The strange thing will be if other intelligent life is humanoid. It would seem to suggest that viable planetary environments terraform life into two legs for propulsion, two arms and fingers to manipulate objects, two ears for stereo hearing, two eyes for 3D vision... That would be a strange one to explain as it would make our form somehow written into the laws of physics as an inevitable outcome given life enough time to evolve on a planet.
Well, there is the idea of convergent evolution, it has happened on earth many times. Two legs, arms, and eyes may just be the most efficient path for natural selection, selecting for high intelligence/tool building.
@@originsdecoded3508 They pointed out nothing, they just stated "look at this obvious thing..." Then proceeded to give the dumbest possible reasoning for it, even in their day 2000+ years ago. Here we are 2000 years later and idiots are still believing cavemen knew more about the universe than us despite them thinking planets were people moving in the sky. You dont get how stupid they were?
@@gorbachevdhali4952 Doubtful are 2 arms and two legs has only existed next to no time at all with hundreds or thousands of eyes and legs dominating for the vast majority of time. Its highly unlikely to be the best solution. There are tons of other ways to make it happen such as tentacles.
Especially after discussing in youtube comment field with flat earther and religious apologetic, which makes med doubt intelligent life is present on earth.
I agree, but you never know what an alien race's intentions would be, if we ever encountered one. They could definitely be hostile. As the future progresses, we'd better be on our guard.
I really appreciate your videos, you seem to be a very intelligent person who thinks through a lot of different and interesting scenarios. And I really like the choice of your background music too! 👽🙏👌👍
John Michael Godier's scientifically grounded speculative contemplations, all to soothing ethereal background music, PERFECTLY compliments TH-cam Isaac Arthur's contributions. 619K subscribers have Arthur for dinner while only 268K subscribers have Godier for dessert. That's 351K subscribers missing out on a scrumptious sci/sci-fi dessert.
@@cf453 Right dude, I take it you're some high speed lab associate to make such a bold assumption about someone you don't know? I read all of the time, thank you. I enjoyed the way Scott worded his message and felt the need to compliment him on that and based on it you implied that I'm uneducated. Grow up, containment.
John I absolutely love your videos and I watch one every night before I go to sleep but damn man 6 ads in one video ! It’s gonna take me a solid minute to repeatedly skip to all of the ads to watch them first before I can really enjoy another JMG classic
I always learn something watching your videos and your voice, which is awesome for narration. Thank you for sharing scientific knowledge and for promoting curiosity and discovery.
I think the fermi paradoxers just brutally underrate the distances and/or brutally overrate the speed of light.We are talking about 10s of thousand of light years within our galaxy...The fermi paradox is something a child would ask.
We may not be alone, but our next nearest neighbor maybe so far away that we might as well be alone. For some reason, I imagine that someday we will find ghost radio signals zipping around the cosmos, but that they are so ancient and so degraded, we won't be able to tell where they came from, or to be able to decode their meanings.
I love your positive outlook, there is more than enough scepticism and pessimism going around - there is simply way to much space out there (pun absolutely intended) for it all to be for just us ^_^ - Great video as always!
Even what we find out about certain life forms on earth proves there are more possibilities for life than what's the "normal" on earth. Things like extremophiles that survive journeys through space, or bacteria that feed on electricity. One of my favorite imaginations of what alien life might look like is that some of those enormous clouds which are the largest "structures" in the know universe, might actually consist of living substance, just imagine that.
I love the idea of silicon based lifeforms. Not only is it a plausible analogue of carbon based life but it also leads to the possibly of a sort of biological computer lifeform. Since silicon is a semiconductor and extensively used in our electronics as transistors, I can imagine an alien anatomy with cells structured similarly to a computer.
😱 only 600 million years left?!... I was certain we'd still be good for another 'solid billion!'🤔 (saying this while I likely have only another 40-50 years to live anyway 😉) Cheers🍻 great thought provoking video as always!!
Let's not forget a couple other factors for intelligence to develop to a point where it can use tech. For instance an octopus is highly intelligent it's believed as are Crows and so on however in the case of the octopus the lifecycle is so short that the mother(the only parent present) never is able to pass on information to her young before her death and in the case of both ,what good is intelligence if you are unable to hold and manipulate tools sufficiently to build anything more complex than a nest,no hands,no Apple I phone.
I would be highly amused if cockatoos evolved into something similar to the Turians from Mass Effect. Imagine what Garrus would look like with feathers!
