Smug Aliens

[@bojantodorovic6841]

This guy is criminally underrated.

[@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX]

He has >100k subs. That's more than one in 70,000 people.

[@bradh3292]

more!

[@fatetestarossa2774]

indeed

[@MaakaSakuranbo]

I agree. I think to people that disagree the weakest part is probably the visuals, I've tried to get some friends to watch, but they complained about that the visuals don't add much, they are often repeated, and just there in the background. And that more should be done with them. I personally don't mind, but I can see what they mean. Though super custom are expensive/take a lot of time, so not much to do there I guess.

[@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX]

I just listen to these in the background whilst doing something else.

[@Darkrunn]

Fun idea for a sci fi story: Guy creates KZbin series about science and futurism, and seems to be awfully well informed on the subjects. Turns out that he's actually the alien equivalent to a conscientious objector, and has been covertly prepping our civilization by giving us tidbits of info about aliens in his videos. What a twist! Ah I love Arthursday.

[@paulwalsh2344]

I wouldn't be surprised if Elon Musk turned out to be a highly advanced android sent back from the future to warn us about the dangers of developing sentient AI, so ... could Isaac Arthur be a Matrioshka Brain heralding our reality simulation ?

[@BrazilianBikini38]

I think Larry Niven did a short story about that, I think it was called "what do you think of Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers" or something like that

[@timdoonan5898]

Notice Isaac never objected to this

[@kanadwen]

whoa

[@bingbongabinga2954]

BrazilianBikini38 That's it. I've got the anthology "Niven Space."

[@ZombieSymmetry]

It's amusing that virtually every episode of Star Trek seems to involve a violation of the Prime Directive. :-D

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Yes though from a production standpoint it mostly represents the huge frustration the writers tended to feel about the rules Gene had limiting all sorts of conflicts, arguments, unenlightened behavior etc.

[@StarboyXL9]

@Dream0fSkye Which is part of why he was so goddamned annoying.

[@MrGeocidal]

TNG got better after Gene Roddenberry died. Then again he was alive for TOS and TOS was pretty good.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

one of the prime directive episodes that I love the most is when they find a planet spinning so fast that its under time dialation. Spending an hour in orbit taking sensor readings results in a chain of events planetside that leads to their developing warp drives.

[@levilukeskytrekker]

The big problem with the Prime Directive is that it seems to be a Federation exclusive thing. Would you rather have the Federation make first contact with you, or the Klingons? How about the Romulans? Wouldn't it make far more sense for the Federation to try to help every primitive civilization they come across, for the exact reason that they could be easily exploited by the less kindly?

[@Zourkoskey]

From what I saw in the shows, or at least my impression, was that the Federation of the most recent era really didn't seem to concerned about such things. In fact I remember on more than one occasion they were more than happy to allow the Cardassians to forcibly relocate people willy-nilly without so much as a whimper of complaint. As a matter of fact the Cardassians committed horrible atrocities on Federation citizens, the types of things which even our society today would consider war crimes, and yet there was never any attempt by the Federation to seek justice for the victims of Cardassian war crimes (federation citizens to boot!). So ya, I doubt they really give a shit about the Klingons or Romulans exploiting primitive species. Seems to me the Federations top priority is to avoid war at all costs even if that means the betrayal of there own citizens. Well except for DS9, atleast Sisko and crew had some fucking balls...

[@AnalystPrime]

That plot was just stupid. Some people had left the Federation to start their own "back to nature"-cult or whatever, only they were squatting on Cardassian planets. So when Cardassians told them they have to leave or start paying taxes they claimed they were Federation citizens after all, but when Feds told them to come back to their own side of the border, they wanted the Federation to start a war over them instead. And to make sure that happened, the squatters became terrorists and attacked both Feds and Cardassians. Oh, and the settlers are supposedly descendants of Native Americans who are again being driven from their lands by "white men", just to make things stupider. Assuming there really was a group inbred enough to be able to trace their ancestry directly to some tribe on Earth, they either left the Federation or agreed to abide by it's charter when they went off to start their colony. And given there are trillion or more people in the Federation who have no interest in starting a war over few thousand squatters when there are thousands of free planets in Federation space that they can live on, the vote is definitely against them. EDIT: Oh, right, and 99.99999% of the Federation has no connection to anyone whose ancestors were doing anything to any Native Americans either, so any "we can't treat them like our ancestors treated their ancestors" idiocy is also pure BS. Might as well have Sisko make a speech about how he is against Cardassians because he feels guilty about his ancestors being Nazis...

