Fermi Paradox: Why don't we see signs of alien civilizations?

[@SzymczykProductions]

Type 7?? We haven't even figured out "type 1"...we can't even get along as a race on this single planet.

[@mapledelta147]

The scale is an interesting concept. That said i would bet that the human race is dead before reaching type 1.

[@DanCooper404]

.7

[@vjrios09]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@prav777]

What does getting along mean ? I heard S like this being said before as if the people mouthing it get along with everybody and everything....there isn't a single person on this planet that doesn't harbor a beef about something or someone....

[@Matt_Matt96]

​​@@prav777speak for yourself. This why we'll never reach type 1 cause of a mindset like this. Not everyone is hateful or want beef. All that beefing means you have too much time on your hands if you worried about the next person 💯

[@michaelbruvolt4221]

The older I get, the more I realize that we are either unique in the universe, or there is other intelligent life forms like us, but they are in the same "boat" as we are. Namely, distances between star systems are simply too large to traverse. They, if they exist, are bounded by the same physics we are.

[@Vakator-29]

Yup unfortunately we will never find aliens. Maybe there are aliens out there that can travel to us in an instant but that's breaking the known laws of physics. There definitely could be or maybe even has been life in the universe whether intelligent or not. I mean even if the could do interstellar travel or even inter galactic they could be millions or billions of light years away they'd never even know we exist. Space is just too vast for us to comprehend.

[@kennethcarter1323]

We are light-year quarantined into the far distant future until we can answer this question. For now, the Drake Equation is myth.

[@seankinnane12]

well said

[@johnalmaguer7118]

Well with time frames, other civilizations are long gone or still in infancy. How long do civilizations last? The universe is big. How long do you think this planets populace will last? Probably not anywhere near as long as the dinosaurs. 😉

[@michaelbruvolt4221]

@John Almaguer your political/philosophical comment is for another thread. My point is there could be dozens of developed civilizations coexisting with us in the galaxy and we (and they) will never know it.

[@leondarnell1]

FINALLY, a video about alien life that doesn't make my head explode. All of these theories are very understandable. My favorite: "they" know we exist but are far too advanced to care about us....just like us interacting with ants.

[@kenchan994]

Yes!

[@Geojr815]

That is such a dumb argument I’m sorry lol. We are an incredibly interesting planet/species. And even if they were much more advanced than us, not one of them would feel the need, during all this time, to make themselves known and make contact with us? Even if we were just ants to them. Don’t you thing there’d be plenty of people who would want to talk to ants?

[@HandroXYT]

@@Geojr815 With your argument, if some people want to talk to ants, and it will be applied to the approach of aliens, do you think that those who wanted to talk to ants are looking at us? there are too much ants in the world just like there are too much life forms in the outer space. Do you think those people will talk to all the existing ants?

[@Geojr815]

@@HandroXYT Oh I see what you’re saying. I don’t think life (especially intelligent life like us) is all that common. There’s a lot of factors that need to be present to support our kind of life. And for as long as we’ve been around, you’d think some aliens would have come across us and tried to make contact just for the fun of it if nothing else. If I could talk to ants I probably would every time I came across an ant hill. But I think we’re way less common in the cosmos than ant hills here on Earth anyway and we are at least unique in our own ways with our specific cultures and histories

[@Mantosasto]

The "we are like ants to them so they don't pay atention to us" argument never worked for me, becasue of the fact that entomologists exist. Ants *are* interesting to humans. So I'd say that if we are like ants, the problem isn't that we're not interesting, the problem is we're not capable of understanding or detecting them interacting with us.

[@JakeWoods-w5q]

the very last statement gave me chills, this was a very appreciative and thought provoking video. thanks.

[@jozsefnikli1793]

Mózes 1.könyve beszél arról hogy az "istenek fiai" leszálltak a földre és vevének maguknak feleségét a föld leányai közül....... 😮

[@TheMattfranz]

Civilizations don't just need to exist near each other, we need to exist at the same time. If technical civilizations only last a few hundred years on average, the chances for overlap are slim. If they tend to last for thousands of years, the odds greatly increase. I don't remember if they Drake equation factors this in, but it can't be ignored.

[@aryksanchez5070]

It does factor that I remember either reading or watching a study about it, pretty much is states that war would happen dark ages would be present but every planet would be unique in some way.....realistically speaking it's highly unlikely that their are any civilizations higher than a 2 right now......and even then type 2 civilizations would be a rarity our suns are generally getting smaller not larger, the most common star is a red dwarf..........the theory stated and I know I'm paraphrasin a bit civilization 2 their's a pretty decent chance their isn't any at least not in our galaxy.......and civilization 1 their's probably like only a handful, it's more likely we evolve to a civilization 1 and run into other planets that have life but aren't conscious yet.

[@edgarearly4203]

We don't know of another life form.

[@the21stcenturydavincibegin35]

We don't see 'signs' of ET 'Civilizations' because we are looking for the wrong 'markers.' Looking for 'radio signals' when Aliens are moving and communicating through Multi-Dimensional Space, is like looking for nuclear power plants in an ant hill. We are not advanced enough to detect the proper signals.

[@angelinaoliver5587]

I like that. Makes a lot of sense…

[@PraveenSrJ01]

Good point about markers

[@markdsm-5157]

or it's the exact opposite: not sure but does every civilization need to go through the industrial revolution and create radio signals to be intelligent?

[@emXietyy]

I like that !

[@Red-Brick-Dream]

lol okay.

