What If We Are Alone?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ต.ค. 2022
- A spooky exploration into the notion that there is no alien life, and we are utterly, completely alone in the universe.
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Honestly you havnt done enough vids on this subject its mind boggling
Right back atcha bruddah
Right on John. Spooky series are the best. Thanks for the content!!
John ... awesome work. My favorite channel. Quick question if you have a second. When you did the JWST video for what's on its agenda to look at I didn't hear Tabbys star. Do they plan on looking that way and would the IR finally tell us what exactly was happening?
The freakiest part about us potentially being the only life in the universe is that it puts the responsibility of keeping life in the universe entirely on our shoulders.
Which is clearly the biggest thing that has been driving Elon Musk for decades. Twitter trolling , impulsive blurting, and tech-bro jackassery aside, he has clearly deeply reflected on this and feels the urgent overwhelming crushing weight of that responsibility in a way that ordinary everyday people are completely oblivious to.
But we are not alone, So you telling me there are millions and billions of stars and galaxies in our universe and millions and billions of stars and galaxies in other galaxies near our universe and far away in other universe I'm sure deep down in my heart of course there's other life out there better yet there's many civilization being or human-like civilization somewhere. The question is why they has not made contact with us humans on planet earth yet if they're technology is advanced then us on earth, maybe it's not about why they hadn't contacted with us I look at it as maybe it's not the right time to make contact with us. Maybe us humans has to be a type 2 or type 3 high tech civilization. Or even better yet THEY been living among us humans on our planet for 10,000s of years without us noticing or detracting them . Sometimes you don't need to " think out side the box " we need to look at the box and say what kind of material is this box made of , how many colors, shapes and size this box is , where this box came from, what is in this box , are there more box like this out there, take notes about the box and so on
But if we fail, no one will notice.
Musk's got you covered.
@@cartier2312 Octopii and Spiders ...
... definitely alien.
If we're alone, there's really 2 reasons. We're either the 1st, or the last. Fun to think about.
Theoretically possible to be both.
we could be neither. eventually we burn out, and something anew, here or something else springs somewhere else, in this universe, or another. weird to think about.
@@georgeh5446the only way it couldn’t be one of those 2 scenarios is if we aren’t alone in the universe.
@@mclovin2408 I think you've somewhat missed the point of @georgeh5446 comment, which is logically correct. We might well be alone in the Universe NOW, but that doesn't exclude that there weren't any before us, or preclude that there might be others in the future. So OK, maybe semantics, but if we are alone now (regardless of any past or future life forms) then we ARE alone. So yes, we could be neither the first, nor the last, but still be alone, right now.
Isn't that a false dichotomy fallacy?
The only 2 reasons you can think of.
Even if we aren't alone, the universe is so vast that we might as well be.
HEY!! I am right-behind-you! And I am NOT HUMAN!!
I completely agree with this. Even if we did detect intelligence, the distance would virtually eliminate the possibility of physical contact. Possibly they'd be too far even for exchanging information back and forth.
Exchanging information between other life forms would also take hundreds of years. Definitely not feasible with our technology and understanding of the universe.
But they said the same about planes, so.🤷
Increasingly that’s what astronomers are concluding, while it’s more likely there is life out there, we are so far away and isolated from each other, limited by distance and speed limits, you might as well say we’re alone
@@MossMothMyBelovedplease do not compare planes to the infinite universe and infinite posiibilities
It's just so bizarre that we're not in unimaginable pain constantly, and we have this remarkably coherent consciousness
People with chronic pain have entered the chat
We are in pain constantly suffering, that’s why depression rates are at all time high
Could you elaborate more why you think that’s bizarre?
@@SodainspaceMaybe nihilists
That is because this universe isn't Hell.
Hell meaning separation from God.
Never thought we were alone, but I think the universe is so big that seeing another life intelligent form is just very unlikely. We've really only scratched the surface and speculated.
It's hard enough to find intelligent life here on Earth.🙄
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@@johnhall7850 that's true. I just noticed that I put "life intelligent form" in my comment, instead of intelligent life form
Most all theorists agree that if life, or evidence of life were to be found it would more likely be in the caves on mars. I wonder if a future rover will have GPR on it to scan the ground for caves and what they look like.
@@johnhall7850 Yea stupid ''poeple'' on twitter are just bassically bald monkeys
The fact that we see the next large galaxy as it was 2.5 million years ago, means that we can only see how that galaxy was before our species began to walk upright.
Conversely. If some lifeform in the andromeda galaxy who had similar technology and lack of understanding of whether or not there is a possible way to get past 'light speed sight', as we do.
They would be looking at us right now and they would be seeing life. But they would write the planet off as having zero number of species they will have decent communication with if they even tried.
Yup and to think they could be standing thinking the same of as us in this point in time is wild.
not even that, the first of our genus, sapiens didn't even appear until 300,000 years ago. we are a tiny slice of history
edit: I meant species sapiens, genus homo is around 5-8 million
@@MicrowaveOvenVideo Expecially including the fact that we were a very rare specie on the brink of extinction, pretty sure 3k was our lowest amount… even if they saw our planet with a giant telescope we would just be overlooked
@@TheGalekGames yup Elon has even said that we are not breeding enough our death rate is much higher then birthrates. Schools and everyone else claim we are over populated but that's just not the truth. As Elon said look at how many adult diapers are being bought compared to baby diapers, way more adult diapers are being bought
Every few months or so, I go down the space rabbit hole on TH-cam. The sole idea of a universe with stars and planets is too much to actually wrap my head around.
Wait till you learn about quantum physics
Yeah it’s like so much of our worries become so small when we zoom out and look into how big it all is.
@@incognitospider330 Pretty sure I'm not intelligent enough to comprehend what that's truly all about
Can you imagine if we are alone in the universe, that life only happened on our one planet, and then we go and blow up this planet and end life and even the possibility of life? This would be tragedy at an incomprehensible level.
