Human Aliens

[@neko6803]

i love how when dealing with aliens, there is, when you get to the bottom of it, only two alternatives in Sci-Fi: either they are hostile, or horny. And that fact tells more about Human Psychology than anything else xD

[@Pavel_Poluian]

All this aliens are just fakes, fantasies, fairy tales and the cover legend of the special services.😎👽😎 They mask military programs, real UFOs, flying saucers and triangles - it's all purely terrestrial technology. First they were made in the USA, and now they have been copied both in Russia and in China. Now, in conditions of global tension, the appearance of Russian UFO-type reconnaissance vehicles near American military facilities is more than justified. But it is important to remember that this technique is secret, first used by the Americans themselves in 1947, they actively used UFOs for many years... But this technology, plasma propulsion panels, it is still not very convenient to use. Firstly, during the operation of high-frequency pulsed railgun cells that make up the motor panels, strong microwave radiation occurs. It (even when shielded by a Faraday grid) has a harmful effect on pilots. Therefore, it is impossible to fly on these devices all the time. Secondly, because of the microwave, it is impossible to maintain radio communication with the devices. And, thirdly, the lifting capacity of the devices is still small. That is why "flying saucers" are used in secret mode for espionage purposes. However, recently such a spy function has become irrelevant due to the opening of borders and the availability of new technologies (satellite tracking). I advise you to read Christopher Buckley's book "Little Green Men", which satirically talks about the secret UFO technique and the spread of misinformation about aliens and even about fake "kidnappings" to support the legend. K. Buckley was a speech writer for Bush Sr., he knew many secrets. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

[@juanborjas6416]

Or both!😂

[@cboy-ou2hr]

Tune into next week’s episode of hostile horny aliens

[@DavidKenny64]

You are so right on this. When I hear people who say aliens are coming to earth to steal our resources, my answer is "That would be like me driving to a gas-station convenience store in Indiana Just To Steal a pack of gum (I live in Oregon). "

[@artor9175]

There is vastly more water or rare elements available floating in space for easy taking than you could ever get by traveling light years to steal them from a tiny planet.

[@exasperated]

As I've heard crooks say, "Never shit on your own doorstep"...

[@highlorddarkstar]

Well, we haven’t heard back from anyone in the 50ly radio receive-reply bubble, so there isn’t anyone close enough to borrow sugar.

[@DoomCast]

Earth has abundant biological resources

[@DavidKenny64]

@DoomCast Not a bad thought. But to what end? Study? Specimen for a collection, etc?

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

Aliens visiting earth don’t necessarily work logically in collaboration with their entire species. They could just be some random aliens on a space trip, with no ultimate goal.

[@elfinkenshi6437]

I get more and more suspicious that Isaac might be an alien trying to prepare us, humans for the life in larger galactic community

[@willc1294]

Along with his colleague JMG from Event Hotizon 😂

[@deker0954]

He went native obviously. Foreign service personnel are not normally allowed to stay very long for the fact that it can happen.

[@vincewilson1]

Elon Musk is the mission commander!

[@UsenameTakenWasTaken]

@@vincewilson1 Ew.

[@wihdinheim0]

It's known as the Deneb-5 matrix.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

How disappointed would interstellar travelers be if they spent thousands of years exploring new worlds to realize that evolution basically produces the same things everywhere lol. Like the end result is always basically humanoid. Or would they be like 'this is fine and familiar'?

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

It would probably run the gamut. You would likely find entire groups who thought about it in every different way you or I could imagine, and more.

[@stuart207]

Bipedal cats, I can imagine that no problem,.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

@Riki-io4yd Probably not. Although I do see where aliens would probably have dedicated arms and dedicated legs as while hybrids are versatile they are not generally the best of either. However many those may be (although I am leaning towards 6 legs and 2 arms due to personal current bias).

