Covert Aliens

[@BlackHatMDA]

Isaac: “For those who listen to my voice while falling asleep” Me jumping out of bed, “he knows!”

[@melongrasp]

HE DOES KNOW!

[@MrMulleteer]

How!?

[@deathisonlythebeginning5098]

Unique but not relaxing enough to sleep. Still love the content.

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

@@MrMulleteer Covert ops?

[@vince38curious2]

Most Nights ( Yes ) I Genuinely intend to stay Awake but it doesn't take me long to fall asleep once I put my head down on the pillow, That Said I start again where I left off until I get all the way through!!

[@josephreagan9545]

If I was an alien (which I am definitely not fellow humans), I would watch videos like this and read alien conspiracies just to see how close or far the humans got to the truth. I would probably make memes and send them to my alien friends of the weirdest ideas.

[@ProfessorJayTee]

SUUUUURE you're not an alien... Right. Uh-huh...

[@blackthorne-rose]

way better than taking names and establishing surveillance.. lol

[@bobinthewest8559]

I would probably use their ideas to stage elaborate “hoaxes”, but allow myself to be “busted” for putting on the hoax.

[@Illiteratechimp]

Humans are so foolish. They never notice us efloxulate the bloogs right in front of their vomer nasal organs. Its like they don't pay attention to their own very real sense organs.

[@francoislacombe9071]

The opening dicussing the various possible mindsets of aliens reminded me of Mork from planet Ork, an alien who descends from chickens and who's species are the best hiders in the galaxie. 😉

[@NotKenBlock94]

WAAAAAAAAAAGH

[@TTheDDoctor]

@@NotKenBlock94 I love how Mork and Orks from the Warhammer universe are the exact opposite of stealthy.

[@mileslong3904]

Nanoose Nanoose

[@RhelrahneTheIdiot]

WAAAAAAAAAGHHHH

[@cozmothemagician7243]

And yet when he arrives on Earth he does a REALLY REALLY bad job of fitting in. Yeah, we need a covert ops guy. Send in that guy who told me joke I never understood. He must be smart.

[@AuntyProton]

I've always wondered why a species who have interstellar travel would crash so often. We're like a junk magnet apparently.

[@calvingreene90]

The lander pilots haven't flown a real lander in months or years and the simulator has a small but significant difference.

[@themaskedhobo]

I could see earth as possibly the closest habitable location on a section of low use space lanes. Aliens already having ship problems coming here to make a crash landing because if they survive at least they can breath.

[@aaronvond]

On purpose.

[@andyf4292]

its the Bermuda triangle

[@pancakes8670]

I would describe humanity as a "junk magnet" yes

[@bigjay875]

You got a laugh out of me with the dancing aliens in the intro, thanks for turning my day around

[@kobebarka8633]

Happy Thursday my fellow travelers through space. We’ve almost made it to the weekend and Isaac is gonna help us get there! Live long and Prosper 🖖

[@ZENMASTERME1]

✌🏽

[@jasperkane8592]

Thank you God ;p or father advice 🙏 🙌 ❤️

[@cozmothemagician7243]

@@moroteseoinage The mice agree

[@blackthorne-rose]

@@cozmothemagician7243 Sure - but they have no illusions that homo sapien is the dominant species. Dominant predator perhaps... but I have a fairly intense intuition that Mother Earth is gonna out-predate us out of existence long before we manage to destroy Her.

[@dwavenminer]

4:43 and this is why if you're going to involve lots of people in a covert operation; 1. it's best that they don't even know they are part of a covert operation at all, they are, for example, just delivering a package to someone house because you are too busy to do it yourself. (Note: in this instance the package can't do anything too overt like explode, as this will quickly draw back to you) 1. Your plan assumes a good amount of your unaware operatives will fail...build parallel, resistant plans, not serial, daisy chained plans... 1. Let your unaware operatives figure out how to complete the seemingly normal and totally not covert actions themselves. It'ss easily to figure out what going on, and what will happen when one person is directing everything...with alot of different mindsets doing different things, it becomes a nightmare to figure out what the end goal is, let alone how they plan on achieving it...