But the DNA on the rocks might land somewhere habitable and life grows . So even in complete destruction life may go on.
@@heathermichael3987DNA doesn't multiply like bacteria or something. It's not technically living. It's encoded instructions built from proteins.
@@zacharylauinger"encoded instructions " ? Is that the scientific term ?
not really. we have no deeper purpose for existence. we exist because we simply do. theres no higher purpose for life. we exist to reproduce and keep our species alive. we arent destined for the fuckin stars
would it really matter? if life died here and there was no life elsewhere there would be nothing to even know that something was lost. Aside from life, the universe is cold and uncaring.
well if no aliens show up in the next 10,000 years i'm going to start feeling concerned
Still not a lot of time in the grand scale of things.
Pretty sure 10,000 years from now, you'd be long past caring about it. Cool tongue-in-cheek comment though. Gave this old man a chuckle
In terms of the universe, that's like 10 seconds
I would be more concerned with these idiots with fingers on nuclear buttons or developing planet ending viruses.
If you’re still around in 10,000 years someone is going to be concerned
The truly terrifying thing if we are alone is that it means that the universe is extremely HOSTILE to any life (let alone intelligent life) to a degree that it is nearly impossible to exaggerate. It's not just that we are lonely in an empty spooky void, it's more like being in such an extremely dangerous environment that, regardless of intentions or none at all, it's the equivalent of a haunted house or the building in the movie "Cube" where everything around us is trying to wipe us out.
Early on, in the history of the cosmos, the universe was wildly hostile. Gargantuan stars exploding, quasars pushing out radiation like nothing we see in our time, and lacking the heavy elements required for chemistry to happen at all to top that hostility off too.
As time goes on though the habitability of the universe increases as these hostile and chaotic forces taper off.
Not necesarily hostile, just indifferent.
Agreed. If we are truly alone in the universe, the odds of our species surviving indefinitely becomes as small as the total mass of Earth when compared to the mass of the universe. All sentience in the universe (ours) would come and go in the blink of an eye compared to cosmic time, then back to nothingness forever more. Truly terrifying indeed.
It wouldn’t mean that, it would mean the likelihood of life occurring is extremely low. There’s no reason we can’t thrive in the rest of the universe save for the parts that are inaccessible to us. Which is almost all of it, but if we were to be able to reach other galaxies there’s no reason why it would be any more difficult to survive than it would be in local interplanetary space.
Nah you just have to realize that other animal species are equal THEN we are many but until then YOU are ALONE
If this is true, and we are alone, even though there’s no way to verify that but just in case, I love you guys, and it’s an honour to share this remarkable planet with you.
Edit: and the vast quantities of other incredible organisms, from the amoeba to the blue whale.
I feel exactly the same way bro, cheers!
Uhhhhh, just so you know it Bub......I am an ALIEN!!
What a really awesome thing to say, Gabriel! ❤️
I just got my ass ate on this unique planet
@@jaimevalencia6271How rough was his tounge did you give a proper reach around as a thank you?
If we are alone in the universe, then im glad we're alone together.
Real
fuck
That's surprisingly beautiful
I feel like there are 3 options. 1. We are alone 2. We aren't alone but life is so rare that we most likely wont ever see life or 3. Life is incredibly common We just haven't gotten to an advanced enough of a state to see it.
Or civilizations that existed before humans lets say on mars, they probably went extinct before even human came along, human civilization according to science is about million years old, and I think we will went extinct pretty soon considering how everything is going right now there is no way we can survive 100 more years. I think same happened with past civilization on other planet or maybe there was civilization on earth before human that got wiped due to some global disaster.
I think it's 3. I'm kinda hoping there's life on Enceladus (Saturn moon)
There is another option: life isn’t rare but it’s mainly simple life such as microbes and plants and small animals
And 4 “keep the cloaking device on until they figure out warp drives.
@@kingofdemons948 I feel like this would be the most likely scenario; that intelligence to a sapient level is just such a rare thing to be evolutionary advantageous. On our own planet, life has existed for around 3.7 billion years, humans have existed for a measly 300,000 years, civilization maybe 2000 years, and finally a technologically advanced civilization that sends out detectable radio signals a mere 100 years, a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things. Looking at the odds, it seems like sapience takes a long time to develop, and that it's rare for it to even be advantageous to develop, given so far only a single species on earth has sapience. The universe is probably teeming with life, but it's 99.99% just simple life, such as silicon-based microbes sucking up mineral-rich particulate around a deep-sea vent beneath a vastly thick ice sheet on some distant alien moon orbiting a gas giant.
The universe is relatively young so even if we are somehow alone, it doesn't mean we'll necessarily be alone forever.
Exactly, we could be the first ancient aliens for all we know
Everything is relative, but saying that the universe is young compared to how long life has existed here is just crazy.
Yes. I'm always amused at people who say, "We've looked for aliens for 50 years and found nothing!" Given the vastness of time and space, there is exactly ZERO reason to believe that we should have found aliens by now or that they should have found us. There is NO paradox in the Fermi Paradox. The second assumption is wrong: there is no reason to believe that we are capable of finding each other, over billions of years and millions of light years. It's pure hubris to believe otherwise.
I'll be alone forever :(
Someone out in the world needs to travel faster than the speed of light and achieve the impossible. :)
If we are alone and we’re the most advanced lifeform kicking around trying to make our existence known that is pretty depressing, I think I’ll rewatch Prometheus now.
I only wish i had discovered your content years ago. You're great at this. Fantastic script and very pleasing on the ear. Thank you so much for helping me to make sense of the cosmos and may you have many more years of success in this field, doing what you do, informing millions.
