Why Haven't We Found Alien Life?

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    With millions of Earth like planets around sun like stars in our galaxy alone, why don't we see intelligent alien life? Or any other life for that matter? It gets especially weird when you factor in new scientific revelations that life on Earth occurred crazy fast! So if you want to help us theorize on the real reasons we haven't found alien life, you should watch today's episode of Space Time!
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  • @talonviperchef4048
    @talonviperchef4048 8 ปีที่แล้ว +424

    Humanity being the first generation intelligence? Oh my my the universe is fucked.

    • @fernandocabette6050
      @fernandocabette6050 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      +Talon ViperChef Tell me about it. Imagine human race as is guiding other less developed races...it worked wonders to the natives on all the americas. We can only hope for some wakeup call.

    • @elmobarrethawk3566
      @elmobarrethawk3566 8 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      +Talon ViperChef shutup humanity is still a very young race imagine how you acted when you were 5-8 well thats how humanity is acting

    • @SokarEntertainment
      @SokarEntertainment 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Talon ViperChef It seems inevitable that we'll destroy ourselves. The violent rise of islamism in the east, and collectivist fascism/communism in the west, is making the near future very unpredictable and dangerous.
      There may be home for the universe yet ;)

    • @2000yearOldYogiAspirant
      @2000yearOldYogiAspirant 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +Sokar add feminisn in the west. thats truly the beginning of the end

    • @HippiesKiller007
      @HippiesKiller007 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I hate how people keep bitching about humanity and the man being the ultimate monster. People perceive the world base on subjective morality unguided by reason or logic, they believe in good and evil based on general opinion like sheep. There is no good or evil, no objective morality, right or wrong actions, only will of people to change the world around them.

  • @erickcapitanio1957
    @erickcapitanio1957 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    FIRST
    EDIT: but seriously if we really are some of the earliest life forms or earliest intelligent life forms that would honestly be quite awesome. Let's just hope we don't fuck it up and destroy ourselves or the planet

    • @julianemery718
      @julianemery718 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Erick Capitanio You have NO idea how hard I'm wishing for that not to happen.
      I'd much rather leave a green and liveable planet behind than a barren wasteland.

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Julian Emery based on how fast life on earth regenerated after every single natural disaster... I don't think anyone would notice that nuclear war happened here 1milion years ago.

    • @Craneman4100w
      @Craneman4100w 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +KohuGaly Really? Well, I disagree to the extent that I would expect everyone to know if a nuclear war took place 100 million years ago. The geologic evidence would be everywhere.

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Craneman You mean "the massive crater at Yucatan from the asteroid that killed dinosaurs"-type of evidence? We barely noticed that only recently, even later than we noticed that thin layer of iridium across the surface of the earth (also form the same impact).
      Yes, there would be a geological evidence of nuclear war, but I doubt it would be obvious.

    • @cj-seejay-cj-seejay
      @cj-seejay-cj-seejay 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Erick Capitanio I don't think I've ever given thumbs up to a "FIRST" comment before. But good job.

  • @ianbattles7290
    @ianbattles7290 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    On a cosmic scale, time/distance are so incomprehensibly vast, the odds that any two civilizations will exist simultaneously AND be close enough to facilitate meaningful two-way communication are close to zero.
    Even using our most advanced technology, it would still take longer than a human lifespan just to leave our own solar system.

    • @Anthony-lf2kg
      @Anthony-lf2kg 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Ian Battles ; god damn your comment is depressingly true. I hate to be a pessimist but the chances of us actually traveling to another star or planet outside of our solar system are so incredibly slim, especially at the rate we are going now with the vast majority of humans explaining the world around the by religion instead of logic/scientific reasoning. I certainly think we will make it to mars and have some form of colonization there but outside of that the future is looking fairly bleak. Apologies for the gloomy rant

    • @johnhess1430
      @johnhess1430 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unless its two planets next to each other

    • @Feedmaster420
      @Feedmaster420 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Given enough time we could colonize the galaxy even if FTL isn't possible.

    • @throwawaywwwwwww
      @throwawaywwwwwww 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ian Battles The time is not yet incomprehensible. The universe is still young.
      And the incomprehensible distance and vastness makes it more likely for two civilizations to exist simultaneously.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      presumably because you never lost it, leaving aside the high probability that there is no such thing. Mind you it might be behind something or underneath something which is generally where things that cannot be found are to be found.
      From where did anybody get the barking mad idea that there might be what is called "alien life"? Would it not be hilariously funny if there were one or two creatures that simply finding themselves on some obscure planet were content to meditate on the wonders of life, and were not interested in materialistic things and did not want to get anywhere?- they might b Buddhists or have some other strange religion. That possibility does not seem too cross the minds of the more given to fantasy.

  • @1112viggo
    @1112viggo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Why is it always assumed that life must meet the same requirements as we know it on earth? for all we know there could be creatures who for instance dont eat drink or breath anything, but rather get their energy solely from thermal energy or radioactivity. We can never asses the general probability for life in space at all until we find and study the lifeforms on at least half a dozen different inhabited planets, if there are any.

    • @onewhostudies6856
      @onewhostudies6856 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Because people on earth have witnessed human aliens that look just like us. The are the Plejaren and their ancestors mated with primitive earth people long ago.

    • @1112viggo
      @1112viggo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @lil Clock lmao i hardly think scientists would be that picky if they thought there actually where a chance of finding life completely unlike what we know. Its just hard to search for something you have no idea what could look like and that is kinda my point. We might be very surprised when we finally do find alien life^^

    • @1112viggo
      @1112viggo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@onewhostudies6856 that could very well be. I mean those ancient aliens guys are completely full of shit for sure, but their overall theory could be right. its certainly one of the best explanations for religious stories and practices that i have heard. Almost as good as the mainstream explanation of a random global case of "folie a deux"

    • @gideonfuterman7265
      @gideonfuterman7265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I could be wrong, but I think it's that they have eno clue what life would look like unlike our own ( and no ways of deciding if it's life or not, nor the conditions it would need to come about) so the only way they can be sure they have found life or are looking in a possibly right place is if it's similar to our own

    • @HappyHappy-qu2lu
      @HappyHappy-qu2lu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      exactly if we can make conscious robots, then there can be a planet which MAKES conscious robots who can make biological creatures and call them robots right?

  • @Rakadis
    @Rakadis 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1626

    As Bill Watterson said : The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

    • @GianmarcoGarau
      @GianmarcoGarau 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      💪

    • @someonelikeme0
      @someonelikeme0 8 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      rude!

    • @HaloForgeUltra
      @HaloForgeUltra 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +BsT_Kumquat a.k.a IHeartFootjobs a.k.a (former) iT_Onza
      *Still true...*

    • @brunosonza787
      @brunosonza787 8 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      +Notrollhere Well, mate, that's quite an egocentric view. First, if a civilization had the technology to find and contact us, i really doubt that they would have a reason to; they would, probably, be god-like to us. Besides, if the universe is as populated as the statistics suggests, we are just another starting civilization with hardly any potential for any kind of argument. Therefore, I am sure that the probability is quite low of any super civilization within our galaxy find us in this little corner, have a similar way of thinking and communicating , have a reason to contact us, and decide that this reason is worth the resources. Remember: We probably look like smarts squirrels with basic knowledge of the universe and an inflated ego to a mere type 2 civilization.

    • @HaloForgeUltra
      @HaloForgeUltra 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      bruno sonza
      We are on one of the 1st 8% of all planets there will be, we are likely at least one of the first civilizations in our galaxy.

  • @slamjammer2617
    @slamjammer2617 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2033

    Meanwhile, aliens are wondering the same question

    • @rinmaIa
      @rinmaIa 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ooOOO

    • @kirby118
      @kirby118 8 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      And commenting about how other aliens are thinking of the same thing

    • @kirby118
      @kirby118 8 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      +dskirby and on and on and on ....

    • @user-nf3hh8kn5r
      @user-nf3hh8kn5r 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      deym san

    • @MrMinevision1
      @MrMinevision1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LMAO

  • @exactemphasis
    @exactemphasis 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1889

    I'm still searching for intelligent life on this planet

    • @Willemdreess
      @Willemdreess 8 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      +ClippersNBAChampions2016 You sir, you made me laugh

    • @fernandocabette6050
      @fernandocabette6050 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      +ClippersNBAChampions2016 I know what you meant, but come on, If you watched this video you have heard at least one.

    • @HippiesKiller007
      @HippiesKiller007 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      there is a good chance that there exists a person or people that have a double the IQ of yours. Possible even triple, so pull your head out of your ass.

    • @HippiesKiller007
      @HippiesKiller007 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      why would be 160 the maximum? Based on different sources, there are people with double of your iq

    • @ALTAIRGAMINGTECH
      @ALTAIRGAMINGTECH 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      +ClippersNBAChampions2016 Dont look for it in the mirror.

  • @ronruba407
    @ronruba407 4 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    I've always been curious to know why we keep thinking aliens want to colonize... Because we would, we assume they would too???

    • @billysummers1616
      @billysummers1616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      We're just a tv show to them

    • @MrHermit12
      @MrHermit12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      If you're not growing you're dying.

    • @JUST-UK-JAY
      @JUST-UK-JAY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@MrHermit12 We all do both at the start of our lives.

    • @mhx6437
      @mhx6437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, because think it like this: We are intelligent, we colonized, thus other intelligent creatures will try to colonize. That's their theory.

    • @Vagabond-Cosmique
      @Vagabond-Cosmique 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's the other way around: it's not that any alien civilisation should colonise the galaxy, but rather, that those civs that spread out and colonise the galaxy would be the most visible ones.

  • @jtlovestj
    @jtlovestj 8 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    Fuck, this is so awesome. the feeling of being the first sentient life in our galaxy is amazing.
    We'd be the 'elders' of our galaxy if it were true.

    • @mnrvaprjct
      @mnrvaprjct 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      me might be one of the first....

    • @H8FilledVoid
      @H8FilledVoid 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      well put. :-) maybe one day, we will be the mythological creatures that created other beings. In short... we are gods.

    • @mnrvaprjct
      @mnrvaprjct 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      H8FilledVoid We might be like a precursor race...look up precursors from halo, and you'll see what I mean

    • @WhoLetThemIn
      @WhoLetThemIn 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +Mind Blow Like a classical sci-fi prothean race, I like it...