[@theuncalledfor]

+AnalystPrime The Federation sold off already-settled planets with citizens on them to the cardassians. They hadn't left the Federation to start a retarded anti-tech cult and in fact tried to use tech to fight back against the cardassians that mistreated them.

[@AnalystPrime]

If they were official Fed colonists, why were they so far outside their borders? If they had been on those planets long enough to get attached to them and build anything resembling a "home" there, where are all the industry and defense systems that would make the place both worth keeping and able to keep Cardies away? If the reason why they were living in teepees was that they just got off the colony ship, then it should be easy for them to get back on, move to one of the hundreds of other habitable planets available in UFP space, and maybe sue whoever didn't check for prior claims when they sent them to colonize the wrong side of the Cardassian border. That whole plot is equivalent of some Sami people from Norway moving to Alaska to create a new homeland and when USA tells them they are on someone else's property they complain to EU, but when instead of helping them conquer Alaska EU offers just to pay for their plane tickets back, some idiots decide to become terrorists and we are supposed to be cheering for them. And because four thousand years ago the ancestors of Finns pushed away the Sami to settle in Finland, the modern day Spanish people should feel guilty about not helping the Sami terrorists start a war with America. Also, in this scenario EU is a post-scarcity society with the ability to build islands and space colonies for more land to live on, while USA is a third world country that desperately needs that plot in Alaska because they don't have any better place to colonize that they could reach without their cars running out of gas. The scriptwriters just wanted to make up a scenario where the Federation is in the wrong and utterly failed to make it believable. If they had set the whole thing up as a plot by Romulans or Dominion to cause trouble, or another plot by that faction that tried to take over the Federation, that would actually make some sense. Or they could say Q replaced all the excellent diplomats and other competent people UFP has that would have kept this from ever happening with a bunch of idiots to see if anyone will notice, even that would have made a better plot.

[@TheJarric]

federal colonist came cardassian turf after border war and fed got cardassian colonies too , that back to nature cult did entirely abandont fed and common sense

[@JoelDowdell]

For some reason I find the idea of being uploaded oddly terrifying, even though I'm okay with being born in a simulation. I mean with the latter, nothing changes about your universe if you find out, it was your existence, just hope no one pulls the plug. But the former is a form of death in my mind. My opinion is that if you copy someone's consciousness, you just made a copy that is bound to diverge. Not only that, if you destroy the first one in the process, it's just death, with a copy thinking, "Oh, I guess I was wrong. Teleporters don't kill you."

[@pumpuppthevolume]

why would u be terrified it won't be u.......it will be a copy of u .........unless your body is slowly over time replaced with nano bots cell by cell and than everyone with that sort of body get's piled up in a big server......than it will be u but u will have changed over time ...........why would "uploading" mean u kill the original....u upload a copy/simulation of the pattern in your head u can copy it 50 times and u will still be the dude in the skull ......the other 50 dudes will just have the feeling of being u and than being popped out of your body

[@KofoedTim]

Yeah, I've been pondering that question myself as well. If I had the option to be uploaded to a computer, would "I" still be me, when the transfer was complete? I feel the uploaded "me" would be a copy, and "I" would never actually experience it, but my copy would continue thinking it was me and still is - and it would be correct for its perspective.

[@stefanr8232]

Joel Dowdell, The proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids that make up a brain (or simulated brain) are regularly breaking and the parts get digested (or they are simulated to break and digest). All of the molecules in your childhood brain have been replaced. Have you died multiple times?

[@hosmerhomeboy]

Since nothing about us is constant, perhaps the only real way to describe consciousness is as a wave of complexity (order) that propagates through matter over time. Perhaps if the change over happened gradually, piece by piece(as pumpupthevolume said), you would still really be the same. If however, every piece was replaced with another one copying it at the same time, I would consider that death, followed by the creation of a clone since the "wave" was broken. More food for thought, if indeed we are digital, do we then die and are reborn every time files are moved or the system goes down for maintenance?

[@JoelDowdell]

I think if you are digital, you don't die from doing file things. But turning off the computer is definitely something more than sleep.

[@emperorpicard6474]

"Sir voyager just bumped into something" "What is it" "I don't know, it looks like a giant wall" "WE LIVE IN A ZOOOOO!"

[@Mayordomo32]

Simon Moore lmao

[@annoyed707]

Even better, it was the Space Mexicans that paid for it! :)

[@_Muzolf]

Because its not even a fancy zoo or anything, it is the zoo of space Mexico city.

[@entropyzero5588]

Funny: In ST canon, the Milky Way actually _is_ surrounded by some kind of impenetrable barrier! (Though I can't remember any specifics right now) So maybe the zoo is just a bit larger than the video suggests? xD

[@TheEventHorizon909]

Meanwhile in Mexico...

