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- thephuckphase, on 04/14/2008, -4/+103if you were to compare humanity's time in correlation with the earth and sun and their projected timeline, our existance would be like 1/4 of a second in June out of the year. Insignificance can really ruin your day. more documentary type videos need to be on digg! im getting sick of seeing some random guy getting hit in the nuts with a football.
- MatthewK, on 04/14/2008, -0/+61My pet rock gives this two stones up.
- DBNKR, on 04/14/2008, -0/+49I love how he throws the seed, and a tree pops up.
- tenderstorm, on 04/14/2008, -8/+54This is must watch animation! Human kind is not built to last....
- Hanniballo, on 04/14/2008, -1/+39very inventive idea, and stop motion is perfect format. well done
- Azerael, on 04/14/2008, -1/+38Insignificance shouldn't depress us, but inspire us to strive for significance.
- ZogDog, on 04/14/2008, -1/+36"They look like big strong hands, don't they?"
- odigity, on 04/14/2008, -0/+26Artistic license. See, rocks are not actually sentient...
- jozb, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2035 years in 10 seconds. http://youtube.com/watch?v=laPU0bS8JOc
- XristosAnesti, on 04/14/2008, -1/+19...or to die and be replaced by lichen.
- crowbarred, on 04/14/2008, -0/+18Jesus Christ .... cant anyone just ever say ... that was awesome
- Azerael, on 04/14/2008, -1/+17...but to evolve into something new.
- parkamark, on 04/14/2008, -7/+21....at least on planet earth. Some points to ponder over after watching this most excellent animation:
1) We are currently in the midst of an un-presidented population explosion. There are (as of writing) 6.8 billion people on the planet, the highest this has ever been in human history, and the rate of growth shows no signs of slowing - if anything, the rate of growth is exponential.
2) Planet Earth has limited resources and we will, within the next 100 years, exceed them. One of two things will happen. Nature will circumvent our existence or we will need to move into space. If nature becomes involved, we won't be around for much longer, certainly not in line with the current population number and growth we are experiencing. Remember, nature always wins. We may be built to last but not under our current circumstances.
3) Not to mention all the other issues that I have no time to cover in this post including climate change and our current social struggles, both brought about by having too many people on the planet, and technology which has, in terms of speed and ease of communication, made the earth a much smaller place than it was even 100 years ago. We now see the social repercussions of this on a daily basis (turn on Sky News as an example) as our privative human brains try to cope in a society that has yet to become accustomed to a world which never sleeps and where a message can be sent from one side of it to the other in the space of a few milliseconds.
4) Stevethegreat wrote: “So far there is no such modern city (with all those skyscrapers) to be destroyed and we have no reason to believe it will someday.” Your quote amuses me greatly. The future remains unwritten, so how can we have any knowledge of the unknown and even begin to accept that we know and understand everything, even ourselves and our future? The fact is, we don’t, and probably never will. History is a useful tool for predicting the future so maybe you should be reading up about archaeological findings that we have recently made on planet earth which show evidence of civilisations which existed many 10s of thousands of years ago, but like us now, will eventually fall and be replaced. I’m sure there are reasons for their demise but you can safely assume that, what ever they were, nature was involved since, irrevocably, we are created by it. - inactive, on 04/14/2008, -0/+14That was depressing. Not sure what to think when an animation can so powerfully put things in perspective, albeit very temporarily. We are but blips in time, and that is all.
- Ephemeralnode, on 04/14/2008, -0/+13That time is subjective to the observer and life is merely moss on a rock? What a far fetched idea that is, I'll stick with waving palm branches at some guy for eternity.
- SANiK, on 04/14/2008, -2/+14"See, rocks are not actually sentient..."
And you happen to know that because...? ;)
They just have a slow response time, that's all - they're really smart if you get to know them - LoudMusic, on 04/14/2008, -0/+10I wish I had 100 diggs to give to this.
- XristosAnesti, on 04/14/2008, -3/+13...and then George Bush came along...
- ophello, on 04/14/2008, -0/+9wisdom? on digg? blasphemy.
- RetlawST, on 04/14/2008, -0/+9This was on The Animation Show, a fantastic compilation of animations. Both Volume 1 and 2 are some of the coolest things I've ever seen.
- bj1989, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8Why do all Asiatic clips have to be so unbelievably childish?
- bs9tmw, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8Trojan horse
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8i can't believe that NOBODY noticed two robot-shaped piles of rock standing next to the road for 1000's of years!
- richbleak, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8Atreyu!!
- karapuz, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7This torrent doesn't have any seeds, try the one bellow instead.