People tend to talk about lonely universes. However, I find comfort in the fact that I have you guys, everyone reading this comment, my family, my friends, and everyone else. Us humans as a species may be alone, but we are not some homogeneous hivemind. We are never alone.
Its life that has to be worried for being single,not us as we are together on this beautiful planet called Earth.
Aw I like that thought. Shout out to you, internet stranger who has a whole universe of life experiences, that I will never meet. It was a 1 in a million chance we’d cross internet paths : )
lol you corny af bruh
If we are alone in the universe, it's an awful waste of space.
500 hours of videos per minute, lot of comments , don't You think so ?
My guess is that we're not the only civilization in the universe, however, civilizations are so far from each other that because of the light speed limit, we will simply never know about each other. Maybe the luckier civilizations are closer to each other, but we are too far from anyone to find them, or for them to find us. And so from our perspective we are "alone", because we'll never meet anyone else.
Then how do you explain the UFO phenomenon or sighting stories? To me it’s clear we’re already being visited
Even with the lightspeed limit, humans could theoretically colonize the *entire galaxy* in a million or so years if we keep following our current technological progression. This is without Sci-Fi engines or anything, just based on the current trajectory of rocket technology. If we can predict that.... where are all the aliens? Were we just first?
Correct. :)
@@JC-Alan No we can't colonize the galaxy lol. Our species is going to cease to exist in the next 100 years. The planet is becoming inhabital due to fossil fuel usage and destruction of nature. Every year, each seasons temperature becomes more extreme. Diseases like covid will continue to mutate. The planet is run by rich egomanics who don't care about the future. Soil degradation is getting worst every year. Wild animals becoming extinct, pollution in our oceana, etc.
That's entirely possible. Nearer to a galactic center, we might find a different and more cosmopolitan situation, but as it happens we're out in the hinterland, innocent and unspoiled except for our own sad misconduct. Perhaps it's just as well.
I don't see how this prospect of isolation could possibly be regarded as frightening, not in any rational sense. It's no more frightening than Galapagos finches.
I recall visiting the Solomon islands in the 1970s. People subsisted on rice and fish and coconuts, mostly, and most were content with their lives. The restless few wore polyester Disneyland tee shirts, incongruous and ugly against their beautiful dark skin, and they dreamed of getting off the island to where the really important things were, you know, happening. Be careful what you wish for, I thought. You don't know how lucky you are at this moment.
Somewhere out in the universe, an alien life is thinking the same
Nope
Whys that?@@CurseEnforcer
@@thoonaliahe probably thinks they're already advanced and those thoughts were of the past
@@vampiroamor imagine how aliens would feel about skibidi toilet
Coming from a brain on planet earth though. Think abt that
Just to reiterate, since TH-cam popped this video in front of me again…just after Daylight Savings Time 2024, this video rocks!! I love these deep thought kind of videos, even more so the discussions of this nature! Now I need to bake fresh biscuits, my wife’s recipe of course. Thanks again JMG!
The idea of being alone in the universe is so sad but also eerie. I get the same feeling as if I imagine myself floating in a calm dark ocean at night.
I like your ocean analogy and I have one of my own to share with you my friend.
Most likely scenario; We are not alone. However civilizations are separated by such vast cosmic distances of space and time, and the laws of physics are such that irregardless of how intelligent or advanced, they almost never cross paths or make contact with one another. It is utterly *RIDICULOUS* in my view to think that there isn’t *SOMEONE* or *SOMETHING* else *SOMEWHERE* out there in the void. The question is can we ever *FIND* one another and make *CONTACT* on any meaningful time scale? I’ve always thought about it using the following analogy;
Take 1 million people, put a life jacket on each of them and drop them randomly into the oceans around the world. Now tell them to find one another. *BEST* case scenario the nearest person to you may be many hundreds of km’s or miles away from you. With no means of fast travel such as a boat or airplane, and no means of communication save for shouting and waving, you could literally spend your entire life swimming about and never see anyone. Now cut the number of people to 100,000. Or 10,000. Or 1000. You see where I’m going with this… You could make the prospects even *MORE* daunting if you chose to do so by instead putting every person into a deep sea submersible capable of reaching the deepest, darkest ocean depths. This may actually be even *MORE* accurate and applicable to our position and circumstances in the Universe.
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Why do you care ? isn't starving to death because no one cares far worse in a world full of fat people ?
@@js70371 here's how your life-jacket scenario factors out:
* Earth's volumetric mean radius = 6371 km
* This gives the surface area of the planet = 510,064,472 km^2
* Assuming ¾ of the planet is covered by oceans, that gives 382,548,354 km^2 of surface area in which our floaters may occupy.
* With 1 million floaters, and assuming they are equally distributed across the surface, we find that each person will inhabit his own territory equal to 382.548 km^2
* A surface area of that size has a radius of 11.0349 km, or 6.857 miles
So, a million people dropped in the oceans across the planet, being evenly distributed, will have an average of 22 km or 14 mi between any two of them.
I don't think this is a very good approximation of our universe and how far away life is likely to be. If you and a buddy were standing on a huge, flat area like the salt flats in Utah - let's imagine them being way bigger though - at 14 miles neither of you would be able to see each other as you would be beyond your respective local horizons. Not by all that much though. If both of you started walking in arbitrary directions, I don;t think it would be terribly unlikely that you'd spot each other after a bit of walking. The odds are certainly against you both heading direcctly towards one another, but I'd say there's a portion of directions you could take that would result in you finding each other again. Yay for reunions. I'll put it this way--people bet money on less favorable odds all the time. And that's only giving you guys one chance; the odds get significantly better if we gave you a million chances.
