It is no exaggeration to say that Sweden experienced
a nonviolent liberal revolution
starting around 1840.
Chydenius' ideas and Hierta's megaphone
set the stage; then came along a young,
aristocratic politician named Johan August Gripenstedt.
He put these ideas into political action.
For ten years as finance minister,
he pushed the establishment and transformed
Sweden's economic system.
This was the man that, indeed, created the
new open economy in Sweden, the market economy.
He abolished the old system of guilds and
of regulations...and he created the
institution of the modern economy.
And Sweden had fantastic economic expansion
for a 100-year period,
characterized by free markets and minimal
state intervention economy.
Sweden went, basically, from one of the poorest
countries in Europe to one of the richest
countries in the world.
We were growing in wealth, and health.
Between 1850 and 1950, Sweden's per capita GDP
increased almost sevenfold.
Infant mortality rate was reduced by 85 percent,
and life expectancy increased by an amazing 26 years.
Sweden was now one of the world's richest countries.
It had one of the most open and deregulated
economies in the world,
and taxes were lower than in the United States
and most other western countries.
Sweden managed to transform its impoverished fate,
and build the beautiful cities
and landscapes we know today.
And you know what happened after that?
We screwed it up.
Until 1960, Nordic countries had, still, low taxes,
minimal government, free markets, private ownership.
Then, in the middle of the 20th century,
slowly the welfare state was introduced,
the welfare state which Sweden is so famous for.
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90'S BOOM BAP MIXING A Minimalist Approach - Duration: 6:52.
What is going on! In this video we're
gonna go retro! We're gonna step back
into time I'm gonna play a beat that I
would have made in the 90's and mix it
the way that I would have in the
90's and if you're a minimalist that
doesn't have too much gear or refers to
use very little gear hopefully this will
help show what you can do with virtually
no gear but first I'd like to invite you
to like share and subscribe to our
sampler channel and with that let's get
to it all right so we'll start off with
the main piece which is the tascam 464
chord a studio for track recorder and
mixer now this has been with me forever
and this is exactly what I use back in
the college days in my dorm room of
course I didn't have the SP 1200 which
is the second piece but I did have the
EPS 16 plus so what's essentially
happening here is I'm using four sounds
from the EMU SP 1200 the snare a hi-hat
and a sample that's it that's running
individually into the mixer so we're
just going to mix the beat and we'll
start with the kick and immediately my
first go-to thing that I would do back
then was immediately start a queuing
things and finding a sweet spot that I
liked so that's what you see me doing
here when I kind of got something that I
like I'd move on so onto the snare oh
and on the very last Channel I've run
the metronome just because it was always
good to have a click handy that I can
bring out and bring in whenever I wanted
to hear it and the SB 1214 ohm output
back then I always liked my snares it's
super loud super in front which is funny
because that's completely the opposite
of my mixing style now to show us how
preferences change and evolve over time
all right high hat this was my typical
going to high hat just running in caves
notes just steady and that just came
from hours and hours of listening to
Pete Rock I just always liked the way he
did his high hat programming and that
was an adapted style that I had
incorporated into my beats back then on
a sidenote listen to how bouncy
back-kitchen
just so nineties it's ridiculous anyway
I'm having too much fun
back to the mix and onto the main sample
once I had the levels and EQ behind it
in the right ballpark I would start
dealing with the spatial elements make
it a panic I always liked my snare off
to the side in my high hat off to the
other side I just thought that was a
coolest thing on the planet back there
alright so the next thing to do was a
poor man's compressor a trick that you
could even do today is through an accent
like tap the audio to go out to an
external tube preamp and this is another
minimalist item it cost about $99 it's
an Arg to pre so I'll start first by
sending the kick out to the preamp and
that preamp is returned back to a
channel on the mixer and what it will do
is it'll dirty things up and act as a
sort of compression so let's send the
snare there hear what's going on and if
you really want to get adventurous you
can send the aux ending on the actual
return channel of the tutorial and send
it back to itself and you'll get a
feedback like you're hearing right now
but if you dial it just right you'll get
a nice distortion and you can mix that
level into the mix and this is something
that you just play around for a while
and see what you like and when you like
it that's it back then you didn't spend
too much time on mixing like an hour
would be a really long time and that
mostly would be dedicated to just
experimenting fooling around what levels
would come pretty quickly because
remember this was just the beat but it's
finished here I would bounce this down
to two stereo facts and the
this is a four-track cassette recorder
as well would free up two more trucks
for vocalists overdue vocals or even
scratching or anything like that all
down to trusty cassette a completely
simple minimalist approach no fancy
studio a lot of the times I will mix
with headphones because if you're in a
dormitory an apartment we really can't
bang out the place went crazy audio but
it was really simple anyway back to this
tool compressor let's fool around with
that some more
and live fader movements oh my goodness
who does that anymore but that's how
drops were done on the fly manual and
you would do them anticipating when
there was a special vocal line that the
emcee would spit because a lot of times
I'd be doing this sort of thing like
early in the morning and then you get up
and you go to class the next day next
evening maybe the emcee would come over
then but it wouldn't be happening when
you're mixing hence the pre-planning of
drops and stuff like that but all these
types of decisions were made ahead of
time and of course you got to have a
traditional fade-out by the way the song
would ends you'd have to think of some
type of cool thing in this instance I
always loved and I just was obsessed and
still at the panic dance
so here's my feet
and that is it you really don't need
much even today I can make an album just
like this today
and still have as much fun as I did back
then so if you're interested in getting
projects done but you're waiting for
specific gear trust me
start now use what you have right now
using what you have on hand we'll teach
you so much and you'll be well prepared
for when you accumulate gear in the
future anyway thank you for watching if
you like to learn something today
subscribe to us here on YouTube I will
catch you on the next one in the
meantime take care of yourself
peace
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5 EASY DIY Notebook Covers - Back to School 2018 - HGTV Handmade - Duration: 6:58.
Hi everyone, welcome back to Handmade with me Karen.
Today I'm going to taking some boring, cheap old notebooks and transforming them into some
really cute notebooks.
That's really all I have to say here in this intro, so let's just get into the projects.
So this first one is probably my favorite.
I'm using a cheap composition book that cost under a dollar, and I found a piece of
scrapbook paper that I really like.
So just use a glue stick to glue the paper onto the front of the notebook, making sure
to get plenty of glue on the edges so that it really sticks down.
Then cut off the excess.
This would definitely be really cute on it's own, but we're going to take it to the next
level.
You can put together a design in a photo editing program or just find one online, but either
way, print it out, and this is important - print it out backwards.
Then carefully cut it out.
Since it's a little hard to see the design on top of the busy scrapbook paper, I first
glued it to black paper.
Again make sure to use lots of glue on the edges so that it really sticks down.
And that's it.
You could make these with all kinds of different sayings and different designs in the background.
For this next one, we are going hot pink.
Once again glue your paper to the front and cut off the excess.
Then grab some large letter stickers - mine are holographic because of course they are.
Press your letter stickers onto another colored paper and carefully cut them out but visualize
where a shadow would be and cut them out with a shadow.
I think these look so cool and once again you can just glue them in place.
For one final touch, I used smaller letter stickers underneath and a trick to make sure
they're centered is to work from the inside out.
Yass queen, I'm obsessed with this, I wish I was still in school so that I could use
this literally every single day.
So this next one is super easy, if you only have like 5 minutes to do a project, this
one's for you.
This time I'm using a cheap spiral notebook, but the idea is the same, just open up the
notebook and glue the paper onto it.
