Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP

Get Merch designed with ❤ from Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 ▼▼ More infos and links are just a click away ▼▼ Sources & further reading: 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: Spanish Channel: 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 Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Reddit: Instagram: Twitter: Facebook: Discord: Newsletter: OUR VOICE ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ The Kurzgesagt voice is from Steve Taylor: OUR MUSIC ♬♪ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 700 minutes of Kurzgesagt Soundtracks by Epic Mountain: Spotify: Soundcloud: Bandcamp: Youtube: Facebook: The Soundtrack of this video: Soundcloud: Bandcamp: 🐦🐧🐤 PATREON BIRD ARMY 🐤🐧🐦 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Many Thanks to our wonderful Patreons from 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,