Are We Alone?

[@davidschultz1562]

This needs 65 million views, not 65 thousand. This is a big deal.

[@bigmilk13_]

"Only two possibilities exist, either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke

[@11rmax95]

Thank you for making another Video! I really love your stuff and I'd be devastated if you quit. You're one of the few people on KZbin that asks the questions others won't and it is very intriguing to me!

[@mnrvaprjct]

vsauce?

[@11rmax95]

+Mind Blow vsauce is still my favorite followed by Veritasium, and then sharkee

[@stephaniegrodem8592]

+Robert Maxson couldn't say it better myself. I agree

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

+Robert Maxson Other KZbinrs ask and answer these questions, just not as well as Sharkee. Others talk too fast, use big words pedantically, or repeat tired crap that we've all heard 10,000 times, like... "Did you know, a black hole has gravity so strong, even light can't escape?" Sharkee is groan-free.

[@luckyyuri]

+Robert Maxson if you enjoy intriguing perspectives you might like this '2 minute worth of reading' essay... and picture :)) - anywherein12seconds.tumblr.com/post/141490986906/we-are-human-kline-bottles-things-are-not-what

[@Litepaw]

This is the final frontier of youtube channels. Simply beautiful

[@Litepaw]

And so on and so forth :)

[@julkkis666]

^reason i just subbed.

[@y__h]

Existential crisis every month. A good one.

[@damian.gamlath]

I have to say that introduction was the most awe-inspiring, invigorating and tear-jerking of any video I've seen. There was a certain elegance in your words that made me marvel at the potential of greatness within humanity. Kudos.

[@reziik6904]

This guy is like vsauce. I really like it! You've earned my sub

[@joops110]

I'm so glad I found this channel today, loving every second. And no, I don't think we're alone.

[@spikeguy33]

Awesome, i love the Fermi paradox subject. Cool usage of animation too!

[@Leeofthelight22]

Well, before I watch the rest of the video (I'm honestly only 2 minutes in), just had to say the visuals for this are so amazing. And very intriguing as a topic, I'm happy to hear about it from someone intelligent and passionate about what they teach and theorize. Love your videos!

[@SnifferRiffle]

Another great video Sharkee. I'm so glad I found your channel.

[@marcelhansen3467]

There is no chance that we are alone in the universe. Not a single one. Everyone always makes the assumtion that aliens MUST to be far more technologically advanced than us. I just dont see why they must to be more advanced. They could just as well be in the caveman stages of life. Or just as us, using fossil fuels to murder their planet. I love your videos dude! Keep on recording!

[@bassisku]

Awesome quality on the video! I love that you don't just upload videos weekly, but you upload a video when it's fully finished.

[@CarlMahnke]

I think chances are quite big that intelligent life connects their brains to virtual worlds where they enjoy pure happiness. No one wants to quit that. So, real things like space travel, won't be done anymore.

[@PaulMeranda]

after my old account was deleted, i created this one in very early 2013. i have never subscribed to any users or uploaders whatsoever, on either account. because i felt so compelled, and found justification and reasoning that i hadnt yet discovered before, yesterday was my first subscription ever: thank you Sharkee; i LOVE your videos, your subject matter, your personal and professional style, and definitely believe you deserve any fame and fortune that may befall you.

[@Arthurboy777]

Thanks for doing this mate, your videos are absolutly amazing and inspiring! keep it up and take it easy

[@gardinnome1177]

And of course many of these possibilities could be occurring simultaneously. Another great vid--thanks for taking the time to make it.

[@just10joy]

Your videos are really cool. I really like the storytelling aspects that compliment the discussion. Very entertaining, educational and even uplifting.

[@rares60]

Wonderful video, keep up the great work!!! You're making a highschool student very happy each time you post a new video :)

[@GeneralBoboDK]

Fantastic video as always! :) I believe like many others, that the biggest problem we are facing, with regards to finding and communicating with beings on other planets, is the insane/humongous distances involved... :) Nuff said?