The "Das Rad" clip is present in this torrent - a collection of clips from the Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival
http://www.mininova.org/tor/263585 - sykotik, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7I enjoyed reading both posts. Point and Counter-Point is always a fun exercise. But the INTP in me cannot help but to point out, it's "unprecedented" not "unpresidented."
My apologies, but I just couldn't resist it. - xenofreak, on 04/14/2008, -0/+6WOW that was brilliant, fantastic job at the stop motion video, and one hell of an idea.
- PsychoDesigns, on 04/14/2008, -1/+6Truly amazing,. What are the odds I just watched it 20 sec after I finished watching The Man From Earth. Thats probably why it felt it was more epic than funny.
- RunJun, on 04/14/2008, -0/+5 That was the first time in a long while where an idea is new to me and I grasp it near the beginning and play it over in my head but then the film expands on it further than I think they will.
- karapuz, on 04/14/2008, -3/+8Here is a high resolution torrent download of this clip: (64MB)
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3511032/Das_Rad_-_Shor ... - LucasVB, on 04/14/2008, -0/+4I wake up and find Das Rad on digg? ***** dugg!
- FriniK, on 04/14/2008, -0/+4brilliant concept executed to perfection...
- outToLunch, on 04/14/2008, -0/+4Definitely inventive and clever. And arguably may have been less great using 3D animation.
- radix2, on 04/14/2008, -0/+4yeah - stuck at 92.3% :-)
The collection mentioned in karapuz update is 2.6GB people, so make sure you are patient (or deselect the other files). I'll seed Das Rad only for a while once I've got it... - zephc, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3Very cool - I've always wondered what it would be like to experience the world at different subjective rates (either much much faster, or much much slower)
- karapuz, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3Unfortunately the Das Rad version inside the collection is not the same as the standalone torrent. (File size is different). You will not be able to seed the standalone version with the file from the collection.
- tomski, on 04/14/2008, -3/+6Schönes Werk!
- chrisduser, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3After seeing the wagon wheel scene I recalled watching a documentary about time, particles in quantum mechanics seem to disappear and reappear. I wonder if there could be a time faster than our perspective causing unobservable changes to those particles.
- pk7677, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3Is it me or that looked like city 17?
- specialK16, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2God I love Firefox 3!
Someone ban this idiot and delete that message please. - nedev, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2So everyone knows who not to talk to when it's pointed out.
- jmpeagle, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2the rate of growth is both slowing down and exponential. They aren't mutually exclusive. A fall from 2.5% to 2.4% per year is a fall in the rate but it is still exponential due to compounding effects.
- Deathfrogg, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2Heh, some kid just discovered Ayn Rand. Hopefully you will mature enough someday to realize the total farce that she was. The fact is, all things are finite. Humans, mountains, stars, galaxies etc. We are now closer to species suicide than we ever have been in our history. It wont matter how wealthy one is, he or she will die and be forgotten just like every other individual of every species and subspecies has before. Your fallacy about civilization and a market economy being more civilized is really very sad. It means you have no concept of limits in any form.
Resources are limited, and finite. your "market economy" is just another form of species suicide. Total, maximal exploitation for the fastest, least expensive gain. Concentrating wealth amongst the fewest only exacerbates this. It makes people desperate.
Starving people aren't very civilized ya'know. - ophello, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2ENGLISH MOTHER ***** -- DO YOU SPEAK IT?
- cryonix, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2This is included (along with many other great animations) on the Animation Show DVD. Seriously a good buy. Don Hertzfeldt+Mike Judge=Awesome.
- THMike, on 04/14/2008, -2/+4This reminds me of this: "What if what we consider to be “real time” - how fast we move, talk, think - happens to be a glacial pace compared to other lifeforms?"
http://michaelgr.com/2008/04/13/on-the-nature-of-t ... - amberlise, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2And the INTJ in me is thrilled to digg a Myers Briggs reference.
- UcIc, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Not only is the earth insignificant in comparison of the age of the universe, but in comparison of the size of the universe as well.
To quote an ESA video about Hubble: "there are so many galaxies containing so many stars in the universe that we would have to count every single grain of sand on every beach on Earth to come close to the number of stars, and then there would be more".
Another way to look at it: Based on our current estimation of the number of stars in the universe, you could fit all of them in the space between our sun and the next closest star (Alpha Centauri).
Video 1 of the series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpkrVw_E6Nw - LabThug, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2I remember it as a Star T*r*ek episode. I know we shouldn't assume that English isn't a Digger's first language, but screwing up the name of a major Sci-Fi brand?!
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -2/+4Correction, the earth is only 6000 years old. I read it on the creation institutes website.
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