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Anyone who watched THE recent UAP (UFO) DC hearings knows we have body parts. Watch Close Encounters Everything in that movie came from Government documents in Area 51 & it's 40 years old. Read Annie Jacobson book Area 51 based on newly released classified docs.
There's always the assumption that Aliens that might be visiting us are far more advanced maybe even millions of years more advanced but it could just be that their not really much more advanced than us, they've just discovered one thing or they possess one element that makes interstellar travel possible. It could be that they are not much smarter but because they have that tech they have become explorers. They could have even reverse engineered the tech from others who'd crashed on their planets.
David grusch believes that theory. It would be sad if they were not much smarter than humans. If that's the case, they are definitely not gonna save are dumbasses.
I've said something similar. Think of all the progress we've made even in the past 100 years. Imagine a race similar to ours that's simply 200 years ahead of us.
I’ve watched the whole interview and I still click on all of these. There is so much I missed and so much more I can’t easily remember so it’s worth the second watch haha
@@dark_sky_guy I think its not smart to not include the full length as well. I reeeeally dont like it all cut up. God forbid i walk away from a good source of information
From a biophysical perspective, the appearance of aliens would likely depend on the environmental conditions of their home planets, which shape the evolution of life through natural selection. While Earth's life forms are diverse, they share common biochemical and structural traits carbon-based chemistry, water as a solvent, and DNA or RNA for genetic coding. Aliens might share similar foundations if these are universal prerequisites for life, but their morphology could vary significantly to adapt to different conditions. For example, on a high-gravity planet, aliens might be short and stocky with robust skeletal structures to counteract the intense gravitational pull. Conversely, in low-gravity environments, they might be elongated and lightweight, with flexible limbs to move efficiently. The respiratory systems of aliens would reflect the gases available in their atmosphere. An oxygen-rich environment might support creatures with lung-like organs, while a methane-rich world could give rise to entirely different metabolic processes. Alien senses would be tuned to their environment. Planets orbiting dim stars might produce beings with heightened infrared vision or echolocation, while those on worlds with thick atmospheres might rely more on tactile or chemical communication. On aquatic planets, aliens might resemble streamlined aquatic organisms like fish or cephalopods. On land, they could exhibit bipedalism, quadrupedalism, or even forms of locomotion unknown to Earth. Photosynthesis-like processes might dominate on planets with abundant sunlight, leading to plant-like aliens. Alternatively, chemosynthesis could dominate in dark environments, such as subsurface oceans, leading to life forms feeding off chemical gradients. While bilateral symmetry dominates Earth’s animals, alien life might exhibit radial, asymmetrical, or even fractal-like designs if it suits their environment. Ultimately, the diversity of life on Earth provides a template for imagining extraterrestrial biology, but the specific details of alien physiology would be shaped by the unique biophysical and chemical constraints of their ecosystems. The possibilities are vast and could range from familiar analogs to forms utterly alien to our experience.
10:51 You could also asume that if they survived and became the apex species of a planet. That that didn't happen without a reason. I would be very careful where to send signals.
Star Trek hit the nail right on the head. I believe that most extraterrestrial beings will look like human actors with prosthetic makeup jobs on their ears or foreheads and will speak English with an American accent just like in Star Trek.
Convergent evolution could actually make it so. Two legs and two arms with fingers are the most minimalist and efficient form to use tools and build technology. As for speaking, Star Trek features the "universal translator" machine which translates everything into English in real time. Our current AI can already do that.
@@SevenSixTwo2012 My comment was sort of facetiousness or sarcasm. Oh I know about the "universal translator" thing but shouldn't the talking be out of sync with what you are hearing like when you watch a Japanese or Asian movie and its dubbed into English and the lip movements don't match the words? Any lip reader who turns the volume off can tell what is being said so that kind of kills the "universal translator" thing. And one of the episodes of THE ORVILLE also had written English including the same number system on a different planet, one where too many "down votes" can lead to execution and Star Trek avoided written English on other planets for the most part since no way could the universal translator justify that in plot device. Avatar was wiser, had basically a HUMANOID body shape which is evolutoinarily very efficient but due to CGI it did NOT just look like a human actor with a makeup job.
@@Zurround For sure it wouldn't be exactly like Star Trek, however I would bet that the show has got it almost right. Aliens probably do indeed look humanoid and communicating with them would probably be easier than we may imagine. Life, same as other structures in the universe (planets, moons, stars, asteroids, comets, etc), probably builds itself out of similar matter, principles and patterns everywhere in the universe. I'd also wager that the Aliens would arrive speaking fluent English and all other common Earth languages as well, since they would've probably already figured it out by eavesdropping on our constant communications. Figuring out a foreign language is essentially pattern recognition, something AI does exceptionally well.
I'm gonna disagree with you a bit. Some of the aliens will speak with a Cockney, or Scottish accent. The bald woman alien in the first movie spoke with an East Indian accent. And my favourite alien species, the Ferengi, spoke with a New York Jewish accent, which is technically not American. If the aliens communicate telepathically, then for sure it's with a Chinese accent.