[@naes9999]

You should put these videos out more frequently, I love your channel!

[@mil3761]

Easily one of the best videos you've done so far

[@AhSharkee]

So...What do you think? Are we alone?

[@mrWade101]

+Sharkee I don't really think that we are alone, but I don't think there is very likely to be an advanced race

[@connermcguigan8070]

if you consider the amount of space in the cosmos ,planets solar systems, galaxies . then the odds of us being alone are extremely small

[@ArjinUppal]

What if , there is another planet where there are also humans on it and it's orbiting our sun and is exactly the opposite side of us, so it's always on our blind side.. What if there are more advance, what if all this god that are humans like came from there, there are many religious story of God coming down from the skies.. ?

[@chattyw87]

+The Omnipotent God LOL the 50% theory. 50% chance I will poop tomorrow, because we can't say I will poop and I can't say I wont. By extension, 50% chance I will poop this month/year as well? No that's not how it works.

[@JTSnook]

+Sharkee nah m8 cant be :D

[@ArsonBjork]

Holy shit you're still making videos, that's amazing. Yours are my favorite.

[@fastnfurious137]

Damn, that last bit about us being alone, or becoming the first successful interplanetary intelligent species is quite weird to think about. Really messes with my head, great video Sharkee.

[@Lightning9060]

Love your vids man, keep them up :D

[@obviouslylee]

Perhaps in this particular Universe, we are one of the earliest developed planets. That means that it will be our job to go out and explore, and visit other planets that are developing behind us.

[@ToxicGreen357]

You could do all your vids at chipmunk speed, and I'd still watch them. Thanks for all the intriguing content Sharkee!

[@davidebellomo358]

loving the channel, by the way, I don't know if we're alone or not. All I know is that as soon as we'll have the tecnology to do so, we'd try to explore outside our solar system even just for the sake of it. That's humanity

[@gfetco]

Finally a new video!

[@chattyw87]

+Enlightenment deja vu, I feel like I've seen this video before.

[@StuKonstrukt]

+chattyw87 The beginning is very similar to his other video.

[@bjmccann1]

Hooray! A new video from my favorite KZbinr!

[@kcwidman]

Hey sharkee! I think, without a doubt, that if you did KZbin full time, and put a video out every 10 days or so, you would be up there right next to Vsauce. I think you should go for it! And I'm sure your current 44k subs would love it too! Like if you agree!

[@lechywecky]

FTL travel is not necessary for the subjective experience of FTL travel. *Why does nobody get this?!* Time dilation when travelling at ALMOST 1c means that the astronauts could potentially travel 100s or 1000s of light years without getting old or requiring hibernation. But the downside of leaving your home planet to seed other planets is that you *destroy* your home by means of accelerated ageing. It's not just a logistical issue, but a philosophical one as well.

[@sportjunky4371]

True, but in order for time dilation to be as much of a factor as you stated, we would need advanced enough technology to be able to travel at even more than 99% the speed of light. Time dilation is only as extreme as you said when getting very very very close to light speed and I don't even know if human technology will ever get that far. If by chance we do get that far before extinction, I would expect the human race to have found a different solution by then.

[@danielguidos7749]

I missed your videos glad to see your back sharkee

[@VideoGameHippey]

I wonder if we do find aliens, how different their history will be from ours. Would there be global wars on their planets? Would borders even be a thing? Did they have a Cold War, and if they did, did it even end? What if they were on a Pangea like world? Would Colonization still exist? And perhaps the most important question... Do they have memes?

[@stephaniegrodem8592]

+VideoGameHippey lol

[@shawnb120599]

Would they be dank enough?

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

+VideoGameHippey I think it would be awesome if, soon after first contact, they broadcast whatever championship sport they have going on to Earth. We could watch; learn their sport and culture. People would pick their favorite teams. It would be the best way to break the ice and become friends. And I don't even like sports. Absurd? Nothing is absurd when the possibilites are limitless.