[@nothingnobody1454]

NSA would like to know your location

[@KamiRecca]

@@nothingnobody1454 Snowden would like to say that they allready know, and probably have access to your browser history

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

I like the Arthuresque numbering of every guideline as "1."

[@saladinbob]

Any alien finding out we've made a movie with aliens of their likeness is going to be over the moon with the idea. Remember _Wormhole-X_ from SG1? It provides them with plausible deniability of their existence making any witnessed covert action against us easy to dismiss as crackpot conspiracies.

[@SuLokify]

I think your idea is good, but my opinion is that any interstellar traveler will probably be bioformed - that is, changed so much from their original form as to be unrecognizable. Probably quite diverse. Maybe the context here is more historical - some TV show or movie or art of ours depicts their deep past Idk where I'm going with this

[@complex314i]

I loved that story line. Honestly, a bad scifi show based on the actual aliens is likely up there as one of the best way to discredit any evidence of those aliens.

[@seand.g423]

HELLOOOOOOOOO... FELLOW GATER!!!

[@marvinmartian6516]

Aka reverse reverse reverse psychology or borderline gaslighting

[@DocWolph]

Alien Contact Protocols, Subheading visual contact at a distance. - It is permissible to allow less technologically developed civilizations to see your vessel in flight, even performing maneuvers (Please refer to flight instruction D/V-2 for the accepted maneuvers for this situation) to provide said lesser civilization the inspiration. To say essentially "Yes it can be done" to this civilization. (Please refer to flight instruction D/V-4 and 5 for acceptable distances under given situations, which varies by planet.)

[@ZENMASTERME1]

Thank you Isaac Arthur for the thousands of hours of entertainment you’ve provided to me and my family over the years! I Tip My Hat To You Good Sir 🎩

[@meows_and_woof]

This makes a lot of sense. If we find a planet inhabited by intelligent beings it would be easier to learn about them by mixing in and pretending to be them undercover . They will not freak out and we can learn things from up close

[@seriousthree6071]

They could select the nuttiest people on purpose as they are those who are least likely to be believed. Or they might replace said nuts in order to conduct covert recconaisance.

[@guillermoelnino]

just dont send William Ricker 😉

[@seriousthree6071]

@@guillermoelnino so Data would be fine? Edit: Scotty might be a problem... transparent aluminium...

[@EMERTHERofficial]

Yeah.... _Such an act would probably be _*_highly illegal._* Greetings

[@mnrvaprjct]

Special circumstances.

[@oliverhenry4050]

*"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the next best time is now"* I consider this to be best motivational quote I've heard in a very long time. But motivational quotes are useless if you don't practice what you preach*

[@commerceusa]

@Johnny Washington I heard a lot of investing with Mr Dave Jevans and how good he is, please how safe are the profit?

[@mortenbolin7481]

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[@cainguyen2974]

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[@mortenbolin7481]

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[@mortenbolin7481]

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[@When_am_I]

Thanks for reminding us all that “If brute force doesn’t work then you’re not using enough of it”.

[@albertoperotti6510]

The dancing aliens had me laughing, you cheeky genius 🤣

[@AMC2283]

The charming thing about conspiracies is when a machination is real no one knows about it. And when it’s suspected it’s almost never real.

[@gregconnors7522]

And have a great day! Anyone else miss when Issac used to end his videos like that. I know he does regular weekly videos now but it always brought a smile to my face.

[@travisgrant5608]

🍀"Happy St Patty's Day!"🍀 (from the little green men from Mars) 👍😉

[@spaceman6463]

What’s your thoughts on nano engineered diamondoids, and other super strong materials?

[@seriousthree6071]

Micro diamonds are very common and cheap. Used mostly as abrasives. Plenty of super strong materials out there too, although titanium 3 gold might be a bit expensive. Does not corrode, incredibly hard and bio compatible. Transparent aluminium also exists and is much lighter than reinforced glass of a similar strength. Carbon nanotubes still need research to extend the length, but already has many uses.