[@vertigofy6699]

i mean birds rival apes in terms of intelligence (australian magpies, ravens, crows, etc.) so there's atleast 2 viable body plans here on earth. no way humanoids are the only way to go

[@trevorvanzuydam8115]

Dissapointing ? If bipedal humanoid type beings are common in the universe it would probably hint that we are all related or have a common creator . That would be mind blowing

[@robertwhaley4858]

Hey Isaac, my uncle was in responsible for installing the Patriot missile defense system during the first Gulf War, and training the troops how to use it. He also had a speech impediment it sounded a lot like yours and He was a badass !!!I love your shows . you rock.

[@willc1294]

Wascally wabbits

[@SonOfTamriel]

Listened to Isaac all summer in my machine at work on spotify to pass the time. I thought he was an Aussie with a speech impediment

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

12:08 the only organism I could imagine being versatile enough to interface with arbitrary brain architectures would be fungi, since mycelial threads already take on arbitrary shapes and exchange information in a network style not too dissimilar from neurons. The tradeoff would be symbiosis would probably be terribly stressful on the host's immune system. The intelligence boost would probably have to be pretty significant to be worth the reduced health in an arrangement like that.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

Maybe and maybe not. I could see over a prolonged period of this, generations upon generations, the effect on the host's immune system would lessen as the immune systems adapted to the fungi presence; in much the same way as ours has to various bacteria that live inside us now. It would be interesting on that world early on though. As some groups would see it as a plague on them as it weakened their bodies perhaps in a stage of development, say hunter/ gatherer, where physical and mental ability were king. Other groups would see it as a boon as it did make them better able to handle changing circumstances and adapt to new ideas faster. The conflicts that would arise I think between the more civilized and organized groups as time went on and the more disorganized groups. The first group seeing the other as primitive and the later seeing the first group as weak.

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

​@@davidtherwhanger6795you're probably right, over a long enough time mutations would make the arrangement more favorable to both, but what if the increased intelligence lead to rapid technological progress? suppose they were already as smart as a dolphin and had language and social dynamics, but the behavioral modification and intelligence boost caused by the fungus lets them invent really good medicine that keeps them alive but not necessarily as vigorous as an un-innoculated member of the species. I suppose you could make the case that eventually good enough technology would lead to them editing the genes of the host and the fungus to fix it, but I think you could end up with a fairly long period of time where the problem existed and they just brute forced it with medicine. Kind of like how darwinian survival pressures haven't killed off everyone who needs glasses to see, but we also haven't fixed everyone's eyes with genetic alteration to no longer need them. unless they're ultra-pragmatic you could have that arrangement for a really long time

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

@@xXx_Regulus_xXx I would imagine if it lead to Agriculture they would be alright with that for a long time. Agriculture allows for people to do other things besides just hunting and gathering for sustenance; but it would also allow for them to not have to be as hardy as a non-fungus boosted person. And this would allow them to keep their population up long enough for Medicine to catch up. But at any rate even a slight boost in their overall intelligence could cut 100,000 years off the time they went from discovering fire to walking on their moon. Maybe more.

[@maltheopia]

I actually have a very hard time imagining fungus giving that big of an advantage in intelligence, even with a neural structure. Humans aren't just smart because of our brain structure, there's also our unique hormonal system which allows us to think deeply enough to actually have human thoughts thanks to triiodothyronine (T3). A fungus symbiote would have to be able to metabolize tyrosine, but two problems with this. The first is that tyrosine is toxic to most fungus. And the few that are able to metabolize it leave chemical byproducts that are in turn toxic to humans, such as the penicillium marneffei. Making it even worse is that fungus who tyrosine are not toxic to are also glucose hogs, so they would be stealing fuel from the brain. And even if you got around those problems, there's also the issue that fungus do not use adrenal hormones, serotonin, or dopamine for signaling. You would need some other method to transfer information between the neural fungus and the human brain. Frankly, by the time you engineered a fungus that wasn't a glucose hog, wasn't damaged by triidothyronine, AND could use our signally hormones to transfer information you might as well just go with a symbiotic brain slug at that point.

