Hungry Aliens

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  • The galaxy is a dark, mysterious, and silent place - perhaps it is quiet and empty because some great predator already consumed all in its path, and if so, might we be next?
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    Alien Civilizations: Hungry Aliens
    Episode 395, May 18, 2023
    Written, Produced & Narrated by:
    Isaac Arthur
    Editors:
    Dan Lavoie
    Donagh Broderick
    Konstantin Sokerin
    Graphics by:
    Darth Biomech
    Ken York
    LegionTech Studios
    Tactical Blob
    Udo Schroeter
    Music by:
    Martin Rezny, "Lifelight"
    Stellardrone, "A Moment of Stillness", "Cosmic Sunrise"
    Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
    Miguel Johnson, "Strange New World"
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  • @rattled6732
    @rattled6732 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    I guess these aliens want a snack and a drink

    • @JonahRoyes
      @JonahRoyes ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Good one 😂

    • @Menaceblue3
      @Menaceblue3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Reeses pieces? Or skittles?

    • @dansmith1661
      @dansmith1661 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Hungry hungry xenos

    • @MADGator
      @MADGator ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Congrats. You have won the comments for this channel.

    • @jeffk464
      @jeffk464 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well to be fair, maybe on an alien world in fact its a probability, they don't have garlic. If you're from an alien world I could see that battered and deep fried humans in a garlic sauce would be delicious.

  • @isaacarthurSFIA
    @isaacarthurSFIA  ปีที่แล้ว +330

    Update: Yeah, I still sound like someone jammed two long tubes up my nose, so the livestream is canceled, we will be having a bonus episode tomorrow instead.
    Note: Just as a general heads up, the surgery yesterday went fine, thanks everyone for all the kind thoughts and words. At the moment I sound about like what you would expect from someone who had a surgeon playing around in the mouth and noise for an hour, but I am already able to speak reasonably normally again and basically sound the same other than that my R's already sound a bit clearer. :) I won't know for sure if I'm doing the planned livestream this Sunday till probably Sunday Morning though I'm optimistic.

    • @joz6683
      @joz6683 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Take all the time you need to recover. This channel has enough great content to revisit while you get better.

    • @JonahRoyes
      @JonahRoyes ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Hooray, good luck with recovery Isaac, We love you❤

    • @jeffk464
      @jeffk464 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Its a cook book!

    • @genkidamatrunks6759
      @genkidamatrunks6759 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Glad to hear. Prayers up for a speedy recovery.

    • @yungmayne2969
      @yungmayne2969 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hungry aliens are the ONLY aliens we can hope to see in my opinion. What resources would we have to warrant a trip to our system? Really stupid to put ourselves on the map like we are doing.
      Imagjne the immense cost to send a ship here for some gold or water or whatever. Is that really worth more than the fuel and resources spent to get here for them?
      The only way it would be worth it would be for somethjng metaphysical that they themselves can consume like taste, entertainment, culture, souls, etc

  • @AlexandruNicolin
    @AlexandruNicolin ปีที่แล้ว +90

    There is actually a tribe in New Guinea, called Fore, who would traditionally eat their dead at the funeral party. But at some point a prion similar to that which causes mad cow disease appeared, and many members of the tribe succumbed to it by eating those who carried it. It was called the Kuru disease. Subsequently they quit the habit.

    • @robertcarmosino6563
      @robertcarmosino6563 ปีที่แล้ว

      If anyone wants to eat you, light up a cigarette ( makes you less desirable as a meal)

    • @goofy855
      @goofy855 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "appeared" Those prions have always been there and are present in every human being. Kuru disease is caused by eating the brain/nervous system of a person. You can't actually get Kuru disease from eating human meat itself.

    • @kayakMike1000
      @kayakMike1000 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The laughing disease, it only affected women and children. It was custom for men to abstain from the funerary feast as the women were more fit to carry more than one spirit.

    • @MWhaleK
      @MWhaleK ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@kayakMike1000 From what I remember hearing? It wasn't that man abstained, it was that they are parts that were considered prime cuts while women were stuck with other parts like the brain where the prions were concentrated.

    • @masterpython
      @masterpython ปีที่แล้ว

      They discovered this right before they started feeding cows to cows

  • @alanbear6505
    @alanbear6505 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    We don’t want aliens with good taste, we want aliens that taste good.

    • @SirTorcharite
      @SirTorcharite ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤞🤠👍

    • @lgjm5562
      @lgjm5562 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Admiral: scout fleet, we brought reinforcements as requested. How many of you are left?
      SF: Sir! We are fine. The enemy is in full retreat. We did not request a rescue.
      Admiral: explain.
      SF: Sir! They turned out to be crustaceans and they taste like lobster. We only asked for more butter.