2:30 Not just when presented with the problems that wings will solve but also when presented with the opportunity to evolve wings! Not every group will come upon the opportunity to evolve wings. A dog might get advantage from wings if they evolved them, but they don’t currently have the opportunity to, whereas a creature that’s already able to glide would have the opportunity to evolve wings.
As an economist I'd like to put in my two cents on the value an alien species can get from interaction with another species. The value from traveling to another star system to harvest them for meat is really low. Likewise traveling to another star system to take their minerals or water is low value. But scientific and cultural exchange or even just the sociological value of studying their society would be worth orders of magnitude more than stealing minerals or energy. Also it's easy to transfer information between star systems, transfering minerals is nearly impossible.
Couldn't it be argued, then, that our history of transmission would give a distant, passing alien vessel, be it manned, or simply a far-traveling drone, collectible data, easily parsed out for what is valuable, allowing it to move on without running the risk of encountering a hostile specie?
@@graymatters7584 Couldn't they easily find that at the edges of the solar system without having to venture nearer the sun? Simply touring Jupiter or Saturn's moons should yield all of the necessary resources without running the risk of getting nuked.
I always had this thought … some stars are 1thousand times bigger , what if there is a species that is unfathomably big and somewhere out there there’s a human like species that are giants that could eat our planet in one bite
if an alien has the ability to travel light years to get here then they also have the ability to visit us without coming in "person", why take such a risk? just send A.I. drones to explore. I would say these beings that some people have seen are not from outer space but from another place we don;t know yet.
@@oscarsalas1the grey aliens that are most commonly spotted are drone/machines from all the research I’ve done on them, manufactured specifically to travel in space, no sex organs, they don’t eat food or drink water, and there consciousness is built directly in there flying saucers, they also claim to be humans from the future, truth is stranger than fiction, all this info comes from colonel corso.
Arrival was a great movie but one that is also very good, although it is a series on Netflix, is 3 Body Problem. A brilliant woman finds a way to send message into space using a much faster method, they eventually respond. The response originally seems to be from someone from another society from lightyears away but warns that we should not continue messaging as many others in this society would eventually come and destroy our society. Later they communicate and learn about us, how we lie, manipulate and coerce others with false stories and such and then consider us a threat due to this mentality of human beings. I believe there is life out there, intelligent and would very likely evolve to have differences and parts of their societies that would think and process things differently, because unless it is a hive mind, we and they, are different, therefor have individual thought and conclusions, which seems inevitable. Though I will likely never know, it is a very fascinating topic I can listen to for hours.
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There's some great commentary videos on TH-cam, that explains 3 Body Problem as CCP-endorsed propaganda. The only way the novels could be published in China is if they were "politically correct" and approved by the Communist central government. The general plot line is based on Chinese history. It's a veiled story of the conflict between Communist China and the West, and how the PRC will eventually defeat us. Look up "Hegel's Dialectics", which is the basis of communism. You'll find this process in 3 Body Problem. The whole idea of political correctness comes out of communism. Toxic stuff.
They recently found that fungi talk to each other through electrical impulses, similar to the way our brain neurons function with electrical impulses. Alien brains could be distributed just like fungi
I always heard they have a network similar to the Internet. They can communicate to each other no matter distance and and on a mass scale if needed through whatever kinda root system they use. I don't remember everything or even where I heard it from but reading that reminded me of that.
what’s to say that life elsewhere doesn’t have to move towards food/energy sources and don’t have predators. out basic fundamental laws for what “life” is isn’t, or at least almost isn’t the same elsewhere because conditions elsewhere isn’t the same.
They will be small, big, green, blue, invisible, flat, round, light, matter, evil, good. It’s not a good question. If there are aliens, then there’s billions of aliens and they all look different.
I’m with the conversion theory which hypothesizes that all intelligent beings evolve to be bipedal humanoid. Considering the amount of different species on earth and that all intelligent beings evolve to walk upright suggests that maybe it extends beyond our planet and is universal in nature. We’re binary in a binary universe. Two eyes, two snouts, two ears, two genders etc.
Bingo! I am like you when it comes to aliens. If you look at dolphins in our oceans, they are smart like us, but they have no need for technology living in water. You can’t smelt iron in an ocean.
During the early period of life that begins on earth, the evolution seems more based on random environmental disturbances. As life evolves and becomes more complex, evolution occurs also because of competition between species. The early evolution was based on random occurrences. The later evolution not only because of randomness, but also from being an actual target.