[@sadpotato7029]

just my dumb theory: we're definitely not alone in the universe. it's just that the signal coming from earth to any neighboring galaxy or any potential star with its own solar system, takes a long time to travel. there's a chance that the signal we're sending them would take like hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of years, or even millions of years and by the time they receive the signal from us, humanity from earth already went extinct or worst case scenario, milkyway galaxy and andromeda galaxy have already collided. same thing can be said if we reverse the scenario. there's a chance a highly civilized and colonized galaxy or planetary system is trying to contact us but by the time their signal reaches earth, there's no advanced civilization left in their planet/galaxy. or if we put it in a religious thingy, it's like the creator of everything or maybe gods in every universe placed an invisible block or boundary that every highly intelligent beings cant pass through so they dont disrupt the balance or something of their creations or whatever it is. either way, if we do get in contact with another intelligent beings, we'd definitely wont be able to understand each other. they might even have a different anatomy from us. there's a chance when they see us, they'd freak out like "what the hell are those 4 long things coming out of their body and why is it moving", "why are they moving vertically", "why is their head round and not inside their body" and some other things they find bizarre and weird. man, this weed is something.

[@sadpotato7029]

@@i2Sage but wont that still disturb the gravitational thingy in both galaxies that would cause some deformations that will also maybe mess up whatever's keeping our solar system in the milky way? considering earth and humanity is still booming during that event lmao. also since both galaxies consist of a loooooooot of stars, chances of our solar system getting hit with another star from andromeda galaxy is still not zero, right? im not over thinking and over complicating this stuff right?

[@PraveenSrJ01]

The great filter represents a mere 0.10% of our galaxy 🌌!!!!

[@the21stcenturydavincibegin35]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣

[@probablynotzeus936]

I think that the black holes we see today were once the stars of highly advanced organisms that were around those stars that are now black holes, they stayed there until the star had fuel to provide them energy, and once it ran out of fuel, they moved on in search of another star, just to harness the potential energy of a new star.

[@wanderinggrizzly7434]

Let me get some

[@OGMann]

For all we know, the proof is all around us. We simply aren't smart enough, observant enough, or open minded enough to recognize it.

[@acmelka]

You are correct. We barely have the technology to spot an earth like planet. Let alone bio signatures . The only way we are seeing any aliens is if they are spending a lot of effort to contact us using radio waves.

[@crlns]

Haunting and beautiful thumbnail👽

[@sreetips]

Science (humans) have no clue what gravity is. Our best explanation is, “a mysterious force that holds everything together.” Same with strong and weak nuclear. And magnetism. Solve the gravity problem, then we can explore space. Until that happens, we’re stuck here on earth. Trying to explore space with a chemical rocket is like trying to explore the ocean with a life preserver.

[@philw3039]

General relativity explains gravity as the warping of spacetime caused by matter and energy and there's some considerable evidence backing that explanation. Of course, it still doesn't really break down how gravity works on its most fundamental level or it's relation to the other forces.

[@blainemartin1397]

We’re not even a type one…. And from the state of things going on in the world and in our country, we’re losing points rather than gaining them!!!

[@whiteprivilegedenier7459]

I agree, my father was a professor at a University in Britain back in the 80s and his son in the age of the internet is doing a thousand pushups in the morning and singing songs about raping Latino street gang members in public bathrooms.

[@srtaj313]

@@whiteprivilegedenier7459 wtf 🤣🤣🤣

[@Geojr815]

Humanity is doing fine. As long as we don’t have a nuclear war we are progressing

[@whiteprivilegedenier7459]

@@Geojr815 Yeah, we are progressing at full steam into a new dark age totalitarian freedomless third world hell hole.

[@dadillonful]

I like how most people assumes that aliens are far advanced than we are, but it’s most likely the other way around. Hate when people belittle the human race to fit some delusional theory

[@jo232409]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Dark Forest theory. You could do a whole follow up video on that. For people who are unaware, the basic idea is that other forms of life are typical hostile to each other like how wild animals are in Earth's nature. For example it's very rare that a dog and a monkey try and get along and establish a relationship and communications - it's more likely that a dog will try to steal the monkey's food. Perhaps interstellar life ignores each other, maybe even deliberately hide from each other like camouflage, because some animals in space are hostile.

[@punkypinko2965]

Another "solution": aliens are made of ethereal jam and can't be detected without sufficiently advanced jam detector. Maybe if they're made of strawberry jam, but God help us if they're made of blueberry jam ... Seriously, there is no paradox in the "Fermi Paradox." There is no reason to come up with reasons why we haven't detected aliens yet. There is absolutely no reason to expect to have detected aliens within 50 years of barely looking with radio telescopes.

[@masterofreality5528]

That crossed my mind and then i stumbled upon Dark forest theory. That is very good theory

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

I know, right? Just like how technology doesn't exist because animals can't figure it out. Or that humans cannot ever get along in groups at all, because of tribalism. Oh...wait...

[@rursus8354]

That's only valid for non-domesticated species, and if humanity has evolutionarily domesticated itself, it is likely that other civilization has domesticated its own species.

[@marinabogoslavskaya2715]

Usually it’s the monkey doing the stealing… just saying lol 🙈 🙉 🙊

[@Berven-gf9jq]

Great upload, and a super nice narrating voice 🙂 Well done.

[@troyholdenvoices]

Thanks!

[@optimus75]

Great narrator soothing voice to explain these amazing mysteries and facts

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

.000000000054% That's why we don't know yet, that number signifies how low HUMANS have been around since the beginning of the universe. So in point of fact, we are still in the "CONCEPTION" phase. And given how much hate we have towards one another, we won't even make it to a tenth of a %

[@msingh1932]

Like Stephen Hawkings said...the best argument against traveling back in time is the conspicuous absence of tourists from the future...or words to that effect. I am certainly not against people speculating and conjecturing about time travel and aliens...but I really don't think we are going to meet anyone from another solar system. For reasons best known to the Cosmic Guy, he has placed us just too far apart. I enjoy the imagination of gifted people...but the reality does not compute. But one can dream...