    • @mikerodgers7620
      @mikerodgers7620 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yuk

    • @christineshotton824
      @christineshotton824 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sorry Charlie.
      😁

    • @davidklein1667
      @davidklein1667 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd walk a light year for a Camel!!!

  • @gusgee1337
    @gusgee1337 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Niven's Kzinti as a pre FTL civilization is a great example.

  • @elitemook4234
    @elitemook4234 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    The war of the world’s 2005 makes a lot more sense if you think of it as a depiction of a universe where phosphorus scarcity is the answer to the fermi paradox. While they aren’t 'eating' humans per say like they do in the original novel, they are harvesting phosphorus from the surface biomass to turn it into fertilizer for their 'red weed'. It also seems to be a universe where point to point teleportation exists but FTL capable ships don’t. Which I like.

    • @andrasbiro3007
      @andrasbiro3007 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Still doesn't make sense.
      1. The ratio of elements is determined by the laws of physics, more precisely by the nuclear physics of stars and supernova explosions. And if the laws of physics are different even by a little bit, that has huge implications for everything, including life.
      2. Life will evolve to use common elements.
      3. Even if some element is truly that scarce, it's still cheaper to make it in nuclear reactors than to invade other planets. Well, if you can teleport to other planets cheaply, that may change that equation, but there are a lot of problems with that concept too. For example targeting. You have to appear exactly on the surface from lightyears away. A few meters too high or too low and you are dead. And it's a fast moving target too. This would require incredible precision, not just in targeting, but also measuring the exact position of the planet. And compensate for the multi-year light lag too.

    • @acain6803
      @acain6803 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@andrasbiro3007 No, you would need some sort of "Stargate" plot device on the destination end to solve the targeting problem.

    • @elitemook4234
      @elitemook4234 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@acain6803 Sub FTL Self-replicating space probes can fill the milky way within half a million years.They could send them out in search of life, as evidence of high phosphorus content, and then use them as teleportation beacons.

    • @seditt5146
      @seditt5146 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@elitemook4234 idk how it was in the book but I know the movie here referenced that the machines existed below the surface of the earth before humanity built the cities on top which sounds more like your self replicating probe idea.

    • @werrkowalski2985
      @werrkowalski2985 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andrasbiro3007 "A few meters too high or too low and you are dead."
      Some of them will die, but that's a sacrifice they are willing to make.

  • @themaskedhobo
    @themaskedhobo ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Every time I see the clip with the 3 aliens with beer, I laugh when the one in the back ragdolls. Every Time.

  • @jakecruise90
    @jakecruise90 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Still waiting on my sexy aliens episode.

    • @ravenlasky5286
      @ravenlasky5286 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes. Maybe it's time to start writing the companion video for this one: Thirsty Aliens.

  • @ornu01
    @ornu01 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    That's just us. If we can't eat it, keep it as a pet, or screw it, we aren't trying hard enough.

    • @Texasplit
      @Texasplit ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I want to… but I don’t think I can disagree with this 🤣

    • @imjustsam1745
      @imjustsam1745 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      WOW!!! That is so me!

    • @imjustsam1745
      @imjustsam1745 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Do you have any idea how many animals taste good? No really I'm asking if any taste bad, I haven't eaten those yet.

    • @ornu01
      @ornu01 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@imjustsam1745 Meat doesn't tend to taste bad it can just be prepared poorly. Some seafood tastes awful to me, though.

    • @FeedMeSalt
      @FeedMeSalt ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​​​@@imjustsam1745 seafood. Absolutely disgusting.
      The smell of cooking clams will make me vomit. No control over it at all.
      And cooked lobster makes me think "rot" this is rotting.
      I'm not kidding my visit to PEI in Canada was basically ruined by the seafood in the airport. I spent 12 hours laying on the bathroom floor half dead.
      Yes, it's so disgusting I seeked the comfort of a public airport washroom floor ..

  • @VisiblyPinkUnicorn
    @VisiblyPinkUnicorn ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm sure the ambassador brought up so much food for thought in his introduction speech.

  • @bigjermboktown6976
    @bigjermboktown6976 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    One thing I like about this channel as you don't b*******you're straightforward you know exactly what you're going to say and you put out plenty of content you don't really have to wait too long and I don't know that I've watched a video yet that I didn't learn something from or at least find entertaining

  • @cmelton6796
    @cmelton6796 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Imagine being an alien whose biochemistry makes table salt some powerful drug. They're gonna be raiding the Mediterranean and setting up cartels in the Dead Sea.

  • @RipOffProductionsLLC
    @RipOffProductionsLLC ปีที่แล้ว +58

    The best example of this trope I've seen are The Hunters from the The Deathworlders webseries/collaborative works, as they have the excuse of gaving once been bioweapons long abandoned by their creatators, and the author did a great job actually giving them a culture to go with their desire/compulsion to consume sapient flesh.

