The Fermi Paradox II - Solutions and Ideas - Where Are All The Aliens?

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[@KenjaTimu]

It's annoying when people call things paradoxes that aren't. On the other hand paradoxes can't exist so anything you call a paradox isnt :) Did i invent a new paradox? Every paradox isn't a paradox including this one.

[@fundamentalchristian6669]

What's that ship called in the thumbnail?

[@raburt77]

I saw a Mew!

[@fundamentalchristian6669]

@@raburt77 A what?

[@gamingchamp6728]

If grey goo was in the MCU... Avengers:battle of the universe

[@Eden3361]

The whole squirrel metaphor is honestly really scary.

[@salciano]

Yes, but, fortunately, it makes no sense. A Type III civilization needs nothing from Earth that it could not get elsewhere. It would only destroy us, if it wanted to do so.

[@leomonchet971]

Scary for the squirrel

[@ShadowViking47]

@@salciano You never know. Expunging the earth and gathering all of its energy could take up 0 resources and be done instantly if a civilization was advanced enough. Like you walking down the street and picking up a cool rock or something.

[@triton6490]

@@ShadowViking47 true true

[@Lucaaaaaaaaaas1]

If there is life in another planets, then i guess the circle of life would apply to them too, the stronger eats the weaker to survive, just like we do on earth

[@santosjohnson6401]

meanwhile in a type 3 civilization: a group of alien activists tries to protect the alien government from turning earth into a giant golf course

[@nichsulol4844]

people will sended alone in spaceship with A.I controlled system

[@mlgjan5046]

Futurama vibes

[@medexamtoolscom]

Why would they know what golf is?

[@mikifauns]

You got that from Futurama, didn't you?

[@Big_Iced]

or even a golf ball

[@flomedel660]

I love when astronomy gets so theoretical that it starts bumping elbows with philosophy

[@MainSequence1]

Reminds me of something I thought about. Technology finding out what ghosts are.

[@sashhhaa4874]

same 😅 I have no interest in the maths and physics behind astronomy but all the theories and stuff sound so interesting to me

[@stormbringer8856]

Amen!

[@lu5681]

@@sashhhaa4874 YES

[@wabalaka1565]

@@MainSequence1 I always thought what if Buddha Jesus Allah or other religion god are just normal human who are so smart they know that humanity greed will lead us to doom so they teach us this and that so we can train our mind and do good thing. But after they die their follower start playing with the Bible rewrite whatever they like and it evolved to today religion.

[@Uksidorgje]

"30 years ago, we had nuclear weapons pointed at each other for political reasons." Well, that didn't age too good.

[@fionagibson7529]

Yeah…aged like milk.

[@pythondrink]

@@fionagibson7529 can you explain how? Idu.

[@fionagibson7529]

@@pythondrink Went sour.

[@pythondrink]

@@fionagibson7529 tnx for the explanation that tells me nothing

[@fionagibson7529]

@@pythondrink I assumed that the current nuclear threats Putin is making would be obvious

[@Nexareus]

Does this make anyone else sad? Born too early to explore the galaxy... oh well. We must do what we can now if we want this future for humankind. Engineering school it is.

[@Chimera3D]

Arowwe But born too late to be busy hunting wild animals or dealing with diseases that nobody around you can even begin to explain... Let's just hope we're closer towards the beginning of humanity than we are to the end (i.e. can we survive nature and more importantly ourselves for another 200,000 years).

[@vincentjamesderamo5940]

+Arowwe yeah same i want to do all this big stuff but cant

[@SpyzacFilms]

+Arowwe I live in Tomorrow Land. Who needs to wait years when you bring years to you. :D

[@flipdip1002]

Making me excited for class.

[@KeViNZP]

+Arowwe We're right on time to explore our oceans. If we can just allow ourselves a great engineering feat in ocean explaration, then we would be able to hypothesize on space exploration procedures.

[@tonysingh5796]

I love how his pictures of aliens and gods are pokemon and namekians

[@penischild9773]

Ya

[@Spartan-ek8ih]

And a reaper... anyone?

[@otakusgaming6800]

yeah mew and dendee

[@savageninja7710]

@@Spartan-ek8ih finally someone notices. 3:18

[@bariumselenided5152]

Spartan 117 Mass Effect universe best universe. Also, Andromeda wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone said, it was actually very enjoyable

[@olixleon]

Intelligent aliens must have good internet. I wanna see some alien memes

[@rubenc4696]

Ayy lmao

[@EndranExit]

well every civilisation should leave something before it die... let's leave meme leagacy the magnum opium of memes from all of humanity !

[@nathangirard5546]

EndranExit

[@reelheck]

GingaGreninja HAHAHAHAH STOP me too

[@da3577]

GingaGreninja you sxekwaked in the wrong galaxy

[@Chuck_N0rris]

I think that the separation in time and space is what makes it seem like we are alone. Even if we are optimistic about how common life is in the universe, it would likely be 5+ light years between us on average. By the time we receive their messages, they are gone.

[@DEMiURGE455]

Most of the galaxy we see in the night sky is probably what it used to be thousands or millions of years ago, not how it is now.

[@gonzaloortega5481]

5 years its not a lot. That’s probably best case scenario for life in proximity to us

[@Chuck_N0rris]

@@gonzaloortega5481 *Light years. I got the number from some article I read a good while ago. This is on average, best case. Even if we were so lucky to be within 5 light years of another civilization, the trip would take 100s of thousands of years.

[@fake10hourentertainment17]

Only 5 light years? No I think it would be anywhere from thousands to billions.

[@Chuck_N0rris]

My assumptions was based on the Drake equation which is a guesstimate about how common life could be in the universe. There are more solar systems in the Milky way galaxy alone than there are grains of sand on planet Earth. 5 light years is an unimaginable distance for most people. Such a vast space would mean that for each world with life on it there are a million million worlds without. The Drake equation may or may not be true but it could explain why it seems like we are alone. Aliens may just be too far away for communication to happen. Thousands of light years may also be true but millions to billions would imply that there actually is a chance that we are all alone in the universe. I dont believe that to be true. I believe AI will help us map out potential earth like planets relatively soon, maybe in our lifetime. We live in exiting times.

[@EarlWilburANogra]

This makes me want to live on for centuries to just know the answers!

[@idkidk2581]

Honestly same

[@anadhdprepper6490]

You might

[@dokidelta1175]

Be rich and intelligent, and you just might. The technology is close.

[@feedlocalcats]

Our planet won’t last centuries

[@vishnukumarkr3499]

Me too.... It's sad we may never have a chance to know all of this

[@Yuri-qi9te]

The smartest squirrel I know can break continents.

[@ramdayal3646]

I know who you are referring to👍

[@psychoticyt3370]

This comment deserves 3k likes

[@Drop_The_Mic]

Who's that?

[@adityavidyarthi1635]

@@Drop_The_Mic i don't know properly but i think its the ice age movie's character

[@jerponemyce9497]

@@Drop_The_Mic Scrat

[@kurzgesagt]

OK, I think we are finished with the Fermi Paradox for now - there is enough content for a third video where we could talk about the solutions that we left out. Do you want this video to exist? (we might do it in 2016) If you go to our (still pretty empty) subreddit (www.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt), there will be discussion of future topics - for example people there was a survey two months ago where people decided between the Fermi Paradox and Dark Energy. The first survey was on Twitter, in the future those will be held on reddit.

[@1_____________________]

***** These two videos where the best ones so far! It would be absoludley awesome if there is going to be a third one. Keep up the good work, i'm looking foward to the next video doen't matter what it is :)

[@jonassamuel4376]

***** the concistent quality of this channel is incredible! i like the: "we are just not interesting enough" theory :). (if there is an advance species who is able to sense all these other primitive civilisations why would they spend resources to visit them?)