[@blackthorne-rose]

No offense intended.. I really appreciate the 'density' of your presentation style.. Great practice for attentive listening.. SO MUCH to think about in almost every sentence.. but not only this.. also so much to VISUALIZE - so it's also great opportunity for "attentive imagination" ... the thing that happens when you are reading a really good book, and the rest of the world just melts into the background. I am with the (probably vastly populated) camp of your listeners that wonders "WHEN OH WHEN will Isaac enter the fray of contemporary science fiction writers??? There really are not a lot of folks who we can rely on to have the "science" side of that "science fiction" genre DOWN PAT... but still have room upstairs for a wonderful imagination. lol. Keep up the good work Isaac.

[@Blaxjax21]

EE "Doc" Smith is an amazing writers, I have recommended all his writing to a lot of people, especially to teens.

[@kdegraa]

Yes I read the Lensman series when I was young, purchasing them from a second hand bookshop. They are a great read, exciting and interesting. I recently reread them and they hold up well. I also read the Skylark series for the first time a couple of years ago. They seem to be a bit more dated than the Lensman series. Skylark is early twentieth century fiction while the Lensman series is bit more timeless.

[@kaseyboles30]

Bit of trivia About doc. He actually had a doctorate. In culinary science. This is bulk food production as compared to culinary arts which is for chefs. Given I've read his writings I'm glad he went there instead of designing snack cakes and breakfast cereals.

[@kaushikghosh4795]

@@kdegraa 8xs

[@cozmothemagician7243]

I never read the series. I was a big fan of R.A.H. and he both praised and dissed that universe. In think I will finally read DOC's novels.

[@jon_j__]

@@kdegraa Yeah, Skylark posits futuristic physics that even a modern-day 10-year-old would realise is completely impossible and wrong. (IIRC from 20ish years ago, something about controlling "4th order waves" and thus having immense power. And then the inevitable 5th-order waves etc pop up, granting even more power. lol.) But if you can manage to look past it (effectively, treat it as if it's magic in a fantasy novel) then you might find Skylark much better than Lensman. Or maybe that's just me lol. Also worth noting for anyone new to his work: Although these are novels about the future, they were writted in the early 20th century. The social attitudes back then were very different to those nowadays, and sci-fi was mostly viewed as populist macho entertainment trash. Some authors managed to rise above that (including EESmith, IMO), but it was the baseline that every sci-fi novel needed to fulfil in order to be published. Depending on your attitudes, you may need to consciously look past all of that as well - but, if you can, it's well worth it!

[@cypressz]

There were aliens like these in the Lost Fleet series. I always thought they were pretty interesting.

[@mathfun1296]

Troll Aliens We definely dont need Troll Aliens

[@B-Scales]

Always a pleasure to spend time listening.

[@slartybartfast6868]

Why does everybody assign human motivations to aliens? We have no idea how their mentality works. Love the show, and happy Thursday!

[@seriousthree6071]

Because they are humans. Very difficult for writers, producers and directors to think that differently.

[@willh2739]

this could be a comment on the topic in general, but if directed at this video, SFIA does qualify their analyses; that we have nothing actual to work with, IE that potential alien psychologies are innumerable and immensely variable, generally the topics discussed may be irrelevant or radically different dependent on what we can't know or imagine. These qualifications are made on the show regularly.

[@silent_stalker3687]

Convergent evolution, unless they are from different realities- then even then they are confined to this reality, not their preferred one.

[@timrosswood4259]

@@silent_stalker3687 it would still be an incredible coincidence

[@JM-zg2jg]

@@timrosswood4259 Would it really be an incredible coincidence? Think about it. We can throw around all the probabilities we want, but the fact is we have a sample size of one living world. And a sample size of one intelligent and technological species. Point is, we don’t actually know if it would be a coincidence or not. Could be that all intelligent life follows more or less the same plan for reasons that we currently don’t have an awareness of. We just don’t know.

