Watch To Learn Some Of The Coolest Things That’ll Happen After You Die

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By Mack Rawden
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Last year, I quit smoking. I didn’t want to, but the chance of living longer outweighed the pleasure I got from puffing away. Unfortunately, no matter how healthy I might push my body to be, I’m still going to die before seeing my great great grandchildren get married. That’s a serious limitation of being a human being, but just because I’m going to miss out on plenty of cool shit doesn’t necessarily mean I’m living in the wrong time.

For his newest video, YouTube favorite VSauce decided to look into events that are going to happen long after all of us are dead. From the explosion of stars to the end of Chernobyl’s unsafe label, host Michael examines a lot of really cool shit we’ll miss out on, but he also touches on things future generations won’t get to see that we take for granted. For example: Saturn is eventually going to lose its rings, Niagara Falls is going to disappear and slow erosion is going to claim Mount Rushmore.

In the end, there’s nothing we can do to change the time we’re born into. All we can do is appreciate the natural wonder we get to see and the technology we get to play with. Some day, there will most certainly be more efficient ways to move around and even better ways to accrue knowledge, but more than likely, those things will come with serious drawbacks. After all, our forefathers might not have had the Internet hundreds of years ago, but they had an incredible amount of space to roam around in.

Whether talking about deleted files, how our eyes process color or life continuing without the sun, there’s a certain rhythm of speech found in all of the VSauce videos. It’s a meandering and occasionally nerdy tone, but it’s really struck a chord with viewers, which is why the channel’s clips regularly generate more than one million page views.

If you’re looking for a way to kill some more time, I’ve gone ahead and embedded another VSauce clip below. This one features the host asking what would happen if every single human being on Earth jumped at the exact same time. Go ahead and check it out…

Mack Rawden
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Mack Rawden is the Editor-In-Chief of CinemaBlend. He first started working at the publication as a writer back in 2007 and has held various jobs at the site in the time since including Managing Editor, Pop Culture Editor and Staff Writer. He now splits his time between working on CinemaBlend’s user experience, helping to plan the site’s editorial direction and writing passionate articles about niche entertainment topics he’s into. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in English (go Hoosiers!) and has been interviewed and quoted in a variety of publications including Digiday. Enthusiastic about Clue, case-of-the-week mysteries, a great wrestling promo and cookies at Disney World. Less enthusiastic about the pricing structure of cable, loud noises and Tuesdays.