10 Unsettling Possibilities Regarding Alien Life

An exploration of ten unsettling possibilities regarding alien life.
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[@maracachucho8701]

The Godier paradox: you want to sleep listening to his soothing voice but you also want to hear what he says.

[@Darxide23]

"I am not an alien."

[@mr.nobody9697]

John always scares the crap out of me with some of these alien theories. Love it.

[@wordclock707]

If they do 'walk among us', then statistically a few of them are likely subscribed to this channel.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

I do hope the first alien message is pragmatic. Such as: “send lawyers, guns & money!”

[@Tessmage_Tessera]

"Life is a way for the universe to know itself."

[@JJMHigner]

"The nearest Miracle we have before us is that within a few billion years the Universe, Through The Marvelous laws of chemistry and physics, has converted part of itself into Consciousness and that Consciousness can now contemplate the very universe that begat it." ---Dr. John Oliver at SETI.

[@aicragej]

It is rather unsettling that I am now imagining humans finally reaching the stars only to find a literal civilization graveyard.

[@user-ni6pi6ez3o]

Alien Ambassador addressing Earth for the first time: "People of Earth, you are spelling opossum wrong"

[@Laurasiana]

If number 10 is true, and we’re all there is, then I think we have an obligation to survive - both as a species, and as a biosphere. Otherwise, we end up proving the Absurdist playwrights were right. I don’t want to be in a play by Ionesco!

[@3RAN7ON]

This is the kind of stuff I think about when I'm high, but more eloquently put

[@mooferoo]

I always love the extended "Liiiiiiiiiiiiive" at the end haha

[@usnairframer]

JMG's Spooky October, the most magical time of the year (on TH-cam).

[@EvanDorn]

Fun and excellent video, though I was surprised not to see the Dark Forest hypothesis not in the list ... I find it considerably more unsettling than any of these ten possibilities. Ever since reading that book it's kind of freaked me out and I can't convince myself that it's wrong.

[@joshbyrne3118]

Some of the most interesting, well researched and presented content on YT. Thanks John, I always enjoy your work.

[@icyknightmare4592]

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[@bartstewart8644]

This video reminds me of a funny story. I went to a Star Trek convention once. There were lots of people dressed as aliens, of course. One of them was quite incredible. He (it?) was about four feet tall, and the costume appeared totally seamless. It seemed to be naked, but there was no genitalia or openings on the body. It had this big head, but the incredible part to me was how it seemed to be all of one piece. A guy in that costume would have been sweating bullets. There was zero ventilation, nor was the skin breathable, like fabric. It looked closer to real skin. I only saw this person for a few minutes, so maybe he dashed off somewhere and got out of that costume. At the time I remember thinking - what an ideal place for a real ET to study humans! At a Star Trek convention!

[@arebelscum9495]

Maybe the real aliens was the DNA we discovered along the way.

[@JeremyKolassa]

Regarding the simulation idea, I've always thought the ancestor simulation concept to be too narrow, assuming the outer reality is similar to ours but just advanced. Of course since we have no way to know what's "out there", it's hard to even speculate, but as an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, I feel there's a far more interesting scenario. Our universe lacks FTL, magic, visible alien civilizations, extraterrestrial demigods, etc. because scientists in the outer reality are trying to calculate gravity while dealing with wizards, techno-star-dragons, reality bending nanotechnology, and impossibly powerful beings, like an MCU/Star Wars/anime/D&D mashup. (Anyone remember *Dragonstar*?) So they made a Matrioshka Brain to stimulate our universe cutting out all those variables. Anyways, sometimes it helps to get through the day.

[@chadbaileyisawesome]

I love how deep this got on a Monday for me. Makes my stressful job seem less important. Thank you.