If we extrapolate this scenario outward into the three-dimensional volume of space, things begin to spread out rather quickly. A while back, I calculated the average distance between 10,000 objects orbiting earth from 100 km to I think 1000 km (don't remember exactly the upper bounds, but it was effectively the region of space above the planet in which a given object's orbit would be considered "low earth orbit"). I found each object, again assuming equal distribution throughout the strict volume of space, to occupy a its own bubble whose radius is ~1200 miles. That means for any object in LEO, being >10 cm on its longest axis (so, every active and inactive satellite still up there, as well as most pieces of "space junk" debris at least as big as your fist) it will enjoy a mean buffer zone of 2r = 2400 mi in any given direction at any given time, between it and any other orbiting object. If I extended the maximum altitude to include GPS satellites which are in geo-synchronous orbits at a height of about 25,000 miles, the volume of space within that shell would be a lot - I mean _a lot_ - bigger. And so, too, would be any object's average distance to any other. We're already at preposterous numbers here, and we're only 10% of the way to the moon.
The larger issue your analogy faces, however, is that any calculations which might be done, are all going to be speculative. Whatever number you decide to pick for people to float around in the ocean, is completely arbitrary. Unless we actually find life elsewhere, we don't know what this number should be. It's an unknown variable. So whatever number you pick, it won't ever actually tell you anything useful..
@@js70371 nah, once a specie began to spacefaring voyage space, they will explode all over the universe, there it's a theory that all of the visible universe can be conquered in 20 billion years just dismantling 1/3 of Mercury, launching self-replicating robots, and that's without FTL methods.
Don’t be afraid god created us we are the only planet god made that has life on it. Read the bible and get to know god so you know where we come from and where we are going :)
Most likely scenario: we are not alone. But civilizations are separated by such vast distances of space and time, and the laws of the universe are such, that no matter how advanced or intelligent, they almost never make contact with each other.
That seems very likely. Particularly in regard to technology.
This is where I’m at in my thinking as well. It is utterly *RIDICULOUS* in my view to think that there isn’t *SOMEONE* or *SOMETHING* else *SOMEWHERE* out there in the void. The question is can we ever *FIND* one another and make *CONTACT* on any meaningful time scale? I’ve always thought about it using the following analogy;
Take 1 million people, put a life jacket on each of them and drop them randomly into the oceans around the world. Now tell them to find one another. *BEST* case scenario the nearest person to you may be many hundreds of km’s or miles away from you. With no means of fast travel such as a boat or airplane, and no means of communication save for shouting and waving, you could literally spend your entire life swimming about and never see anyone. Now cut the number of people to 100,000. Or 10,000. Or 1000. You see where I’m going with this… You could make the prospects even *MORE* daunting if you chose to do so by instead putting every person into a deep sea submersible capable of reaching the deepest, darkest ocean depths. This may actually be even *MORE* accurate and applicable to our position and circumstances in the Universe.
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It does not take long to colonize thousands of galaxies so probably or we would be a colony
I feel like this is the most accurate hypothesis. I believe it’s statistically impossible for us to be the only life in the universe if not the Milky Way itself but because of the sheer size of the universe we’ll never make contact with another civilization
I think the answer lies in stacked great filters. Rare earths + rare life + rare intelligence + rare technology all stacking to give the universe some grim odds at civilizations occurring. If I had to bet, I'd say there's no more than 5 civilizations in our galaxy, and all somewhat close to our technology level.
I like that we really don’t wanna face the concept that we are truly alone and the ramifications of that. That’s some deep metaphysical stuff that we don’t have the trauma capacity for right now.
I like this perspective, I do believe that by constantly looking for e.t advanced life we're just avoiding the philosophical implications of being the only sepient+ highly intelligent (whatever that means) fruits of the universe, which can feel like a burden for many.
@@drinlon7868But it's just unbelievably unlikely though.
Ignoring the fact that the governent has confirmed that unidentified object interactions have been real, the universe is just too big for it not to be.
We can only see so much and it's constsntly expanding, constantly creating, which would eventually lead to similar circumstances to earth.
We are alone . I’m not scared to admit that , I take no issue with being alone ,
Also we have cats . So there is that 🤷♀️
there is no ramifications or implications of us being alone as life in the universe. the people at seti are idiots. first contact would not go our way. wanting to live in a star trek reality is really unintelligent. deep thought on our existence in the universe isnt important at all. for thousands of years we have known no aliens and theres nothing negative from being the only form of life in the universe. being alone in the universe is exactly proof religion is retarded and all a waste of human intelligence. really smart people shouldnt be following pagan religions made by humans. having the trauma capacity as a species isnt even important right now. we arent a unified species so first contact would be incredibly bad news for all of us. us finding aliens would go exactly like the beginning of independence day but humanity wouldnt prevail against alien technology that crossed SPACE
Very good video. I really enjoyed it. Makes you wonder what this is all about.
We’ve only been highly technological (industrial use of electricity and fossil fuel) for one-hundred-fifty years. That’s so instantaneous against the backdrop of cosmic time. We need to evolve past mortality to gain a better perspective on this matter.
And our modern brain is believed to be only 40,000 years old...
Some people say *we can understand and imagine giant numbers* then why can't humans realize that 60-70 years of looking for ET is small as heck amount of time?
wtf, its tay zonday 😚
give me that chocolate rain
Dude! It's great to see you comment on this channel, the legend himself! You bring up a good point there.
I find the idea of us being alone comforting. It means we don’t have to worry about a dark forest situation and we have plenty of time and space to expand at our own leisure, if we even want to.
I’d prefer a dark forest situation just to learn about other places and these aliens , I mean it’s like travel here on earth , you can learn a lot about yourself just by visiting different countries and meeting new people , even if the aliens were hostile it would still be fascinating to learn from a new perspective outside of our human understanding of things and the universe
@@kgosiking4228 careful what you wish, looking at earth the law go's eat the lower life or die, that might be universal.
@@oranebrown2169 well we don’t eat monkeys now do we?
