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Your Time Machine Broke – At The Worst Time In History

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell | February 18, 2026



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What happens when your time machine breaks and you end up stranded millions of years ago? You’ve landed in a world that’s nothing like today, facing deadly storms and unbearable heat, breathing toxic air.
How can you survive long enough to make it back home?

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Comments

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  1. @NgahCalvin

    February 18, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    Honestly if you're time traveling machine is essentially just a scooter with no life support or protection from outside elements and on top or that you wear what a rather skin showing street wear while time traveling to such a distant past, yeah you probably deserve to die out of sheer stupidity

  2. @dougaangaming

    February 18, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    wow, great mix of fictional discovery of real earth history…
    gives me a lot of inspiration + I learned something of some of very old histories of our planet
    well done 👍

  3. @RedPistonz

    February 18, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    Damn, our Time Machine has a very dramatic timing.

    Also, any number of these time periods would be amazing to play in some open world survival game. It doesn’t have to make sense in terms of human evolution or time travel, it would just be cool either way.

  4. @glimpan

    February 18, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    1:51 Doesn't sweat cool you when evaporating?
    It cools down the body because it leaves the body and brings heat along it, not because the sweat itself is cold. Right?

  5. @petrovichiphoneovich7587

    February 18, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    Земле 4лярда лет, каждый день мы сталкиваемся с окружающей нас природой и если задуматься, то может показаться, что этим лесам и лугам уже сотни миллионов лет, если не миллиарды.
    Но вот же удивительно, нет, им меньше 60 миллионов лет по всей планете.
    Но общая история жизни, тянется на миллиарды лет, в глубокое и темное прошлое.

  6. @cucnguyenkim7088

    February 18, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    There are Evolution it have a Life on earth the sun getting rise up than without Frost winter in the Mammoth Elephant for a Spring and summer there are Extinction and melt snow De-Extinction on planets earth 300 – 200 million years ago there is a Sun into to Without Frost snow melt unfrozen there are warm and hot it have a star no frozen is getting Extinction there are no alive HELL ON EARTH Problems with over getting Death than out of many species than little and single for none

  7. @youcantata

    February 18, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    Earth itself is not so conducive to harbor intelligent life in most of its long, long history. So how can we expect to encounter intelligent alien life near earth or our solar system?

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