[@Atrahasis7]

"Btw make the speed of information in their simulated universe so slow they wont go anywhere near another galaxies much less the Shapley Supercluster."

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

It helps with simulating to have a max speed too :)

[@johnhansen4794]

@@isaacarthurSFIA 1.39 Terahertz

[@mikea2363]

That chief engineer has clearly sold her soul to the chaos gods

[@merrittanimation7721]

Blood for the Blood God!

[@Terenin]

Slannesh to be specific.

[@Awave3]

Praise KEK.

[@alanfriesen9837]

The Chief Engineer is awesome. If I found out someone with fantastic technology was intentionally keeping us in the dark I'd be pissed. I hope they're all like the Chief Engineer, practical, instructive, and kinda cute despite the construction hard hat.

[@ASNS117Zero]

MILK FOR THE KHORNEFLAKES!

[@arithmetikmilitantpoetry9548]

Easily one of your best, most thought provoking episodes. YOU'VE OUTDONE YOURSELF ISAAC.

[@jeffg6924]

Thanks for the hard work Isaac!!

[@interstellarsurfer]

Happy 100 Issac! Thank you for 100 episodes of the best, most thought out, and thought provoking content on KZbin. :-)

[@jasonmey5235]

So, how do the aliens of Smugness IV in the Self-Righteous sector behave?

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

lol, that was one of my favorite episodes to make.

[@johnball5539]

They are surprisingly humble

[@johnlinden7398]

FOR SOMEONE WHO SAYS HE HAS A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT I FIND THAT HIS NARRATIONS ARE ENTIRELY COHERENT, FLUID AND MOST PROFOUNDLY ENLIGHTENING ! VERY WELL DONE AND THE VIDEO GRAPHICS ARE EXCELLENT !

[@NickPoeschek]

Stellaris DLC and a new Isaac Arthur video on the same day? It's like Christmas came early!

[@skrv8588]

This video needed more Smug Slugs.

[@ArchAngelThomas]

Wait.... Stellaris released a new DLC today?

[@Unit87XB]

ArchAngelThomas Synthetic dawn. A mod after myself

[@5000mahmud]

Stellaris devs (paradox) should team up with Isaac. Would make for a great DLC.

[@Ponja__]

Guess I need to make a race of Smugliens, hailing from Smugness IV.

[@Robovski]

Well done Isaac, congrats on 3 years and 100 episodes. I enjoy your content every week, keep up the good work.

[@colonelgraff9198]

ArThurd Anniversary.

[@nerdpraxis]

I'm a Hardcore Nerd and burn much of my free time here on youtube (too much to be honest) but there are only ~3 People on YT where I instantly drop everything else just to watch their new content, you are one of them. Thank you for your hard work

[@AndyPopescu]

What are the other 2?

[@nerdpraxis]

1. Isaac Arthur 2. TeamFourStar (not science related) 3. Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell (science for dummies ^^) :)

[@kingbyrd.1512]

@@nerdpraxis I love TFS.

[@retsz]

Happy 100th episode, and here's to 100 more! Why this channel doesn't have hundreds of thousands of more subs yet is beyond me.

[@retsz]

erik2000 that's a nice start. But as soon as we make first contact with an alien race, that number is gonna soar. Unless they're "dumb" aliens and just into unboxing videos and Jake Paul. God help us all if they learn to dab

[@retsz]

erik2000 that's a good start. Then we have a possible multiverse to deal with. That's some serious ad revenue!

[@lengould9262]

Not enough videos of cute kittens.

[@TechNed]

That was really good. Dealt quite well with plot inconsistencies/conspiracy theorist ravings I have been uncomfortable with for some time. I appreciate the amount of effort and reasoning you put in.

[@jamesfra1311]

I can't believe it's thursday already..

[@leopolisyt]

james Fra yeah, right?!?!?!?

[@Spicymuffins89]

Oh god it is. wtf

[@leopolisyt]

erik2000 Oh yeah. These two too. I saw that in my subscription.

[@Doktor47]

ARTHURSDAY

[@DavidEvans_dle]

Thursday night football & Isaac Arthur new episode, are two things that I look forward to on Thursday, and not necessary in that order of importance. :)

[@Joe-jh8po]

isn't it problematic to extend our 'human logic' and assume that if there is intelligent life out there, that they/it has pretty much the same processes of reasoning as us? Of course to us, the reasoning in this video all seems very logical and therefore the fermi paradox seems like a real paradox, but isn't it entirely possible if not likely that; a) cosmic life is just so fundamentally different in nature and therefore has completely different, maybe even incomprehensible to us, methods of reasoning/thinking/judging/deciding etc, or even an absence of those, and/or b) as species evolve, either by natural selection or by deliberately changing themselves, the species' methods of reasoning and 'thought' also evolve and include some aspects which we are incapable of grasping at our current stage and which may also explain the smug alien & fermi paradox problems? Just found this channel, really really interesting stuff keep it up! Thank you!

