Brian Cox - Alien Life & The Zoo Hypothesis
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- 🌌 Join world-renowned physicist Brian Cox as he delves into one of the universe's greatest mysteries: Are we alone? This thought-provoking journey takes us through the staggering expanses of the cosmos, exploring the profound question of extraterrestrial life.
🌟 Dive into the depths of space with billions of galaxies, each a home to countless stars and potentially habitable planets. What secrets do they hold? Brian Cox brings his unique perspective, combining scientific insight with a captivating curiosity about our galaxy and beyond.
🔭 Discover the latest in astronomical advancements that have unveiled thousands of exoplanets, many in habitable zones. Could these distant worlds harbor life? What kind of civilizations might exist out there, possibly advanced beyond our imagination?
👽 Tackling the enigmatic Fermi Paradox, Cox delves into the intriguing contradictions between the high probability of alien life and the lack of concrete evidence. Why haven't we found them yet? Are they avoiding us, observing from afar like a cosmic zookeeper?
🚀 This video is not just a quest for answers; it's a reflection of our desire to understand our place in the universe. Whether we're part of a grand galactic community or alone, each hypothesis brings us closer to unraveling the universe's secrets.
Join Brian Cox on this fascinating exploration, and ponder the possibilities that lie in the vast, mysterious universe. Are we truly alone, or are we part of something much bigger?
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A fish at the bottom of the sea doesn’t know we are here. Its looking for other fish near its home, but nothing. We are outside its water in another dimension, air. So could it be theres another level of life we are unaware of as it stands
That’s a good analogy!!
In other words humans are thick?
Great comment .i was commenting on Wales and dolphins. We don’t know what they’re talking about, but they are super intelligent. They understand us more than we them
I'm cackling that there are whales and dolphins somewhere saying "Dude, we saw humans, they were in the water, and some were riding on top of it!" and there's another dolphin or whale saying "You are such a liar. People don't exist." Much like humans who claim to have seen UFOs/UAPs. @@drstew1
Thats the best analys !!! 🎉🎉🎉
Really pissed that I’m living and will die to never experience the discovery or interaction of other species throughout the universe, this theory fascinates me more than anything else in life.
Same 😐
you never know my friend
no aliens are coming here. and no proof they exist
With the massive push from congress recently for transparency with the UAP findings, I believe a lot is ahead of us very soon. If they even release ONE case of proof of some type of craft. That's enough for most people and myself to believe life is out there somewhere.
Same. Also the difference amongst us , yet still fascinated jus as much as u are. I've been to jail so many times. I'm still out in the streets, but now for no reason. Jus cuz. Yet wen I make my ends meet n come home. I think about the universe and everything that can possibly b in it.
You can take a 5 gallon bucket of sea water out of the ocean and not see any fish but it doesn't mean there are no fish in the ocean.....we have only just begun to explore space the over whelming scale is almost unimaginable
I think the biggest problem is everyone is so fixated on life being similar to the life here on Earth. Who would even begin to think for a single minute that alternative life forms in other galaxies would look anything like the human being or living species on our planet. One of my favorite movies that is super plausible and possible is called arrival. The species of extraterrestrials that came to Earth were nowhere near anything we could even comprehend. The communication and technology in which they possessed isn't even fathomable to our society.
But if they were that advanced, it would be easy for them to build a translator to communicate with us. Unless they don't want to, but that's a different issue.
Cow fungus people. Carpletunnel peeps.
Beings made from our discarded waste.
Far more terrifying would be the thought that the life out there is also similar to us, but that we're behaving SO BADLY as a species, that NOBODY is willing to talk to us until we get our shit together, which we do not seem to be doing.
I laugh the way the are always portreyed very different, but always have 2 legs and arms.
This is not a comments section for sci-fi movies. We're talking cosmology and theoretical physics here,
Whenever they ask "Why haven't these advanced alien civilizations contacted us?" Imagine a colony of ants trying to contact us. Either we don't understand their method of contact, or simply don't care cuz they're ants.
Or, just use ants on Earth. They are the only living beings here with only three colonies. One on an island in the middle of Lake Huron, one on an island in the middle of Lake Victoria, and one on an island in the middle of a lake in China. Us trying to find an alien civilization would be more difficult than one of those ant colonies trying to find one of the other ones.
If ants played sports I'd be interested in them .
Or *plot twist*
We are the ants
The difference between us and NHI is much smaller than the difference between ant colonies and us. Ants also do not evolve in any meaningful way. We do.
@@williamdrijver4141do you know how crazy you sound? Ants don't evolve? What do you mean...physically?
You honestly think they were created WITH PURPOSE? They didn't evolve to communicate through pheromones? Didn't evolve to tend to the earth and soil the way they do? Haven't evolved to protect their queen and form chains of command?
Of course they evolve...just like any and every other living organism on this planet.
If there are aliens out there capable of visiting us, they are surely able to conceal themselves from us as well.
Still effectively alone
and also their ships would not crash and if they wanted to take over they would not need to hid themselves either
So one problem is the vast distances between solar systems.
@@deanalbertson7203 Yeah, that's the big one. Anyone capable of making a star-journey would have technology indistinguishable from magic. Disguises, no trouble at all. Probably use robots or androids in any case.
@@briankerr4512We don’t know that, what if it’s their way to take us over without conflict?
