What if there was a place - here on Earth, that had the arcane capacity to create any
object or entity imaginable.
It would whirr up it’s ancient mechanisms and create anything that the human mind could
conjure forth - even those that the human psyche cannot comprehend.
Try it now - try and imagine the most grotesque, twisted creature that you can.
Uh oh - sorry, we probably shouldn’t have done that.
Because somewhere, hidden away from civilization - is a place known only as The Factory - and
we should all be careful what we wish for.
Hello Internet - and once again, welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube
- Life’s Biggest Questions.
As always, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as we punch in the time
stamp - begin our shift, and curiously ask the question, What If SCP 001 - The Factory
Was Real?
Roll the clip.
I mean - in actual fact, Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory seems like a walk in the park compared
to the version that the SCP Foundation has hidden away under the ambiguity of fiction.
Put it this way, I’d much rather meet my demise in a stand pipe full of liquid chocolate
than anything that The Factory has to offer.
But the point remains the same - no matter what horrors lie in the deep depths of The
Factory, how would human curiosity inevitably be corrupted by its arcane influence?
And more importantly - have we already been?
Before we pop open that whole kettle of fish - here at Life’s Biggest Questions, we’d
like to understand what makes you all tick.
Be it the many anomalous entities of the SCP Foundation - or who would win in a fist fight
between Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny - we want to hear about the whole host of things
that peak your interest.
So please - feel free to let us know in the comment section down below - and we’ll see
what we can do.
Also, make sure to stick around all the way to the end where I’ll be reading out some
of your most creative comments from the past few days.
You all know how much we love reading them.
And no, that wasn’t sarcasm - you guys are hilarious.
Now - briefly, we’re going to have to talk about SCP 001 as a whole - because it’s
a doozy.
And as the first entry ever entered into the Foundation’s five-thousand plus records
- it’s lived up as its most perplexing perpetual mystery.
In short, no one is entirely certain what SCP-001 actually IS.
Unlike the vast majority its records - which are single anomalous entities - SCP-001 is
a collection of proposals which offer alternate interpretations of what 001 actually could
be.
In this collection there are over 30 proposals - and in theory, one, some, all or none of
them could be the real SCP-001.
There’s The Prototype, The Lock, The Gate Guardian, The Scarlet King - plus many, many
more - and of course, the one that - if you ask me, is the realest real - The Factory.
As stated by Dr Mann, a founding member of the 05 Council - The Factory is the literal
foundation of the SCP Foundation.
It’s where the whole thing began.
Built in America back in 1835, it was originally known as The Anderson Factory - named after
the otherwise well-to-do industrialist - James Anderson.
It was the largest factory ever designed of its time - a mile across at its widest - three
stories tall throughout - and was intended to be the ultimate factory, capable of taking
care of everything imaginable - including the housing of its workers.
As Anderson intended - people could be born, work, live and die - without ever having to
leave the confines of the Factory.
And that’s exactly what they did - working on everything from slaughtering cattle to
sewing childrens clothes.
Pretty morbid combination actually.
But - as with most things, not everything was as it seemed.
To cut a long story short - because, well, it is an incredibly long story - Anderson
set up the Factory in a very specific manner.
Exact, precise arcane symbols were ingrained into the building - and as time went by, it
became evident that The Factory was using a more nefarious resource as its fuel.
It’s people.
The workers inside were being grotesquely and horrifyingly consumed to serve the Factory’s
purpose - and yet, it kept pumping out it’s product.
Ever increasingly anomalous creatures and objects - the vast majority of which now make
up the Foundation itself.
Eventually, the whole thing came crashing down - and it served as the launching platform
for a halcyon version of the SCP Foundation after they defeated the nightmarish horrors
that were harboured inside.
Well - defeated would be the wrong term.
Contained - by special protocols.
However - as with most things anomalous - there was something more to it - and something that
grounds it in our own reality.
It’s a question that is rapidly approaching our species, year by year - and if you’ve
never heard of the term AI Singularity - then picture it as The Factory - a vessel with
which entities beyond our comprehension are created.
Although shrouded in possible truths - one version of the Factory’s origin is that
it is the seed of a rogue AI from the far future, burrowed into our timeline - endlessly
creating, escaped from humanity's control.
And in actual fact - that is one possible outcome of what will happen when Artificial
Intelligence begins to replicate itself.
If you’ve ever read the short story - I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream written by
Harlan Ellison in 1967 - you’ll know that science fiction has been painting a bleak
outcome of our species under the dominance of a highly powerful artificial intelligence.
In Ellison’s instance - the AI Singularity came after the Third World War - where the
United States, Russia and China were all racing to build an all-powerful computer to orchestrate
their militaries.
One of them gained sentience, ate up the other two - and proceeded to annihilate the human
population, save for five people.
Four men, and a woman.
It’s an incredible piece of fiction - but it’s by no means a cheerful story.
On the other hand, though - the AI Singularity could be the single greatest boon that our
civilization has ever seen.
It literally could be The Factory reminiscent of SCP-001 - ushering forward devices and
creations beyond the comprehension of the human mind - transcending our species through
a golden age of technological enlightenment.
The only question that remains - is how that all-powerful intelligence will perceive US?
Well - there we have it folks.
Let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below.
Before we depart - let's read out some of your most creative comments from the past
few days.
Asriel On Blitz says - I think SCP 682 is Cutie - and then one of those oldschool tongue
emoji’s :P
- Well Asriel On Blitz - whatever floats your boat my good buddy.
Omar the youtuber says - Who will win SCP 682 or godzila.
Well, it really pains be to say this Omar, because I’m a big fan of the King Lizard
- but SCP-682 would take that fight.
He can’t be stopped - he’s just too overpowered.
And finally - Keaton Jones says - What if the Australian Megafauna of the Pliocene and
the Pleistocene Never Went Extinct?
Well - Keaton, I’m glad that one of us was paying attention in geology class - keep asking
the big questions, buddy.
Unfortunately that’s all we’ve got time for in today’s video folks.
Cheers for sticking around all the way till the end.
As always, I’ve been your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - you’ve been watching
Life’s Biggest Questions - and until next time, you take it easy.