[@neeneko]

***** One side issue that might be interesting to explore is what is actually involved in building an interstellar ship. This is a topic I see come up rather often and brushed aside as 'well of course it is possible', with very little challenging the assumption.

[@rolan638]

I want part 3!

[@TheSlimyDog]

***** I don't think aliens would stop developing civilization even if they have a super super computer for the same reason that we don't stop researching things even though we have forms of entertainment that could only be dreamed of 100 years ago.

[@faze-toaster-_-551]

It'd be nice to see if everyone could put there differences away come together and see how far we could actually go.

[@lukasvandewiel860]

Indeed, but we prefer to kill each other over imaginary friends.

[@hasabob4275]

Their

[@zakariaabdimohamed7063]

Unfortunately NATO and Putin don't see that 😀

[@roketv2]

i did too, it’d make space travel so much easier if we all weren’t competing against each other to do things, but that’s how it is and that’s how it’ll be for a long while..

[@roketv2]

no*

[@topnep1]

A type 3 civilization will wipe out earth to build an intergalactic highway right here.

[@No-0ne-is-Alone]

+Amon Morgul No worries, rats would build Earth 2.0

[@tilty7522]

Even if rats are probably the species that has the biggest potential of taking over the world as they are the fastest multiplying species they are not as special as ants, rats are just a species, ants are a civilization, humans and ants are the only known species to us that use herd animals and farm plants.

[@bissalex]

+Mo cu AWP that's because rats don't want us to know they are actually the must advanced species on our planet ;)

[@Laum-gf2sc]

Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy! :D

[@sulphuric_glue4468]

You're all wrong, dude. The rabbits. The fucking rabbits have already taken over, they're lying to us about how stupid they are. Those little holes they make, they are gateways to a fucking subterranean civilisation that possesses the power to wipe out all life on the surface. The governments of the world lie to you. Whenever there's an earthquake or volcanic eruption, it's really the rabbits taking off into space, and they use special technology to trick us into thinking it was an earthquake or volcano. Fucking rabbits, dude. We have to run.

[@Fredo63200]

The most depressing thing is that there might actually be an equally advanced alien civilisation at this very moment, but like 20.000 lightyears away from us in our galaxy, and we will probably never notice each other because of the light lag.

[@nealvandenberg6946]

ArcadeFredo my man really said light lag

[@PlatoonGoon]

@@nealvandenberg6946 It's true. Light doesn't show for hundreds of years. Many of the stars you see have actually burned out and the light hasn't travelled far enough to be seen yet.

[@watcher6162]

@@PlatoonGoon it's actually in first part. Watch that.

[@chrisharmon5309]

It's very true and real. Some of the stars you can see from earth at night, without a telescope..have already burned out and no longer produce light. What you are actually seeing is the light that star did produce and that light is traveling towards you at a great speed over an extremely long distance. It's a very complex....thing that happens. But scientist have proved many times this is what's happening. I'm no scientist and maybe I worded it wrong but I think u can get the idea.

[@kings7321]

Or they could be seeing Earth at its earliest stages or possibly the dinosaurs.

[@_fedmar_]

I love how the computer w/ "unlimited computing power" has 16 bit graphics

[@rahmashifa6539]

Nice comment

[@Clara_Page]

Has it got blast processing :D

[@firebadnofire9768]

bruh if you have a shit video card and a cpu from 2000 years in the future you'll be fine with 8 bit let alone 16 bit

[@DannyLopez07]

Clara Page Sega Genesis 😂

[@jrobilliard6499]

They have unlimited computing power, we have raytracing

[@thomasmendolo1498]

Somehow the idea that we are truly alone in such a big universe is even more terrifying than not being alone

[@P2480-n8h]

Aliens monitoring us be like _I mean we can kill them now but let's just let them live a few more centuries cause they provide some good entertainment_

[@753238]

The Rabbit and The Turtle in a nutshell but the Rabbit is sleeping while running.

[@STOCKHOLM07]

That was a South Park episode.

[@izukumidoriya4283]

Those guys have war with themselves there not worth our time

[@cavendor5286]

Nah they’re more like “ these guys are such idiots”

[@littlebigboigamernerd2766]

Me watching nuke roll up on AMerica be like. (83)

[@lordfrogoffroggington5477]

Imagine if we're just a science project on life in some type 5 civilization where they live for trillions of years and it shows how placing a cell on a tiny rock will make smaller apes that try to fly to other rocks.

[@futuregmchess1561]

In a few billion years when we know that's actually what is happening: yea, just imagine

[@hkguitar1984]

We are like a Sea-Monkeys toy/kit from the mid 1970s.

[@andygreen3575]

Probably an infact school science project to keep the kids amused because it's raining outside..... 🙁

[@bk7064]

Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Lisa accidentally created a civilization that evolved rapidly.

[@kittiesandbotsgemini9892]

In the civilization scale video they explain that type 5 civilizations control clusters or super clusters

[@chesterwilberforce9832]

Imagine this: We master space travel, and send a colony to a nearby planet that takes hundreds of years to reach. When we get there, we find our kind waiting there for us. In those hundreds of years, we mastered time/travel.

[@AStrangerOfTheNight]

And they would say finally you came back what took you so long?

[@aiosquadron]

"So, you're from the 12th colony?"

[@ole-829]

Drop a huge mirror in which we can look from earth so we can look back in time because the distance that vision needs to travel.

[@jimjam7697]

That would encounter a whole other paradox begging the question: If time travel exists, no matter how far in the future, then why haven't we met time travelers?

[@aiosquadron]

@@jimjam7697 Temporal Prime Directive

[@ekyanso4253]

Maybe the great filter is learning to cooperate as a planet since being divided impides the progress required to leave the system. That would hopefully mean that civilizations capable of interstellar travel wouldn't make the same mistakes humanity has made, since selfishness and cruelty are ultimately self-destructive.

[@brickbender4756]

Human moment

[@jameskhan1320]

Evolution works on survival of the fittest….we will progress when we stop carrying the weak with us

[@scottmatheson3346]

universal cooperation could lead to destruction, like lemmings off a cliff.

[@Admiral.Snakbar]

Pfff whatever nerd

[@_PranavDesai]

this is best case scenario. a sufficiently advanced civilisation realises that destruction yields nothing and cooperation is everything, gives me hope that in the event we make contact with aliens, we can coexist. but this also has its limitations. any species that has survived long enough should would have a basic instinct for survival. we fought amongst ourselves when we first made contact with each on different landmasses, it would seem the same thing will happen on a macro scale before we are signing peace treaties. an alien civilisation, unless massively advanced, would always see us as a threat and it's in their best interest that we don't be one through whatever means. this assumes that there are only 2 civilisation. it is possible that each civlisation thinks along the same lines and that there is always another civlisation greater than itself, and that it would be in its interest to not explore at all, a kind of self imposed filter that works in everyone's favour. maybe it's in everyone's best interest to not communicate with each other at all?

[@flatmarssociety4614]

Animator: how many referen- Kurzgesagt: *y e s*

[@thecolombiaification]

5:48, that's Sidonia in the bottom, I fucking love this channel

[@wolfbrownx]

1:50 Mew!

[@Lock2142]

@@thecolombiaification Thanks pal I caught it but forgot the name haha kudos to you!