[@mikea2363]

Join the guard! Serve the Emperor, explore the galaxy! Find exciting planets and strange aliens! And then kill them!

[@InquisitorThomas]

This message is brought to you by the Ordo Xenos of the Emperor's Holy Inquisition =][=

[@Ron4885]

Inquisitor Thomas. lol, Good one.!!

[@God_of_Bacon]

i`d like to see what happens to the inquisition when the emperor returns

[@gregbrockway4452]

Most excellent Mike A!, a variation of the poster that hung in our pilots ready room when I was in the service.

[@maybeiam3367]

Ratchet and clank?

[@Shademp]

Well done on reaching 100 episodes and congrats on the third anniversary! I hope we'll get to see many more episodes of wonderful content over the years to come!

[@TheMasonX23]

Congrats on 100 episodes, 3 years, and happy Arthursday!

[@Robert-mx3id]

and thanks for the work !! you rock

[@MIKE_THE_BRUMMIE]

you're videos are amazing!!! I've always let my understanding wonder on such concepts but to have them layed out in such a interesting and competent manner is amazing! thank you for all your hard work.

[@nelsonzacharyscott1751]

lol the "just us" league

[@cluckeryduckery261]

Hey, just wanted to say that I find it very impressive that you're able to produce such quality content on a weekly basis. Other channels that produce quality content on a regular interval have literal teams of people... or they just put up random lists that take the same amount of effort as a Google search. Anyways, you do excellent work and I hope to see your channel continue to grow.

[@griffinbeaumont7049]

love your work man, I hope we can continue celebrating arthursday for a very long time!

[@wufy9]

Congratulations on your 100th video and 3rd anniversary. I look forward to more awesome content from you.

[@GnomiMoody]

This blew my mind.

[@geobeard3804]

Congrats on your 100th Episode! I've loved them all! Thank you for all your hard work!

[@3er24t4g1]

Keep making new episodes! They are informative and entertaining with a bit of humor thrown in from time to time. My favorite episodes are those relating to future structures or concepts for living on earth such as Arcologies.

[@spacetravelingcactus3450]

This is by far the most thought provoking channel on KZbin! As a person obsessed with philosophy and science I am so greatful for this channel.

[@markvickroy6725]

Issac - if I ever hear anything about a speech impediment after show #100 - brah I'm gonna get in your head. You should do voiceover work. No fooling. Love the 'cast. please please - fill me in - are you southern? Naw'lins maybe? 💘 your podcast

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

I'm from Ohio :) The 100k special goes over all that bio stuff

[@markvickroy6725]

Isaac Arthur I'll have to give a listen. Your cadence reminds me of the better voice actors for the X-man Gambit..

[@BustasGirl1]

Isaac Arthur bro can you tell me how you were diagnosed with a speech impediment im from Australia and can't understand a single word being said literally it's just a bunch of garbage and yet they don't get diagnosed

[@EZIOXXX777]

Matthew Thompson, you haven't heard scottish people. I can't watch Stan Lee's Lucky Man without subtitles because of the main protagonist.

[@tomkavulic7178]

For real OP is right, I was never bothered by the wabbits but you've gotten noticeably better at dealing with it, love the show keep it up!

[@Karnegis]

Congratulations on 100 episodes. I have watched them all. This channel is one of the gems of KZbin I'm really glad I found this channel and subscribed. I look forward to your future episodes.

[@winglessang31]

I like how he has so many episodes and topics. Can’t really get bored

[@InquisitorThomas]

God Damn Space Elves!!!

[@DonTekNO]

said everyone who ever played against the Eldar (Warhammer40K)

[@jamesbuckner4791]

So Thomas where have you been

[@saltofpetra-4502]

Oh, the locals have AIDs epidemic. Did you record that? Good. Fukushima and Chernobyl? Alien's funniest bloopers.

[@jack1701e]

Yeah! like that total dick Eldrad!