@@combineconformist the weak don’t survive is what hes saying. If the aliens are not weak and they don’t like what we are doing to our planet its time to call the exterminators and take the planet for themselves and fix it. No aliens are going to want to co exist with humans we cant even figure out how to get rid of trash so we bury it. Countries like china would be where the cleansing starts. Would you share your planet with tons of war and pollution and corruption? Or just call the exterminator team to clean the place up remove the parasites?
@@combineconformist yes we are. Just look at my country (Indonesia). There's ppl eating monkey.
"Beyond unlikely" is the best way to describe life magically appearing in a vast vacuum of debris and radiation.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
Ooh, that was good. My inner writer is squee'ing hard over that line.
I have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of us being alone. Given how vast the universe is (both the parts we can see and the parts we can't), surely, there has to be life somewhere, at some point. Right?
...Right?
(Damn, space. You awe-inspiring and scary, all at once.)
The most terrifying scenario is if the voyager probes smashed into a wall at the edge of the solar system that turns out to be a screen projecting the rest of what we thought was the rest of the universe
It's already left our solar system
That would be terrifying. not only would we be alone, we would also have limited space to work and develop in. Like a video game, if you will. Thankfully the probes have already left our solar system.
@@eamonnkeenan3771 it’s still in the Oort Cloud which is technically our solar system. It won’t leave our solar system for thousands of years.
Scary af, Truman show
we can literally scan the universe partially, we know it doesn't just end suddenly.
I believe that if we truest are alone just like in DUNE or HYPERION, we’ll eventually evolve into different sub species of humans, and we ourselves will become the aliens.
Exactly... And with faster-than-light travel probably being at least unachievable, the time frames involved in one lineage of spacefaring humans eventually crossing paths with another one they know nothing about are such that they *WILL* be different species.
In dune there are still non-native earth aliens,like sand worms,duh
Its proposed that the sand worms are some sort of bioengineered life. Whether it was created by humans or some others is unknown however @HYDROCARBON_XD
I've always thought of this, we'd eventually diverge into sub species
We've always been alone, we've never known any aliens. Why is that terrifying.
Not really accurate
@@DanielOnFire101what about that is untrue, and be honest
The aliens want humans to know they are alone.
Yeah, either way it makes no real difference as is. If we detect alien life only then will it make some difference, and most likely very little difference even then. Only if an alien species arrives at Earth will it make a real difference, and the chances of that happening are so small that it would be ridiculous to be terrified by such.
Visit every corner of the wold and ask the people. They will laugh at you for thinking we are alone and im not talking about ufo sightings.
Given that the universe is pretty young, we are probably just really early to start looking for life, we could be the first form of complex life in the universe, meaning that in the future we could find alien life that is evolving, and we will be a ancient civillization.
The universe isn’t young dumbass
This has always been my gut feeling. I think simple life is probably common in the Universe, but that advanced life like us is exceedingly rare if not entirely unique.
Not really, you could have billions of different alien civilizations each of them colonizing millions of galaxies and there's so much space that there is a high probability that they would be distributed in a way the none of them will ever meet each other. It's simple, the universe is VERY big. That's it.
I think your right
@@tth1693 I agree with Mudcrab. The probability of sentient life arising from inert lifeless raw materials is so vanishingly tiny, and this makes it more than likely that we are alone.
Humans took millions of years to evolve. Homosapiens, which are humans with distinguished intelligence have only been around for roughly 100k years I believe. This gives you an idea of how rare intelligent life must be outside our galaxy, even if the circumstances for particular planets allow species to thrive like ours
I've always thought a good scifi novel would have us, and ruins of ancient civilizations, and animals on the way up but not sentient yet.
Humanity existing in a time gap.
I think the sheer length of time outweighs all those 1 + 21 zeros odds of space / place.
This is incredibly frightening lol. Imagine we’re the only life in the entire fking universe and we are literally 1 crazy guy pressing a button away from totally destroying it forever?? Thats next level lol
How could we ever possibly know? This question assumes the potential for actually determining if it is so. We can't.
Great vid! The dark forest hypothesis is interesting...
If we're alone or so far away we can't see or contact anyone, that would be a very sad scenario but also one that means we should be focusing on extending the lifespan of humanity at all costs.
What costs?
I appreciate the thought provoking, but still very accessible content you make! I really enjoy how you truly embrace the scientific method and give your own insight. This channel calms me and fills me with wonder like no other!
All -sorts-, licorice candy!! Thanks for all the videos
Great stuff as always! I believe in a highly inhabited universe for the very reasons you explain here. No matter how improbable you think the rise of humanity to be, compared to the size of the universe those odds are meaningless. You could say that it is impossible that there is no other life in the universe and you would only be wrong by the tiniest of percentages. Oh, and I am diabetic as well, and Easter and Halloween are indeed bittersweet. More bitter than sweet, actually, because they are sugar free.
Thanks John nothing like some existential horror for Halloween!
A week ago at work we had an event called "power point nights" to evaluate our exposition abilities. I chose this topic along with the dark forest hypothesis, and and you and your videos were my main bibliography. I even had the chance to stole a little bit of your outro for my prez and I was so happy and passionate talking about this...
You don't know how grateful I am, (and I know I'm talking for everyone here) for a the hard work you're doing.
It's awesome to have at last a grounded and accessible channel to hear and learn about the universe, and the way you show us all of it is just incredible.
Thank you again, John.
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This can be answered simply. Like in video games you're locked in a small area of the map at first. You will have to level up to access the rest of the map (which in all likelihood we will)
The part about the universe experiencing itself felt so deep to me.
I really doubt we're the only intelligent life in the universe. The distance between stars is just too great.
Distance proves nothing
@@jackzaccardi1896 wrong
@@Bleep5980 right
@@Steve-si8ki wrong
@@jackzaccardi1896 why are you watching this video if you think distance doesn't matter in space?
