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Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell Hey one quick quesion. What if we and some other living species are past the great filter. That would mean that maybe we are not the first but those who are infact the first, arent a type 3 nor a type 2 civilization so we cant know for sure. That means the filter we have passed but we arent the first to do so. Right?
1 big omission... we might not be evolved enough to identify super civilizations. The predicate that we observe and understand every single cosmical object is wrong. Also, we have no knowledge of how harvesting a star or a galaxy could be done, how could we identify it is being done? (We barely manage to identify planets around stars a few decades ago) Plus we are still receiving "old" lights from far away places of the universe. The further we look the older it is and therefore the more our view of what exists right now at these places is out dated. Maybe harvesting a galaxy has already been done somewhere far away but we just have not receive the light to show us it has yet. Many more hypothesis that can be made that remove the fermi paradox.
We are living our great filter now. Humanities greatest challenge is now. If we can overcome the next 100 years without destroying the planet, I believe we have a solid chance of becoming a multi-planetary species.
No pressure then! But I think life on Earth has always been close to disaster. The Toba Catastrophy almost wiped out humanity, the release of oxygen almost destroyed life on Earth. This time arround we have science, enginering and the capacity to intentionally change the world we live in. It's no longer a game of chance; we can climb the next great filter, not just stumble through it.
Love your channel but will disagree on that one, we have no idea if 100 years is enough or it is a million to overcome, our planet will exist potentially much longer, and we still do not posses the power of destruction of that scale, we may wipe out each other and that is most likely scenario for the great filter but we may not assume that a brief moment as 100 years will reveal the outcome of our deeds.
What if the filter is internal discourse? Almost everyone yearns for world peace, because world peace would allow us to focus on the small problems slowly breaking us apart. We would be able to speed up research immensely with cooperation, and we would never be under the threat of war, dictators, or lack of resources. But internal discourse is nearly impossible to eliminate, since that would mean 8 billion minds would have to converge on one single idea. Only a hivemind would be able to solve this, and that might have problems on its own. Technology allows a single being to become so powerful that it separates one from another. But space travel is impossible without these inventions. The world is one bomb away from dying out completely. The launch of one nuke would trigger every other country that has access to fire their own. Only 50 25,000 megaton bombs would send the world into a nuclear winter killing crops.
But hive minds do exist in life dont they? Ants and bees being two examples. Isn’t it small minded to assume all intelligent life the same as us? Couldn’t a hive mind species from the great beyond exist and become intelligent?
@@fart63 but even in those groups there is likely some discourse, as i said before, one individual getting power through technology (which is inevitable if you ever want to travel through space) sets the entire thing off balance. Bees and ants dont have this technology, and arent intelligent.
@@fart63 Sure. In fact, if we found alien life I think it would be our individuality that surprises them most. I feel the big problem with that just being commonplace is the fact that things like greed, territorialism, and the desire to conquer were all things that pushed humans (and possibly much of alien life) to planet-wide dominance; much like how sugars tasting sweet was desirable when it was hard to come by, but now often leads to humans eating much more than they should. Honestly, ants and bees do amazing things for their small size and lack of opposable thumbs. Bees construct hanging complexes, and ants build theirs underground. Bees refine pollen into nutritious honey to feed their colonies, and some species of ants use agriculture to raise fungi. Frankly, I think the main thing limiting them from becoming a dominant species is their very instinctual behavior. So it's not impossible to pass through this barrier, just hard - and that's exactly what a great filter is.
While it's constructive to think out this problem, it's important to realize that we really have no idea whether the filter is behind or in front of us or which is more likely. There are so many variables associated with the concept of a great filter, almost all of which we don't know. Even the world's leading scientists would just be throwing darts at a colossal dart board. The emergence of the first eukaryotic cell could have had a one-in-trillions chance of happening, then there's the step to intelligence, the survival and evolution of that intelligence...the likelihood of each step occurring as it did is practically incalculable because we just don't have any relevant, reliable data to reference. Considering the probability of the great filter being ahead of us is impossible as we are now.
Talking about the colossal dartboard, could someone get me to understand WHY finding extinct alien life says something bad about the filters? Lets say we find dead microbes on Mars; it would mean whatever killed THEM didn't kill US. Would that be something POSITIVE??!! Lets say we find something like an extinct fish or dog or cat on Titan or Europa. That means whatever killed THEM WASN'T ABLE TO KILL US. Why shouldn't we consider that something GOOD?? I don't see how finding extinct alien life on another planet could be interpreted as BAD. Is there something here I'm not getting?
The universe is so inconceivably huge that there’s no fucking way we are alone, in all honesty we’ve probably been contacted or at least observed by many species of other life
Our galaxy is literally a speck in the grand scheme of things, and I swear to fuck I saw a ufo with lights that are almost tentacle in appearance, nicknamed the jellyfish ufo as first documented in Russia. I thought I hallucinated until I researched it
It might be but when you have millions of tries at it then no, we surely arent the only species this far, at all.. Its statistically highly improbable.. These all stupid science speculations are usually not taking into account how resilient life can be.. Its like the phrase you might have heard in the jurassic park.... Life finds a way.. Its pretty much true or we might not be here, or other animals at least if you would like to think that we re just some alien experiment.. A really boring one at that
It's crazy to think that in some people's lifetimes they have seen the progression from horse drawn carriages, to cars, to airplanes, to putting humans on the moon. All while living through two world wars. Just image what we might see.
@F G I would like to say that overall the level of intelligence and knowledge has improved. But sometimes it doesn't feel like those statistics and such are really telling the truth. Personally I hold out hope that the people who are classified as the "stupid" and so on that don't think through things at least have their own reasons and can problem solve. Though with the fact that school is zero learning and all parroting it seems nowadays the only way people really get problem solving skills is one of two main ways. Either 1, they don't have the generic super protective parent and decide to try a bunch of stuff out (which has psychologists and better places to "play" being done some places) or 2, they've gotten to the age where they don't have a choice and have to learn to take care of themselves. Sorta like one of the lines in Matilda from the narrator "She learned what most people learn in their early 30s. How to take care of herself". Not sure how well it holds up nowadays but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
What is if we find a more advanced civilization? If we don't think about how they treat us, isn't it a sign that there isn't that much of a great filter?
no if that happened it would likely be aliens from a nearby solar system if anything, and would be very bad and practically guarantee that there is a great filter
If we find a more advanced civilization, that would be bad, because if it would not be almost impossible to get to that stage of advancement, we would have already encountered alot more advanced civilizations than only 1
it's a common proposition, along with a great filter, to the Fermi paradox. Why we haven't seen any evidence of other civilizations? Because there is a very advanced civilization in our galaxy that systematically destroys all civilizations as they reach the technological point of beginning interstellar travel or some other technological milestone. Maybe, our own curiosity is our doom.
@@viltzer8787 i was about to say the best scenario for us is that we found multiple civilization, all more advanced than us, but now i think its the worst scenario ever
What the video is postulating is that, if other advanced lifeforms and civilizations existed somewhere out in the observable universe, we should be seeing something from them. The fact that we aren't suggests that life in the observable universe is either less complex (just developing), dies off before building complex societies (hit the filter earlier) or is non-existent (at least, in an observable way: a lot of what we are looking at is millions or billions of years old information). There's also the chance that there's life so complex that it shields itself from observation to avoid interacting with lifeforms like us... the militant kind
Not really. If we are alone that means all universe is ours to shape. We can also do all type of species we want, like tentacle monsters and stuff. And if we are not alone maybe its some cute anime girl aliens that looking for male protagonists around the universe to f*ck with. That wouldn't be bad isn't it. Arthur C. Clarke is a pessimist anyway.
If we can stick around for half a planet's lifetime, maybe we've got a fair chance!? If we're the only intelligent race ever, or, so far, it's going to be millenia before we get very far past our own solar system. We cant even decide where our Solar System ends, or, exactly what constitutes a planet!
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. Douglas Adams
Well that's necessarily true, there's a pretty good chance that we are actually alone in the universe, this theory is backed by quite a few things, which if you took like 10 seconds to go and google, you'll find that the answer to whether or not we're alone in the universe is not that obvious. Oh and also it's "We're", not "were"
@@barakdeathsong4265 we are obviously not alone The fact that how enormously large the universe is , there HAS to be another planet pf our kind where people are living or maybe some lifeforms wont even need earth like habitat , depends on the variation that obviously will be different
I'm not saying I think we're alone in the universe, I'm just saying that there's a possibility that we are, I myself hope that aliens do exist, but I also look at facts, and the fact is that there's a chance there are no aliens, however small a chance that is.
Another option is mentioned in the Three Body Problem: Advanced civilizations that don't hide effectively are immediately destroyed by other advanced civilizations.
@@CommandoFighterPilot if the universe is infinite there must be another civilization somewhere out there! Matter the fact, if it actually is infinite there must be a civilization that is identical to ours.
@@CommandoFighterPilot but it's not infinite. If it would you would live again. The chances are small that your atoms will regroup in the same environment but hey even the smallest possibility will happen in infinity.
@@manoz6194 You are right, except that the Spirit in question is not at all limited to us - it is the inbuilt Spirit of life - all conscious beings - for more life, more awareness, more knowledge, more everything! There is no reason whatsoever to think that we are in any way unusual in having it to the extent we do, and no reason to fear that other beings having it will detract from us, far less doom us!
Comedy is how we survive... Carl Sagan saying ''that would just be showing off'' to whether we should have added some music by Bach to the Voyager Space Probes is all well and good. But Comedy is how we'll get along, manage the planet and the people & organisms on it properly, and how we might better get along with alien life. Sex might have worked intra-specially beforehand, but it isn't going to do nearly as much for our existence beyond procreation within our own species once we venture into space. We need a lot more time and technology to get to creating fundamentally novel life-forms!
This assumes the filter that explains the fermi paradox is a local problem. The "filter" may simply be the tyranny of distance (thus time). The universe may well be teeming with life but the sheer distances and physical limits (c) make contact highly unlikely. We are adrift on a remote island in a sea that may well be populous.
Except for the fact that time dilation will make you experience time at a slower pace compared to the rest of the universe. If you travel at C then you will experience no time at all and will immediately be where you want to go as soon as you take off.
Everyone is familiar with how the dinosaurs went out, as you allude to, being the massive asteroid or whatever 65 million years ago... But very few realize that it's happened to US too, and very recently. Search online for the cataclysms that began and ended the Younger Dryas. The data shows there must have been something that happened. It starts (some scientists working on this theory think) with the Hiawatha Crater.
How about the filter being more complex than a single event, but rather a long, difficult process that we're in the middle of and currently doing our best to get through
What if the filter is just space travel? There could be many happy, thriving solar systems where the species lives on all the planets in that solar system, but there isn't a galactic civilisation because stars are just stupidly far away from each other. That's a positive idea worth mentioning, surely.
yeah, what if one of the big things all other civilizations discover is that if you enter a black hole, you end up in an eternal blow job universe. Cant ditch this backwater universe fast enough.