    • @tigdamch.6321
      @tigdamch.6321 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Glad someone else thought of this one. Hunters need more love!

    • @RipOffProductionsLLC
      @RipOffProductionsLLC ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@tigdamch.6321 "Meat To The Maw" is a great battle cry.
      Also, the interlude "Ultimatum" chapter is a fantastic insight into their culture, and likely the best excuse for the "sexy alien slave-girl" trope; "to consume the prey was right, to symbolically consume their future was righteous."

    • @hubertino855
      @hubertino855 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cravers from Endless Space are good example😃

    • @tigdamch.6321
      @tigdamch.6321 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RipOffProductionsLLC Exactly! So rare to get such an 'evil' race with such a well thought out background and while twisted, an understandable perspective!

    • @RipOffProductionsLLC
      @RipOffProductionsLLC ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For those not familiar with the Deathworlders, this channel has been doing audiobook style readings of it and the "required reading" from the spin-offs by other authors.
      Here's the interlude chapter I referenced: th-cam.com/video/hiCrGfTTYhI/w-d-xo.html

  • @kumii0981
    @kumii0981 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That opener leads me to referance "It's a cook book!"

  • @chadlynch1551
    @chadlynch1551 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    To dip into fantasy novels and settings, in the D&D game, there was a race of power psychics called Illithids, or Mindflayers. These creatures sustained themselves in whole or part on the brains and possibly spinal fluid of other sentient beings. Seems like a kind of limited diet, but it made for great, creepy bad guys for the players to fight against. Oh, and some of them traveled between worlds in semi-organic, magic driven ships. The fantasy space Spelljammer setting was great and didn't get nearly enough love.

    • @reptoid3866
      @reptoid3866 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I immediately thought of both the Illithids and the Neogi.

  • @Ice-ou6es
    @Ice-ou6es ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ah, the twilight zone. To serve man.

  • @jesseberg3271
    @jesseberg3271 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    First of all, feel better.
    Second, I was surprised IA didn't mention the bit in the backstory of Ringworld where the first human crew to encounter a particular new alien species was told that the aliens wanted to clone parts of the explorers' bodies as food. This was standard practice any time this species met a new species. The humans were told that they could either sign contracts giving the aliens the right to make and sell their body parts as food, and get royalties in return, or that they could refuse, in which case bootlegged illegal copies of their body parts would be available on the black market shortly. The one relating the story signed, and copies of his liver continue to sell quite nicely.

  • @scurvydog20
    @scurvydog20 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The livestock are inefficient argument is a misconception. They are actually more efficient because they A turn inedible calories in the form of things like grass into more nutritious versions, B they allow food production on land where you can't grow crops by making use of the natural plant growth. It's like saying its inefficient to make steel because you could make aluminum, similar but different use cases

    • @RipOffProductionsLLC
      @RipOffProductionsLLC ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True, though the specific idea of sapient livestock shares overlapping issues with slavery, in that unless you've got a very docile species to "domesticate", it's probably not a good idea...

    • @scurvydog20
      @scurvydog20 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RipOffProductionsLLC I've hear this "humans don't make good slaves" idea a few times but all of human history implies the opposite. Slavery didn't end because slaves rebelled it ended because Christian west became powerful enough to not need it and be able to outlawed it for everyone else. When Britain tried to end it an African king said I will do anything you ask except end the slave trade, it is the pride of my nation, our women sing our children to sleep with tales of enemies reduced to slavery. Not to mention it was reestablished in places like Libya when western influence retreated. its more accurate to say "Christians make poor slave holders"
      In fairness slave has meant a few things over time, you've got your indentured servants, your defeated enemies, people captured outside their cities, and those that sold themselves to get food and shelter.
      Fun fact the marine corps anthem the shores of Tripoli is reference to fighting Muslim slave trade that was taking American sailors.

  • @Gauldame
    @Gauldame ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There was a silly anime that I watched that had a pretty fun take on aliens and earth. Specifically handling why they weren't invading, where they were and why we didn't see them via our telescopes with their massive energy plumes from interstellar travel and megastructures.
    It was a grand conspiracy, with most of the main cast being part of it.
    Because merch.
    Official shows, music and various other cultural exports (unintended) were hot commodities, and they (alien governments) *had* to protect the source.
    Not because the interstellar economy would collapse, but because interstellar nerds were just stupidly intense in their fanboying and *had* to make sure they got the pure, uncut, untainted stuff.
    The cast that was in on the conspiracy were basically customs and border agents, who were also seriously into merch.
    The alien governments just gave the earth governments money to hush them up and get their compliance.
    Also counterfeit merch was a big deal.
    The main female lead opposite the main male lead had bribed her way into the sweet position to be stationed outside Akihabara. Because that was her source for her fix. She wanted the real stuff and was willing to bribe her department heads to get it.
    The idea that we're protected because of Voltron and henti doujins by alien border patrol nerds sometimes seems more plausible than a lot of sci fi I've seen.
    (And yes, they did have to protect the entire human race from extinction from "hungry aliens" solely motivated by their nerdiness).