    • @Djorgal
      @Djorgal 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Necuametl Given enough time everyone ultimately becomes "the elders".

  • @danthefan1552
    @danthefan1552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +569

    When aliens fly past Earth they wind up their windows and lock their doors

    • @grumpent
      @grumpent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Dan Thefan 😂 lmfao good one

    • @daryljonesfoster4102
      @daryljonesfoster4102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🧟🧟🧟🖕🖕👀👀

    • @derricksmith3893
      @derricksmith3893 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol😃😃

    • @ghostman8158
      @ghostman8158 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      HAHAHA

    • @superstar7184
      @superstar7184 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's because 1 of them just farted and don't want to be detected 🤢🤢🤢🤢

  • @rakesh010668
    @rakesh010668 8 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    "300 million years, seems crazy fast" - its just like yesterday 😃😂😂

    • @madcatz3d
      @madcatz3d 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂

    • @zexisak4085
      @zexisak4085 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anthony Do you even math

    • @zexisak4085
      @zexisak4085 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anthony 2.1%

    • @Silverwind87
      @Silverwind87 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      In astrophysics, time goes by really quicker.

    • @emmillyy.
      @emmillyy. 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      *it's

  • @iamlsusam
    @iamlsusam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Because of the incredible distances between stars. It’ll take too long for interstellar travel to be practical!

  • @Keklan572
    @Keklan572 8 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I am the very model of a scientist salarian, I've studied species turian, asari, and batarian.
    I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology) because i am an expert (which i know is a tautology).
    My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of a scientist salarian!

    • @datim2010
      @datim2010 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Declan Kostka Love it. Poor Mordin, wish it would've ended better for him in ME3

    • @Keklan572
      @Keklan572 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      datim2010 I dont think I have ever cried more in my life ;( I crie evry tim

    • @circuitboardsushi
      @circuitboardsushi 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +datim2010 It can if you are willing to betray him and the krogan race

    • @Keklan572
      @Keklan572 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      circuitboardsushi Never

    • @Quester91
      @Quester91 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +datim2010 The fact that you could have been able to shoot him in the back just to stop him from his noble goal was even more heartwrecking

  • @stevepittman3770
    @stevepittman3770 8 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    The idea that we're the first intelligent life in the galaxy/universe is pretty fascinating considering that in the vast majority of our sci-fi mythos we expect to be found and conquered or led. It makes me wonder how we would interact with less technological alien civilizations. Given the history of colonialism's industrial scale subjugation of less technological humans, I imagine it won't be pretty. I hope we wise up between now and then.

    • @truth1901
      @truth1901 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Steve Pittman There are energy creatures.

    • @elmobarrethawk3566
      @elmobarrethawk3566 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +Steve Pittman depends on how far we advanced as a civilization because as we grow more advanced we grow less violent well at least to some degree because humanity seems to gone to a point where there are few wars but the ones there when there is one it is bloodey

    • @truth1901
      @truth1901 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mind Blow God made the universe from energy.

    • @jesusthroughmary
      @jesusthroughmary 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +truth1901 God made the universe from nothing.

    • @00dm4d
      @00dm4d 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Steve Pittman That's why we have the prime directive.

  • @DMS-pq8
    @DMS-pq8 6 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    Imagine if there were only five people on this planet, Put one in Los Angeles, One in Mexico City, One in Cairo, One in Paris and one in Tokyo What are the odds that one would ever find another? That is why we haven't seen aliens

    • @nem447
      @nem447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      yes good analogy, I like it

    • @DMS-pq8
      @DMS-pq8 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank You

    • @DMS-pq8
      @DMS-pq8 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Did you check Hollyweird??

    • @DMS-pq8
      @DMS-pq8 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      My layman's opinion is that the universe is probably filled with little bacteria and such but intelligent sentient life is incredibly rare maybe one planet is several million and if you consider that the nearest Civ to us may have died out by now or could be on the other side of the galaxy so far away we will never know they are there

    • @pas5294
      @pas5294 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dave S. It doesn’t work that way, because obviously we are searching outside our planet so we just need to find water or oxygen to figure out if their is life or not but as in right now no sign

  • @vitast2000
    @vitast2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    While I think it is likely there may be alien life, I believe intelligent life is probably even more rare. This planet has existed for billions of years, and intelligent life has only been a sliver of that time, appearing in one species. Most alien life is probably very simple or animal life. Either way, I would be just as excited to know there is any life other life out there at all.

  • @Erik-yw9kj
    @Erik-yw9kj 8 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    "Properly fund NASA..." - Whoa whoa whoa. Don't you know we have better things to spend our half-pennies per year on? C'mon man, priorities!
    ... I made myself sad...

    • @fernandocabette6050
      @fernandocabette6050 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      +Erik Yeah, shameless "self science cummunity" promotion is shameless...lol But discover a way to turn all those slimeball planets into oil and you'll see another space race.

    • @thulyblu5486
      @thulyblu5486 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Erik
      Yeah, what if there is plenty of intelligent life, but they don't explore space because it's too costly? I mean, why spent half your resources for a risky trip for no immediate payoff in order to try and colonize planets which you are not adapted to?

    • @fernandocabette6050
      @fernandocabette6050 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Guess they will eventually find us drop by. I just wish to be alive to see that.

    • @TheEvilVargon
      @TheEvilVargon 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Erik id say shots fired but this is more like rockets launched

    • @Erik-yw9kj
      @Erik-yw9kj 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thulyblu NASA is exploring space on half a penny per year per person in the USA, and the potential payoffs *in resources alone* (a la asteroid mining for example) could be world-changing. As in, **ending poverty** world-changing, if we play our cards right (and don't, you know, just let the super rich get richer).

  • @apples4255
    @apples4255 6 ปีที่แล้ว +777

    The scariest thing to find on another planet would be other humans

    • @alexwalsh9522
      @alexwalsh9522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      Ap Ples yeah true. Especially if they look like you, I can't wait for alien porn to come though.

    • @GarlicGrinder9
      @GarlicGrinder9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      Because we'd end up killing and enslaving them too, with racist people treating earthling humans as the "superior race" like "we are the Original humans."

    • @mfjdv2020
      @mfjdv2020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      You can relax. It's extremely unlikely that that would ever happen

    • @lglennable
      @lglennable 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Shut up! don't even go there. That is the scariest thing I have ever heard

    • @thomassmartphone7125
      @thomassmartphone7125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@alexwalsh9522 Yeah, humanity has to find Aliens just because of alien-porn. 😂

  • @UpstairsPancake
    @UpstairsPancake 8 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    I really hope I live long enough to see discovery of aliens or become immortal so I can see the beautiful progress of humanity and the universe.

    • @ryanm7263
      @ryanm7263 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +SquishyBananaBread You definitely do not want immortality. If you or I were immortal, that would be a real problem for us.

    • @OljeiKhan
      @OljeiKhan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      +Ryan MacFarlane Why would immortality be a problem , as a lifeform it is my utmost duty to make sure that i keep myself alive. That's like the most fundamental instinct of all lifeforms. Besides from that , i think the universe is extremely beautifull , and i believe that advanced civilizations will be far more mature than the crybabies we currently are.
      So i would love to be immortal. Why wouldn't you?

    • @ryanm7263
      @ryanm7263 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ***** I can empathize with the wish to live a very long time so as to witness the unfolding of future civilization and the unveiling of the mysteries of the universe, but immortality is another matter entirely. The fate of an immortal being is to be suspended in an empty void for trillions of years after every star in the universe has burnt out.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Bang_to_Heat_Death

    • @Z4nnibal
      @Z4nnibal 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +SquishyBananaBread Yea, living long enough to see the human evolution would be pretty incr-..
      *STARE RAPE! STARE RAPE! CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE! PATRIARCHY! I'M OFFENDED!*
      Actually, never mind.

    • @ryanm7263
      @ryanm7263 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Z4nnibal I lol'd.

  • @twisted1800
    @twisted1800 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    When aliens fly by our planet they roll up their windows and avoid eye contact.

    • @1mastaloc
      @1mastaloc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      twisted1800 😂

    • @jimmywinchester9346
      @jimmywinchester9346 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      twisted1800 stolen comment

    • @darthfushang1
      @darthfushang1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Love that! HAHAHA!

    • @ninjahayden34
      @ninjahayden34 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol we are the crackheads of the universe

    • @yunogreg
      @yunogreg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2021 is the year that the aliens show the self’s FINALY who is hyped?

  • @Bartekkru100
    @Bartekkru100 8 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    Those are the Reapers destroying advanced life every 50.000 years!

    • @screamsofthedead
      @screamsofthedead 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I was hoping to find a Mass Effect reference somewhere in the comments.

    • @TheHelghast1138
      @TheHelghast1138 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      guess we better get the Normandy fired up

    • @VeselinKrumov
      @VeselinKrumov 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      call shepard

    • @jalenbyrd7131
      @jalenbyrd7131 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bartosz Kruszona k

    • @Sbeve_One
      @Sbeve_One 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bartosz Kruszona was it really only 50,000 years? I thought it was slightly longer

  • @MsLacieable
    @MsLacieable 7 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    What if the universe has leaders and laws in it? No one can come near galaxies that are too young.

    • @taelongx
      @taelongx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      LOL

    • @space9249
      @space9249 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Emily Ocean Well the milky way isn't young.

    • @matze9860
      @matze9860 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      In our Eyes. Might not be in their eyes tho.

    • @ieatmemeswithoutmilk1337
      @ieatmemeswithoutmilk1337 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Emily Ocean Huh. Interesting...
      Very interesting.

    • @b_wellyn
      @b_wellyn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      laws don't work unless they are systems of pure logic

  • @NakedAvanger
    @NakedAvanger 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This is kinda sad honestly
    I hope we're not one of the first I hope that one day we contact a greater species
    It would be awesome if they'd be friendly and gives us their technology
    That would be insane

    • @ekulerudamuru
      @ekulerudamuru 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      but what if we are the 1st?

    • @NakedAvanger
      @NakedAvanger 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      personally im one of those people who dont want to intervene into nature
      like for example IF we make it to a type 3 civilization and then find another species thats going trough the 1500 period & we show ourselves to them they might just start to worship us
      or changing whole biospheres or planets doesnt seem right
      destroying or terraforming dead planets doesnt seem bad on the other hand, after all they dont have life on them

    • @NakedAvanger
      @NakedAvanger 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      its a rare occurrence to get a reply as kind as that back, i salute you my friend ! :)

    • @peste2574
      @peste2574 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      It does seem right if they're going to perish for that biosphere change.