[@Robert-mx3id]

no God involved please ...We seem to be on a DAMN IT to hell planet ...Zoologist Wall builders and Control maniacs...Beware !!! Damn it

[@snakeshepard9761]

Just wanted to say happy 100th episode and thanks! I've seen every single video on this channel and loved them all, great content and humor. All your work is being really inspiring for me and the comics I'm working on, since before I had no idea how to represent an ipotetical but believable future and all the Fermi Paradox videos simply blew my mind with ideas. So thanks, really ;]

[@d.thieud.1056]

ARTHURSDAY yaaaaay no ive been legit counting down the hours till 17:00 (equivalent of 11:00 est here)

[@hakeembaba123]

Thats awesome sir...... this is the reason why i stay awake till 1am every Thursday. ... great in one word

[@Matracokura]

I was already getting worried! I was like "omg i hope nothing is wrong" and then finally, the notification pops up!

[@jessicasettle1843]

Matracokura me, every week

[@edt5615]

i swear, your voice makes these videos for me, not to mention the excellent content; i find it very soothing.

[@dragoonsunite]

That whole spikes shooting into the brains of everything in the world, and turning the whole population into digital forms thing sounds really creepy and cool. I could easilly see that being a movie. Except with practically omnipresent nanites infiltrating every part of the planet, I can't really see how you would 'escape'...

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Yeah it is pretty creepy, I can't see escaping it either.

[@BrettCaton]

I like the way "The Orville" dealt with it by not only cutting the life-threatening asteroid in half and moving the parts out of the way, but doing so in a way that made it as routine and dull as garbage collection.

[@thequanto8555]

Sexy Aliens when?!

[@z_is_for_zombie7423]

the Quanto Never, sadly. Well, not without genetic engineering anyway.

[@TheRezro]

Prima Aprilis...

[@danclaydon6588]

Congratulations on 100 episodes Arthur. Your channel is incredible - keep up the great work.

[@avanconia]

3 Part Comment: First congratulations on 3-100!! Great milestone, and I wish you continued success, and I thank you, so much. Second thank you to those who you have found to help you continue with your great content and progression. :::::::THIRD::::::: I have another idea for you.. You very logically always use the assumptions of communications time over distances; one instance of this would be in the episode above - "when headquarters receives the message a few hundred years later"... What I would like to see is an episode based on the theoretical possibilities of transcending that. The core fantasy of this idea for me is a quantum communications system a friend once suggested to me that he had written into a fantasy video game. I'm sure you grasp the premise. Entanglement, instant comms across any distance. Obviously there are limits to everything but imagine humans find a rather binary way of doing it, at least to hubs placed every light year or so on important routes(such as for exploration), or even hubs in motion based on making statistical analysis of which heading to take, in order to be most effective to the galactic population or federal missions at large. I guess you likely have an episode of this type on the drawing board, and I look forward to it. I can't wait to see the next episode, sounds great. Arthursdays all the way. Oh! And pre-congratulations on 150,000 subscribers!!!!!! How very 'Uplifting' for the webernets ;-)

[@avanconia]

Oh also, I really enjoyed the Star Trek analysis, and especially the use of the bridge View Screen set. Great episode.

[@pigboiii]

Thursday is fastly becoming my favourite day of the week.

[@Verrisin]

conclusion: *Everything makes more sense when the universe isn't real...* (not just of this video)

[@RevenantRising]

Bruh, I can't explain how happy I am for you and the success this channel has received. I'm subbed to a couple hundred channels and you're easily in the top 5 in terms of solid content that I look forward to.

[@AlexTrusk91]

humans of Orth, brilliant auto-humorism, i like it :D

[@cxf030181]

Youw content is awesome. I feel like I'm 5 years old and getting a bedtime story... I'm 36. My mind lights up on your content.

[@stikfigz]

Man I hope we find smug anime girl aliens

[@PoliticallyDonutTasty]

KILL

[@mcsquisherton]

I'll pass..

[@atlas4733]

Matryoshka brain anime girl?

[@caseypalmateer4515]

And I figured out what to pull from the spank bank this evening. Thank you.

[@kennethhicks2113]

Excellent! Makes me think how little growth we have had in morality and ethics in comparison to our growth in technical, political and etc (just about everything). And no, I don't think filling libraries with "laws" is implicitly moral and/or ethical growth... although we claim it is.

[@SarabandeGreens]

This vid was total catnip for me, given how I love topics that are dripping with these kinds of ethical knots and quandries with a heap of practical concerns and problems of implementation thrown on top. Great stuff as always. I never thought of the let live or die, do not contaminate approach as zoos so much as nature preserves, some of which here on Earth are kept highly separate and protected, by force if necessary. Of course on the other side of the spectrum you have places like national parks in which people can freely come, go, and interact. Of course the problems of keeping a secure, lockdown type preserve ala the tiny island refuges off Madagascar and such on the scale of an entire star system, which would be in the ballpark of a light year diameter sphere takes some hella doing, to put it lightly.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Yeah it's important to know what the main priority is, you can have multiple ones but you need to know which one is #1, 'live and let die' makes sense for certain types of scientific research but not for others and definitely not for a petting zoo. :)

[@Hovado_Lesni]

is it really 3 years since megastructures first video? Time is flying, Isasc Thanks for what you'r doing.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

1:20 "life, the universe and everything" I see what you did there...