  • @TheArklyte
    @TheArklyte ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Thankfully evil aliens in scifi are interested in humans only as incubators(solvable by technology), food(solvable by technology) or manual labour(solvable by technology) and don't have a weird culture wide pet(or other) fetish😅

    • @vaggeliskalogirou2257
      @vaggeliskalogirou2257 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Don't read Gantz

    • @TheJarric
      @TheJarric ปีที่แล้ว

      youtja coud work theyre just theyre civs poachers and lundgren film drug aliens its just more affordable use real thing

    • @gabrielalejandrodoldan4722
      @gabrielalejandrodoldan4722 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      All tomorrows

    • @TheArklyte
      @TheArklyte ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@gabrielalejandrodoldan4722 being devolved into animals because you lost a war and opposing side is petty and being subjected to fetish of massive alien empire aren't the same thing the last time I've checked.

    • @gabrielalejandrodoldan4722
      @gabrielalejandrodoldan4722 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@TheArklyte
      Hmmm

  • @silverhurst7241
    @silverhurst7241 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Julie Czerneda's Brymn species introduced in her novel Survival is one of the best examples of what might drive a Hungry Species IMHO. An absolute must read if you like your aliens to be alien, and to have realistic motivations.

  • @TheEnzyme94
    @TheEnzyme94 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Best of luck with the procedure!
    Many of us don't think you need it because we Love your voice!
    But best wishes in all your goals!
    Looking forward to the next show professor IA!

    • @Tom-sd9jb
      @Tom-sd9jb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm new to this channel and didn't know he was having an op for his voice?
      I like his voice and mannerisms

  • @Muhsterd
    @Muhsterd ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Title made me hungry, so for the first time I actually had my drink and snack already taken care of!

  • @cburger4life144
    @cburger4life144 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Calling the Mechanicus really, really touchy about IP rights has me rollin 😂

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      T'au leaks a report to the Mechanicus that they found an STC library. Mechanicus sends fleet to system. T'au detonate star. Votaan: "That's a grudge right there, and I ain't even mad."

  • @complex314i
    @complex314i ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In the upcoming episode "Higher Dimensional Aliens," I have always been fascinated by the idea that more dimensions doesn't have to means more spacial dimensions. A reality with multiple time dimensions is something I have not seen done, but I would love if someone could speculate on that concept.

    • @isaacarthurSFIA
      @isaacarthurSFIA  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We do talk about multi-time a bit near the end of that one

  • @jimc.goodfellas226
    @jimc.goodfellas226 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    As I always say......"it's never aliens"

    • @Sol-Invictus
      @Sol-Invictus ปีที่แล้ว

      But, you do you courier 😂. Yeah it's never aliens till it is and we'll get used to it crazy fast and carry on.

  • @whoareyouyouareclearlylost323
    @whoareyouyouareclearlylost323 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hope you are doing well, and I've never actually thought of that, we humans do love to eat 'exotic' food, so it wouldn't be far fetched if aliens wants to try a human liver or a steak mignon.

    • @noirekuroraigami2270
      @noirekuroraigami2270 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah I’d eat an alien. I need it tested to see if I die but why not only live oncw

  • @stenkarasin2091
    @stenkarasin2091 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Canibalism may be common on earth where most creatures have more or less similar chemical make up, but where the two individuals evolved on different worlds under different conditions would be all too likely to poison each other.

    • @wendigos_eat_people7177
      @wendigos_eat_people7177 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      if a world where the carbon chains have a different handedness , anything living there plant or animal couldn't be digested by us, and it would be logical that any aliens there would be the same when viewing us.

    • @noirekuroraigami2270
      @noirekuroraigami2270 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wendigos_eat_people7177depends on digestive tract, if it can dissolve complex carbon chains it probably be alright.

