Earth Over The Next Billion Years

I love this channel so much. I love how Prof. Kipping can lend his voice to almost any scientific topic, from planet formations to cases like this where he dips into anthropology. We're lucky to live in a time where we can learn from such incredible speakers basically for free. Thank you Mr Kipping.

Professor Kipping has a gift for story telling, and each time I listen to him, he has what a story to tell!

That writing, that narration, that love for humanity and it's yearning for knowledge, all mixed with a double portion of existential dread. Amazing. Thank you, Dr Kipping, you are a gift.

Honestly I think Cool Worlds is the best channel I've ever been subscribed to. These videos delve so deep into the pondering thoughts I frequently have in such a profound way. Thank you Professor Kipping!

Sometimes the reality of our future makes me inherently sad... like the ending of a good book or tv series. Other times I find it peaceful knowing it all comes to an end. These videos always make me think about the bigger questions of life, but more importantly they make me talk to others (esp my young children) about the most diverse topics. Thank you

Wow, this is one of the most mind provoking, logical assessments of where we are in this frame of time. Well done!

I only wish I had more capability to boost this channel. Everyone needs to be introduced to these topics and you continuously provide exceptionally thoughtful content. Thanks again

I love all of your work, and especially the videos that explore these big “what if” and “what’s next” type questions.
For me, that’s one of the joys of roleplaying games (particularly the tabletop kind), where you can delve into a new world or a different time, with friends, and journey through a shared experience together. All while exploring these kinds of big thoughts.

Prof. Kipping never disappoints. This is the only channel where I check if a new video is up even though I have notifications up!

You Sir are a Poet.
Your narration here is beautiful, thought provoking and inspirational.
This channel never fails to deliver on so many levels and this edition
was outstanding, successfully conveying so much in a mere fifteen minutes.
Look at us now, we must evolve or become extinct by our own hand. Our
propensity to wage wars of ever increasing destruction and misery seems
to be our deepest default setting, an evolutionary Dead End.
"Unless"

That was just so deep. So true, a BILLION years and we're a flicker in our entire evolution. It's mind-blowing to even contemplate what even 1 million years from now. 50,000 years will be, let alone a billion. It's an on-going movie we only play a small part of, before the next scenes come and we're not around to participate in. Hopefully, this movie never has an end no matter what Human derived species come next (until the Universe itself ends...).

Everything about this video is perfect, from the visuals to the soothing storyteller voice. But what Cool Worlds has that other channels don’t is a bonafide expert sharing his knowledge, and there’s simply no substitution for that.

Another thought provoking masterpiece. Never fail to make learning so interesting and enjoyable at the same time. I've watched some videos into double figures they're such easy listening.

Thank you for another wonderful episode.
The idea for leaving something behind for future civilizations is very similar to the Start Track The Next Generation's Inner Light episode. In that episode a long dead civilization left behind a probe that helped captain of a starship experience in 25 minutes what is equivalent to a lifetime of one person in that lost civilization. This episode from professor Kipping reminded me of the same mind-space I experienced when I watched the Star Trek episode so long ago. And yet that episode was broadcasted only a fraction of a second ago when measured in a different calendar...
Earth rotates on its axis at a speed of 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds. This rotation gives us day and night. The Earth is tilted on its axis at 23.5 degrees. This creates four to six seasons. And finally, the Earth completes its orbit around the sun in 365.26 days. On average, we live 70-90 orbits of Earth around the sun. We remember events and our lives based on these repeating units. What would it be like if we did not live longer than a season? Then we would never know the difference between Winter and Spring. What would it be like if we lived longer and felt changes influenced by a wider orbit of the Sun around our Galaxy?
By the time the Sun completes a circle around the Milky Way galaxy, the Earth would have completed 230 million orbits around the Sun. Or, in our language the Sun orbits around our galaxy in 230 million years. In this galactic calendar, Jurassic era when dinosaurs roamed ended as recently as the last season. The earth is only 16 years old, the Sun is 20 and the entire universe was formed 60 years ago
According to this new galactic calendar the universe is not very old; we simply die too young.