The cool thing about the zoo hypothesis is that we have invented the Prime Directive in our fiction, but are much more likely to be the victim of the Prime Directive in reality. In Star Trek, we have this code to not interfere with less developed civilizations, but the zoo hypothesis is basically other civilizations not interfering with us.
Kirk or Picard?
@@user-mf9yr9gp4c 100% agree. I call it the Angry Alien theory. I think any species on any planet that becomes technologically dominant will destroy themselves long before they can get out of their own solar system. It is a secondary characteristic of the tribalism needed to win evolution. You can't win evolution without anger towards other groups of your own species. We have barely gotten to our own moon, but tribalism has given us nuclear weapons, gain of function viruses, and soon castrastropic climate change all which could end us before we get to our nearest planet. Tribalism = evolution is a law of nature that will exist on any planet. I also think we got lucky because of the protection of Jupiter...without Jupiter early evolution would have been reset dozens of more times by impacts. Solar systems without a Jupiter like planet protecting the inner planets that are in a goldilocks zone would be getting whacked all the time.
I can say with 99.9% certainty that there are many other civilizations. There is an intergalactic council that includes about 2000+ civilizations. Not everyone there is like us, I mean not all biological species, there are other forms of life there, energetic, hybrid, etc.
Our Earth is monitored by about 30 civilizations, 2 of them are friendly to us and protect us from external contacts.
They are the same squirrel species as we are and their inhabited planet is located 17 million light years from us. The size is 1.5 - 2 times larger than our Earth.
Why don't they get in touch? One of the rules in space is not to interfere in the affairs of any planet.
They have a base on the moon, NASA will never tell you about it.
@@akmalkholikulov2558 u stupid..
@@akmalkholikulov2558- lay off the drugs
The issue with being able to detect an advanced alien civ is also one of timing. If they have moved on from radio waves, which is likely, then they are not randomly blasting waves for us to detect, but they were in their past. However, we have only been looking for 60 years! That means, the windows of time in which they were using radio + the travel distance from their planet to our would need to fall into the last 60 year window. That seems like a really tiny chance.
Correct. More likely to find evidence on Mars of a now-dead civilization.
Many read not the bible, thats why they are easily amazed by whatever this world brings worth.
Once Bible becomes daily reading, clear and truthful answers are always known and the amazement about topics calms down.
Aliens are fallen angels offspring, all these insane hybrid creatures:
giants = half humans/ half angels
animal headed people = half animals/ half humans
bird headed people = half birds / half humans
+ creatures created underground labs
+ governments fooling mankind with project blue beam.
Fallen angels are also the creation of GOD and hybrids are fallen copy creation.
Angles cannot create, only GOD can.
There is none who comes from extraterrestrial places - made up places to fool mankind.
Fallens are lucked up, as we read the bible, only lucifer and his kids, the hybrids are "hunting and ghosting" on earth. For them there is no heaven created, only hell and the lake of fire for them. That places their fate to stay on earth after their bodily deaths and become demons/evil spirits.
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Souls, read BIBLE KJV and be informed by all topics needed, continue not to live with the lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Leave them alone...we don't like ourselves so we won't like them.
That is the most important factor of all.
Plus, I read, the radio waves since we started using them, haven't reached anywhere near anything yet.
For me, far more interesting (and terrifying) than the Zoo Hypothesis as a proposed answer to the Fermi Paradox, is the Dark Forest Hypothesis, as depicted in Cixin Liu's brilliant 'Three Body Problem' series of books. It's based on three axioms, as explained by one of its central characters:
One - intelligent life is not only present, but abundant in the universe.
Two - survival is the primary need of any civilisation.
Three - civilisations expand over time, but the total available matter in the universe remains constant.
Under these three axioms, it paints a horrible picture: life everywhere, but since growth is constant and resources are finite, each galactic civilization is strongly incentivized to destroy any others upon discovery. The only defense against this is to remain unnoticed.
It could be why we haven't encountered aliens yet - they're hiding, and for good reason. We meanwhile, are like birds chirping incessantly into the darkness, running the risk of attracting hunters. Bit dark, but fascinating when you start to explore it.
Thanks for this summary. I'm confused though, why are galactic civs incentivized to destroy others upon discovery?
@@egodrunk I suppose there will always be something or someone looking to destroy, we see evidence of that on our own planet, so I would assume there are hostile Aliens in the universe as well, but who knows.
@@egodrunk I think because of limited resources. since life is fairly abundant (in the theory)
overpopulation is the underlying assumption here. Overpopulation, along with nuclear weapons, is the fundamental indicator of a self-destructive civilisation. Any alien civilisation advanced enough to colonise the galaxy would have made it past the self-destructive stage and have a stable population that obviates the need for violent territorialism and colonialism. Just sayin'
@@egodrunk It comes down to what the author calls 'the chain of suspicion'. Essentially, if you discover another civilisation, you must determine if that civilisation is hostile or benevolent. If they pose a threat to you, or may one day pose a threat to you, your best option to ensure your own survival is to eliminate them. If they look benevolent to you, that's great, but how do they know you mean them no harm? Even if you appear to come in peace, how can they completely trust that you mean it? This chain of suspicion happens with humans (take the Cuban missile crisis as an example, where it almost led to all out nuclear war because neither side wanted to give an inch) but as we are all the same species and the differences between countries are small, the chain of suspicion is short and can be overcome. Between interstellar races however, the differences are far greater and the chain can grow to be all-encompassing. A channel called Quinn's Ideas explores the concept in depth from about 12:50 onwards in this video: th-cam.com/video/DjoICDmv4oM/w-d-xo.html and will explain it better than me, but I highly recommend reading Cixin Liu's trilogy. It's some of the best sci fi I've read in a while.