  • @AnimeShinigami13
    @AnimeShinigami13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I point out the Krogan in Mass Effect have a running joke that they'll eat anything, including salarians and turians (two species who inflicted them with the genophage) if the whim struck. But I suspect this is mostly for intimidation. If you reduce the Krogan to their most basic values, they seem not to value war or aggression, but to value how much they can endure. Everything else that came later brutality speaking came from them expecting everyone else to be just as tough as they were. This same way of looking at the matter, everyone expecting everyone else to behave like they do, is at the root of the Krogan rebellions in that trilogy's history. As a series mass effect seems to reward species that diversify and work together. This combined with a long life is why the Asari in that series are Overpowered to the Nth degree, they just don't have a taste for large scale warfare.
    I love that you show the didact, but the forerunners aren't a good example because they had FTL, and the majority of your work assumes not having FTL.
    When I think of hungry aliens though, I think the most rapacious I've seen are the Necromorphs from Deadspace. They're brought into existance via a zero point generator from hell called a Marker. If you die in the vicinity of the Marker, you turn either into an infector or a slasher, and begin infecting more people. Because they aren't focused on individual self preservation, they have no limiters on how much strain they can put on their bodies. And when they're unable to continue fighting, they dissolve into a massive cancer like biomass called "The Corruption." The Corruption is an ecosystem destroyer, turning less intelligent and cessile things like plants, invertibrates, fungi, soil bacteria, ect into more of itself. Its also capable of forming explosive compounds, resulting in things like biological landmines and anti air installations. Eventually when enough of the biomass of a planet has been consumed (100% is not necessary for their purposes), the Necromorphs converge on the first marker a civilization has made, and attempt to form convergence. For some odd reason, they have a need to kill or consume and assimilate the person who made that marker, though that may not be for any practical purpose, just a ceremonial flourish the writers put in to explain why they're chasing Isaac Clarke (yes that is the protagonist's name) through three different outbreaks over vast distances in the human colonized zones of space. When they initiate the Convergence process they begin to make something known as a Bretheren Moon, a networked series of eldritch horrors that view sapient species as little more than pigs on a farm to them. Or worse, because the convergence process and the markers are how they reproduce. Individual necromorphs are not intelligent, rather they're directed by the Bretheren Moons through the Markers. The Markers are kept around because they give out free electricity, so there are multiple fermi paradox boxes ticked by the Deadspace franchise. Including serious psychological horror in the first two games and you have a very terrifying and compelling franchise. And I've yet to see the Bretherenmoons beaten for brutality, not even by Halo's Flood or Mass Effect's Reapers.
    I also don't really like the characterization of the Reapers as being "hungry'. Rather the reapers are a combination of the zoo and simulation hypothesis. The visual context clues are present in ME2 and 3 (along with codex entries and terminal logs) to suggest that the Reapers are preserving people digitally in servers within them and possibly taking them back to dark space to be preserved for the end of the universe (see heat death). Why did they kill their creators? The reapers were given the task of preserving all sentient organic life, but their creators failed to see that they themselves were part of the problem, being excessively arrogant and having a superiority complex that could come back to bite the galaxy further down the road now that Shepard has made them bolder. I don't think the dark energy plot is entirely gone, rather that its taken a background role. And near as I can tell the Reapers were using biotic species as a throttle to accelerate or decelerate the expansion of the universe to skew it towards heat death rather than a big rip or crunch. My takeaway as far as lessons from this series go is its attempt to reward diversification and cooperation, and its message that if you try to control everything and everyone around you, you will fail, and badly, and possibly destroy the very things you held dear in the attempt. You are rewarded for exploring and being social at every turn, while the secondary villains, Cerberus, try to control everything and only fail. Cerberus is a political commentary by the way, if you're interested. They're a commentary on a political school of thought called "American Exceptionalism" the idea that we're divinely blessed, and can do anything we want. Best case scenario, this comes off as being a white savior complex, worst case, just about any kind of slaughter can be justified with enough mental gymnastics and this world view.

  • @marsar1775
    @marsar1775 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Best of luck on the recovery isaac! you've brought me years of great ideas and enriched my love of futurism and space exploration I've had since i was a boy
    EDIT: Mass effect reminded me. Whose to say aliens could even digest humans? Turians and Quarians cant eat human food, but can eat each others, as an example

    • @mattstorm360
      @mattstorm360 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Once saw a krogan drink a liquefied turian on a dare six or seven centuries ago...
      No one came out of that one looking pretty.

  • @hunam1464
    @hunam1464 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Phamysht of the newest Star Control game absolutely fit this trope. They have fearsome ships, but they actually prefer having you sacrifice crew members to them, so to have a polite conversation, and then gradually consume them. Of course, they have a breathy flamboyant voice that is both amusing and terrifying, as they appear as an enormous smiling predatory worm dangling from the ceiling.

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Star Control? I feel the need for some Juffowup.

  • @JonahRoyes
    @JonahRoyes ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This has got to be good , I've never thought of hungry aliens😂

    • @PerfectAlibi1
      @PerfectAlibi1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hungry aliens makes me think of devouring swarms in Stellaris XD

  • @calvingreene90
    @calvingreene90 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Running from a threat real or imagined could adequately explain a locust like swarm.