As a backwoods redneck you would think I would be the last person to watch this channel. But nothing is further from the truth as I've been subbed for a long time. I love the content and subjects presented from Cool Worlds and Prof. Kipping presentation style and teaching makes it very enjoyable to watch. I love pondering about the universe, aliens, technology our existence and what the future may hold. Keep up the great work!

I love every video you put out at Cool Worlds, and they are fantastic to watch during my long night shifts. Also perfect brain fuel to watch during study breaks while getting ready to start a physics PhD

Well done again David!!
The most thought provoking video and channel in existence!!!
I’ve been saying this for years!!! Although, not with such eloquence and consistency.
Thank you.
Now, and for the future of our future’s generation of history buffs, researching our present to predict their own future’s possibilities. If only we could see such a past in such a way as to be looking at our experience, that has yet to happen!
Love it!

Professor i can't tell you how relaxing but existentially terrifying your videos are. I have your videos and the Why Files on a Playlist I play on my hour long commute to work. Thank you so much for such amazing content. You are amazing.

I'm so excited! So glad caught the notification. The depths of the information. The way he tells the stories of countless universes. How he can turn science into this beautiful thing that enters the conscious mind. Probes the deepest part of the curious brain. Just keeping you spellbound throughout the awesomeness. And then a feeling of loss when it comes to an end. Leaving you wanting more. Wishing he could keep talking forever. Taking you to the farthest reaches of the known universe and beyond.
Thank you Professor for today's wondering journey.

Thanks again for another thought provoking video David. When you think about the short time we have been on this earth and the scale of technological advancement we have seen, and that we are able to ask ourselves these questions, it makes me wonder if other intelligent earth creatures also ask similar questions? Thanks again your excellent work and I look forward next video.

Thank you for this video. Love your channel, but as someone who intensely inquisitive and always marvels at what humans will achieve next, this video, is like a form of meditation for me, pondering and being grateful that I get to live in age of such amazing advancement. My hope and belief, is that with the advancement of AI and quantum computing, we are only just at the beginning of a new revolution, that will transform our world and our lives over the coming decades in ways that we can only dream or barely conceive of today. Thanks again Professor Kipping.

I have memories of when I was a little boy when my stepfather Courtney trying to find the Christmas presents. He passed away last year, and it was strange to think of how someone that I thought would last forever, in truth, was just a warm breeze against my skin, to be washed away by the relentless passage of time. We are such an astonishing miracle, and all the more so, by the simple fact that we were not made to last. Appreciate every moment, because it took billions of years just to get here.

An absolutely exquisite video, stunning images with a narration that informs while being soothing and a soundtrack that does not intrude, but instead adds to enjoyment of the video. Thanks so much for uploading, Cool Worlds!!

Absolutely one of the best channels on the universe. Easy to understand the most complex details of the universe and beyond. I'm a big fan! Wish cool worlds lab a excellent future! Kipping brilliant!

Oh yes. Perfect Friday evening video. And an incredibly intersting topic as usual! Thanks so much for making amazing content; it's much appreciated!

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly you can make me go from being highly depressed or apathetic, to incredibly hopeful and inspired. I mean, that's what being human is, the ups and the downs, and so you connect with us not only through knowledge, but through us being ourselves. And for free. Amazing.
Looking forward to the next, thanks for being great.

Ya know what, I respect and absolutely love this content from Cool Worlds, tbh I love space and physics and all that, but really, this particular video really grasped me! I am truly impressed and will continue to keep watching your content whenever you release it! :)

I feel like I just listened to Carl Sagan, the way you narrated this video, Professor. Absolutely fantastic work! And a fascinating topic. We have to find a way to begin the next chapter, even though we won't be here to see how it plays out; we owe it to the future.