[@TheSkullConference]

I wish SciFi movies depicting alien craft portrayed more of the classic entirely smooth saucer models. They make me feel so nostalgic. It also adds a layer of mystery to them, such as their manufacturing techniques and what not.

[@orionspur]

If (some) UFOs really do have alien origin, it makes total sense they would make themselves difficult but not impossible to detect. Sudden, obvious arrival is too volatile, and could easily trigger extremely paranoid reactions among the locals. Nuclear war or economic collapse are among the likely outcomes. A "slow" arrival, by becoming gradually more visible over a long period of time, improves the odds that the locals can adjust to the idea they are not alone, without freaking out. It is also worth noting that the cloaking methods UFOs use may be calibrated such that we cannot confirm what they are until we reach some particular milestone of technological maturity.

[@ericreeves1122]

There is always the possibility that they aren't being covert at all. Almost everyone I know has had some sort of experience with a UAP. Perhaps they are unable to effectively communicate with us, much like we cannot effectively communicate with the other species on this planet, so they do what they can to limit the trauma.

[@aaronvond]

Why does everybody assume our presumed visitors *want* to limit the trauma? Our alleged visitors have radically shaped our culture, albeit quietly and carefully. Who says they aren't shaping us exactly as intended? (Or--we shape our view of visitors in a way that we want them to be, subconsciously? What would that say about us?)

[@ericreeves1122]

@@aaronvond You're right, of course. In fact, an alien species may not even understand "trauma" as we understand it. I was attempting to be optimistic because the alternative is terribly frightening.

[@orionspur]

If they are here, it is worth noting they've not bothered to slaughter us. This means they are observing us, like a nature documentary, and trying not to interfere with the experiment. If they choose to intervene (become clearly visible) at some point, that would be pretty interesting.

[@lucofparis4819]

I think you're adding your own hopes and expectations to your initial set of hypotheticals here, ending up with a less-than-likely result. Case in point: when you suppose the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life with the means and intent to visit us, and in addition posit that they would try to 'limit the trauma' of an upcoming first contact, then you're actually making a third, hidden assumption - that they do understand human minds well enough to gauge possible outcomes and devise a plan to ease first contact. This level of understanding of human mindset seems to me high enough to give them means to effectively communicate with us to some degree. Given this assumption, the most straightforward course of action would actually be to communicate with those humans that are in fact actively listening and expecting them to do just that, e.g. SETI. If 'softening trauma' was the goal, sending a signal to SETI installations, one that makes it look like they're a psychologically safe distance away, would seem more effective.

[@Shagamaw-100]

I am glad you mentioned Doc Smith in your video considering that he doesn't seem to be mentioned as much as Frank Herbert or Isaac Asimov despite his own enormous influence on the genre of Science Fiction. Also, another good example of Aliens covertly influencing humanity would be The Celestials from Marvel Comics who basically genetically modify and judge which species will evolve into the future. If they fail completely they are basically wiped from existence.

[@boobah5643]

My first thought was human Protectors and Puppeteers from Niven's _Known Space._ The Protectors engineered pacifist humanity, then the Puppeteers added the Lottery (to breed for luck) and the Man-Kzin wars (to domesticate the Kzinti.)

[@Shagamaw-100]

@@boobah5643 Interesting with The Celestials their experiments indirectly lead to the creation of several Superhuman races on Earth and beyond such as the Eternals, the Deviants, the Mutants, The Skrulls (Aliens), and The Inhumans.

[@bella42291]

Maybe a little dark but 👽 may judge us for the way we treat other life on earth. "If they treat life like this, they will treat life in the galaxy the same."

[@virutech32]

I think that falls under Smug Aliens. It's not like we enjoy causing mass extinctions or suffering. well most of us don't & most people would probably be far quicker to judge someone who did than the aliens. If they have a better way & don't like it they're free to hand us meat cloning/synthmeat, dextinction, agricultural, energy, etc. technologies that would let us not be so destructive. Otherwise they're just being arrogant pricks.

[@bella42291]

@@virutech32 i get ya, but i wonder if they gave us the technology no matter how useful or "safe" if we wouldn't just kill ourselves with it?