@@varyolla435 “as well as develop the requisite technology” But is the requisite technology actually possible? I feel like this video along with many other videos on this channel makes a ton of assumptions…
@@knightmare21627 A few people on Mars isn't going to fix the problems on the planet. Especially if such innovation is made by a private corporation. We're doomed.
The step on this staircase that took the longest on earth (and thus is a more likely filter) was the step from single celled to multi-celled organisms. There were single celled organism on earth less than a billion years after the planet formed (possibly before that.) But multi-cellular life only showed up about 600 million years ago. So there were around 3 billion years with only single-celled life...and two billion of that had eukaryotic single-celled organisms. Here's hoping we're through that filter. Though, my guess is that there's more than one :-)
Yeah, my personal opinion is that the move from single-celled to multi-celled is the great filter making life in the universe uncommon. I'm sure we'll find bacterial life elsewhere in our own solar system sooner or later, but finding any that have made the shift that we did with mitochondria is unlikely.
Here's what I don't get from the video... it seems that it's based on the notion that if we can't see them with today's technology, they doesn't exist. I mean isn't it possible (even likely) that there are many other civilisations in the universe, but we simply struggle to see very far into it (which we do), let alone to the point where we even have the ability to confirm life. It's quite likely there are other life forms, that have not yet developed beyond humans today, but could it also not be possible that there are other civilisations that could be FURTHER in their development... examples in leaps of progression: 1) They are where humans will be in 500 years, still struggling to colonise other planets 2) Colonised other planets, but are just too far away for us to even see 3) That they have a visual filter on us to stop us seeing them 4) They're controlling us (in an altruistic or evil way)! 5) Were the ones to start us off as an experiment. I'm not saying which stage of that development is more possible, but basing the theory on the fact that we can't see them, doesn't make sense to me.
turbochimps The reason why we generally assume that us not being able to see them means that they don't exist is that a civilization that is more advanced than ours is gonna kick out a ton of heat. This might sound strange but a K2 civilization (one that uses all the energy produced by it's sun) would spit out a lot of infrared radiation. We would be able to detect this as a star that seems to only glow in the infrared. And it is very reasonable to expect that every civilization would start building a Dyson sphere, it's something we can do with today's technology and is basically just free energy. We would expect a civilization to build a Dyson swarm before it started seriously colonizing it's neighboring systems because there wouldn't be a reason to expand outwards without exploiting all the available resources in your system. Like how we are only starting to talk about space colonization now because we are starting to get close to exploiting all the resources on our planet. Now for your points: 1) It is extremely unlikely that another civilization would be this close to us technologically, like this is just a question of probabilities. It is much more likely that another civilization will be a million years in front of us than it is that it'll be 100 years in front of us. 2) Again they would most likely develop a Dyson sphere before moving on to another system. For them to be too far away for us to notice would require them being in another galaxy and that might as well mean that we'll never actually meet them. 3) This is impossible. To do this you'd have to contain all the radiation your civilization produces, which would require building a shell around your solar system, which is impossible to do without having it fall into your star. If you somehow managed to do this then you'd just slowly cook yourself since you'd have a bunch of radiation bouncing around inside. Also there'd be no reason to do this since by the time you got around to hiding anyone who may have feared would already have seen you so the only ones you'd be hiding from would be civilizations that are less advanced than your and therefor less of a threat. All the same problems apply if they built a sphere around our solar system. Not to mention we'd notice the pixelation at some point. 4) There'd be no reason to do this for anything other than altruistic reasons, if you want a planet and it is inhabited it's much simpler to just throw an asteroid into it to wipe out all life. A civilization that has figured out space travel wouldn't be able to gain anything from us by keeping us alive. If they wanted more habitat it would be way easier to just dissemble the entire planet and build orbital habitats out of the resources gained. And if they were doing it for altruistic reasons then I'd like to invite you to look around at the world and seriously tell me that it is being led by people who want the best for us. If that had been the case wouldn't those people have at the very least prevented things like Trump winning the election? Even if they just want us to get to space and don't care about the human suffering then they wouldn't have let someone who wants to stop NASA get in and someone who in general is a science denier. 5) If that's the case it would most likely be in the form of an ancestor simulation and in that case we still shouldn't expect to find any aliens in our universe.
@@0Ploxx I suggest that the rapidly completing 6th Great Extinction is the barrier we created that we shall not pass. Would guess that opportunity for self extermination presented by advancing from challenged species to dominant species is the major filter from one end of the universe to the other. So sucessful that we fail.
you have no idea. Aliens are 100% aware of our existence and do not plan on revealing themselves anytime soon. And rather they probably see no point in it. Why would they ruin something and create worry. Humans are not as smart as they think they are, the first thing they think of when imaging an intelligent species is them pursuing evil by creating tyranny in this world. Intelligent species will most likely see no point in that and want peace through out the world. There are also things that you cannot comprehend that you will say is not true when we are just blind as human. There are things faster than light, there is more within infinite imagination somewhat like the multiverse theory. but either way if there is more “like us” they are definitely watching us and are way smarter than us
We might just be the first species, think of it this way. Our universe is pretty new. And we're only ~12000 years in with progression (as humans and by progress I mean actually progress of our civilization). Could be that other life could take longer or that their environments aren't optimal enough to develop a civilization.
In 3:11 The video takes it for granted the reason we have not come into contact with other intelligent civilizations is because they all died out. I tend to disagree: Maybe they're on the other side of the Zone of Avoidance: Maybe they're on the Andromeda Galaxy and too far away to send a signal. Maybe they've achieves a comfortable lifestyle and decided they don't want to spend tax money on expansion. I mean, it could be several reasons, not just that they've died.
What if the great filter is simply a technological impossibility? What if, there are plenty of civilizations out there, but all are thousands/millions of light years away, so communication is literally impossible. We have never found anything (to my knowledge) that surpasses the speed of light, and the speed of light is relatively slow on the galactic scale. The "great filter" may just mean that species' can never and will never travel to other stars, not because they are annihilated but because the technology required to do so would have to be so advanced it may as well be impossible.
time makes any technology advanced enough, without even factoring that we are developing it as *humans*, what when we reach singularity? how many operations can a human brain do per hour compared to a computer? we are not even using using technology to improve technology for us, also we cannot even foresee the technology that lies a couple thousand years from now, considering the last 20 years were more revolutionary than the previous 500. Just wait.
It's an impossibility for today's technology yes. But to say even in 500,000 years we will never find a way to travel interstellar distances in reasonable human time scales? I think that's absurd. Plenty of technology we have today that at one time was thought to have been impossible
@@alberttrudeau1756 It's not just an impossibility for today's technology. It's an impossibility with everything we've observed in the universe. And yes, that may not be 100% comprehensive, but it is enough so that we can call faster-than-light travel the great barrier. The great barrier doesn't have to be completely unpassable. It's just extremely, extremely difficult to pass. So difficult that, within the observable universe, no species has ever passed it (yet) and thought of us as significant enough to make its presence known to us. And even if we do reach it in 500k years, its entirely possible that we'd be the first to do so. Though, its worth noting that humans at that point (assuming the planet is still habitable) would look very different from us. They may be so different that they may not regard us as an intelligent species, or so different that we don't recognize them as a species at all; they may not exist in the spacetime continuum at all.
I don’t think it would be that scary if we aren’t alone. I mean, even if intelligent aliens were able to go the speed of light, it would still take them 200 million years to go from the CLOSEST galaxy to us.
the only problem would be that diseases evolve specifically to infect a set number of species so theri diseases wouldn't know how to infect us and vice versa.
Everybody is alone until they learn to communicate with wildlife, which is the only form of communication that is void of lies and ulterior motives while human communication is mostly a complex power game and/or indication of various social ladders.
wtf ur talking about? aliens = doom ? yeah normie shit. theres fucking lot of galaxies, there has to be any kind of life, and if its smarter and advanced then it doesnt have to mean theyre going to be bad, i think they would like to contact us, if theyre advanced so much they can lazer us in a second. If we were advanced than we are now and we would find an alien life, we would be just good and try to alliance them. you know, if we were the dounf by the aliens, why would they be bad? they have community just like us and they wouldnt like it.
@@Ama3l we already crossed intelligence what I mean is a barrier that we didnt pass YET but WILL pass. or are you talking about the sheer number of stupid people in the world?
@@Tr0lliPop nonono What I mean is YOU'RE intelligent because you said "another option: the filter is ahead of us and we are gonna become the first absolute madlads to ever cross it"
Mnl Gllgs I’ve never tried a Hookah but it seems like shit. It looks like I would be puking after 1 hit. I hate being nic sick so I’m never touching that Thing.
Batmeth whats a better skill base to be knowledgeable about? flint knapping or mitochondria. ...see that's the tricky part... that's the trick and the trap. success is also luck, time place and circumstance, not just what you know.
I used to get existential crises at these videos but now they seem to lift my depression. I hate being told "people have it worse" or "it could be worse" but when it's like this...I realise how small my worries really are. We've got aliens and nuclear wars to worry about! Why should I be struggling to get out of bed? Heck, there could be aliens out there who _need our help._ And aside from that it just makes me amazed at how big and wonderful the world and universe are, and it makes me realise that whether that filter thing is ahead or behind of us, humans and the other living things on Earth are pretty fucking awesome for getting this far, right?
It could also be that we're just ahead of the curve. The universe is gonna last for an unimaginably long time, and we could be the first of many civilizations that will one day appear.
This might even be worse. If we were taking over the Galaxy i Imagine humanity to Act Like this: Scientist:"Sir,we finaly found other Lifeforms." Leader:"Do they obey us?' Scientist:"What? No." Leader:"Xenocide it is then."
@@LS9646 It's possible, but humanity as a whole is moving away from that sort of behavior. Peronally, I'd imagine it'll be more like the numerous uncontacted tribes around the world.
Theory: What if Aliens already visited Earth looking for life but did this millions of years ago before life happened and they just haven’t check up on us again.
There already is the theory of the Annunaki , which is has evidence in all religions above a certain age but is so fantasy esc it doesn't really sound credible
@@spiderycider The term "alien" doesn't just mean extraterrestrial life. It can also mean a stranger, or really anything that doesn't really belong. Obviously, only we know that we are called "humans," so in any case, they would just call us "aliens." Just like if there was an alien species out there called the "A'afuhe" species, we wouldn't know that. We would still just call them, and all other potential extraterrestrial life, "aliens."
I personally think the idea two cells going together was a filter or the idea that all are predators went extinct allowing us to become an advance civilization I feel like both are a great achievement
It's all a simulation in early access. There's only one faction at the moment. We get to figure out the bugs then they can add new factions later on as DLC.
That makes no sense. They wouldn't avoid us due to destiny. And if the galaxy is buzzing with advanced life, it would only take ONE SINGLE rogue alien to break the rules and say, SCREW IT I'M MAKING CONTACT.