Perfect timing. I've been thinking about this recently also. We are these conscious beings, a tiny fragment of the universe that has become aware of itself. Just like matter gets recycled and reused, I wonder if it's the same with consciousness and intelligence. Since it has occurred already, is it destined to repeat itself again and again, be it on earth or elsewhere, considering the incomprehensible amount of time that the universe has left? And how ironic, poetic even would it be that the reason we haven't stumbled upon "aliens" yet is because they have yet to descend from us, millions of years from now. And like the video suggested, who knows if it will be remotely "human" in any way that we understand that term. And would these recognize themselves in us any more than we recognize ourselves in our common ancestor a billion years ago? It's hard to imagine. In any case, hopefully human or not, the universe will keep experimenting with intelligence and new forms of consciousness. The universe has always appeared to me as some giant science experiment anyway. We may never know if there was a point to it all or not, but I guess the mystery is part of the appeal.

"Mysteries that we have no choice but to go to the grave with " the cosmos is indeed unforgiving, such videos remind us the fragility of life. Thanks prof. Kipping for the quality, message and knowledge of Cool worlds lab Chanel videos. We really appreciate.

Dr. Kipping,you sir are a legend. Been listening for quite some time,thank you Cool world labs! ❤️💯🔭

To be able to travel a half million years into the future, I often wonder if one would be able to eat the food , breathe the air and communicate with others. What a trip that would be!

Such beautiful and also tragic truth about us, Earth and the universe. Brought me to tears since it connected with my thoughts on a deeper level. Thanks for this!

Love your channel Prof. David Kipping and this video in particular. Thank you and keep doing the incredible research, science communication and story-telling you're doing!
I particularly liked the deep questions you pose about the future of humanity as a species - Will we become true interstellar explorers, perhaps joining other advanced space-faring civilizations, able to one day unlock countless mysteries across the galaxy?
Or will we exhaust the precious resources on our home planet and fail to bring our complex ecosystem back into balance, potentially destroying ourselves, unable to realize a more optimistic future for our species?
You inspire BIG thinking and I love where my mind goes thanks to the different thought-provoking questions you raise.
In the world of science fiction (Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.) it’s easy for humans to travel to other planets and stars but in the short time we’ve been able to venture beyond Earth’s atmosphere, we’ve realized just how challenging our moon, Mars and the cold unforgiving void of space truly are. Unless we drastically alter our own biology, exploring our solar system and beyond looks like a job better suited for our AI surrogates.
The AI we send out to explore other planets, moons and asteroids in our solar system will continue to get more advanced, able to withstand almost any environment the universe can throw at us, becoming more autonomous and one day even able to travel to nearby stars as you’ve highlighted in other videos. If we had a spaceship that could make it to our nearest star Proxima Centauri, and it took only 300 years (unbelievable future technology advances would be required to achieve this), who’s to say the humans born onboard during the trip would follow through on the plans their parents or grand-parents set out with when they left Earth?
AI will also be more reliable to follow through on commitments written into their source code compared with us fickle free-thinking humans ;) It makes me wonder if when do make contact with other interstellar civilizations, whether we are far more likely to be meeting their AI rather than them - as would likely be the case were things reversed. Today images of our AI conjure up silicon chips running robot-like humanoids like C-3PO but alien AI may look very different from this paradigm - they may or may not resemble their own biology and it’s hard to know if we would even be able to truly know if our encounter was with them or one of their AI creations. Even in the short time we humans have been making computers we already have created computation with DNA and incorporated human neurons onto a computer chip.
Though smart folks have expressed concern that the singularity is soon approaching - when AI and humans will merge and/or AI will gain consciousness, so far we haven’t seen any hard evidence that consciousness and artificial intelligence are inextricably linked. We tend to link these because in humans they are linked. Yuval Harari defines consciousness as the ability to experience suffering, which for me gets to the crux of it. It’s not obvious to me that as AI develops in complexity and computational power it will automatically gain the ability to experience suffering.
We will need to consider designing our future AI interstellar explorers as potential ambassadors and communicators to other interstellar species they might encounter. Strange that we may only learn about such a future encounter many years after it has already happened, when the information has had enough time to travel back to us. Hopefully faster than the ensuing alien invasion of Earth ;)
Even though I think it will be possible to have highly advanced AI without consciousness, it seems presumptive to assume that there’s anything supernatural about human or animal consciousness. So in theory if one day we do figure out what consciousness is exactly, we may be able to create it or another version of it using silicon rather than carbon as the base substrate and grant a kind of consciousness to the AI we build and send out to distant stars.

