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At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel  it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on inside you. And this activity can never stop.  Picture  yourself as a slinky falling down an escalator moving upwards – the falling part represents the self replicating processes of your cells, the escalator represents  the laws of physics, driving you forwards. To be alive is to be in motion but never arriving anywhere. If you reach the top of the escalator there is no more falling possible and you are dead forever.   Somewhat unsettlingly, the universe wants you to reach the top. How do you avoid that and why are you alive?

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The first 1000 people to use this link will get a 2 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagt7 Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourceswhyareyoualive At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on inside you. And this activity can never stop. Picture yourself as a slinky falling down an escalator moving upwards – the falling part represents the self replicating processes of your cells, the escalator represents the laws of physics, driving you forwards. To be alive is to be in motion but never arriving anywhere. If you reach the top of the escalator there is no more falling possible and you are dead forever. Somewhat unsettlingly, the universe wants you to reach the top. How do you avoid that and why are you alive? OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeES HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US? ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ This is how we make our living and it would be a pleasure if you support us! Get Merch designed with ❤ from https://kgs.link/shop Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 https://kgs.link/patreon DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Reddit: https://kgs.link/reddit Instagram: https://kgs.link/instagram Twitter: https://kgs.link/twitter Facebook: https://kgs.link/facebook Discord: https://kgs.link/discord Newsletter: https://kgs.link/newsletter OUR VOICE ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ The Kurzgesagt voice is from Steve Taylor: https://kgs.link/youtube-voice OUR MUSIC ♬♪ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 700+ minutes of Kurzgesagt Soundtracks by Epic Mountain: Spotify: https://kgs.link/music-spotify Soundcloud: https://kgs.link/music-soundcloud Bandcamp: https://kgs.link/music-bandcamp Youtube: https://kgs.link/music-youtube Facebook: https://kgs.link/music-facebook The Soundtrack of this video: Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/2xQ4uEw Bandcamp: https://spoti.fi/2zm150B 🐦🐧🐤 PATREON BIRD ARMY 🐤🐧🐦 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Many Thanks to our wonderful Patreons from http://kgs.link/patreon who support us every month and made this video possible: Tim Erbes, Russ Creech, Dmitry, Nathan Ranney, Saul Costa, Ryan Bartling, CRAPIDROPMYAIRPODS, Shwarmle456, Alessandro Menozzi, Patricia Volz, Anders V, Mitchell H, Ignacio Zelada, AnnaD, Mike Li, Melissa Haase, cassy Grasby, Daniel Charanis, Gar Lam, Alexander Kirk, Wafflelopagus, John, Dayton Hughes, Katarzyna Ostrowska, Kathy Hung, Lawrence Kuo, Gabriel Barajas, JNighthawk ., Eliana Howard, Joseph Rocca, David Knight, Jeffrey Hicks, Sean Leach, MKD, Robert Henning, Matt Brown, Thomas Feathers, saviga, Matthias Ruck, Ayman Salam, Federico Rivero, Jason Treggiari, Thomas Waldrop, Maribel Dorner, Brian Moore, Patrick Herring, wjwilde, Claude ONANA, Simon Ochlich, Richard Hoffpauir, Alexis Truitt, Sarah Powell, Michael Green, Louise Wong, Guillermo Morales, Huw Davies, Nikolas Dahn, Chris B, Carlos Gatto, Parya Pasha, Dwight You, Zoe Zuniga, Ramtin Shahryari, Isaac X, Carl Tork, Florian Rüchel, Yosty maynard, playmatefx, Jagan Doodala, Donald Robinson, Gavin W, Joseph Graham, B Nzomo, Stefano Gogioso, James Jetton, WispyMouse, niv goldstein, James Hultgren, Sean McLennan, Mark Sørensen, Victor C, Jessica Price, Laci Krétai, Namrata Bathija, Jeff, Jay Dunstan, Lee, Maxime Romand, Sergey, Dmitry Klimenkov, Stephen Jones, ckolos, Daniel Lindsay, Dani Banner, Alejandro Morales, Lewys Caiach-Taylor, Victor Bareille, LordCheverongo, Roman Lang, Sasha Mamzelev, Elie Crespin, zaxs cat, Rob Schebel, Ben Mitchell, GOTY8, Dan Vicarel, engCybernetics, Antonious,

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Thimothy Lavaert

Random question why does the email notification always say new patron-only video when it's always public at the same time ? :P

Anonymous

not the best video u've made but still a nice easy explanation. and the CUTEST graphics!

Anonymous

I had to pause for a whole minute as my brain wrestled with reality at that one line about 5 and a half minutes in. I've associated your voice with distilled information and I definitely did NOT see that coming... Good laugh though!

LonMcGregor

Life's ultimate goal is to defeat entropy. Yet humans spend a lot of time acting as agents of entropy, inviting it. Another neat video, but I don't like the existential angst they seem to bring out of me.

Anonymous

I'm deaf. When do english scripted captions go up?

Anonymous

love it!

Anonymous

the joy of waking up to a friendly email notification with a punch of existential verve WHY ARE YOU ALIVE? thanks Kurzgesagt

Anonymous

My kiddos were fascinated by the new video! I was a little concerned about the potential for existential angst, but I may have shown them just enough science videos over the years to have inured them to concepts like entropy.

saviga

great! i've seen tardises and green daleks from doctor who all over your videos! can you make a dr. who video? no rush!

Anonymous

Great video, as usual. However I have some objections as a biochemist. First mitochondria do not consume glucose but semi-oxidized products of lipids and glucose. Therefore it is dependent on cytoplasmic metabolic reactions (glycolysis) to function as an energy producing unit. Secondly carbohydrates (sugar molecules) are stored on almost all cells but not much in adipocytes (fat cells). Fat cells store lipids (as the name suggests) which can be broken down to produce energy in mitochondria but cannot be used to synthesize carbohydrates.

Anonymous

I think that is one of my favorite Kurzgesagt videos, partially because I find that entire field of science hard to grasp but this explanation was amazing and I am looking forward to the rest of the explanations

Anonymous

As a biochemist too, i completely agree with you. However, we have to think that those videos are made for non-specialist. Sometimes to teach basics you have to alter reality just a bit to not lose the important message. If you explain DNA genes to students by first talking about ncRNA regulations, enhancers/silencers regions and topologically associating domains they will get confused and lost.

Anonymous

Another very nice video :) Looking forward to the Entropy video!

Anonymous

Such a good video. a good talk raise more questions ,and this one raises a bunch of interesting ones. I think existential angst is a powerful fuel for thinking and so many people are afraid of it .the fear of existential angst is the source of all ignorance.

MEGUMI KAJIHARA

いつもアニメーションが楽しみです。ワクワクします。日本語字幕が待ち遠しいです!

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