[@MasDingos]

First video from this channel I've seen. I get 100 more? Most excellent! Thanks much, Issac Arthurmov C Clarke!

[@dasdaleberger5683]

Bro you should get on the next Mars Society convention. They're seriously lacking anyone interesting, although a sci fi panel dropped today. Going to view it after here.

[@jjkthebest]

Damn. That hypothetical scenario you described would make for an amazing sci fi story.

[@gabrielaubry1334]

Imagine Smug Aliens who deny us the technology that can save our planet AS PUNISHMENT for us destroying our planet. And they further condemn us for failing to save our planet since we lack the technology they refuse to share.

[@saltofpetra-4502]

An if we tech up and contact them and learn that they could cure AIDS, earthquakes, hurricanes, and prevent Fukushima and Chernobyl but chose not to?

[@gabrielaubry1334]

But imagine that the reason they refuse is because WE didn't cure illnesses or prevent and unnatural natural disasters. It would be refusing to give prothesis to a person missing a limb BECAUSE said person is missing a limb.

[@saltofpetra-4502]

Yup. It's called point and say "haw haw." Lookit the dummies that still use fission reactors. Let them poison themselves. Let them suffer from AIDS. Let them die in hurricanes.

[@maxwellsimon4538]

We don't lack the technology to save our planet, we're just too apathetic and greedy to dare change our ways.

[@saltofpetra-4502]

We lack the technology to stop hurricanes, AIDs, Fussion technology, efficient solar technology, and the solutions to tons of problems. Yeah we lack technology.

[@josephjoestar7618]

Honestly these videos make such great inspiration for making games.

[@alonzoc537]

Happy 100th episode Isaac!

[@hansherrera8809]

Just what I needed today! Thanks as always Arthur, looking forward to that AI episode, also "Uplifting" got me intrigued, cheers!

[@jessicasettle1843]

"Orth" in the opening headline 😂

[@jacobhammock3355]

Not sure how I feel about the anal probing either. I guess it would depend on the probe :-p

[@saradanhoff6539]

I love how people talk about advanced societal models and philosophical paradigms as though they weren't technologies in their own right, and often necessary to even survive the implementation of many advanced technologies.

Yes it is difficult for us Europeans to communicate with Americans. Their primitive society is composed of marketing campaigns and cable TV.

[@01genericus]

Congrats on the anniversary Isaac! Since discovering your channel, it has quickly become one of my must watches. Thanks again for the awesome content.

[@jamesfra1311]

So, that means no smug aliens zookeeping us? Good!

[@michaelpettersson4919]

james Fra Maybe they are but you just doesn't know. Maybe you are really just a bit of computer code in a massive computer. Perhaps from the point of view of the aliens you are just a random npc in a massive online game. 😉

[@Cythil]

Naa... But the likelihood is that if there smug alien zookeepers then this is likely a simulation. So you need to reframe the question then to get more sentable answer. Problem with the Simulation Hypothesis is that you can set it up so it becomes pretty much untestable. The other methods for keeping earth in a zoo is more easy to test and we have seen no signs of earth being a zoo. Should be noted that if this is a simulation then we can not assume it for our benefit. There actually a ton of scenarios on why one would make a simulation. It could be for research. To teach people about their past or other cultures. To use as a training tool. Or this could just be The Sims 256 that some alien kid runs on there computer just for fun... Though the last one is less likely as we would see a lot more people dying for fire related "accidence"

[@alanfriesen9837]

Another possibility, one that I think is more likely, is that we're just characters in somebody's story, or more likely the descendants of common ancestors of characters of somebody's story.

[@livefire666]

What do you mean not testable? The simulation hypothesis is testable in a whole host of ways and actually there has been several experiments done all showing evidence that we are in a simulation rather then not! Still likely ET's but they would also be simulated. www.scientificexploration.org/forum/some-evidence-for-the-simulation-hypothesis

[@Cythil]

Do not get me wrong Apex. I am not saying you can not find evidence for reality being a simulation. That is quite possible. But the problem is you can never disprove reality is a simulation. And that is a issue.