My perspective is that we arrogantly assume that an alien species would find us fascinating but we literally might be something an advanced species has seen countless times in their existence and history. Imagine an advanced species that could travel with ease throughout the universe, the technology they likely possess to easily detect life on planets, likely without even having to visit. When you drive through the countryside rarely do you ever pull over to look at the sheep, you glance over and continue on your journey, you’ve seen plenty of sheep, they are of little interest to you and you could look at sheep on your phone at any time, what if that’s how Aliens view us? We think we are so important but we could just be considered simple lifeforms that they have a minimal passing interest in, for all we know they might know everything they want to know about us already, we might be well documented, we could be considered an extremely boring planet in the grand scheme of things, UFO sightings could literally just people people passing through to refuel like we are a rest stop to somewhere far more interesting and just every once in a while some arsehole visiting wants to mess with the locals but most don’t because they hold very little interest in what we do
IMO, the most fascinating aliens we can ever meet would be humans just like us on another world, in another solar system, on another earth. That would be so freaky I couldn’t even fathom it. I’d love to see the differences in stuff they came up with etc… I’d totally choose this scenario every time rather than the typical Martian alien or reptilian. Would also make a great movie.
When I was a child and I asked my grandpa if he believed aliens were real, he told me: "If Spacemen are real, the only reason they'd come here is to eat YOU!"
They won’t interfere with our dealings we have choice and free will it’s would affect with our growth and development and our evolutionary path as a species. We know better yet choose other alternatives. But we will get there 🤞
I have a question for everyone. Hypothetically speaking, say we achieved advancements to travel beyond our solar system and find alien civilization and it was not as "advanced" as us. How would we proceed? Would we initiate contact?
2:23 “ UFO aliens all look like us” They all look like what popular fiction of the time determines what they look like. In the 1950s comic books were full of flying saucers and all UFO sightings described flying saucers.
Life on other planets would look similar to ours. Just look at how everything evolved into crabs. It happened so often there’s literally jokes about it.
Oumuyamuya. That’s…yeah you should look into that sir. But in general I agree: Challenge your bias. Challenge your ideas. Get out of your village to connect with others but be VERY careful but surrender to the road you’re going down.
He essentially said that they will look something like us. Just as on Earth on another planet, even though it might be different. If it's a carbon-based life, you'll probably need to drink. What's the easiest way to place place liquid in a container? A cup. What's the optimal way to pick up objects? With four fingers and a thumb. It might look different just as a black person might look different from a white person. But in essence, you're looking at a bipedal humanoid with arms and legs, hands and feet. You get it. The laws of physics apply everywhere whether it's on Earth or a planet that looks like hundreds of millions of light years away.
If you ever want to do a show on the Urantia book I’d be very interested and offer my services to assist The Urantia book has lots to say about all this
If I'm not mistaken, Octopuses have multiple brains and are regarded as very intelligent animals, very different from how we're constructed. Imagine if they evolved to develop technology.
There are more things that influence life at a planetary scale. Size of planet/gravity, moon or moons, rotation and orbit of the planet and the solar radiation and the atmosphere of the planet. All have primary influence on life if it evolves on the planet. Affects physiology, biorhythms, the solar radiation and type of atmosphere can determine the type of vision the life forms have.
He discuses interesting topics and has great guests, but he has such a boring and tiring delivery. He sounds like he's half asleep, has a flat affect, slurs his words, and sounds drunk.
All I know is they’ll be carbon based since on earth there’s only 0.2% carbon where silicon is well over 30% yet we see no silicon based life on earth. If they were silicon based then oxygen would turn them to stone basically.
Once they get to a high enough level level of technology, they should be able to become whatever they want. Maybe technological vehicles, that can traverse space and time.
3:20 in, and I still haven't heard 1 iota of what aliens would look like. I think at 0:05 I should already hear a basic synapses of what they might look like, then, he can spend the rest of the time sparring with verbs and adjectives.
See 'Avatar' as Exhibit A on what we would do if we found an alien planet with more primitive aliens than us. Step 1: See if there are any resources we can exploit 2. Remove the 'impediment' 3. Ask for forgiveness later, after we have decimated the population and planet for said resources. 4. the aliens would be second/third class citizens on their own planet by then.
I’m really curious to hear more about the specialized needs and adaptations of another life form that could travel the stars such as the ability to manipulate and construct machines..... I would assume this organism would need to develop some kind of hand like appendage ? Their planet would also need all the available resources that could be mined . Fire would need to be available as well as oxygen and other gases . I would also assume the density and gravity would need to be just right to allow them to build a vessel that is capable of escape velocity from there planet . Here on earth , we can barely escape earths gravity with the fuel and rocket technology that exist !! Things have to work out just right !!!!! We amazingly have just what it takes . Is that Luck ? There are so so so many things that have to be available for anything to work as it has up to now !! Please comment your thoughts .
We might be the only living beings capable of feeling empathy for other creatures. We know this is a rare trait, as no other species on Earth demonstrates empathy to the same extent. This means we should absolutely avoid sending signals to other species. What if we attract a race of beings like ants or lions? Do you think they wouldn’t consume or destroy us without a second thought?