My own personal twist is the analogy of having a good life and driving by a bad neighborhood. Would you stop to hang out with the locals on a really sketchy street? Especially if you have a nice car? No, you wouldn’t. You’d avoid them all together as they are toxic and dangerous. For example is there a single super power on this planet that wouldn’t shoot down an alien craft just to harvest and weaponize its tech? Humanity is a crap show right now. Any alien civilization passing by would roll up the windows and hit the throttle.
So, if you're born and raised in a small town in Sweden you're going to think the guy who shoplifts and smokes cigarettes is the worst type of person possible, until you go to the US.
If you're from a bad part of the US you'll think your neighborhood is the worst, until you go to a favela in Brazil.
What I'm telling you is that your sample size is ONE for intelligent civilizations, what this means is that FOR ALL YOU KNOW we are the absolute BEST species in existence in terms of morals and altruism. I mean, we certainly are on our own planet, look at how TERRIFYINGLY BRUTAL every single part of nature is. Male lions murder the cubs of other male lions. Just look at baboons in GENERAL. Look at parasites. We are BY FAR the nicest species in existence on Earth. There are no other species' on earth taking steps to STOP THE EXTINCTION of another species.
I don't know what this weird urge is to know literally nothing about any other civilization but still want to shit on humans as being the worst, so many people have it and it's WEIRD.
@@reddillon8425 wow! You sound a little angry.
You’ve made a bit of an over generalization error regarding my comments. I too am a big fan of humanity, and what we are capable of. I absolutely believe there is so much good going on in the world that we are just not paying attention to it. That said you cannot deny there is so much bullshit going on in this planet because of humanity. Wars, corruption, greed, fear mongering, hate, pollution. So the statements that I’ve made are based upon relative assumptions based on what I know about humanity, and what it would take to visit this planet from somewhere else.
A. Any species capable of interstellar travel, has likely evolved beyond its own flaws and extinction event to survive, thrive, and indulge exploration on a scale far beyond what we have achieved.
B. Any species that has survived its own extinction event has likely matured regarding its theological, biological, and emotional evolution to coexist, so as to not kill each other
C. Any species that is evolved beyond war and fear likely has vastly different cultures and paradigms on life. Being capable of interstellar travel will likely mean they have all the means necessary to live comfortably, and would have no necessity to invade and subjugate species on other planets.
D. So compared to us, I feel it’s a pretty safe assumption they would likely be quite virtuous and compassionate compared to us. Sure I could be wrong, but I have my reasons as stated above.
Your analogy about wild animals, killing each other seems a bit flawed to me. Male lions will kill the Cubs of other male lions to ensure the strength of the pride. It also reduces mouths to feed and ensures that the alpha male lions cubs will survive. People, however, will screw each other over For money or social media clout. We murder people in other countries for our theologies and their resources. Hell sometimes we murder people just because we are having a bad day. So I would say that humanity is capable of great things, both virtuous and horrific. Far beyond what wild animals do. And as for animals, preventing extinction, nature has been taken care of that for them. As prey becomes insufficient predators will decrease in numbers. That then allows prey to flourish, which follows success for predators. The cycle goes on.
I appreciate your willingness to comment. And while I could be wrong, you seemed a bit stinky and nasty about it. I’m not looking to troll anyone or to be trolled by anyone. But I’d love to discuss and debate things.
A few more centuries of evolution and we could be worthy of a first contact visitation. In the meantime, lets try and find a way to stop killing each other.
Keep them shit analogies to yourself mate 👌🏻
You're not wrong.
I just cant see how its possible that there is no intelligent life beyond us. The universe is so huge with billions of galaxies out there with planets, stars etc. No way we are alone.
I think one of the scariest scenarios of the zoo hypothesis is aliens waiting to harvest life on earth like in the movie Jupiter Ascending. As an aside whoever came up with that idea for a screen play was brilliant. It was as brilliant as the Matrix movie.
Weve only had the means to search for life for less than 100 years. With how big the universe and scale of time behind us i dont think its that surprising we havent found anything
Fallen angels and demons exist and are here.
Trillions of galaxies. There's no way we're that special
@@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection oh, religious fanatics. 😂😂
@@SmileFreestyle-hx2rc other galaxies are stupidly out of reach. They might as well not exist if you need faith to assume they are out there
@@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection yup. Trumpanzie and his re PUBES.. LOL
I think that if we had access to everything that is going on in the universe, our puny human brains would explode. We are an infant civilization in this universe and we have only scratched the surface of what the universe truly is.
This is a underrated comment..
Regardless of all the possibilities the universe holds, what you say is true.
Just like technology being “magic” to those in our past.
That plus the fact that Cox is too dumb to mention to you the likeliest possibility of finding evidence of extraterrestrial civilization is through artifacts left on Mars.
I can say with 99.9% certainty that there are many other civilizations. There is an intergalactic council that includes about 2000+ civilizations. Not everyone there is like us, I mean not all biological species, there are other forms of life there, energetic, hybrid, etc.
Our Earth is monitored by about 30 civilizations, 2 of them are friendly to us and protect us from external contacts.
They are the same squirrel species as we are and their inhabited planet is located 17 million light years from us. The size is 1.5 - 2 times larger than our Earth.
Why don't they get in touch? One of the rules in space is not to interfere in the affairs of any planet.