[@_martian101]

so ironic because infact stephen hawking believe in aliens

[@andyleeatp8188]

If you live in an island 20000 years ago with a small community and you dont even have a knowledge to build a ship and how to sail across the sea you will have the same thoughts like you are now.

[@msingh1932]

@@andyleeatp8188 You have quite a point...but I like to temper my open mindedness with a modicum of commonsense.

[@Juraikken]

@@andyleeatp8188 But in this cosmic game, there are allegedly alien (advanced) civilizations that have "helicopters" that can visit your island of people 20,000 years ago. The fact that they haven't is a question of "Why?" What could an island of ignorant land-locked cave men pose as a threat to advanced civilization? In fact, what does the 21st century human pose as a threat to any alien species today if they invaded our northern hemisphere air space for an hour? We do not have the technology to meet them in their playing field of space, with an arsenal of weapons, with captains that can handle it! None. It's literally a zoo scenario, the animal in the zoo cannot escape and the human is observing. The animals in the zoo are aware of the people that come and watch them. Yet no one is coming into this zoo and watching humanity. Why? If these aliens are so smart, a rogue nation can sure as hell show themselves for just the fun of it. In the "billions" of years this universe has been in the existence, there's no way ALL alien species are altruistic and care for the well-being and preservation of human life and are all in the same pact of non-involvement. That's ludicrous.

[@pinkyogurt6359]

Aliens are WAY more likely to exist than time travel. I don't even begin to understand how you can put those two together. All you need for aliens is a planet with the ideal conditions and the possibility intelligent life evolves from it. We still don't know if time travel is even possible. Big difference.

[@pugowner1347]

We aren't alone. The glimpses, hints and peeks we get of possible alien activity is all we are going to get as they insure that the destructive, violent and dangerous human race never gets out of this solar system.

[@xisotopex]

what glimpses? mental illness or delusions doesn't count as evidence. links or citations please.

[@victorhardin2186]

Interesting theory. I support

[@kcolg321]

Aliens should also put effort into getting all the nuclear weapons from any country that has thrm and have them be brougt to far away starystem with some gravitational fieldtechnoligie ship. But whom i xd

[@PraveenSrJ01]

Outer space is endless and infinite so is intelligent life

[@shaydorahl6740]

There is no Fermi Paradox because Abiogenesis does not happen nor do genetics improve over time. But no, derp derps who believe that life self forms and self improves are working contrary to the reality to the disorder of entropy.

[@MrOneillrobin]

If something is a million light years away, that means what we are seeing now is how it was a million years ago. In a million years from now, if we have somehow survived, we may be able to see hordes of other civilisations who are out there right now...

[@Juraikken]

So life didn't exist up until this point since the furthest star, which is what we perceive as further back in time, didn't contain life there either. At least that would prove "life" is a very recent phenomenon and that would also mean any alien species out there would be as advanced as we are. Hence why we don't have contact.

[@jamesbarratt593]

Could you imagine us finding aliens. First thing we would try to do is set up a mcdonalds there and then try to take over.

[@ayyo5971]

Crazy how we always get down played by ourselves, yet within the last 100 years technology has changed an insane amount. I'm pretty confident in ourselves in getting much more advanced alot sooner rather than later.

[@timmyg44]

We will never ever be able to travel at speeds that would allow us to get anywhere of consequence. And if the universe is teaming with life, the technologically advanced would have made their presence known long ago.

[@c_telking4433]

@Timmuh Maybe they have? Also assuming the technologically advanced "would have" made contact by now is a human thought process. To assume they would think like you and I do, is just as inconceivable as interstellar travel

[@TJrider.]

If we don't destroy the world with nuclear weapons

[@SherLock55]

@@timmyg44 Go back far enough and many of the things we have achieved currently were thought to have been impossible. It always seems impossible until it's done, same deal with interstellar travel, and even today we know it's not outright impossible.

[@timmyg44]

@@SherLock55 suspending the laws of physics is physically impossible, and the fact that those laws are never suspended makes life possible in the first place. No, we will never be able to travel faster than the speed of light, which would be required to go anywhere of consequence.

[@Mowgli_89]

Super informative content. What an amazing voice. Most of the science channels I watch have British narrators. I usually prefer it that way. I even set my Siri to British. But your voice is definitely giving the Attenborough’esk speakers a run for their money. 🇺🇸 💪

[@bruceh92]

Really? How many times can you hear "cos-moss" before you go bonkers?

[@ninakotsur8585]

The Universe is GIGANTIC! We are just small grain in it. In pretty sure, we are not alone. Somewhere, in another galactic there is a life.

[@sheriegraham5908]

I believe there is life out there, all in various stages of development. We could be anywhere on the road to development.

[@joshah7627]

The aliens have already met us in past..... Left us with structures....but we must of pissed them off and now they are silent

[@oozarusama]

the distance is so great that it is difficult to imagine if you are lucky enough to find someone close to your neighborhood, and maybe they were already extinct millions of years ago if there was one like that, without forgetting that every civilization has a limit.

[@truusbuskruit]

We are not alone, we have never been alone.

[@lilmoris1]

Yes we are.

[@free2trudge]

I just so happen to know that we are on radio blackout and interstellar sanction until we get our act together. The latest talk shows have caused us to fail our last probation hearing. We are currently cited as examples of how not to act in interstellar after-school specials. Really cheesy ones too.

[@427dorosz]

Do they consider us like the Rats of the universe?