[@virutech32]

@@bella42291 Possible yeah but hey we've had nukes for nearly a century id be willing to bet that's a lot more powerful than sustainable agricultural tech. We haven't killed ourselves off yet*knocks on wood gives russia the side eye* & they'd have no historical reason to think we would so whether the tech is dangerous or not they are still being unreasonable pricks just assuming we would kill ourselves off. And we were gunna figure out any tech they gave us eventually so if they also tell us the potential dangers & we still kill ourselves off then their hands are clean & we were just an evolutionary dead end to begin with.

[@styxdragoncharon4003]

Isaac, just as a point the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a bunch of covert aliens... and overt aliens... and the best reasons why we don't know about either. I only bring it up because, whilst not being the best sci-fi book ever written, it is the best book in all existence(s).

[@jeremypace249]

I was thinking Issac Asimov's Foundation vs. Second Foundation. Overt technologists and covert telepaths.

[@Endymion766]

A superior empire of trillions of beings spread over numerous planets have no fear of us so the only reason I can think of them hiding is to not disturb our development more than is necessary. I think they don't believe getting spotted at great distance once in a while will interfere with our development much, sort of like human zoologists stumbling around the jungle, occasionally getting spotted by the animals they are studying, but not interacting enough to harm that animal's natural development in their ecosystem. But aside from that, I'm not sure aliens exist close enough to even know we exist or can send a visitor in a reasonable amount of time even if they did know about us. I think probably UFOs are either some sort of natural phenom we don't understand or they belong to an advanced hidden human civilization that share the Earth with us and are struggling to remain undiscovered, in their subterranean submarine cities.

[@TheCrazyCapMaster]

It’s been a while since I’ve caught an episode right when it drops 😆

[@joehelland1635]

Its important to note that often the optimal strategy is almost never the used strategy, instead, its frequently a functional sub optimal strategy works just fine.

[@larrysouthern5098]

The dancing aliens at 0:24 made me think of "River People" by Weather Report... These are my people!!! 👽 thanks ya...

[@larsalfredhenrikstahlin8012]

jaco

[@SuLokify]

15:57 Childhood's End is a great example containing this concept. SPOILERS I won't elaborate but please consider reading the book... or watching the TV series. Charles Dance (from Game of Thrones, Tywin Lannister) plays the big bad friendly ugly alien in the show. Although IMO the book is better.

[@limeylime8027]

People trying to stealth through space Isaac: How many times do I have to tell you old man?!!!

[@peterpoulsen4794]

6:45 Does Isaac think the moonlandings is a hoax? I might have misunderstood his comments on this scene.

[@mattjk5299]

No? He explained here that he sees the conspiracy theory of it being entirely fake as implausible.

[@dwavenminer]

He doesn't think it's a hoax as it would be harder to fake it than to actually land on the moon for real

[@No_OneV]

He's basically saying it would be easier just to go to the moon than to keep such conspiracy a secret and i completely agree

[@michaeltrivette1728]

No but I bet he thinks the world is flat. But it's understandable. He's from Ohio.

[@wilberator9608]

5:50 "Monkey Business" haha I get it

[@ti5694]

Love the dancing alien intro

[@kobusvangraan4716]

The Chrysalis series from Dust touches on a few of these possible scenarios, and is really worth a listen.

[@BillGrahamW]

One thing I haven't seen Isaac Arthur consider is time dilation. Essentially, the faster you're traveling, the slower time moves for you. Photons don't experience time. Even though we had to wait 1000 years for the light from a distant star to reach us, the photon itself hasn't aged at all. That leads to a lot of interesting considerations for light speed aliens. If an alien spends 100 earth years traveling to a distant planet, the aliens wouldn't age. They would perceive themselves speeding up, slowing down, and everyone who stayed behind having aged 100 years while they did so. Even planet size can make a big change to the perception of time passing relative to each other. Make 2 atomic clocks, then send 1 to Mars. In 50 Earth years, the Mars clock will be days or weeks younger than the earth clock. It would be like the queen of England getting sued by the assassinated kings personal lawyer from 500 years ago. He spent 500 years at light speed. To him, his client was assassinated that morning.