In my opinion, what they look like, depends on how long they’ve been around. In the early stages, the life forms of another technological civilization would have to have arms and legs so they could get material and build things like we have done. Now if they’ve been around for millions of years they could have AI that build and service everything they need, they could have no need for arms or legs, maybe they’ve evolved after millions of years and now look completely different.
Hominids have evolved in different way! So many different primates! Coming from so many different rodent type mammal coming from different types of reptiles etc… Convergent evolution is amazing and it must have happen often elsewhere too!
I’m a nobody but I been in contact with ETs, along with orbs, ships, saucers, lights, shadows, different type of entities. I seen some extraterrestrials and from my experience and to compare on this descriptions, you all are taking it overboard. As weird as it sounds, the types I seen are exactly what you have seen already. I mean I get why some people go crazy down the rabbit hole in trying to figure out what they would look like, but these educated guesses most of the time are overkill and way past the mark.
The ones we’ve seen can become “less solid.” They look like 3D shadows filled with dark webs or veins or something. They can walk through walls in that state. I don’t think they’re inter dimensional. They’re otherwise very solid. 3.5ft tall, 40-45lbs, temperature 103-106 Fahrenheit. They’re docile.
Quick thought on the drones the government could have made sure the air space was clear of any human registered flight paths and sent up jets or a helicopter and if its vehicles flash lasers after the ones we sent up came back down
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It's so important that we begin discussing the various types of NHI. They're as varied as the rainbow spectrum.
Anyone who watched THE recent UAP (UFO) DC hearings knows we have body parts.
Watch Close Encounters
Everything in that movie came from Government documents in Area 51 & it's 40 years old.
Read Annie Jacobson book Area 51 based on newly released classified docs.
5am and still haven’t slept. Had to throw this on for some background noise lol
in that same position right now haha
Real
6:29 am 🫠🥴
doing right now LA time lol
Got into bed at 11pm, it's 4.03am and I'm wide awake
There's always the assumption that Aliens that might be visiting us are far more advanced maybe even millions of years more advanced but it could just be that their not really much more advanced than us, they've just discovered one thing or they possess one element that makes interstellar travel possible. It could be that they are not much smarter but because they have that tech they have become explorers. They could have even reverse engineered the tech from others who'd crashed on their planets.
David grusch believes that theory. It would be sad if they were not much smarter than humans. If that's the case, they are definitely not gonna save are dumbasses.
@unclejimy They might be trying to save their own asses.
I've said something similar. Think of all the progress we've made even in the past 100 years. Imagine a race similar to ours that's simply 200 years ahead of us.
@Ryanstuff It could be that we have technology they don't have.
Too many unknown variables...
there are over 20 clips from this podcast. ive watched almost all of em lol
😅 getting them views up lol these are brain primers to help us peons understand when we listen to the full interview 😅
They are so interesting that I actually stay awake for them.
I’ve watched the whole interview and I still click on all of these. There is so much I missed and so much more I can’t easily remember so it’s worth the second watch haha
Cool story
@@dark_sky_guy I think its not smart to not include the full length as well. I reeeeally dont like it all cut up. God forbid i walk away from a good source of information
From a biophysical perspective, the appearance of aliens would likely depend on the environmental conditions of their home planets, which shape the evolution of life through natural selection. While Earth's life forms are diverse, they share common biochemical and structural traits carbon-based chemistry, water as a solvent, and DNA or RNA for genetic coding. Aliens might share similar foundations if these are universal prerequisites for life, but their morphology could vary significantly to adapt to different conditions.
For example, on a high-gravity planet, aliens might be short and stocky with robust skeletal structures to counteract the intense gravitational pull. Conversely, in low-gravity environments, they might be elongated and lightweight, with flexible limbs to move efficiently.
The respiratory systems of aliens would reflect the gases available in their atmosphere. An oxygen-rich environment might support creatures with lung-like organs, while a methane-rich world could give rise to entirely different metabolic processes.
Alien senses would be tuned to their environment. Planets orbiting dim stars might produce beings with heightened infrared vision or echolocation, while those on worlds with thick atmospheres might rely more on tactile or chemical communication.
On aquatic planets, aliens might resemble streamlined aquatic organisms like fish or cephalopods. On land, they could exhibit bipedalism, quadrupedalism, or even forms of locomotion unknown to Earth.
Photosynthesis-like processes might dominate on planets with abundant sunlight, leading to plant-like aliens. Alternatively, chemosynthesis could dominate in dark environments, such as subsurface oceans, leading to life forms feeding off chemical gradients.
While bilateral symmetry dominates Earth’s animals, alien life might exhibit radial, asymmetrical, or even fractal-like designs if it suits their environment.
Ultimately, the diversity of life on Earth provides a template for imagining extraterrestrial biology, but the specific details of alien physiology would be shaped by the unique biophysical and chemical constraints of their ecosystems. The possibilities are vast and could range from familiar analogs to forms utterly alien to our experience.