    • @bruhtholemew
      @bruhtholemew 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I honestly would find it amazing if they had amazing technology and were still surprised by something we have on Earth. Imagine if they never invented the wheel and went straight to hover devices? Alien vs Human racing competitions incoming.

  • @MoneyMotivation360
    @MoneyMotivation360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Alien: “Commander, we may have found intelligent life.
    Alien Commander: “ may have?”
    Alien: “Well they’re developing weapons to destroy eachother & their planet.”

    • @Kenneth_H_Olsen
      @Kenneth_H_Olsen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Personally I think war is a fundamental part of civilisation, unfortunately. A war to sustain memory, a war against chaos, a war for the environment and ecosystem, that is to make social equality and life quality for every living being . War to protect the society that is "good", and to work is good . But the biggest paradox of the Eons, is that everybody fights the "good fight" . Hermes Trismagistus says : There is only one religion of God, that is to be good . And Everything in the universe is good. but it also creates volcanoes, meteors and exploding suns. Is the flame good or bad, at a distance its warm and cosy, close its burning scortch . Flame is good and bad, at the same time . Looking at the ancient records, war is usual also between the gods, and other beings, where was it ... Bagavad Gita from india . If you forget war, you loose .

    • @1112viggo
      @1112viggo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Kenneth_H_Olsen Lol you sound like an American politician. Concepts such as "war for the environment and ecosystem" are just metaphors. Unless two large groups of organized beings are killing each other its not war. And that may be fundamental to humans along with a long line of other creatures on this planet, but we do see plenty examples of lifeforms for whom war is completely unheard of.
      Life on earth are either prey or predator, and our most intelligent species happens to have evolved from the predator category, had intelligent life evolved from say dolphins instead of primates our brains would be wired different and we would probably project our own peaceful nature onto potential aliens just as we mainly project our violent nature on them now.

    • @hehehehe3051
      @hehehehe3051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Alien: and now there is a virus

    • @theobvious1958
      @theobvious1958 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@1112viggo The US military is the greatest contributor to modern technology. you should research the origins of jet engines, ICBMS, NASA hubble, GPS, photolithography, microwaves, helicopters

    • @1112viggo
      @1112viggo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@theobvious1958 Okay how does this relate to the point i was making? and what does "Photolithography" and Hubble have to do with Americas military?
      Lots of seemingly unrelated technologies have come about because of both war and space exploration but you can hardly put them into the same category. The fundamental drive behind one is fear while the drive behind the other is curiosity.
      besides, the concept of a jet engine can be dated back to Archytas 150 bc. the first pulse engine was patented by a Russian. The first thermojet was the Japanese made Tsu-11 engine. And the first modern type jet engine was developed simultaneously by a German and an Englishmen who both tried to sue each other for stealing the patent. What does that ave to do with America`?

  • @AndrewBrownK
    @AndrewBrownK 8 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    7:57 "Within 20 years"
    classic

    • @Tiktaalik
      @Tiktaalik 8 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      NASA is one of the most neglected programs. Yet so key to human survival.

    • @elmobarrethawk3566
      @elmobarrethawk3566 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      +cuttlefish because most people dont understand it importance

    • @Gushing69Granny
      @Gushing69Granny 8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Sound like the people who said we couldn't land on the moon

    • @ABetterWeapon
      @ABetterWeapon 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +UpToYouOnly, I knew I'd see that golden oldie in here somewhere. I say thankya.

    • @sunnyboynfs
      @sunnyboynfs 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Andrew Brown NASA isn't the only space agency out there..

  • @PikaPetey
    @PikaPetey 8 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I don't talk to the ants or bateria in a petri dish. so why would aliens contact us?

    • @H8FilledVoid
      @H8FilledVoid 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I talk to my cat...

    • @thulyblu5486
      @thulyblu5486 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +H8FilledVoid
      I'm sorry to spoil this for you, but ... your cat doesn't understand the words you're saying

    • @Djorgal
      @Djorgal 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +celestus87 The cat does know of your existence.
      Indeed bacteria don't know we exist, but they're also not actively wondering whether they're alone in the universe or not. We are trying to figure out if there are aliens and conducting experiments to find that out. If bacterias were conducting experiments they would figure out that we exist.

    • @thulyblu5486
      @thulyblu5486 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Djorgal
      Maybe there are bacteria with tiny, super powerful quantum computer brains. Maybe even here on earth, we didn't really check, did we?

    • @H8FilledVoid
      @H8FilledVoid 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      my cat does talk back. it just does so in its own language. my cat can easily communicate to me when it needs food, wants out or needs its litter changed. some people, can tell a cat to do small tasks which the cat then carries out. you, clearly have no cat.

  • @truggy7858
    @truggy7858 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Only 300 million years! That's CRAZY fast!

    • @potato-hj9nm
      @potato-hj9nm 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Sahand
      Its is a bit less than 1/46 of the entire age of th universe so far. That is quite long in the grand scheme of things.

    • @potato-hj9nm
      @potato-hj9nm 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Sahand
      Yes but so far its not been very long.

  • @johnlemon252
    @johnlemon252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Honestly the simplest explanation for why we haven't seen ancient alien civilizations is that we haven't been looking long enough and we're probably not great at knowing what to look for. It may be possible that megastructures are too difficult to be worth it, that interstellar travel is too resource intensive for any species to colonize more than a few star systems (especially knowing that'd probably be more than enough for any given species), and radio-signatures drop off exponentially with distance, meaning we would only be able to detect deliberate, targeted transmissions at any significant distance. Factor into that the fact that estimated solutions for the Drake equation tend to be in the ten thousands, while there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way alone, and we've only been looking for a few decades, it's no surprise we haven't seen jack squat, even if all our assumptions about the inevitability of galactic empires are true.

  • @garethdean6382
    @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    So much love. The arguments in this video are so oft ignored or brushed aside. Brilliant.

    • @pbsspacetime
      @pbsspacetime  8 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      +Gareth Dean Thanks Gareth. Your opinion counts for a lot here.

    • @Skinnymarks
      @Skinnymarks 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      indeed. it dose sound like one of the best arguments I've herd so far.

    • @vaibhavjain3998
      @vaibhavjain3998 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +please discuss about the physics of life after death in your next episode plzzzzzzzzzzz.............

    • @Skinnymarks
      @Skinnymarks 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vaibhav Jain​ wait what? The decomposition of the body or the physics of other non-physical matter realities?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Vaibhav Jain
      Are you talking about, say, brain uploading? Because life after death is more theology than physics.

  • @markrude9489
    @markrude9489 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    My concern about aliens is that from our observation about ourselves, you could assume that intelligent alien life would be the most aggressive, most deadly, and most adaptable life on their home planet. They'd be the kind of thing you'd want to stay on their home planet.

    • @sanawon404
      @sanawon404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the dark forest theory ?

    • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
      @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, if they are coming here, they are coming to eat us and steal our resources.
      {:o:O:}

  • @EdgarMartinez-sl4kp
    @EdgarMartinez-sl4kp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    Who said aliens must need water to survive? They are different

    • @maddog5100
      @maddog5100 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      +Jack Garcia Maybe they don't even need to breathe or drink anything.

    • @nickmoore6381
      @nickmoore6381 8 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      They'll need to gain energy somehow. All life needs energy to function

    • @TheHaters112
      @TheHaters112 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Nick Moore Nope. They'll create energy by bending space time to their will.
      Hey my idea maybe unlikely but its still a possibility.
      Anyway to the OP we use us as a base to finding life because at some point a rock could end up being a lifeform.

    • @KiwiImpactSaint
      @KiwiImpactSaint 8 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Water is the best solute agent.
      You can try liquid methane on Titan or liquid silicate minerals in melten magma, but they aren't so good at transporting things that contains precious information.

    • @osaka248
      @osaka248 8 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      humans are known to associate everything with what they know
      hmmm we know... we know.

  • @bullsharkreef
    @bullsharkreef 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Hm, seems to me that interstellar travel could simply be impossible for living being, therefore there could be millions of technological civilizations in our galaxy, all holed up on their own planetary system thinking they are alone and never able to communicate with each other. As to detecting radio signals, well there's a thing called the inverse-square law against it; detecting an alien signal would be like turning on a lightbulb in New-York and expecting people in France to see it.

    • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
      @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 ปีที่แล้ว

      First sensible comment I've seen.
      Maybe warp drive, jump gates and subspace wave engines are *SCENCE FICTION* and always will be.
      {:o:O:}

  • @freedomwarrior7734
    @freedomwarrior7734 8 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    Life is probably common. But intelligent life is likely extremely rare.

    • @chenyeetoh7024
      @chenyeetoh7024 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Freedom Warrior Intelligence is evolutionary unstable, therefore it is rare . Even on earth, we might not reach the point of being an interstellar specie, because it is very likely that in the near future, all high intelligence humans will be killed by the dumb humans and go extinct,.

    • @joaquinauzenne
      @joaquinauzenne 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Freedom Warrior I agree with this comment, it's like egg fertilization, there's a shart ton of sperm but out of maybe millions that a female may get from potential suitors in a species, only 1 or 2 are used to make multiple eggs

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Certainly none here, in this comment field of idiots. …….Ready for the big asteroid strike now!!!

    • @corbinmcnabb
      @corbinmcnabb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here, on the only planet we know has life, we know of only one species capable of abstract communication, out of the total number of species.
      That doesn't guarantee you are right, but it is supportive of the idea. At least until and unless facts prove otherwise.

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@corbinmcnabb THERE ARE MANY SPECIES WITH ABSTRACT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THEMSELVES !! WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ?? LMAO !!! YOU ARMCHAIR SCIENTISTS MAKE ME CHUCKLE !!

  • @thecrow9026
    @thecrow9026 8 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    We are either really early to the party or very late..

