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@frank_14320
August 24, 2026 at 11:02 am
❤❤❤
@jason666king
August 24, 2026 at 11:03 am
A mask? In 2026? Wow!
@xshadowscreamx
August 24, 2026 at 11:08 am
@jason she not well, she trying not to spreading the cold/flu around.
@djkognito9740
August 24, 2026 at 11:15 am
Maybe she has a cold and doesn’t want to spread it as she passes through the crowd. Unselfish. Patriotic.
@xshadowscreamx
August 24, 2026 at 11:17 am
@nathanrobersonyes
@franimal86
August 24, 2026 at 11:30 am
You do know people wore masks pre-Covid and post-Covid? Y’all act like children.
@starwars99ok
August 24, 2026 at 11:12 am
All in 19 minutes…. Amazing! 😅
@MaximumResultInLife
August 24, 2026 at 11:15 am
You say writing about the end of the universe “changed your relationship to time” and made you realize “we are completely insignificant in the cosmos.” How do you personally find motivation to continue your work and daily life with this perspective? Doesn’t it ever feel paralyzing?
@franimal86
August 24, 2026 at 11:27 am
Look up positive existentialism / positive nihilism. It’s not so bad. We’re all in it together.
@franimal86
August 24, 2026 at 11:27 am
But yes, for me, it can be depressing, personally, but you know, that’s pretty normal
@HikaruYamamoto
August 24, 2026 at 12:13 pm
“we are completely insignificant in the cosmos.” I don’t believe so, 99% of it is dead. Things just happen. We are a small rare part of the most interesting part of the cosmos.
@JasonasonofNiribu
August 24, 2026 at 11:16 am
Your group has an abhorrent perception towards consciousness and life in general. There is no good reason anyone of sound mind should put the fate of life on this planet and beyond, in the hands of such ignorant fools labelling themselves as experts.
@cecejagger4527
August 24, 2026 at 1:14 pm
@JasonasonofNiribu what group are you talking about?
@JasonasonofNiribu
August 24, 2026 at 1:22 pm
@cecejagger4527 Alphabet Incorp or a Ted. Our lovely hosts, attempting to narrate our lives for us. It’s a long story.
@flafaloon
August 24, 2026 at 11:21 am
The universe is mind, it’s is but an appearance in consciousness of the beholder. When the beholder is not looking, it ceases to exist. Does it have independent existence? Nobody can say. existence is consciousness, and all appearances and experience is made of consciousness. Like a dream. I did not watch the video, I know anything it claims is theoretical. It is also unnecessary to question, it is, and it is beautiful and mysterious. I don’t care for numbers or qualities, I know the qualities of consciousness, and this has settled all questions. Questioning and investigating is like analyzing images on a movie screen – then developing “ideas” about the pictures and images. Nobody can say anything conclusive or true about anything in existence, for it all arises and passes as images on the screen of consciousness.
@seedrank_a
August 24, 2026 at 11:55 am
low IQ take
@short3000y
August 24, 2026 at 2:38 pm
the forest doesn’t exist for a tree to fall in if there is no observer? right keep trying.
@TheCadstar
August 24, 2026 at 11:22 am
No way i’m taking notice of what a fear based neurotic idiot wearing a mask has to say!!
@jessd1485
August 24, 2026 at 11:42 am
Chronic illnesses do exist irrespective of Covid and the like. It’s a smart choice by her if she wants to protect herself from potentially suffering worse outcome than being harassed for wearing a mask
@harshbutt
August 24, 2026 at 11:30 am
Facial herpes?
@miscpersonalities
August 24, 2026 at 11:57 am
glad to see someone in a high profile profession wear a mask
airborne illness never stopped people
@seedrank_a
August 24, 2026 at 12:03 pm
you should be glad to see people not wearing masks , you want people to be sick?
@DocFlay
August 24, 2026 at 5:37 pm
Masks are so you lessen the risk of spreading a disease YOU have, and will not lessen the risk of you catching something.
Notice how it is the doctors in theatre wearing the masks not the patient on the table.
@timmyj2366
August 24, 2026 at 9:36 pm
You are completely delusional.
@bruuki001
August 24, 2026 at 12:15 pm
honstly katie change my mind my teacher say to see and listen tour channel and now i am very differend i learn loots of things thank you ted community
@rafael.falcao
August 24, 2026 at 12:46 pm
It will never end.
@PoppyOnPoppy
August 25, 2026 at 3:10 pm
@rafael.falcao Humans will never know. Out star, the Sun, will die, like all stars. It has already burned through half its fuel. While it has maybe 4 billion years left, we will be gone long before as it expands slowly into a red giant. Humanity def ends. The Sun ends…so there will be nothing and nobody left one day to know there was once a place called Earth with a civilizations and life. That’s a certainty.
@kaykayhan7691
August 24, 2026 at 2:53 pm
I think it one day reaches the end
@tvuser9529
August 24, 2026 at 5:46 pm
I read her book about the 5 endings. The Big Rip is the most interesting, because unlike vacuum decay we would be able to see it coming, and unlike the heat death the very end would happen on human timescales. Stars would begin disappearing from the sky, then our planet would be pulled away from the sun, and eventually the earth itself would be ripped apart. Perhaps the last living humans would be those on space stations, but in the end even those would be ripped apart, once this ever accelerating hyper-inflation reached human scales. Shortly after, molecules and then atoms would disintegrate, everywhere. It’s the drama queen of universe endings.
@Jasonxbr
August 24, 2026 at 7:50 pm
Well we humans will be long gone before the inevitable 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@thecorrectopinionhehe
August 24, 2026 at 10:09 pm
Katie is a legend
@S4MW45AE
August 25, 2026 at 12:43 am
The end of Universe… What about the end of the pandemic? 😂
@SuvoraMix
August 25, 2026 at 1:41 am
There is no universe. Why don’t you grab a laser and try to direct it into the sky at night? These “SCIENTISTS” are so wrong they are fooling people.
@pXnTilde
August 25, 2026 at 3:02 am
“hrmmrmrff frmmf frm mffrrrmrmfmmr mfmrrmm mm mmrrfmrm mrfmfrrr”
– a serious person in 2026
@pascalmonett7457
August 25, 2026 at 5:13 am
Disappointing.
I was expecting a TED talk about how the Universe could end.
Instead, I got two talking heads and one brief mention of a book on the subject.
@sravyasuresh22
August 25, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Exactly, the thumbnail was misleading
@uaps28
August 25, 2026 at 8:19 am
She never mentioned the hypothetical ‘Omega Point’ concept. Also, is Katie Mack immuno-compromised or something?! Wearing a mask in November, 2025, is, quite frankly, odd. Covid is well & truly over. No other speakers wear masks nowadays. Maybe she’s a hypochondriac, ha, ha.
@dbb8488
August 25, 2026 at 1:55 pm
@uaps28 maybe it’s none of our business and unremarkable?
@ongbapcay1
August 25, 2026 at 10:51 am
An adrenaline junkie
Cosmologist
Astronauts
Mateorologist in the Navy
@ongbapcay1
August 25, 2026 at 10:52 am
Satellite views
Rockets
@MstNosrat-d2y
August 26, 2026 at 3:42 am
Not me searching for Sara Rivers arche type quiz after seeing it mentioned three times today. I don’t even normally do these quizzes. The curiosity got me.