[@AFGalwayz]

+VideoGameHippey I have a hard time imagining any intelligent species that does not have major wars. in regards to cold war, if they are highly advanced, id imagine they did have a stand-off at some point where the 2 sides decided open hostility was automatic death. in regards to memes....... 'humans' weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/humans-ancient-aliens-guy.jpg

[@Lilitha11]

+AFGalwayz It would be kind strange if it turns out that we some how found the ideal balance for war. Like most other species go all out in war and wipe each other out. Or they get all peaceful, but then they lose their competitive edge and so don't advance fast enough to escape from their planet. I am a pacifist and I don't support war at all, but there is an argument for the idea that war has pushed advancement of technology forward in many ways. Just look at the trouble our planet is in now, if war pushed advancement just 50 years ahead, that could be the difference between having renewable energy, or not having them. In a 50 years from now, if we didn't have renewables, all our oil, coal and cheap energy would be nearly gone and developing those technology without the cheap energy might not be possible.

[@TRIXSOgaming]

I LOVE these videos around the topic of the cosmos.... Im on the educational road to become a atronomer

[@MephLeo]

Given the lack of evidence, all of the hypothesis presented are possible. I personally believe, nevertheless, that the difficulty lies on building a society whose individuals would live in peaceful and spontaneous cooperation within a culture of mutual incentive for personal development rather than in constant competition driven by greed on a culture of wasteful consumerism.

[@AhSharkee]

I need some feedback regarding the Audio. There seems to be problems with it. Where does it sound bad, is it the beginning part or after 3:55?

[@12staunton1]

+Sharkee I don't hear a problem

[@lednerg]

+Sharkee Definitely in the beginning part. Your voice starts out sounding very muffled and compressed. Then at 0:33 you sound fine. But at 0:50, you're back to sounding muffled again. 1:41 - a little better, quiet, but not enough treble. If you're using a high pass or a noise reduction filter, consider lowering it. If your microphone is stereo, you may have a problem with the phase. If you converted your audio recording at some point, you may have accidentally used too low of a setting.

[@iamjimgroth]

The sound is sped up after 3:55.

[@iamjimgroth]

It's actually so annoying I can't continue watching. :(

[@lednerg]

+Sharkee The part after 3:55 doesn't sound so great, either. There's some kind of a sound compression going on which makes things a bit hard to hear at times.

[@kellyorrichardweddle6220]

Another excellent video. Thank you, Sharkee. A comprehensive review of possible explanations for the Fermi paradox. I believe there is life beyond earth, but I have no evidence and no definitive answer to the paradox.

[@bojack99]

Please don't stop making videos they are amazing :)

[@tonyadkins9881]

First off, love the videos man keep them coming! Secondly, I have an idea for a future video. I would like to hear your take on dinosaur evolution if the asteroid never struck earth? I know this is in the realm of science fiction but, I can't say that I have ever heard anyone else speak on such a topic so just a suggestion. Brain development, size or if you see one species becoming more dominant than the others? Thanks again

[@DTL0VER]

Such a great video. My 8 year old loves your work. Keep up the good work 😊👍🏻

[@stevenmabee3232]

This is a great companion video to my favorite video of yours, "what if we can never travel faster than light"?

[@tobelieveornottobelieve2451]

The best thing is to be alone in the universe, we will get to keep the whole universe when there is no one else to disrupt.

[@mil3761]

Also, with the Fermi paradox, this is based on the fact that habitable planets containing resources exist in close enough proximity that it allows a path from one side of the galaxy to another (given enough time). However, what if such path didn't exist? What if the nearest habitable planet is outside the range of the ship. This would prevent the ship from making further hops. What if some of ships fail to acquire the resources of a certain planet (again this stops that particular ship from making further hops). What if more than one ship land on the same planet but the two ships come from a common ancestor that is so far back in time that the original species has evolved so differently that language, technology, appearance change. What if the two different species are so different that the safe environment they require for one would be toxic for another?