    • @TheNoodlyAppendage
      @TheNoodlyAppendage ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The front of the swarm is running from the back of the swarm. The back of the swarm is starving from the paucity of resources left in the wake of the front of the swarm.

  • @imjustsam1745
    @imjustsam1745 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Long time watcher, resent subscriber. You helped me remember my boyhood dream of being a science fiction writer, it means a lot thank you.

  • @DM_Curtis
    @DM_Curtis ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We evolved with our food. Aliens might be able to eat us, but probably get indigestion.

  • @MADGator
    @MADGator ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @IsaacArthur: Wishing you well for a speedy recovery!

  • @benjamindover4337
    @benjamindover4337 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These aliens ain't the only one who's hungry.

  • @peterxyz3541
    @peterxyz3541 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Joke: maybe hungry aliens are better than meeting “thirsty” aliens 🙈🙈🙈😝💩😂👻🤣

    • @imjustsam1745
      @imjustsam1745 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Big tittie Eldar girlfriends have entered the chat.
      Warhammer 40k reference, apologies if I offended anyone or the reference was lost.

    • @mill2712
      @mill2712 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@imjustsam1745
      Spoilers
      They're dark Eldar and they're here for your kids.

    • @DavidBarkland
      @DavidBarkland ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm fairly certain that the worst case would be aliens who are _both._ Then there's no chance that they care for our wellbeing or consent.

    • @Imperiused
      @Imperiused ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm still waiting for the inevitable "Sexy Aliens"

    • @mill2712
      @mill2712 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Imperiused
      Not sure if sexy aliens are in the card at the moment. But I do hope his episode "Happily ever after" is helpful to you.
      th-cam.com/video/0ypfzvQ-Q2w/w-d-xo.html

  • @47DKDS
    @47DKDS ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice to see you're still making quality content on regular basis.

  • @Zeppflyer
    @Zeppflyer ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We raised chickens when I was a kid. One evening, I went to shut them up and noticed that one wasn't looking too good. I decided that I'd deal with it in the morning. Next morning, there was one fewer chicken and one more pile of bones and feathers in the coop. That's when I learned the true depravity of these foul fowl.

  • @stainlesssteelfox1
    @stainlesssteelfox1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That A.I teddybear acting as a teacher/nanny reminds me of Harry Harrison's 'I always do what Teddy says.' which has that concept as it's central conceit.

  • @robertaylor9218
    @robertaylor9218 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great work as always to you and your team. Best of luck with the surgery Isaac!

  • @jimBobuu
    @jimBobuu ปีที่แล้ว +3

    MorningLightMountian is the scariest alien I've ever heard of. If that thing were hungry, I'd be terrified!

  • @christineshotton824
    @christineshotton824 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I imagine that the only readily understandable motivation for eating fellow sentients is the same as in many cases of human cannibal societies: it's a ritual consumption of an enemy's admirable attributes (strength, courage, etc), not just a source of calories.

  • @foracal5608
    @foracal5608 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The intro reminds me of the crazy aliens except the translator was fired during contact with the canabala system

    • @isaacarthurSFIA
      @isaacarthurSFIA  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd say this episode is a bit of an homag to that nce, since that intro spawned a lot of request for this topic, but they're both more tribute to Hitchhiker's Guide and Futurama

  • @mikelanzano3806
    @mikelanzano3806 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent video, informative and very entertaining, ty Isaac - I'm so glad I discovered you!💪👍♥️

  • @TenorCantusFirmus
    @TenorCantusFirmus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As an Italian grown up with local Disney comics, when the topic about vampiric alien races solely driven by a vicious hunger for drawing everyone else of life the Evronians from "Paperinik New Adventures" (which feeds on emotions, reducing their victims into zombie-like empty husks and enslaving them... Shockingly dark for Disney!) instantly springed to mind...

  • @user-ou5cb8cu1b
    @user-ou5cb8cu1b ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All the best to you, Arthur, you’re a true treasure

  • @odiousmelodious2410
    @odiousmelodious2410 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The background music was perfect for me this time. Thank you for considering people with different auditory processing abilities.

  • @ac.creations
    @ac.creations ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In my age group and local niche in the US, fewer of us are having kids because it is not financially viable.
    At my age my parents owned a house and could afford to have one work and one care for the kids.
    Now i make 60k and for the first time im able to afford rent by myself.

  • @derphysiker1062
    @derphysiker1062 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think the main problem with aliens eating (literally) humans, or other organism that did not evolve on their respective home planet, isn't about ethic's but about chemistry. Enzymes are highly specific in what they can brake down and what not. Thus, even if they're carbon/water based like we are, eating creature from an other world could be like eating bag of plastic. In the worst case (to them), our enzymes may even be toxic or cause allergic reactions.