Next you're going to need stickers.
I found these on the sale rack of a trendy clothing store, but you can use any stickers
that you like from craft stores or you can get them online.
Just stick them down and in literally like five minutes, we have made this adorable notebook
cover.
For this next one, I already covered the front with paper and then I grabbed some office
labels.
You can get these for super cheap at any office supply store or somebody that you know probably
has them floating around their desk.
Just use a hole punch to punch out circles from the pink labels.
And then just do the same thing with the white labels.
Then just peel off the backing and stick them down to make a polka dot pattern.
I think this came out so cute, and you can probably make it right this second with stuff
that you already have in your desk.
Alright finally, I covered my last notebook with white paper this time, just to change
it up a little.
Now we're going to use more of the colorful circle stickers.
Cut the green stickers into quarters.
And then cut the pink stickers into quarters, but cut a little extra as you go so you end
up with a smaller wedge than the green ones.
Then just press down the green sticker, put the pink one on top, and use a pen to add
some seeds, and you have got an adorable little watermelon.
How cute is that?
It's so easy to make and it's such a fun pattern for the front of your notebook.
So I would love to know in a comment which one was your favorite.
If you liked that video, we actually have a ton of other Back to School videos so if
you want to learn how to make even more school supplies I'm gonna have more videos linked
for you right down below in the description.
Don't forget to like this video and subscribe and I'll see you all next time.
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Kids Colors Learning Toy SPIDERMAN Toys Robot - Duration: 6:44.
Super Duper awesome. It's Spiderman surprise toys with spiderman robot
awesome
Hey Dino, pals. This is toy rex here. Let's see what toy surprise we have today
This is super cool. We have spiderman robot. He's gonna give us spiderman surprise eggs
Here's a red surprise egg. It's red. Just like spiderman shake shake shake.
Wow, the red spider-man surprise egg turned into red. Gekko-mobile the catacomb
Oh bill is green with blue wheels, this is Gekko super cool car he drives it into action
Let's go. Gekko-mobile
Time for another spider-man surprise egg
Here we go. This one is blue. You just like spider-man's color. shake shake shake.
Well, we got a blue car. This is the blue cat car
Hey, it's cat boys. Super awesome car. It's blue with yellow light and it can go really fast super cat speed
Cool we got a green spider-man surprise egg. I wonder what toys gonna be inside this egg
shake shake shake.
Oh
We got Romeo's laboratory
This is the car that Romeo drives it's blue and white with yellow lights and Romeo makes his inventions in here
Because of my super giant genius brain you can never beat let's go I
Think spider-man robot can be you Romeo
Awesome we got a purple surprise egg. That means we're gonna open up this spider-man surprise egg and get another toy
Shake shake shake.
It's another PJ Masks superhero Car, this is a Red Owlette Owl guilder.
Car is red. Just like spider-man robot. So cool
Let's open up some more spider-man robots surprise toys. Hey, I like surprise toys too. Super duper fun
There's a ninja turtle
Spider-man and even Batman so cool. Let's open up this one first so she should
Well, we got a Raphael super cool Raphael is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Ralph is the toughest of the four turtle brothers
Let's go turtle
We got two Justice League superheroes Flash's really fast he's got lightnings behind him
One woman is also a Princess of the Amazons
Open up this cool marvel mystery mini. So so so, who are we gonna get let's find out
Here we go, we got spider-man super cool
Whoa, let's go spider-man flip. This is the awesome spider-man surprise toy. That's so cool
10 min to ocean. Let's see. Oh, yeah a
Venom and a vulture. So cool vulture is a
Really big sharp teeth and long tongue chop-chop whoa venom. Let's go
Disney Princess, so she said here we go
Who'd we have braised
Frozen Anna. She looks so cute
She's got long brown hair into little poachy and little freckles and she's got a blue
Dress on her sister is Elsa and she's friends with all off there from the movie frozen
That's so cool. Let's go flip
Next toy this one and there's a little blue dragon. This is so awesome
A little dragons inside this is so exciting
There's a green one a black one orange one and a blue one. This blue one is clear. It seats your blue
This is a spiketail dragon. This is the little dragon that pasture dries Wow. That's so awesome
This is
also clear it's clear orange and this little dragon is
Toothless. Wow, it's a little baby toothless toothless is and they feared dragon
super fast the play
Here we go
So cute Scootaloo
Orange pony take care. She's got little wings
That means she's a Pegasus just like Rainbow Dash
She wants to join the air cadet ponies just like Rainbow Dash so she can fly fast
the Wonderbolts so fun Scootaloo
Spider-man toy robot was super duper flew
Everybody in the next toy race video
Thanks for watching. Dino pals. You guys are awesome
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1979-2018 Mustang Mickey Thompson ET Street R Tire (15-18") Review - Duration: 4:25.
The Mickey Thompson ET Street R will be Mickey's most aggressive street legal drag radial available
in their rather expansive lineup.
Now the Street R will be available in sizes to fit both a 15 and 17-inch drag wheel here
on the site and will range in size from 275 on the narrow side to 325 on the wider side.
As always guys, expect your pricing to vary depending on the sizing but you'll be looking
at right around 180 bucks for the smaller stuff, upwards of 250 bucks for some of the
larger sizing.
Now for you guys out there who know that Mickey Thompson name, you'll know that this is the
kinda stuff the company specializes in.
Right?
Drag tires and things along those lines are the company's bread and butter.
Now they have diversified their lineup a little bit over the years but I think most people
hear that Mickey Thompson name, you think hardcore drag tires like the ET Street here.
And speaking of drag tires, ever since 2004 Mickey has kinda been evolving their drag
radial lineup starting with the legendary ET Street, followed shortly by the ET Street
2.
Now both of those tires were staples for drag racers in the DOT classes for both NMRA and
NMCA but as time went on Mickey felt it was time to evolve their radial gain even further
to appeal to a wider range of customers.
So now they have a bunch of tires in the radial category including the ET Street Pro, the
Street S/S and the Street R that we're talking about here today.
Now when comparing this tire, the ET Street R versus Mickey's other street legal drag
radial, the S/S, it's immediately apparent what the big difference is.
The S/S is going to be more of a street tire and you're gonna see a lot more tread void
with that radial and therefore a little bit more traction in wet weather if encountered.
Now the Street R here on the other hand, well, as you guys can see there is certainly a big
time lack of void which is certainly going to allow for more traction in dry conditions
on the street and at the strip.
However, it would no doubt be a handful in wet weather.
So because of that strictly gonna recommend this thing for nice weather cars in addition
to cars that strictly get driven to and from the track and not to go on a daily driver
out there because again, driving something like this in the rain would certainly not
be fun.
Now all of Mickey's radials will utilize the same R2 compound which is gonna be super soft,
super grippy and hook up very well on the street and even better at the track on a prep
surface.
So because of that I'd be a little wary of using this tire, the radial, on a high horsepower
stick car as it will no doubt be a little hard on equipment.
Luckily for you guys out there, Mickey does also make a bias ply version of the ET Street
R here.
It's also gonna be DOT street legal and at the same time it's gonna be far more forgiving
on those high horsepower stick cars, you wanna dump the clutch at the track and not explode
the rear diff in the process.
Now the flipside of that soft compound is don't expect to get 50,000 miles out of these
tires or really anywhere close to that.
Now ultimately sure, your driving habits and your racing habits will have a direct correlation
to the life of the tire itself, but let's face it guys you're buying these things not
for a long life but for traction.