Great comment! 🇦🇺
You'd like the book Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, touches on almost all of these points
Star Wars isn’t real btw
Fun book @@winglesscoyote
There is convergent evolution. So if the star & planet are similar to us, the creatures may evolve similar to us.
Havent watched this channel in forever. Happy to return to this topic
10:51 You could also asume that if they survived and became the apex species of a planet. That that didn't happen without a reason. I would be very careful where to send signals.
Star Trek hit the nail right on the head. I believe that most extraterrestrial beings will look like human actors with prosthetic makeup jobs on their ears or foreheads and will speak English with an American accent just like in Star Trek.
Convergent evolution could actually make it so. Two legs and two arms with fingers are the most minimalist and efficient form to use tools and build technology. As for speaking, Star Trek features the "universal translator" machine which translates everything into English in real time. Our current AI can already do that.
@@SevenSixTwo2012 My comment was sort of facetiousness or sarcasm. Oh I know about the "universal translator" thing but shouldn't the talking be out of sync with what you are hearing like when you watch a Japanese or Asian movie and its dubbed into English and the lip movements don't match the words? Any lip reader who turns the volume off can tell what is being said so that kind of kills the "universal translator" thing.
And one of the episodes of THE ORVILLE also had written English including the same number system on a different planet, one where too many "down votes" can lead to execution and Star Trek avoided written English on other planets for the most part since no way could the universal translator justify that in plot device.
Avatar was wiser, had basically a HUMANOID body shape which is evolutoinarily very efficient but due to CGI it did NOT just look like a human actor with a makeup job.
@@Zurround For sure it wouldn't be exactly like Star Trek, however I would bet that the show has got it almost right. Aliens probably do indeed look humanoid and communicating with them would probably be easier than we may imagine. Life, same as other structures in the universe (planets, moons, stars, asteroids, comets, etc), probably builds itself out of similar matter, principles and patterns everywhere in the universe.
I'd also wager that the Aliens would arrive speaking fluent English and all other common Earth languages as well, since they would've probably already figured it out by eavesdropping on our constant communications. Figuring out a foreign language is essentially pattern recognition, something AI does exceptionally well.
@@SevenSixTwo2012 In the first non cartoon Transformers movie the Autobots INSTANTLY downloaded the entire English language.
I'm gonna disagree with you a bit. Some of the aliens will speak with a Cockney, or Scottish accent. The bald woman alien in the first movie spoke with an East Indian accent. And my favourite alien species, the Ferengi, spoke with a New York Jewish accent, which is technically not American. If the aliens communicate telepathically, then for sure it's with a Chinese accent.
2:30 Not just when presented with the problems that wings will solve but also when presented with the opportunity to evolve wings! Not every group will come upon the opportunity to evolve wings. A dog might get advantage from wings if they evolved them, but they don’t currently have the opportunity to, whereas a creature that’s already able to glide would have the opportunity to evolve wings.
As an economist I'd like to put in my two cents on the value an alien species can get from interaction with another species. The value from traveling to another star system to harvest them for meat is really low. Likewise traveling to another star system to take their minerals or water is low value. But scientific and cultural exchange or even just the sociological value of studying their society would be worth orders of magnitude more than stealing minerals or energy. Also it's easy to transfer information between star systems, transfering minerals is nearly impossible.
Dunno about the meat stuff tbh... I can imagine that kentucky fried alien would be a thing in no time ;)
Couldn't it be argued, then, that our history of transmission would give a distant, passing alien vessel, be it manned, or simply a far-traveling drone, collectible data, easily parsed out for what is valuable, allowing it to move on without running the risk of encountering a hostile specie?
Unless they need to “live off the land,” so to speak. They may need water or minerals while they’re here, or to get home.
@@graymatters7584 Couldn't they easily find that at the edges of the solar system without having to venture nearer the sun? Simply touring Jupiter or Saturn's moons should yield all of the necessary resources without running the risk of getting nuked.
the human greed is endless
Can’t wait to see the alien rock band equivalent one day.
The Foo fighters 🎉
Creature Cantina independently settled upon the diatonic scale.
TOOL is already here
I always had this thought … some stars are 1thousand times bigger , what if there is a species that is unfathomably big and somewhere out there there’s a human like species that are giants that could eat our planet in one bite
Bro is awake at 6 am
Beat the sunrise every day
It’s 8:59pm here
Different timezone 😂😂
@@SatyamMishraBEE I know but lex is in Texas I’m in Ohio he’s about 3 hours behind me so this dude gotta be from overseas lol
So lame😂😊
We already have thousands of eye witness testimonies...
if an alien has the ability to travel light years to get here then they also have the ability to visit us without coming in "person", why take such a risk? just send A.I. drones to explore.
I would say these beings that some people have seen are not from outer space but from another place we don;t know yet.
@@oscarsalas1the ai drones part is funny otherwise this could be crazy tho .