John articulates these ideas in such an accessible manner. Thanks John!
Does it ever blow your mind to wonder *HOW* this channel *ONLY* has 325K subscribers?! It’s like a frickin internet/social media “Fermi Paradox” to me!! You know there are literally untold *MILLIONS* of people out there who are fascinated and interested in the type of content that John creates. So *WHERE* are *THEY* ??!!
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Maybe the speed of light naturally keeps life from finding other life since we each get our own bubble that we can never see past.
That thumbnail is 🔥
I like how you were able to squeeze in some known theories and famous quotes and even the reasoning behind them.
To place all this inside and around 10mins, was incredible. The talk was brilliant, the known information was clear and shown. I think the only lacking would be an orchestra of music and possibly unique graphics, but I didn't come for that anyway.
First time viewer, very impressed.
while being alone is terrifying I prefer to take the wizard approach to life; life is never late, nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to.
Nice.
Can we expand the observable universe by changing where we view from? Could we not make a mass network array of sensors/scanners to expand our view outwards alongside the expansion of the universe?
Oh we are far from alone, no need to worry about that
I love questions like these because every possibility is intriguing and thought provoking
Exactly. And literally any of them can be possible.
I refuse to believe that we are truly alone but if we are I agree that being alone is a lot scarier
Cry Baby!!
Alone is scarier than not alone. Exponentially scarier+
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The only question left to ask if we turn out to be alone, is "Where did everyone go?"
we doing a great job at ensuring we are the last living thing left
No we're not. Even if we were trying our hardest to achieve that, we would fail miserably. Dumb comment.
We are not, the size of the universe is simply infinite, witch means that the chances of life existing is also close to infinite, we even know planets that are kinda like the earth
@@sunnyjim1355dumb comment then why reply?
@@sunnyjim1355 Dumb comment.
This is why I watch this channel. I am terrified of this possibility, it bothers me to my core. And there are many, MANY prominent astronomers and astrophysicists who think this is the case, they rarely state why and I find this haunting. More than anything, I want to have confirmation of some form of alien life during my lifetime, be it civilizations or simple cells.
It is so refreshing to hear someone say this. I've thought this even as a child exploring the night skies with my telescope. It is horrifying to think that we are the only planet that has life. We are the only planet that has a species that looks out on the universe as an object of curiosity. This is the most horrifying thought one can have beyond, perhaps, the realization of thier own mortality. We are on the cusp of nuclear catastrophe and yet we might be the only life forms that think. Give me little green men anyday. Thanks for this content.
Don't get too pessimistic, if we are alone, than we are the most powerful species that ever existed. I actually think its better if we are alone, I don't want to deal with any aliens, they are trouble in every way that word can be used. Also nuclear annihilation is overexaggerated by movies and propaganda, it would be pretty bad if a bunch of nukes went off, but we'd survive.
Nuclear catastrophe? What where lol
I agree with you that it would be terrifying. But we at least have the small comfort of knowing that Humanity could rule the Universe then.
The universe is huge and we haven’t even sent signals 200 light years away. Chances are their is unintelligent life on Venus and intelligent life somewhere else because Mars actually used to have life before dying
I honestly don’t understand how being alone in the universe is terrifying
Man I love this channel, amazing content! you're always on my bedtime playlist
Good topic!! Try a mix of Good and Plenty with Runts. The sweet, licorice and sour combination is pretty good 👍
I always thought that the equally terrifying alone bit means that the deep gulf of empty space was terrifying: our echoes go on and on, only ever being returned by silence and the radio chatter of a pulsar. Seemed terrifying to me.
Great episode. You have really been killing it with this new spooky content. I love your channel and I have recently been exploring your videos from 5 years ago. Great stuff! Oh, and my favorite candy is reese cups!
But we are not alone, So you telling me there are millions and billions of stars and galaxies in our universe and millions and billions of stars and galaxies in other galaxies near our universe and far away in other universe I'm sure deep down in my heart of course there's other life out there better yet there's many civilization being or human-like civilization somewhere. The question is why they has not made contact with us humans on planet earth yet if they're technology is advanced then us on earth, maybe it's not about why they hadn't contacted with us I look at it as maybe it's not the right time to make contact with us. Maybe us humans has to be a type 2 or type 3 high tech civilization. Or even better yet THEY been living among us humans on our planet for 10,000s of years without us noticing or detracting them . Sometimes you don't need to " think out side the box " we need to look at the box and say what kind of material is this box made of , how many colors, shapes and size this box is , where this box came from, what is in this box , are there more box like this out there, take notes about the box and so on
This guy DOES NOT miss. You will never be disappointed, this is the only channel I can find doing videos on these topics and he has a great voice for it. He also has a longer form channel with guests which is more like a podcast called event horizon. If you know of any other channels that produce this kind of content please reply cause I can’t find any or at least any that are even close to as good as this channel.
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Does it ever blow your mind to wonder *HOW* this channel *ONLY* has 325K subscribers?! It’s like a frickin internet/social media “Fermi Paradox” to me!! You know there are literally untold *MILLIONS* of people out there who are fascinated and interested in the type of content that John creates. So *WHERE* are *THEY* ??!!
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Anyone ever stare at the sky at night and suddenly come to a realization that your on a small ball flying through a crazy universe and urgently find a need to hold on to something?
Sometimes I think: if a different civilization does exist, what the supermarkets would be like? The schools? The houses? The musical instruments? The pets? The religions... it's insane to think about that. It drives us crazy
Imagine what they are currently doing as we speak. They could be taking their kids to the local school. Or mega space cruisers under construction to expand their species into space
Yes, especially When im high
Gotta else you might fall off 😂
When you realise that our solar system is flying in a giant spiral, it's easy to get dizzy.