Also because of that soft compound cold weather use will be a little bit tricky, so just use
caution when driving with these things in sub 40 degree temperatures as it will harden
up on you and when in doubt quick little burnout to get things warm is never a bad idea.
Keep in mind here guys the Mickeys do also qualify for our free mountain balance, our
optional nitrogen fill and finally free shipping and handling along with your favorite 15 or
17-inch drag wheel.
It's a great way to take some of the work out of the process for you guys.
That way when your new drag pack shows up to your door simply unbox them, bolt them
up and you are ready to rock and roll.
Wrapping things up guys.
If you're looking for a super aggressive drag radial that will be DOT legal and offer boatloads
of traction, you'll wanna check out the ET Street R radial right here at americanmuscle.com.
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Jak byłam MAŁOLATĄ, to takie KSIĄŻKI czytałam [back to school] - Duration: 5:46.
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The Crazy Time When the US Delivered Mail by Missile - Duration: 5:16.
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Missiles are pretty awesome as long as they're not pointed at you.
Meanwhile, the mail is not very awesome according to the views I get on mail related topics.
Put them together, though, and you get a completely awesome neutral thing—missile mail.
Now, this of course sounds crazy and impractical but for a while, missile transported mail
was what many believed to be the future.
There are plenty of ways that mail has been or is delivered beyond just planes, trains,
and automobiles.
For example, 100 years ago mail was delivered by sled dog in Alaska and by telemark skiers
in Colorado.
Still today, mail is delivered by boat for houses on Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, by helicopter
for residents of Little Diomede, Alaska, and by mule for those that live in Supai, Arizona.
Only about 3,000 people ever, though, have had their official US mail transported by
rocket.
In the 1950s, despite both telegraph and phones existing, the mail was still a major means
of communication thanks to its low cost.
People cared as much about the speed of the mail then as they do about their internet
speed nowadays.
Trains are slow, cars are faster, planes are even faster, but missiles are fastest.
Therefore that was the high IQ idea—delivering mail by missile.
Now, you might notice a few issues with this plan—missiles are expensive, hard to retrieve,
and oh yeah, they are literally supersonic death machines.
Even if you take the the explosive out of a rocket, it plus the ground is not a recipe
for success… unless you're going for widespread death and destruction but that's bad, I'm
told.
Nonetheless, this had been tried a few times through history at a small scale.
Not the death and destruction, to clarify, the US tried that at full scale, but the missile
mail.
In the beginning these tests generally took the form of just loading a few letters into
a small missile that would be sent over a river or field but during World War Two killing
enthusiasts put a bunch of effort into developing accurate, long-range missiles.
By the 50s, these could travel hundreds of miles and reliably land on a small target.
That advancement coincided with the reign of Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, Postmaster
General.
Much like being a YouTuber, being Postmaster General was once super well respected.
This was because the mail was once incredibly important and therefore Summerfield had significant
enough powers to advocate for the testing and implementation of rocket mail as he really,
truly believed it was the future.
He rather famously said, "Before man reaches the moon your mail will be delivered within
hours from New York to California, to England, to India, or to Australia by guided missiles.
We stand on the threshold of rocket mail."
In reality, all that he was on the threshold of was wasting a lot of money.
In 1959 an official US Post Office Branch was established on the USS Barbero—a 311
foot long submarine capable of firing missiles.
While the Barbero was docked at its home base in Norfolk, Virginia, a Regulus cruise missile
was loaded onboard which itself was not loaded with the nuclear payload it was designed for.
It was loaded with 3,000 pieces of mail.
The submarine then left Norfolk, headed into the Atlantic Ocean, and sailed south.
After a few days it reached roughly here and at 12 noon the submarine fired its special
mail missile.
After 22 minutes in the air the missile splashed down just off the coast of Naval Station Mayport
in Florida from where it was subsequently retrieved.
From there, the letters were removed and brought to the nearest non-floating post office to
continue their journey to their destinations.
Now, considering that most of the letters were headed to DC, Europe, and the rest of
the world, this rocket moved the mail, well, in the exact wrong direction.
All the letters in the missile were actually written by Postmaster General Summerfield
to the US president, politicians, and the postmaster generals of every other Universal
Postal Union member country.
This test was a mix of the military showing off to the soviets and Summerfield showing
off to politicians and his postmaster friends.
Today, the letters that took that rocket ride are hugely popular with philatelic enthusiasts—those
that collect stamps and related materials—and are sold regularly for almost $500 but that's
about all this test was good for.
The missile, without even considering the days it took to get into position, flew 100
miles in 22 minutes making it slower than a normal jet plane.
Even though modern missiles are much faster they're still hugely expensive and often
can't be reused.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out why mail delivery by rocket never caught on.
With widespread jet planes and the internet nowadays, there just isn't the need anymore
for super fast mail delivery.
There is the need for two other things though—a reliable means to keep your online identity
safe and drone delivered quesadillas.
The good news is that one of those exists.
The bad news is that I still need to make my own quesadillas like a caveman but at least
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me if any website I use has had a security breach.
It also tracks the dark web to see if any of your data is up for sale, has a built in
VPN so that your wifi connection will be secure even on insecure wifi networks, and keeps
all your passwords in one super secure place so you can have complex ones without forgetting
them.
Best of all, you can try all these features for free for 30 days by signing up at dashlane.com/HAI.
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DOFUS World Series - Summer 2018 - Trailer - Duration: 1:27.
We are disappointed with our average performance last season.
The team has changed for the DWS Summer Edition
and we will climb back to the top!
After season 1's semifinal and season 2's final
the next step is to raise the trophy!
Two consecutive DWS wins is good
but our ambitions remain the same
We are once again aiming for the title
always with the same goal in mind :
to win
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Best Double Stroller for Two Kids? We Discuss with Jen Chae! - Duration: 10:28.
(upbeat music)
- It's key to be able to do it yourself.
- For sure. - Yep.
- And not need a man.
Know what I'm sayin'? - For sure.
- I don't need a man for my stroller. (laughing)
(upbeat music)
Hello, everyone, welcome to FAM: For All Moms!
My name is Sharzad,
this is Susan,
and our beautiful guest today, Jen Chae,
from From Head to Toe.
And she's about to have her second little baby.
And you look amazing. - Yeah.
- Oh my goodness.
So very pregnant.
I feel like a whale.
- So very pregnant.
And because you're about to have your second,
you're probably doing a lot of research on
the double stroller.
- I am. - Right?
- Oh, yes. - 'Cause you have two littles.
And so that's what we're going to talk
about today, you guys.
We're gonna talk about finding the right double stroller.
Before we even talk about the stroller
you've kind of decided on,
which is the Bugaboo Donkey2.
That one right there, you guys.
We'll talk about it, but before you made that decision,
what were you looking for in a double stroller?
- Well, I definitely like having
a good basket for storage,
if we go grocery shopping.
Just enough space where I can--
- Throw some stuff down there,
put your purse down there. - Right.
- Your backpack.
Okay, so some trunk storage in a way.
- Yeah, yeah. - Okay.
- And I also
want it to be able to have the
infant carrier at the same time as a toddler seat.
- Oh, like a bassinet?
Like a bassinet next to it?
- A bassinet, or just be able to click in a,
like an infant car seat.
- Car seat, got it.
- 'Cause we used that all the time when Aria was little.
We would just push her in the car seat,
in the stroller - Yep.
It's so easy, yeah.
- The convertible thing,
we already have
a good car seat from before.
So I wanted something that would obviously
work with the car seats that we already have.