They have a base on the moon, NASA will never tell you about it.
man that's a new one.....squirrel Aliens...well oil beef hooked 🤫
love Ur comment bear......so true
The comments from everyone here are most ALL the BEST & MIND CHALLENGING I've ever read on ANY other site!!! BRAVO, ONE AND ALL'
Brian Cox is one of those "Ancient Astronaut Theorists" who say yes to (believe in) EVERYTHING!
Maybe there is life staring us in the face but it is in a form we cannot comprehend with our smooth brains.
Don't be mean to democrats
I can say with 99.9% certainty that there are many other civilizations. There is an intergalactic council that includes about 2000+ civilizations. Not everyone there is like us, I mean not all biological species, there are other forms of life there, energetic, hybrid, etc.
Our Earth is monitored by about 30 civilizations, 2 of them are friendly to us and protect us from external contacts.
They are the same squirrel species as we are and their inhabited planet is located 17 million light years from us. The size is 1.5 - 2 times larger than our Earth.
Why don't they get in touch? One of the rules in space is not to interfere in the affairs of any planet.
They have a base on the moon, NASA will never tell you about it.
@@akmalkholikulov2558 Source "Trust me bro"
They would be smart to leave us alone. We are horribly dangerous. The UFOs that we have seen may even be resident. We could be living in different dimensions, in the same place. There is just to much we don't know. I am a fan of the zoo theory. It actually makes some sense.
We're probably more remorselessly barbaric, violent and we act like children as a species, that's probably how they would see it. They probably know we are smart enough to learn complicated things, but they would see no value in how much we are able to comprehend. They'd avoid us, I wouldn't blame them either.
We are no more dangerous to an advanced civilization than a squirrel is dangerous to you. They would have the tech to exterminate us at will if necessary.
Okay... But if they are the zookeepers (more advanced), aren't they the dangerous ones?
Why worry about bullets and bombs when they have exotic materials? 😂
@@doraemon5990 We have nukes now. And we just might be stupid enough to use them .
Fallen angels and demons exist and are here.
Time seems to be the most critical factor in much of these discussions. How long does life take to form from non-living material? How much stock should we place in our single example? How likely is it that life advances to complex animal-like life, let alone intelligent, reasoning beings? How long might civilisations last? Are successive civilisations likely to each drop back to a very basic, pre-scientific starting point or are they more likely to be a succession of dynasties, each with a reasonable level of scientific capability? How long might members of those civilisations life individually? How interested would they be in outreach into the galaxy around you?
Anyway, such a deep and fascinating open question.
there is no evidence for evolution
We are a primitive species. We wage war among each other instead of sharing all our resources essentially making us abundant. We have little knowledge of non physical spiritual origins. Highly evolved beings don’t desire to communicate with us yet as we are immature and primitive. They are most definitely observing us, knowing we will awake to our true nature of highest love. We all know this on a soul level.
I like the Zoo Hypothesis, they're watching us progress, they send drone ships every now and then to see how we're doing, when we reach a certain state of evolution (both technically and organically) there'll be a big party in the sky! 🙂
lol
That’s what the Vulcans did.
I think spiritually too
@@1jotun136 Probably yeah 🙂
Imagine if we were watching the San Diego Zoo like that but the monkeys started building nooks! That's kind of like what the aliens are seeing now on Earth.
The search for intelligent life in the universe should start on Earth!!!
😂
It has to start on earth because that is the only place that we are… 😂
😂🤣😂😭😭😭 well said
The British accent, deep voice, and GRAVITAS of the host's voice adds to the overwhelming mystery of the Universe - all of which makes us VERY VERY SMALL...................
"Because civilizations destroy themselves" i think is the most logical reason.
An outstanding narrative with amazing graphics and captivating b-roll. 😎Prodigious
A point people forget is everything has a beginning & an ending... A book starts with page one , and ends with the last page... Science is constantly rewriting the date for the universe , understanding its older & older than we keep thinking. Who knows where we actually fall into the Story of life in the universe. we will NEVER officially know that answer , regardless of advancements made.
We honestly dont know if we're at the beginning of it all , or were sadly the remaining remnants of life.
Its also quite possible we are the only intelligent life to actually emerge yet , or ever...
As ive stated , no one truly, TRULY knows , and most acceptable theories are each just as plausible as the last.
But..My word... Its fascinating to ponder on though , especially the theories inside the Fermie paradox purposal.
There’s definitely been contact made. You release that kind of information to the masses, the establishment that you’ve fought so hard to build and uphold, crumbles. Imagine finding out your holy book and beliefs only exist here on this planet and no where else where life exists in the universe. Your entire belief system is gone, and when you look at that on a world wide scale, well that just causes chaos.
While we may see ourselves as a sophisticated and knowledgeable species It is estimated that 90% of all human knowledge has been acquired in the last 100 years. Also estimated is that about 50% of our current scientific beliefs are incorrect. While we may think we are knowledgeable and learned, we are really like toddlers who just learned to walk and now think we have mastered our world. In reality… we have little more than clues to shape our beliefs of how the universe works and our place in it.
.... our beliefs riddled with superstition and paranoid projection with regard to anything we can't comprehend... probably not worth tampering with or possibly unrecognizable from a higher intelligence...
We all are different but honestly I don’t even think we are toddlers. I think we are more like destructive and less intelligent than ants comparatively.
Heck, our scientists can't find 95% of The Universe.
excellent. You get a B+ in epistemology.