[@flatmarssociety4614]

Imagine the copyright strikes this team might have

[@leomdk939]

@Oliver Berner good point

[@voidzminer1017]

“We don’t destroy forests because we hate squirrels” My dog: My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[@secretunknown2782]

Dog : crying in the corner

[@robertpeacock6440]

Snorted coffee on this one! 😂😂😂

[@ActionJackson669]

🤣🤣🤣 he like, "Damn, so you cool with my opps now⁉️⁉️😐😶🤨🧐😠😈🤡👻 Yup I see how you moving 👀☠️💀☠️😤😕"

[@Narcostic]

I don't get this joke and I feel stupid

[@voidzminer1017]

@@Narcostic dogs hate squirrels

[@ChiliBros]

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” ― H.P. Lovecraft,

[@WellBeSerious12]

But we must overcome those to evolve further. Or stay cavemen and cavewomen forever.

[@psionicsknight6651]

WellBeSerious12 Amen to that bro... sis... sibling!

[@ryangainey94]

A tragedy that his fear of the unknown translated directly into his personal xenophobia and blatant racism. While I enjoy most of Lovecraft's beautiful and gothic poeticism, I must admit it is tainted, and sullied by darker personal admissions he need not have included in his writing.

[@JohnnyLoveseat]

I dunno a lot of people are just fine not knowing

[@TehKoolaidkid]

Actually, the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of asphyxiation via blood CO2 levels. Michael from Vsauce covered this in his Mindfield episode diving deep into fear.

[@planetoscar1979]

I've watched all your videos9 numerous times, including this one. First time I noticed the Mass Effect reference at 3:16. The Reapers coming down to destroy 🌎. Love it! Two of my favorite things, kurgesagt and Mass Effect.

[@charbelelkazzi9119]

Fun idea, create an imcomprehenisbly large universe with infinite possibilities but confine life to a lonely small rock unable to explore it

[@ryanalving3785]

Honestly, if life exists only on earth the rest of the universe is boring. It's also basically pointless, as nearly unlimited space with no one to experience it might as well not even exist.

[@Craftee6]

@@ryanalving3785 It's not boring at all! Look at people loving to travel. Some of them do that because they want to see other cultures. Some do that for astonishing views. There are even people climbing mount everest! Imagine what those people would feel like had they been told there's a mountain 3 times bigger. And u get to be the first one to climb it. And that's just the start. This goes so much further than our imagination. It's very fun. The only limitation is speed. But if we would in a very far future somehow invent a way to travel between solar systems withing mere hours or even better minutes, i can see us travelling just for the sake of it, even if there are no civilizations. And in the end, if that happens, we will be other civilizations. We all started in africa, and look how different people are in different continents. If we can travel so easily, we probably can start living there. Japanese people are really different for example, and that's not even 20 000 kilometers away from eupean nations. Imagine what we could develop into 20 000 years away. Few thousand years of evolution and we won't even be the same race anymore! How does one have audacity to call universe - even without other life forms - boring.

[@ryanalving3785]

@@Craftee6 Because a dead universe that has little to discover other than empty lifeless planets and unpopulated stars and galaxies is boring to me, on a personal level I grant you. Antarctica is interesting, to an extent, but honestly if nothing lived there at all I would have very little interest in it. Mars is a barren wasteland that pretty much has nothing to do, and little to find. I am simply not interested in a universe that is filled with countless worlds and not a single thing living outside of our solar system. It's all empty space that will not become of any interest until we colonize it and populate it with things we brought from here. Look at it like this, if life only exists in the solar system and no other star system; then all the most unique and rare things *in the universe* are on this planet right now. People, animals, plants. The only place in the universe that isn't just blind physics and chemistry, is right here where we are. The only place that has a meaningful history, a culture, anything like that, is earth. There would be nothing out there that we wouldn't bring with us. There would in fact be nothing worth finding, as when you already posess the only supply of the rarest thing in existence; what exactly is the point of going looking for anything else? Every other star system is a dime a trillion. There's nothing really unique about them, they're made of approximately the same stuff as each other, in approximately similar arrangements to each other; all repeated on a scale so enormous that it literally exceeds human comprehension. Like one of those fractal patterns, it's interesting at first; but then you start to see the pattern of it and you realize that now matter how far you follow the pattern it won't take long before you stop seing anything truly new. Soon enough it becomes repetative, and then boring, and then you stop looking at it. If life is only on earth, out there is nothing but an endless series of repeating iterations of same old same old; distinguished by location and very little else. The fact that these places would become interesting after humans had lived there long enough is precisely my point, unless someone other than you and me lives there; we really don't find it worth the bother. And since everyone in that scenario came from here; we aren't going there to *find* interesting stuff; we are going there to make a mundane universe interesting by putting more people in it. And therefore until people have been there I consider it boring, dead planets don't interest me; just living ones.

[@Craftee6]

​@@ryanalving3785 Can u honestly say, that you wouldnt want to travel to ANY place on earth, under any reason different than what people made? For example, i'd like to see great wall of china. But i can think of so many other things that are natural that i'd like to see jsut as much, like grand canyon or niagara falls which is harder because im from eu. But imagine entire icy planet. Or great canyon x40. Or niagara waterfall x100. And that's just what comes to my mind, as a person who never really investigated all cool things that earth can offer. Entire galaxy can offer you so much more. Obviously i wouldnt literally spend my whole life to see some amazing shit on planet far far away. But if it was made possible to do as easily as flight to next country... Dude come on. You can't tell me you don't see that, just because there arent any aliens there. I get it you can say, yeah but i've seen mountains already, and canyon, and waterfall, making it bigger doesnt' make it that big of a deal. But there surely are things that we never even imagined. And THOSE are really exciting, not 80km high mountain, or waterfall that's kilometers wide and 40 kilometers high. Although i can't say i wouldn't want to see waterfall like that.

[@ryanalving3785]

@@Craftee6 I do get what you mean, but in my own experience the more unpopulated an area is the less interested I am in it. Going somewhere exclusively to see a natural fixture for myself is often somewhat anticlimatic. Grand Canyon was okay, but it sort of felt like "ok, we saw it. When do we leave?" Lake Powell was different, ironically because being an artificial lake there was a human history there. We learned that Native American villages were preserved at the bottom of the lake, and there were scuba expeditions to go and see what was left behind. On top of that it was less about seeing the lake than it was what we did at the lake. It isn't just intelligent life that I find makes a place interesting, it's life in general. Living things are infinitely variable and amazing, natural structures are much less so (in my personal opinion). Certainly there are things I would like to see in space, the "pillars of creation" nebula is incredible; but ironically the sheer size and scope makes it better appreciated from a distance. Let me give you an example, I visited my brother in Alaska over the summer; and we saw Mt. Denali's (aka Mckinley) peak. Only about 30% of people who visit actually see it, because of how the clouds work there. It was interesting, I admit. A nice view. But far more interesting (to me) was seeing bears, beavers, moose, caribou, golden eagles, etc. Up close in their natural environment. There is something sublime in living things that isn't to be seen in the inanimate natural wonders. Also of interest were seeing the sled dog teams, and a bit of history about the place. How it was set up, how people maintain the park etc. Don't get me wrong, the natural wonders are interesting; at times even awesome to behold, but I find a difference between a natural wonder that is at the heart of a unique ecosystem infinitely more amazing than one that is devoid of life. A natural fixture that both shapes and is shaped by the life around it is a marvel, a natural fixture that is huge and impressive but devoid of the touch of life is maybe interesting; but I doubt I would travel to see it. Antarctica is impressive, but if I went there I would go to see the penguins and leopard seals; not the fields of ice. The bottom of the ocean is amazing, but I wouldn't go to it except to see sunken ships, the life in the thermal vents, and the things that dwell down there in the cold dark. Space without life is like an ocean floor without life, maybe impressive for what it is; but I wouldn't bother to go see it in person, we have drones for that. In point of fact, if there is no life on other planets; I think NASA has the right idea just sending space probes to observe it. If people make it to other planets, I would be intrigued by what they made *of* those planets; but a dead rock is to me a dead rock. It might be pretty, but there are more interesting things closer to home. This is just my opinion, others won't necessarily agree; but a dyson sphere would beat a black hole for wow factor ten times out of ten for me. And I don't think that's a bad thing. I respect your position, let me say that; I simply do not share it. I don't know that I could.