Your presentations are compelling and insightful as well as educational and thought provoking.
Thank you.

Professor Kipping is a breath of fresh thoughts. And his words and his voice soothing and stimulating to the soul.

How freaking weird!! I was JUST thinking about this yesterday when looking in awe at some of the massive buildings constructed by us. I thought "man how weird is it gonna be in a million or even a billion years if there's some type of intelligent species to see our artifacts left behind if anything is left" and then you come out with this video today.. what are the chances? Amazing video as always professor. Thank you

Thanks Professor Kipping and thanks to your crew. As always another great video.
I love that you don't have the answers cuz it's the questions that drive us.

I simply love this channel. You continue to amaze me everyday with the stories you tell. Forever have my thanks :)

Hi Cool Worlds, as someone who's not able to afford higher education, I just wanna tell you that your videos have inspired and helped me in understanding the world so much better. Your work is incredible. Thank you so much.

Another absolutely fantastic video. It indeed is quite a tragedy that we are limited to such infinity small period of time.

every video takes us into another world. the subject, the explanation and the expressive voice makes us spell bound. You are a living legend with a vision and combining the science technology and philosophy in the most simplified way. ever eager to receive your new video filled with unimaginable in depth information. best wishes and regards Sir,

Every time I think Prof. Kipping can't produce a more insightful video, he does!

Professor Kipping you have an eloquent way with words and tone of voice and talk about the things I think about all the time and it's so refreshing to know I'm not alone. Thank you for a mind opening piece. I love Cool Worlds Lab. Clip-Share is the Best!

Perfect video, so inspiring ... Prof. Kipping and Cool Worlds provide wonderful explanations of who we are and how precious our life on Earth is ...

Thank you. Not sense Carl Sagan have I heard someone express such poetic philosophy about our existence in terms of geologic time scales. Well done.

This video is sooo inspiring. Loved it as all of them. Keep the good work Prof.

Great video ! Also you could have mentioned how important our current time might be for the near and perhaps far future of our species or lineage !

I could've watched this for a billion years. Sublime production worthy of all the awards YT has to offer. The fact this channel is still under a million subs is a crime.

I can never get enough of this channel. I wish new uploads were longer and more frequent.

That was absolutely phenomenal!👏👏👏 I went through so many emotions watching this

A great video as usual. And the shot in the library is a little masterwork touch! You aren't just a great scientist, but also a great storyteller, and most important, as emerges from your videos, a dreamer. Thx!

Awesome video !! Well done cool worlds lab and David. This is more like it. You're enthusiastic and sincere narrative is special! I proclaim you "earth's ambassador to the universe "

Prof. Kipping’s voice is a treat for my ears and the knowledge he shares is a gift to my brain! Thanks as always!

This is a very insightful video. "What will take our place here on Earth as we humans expand into the Galaxy?" 1 billion years is a very long time, and a lot can happen between now and then. For all we know the Earth at that time could be completely unrecognizable, and most likely will be, should we ever look back from distant exoplanets, just as we today look out to those distant exoplanets from here on Earth. Thank you for sharing this video.

Very interesting video. After much debating with myself for decades and trying to be perfectly objective I have come to the conclusion that trough our choices in life we could become immortal. Which means a billion years is just one breath and a tiny stride in life... Have fun prof and watch out for those choices...

This is just what I needed.. these topics apply so specifically yet so broadly to so many things, this one came at the right time - as is usually the case. Thank You!