Fake news. We still don't even know how the pyramids were created a few thousand years ago
The way we treat each other makes it impossible for us humans to evolve much further. We fight over anything.
That's part of what keeps us advancing. The horrors we commit upon one another breeds creativity to overcome. We cause problems then solve them and that advances science. Look at medical discoveries linked to nazi death camps and unit 731. Horrible atrocities and war crimes but we advanced heavily in the medical field as a result.
@@robnelson3355 yes, but that is only one small example for humanity advancing during war times.
@@robnelson3355 Our absolute greatest advances tend to happen with the brilliance of a few select people who completely changed our world. This happens regardless of wars or horrors and if I had to guess, it happens more in peaceful times since that gives these people time to research their passion instead of being forced into a particular application or worse, drafted as footsoldiers.
I fully believe in the Zoo hypothesis and these sightings of bus-sized tictac shaped craft hovering above the ocean or flying at tremendous speeds caught by pilots..it's a safe bet to say we are being "studied", or things on the planet are being studied.
I agree
I recently read the book "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe" by Ward and Brownlee. The authors contend that simple, single-cell life, such as bacteria, is likely quit common in the universe, but more complex multi-cellular life may be exceedingly rare and so-called "intelligent life" (whatever that means) would be rarer still. Excellent, thought-provoking book for those interested in the subject. Spoiler alert: Don't hold your breath waiting for that signal from outer space.
I go with the rare Earth hypothesis. In particular I believe that our freakishly large moon, and how that moon was formed is why we have intelligent life here, but not anywhere near by in time and space. Specifically, late in the formation of the Earth a planet the size of Mars slammed into the Earth at an angle. This did several things - one, it gave us a larger than normal iron core, because now we have the iron core of two planets, not one. Two, it increased the spin of that iron core. Combine one and two and you end up with a stronger and longer lasting magnetic field then we should have for a planet our size. A magnetic field that protects us from the solar wind. A weak magnetic field is why Mars has such a thin atmosphere and high surface radiation. Third, the lighter material got blown up into orbit where it formed into the moon. Our moon is freakishly large for the size of our planet. This has several effects, it increases the size of our tides, mixing up those chemicals of life so well, and often. It stabilizes our rotation so that the Earth doesn't wobble, which stabilizes our climate. Our freakishly large moon also provides an asteroid deflector. An imperfect one to be sure, but on that increases the time between extinction level events.
Add all of that up and we have a planet that allows a long enough period of time for intelligent life to evolve, something that seems unlikely on other planets.
Was it really that rare for things to smash into each other in the early days of the solar system? Our moon is indeed big , but not uniquely so in our solar system. Pluto and Charon are also believed to have been formed by collision, and Charon is half the diameter of Pluto.
@@AlexanderYap Our moon is freakishly large for the size of our planet.
@@andyklapper8484 Our moon's diameter is about a quarter that of the Earth's. Charon's diameter is about half that of Pluto's. Charon is considered one of Pluto's moons.
So while a large moon (relative to the planet) might be uncommon, it is not unique even in our solar system.
@@AlexanderYap Pluto isn't a planet. It certainly isn't a planet that can support life, and that is what we are talking about. Look at the planets in or near the habitable zone, our moon is freakishly large.
You could actually assume both hypotheses. Maybe the reason ET is zookeeper to our "ant hill" is precisely because we are so very rare.
Came here for the new Brian Cox ASMR, stayed to laugh at all of the Joe Rogan doctorates in astrophysics.
Basic logic and reason doesn't require a degree, let alone a doctorate, in astrophysics.
@@allanshpeley4284 Excellent point. You should build submarines for rich, white dudes.
I hope one day I’ll be watching a documentary like this on “how we found aliens and what life for them is like”. I’m sure future generations will be lucky enough to have this documentary, narrated by the Morgan freeman of their time.
Brian Cox is a typical alien in the sense of the genuine aliens are covert and live among us, and not grey with big eyes
The answers are so simple to not finding anything. Our governments keep all findings a secret humanity is not ready to know about other forms of life in the galaxy.
That doesn't really work at all as a 'theory' though does it, if given any more than a nanosecond of thought.
'Our governments keep all findings a secret humanity is not ready to know about' - Those same governments of 195 countries have somehow managed to come to some sort of unilateral agreement over hiding all this super alien woo...yet remain ideologically, politically, sociologically and economically divided in literally dozens of ways, and more, and in some cases antagonistically so, but they are firmly committed to keeping the alien stuff secret. It just doesn't work as an idea does it.
Fascinating. The wonders of the universe...
“Where are the Aliens?” Is a concerning question either way u think about it. On one end it’s concerning bc it means we are all alone in this dark void, and on the other hand it’s concerning bc if they do exist and they happen to stumble across us it could mean they’re far too advanced and to us they’d be like gods. They could crush us like how we step on ants and don’t even have second thoughts. Fascinating.
Hi Brian.
I've been 150 metres from a triangular UFO.
They communicate through telepathy.
They spoke to me.
I'm just a normal person.
They work with magnetic fields for energy for their crafts.
The worldwide cattle mutilations are because they're facing extinction.
The jaw bone and blood of cattle have a certain combination of biological microscopic unique mixture.
The craft I encountered was totally silent and also,all around was silent, time stood still 🙏
😂
Wouldn't it be something if a security guard at Area 51 knows more than a legendary particle physicist?!
Are they still guarding those weather balloons?