[@TaSSS122]

I read like year ago about this paradox, nice to listen to some wider perscepctive of it. Subscribed :)

[@FlameSpark2013]

Here is my personal theory as far as a solution to the Fermi Paradox. First off, I believe single cellular life is incredibly common in the universe. I believe it wouldn't be long after we find a planet similar to ours that we'd find single cellular life. However, let's think about how the jump from single to multicellular organisms happened to the best of our knowledge. It was an incredibly lucky series of mutations and situations. Although multicellular life forms is clearly a successful way for an organism to survive, a group of cells had to get together and all, together, have the correct mutations to start it off. I honestly feel like, given our reference point of how long single cellular life has been here versus multicellular, the problem might be that cells are just never combining to allow for complex organisms. This was more or less what I thought before watching the video. It's nice to see my ideas are actually compatible with how others think.

[@phillipleavenworth]

I have always said that there are a serious of hurtles for life to reach in order for intelligence to develop. The Great Filter as it is called, I believe, is still ahead of us. It could be overcoming climate change or surviving an AI uprising, but we won't know until it's too late. The entire universe is going through a phase transition. Early in the universe things exploded alot and life struggled to develop. It is only now that life has had the ability to emerge. Earth had the right recipe to allow intelligent life to take hold. It is unlikely that humanity is the first but it may very well be among the first batch of species. But the question becomes why can't we see others? I don't think it is a given that more advanced civilizations explore space. I think most intelligent life develops tech and then revert into a simulated reality network forever. Humanity may break the trend and become a super advanced civilization if we find a way to overcome the Great Filter. Maybe our destiny is to spread life throughout the universe via a directed panspermia project.

[@MyKharli]

Great post thankyou , This ,the Sci show , pbs and others are really helping people get clear informative pap free information and routes to an enquiring mind .

[@TheRolemodel1337]

Maybe for an advanced Civilisation there are better options for living than our universe (as we percieve it) They might escape into other spacial dimenions or they are capable of creating their own "Universes" where they could live as a "god" Or they couldve invented something like the Matrix (out of the movie) where they could simulate everything they want (for example simulate a life as an animal) They sure could speed up that simulation so they are able to live thousands of lifes in a second, fullfill all their dreams and make every possible experience. There could be Simulations like godmode (pretty obvious), reallife (while in it: no memories of their former lifes) and ofc sth like fps/rpgs etc :p

[@Lilitha11]

+TheRolemodel1337 Maybe they become immortal and stop having children? There wouldn't really be a need to go out exploring for more resources if they are not trying to expand and spread out across the universe. They could still be exploring around and stuff, just not being all aggressive about it.

[@EatingCtrlV]

Can't wait for more of your videos!

[@SP-pn7xx]

always love these vids shark, keep it up!

[@KrzysztofBob]

Life as we know it, doesn't matter on what planet, has one thing in common... survival. Which means things like fighting for resources and everything that comes with it, wouldn't be strange or unknown. The alien forms of life would know that most of the time it's better not to engage and fight only when it's necessary. If there's a interstellar alien civilisation, they would have access to all resources they'll ever need and encountering another intelligent civilisation would be wasteful and risky. Simply put, there's nothing on Earth they couldn't find somewhere else, without risks of such "meeting". For them humans would be perceived as our two-year olds. They need to touch the fire to find out that it burns. They wouldn't have to.

[@RnBoy15]

I have a theory. What if in the evolutionary process we discover that there is a higher form of existence, a 4th dimension, where you can see, observe all whats happening, and not be observed by lower type of life forms. What if those high intelligent species are allready there, observing intelligent life, so on...

[@erikpoephoofd]

usually a theory has some logic to back it up. I don't want to be an ass, but I can't find a good argument why your theory could be true. Can you explain it to me?

[@umnikos]

+erikpoephoofd the idea is simple - you go through the wormhole and voala - you are somewhere in space and time...