[@popalupa4844]

I bet those alien explorers were saying "I knew we never should have used liquid dinosaurs as fuel" "Shut up Jerry"

[@nathanaelraynard2641]

yeah

[@ScibbieGames]

that's oil you know.. but yeah, true lol!

[@popalupa4844]

+Scibbie / ǝıqqıɔS I know. Still, it's not very smart to use fossil fuels for interstellar space travel.

[@ScibbieGames]

FlyingWalrus Im pretty sure you cant even use it for interstellar. waaaaay too slow..

[@mikepro5251]

you just need something to get you top speed then physics will do the rest as you will not slow down

[@yoshkabosh7979]

The message at 2:08 says "hello!" for anyone who cares

[@arianikolleortemoreno5225]

Than you 💕

[@goki6548]

😂

[@demon_xd_]

Thx

[@АндрейТимаков-я5в]

the indicator on 3:02 says "liquid dinosaurs"

[@Doug_Fany]

@@АндрейТимаков-я5в yeah, it's not wrong tho.

[@ExoriteCR]

2:59 I love how he uses "liquid dinosaurs" to portray oil from the alien's perspective

[@TheAndy9297]

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." -Plato, The Republic

[@nexus8854]

TheAndy9297 so inspiring 😭😭😭😢

[@JV-tk3nn]

I always thought it was Confucius who said that. Now I'm confused. 😕

[@firefish111]

The most paradoxical quote I've ever heard 😅

[@agamenmmon7210]

To my knowledge he states it was Socrates who said that

[@klaussej]

@@agamenmmon7210 Socrates said it, Plato transcribed it.

[@ShadowedCross]

I love all the little easter eggs in this video.

[@aslankhalilov9995]

FTL one is my fav

[@andhikasoehalim3170]

ShadowedCross I spot the Scrin symbol & Tiberium from Command and Conquer and the Vespene Gas from Starcraft in the planet analyser. And Mass Effects Reapers.

[@naozumi_nao]

ShadowedCross means they put a lot of effort and love into making this video

[@adityakhanna113]

Do not forget Pokémon(Mew) and the Gods (Namekians from Dragonball)...

[@TheSlimyDog]

ShadowedCross And that's how I realized that I've lived a horrible childhood. I only realized the Mew one.

[@bandols]

Can we just appreciate that these guys aren't just science nerds, but anime nerds as well? Appreciate the DBZ and Pokemon references.

[@张桓瑜]

SC2 as well

[@ancillarodrigues1132]

😂yes

[@mdmsecretagent6136]

Also mass effect

[@fernandomartin4141]

I'm unfamiliar with DBZ and Pokemon lore, could you please point out these references?

[@6105boe]

And FTL!

[@enoughofyourkoicarp]

"The speed of light is not that fast." Usain Bolt: "IKR"

[@fluffsquirrel]

This comment!! Is LIKEABLE *sending like*

[@boi529]

Humans: "Maybe there are other lifeforms out there, we can't be the only one!" The aliens who has our entire galaxy in a fishbowl: 👁👄👁

[@medexamtoolscom]

If our galaxy was in a big fish bowl, we would see the glass jar we were inside of rather than seeing other galaxies unobstructed. Also, I think there's nothing it could be made of that wouldn't make it massive enough to all collapse into a black hole. The density you need to make a black hole is quite low when it's very large, and if there was a giant sheet of glass tens of thousands of light years in size it would probably be enough.

[@joshuatartar2731]

@@justyouraveragerobloxconte8883 no, just no

[@ary_reee6229]

You mean gods? I mean the goddess?

[@justyouraveragerobloxconte8883]

@@joshuatartar2731 yeah they are

[@justyouraveragerobloxconte8883]

@@joshuatartar2731 white dwarf stars when they go supernova they create a black hole

[@IdxxmI]

it's scary when I think that there might be other alien life asking the same questions are THEY alone?

[@753238]

no, the keep on spreading

[@Ruukas9]

Maybe ,there was or only will be

[@plokijum]

Your prof pic is beautiful

[@IdxxmI]

@@plokijum thx lol

[@Dexuz]

@Dead Archer Maybe, but even if they look like kittens, they would be anything but kittens. Genetics aren't fun sorry.

[@JacopoSkydweller]

Tiberium Wars, Starcraft 2, Mass Effect, Grey Goo/We Are Bob, FTL, Terminator, Starwars, Startrek, Dragon Ball, Pokemon. So many references. Good stuff.

[@DeathbyProxy]

And Don't Hug Me I'm Scared... XP So many!

[@Matthiasrj]

Right? The amount of nerd and pop culture that go into these videos is off the charts. Yet most of it probably flies way over a regular Joe's head watching this video. Their success of creating videos everyone can understand and enjoy is rather remarkable.

[@AdityaSingh-lp5rp]

For a second in the vid I thought that vespene was real

[@thecolombiaification]

And Sidonia in the end

[@thorodinson292]

Reaper Awwwww man

[@pihuroy655]

If u are interested in topics like this I really recommend checking out the three body problem by cixin liu. The second book is actually literally named dark forest

[@scottishhistorian8866]

I loved that book. It was really interesting especially the problems the invading aliens had with sending their ships over to earth (by the time they reached earth humans would be more advanced than the alien attack squad)

[@5THR33S]

"Space travel is hard" Me - Ah, I see you are well informed on this topic, continue.

[@skyblockplayz4024]

me: It doesn't matter you only need fuel for launch and landing bc there's no gravity.

[@mystic2134]

@@skyblockplayz4024 what about the fuel to carry on travelling ? Or the food stores needed

[@karimhegazy3866]

@@skyblockplayz4024 so you are just going to aimlessly drift in space? You would need fuel to orient yourself and move in the direction you want. Nothing in the universe is static and wont wait for you to reach them

[@_username]

@@karimhegazy3866 They're just joking chill

[@kurzgesagt]

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[@veraowens9191]

,

[@Phoenix-vf4nd]

***** Question why do I like your videos so much.

[@june9914]

***** can you make a video on wormholes? or other kinds of travel?

[@XtarShoter]

12gaugebleachdrinker Nice try troll 0/10000 try harder next time.

[@conmadben]

***** You again made me feel insignificant. :(( Also liked the Mass Effect reference! :)

[@JRM92B]

Imagine if most advanced civilizations (beyond us) ended up concluding that they should not search life elsewhere but prevent any other from reaching them. Creating the illusion that their planet is not suitable for life.

[@yamete3329]

Lmao I was just going to comment dis

[@nichsulol4844]

golf shaped computer in warehouse

[@Hust91]

I mean they'd be dead within a few billion years given that their star will eventually poop itself to death or just a random space collision with their planet. Putting your eggs in multiple baskets is strictly necessary for long-term survival.

[@landresking3988]

@@Hust91 we will all be dead in a few billion years plus we don’t always make logical decisions for survival for example we’re destroying our own planet for money.

