544

Жыл бұрын

Arachnophobia

@tescobakery1927

Жыл бұрын

I have arachnophilia

that first part is definitely a skill issue, I don't have the problem you are describing.

Bee's communicate via dancing would love to see rapidly evolved bee dance dance hyper cities.

the boys learn about time

I bet Connor thought of ants taking over humanity because of chimera ants from hunter x hunter 😂

Its such a shame that our modern Digital formats for photos are so temporary. In a generation most of our photos will be gone a new dark age for history. Those 1970s photos might still be around film and proper prints seem more stable.

They don't look older to me, so it makes sense that it's psychology

This is why history should never be censored or hidden away, it is what we as human race experienced across decades. If you hate it? Good, make sure the past never repeats and not censor it cause you're scare people will learn and re-enact it.

Just bought Children of Time

I Garnt! I just finished children of time! Its so weird but in glad your reading it. Let me know when your done. -Paul

Lmao what a interesting episode this was

13:00 I've heard that we may be "evolving" the human race to be less fertile overall. In nature an animal with lowered fertility is less likely to be able to pass on their genetics, removing them from the gene pool. Humans using fertility treatments bypasses that natural process, meaning that multiple genes / mutations that cause reduced fertility can get passed into the wider gene pool and over time reduce fertility of the species overall.

@JUNJYR

Жыл бұрын

I sure hope so! 8 billions of us is more than enough!

I order children of time to read a few months ago. I also ordered the Strom light archive. Now in the 3rd book in and still didn't touch children of time

as you grow older you come to terms with time and people coming and going because when you are younger you just can't really come to terms with it

I don't think the kids in Strangers Things look old... *Baki looks old for his age tho! 🤣

Band: 5FDP Song: dying breed Oni-Fox-Demon (TBMA3 SENPAI)

So you have read Children of Time?

So.. Terra formars

Ant-ificial Intelligence

Im sure there are other comments explaining this, but the title makes no sense. Every living thing is evolving all the time lmao

Even "basic" things like being social (and putting value in family, etc.) isn't guaranteed with another advanced species. Seems like a given to us, but that's only because we evolved from a social species.

@zombiedemon1762

Жыл бұрын

So how can we make spiders into a more social species that builds up their knowledge over time like humans?

imagine in the far future, people will forget that most of our todays society is digitalized using computers. Like computers will cease to exist. And future archeologists will just find coroded metal in every home, but will never be aware that we used to communicate through it.

I’m not a fan of the title personally Just seems misleading and dishonest (They did the same shit with Joey’s wallaby feeding story by being stupid and calling it a Kangaroo)

CHILDREN OF TIME LETS GOOOO

God I love hearing how much they don’t understand how evolution works

@zombiedemon1762

Жыл бұрын

How does evolution work?

Gotta read children of time man

Infarnis McDonald's is now a really important part of humanity now like if all McDonald's just disappeared the usa would claps

Bro I got a tail!!! I thought it was normal lol I thought all men had it

Spiders did evolve. What the hell do you even mean

I got reincarnated as a spider 🕷️

@zombiedemon1762

Жыл бұрын

So I'm a spider so what? That might be awesome.

this made me think about this weird idea I had about pushing the evolution of cats by constantly making them feel a painful stimuli for touching their forefeet on the ground for walking and then as they're forced to walk only with their hind legs for their whole lives and teach the same to their descendants, they start to make a habit of walking with 2 legs and their growth pattern for their feet and spines change accordingly and eventually change became the closest things to monkeys that evolved into humans

It's either proven or speculated (I'm not really sure) that humans had tails, but got rid of them when they became redundant. I doubt they'll grow back, unless they become useful again, for some reason. Sorry Connor. 🙃

@tescobakery1927

Жыл бұрын

Not humans, a common ancestor. Tails won't grow back even if they're somehow useful, just like pigs won't grow wings because of "evolution hill". Even if wings are useful, the intermediate stage of getting there (aka wing-like bones on the back) are absolutely useless and serve no purpose

@Moshenka

Жыл бұрын

​@@tescobakery1927 Ah yeah, that's what it was. Thank you for the correction! I never heard of anything re-evolving back to existence , but I didn't know. Figures evolution doesn't work that way. Such a pity. A tail would have been cool :D

@ade1174

Жыл бұрын

And eventually humans will presumably no longer have appendices considering they serve no function.

@Moshenka

Жыл бұрын

@@ade1174 afaik it ahs been theorized that they serve an immunity function? If I remember correctly, there even was some study or other that indicated that people who had them removed had worse immunity, but don't quote me on that. I don't have the source article anymore.

Anyone know the name of the book Garnt is talking about? I'm 90% sure he didn't say the name during the episode.

Жыл бұрын

I believe the book is called children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

@strangetimez

Жыл бұрын

They showed screen pic of cover!

@stormlord121

Жыл бұрын

@ Thanks! Will check it out

@stormlord121

Жыл бұрын

@@strangetimez The one episode I decide to only listen instead of watching and this happens lol

@hebat45

Жыл бұрын

@@stormlord121 What? He literally said the title in 8:30

Ok but the idea that advanced spiders could build computers but wouldn't know that humans talk in my opinion is a bit weird, not only can humans understand ways to communicate other than sound, eg we know that ants use pheromones, but spiders can actually hear sounds surprisingly well with their legs, and sound is generally huge in the insect kingdom. Like think about how loud insects are 24/7 to communicate stuff like how horny they are.

@etlttc353

Жыл бұрын

spiders aren't insects

@solidman8360

Жыл бұрын

@@etlttc353 yh I meant to say Arthropod phylum** not insect kingdom.

@solidman8360

Жыл бұрын

@@etlttc353 and several species of arachnids still stridulate the way insects do

I loved children of time so much!

Connor saying in 30 years their will be no one alive from world War 2 is kind of rude to immortals.

@itapi697

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There aren’t any immortals. Also if hypothetically they existed no one would know.

I think the premise of creating your own civilization the way they did it in the book was flawed to begin with. How would you even convince the natives that you are directly responsible for their existence? Even if you did, how would you know that their alien culture is such that they wouldn't just go, "Oh thanks." then skewer you on the spot for being an outsider. You'd have to be there from beginning to end to shape that society how you see fit and even then, that doesn't even work all that well with us humans with the few authoritarians who have tried to do it.

@o4ugDF54PLqU

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That was the plan originally. However the humans had a war that wiped out 99% of the species which was why the monkies died. The one scientist who survived then went into cryo sleep and told an AI to keep tabs on the planet. The AI was then in constant contact with the planet throughout the book.