Reviving Civilization: Science and Survival After a Global Petrification

on that day every man woman and child on Earth instantly turned to stone this is it senku my mind's made up I'm

finally gonna do it after five long years I'm telling her how I feel wow fascinating I can't leave the lab right

now but I promise to cheer you on so vociferously my vocal cords will snap awesome you mean it

no you big oath I won't project my voice even one millimeter for your cause what I felt this way for five years but never

said anything I can't pray such a logical Behavior but I can give you something logical as hell

have developed this drug as a Kind of Love Potion it maxes out your pheromone levels granting you a 10 billion percent

chance of winning her heart [Music] but no thanks senku

I gotta do this my way whoa are you serious you made a love potion

come on use your brain it's gasoline I simply refined it from plastic bottle caps consider the molecular structure of

polyethylene it's just like a long gasoline molecule minus a few hydrocarbons you can tell just by

looking well I can't I mean yeah but tied you drank it wouldn't that have

killed him the odds of him drinking fat with 10 billion to one

it's dumb but two straight laced it's fine so what's going on taiju you wanted to talk to me

[Music] a hundred Yen on heartbreak 300 on her making him cry 500 on her calling him a

creep I bet ten thousand that she's into him too seriously

all this time I've been so scared that if I tell her how I really feel about her she could not want to be my friend

anymore but I can't keep it a secret forever it's like this

all right no turning back now I've kept this inside me for five years and hold up what's that weird light

[Music] quick grab onto the tree what the hell

oh yeah it's the end of the world

thank you [Music] [Music]

[Music] I'm still alive I gotta stay focused or else I'll Fade Out wake up Tyson

I'm sure she probably got away but I can't die a coward I have to find her and tell her exactly how I feel

[Music] [Music] I've Got The Willpower to survive I know

I do this this could go on for weeks or even months but still no matter what I gotta let her know

[Music] how many decades has it been centuries millennia

well I'm not giving up I'm gonna tell you three how what my true feelings are I'm gonna survive this

even if it kills me [Music] foreign

[Applause] I'm finally free I can move my body again

[Applause] pieces of stone oh no

so like everyone went through all that too horrible

how long have we been like this I'm sorry I really wish I could do more to help you

as long as the landscape hasn't changed too much I should be able to follow the river

that'll lead me to the tree and to her whoa something just fell over there is that a bird statue there's so much

detail I mean check out those wings it looks so real I think maybe it is real a friend of mine just found one of these

I saw the picture he posted of it you poor little thing what happened is it like some kind of disease that made

your skin harden up ugh well of course the vet's office wouldn't

be open before school hours didn't really think this one through huh crap it's hurt not to mention that's

obviously a statue or something and not a real bird but you still brought it to the vet

that's embarrassing [Music] it shows up out of nowhere just my luck

why are you here well because I'm a big old dummy too I found this little guy I wanted to see if I could help him great

minds huh foreign [Laughter]

[Music] I could never forget that face not even after thousands of years

I knew you were still alive I never lost hope and now [Music]

laughs I'm really proud of you and your incredible too tree you kept her safe

this entire time like you held on to her thank you sorry

but I just couldn't protect you in fact when you really think about it you were actually the one protecting me

I was able to stay alive because of you truth you were my light shining in the darkness for hundreds even thousands of

years [Music] and now I can finally say it I started

back then but I never got to finish so what I was gonna tell you that day is that

I [Music] [Music]

fluffed you for hundreds thousands of years

I swear on my life I'll save you don't know how but I'll find a way okay so just wait

uh-huh follow the river Downstream big oaf well look who's finally awake good

morning you big oaf you're alive too don't you dare hug me while you're Buck Naked hands off I'm

not joking it's October 5th in the year 5738. you really slept in for a hell of

a long time I've been up and diligently working my tail off for the last six months

hold on like it has been 3 700 years how do you know what day it is you've

got some kind of calendar or what huh I figured it out by counting it was the logical thing to do oh

five six seven eight damn almost lost Consciousness again

seems to happen about every 800 000 seconds it's about as regular as my bowel

movements used to be I'll need to think and count at the same time run parallel processes 116 billion