Thank you Dr Kipping your videos are always amazing, giving us so much to think about.

I love these videos of yours so much man. Thank you for making such gold content. I can’t believe it’s free

It was a great video and very thought provoking. Is anyone else saddened by some of the realizations you come to when you think about death and never knowing the answers? I can't sleep sometimes wondering about it.

One minute before the video was published, i was visiting your channel, being a little sad, that a new upload might take another two weeks… what a nice surprise! One of the best astro/earth history channels out there

This episode was very moving. Thought provoking. Exceptional content. THANK YOU D
avid!

I love when Dr. Kipping puts out a new video. I always wait for the next in excitement.

Thank you so much sir, for this very good understandable voyage through our past, and giving us a glimps of possible futures!

Thank you for another interesting topic.
If I remember correctly the highest resolution survey images we have of the moons surface is something like 300 meters. Even if there was something like the apollo up there before us and we didn't know where to look we probably would have missed it.

Wow!!!!? Another amazing video!!!
I love watching this channel....the content that is in each video makes me think in ways that I may never have. Make me think differently about myself, my life, life in general and the endless possible wonders in the cosmos!!!!!

Agh! YES!
Thank you Dr Kipping. I look forward to these more than you know. If I had the money I’d fund every project you had so long as there was content every week.
Thank you for what you do

The content on this channel is amazing. Your voice, Prof. Kipping, elevates it to another level altogether. This was a rather thought provoking video. I will have to watch it again.

Sometimes I have these moments where I realize how lucky we are to be experiencing life. It’s like an awakening that sets in randomly at times. In these moments I think about how we could just as easily not be here, never experiencing any of this. I find it really crazy that the earth was once inhabited by giant dinosaurs for millions of years and somehow their demise gave rise to us. I think the purpose of the universe is to create life. Knowing that every element our bodies are made of were once inside a star that exploded sending the building blocks out into the universe so that one day I could be made is truly mind blowing. I wonder how many stars went supernova so that my body could be made?

Fantastic video as always. I often attribute the stars to humans first fascination with something bigger then us. Going as far back as ancient cultures watching stars and the sun. Truly no mans ego could think he is bigger then the universe he is dwarfed by. Humans will always attempt to make sense of it as long as we exist I imagine. Any other curious, tool-using, social creatures would as well on a long enough time scale. Lets just hope our cultures can get over the growing pains of philosophical and economical indifference.

Mg T: Dear Professor Kipping, Cool Worlds had Always been my Most favorite science/cosmology, etc. channel! I don't miss a single program.
Your voice & exemplary teaching style are truly Unsurpassed.
Out of this world 🌎🚀 stuff as usual! Just wish you could upload even More content more frequently.
Thank you sir for sharing your amazing knowledge with us. 💫🌌🌠💖

Thank you, Professor Kipling ,very deep as usual. Your videos much like the most beautiful music, always carry a note of sadness. Perhaps the impermanence of everything is the source of its beauty.

At the time and in the four decades since graduation from college I have resented the time I wasted sitting in lectures from professors that were not worth the effort of seating myself in their class.
If I would have had only 1 professor half as good as David Kipping my college time would have worthwhile.
A lifetime lamenting four wasted years, yet I would without hesitation instantly choose to be 20 and broke again if I could attend Dr Kipping’s classes at Columbia.

Really enjoy your channel. I can relate to really wanting to know just how much technology will advance in the future but I am now almost 80 years old and won't be around to see much more. Especially the new telescopes on the horizon and all things space. Oh well, it is what it is. I am sure humans will keep plugging along.

I love this channel too. I second all the positive stuff said below. I do want to know though, what is the film or TV show featured in the clips where humans are greeting other alien species? That looks cool and I wanna see it! Thanks for another great episode!