[@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579]

When it matures, a little mushroom shap wart sprouts up on our shoulder

[@slabrankle9588]

One of the best treatments of this topic was in the movie "Prometheus". It was done in a very haunting and poignant way. True, the movie then devolved into a B grade horror flick, but the beginning with the alien in Iceland committing suicide to seed the primeval waters with DNA was just amazing.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

That was a great opening though from a realism perspective he could have used a petri dish rather than himself :) the sacrifice elevates it emotionally but feels contrived

[@Bitchslapper316]

I like the star trek answer to this which is similar. Billions of years ago a humanoid alien race spread out across the whole galaxy. They didn't find any sentient life so they seeded planets across the galaxy with thier own genetic building blocks. This was why many of the aliens in the start trek universe evolved to be similar and even shared some DNA. At least lore wise, the real reason was the limitation on the costumes and special effects.

[@slabrankle9588]

@@Bitchslapper316 Is that Star Trek canon?

[@ewganhoff]

​@@slabrankle9588Yes. I'm sure it would be easy find the episode of TNG.

[@bbartky]

@@slabrankle9588Yes, it’s from the sixth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called “The Chase”. Memory Alpha and Wikipedia have more info.

[@michealnelsonauthor]

I just read the “Dinosaur Warfare” series by N.R. LaPoint. Excellent dive into humans and post-humans as aliens, along with their genetic recreations of Jurassic Worlds. And quite a rampage in each installment.

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

That actually sounds really interesting, I am going to have look into it cos I think I I'd enjoy it.

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

Thank you for the recommendation

[@theredblooper]

I imagine this is how random human colony planets in Warhammer 40k feel when they're suddenly visited by the Imperium of Man

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

Sounds a bit too close to heresy for me, I'll be contacting my local system inquisitors.

[@patrickkenyon2326]

Some guy shows up with a huge army. " Hi, I am the Emperor of Mankind, and you are now part of my Empire. Welcome." Umm, what if we don't want to?

[@Pwnicus187]

​@@patrickkenyon2326"what if we don't want to?" is the subject of several 30k books 😅

[@skepticalmagos_101]

Beep boop your tech is now my property

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​@@patrickkenyon2326 What if we don't want to? Nolan:

[@cannonfodder4376]

Yet another informative Sci-Fi Sunday Isaac. And shout out to Adrian Tchaikovsky anf his excellent Children of Time series. 18:43 Such a great book series.

[@wonderingmind28]

What a fun concept! Love you, your channel, your content, as well as your creative style. Never stop creating!

[@jomUniverse]

I love space and universe exploration videos. One thing for sure is that aliens do really exist maybe even more advanced and it's just that they are too far away. 'Isaac' videos are always inspiring and even encouraged mih to create space videos

[@catholiccrusader5328]

What artist painted that beautiful alien lady in frame 29:03? I want a copy of her.

[@knpark2025]

5:50 A folklore from this part of the world says our "being from up high" came to this land, fed a bear nothing but garlic and mugwort for three weeks, and slept with her when she turned into a human. Our ancient aliens were Italian furries.

[@Jeffry_Ab]

The idea that the answer to Fermi's paradox is just aliens avoiding paying child support money is hilarious and i fully believe it

[@ThirtytwoJ]

First alien contact- "weve been trying to contact you for 13000 years, your asteroid insurance lapsed... and your incedent redemption period expired 12998 years ago."

[@seanhewitt603]

Putting entire galaxies of ecologies into virtual simulated environments, just to avoid anyone sneaking up on you whilst in repose... Arch man, just arch.

[@herbiehusker1889]

If you want to find strange lifeforms, just look at congress.

[@jtinalexandria]

Can you do an episode on HOW advanced civilizations in the simulation hypothesis are viewing us. On screens? Or do they actually have human (or animal, or inanimate) avatars among us?