[@evensgrey]

A great example of the difference between the properties of fiction compared to reality: Among his many different genres he wrote for, the late Isaac Asimov wrote mysteries. One time, he just wrote up a fictionalized account of a real mystery involving an executive who disappeared for a whole day. Keep in mind this occurred before cell phones became commonplace, since Isaac died 4 days short of 30 years ago as I write. The executive had gone to another company's office for a meeting, had gone up to the room the meeting was to be in, sat down, and started doing some paperwork he'd taken with him while he waited for the other people he was to meet with to show up. The end of the work day came without anyone showing up, so he left. It turned out that he had the wrong meeting room and nobody had known he was in there, working away. A lot of people flatly refused to believe an executive would go anywhere without telling his secretary. There's the difference between fiction and reality: Fiction has to make SENSE. Reality just has to be allowed by the laws of physics.

[@SquirrelASMR]

I love these "_________ aliens" style videos

[@esquilax5563]

19:44 how is that a cynical thought? That's exactly the point of transparency, in government or anywhere else

[@paperpass6834]

Great video, you have earned a subscriber! Thanks for sharing.

[@chemplay866]

I love how to aliens started dancing at the intro music 0:19

[@enzoh7151]

who wouldn't?

[@maximmura4234]

the intro music really fits the dancing aliens 🤣

[@ancientspqr8200]

William H. Keith Jr has a series called Warstrider he wrote in the 90s that has some of the most interesting alien species that I've read in sci-fi. Still my favorite series. Just thought I'd recommend it on here.

[@ModernandVintageWatches]

Alien series is one of my favourites along with the civs at the end of time.

[@mattstorm360]

17:38 Sounds like a plot of "They live"

[@jasonl.5097]

They really need to change the name of Thursdays to Arthursday.

[@MantraHerbInchSin]

And Sunday is always Sci Fi Sunday in my head canon

[@guillermoelnino]

thr only way ill believe aliens exist is if every mainstream news source and government body constantly advertise that they DON'T exist.

[@septegram]

5:20. Thank you for saying "raises the question" rather than "begs the question."

[@johannageisel5390]

Yes, but he says "millennia" instead of "millennium" several times. :(

[@ReubenAStern]

lol, dancing aliens jammin out to your theme tune... love it!

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

Urgent Question I just thought of for no reason. Off-topic, regarding Starlifting. That array of starlifting magnets... could it reconfigured, -wound there be enough energy available, to squeeze down around the center and divide the star into two chunks? Say you had several planets worth of iron to make electromagnets, and a Dyson Sphere to power it. Is there enough EM power available to overcome the gravity? In case you wanted two sub-stellar masses to save for later. ...asking for a friend.

[@virutech32]

probably not an easy tasks. You are talking about overwhelming the binding energy of a star using a not particularly efficient method. You have to keep the magnets on, otherwise the ministars would just crash back into each other, & then spin them up in orbit far enough away to not recoalesce. That's assuming the plasma even behaved all nice-like for you & plasma is notoriously hard to confine in the smallest most controlled environments so, while it MAY be possible on paper i very highly doubt it would actually be technically feasible

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

@@virutech32 Yeah, youre probably right, it sounds like a big hassle. I probably won't bother.

[@mikelfunderburk5912]

Whoo hoo! Happy Arthursday!

[@cristiancamilovaldiviesopo6717]

Do an episode about alien art!

[@jelaninoel]

Didn’t know how common it was to go to sleep listening to these

[@BlizzardofKnives]

One of my favourite tongue-in-cheek explanations for alien sightings? Extra-terrestrial trolls and prankers.

[@pinoyhssf]

Hello Isaac Arthur. Learned a lot again.

[@scottthomas6202]

Space hounds of IPC by Doc Smith had multi species cooperation within our own solar system. Written in the early 1930s, the solar system was a crowded place. Prime space opera....