Maybe they don't think we're worthy of knowing of their existence, because we've shown ourselves to be incapable of taking care of what we have here or being civil to each our, e.g, beings who are the same as us.
Oh my! Some surprising art! Quite good!
Would this not result in multiple zoos ongoing at the same time?
I am an Alien, and I approve this hypothesis. 😎
Perhaps we're just boring and they ignore us.
@@michaelhilborn4204 Smart dudes out there is one thing; getting here is another thing.
Just to put it into perspective how big a billion is, ,, a million seconds is 11 days , a billion seconds is 32 yrs, so imagine a trillion.
Zoo hypothesis is quite an interesting one. Like we're just in a big black box section in the universe and we won't learn how to get out until we're ready or never. Or a way to preserve the universe somehow.
Personally I think the biggest problem with finding other intelligent life is the time problem. Great and extremely technologically advanced civilizations could have risen and fallen. Nothing is forever and as large as the universe is and since we appear to be in the younger part of the neighborhood the "self replicating robots" or just civilizations that have become extinct could be everywhere trillions of light years away. Who knows for sure? At this moment in our history we don't have that answer.
Correct--Cox is dumb by not considering evidence of previous civilizations exists on Mars.
Have often heard of the Zoo hypothesis.
And this would be a good reason to remain "unseen".
Another equally reasonable hypothesis, would be the Farm hypothesis, where there would be a better reason for Aliens to remain "unseen".
I've heard a hypothesis that there is an alien species who has been here for thousands of years that feeds on our emotions and interferes in our affairs to help drive conflict or other extreme emotional states on a mass level for sustenance.
Our first mistake as a species is to assume that we are relevant when we're probably as important to potential alien civilizations as the ant colony you never noticed in your yard is important to you...
It’s actually a simple explanation. Everything we can observe is so far away that we’re observing it as it was millions and even billions of years ago. So there are probably civilizations there right now, but we’re only seeing these places as they were in the past. All our signals take as much time as it does for their light to reach us, so by the time they/we receive each others signals and evidence of existence, their/our civilization either has died off or relocated.
Perverts. That's why I always keep my blinds drawn.
I don't think relocation is realistically possible. We'd be long gone before we can develop any technology remotely advanced enough to make this feat possible
But, IF a civilisation managed to survive early emergence and continued, it's also possible that it could start to inhabit vast regions for vast periods of time. We don't at present see anything like that though. Such a puzzle.
@@sroberts605 It's impossible to colonise vast regions given the distances involved. Even speed of light is too slow for these distances and that is the speed of causality hence nothing is faster. We don't see anyone else because it is simply impossible to travel interstellar distances.
Much as I admire Brian Cox, you cannot generalise from a sample of... one, the Earth; life COULD exist, MIGHT have emerged, MIGHT have obeyed the laws of physics and chemistry..., but that does not PROVE that it actually has.
I tend to think human ignorance is why we cant detect anything. Its possible that we as humanity are so full of ourselves, we think were smarter or "equal" with beings that see us as nothing more than savage creatures playing with their toys.
I believe the zoo hypotheses is the most likely explanation of the ETs rare contacts with humans
We have a loooooong way to go.
why is it so important anyway? cant we just wait for them to contact us? we have oceans to explore
Professor David Kipping does a very interesting take on the extraterrestrial conundrum. Comes at it from another and often ignored angle. Well worth a watch.
Cool worlds is too good!!
Fallen angels and demons exist and are here.
@@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelectionAnd you are privy to this information because...
@@MeganVictoriaKearns ....because unlike you he Googled it.
In order to find life we need to understand life can look like anything. We need oxygen but they might not.
The fact that life exists here on earth is a clear indicator that so to must life exists somewhere else in the universe. The fact that life comes in many different sizes and breeds is a clear indicator that life that exists elsewhere can be weirdly shaped or weirdly wierd because we have different life forms here on earth. Compare a jelly fish to a lion or a zebra etc. There must be some wowrdly crazy bizzare stuff out there in the universe. If you have not already succumbed to the fact that life exists elsewhere just remember the universe is expanding outwards faster than the speed of light which means it's infinite. A infinite universe means a infinite number of planets with a infinite number of opportunities to find life. I've also had a few ufo experiences which gives me reason to believe that ufos are real. Basically the ufo lit up and just before it instantly left the light went out. Which would make it hard to see because your eyes would have to readjust. Kinda like when you turn the lights off at home your eyes readjust. I believe whatever is inside the ufos have done research on the human eye for sure.
I know a lot of people like this guy but really he just reminds me of a game show host.
They are constantly influencing us where the heck do you think “free thought “ comes from consciousness alone is the divine language
They are here, they know how and where to blend in. IMO
There are also most likely civilizations just as young or younger than us embarking on their own journey.
We need to put some gatekeeping on the word "opinion"
you shouldn't just be able to say anything you want with literally no evidence and then call that an "opinion"
"opinion" should be like "theory," a theory REQUIRES evidence to be a theory, and an opinion should be the same.
That's referring to the first half of your comment, "they are here," well no they almost certainly are not because we would know it. But the last half of your comment, yes it's almost a statistical certainty that there is life SOMEWHERE in the universe.
@@reddillon8425 "Opinion" is not the same as "Theory"; in fact, they are entirely different. And yes, there is evidence; it's just that you may not have it. Lastly, if they are a species much more advanced than ours, they would know how to hide perfectly, and we wouldn't realize they are among us. Or perhaps they are not hiding completely and are waiting for us to stop being so foolish, to stop fighting among ourselves, and to look around and realize it for ourselves.