- And so Bugaboo fit into that?
- Yes, and actually I think that it works with
both of the infant car seats that we have, so.
- Oh, that's awesome.
- This seems like the most high-tech thing,
- I know. - I've ever seen.
I don't know what goes on in here,
and I can't wait for you guys to tell me (chuckles).
- Well, okay, so I got a little bit of a tutorial.
I'll let you guys know.
I got a little bit of a tutorial
from the brand right before we got this.
And so if you guys don't know,
what happens behind the scenes is,
we do all this research on what kind of stroller
we want to get and stuff.
And then we pick it out and we have,
we obviously work with the brand
to bring it into the video.
And so that's kind of what happened with this one.
And this is gonna be Jen's new stroller.
- For her little baby boy. - Yeah, fun new gift.
And I got a little tutorial on it.
And it's really exciting 'cause
there were all these things I was thinking.
When I first saw this, I was like,
"Well, this looks like it's huge," right?
'Cause it looks like it's huge.
- Yeah it does. - Yeah.
- But then she pointed out,
she literally put it right next to my stroller,
and she was like, "But it's actually the same size
"as your stroller."
It just looks bigger because there's so much more
happening up here it looks like.
But the actual base of it, and the frame of it
is exactly the same size as my stroller.
- As a one-seat stroller, okay.
- Well, one-seat stroller that I have downstairs.
So that's kind of incredible.
I love that you have this.
What is that basket? - For anything you want.
- You could put anything you want?
- [Sharzad] You could put a loaf of bread in there
and some flowers. - Yeah.
You can put anything you want.
It zips open; it holds up to 22 pounds
is what she was saying.
- So you could put a kettle bell inside
if you wanted to. - Yes, you definitely can.
And you've got the basket underneath.
So you actually can go grocery shopping.
Or you could have a really dope picnic (chuckles).
- Yeah, I also
I haven't seen this kind of side-storage system
with other strollers. - Same.
- But it's nice that you don't have to
bend all the way down and dig through stuff.
And it also just,
it's covered. - Yep.
- So you're not worried about people,
if you put your purse inside. - Yeah.
- About people being handsy.
- It's fancy. - Yeah.
And it's really easy - I love it.
- To open it up; to remove it.
So you just gotta,
there's these little clicks on the side
that everything clicks into.
And that's the same with the seats.
So it clicks in, and then you can just click it out
if you want to.
And you can actually click the seat out
really easily too if you want to collapse it.
You can collapse it with the seat in,
or you can collapse it with the seat out.
And that was kind of the thing
that really sold me on it was,
first off it's really easy.
There are three clips.
When you want to expand it, there are three clips.
You unclip them,
you expand it really easily.
You just go like, bloop, and it expands.
- [Sharzad] So it goes longways?
- To the side. - Oh.
Oh. - So it goes to the side.
Yeah, when you open it up
it still fits through standard doorways;
the average size of a door.
And then you just go, click.
She said you get a basinet,
and you get a cover for a regular seat too.
So you get the option of both
when you order this.
And so you can buy two basinets
or two seats with it.
And so that's when you pop it open.
And she said, again, you can collapse it
with the seats in.
Or you can just easily go, click,
or have your adapters too.
And click.
Take the seats out and just collapse it completely.
So it's really cool. - I feel like if you're
a twin mom, I mean, it's like you have
to have a double stroller. - Yeah.
And the babies get to be side-by-side.
- Yeah. - I'm sure so many moms
have those strollers where
they're right on top of each other.
- They stack, yeah.
- And I guess it much work out,
'cause those sell, right?
- Yeah, totally.
- But I like this option better.
I think this is a really cool option.
- This is so high-tech.
- You know what else I liked about it?
- Tell us, Susan. - It's light.
- Really? - It's really, really light.
- It doesn't look like it would be light.
Tell me more.
- It's lighter than my
stroller downstairs for one kid.
- What, really? - Really.
- It's lighter.
You can use one hand, even with two of the seats.
- Oh, you know what?
That's a non-negotiable for me.
- Yeah. - Is I feel like,
for any strollers that I get, the push is so important.
Because if you're going to have a stroller,
that's the whole point is,
you have to be able to push your kid around.
Your kid, they add a substantial amount of weight.
- Yeah. - So I feel like having
a really smooth push is just such a life-saver.
- This has a really smooth push.
And you can adjust the handle to a height that you like;
that you desire. - I like that.
- I'm super short. - I know.
- Or, super tall, right?
And you and Ben, - Yeah, my husband.
- Are two different heights.
- He's over a foot taller than me
so we definitely make use of the varying sizes.
- [Sharzad] Flexible, adjustable stroller height.
- Yeah, it's super, super cool.
And one last thing that she told me,
I was like, "Okay, sold, this is Jen's."
(Jen chuckles) - I mean, obviously
you were like, "Yes, I want that one too."
- Yes, please. - We were talking
back and forth like, "Which one do you like?
"Which one do you like?"
It has new tires that are made of foam.
And so it's not with air anymore.
- Oh, wow. - That's what she was saying.
- Cool. - So this new Donkey2 has--
- You don't have to pump them up.
- Yeah, you don't have to pump them or anything like that.
And it still has nice bounce to it and everything.
And it's awesome.
Five-point harness, so you're not trying to adjust your,
get an arm through there.
The harness is a single-button release.
I did a whole tutorial, you guys.
I feel like I'm an expert on this now.
- I feel like you are an expert too.
- [Susan] And actually the hood comes pretty far down too.
- That's cool. - So if your baby falls asleep
you can recline your baby almost all the way.
Or Aria, toddler.
Toddler baby or infant baby can recline then.
And then cover them.
- Yeah, and it's just zipped up.
- And you unzip it. - And it's the same color?
- Yeah, and you get to choose your color.
You get to choose the color of where the red, maroon
color that you see,
you get to choose that color.
And you get to also choose where it's gray,
you get to choose that color too.
So it comes with the same frame,
and that one frame can be either the seat that you see,
or it can be a basinet.
You're just changing out the fabric.
The other cool thing is,
see the seat, we have it facing out right now.
But you can actually unclick it really easily,
and turn it.
So you can have it facing you too.
- That's cool. - Which is really nice.
- When they're little?
- 'Cause when they're tiny,
and they just want to see the parents.
- But then at some point-- - Little Aria's like,
"I don't want to look at your face."
- She's like, "I want to see the trees,
"and the cars and wave to people."
Yeah, but it's really nice when you can see
your little fresh baby.
- And then the other thing,
to that point of the weight distribution,
she said the weight distribution
is really awesome with this.
It's very balanced and easy.
So when you are trying to hop a curb or something,
it's really easy, she said.
- The fact that, yeah, you can put a whole other seat
on there, and then it's so adjustable and flexible.
It's great. - Yeah, and then when you
don't need the other seat at some point,
maybe Aria's gonna outgrow a stroller.
- Or she'll be on a scooter or something.
- Yeah, something like that.
Then you just go, bloop, and you turn it back into one.
- But then you can also get the attachment
for the board on the back. - Oh, yeah.
- Oh, see, and I didn't even know that part.
- Scooter.
I love researching baby products.
- Yeah. - I looked at so many
double strollers. - Oh, really?
- Oh yes, oh yes.
- And this is the winner.
This is the one that stole your heart.
- It's very unique.
- It is really unique.
- I've never seen anything else that--
- That goes to the side like that.
- I hear ya.
Baba boom, baba boom, baba boom, baba boom.