  • @weekendjail1417
    @weekendjail1417 ปีที่แล้ว

    keep your 40k kick up for as long as possible, loving the videos!

  • @Satellite_Of_Love
    @Satellite_Of_Love ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great content as always. Good luck with your surgery!

  • @budwhite9591
    @budwhite9591 ปีที่แล้ว

    10:27. “Free range human”. Dude you are awesome

  • @Purple.mind...Honored.one.
    @Purple.mind...Honored.one. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    19:38
    There is easily thousands of examples within earth's own history of Lost technologies that we have minor scraps of but we still cannot replicate, Or reverse engineer in such a way that we can actually recreate it once again.

  • @albizu75
    @albizu75 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thursday with Isaac Arthur! Looking forward to the video!

  • @fabioduarte3301
    @fabioduarte3301 ปีที่แล้ว

    I sincerely enjoy your stuff, many thanks Arthur.

  • @timbear641
    @timbear641 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hope all goes well with your surgery. BTW I love the way you sound

  • @flaviokauling1436
    @flaviokauling1436 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Have a great recovery, Isaac!

  • @cozmothemagician7243
    @cozmothemagician7243 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Isaac , did you forget about The Restaurant at the End of the Universe where a sentient species was designed specifically not just TO be eaten but to WANT to be eaten? Don't order the salad... the veggies have a different viewpoint on being eaten O_o

  • @jamesroberts6077
    @jamesroberts6077 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good lucky with your surgery and wishing you a speedy recovery.

  • @sixtenwidlund4258
    @sixtenwidlund4258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finally SFIA Thursday!!

  • @patrickmchargue7122
    @patrickmchargue7122 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Traveling to distant star systems for food... Any civilization that could do that would have the means (energy, technology, chemistry) to synthesize better-tasting stuff than me. (both as a cook and a meal)

    • @SirTorcharite
      @SirTorcharite ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wouldn't entities with such power also be able to so easily acquire the best real authentic human cuisine if they'd like it?
      I have a friend whose family owns a Chinese restaurant. He was both here but his parents are 1st generation immigrants. I could easily have real Chinese food at his house. Almost like synthesizing food lol.
      Or I could enjoy a nice vacation on a the other side of the planet in some strange foreign land.
      I'd absolutely enjoy both, but they're very different experiences.

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Never underestimate the animalistic need to rip and tear. Especially if there is a religious aspect to it

    • @patrickmchargue7122
      @patrickmchargue7122 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Deridus Godly gormands?

    • @Deridus
      @Deridus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@patrickmchargue7122 Indeed! Gormand isn't acommon term, so no wonder I didn't think 'bout that one. Nice.

    • @patrickmchargue7122
      @patrickmchargue7122 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Deridus Thanks. I get at least one of those each year. (and now I've burnt my allotment)

  • @lordbeermonster
    @lordbeermonster ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thought provoking as usual.
    Good luck with the op. 👍

  • @ArcanusLibero
    @ArcanusLibero ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thoughts and prayers for your recovery.

  • @jimm9818
    @jimm9818 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good luck with the procedure! Looking forward to your return.

  • @matthewnardin7304
    @matthewnardin7304 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really glad someone found a use for the "pig peeking around the corner while holding brain" stock footage.

  • @KJ6EAD
    @KJ6EAD ปีที่แล้ว

    Just moments before you announced your surgical plans, I was thinking I hadn't heard what became of that plan. Good therapy to you! It's exciting to think how much improved your speech may become.

  • @TheSuicideRacer
    @TheSuicideRacer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Isaac and wish you a speedy recovery. If you need more time off no worries. We'll be ready to continue the journey with you when you are ready to come back 👍🍻.

  • @yendorelrae5476
    @yendorelrae5476 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just a comment about your voice, I friggin ' love it! It is always good to have someone wanting to improve themselves but to me I would take that voice on evey physics, calculus ,and chemistryI I have ever had! You are very special and doing the things you were born to do, yes a man with a speech impediment informs more people than anyone.

  • @slamcraft
    @slamcraft ปีที่แล้ว

    Wishing you all the best for the operation❤

  • @kengill9367
    @kengill9367 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish you the best and hope you heal soon

  • @geeknupthenight7417
    @geeknupthenight7417 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If ftl is possible, wouldnt you eventually be able to gather all of the matter in the universe?

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hungry Aliens:
    The Visitors from V.
    The Wraith from the Pegasus Galaxy.

  • @snarkdragon
    @snarkdragon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just after the first 30 seconds: IT'S A COOKBOOK! IT'S A COOKBOOK!
    At least, that's the vibe I was getting...