427 million sixty five thousand five hundred thirty seconds one two

three four five

six seven so that whole time you were frozen you just counted even if I had willed

myself awake before then being out here Stark naked with no supplies in Winter would have meant game over pretty damn

quickly I realized I would have to start things up in the springtime so keeping an extremely precise account of the time

was an absolute must all right we're here we need to put a pin in the small talk

and get to work senku you're telling me you did this

on your own [Music] until now I've been lacking Manpower

coming up with the bare minimum to survive takes all my time if I'm gonna rebuild civilization I'll

need a muscling meathead to do the grunt work in other words I've been waiting for you taiju I was 10 billion percent

sure you were still alive you were so hell-bent on confessing your love and for a guy as stubborn as you even a few

thousand years wouldn't stop you from making that happen you aren't that weak

yeah of course I'm not all right senku

you can handle all the brainy stuff the heavy lifting to me no problem Humanity over 2 million years to crawl

out of the Stone Age to the Modern Age we need to do that in a Sprint I swear I'm going to take back the world

through science I'll figure out what happened to us and how we broke free I swear I'm Gonna Save You Surya

we may be a couple of high school kids but we're gonna rebuild civilization from the ground up you and I will be

like Adam and Eve together we'll bring life back to this Stone World this is exhilarating get excited

foreign you have a real life cheat code for stamina

varosa toxic finishing Meiji safe I'm Anita muscaria toxic if something looks like it's out of a Mario game pass it up

next mugwort that's edible wolf Spain are you trying to poison us [Music]

oh man what the heck did you say did you see salt that I pulled out of

the sea water a little pinch of it will make almost anything palatable we can utilize it for pickling food as well one

of primitive man's greatest discoveries I'd say thank you senku this is perfect I may not know all the stuff that you do

but I'm gonna bust my back working for us oh hold on to check

grapes two there's one way to find out get in my

belly yeah thank you

I know I've seen that guy on TV he's called the strongest primate high schooler

sukasa guess he couldn't fight it either oh me and psycho haven't been here yet

so that means someone else survived I gotta know who they are it was me idiot are we the only ones left for real like

the last humans still alive we'll get more that's a top priority I mean the two of

us alone just a couple of dudes can't restart Humanity if you catch my drift yeah that's true besides

why after 3 700 years did we break free from our petrified condition the stone rotted away well something like that say

the strange mineral had been corroded can you chalk up the timing to Mere random coincidence six months apart is a

relative blip on the radar there's a reason why we both reanimated so close together

we drifted up near here it would make sense that this cave factored in somehow see that the stuff trickling from

overhead hmm that's our Miracle fluid made from bat guano good old nitric acid no way that's

crazy that I did anticipate that question but I'm not going to waste my breath

explaining it to you let me guess you pour some of the miracle stuff on it the stone breaks and

the bird wakes up how I wish it were so straightforward that would rule oh

I've been working like a madman on this project using every last method I could think of

over and over again and again it's like something from a fantasy world is it all mineral are there living cells

underneath I don't have the laboratory for in-depth analysis so basically what you're telling me is there are things

even science can't explain there we go a tired old cliche truth is it never quite stands up to the

scientific method science is often a slow process some liquor might speed things up

combined with the nitric acid we could make something nice and potent what's commonly known as nidal which is an

industrial strength etching agent what did you say we needed huh I said we could make an idol that

gets into the ferrite grain boundary no don't confuse me with some kind of science talk I mean the part about

liquor wine comes from grapes yeah and that is a type of alcohol isn't it

not bad you pick off [Music] yeah we'll have you handle all the neck

down work from here on out that's just the logical choice making wine is an extremely simple

process crush your grapes or fruit put it in a container Stir It Up every day until it's ready to

go but if we tried this back in our time we'd get arrested for not having a

license [Music] three weeks should do the trick

thought of something underage drinking is a crime too not a problem after all we're both a

little over 3 700 years old oh yeah that's right [Laughter]

oh not bad quite better than expected but it's 10 billion times worse than what was on the market though that was

so easy just stomping grapes and waiting around one step at a time my friend though I hate to say it our Pace will

slow down this will be a course in distilling wine for dummies our goal is to acquire some

Brandy distilling huh no idea what that means I knew you'd say that it's heating cooling and dripping that'll concentrate

the alcohol don't worry people back in ancient Mesopotamia were doing this with clay

pots in 3000 BC and if they can do it then so can we now get excited [Applause]

thank you [Music] foreign

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[Music] listen up big O lesson one it's not that there are things science

can't explain not in the least There Are Rules behind everything that

happens science is just the name for the steady pain in the ass effort that goes into finding out what they are

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[Music] I've been experimenting for a year now it actually didn't take as long as I'd

imagined slow and steady wins the race I'm gonna beat fantasy with science as

my only weapon oh yeah get excited

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