[@erikpoephoofd]

+Alex Stefanov (Redstone bg) The idea of a wormhole is not fully accepted by the scientific community, and even if they do exist, it's way more probable that you would die if you entered it, or would be transported to another place and time or something like that. Being converted to a 4 dimensional being is not one of the things that seems probable.

[@HidrogenoyMau]

+Vida András a fourth dimension like you propose wouldn't be "able to see all that happened and will happen" but merely that it is all meshed together without change, so really nothing "lives" on the fourth dimension, it's just the past present and future all "at the same time"

[@HotHubHD]

+erikpoephoofd Here is his logic. 1D (1 dimension if you didnt not know), can only observe in 1D space. 2D can observe in 1D and 2D. 3D can observe in 1D, 2D, 3D. 4D is OPs theory. We are in 3D because we experience reality in 3D space. Yet we can alter reality in 2 other dimensions(1D and 2D). Edit: To make more sense. An object in 1D cant do or alter anything in 2D. And object in 2D cant do or alter anything in 3D space. let alone even comprehend its concept. 1D cant imagine what 2D is. 2D cant imagine what 3D is. 3D (us) cant imagine what 4D is.

[@Garbaz]

Something I were wondering about for a while, is that, maybe, there are dimensions apart from our three in which matter exist without ever interacting with our dimension. This would probably explain why nobody is visiting us. They found a way to explore other dimensions, which are way more interesting than our three. I can't imagine a way to test whether there is matter in other dimensions, but the thought of it is quite intriguing.

[@lladerat]

Really love your videos! Keep them going! Maybe we all live in a huge hologram\computer program and everything around our planet and beyond is just a 'background'. Of course that sounds ridiculous, but its fun to think about. *Also i have a question about photons.* (sorry for my english ;P) You often hear that light from a distant galaxies travels billions of years to reach us, that it takes so long for them, by the time they were born and reach their destination our solar system and planet formed, our species evolved, etc. This makes you think that if a photon of light was somehow conscious (lets just pretend that) it would 'live' and 'experience' that huge amount of time.... but... will it? Wont it be just instantaneous for it, because it travels at a speed of light and time for it basically stops?!

[@apanmarius]

Awesome video dude! i think the probability of there not being any life is really slim, i mean if there are life forms that can survive in outer space, like neil degrasse tyson said, the tardigrade. and it doesn't make any sense from an evolutionary perspective, because there weren't harsh environments in which the tardigrade would have struggled to survive. i mean maybe it came from outer space, i don't know but it's an amazing topic. :D

[@armedtoe]

Good timing with that recent announcement of the possibility of an alien megastructure! Can't wait to see what we see next.

[@AristotleDreher]

Dude, your science is infectious.

[@Bartekkru100]

What if there's something wiping out all inteligent life in the galaxy every 50.000 years for millions of years and one badass human commander with his badass crew flying ia badass ship is going to sacrifice him/herself to stop it? It would be a great idea for a sci-fi rpg.

[@HaloForgeUltra]

+Bartosz Kruszona True dat, humans ftw.

[@luckyyuri]

+Bartosz Kruszona we are sacrificing the lives of our own brothers without anyone really ever giving a fuck, but... we're so fucking heroic in our movies and cartoons :))) altho it would be a great movie plot it would be so skewed in respect to the real spirit of the human species. here's a '1 minute worth of reading' take on reality (the vids from the links are awesome) - anywherein12seconds.tumblr.com/post/130283696901/beware-of-brutal-content

[@Bartekkru100]

anywherein12seconds I was refering to a videogame called Mass Effect

[@theghostfiles5023]

Watch the anime Gurren Lagan. You're welcome.

