Space Is Way Scarier Than You Think
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It’s spooky season, so I thought I could talk about the scariest thing imaginable – the absurdity of space, time, and existence.
Trying something a little different for this video. Hope you like it.
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LINKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-B
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/science-highlights/mapping-the-cosmic-web/#:~:text=Filaments
youtube.com/watch?si=TaxM_fUtOn4oeD3-&v=GO5FwsblpT8&feature=youtu.be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Intro
2:09 – Astrophobia
7:14 – Space in Perspective
9:35 – Terrors of Alien Life
10:17 – Could It Be A Simulation?
11:08 – The Horror of Time
13:46 – The Pale Blue Dot
17:23 – Sponsor – Brilliant
@joescott
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Yeah, I tried something a little different here. 😄 Let me know what you think!
@tiltedstudio
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
…you alright, Joe?
@daflotsam
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
This was poetry. Thank you
@SkyrimRedShirts
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Beautifully made and narrated.
@wanderer4life
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
It seems most other planets are horrible, inhospitable places. Like Birmingham.
@SRTVEEE
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Thanks for giving me nightmares about space 😂
@beesod6412
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Why did I watch this before bed. 🤷♂
@DrBeauHightower
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Albert Hoffman experience noted
@jaranth
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Beautiful, and humbling. This should be shown on the first day of science class to students in every high school.
@anunya6637
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
I think the video wasn't great. it was awesomeness .
Seriously well worded and produced with the info that helps you know how small we are.
@heyeverybody5616
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
This was, well, fantastic. It’s really not my thing, but I guess I should try expanding my horizons. Thanks Joe..
@joelecuyer7281
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Nice
@FreeAtorio
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Truer words have never been spoken 🗣💯🔥📈
@ZAK_the_YAK
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Awesome!
@j_a_g_e_n_t_i_c
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
dramatic, cinematic, wonderfully well done 👍🏻
@williamgamesyay
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Space is the only thing that is real and looks like fiction, not everything that we're afraid of is death or suffering.
@thisissostupidqsdfva
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
The darkness of the void can be felt. On a cold winter night the breeze hitting you and chilling you is Space. The Earth's atmosphere is doing it's best to keep you warm. But that bone chilling feeling is a taste of what is out there
@charchhoink7772
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
16:37 hits hard… I love our planet 🌎 😭
@duhh_ii
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
just live your life
@ajemma78
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Absolutely wonderfully done, sir! "Pale blue dot" makes me weep
@Casualweeb475
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
I quite often think about the mental strength it takes to be out there in the void just floating. Freaks me out
@Babbaracos
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Beautiful!
@Pushit2
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
I wish I could just erase past 20 mins from my memory so I click on this video and watch it once more.
Truly amazing work.
@tinkersmith
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
"or go to Australia" 😂
@NewTheogony
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Hey Joe,
Nice video. Honestly, the voice over presentation is not your strong suit. Better to have you talking in front of the camera, in our humble opinion.
In regards to the content, we especially liked the part where you prioritized the great filter hypothesis over the simulation hypothesis. The simulation hypothesis is such a mud-brained idea. It's the epitomy of arrogance and foolishness. Perfect for the worst of Hollywood and the technofiles.
Simulation hypothesists, 👌great work idolizing the technology of your time as the be-all-end-all. Your minds are mush. The simulation people and their professional intellectuals are really, really bungling that one. (And to use the language of "simulation" to refer to any artifice of mimicry or practice is to completely miss the point we're making.)
However, we want to make a distinction between matrix and simulation. You can believe in a matrix without it being a simulation, although matrix is a watered-down term nowdays, as well. We don't believe in either (not that this belief of our's really matters), but regardless, matrix is not simulation. We passionately oppose simulation hypothesis. Stay away please.
Fun talking to you like we know you,
N-B.
N-D.
@lorinrusu5893
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Certain c can help that along, my respect, fellow psychonaut.
Edit: I commented while watching, beautiful video. If it were 24 hours long, I’d watch it all, +1 sub.
@dannymensah9470
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
The moment a blind man begins to see he throws away the stick that helped him walk
@alejandrocurado5134
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
We always think about major purposes, and maybe that's where we are wrong. Everything seems more like small purposes for short term.things. organisms come and go. Love comes and goes. You are happy, you are sad. There is peace, there is war, there is idiocy, there is breakthrough. It's all transient, and the overall universe "doesn't know", just like you don't know what one of your white cells is doing today
@diamondthree
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
How does this Joe Scott guy look so nerdy but be so cool?
@liminalmessaging
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Is it weird that I take comfort in our cosmic insignificance? Sometimes, when I'm up in my head, catastrophizing about things, I remember the ultimate pointlessness of it all – how my life is nothing more than a speck of dust on a speck of dust – and those worries evaporate into the void. My hopes and my fears are both equally fleeting, and I find that insignificance comforting. Space reminds me of this whenever I look up.
@kiegal4499
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Brilliant narrating . More please.🤩🤩🤩
@MrEnterthehole
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Pro-drug abuse. What a moronic angle. Blocking this channel.
@Lulu-pd1zb
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Actually, it was Ally's dad that said it. 😌
@VoidSyntax_01
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
I hate the fact that i cant see the stars and milky way in night cause i live in a city…
@grendelsjourney
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
This covers all the bases what an epic video!
@sawxpatscelts
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Nope, I don’t think it is, bud.
@antonleimbach648
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Great video bud. Made me use thinky muscle.
@sarahjomcmurtrey965
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
😮mind blown 🤯🤯🫶🏻🫶🏻
@Blackfyre741
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
The idea that in maybe 50-100 years or even less we could have Artificial intelligence that can simulate reality that nobody can tell the difference then whos to say that isn't whats already happening?
@phatsanta3836
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
I don’t think anyone expected such a deep video
@dougsinthailand7176
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Or go to Australia. 🤣
@Thestandardario
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
5:19 😂
@Bftd_ed
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Fun fact: an object faster than the speed of light always exists in darkness
@haze300
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
I feel dizzy
@antonleimbach648
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
We are going through a Great Filter right now. We have polluted our planet and changed the climate. We have plastics in our brains and forever chemicals in our blood. We are committing suicide.
@evabeveridge9651
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Idk if this makes sense but my greatest spiritual fear is finding out we’re in the matrix.
@rickyhiggins133
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
Loved the video. It really made me think about us on earth and how small we really are. And it's hard to even think of how big the universe really is. Keep up the great work….
@nestacia
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 am
I appreciate you.
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