Bee a fan of candy corn since I was a kid. The honey flavor always brings me back for more
how intriguing
Maybe we are too early, it is said that Universe life is around trillions of years, considering that only 1 hour must have passed from one year i guess
I think that the unsettling and terrifying aspect of being alone pertains to the fact that if Life is so rare and precious, we are totally unworthy and sacrilegious about it... a cosmic shame that is.
yeah, looks like humanity is such an insignificant part of the universe. unless there's life out there, if not then we are truly nothing
There is nothing unsettling or terrifying about being alone. The opposite is what is terrifying.
Alone or not, we as humans are definitely unworthy, the way we "Look after" our one and only possible home proves we are absolute scum.
Na ur unworthy humans are worthy only trideva the supreme conscious of the universe bring us in this universe
Because it's karma it what time is been in existence because of us our karma
If we are alone, there is nothing to compare us to to call us unworthy.
If we truly knew how vast the universe is , this video wouldn’t exist.
I think my biggest disappointment about being a diabetic myself is that I have to avoid those mellowcreme pumpkins during Halloween lol
Your videos are amazing and you have the perfect voice for narrating stories!
Like you said, we've only really just started looking. The way the invention of the microscope opened up a whole world we never knew existed, I have a funny feeling that someone will invent some kind of probe or device of some kind in the future. The original use of the telescope was Galileo in the 16th Century. I think Einstein said he didn't believe we would actually go visit physical dimensions or distant universes because humans have a limited lifespan. But he thought it was possible that we could somehow be able to communicate with other civilizations on other planets based on new inventions.
With all these cosmic events taking place around us constantly, it is hard for me to feel alone. I see our existence as a miracle, something special, but just one of the many wonders of the universe, after all.
I loved that you referred to Earth as the island of Lost in the case that we're all alone. I like thinking of it that way, and also Lost is one of my most favorite shows
Yeah, Lost was fantastic. I was glued to the TV each week for that one back when it aired.
I think it is highly unlikely that we are alone in the universe, but I am willing to believe that we are the only intelligent species at this moment in time in our galaxy. Which so far as I am concerned, means we are free to use whatever we can reach or find.
I just checked and no we are alone
@@ISCARI0T how?
i dont think so,
lightspeed is not that fast and distance.
our radio signales wont reach that far.
i am willing to bet that there are bronze aged stone aged civs out there.
and i am willing to bet that there is an intelligent species. that landed on their moon. and has the invention of radio. and is looking for intelligence like us, but cant find any.
or maybe there are ones where civs evolved close by to eachother, and they can communicate!
@@commie_sylveon6563 he checked to see if we were alone
Highly unlikely? More like INCREDIBLY unlikely,it’s so dumb to think there is no life besides earth,AND more DUMB to think we are Special…
One thing about being alone in the universe is that it would potentially imply the existence of parallel universes.
There's been an idea that a universe would split to cover each posibility of occurance of an event. A simplified example would be that a coint toss would create to co-existing universes in which each side of the coin has landed. However if one were to continue tossing the coin it would create certain statistical anomalies such as an universe where the coin in question always lands on a specific side. With no knowledge of the other universes it would appear that there must be reason (perhaps even paranormal) for its behaviour.
Likewise if life is not only absent, but also proven to be possible to emerge on its own, in typical conditions found throughout the universe, it could point towards the fact that we exist in such a statiscally anomalous universe, where despite there being multiple chances to develop life, the universe only rolled a win once
I think an even scarier idea is that we are the youngest civilization in our region of the universe and these other civilizations are hiding from something far more dangerous/powerful than them all 😭 meanwhile we’re yelling out into the void and drawing that threat nearer to us without a clue.
This is a very underrated topic, I’d like to see more of this?
Look up the Dark forest theory....it isa scary thought on whywe dont see other civilizations.
Yeah this is good stuff.
But we are not alone, So you telling me there are millions and billions of stars and galaxies in our universe and millions and billions of stars and galaxies in other galaxies near our universe and far away in other universe I'm sure deep down in my heart of course there's other life out there better yet there's many civilization being or human-like civilization somewhere. The question is why they has not made contact with us humans on planet earth yet if they're technology is advanced then us on earth, maybe it's not about why they hadn't contacted with us I look at it as maybe it's not the right time to make contact with us. Maybe us humans has to be a type 2 or type 3 high tech civilization. Or even better yet THEY been living among us humans on our planet for 10,000s of years without us noticing or detracting them . Sometimes you don't need to " think out side the box " we need to look at the box and say what kind of material is this box made of , how many colors, shapes and size this box is , where this box came from, what is in this box , are there more box like this out there, take notes about the box and so on
@@cartier2312 You said why they haven't contacted us in your first sentence. The universe is too large and we haven't been around very long to be seen. Also, there is only one Universe. You're thinking outside the bounds of sanity. Share some of what you are smoking.
Lookup "Why we might be alone in the Universe" on youtube by cool worlds.
Love these videos - keep it up. Can't get enough of this content
But we are not alone, So you telling me there are millions and billions of stars and galaxies in our universe and millions and billions of stars and galaxies in other galaxies near our universe and far away in other universe I'm sure deep down in my heart of course there's other life out there better yet there's many civilization being or human-like civilization somewhere. The question is why they has not made contact with us humans on planet earth yet if they're technology is advanced then us on earth, maybe it's not about why they hadn't contacted with us I look at it as maybe it's not the right time to make contact with us. Maybe us humans has to be a type 2 or type 3 high tech civilization. Or even better yet THEY been living among us humans on our planet for 10,000s of years without us noticing or detracting them . Sometimes you don't need to " think out side the box " we need to look at the box and say what kind of material is this box made of , how many colors, shapes and size this box is , where this box came from, what is in this box , are there more box like this out there, take notes about the box and so on
Does it ever blow your mind to wonder *HOW* this channel *ONLY* has 325K subscribers?! It’s like a frickin internet/social media “Fermi Paradox” to me!! You know there are literally untold *MILLIONS* of people out there who are fascinated and interested in the type of content that John creates. So *WHERE* are *THEY* ??!!