[@theghostfiles5023]

+Dark Repulser Xv Didn't he just describe it? Lol

[@ronyb85]

Hi Sharkee, thank you for this fascinating video. I loved it as well as your other videos. One suggestion to you: The white background that you're using isn't very pleasant for the eyes. It's just too bright, especially when watching your videos in a dark room. Other than that, the video is great :)

[@mikicerise6250]

It's also possible that most stable life-bearing environments are subterranean oceans like Europa or Enceladus. In that case what is rare about Earth is not so much the presence of life as the presence of liquid water (and life along with it) on the surface. Consider also that while for life to exist on Earth's surface we require an unusually stable environment, benign atmosphere, stable orbit, magnetic field to protect the atmosphere, etc., for life to exist under a crust of ice is much easier. The ice's albedo effect will keep the interior shielded from radiation and temperatures relatively constant, even if the orbit is chaotic. It is a much likelier candidate. Given that we only have a sample size of one there are several things we can consider from our own sample. Single-celled life seemed to arise almost as soon as it was possible in Earth's history. Complex multicellular life, however, did not for a very long time after that. Intelligent life, in turn, did not arise quickly either, even after multicellular life appeared - even though one would think intelligence would be advantageous. We also know that our universe is young and so life on Earth is also very young. So we can conclude: Single-celled life may be common, but multicellular life is rare. Most life of any kind exists deep below water, and is entombed in a crust of ice dozens or even hundreds of kilometres thick. Even if such life were to be intelligent it would have no way of knowing there was a universe outside at all without very advanced technology, and they would have no intuitive way to investigate in those directions. Only the most weakly interacting particles would ever come through their neighbourhood from the outside. Even if they figured it out, getting from their habitat into space would be monumentally difficult compared to our relatively simple method of blasting a lightly pressurised tin can into orbit. They would need to send a container filled with highly pressurised water through an immensely thick solid crust before even starting to think about lift-off. Furthermore, because the universe is so young yet, we are not likely at the epoch of maximum density of intelligent life. We may simply be among the first and happen to live in a relatively quiet area. It is also possible that species with the technology to travel between stars cease to be interested in settling planets. If we could create a self-sufficient habitat in space, why look for a planet at all? Why not simply build in space? Such species would be more interested in energy than rock collection, I suspect. Settling other planets is just a quaint notion that appeals to us because we are still dependent on our planet.

[@smacky101]

Awesome channel. Love the videos. Keep it up.

[@springrollwang4441]

That's because all the cool aliens is near center of galaxy where things has shorter distances, more stars, lots of actions. and we got stuck in the far side of milky way arm.

[@HectaSpyrit]

Great video once again ! Keep the hard work going =)

[@theguythatcoment]

What if life can exist in a larger environment. What if life and intelligence is just a very complex physical event, that happens everywhere at any given time. entire planets having determined features are only part of a part of a single cell. Just like Carbon bonds between the Helix of the our own DNA Entire galaxies dedicated to self awareness of the entity. Process like perception take millions of years to process. What about subatomic awareness, Planck length is the smallest we can measure, but not the smallest something can exist.What if nature as a whole is an entity, the oldest entity of the planet. self aware and sensitive about the exterior forces. And what about quantum entanglement, what if quantum entanglement is just a property of a bigger world that takes place outside ours.

[@evollove19]

+Arturo Rincon Ive always thought of this as a possibility also,.. the same way we look at the quantum world, some other mind may be getting close to the smallest unit of measurement for them and seeing a tiny glimpse of our reality with just as much confusion. we only see a small piece of the electromagnetic spectrum in the form of light, and our instruments detect many other parts,.. those waves may get infinitely larger and infinitely smaller,.. some other realities probly are influenced by an electromagnetic wave with a frequency larger then our observable universe. and the same going the other way with a wave frequency billions of times smaller then plank length.

[@altrogeruvah]

Great video. While you were explaining reasons why aliens might not want to contact us, I recalled this scene from the movie K-Pax, where Kevin Spacey (the alien traveller) was telling Jeff Bridges (the psychiatrist) about notions us humans can't comprehend, like how K-Paxians consider the concept of violence or biological parenthood as primitive and arbitrary points in social evolution. Maybe if intelligent alien life does indeed exist in the universe, they might have a reason supernaturally incomprehensive to us. We, humans, gave birth to questions, answers and purpose, in order to eventually transcend God or any other God we constructed, but above all, everything happened, happens and will happen because we need to. Beyond that, we know about the Cosmos as much as an amoeba does.