    • @raindog5109
      @raindog5109 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      late

    • @zaksargant655
      @zaksargant655 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Early, I bet there's life being made right now

    • @Benzin0
      @Benzin0 8 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      +Zak Sargant ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) indeed

    • @acadacadabra
      @acadacadabra 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Nezan Khan either way, still scary

    • @ThisIsWEB
      @ThisIsWEB 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Zino Productions LOL

  • @cloudviews
    @cloudviews 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The first time I hear the word bacteria in such a sexy way... Hahaha 😬

    • @TibiSitibira
      @TibiSitibira 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Claudia Ramos damn,you have a dirty imagination ,but it's good what you gonna do with one washed for ever 🌏 📡🌏 👣🕛 💎💀☠☼☾☄ ₪itibira₪ ✶☥✨🌛🌄⊀⋉🐺🐾▲▴◭

    • @cloudviews
      @cloudviews 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Tibi S thanks for understanding ✌🏼️😘 it's all in good fun!!

    • @sunnyboynfs
      @sunnyboynfs 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Claudia Ramos You interested in that man???

    • @cloudviews
      @cloudviews 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Sunny Panwar aren't you!?? Everyone is interesting here 👍🏼

    • @sunnyboynfs
      @sunnyboynfs 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Claudia Ramos I am interested in science not in the guy ofc LOL..

  • @jonahjohnsen6519
    @jonahjohnsen6519 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Either life is unique and we're it or they are all around us and don't want contact.
    We could be so different that we have nothing in common.

    • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
      @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or, warp drive, jump gates and subspace wave engines are *SCENCE FICTION* and always will be.
      {:o:O:}

  • @9365fall
    @9365fall 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    i signed up to take college physics in high school because of this channel

    • @gentle_singularity
      @gentle_singularity 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +David Sedkethran Good luck

    • @pbsspacetime
      @pbsspacetime  8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +David Sedkethran This means more to us than you can imagine. This is a challenging path, but I bet you're up for it. Have fun investigating the nature of reality.

    • @unixone7558
      @unixone7558 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +PBS Space Time I had a personal answer to the Fermi Paradox. We are looking for intelligent life by scanning for radio signals, ones that our computers would recognize, but what if that's the problem? All of our computer systems are based off of binary (more-or-less), but we don't know if that's the only method of electronic computation (or even if it's the most efficient). So, what would be the chances that any other nearby intelligence would invent a computer base code that is binary? They could make systems we don't understand, systems that would just be picked up as stellar noise by our radio telescopes. It may be that life is abundant, but that because of differences in development it's almost impossible to notice. Tell me if this makes sense PBS. I'm open to being completely wrong.

    • @AlexKnauth
      @AlexKnauth 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Unix One
      I partially agree, but I also believe that binary makes sense, and that it could easily be discovered again and again independently by different civilizations. Unlike base ten, it's not completely arbitrary. It's the smallest base that allows numbers to be represented in log space.

    • @unixone7558
      @unixone7558 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alex Knauth I never said it that no other civilization could develop binary, I just said that seeing as it isn't the only computational method, there is no telling where those other binary civilizations are. If any civilization with technological advanced enough to communicate through radio signals was near earth (and my theory is correct), then it's apparent that no binary civilizations are within reasonable communication distance.

  • @EvilTim1911
    @EvilTim1911 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have a problem where I go on a binge watching videos like these that explore grand topics and then my life seems bland and boring afterwards.

    • @edymasta
      @edymasta 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +EvilTim1911 the effects of immersing yourself into nerd-ism

    • @cameronm.511
      @cameronm.511 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +EvilTim1911 It gets even better once you learn the language and start to discredit each one XD

  • @NemosChannel
    @NemosChannel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    Or it's because we're a simulation and the alien expansion patch has yet to come out.

    • @TheWolfDude91
      @TheWolfDude91 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Nemo's Channel What if we are just a failed experiment the aliens left, or still watching our progress, or maybe we are just a pieces of chess they move in their free time, just like we do to pass the time.

    • @NemosChannel
      @NemosChannel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Slavic Power That reminds me of Jason and the Argonauts, Zeus playing chess with Hera iirc.

    • @user-nf3hh8kn5r
      @user-nf3hh8kn5r 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Nemo's Channel lolol

    • @punchlove7469
      @punchlove7469 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Perhaps our alien overlords did not pre-pay for the season pass

    • @adaptone9777
      @adaptone9777 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      So sick of these simulation ideas. If you are so confident that you are a hologram, why not just jump off a building.. "there is no gravity"... you'll be fine.

  • @xxWayoftheSunxx
    @xxWayoftheSunxx ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I think its hilarious that we've only had the means to even search for life for a few decades and some people are like "yeah theres no life out there." Thats the geological blink of an eye XD we've barely even begun searching

    • @ardalla535
      @ardalla535 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Searching" is irrelevant. What's important is no galactic civilization ever existed; if it had, we would not. If you're just referring to single cell life, then, sure, that's probably all over the place.

    • @cobanus2862
      @cobanus2862 ปีที่แล้ว

      Intergalactic travel is impossible technology is peaking past our intellectual capacity

  • @williamskinner2732
    @williamskinner2732 7 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    One reason we do not see evidence of intelligent life is because when we look into space we are looking backwards in time. If we look half way across the Milky Way we are looking at what was happening 50,000 odd years ago. For us to see any evidence of intelligent life this intelligence must have arisen 50,000 years in advance of our own (and of course pro rats for other distances). For this reason the possibility of communicating with any other intelligent life is only possible with life forms relatively close to our own as the transit time for any communication is twice the distance between them in light years!

    • @zexisak4085
      @zexisak4085 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      William Skinner The diameter of the Milky way is around 100.000 light years. 100.000 light years is nothing compared to 10 - 12 billion light years which the age of the Milky way is.The furthest away you could see in the Milky way would even be shorter because we're not on the edge, but pretty much right in the middle of the edge and the galactic disk. But we can't see through our galactic disk because it's too dense, maybe in the future we could. So maybe the furthest away you can see right now in the Milky way is around 70.000 light years if you count my previous points, then that's nothing compared to the time life formed on earth, the age of our galaxy and the age of our universe.

    • @zexisak4085
      @zexisak4085 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      William 50.000 years is nothing compared to the age of our galaxy.

    • @MattGarcyaDC
      @MattGarcyaDC 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol no

    • @smogre5143
      @smogre5143 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Matt Garcya how is that false

    • @flashforensics
      @flashforensics 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Actually dick head, any idea how long a Billion years is compared to 50,000 years, that is the whole point of the video, because after a billion years there SHOULD be a galactic Empire, life did not begin 50,000 years ago... not even on this planet.

  • @nateissogreat488
    @nateissogreat488 8 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    Properly fund NASA? Nah, let's bail out Wall Street instead.

    • @kvnd7331
      @kvnd7331 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +nateissogreat488 Not defending not funding NASA - but bailing out Wall Street didn't cost anything. It was more like a loan, that was paid back to the government in full with over 60 billion interest (profit for the taxpayer)

    • @millionthmonkeymusic
      @millionthmonkeymusic 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Paid back? They gave themselves that money as bonuses and laughed the whole time. They never paid back a penny. You'll be paying their debts for the rest of your life if you think there's any good that comes from the upper echelon of corporate America...

    • @talltroll7092
      @talltroll7092 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whatever their many and varied failings are, collectively Wall Street and the other financial centres do make pretty much the entirety of modern life possible at all. NASA may provide our future, but it is also kind of important that we survive long enough for "having a future" to matter

  • @malcolmt7883
    @malcolmt7883 8 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    If we are truly the first intelligent species in the Galaxy, then let's get probing!

    • @sherryjyj5910
      @sherryjyj5910 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL

    • @stefanmikaelson5673
      @stefanmikaelson5673 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you keep telling yourself that buddy, humans are probably the stupidest race in the universe

    • @DevilsShadow1994
      @DevilsShadow1994 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yes many humans are stupid,, but there's that select few that are not

    • @svampebob007
      @svampebob007 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "here we have our med bay, with X-rays, CAT scan, fit wears... oh no buddy that probe's going up the pooper ayy lmao!"
      What better way to show how technologically advanced you are, then by shoving probes up their ass just because we can, and they can't resist because they are trapped in our spaceships in orbit... because we're that advanced!
      moral of the story: prepare your anus.
      #HumanbeansRnumber1

    • @malcolmt7883
      @malcolmt7883 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We're also going to light up our spaceships like Christmas trees, and draw stuff in their crops, just to confuse them.

  • @Spootnik
    @Spootnik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Something to consider is that if we put all out focus onto space travel we would have colonized other systems by this point in history. We get held up with ideology, religion, war ect. It's very likely any life that evolved like us is also going through similar struggles, or they simply don't care enough about space travel like so many humans don't. There is a ton of us that say we need to fix our planet before considering leaving it, it's easy to imagine another culture taking that approach as a law. I think these things are more likely than us being the lone sentient life in the galaxy.

  • @freeman_-
    @freeman_- 6 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke

    • @sameershinde5185
      @sameershinde5185 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well said ☹

    • @DarkMatter1919
      @DarkMatter1919 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Your comment is terrifyingly boring.... And obvious... And wrong.
      It might be terrifying to you.

    • @adjuster57
      @adjuster57 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don’t find either possibility to be in the least bit terrifying.

    • @lazyrat6687
      @lazyrat6687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If there’s no other life then heaven is unlikely real. If we’re the only ones, what’s the point anymore

    • @saumitrashukla591
      @saumitrashukla591 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what if we aren't alone yet......?

  • @mattb8436
    @mattb8436 5 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    I'll buy the panspermia theory. I know plenty of folks who haven't evolved past parasitic slimeballs.

    • @vishalv
      @vishalv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Given majority of us are slimeballs (by your own hypothesis too), this comment may stay underrated

    • @johnbroomhead1039
      @johnbroomhead1039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep u r right

    • @Wazza25
      @Wazza25 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or spunk in your grandmas WOK 😂 sounds like some one did that and thought a name for the act was warrented. Its weird but could have happened

    • @ZacMoroney
      @ZacMoroney 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah like scott morrison :-p

    • @faybrianhernandez2416
      @faybrianhernandez2416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You just leave my wife and brother in law out of this.

  • @sinbads
    @sinbads 7 ปีที่แล้ว +636

    I never thought of us being a first generation life form in the universe.
    Pretty bad news for them considering we can't even take care of our planet, let alone guide extraterrestrial life forms in the universe.