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Interesting point though I honestly have no idea, I'll think on it

[@dominic5386]

I’d like to believe cats are the spectator race if this was a simulation

[@atk05003]

If the creators of the simulation live in a similar universe (3 spatial dimensions), then they could use avatars, virtual cameras (like a viewport), holograms, or any other type of visualization that we might use to observe a digital world. This assumes they use sight and sound as their primary remote senses like we do. Maybe some of them are tracking statistics and spend a lot of time with graphs and tables. If they live in a universe with more spatial dimensions, they might be able to view a full 3D view of a building as easily as we would watch a game with a 2D birds-eye view (like Pac Man). Since they are running the simulation, they should be able to access information that is hidden to us. For example, maybe they can understand what the sims are thinking and feeling as well as seeing them and hearing them.

[@tiagotiagot]

Or maybe it's like Cypher in The Matrix: "You get used to it, I don't even see the code, All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead"

[@wihdinheim0]

​@@tiagotiagothair is considered a nuisance, so they do prefer bald avatars.

[@hherpdderp]

There is a movie , "The Man who fell to Earth" where David Bowie is an Alien doing this.

[@SomeoneExchangeable]

It was an autobiography

[@hherpdderp]

​@@SomeoneExchangeable yes

[@Evil0tto]

There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria, or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man, who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens.

[@sweenie58]

What if those aliens/Gods are actually the original design/ancestors for us. The idea of planting humans throughout the universe and then giving them rules to live by and then graduate them to a higher levels if they pass the tests on their planet. Makes sense.

[@cboy-ou2hr]

Like Ridley Scott Prometheus

[@-wotiu_77]

Problem is humans are last on the scale of intelligent beings, throughout the Universe, all creatures, of the planet, ruled the Planet long before those same creatures, created you.

[@NightRunner417]

"And we would be making that deal so fast they would think we had FTL even if they were demanding the physical contents of the Smithsonian and Louvre as part of the trade." ROFL that made me crack up so hard, and it is SO TRUE.🤣

[@kleinjahr]

Thought everyone knew, we are mutated Pak breeders.

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

cute dancing fox-girls playing beat-saber, hmmm. maybe such genetic modifications may be a thing in the future, esp with BCI tech.

[@vincewilson1]

Downloading that game you mentioned at the end at about 26:06 via Steam. You make some really good stuff. I can imagine someone from the year 2506 watching episode 120,000!

[@writecraft7049]

Hey, Sir Isaac, can I use that symbiotic race in the story I'm writing? 💙🇵🇭 it's a Star Trek thing but focuses on space fauna rather than humans doing space exploration.

[@deathsyth8888]

Maybe the real alien civilizations were the human relative civilizations we met along the way.

[@wihdinheim0]

I guess we could call the NHI that was responsible for seeding Sol-3 as a sister species.

[@robertoliver2651]

When I saw the title to this, I assumed Dune aliens, like when the humans colonize strange planets and change over time until they're not human as we know it. I'm not disappointed though. Thank you, Mr Isaac. I even learned a new word: Clarketech

[@Ryxmyx5277]

Although I don't really believe in gods being aliens but there are some fascinating stories about time dilation and multiple universes in Hindu scriptures which makes me doubt if the sages of that time could really imagine such things or did they possibly hear it from some aliens. I am going to summarise them if anyone is interested. 1. Story of Kakudmi in Brahmalok (Time dilation): Story of a king who travels to brahmalok to find a suitable match for her daughter. But he is informed by lord brahma that by the time he reached the brahma lok, 27 Manvantara or millions of years have passed on earth. 2. Brahma Vimohana Lila (Time dilation and multi-dimensional universe): Story of lord Brahma kidnapping friends and cows of lord krishna and sending them to brahma lok. In this story, 1/33750 of a second in brahma lok is equal to 1 year on earth. This story also explains the concept of multi-dimensional universe where lord krishna shows one Brahma and one vishnu for each universe 3. Muchukunda fights with demons in Indra loka (Time dilation): Story of a king Muchukund who joins lord indra in heaven to defeat the demons. After fighting for 1 year, when he expressed his desire to meet his family, lord indra says ”One year in Indra loka is equal to millions of years have passed on earth and So much time has passed that No one from his family is alive now”.