- Accordion style, yeah.
This one is definitely,
I mean, this one's definitely a luxury product.
- The fact that it'll fold
as a whole unit, but also separated,
it means that even if I were by myself--
- You could take-- - Just pop off the pieces
and I could still fold it all myself,
and hold it and carry it
into the car by myself. - That's key.
- You can start using it right now because it's--
- I know, it's a single.
- It's a single, and you have Aria, so.
- Mm-hm. - If you want to take
some walks, you can give it a test drive.
- A little test drive, I like that.
- I'm not taking as many walks as I should.
- (chuckles) No, I understand.
- I'll take some waddles.
- [Sharzad] Take some waddles.
Waddling is good. - Yep.
- I'm so happy for you and the journey
that you're about top embark on.
- Thank you. - And the chaos
that's gonna go down.
It's a wild ride.
Thank you so much for coming on here.
And I'm so pumped for you
that you get to take this baby home.
And life your best life with that stroller.
- Thank you so much for having me.
- Yeah, it was so much fun.
You know what?
It was so much fun to do this research
and pick out a stroller for you,
and go back and forth with you,
and figure out what would be the best one.
Because I feel like it makes me a little bit
more knowledgeable too. - Yeah, when you do have
number two. - I feel like I really know.
Yeah, well that, and also, people are always asking
about product recommendations on FAM,
our private Facebook group and stuff.
And I feel like now I know which double stroller
to tell them. - Exactly, that's really cool.
- I know, I learned so much
during the whole process as well,
because I didn't know a stroller like this
even existed. - Right.
- Neither did I, yep.
Yep, it's very cool.
Thank you guys so much for watching this episode of FAM.
And be sure to keep up with Jen.
Follow her YouTube channel, Instagram.
She creates amazing content.
Wish her lots of luck on her new adventure.
- Actually, by the time this video posts
you'll probably have your baby.
- I'll probably have the baby. - Yes, for sure, for sure.
You guys can always keep up with us
in our private Facebook group.
There will be a link to that in the description as well.
We hope you like this video. Thumbs up, subscribe.
And we'll see you soon.
Bye. - Bye.
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BLACK Trails on the FIRST DAY - Châtel Roadtrip DAY 1 | Portes du Soleil - Duration: 8:36.
Good morning from Chatel. This is our crib. We are one week in Portes du Soleil. This is day 1, so we cruise around and check the park for new stuff. Enjoy!
We are now on top and look at that beautiful view! Warm up run now!
I need to stop, my front brake is gone!
I need new brake pads!
We're riding now the serpentine trail, which has many berms, as the name already tells..
Just try to take the berms as smooth as possible
This is the new part of the trail, i think a jump is coming up.
That's a pretty short roll-in for a drop.
How are you supposed to ride that. Crazy.
We meet again at the car!
Welcome to a first ride on "bike patrol"
Clipless pedals are still a little struggle.
Damn it, I didn't want to ride that trail.
I came to an unlucky stop in this stonepit. And need to try to hop on here and hit that line. Let's try it.
Could get cleaned up here.
That looks dope. You need some speed for that, gonna try it tomorrow. Let's see what else is new.
That's the famous spot where the guys crashed down here.
So guys, that was it for today. We're gonna repair some stuff and cook something now. See you tomorrow with hopefully some more action. See ya!
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ENG🔥Nicki Minaj 2018 MTV Performs ''Majesty', 'Barbie Dreams' (Korean Reaction) - Duration: 12:04.
hello to da world!!~
wide~
greeting
i've come back!!!
yeah Sean's back from diarrhea
lmao diarrhea means something related to shitting doesn't it?? lol
have no idea, i was just saying you're sick (hahahahaha)
okay it's kinda dirty tho but
anyway i was sick yesterday -what's the reason??
well.. i'm a type of person who don't usually get sick but
but yesterday was exception
felt like i got cold
but you don't have to worry cuz i'm feeling better since i rested for a day
wow~~~
aight then we're here with similar concept like yesterday
i watched yesterday's video and it's looking so comfy
that's why we here with same like yesterday!
and we got...
since i haven't had lunch yet -aight
this is a chicken leg that we can get from a convenient store -yeah
so i bought this one with a can of coke
and i got Monster to stay up!!!!
it's such a tiny can but expensive tho -i think in US, they're selling much bigger size of it
it's similar size to Red Bull can in US tho
oh.. so expensive -yeah it's around 2 bucks
2 bucks... it should've been way cheaper -lol
aight then what are we gonna...
ah... ah... i don't like it..
do not like it -aight i got it
aight then after we're thinking of what are we gonna do today
i thought yesterday's reaction video we did on the live performance video was good!!!!
yeahhh that was not bad !!!
so we decided to do it again
then what's today's artist????
it's Nicki Minaj you guys love so much!!!
yeah!!!! -yeah Nicki Minaj
Trinidad!!!! lol how should i pronounce it??? -Trinidad!
Trinidad! yeah
anyway we're here to do reaction on Nicki Minaj's live stage in MTV VMA 2018 -right?
it's the same stage that we did yesterday right? -yeah
and since we had Wiki time for Nicki Minaj before, you guys can check that video on right here!!!!!!
please!!!!! click this -plz plz plz
okay -aight cool!
then since we 've done Wiki Time
why don't we just start right after we popped these cans
i'm gonna let you hear this sound like ASMR
wow!!! Cheers baby
aight then let's go to Nicki Minaj's live performance in 2018 MTV VMA Awards... oh am i wrong??
VMA.. -btw, what does VMA stand for?
Video Magazine Awards????
Video... no i have no idea
think it's something related to Video... anyway
Video Magazine??????? -lmao
anyway, if you guys know please , let us know!!
then let's say it and start!
1 2 3 LIT action!
1 2 Yap!!!
who that?
these guys??
ummm
is Nicki singing now?
no
oh
Gold is the Trend -wow
Cadillac! -wow
Nicki Challenge!!!!
lol that's such a huge ribbon style tho lol
it's like... the whole costume looks like a huge ribbon tho
yeah i think she hit the men next to her with her shoulder lol -lol
lol with shoulder?
wow that's awesome -looks NFL gear
btw, she's rapping so clear and neat -right
Nicki Challenge!!!
-anyway, well.. -maybe she got inspired by Drake????
ummmmmm
really?? -she could be ... i'm not sure
anyway, speaking of her rap,
well in this kinda huge stage,
unless you're not a professional like her, people could be over stepping because they 'd be so turn up
but since she's such a pro, she keeps appropriate pace of her rapping
and she's spitting lyrics clearly
i like it so much!! keep it going!!!
it's def so good cuz i can listen to her song clearly
yeah her rap is so clear
yeah it's hard to do in live stages
aight let's keep going! -after you!
wow
when was this performance?
maybe a few weeks ago?
it's not a while
lol look at her face
her face is like telling i'm the best
now she's got out from the ribbon -wow
oh yeah!
let's go
ohhh you got it right lol
(laughing)
wow
Nicki... -the best!!!!!
she's on fire
woah!
it's kinda oldschool tho -i'm diggin it
this is like... i think i can feel the real groove here
yeah you're right
something you can bounce on
btw she raps... so tight tho
even i'm not a native English speaker, i can listen to it very clearly -yeah for real
umm -it's very clear and
i think in here, her voice sightly sounds like CL's voice
oh really? -i mean her voice
well, it doesn't sound like that to me but you could think like that -aight
and i got one thing i wanna say -yeah
i'm always curious about it
i mean wondering if it's fake in only her MVs
which one??? -something like...
her body??? -yeah
but it's her real body in here -yeah it's real
I thought it's Computer Graphic in her MV
i thought it's unrealistic -um
but it's actually real, this is the first time i watch her performance
i've watched just a few times but
well it's same in her MVs in my point of view
well to me, since people are saying her body looks unrealistic on the comments
so i thought it's not real but i was wrong
ahhh btw her performance!!! i can feel the real groove in here on this oldschool beat
yeah it's dope!
aight let's keep going, keep that groove
haha the audiences are same like us!!
yeah right haha -wow!