Hammed, no one guarantees there is a filter. It's just that brains bigger than ours are trying to figure out the answer to The Great Silence. Check out "fermi paradox" on TH-cam. I recommend John Michael Godier, he's got a fantastic futurist science channel and a great Fermi video.. Oh.. And anyone who thinks they've figured out the Fermi Paradox... Hasn't thought about it enough (it's why it's called a paradox... The more you analyse it the more the answers conflict.. It's quite interesting). Check out those videos. Cheers
@@heavypokelover5532 You know, scientists always tried to explain the world as we know it, starting with greek scholars and ending now with the modern physicists. Science is not really that melodramatic, it's just a neutral state, regardless of feelings. This is the true beauty of the exact sciences. No interpretation, no biases. So, that guy's comment really doesn't sum up this video's point at all.
Instead of a single great filter, a series of filters would make more sense, each decreasing the likelihood for a species to achieve galactic civilization
@@rodlopes4327 Not really. We haven't investigated anywhere near enough planets to know if they contain life or not. We still aren't certain Mars never had any life.
It's also possible the great filter could simply be the speed of light. Civilizations may have lived out the lifespans of their solar systems without breaking that barrier and never surviving the trip to the next habitable world. And if we happen to be between great filters, there may never be evidence of it.
Light isnt enough, say someone uses radio waves like we do, given enough time say i billion years from the older parts of the galaxy we would hear them today and be aware of the existence of life, but there is noyhing
True, if there had been any civilization that had similar technology to us, we should have detected their activity. If there were, then either they reached that point and died out, or moved to a transmission technology we can't detect. And those waves must have passed us by during a time when we couldn't listen. It also means such life doesn't come around very often, or as big as the universe is we would detect it all the time.
Ye, it's why I'm a happy followed of the theory that Artificial Intelligence is the next step in the evolution of life. There's biological limits on how much knowledge we can develope (and maintain usage of) in a given time frame. That's why the Printing Press, Computers and now the Internet, respectively, have given a massive boost to research of all kinds. We have the same brains we had 200k years ago, but our tools have become better. Thus, creating tools that are inherently more capable than us in every aspect (aka a true AI), would be the most advanced thing we can create to help us research. Of course, that 'tool' might then deduce that organic life is false in and on itself, but, honestly, if we were to succeed in creating a true, perfect AI, and that AI tells us we all need to die, then that's the kind of harsh reality we would actually have to accept as the right choice. Not that I actually expect the creation of such an AI at my life time. Not entirely sure it's possible at all.
I HIGHLY recommend Isaac Athur's Femi Paradox Compendium video for those that saw this. He goes through just about every conceivable factor that could affect the creation of life as we know it. Everyhting from techtonic plates to the influence of things like Jupiter and the Moon. It's possible that there is no paradox at all, and no great filters behind us. Instead there have been hundreds or thousands of different minor filters, each with varying chances to occur. When all are combined, the odds become significant enough to rival the sheer size of the galaxy.
Easier explanation: life is hard but not rare. Most life forms in ways that doesn't lend itself to big brains. For example, we wouldn't exist if not for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. But also, the universe is very young and most of the life that will develope in it hasn't yet. We, as humans, could actually be one of the ancient races of our universe.
I feel like if its a question of probabilities, then the galaxy is big enough to assume that it can happen again. This whole idea of a big filter is dependant on the fact that we havent recieved any proof yet. I think we simply havent been able to look hard enough.
@@desireandfire nah intelligent always win the only thing that danger to us is another more intelligent species or being in that case the AI is a really threat to us the moment it born
It might sound exaggerated of how amazing the mitochondria's relationship with another cell and that this was the start of cells evolving to eventually become us (me). You guys are doing (in my opinion) Nobel prise for inspiring our future scientists and informing the the stubborn, know-it-all masses. I salute everyone at Kurzgesagt
Skypandakicks hi me you me but a different time line and life you me I’m you were every one and every thing and every body dead two hitler/everybodythatdiedbyhim/abraham/ Jesus’s,yourdad,yourmom,
Advanced life on the next steps might be unrecognizable to us. Ray Bradbury did a good short story about two energy-beings wisfully remembering when they had arms and legs
@Delon Duvenage To be honest with you, I have never read the Bible. Your comment makes me want to give it a shot though, it sounds like it is enlightening
@Delon Duvenage I understand to a small extent what you may be referring to with the bible. I have given Christianity a chance before...it was not enlightening for me. that being said though, I strongly believe it is because the vast majority of people, both religious and non-religious, and those in between, simply misinterpret the bible, I believe the same goes for the Quran, and the other well known religious books. People naturally see things as they want to, and as they see fit. It is a natural flaw that just about every human being makes. It is most definitely understandable, yet not excusable. IT is not excusable simply because in life, there is little, if any room for excuses, it simply isn't beneficial, in any capacity or form that I can imagine. I have made excuses my whole life, I still continue to - just because I do it does not mean I agree with it at all, or that I agree 100%. I am happy for you that the bible has enlightened you, religion in general is suitable for many, but for many it is not. I'm certain that many people do not even realize that religion is not entirely good for them, but at the same time I think that certain aspects of religion would benefit many people, more or less. Don't make the same mistake as many others have, still do, and will continue to do - do not only allow yourself to see through your lens, to see things only as the way that you prefer, embrace the fact that there are so many things that we do not know, and things that we cannot currently comprehend even. Just because you don't have all the answers (not a single human does, and likely not a single human ever will, same goes for any other living being) does not mean that your beliefs are entirely invalid, chances are that at least some aspect of your beliefs is at least somewhat valid. Emphasis on the "at least" Much love from across the isle, my fellow human :D
About what exactly? About the fact that even if we somehow go from type 0 civilization to type 1 in the next 1000 years (for which there is 15% chance of susses), we are still going to go extinct?
@Brownie Amanteigado I've heard this self-deprecating thought process before. It's not a very positive way to view the universe if you hold that position in my opinion. To hold the human race with such contempt. No doubt we are flawed and have huge issues to be solved, but it's no reason to liken our entire race to a virus.
Scenario 3: there are more than one filter Everything we've been through and perhaps about to go through requires extreme luck -The creation of life: it just happened that molecules were arranged into a self-replicating structure -The creation of the first complex cell: it just happened that a cell swallowed another cell, agreed to live together and continued that structure -The creation of the first multicellular organism: it just happened that nany cells stuck together and form a survivable complex -The creation of the first vertebrate: it just happened that an organism developed a hard bone structure making it possible to be much larger and more complex -The creation of the first land vertebrate: it just happened that a fish came on land and evolved to be able to live there -The reign of mammals: it just happened that a large enough meteor destroyed more than 75% of life, creating an opportunity for new creatures to evolve and thrive -The creation of intelligence: it just happened that an organism with enough intelligence to create tools survived against many natural threats and discovered fire... -In the future there'll be many more filters, probably climate change/mass extinction/etc.
@@BrokenKO I certainly find God just as likely as the innumerable odds of life developing on its own. But the innate problem with figuring out how things came to be is that we can only build from what we know in the present (and a very limited knowledge of the past)
The probability of all these happened randomly nearly equals the probability of you just hit random keys at your keyboard and they became this meaningful text. A normal person who is open minded easily says it is imposible to happen by itself when there is so small odds like 1/10^20. We accept, in our daily life, these extreme extreme small odds actually imposible to happen.(that is why we need to have infinite paralel universes to life emerge randomly by itself.) But when its about God, some people chose to think all these extreme extreme extreme small odds can happen randomly by itself:)
@@lhordkentbasubas9917 It's a planetary event, according to one of my friends. As explained in the video, it's challenge or danger so hard to overcome, that any theoretical extraterrestrial species that's come to it has been eradicated. This could be due to war or similar conflicts, technology becoming too dangerous to control, a fundamental step in early cellular evolution that's REALLY RARE (the example used is the evolution of the Mitochondria in early Hunter Cellular lifeforms, which allowed for more complex organisms due to the increased energy budget)... there are probably more examples but those are the ones that people tend to think of when they think about The Great Filter(TM).
They sort of have to. If not, we'd all be smart and depressed at the same time. Kurzgesagt as a channel knows this, and they pull each and every one of their videos off with a positive note, leaving us with knowledge and a decent enough outlook on life to just maybe do something with it.
Thanks for actually acknowledging those probabilities are unknown. It's frustrating when people say, "Well the universe is so massive of course there are other civilizations out there". The very act of life forming could be such a low probability that we literally could be the only planet with life in the entire universe. Those who watch star trek don't want to even consider this possibility, but we actually don't know how life spontaneously forms on a planet. Much less evolved to the point that you can have a sentient species. Evolution itself has huge holes right now as the probability of proteins even forming is a genetic near impossibility based on random mutations. Either proteins forming were insanely lucky (meaning the rest of the universe is screwed) or our understanding of random mutations and evolution is incorrect.
An interesting thing about the great oxygenation event (which predated and enabled the development of multicelular life) is that it's a strong candidate for being The Great Filter. Physics is physics, and therefore organic chemistry is organic chemistry. Therefore the early life on any planet is going to have a chance to stumble onto photosynthesis. The thing is the early pre-photosynthesis Earth was being kept warm by methane, but that had to be coming from somewhere. Quite possibly early single cell bacteria itself. Once oxygen production really got going and oxygen started leaking out of the oceans into the atmosphere it bound up all that methane into other compounds and caused a near global ice age. That presents early life with two different ticking time bombs. If life waits too long to start producing oxygen that thickening blanket of methane eventually turns Earth into Venus. Broils the planet and kills everything. On the other side if life figures out that trick too early then the resulting ice age is even worse, and if life is completely wiped out then when volcanic and solar activity melts things again what's left isn't the same primordial soup because of all the oxygen reacting to things. The initial state of free organic molecules is quite possibly a one-time opportunity. We threaded a needle that might be a _lot_ narrower than we realize.
Well why do every single et need to follow the evolutionary path that we did While all this is correct But they may not need go down the same evolutionary path
@@freniisammii Just look up The Great Oxygenation Disaster if you wanna learn more. It is still a hypothesis that this lead to a snowball Earth scenario but it's a pretty strong one. What's more it's suspected that the subsequent melting of the ice and erosion of land washed a ton of nutrients into the ocean and that this could have been the trigger for the development of multi-cellular life. So this might even be a necessary step or at least something that sped up evolution by billions of years.
Another possibility: Human civilization becomes inter stellar and over time we forget each other and soon start fighting each other just like how humans evolved from Africa and look we're we are now
Seems plausible. Who's to say that "aliens" well more so UFOs aren't us time traveling from the future on some sort of temporal no touch field trip? Who's to say there wasn't a super advanced civilization that figured out space travel and left the planet hundreds of thousands if not millions of years ago?
7:47 If we discovered ruins of ancient civilizations, we would have an opportunity to learn about the cause of their downfall. We can learn from their mistakes and thus, attempt to prevent the same thing from happening to humanity.