[@flyingdutchman28]

Greetings from a real, honest to goodness, human alien. I’m naturalized now, though…

[@js70371]

Please do an episode on Machine Civilizations, such as that portrayed in the Matrix movies!!

[@carsonianthegreat4672]

4:00 Your robot must be into graphic design. It is using Adobe Illustrator.

[@lelevontin1814]

❤i love this channel 🙏🏼

[@tastyfrzz1]

We assume that we must go to space to protect the human species but our bodies are not really cut out for it. We can; however, create AI and use crispr technology to develop beings that are smaller, use less resources, have advanced capabilities such as the ability to hibernate and communicate telepathically so that they can pass along our knowledge and abilities. Initially they would live along side us and learn but eventually they, or the proginy would leave earth to roam the stars.

[@rommdan2716]

Genetically engineered cat people

[@seanhewitt603]

We have to leave earth to protect its life generating abilities from greedy human egocentric destruction, not to protect humanity.

[@willc1294]

​​@@rommdan2716Samuri Pizza Cats

[@male272]

Love the Uplift Saga. To me it seems the most likely 'resource' any external sentience would want from us is genetic abundance.

[@awegahn]

As for the latter half of your video where you discuss the Fermi paradox: You forget one condition that is mentioned in Sci-fi, namely "The Prime Directive". In other words, aliens exist all around us, but doesn't show themselves to us out of respect for our right to evolve on our own. Its actually not that different from what zoologist do when they scout and look at for instance gorillas in the jungle. For the most part they stealthily study them from afar, without going in there and upsetting the social structure. A second reason found in ufology and contactee literature but not necessarily sci-fi literature was touched upon you earlier, that aliens (particularly bad/malevolent aliens, who naturally also would exist) hide themselves like a wolf in sheep's clothing. It is much easier to manipulate a population and siphon off their resources if they don't know you exist.

[@RealCodreX]

Hello there Isaac Arthur. I wonder if you have ever, or will ever for that matter, consider(ed) making a video about "wetware" aka "biological AI" or "biological supercomputers". Anyway, keep up the stellar (pun intended) work. It is super fascinating, if not a bit difficult for a non native english speaker such as myself, to listen to your fantastic podcasts and simply let the mind wander for a bit. Brightens my week every time.

[@bryceshane2057]

hey, great video! but I noticed some of the images in this video appear ai generated, are you actively using ai tools or is it just a pain to curate all the pictures and art? It's alright with me either way, just curious.

[@Borriqua1]

All this is more fully explained in the Pivotal Universe Series, on Amazon.

[@darklink7117]

Isaac Arthur is the goat!!!

[@cheradenine1980]

IA.. what about the energy vortices beings in the Xeelee novels? They were compelling

[@alexanderkracinovich6123]

I'm literally playing the game you advertised in the video already for a few years right now. It's kind of surreal.

[@apdiversion834]

I have been listening to your storytelling show with fascination for quite some time. 🧠👍🙏

[@nicolasignacioarancibiagod2865]

You're very smart and speculative. Really so. I wonder if you ever got curious about German idealism as a philosophy? I'd really like a yes, no, or later answer. I wouldn't be bothering more. When it talks about "spirit," it talks about ability to really form creative thoughts and will freely.

[@myusername111]

Hey man good job with the speech therapy, it's getting a lot better. I have really bad ADHD and when something stands out my attention deviates. I'm noticing myself staying more involved in the video without distractions and the content is incredible. I don't know if this is weird or insulting but I genuinely do mean congratulations

[@UpliftedCapybara]

I loved the story of the Gordonites here. I’d totally be down to read any book you write should you ever do that.