[@msmichelej]

@@427dorosz We would have to get better to be crazy! I think rats are an upgrade 😢

[@chriskringle5191]

South Park Episode.

[@MichaelWilder-nq5ji]

Okay Randy

[@bestthingsinceslicedrice]

More like crazy monkeys in the zoo to them that are totaly not worth the time and energy to deal with.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

Comparing humans talking to ants as the same as advanced aliens talking to humans is ridiculous. Ants do not communicate in a detailed way and they have no concepts of science, self, etc. Knowledge is finite and we have a pretty good grasp of the laws of physics that govern everything, so it is not like aliens could be so far advanced to us as we are to ants.

[@cryptolord9826]

Anything and everything is possible out there in the universe

[@mihaiciornei5648]

this is the best video about this subject. TNk u!

[@Vincent_Napolitano]

It is good to remember that Enrico Fermi died in 1954, there is too much information that he did not have at that time, if he lived today he would have a very different opinion.

[@HermanJacob]

I am sure IT is using a totaly diferent kind of comunication system than a radio....Radio is pretty limited and can not reach speeds needed to communicate over long distances. And thats the main reason why we can not find them!

[@xisotopex]

yes but you have to get to radio first before you can move on... the distances are such that even if a civilization has moved beyond that technology the radio signals they produced would still be detectable for many light years. of course that was mentioned in this video maybe you missed it.

[@HermanJacob]

@@xisotopex Yes i have seen the movie , but maybe you did not read my anshere very good, i mean totaly diferent from a radio 🙂

[@Xerkies]

Since we may be so very unique that could be a very bad thing that makes me think the filter could very be in us. The flaw of our species. Like territorial wars, discrimination, the fear of something new, etc. These things we deal with could probably be the reason why we can't progress to type 1 and above civilizations. We can't even progress if people judge on people's beliefs or how people look like. Some may not be able to handle the new, the progression. That I think might set us back.

[@davidinfante8542]

This guy doesn’t realize how vast our little galaxy is

[@PraveenSrJ01]

We are 1 in 200 billion galaxies 🌌 in the universe

[@Lue_Jonin]

Nothing wrong with quite. The ant analogy made the most sense to me as the factual truth of reality within the forces of Nature.

[@fedord01]

Wow, out of all the theories ive heard, ive never heard the one that suggests that out of all life in the universe, we could be the FIRST to advance to the point we are now, and that the billions of other civilizations are still in the pre-historic or stone ages, so to speak. Very mind blowing.

[@gazzam6456]

If it is true that there are extra terrestrials out there, I wouldn’t be surprised if they stayed away after seeing how some of us treat each other, I wouldn’t blame them to stay away and won’t come near this planet.

[@dadillonful]

I like how most people assumes that aliens are far advanced than we are, but it’s most likely the other way around. Hate when people belittle the human race to fit some delusional theory

[@timmyg44]

They would have evolved also likely making them just as ruthless in their self preservation.

[@Drewster327]

There are billions and billions of galaxies, even more than we can even count with numbers each one containing billions of stars and solar systems. Even if there is somehow not any life in our own galaxy, those other galaxies could be full of life but the life between galaxies is so extremely far we would probably never know about them

[@JoelRamirez-os1ec]

Bingo!

[@jojojojoster7378]

I wonder if there's a planet called Vegeta or a planet super Saiyan

[@jojojojoster7378]

​@@JoelRamirez-os1ec planet freeza

[@gary286464]

It is absurd to think that we are alone in this enormous Universe!

[@Antihrist69]

What convinces us that extraterrestrials are not around us, near our solar system? The Hubble Scanner? It is absurd to think that the Telescope can see in 6th generation dimensions

[@Frosty98206]

I Anit no Fortune Teller but we are not alone, As Far as Life, I Honestly Believe there are at least 1 or More Species out,(Maybe More), as to why haven't contacted us by now their technology probably makes ours look like Bib in an Infant Mouth look at our History put yourself in their Hypotihcally shoes(If they wear such a thing), if you were cruising around the universe & did research on the history of Earth, Would be Appuladed at the Hostility & Infighting Humans Commit against one another theirs 2 Trillion Universe out their(One of Many Curveball #'s) thrown out there on Galaxies don't take something at face value it's much more rewarding when find out for self + Goverment & Scientist Always gonna wag a Carrot over ya Mouth Making wonder if or Not they Exist so better come to own Conclusions via Research.

[@DFWYZAYELIVE]

We have our father God and his angels 🙏🏽 so we are not alone

[@ratedzchimperxx8478]

​@@DFWYZAYELIVEok

[@amusingmusings2230]

its absurd to assume we are being visited and not alone when there's literally zero videos of extra testicles even though 4 billion people have had phones - cameras for 20 plus years there's the tr3b anti gravity from china lake naval weapons . why if there so advanced do they hide and try and evade us . your mind is broken sorry .

[@Travel-Adv]

I feel like planet earths great filter is the humanity maturity. Looking at our world, we can’t even decide on a way to unite among other things. Also I think that assistance with AI when used correctly will greatly evolve our civilization.

[@HinduHinduismHindutva]

Till 2713 AD, no alien civilization will contact us.

[@lorrainefidler1035]

If life was from an asteroid or comet, shouldn’t that show that the possibilities of other life forms should be out there in other galaxies with similar earth types? Or would it have to be from same comets or asteroids that created us,formed from same planet collision or is it by luck?

[@lonerider6175]

Good question. Scientists still think life exist due to some random accidents. If that the case, there should be trillions lifeforms in every corner utilising different matters and gases to survive. Until they can replicate life in a laboratory, i am praying to the Almighty Creator.