Or we could also dodge their misfortune, by diving right into something that caused the destruction of civilization before them, that they learned to avoid. It all repeats
What if the intergalactic empire already existed and fell? We are all what's left of what used to be a beautiful empire. Humans spread across the cosmos. Destroying themselves, setting the entire race back to the stone age.
It is dangerous indeed. There are so many ancient ruins in earth too, but human being still is alive and more developed. Similarly, those ancient ruins of ancient alien civilizations is a proof that the descendants of those aliens are still alive and more developed than ever
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Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell Hey one quick quesion. What if we and some other living species are past the great filter. That would mean that maybe we are not the first but those who are infact the first, arent a type 3 nor a type 2 civilization so we cant know for sure. That means the filter we have passed but we arent the first to do so. Right?
@@szpgeri isn't the great filter is veryyy hard to pass?
1 big omission... we might not be evolved enough to identify super civilizations. The predicate that we observe and understand every single cosmical object is wrong. Also, we have no knowledge of how harvesting a star or a galaxy could be done, how could we identify it is being done? (We barely manage to identify planets around stars a few decades ago) Plus we are still receiving "old" lights from far away places of the universe. The further we look the older it is and therefore the more our view of what exists right now at these places is out dated. Maybe harvesting a galaxy has already been done somewhere far away but we just have not receive the light to show us it has yet. Many more hypothesis that can be made that remove the fermi paradox.
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We are living our great filter now. Humanities greatest challenge is now. If we can overcome the next 100 years without destroying the planet, I believe we have a solid chance of becoming a multi-planetary species.
Real Engineering
I agree 100% and that’s why I am subscribed to you! Haha!
No pressure then! But I think life on Earth has always been close to disaster. The Toba Catastrophy almost wiped out humanity, the release of oxygen almost destroyed life on Earth. This time arround we have science, enginering and the capacity to intentionally change the world we live in. It's no longer a game of chance; we can climb the next great filter, not just stumble through it.
Yeah i agree. Maybe a little more than the next 100 years, 150 or so, but definitly something of that magnitude.
Love your channel but will disagree on that one, we have no idea if 100 years is enough or it is a million to overcome, our planet will exist potentially much longer, and we still do not posses the power of destruction of that scale, we may wipe out each other and that is most likely scenario for the great filter but we may not assume that a brief moment as 100 years will reveal the outcome of our deeds.
I would say that our great filter was Cold War. We were really close to all-out nuclear warfare back then.
Third option: There isn't a filter and all the galaxy level civilizations avoid us and hide because we're *that* planet.
Wait what? What do u mean by that planet?
@@hououinkyouma6629 Nobody wants to be *_that_* planet
@@LunaDelTuna I'm still confused
@@hououinkyouma6629 Everybody knows THAT planet. If you don't, then it is probably you.
Lol
The lag would be insane if you’re trying to match make with someone in the other side of your galaxy.
Mann imagine all the internet complications-
Not to mention where you would meet
As I recall, the estimate is that it would take around 10,000 years for packets to travel from point A to point B.
just make 6G
Yeah, I think it would be a little difficult playing fortnight with them online :p
What if the filter is internal discourse? Almost everyone yearns for world peace, because world peace would allow us to focus on the small problems slowly breaking us apart. We would be able to speed up research immensely with cooperation, and we would never be under the threat of war, dictators, or lack of resources. But internal discourse is nearly impossible to eliminate, since that would mean 8 billion minds would have to converge on one single idea. Only a hivemind would be able to solve this, and that might have problems on its own. Technology allows a single being to become so powerful that it separates one from another. But space travel is impossible without these inventions. The world is one bomb away from dying out completely. The launch of one nuke would trigger every other country that has access to fire their own. Only 50 25,000 megaton bombs would send the world into a nuclear winter killing crops.
25,000 megaton bombs don’t exist. The most powerful ever was only 57 megatons.
But hive minds do exist in life dont they? Ants and bees being two examples. Isn’t it small minded to assume all intelligent life the same as us? Couldn’t a hive mind species from the great beyond exist and become intelligent?
@@fart63 but even in those groups there is likely some discourse, as i said before, one individual getting power through technology (which is inevitable if you ever want to travel through space) sets the entire thing off balance. Bees and ants dont have this technology, and arent intelligent.
@@fart63 Sure. In fact, if we found alien life I think it would be our individuality that surprises them most. I feel the big problem with that just being commonplace is the fact that things like greed, territorialism, and the desire to conquer were all things that pushed humans (and possibly much of alien life) to planet-wide dominance; much like how sugars tasting sweet was desirable when it was hard to come by, but now often leads to humans eating much more than they should.
Honestly, ants and bees do amazing things for their small size and lack of opposable thumbs. Bees construct hanging complexes, and ants build theirs underground. Bees refine pollen into nutritious honey to feed their colonies, and some species of ants use agriculture to raise fungi. Frankly, I think the main thing limiting them from becoming a dominant species is their very instinctual behavior.
So it's not impossible to pass through this barrier, just hard - and that's exactly what a great filter is.
The idea of countries is the songle most devastating thing to humans in my opinion
I like the Guy who talks in the videos he sounds so calm
He sounds calm because he doesn't get it.
My man katakuri 😤💯
Yeah even when he's talking about the destruction of humanity
JN Dunno
He’s German. Why the fuck do you think his username is Kurzgesagt? Dumbass
Jevilz hey katakuri
Everyone: Please... have mercy... No more existential crisis,
Kurzgezagt: Creates existential crisis playlist
hanson chen i read this in the narrator’s voice
hanson chen this is great I love it
yeah i used to adore this channel now I'm at war with it XD my mind isn't liking this living being anymore XD
I feel relaxed.
Me:AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sure if we ask the filter nicely, it will move out of the way
You can't ask a filter to move its not a tangible thing tho lo.
@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 r/whooosh
We should send our best Canadians
The fermi paradox is only a theory
Lmao
While it's constructive to think out this problem, it's important to realize that we really have no idea whether the filter is behind or in front of us or which is more likely. There are so many variables associated with the concept of a great filter, almost all of which we don't know. Even the world's leading scientists would just be throwing darts at a colossal dart board. The emergence of the first eukaryotic cell could have had a one-in-trillions chance of happening, then there's the step to intelligence, the survival and evolution of that intelligence...the likelihood of each step occurring as it did is practically incalculable because we just don't have any relevant, reliable data to reference. Considering the probability of the great filter being ahead of us is impossible as we are now.
Talking about the colossal dartboard, could someone get me to understand WHY finding extinct alien life says something bad about the filters? Lets say we find dead microbes on Mars; it would mean whatever killed THEM didn't kill US. Would that be something POSITIVE??!! Lets say we find something like an extinct fish or dog or cat on Titan or Europa. That means whatever killed THEM WASN'T ABLE TO KILL US. Why shouldn't we consider that something GOOD?? I don't see how finding extinct alien life on another planet could be interpreted as BAD. Is there something here I'm not getting?
0:01 I skipped "Imagine" and i was horrified
*Oh no*
Saaame
Jack Korbin little genius
Omg😂
Lmao.
Thanks once again for the highly anticipated monthly morning existential mind blow.
oh my stars it's jesus
Aren't you dead?
Hey, i saw you at EverydayAstronaut's stream.
Yo get outa here, imposter!
Hey, thanks for the whole cross thing. Really appreciate it.
I can't imagine if this Kurzgesagt narrator is replaced. His voice plays important part in the mood of their videos.
Excellent point "in a nutshell" you have me smiling here. It seems digitalized to the precise ear.
They could use the guy who played Ultron / Jarvis.
It’s sooooo satisfying
are you his wife posting this so he gets a raise
The animations in this have my heart, they're just so good!!!
It’s actually crazy to think that we could be the only species to make it this far. Life really could just be that rare and difficult to overcome
humanity was born at the beginning of the end of the universe, if we are the first group of INTELLIGENT life on a planet i would be very surprised.
@@curlyfrysoncbmeth3949 it’s like you didn’t watch the video lmao
The universe is so inconceivably huge that there’s no fucking way we are alone, in all honesty we’ve probably been contacted or at least observed by many species of other life
Our galaxy is literally a speck in the grand scheme of things, and I swear to fuck I saw a ufo with lights that are almost tentacle in appearance, nicknamed the jellyfish ufo as first documented in Russia. I thought I hallucinated until I researched it
It might be but when you have millions of tries at it then no, we surely arent the only species this far, at all.. Its statistically highly improbable.. These all stupid science speculations are usually not taking into account how resilient life can be.. Its like the phrase you might have heard in the jurassic park.... Life finds a way.. Its pretty much true or we might not be here, or other animals at least if you would like to think that we re just some alien experiment.. A really boring one at that
If there is another advanced civiliization in the universe, I really can't wait to see all the memes they've come up with
Hopefully they even have a sense of humor, but its unlikely.
When the galaxy controlling super Alien doesn’t have memes
There seems to be no intelligent life here
Daniel Woods It’s more likely than unlikely, if they exist.
They will surely be the dankest and highest level memes ever conceived
Grumpy gazorpazorp! Ha!
The catchphrase of humans: These possibilities are terrifying but... I think my great grandchildren can deal with it.
At this point, it's going to be our children.
That's my profile picture lol
kidmosey Ignorance is bliss.
It's crazy to think that in some people's lifetimes they have seen the progression from horse drawn carriages, to cars, to airplanes, to putting humans on the moon. All while living through two world wars.
Just image what we might see.
@F G I would like to say that overall the level of intelligence and knowledge has improved. But sometimes it doesn't feel like those statistics and such are really telling the truth. Personally I hold out hope that the people who are classified as the "stupid" and so on that don't think through things at least have their own reasons and can problem solve.
Though with the fact that school is zero learning and all parroting it seems nowadays the only way people really get problem solving skills is one of two main ways. Either 1, they don't have the generic super protective parent and decide to try a bunch of stuff out (which has psychologists and better places to "play" being done some places) or 2, they've gotten to the age where they don't have a choice and have to learn to take care of themselves. Sorta like one of the lines in Matilda from the narrator "She learned what most people learn in their early 30s. How to take care of herself".
Not sure how well it holds up nowadays but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
What is if we find a more advanced civilization? If we don't think about how they treat us, isn't it a sign that there isn't that much of a great filter?
no if that happened it would likely be aliens from a nearby solar system if anything, and would be very bad and practically guarantee that there is a great filter
If we find a more advanced civilization, that would be bad, because if it would not be almost impossible to get to that stage of advancement, we would have already encountered alot more advanced civilizations than only 1
it's a common proposition, along with a great filter, to the Fermi paradox. Why we haven't seen any evidence of other civilizations? Because there is a very advanced civilization in our galaxy that systematically destroys all civilizations as they reach the technological point of beginning interstellar travel or some other technological milestone. Maybe, our own curiosity is our doom.