Excellent video, great script, thoughtful, considered and all delivered in a way that many of us pine for - a slower, more considered pace, letting ideas bloom and expand, letting silence exist where it needs to be. In a Clip-Share filled with hyperactive, 'click-me', 'click ME!' content seemingly obsessed with racing through things, editing any moment of dead air out of existence, it's a great thing to realise that a large subset of the world population exists that appreciates more intellectual fare. That's not to say we don't also enjoy other stuff, but I celebrate our collective interest in this stuff because I think curiosity is to be admired.
I love talking about the Fermi Paradox and musings about possible life in the cosmos with whomever expresses an interest in my daily life. I'm not one for chatting to colleagues about sports results or statistics, about pop music or much of pop culture in general; but get me started or thinking on a topic where my curiosity is piqued intellectually and I'm probably at my most content and a way, excited.

I've never wanted a conversation with someone so bad in all my life, big fan mate! Keep up the amazing work!! Love the channel!!

Amazing as usual. You invoke so much thought. Thanks for what you do ❤️

I only got 3 minutes in and I had to stop it. I gotta savor this because it's so awesome. I'm gonna restart it when I have all my audio and video systems set perfectly with surround sound and hall/echo/stadium etc you get the picture. This is awesome! Thank you so much!

Wow. This video was incredible. Excellent work Professor Kipping!

That was amazing. Very thought provoking. I've always had thoughts about longevity of messages and if we even could leave a message to our long distant descendants.

My favourite space channel. Love the narration and. Love how clever this guy is.

Profound content on so many levels. Thank you.

It's hard to imagine that biological complexity can ever be an end in itself. It arose because those are the primary building blocks offered by our Universe and so we emerged and are here to reflect upon it temporarily but we are already in the process of passing the intelligence baton to our AI successors... It's tragic and awe-inspiring in equal measure.

Hell yeah, I'm always ready for the velvety science waves to wash over me.

Another great video, you have brilliant analytic skills and interpretation, and presented elegantly with profound wordings. Thanks.

What a great video! Mother nature (science), as I call her, is the master of our universe. She has given us a pearl in this chaotic universe. One concept most difficult to explain to my friends/family is, TIME. Most cannot wrap their minds around real time, beyond 24hr clock/12 month yr. Hundreds and thousands of years are most recent and millions and billions of years, most think are too abstract or unimaginable. Birth & Death, happens to everything, not just us.

I think yours are the only videos I always, always watch. Thank you, for letting us dream and making us a bit smarter and more curious.

Just lovely to see you talk about phylogenetic and ontogenetic concept of time!

" but what questions they are, questions to fuel our imagination and our aspirations and perhaps influence what we choose to do with the time we have left." I'm 41 and this is so powerful, I'm going back to school to be an astrophysicist this fall. I want to do so many things before I'm done here!

Bro has a PhD in poetry too???

"Stay thoughtful and stay curious" has never hit as hard as it did in this video. Beautifully said.

Yes I agree with others who speak highly of you as I do about your fantastic presentations. Of course none of us will be around long enough to know such futures of man kind and what may be discovered long after. The greatest thing we can do presently, is to educate our selves to the possible future of our provable incarnations and pay heed the warning signs of possible ways of the demise of our species in the nearer future. We live within a very small bubble of time as countless generations before us may have never conceived of our present way of life nor can we ever know once we pass. A billion years from now, fun to imagine … but we know enough now to know how to - nudge the boat….

anothe gem here on youtube. Thanks prof. Kipping for every minute you spent on making videos like this

Dr. Kipping you have even upstaged yourself with this remarkable presentation. This is a billion year video!!!

Hi everyone, this is one of the most beatiful and interesting video that I ever seen in my life. Prof David Kipping's presentation is very good, he made me think about the future of humanity and the progress of technology. Thank Prof. David Kipping. Have a good day everyone!

Very interesting high quality content! Thank you!❤

Don't know if this depresses or inspires me 😂 Beautifully presented as always, Cool Worlds

Another great episode by David. My favourite channel along with Event Horizons and Isaac Arthur

i watch a lot of Clip-Share videos , and every time cool worlds releases a new video i am convinced this is the best channel on all of Clip-Share .