  • @benjaminconnor6640
    @benjaminconnor6640 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Imagine an alien society where cannibalism is used as capital punishment. Logic being, if there is a murderer, they are killed and served to the family of the victim so that in consuming the murderer the soul of the person they killed can be freed or allowed to reincarnate through a family member.
    kinda weird isn't? not really practical in any sort of way, but it's the ritual that counts to some.

  • @chrisgurney2467
    @chrisgurney2467 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "It's a COOKBOOK!" XD

  • @Paparoxx
    @Paparoxx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh after one month I hired him and he went on to work in radio and recorded and album of songs.
    Your presentation is excellent, keep up that courage.

  • @robertstrawser1426
    @robertstrawser1426 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    While I don’t think it’s impossible that some alien civilization could use us as a food source I think it would be highly improbable. Even if most intelligent life in the universe is Carbon based, the odds that our biochemistry would be compatible and not toxic to one another would be vanishingly small. Likely no flora or fauna that evolved on separate worlds be fit for consumption by the other.
    Additionally intelligent life is the one and only thing on this planet which might be considered a rare resource in the universe. I still think the most likely scenario is that we would be studied as a curiosity if an alien species took any interest in us at all.

    • @LaserFur
      @LaserFur ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree since we can't even eat grass.

  • @dyllondargon3398
    @dyllondargon3398 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey man, I hope your surgery is a cake walk, and you recover in no time, wishing all the best to you and yours, we love you SFIA🤘

    • @isaacarthurSFIA
      @isaacarthurSFIA  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks, it was fairly easy, the recovery is irritating but more in a 'feels like a bad cold' kind of way :)

    • @dyllondargon3398
      @dyllondargon3398 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@isaacarthurSFIA huh, thats not what I expected but im glad its not insufferable

  • @JcBravo8
    @JcBravo8 ปีที่แล้ว

    This intro... it reminds of one of your Fermi Paradox intros. The one that starts with the miscommunication and the human ambassador thinking he was invited to a feast, when he was in fact the meal?

  • @What-thaW
    @What-thaW ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope you’re happy with the results of your operation!

  • @Paparoxx
    @Paparoxx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My congratulations and admiration Isaac. While working in radio I retained a good number of announcers and deejays. A young high schooler called one day. He had a slight speech issues but a burning desire to " be on the radio", long story shorten, I used the story of Deaginese

  • @StripedAssedApe
    @StripedAssedApe ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This definitely has that Quantum Chimichanga energy

  • @OpreanMircea
    @OpreanMircea ปีที่แล้ว

    Happy Arthursday!

  • @DanielGenis5000
    @DanielGenis5000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You sound awesome, congratulations! You know, Robert Sheckley wrote some funny and insightful short stories about aliens eating us, as well as hunting us for our pelts (it turns out they mount space suits), etc. He was a great talent, though quirky and quite the opposite of the 'serious' spinners of speculative fiction.

  • @greenboy1916
    @greenboy1916 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hope for your quick recovery!

  • @edpistemic
    @edpistemic ปีที่แล้ว

    Wishing you a speedy and successful recovery! :)

  • @atevensnderson5827
    @atevensnderson5827 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What was that bizarre footage at 3:40 of a war lock creature running in the woods? So crazy!

  • @theuncalledfor
    @theuncalledfor ปีที่แล้ว

    How to "have your cake and eat it too": Eat cake. by the time you're halfway through the cake, your automated kitchen/cook-bot already finished the next cake.

  • @bIuecrimson
    @bIuecrimson ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's only cannibalism if it's the in group.

  • @gutz166
    @gutz166 ปีที่แล้ว

    WH40ks Tyranids are the best example of Aliens that are so hungry, they force evolve their entire species to cross the universe and to adapt to any situation, just to eat all that juicy biomass.

  • @zephodb
    @zephodb ปีที่แล้ว +1

    >.> Oh-noes, you'll be like that episode of Ducktales 2017 where Donald loses his voice issues, and suddenly is voiced by Don Cheadle. :>

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chickens can be real jerks of critters.

  • @AirinTov
    @AirinTov ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Take care, heal well!

  • @cannonfodder4376
    @cannonfodder4376 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Given the amount of allergy medication I take due to Spring. I am not sure how appetizing I would be.
    And that's not taking living like an American into account. So many preservatives.
    Another good video Isaac.

  • @christopherwalls2763
    @christopherwalls2763 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video

  • @nofrackingzone7479
    @nofrackingzone7479 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The one constant you can expect on a hypothetical alien species is they will be the apex predator on their world.

  • @kevmasengale6903
    @kevmasengale6903 ปีที่แล้ว

    Darth Nihilus.. The Lord of Hunger.
    He didn't want to take over the galaxy, he was just hungry.

  • @selmateacher7
    @selmateacher7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "It's a cook book!"