[@Hust91]

@@landresking3988 We as individuals sure, but not we as a species. And the more realistic timescale for a one planet species is a few hundred million years due to continent-sized asteroids, not billions. Assuming they don't nuke themselves back to the stone age or use up all their planets resources and then start wars over what's left. It's not about who is logical, it's about who will be left. There may be innumerable civilizations who lived and died on their planetary cradle, but only those who left it will be noticable.

[@hunterchristian8372]

I'm rewatching this video 8 years later in 2023 and wow you can really tell how much the sound quality has improved on this channel!

[@karlbultrowicz932]

I think the true great filter is achieving the ability to actually move to other systems. Once that happens and we are able to settle at other planets, it would be virtually impossible for us to go completely extinct. Considering we are on multiple planets.

[@PinkBroBlueRope]

It all depends on the timescale you're operating on

[@andrewedgar3935]

You underestimate humanity's ability to fuck everything up

[@alienlife7754]

Considering our level of technology we won’t be traveling to any other star systems any time soon. Unless we can come up with some sort of safe way to travel in suspended animation. A generation ship. But that’s only the stuff of sci fi for now. Not likely to happen. I think all space faring nations would have to come together for that to happen. And right now that isn’t doable.

[@rimuwutempest167]

We can destroy our planet with the push of a button and we haven't even gone of it who's to say it won't be the same on a systematic scale before we move to different galaxies we can destroy ours with the push of a button

[@sepel98]

@@alienlife7754 We just have to discover interdimensional travel.

[@rafabdc04]

"The mindset that we really are the center of the universe is still strong in humans so it's easy to make arrogant assumptions about life in the universe"

[@redguirus]

*Insert image of a bird embryo*

[@goodkrypollo1706]

Sounds like something an alcoholic mad scientist would say

[@deadartist8827]

I reject your hypothesis.

[@deadartist8827]

@@goodkrypollo1706 minus the scientist part.

[@m.9212]

Whoa, I read this just the moment it was said in the video.

[@conjecturemm]

It's mind-boggling for how many things we simply have to say "I don't know" in this field.

[@TheFi0r3]

***** well, trying to realize where you are standing. is the first step to knowledge .

[@YourHomieJC]

We can only predict what would make sense to us. But after all, there is one way to find out for sure, right?

[@YGHF]

***** I have to say, Einstein deriving and assuming all the stuff years ago without experimental/actual evidences is already mind-boggling. Who knew it humans by that time already had the right amount of reasoning to provide solutions/explanations to what happens around us physically? That guy really is a genius for having it figured out. Also, shoutout to Tesla too, that guy is awesome. I'm not too bright myself but I love reading/watching stuff like these. :D

[@ohrightok9750]

***** sounds like my ideal profession - sign me up

[@xghoulxx]

yougothappyfeet! general school system tells you this, without telling you that it was a collaborated effect with Einstein to push these ideas and the amazing untold scientists wherein they are forgotten.

[@liv3vil-Kei]

Time is a human concept. What if those type 3 aliens don't "age" or perceive time in a different manner? What if crossing the milky way in 1000 years is like a blink of an eye for them? Too many things to consider. Awesome videos!

[@zhcultivator]

That's a good idea to consider that Aliens might perceive time in a very different way than we do perhaps due to their physiology or technology or both. Great comment btw.

[@g_g...]

Well, time in our understanding will work according to the laws of the universe we have identified from now. Everywhere. Whether others perceive it differently doesn't change anything concerning the laws of the universe

[@liv3vil-Kei]

@@g_g... "the laws of the universe" from our point of view and our knowledge. Just because we don't have a rule for something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. for example: we haven't found anything that travels faster than light, but that doesn't mean that something like that doesn't exist. Be open minded, for new and daring things. That's how we progress.

[@g_g...]

@@liv3vil-Kei what? You're confused. Then, your first comment is a bad example of that. Also, I already specified that it's laws we've found, not definite laws that can't be changed after learning more. Either way, that's not how it works, you can't just bring up the "you never know" argument. It doesn't matter how you perceive it. No amount of biological capacity can shift the laws of the universe. Your perception only affects YOUR perception, not reality. So, whatever you're trying to argue, it just doesn't work

[@kimchifriedric]

what if, like photons, they were able to deconstruct and transmit themselves over segments of particles, or strings (if you’re following string theory), thus making the trip feel instantaneous? just as photons feel as if they arrive in an instant, they were able to negate the dimension of time or aging, to harness, essentially, warp speed?

[@namesarefortheweak]

Alien:should we kill humans? Different Alien:nah some still think their planet is flat, we’re good for a few more centuries. EDIT: dear god, I’m sorry for making this highly offensive comment I didn’t think I would offend anyone can we just let this be a joke and make peace? Edit 2: You thought I was going to thank you for the likes, but it was me, Dio!

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Turns out evolutionary pressures favour stupidity in the long term ...

[@norberto05121964]

Lol

[@karlo6601]

SHOTS FIRED!! LOL!

[@jasonlinam1217]

Or different alien says : we need to kill some of them or we're going to have to build a bigger aquarium and remember how hard it is to build a globe aquarium!

[@kirtisawant9288]

Saw this on another of their videos too

[@RedIceberg]

"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing" -Socrates

[@poseidonguy3940]

1+1=2. You know that?

[@samudrasarma6555]

@@poseidonguy3940 Nope...ever heard about complex numbers on 6th dimension of string theory...It has been proven that 1+1=2 is just an elusion...

[@Sunny-Gupta1]

@@samudrasarma6555 What? Can you explain me or any link

[@poseidonguy3940]

@@samudrasarma6555 no. Quit talking out of your arse. 6th dimension is hypothetical. Wake up

[@samudrasarma6555]

@@poseidonguy3940😏😂

[@YourBeefFriend]

I don't understand how there are ANY dislikes on this video? It's well made and factual...

[@cassandrasherman4460]

Zack Tarle probably trolls

[@namanpushp5364]

Haters gonna hate

[@vassalofthenight9945]

Zack Tarle flat earth believers

[@crimson9926]

Vassal Of The Night don't forget the creationists

[@elliot_rat]

it might not be as true as you think, we shouldnt believe everything we hear from a single youtube channel on the internet

[@DreamFearless]

The idea the one unifying experience shared throughout the universe is being alone is so hilarious I have to believe it’s true.

[@johnbailey5835]

"Oh look, tiny little apes! They build really cute concrete structures! Oh well, now they're dead." *activates warpspeed* Damn... that really makes you think about how we treat things like pigs and cows....

[@Arekkizu]

nah cuz if our cows built any structure like that, we wouldnt kill it

[@johnbailey5835]

@@Arekkizu our technology compared to those aliens: Concrete buildings and somewhat basic rockets compared to generation spaceships and planetary disassembly Pigs and cows 'technology' compared to us Occasionally a stick in the mouth compared to concrete buildings and somewhat basic rockets Its a similar difference

[@Arekkizu]

@@johnbailey5835 But colonizing an entire planet isn't a very unoticeable feat

[@johnbailey5835]

@@Arekkizu it really is unnoticeable A planet is actually pretty tiny compared to the rest of the galaxy

[@LordZarano]

"pigs and cows" We created them and we can destroy them. (Yes we're still the baddies for treating our creations badly)

[@dariofilinic8366]

The thing that is killing me is that I'm going to be dead when this shit is discoverd.

[@David22092001]

considering the rate of technology advancements and the fact that the radio isnt old at all, you have a higher chance now than any other person to ever have lived to see aliens in your lifetime :)

[@gratiaseia]

David22092001 but the youngest generation now will have a higher chance of seeing this happen than the older ones :(

[@FrozenShogun850]

The younger generation needs to worry about more important issues here on earth if space exploration is to be a possibility. Chances are the generation that will actually explore space is not even born yet. Let alone the scientists to create a faster ship. None of these people are born yet. But we are setting it up so they can put the pieces of the puzzle together. Right now we are just trying to see how many pieces their even are.