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For many life forms the distances between them is so vast that at the time we are seeing things they may still appear to be in the stone age. If anyone is watching this part of the universe from say 16 billion light-years away, they won't find us because they are seeing it before the Sun came to be. Wow.
We will never know.
We can't look everywhere. If we find nothing, we will just keep looking.
A science channel without the scientism. I appreciate it.
The agnostic principle is often missed by people who 'worship science'. You don't.
Except that invoking the "Copernican principle" (as this video does) is itself nothing if not a scientistic "credo"...
What's interesting to me is that, somewhere out there, there's probably a race just like us looking up at the sky and asking, "Are we alone?"
same technology.
already landed on their moon
has some crazy guy saying that he wants to terraform a small planet wich is like mars (which is a bad idea)
and looking up, seeing a constellastion
he looks at a star and decides to use a app of his mobile device.
the star is named: apperathus a goddess of a mythology.
he then scrolls down to the planets.
the third one in the list cathes his eye: this planet does not have the name like the others, not sol-1 or sol-2
Reatia
the godess of luck.
he looks at the picture and the description.
he sees a planet covered by water, the land on the planet is desolate and barren
he looks at the compounds in the atmosphere: oxygen and co2
the exoplanet seems to have a high chance of life.
he thinks: ''huh. a nice planet, wonder if there is life on that rock, microscopical maybe?''
he stares back at the star, and then goes back to his nighttime walk
what he does not know, that he was staring at a star named sol. but this name is used by others, the race on Reatia
they named that planet ''earth''
he was staring at a young version of earth, and what he also does not know.
that there is someone on that planet, staring at the same time to his star, takes out his mobile device, and sees an exoplanet but barren on the surface. the planet has a boring name that is keplar-102102
and then he goes back on his walk
Or being ruled by a king
They better just stay off my lawn…
there's probably of millions of races/civilizations living entirely complex and unimaginable existences at this very moment that we'll never know about
There’s no way we’re alone but as far as being alone in the sense we’ll never see another solar system in person, you can bet so!
Assuming we're alone is so arrogant it's nauseating. Human exceptionalism at its core.
I agree. I think there’s no possible way we are alone. I also don’t think we have any idea what created us or the universe. Most humans in today’s age are stuck in their narcissistic way and think the universe revolves around them. We are special but not as special as we appear to be. We know nothing…
Love it, classic Godier content
John you should rank exoplanets or talk about your favorite ones, id love to see an exoplanet tier list
the problem with that is the massive amount of speculation involved.... i mean with the right data collected from spectrum's of the atmosphere, mass of the planet, and other data..... they can do a lot of speculating of the planets environment, but at the end of the day, its just that. As far as i can tell....all the detailed descriptions you have ever heard about exoplanets are more possibilities than fact.
@@ez_company9325 it has already been done many times. there are TH-cam programs that do precisely what the OP suggests.
@@ez_company9325 and why is that a problem? Speculating about all the possibilities is one of the main reasons I love this channel.
Statistically considering how unbelievable large the universe is, I highly doubt we are alone. But I am quite sure, we will never get to know any life out there
Admiral Byrd Already Confirmed wet Aren’t Alone
IF we're alone, things like "the universe was made for us" start to make sense, what would be just MAD...
Anyway, thanks for the video, John!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
If we are alone, then it gives us a bigger incentive to spread out to the stars in ensure the future of mankind. The wider we spread, the better our odds of never going extinct.
If it's not chocolate it's not candy and if it's not chocolate it's not dessert.
I believe the universe is just too big for life to not exist elsewhere.
That’s like only having one fish in the entire ocean.
3:17 this video scene frightens me to no ends.
I find the notion that we could be alone absolutely terrifying. The universe is far too vast for the entirety of it to be devoid of life other than whats on earth.
Agreed. And life on our planet is so fragile. If this is the case, the stakes of everything going on in the world go up astronomically (lol). Life on earth can be totally wiped out in the current state of human society with a simple miss communication… gone and wiped out for ever. And in a timeline of billions of years Homo sapiens come in go in a matter of what like 40k years….
It is for us to populate
As incomprehensibly vast as it is the Universe very well may have created complex (or any life) only once.
No it’s not. It is just as likely we are then we are not.
And it could be that our purpose is to spread life.
We obviously aren’t alone
When he said gonggong with that heavy voice,😂ahhh it was funny
I would actually find it more frightening if we end up finding alien life and they happen to look just like us. It would be like picking up a ringing phone and hearing yourself on the other line.
You mean like talking tom app
@@ashiksaleem360 bæn? hohoho
Why would you? Honestly it'd be fascinating if that were to happen. Either, it'd be an incredible case of convergent evolution, or that we and the aliens were seeded by some ancient race.
yeah, but that would also mean that we’re in a way alone because the only intelligent life allowed by the universe would be a human-like life, it would mean that our evolutional characteristics are a constant in all the intelligent life existent in the universe
@@terza333 which I mean would make sense, at least if the environment in question were similar to Earth's.
even if we get a signal from another part of the universe it would be so far away we would still be 'alone'
Silk Spectre: John, you have to stop this, everyone will die. Dr Manhattan: And the universe will not even notice. Just look around you mars gets along fine without so much as a single organism
"What If We Are Alone?"
then we will seed the stars.
No matter if we’re alone or not, we need to get our heads out of where the sun don’t shine and start acting responsibly towards each other, other inhabitants and our home.
Why
@@ISCARI0T so we can advance to a next stage of humanity