[@vincewhirlwind1778]

I bet that when "aliens" ride past Earth, they lock their doors. 😊

[@Dysputant]

Nice to see that AI generated images can be used as BG. Making any topic Isaac use new BG. I love all edits. But some BG was used in dozens and dozens of videos :)

[@Dampfaeus]

Thank you for the new episode!

[@talroitberg5913]

BTW, what's the source of the intro music for the "alien civilizations" videos?

[@JulliveJubay]

finally ! the first episode for a very long time that is not about war, guns, , soldiers, nukes, armys, destructive weapons , militaty a.s.o. i always find theese mentioned episodes very pre-teen like , like little boys posing with self made weapons or playing wrestling games. i know arthur is a former soldiers, well i respekt that, although i am a pacifist and hate violance and also i am completly convinced we never will colonize space without overcoming this ancient, anachronistic , violent attitude, unlike arthur i think if we dont succeed in making peace , we will just extinct ourselves , so his armoured, fighting, conquering weapon-and soldierized empire that he always talks of will never exist.in the opposite : exactly this violence ,beeing a relict from our much more primitve ancestors will make such an empire impossible ! just my 2 cents , having said this, thx for a rare and nice episode, soldier or not, is it really necessary to always go back to that teenage-like fighting stuff ? i would really aprreciate more technical content, and if arthur could try to watch the unknow ( !) future not so much through his ex-soldier glasses...last thought : no one knows how things really will be, we are all children of our times and cultures, how we imagine the future is nearly completly determined by that, the easiest proof is to watch some old sci-fi and take a look how people imagined future in the, lets say 1950s.we simply are making the same, narrow-minded mistake over and over again, all of us , so i think its a good idea not to insist so much on our own view of things, they might just be completly wrong, yes arthurs also (!) ,and instead elevate our approch and take a look what other people think and imagine , and maybe all together we manage to receive a more realistic picture of how future will be, ...i hope and believe it will be peacefull ! thx arthur for your work and chanel , sorry for disagreement with a lot of your views , lets keep open minded....

[@shanep2879]

Simma down nah… gonna blow my cover!

[@loganw1232]

The concept of Human Aliens is actually an idea I’ve been working on for my own sci fi series.

[@mryellow6918]

Vultrimites from invincible reproduce by just requiring a womb. Both male and females just use organisms to signal the reproduction. (female) and males hijack a female egg with their own. Eventually the child removes the alien dna from them in puberty to be a full Vultrimite.

[@NotTheEnd7766]

I would live to hear your thoughts on what would be the most likely possible way we could get a situation where spacefaring aliens exist, they have visitied earth, and might still be here, but we still dont see unequivocal evidence of them.

[@wihdinheim0]

The logical explanation is that Sol-3 was seeded with building blocks of life, which resulted in the Cambrian explosion. By burying neutrino beacons underground at around 200km depth you could maintain a monitoring presence that could operate for millions of years. If you look at _pelagibacter ubique_ you can see an example of that, an organism with a streamlined genome that science fails to explain. The ultraconservative regions of its DNA are equally fascinating. Contact scenarios pose an existential level threat which should be handled with care. Humanity is unfortunately threatening the planet biosphere which is a major issue that could require an intervention or a complete reset.

[@monicaross4013]

why does this make sense

[@DemonsRun42]

They're called immigrants and they deserve respect, sir! Lol. Love this channel and it's viewers

[@seanhewitt603]

Anacondas and pythons in Florida are immigrants too...

[@Vjx-d7c]

Commenting for the alien algorithm

[@shohanahmedniloy9218]

Hey Friend Arthur, Please make a video on Men in Black Aliens, the Aliens who are hiding among us. Like how would Aliens hide among us and what are some possible life styles and regulations.

[@gregorydamario7977]

Timestamp 3:00. Why are aliens (almost) always naked?

