You Are Not Where You Think You Are

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Maybe the best visualization of this topic ever. Animation team is insane.

I love how Kurzgesagt has started finishing their videos with a really positive message that makes you feel better about the 5 minutes of existential horror you’ve just experienced

This is how my father explained to me, why time traveling would be by far the most impossible and ressource consuming thing ever to be done by humanity. As you may be able to bend time, but you need to track the exact location of the earth in the universe, from where you want to time travel to.

Wow! Someone finally made this visualization (solar system traveling around the Milky Way). This is really amazing. Thank you for making such a beautiful piece of art!

Kurzgesagt is honestly one of the precious gems formed on the internet, so much effort put into amazing animation, sounds, research, and much more. Thank you guys for you what do.

It’s always somewhat surreal to me that we’re simultaneously moving at 1,000 miles per hour, 486,000 miles per hour, and 1.3 million miles per hour.

7:11 "The jiggle of existence" is my new favorite way to describe anything remotely related to the Earth or the actions of humanity.

You guys have put HUGE effort into your videos. I LOVE your animations and your clear explaining. This channel should receive like, a trillion diamond Youtube play buttons for their work. The animation team is insane!!!

3:51 is just about the absolute coolest way I have ever seen Earth's orbit depicted

Absolutely love the progression of the animation style. I've been following this channel since it's first year and I can safely say I'm always ever more in love with each new upload

I imagine flat-earthers watching this saying "nuh-uh" mouth agape with nothing going on behind their eyes

3:00 no wonder summer goes by so quickly 😭

I am in awe of your animations. Brilliantly well done as always Kurzgesagt.

the visual [5:38] of our solar system "diving down and shooting up like a drunk dolphin" is probably one of my favorites you've ever done. it's just so pretty... and so nice to think about. idk it's soothing. i think i'm just a sucker for pretty space backgrounds...

I think the part that really puts things into perspective is the line "down to the jiggle of existance" really makes you realies how small and uncertain our home is on the larger scale.

This is also why time travel is virtually impossible

I just graduated with a degree in physics, and my peers gave me a hard time over liking kurzgesagt. Their perspective was that kurzgesagt oversimplifies problems, and doesn't consider serious questions. My counter-point was that kurzgesagt does extremely well at the job it tries to do: to make science approachable and fun! I think many scientists get caught up with the details of highly complex scientific questions, and this makes the scientific fields seem unapproachable. In order to keep the scientific fields alive, we desperately need public outreach efforts like kurzgesagt to get people to realize the beauty and fun involved in asking or answering scientific questions! Thank you for all that you do kurzgesagt, you are an amazing channel, and you have done so much for the advancement of the sciences.

Comprehending the scale of our entire universe is only slightly more difficult than comprehending how much work Kurzgesagt puts into their videos.

This ties into the existential crisis I had about feeling trapped behind my eyes and knowing I would never be able to see the world from another point of view, and no one would know what it's like to feel what I feel or hear what I'm thinking, and when my eyes close, that's it. No more world. I won't suddenly switch perspectives from another "universe." It felt very, very isolating. This tied into that, because where I am, no one else will ever be, and vice versa.