I think Gene Roddenberry had it figured out and the Vulcans are just waiting for us to develop warp tech before they reveal themselves 😀
Your comment is "most illogical!" 😐
fascinating
We are conected to the universe from cause and effect from begining from time.There must be something beyond sometime and reason.
I believe they are here. They are so advanced that they have evolved to just consciousness and can move and be right next to us and we wouldn’t know it. However they do have the ability to communicate.
Lots of people believe lots of things. Doesn't make them true or untrue. Evidence is the only thing that counts.
Correct. I am the leader.
There has never been a time in human history where people/countries/religions haven’t been fighting and killing each other. Mass genocide, corruption, greed, etc..etc…Anyone out there watching has absolutely no reason to try and make themselves known to us. We can be good, but in general we are just too barbaric.
Pf Cox literally says it within 2 minutes, there is and we can’t…
I love this topic. "I want to believe".
Tetonic plate movement ❤ gobbles up artifacts and rebirths pure nature.
Earth really doesn't like us, does it?
Or we could just be alone which makes Earth a very very special place
It ain't at all special.
@@davidmccarthy6061 Well you know what I mean...unique then
And we're destroying it :(
@@emilywright3454 How so?
@@emilywright3454 no we are not. People who say that have an agenda. Earth is magnitudes of order cleaner than the 60’s. They had rivers that caught fire then. You can eat fish from them now.
Most ‘climate science’ these days doesn’t even pretend to follow the basic rules of science. Most so called environmentalists are hypocrites beyond belief. Al Gore’s carbon footprint is bigger than my whole town’s. DeCaprio has a yacht that is at least that bad. And it’s not all he is doing. Look at their predictions. Not a stinking one of them has ever come true. Thank goodness because 2023 was supposed to be the end of the earth. Ask Greta the weather potato.
Has anyone ever contemplated of aliens that are so big, that we would be almost microscopic standing next to them? Say their planet orbits some of the largest stars in the universe and their planet is as big as our planet to our sun as it is to their sun. So the proportions would be the same except for on a much larger gigantic scale.
That, or they're very small, say like the..... COVID virus!
A rocky planet can get nowhere near the size of a star. Maximum around four or five times bigger than the earth which is still very tiny compared the to the sun. So your different scale of size idea isn't possible
Fuckin NANEW NANEW my bro from another globe!!! Lol
That does not work. Physics does not allow gigantic aliens. Gigantic aliens on gigantic planets can't happen. They would collapse in on themselves.
Fallen angels and demons exist and are here.
3 body problem on Netflix is a great show 👌
"Two possibilities exist:
Either we are alone in the universe, or...we are not.
Both are equally terrifying."
Arthur C. Clarke
Far too many planets for us to be alone. If our ancestors had visitors then there has to be life someone in our galaxy.
Fallen angels and demons exist and are here.
@@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection Sorry but angels an demons are not real, is childish to believe such fairytales.
@@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection lmao ok
There's mathematics that supports the idea that we're alone in the galaxy.
There's also facts.
@@JZsBFF no there isn’t. Impossible for us to be alone. The probability of life within our galaxy is great. Our problem is we are looking for more human like creatures.
Every smart alien passing by earth locks his doors and hits the gas pedal...😉
They are afraid of human 😂
@@thelian4595 nope, it is just smart to avoid things like us. Look at what we do to our planet, to other people and every living being. Not to survive, but because we can.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. In our sheer fricking hubris we think we know everything, so of course we can't find it
There will be an abundance of life in the universe and our own galaxy but humans will never get there but we will evolve into a being that will 🙏🏻💕
If we don’t destroy ourselves first
What happens if aliens made such sophisticated machines that life on earth is actually from these advanced machines? 🤔 That'd be crazy. We're all alien robot lifeforms who think this is what life actually looks like when in fact it does not
I can never decide which is a more terrifying thought; that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe or that we are completely alone in the universe.
Arthur C Clarke. If youre going to quote someone, it courtesy to give credit to the author.
@@lachazaroony didn’t even realize it was a quote lol
@@lachazaroony just looked it up. Maybe I heard it before, but I don’t recall. My wording is more of a paraphrase than a quote, but I got you
Thank You,So Intersting.
i know why , i know why i am here - i know where i was before i came here and i know what i have to do here before i go home and i know other galaxies are teaming with other life forms far more advanced than here , its very very vast , if you think im weird ,thank you i like that !!
Since we as a species don’t have the ability to travel space and really explore it, how can we be sure of anything. We still use radio signals, do you really think any space faring species uses that?
I love how we act like we can understand things that are beyond understanding.
Even with all our intelligence, there is always a higher one.
you've basically said nothing... this is simply a theory, someone has to have ideas and thoughts or we'd be braindead sheep like u
Yeah. Such as the college professors who flunked you.
You know!!!!! ,that makes a lot of sense
Great video. I am curious what Brian thinks of the David Grusch testimony...
I like the theory that Alien created mankind on earth
Have any of these “civilizations “ on these planets gone through 5 mass extinctions as has occurred on ours? How fast has life recovered from these extinctions in order to reach an intelligent species? And to what level of intelligence have they reached?
Cox has all these questions answered. He's keeping them for future "clicks".
We are barely space bound, our best cameras are often blurry at best and then software enhanced.