[@privatepessleneck]

wouldn't it be funny if there was a sci fi story where humans evolved twice in galaxy? like light years aways from earth there was a planet that completely by chance had life evolve the exact way as earth to create humans on a 1:1?

[@QuantumAscension1]

You mean like Battlestar Galactica

[@FleetAdmiralLevi]

I cover this concept at great length in my biggest novel series. Although I think I may have made it wacky by revising the distance of the nearest star to the sun to 1.5 light-years away. But yeah, these human aliens are completely unaware of Earth until relatively recently.

[@DankFroot]

Given the concept of infinity, there would be somewhere.

[@charlesjmouse]

Always a good watch, thank you. For myself I never got why the concepts of "We are the aliens", or "Aliens live among us" is quite such a popular notion. Even if we take the huge leap that for some reason life requires only 'our' kind of DNA to work that does not mean any of the 'support infrastructure' has to be anything like ours... worse, there is absolutely no reason why an otherwise identical alien DNA would 'speak' the same 'language' as ours - integration of 'alien' life, especially to the point of being indistinguishable, would be impossible. That would leave either 'natural' or 'deliberate' panspermia as the only option, either starting life on this planet or somehow replacing absolutely everything that came before... but that only kicks the can down the road to "So where and why did it start originally?" and doesn't solve the "So where is everybody?" No, until there is incontrovertible proof to the contrary the only plausible answer to 'us' seeming to be alone is 'we' are functionally alone. Then we, a-hem, only have to try to work out what makes our corner of the cosmos to special?

[@comentedonakeyboard]

10:56 or the Goa'uld and Tokra from Stargate

[@lexlee2211]

I listen to the advert on AI every time I put this on. Just found out it's not apart of the video, I'm devastated and also impressed and the ad placement

[@lukasmakarios4998]

In the movie "Enemy Mine" starting Dennis Quaid & Louis Gossett, Jr. The aliens did indeed reproduce asexually, virtually cloning themselves and then giving live birth. The movie is definitely worth watching, so I won't give any spoilers here. Check it out.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Great film

[@georgewindsor2667]

seriously, such a classic. kinda slow by modern standards tho.

[@orangeblueandlavenda]

Honey, the neanderthalls were just really old people.

[@SuperS05]

lol, I have had that game for a while now. It is a classic idle game, but caught my attention by the neat little facts it pops up for you. Very minimal non consensual advertising. (you click to activate ads, they don't just run generally) Reasonably fun.

[@truthseekerdude]

"The dozen or so people today who would be interested in breeding with alien leeches or starfish" Oh Isaac, you sweet, innocent boy, that is a CATASTROPHICALLY lowballed estimate

[@Eldagusto]

Gordonites are my favorite of your creations hoho. I need to read the rest of the children of time series I only finished children time. Great episode!

[@keithfernandez8965]

We love you and your work...never chang anything !!!

[@FifthConcerto]

@Isaac Arthur, I have been outlining a story timeline that relates to the themes of this video (sometimes with incredible exactness). Toward the end of the video, it strikes me that a logical issue I thought I had covered, I have more (somewhat artfully?) swept under the rug. Hopefully I can come up with a more satisfying solution. But I think I am convinced that I have to change SOMETHING.

[@Votrae]

Looking for questionable things in the wrong places is my signature move

[@PrinceCyborg]

After looking in the mirror I knew my big head resemble an Alien 👽 now I’m sure

[@adatewithnature8333]

would be cool to see one on alloy based life

[@johnoneofmany]

Earth is the only planet in the galaxy that has chocolate. They are coming for our chocolate!

[@VisiblyPinkUnicorn]

5:31 I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite option on the Citadel.

[@JohnPetro-d6f]

I hope someday we have answers for alot of things. Some moments eat at you for life, not knowing why or how they happened, and when we'll know about the things that have or will directly effect us.

[@Pheonix1328]

I think you underestimate how many humans would "share a bed (or alien equivalent)" with an alien.