[@IH8coleslaw]

I'm remembering a novel where all intelligent species were uplifted. When the aliens found humans, they considered us to be the abandoned children of the galaxy because we didn't know who our uplifters were. Suppose aliens came in and "adopted" us, telling us how to live because we weren't old enough to be making our own decisions.

[@silent_stalker3687]

What would happen if the aliens attempted to send the email to advance the human race, but instead missed the mark and instead sent it to 4chan or started negotiations at 4chan?

[@melelconquistador]

This happened before, they called them the n word and told them to fuck off because we are full.

[@silent_stalker3687]

melelconquistador Alien civilazation:... we must make room. 4chan: here’s how *shows them ww2 memes* Alien fighters appear over cities spewing out gas at the sound of ‘kek’ and as they fly through the air their engines go ‘kek kek kek!

[@janschievink1586]

Congratulations on another great episode and the channels anniversary this has been entertaining and thought-provoking as always I've enjoyed my time as always.

[@96ace96]

Congratulations Isaac!

[@deckuofm]

Good topics are: 01) Making soil and nutrients of inorganic materials for growing crops on Mars, moons and asteroids. 02) Cheap and big life support systems on big spaceships. 03) Navigating a spaceship in the Solar system. 04) Powerful lasers and scramjets.

[@ayushsharma9270]

What if new civilizations are only possible if the galaxy is not already colonized. Can this be a solution?

[@solsystem1342]

Ayush Sharma If the galaxy is fully colonized we would not be here to see the lack of civilizations, also they probably would have deconstructed every planet in the galaxy for more materials for their Dyson swarms. Speaking of Dyson swarms they should have built one around every star in the galaxy including the sun. But if they really had just colonized every planet it the galaxy which was habitable to them then this could work.

[@jirivegner3711]

Ender Bob But colonizing only planets you can live on is similar to finding Americas and only settle one small island in Caribean because its to dificult to get on the mainland.

[@musaran2]

A colonizing alien totally can expand to neighbor galaxies. More importantly, we could detect from afar that a galaxy is colonized.

[@StarboyXL9]

@@musaran2 "we could detect from afar that a galaxy is colonized." See, that's just plain arrogance. The entire claim there is that our puny instruments are advanced enough to properly detect alien life, which is like saying they are perfectly capable of detecting Ghussanthonus. No that's a real thing, because I just made it up, and that's my point. When we talk about "alien life" we're really THINKING of beings like ourselves who think in the same ways, have the same culture, developed in the same ways, and resemble us closely enough that we can easily form connections and mutual understanding with them. The reality may very well be that aliens will be so utterly alien in appearance, thought, mindset, and culture that we couldn't detect them because they weren't using advanced digital tech or any kind of signals our instruments can detect, using instead technology that they developed in a completely different direction than us.

[@musaran2]

@@StarboyXL9 Physics are the same for everybody, there is only so much chemistry to run on. Any life form abundant enough on it's planet will alter it enough to be detected. Engineering is constrained by physics, there are only so many solutions to find. Any intelligent life spread enough will leave marks enough to be detected. We already spotted some potentials, and we are planning much better detectors.

[@sKYLEssed]

I posted a picture of a bunch of cats on my porch on facebook about a month ago, and you liked it. Made my day. That is all

[@jeffreyseamons5514]

"I've never made a vaccine or suffered from a plague." Me, listening in 2020

[@nope1639]

@RuleofVicus You regretting say this yet?

[@blacklightredlight2945]

@RuleofVicus The current death count is well over 150k www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm And that's not even the full impact, people that survive can still be left with things like permanent lung or brain damage. If you wanted to It's kind of a meme that the same people naming it after china and promoting xenophobia are also the people that don't understand what's going on, and post weird sites that don't actually show everything unless you download from the sketchy website. The current chart shows we were on a downward trend before another spike, and we don't know if we'll hit another spike or not soon now that people are increasingly ignoring quarantine, with the quarantines most likely being what caused the initial dip. Please actually research things instead of spreading misinformation guided by racism and xenophobia.

[@blacklightredlight2945]

@RuleofVicus I wish you were as enlightened as you claim, you can literally look at the death count charts to see the second spike. Why are you so averse to facts and logic while claiming you're the paragon of them?

[@UncleRice00]

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[@herpydaderpy]

Congratulations on 100 episodes Mr. Arthur, we all look forward to hundreds more!