[@512TheWolf512]

it would be really funny to see alien colonists stumbling upon us on Earth and vice versa

[@Ryan-sn7fq]

And they've like traveled for 3000 years and are like "Guys this has been such a long trip, can we please take over your planet?"

[@finnbazz6315]

Mad Lad "Listen we've had a very long few millennia and if we could just take this fucking planet off your hands we would really appreciate it, don't worry you guys must have like 100 other planets, right, *RIGHT*?"

[@mbaxter22]

No matter how many different mental gymnastics you perform, it all keeps coming back to "nobody's out there". The preponderance of evidence keeps leading to the conclusion that we're alone, and probably because life itself is impossibly rare. (As in, our entire galaxy is probably devoid of life). Maybe life only emerges on one galaxy in a billion or some other staggeringly rare number. We still can't explain abiogenesis, so this theory (that we're actually alone, or effectively alone, in the universe) is the most logical conclusion.

[@detectivecolonel874]

It's for the best we are alone. We can hardly resist destroying ourselves, much less other worlds' inhabitants.

[@TCBYEAHCUZ]

sharkee is one of the most underrated youtubers.

[@cannes76]

From the Fermi paradox, we have learned that estimating wether or not there are intelligent life nearby in the universe is impossible. I saw a breakdown of the problem by Isaac Arthur recently which makes a good case for there not being intelligent life anywhere nearby, and I mean for a million lightyears around us. Are we completely alone? Probably not, the universe, after all, is very very big.

[@BlahBlahUsername1]

We'll probably never know, sadly. There's just too much distance.

[@carbrickscity]

Sharkee actually answered this himself in another video. Not only there's life, but there would be an exact copy of yourself somewhere. If the universe is infinite, then there would be an infinite number of yourself.

[@FirstRisingSouI]

Regardless of why we haven't heard from intelligent ET yet, the fact that we're alive, thriving, and have the ambition to push toward exploring the galaxy means we have a real chance to do so.

[@DasPuppy]

There is a philosophical question as well: Are you alone, when you are in a place you currently can't get out of, but there is a whole civilization out of your field of perception ignoring you. I'd still feel alone in that case, even though i technically am not. So, fot the moment, yes, we are alone. May be someone will join us and we will no longer be alone :)

[@widing19]

Jesus you deserve mire subs your amazing.

[@Glen4HnS]

finally a new video! Nice vid buddy

[@abelucious]

I personally believe we are alone , because he just explained it perfectly , the sooner we accepted the better,. but how about other dimensions within our dimension, there is many traces of evidence of that but for some reason scientists choose not to follow up and investigate, that would be much stranger than finding people like us on other planets.

[@mrmanguy7147]

I like the sound of your initial theory that we are the first intelligent life in the universe just waiting to colonize the stars. Personally I don't think we are alone and it is only a matter of time before we discover other intelligent life in the universe.

[@Drtsaga]

Here is something to consider: 1) The possition of our solar system within the galaxy might be detrimental to sustaning life. Maybe cosmic phenomena would kill us if we moved closed or further from the center of the galaxy similarly to moving closer to or further from our own sun. 2) I heard somewhere that only recently dark energy has comparable effect to the universe as regular mattet. Maybe life manifestation is related to that as well, so we might not be alone but we might bw the first. 3) why do we say "life in the universe"? if universe started out with a pile of carbon atoms and ended up with walking multi-cell organisms, wouldnt you call the universe itself a living thing? this is the same philosophical question as "am i one organism or the collection of trilions single cell organisms?" are the cell aware that they belong to me? am i aware that every single cell of mine belongs to me?

[@smilesguitar8934]

Love your videos Sharkee!

[@JackJrVerrelliavidrushfan]

I think it's highly improbable that we are alone, it's my opinion that that are just too far away and warp drive or worm holes are not likely to actually be built. Isolated by the vastness of the universe, but eventually we will meet, maybe in a billion or two years.