@@theruatfela420 crazy for us with our actual technology but not for a race that has the tech to travel across the universe like us taking the bus.
@@oscarsalas1the grey aliens that are most commonly spotted are drone/machines from all the research I’ve done on them, manufactured specifically to travel in space, no sex organs, they don’t eat food or drink water, and there consciousness is built directly in there flying saucers, they also claim to be humans from the future, truth is stranger than fiction, all this info comes from colonel corso.
@@oscarsalas1there could be thousands of races of aliens. Many might physically visit here and many moght send drones
Arrival was a great movie but one that is also very good, although it is a series on Netflix, is 3 Body Problem. A brilliant woman finds a way to send message into space using a much faster method, they eventually respond. The response originally seems to be from someone from another society from lightyears away but warns that we should not continue messaging as many others in this society would eventually come and destroy our society. Later they communicate and learn about us, how we lie, manipulate and coerce others with false stories and such and then consider us a threat due to this mentality of human beings. I believe there is life out there, intelligent and would very likely evolve to have differences and parts of their societies that would think and process things differently, because unless it is a hive mind, we and they, are different, therefor have individual thought and conclusions, which seems inevitable. Though I will likely never know, it is a very fascinating topic I can listen to for hours.
Where’d u learn english
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oops, did I not speak clearly enough for the morons in the classroom who need special tutoring? I explain it all above...Be well
You should read the books it gets way more crazy in the second and third.
There's some great commentary videos on TH-cam, that explains 3 Body Problem as CCP-endorsed propaganda. The only way the novels could be published in China is if they were "politically correct" and approved by the Communist central government. The general plot line is based on Chinese history. It's a veiled story of the conflict between Communist China and the West, and how the PRC will eventually defeat us. Look up "Hegel's Dialectics", which is the basis of communism. You'll find this process in 3 Body Problem. The whole idea of political correctness comes out of communism. Toxic stuff.
By the time we meet them, they will look like machines.
And so will we.
Some kind of drone light sail with AI microchips.
Aliens look at free Wi-Fi and they love SpongeBob!
They recently found that fungi talk to each other through electrical impulses, similar to the way our brain neurons function with electrical impulses. Alien brains could be distributed just like fungi
I always heard they have a network similar to the Internet. They can communicate to each other no matter distance and and on a mass scale if needed through whatever kinda root system they use. I don't remember everything or even where I heard it from but reading that reminded me of that.
Maybe the fungi are the aliens
They wouldnt be aliens then@@dmtmediabrothers
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It's always so comforting to listen to lex on a chin. 💫
What part of Lex is on your chin?
@Deletirium a Chin is short in English slang, which means a chinwag! Bascially, two people engaged in a friendly conversation ! :-)
Bob was here...And i felt that Lex! Feels like a robot! ..I felt you man :(
Weve mapped approx 20% of the ocean and has never been below 5km. Yet people are looking for aliens in space.
"Who gets to decide that? ...Who speaks for Earth?" = Great questions! 🤗
The ones that run this show
I wish I could sign up to be the one. I believe I’d be great at it
The elites on evrey level our lives depends on these evil nutters
what’s to say that life elsewhere doesn’t have to move towards food/energy sources and don’t have predators. out basic fundamental laws for what “life” is isn’t, or at least almost isn’t the same elsewhere because conditions elsewhere isn’t the same.
They will be small, big, green, blue, invisible, flat, round, light, matter, evil, good. It’s not a good question. If there are aliens, then there’s billions of aliens and they all look different.
I’m with the conversion theory which hypothesizes that all intelligent beings evolve to be bipedal humanoid. Considering the amount of different species on earth and that all intelligent beings evolve to walk upright suggests that maybe it extends beyond our planet and is universal in nature. We’re binary in a binary universe. Two eyes, two snouts, two ears, two genders etc.
You have two snouts? Are you ok?
@@Deletirium two nostrils. Bilateral symmetry. Try analysis better.
Bingo! I am like you when it comes to aliens. If you look at dolphins in our oceans, they are smart like us, but they have no need for technology living in water. You can’t smelt iron in an ocean.
Speculative biology has the best answers to this. For anyone trying to satisfy their alien curiosity I highly recommend checking it out
Any sites / channels / books you could recommend please ?
During the early period of life that begins on earth, the evolution seems more based on random environmental disturbances. As life evolves and becomes more complex, evolution occurs also because of competition between species. The early evolution was based on random occurrences. The later evolution not only because of randomness, but also from being an actual target.
Depends on the size/mass of their planet, gravity and atmosphere… so many other factors
Tolerance and patience in times of adversity
My perspective is that we arrogantly assume that an alien species would find us fascinating but we literally might be something an advanced species has seen countless times in their existence and history.
Imagine an advanced species that could travel with ease throughout the universe, the technology they likely possess to easily detect life on planets, likely without even having to visit.