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

Loved the aliens dacing at the start lmao

[@TotalyRandomUsername]

Well, i saw an UFO 20 years ago. Or lets say i saw a flying thing of the categorie: A flying machine that looks like absolutly nothing we have.

[@LazyRare]

describe ?

[@TotalyRandomUsername]

@@LazyRare I was sitting with a few friends in the kitchen, when one suddenly said: Look an UFO. :) So we all looked out the window and what we all saw i can best describe as a shiny pitch black manta ray. Probably 20 -25m wingspan, flew very low. like 200 m over the town directly towards us, fast but not for a plane. Guess 200-300 kilometers per hour. I had it in view for around 20 seconds. A plane at that altitude should have been extremly loud, but we did not hear a thing. We all saw it and it looked nothing like one of this military planes. Also i saw no engines, no cockpit, not anything that looked familiar. Still not idea what it was.

[@maxlostchild7187]

@@TotalyRandomUsername probably a secret government military plane that they haven't shown to the public. They are generally 10 to 20 years ahead of the technology accessable to the public.

[@calvingreene90]

Before I started carrying a cellphone I saw what I was sure was a flying saucer but not having a camera available where I would have a reasonable chance to retrieve it while the UFO was still in sight I continued to watch it. It eventually flew in front of a cloud which revealed its actual silhouette which the starless urban sky didn't. It was an airliner with a dark paint job. Also I used to regularly fly kites at night with a flashlight dangling under it.

[@nothingnobody1454]

Drones were invented long ago and were used successfully for a decade or so before Iran held a press conference showcasing a captured American unmanned spycraft. Area 51 is just a drone experiment base.

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

14:55 Chillingly current & topical.

[@rhuiah]

Great episode.

[@lukasmakarios4998]

"If brute force isn't working, you're not using enough of it." Classic.

[@ponyote]

Any chance that Isaac has read the webcomic Schlock Mercenary? There are the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates which remind me of his First Rules of War. Rule Number one is "Pillage, then burn."

[@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667]

Awesome and majestic content as always 🌍💕💞💖💯

[@umbraelegios4130]

Maxim #6: If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. "Truth is stranger than fiction. It has to be! Fiction has to be possible and truth doesn’t!" - Mark Twain

[@kenhelmers2603]

"Doc" Smith has been my writing hero for decades :) Luv the Lensmen series. I think now, for the fun factor, I enjoy Anne McCaffery even more.

[@montypython5521]

One thing you didn't mention is some type of long term experiment. A long term planetary or even the whole solar system wide experiment. Sightings could even be a possible variable or because of whatever they're trying to test are considered a non factor while they ideally aren't seen at all and is the reason they don't just go around in the open.

[@bmbmw69]

There is an old PC game called freespace and freespace 2 where Sol is at war with another species, when the shivans show up and proceed with destroying both of their civilizations. These shivans are like the reapers of mass effect and to this day remains one of the best games I've ever played. I myself think the dark forest is a pretty good theory, and hiding is a good idea but that could just be my evolution speaking for me

[@Mackenzi]

I’m so air headed I didn’t even realize I wasn’t subscribed lol fixed it 😊

[@MarkM001]

Wow! Doc Smith! I've been wondering when he would be mentioned.

[@noxthemc7717]

I play a lot of strategy games and I tend to be the sneaky boi, to the extent that me doing a straightforward ploy is legitimately surprising.

[@BarryRoper]

What tank did you serve in?

[@agalah408]

Maybe they are among us to recruit the best of us. ie. The Last Starfighter. That Kodan Armada is not going to defeat itself!

[@jakubjanicki3989]

First it was Romans when the trees spoke German. Then it was Germans when trees spoke Polish. Then it was Americans when the trees spoke Vietnamese. Soon it'll be Earthlings when the trees start speaking Zoidberg. Moral of the story? Trees are sus.