Give it another few hundred years, and I am certain we will have a much better understanding of this question.
Aliens etc will always be at the forefront of those with an interest in space or sci-fi etc, but we barely know enough about our local region for us to be making significant claims on distant stars and planets, not forgetting that when we focus on a distant planet, it's barely a pixel of information for us to pick details from.
Personally I find it impossible to believe that other intelligent life doesn't exist out there, within a distance we could contact.
How we find them, and contact them? Well that's not for me, you or Mr Cox to answer.
We are to early into our own civilization, which in itself has many perils to overcome in the very near future.
If only things like War and countries split over plots of land were eradicated, and then we could put trillions into our own species, and advance our species at a significantly faster rate.
Where are the aliens? Let's try to live and prosper for long enough to try and find them.
Viewer from a few 100 years as of today, I hope you found them.
I love debating these things. It interesses me greatly
Agreed. Although it's poor science, it's still great scifi!
The only thing that bothers me about this hypothesis, is that if an intelligence that can stay completely undetected exists, life on other planets is definitely possible. Meaning there is a very high probability of less advanced civilizations existing, which we should have been able to detect one way or another by now.
That’s a good point, everyone is obsessed about these wonderful advanced civilisations a billion years ahead of us when the reality could be they’re as dumb as we used to be😂 or they’re still single cells 🤣
Which hypothesis? Brian Cox was saying we just don't know. Given the evidence that's all we can say right now. Everything else is just empty speculation. You can't talk about probability when you only have one sample (our own planet). Untill other life is found you can't possibly say how probable it is. You can say it's possible, but not probable, and it's equally possible that we're all there is.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 That's what defines a hypothesis, otherwise it'd be a theory.
The probability thing is basically what I said? I was being hypothetical, hence the word if.
By now huh. Cause we've had all these new capabilities since when again? Cause we barely have a century in this technological Era thibg
@@deeespinal9666 I'm saying that if there is an intelligent lifeform out there observing us, we can establish intelligent life outside of earth exists without a doubt. With trillions of galaxies existing for billions of years, we should have been able to detect something. The universe should be filled with signals by now. For example, even if only 0,0000001% of all intelligent life would end up using radio signals for 50 years at a time, we'd be still be bombarded with them from all sides.
Think Brian Cox is looking at this through science and after years of research i am thinking this is where we are going wrong.
Hes very much old school.
Old school indeed. Evidence-based science.
Awaiting the day they show themselves
I thought it was well known that Aliens visited Earth about 4000 years ago from across the galaxy.
And, with their incredible, super sophisticated, faster than light, anti-gravity technology they showed the Ancient Egyptians how to pile stones on top of each other to make a pyramid.
The Ancient Egyptians were very grateful and admitted they would never have thought of that.
What i would find fascinating is to come across an advanced civilization who look exactly like us , meaning they could walk down the street and you wouldn't even know , another is along the same lines , who thinks there would be planets out there that have , what we would consider dinosaurs roaming around?
It would be staggering if there is a civilisation out there that evolved on a different planet to look exactly like us.
There are many hybrid alien civilizations that share our dna. The greys, the anuki.
@@casper191985are you joking?, because that’s obviously just speculation, yet you’re making it sound like fact 🤷♂️
@@farab4391 no it’s fact 🙃 it’s even written carved in stone the oldest known language on earth that we’ve found. The Sumerians.
@@farab4391 the anuki used a simple Neanderthal humanoid and made us smarter and changed our bodies to function as one giant antenna.
Doesn't it depend on the lifespan of a star, they say the sun is halfway through its own life, but it's not like it will turn off on the last day, it might go rapidly downhill once it's past the halfway point 😮
So any civilisation that has reached where we are, but in the past, still has 5 billion years to escape the death of their sun.
This hypothesis is becoming more likely with the recent developments in the UAP topic…
I personally believe we are being observed like animals at the zoo or in the wild.
I was always intrigued by the return of the Apollo 11 return to Earth.
They put the three astronauts into isolation to make sure they did not bring back moon microbes.
No mention of the Zoo Hypothesis' evil cousin - the Dark Forest?
Given the behavior of life on our own planet, and the likelihood that similar mechanisms may govern development elsewhere in our universe, I've always found that one far more convincing.
Fallen angels and demons exist and are here.
It's an interesting hypothesis but not very consistent with the curious nature of Homo Sapiens.
Perhaps all these sightings on earth is the the evidence we seek , someone or something is intentionally withholding this information.
That would be the aliens themselves then because they could make themselves obviously known if they wished it to be so.
@@oceandrop7666 possibly but what if they are leaving that responsibility up to humanity … they are prepared to hint at their existence but the official confirmation must come from Man …. Perhaps.
I think they're future humans warning us as they're all flying round nuclear facilities maybe telling us nuclear power is the way to go or warning us about nuclear bombs idk
The universe has the elements to create life. It would be insane to suggest we are alone. The problem is we humans like to think that extraterrestrial life has to be more advanced than ours. If these civilizations are harnessing the same elements that exist in the universe, perhaps they can only harness it just as much as we do that it prevents them from going beyond their galaxy to make contact.
For whatever reason, they're talking about all of this time the universe has had. If an asteroid 65 million yrs ago didn't kill the dinosaurs and they were still around, they'd be just as close to colonizing Mars today as they were 250 million years ago. Time doesn't mean anything if the gene(s) for intelligence aren't activated.
What about the dark forest theory. Sends chills down my spine.