[@mrmakeshft]

What I can think of so far is that their could be life somewhere. Just in a different chemical structure. May be our size big bigger or smaller. Determines on the planet and the relation

[@AwakenedOne-qu]

If ET exists, due to the expansion of the universe, we’ll never know, maybe that’s best

[@user-uc9fx4ru7p]

Agree Steven Hawking did say meeting An Advanced Aliens we would suffer greatly.

[@sincerelytyler09]

@@user-uc9fx4ru7p how

[@richardjohnson8114]

@@sincerelytyler09 Advanced aliens will be the product of evolution (survival of the fittest) becoming the apex species on their planet. They may not look like us, but they will be competitive and aggressive like us.

[@chaseroberts3111]

The belief that we are the only intelligent life in the Universe is the most narcistic belief we could have. The more realistic belief is that they are other civilizations, but they are too far away for contact. To say the universe is huge is a great understatement.

[@luvslogistics1725]

What about the repeating signals?

[@DrThoritah]

The better question would be, “If we saw evidence of alien life, would the government allow it to get out?”

[@Ninja-Hayate]

US citizens are aliens to the government. Also Christians aren't ready for Aliens because it contradicts their so called 'God'.

[@DrThoritah]

@@Ninja-Hayate no comment is a dumb comment

[@buddymacbuddington]

They would have to isolate them due to viruses they might carry

[@weemac4645]

Religeons would be against the truth.

[@Ninja-Hayate]

@@weemac4645 Only the Christian faith. They burned one guy to death for believing in other planets.

[@SerhanOgan]

The problem with the Kardashev Scale is that, contrary to the times of Mr. Kardeshev, we started to use less energy as our technology improves. For example: A car built in the 60's uses a lot more energy to achieve the same performance, compared to a car built today. We are using less and less energy to achieve more now.

[@hideouseblob955]

Good point

[@xisotopex]

we are not using "less energy" there is only a finite amount of calories in a given amount of petrochemical, its that our engines become more efficient. the substances we use for power have very well established and understood limits.

[@stevedavenport1202]

Umm, OK. But humans are greedy. If a car becomes super fuel efficient, we just make more of them

[@PianoGuitarAndSongs]

​@@stevedavenport1202 electric cars

[@readmore3634]

@Emma Madison That's true...but only in the last 100 years or so. Steam engines were so inefficient back in the day. And don't forget nuclear....

[@polemius01]

We can't deal with each other in a sane manner. Alien encounters will be just as bloody.

[@loudelk99]

They have already been here and decided we aren't worth the time and trouble.

[@puzzlesareposters3694]

Weather alone or not in this vastness of this reality, we can all agree were all in this thing together, we live in this big house our planet, all brothers and sisters, let's love one another 🤗😀

[@ParaLarry]

Or it’s entirely possible that even our concept of the civilizations using something like the Kardishev scale is not even applicable. It essentially uses what we do know to explain what we could potentially not know based on what is known. That’s a paradox in and of itself. Could we even conceptualize what other civilizations may know and how they may behave if we haven’t even made it there ourselves? 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@plazmica0323]

We dont know what we are made of on quantum level let alone what are basic forces around us like gravity, we know nothing we just observe and make conclusions its pathetic realy but at least we're trying i guess

[@shortlivedglory3314]

I think there are two likely reasons. 1: Advanced civilizations tend to be wiped out by their own technology. Or 2: Advanced civilizations do not want to be found since the default reaction to finding another advanced civilization is to annihilate them.

[@jpp4566]

2 is very unlikely. If a civilization is intelligent it’s illogical their first reaction would be to annihaliate another alien civilization. The intelligent decision would be to use it to their benefit Odds are it’s more likely they would be astonished to find one considering how rare it probably is, and want to learn about it, communicate with it and work together with it to try and expand upon the universe.

[@JGD185]

Usually it's the more advanced civs taking advantage of or wiping out the less advanced civs, at least on Earth. If they're aware of us I think they might see us as still too primitive and off limits for interaction. Alien species could also have immunity to diseases that we have no immunity to and would completely wipe humanity out.

[@skygge1006]

@@jpp4566 or the logical decision would be to strike before they can strike. Similar to nukes on earth maybe the most advanced species have planet destroying weapons and thus when they find another advanced species they must wipe them out to preserve themself. They can’t allow the others to have an opportunity to strike or they will either be stuck in a stalemate where they must rely on the other not striking or they strike first. The reason this wouldn’t apply to earth is because we all knew of each other first and the first nukes weren’t planet destroying.

[@jpp4566]

@@skygge1006 if another intelligent species had planet destroying weaponry that implies they are far more technologically advanced than we are. Especially if it’s in the case that they possess the technology for interstellar travel. In that case humanity would pose basically no threat to them and that gives them even more incentive to feel less threatened by us and thus less likely to attack for no reason. Regardless I still feel like an alien civilization wouldn’t attack humanity for no reason. Obviously we wouldn’t know the moral and ethics code of these different beings but advanced civilizations capable of interstellar communication or travel would have likely overcome the challenges of their own societal development and attained a certain level of cooperation and stability. Therefore, it's more reasonable to assume that they would be interested in establishing some form of peaceful and mutually beneficial interaction with humanity.

[@timmyg44]

or 3., we are alone. With our current understanding of abiogenisis, we have no idea what the likelihood of life coming about is.

[@kylesmith3923]

I recently heard of a theory that to me would really make sense. It goes like this, the reason we don’t see aliens is because of a similar reason like the isolated people of the North Sentinel Island are cut off from the rest of the world through a multinational agreement with India. The island is under India’s jurisdiction and they made it illegal to enter as they don’t want to interfere with their lifestyle unless absolutely necessary and want to study the natural evolution of a human species when isolated. All the other nations are aware it’s under indias territory so they don’t interfere as well. Now to the people on the island, there are no other people in the world because they never see us even tho we are all around.