I was a point I want to bring up that is rather interesting. When thinking about the detection of Alien superstructures, just as the classic Dyson Swarm, it is common to point out that the structure would produce huge amounts of infrared radiation easy to detect... However that doesn't seem all that likely with nanomaterials that can convert incoming radiation into higher frequency or lower frequency waves of light. They might convert the excess infrared light into more useful forms of radiation Link below to those that don't know the phenomena. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_upconversion What is your take, to any reading this.
That process uses energy. You still need to be getting energy, and getting usable energy inevitably produces heat. You can't beat the second law of thermodynamics.
@@personzorz correct you cant, but we think we understand energy, smart animals, like say dogs understand food. Does a dog know all the food in its owners house other than what it is fed? He probably knows food comes from the pantry, or the fridge, but gazing in either the dog would not be able to discern that everything in there is food, or some is food and others are condiments. Similarly the energy signatures may be all around us in plain sight but we cant recognize anything other than the kibble and occasional treat that we are used to lol.
@@personzorz Oh I am aware of that, however the assumption that such a super structure would be blindfully (just made up that word, but it checks out) bright in the infrared for us to detect might be incorrect, as a huge porcentaje gets transformed into other frequencies
Interesting. Speaking of light, Astronomers can look at a star many light years away and know by studying the light from that star whether or not that star can harbor a planetary system that can support life, so its not that hard to find life out there after all.
What if dark matter is actually all the alien civilizations that have figured out how to shift themselves out of the main phase of the universe to hide from primitives, essentially the prime directive on a universe sized scale.
Are you also potholer 54? I used to watch his videos a lot but haven't seen any in a while. Great video. Thanks. I'll look into some of you books once I get settled in my new home in Colorado in a few months.
It's been raised before but Dyson spheres are like a victorian imagining steampunk. We can't properly fathom what 100 years from now will look like on this planet let alone what an advanced alien civ will look like or what they might prioritise.
Another great vid! I had an idea for a topic you might want to explore in the future, though it is admittedly kind of silly. If we were to ever contact aliens that were at least roughly at the same level of intelligence as us, what are some things that we could teach them, provided they already have their own understandings of science, math, etc.? Are there any unique things that humans have experienced or studied that would actually lead us to be MORE advanced in some fields? Hope that makes sense. Love the content, as always :)
12:30 Based on one step at a time how far would one go, passing possible habitual worlds to get to another? In other words, what's the size of our local group?
Man that line is so old and tired and so full of crap. All it shows is that you are an ignorant human being and don't realize everything that's been accomplished and discovered by your fellow humans you should go back to school!
We see planets and stars as they were not as they are, I think this is the crux of it all. Imo, if we had a way to look at planets as they are now, not as they were millions of years ago. Intelligent alien life would've been detected long ago.
I always approach the fermi paradox in 2 ways. 1. We are not special. In other words, aside from any divine intervention (unlikely), the universe should be teeming with life 2. We humans, and especially scientists (including me), have a tendency to overestimate how much we actually know and see. Call it hubris Consider the fact that we have already trouble identifying all the objects in our own solar system. Now consider the fact that we are surprised we havent seen any 'signs' of intelligent life So the Fermi paradox is always a 'fun mindgame' at best. The fact of the matter is we know very very little, and most of our understanding of the universe and its underlying physics are incredibly small.
I can’t wait until we discover Exo Moons! There’s so much to learn. I wonder just how rare an Earth type setup really is. it’d be incredible to find Earths with multiple decently sized moons, or more likely in that case super earths. I also wonder if our possible ancient cataclysmic collision with Thea is a common or necessary thing. So much to learn, I really hope we can understand more sooner rather than later.
Exactly my thoughts. We know too little still, even tho we came far, we have far more to go still. Hope will live long enough to withness an evidence of an alien life. Great video.
Regarding life on Earth I have a suspicion abiogenesis might have required what we would consider very hostile conditions since Earth during the Hadean was a very different place with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere but lots of water vapor and some methane with a dense atmosphere and high atmospheric pressures perhaps closer to Venus than Earth One paper I read suggested based on Zircon grains that for the temperature and conditions the zircon formed under there may have been as much as 40 atmospheres of pressure at that time
Superb content as always. As much as we like to think we are "intelligent" we could be the dummy in the class as it were in our local cluster of stars!