    • @jakebrown173
      @jakebrown173 7 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Redi let's leave messages every where for future civilizations to translate.....
      *50 million years later*
      finally, we have found a way to translate this ancient stone left behind by the first intelligent life forms in the universe.
      It says "LOL, you're fucked!"

    • @sinbads
      @sinbads 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      lolol. I might just do that but pass it down to the eldest son/daughter as a family heirloom.

    • @ScientistDog
      @ScientistDog 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      And they first transmission they will receive from us is going to be a Hitler's speech xD.

    • @degenrite
      @degenrite 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      ScientistDog q

    • @lesliegrayson1722
      @lesliegrayson1722 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      the smartest man in the world came up with what Nasa came up with in the 1950's, that the sun will consume us within 500-1000 years so we need to be in space quick, lets get cracking and fucking rape this world of alls its resources so we can survive.. its not going to... wikipedia says that the last life on earth will die in 1.3 million years.. again MATHS says that spores can live in 4500 degrees and they would be the LAST life on earth taking 1.3 million years to die.. we however are far more fragile as we depend on plants and they die at the drop of a hat and cant tolerate heat or no water... 500 - 1000 years...

  • @dermagrafa
    @dermagrafa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    They want to talk to us as much as we talk to ants...

    • @robertserban2008
      @robertserban2008 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @el ro You just answered everything. Exactly.
      " We want to communicate with ants, but they cant reply."
      - Or we dont have the technology to communicate with them OR to faster evolve them into more intelligent species--> so we can talk to them with our methods.
      Ants have wars between themselves like us humans.
      Moral: "Aliens" Want to talk to us, but we are too dumb to comperhand their method of doing so. (Theory) - after your logic.

    • @bigcity2085
      @bigcity2085 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You assume A. any intelligent life out there would be alien. B. no one ever has had any contact-ever C. that you have to have a machine to communicate D.that us(the stupid) are to ants as they(the smarter) are to us....question all of these assumptions-they're all wrong.

    • @yunogreg
      @yunogreg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2021 is the year that the aliens show the self’s FINALY who is hyped?

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Oort Cloud is really a minefield set up by all the sane aliens out there in order to keep us away from polluting and ravaging the rest of the universe. They had the final answer to this once we beamed the entire content of Twitter into space and they saw the Kardashians signals. Cannot blame them really.

    • @jready1455
      @jready1455 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @el ro The world has become far more peaceful over the past 50 years. There hasn’t been any wars between industrialized nations and the threat of nuclear is nowhere near where it was during the cold war.

  • @InTenZeGamingHD
    @InTenZeGamingHD 8 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Maybe the big filter is just hands, that most other intelligent animals are stuck with paws or fins.

    • @peste2574
      @peste2574 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True dat. But we're not the only animals that have hands in Earth, but we are the most advanced.

    • @zexisak4085
      @zexisak4085 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      InTenZeGamingHD You realize there is a big connection with body function and intelligence. So if you were an intelligent life form you would probably have solved that one.

    • @onehitpick9758
      @onehitpick9758 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +InTenZeGamingHD Give a dolphin another million years, and they still won't be radiating any RF. Hands that can eventually wield nanometer swords, and written language are big.

    • @oliverizzard8751
      @oliverizzard8751 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      onehit pick about language, they might develop an incredible auditory memory and just not require writing. But still tricky to build anything with fins...

    • @onehitpick9758
      @onehitpick9758 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      oliver izzard
      Agreed, but writing facilitates development of higher symbolic manipulation. Symbols and grammars need to be written down to be fully comprehended. The rules applied require spatial, logical, and temporal elements to enable higher reasoning. It's also hard to make persistent records with just fins.

  • @Dacijo
    @Dacijo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    O.o so we might get to be the ones called "The Old Ones" and get to bury loads mystic looking crap to mess with new species?

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Dacijo We've already started... remember that plate strapped to a spaceprobe with drawing of a naked dude and a hoe...

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Dacijo 'Far above the ocean heights dwell The Old Ones, strange pink creatures with forms as solid and unchanging as rocks, their dry, four-limbed forms crawling under the burning sunlight. Who knows what strange rituals they perform in their cities of stone and glass and who can fathom why the send their strange metal constructs into our depths?'

    • @hamstsorkxxor
      @hamstsorkxxor 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Gareth Dean I am always fascinated by the thought of a intelligent Cnidaria like civilization, arising in some vast coral-ecology. Imagine a subglacial global ocean on a planet orbiting a M-class star, trillions of years from now, near the end of times, long after the Hubble expansion have turned the universe dark. To them, there are no stars other then their faint, red neighbors, which is all that remains of their small elliptical galaxy.
      They would all the reasons to believe themselves alone in all universe. And then, on their first attempts to mine their nearby asteroid belt, they find something. A probe, from a far, far away world. Their finest scientists study it long and hard, until they realize that the lump of lead attached to it, once was uranium, used as a power source. They will know that once, when the universe was young enough for radioisotopes to be mined, there was place called "Earth" and creatures who could see a sky full of stars, using nothing but their eyes.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      hamstsorkxxor
      Of course they may not know of radioisotopes or the element uranium, it would be curious to think on what conclusions they might draw. Until recently we thought there were a lot of Roman paintings of women holding brooms. They were actually female gladiators holding weapons. What would their alien civilization make of us?

  • @firstname7769
    @firstname7769 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think time plays a big factor in this. Our perception of time can be very different to that of other life forms, as a result we haven't been looking for other life forms for that long in terms of universe time. We have only been looking for a blink of an eye in comparison to the age of the universe

  • @n0va292
    @n0va292 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Marsians": humans have discovered our planet evacuate everyone to another solar system
    "Humans": Dang it no aliens here

  • @Tomyb15
    @Tomyb15 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    wow, it seems counterintuitive to think that it is easier to form complex, self replicating molecules than multicellular organisms if cells already exist.

    • @truth1901
      @truth1901 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Ciroluiro True. 3D protein printers that shape amino acids into new printers cannot come about by chance. They also have irreducible complexity.

    • @Tomyb15
      @Tomyb15 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +truth1901 I am baffled :S

    • @truth1901
      @truth1901 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ciroluiro God made life.

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +truth1901 the thing is... they might have... From what we know, most basic molecules that life uses can form naturally, usually pile up under not so crazy condition. They also spontaneously form structures that we see in the life.
      For example, fat molecules spontaneously form hollow speres, amino acids spontaneously merge into proteins. It's not a crazy idea, that even more complex structures naturally spawn simply from rules of chemistry...

    • @Tomyb15
      @Tomyb15 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +truth1901 ...probably not. it is a weak argument at least, just like it's never aliens.

  • @desireewolf9458
    @desireewolf9458 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Or the earth is like South Park and we're just here to entertain a bunch of aliens.

    • @millerbob918
      @millerbob918 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      best explanation yet

    • @THETalesFromTheAbyss
      @THETalesFromTheAbyss 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You could of chose a better show reference

    • @cognatoralbertl9366
      @cognatoralbertl9366 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is video nonsense. We are working with people from another star system. We have built them a base north of Indian Springs NV.As a result they have given us some technology . They think it is ridiculous to keep their presence a secret.

  • @richardferreday
    @richardferreday 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Could it not just be that we're still subject to some kind of Interstellar 'Prime Directive' until we become either a threat to other civilizations, or mature enough to become part of whatever interstellar alliance enforces the directive? If we grant that there has been enough time that the galaxy should be teeming with life already, then surely this is a possibility? ...there's been enough time for the interstellar community to figure out that perhaps it's better to quarantine planets in their developing stages, observing from afar, rather than spring forth and show us the secrets of the universe - spoiling the 'game' almost?

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +richardferreday or it might be, that they simply haven't noticed us yet. Perhaps our technological advance is extremely fast compared to other civilisations. After all, we are sending signals to space barely 100years. To randomly spot a signal in 100lightYear radius is hard...

    • @julianemery718
      @julianemery718 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +richardferreday
      That's an interesting idea. Maybe like some sort of Intersteller list of each planet that starts to have life growing on it, and a countdown timer of how long the planet (and solar system) should be untouched.

    • @richardferreday
      @richardferreday 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +KohuGaly Yeah it's a legit possibility. That being said, the rate at which technology seems to progress suggests that even a civilization a mere 1,000 years ahead of us could be so far ahead of us technologically that we wouldn't even recognise it's methods as technological. I genuinely suspect we know next to nothing about how energy works compared to what there is to know - Our technology could be so primitive that it doesn't even 'ping their radars' so to speak. They might not even be interested in radio transmissions... life could be so abundant that they wait for us to move past radio technology before they consider engaging in contact? And in that sense they could be invisible to us because we're looking for signs of other primitive technologies that are quickly moved on from. My moneys on we discover some more laws of physics over the coming century that open our minds to technologies we couldn't have even imagined before.

    • @julianemery718
      @julianemery718 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      richardferreday I mean, obviously there is still so much we don't know, and if science is anything to go by, whenever we answer one question, we get ten more to take it's place.
      I think we're asking thr wrong questions though. Let me explain.
      It's not actually that we're asking the wrong questions, they are correct, but we're just asking them too early.
      We're asking questions about things other then what is on our planet, because (and I only know this as a quote) we know more about space then we do of our own land and oceans.
      We need to learn about everything our planet has to offer before thinking of space, because if we do that, then we have no anchor of knowledge to base our cosmic exploration on.
      Or at least that's what I think.

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Julian Emery Reasonable idea, but you've omitted one important factor. Many important discoveries about earth were made by observing the universe. Here is a list of few:
      earth is round - because of how sky changes relative to your position on earth (for example the angle of polaris over horizon).
      laws of gravity and motion - from the motion of planets on the night sky.
      Precise map-making of earth's surface (and precise pinpointing of position) - made possible by artificial satellites. They've also made long distance wireless telecomunication possible and also whether tracking/prediction.
      We would barely have any clue about those things without trying to explore the universe first (or at least our position in it).

  • @somethingbigcoming2o2otrue47
    @somethingbigcoming2o2otrue47 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    🤦🏾‍♂️So y’all really wanna find Frieza in real life huh

    • @Lanz22
      @Lanz22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SomethingBigComing2o2o True If Frieza wants that smoke, im ready. Just lemme get them dragon balls first.

    • @yunogreg
      @yunogreg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2021 is the year that the aliens show the self’s FINALY who is hyped?