[@Xerkies]

Wow! I was just thinking the same thing!

[@R9D6xC29]

Or two types of aliens, the silent ones and the dead ones

[@grissom2023]

Is that the island where some idiots decided to visit and were killed by the natives?🤣🤣👍🇷🇺🇷🇺🇮🇪

[@Juraikken]

Does North Korea have the same agreement? Just saying, if North Korea gains power enough, they wouldn't care about this illegality of interfering and they would interfere. This scenario only involves creatures with a moral code. Does not take into consideration rogue nations that might invade India in the future, completely take over, and does not have the same viewpoint for those who live on the North Sentinel Island and will invade or poke their heads in. The same has happened in the past on Earth, so why won't it happen in space?

[@Juraikken]

@@R9D6xC29 Or a third, the ones that invade and kill the ones that are dead now. Those won't sit around peacefully walking around a zoo not interfering.

[@wgdavidson9669]

The fact that intelligent life hasn't contacted us proves it exists.

[@jakegarcia6143]

the shear amount of UFO sightings, jumps in technology and close encounters kinda throw this out the window

[@jetboy33]

Any civilization in the Milky Way could send out a handful of self-replicating probes and have one placed in most every star system, through sub-light speeds, in a million years. Perhaps there are many ET probs from various civs in our own system. They could be the size of a basketball and we'd likely never know they were there.

[@richardjohnson8114]

Or maybe they are just now being launched and will be here in a million years.

[@Geojr815]

They have been. Watch the Joe Rogan interview with David Fravor. He had an up close encounter with a UFO

[@davecarter2508]

Why would they do that? That's 100 billion probes for what? to find out some apes blasted some metal to their moon and now haven't done nothing more. Oh yeah mark that place up for a visit!

[@Geojr815]

@@davecarter2508 the probes would let them witness and study everything about our planet, all the species on it, and the entire development of the human race

[@Chris.Davies]

Universal Rule #1: THOU SHALT NOT BUILD ANY SELF-REPLICATING DEVICE!

[@everythingaohkay]

I agree with the point that different beings may not interact with the universe the same we do. We are unable to see various color spectrums and are only able to hear at a certain decibel. What if there are beings that are formless, or in a color shade that we can't visualize or are communicating with us at a different decibel level? There could be beings all around us trying to communicate with us, but we are unable to see/hear/ or feel them? This is the thought that plagues me the most. I don't think we are that special or have advanced that far ahead. I think we are unaware.

[@davidarbuckle7236]

We're not alone, but the question of why we don't see aliens are silly. It is like looking for a whale in a glass of seawater.

[@wookieeMan06]

look up dark forest theory

[@nismo4321]

We don't really know. We could be alone in our galaxy.

[@wookieeMan06]

@@nismo4321 look up dark forest theory

[@davidarbuckle7236]

@@nismo4321 we don't know only because we cannot see past our solar system. But it only takes a handful of elements to create life and the presence of liquid water.

[@Vakator-29]

​@@davidarbuckle7236 that is true and who knows maybe in a few billion years the galaxy and maybe parts of the universe will be teeming with life that was seeded by human kind. Humans might be the first intelligent life forms in the universe.

[@Kelberi]

'Never argue with idiots, they will bring you down to their levels and beat you with experience' Exactly why they didn't bother to contact us if they are really smart.

[@Kelberi]

Or they are out to displace us.

[@NinaSimon-mv1vi]

I feel that we're a Type 1 civilization but going backwards, soon we will be a Type -7 civilization 😂

[@jimparker7778]

When the Navy aviators got all of that video of flying objects off the southern California coast there was a brief moment when the pilots noticed that these craft were able to dive right through the water's surface. What if the earth has been inhabited with aliens living in deep seawater?

[@roba.8907]

You are right. We have been visiting by ET’s for millennials are not alone on this planet.

[@28704joe]

We'd see their fart bubbles.

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

@@roba.8907 This in incorrect, kids. This guy took a single observation - which doesn't even scratch the surface of "convincing evidence" - and mashed into his own confirmation bias to come up with a wrong answer. Don't be like this guy. Fact: there is no evidence whatsoever that we've ever been contacted by any non-Earthling type of life...or their probes.

[@CyrilSneer123]

The bottom of the deepest oceans is about the best place to hide as anywhere else on earth.

[@benjiebenjamin7810]

We are not alone. But, why would any being want to be here when we're so cruel to each other & rape, pillage our planet. 'Aliens' are watching us as in not to allow us to destroy this planet with nukes. Look @ the trash we've stacked around the globe....is that a welcome sign? We've not enough civility to mingle with, we're too barbaric & are dangerous enough to do harm to 'others'......we've proved that by our actions in history & not behaving any better today to each other. Now we're trying to find another planet to live on.....why? Just to act irresponsibly reckless there too & to trash that planet as we've done here? We aren't 'that special' & will not be until we learn unconditional T. L. & C. (total love & compassion) for ourselves AND for each other. Ants have more union & purpose than we do & we claim to be intelligent?.....😅🤣 Our egos over rule sensibility & civility. Wake up & learn or we loose in the end.

[@YourOldUncleNoongah]

I believe we are alone in the entirety of everywhere. We. Are. It. Theres nothing out there for us to find. The only way life will come from another world is if we send it there and it grows, develops, evolves and returns home one day, 1000s of yrs after it had been sent out.

[@ricardoperez8879]

What if we already are that seed that was planted millions of years ago by another life form?? You can offer a theory that only suggest that we are the beginning. That would be too convenient and would be against natures probability.