Somehow knowing that if we wiped ourselves out there's time for like 9 more intelligent species (600 million ÷ 65 million) to arise before the Earth becomes nonviable is a wonderful balm for my anxiety
I didn't actually know that the sun was so close to extinguishing life. 600 million years isn't that long considering there are objects in the observable universe further away than life as we know it has left here. I thought Earth had at least a couple of billion up its sleeve in something resembling its present form. Such is life.
Thank you. I've always felt the "great filter" and Fermi-paradox were too human-centrist. It drives me crazy that we can't realize how "all that we know" is constantly moving forward. Our knowledge is not at its limit, it's on a cresting wave.
I always ask why do we want to find other life? I mean humans are xenophobe enough against other races of its self, I can only imagine if we meet some spider like creature that communicated though touch.
I once developed a satire about that where a solar system consisted of four highly intelligent yet suggestible alien species that received war broadcasts from 1940s earth and developed satirically exaggerated Nazi, Soviet, Jewish and American cultures. I thought it was funny, but was told by others that it was "inappropriate". Damn philistines!
I showed my teacher your vids and now we watch them as a class 👍🏼
Jmg is great! Check out Isaac Arthur too
lucky
pog
that's epic
Show closer to truth is also a great channel
“The planets were sneezing on each other” That’s one of your best yet John.
once the earth sneezes it will infect the entire galaxy!
The planets really should be social distancing.
Just heard this as I was reading your comment lol
Jeez, mask up planets!
Mmmm . . . Would that mean that the so-called gas giants were farting on each other?
Great day when JMG uploads 🙂👌
Great day when The Gunman comments on a JMG video. 👌😎👌
Great day indeed!!
He's a liberal
@@mbuckholz nobody cares
I look forward to each new video. This one is very interesting.
In Texas with no power, yet this lit up my day. Thanks JMG
The strange thing will be if other intelligent life is humanoid. It would seem to suggest that viable planetary environments terraform life into two legs for propulsion, two arms and fingers to manipulate objects, two ears for stereo hearing, two eyes for 3D vision... That would be a strange one to explain as it would make our form somehow written into the laws of physics as an inevitable outcome given life enough time to evolve on a planet.
Well, there is the idea of convergent evolution, it has happened on earth many times. Two legs, arms, and eyes may just be the most efficient path for natural selection, selecting for high intelligence/tool building.
welcome to creation and design. what all ancient cultures and the bible has been pointing out all along.
@@originsdecoded3508 u goofy
@@originsdecoded3508 They pointed out nothing, they just stated "look at this obvious thing..." Then proceeded to give the dumbest possible reasoning for it, even in their day 2000+ years ago. Here we are 2000 years later and idiots are still believing cavemen knew more about the universe than us despite them thinking planets were people moving in the sky. You dont get how stupid they were?
@@gorbachevdhali4952
Doubtful are 2 arms and two legs has only existed next to no time at all with hundreds or thousands of eyes and legs dominating for the vast majority of time. Its highly unlikely to be the best solution. There are tons of other ways to make it happen such as tentacles.
When I saw this video in my notifications I clicked it faster than the media mispresenting a story about a SETI detection.
Similar to the media reporting any detection of a planet in the habitable zone as “earth 2” when we don’t even know if it has an atmosphere
Are we alone in the universe? Yes. So there’s no other intelligent civilizations out there? No there are but they are alone too.
Nice corvette
@@swampscuzz9822 nice motorcycle
I love your silky smooth voice. thank you for the bedtime stories
I'm so glad to hear positive notions about life existing elsewhere. I feel like it's mostly Fermi Paradox doom and gloom.
Especially after discussing in youtube comment field with flat earther and religious apologetic, which makes med doubt intelligent life is present on earth.
I agree, but you never know what an alien race's intentions would be, if we ever encountered one. They could definitely be hostile. As the future progresses, we'd better be on our guard.
@@freddan6fly sapience allows you to be stupid
Are you kidding? Haven't you heard the news about the US government finally releasing their reports on what seems to be alien craft?
I liked the extended “liiiiiiiiiiive”
i swear each time he adds an extra second to the "live" lmao
One day he will start the video with this, and extend the 'i' for as long as the video.
Great video John. I really hope we find other life in my life time. This is a good list thanks for the video.
Two videos in a month! You absolute mad lad
It's a solid number, but I think Mark Felton cranks out more videos of the same high quality, but on the topic of WW2 (mostly)
TY for explaining this in terms that us "common" ppl can understand!
That was an extra long "Liiiiiiiiiiive"
I loved it.
They keep getting longer.
I need your brain to invade my life on a more frequent basis.