[@alpha007org]

If I would consulting The Queen of the United Kingdom, second thing I would do today I would appoint you the prefix "Sir". "Sir Isaac Arthur". It does a nice ring to it, doesn't it? FIRST Thing offcourse would be watching this episode. I don't know how you do it - releasing episode every week - but I assume you are working on more then one episode and/or topic. Second assumption would be you are not doing it all alone. (For animations, renders, etc,... you are clearly working with other good souls contributing to the best youtube channel.) I mean "story" writing. Because if you are doing one episode a week all alone you could write a couple books a year. You would/could be in the same list of scifi authors like Hamilton, Reynolds and other classics. Anyhow WE ARE GLAD WE HAVE YOU, SIR ISAAC ARTHUR! (In the last couple episodes I found out we are reading the same scifi authors. )

[@IntrospectAvionics]

This is my favorite channel on all of youtube.

[@chloe_smith6683]

"I have never invented a vaccine or suffered a plague" Well this didnt age well.

[@blacklightredlight2945]

The aliens are probably like "What the heck is wrong with these things? If they just distributed food so everyone had a 2 month surplus instead of wasting all of it, they could literally just wait it out, along with a bunch of other diseases. "

[@kylemorris5338]

Just wait until 2030, when Issac works for Neo-Pfizer to create a vaccine for implant rejection syndrome.

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

This gives base to a hell of a novel, another amazing video Isaac.

[@oldered5663]

That is a the stuff of horror movies..... Forced Digitization.....

[@lastsilhouette85]

I've always wondered if the Fermi Paradox can be solved assuming very few (like 2 or 3) other civilizations exist, each following a different solution. Like, one is a hidden alien, one is just not interested, etc.

[@jubjubneenee]

Happy Arthursday!!!!!

[@nothereanymore3941]

The exo says "what next, we go down and read the the constitu-NO JAMES PUT THAT AWAY"

[@assasinek021]

Happy Arthursday everyone!

[@hotdrippyglass]

Congratulations on both milestones. You have put together a lot of work and it is appreciated.

[@JamesAuseten]

Long live King Arthur!

[@whileyouweregaming...758]

Love the route you took with this video especially the "is what we're looking up at the REAL universe. Awesome video Mr. Issac! ^_^

[@locutusdborg126]

We enjoy your channel. We are neither smug nor stupid. But we are concealed among you, and our purpose is beyond your understanding. However, we won't eat you. We prefer your tasty canines, with a nice Merlot or Pinot Noir. And we have fed your people some advanced technology. Such as Velcro, mousetraps, and Velveeta cheese. Since you have not abused those technologies we will provide you some more in the future.

[@MrGeocidal]

Canines? I thought you Melmacians eat cats!

[@ironmanh8sall]

Your videos are awesome, pretty sure I've seen them all... Many multiple times & even the ones I have watched before still manage to fascinate. Great work!

[@wannabeb3]

What if we are in a sort of zoo, and aliens have tech to prevent us from seeing what is out there in space....like a sort of holodeck encircling our solar system? Funny. I typed this before listening to the whole video. Lol

[@StarboyXL9]

Personally I think it could be some kind of temporal interference field around the solar system, preventing us from seeing the galaxy and universe as it is. Perhaps we're seeing it before the other races arose. Ofc there's always the possibility that we are the first, in which case I suggest we promptly start dividing ourselves into various "alien" races via genetic re-sequencing! Possibly changing ourselves equally for aesthetics and to adapt to various environments.

[@MrTapkomet]

Isaac, great video as always. Have to really appreciate that neither you nor, surprisingly, people in your comments, seem to ever try and snipe at religious people, or at any group, really (well, except flat earthers. But everyone knows they don't have feelings). That's really a breath of fresh air!

[@StarboyXL9]

Flat Earthers have feelings, just not brains :P

[@thegrumpydragon7601]

Wish I was alien ;)

[@1R0QU012]

MR,PINCER & FRIENDS You are an alien to aliens, GG fam.

[@mheermance]

It's highly likely that you are to someone or something out there.

[@GegoXaren]

Move to an other country...

[@KlaasDeforche]

You are too most of the universe

[@Avaruusmurkku]

Why? Humans are better.

[@FirstRisingSouI]

This one was especially good, and I'm looking forward to the next few weeks.

[@CyberAspen]

ST: VOY S3 Ep 5 "False Profits" was the only example in the franchise of another species (The Ferengi) violating The Federation's Prime Directive and the response. Great video as always Isaac.

[@cherubin7th]

In the original star trek there was an episode where non federation people (Klingon) gave weapons to a under developed species. If I remember correctly, they told that the federation just ignores this.

[@jeremym3772]

I have an idea for a a megastructure...a traveling planet as a self contained spaceship. Entire planet would be domed. The underneath of the dome produces uv and lights for growing plants,which can also display the outside. The core would be fuel by some very large energy source.