[@reckoning6423]

We Are Not Alone. ✨

[@wayzel1]

Brian Cox says that it makes more sense that a sufficiently evolved civilization would be micro instead of macro... therefore a type 3 civilization would have found ways to shrink themselves to micro to better utilize their resources. In doing this the civilization could be all around us but we simply lack the ability to detect such a small energy signature, or possibly they would have the technology to prevent a primitive civilization from detecting them unless they wished to be. This is more reasonable than any other explanation including the ones listed in the video :)

[@raylivengood8040]

I’m not betting on advanced civilized life. There have been billions of year’s of life coming and going here on earth and it wasn’t until very recently that we decided to put down the pitch forks long enough to concentrate our efforts to get to the point of where we are all now at. And with that said, we’re still trying to persuade people to be educated. Bottlenecks from environmental phenomena to our own species extremes have set us back time and time again. The biggest question is ; how long can we advance before we succumb to extremism that values neither cultural history or science ? We’re still trying to understand the Bronze Age collapse in the Mediterranean. How many times have we seen “sea people” type of events ? For no other reason than power and material, we’ll forfeit and forsake all other considerations. This hasn’t changed. Now take this understanding of more complex life (humans) on earth with all its many incarnations of external and internal bottlenecks and paste it elsewhere in the universe. It’s by random chance that we’ve even made it this far (technologically) in these last few hundred years imo. We’re only fooling ourselves in thinking we’re all on the same life-craft of thinking. There are elements that need convincing before we rest on our laurels high up in some ivory tower. The past is an excellent representative for the future.

[@deeplifequote]

Life in space is the norm, not the exception. What a waste of space it would be.

[@raylivengood8040]

@@deeplifequote from your thoughts to Gods ears 👌 I have no doubt that there’s “life” out there somewhere. My doubts are that we’ll find anything intelligent as ourselves, or beyond our intelligence. Look to the period of the dinosaurs for instance. For millions of years they ruled earth , yet there is absolutely no indication intelligence to even the degree of tool making developed. I don’t believe it is either naive or wrong to base that belief on the evidence we so far have. We are after all a part of the cosmos and made from very nearly the same elements of every star in our galaxy. That is to say; we’re not so special as to be made of something that doesn’t exist elsewhere, but the way in which circumstances helped develop mankind as we know it through environmental challenges, competition and bottlenecks made us what we are. That makes the most sense so far to date !

[@tonyfeliciano2717]

It sure is 😉

[@littlegreenbud2067]

But they might watch us like we watch an ant farm

[@ike1218CA]

Very smart and original observation.

[@djgenetic111]

They are not only watching and they have been here forever.

[@DESTINYFPV]

More like roaches

[@SpideyVids]

There's plenty of evidence in our own skies and on the moon that we are not alone. These craft are antigravity machines capable of travelling faster than light. At least some of these antigravity craft we see in our skies are back engineered and man made.

[@Gfysimpletons]

😂😂😂😂lay off the acid

[@richardjohnson8114]

They are not back engineered. They are, however, man made, or natural phenomenon.

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

It's not even possible that we're alone in the endless universe.

[@timmyg44]

Given we have no idea what the likelihood of abiogenisis is, we can never award likelihoods to it happening elsewhere. Singularities, such as this conversation, happen all the time, never to e repeated.

[@stevedavenport1202]

If we came into contact with an advanced alien civilization, it would be like a mean spirited adolescent with a magnifying glass who comes across an ant colony on a sunny day.

[@hestheMaster]

Yup.

[@ronaldschultenover8137]

Intelligent life on Earth is rare

[@MiguelAngelVelazquez]

It is just probably that we all don't coexist at the same time. If we take the age of the universe and represent it as a clock. We as a civilization have existed on the last millisecond. And that means the last 3900 years of human civilization. It is just possible that other civilizations existed just a second ago on the Universe clock (almost 3.9million years ago)

[@richardjohnson8114]

I agree with your premise, but 3,900 years???? Try 12,000+ Gobekli Tepe is almost 12,000 years old itself, and there had to be centuries of societal development before that construction was possible.

[@MiguelAngelVelazquez]

@@richardjohnson8114 I was just giving a simple number to make my point. We as a civilization able to communicate with Aliens from another planet(probably 70 years only). My point is how hard it is to be able to coexist and communicate at the same time. Imagine telling somebody to meet you at one specific place and telling him to be there at 10:00:00.001AM, be on time because at 10:00:00.003AM and I will be gone.

[@squarewheel6182]

Good thought provocing doco and raises more questions than anwsers, perhaps to sustain life as we know it here it takes an entire universe. TC

[@houseofblues9016]

thats so dumb

[@bruceh92]

Good video! Thank you.

[@phil20_20]

Fermi drank too much - even if he didn't drink, he drank too much. Or, maybe he didn't drink enough.

[@bulldawg4910]

Truth is that we're not very close. It's going to take at least hundreds of years probably 1000's if not 10,000's to even do anything, but let's keep going!!

[@Bootes_Void]

I believe this is it, we are alone.

[@olivier4916]

That other intelligent alien life is just another you in a different dimension or planet but we are not supposed to break the physics of law that’s why we can’t meet our doubles so there you have it your other life in the vast universe is just another you.

[@acardenasjr1340]

We have to advance both technologically and Spiritually. Both are necessary for us to survive this expanding void.

[@halicarnassus8235]

6:50 I always feel there should be a caption in that image, because that's not a real image that we've ever taken, since we have never been able to see our galaxy like that from far away, Many people think that's an actual picture. And actually that white hot thing in the center of The Milky Way is actually a black hole, which Ours and all solar systems revolving around it is just waiting to be disposed/digested by it eventually.