@@viltzer8787 i was about to say the best scenario for us is that we found multiple civilization, all more advanced than us, but now i think its the worst scenario ever
What the video is postulating is that, if other advanced lifeforms and civilizations existed somewhere out in the observable universe, we should be seeing something from them. The fact that we aren't suggests that life in the observable universe is either less complex (just developing), dies off before building complex societies (hit the filter earlier) or is non-existent (at least, in an observable way: a lot of what we are looking at is millions or billions of years old information). There's also the chance that there's life so complex that it shields itself from observation to avoid interacting with lifeforms like us... the militant kind
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
- Arthur C. Clarke
Not really. If we are alone that means all universe is ours to shape. We can also do all type of species we want, like tentacle monsters and stuff. And if we are not alone maybe its some cute anime girl aliens that looking for male protagonists around the universe to f*ck with. That wouldn't be bad isn't it. Arthur C. Clarke is a pessimist anyway.
@@azel5594 yeah cuzzo ur alone on that one
@@azel5594 kinda cringe
If we can stick around for half a planet's lifetime, maybe we've got a fair chance!? If we're the only intelligent race ever, or, so far, it's going to be millenia before we get very far past our own solar system. We cant even decide where our Solar System ends, or, exactly what constitutes a planet!
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
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Finally saw 'Mitochondria: the power house of cell'. Our schools prepared us.
Lmao I was waiting for that.
Lol me too 😅
Only reason it prepared us, is because it prepared him which prepared the generation before him and so on
Yes
i found that by memes not school owo
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Were obviously not
Well that's necessarily true, there's a pretty good chance that we are actually alone in the universe, this theory is backed by quite a few things, which if you took like 10 seconds to go and google, you'll find that the answer to whether or not we're alone in the universe is not that obvious.
Oh and also it's "We're", not "were"
@@barakdeathsong4265 we are obviously not alone
The fact that how enormously large the universe is , there HAS to be another planet pf our kind where people are living or maybe some lifeforms wont even need earth like habitat , depends on the variation that obviously will be different
I'm not saying I think we're alone in the universe, I'm just saying that there's a possibility that we are, I myself hope that aliens do exist, but I also look at facts, and the fact is that there's a chance there are no aliens, however small a chance that is.
Another option is mentioned in the Three Body Problem: Advanced civilizations that don't hide effectively are immediately destroyed by other advanced civilizations.
Ah yes the dark forest
What if we just took the Great Filter...
_And just pushed it somewhere else?_
*_SNEAK 100_*
That plan might just be crazy enough... *TO GET US ALL KILLED!*
Just push it forward we can deal with it later
The Internet Police switch the _filter_ to something more trendy lol
Jayson Klein it won’t tbh
Just imagine that somewhere out in the universe there is an intelligent being thinking about the same thing!
Its 100% certain that is happening
@@CommandoFighterPilot if the universe is infinite there must be another civilization somewhere out there! Matter the fact, if it actually is infinite there must be a civilization that is identical to ours.
@@phipsy6941 that's exactly the reason why I said that mate
@@CommandoFighterPilot but it's not infinite. If it would you would live again. The chances are small that your atoms will regroup in the same environment but hey even the smallest possibility will happen in infinity.
@@phipsy6941 its expanding infinetely, there's a difference
Colonize the solar system? *Britain intensifies*
We rule the sea, we rule the sky, why not rule space?
They should make a film of British controlling the solar system and have like a 1880s theme to it lol. Would be so good
HAHAHHHAA
*RULE BRITANIA*
*British Grenadiers intensifies*
so the best scenario is that we are alone here, and it is our mission to expand and even create new civilizations
Self-appointed mission, at that! What makes such a mission compelling, exactly?
@@keithprice475 It's called the Human Spirit
@@manoz6194 You are right, except that the Spirit in question is not at all limited to us - it is the inbuilt Spirit of life - all conscious beings - for more life, more awareness, more knowledge, more everything! There is no reason whatsoever to think that we are in any way unusual in having it to the extent we do, and no reason to fear that other beings having it will detract from us, far less doom us!
"it may be wise to leave them alone for a while."
Perhaps, *we* are the ones being left alone for a while...
gsilva220 oh fuck u doing me a bamboozle and educate at same time
Good point
That's always lowkey been my thought
Hmmm... I like that. Perhaps we are the ones being left alone for a while. Good one mate
Comedy is how we survive... Carl Sagan saying ''that would just be showing off'' to whether we should have added some music by Bach to the Voyager Space Probes is all well and good. But Comedy is how we'll get along, manage the planet and the people & organisms on it properly, and how we might better get along with alien life.
Sex might have worked intra-specially beforehand, but it isn't going to do nearly as much for our existence beyond procreation within our own species once we venture into space. We need a lot more time and technology to get to creating fundamentally novel life-forms!
This assumes the filter that explains the fermi paradox is a local problem. The "filter" may simply be the tyranny of distance (thus time). The universe may well be teeming with life but the sheer distances and physical limits (c) make contact highly unlikely. We are adrift on a remote island in a sea that may well be populous.
underrated comment
Very well put
Yes, but that makes for a boring video, so they invented a bunch of bullshit instead of considering the most likely explanation.
Agreed. This video relies on numerous baseless assumptions. Fun watch though.
Except for the fact that time dilation will make you experience time at a slower pace compared to the rest of the universe. If you travel at C then you will experience no time at all and will immediately be where you want to go as soon as you take off.
"Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
If we are alone in the universe we can still try to play gods and create sentient life ourselves. We have nearly infinite time anyway.
Cancer Guy infinite time? So laughable 😂
Nihal Loumouh you know, even a million years is an infinite time for humanity, we've become sentient enough not so long ago.
@@cancerguy5435 it took us a few thousand years to get to this point so I gotta agree with you on that
Rohit Datir infinity is not even a number though, it's like comparing a lemon and blue color.
rewatching a bunch of these videos and I just noticed Cute King and his subjects were in this one. 2:58
The animations were mind blowing! It was completely worth the wait.
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The Science Biome *IMMACULATE ANIMATIONS*
Another Virtual Identity of Someone Who Isn't Me he has a video on how he does these
Is that why you blatantly copy them then?
Another Virtual Identity of Someone Who Isn't Me It looks like they might have used Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Animate
as the old saying goes: the dinosaurs went extinct because they didn't have a space program
Smart joke there i hope more things like this develop
Everyone is familiar with how the dinosaurs went out, as you allude to, being the massive asteroid or whatever 65 million years ago... But very few realize that it's happened to US too, and very recently. Search online for the cataclysms that began and ended the Younger Dryas. The data shows there must have been something that happened. It starts (some scientists working on this theory think) with the Hiawatha Crater.
Well in fairness you're not wrong there...
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@@Zorander2008 dude it was a joke
As a video editor who spends hours making videos, there is nothing more inspiring to watch than a Kurzgesagt episode.
+BanditRants please don't ever stop making videos. Finding content creators like you is super rare, and we need more quality content on this platform!
Checked out your channel not knowing what to expect, and I must say I am impressed!
BanditRants do you edit at Vox?
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How about the filter being more complex than a single event, but rather a long, difficult process that we're in the middle of and currently doing our best to get through
What if the filter is just space travel? There could be many happy, thriving solar systems where the species lives on all the planets in that solar system, but there isn't a galactic civilisation because stars are just stupidly far away from each other. That's a positive idea worth mentioning, surely.
yeah, what if one of the big things all other civilizations discover is that if you enter a black hole, you end up in an eternal blow job universe. Cant ditch this backwater universe fast enough.
@@BazzBrother I agree. There is definitely an eternal blowjob universe and it is science and I am going to reincarnate until I go there
Naah, because in a decade or two, we are on our way to colonize moon, mars and then titan..
@@varyolla435 “as well as develop the requisite technology” But is the requisite technology actually possible? I feel like this video along with many other videos on this channel makes a ton of assumptions…
@@knightmare21627 A few people on Mars isn't going to fix the problems on the planet. Especially if such innovation is made by a private corporation. We're doomed.
The step on this staircase that took the longest on earth (and thus is a more likely filter) was the step from single celled to multi-celled organisms. There were single celled organism on earth less than a billion years after the planet formed (possibly before that.) But multi-cellular life only showed up about 600 million years ago. So there were around 3 billion years with only single-celled life...and two billion of that had eukaryotic single-celled organisms.
Here's hoping we're through that filter. Though, my guess is that there's more than one :-)
Yeah, my personal opinion is that the move from single-celled to multi-celled is the great filter making life in the universe uncommon. I'm sure we'll find bacterial life elsewhere in our own solar system sooner or later, but finding any that have made the shift that we did with mitochondria is unlikely.
Here's what I don't get from the video... it seems that it's based on the notion that if we can't see them with today's technology, they doesn't exist. I mean isn't it possible (even likely) that there are many other civilisations in the universe, but we simply struggle to see very far into it (which we do), let alone to the point where we even have the ability to confirm life. It's quite likely there are other life forms, that have not yet developed beyond humans today, but could it also not be possible that there are other civilisations that could be FURTHER in their development... examples in leaps of progression: 1) They are where humans will be in 500 years, still struggling to colonise other planets 2) Colonised other planets, but are just too far away for us to even see 3) That they have a visual filter on us to stop us seeing them 4) They're controlling us (in an altruistic or evil way)! 5) Were the ones to start us off as an experiment. I'm not saying which stage of that development is more possible, but basing the theory on the fact that we can't see them, doesn't make sense to me.
vlogbrothers some people and cultures and religions in this world still seem as basic and primitive as single celled organsims
Which means we need to work together to succeed!
turbochimps The reason why we generally assume that us not being able to see them means that they don't exist is that a civilization that is more advanced than ours is gonna kick out a ton of heat. This might sound strange but a K2 civilization (one that uses all the energy produced by it's sun) would spit out a lot of infrared radiation. We would be able to detect this as a star that seems to only glow in the infrared. And it is very reasonable to expect that every civilization would start building a Dyson sphere, it's something we can do with today's technology and is basically just free energy. We would expect a civilization to build a Dyson swarm before it started seriously colonizing it's neighboring systems because there wouldn't be a reason to expand outwards without exploiting all the available resources in your system. Like how we are only starting to talk about space colonization now because we are starting to get close to exploiting all the resources on our planet.
Now for your points:
1) It is extremely unlikely that another civilization would be this close to us technologically, like this is just a question of probabilities. It is much more likely that another civilization will be a million years in front of us than it is that it'll be 100 years in front of us.
2) Again they would most likely develop a Dyson sphere before moving on to another system. For them to be too far away for us to notice would require them being in another galaxy and that might as well mean that we'll never actually meet them.
3) This is impossible. To do this you'd have to contain all the radiation your civilization produces, which would require building a shell around your solar system, which is impossible to do without having it fall into your star. If you somehow managed to do this then you'd just slowly cook yourself since you'd have a bunch of radiation bouncing around inside. Also there'd be no reason to do this since by the time you got around to hiding anyone who may have feared would already have seen you so the only ones you'd be hiding from would be civilizations that are less advanced than your and therefor less of a threat. All the same problems apply if they built a sphere around our solar system. Not to mention we'd notice the pixelation at some point.