[@Boaty-ok3ph]

Born too late to explore the earth born too early to explore the universe but born just in time to explore those dank memes.

[@ZitahGirlGames]

Maybe sometime in the future we'll all be revived. Or not.

[@HunterL-p7o]

Imagine this. Were going through space, we get a message, "maintain radio silence, do not respond, it will find you, we are dying to save you, goodbye" and then, we get another, more distorted "dont do it"

[@2elunatic]

4:33 “Incoming Noobs” I felt that

[@Nvmmmmmm1102]

NO

[@internetuser5104]

what’s ur profile picture from 😳

[@Mochi_Kiti]

A

[@Flowerbroo]

"Elavating us to the Level of Gods" *Shows a Namekian*

[@jojanycardo9131]

That line really got me thinking that the gods we worship could be aliens who put us here with the purpose of creating life so that the universe won’t be so empty

[@dhanyarrozie]

@@jojanycardo9131 yeah this is what really puts me through the night. If we encounter an alien civ and they have absolutely no concept of religion then our "religion and God" is just a human design, think of it like this. If God is so almighty then why does He just spread His influence on earth?

[@chasemcdaniel3620]

Elevating bro....come on man.

[@indianasquatchunters]

jojany cardo That is an actual theory some people believe in. It’s called “zoo theory” we are the animals in the zoo. We were either put here by aliens or we developed as usual but somewhere along the line (when we split off from other apes) our DNA was changed so that became what we are today. Maybe the aliens or gods are among us simply letting us grow on our own or maybe they manipulate us in ways we don’t understand or maybe they no longer are here or care about us. Whether the theory is wrong or right it’s interesting to think about.

[@WellBeSerious12]

@@indianasquatchunters I never believed in "god" and us relating to fish is too abstract. But intelligent life from elsewhere in the universe sounds ultra-realistic. Elements of HALO do create ideas of what might have been/is in the universe. Or if not, it does create ideas for us to go by in our life point to exist, survive, procreate our kind, and even possibly procreate other life (non human) and our own - elsewhere in the galaxy.

[@markfoz7248]

We’ve seen such progress in science lasting approx 200 years imagine an intelligent life-form that’s had similar progress but for 20,000 years. Mind boggling what that would look like.

[@lucatonimaccheronipepperon4515]

What makes you assume that technology continues to develop at the same rate of the last 200 years, maybe in 200 years we will reach technological limit

[@markfoz7248]

@@lucatonimaccheronipepperon4515 maybe but I doubt it.

[@Cranberrycrayfish]

Or what if it's the other way around and we are still the first life form to reach this limit and there is no one out there

[@BurkeBlack]

Thanks for the video!

[@RayneBlood]

yes

[@oswaldfeurst5247]

Did my job, like it.

[@Operations1000]

2:25 If I saw a floating holy pink cat thing with an immense aura I'd probably respond with: "Yes"

[@FD15989]

Mew pokemon

[@adrianortega1431]

"Floating holy pink cat thing with an immense aura" From now on I shall always use this phrase to refer to Mew.

[@ROAN1495]

definitely mew

[@certifiedbasicbee]

mew mew mew mew

[@aaronbalchand5475]

Da hek is mew? The only thing i know with mew in its name is mad mew mew in undertale and yet thats a doll posessed by a dummy that was posessed by a ghost. Thats all i know. If thats friggin pokemon then i swear i am gonna rip the next pokemon card that i see in half. I would do it anyways because i friggin hate pokemon but hey, thats my opinion.

[@calmguy.4659]

Arthur C. Clarke - 'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.'

[@vedantsridhar8378]

But can you tell me what's more likely? We are not alone in the universe maybe the Fermi Paradox is just a misunderstanding of how tough interstellar and intergalactic travel is

[@nichsulol4844]

@@vedantsridhar8378 star citizen is 29st century and warhammer is a 23st century and stellaris is about 2200 year and 2500 year

[@demonicthan742]

@@nichsulol4844 Those are all Science-*Fiction* though

[@plasmax7671]

I never knew that quote was from Arthur C. Clarke such a good author btw

[@HaloFTW55]

@@nichsulol4844 Warhammer is in the year 41000, Halo is more 25th century.

[@anthonybowman3423]

Says "elevate us to the level of gods", shows picture of Dende. My heart is healed.

[@AlexandreNegrao]

Anthony Bowman Hahaha! I've noticed that too. These guys are always easter egging their videos!

[@rr____7-j4y]

Ya also they put mew from pokemon

[@nichsa8984]

@@AlexandreNegrao ship: *finding alien* computer:error failrue human:wait is a our mars ship

[@demonbane2280]

Hi Kurzegesagt! i'm sort of a newer fan of your videos i've been watching videos you've released in the last year for a couple weeks and just found this video and part 1 of it, i noticed you did a newer video on the fermi paradox but it mostly covers content from part 1 of these 2 videos and would love to see you remaster this part as well! thank you so much for all your team does!

[@roedwilmbalecha2339]

0:07 Mew 3:19 Reapers 4:00 Kestrel Ship 5:07 Dende P.S. (These are the ones i forget) 3:00 The Scrin 0:41 DHMIS Computer 4:39 Tron

[@fixenfroejte]

3:00 The scrin

[@VeritasUnae]

Don’t forget the computer from DHMIS at 0:41

[@roedwilmbalecha2339]

Sorry i forgot to mention those

[@fsn1749]

homage to the greatest game ever made

[@ArkadiBolschek]

4:39 TRON! :D

[@ihatetwenty-onepilotsandfe1857]

When aliens come to earth... Alien: Hi we are looking for intelligent life Aliens see the kardashians Oh sorry, there is no intelligent life here.

[@ihatetwenty-onepilotsandfe1857]

***** ?

[@slackbraham]

Lmfao

[@roberth5691]

Then watched a episode of the Jersey shore

[@Skillet1O1]

"Who would want to conquer the galaxy or make contact with other life forms, if this were an option?" Stares in Roman.

[@petercampi2840]

That reminds me, back in the 1980s there was a game where 80% of the galaxy is conquered by the 5th incarnation of the Roman Empire.

[@shoukokomi6419]

*chuckles in Exterminatus

[@muckyesyesindisguise3854]

@@shoukokomi6419 stares in normal human

[@milele7920]

All your base are belong to us

[@alexandroqueiroz9616]

@@petercampi2840 me needs names

[@Incepter.]

It's kind of odd that we have not found a single speck of evidence about aliens, Kurzgesagt really managed to explain the Fermi Paradox really well in this part 2.

[@bryanbutler6486]

I love how the Morse code from 2:10 is real (and says "HELLO?")

[@FeamT]

The reference game is strong in this one, and I approve. Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Faster Than Light, Mass Effect, and a bunch more of awesome stuff. Even disregarding those though, this was a fantastic and exciting episode. Great finish and great substance! Loved it.

[@arrubiooo2197]

Feam T Woah, dude! Even your profile is an easter egg! Your profile pic is the engineer from Team Fortress 2--->name is Feam T. Your little comment is ''Nothing to see here'' while the profile pic is like ''Nothing to see here''

[@FeamT]

That's... a little bit over-analyzing it, but I guess so :P Good job 10/10 A++

[@arrubiooo2197]

Yay!

[@artwingtonr.4647]

Feam T There's also Grey Goo and Command and Conquer...I guess.