  • @Litepaw
    @Litepaw 8 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    I think it is our responsibility to send single cell life all over the galaxy

    • @jwilburo1234
      @jwilburo1234 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ifididu

    • @BIGBADWOOD
      @BIGBADWOOD 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      A bus load of Trump supporters should do quite well then !

    • @peste2574
      @peste2574 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      No, it is not.
      Our responsibility is to, in the future, help that life develop naturally, instead of destroying with our own. Example: Let's say there is a planet in a far away galaxy, orbiting a star. That planet is starting to develop life in early stages (very early) and we, explorers, discover that some kind of natural phenomena will extinguish that life. Our duty, as a sentient and intelligent species, is to help that life to develop. AKA, make it survive, evolute, and thrive.
      Now, sending single cells all over the galaxy so that it can fall in some moon or planet that has it's own ecosystem? That is not only retarded, it's malefic.

    • @markyfilarky
      @markyfilarky 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Basically what you are trying to say is that cells from Earth landing on another moon/planet would/could be toxic to it and therefore could quite possibly kill off any lifeform that could have grown there?

    • @peste2574
      @peste2574 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mark McCartney Yeah.

  • @jasmineg661
    @jasmineg661 6 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    the way we treat even the slightest differences in each other, I'd hate to think how we'd go about treating extraterrestrial life

    • @jed6040
      @jed6040 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      fuck aliens. #humansuperiority

    • @MrNeilo911
      @MrNeilo911 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or how they would treat us

    • @Egregius
      @Egregius 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      On the flipside, humanity will never unite until faced with an outside threat. So world-peace might finally be an option.

    • @Anonymous-iq4sp
      @Anonymous-iq4sp 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      jai g love your profile pic

    • @ninja250r2008
      @ninja250r2008 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Enslave, oppress, and don't let them with our women👍

  • @MarcColbeckCCP
    @MarcColbeckCCP 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Because of our weakness (no armour, small teeth, crappy nails, no venom, thin skin etc.) humans are cursorial hunters, and that makes us tenacious. Other intelligent life (think 'intelligent lions') might just be happy to stay on their planet and sleep 20 hours a day. Humans (and wolves, hence the cooperative relationship between us), as cursorial hunters, regularly make long term goals. Other life forms (with big teeth, mighty nails, etc.) might not be cursorial hunters and therefore might not do that.

    • @myothersoul1953
      @myothersoul1953 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It could be that intelligence leads to a diminution of amour, teeth and all the other biologically expensive things need to to survive. Once a species can use their intelligence to build tools the selective pressure would be against incorporating them into our bodies. In other words, once lions start using flint axes they claws will start getting weaker.

    • @MarcColbeckCCP
      @MarcColbeckCCP 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well, possibly, but that's not what we see in humans. We've existed as humans for about 200,000 years (if I remember correctly, I'd have to google it) and we've remained relatively unchanged during that entire time. Humans from 200,000 years ago look pretty much exactly like we do now, and we were cursorial hunters up until the agricultural revolution about (again, best recollection) about 5000-6000 BCE - that's about 97% of our history. Evolution takes a LONG time. There's no indication that we have changed physically in any sort of dramatic way subsequent to our modernisation.

    • @myothersoul1953
      @myothersoul1953 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marc Colbeck Behaviorally modern humans, indistinguishable from humans today, arose about 70,000 years ago. But our ancestors were using tools for a million years before that, plenty of time for a evolutionary effect. www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829124-200-stone-tools-helped-shape-human-hands/

    • @MarcColbeckCCP
      @MarcColbeckCCP 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's an interesting article, thanks for forwarding it. However, it doesn't address the main point I was making, and that is - even with slightly advanced hands and wrists - we don't have talons, teeth, armour, venom, etc. If you plonk a human down in the Savannah and tell it "go hunt", the only way we really have to hunt something (before the invention of the bow and arrow, which was about 64,000 years ago - I looked that one up! - so AFTER we were 'indistinguishable from humans today') the only way they could have done it was to run the animal down to exhaustion and then bash it with big stones or clubs. And that's cursorial hunting. So, I stand by what I said: A fundamental characteristic of humans is our tenacity and capacity for long term planning, due (probably in large part) to the fact that we are cursorial hunters. Intelligent species that are NOT cursorial hunters probably wouldn't care about going to the stars. A planet with lion-like animals as the apex intelligent life probably wouldn't go into space, because lion-like-animals sleep for most of the day and don't engage in long-term, multi-generational projects. It's the old "We're #2, so we try harder" sort of motivation.

    • @myothersoul1953
      @myothersoul1953 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marc Colbeck Scrub Jays plan ahead. If they see a more dominate bird watching them as they hide food they will come back later and hide the food again. Planning is not the sole provence of cursorial hunters. Crows engage in activities out of what seems mere curiosity. So there other survival strategies that engage mental abilities that could be the basis of going to the stars. Lions hunt in pairs, they use tactics which so a form of planning and social organization is there. It's not like every lion hunt is successful, they have to be tenacious too.
      You could be right or wrong. With a sample size of 1 it's hard to tell what is incidental and what's coincidental. It's way to soon to settle on any theory.

  • @nn-xm8lz
    @nn-xm8lz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    something not talked about enough is that yes there are countless stars but a huge % of them are in inhospitable parts of galaxies or of a type of start that seems less likely to support life. That in itself dramatically cuts down the number of potentially life supporting solar systems

  • @TheRetnet
    @TheRetnet 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Why can't life exist on lava planets or something, we don't know how life outside out planet works right? Not everything has to go by earths rules

    • @nicodemusedwards6931
      @nicodemusedwards6931 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Life, uh uh, finds a way.

    • @ericsaullb
      @ericsaullb 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +TheRetnet assuming that our observations of the universe are correct, the main reason its physics, the complex biochemical reactions inside any kind of life needs a easy way to transport nutrients and a stable way of keeping complex molecules, and chemistry its a bitch with that stuff, you cant have complex reactions of any kind past certain temperature limits because of exces of energy or lack of it

    • @ericsaullb
      @ericsaullb 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** chemicals, most likely, but chemicals follow the physics rules, and one of the reasons of this its that molecules need certain temperatures to be able to react, otherwise they just hit each other so hard they can not form stable complex molecules as the rip apart with each hit, and the other is true also with extreme cold there is just not enought energy to make the bond between atoms

    • @ericsaullb
      @ericsaullb 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** it got frozzen thereby no metabolic process was happening, in other words they were shutdown, with no capabitlites of moving, reproducing or anything at all

  • @KatherineClairmont
    @KatherineClairmont 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I'm pretty certain you'll find plantlike lifeforms on other worlds.

    • @KatherineClairmont
      @KatherineClairmont 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      whether or not that alien plantlike life form is capable of thinking "hello" is a different story

  • @monsterlair
    @monsterlair 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ahem. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
    In all of the directions it can wizz
    As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
    Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
    So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
    How amazingly unlikely is your birth
    And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
    'Cause it's bugger all down here on earth

    • @mnrvaprjct
      @mnrvaprjct 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      space can move however fast it wants

    • @GTDeathRow
      @GTDeathRow 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +monsterlair Always look on the bright side of life

    • @ShiftyMcGoggles
      @ShiftyMcGoggles 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +monsterlair ...So, can we have your organs?

    • @spacededward7586
      @spacededward7586 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +monsterlair Ur statement makes it seem like every point in space is moving away from every other at the speed of light, and that cant be true otherwise no light from space would get to earth.
      If the distant between 2 points is far enough than what u said is correct tho, because there would be a cumulative expansion in the space in between and that would add up, or so i heard, to be actually faster than the speed of light.

    • @monsterlair
      @monsterlair 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spaced Edward
      Wasn't making a statement, but thanks for your contribution. ^^

  • @sienielain9222
    @sienielain9222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best explanation for this paradox for me is that , we are the first form of intelligent life in the universe.

  • @tonyennis3008
    @tonyennis3008 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Only a massive transmitter could be heard across the vastness of the abyss., and only then if there was a large receiving antenna that knew where to point. Consider we struggle to hear Voyager 1's 23 watt transmitter. The probe is 137 AU from Earth. All else being equal, if the probe were twice as far, it would need a 529 watt transmitter (and the ability to point it ever more accurately). At 1096 AU, the probe would need a 78 Gigawatt transmitter. That's about .3 percent of the way to the closest star. A larger commitment of antennae will mitigate much of the necessary wattage, but by how much? If a concerted effort of receiving dishes means our intrepid probe only needs 1% as much power, it would only need 780 Megawatts at 1096 AU. For the nearest star, square the wattage 6 or 7 more times.
    Perhaps interstellar warp drives are impossible. Perhaps multi-generational colonization ships are too impractical, too expensive, and too dangerous. In that case, we are all islands, forever separated by the speed of light. And that's the saddest thing.
    Maybe the aliens are out there, but they gave up on us 1,000,000 years ago.

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But that doesn't mean humans shouldn't try. We could be the first beings to do it. Wouldn't that be awesome, to accomplish what no one else in the galaxy has done. We'd be legends. I asked my mother once a long time ago. "Would you try to do something even if no one else thought you could?" She agreed that someone should try.

    • @Superfandangoo
      @Superfandangoo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They did send a message in 1974, a scientist called Drake sent the Arecibo Message at an equivalent 20 trillion watts to the M13 cluster 22,000 light years away, we've some 43, 950 odd years to wait to see if we get a reply 😀

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm content, for now, with exploring and colonizing our own little corner of the Universe, and I don't mind the not finding alien life forms part. It will erase the "ethical questions" should we find "habitable", for us, planets nearby, if they don't support life as we know it. We can bide our time and wait for interstellar propulsion and other breakthroughs, "relatively safe", from extinction events, on multiple planets, and large space colony structures, near to us.

  • @p.bamygdala2139
    @p.bamygdala2139 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Another very enjoyable video. Thanks!
    Some other fun possibilities for our apparent solitude:
    “Directed” panspermia is fun to ponder. What if aliens far away sent out their version of Bracewell / Von Neumann probes, and either intentionally or unintentionally seeded certain barren planets such as Earth with their on-board bacteria?
    The sentinel Hypothesis is also intriguing to imagine. An alien civilization may have created devices that patrol the cosmos and squash out life or otherwise curtail the activities of any world that reaches a certain threshold of development, possibly as a means of ensuring their own dominance and thus superiority.