[@808bigisland]

I captain here in the middle of the Pacific. Below is a fb link to my most recent encounter. We see UAP very often. I plotted their heading and they originate from two distinct locations. They are not ours. There are at least 3 extraterrestrial parties interacting with each other. 3 friends and I saw two UAP recently: Black sphere trailing a black cross. Not into conspiracies and thus looked into historic documents to see if those machines have been seen beforehand. Yep. They are here for at least 466 years and the thousands of medieval eyewitnesses say that the spheres battled the crosses and won. The implications of my sighting of a sphere supervising a cross UAP are profound. Below is the link to the English translation of a medieval swiss pamphlet. I read and understand this medieval German dialect and context perfectly. I managed the best translation sofar. Balls, crosses, black darts, tic tacs. Seems they are here for a long time. As an aerospace engineer I want know what makes the ships purr and as a historian -' why they are here. If somebody wants to fund a month long first contact off-shore expedition and Livestream UFOs out of Hawaii...I can provide the coordinates and 45 years of 100% safe captains experience here. We need to take this out of our governments hands and build real transparency. Link to my short UFO doc: Facebook.com/transascend Thx Isaac for your work!

[@johannageisel5390]

Spheres and crosses? I think you have witnessed a game of tic-tac-toe.

[@kineticstar]

Had to be up for an appointment. First time I had been up this early in a while. It's horrible to have to watch the sunrise without getting enough sleep.

[@yesterdayschunda1760]

I completely forgot about this channel and damn Isaac you sound different these days

[@edkopik]

that intro got me wheezing! specially the alien dance at the beat drop

[@MrRemnants]

Just wanted to point out that the IsaacArthur website appears to be down.

[@kdegraa]

I just finished off reading the Three Body Problem/ Dark Forest / Death’s End trilogy. I hope the universe isn’t like the one in this series. If it is the universe is a nightmare of a place full of rational actors using all of their knowledge to survive at the expense of others and the universe itself.

[@garrettord3304]

12:02 I love this as a basis for a story

[@JohnBoen]

About 22: 26... And if you are trying to upgrade your ships based on the lights peed messages sent from your home world time dilation has reduced the amount of subjective time available to you to perform the upgrades.

[@Compnerd1]

Thursday again, already! Safe travels, friends!!

[@dfgndfghdfghdfgh]

Another great video

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

I'm Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@nicholasleclerc1583]

0:12 Well, that’s probably because they have like a 0.00001 % failure rate at trying not to be seen, and that it’s those 1-in-ten million chances that we see… …You know, to be fair to them; it’s the first time I’ve heard this argument being applied here

[@Rocket_Man]

Do you already have and off planet low orbit nuke reactor vid?

[@virutech32]

Isaac has several vids on nuclear fission. see Embracing Nuclear Power, The Future of Fission, & The Nuclear Option.

[@Rocket_Man]

@@virutech32 thanks I looked it up but couldn’t find anything, Preciate it

[@captainhakob814]

Keep up the great work!

[@erikoftheinternet]

error at 8:00, the evil old dude behind the conspiracy doesn't smoke cigars, he smokes Morleys

[@paperpass6834]

"sipping wine made from the tears of orphans" lmao

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thank you, Isaac! ☘

[@complex314i]

My favorite alien conspiracy storyline comes from the B5 spinoff Crusade. The government of an Alien species with a history frequent civil wars invented a fake conspiracy of outsiders meddling in their affairs. "Any problems must be those damed outsiders." The plan worked. Once the fake conspiracy was enacted, there was not a single civil war. At random, Humans were chosen as the species on which to base the meddling outsiders.

[@michaelwerkov3438]

if i'm ever at my extended family's house and I see Isaac out and about... i'm saying hi.

[@davidinmossy]

I wonder what they are really up too ? Gov released more info on UAPs that was quite interesting a couple of weeks ago.

[@guillermoelnino]

everybody gangsta till the lights start dancin

[@rustyshackleford1508]

The problem with conspiracy theories is that we're running out of them.

[@andrewgraziani4331]

Before I watch. Are there any other kind?

[@mpetersen6]

When it comes to conspiracy theories they usually say more about the believers than anything else.