4) There'd be no reason to do this for anything other than altruistic reasons, if you want a planet and it is inhabited it's much simpler to just throw an asteroid into it to wipe out all life. A civilization that has figured out space travel wouldn't be able to gain anything from us by keeping us alive. If they wanted more habitat it would be way easier to just dissemble the entire planet and build orbital habitats out of the resources gained. And if they were doing it for altruistic reasons then I'd like to invite you to look around at the world and seriously tell me that it is being led by people who want the best for us. If that had been the case wouldn't those people have at the very least prevented things like Trump winning the election? Even if they just want us to get to space and don't care about the human suffering then they wouldn't have let someone who wants to stop NASA get in and someone who in general is a science denier.
5) If that's the case it would most likely be in the form of an ancestor simulation and in that case we still shouldn't expect to find any aliens in our universe.
2018: we dont know if the filter is in front or behind us
2020: Its right in front of us
Those who stayed home will pass the barrier
@@0Ploxx Introverts ...
Assemble
*DAWN OF THE THIRD DAY*
*_weebs, assemble_*
@@0Ploxx I suggest that the rapidly completing 6th Great Extinction is the barrier we created that we shall not pass. Would guess that opportunity for self extermination presented by advancing from challenged species to dominant species is the major filter from one end of the universe to the other. So sucessful that we fail.
I honestly think we are the first species and the great filter is a great obstacle and that the empty space is the obstacle to reach other life
you have no idea. Aliens are 100% aware of our existence and do not plan on revealing themselves anytime soon. And rather they probably see no point in it. Why would they ruin something and create worry. Humans are not as smart as they think they are, the first thing they think of when imaging an intelligent species is them pursuing evil by creating tyranny in this world. Intelligent species will most likely see no point in that and want peace through out the world. There are also things that you cannot comprehend that you will say is not true when we are just blind as human. There are things faster than light, there is more within infinite imagination somewhat like the multiverse theory. but either way if there is more “like us” they are definitely watching us and are way smarter than us
@@Jordan-qb4wn They saw twitter and decided we are not worth it
@@hellotheregenerealkenodies5108 *And Tiktok
We might just be the first species, think of it this way. Our universe is pretty new. And we're only ~12000 years in with progression (as humans and by progress I mean actually progress of our civilization). Could be that other life could take longer or that their environments aren't optimal enough to develop a civilization.
In 3:11 The video takes it for granted the reason we have not come into contact with other intelligent civilizations is because they all died out. I tend to disagree: Maybe they're on the other side of the Zone of Avoidance: Maybe they're on the Andromeda Galaxy and too far away to send a signal. Maybe they've achieves a comfortable lifestyle and decided they don't want to spend tax money on expansion. I mean, it could be several reasons, not just that they've died.
I feel like earth and our solar system is “the hood” and other life know not to turn down that street.
Lmao
me and da homies just tryna make it out the hood
Yeah were the dumb aliens that nuked are own and tried setting our own atmosphere on fire with nukes
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@@searchfluoridemakesyoustup5883 not necessarily, energy leaves the atmosphere and earth would die out eventually, just much later
Life: *exists*
The universe: We need to build a WALL
And México Will pay for it
Lmfao
@@marcosmilicijapenotti3162 Those damn space Mexicans, taking all our planets.
I see you didn't skip the obvious joke
LETS MAKE THE MILKY WAY GREAT AGAIN
Why not just strafe jump around the great filter? Big brain plays
Aelyx Targaryen Deserves more likes
@@slytherin4096 thx xx
why not do an accelerated back hop off a ramp at an angle to strafe past the filter at high speeds and skip the cut scene DeSinc style
1:17
Pro gamer move
No joke, this is one of my favorite TH-cam videos EVER!!
What if the great filter is simply a technological impossibility? What if, there are plenty of civilizations out there, but all are thousands/millions of light years away, so communication is literally impossible. We have never found anything (to my knowledge) that surpasses the speed of light, and the speed of light is relatively slow on the galactic scale.
The "great filter" may just mean that species' can never and will never travel to other stars, not because they are annihilated but because the technology required to do so would have to be so advanced it may as well be impossible.
Wait that's a good question
alcubierre drive
time makes any technology advanced enough, without even factoring that we are developing it as *humans*, what when we reach singularity? how many operations can a human brain do per hour compared to a computer? we are not even using using technology to improve technology for us, also we cannot even foresee the technology that lies a couple thousand years from now, considering the last 20 years were more revolutionary than the previous 500. Just wait.
It's an impossibility for today's technology yes. But to say even in 500,000 years we will never find a way to travel interstellar distances in reasonable human time scales? I think that's absurd. Plenty of technology we have today that at one time was thought to have been impossible
@@alberttrudeau1756 It's not just an impossibility for today's technology. It's an impossibility with everything we've observed in the universe. And yes, that may not be 100% comprehensive, but it is enough so that we can call faster-than-light travel the great barrier. The great barrier doesn't have to be completely unpassable. It's just extremely, extremely difficult to pass. So difficult that, within the observable universe, no species has ever passed it (yet) and thought of us as significant enough to make its presence known to us.
And even if we do reach it in 500k years, its entirely possible that we'd be the first to do so.
Though, its worth noting that humans at that point (assuming the planet is still habitable) would look very different from us. They may be so different that they may not regard us as an intelligent species, or so different that we don't recognize them as a species at all; they may not exist in the spacetime continuum at all.
Either were alone
Or were not
Both equally terrifying
I don’t think it would be that scary if we aren’t alone. I mean, even if intelligent aliens were able to go the speed of light, it would still take them 200 million years to go from the CLOSEST galaxy to us.
We're*
Soraya Ahmadi But who says the there isint life in our galaxy. Or the closest star to our sun, alpha centauri
@@alexc5243 interstellar space travel isn't about going fast as light or slower its about bending space and time
Frosty And what makes you think we or any other species would be able to control that?
aliens: hey lets meet!
human: k
their diseases: its free real estate
our diseases: its free real estate
me: wears bio-suit
@@jesselapides4390 outstanding move
Bro we should send them the black plauge
@@swifferwetjet1_288 the senate will not approve such thing
the only problem would be that diseases evolve specifically to infect a set number of species so theri diseases wouldn't know how to infect us and vice versa.
I love to binge watch these videos! Even if I have seen them before I pick up something the second or third time around that I missed before!
Haven't you ever played spore? The great filter stopping you from reaching space stage is game crashes.
It's the Grox
Nostalgia from just thinking about the name
remember the great reveal at the end? :P
It's Steve that little shit.
Wow, my captains always get stick inside buildings when exploring planets.
"Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
-Arthur C. Clarke
- At least one unoriginal TH-camr under every single damn video discussing alien life.
yep
Everybody is alone until they learn to communicate with wildlife, which is the only form of communication that is void of lies and ulterior motives while human communication is mostly a complex power game and/or indication of various social ladders.
I love you!
I disagree. The fact we might be alone is so frightening
So either we're doomed or alone, no halfway. Just great.
wtf ur talking about? aliens = doom ? yeah normie shit. theres fucking lot of galaxies, there has to be any kind of life, and if its smarter and advanced then it doesnt have to mean theyre going to be bad, i think they would like to contact us, if theyre advanced so much they can lazer us in a second. If we were advanced than we are now and we would find an alien life, we would be just good and try to alliance them. you know, if we were the dounf by the aliens, why would they be bad? they have community just like us and they wouldnt like it.
DarkGalactic Did you watch the video?
Well, we might be doomed AND alone...
yes and it sucks @@lawconic1
@@kocour.micash I really hope u are correct, because if not we are doomed
This was my first video from Kurtzgesagt 5 years ago.
Congratulations on 10 years!
another option: the filter is ahead of us and we are gonna become the first absolute madlads to ever cross it
yES So intelligence
@@Ama3l we already crossed intelligence
what I mean is a barrier that we didnt pass YET but WILL pass.
or are you talking about the sheer number of stupid people in the world?
@@Tr0lliPop nonono What I mean is YOU'RE intelligent because you said "another option: the filter is ahead of us and we are gonna become the first absolute madlads to ever cross it"
@@Ama3l Oh, okay. Sorry for the misunderstanding :V
@@Ama3l who are you to be calling out someone else for their lack of intelligence when you used you're instead of the correct, your.
Can we all respect Kurzgesagt for a moment for their highquality 60 FPS animations?
Seriously, that’s some high definition stuff.
Willy ytr the higher the fps, the smoother the animation. clearly they use high fps as the animation is very smooth
Willy ytr you're pretty dense
@Willy ytr Try locking your game'a fps to 15, do you see any difference with 60?
sorry caveman xd
@Willy ytr bro there is a massive difference between 30fps and 60fps.... Have you even seen anything in 60fps yet?
Guy: does a neo around the filter
Kurzgasagt: NANI?!?!!
Are we just gonna not talk about the alien doing a sick bong rip at 7:31?
I guess not 😒
🤜🤛
Mnl Gllgs I’ve never tried a Hookah but it seems like shit. It looks like I would be puking after 1 hit. I hate being nic sick so I’m never touching that Thing.
@@Umamaahoe A friend told me you feel literally nothing, a waste of time
this is why I checked the comments
The Great Filter:
We can’t go under it
We can’t go over it
Oh well, guess we’ll have to go through it
Why not Go in the 4th dimension and appear on the other side?
Just build a bridge or something around it
Bear hunt..?
@@perrybateman2082 so i'm not the only one who understood that reference
@@jordancohen5349 For us it was a "dracula hunt"
The most important part of the video is learning that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Batmeth BYE
Dont let the haters get you down you have a wealth of knowledge Batmeth 👌👌😂
Batmeth I’m too late...
+Ann Oynmous it's a meme
Batmeth
whats a better skill base to be knowledgeable about? flint knapping or mitochondria.
...see that's the tricky part... that's the trick and the trap.
success is also luck, time place and circumstance, not just what you know.
Love the adventure time references 1:39
It's insane how much time you guys spend making a single video! Thank you!
JulianSMM I'm your first reply how do you do
C0D3M0NK3Y I'm doing well :)
And you?
JulianSMM I'm doing good a little tired but I'm doing good
Why was I the 420th like?
I enjoy too much your videos!! Thank you!
It's too early in the morning to have an existential crisis
It's never too early...
lol
lol
I used to get existential crises at these videos but now they seem to lift my depression. I hate being told "people have it worse" or "it could be worse" but when it's like this...I realise how small my worries really are. We've got aliens and nuclear wars to worry about! Why should I be struggling to get out of bed? Heck, there could be aliens out there who _need our help._
And aside from that it just makes me amazed at how big and wonderful the world and universe are, and it makes me realise that whether that filter thing is ahead or behind of us, humans and the other living things on Earth are pretty fucking awesome for getting this far, right?
if aliens need our help, they'd be screwed, we can't travel a hundred light years in a day.
Writers: Malicious AI?