[@TVBasil]

It's not only the vastness of space but the vastness of time.

[@mattrost2574]

Does anyone know who narrates this video? He has a great voice.

[@ZafrasF]

I'm curious to know how is that we are close to uncovering answers about aliens. We might be or we might not be.

[@josephineng3171]

Is pluto the 9 planet

[@gretareinarsson7461]

There is of course also the possibility that an advance civilisation simply does not understand or recognise our transmission as coming from a civilisation, and vice versa. In a way our understanding is one dimensional, in the sense that we have no other civilisation to compare knowledge with.

[@thestepfordlife2015]

Our time here is such a fraction of a nanosecond in the grand scheme of things that it makes sense that another civilization existing in it and the two actually bumping into each other is unlikely.

[@derekwhite2929]

We're not alone in the universe but we're often alone amongst ourselves

[@marcothorsen950]

There is intelligent life in the Hoth System..

[@omgninja66]

Some one else ALSO used the ant explain.

[@darrenchan4594]

it is true we are still fighting each other for many things. if only we can pool all our resources together as one, we can't advance as fast and effectively as we want.

[@introducingmo]

I've recently been fantasizing about going to space and if my life ends out there that'd be okay because I fear nothing except God and I would've gotten to see with my own eyes how majestic and grand our universe really is. I would've escaped the chaos, the violence, the sins of humanity here on Earth and would've entered a world of breathtaking beauty - where I would meditate, listen to my favorite songs, connect with the universe, and just Be. And if I do meet life forms out there, I'd expect the worst for sure yet approach them with an open heart on behalf of humanity.

[@leeswanson4960]

Dude. Lay off the mushrooms

[@introducingmo]

@@leeswanson4960 never tried em, biggest compliment ever though 😄🙏

[@panchogeorocks]

I'm a big proponent of the dark forest theory, the rare galaxy (habitable galaxies) theory, rare technology theory, and the Great filter/dooms day technology hypothesis regarding the Fermi paradox and why we hear the 'Great silence '. The dark forest theory can be applicable to where civilizations out there simply do not communicate and try to hide their techno signatures from potential malevolent civilizations. The rare galaxy theory could also be a factor as active galaxies or Starburst galaxies tend to have much more Gamma ray bursts due to high mass star formation and that can sterilize any potential civilization arising in those galaxies. The rare technology hypothesis can be applied to where life is common but only a very select few reach technological levels where they can communicate with others or be detectable viab techno signatures. In this case, we could be one of very few in the milkyway that have reached this exclusive level. The doomsday technology scenario is more scifi but also applicable. A civilization can easily create some technology that when used, unforseen consequences arise and downgrade that civilization or flat out wipe it out when used.

[@amindamok]

The fermi paradox is such a simplistic idea of what is required for life to not only start but to then flourish. The real requirements are so astronomically difficult to line up exactly right that its is unlikely any life anywhere in the universe will ever have the ability to meet another civilization. That doesn't mean that life cant have existed somewhere and can't have reached unimaginable technological development. But there are hurdles to overcome that makes it unlikely that a civilization would ever make contact. There are so many pitfalls that prevent it happening. For instance, the idea of the Dyson Sphere itself is a trap that leads only to isolation due to the logical progression of that technology. In a system where a civilization has truely harnessed the power of their star what more would they need. They would be able to sustain for a billion or billions of years without ever having to travel to another system. Without a need life doesn't evolve to the next step. It could be these civilizations do exist but we still need billions more years before they will need to travel far enough to find us or us the same.

[@maniacalG77]

We will never be space faring until we all get along and focus on searching as humans without divisions, meaning no wars and no fight for domination. We should also all wear the same like star trek where reputation is the only thing you earn to move forward.

[@crossbronxcollectibles9127]

What about the dark forest theory?

[@staceyraymond7526]

I hope we don't find any other species on other planets. We can barely get along with each other and i would hate to see us destroy another civilization. Humans are terrible

[@lairdmichaelscott]

Do the math. We don't know how likely life is, or how likely intelligent tool-using life is. But we are getting some pretty firm indications how unlikely these things are. Frankly, it already seems like the odds of even one species getting as far as we have in a galaxy the size of our own may be somewhat less than one. Especially given how quickly we came about once conditions were right for us. And it took us 4.5 billion years to get here, on a planet that will be uninhabitable for complex life in only one billion more. Reasonably values might--might--be one species like us in every 750,000 galaxies similar to our own. Due to the expansion of the universe it is unlikely we will ever meet them or even find evidence of them. Consider that, in just 3 decades of trying we are finding planets in a sphere with a radius of 17,000 light years, nearly a third of the width of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are even beginning to examine their atmospheres. Imagine where we will be in 300 years, or 3,000, or 3 million. Yet for 3 billion years plus, our planet would have stood out as a planet of interest to anyone that was looking. They aren't looking. They aren't looking because they aren't there. Sure there could be other explanations, but employing them is really just rationalization due to wishful thinking.

[@anastasiaprazdnichnova9146]

"Once reached type 3, the civilization faces a natural obstacle impossible to overcome." I never knew Mass Effect was based on real story.

[@nicholaswright3801]

The thing is if we found evidence/signals etc then we would just give it a different explanation, “Oh, that must be us!” Or “It must be some unexplained natural phenomena!”

[@leeswanson4960]

No. Scientist wouldn't do that

[@Galejro]

I believe the reason why we're alone as a civilization is because we are a civilization. Sounds ironic but there's a decent enough explanation to it. Frank Herbert's "Dune" combined with paleo-diet and evolution studies and a smidge of "Ancient Aliens" provide a compelling answer, and terrifying at the same time.