[@kekero540]

Richard Artwington Both Rts games :)

[@Gringo_Lingo]

I love all the sci-fi references in the animations! Simple, but detailed. This video is informative, encouraging, and fun! Let’s hope we don’t run out of liquid dinosaurs anytime soon.

[@elterrestresinmanos5078]

For the sake of all of us, may we run out of liquid dinosaurs soon

[@elifhtx]

"One of the aliens might think for a second, Oh! Tiny little apes. They built really cute concrete structures. Oh well now they're *dead* "

[@widowswine7994]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the mass effect reapers cameo at 3:20

[@lukacstoth9057]

I see you are a man of culture as well.

[@Thor_Artur]

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite science channel on The Citadel.

[@widowswine7994]

@@Thor_Artur this is an illegel VI

[@zakkvanish3668]

I already had to think of Mass Effect when he was mentioning a Type 3 civilization destroying other civilization at some point in part one😂

[@bobojones5]

Im so glad other ppl recognized that too haha.

[@MuhammadBilal-jj9pp]

5:07 it's Dende in the middle. I never thought I would see a Dragon Ball reference in one of your videos.

[@igoral3035]

Muhammad Bilal not even me

[@tendaiball5598]

Muhammad Bilal bro I was looking for someone else who noticed

[@jn9475]

Pokémon too (mew)

[@_Muzolf]

Bunch of references in these videos, i mean who did not recognize the Dalek in the first one? And yeah , that was either Dende or another namekian.

[@d0m2288]

Muhammad Bilal Was looking for this comment.

[@Seraphim-h3q]

Alien: "should we say hi to the humans?" Also an alien: "Mate they fight over black and white, we purple so what the f*ck do you think they would do to us?!"

[@ladofthedamned7796]

holy f*ck thanos is that you?

[@horsenuggets1018]

Green gang green gang

[@alexsuess9702]

Exactly childish really murdering our own species for stupid needs that have been moronically taken out of realistic grasp with equality. And simply to prove it animals are more mature and sane then the so called superior being lol

[@alexsuess9702]

Mislead equality and unrealistic rules of survival alternating our selves into broken beings in order to survive

[@shweetaa]

That's deep shit happening on earth.. Like why tf destroying our own species are we out of our minds!?

[@st6387]

God I love how many references are in this video. It took me six years to realize that the ship at 4:05 is from FTL: Faster Than Light

[@tinujijo]

Aliens be like: We don't have to kill them. They will kill themselves.

[@dumpeeplarfunny]

Am I the only one that thinks it's weird that people constantly apply human traits to animals, machines, and aliens? Why does no one consider the possibility that they could be inherently different?

[@alphariusfuze8089]

For humans, war is the way for our expansion, even it would bring us to total destruction

[@nichsa8984]

@@alphariusfuze8089 human finally finding a new life tried to finding in a newest a grandson a human try to finding younger species life started beginning new life form as youngest

[@VIP-Princess]

True i mean Coronavirus...

[@RedIceberg]

Sometimes I wonder why we are considered an "Intelligent Species" when we are so incredibly stupid. If we all worked together instead of killing each other, we would probably be light years away from where we are now.

[@Scifigamer0626]

What if we are a class 3 civilization and have uploaded our minds to a super computer that is simulating our new lives?

[@JayGaming360]

The Spastic Tiger I have eerily similar thoughts all the time... A word of advice, don't take LSD or shrooms unless you wanna have the greatest existential crisis of your life. Ignorance is bliss.

[@HadenAndStuff]

Oh, I could go on all day. What if the multiple dimension theory was true, and let's say you died in real life, but you don't see that dimension because the only dimension you see is the one that you're alive in. Although in reality, you were supposed to die and in that dimension you were in before everyone else knows you died and sees it that way, but you don't see it because you are in the dimension that you are currently alive in. It's some really weird shit. I feel like I am alone sometimes too as if I am the only existing one and everyone else is a simulation. It feels so weird dude.

[@WillddKvic]

Rofl Guy maybe it's dead humans

[@ezze-does-it]

WE'RE IN A SIMULATION, THAT'S IN A SIMULATION! THIS IS GONNA BE SUCH A MINDFUCK

[@BetoAcapulco]

Rofl Guy your comment is just so awesome and possible

[@mintydog06]

lol the Reapers. These videos are brilliant and I love the references in them.

[@naizku19]

😂😂😂

[@brandonmartin8258]

I'm convinced that intelligence exists throughout. It is highly possible and even probable that we are among the first sporadic instances, and as such, none of us have been able to communicate with each other simply because of the universal speed limit. Visiting one another is still a long way off, for certain.

[@MagicalDanny]

In part 1 of this video, we saw Magnemite as a possible alien species. In this video at 0:07, we see that Mew is possibly another alien species.

[@kerryrivers65]

Don't forget Dende from DBZ as a God at 5:07.

[@arnonym6745]

What if we are the species that is most Advanced ?

[@TimeLordNivek]

Also got Reapers from Mass Effect at 3:15

[@pumblee5446]

Im pretty sure they've put a pokemon in every video

[@Ardkun00]

That's not Mew, its Gyigas.

[@alexsiemers7898]

"In the galactic time scale, we are embryos" And how are embryos protected? By a cavity, either a shell or uterus. Perhaps a type 3 civilization knows about us, and they could visit when they please. However, they may be guarding us while we evolve as a species, and are waiting to show themselves until we can leave the womb (our solar system)

[@bawin384]

or we could be just an experiment in one of their laboratories, where earth is a culture medium, and the solar system is a test tube. You see the entire life on earth as an experiment.

[@chonkycapybara6169]

Or we are just living in a simulation..

[@flaviusandrade]

A higher being is watching over humanity, one we will meet someday if we are deemed worthy. You just described most religions. And said being is an advanced alien civiliazation. You are half-way into reinventing Scientology.

[@theogar6147]

YES! FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE SAYS THIS! IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT EXACTLY THAT FOR AGES!

[@prod.shinypave5915]

Alex Siemers or we just live in a batterie for their flying machines

[@dopamine-crash]

Somebody needs to break it to Kurzgesagt that we still have apocalyptic weapons pointed at each other.

[@johndavies2179]

Yep 😀

[@jordanmatthews1466]

Except this time, it's not for political reasons. It's like pointing a gun at someone else who has a gun. Just on a bigger scale. Sure, you could lower your gun and prove you're not a threat to the other person anymore but, the other person could take that as an opportunity to shoot you. Now, scale those two people to a full-on mexican standoff and replace guns with miniaturized suns. All of a sudden, there's lots of people taking aim at you and vice versa and, instead of a bullet wound you're looking at complete and utter disintegration.

[@ajaxanmol7070]

@@jordanmatthews1466 chill man

[@jordanmatthews1466]

@@ajaxanmol7070 It's not like I'm wrong.

[@6lhulhu6]

@@jordanmatthews1466 What you are saying it's right, but it's because of politics that these weapons exists and politics keeps the weapons there, for each side of the globe. so it is still political.

[@KaasSchaaf666]

put on my tinfoil hat: as for the flying tic tac that the US Air Force have encountered? alien?

[@finedig1854]

I love FTL: Faster Than Light, and it’s good to know Kurzgesagt does too!

[@Anthony-no7dt]

Scrolled so far to find a comment about the kestrel :)

[@finedig1854]

@@ArtoriasTheAbyss 👏

[@mallobag]

Game is nice, but FTL is used in many SciFi as well. Dont know if they actually refer to the game or Stargate, just to name one

[@finedig1854]

@@mallobag there was an image of the Kestrel ship from the game at a part of the video

[@aaronpaul1320]

I thought I recognized the kestrel there lol

[@Sirbikingviking]

What if we are part of a “nature reserve” of some sort? A galactic or interstellar species could simply be observing us from afar and preventing others from interfering with us. It could be a valuable opportunity for advanced aliens to learn about the development of intelligent life and the development of civilizations.