  • @AmberMaryAnne
    @AmberMaryAnne 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    so long and thanks for all the fish 😂😂😂 hitch hikers guid to the galaxy is my all time favourite movie

    • @jaketitan427
      @jaketitan427 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well the answer to Everything is "42" ya know.

    • @mattakins1559
      @mattakins1559 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Steve S It's the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

    • @AmberMaryAnne
      @AmberMaryAnne 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Izz Ismail that's really funny 😂

    • @Untrustedlife
      @Untrustedlife 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I prefer the books.

    • @TheHelghast1138
      @TheHelghast1138 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      42

  • @randaljbatty
    @randaljbatty 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We may end up having to accept that we are the only "intelligent," species -- at least within the perceivable universe. The confluence of conditions that led up to Earth being a stable habitat may be extremely rare. Just because life might have been seeded on other planets does not automatically suggest that these life forms would evolve into more sophisticated forms.

  • @zenzylok
    @zenzylok 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    We are right here on TH-cam observing your development into a Type 1 Civilization.

    • @Tr0nikMonk3y
      @Tr0nikMonk3y 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Youniverous anyone scrolling through these comments click on this alien's head and watch every single video if you value your intelligence, and if you love science and space and the philosophy of life. Their videos are actually transcendental.

    • @killfuck7544
      @killfuck7544 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is your definition of type 1

    • @meh855
      @meh855 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Youniverous Quite Indeed sir.

  • @2000yearOldYogiAspirant
    @2000yearOldYogiAspirant 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Question time: Could inteligent life develop underwater? Could you guys give us a video on how 3 different environments could lead to 3 different cool alien sci-fi like life forms? Could the laws we know be different in another universe? (Therefor allowing for spells to come out of wands) could a civilization ever alter the laws of its own universe?
    It's a lot of work so take this glass of milk with a cookie, (>^_^)> \_/ O, and get busy.

    • @elmobarrethawk3566
      @elmobarrethawk3566 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Shin Da yes intelligent life could evolve to live underwater if it was beneficial to the creature

    • @2000yearOldYogiAspirant
      @2000yearOldYogiAspirant 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Garrett “elmobarretthawk9100” MAGISTER Ye I asked cuz eventually they'll build tools. Are hands demandatory? Can there be different types of circuitry that we dont know of because we never had the need to? I see how underwater tribes and that can take place, with communication and that but a civilization like ours is harder to imagine :| is it inevitable to get out of water I wonder

    • @Zerepzerreitug
      @Zerepzerreitug 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I once read that the biggest obstacle for the emergence of technological life in water is the lack of fire. Fire is essential for the fabrication and manipulation of matter. Especially metals.
      Maybe underwater volcanic vents could do a similar job than fire. But it's a bit hard to imagine how a bronze-age octopus would forge a spear near a volcanic vent.
      ...
      You know what? Scratch that. This possibility sounds more and more awesome the more I think about it XD

    • @2000yearOldYogiAspirant
      @2000yearOldYogiAspirant 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "This possibility sounds more and more awesome the more I think about it" xP my thoughts too

    • @OljeiKhan
      @OljeiKhan 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Shin Da "could a civilization ever alter the laws of its own universe?"
      "Could inteligent life develop underwater?"
      I have been thinking on these subjects for quite a while , but i don't have the scientific education required to answer them directly. What i've come up with is that intelligent life could develop underwater , in some cases it might be beneficial to be underwater , say if you are living on a rogue planet with a huge atmosphere , a thick icy crust and an ocean beneath , the deeper you are in the water , the more energy you can absorb from the planet's core assuming it's still hot of course. But still the pressure alone would heat up the water and supply at least some form of energy.
      But altering the laws of an entire universe? That would be an incredible feat , if any civilization could do that , they would rightfully become the "Gods" of their universe.

  • @ShneekeyTheLost
    @ShneekeyTheLost 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Here's another thing to think about... if something is, say, a hundred thousand light years away, then it takes a hundred thousand years for the light from it to get to us. So if we are observing it through a telescope, we are observing its position and status of a hundred thousand years ago. Even if we were to be able to 'see' it, a hundred thousand years ago there would've been multicellular life, but no sapient life. However, in the intervening time, life could have since developed sapience, we just wouldn't know about it yet.
    So, as the distance between us and a potential life-supporting planet increases, our ability to detect in real-time any developing sapient life also increases.

    • @furbz8818
      @furbz8818 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's assuming it has developed at a similar rate as earth, they could have had a couple billion years headstart

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      THERE IS NO INTELLIGENT LIFE OUT THERE OTHER THAN EARTH !!

  • @breakingreactions942
    @breakingreactions942 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the summer of 2004 I was 14..
    I was with my mom driving thru a farm town in southern New Mexico. A little town called Hatch.
    We were waiting for a train to pass by when we saw something hovering over the mountains about 200 yards away..
    It was triangular shaped and super quiet. The aircraft was dark in the middle and orangish lights in each corner.
    We got out of our car and stared at it for a couple of minutes. It then started to get higher in the sky and all of a sudden it shot straight into the night sky . No loud sound or anything. Just a straight star wars like shot into the atmosphere. Leaving a trail of lights behind it deep into the sky.
    The craziest thing I've ever witnessed. There was no iPhone or Galaxy to take pic with. Still my favorite memory of my life.

    • @HobeyDator
      @HobeyDator 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its a Drone Calm Down. Aliens Are Not Real

  • @unitic6378
    @unitic6378 5 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    The universe is too T H I C C for the only life to be on Earth.

    • @elchupulooo8970
      @elchupulooo8970 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ignorant indoctrinated sheeple the so called a lie ans are simply demons trapped in the Dome and firmament of our creator and heavenly father yahuah YAH WOW

    • @Redeemer216
      @Redeemer216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why don't we recognize intelligent life besides us already exists here first? One step at a time guys.

    • @elchupulooo8970
      @elchupulooo8970 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We are not alone in this earthly realm and flat earth our creator and heavenly father yahuah YAH.... Is watching us everyday from the heavens above pay attention the sky is water and we are living in an enclosed system a Dome or firmament there's definitely not any planets or outerspace only yahuahs heavenly realm right above us and that's the only thing you need to no thanks again?

    • @xxpennyfinderxx11official70
      @xxpennyfinderxx11official70 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      9o

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MPOSSIBLE TO HAVE THE EXACT SPECIES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GALAXY !! WE DONT EVEN HAVE THE EXACT SPECIES HERE ON EARTH !! WE HAVE OCTOPUS , SPIDERS, BIRDS.ECT.!! AND EVEN ON THE OTHER SIDE THERE WOULDNT BE SIMILAR LIFE FORMS AS THEM !! LET ALONE HUMANS .. LMAO !!

  • @tprime2702
    @tprime2702 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Dark souls taught me that, leaving spitefully misleading information for newcomers, leading them to their inevitable doom, never stops being funny.

    • @chrisschu5544
      @chrisschu5544 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That game used to piss me off so much. That is until I figured out how to really play it. And die...over and over and over and over. Lol

  • @maninblack6575
    @maninblack6575 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Why Haven't We Found Alien Life"
    Because they all got onto big-foots team for the game of cosmic hide and seek.

  • @rs-tarxvfz
    @rs-tarxvfz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of thing that always gets ignored is why we are trying to find intelligent lifeform is that , given the chance they evolved differently , what do they think about life, god, universe and existence as whole. *That is why we must find intellectual companion in this cosmic sea.*

  • @BrickFlicksTV
    @BrickFlicksTV 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    we haven't found aliens for the same reason they haven't found us.

    • @mitchellsmith3422
      @mitchellsmith3422 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brick Flicks TV they have

    • @drvxd
      @drvxd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Or maybe they found us and didn't like what they saw...

    • @Arbaaltheundefeated
      @Arbaaltheundefeated 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Or just didn't care because life is actually abundant in the universe! Imagine how humbling that would be... advanced aliens visit our solar system and go something like 'Oh, just another habitable world with low-tech sentients on it? Meh. Let's go to Space McDonalds.'

    • @tnbn55
      @tnbn55 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fermi Paradox

    • @juanwashington-cruz2294
      @juanwashington-cruz2294 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Arbaaltheundefeatedthx alot now i want to go to space McDonald's now

  • @meisterli
    @meisterli 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It may be that intelligent life in the universe actually IS around us everywhere, but that they use some kind of way of communication that we have not yet invented. Maybe something akin to the "subspace" messaging in Star Trek. I'd like to think that some day, an inventor on earth will turn on such a device and be greeted by the relaxed tunes of space trucker radio. :P

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +meisterli But that would also mean everything they do is undetectable. They're not messing with stars or building Dyson spheres or deliberately trying to message less advanced lifeforms.

    • @Zerepzerreitug
      @Zerepzerreitug 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      One doesn't needs to go that far. Just imagine aliens use strong encryption in their messages. If that's the case, then even if they use ordinary radio signals they would be indistinguishable from random noise for all of those who don't know how to read the messages.
      (source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/19/edward-snowden-aliens-encryption-neil-degrasse-tyson-podcast)

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arturo Gutierrez
      Of course they'd still be messages, which is different from no message at all.They'd be going from one place to another in a very direct manner. Encryption hides the meaning of a message but it's much harder to hide that you're sending a message in the first place.

    • @Zerepzerreitug
      @Zerepzerreitug 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gareth Dean Oh, but that's the thing. A well encrypted radio message is indistinguishable from background radio noise from space.
      I get what you mean, that efforts such as SETI are not looking for signals with meaning but for signals with signs of being artificial. Narrow and bright and in the radio frequencies were messages travel best through interstellar space.
      But such tell-tell features are exactly what strong encryption hides. You deconstruct, spread, randomize and ultimately hide a radio signal so that it doesn't looks any different than natural noise. SETI looks for _intentional_ signals. But we don't have any way of telling if the sky is not full of encrypted ones. And it only takes for aliens to have better encryption than us so we can never tell.
      Does it makes sense?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Arturo Gutierrez
      Aaah very true, very true. I had neglected that. Though that raises further questions such as why you'd want to encrypt everything so strongly. Related would be why we don't see other evidence of civilizations, Dyson spheres and the like. If the aliens are being so secretive... why? And what happens to newbies like us that blare our location for all the galaxy to see...?