Uzi is my baby!
I used to f.... -lol
how you..
but it'd been better without censoring
sorry?
i mean it'd been better if they didn't censor some swear words
yeah it'd been way much better if we could listen to some raw words -yeah lol
c'mon
oh
wow.. -that's tight
haha -wow
oh~
woah~~~
it's not ever tho
wooo
(imitating)
that's dope
woahhhhhh
that's crazy!!!!!
dope!!! AF
seems like she's saying that did you see what i just did??????
the guy on her right is holding his D tho
let's go
oh??
FEFE -king of new york
ha i love the song
hahahah
btw, we've done reaction on this song
there's the link of that video on here
woah!!!!!!!
(imitating)
(trying to imitate...) -lmao
hey!!1
look at that dance -wow
I like this song much better in live performance
I don't really want no friends (your friends also probably don't need you to be friend tho Haewon hahahah)
wow killed it
dope dope -so beautiful
look at her eyes
TTTo it???
TTo it?
it sounds like Q Park's (he's an youtuber) signature sound
that was TTight!!!! -that was TTTight!!!
(Qpark)
wow!!!
that shit tight -holy...
wow this MTV stage is quite awesome!
yeah it's just great
it's more turn up than original sound
since the audiences are enthusiastic, we could also feel the whole vibe in there
well even though i didn't watch Ariana Grande's stage yesterday
but i can def say i was feeling like i was watching her performing right under the stage
yesterday.. well i felt like i was watching some kinda Musical
and today i was feeling like i'm watching her singing on the stage! -right?
we felt like we're doing same like the audiences did
at the first , i thought they didn't spend lots of money compared to Ariana Grande's stage but
I could feel different vibe in her performing from AG's stage
I basically like both of the performances
at the first i thought it's normal but now i think it's dope AF!!
oh!!! well to me, the part i like the most is
when the beat changed and some oldschool beat was played
that was such groovy
me as well because at the part, i could hear what she's saying so clearly
i just couldn't stop bouncing like this because the groove was just amazing
i love it -well she performs so well i guess
now i know why she's the best....(tried not to burp.... sorry)
hahaha
anyway , artists who perform well on the stage like Nicki also do well in the studio
generally -to me,
i think it's more turn up -yea def!!!! comparing to just watching MVs
it's way more turn up and we could feel the atmosphere in there much better
it's like i could feel like i'm in New York
i really wanna go to the concert when i get a chance
when the foreign artist we like come to Korea
aight we had really great time watching MTV stage!!!! -yeah
we're gonna be back with another great MVs and reactions
so please stay tuned for us!!!
and one last thing we gotta say for today
if you guys liked this video, press like and subscribe and alarming
and promotion!
world wide!!! -yeah!
aight let's say and finish!!
1 2 3 LIT action!
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Parasitic Aliens - Duration: 26:23.
Upon our ambassador's return from his visit to Leechian homeworld, he described them as
the most noble and wise species he'd ever encountered, and with a glint in his eye,
encouraged all his fellow high ranking leaders to visit their world to gain a new perspective
and enjoy a complimentary stay at the Saunas of Enlightenment & Implantation.
So we return to the alien civilization series for a look at parasitic & symbiotic aliens.
Bit of tricky topic because 'parasite' is a somewhat vague word as is symbiotic.
The specific biological term isn't super-precise either, but it certainly doesn't mean quite
the same thing as we did when we came up with the word.
Originally it meant 'someone who eats at the table of another', and in that context
it's really about the same as saying 'moocher', a bit of slang that was more popular when
I was young for a person who lives off others without giving anything in return.
This again can be a bit vague, since one could argue any hunter or predator was a parasite
on whatever species they hunted, as opposed to a farmer or herder who is arguably in a
more symbiotic relationship, you eventually eat your flock or crop, but provide food and
protection in the meantime.
So like a lot of terms we look at in science fiction, we want to be careful about over-extending
the definition, for the same reason we wouldn't count a person as a cyborg because they had
a pacemaker or metal filling in a tooth.
The strict biological definition is an organism that lives on or in another organism, the
host, causes it some harm by doing so, and is adapted structurally to this existence.
Which is to say, it's body has evolved heavily to fit this role, often to the point that
it wouldn't be functional without it.
When we think of parasitic aliens though, we tend to think of critters that control
other people's minds or eat and replace us.
Brain bugs who land here and wiggle into your ear, or catch you by yourself and eat you
and mimic you to others.
There are countless films, books, and TV shows that have used this, such as John Carpenter's
1982 Film "The Thing", which is merely the third of four adaptation of the novella
"Who Goes There?", by John W. Campbell, the legendary editor of Astounding Science
Fiction Magazine, where so many of the authors of the Golden age of Science Fiction got their
start.
You can pick up a free copy of "Who Goes There?" and also get a 30-day trial of Audible,
just use my link, Audible.com/Isaac or text Isaac to 500-500.
So we have a lot of examples from science fiction to look at and we'll get through
a number of them today, but it's also worth noting that we have a lot of surprising examples
from nature too.
Some are simply outright gross and entirely harmful to their host, while others actually
provide some benefits, and are arguably symbiotic.
But we tend to assume that critters like this couldn't really evolve a civilization because
they're not really smart themselves.
Indeed many of our examples for today from fiction could only be considered ludicrous
from an evolutionary perspective, and for many others, their parasitic nature is more
behavioral, they only latch on to us and feed in a metaphorical sense.
It's worth mentioning though that quite a few parasites do engage in mind control
or impersonation.
For mind control, we have any number of fairly revolting parasites that either directly infect
the brain or perhaps the spine or sometimes even just the digestive system and create
cravings for a food their host normally would not have.
An alien parasite, for instance, might get in someone's stomach and cause them to have
a craving for minerals heavy in Tungsten, because it needs Tungsten to live.
Many of these are nearly brainless, even compared to their often rather stupid hosts, yet can
annex their motor functions and control them.
We've got a type of fly that infects ants with eggs, which when the larva hatch crawl
into its brain, eats it, and causes it to continue to act and work like normal till
it has a chance to bury itself somewhere so the fly can finish maturing.
This can happen with no brain at all either.
We've got a fungus that infects caterpillars and actually causes them to plant themselves
by burying their head upside down in the ground, and then uses them for nutrients and as a
stalk it sprouts from.
This can also sometimes be a bit symbiotic, we've got a type of acacia tree that ants
love the nectar from, so much so they'll protect that tree from animals and weeds,
which sounds mutually beneficial except the ants not only get addicted to that nectar,
but lose the ability to digest anything else.
Still these are all fairly simple organisms, indeed those last two were mindless, but for
parasitic behavior by impersonation we've got some clever ones.
Perhaps the best known example is the brown headed cowbird, that lays its eggs in other
birds' nest, often after destroying the eggs already there, and is called a brood
parasite, as it relies on other animals to actually raise its young.