[@voodoodoll4960]

Good idia

[@vernonh194]

Yeah I think that too since that our earth is "nature reserve" that's why we can't see aliens because aliens hide from us to keep us safe from harm and also because we are so special to them to the extent that we shouldn't be aware to other forms of life.

[@paoloincastrone2302]

What if we're the doomsday machine that kills all life

[@firstsergeantfawkes8896]

thats an interesting concept right there

[@deviantshade]

I chuckled when you mentioned intelligent. But yeah you're theory seems sound. We do the same things to animals in our planet.

[@vidang2202]

this goes back to the age old question, "wtf is life man?"

[@huskytzu7709]

Vi Dang life is to enjoy dank memes

[@MathMith]

biologists know the answer to that question since Darwin, the real up-to-date question is, how it started?

[@MathMith]

I'm a biologist myself so I know the answer to your question if you are interested, but be ready to be dissapointed, spoiler alert: there's no magic, soul, god or spirituality involved.

[@huskytzu7709]

Mathieu do elaborate sir

[@MathMith]

Alright you have been warned... So according to the science that study life (biology), life is " organisms that maintain homeostasis, are composed of cells, undergo metabolism, can grow, adapt to their environment, respond to stimuli, and reproduce." (taking from wikipedia -life). Now this is life as we know it on Earth. My personnal definition would probably be : Any system that can reproduce and adapt to their environment, so if a man-made robot finds any way to reproduce and adapt, I would probably considere it as some sort of form of life but that is just because I'm a super big fan of science-fiction

[@chaos_insurgentt]

Thank you guys, you dont have to make this videos but you do. We appreciate you so much. May the Universe bless you plentifully

[@InquisitorBoomBoom]

More type of Kardashev scale: Type 4- capable harnessing the energy of the whole universe. Type 5- literally god level, capable to control everything and also capable harnessing energy outside its own universe

[@ean627]

but if the universe is expanding, wont type 4 mean that having control over multiple galaxys and type 5 is able to harness energy from many galaxys supermassive black holes

[@InquisitorBoomBoom]

@@ean627 type 5 is literally harnessing or controlling another Universe but still have yet to be proven

[@whtdwarfbackhe]

@@InquisitorBoomBoom Type 6: sv_cheats1 godmode

[@areallystrongvillain2603]

Type 7 : sv_cheats 1; buddha ; noclip

[@swaggybaum6992]

Type 8: /gamemode creative

[@stahliboi6249]

If we can imagine it then im sure someone will eventually find a way.

[@nichsulol4844]

in the end their creature don't care about human anymore and but has life perfectly

[@psychopathicporo]

Queue the great filter video

[@edwardhilder]

Life finds a way

[@sileightynz5274]

Unfortunately the universe is not obligated to live up to our imaginations

[@requiem522]

Not true, I’ve imagined having a girlfriend but it still hasn’t happened

[@jayjayf9699]

Response from universe “sorry I have a boyfriend “

[@shaanm5939]

Jayjay F deep bro

[@999cheeseballs]

What the fuck is "sorry"?

[@criscrosxxx]

@@999cheeseballs pardon .

[@v.7726]

Elon musk is disappointed

[@academus4978]

>:(

[@teknolozik]

5:12 My favorite part from this video.... I have watched this whole thing like over 20 times solely for that.

[@NewCharlie]

Save the squirrel :(

[@tango209]

save it

[@Therevengeforget]

Mew: *says sonething that we dont understand* Pokemon fans: the job is ours

[@wagiqwq]

Jolteo YT I actually think is is just arabic or something

[@NovaRanger007]

not alone again :D

[@leomdk939]

2015: "There may be trillions of planets" 2019: *update* _there may be sextillions of planets_

[@Embarrassedboy755]

Theres a lot of planets how bout that

[@KaliCoriaCMWSOT]

"there may be sextillions of planets, and 99 percent don't believe in you, but one does!" peep the reference and weep y'all! lol

[@meganixi5282]

12.23.2919:*Update* There Are Nonillion˙s Of Planets

[@goki6548]

8282625284803916252930383662927253849475373838383736373838373637 UPDATE THERE ARE İNFİNİTE PLANETS

[@Generationalwealth94]

and I wouldn't get to have sex in neither of them

[@berniesalutan4927]

Am i the only one who saw that kurzgesagt made 2 anime references? If you didn't see there was a pokemon reference at 1:49 and a dbz reference at 5:06

[@Ammonium-ow6pd]

After watching this video, I noticed that, actually, humans have advanced a LOT given the time that we have existed

[@SomeOne-ex7hk]

Compared to what other species?

[@TheSpectralFX]

To all others we've ever known, no less. Still have much more to learn. hopefully.

[@rodrigoceja2647]

Intelligence went from 0 10 20 40 80 160 320 640 1,280 2,560 etc. We will keep escalating getting much smarter.

[@ruoweilim7334]

yeah, technologically and industrially

[@alfredgudgeon9455]

But not psychologically. This is why we'll never get to Type II.

[@sanjuraghuvanshi9416]

2:26 *sorry, I don't speak Minecraft enchanting table*

[@hyper5157]

Bro that's Mew from Pokemon

[@nichsa8984]

@@hyper5157 *human level up 100 superior life and tech like a god* me also alien:oh you're finally become oldest age life

[@arrowchxshadow_arrow8371]

Galactic alphabets

[@linkthehero1234]

looks more like arabic

[@VIP-Princess]

I'm gagging

[@BjornDennis]

Humans: Alright, send the grey goo to find a planet. Grey goo: *Turns around and starts dismantling Earth*

[@nuurabdullahi5244]

Don't think that way or it will come for you first 'cause you thought it was dangerous to it's master which gave it an idea ' gee, let's attack master'.

[@nichsulol4844]

@@nuurabdullahi5244 human technology level:very low power:very weak also: alien:haha giant cannon railgun beam ray go brrr

[@aaronbalchand5475]

Progfres

[@Sandwich13455]

@@nichsulol4844 🤭🤭😆

[@spytf2203]

You werent supposed to do that *points*

[@Cranberrycrayfish]

This also gets me emotional imagining if we are actually the first life form that has reached this far and there is really no one out there but only us then we atleast have each other so we still need to be kind and let peace and love prevail

[@teafanatic8452]

I think aliens will destroy us to build a Space Highway and they drive massive rectangles and will disintegrate the world in an instant, they will also be very good at poetry.

[@PrivateTugs]

Tea Fanatic that's very specific

[@95ern]

Lay off the tea bra

[@jarnovanderzee2469]

I think all alien races wear hats and they dont want to talk to us because we dont all wear a hat

[@ItsMajorK]

Reminds me of a book... ;)

[@franbudisavljevic9827]

Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy?

[@aurumvale9908]

"... we don't destroy forests cause we hate squirrels" speak for yourself

[@cergy7625]

Huh?

[@nichsulol4844]

100 year destroyed maybe has predicted

[@monke980]

yeah man fuck squirrels, all my homies hate squirrels.

[@Mochi_Kiti]

@@monke980 The squirrels in my backyard won't die.

[@JohnnyS-eo8xu]

lool

[@Grandflea02]

This is the most fitting video in the existential crisis playlist.

[@johndavies2179]

Haha ikr

[@profile1157]

Haha ikr

[@turron83]

You got to love the Kestrel Cruiser from the game FTL

[@DaveyKanabus]

Haha I just scrolled down to see who else noticed this. I see you are a man of culture as well...