When you drive through the countryside rarely do you ever pull over to look at the sheep, you glance over and continue on your journey, you’ve seen plenty of sheep, they are of little interest to you and you could look at sheep on your phone at any time, what if that’s how Aliens view us?
We think we are so important but we could just be considered simple lifeforms that they have a minimal passing interest in, for all we know they might know everything they want to know about us already, we might be well documented, we could be considered an extremely boring planet in the grand scheme of things, UFO sightings could literally just people people passing through to refuel like we are a rest stop to somewhere far more interesting and just every once in a while some arsehole visiting wants to mess with the locals but most don’t because they hold very little interest in what we do
IMO, the most fascinating aliens we can ever meet would be humans just like us on another world, in another solar system, on another earth. That would be so freaky I couldn’t even fathom it. I’d love to see the differences in stuff they came up with etc… I’d totally choose this scenario every time rather than the typical Martian alien or reptilian. Would also make a great movie.
We can’t communicate with any species on the planet, how do we talk to an alien?
When I was a child and I asked my grandpa if he believed aliens were real, he told me: "If Spacemen are real, the only reason they'd come here is to eat YOU!"
Old people used to say that rockets would punch holes in the atmosphere, turns out they were right, so watch out about grandpa's advice.!
@@penzman The man was right about damn near everythin else.
Agreed, aliens rescuing us from the damage we’ve done to this planet is total deus ex machina…but we need the help anyway, if you please.
They won’t interfere with our dealings we have choice and free will it’s would affect with our growth and development and our evolutionary path as a species. We know better yet choose other alternatives. But we will get there 🤞
Like Lex Fridman
I have a question for everyone.
Hypothetically speaking, say we achieved advancements to travel beyond our solar system and find alien civilization and it was not as "advanced" as us. How would we proceed?
Would we initiate contact?
It's nice to see a scientist with an open mind.
2:23 “ UFO aliens all look like us”
They all look like what popular fiction of the time determines what they look like.
In the 1950s comic books were full of flying saucers and all UFO sightings described flying saucers.
Oops…. I realized you guys were talking science fiction! And I like it!
Life on other planets would look similar to ours. Just look at how everything evolved into crabs. It happened so often there’s literally jokes about it.
Aliens are interdimensional at least the ones that can visit us.
You can't just say no that aliens have never visited how do you know at least you could say your open to the idea @@JobyFluorine-ru4bd
@JobyFluorine-ru4bd
Yes they are..
And I would encourage you to get some help for your incredibly closed off, small mind.
Oh? And you know this how?
@@JobyFluorine-ru4bd based on what? You not seeing them yourself?
Oumuyamuya. That’s…yeah you should look into that sir. But in general I agree: Challenge your bias. Challenge your ideas. Get out of your village to connect with others but be VERY careful but surrender to the road you’re going down.
If you look at all our modern vegetables, all of those were modified by us.
I love this guy.
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Lot of fancy words. No answers
Yes exactly
Exactly like NDT and it’s annoying.
He essentially said that they will look something like us. Just as on Earth on another planet, even though it might be different. If it's a carbon-based life, you'll probably need to drink. What's the easiest way to place place liquid in a container? A cup. What's the optimal way to pick up objects? With four fingers and a thumb. It might look different just as a black person might look different from a white person. But in essence, you're looking at a bipedal humanoid with arms and legs, hands and feet. You get it. The laws of physics apply everywhere whether it's on Earth or a planet that looks like hundreds of millions of light years away.
You idiots thought they were gonna give you answers on whether or not there’s aliens lol
I don’t think we have any concept of what an other worldly creature may look like. Could be an omnipresent light or glow imo
How does an orb of light or a ball of plasma have intelligence ?
Just ask the CIA, they're in their basement
Can't believe Liquid Brains is not a sponsor
If you ever want to do a show on the Urantia book I’d be very interested and offer my services to assist
The Urantia book has lots to say about all this
13:25 - '...certain kinds of orbits...maybe they parked a probe...'
The Moon perhaps?
Such a high level take, never talk about how dna was created.
"Help us please."We are being held against our will" goes way back 👽
If I'm not mistaken, Octopuses have multiple brains and are regarded as very intelligent animals, very different from how we're constructed. Imagine if they evolved to develop technology.
Fish in spacesuits
@@nicholas11121 Xenofish
A technological civilization would need hands with digits to do fine work.
There are more things that influence life at a planetary scale. Size of planet/gravity, moon or moons, rotation and orbit of the planet and the solar radiation and the atmosphere of the planet. All have primary influence on life if it evolves on the planet.
Affects physiology, biorhythms, the solar radiation and type of atmosphere can determine the type of vision the life forms have.
Not a pinball machine. A roiling mass, like the sun. 8:18
Always cautious about people who are so confident about things like this.
Man you need to interview Tim burchett
He discuses interesting topics and has great guests, but he has such a boring and tiring delivery. He sounds like he's half asleep, has a flat affect, slurs his words, and sounds drunk.