There are many species that do this, but the cuckoo stands out as birds are generally considered
the smartest class of animals after mammals, and indeed a few are smarter than many mammals,
which would indicate this is a plausible evolutionary pathway for a species to take on the road
to higher intelligence.
A parallel to brood parasites are social parasites, like certain types of bees that invade a hive,
replace the queen, and let the workers continue to feed them and care for their own young,
that's a strategy that's often implied in a lot of secret alien invasion scenarios
where, for instance, an alien might impersonate a leader.
We've also got Kleptoparasites, that steal food gathered by the host, and that's got
some interesting extreme variations like the tongue eating louse, which infects fish, cuts
off their tongue and latches onto the stump to replace it.
Regular viewers will note that, unlike in many episodes, I did not suggest getting a
drink and snack before beginning, as many of these little monsters are rather unpleasant
to look at or contemplate.
However, there is the symbiosis route, and for instance a species might replace something's
tongue with itself, and steal some food that way, but give a heightened sense of taste
or smell in exchange.
Humans have a huge number of somewhat symbiotic bacteria inside us, ranging from our gut bacteria
that helps us digest food to mitochondria, the separate bacteria-like powerhouses that
live in the thousands in each of our cells and make up one fifth of our typical cell
by volume.
Nor does our intelligence keep us from being mind controlled by something much stupider.
The Influenza virus is often considered parasitic, indeed it's sometimes called the perfect
parasite, in that it's thought to make people infected with it act more social, thus being
around more people and infecting more of them.
Any parasite that relies on its hosts interacting with each other to spread benefits from a
more social species, so for instance one that could cause you to feel drunk might be very
effective.
Keep that one in mind for later, as we'll discuss how alien beer may represent one of
the more likely scenarios for being destroyed by aliens, and yes I did say alien beer.
It still seems very unlikely something could evolve to higher intelligence by being a parasite,
let alone one able to parasite critters with an alien biology.
However here's three caveats on that, first, that impersonation pathway the cuckoo uses
benefits from higher intelligence, and mimicking a critter doesn't necessarily require compatible
biochemistry.
One could imagine something taking a chameleon pathway.
Second, a species that evolved with technology might no longer act in ways their ancestors
did, like I don't tend to go swinging around trees or even chasing mammoths, but it probably
shapes their philosophical outlook and how you'd interact with them.
They might be very predatory or parasitic even if they weren't openly hostile.
Pierson's Puppeteers from Larry Niven's Ringworld and Known Space series are a good
example of that, especially as we get to know them.
They are initially described as tri-sexual, with two genders that are smart and a third
described as non-sentient.
We later find out that it's not really a third gender at all, one fertilizes another,
as normal, who then lays an egg in some unrelated creature with an ovipositor, like a wasp.
This is also our third caveat, because while here we see they've developed a close enough
relationship with that species they lay their eggs in to regard them as part of their race,
it's not hard to imagine more symbiotic versions of this.
Interestingly, while we don't hear much about that egg-bearing host species, odds
are the Puppeteers see to their needs the same as a farmer to his livestock.
This isn't a loving and warm relationship but is arguably mutually beneficial.
You also can have back and forth evolution where parasite and host, or symbiote and host,
push each other to evolve.
This is presumably the case for one of science fiction's best known symbiotic races, the
Trill from Star Trek.
That's a weird evolutionary path, basically a big swimming brain, very akin to to Gou'ald
from the Stargate Franchise, or their nicer cousins, the symbiotic To'kra.
But let's imagine an advanced form of that fly from earlier that gets into ant brains,
eats the brain, and replicates their behavior.
We often say a good parasite is one that never actually kills the host, and of course symbiosis
relies on this too.
So imagine it didn't quite eat the brain but hijacked part of the brain and the nutrient
system feeding it, grows on the ant's back like a big hump, spawns, and flies off and
lays another egg in another ant.
Over time, this could setup a symbiotic relationship with feedback encouraging more intelligence
in both parties, and potentially the sharing of sensory functions, if the parasite had
a better set of eyes, for instance, to spot its host.
This could get very integrated with time and increasingly complex, and potentially even
end with the host intentionally and knowingly transferring mature parasites from other hosts
and sticking them on their kids.
Indeed, being able to put a smarter, older, wiser parasite on your kid to act as a babysitter
and teacher would have some major survival advantages.
With this system in place, that parasite no longer benefits from having any motor system
itself, even to jump onto its host, and actually gains from being smarter and wiser and longer
lived, since those would be the preferred babysitters.
So you could end up with something that was a parasite originally and now was essentially
nothing but a symbiotic brain.
One can imagine them eventually become a high-tech democracy that always elected the brain slugs
since everyone was so used to them as a wise parental authority figure.
It wouldn't be very likely it could infect any other species, let alone an alien one,
but there's some ways around that too.
First, for other species of the same planet, we often talk in sci-fi about colony organisms
or brains that are essentially networks of fungus or algae, such as the Pattern Jugglers
in the Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space series or the Xeno Fungus from Sid Meier's
Alpha Centuari.
One can imagine those as your early brains and hijacking every animal nearby, like that
fungus we mentioned that hijacked caterpillars.
And we certainly have plenty of examples of plants that already somewhat hijack many species
for their survival and reproduction, relying on them for pollination or eating fruit to
be carried away and planted.
So you might have some algae intelligence in a pond that had hijacked every fish and
frog and insect to do its bidding, in which case, increased intelligence is handy since
it lets you better control your minions in what is now essentially a hive mind.
It also has every motivation to kill off any species it can't control.
As to non-hive mind alien parasites, that's harder of course.
Fiction has plenty of examples, the Xenomorphs from the Alien Franchise, who lay eggs in
you that kill you when they hatch, again like a wasp.
We also have the Tyranids from Warhammer 40k, a setting with plenty of parasites including
the Emperor of Mankind, who eats a thousand people every day, though this is arguably
symbiotic.
The Tyranids are definitely not symbiotic, but are a bit more subtle than the Xenomorphs
sometimes by infecting people with what they call Genestealer Cults, hybrids initially
raised by infected parents whose brains have been ravaged so they can't even realize
their cute new bundle of joy is a monster, an example of a brood parasite like the cowbird.
Of course, later the Tyranids just turn everything biological on the planet to soup, and reconstitute
it into more versions of themselves, slightly evolved from their original form - a more
believable way to parasitize a whole planet.
However while they make good fiction, it's hard to imagine how something from another
planet could evolve to take over your brain.
So much like vampires, another parasite of fiction, they make good stories but wouldn't
seem too plausible.
But if you're on alien planets, it usually implies you have space travel which implies
you have technology.
You could engineer yourself to incorporate biological enhancements, possibly to adapt
to a new environment, or even go post-biological.
The Borg from Star Trek would be an example, who act exactly like our algae intelligence
of a moment ago, they steal bodies to act as minions basically.
This is actually an example that could be a credible threat to us, given how divergent
we expect to be from aliens biologically.
As a cyborg, though, you wouldn't really need to interact with the diverse nervous
systems or biologies of your hosts.
You could, in theory, simply locate the motor neurons for the host and puppet their bodies
using electrical impulses, in much the same way as the Gou'ald did but not in a biological
way.
The host could still be aware and living on in their own brains but unable to interact
with the outside world.
There are plenty of other examples too, The Vex from the video game Destiny, arguably
even the Reapers from the Mass Effect Franchise, especially as allegedly in the original plot
they were indeed farming and reaping civilizations to borrow their intelligence or perspective
to solve a problem.