[@hcox1111]

I did unwillingly turned out it was a succubus not an alien. They can bring you right to the point of orgasm and keep you there for longer than humanly possible.

[@SomeoneExchangeable]

Awesome content, as always!

[@errorhostnotfound1165]

25:36 don't mess with the space-IRS I guess

[@LuDux]

I remember short sci-fi story where aliens stopped on Moon for minor repairs and in free time sent two guys to Earth for short visit. They encountered humanoid fighting the dinosaur, shot dinosaur, released dinosaur destroying virus and left. Turns out it was dinosaurs shooting movie about brave dinosaur fighting evil humanoid

[@barryon8706]

I think if they were feeding us technology, we'd have controlled fusion by now. Unless there are unfortunate side effects of that technology that would lead to some larger disaster.

[@seanhewitt603]

Have you met humanity?

[@imaadahere]

Money, technology has come up but been stalled and/or tucked away by those with money.

[@TimothyHuffGuitar]

Thank you for another great presentation Isaac! Loved this video!

[@addisonchow9798]

Yes inquisitor, this video right here.

[@DamianTheAlien]

4:23 You forgot Moral Uplifting. As you mention with the Fermi Paradox, a species with a strong tendency achieve has a proportional tendency to internecine conflict and will destroy itself in the same manner that a population explosion in an animal species. With an intelligent species, the evolution of a culture that will ultimately prevent further technological development and promote species degeneration could be inevitable. The rate of decline ironically increases as a species (or its elites) reaches any form of post-scarcity. ... God I have my work cut out for me.

[@Gawainfoxx]

Only a dozen or so? A dozen or so? When they're SAPIENT? Good lord Isaac, you usually aren't off by so many orders of magnitude!

[@Aangel452]

Great images Issac!

[@MidwitObservations]

Love you isaac, EVERYBODY SPAM COMMMENTS AND THE LIKE BUTTOn. Get this channel BIG. Sfia is to modest

[@orangeblueandlavenda]

There's a big dead guy in space that died to give us life.

[@markwrede8878]

No human could know the terror of the rescued Roswell alien.

[@Silly_squirrel95]

Just a conspiracy but red heads are aliens. Thats why they are so rare and yet easy to spot in public places. Jokes. ❤️ red heads.

[@hellblaze10]

Did he already do a vid on aliens popping up at the same time or latter than humanity yet? There are a lot of vidios

[@robertoliver2651]

If we had a war with a sentient parasite, like in Animorphs, are ethics a concern? The Yeerks of Animorphs were slugs that climbed into people's brains and controlled them. They were sentient and had to have a host to live. At one point, one of the main characters catches a ship with thousands of yeerks sleeping in their containers, without hosts, and opens the ship doors, letting thousands of unarmed combatants be killed by the vacuum of space. People raised ethical concerns over this part of the book, but I was personally on the team of sentient or not, every single one is a potential threat, but I may have had the wrong take away.

[@DG-mk7kd]

If there is no alien life out there, just wait. The implications of this is more significant than the fermi paradox.

[@jamesmcfarlin8739]

For Thanksgiving sake I believe aliens might be interested in collecting home food recipes 😊

[@atashgallagher5139]

If we can't find aliens, we'll make our own damn aliens, with black jack and hook ers. ~futurama

[@donaldhobson8873]

Surely just turning themselves into a single physically possible design of tentacled alien would be so boring compared to all the weird stuff going on in VR that no one would want to do it.

[@freehat2722]

Assuming they are here and after genetic material, our current genetic storages make it easy to get genomes without having to interact with lifeforms or even land a craft. There is a definite advantage to harvest landrace and mixed race specimens prior to any uplifting processes.

[@mdoggydogdogdog]

An advanced being cramming its brain into a human body while escaping to earth and eventually brining advanced technology to a more primitive species. Elon Musk enters the chat.

[@MinneapolisSkip]

Lol