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NEW VIDEO: What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse (Patreon)

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2021-03-09 15:03:21
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Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you, if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so everything he touched turned into gold.

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What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse

The Map of Evolution and other sciency posters, researched and designed with love, are now available on the kurzgesagt shop. ►► https://kgs.link/shop-139 (Worldwide Shipping Available) Your purchase will support us directly and keep our videos free for everyone. Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesgoldapocalypse/ Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you, if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so everything he touched turned into gold. 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-139 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/3uC1UdP Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/3rafoeA 🐦🐧🐤 PATREON BIRD ARMY 🐤🐧🐦 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Many Thanks to our wonderful Patreons who support us every month and made this video possible: Karthik Ramasamy, Vladan Lausevic, Glenn Green, Austin Millan, Wyton Chu, Gintare Petraityte, Cédric Marchal, Stacey Shpaner, Marko Cukovic, Misha Suksnguan, Christina Mansson, yem, Patrick Lathrop, Ben Saward, Igor Shevchenko, Eugen Schiller, Kamran Hassan, SrirachaSeahawk, Andrew Morse, Nick Wharff, Aleksander Lis, Andrew Conner, Linda Massie, R Armstrong, Garrett Krest, Vector-Dopamine math, James McMeeking, tuxlu, Matthew Gunn, Benjamin Lois, Xiaohan Ma, Yu Li, Fernadno, Memo Akten, Wrong_Dongle, วงศกร นันทวิชิต, Jose Mejia, Jacob B., gingerninja, Ondrej Priečinský, Leo MacMitchell, Mehran Ziadloo, Milan Mladoniczky, Jonathan Beranger, Jessie Childers, Joan Zak, Danil, Plinzler, landon, Patrick Jones, Ahmed Sultan, Ethan Holland, Ralitsa Tsoneva, David Lindvall, Bryan Roscoe, Jason aka Kypzethdurron, Christopher R. Collins, Jason Meyer, Patrick Frank, Anne Commons, James Moffatt, Emma Phillips, KoblerMan, Michael Wolfe, Kristian Küng, Morten Berg, Cristian Klein, Athletic Interest, Nomvitch, Team HAM, planloskreativ, Martin Lange

Comments

Bester

All your jewellery would be worthless.

Anonymous

I learned that Kurzgesagt loves to find creative ways to blow things up.

Anonymous

That we live in a very narrow band of comfortable parameters and that any sudden extreme change is an existential threat to all of us. Oh, hey there, Climate Change.

Jon Adams

Come on folks - some of these are becoming so so sophomoric that it's not fun any more. Please consider returning to actual thoughtful stuff rather than listening to the inner 11 year old. What's next - what if everyone could fly like Superman? I'm hanging in here for the ducks, but that's about it.

Willem Maathuis
>>55236626

I mean literally the previous video was about a serious topic? I think it feels like all videos are “playful/childish” because people meme the hell out of it, not so much that all videos actually are that.

Anonymous

I must admit that I thought that this was going to be a dud but it was actually really good. I learnt a lot about how matter behaves. Thanks!

Anonymous

Can Midas just touch himself I don't want to die thanks.

Anonymous

I loved this video, very Randall Monroe. Have you considered collaborating? This sort of deep scientific analysis of fantastical thoughts is right up his alley.

Josh Albus

I throughly loved this video and learned a lot.

Anonymous

I learned a lot about gold actually, thank you for sharing! I wonder why gold is always said to be from the core of a sun, and that is why it is found on earth. Meaning, it is quite a rare mineral in the whole universe

Duke BG

In the third "idea" why did the water ocean not turn into gold?

Anonymous

I agree with some of the comments. Before Kurzgesagt was a source of interesting different science videos based on real research. Now it only shows "how to destroy the humanity/the planet/the universe?" videos. I think in part it might have to do the rigorous approach you take before publishing any video, spending thousands of man/hours per work. Though commendable, this approach is not very productive if you work on so many distinct topics: medicine, physics, chemistry, ecology, zoology, etc. Have you considered choosing just one or two main topics and publishing videos only about those? For example, human medicine and astronomy (I'm not saying it must be specifically those two)? That way, you can "reuse" the knowledge learned from previous videos in new different ones. As an example, your videos about the Immune system are some of the best I have watched in the Internet, and I recommend them to others. Otherwise, you will publish only 3, 4 videos a year and your business will die.

Anonymous

I don't know what I learned, but it was great

Forodriac Origamius

Wouldn't also the oceans be gold in scenario three...?

Anonymous

There’s a phenomenon observed on reviewing sites like Yelp where bad reviews are often actually from long time supporters of a business who are displeased with what they may view as a unfavorable change in their favorite product. The bad review isn’t really a bad review, the critic just seems to view themself as a product consultant for the business, demanding that the business makes the product the way they want it made. I point that out because the phenomenon is also clear in these comments, where actively paying supporters of this channel also seem to think they know what’s best for its direction. The loudest critics sometimes are among the most brand loyal. Keep doing your thing, Kurzgesagt.

Anonymous

Don't listen to the haters. Your science videos are fun and your fun videos are sciencey! They're so busy pooh-pooh-ing the subject of this video that they've missed that the kind of thinking and analysis you're doing here are key for dreamers who want to change the world. You want to cure disease? Make humans fly? "What do you *mean* by that" is very important when trying to figure out how to do it -- as your dramatically different examples of three different versions of "turn into gold" show!

Anonymous
>>55258589

I think we're just considering the rock that makes up the earth here Magic

Anonymous
>>55253106

I really doubt it would die. They’re currently posting a video a month I thought? Besides, not all of them are aimed at you. They’re for people from different backgrounds and curiosity in different fields. This kind of video brings me a lot of joy, just as much as their more technical ones.

Anonymous

Would the ocean boil off into gas in the last example? Or would the pressure keep it at liquid state?

Anonymous

Personally, I learned some new, detailed examples of how delicately balanced chemistry, physics, and perhaps other fundamental laws are. Like changing Planck's constant, a minor change to atomic structure, weight, physical properties, etc. would affect everything. Fun thought experiment and this video really only scratched the surface! 👍🏼

Anonymous

I do really enjoy these hypothetical, whimsy videos. There’s plenty of sources to go to to find up and coming research or videos breaking down how the earths crust formed but not many content creators delve into the more fantastical ideas with such gusto and research.

Anonymous

Tja, es ist eben nicht alles Gold, was glänzt. ;-)

Anonymous

I'd say the lesson is this: magic and magical thinking, though humans have a tendency to gravitate toward it for various reasons, is nearly always easily shown to be not only impossible, but actually disastrous if it were. Next time you catch yourself being pulled toward a magical explanation for a phenomenon, consider what it would really mean for the way the world works. You'll probably realize that the magical explanation is not the most likely one.

Anonymous

We've learned that if it weighs the same as a duck and is made of gold your are being duped

Mark S Benedict

It brought up a discussion from college: how strong is Minecraft Steve? Very. Carrying a full load of gold blocks, 2688 cubic meters of gold, Steve weighs about the same as 25 empty Space Shuttles. All of this mass in an average 65 liter human body, Steve is still many orders of magnitude less dense than a neutron star.

Oorslavich

Speaking of apocalypses, I'd love to see a Kurzegesagt take on the imminent Yellowstone eruption.