2:06 my pool after a raging all-nighter
Perfect timing I was just going to bed
same
Press play - fall asleep and watch it the next day.
ok brit
NERTZ GET ANOTHE RSHOT
@@richardd8352
His voice puts me right to sleep😂
I pretend I’m going to watch his videos at night.
Thanks, after the way this year started, I needed a little happy thoughts. 🙂
This dude makes the best videos I swear!
Your videos keep me going, and my mind growing. Thank you.
I really appreciate your videos, you seem to be a very intelligent person who thinks through a lot of different and interesting scenarios. And I really like the choice of your background music too! 👽🙏👌👍
Humans: "Send METI message"
Aliens: Seen ✓✓
Humans: .....notice me senpai
Yea we sent that to the middle of the galaxy where it is unlikely to be seen.
Love both your channels, always look forward to your uploads. Well thought out and interesting content as always.
Always love to watch your videos late at night before going to sleep
It’s just something about these videos, the voice, the music, the tone. Reminds me of my physics teacher
Whenever you drop a new video you make my day my man! Keep it up please!!
Keeping my optimism kicking. Thanks again JMG.
I get excited when a new video pops up!
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
John Michael Godier's scientifically grounded speculative contemplations, all to soothing ethereal background music, PERFECTLY compliments TH-cam Isaac Arthur's contributions. 619K subscribers have Arthur for dinner while only 268K subscribers have Godier for dessert. That's 351K subscribers missing out on a scrumptious sci/sci-fi dessert.
I don't think you could've worded that any stranger but I kinda dig
Pick up a book once in a while, Steve.
Your not adding the 200k subs from his Event Horizon channel,so there is another course to feast on, perhaps an entree!
@@cf453
Right dude, I take it you're some high speed lab associate to make such a bold assumption about someone you don't know? I read all of the time, thank you. I enjoyed the way Scott worded his message and felt the need to compliment him on that and based on it you implied that I'm uneducated. Grow up, containment.
John I absolutely love your videos and I watch one every night before I go to sleep but damn man 6 ads in one video ! It’s gonna take me a solid minute to repeatedly skip to all of the ads to watch them first before I can really enjoy another JMG classic
Any time i see a top 10 list from JMG count me i love your Insight and theories on space!
You never disappoint. Wondering about universes and our place in them, honestly. Thank you
Awesome stuff!!! Thanks, John.
I always learn something watching your videos and your voice, which is awesome for narration. Thank you for sharing scientific knowledge and for promoting curiosity and discovery.
Glad to see an upload from ya. Made my day way better
15:44 in which we liiiiiiiiive
Thanks John another amazing video
Thats legit my favourite part 😆 it gets just a little more drawn out with each new video haha
Always a pleasure to hear you.
I think the fermi paradoxers just brutally underrate the distances and/or brutally overrate the speed of light.We are talking about 10s of thousand of light years within our galaxy...The fermi paradox is something a child would ask.
Ya there is no paradox. It's simply a matter of unfathomable distances
Science has discovered a direct correlation between the age of JMG’s videos and the length of the word live.
Endless possibilities indeed.
Good content.
We may not be alone, but our next nearest neighbor maybe so far away that we might as well be alone. For some reason, I imagine that someday we will find ghost radio signals zipping around the cosmos, but that they are so ancient and so degraded, we won't be able to tell where they came from, or to be able to decode their meanings.
Love these longer videos!
You make the best videos on this website. Please upload more often. 💖
I love your positive outlook, there is more than enough scepticism and pessimism going around - there is simply way to much space out there (pun absolutely intended) for it all to be for just us ^_^ - Great video as always!
I just recently discovered this channel. It’ll be a real shame when I exhaust your back catalogue and have to wait around for new uploads!
This is the best Chanel. Congrats!!!
YES!! A new JMG short! Love EH but these are the best... more please!!
What's EH?
@@Rob.DB.
"Event Horizon", John's other channel.
@@Rob.DB. Event Horizon, his other channel that is mainly interviews with astronomers and cosmologists etc.
John keep it up, I enjoy your videos. Please continue with the quality content.
dayaaam the number #1 spot kind of set the bar high against the fermi paradox!
Great video! glad you uploaded man!
Thank you again for saving me from insomnia, tonight.
Have you thought about uploading on Spotify podcasts?
I always watch the videos when I go to sleep, but sometimes I‘d like to just listen
Space is so big that alien life must exist, and so big that we might never find it.
Love your stuff sir, the best space channel out there.
