What If Ancient Life Escaped Earth?

What If Ancient Life Escaped Earth?

In 7.5 billion years, the Sun will expand and engulf our planet, destroying all life as we know it. Of course, a mass extinction on Earth could happen much sooner than that. It might even be our fault. Sooner or later, humans might have to leave Earth to find a new home. But while that might sound scary, not to mention impossible, some say it’s already been done before … millions of years ago …

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50 Comments

  1. Unknown_Zombie on August 31, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    Ark fans would love it if the exist



  2. Yotsuba よつば on August 31, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    3:24 FNF VS Tricky sound lol



  3. Big Boss on August 31, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    Becoming an astronaut, explore solar system, finding primitive alien, and congrats you can be a god



  4. Diecast World on August 31, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    It’s already a lot far away in future no needa worry anyway I won’t be selfish enough to just aboard in a craft with only humans after what humans had taken away from other species.

    I won’t leave my pets and other animals behind to die so if it occurs any sooner then I would prefer earth than a dark depressing space



  5. YT_AloeiPanda on August 31, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    The fact that he made the comment that it’s too late to leave Earth is incredibly false we have to do technology to travel through space in these Secret government projects that can’t be let out to the public for Monopoly greed money and power keep the masses under the control in the very few wealthy Elites



  6. BlazePlayz on August 31, 2023 at 7:22 pm

    3:23 tricky scream



  7. Ashley Rose on August 31, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    I feel like we as humans do not deserve to explore all of space nor inhabit another planet for own survival. And, as much as I am obsessed as well as fascinated with space- I say this based on the fact that we are a cancer to our own rare planet, and we can’t even live without destroying her and each other. How dare we have the audacity to destroy our own and move to others….thats life.



  8. raptir red angel👼 on August 31, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    yesss



  9. ahmed jouini on August 31, 2023 at 7:24 pm

    Thank god I probably won’t be alive in 7.5 years !!



  10. sebas de la cerna on August 31, 2023 at 7:24 pm

    0.18 – 0.23 name? The movie from Paramount Pictures



  11. Francisco Abarca on August 31, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    Is the sun actually going to explode



  12. Keyboard warrior on August 31, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    Hoomans never travelled the moon, it’s a lie



  13. Mark hoofman on August 31, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    What if we are the aliens that came throught the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?



  14. susash yo yi on August 31, 2023 at 7:27 pm

    Next What if might be
    What if India doesn’t exist?



  15. Vellington on August 31, 2023 at 7:28 pm

    What if the aliens are just our ancestors paying us a visit



  16. LinkTheHero on August 31, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    Why does this video’s title remind me of the Super Mario Bros movie?



  17. yonathan rakau on August 31, 2023 at 7:33 pm

    Why search for alien when we can be aliens 😎



  18. PUR3 Fluxy on August 31, 2023 at 7:34 pm

    Wait COVID 19



  19. faxzaie on August 31, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    Revelation 21:4-7
    "There will be no more death , or mourning , or crying , or pain.
    I am making everything new.
    Yes! I am coming soon.".
    .
    Revelation 16:15 ("Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!")
    .
    John 14:6
    Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.



  20. Mauro Reino on August 31, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    It already happen on our planet it is this microbe: coronavirus🦠



  21. Mr. Incredible on August 31, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    3:00-5:23 "even if the microganisms succeed, it has a chance that it might harm earth themselves." that’s the 100% most 100% absolutely, literally, completely 100% most 100% common sense he said and I didn’t expect that to say even if that’s in my head.



  22. Mari Summer on August 31, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    Ew, Get those alien diseases away from me



  23. Ch4os4ever on August 31, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    It likely happened when the asteroid tgat killed the dinossaurs hit. It ejected lots of debree into space. Some of that debree may contain surviving bacteria and might eventually hit a suitable home.



  24. Nexosim on August 31, 2023 at 7:38 pm

    Anyone got movie recommendations likes this?