Animators: drones with knives
I am scared 😣
one does not simply make such a hilarious comment
lol
Liam Oconnor we have no goal. Physics doesn't exist for a goal
Nice
I love this channel. Never get tired of watching this episode in particular.
Aliens: Why Human Discovery could be our end
Yeah if aliens sees us use our technology they might think we are stronger and more superior than them.
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@@lookinglikeabelugawhale338 why r yous trying to destroy our cover agent A-51
Okay I know that's a joke but it's pretty smart
It would be our end cause someone would turn them into some furry crap and make them delete the planet
Plot Twist: There is a filter, The Galactic alliance put it up to stop us from seeing beyond.
And you can only be a part of alliance if you can overcome the planetary disasters and ascend to other life suitable planets
Lol copied
Commenting because your verified
no its probably to stop us to make anti-pixelator
Thy are scared of us
Even to destroy us
Destroy us mean to destroy the whole universe cz we have a massive black whole in the earth crust
Kurzgesagt: the only channel that can make you depressed but at the same time inspire you to do something and make you actually learn something
Well.. uh-oh.
It could also be that we're just ahead of the curve. The universe is gonna last for an unimaginably long time, and we could be the first of many civilizations that will one day appear.
This might even be worse.
If we were taking over the Galaxy i Imagine humanity to Act Like this:
Scientist:"Sir,we finaly found other Lifeforms."
Leader:"Do they obey us?'
Scientist:"What? No."
Leader:"Xenocide it is then."
@@LS9646 It's possible, but humanity as a whole is moving away from that sort of behavior. Peronally, I'd imagine it'll be more like the numerous uncontacted tribes around the world.
This is definitely one of the possible answers to the Fermi Paradox.
How they will appear ?
@@TheFaizOnline Same way we did.
Theory: What if Aliens already visited Earth looking for life but did this millions of years ago before life happened and they just haven’t check up on us again.
Life started on earth billions of years ago, just after it formed.
Shoulda coulda woulda
@@Story_Map_LF I heard life started 3.6billion years ago in earth
They did. They talked to Joe Biden and never returned.
There already is the theory of the Annunaki , which is has evidence in all religions above a certain age but is so fantasy esc it doesn't really sound credible
Alien-Kurzgesagt: Why finding humans would be our doom
Mateo Pirchi But they wouldn’t know that we were called humans.
(it was a joke i know it, it was just for humor)
@@charliehe472 its like we call them aliens
*they just guessed and got it correct*
@@spiderycider The term "alien" doesn't just mean extraterrestrial life. It can also mean a stranger, or really anything that doesn't really belong. Obviously, only we know that we are called "humans," so in any case, they would just call us "aliens." Just like if there was an alien species out there called the "A'afuhe" species, we wouldn't know that. We would still just call them, and all other potential extraterrestrial life, "aliens."
@@charliehe472 you're right
I personally think the idea two cells going together was a filter or the idea that all are predators went extinct allowing us to become an advance civilization I feel like both are a great achievement
It's all a simulation in early access. There's only one faction at the moment. We get to figure out the bugs then they can add new factions later on as DLC.
Game Design by Gigity McD
This is the best comment
Hopefully this simulation isn’t made by Extraterrestrial Electronic Arts
I would certainly like to let the dev's know that it sure as hell felt real before my 1's are set to 0's
AnimiGamer
haha. I hope when I come out of a card pack my stats are high. But let's be real. They will be chasing the gold Elon Musk card.
This explains why I'm constantly lagging and glitching around.
I'm stuck in a wall, send help
So you're telling me, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?
Yes sir
Yup it is.
So it's not midichlorians LOL
can someone explain this to me? I always see this joke or meme I don't get it
@@eyadsy6208 it's a meme making fun of mostly unusable knowledge taught in schools
Kurzgesagt: "The filter is behind us-"
Me, a pessimist: *"Who says there is only one filter"*
Who says there is a filter
@@hammedbadmus7773 it's the only explanation for the lack of alien life, the filter is most likely behind us not ahead.
@@user-vv1do1wg1j Maybe the aliens are just avoiding us because we are the filter? destined to destroy all other species we come in contact with
That makes no sense. They wouldn't avoid us due to destiny. And if the galaxy is buzzing with advanced life, it would only take ONE SINGLE rogue alien to break the rules and say, SCREW IT I'M MAKING CONTACT.
Hammed, no one guarantees there is a filter. It's just that brains bigger than ours are trying to figure out the answer to The Great Silence. Check out "fermi paradox" on TH-cam. I recommend John Michael Godier, he's got a fantastic futurist science channel and a great Fermi video..
Oh.. And anyone who thinks they've figured out the Fermi Paradox... Hasn't thought about it enough (it's why it's called a paradox... The more you analyse it the more the answers conflict.. It's quite interesting). Check out those videos. Cheers
The filter is that we haven't learned how to come together as one species instead of fighting with each other.
"The 4th step sees the species evolve big brain" 1:13
Yeah, it's big brain time.
Yeppppp
Farry Handika big brain mode activate
Galaxy brain
What’s even more hilarious is that THIS is big brain humor.
*YAAaaAAAaaAaaaAAAAAaAAAAaaaasssss, it's big brain time.
This channel is so addictive
ikr
Yeah
That's because they have a video about addiction 😂
Ikr the animation,the narration and those really really interesting facts
3rd possibility: Alien life is instructed to leave
humanity alone to evolve on its own.
If we're the only ones, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Nah, we just gotta make our own aliens. G E N E T I C C A T A S T R O P H E I N B O U N D
Yea, that's what I keep thinking too...
What if we make robots and then they will conolize the galaxy and then we unplug all of them so that we can take their hard work from then
Golden Mask bruh
@@stephen_2091 modern problems require modern solutions
Humanity is clearly going through puberty I needs to stop being so damn melodramatic.
This is called science and it's keeping you alive, tough guy
Alpha Pictures it’s called a joke it’s keeping us happy, tough guy
@@heavypokelover5532 You know, scientists always tried to explain the world as we know it, starting with greek scholars and ending now with the modern physicists. Science is not really that melodramatic, it's just a neutral state, regardless of feelings. This is the true beauty of the exact sciences. No interpretation, no biases. So, that guy's comment really doesn't sum up this video's point at all.
Alpha Pictures I didn’t say that I’m saying it’s a joke..
@@heavypokelover5532 And I didn't say you didn't say you are saying it's a joke
Instead of a single great filter, a series of filters would make more sense, each decreasing the likelihood for a species to achieve galactic civilization
Then we would be seeing multiple alien lifeforms in different stages of the filter.
@@rodlopes4327 Look, let's say there is only one great filter, then wouldn't we see alien civilizations at any stage below that single filter?
He meant there must be 'at least' one great filter in order to solve the Fermi Paradox according to our understanding.
@@cellwall There are multiple great filters, the most dangerous is probably bacteria, sentient life, and planet destruction/mass extinction
@@rodlopes4327 Not really. We haven't investigated anywhere near enough planets to know if they contain life or not. We still aren't certain Mars never had any life.
It's also possible the great filter could simply be the speed of light. Civilizations may have lived out the lifespans of their solar systems without breaking that barrier and never surviving the trip to the next habitable world. And if we happen to be between great filters, there may never be evidence of it.
yeah this is another theory.
Our galaxy is too large to travel even in the light speed and we can't even travel close to the light speed.
Light isnt enough, say someone uses radio waves like we do, given enough time say i billion years from the older parts of the galaxy we would hear them today and be aware of the existence of life, but there is noyhing
True, if there had been any civilization that had similar technology to us, we should have detected their activity. If there were, then either they reached that point and died out, or moved to a transmission technology we can't detect. And those waves must have passed us by during a time when we couldn't listen. It also means such life doesn't come around very often, or as big as the universe is we would detect it all the time.
Radio waves become unreadable after a few light years away already
Ye, it's why I'm a happy followed of the theory that Artificial Intelligence is the next step in the evolution of life. There's biological limits on how much knowledge we can develope (and maintain usage of) in a given time frame. That's why the Printing Press, Computers and now the Internet, respectively, have given a massive boost to research of all kinds. We have the same brains we had 200k years ago, but our tools have become better. Thus, creating tools that are inherently more capable than us in every aspect (aka a true AI), would be the most advanced thing we can create to help us research.
Of course, that 'tool' might then deduce that organic life is false in and on itself, but, honestly, if we were to succeed in creating a true, perfect AI, and that AI tells us we all need to die, then that's the kind of harsh reality we would actually have to accept as the right choice.
Not that I actually expect the creation of such an AI at my life time. Not entirely sure it's possible at all.
I HIGHLY recommend Isaac Athur's Femi Paradox Compendium video for those that saw this. He goes through just about every conceivable factor that could affect the creation of life as we know it. Everyhting from techtonic plates to the influence of things like Jupiter and the Moon.
It's possible that there is no paradox at all, and no great filters behind us. Instead there have been hundreds or thousands of different minor filters, each with varying chances to occur. When all are combined, the odds become significant enough to rival the sheer size of the galaxy.
1900: we will have flying cars in future.
2019: two ads playing back to back.
Lololololololololol
Lol
uh... are you a little kid? do you not remember television?
Lmao humans r brain dead af😅
1900: we will have flying cars in future
2019: we have flying cars in the form of giant quadcopters that are also self-driving
There are two options:
We are alone.
We are not.
But both are equally terrifying.
(Quote)
Michael Han no, the fact that other civilisations ans alien intelligent Life exist, is beautiful and inspiring, and more exciting
@@zatsun2733 did you watch the video
Terrifying for whom ?
Zatsun Nope.The aliens would just blow up earth
If your going to quote someone else then have the decency to tell people.
Easier explanation: life is hard but not rare. Most life forms in ways that doesn't lend itself to big brains. For example, we wouldn't exist if not for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. But also, the universe is very young and most of the life that will develope in it hasn't yet. We, as humans, could actually be one of the ancient races of our universe.
I feel like if its a question of probabilities, then the galaxy is big enough to assume that it can happen again. This whole idea of a big filter is dependant on the fact that we havent recieved any proof yet. I think we simply havent been able to look hard enough.
I don't think the dinosaur 🦕 will affects us or makes us extinct we will roll the earth eventually
@@hesow123 dinosaurs were far bigger than us and were almost everywhere on earth, humans most likely wouldn't be able to survive them
@@desireandfire nah intelligent always win the only thing that danger to us is another more intelligent species or being in that case the AI is a really threat to us the moment it born
Our brains got big fighting each other!!! That's how human beings got so smart
It might sound exaggerated of how amazing the mitochondria's relationship with another cell and that this was the start of cells evolving to eventually become us (me). You guys are doing (in my opinion) Nobel prise for inspiring our future scientists and informing the the stubborn, know-it-all masses. I salute everyone at Kurzgesagt
Time traveler: hey where do ya live
Me: Canada
Time traveler: oh your still on earth?
Me: ...