Each one of these is a glaring example of why the fermi paradox is not a paradox. Awesome stuff!
Love your uploads JMG!! 👏🏻👍🏻
youre easily becoming one of my favourite youtubers. opened as soon as i saw the notification. keep it up brother
What gets me is just how vast the universe is, no one can really wrap their brain around something of such a size.
Even what we find out about certain life forms on earth proves there are more possibilities for life than what's the "normal" on earth.
Things like extremophiles that survive journeys through space, or bacteria that feed on electricity.
One of my favorite imaginations of what alien life might look like is that some of those enormous clouds which are the largest "structures" in the know universe, might actually consist of living substance, just imagine that.
I love the idea of silicon based lifeforms. Not only is it a plausible analogue of carbon based life but it also leads to the possibly of a sort of biological computer lifeform. Since silicon is a semiconductor and extensively used in our electronics as transistors, I can imagine an alien anatomy with cells structured similarly to a computer.
Interesting idea, though I doubt organically produced silicon would be pure enough to be a semiconductor.
😱 only 600 million years left?!... I was certain we'd still be good for another 'solid billion!'🤔 (saying this while I likely have only another 40-50 years to live anyway 😉)
Cheers🍻 great thought provoking video as always!!
Thats why I like K stars. And there is more of them.
Great channel. Just subscribed, and I am looking forward to watching your content. 🇦🇺 😊
Always Great to hear your voice John!
I see JMG video I instantly like and share it.🤩🤩🤩🤩
The extra long 'in which we liiiive' - I approve.
Someone should do a 3 hr loop.
Let's not forget a couple other factors for intelligence to develop to a point where it can use tech. For instance an octopus is highly intelligent it's believed as are Crows and so on however in the case of the octopus the lifecycle is so short that the mother(the only parent present) never is able to pass on information to her young before her death and in the case of both ,what good is intelligence if you are unable to hold and manipulate tools sufficiently to build anything more complex than a nest,no hands,no Apple I phone.
I would be highly amused if cockatoos evolved into something similar to the Turians from Mass Effect. Imagine what Garrus would look like with feathers!
I love every time a LeBaron is mentioned on your channel
Event Horizon blew up so fast I hope JMG still has a soft spot for his OG channel.
I was a point I want to bring up that is rather interesting.
When thinking about the detection of Alien superstructures, just as the classic Dyson Swarm, it is common to point out that the structure would produce huge amounts of infrared radiation easy to detect... However that doesn't seem all that likely with nanomaterials that can convert incoming radiation into higher frequency or lower frequency waves of light. They might convert the excess infrared light into more useful forms of radiation
Link below to those that don't know the phenomena.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_upconversion
What is your take, to any reading this.
That process uses energy. You still need to be getting energy, and getting usable energy inevitably produces heat. You can't beat the second law of thermodynamics.
Good train of thought ... may be possible in some cases but most would produce infra-red waste.
@@personzorz correct you cant, but we think we understand energy, smart animals, like say dogs understand food. Does a dog know all the food in its owners house other than what it is fed? He probably knows food comes from the pantry, or the fridge, but gazing in either the dog would not be able to discern that everything in there is food, or some is food and others are condiments. Similarly the energy signatures may be all around us in plain sight but we cant recognize anything other than the kibble and occasional treat that we are used to lol.
@@personzorz Oh I am aware of that, however the assumption that such a super structure would be blindfully (just made up that word, but it checks out) bright in the infrared for us to detect might be incorrect, as a huge porcentaje gets transformed into other frequencies
Interesting. Speaking of light, Astronomers can look at a star many light years away and know by studying the light from that star whether or not that star can harbor a planetary system that can support life, so its not that hard to find life out there after all.
We can safely exclude all Fermi paradox explanations in which we find ourselves dead.
Your videos make me happy when I am sad but sort sad when I'm happy. Anybody else?
Me.
What if dark matter is actually all the alien civilizations that have figured out how to shift themselves out of the main phase of the universe to hide from primitives, essentially the prime directive on a universe sized scale.
75% of all matter? This early on in the universe, uhhhh...maybe?
Love your work sir. Always love the
In which we liveeeee
Are you also potholer 54? I used to watch his videos a lot but haven't seen any in a while. Great video. Thanks. I'll look into some of you books once I get settled in my new home in Colorado in a few months.
It's been raised before but Dyson spheres are like a victorian imagining steampunk. We can't properly fathom what 100 years from now will look like on this planet let alone what an advanced alien civ will look like or what they might prioritise.