  25. Mr B on August 31, 2023 at 7:40 pm

    Can microorganism survive atmospheric entry?



  26. RD Castillo's Youtube Diary on August 31, 2023 at 7:41 pm

    COVID19. What if it’s actually an alien virus?



  27. Haccoding on August 31, 2023 at 7:41 pm

    What if a pulsar collided with a blazar?



  28. Salvador Jr Aspiras on August 31, 2023 at 7:42 pm

    3:24 tricky scream sound



  29. Sahad Ahmed on August 31, 2023 at 7:45 pm

    Microbs : hey these people are mocking us
    Corona : don’t worry bro hold my bear 🐻 I’m gonna give them a visit



  30. the capeverdean beast on August 31, 2023 at 7:49 pm

    Moon? I thought that we went to mars?



  31. Akim Joseph on August 31, 2023 at 7:49 pm

    I vote for sending the microbes to Mars and observing from here on earth. Let the games begin.



  32. DW's Live Gaming on August 31, 2023 at 7:54 pm

    If bees go extinct humans will only have four years to live



  33. Kristian Ebbett on August 31, 2023 at 7:55 pm

    Germophobes have left the chat



  34. Ballooncoast848 on August 31, 2023 at 7:55 pm

    If these ancient life exists I’m trusting them to come save us



  35. Mr. Incredible on August 31, 2023 at 7:56 pm

    3:25-5:48 VERY SCARY PIC ✅
    VERY SCARY VID ✅
    VERY SCARY SOUND ✅
    VERY SCARY TIMING ✅



  36. M S on August 31, 2023 at 7:57 pm

    We don’t even have a cure for common FLU lol



  37. Angelo Dayrit on August 31, 2023 at 7:58 pm

    What if hindi nya na ako mahal



  38. Think About Science on August 31, 2023 at 8:01 pm

    4:15 Amongus



  39. tricks on August 31, 2023 at 8:01 pm

    Reverse panspermia



  40. Jim Gilbert on August 31, 2023 at 8:02 pm

    This sounds like the theory that life on Earth started out there, somewhere in the depths of space…

    Holy Battlestar Galactica, Batman!

    Yep, but there really is a theory that life here on Earth actually originated on Mars.

    Microbes from Mars were transported Earth in a manner similar to what is described in this video. Finding conditions favorable to their existence, the microbes flourished and evolved, becoming multi-celled organisms, then simple plants, then jellyfish, then fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then saurians, then mammals, then…

    US!!!

    So if you look at it the right way, we’re Martians!



  41. wikjo on August 31, 2023 at 8:03 pm

    4:35 what is that movie?



  42. Ryle Egie S. Pacheco on August 31, 2023 at 8:04 pm

    The world will end in 2040



  43. Alvin Mulego on August 31, 2023 at 8:05 pm

    What if we lived on the sun



  44. Stoner on August 31, 2023 at 8:06 pm

    I can see it now. T Rexs on spaceships



  45. Charlie Birchall on August 31, 2023 at 8:06 pm

    TRCKY SOUND 3:24



  46. The One & Lonely on August 31, 2023 at 8:08 pm

    How do you think earth became the planet it is now? Space debri.



  47. Shibli Shadik on August 31, 2023 at 8:09 pm

    What if we start sending bacteria,viruses to different potentially habitable planet & observe what happens.



  48. Shahan Mahin on August 31, 2023 at 8:14 pm

    Stop watching such stupid videos and follow Islam.❤ you All.



  49. Mr. Incredible on August 31, 2023 at 8:14 pm

    1:50-5:33 99.99% PERCENT??! HOW ABOUT THE 0.01% PERCENT?!! SOUNDS LIKE A RUBBING ALCOHOL, OR HAND MASTORIZER!!!



  50. Unknown_Zombie on August 31, 2023 at 8:16 pm

    I want a planet similar to ark