Time Traveller: Arrives in Canada on Earth
Also Time Traveller: LmAo DuMbAsS YoU sTiLl LiVe On EaRtH
eeple skreep that’s what I was thinking😂
canada 1 or canada 2
@@moniquerodriguez3013 canada²
Skypandakicks hi me you me but a different time line and life you me I’m you were every one and every thing and every body dead two hitler/everybodythatdiedbyhim/abraham/
Jesus’s,yourdad,yourmom,
Fun fact: if they were observing us from millions of light years away, they would be looking at dinosaurs
And haven't humans been giving off radio signals for over 70 years? So that means aliens within 70 light years away from us would know.
Why are you assuming aliens, who may be tens of thousands or even millions of years ahead of us are restricted by the speed of light?
JT Welch Reread the original comment and then reread yours. Hopefully you can see why it makes no sense.
Young Voorhees I don’t. Why don’t you walk me through it.
Young Voorhees Also, for clarification, I’m referring to being ahead of us in technology and science.
Earth: Has 7.4 billion people
People: We are alone
Sadness intensifies
Né kkk
@Um_Baka_Qualquer I said "true hahaha" but in Portuguese
@Um_Baka_Qualquer ué kkkk
@This is the Zodiac speaking no.... Billion.
*the big sad*
Advanced life on the next steps might be unrecognizable to us. Ray Bradbury did a good short story about two energy-beings wisfully remembering when they had arms and legs
*THIS REALLY MAKES YOU THINK DEEPLY..*
@Delon Duvenage To be honest with you, I have never read the Bible. Your comment makes me want to give it a shot though, it sounds like it is enlightening
*THIS REALLY MAKES YOU THINK HUMANITY IS DEAD DANGIT!!!!*
@Delon Duvenage I understand to a small extent what you may be referring to with the bible. I have given Christianity a chance before...it was not enlightening for me. that being said though, I strongly believe it is because the vast majority of people, both religious and non-religious, and those in between, simply misinterpret the bible, I believe the same goes for the Quran, and the other well known religious books. People naturally see things as they want to, and as they see fit. It is a natural flaw that just about every human being makes. It is most definitely understandable, yet not excusable. IT is not excusable simply because in life, there is little, if any room for excuses, it simply isn't beneficial, in any capacity or form that I can imagine. I have made excuses my whole life, I still continue to - just because I do it does not mean I agree with it at all, or that I agree 100%. I am happy for you that the bible has enlightened you, religion in general is suitable for many, but for many it is not. I'm certain that many people do not even realize that religion is not entirely good for them, but at the same time I think that certain aspects of religion would benefit many people, more or less. Don't make the same mistake as many others have, still do, and will continue to do - do not only allow yourself to see through your lens, to see things only as the way that you prefer, embrace the fact that there are so many things that we do not know, and things that we cannot currently comprehend even. Just because you don't have all the answers (not a single human does, and likely not a single human ever will, same goes for any other living being) does not mean that your beliefs are entirely invalid, chances are that at least some aspect of your beliefs is at least somewhat valid. Emphasis on the "at least" Much love from across the isle, my fellow human :D
Deep thinking is the best kind of thinking.
About what exactly? About the fact that even if we somehow go from type 0 civilization to type 1 in the next 1000 years (for which there is 15% chance of susses), we are still going to go extinct?
Option 3: We are living in a simulation, and didn't pay for the Aliens expansion.
Still better than stock sims 4.
@Brownie Amanteigado I've heard this self-deprecating thought process before. It's not a very positive way to view the universe if you hold that position in my opinion.
To hold the human race with such contempt. No doubt we are flawed and have huge issues to be solved, but it's no reason to liken our entire race to a virus.
this is one of those games where the devs were rushed to meet the release date and only added basic gameplay.
@@marcr3170 I'm waiting for the starship expansion, but unfortunately my character won't live that long.
Damn overpriced dlc
Scenario 3: there are more than one filter
Everything we've been through and perhaps about to go through requires extreme luck
-The creation of life: it just happened that molecules were arranged into a self-replicating structure
-The creation of the first complex cell: it just happened that a cell swallowed another cell, agreed to live together and continued that structure
-The creation of the first multicellular organism: it just happened that nany cells stuck together and form a survivable complex
-The creation of the first vertebrate: it just happened that an organism developed a hard bone structure making it possible to be much larger and more complex
-The creation of the first land vertebrate: it just happened that a fish came on land and evolved to be able to live there
-The reign of mammals: it just happened that a large enough meteor destroyed more than 75% of life, creating an opportunity for new creatures to evolve and thrive
-The creation of intelligence: it just happened that an organism with enough intelligence to create tools survived against many natural threats and discovered fire...
-In the future there'll be many more filters, probably climate change/mass extinction/etc.
how does this only have 7 likes this is like the most brilliant shit ever
That's why I like the idea of God. No fing where this lucky
But where is ''great filter''? these is just ''filters''
@@BrokenKO I certainly find God just as likely as the innumerable odds of life developing on its own. But the innate problem with figuring out how things came to be is that we can only build from what we know in the present (and a very limited knowledge of the past)
The probability of all these happened randomly nearly equals the probability of you just hit random keys at your keyboard and they became this meaningful text. A normal person who is open minded easily says it is imposible to happen by itself when there is so small odds like 1/10^20. We accept, in our daily life, these extreme extreme small odds actually imposible to happen.(that is why we need to have infinite paralel universes to life emerge randomly by itself.) But when its about God, some people chose to think all these extreme extreme extreme small odds can happen randomly by itself:)
I just want to express my deep appreciation for the amazing music in these videos. Thank you Epic Mountain ❤️
"ancient alien ruins on titan"
Thanos comes out of portal
„that used to be my home you know“
Lel
Wait is there a planet actually called titan? ‘-‘
@Bazzralic oh
@Bazzralic is it the one thanos is from?
Bazzralic no, it's one of jupiters
Humans: We will conquer the universe!!!
Great filter ahead of us: Omae wa mou shindeiru.
Humans: NANI?!?
Infinities End Humans:No u
Filter: 0 o 0
Infinities End I can't understand what is the great filter?
@@lhordkentbasubas9917 It's a planetary event, according to one of my friends. As explained in the video, it's challenge or danger so hard to overcome, that any theoretical extraterrestrial species that's come to it has been eradicated. This could be due to war or similar conflicts, technology becoming too dangerous to control, a fundamental step in early cellular evolution that's REALLY RARE (the example used is the evolution of the Mitochondria in early Hunter Cellular lifeforms, which allowed for more complex organisms due to the increased energy budget)... there are probably more examples but those are the ones that people tend to think of when they think about The Great Filter(TM).
Humans: We did it! We passed the filter! We will conquer the universe!!!
Great Filter behind us: *teleports in front of us* Nothing personel, kid.
Great filter ahead of us: I'm about to end this man's whole career !
These videos always end so beautifully.
They sort of have to. If not, we'd all be smart and depressed at the same time. Kurzgesagt as a channel knows this, and they pull each and every one of their videos off with a positive note, leaving us with knowledge and a decent enough outlook on life to just maybe do something with it.
With commercials?
Parker Davis Yup! Instead, we're left smarter and hopeful. :)
= RIP humanity, 100% of the time.
SDG Danny the ending of the worst part of the entire video.
Thanks for actually acknowledging those probabilities are unknown. It's frustrating when people say, "Well the universe is so massive of course there are other civilizations out there". The very act of life forming could be such a low probability that we literally could be the only planet with life in the entire universe. Those who watch star trek don't want to even consider this possibility, but we actually don't know how life spontaneously forms on a planet. Much less evolved to the point that you can have a sentient species. Evolution itself has huge holes right now as the probability of proteins even forming is a genetic near impossibility based on random mutations. Either proteins forming were insanely lucky (meaning the rest of the universe is screwed) or our understanding of random mutations and evolution is incorrect.
An interesting thing about the great oxygenation event (which predated and enabled the development of multicelular life) is that it's a strong candidate for being The Great Filter.
Physics is physics, and therefore organic chemistry is organic chemistry. Therefore the early life on any planet is going to have a chance to stumble onto photosynthesis.
The thing is the early pre-photosynthesis Earth was being kept warm by methane, but that had to be coming from somewhere. Quite possibly early single cell bacteria itself. Once oxygen production really got going and oxygen started leaking out of the oceans into the atmosphere it bound up all that methane into other compounds and caused a near global ice age. That presents early life with two different ticking time bombs.
If life waits too long to start producing oxygen that thickening blanket of methane eventually turns Earth into Venus. Broils the planet and kills everything.
On the other side if life figures out that trick too early then the resulting ice age is even worse, and if life is completely wiped out then when volcanic and solar activity melts things again what's left isn't the same primordial soup because of all the oxygen reacting to things. The initial state of free organic molecules is quite possibly a one-time opportunity.
We threaded a needle that might be a _lot_ narrower than we realize.
Where did you get this information from? This seems really interesting and I want to learn more!
Well why do every single et need to follow the evolutionary path that we did
While all this is correct
But they may not need go down the same evolutionary path
@@freniisammii Just look up The Great Oxygenation Disaster if you wanna learn more. It is still a hypothesis that this lead to a snowball Earth scenario but it's a pretty strong one. What's more it's suspected that the subsequent melting of the ice and erosion of land washed a ton of nutrients into the ocean and that this could have been the trigger for the development of multi-cellular life. So this might even be a necessary step or at least something that sped up evolution by billions of years.
Multicellular life actually predates our oxygen atmosphere.
That is indeed a good candidate as Great Filter. Great idea.
Another possibility: Human civilization becomes inter stellar and over time we forget each other and soon start fighting each other just like how humans evolved from Africa and look we're we are now
Underated comment
Intergalactic racism ftw!
Possible
Seems plausible. Who's to say that "aliens" well more so UFOs aren't us time traveling from the future on some sort of temporal no touch field trip? Who's to say there wasn't a super advanced civilization that figured out space travel and left the planet hundreds of thousands if not millions of years ago?
@@TOO_RAW yess nice possibility maybe it's 1 of those crazy teenagers who is lucky enough to be a trilionares child and has came to mess with us 😉
The background music in this video is amazing and I don't think enough people are talking about it
Nerd
@@ekulerudamuru you're literally watching a video about outer space and extraterrestrials
@@johannasweet1120 r/wooosh
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7:47 If we discovered ruins of ancient civilizations, we would have an opportunity to learn about the cause of their downfall. We can learn from their mistakes and thus, attempt to prevent the same thing from happening to humanity.
Or we could also dodge their misfortune, by diving right into something that caused the destruction of civilization before them, that they learned to avoid. It all repeats
all this has happened before and will happen again
Humans tend to focus on one massive thing this is a massive flaw as something could creep up on us.
What if the intergalactic empire already existed and fell?
We are all what's left of what used to be a beautiful empire. Humans spread across the cosmos. Destroying themselves, setting the entire race back to the stone age.
It is dangerous indeed. There are so many ancient ruins in earth too, but human being still is alive and more developed. Similarly, those ancient ruins of ancient alien civilizations is a proof that the descendants of those aliens are still alive and more developed than ever