[@samanthazelner1113]

I think it's possible that we are one of the few who have made it this far in our technology so it is possible we haven't heard from each other as we live too far from each other in our galaxy.

[@jenilkumbhani]

Forget 'bout technological developments, we don't even know whether those life forms, to mention particularly "intelligent life forms' would even be able to know about electricity or not.... Kinda sad for us :(

[@erikpoephoofd]

+Sharkee A little constructive criticism. I think your video's quality would improve even more if you bought a better microphone. Besides that, you're video's are friggin perfect!

[@jamesselario300]

I don't think we are alone. Intergallactic travel is something that even a civilization that could reach 99% the speed of light would be impossible almost. I think somewhere out there, in the billions of galaxies, there are galaxies that have been colonized (moderately). It's just a matter of completely different civilizations only being around for short blips of time at one place. I mean, let's assume the message we sent to the star cluster gets received, and they answer back. For us to receive that, we would have to remain on Earth for 50k more years. Most of these civilizations on different galaxies could have existed millions or billions of years ago. I would bet the house that intelligent, self-aware beings have evolved at least a few hundred times minimum over the course of the lifespan of the universe though. Your videos are so thought provoking and interesting. I wish you did more of them! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and making us think about the biggest and coolest questions!

[@delsondiniz76]

the little boy Janiel from Brazil ,the most incredible alien case ever

[@patrickgarvey5739]

This goes back to the "What if we can never travel FTL" if it is truly impossible, then no other species would he able to do it. And any other species that might possibly exist is stuck on their home planet like we are.

[@dliciouscrabmeat6355]

We are both alone and not alone until someone observes, with definitive proof, one or the other. and we will never definitively observe the entire universe. by definition it cant be done. so i believe that the possibility will always be there.

[@revi8300]

You should make a video with Vsauce

[@uniphobia]

What's going on is that we're alone. That's just how it is! Learn to live with it people! We are the Kings and Queens of the Universe!

[@omfgwtfbbq90]

I would like to live for a billion years just to find out how humanity will advance over time.

[@springrollwang4441]

+omfgwtfbbq90 just a million yrs we won't be able to call them human anymore. because their form will be so different than 'Modern Human'. Just look at our ancestors in the evolution trees.

[@oterdverg]

We have not been around for long and the universe is big. Also, someone has to say the first word.

[@chiquinholoco]

Today news: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html Nice timing

[@emmanuelukwizagira3888]

Anything that is man theorie without evidence i doubt. I still have soo many questions. Like the unknown things that you mentioned. But i hope great minds wil come up with something. Great video man! ✌🏿️

[@NateTmi]

If we ever do find that we are alone. What would we ask in regards as to what truly created us to be alone.

[@Aziraphale686]

If I had to place a bet on what I think is the most likely explanation, I would probably go with the idea that the early universe was just too inhospitable. It seems likely that earlier in the universe's history GRB's and other catastrophic phenomenon were so prevalent as to not allow the time needed to develop advanced life. It seems plausible that life is very much a natural consequence of organic chemistry, but it only takes one gamma ray burst to wipe out a billion years of growth on a planet. So we may very well be the first advanced intelligent life, or at least one of the first, but I would not be at all surprised to find that many other planets have some form of life. Panspermia anyone?

[@Fluburtur]

I think there could be plenty of lifeforms on other planets but we are the most advanced. Maybe there are humanoids that just discovered fire or even just cell floating in an ocean

[@xChris6041x]

There is also the possibility that we are not intelgent enough to get in contact with them so they could be there and we could not detect them.

[@Navaja09]

why doesn't this have way more views?

[@DaveDangerous74]

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise? Is the object there before it is viewed? I think the universe is a wave until it's viewed, at which point it becomes a partial. I don't think the universe is fully rendered until you get close enough to view it. Two observers from two different locations, who observe the rolling of a dice. May find that they see a completely different result, if they are far enough a part when viewing the roll of the dice.