The Borg also steal knowledge, assimilating cultures and technology, and that's an example
of where you might see parasitic tendencies in a non-hostile body-stealing way.
Aliens who love knowledge or poetry or art and visit planets with emerging civilizations
just to get theirs, either by open trade or exploitation or outright invasion.
As we said the term itself originally meant 'someone who eats at the table of another',
a mooch, and the most effective folks at that sort of behavior are the ones who make themselves
welcome.
It's a bit of a gray line, I guess the analogy would be that a travelling storyteller who
visited farmhouses and told stories in exchange for a bed and meal, a symbiotic behavior,
versus one who did that, but burgled their cellar before leaving, but did so in just
small enough quantity and covertly so that they didn't notice and cheerfully bade him
a good trip and welcomed him back when he next returned.
And again, same as a parasite might evolve to be fairly noble, a non-parasite can certainly
exhibit parasitic behaviors, like that storytelIer.
The Stargate Franchise gives us the Gou'ald as an example of parasitic behavior and the
To'kra as symbiotic ones, but it also shows us the vampiric Wraith and even the Aschen,
a society that essentially showed up on other planets and offered lots of technology, including
life extension, Technological Uplifting, but then would wipe out most of the local population
through a sterility plague and in one case reduced the natives to fairly simple and backwater
farmers who supplied food to their empire, unaware they'd been victims of that empire.
Indeed you might subtly invade a planet in stages that way by offering them a genetically
modified crop that was much more productive, that you could also eat, and whose pollen
rendered people stupider or less fertile.
This is a common theme in fiction too, aliens openly greet us, rather than sneaking in,
offer us technology, but have an ulterior motive.
The Taelons from Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict show up on Earth doing nothing
but good deeds but while not implied to be evil as a species by any means, have a lot
of rather dark projects and members.
One of which was a symbiote they'd give people that shot energy blasts and another
called a Cyber Viral Implant that enhanced cognition and recall, but also tampered with
your mind to make you loyal to them.
So they're friendly alien visitors with sinister plots.
That can go the other way too.
In another TV show, Threshold, there is an apparently evil invader race taking people's
brains over but it's hinted near the end they might be trying to help us out.
Sadly we don't get to find out as it only got one season, in spite of having Brett "Data"
Spiner and Peter "Tyrion" Dinklage in it.
But while we can point out the options technology offers to let you get around the alien issue,
we also shouldn't discount that something might be able to get us as a parasite even
if it wasn't technological.
You don't necessarily need the same biochemistry or adaptation to a specific host organism
to puppet or impersonate someone.
While life probably originated on Earth in deep sea vents or tidal pools, we can't
rule out Panspermia, life distributed around the cosmos by comets or interstellar dust,
permitting a common basic biochemistry.
Moreover, while we can't rule out alternate chemistries for life, it's quite possible
our carbon and water approach is the only viable one, and is almost certainly the easiest
and most common one, those elements being way too common in places where there's plausible
conditions for advanced and diverse life.
Now we often say here that you wouldn't want to ever land on an alien planet, even
in a space suit, since just sneezing could infect a planet to the point of total extinction
in favor of what you had in you.
However, we're not really talking about viruses, the simplest parasite and one usually
so adapted and simplified it can't even infect a species just a few million years
removed from its preferred host.
Hence why you don't often get colds from your cat or dog, but it can happen.
But more importantly, microbes in your body, not viruses, just need basic nutrients, ones
probably present on most life-bearing planets.
Giant viruses could theoretically bridge that gap however.
With more than double the amount of genes of their smaller cousins, they are often mistaken
for bacteria.
As an example, the Pandoravirus is a huge virus with over 2000 genes, most of which
we haven't found anywhere else on earth.
And many viruses have the ability to survive in the harsh conditions of space, often raining
back down on us from above.
With more genes and diversity than smaller viruses, the potential for them to turn symbiotic
and/or parasitic is there.
And the Pandoravirus isn't even the largest or most diverse.
The more specialized a cell is, generally the less adaptable it is in changing conditions.
However these large viruses are so diverse, who knows in what conditions or species they
may one day call home?
One way that such a virus could infect diverse hosts is if it is designed to do just that.
This ties into alien abductions, where an alien race arrives at a planet, collects samples
from its local flora and fauna and then sets about designing a doomsday genetic weapon
that is capable of wiping out every species on that planet, or at least the intelligent
ones.
If you design a big enough genome and have a powerful enough computer to design such
a weapon, I think you could pull that off.
This is similar to the Shadows plague virus in the Babylon 5 universe that decimated Earth
and destroyed many other worlds.
It was automated in that it had a parasitic learning phase where it quietly infected its
hosts and learned from the physiology of its victims without actually harming them and
then adapted itself before dealing the final deadly infection phase that quickly wiped
its hosts out.
The Shadows in the Babylon 5 series also had a mind-controlling puppeteer called a Drakh
Keeper that they modified to the biology of the host and infected them to do their bidding
in a more traditional parasite role.
So, you will probably never shake hands with an alien, since you'll both be potential
walking plague carriers, and their embassy, if they have one in your system at all, might
be on an island but much more likely won't even be on the planet, but on a space station.
With enough technology in play people could presumably visit and maybe eat the food, which
of course they would if they could.
Not only would people want to try exotic alien cuisine on general principle, but big and
expansive empires tend to have the best selection.
They are also fairly likely to try the booze too, which aliens might well have.
So diplomats and traders are likely to be up there in person, and eat and drink the
stuff even if it requires decontamination procedures on your guts by some device of
a unsettlingly tentacular nature.
When they get home, they are likely to rave about how excellent it is, probably even if
it wasn't.
Of course you can't let anything with a live culture down on the planet and you need
to be sure all the microbes are gone.
You don't want those microbes down here and the aliens might well be smart and benevolent
folks who don't want that either.
You could, in theory, brew up vats of beer or yogurt or cheese using alien microbes,
and maybe safely by having the place be off-world or like a biohazard lab, but odds are it would
be banned on general principle.
Now as everyone knows, the only thing that makes a cigar or drink better is if it comes
from some place under embargo and sanction, and let's be honest, if someone offered
you a forbidden alien beer, you are going to have a rough time saying no and aren't
likely to report them.
This also means there's now a black market for it, only anyone supplying it isn't likely
to be making it in an ultra-safe biohazard lab but rather brewing it up in their bathtub
like moonshine.
So next thing you know, you've been invaded by aliens and your ecosystem wrecked, not
because they're parasitic or bad guys, but because someone couldn't resist having a
drink.
And who can blame them, Alien Beer is to die for.
All right, so some food for thought about alien ecosystems and parasitic aliens.
Personally I don't think we need worry about it much, even ignoring my usual skepticism
about us encountering any aliens civilizations at all, because I do think brain bugs or mimics
able to originate in alien ecosystems but still get humans is a pretty unlikely evolutionary
scenario, biologically or culturally.
This is especially true when it comes to the divergence of biological systems, even here
on our own home planet and other planets are likely to be so much more different from our
own.
However, it's not something we can completely rule out.
Regardless, it definitely makes for some good stories, and one of the best of those is John
W. Campbell's classic novella, "Who goes There?" which inspired so many more stories.
In spite of being a classic that's been turned into popular film's many times, the
story varies from them quite a lot and is not one we can discuss without ruinous spoilers,
so I'll limit myself to saying you'll still be surprised even if you've seen all
the film adaptations, and you will quickly realize why John W. Campbell is considered
one of the grandfathers of science fiction whose work explores so many fascinating concepts.
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