Another great vid! I had an idea for a topic you might want to explore in the future, though it is admittedly kind of silly. If we were to ever contact aliens that were at least roughly at the same level of intelligence as us, what are some things that we could teach them, provided they already have their own understandings of science, math, etc.? Are there any unique things that humans have experienced or studied that would actually lead us to be MORE advanced in some fields? Hope that makes sense. Love the content, as always :)
12:30 Based on one step at a time how far would one go, passing possible habitual worlds to get to another? In other words, what's the size of our local group?
At this point, I'm not even sure that earth has intelligent life...
Man that line is so old and tired and so full of crap. All it shows is that you are an ignorant human being and don't realize everything that's been accomplished and discovered by your fellow humans you should go back to school!
@@85Funkadelic "you don't realize everything that's been accomplished"
and look what we do with it
So pessimistic…
THANK YOU!!! Love your videos
We see planets and stars as they were not as they are, I think this is the crux of it all.
Imo, if we had a way to look at planets as they are now, not as they were millions of years ago. Intelligent alien life would've been detected long ago.
Yay! New JMG content!😁💪
I always approach the fermi paradox in 2 ways.
1. We are not special. In other words, aside from any divine intervention (unlikely), the universe should be teeming with life
2. We humans, and especially scientists (including me), have a tendency to overestimate how much we actually know and see. Call it hubris
Consider the fact that we have already trouble identifying all the objects in our own solar system. Now consider the fact that we are surprised we havent seen any 'signs' of intelligent life
So the Fermi paradox is always a 'fun mindgame' at best. The fact of the matter is we know very very little, and most of our understanding of the universe and its underlying physics are incredibly small.
I can’t wait until we discover Exo Moons! There’s so much to learn. I wonder just how rare an Earth type setup really is. it’d be incredible to find Earths with multiple decently sized moons, or more likely in that case super earths. I also wonder if our possible ancient cataclysmic collision with Thea is a common or necessary thing. So much to learn, I really hope we can understand more sooner rather than later.
"A supercar to our labaron" lmao
JMG better hope that Anna hasn't grafted AI onto the Le Baron! That comment would hurt its feelings!👁️
Exactly my thoughts. We know too little still, even tho we came far, we have far more to go still. Hope will live long enough to withness an evidence of an alien life. Great video.
Love your content! Binge watched most of them
I like your wording. "Sneezing planets"
Regarding life on Earth I have a suspicion abiogenesis might have required what we would consider very hostile conditions since Earth during the Hadean was a very different place with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere but lots of water vapor and some methane with a dense atmosphere and high atmospheric pressures perhaps closer to Venus than Earth One paper I read suggested based on Zircon grains that for the temperature and conditions the zircon formed under there may have been as much as 40 atmospheres of pressure at that time
“Aging LeBaron”.
This is the gold I came for.
Superb content as always. As much as we like to think we are "intelligent" we could be the dummy in the class as it were in our local cluster of stars!
Awesome video!
we have only just begun to look...
Somehow knowing that if we wiped ourselves out there's time for like 9 more intelligent species (600 million ÷ 65 million) to arise before the Earth becomes nonviable is a wonderful balm for my anxiety
I didn't actually know that the sun was so close to extinguishing life. 600 million years isn't that long considering there are objects in the observable universe further away than life as we know it has left here.
I thought Earth had at least a couple of billion up its sleeve in something resembling its present form. Such is life.
Bravo ! Good show as always ! JMG for school president
Excellent video, thanks!
Thank you. I've always felt the "great filter" and Fermi-paradox were too human-centrist. It drives me crazy that we can't realize how "all that we know" is constantly moving forward.
Our knowledge is not at its limit, it's on a cresting wave.
I always ask why do we want to find other life?
I mean humans are xenophobe enough against other races of its self, I can only imagine if we meet some spider like creature that communicated though touch.
excellent! Lot of possibilities arise!
Imagine if the first contact we get is aliens responding to a fictional Radio broadcast.
How cool would it be if they show up to help because they heard giant robot creatures from Mars were attacking us!
I once developed a satire about that where a solar system consisted of four highly intelligent yet suggestible alien species that received war broadcasts from 1940s earth and developed satirically exaggerated Nazi, Soviet, Jewish and American cultures. I thought it was funny, but was told by others that it was "inappropriate". Damn philistines!
@@politicallycorrectredskin796everything will be inappropriate to someone - make it anyway