When do we get wings
All I know is they’ll be carbon based since on earth there’s only 0.2% carbon where silicon is well over 30% yet we see no silicon based life on earth. If they were silicon based then oxygen would turn them to stone basically.
I’m going with District 9 ….
To me seems extremely logical
I think Lex is right. The Earth worked very hard to transcend to idea evolution.
Once they get to a high enough level level of technology, they should be able to become whatever they want.
Maybe technological vehicles, that can traverse space and time.
The same rules that apply to have life on earth doesnt have to apply to beings elsewhere.
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It’s 0448 just got off my 12 hour shift. This is def what I need..
3:20 in, and I still haven't heard 1 iota of what aliens would look like. I think at 0:05 I should already hear a basic synapses of what they might look like, then, he can spend the rest of the time sparring with verbs and adjectives.
Safe to say that dinosaurs roamed this planet. Do we really want to know what's out there?
they are like the zorgons in zathura
See 'Avatar' as Exhibit A on what we would do if we found an alien planet with more primitive aliens than us. Step 1: See if there are any resources we can exploit 2. Remove the 'impediment' 3. Ask for forgiveness later, after we have decimated the population and planet for said resources. 4. the aliens would be second/third class citizens on their own planet by then.
Yeah avatar had a different spin on alien "civilization" from a pre agricultural standpoint. It was interesting seeing us as the aliens for once.
I’m really curious to hear more about the specialized needs and adaptations of another life form that could travel the stars such as the ability to manipulate and construct machines..... I would assume this organism would need to develop some kind of hand like appendage ? Their planet would also need all the available resources that could be mined . Fire would need to be available as well as oxygen and other gases . I would also assume the density and gravity would need to be just right to allow them to build a vessel that is capable of escape velocity from there planet . Here on earth , we can barely escape earths gravity with the fuel and rocket technology that exist !! Things have to work out just right !!!!! We amazingly have just what it takes . Is that Luck ? There are so so so many things that have to be available for anything to work as it has up to now !! Please comment your thoughts .
Them aliens might be from a rougher neigbourhood compared to ours
The thumbnail 🤣
Could be even a being with a capacity to emulate other types of live.
Aliens will be standing on 2 or 4 legs with at least 2 hands with fingers to invent shit. It’s the most optimal creature design to use tools.
We might be the only living beings capable of feeling empathy for other creatures. We know this is a rare trait, as no other species on Earth demonstrates empathy to the same extent. This means we should absolutely avoid sending signals to other species. What if we attract a race of beings like ants or lions? Do you think they wouldn’t consume or destroy us without a second thought?
They create, they need to have kegs and arms etc
If you "run the history back", are you not getting the same "accidents"? Wouldn't the ELE meteor still hit?
Would have been a lot easier to say we are made in their likeness and image.
Can we get this straight aliens and ets can mean very different things, the ones communicating right now are ets that are our direct cousins
Have to keep in mind how all the planets are moving towards the sun as the sun is growing.. the habitable zone changes ..
It really depends on what they are here for
In my opinion, what they look like, depends on how long they’ve been around. In the early stages, the life forms of another technological civilization would have to have arms and legs so they could get material and build things like we have done. Now if they’ve been around for millions of years they could have AI that build and service everything they need, they could have no need for arms or legs, maybe they’ve evolved after millions of years and now look completely different.
Convergent evolution. Some will look similar to us.
This guy 😂😂
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Hominids have evolved in different way! So many different primates! Coming from so many different rodent type mammal coming from different types of reptiles etc… Convergent evolution is amazing and it must have happen often elsewhere too!
This world is too perfect, and imperfect. To me, it's intelligent design.
didn't crabs evolve from scratch more than once
I’m a nobody but I been in contact with ETs, along with orbs, ships, saucers, lights, shadows, different type of entities. I seen some extraterrestrials and from my experience and to compare on this descriptions, you all are taking it overboard. As weird as it sounds, the types I seen are exactly what you have seen already. I mean I get why some people go crazy down the rabbit hole in trying to figure out what they would look like, but these educated guesses most of the time are overkill and way past the mark.
The ones we’ve seen can become “less solid.” They look like 3D shadows filled with dark webs or veins or something. They can walk through walls in that state. I don’t think they’re inter dimensional. They’re otherwise very solid. 3.5ft tall, 40-45lbs, temperature 103-106 Fahrenheit. They’re docile.
Just not letting your imagination stray outside of the conventional box..
Quick thought on the drones the government could have made sure the air space was clear of any human registered flight paths and sent up jets or a helicopter and if its vehicles flash lasers after the ones we sent up came back down
We are the aliens we are afraid of and depict in movies. If we found another planet with life we would 100% pull a columbus
So you asking human about how alien life will look like?😅 This is funny
We talk about ‘them’ like an alien planet is a single race without their global politics.
Idk why this dude is going on and on with all this extra dialogue when we already know what they look like.
When did Payton Pritchard get so big brain