  • @johnwilson4677
    @johnwilson4677 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Does anyone know if isolation could be a possible answer to the Fermi paradox....they are out there but we just can't get to each other.

  • @MegaParrotMan
    @MegaParrotMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If faster than light travel is an actual impossiblity it would make sense than no species has colonized the galaxy. Also just because we think so differently doesn't mean that's a natural progression. All life could be like our lower life forms, with our way of thinking an anomoly.

  • @modmaiden6138
    @modmaiden6138 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I imagine some aliens learning in school. The world that's so unique because it builds towers of light, robots, and etc.

  • @nem447
    @nem447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    There's the possibility we are islands of life in a great big ocean and will never ever meet considering the vast distances involved, Also whole civilizations could have risen and fallen before We came along, or will long after we're gone....Just saying.

    • @Zoyx
      @Zoyx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Traveling faster than the speed of light is the problem. The reason we haven't been visited is because other interplanetary life hasn't figured it out either.

    • @patrickgeorge1442
      @patrickgeorge1442 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Zoyx watch the interstellar travel video it gives a solution to pass light speed

    • @Zoyx
      @Zoyx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No it didn't. Just dreamy ideas.

    • @dustencoyj
      @dustencoyj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Zoyx ok buddy. How else do you think anything is created? Without ideas? You’re so right brain that yer stupid

    • @Zoyx
      @Zoyx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      If you want to debate, don't resort to personal attacks.

  • @SilverCinder1
    @SilverCinder1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That would be extremely cool to find out that we were the first intelligent and space faring species in the galaxy. We were the forerunners all along.

    • @elck3
      @elck3 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      when would be gain that answer? possibly never

  • @johnnyb6049
    @johnnyb6049 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's hard to find something that doesn't meet your expectations as you're unlikely to notice it when it's right "In Front" of you. This is especially true if they're Invisible to normal sight, or to the Mind that that actually does the "Seeing".

  • @black5f
    @black5f 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Excellent Video! At 3:25 can I add environmental pressure? If earth was really stable we would not evolve at all. We need uncomfortable and challenging moments like bombardments etc to force life to evolve until we are able to control our habitats? Not too much, just enought to make it uncomfortable for life, but not impossible.

    • @black5f
      @black5f 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your end comment regarding "never aliens" was fantastic. Kindly but succinctly delivered.

  • @Unadvised8849
    @Unadvised8849 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    it would be messed up if were being monitored by aliens and they are just waiting for us to deep space travel to meet us

  • @kiloxzzenn6026
    @kiloxzzenn6026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    What if our ancestors migrated from mars to escape something and we are the results of what's left? Just a thought lol

    • @JUST-UK-JAY
      @JUST-UK-JAY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      or vice versa ;)

    • @briancampbell1710
      @briancampbell1710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You might be on to something.

    • @charlesdawson1621
      @charlesdawson1621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Real shit

    • @chris_tzikas
      @chris_tzikas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Wouldn't we have found a fossilised record of some kind?

    • @charlesdawson1621
      @charlesdawson1621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Χρήστος Τζήκας do you know how deep they could possibly be in the earth ?? The ocean ??

  • @AronAroniteOnlineTV
    @AronAroniteOnlineTV 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember reading Science Magazines in British Library in 80s when this same question was argued like this " Firstly only solar system has planets.There is no proof planetary systems exist around other stars.Water is something unique. Complex chemicals like amino acids never found anywhere." Looking back at all those 'Unique' things we now knows is ubiquitous. this same question could be asked even in our own times ' we have found only primitive life, but no sign intelligent life anywhere' and so on.Till we run into something. Don you think?

    • @poiau7412
      @poiau7412 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @TurnTimeTable can you tell me what you and your wife saw im very curios now

  • @em-jj5ds
    @em-jj5ds 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Even if the chances for a planet to exist that "fits" life is 0,00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% there should be an infinite amount of other planets with intelligent life since the universe is infinite, you need to understand how big infinite is. If the universe is infinite, then that means there is a 100% chance for things like a galaxy with 10 planets with life that interract with eachother, it out there right now!. If the universe is infinite then there is an infinite amount of possibilities as long as it follows laws of physics. Its like an infinite amount of parallax universes really.

    • @sergior8667
      @sergior8667 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      am loaf bingo!

    • @miguelpadeiro762
      @miguelpadeiro762 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The universe isn't infinite

    • @gabrielreinalter2269
      @gabrielreinalter2269 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YodaWoke if the universe is infinitive and would host infinitiv Stars, it would require infinitiv energy to exist and that will be unlikly.

    • @miguelpadeiro762
      @miguelpadeiro762 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Magic Miner The universe is in constant expansion.

    • @gabrielreinalter2269
      @gabrielreinalter2269 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Batata Assada Yes,if the Big Bang Theory is correct, but our universe will never be infinitiv.

  • @MrFlokos
    @MrFlokos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Please do a video with Michael from vsauce :)

  • @ToTheNines87368
    @ToTheNines87368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Isn’t a lot of the universe we are looking at thousand of years in the past? Just based on how long it takes for light to get here

    • @zualapips1638
      @zualapips1638 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah. It could even be millions. Everything is set to make it as hard as possible to detect life or even preserve ours.

    • @ToTheNines87368
      @ToTheNines87368 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jero yes thank you, that’s what I thought. It bothers me that this is hardly ever mentioned when asking where are the alien super structures that we supposedly would be able to detect by disruption of millions of years old light. Maybe they haven’t been built yet.

    • @carguy1697
      @carguy1697 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right when they look at our planet they could jut see the dinosaur because of the old light

  • @BMarie774
    @BMarie774 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I never got this question. The light we see from certain objects in space is days, weeks, months or even bullion years old. It doesn’t look like that anymore. So how can we say aliens aren’t making their existence super obvious? We just can’t see it because the light hasn’t travelled here yet to make it visible.

  • @destinymota7091
    @destinymota7091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I feel like he wants to fight me in the beginning

  • @Islandswamp
    @Islandswamp 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is it possible that alien life doesn't use the same carbon based organic chemistry?

    • @user-tg6vk9uy3b
      @user-tg6vk9uy3b 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Definitely

    • @manist721
      @manist721 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aliobon base organic chemistry😂😂

  • @shaunsprogress
    @shaunsprogress 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Yeah! We can science anything..."

  • @MrThailik
    @MrThailik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Distance , distance . No matter how advanced you are the vast distance cannot be overcome

  • @natalia2650
    @natalia2650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Aliens on TH-cam: Why Haven't We Found Human Life?

    • @lestatangel
      @lestatangel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ナタリア Natalia Mendes - I hear you girl 😎

  • @manoj9596
    @manoj9596 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yes!!!!!!!! LIFE must be COMMON.
    Ofcourse it's not necessarily multicellular. But i am sure multicellular life does exist on many planets. But i agree that chance of evolving in to intelligent life must be very very rare as it needs special circumstances as our ancestors did.
    But there is no reason to believe we are alone even if we never found them.
    This universe is beyond our scope of imagination and imagine those billions and billions of galaxies beyond our reach surrounded by billions of planets. The chances are atleast 10% of planets of whole universe/multiverse must be located in Goldilocks zone out of which 8% must be completely habitable for life!
    If life can happen in this region of universe where earth is located then why not on other side? Just imagine how every intelligent alien life must be thinking that they are unique and alone.
    Universe is really an exciting place!!

    • @Ali107
      @Ali107 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +M. MAHAJAN nice Theory!
      :^)

    • @marinebiobry
      @marinebiobry 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why MUST life be common? That statement is based on what?
      1. We have no evidence whatsoever for life's existence away from earth.
      2. We can't even begin to figure out how life occurred spontaneously in the first place. All of the components that need to be in place for something to be "alive" have to exist at once and together, the likelihood of which is astronomically low. That it happened once is so unlikely that it's a miracle it happened at all. Happening more than once? It's getting ridiculous. Panspermia is just a cop-out that only pushes the timeline back.
      3. So these things are actually UNLIKELY. So if something is unlikely, how could anyone really accept that it MUST happen at all, let alone that it MUST be common? It's not logical to say that an unlikely event MUST occur commonly.

  • @lucasa.8223
    @lucasa.8223 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Being a first generation intelligence and consequently,The first Galactic Overlords does have a certain appeal to it!
    Damn shame I won't take part in it.

    • @aaronhumphrey3514
      @aaronhumphrey3514 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Neither will any other human. Notions of an advanced human civilization spanning the stars are almost certainly fantasy. Many indicators point to the likelihood our species, or at least civilization, won't survive until the next century.

    • @jingchaoye
      @jingchaoye 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      well.

    • @wishywish025
      @wishywish025 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I strongly disagree with that notion that civilisation won't survive to the next century. For some reason, the West has always been obsessed with the idea of "the end times" and apocalypse. I find that this obsession is so strong that there are a great number of theory and hypothesis on the subject. One of such theory is the Malthusian idea of "Malthusian catastrophe" that purported back in the late 1700's, yet he was completely unaware of the extent technological progress and science could take us.
      Throughout history, similar predictions have been made and yet, here we are; 7 billion strong on this planet. I firmly believe that civilisation might and could stumble and results in a long period of "not going anywhere", i.e. the bronze age collapse, the dark ages, etc. But civilisation and humanity still survive, and will continue to throughout the next century.

    • @xDosReis
      @xDosReis 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aaron Humphrey You’re right…the great filter is already here. The tendency and ability to destroy is far too great; the propensity for reason far too small. Humans aren’t necessarily meant to succeed - we just exist. The whole financial system is a Ponzi scheme, when it collapses and there is a power vacuum, it’s not going to be the pacifists of every country who gain control of their nuclear weapons. We should just enjoy the time we have left.
      I doubt humanity goes extinct, but we need billions of people and advanced societal structures to fuel advancement to be galaxy colonisers. It would be impossible otherwise. Some would argue that large structures inevitably decay and break down given enough time. If time is the great filter, then will time not prevent us from advancing before it’s too late?

    • @Tofuey
      @Tofuey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      At least you were born in a time where you can imagine what it would be like. You can experience it through simulations. And you have anime.

  • @CSGdesign01
    @CSGdesign01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your stuff is awesome. I could watch nothing but your episodes and be content.