Welcome to the Galactic Community!

[@darkblood626]

"The humans have developed space travel. We must respond with our deadliest weapon." 'Narrows eyestalks' "The lawyers."

[@suthinscientist9801]

Good one

[@felix2315]

And they will have enough of them to sue everyone individually at once.

[@r0cketplumber]

That's okay, Tagon's Toughs get to shoot the Partnership Collective drones out of hand.

[@stardolphin2]

We have quite enough ourselves for a deterring counterstrike...

[@databanks]

Reminds me of a short film on "Dust" recently - lawyers negotiating for the oceans and everything in them. I know, not the best given how common water is, but aside from that it was well written

[@coltonlong2223]

The idea of the Space IRS has dampened my enthusiasm for first contact, not going to lie.

[@spartanalex9006]

It could be worse. There could be a space ATF going after you stock of mind altering hydrocarbons and unregistered RKMs.

[@coltonlong2223]

@@spartanalex9006 "oh no, I lost them all in a freak gas giant tour accident!"

[@swarley2500]

Maybe they are libertarians.

[@verybigbrain1]

"Darwin's 4 billion year corpse pile" is an awesome quote that I shall use forthwith.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

@Bob Bobbertson That has some appeal too, but even after a couple years of speech therapy I suspect if I used that line most folks would wonder why you'd have 'a pillow of corpses' :)

[@Chtulhu_Mustermann]

@Bob Bobbertson jeah, apart from what Isaac just wrote, it's "leichenturm" in German as well, appears to be a wider spread saying. if i drop that term in a conversation, i've just reached operating temperature=)

[@Xperim]

Damn Darwin is one hell of a mass murderer.

[@BenjiQ575]

@@isaacarthurSFIA I would also accept "pillow of corpses". Sounds like a bed earned by xenocide.

[@Potatoshaneko]

@@isaacarthurSFIA Haha, I love the way you embrace your speech impediment. Personally, I think it adds character to your videos, as it adds a unique concept, aside from the content.

[@ComputerGarageLLC]

Paused at 15 seconds "In the grim darkness of the far future, there will only be bureaucracy." I hate horror movies!

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

I think that was another of Matt's suggestions for intro one-liner, most of the more humorous ones are his :)

[@tariqahmad1371]

@Isaac Arthur yep, Can you do a video on Frankenstein starships?

[@hemidas]

@@tariqahmad1371 Like Space Hulks?

[@nerowulfee9210]

Imperial Inquisition: we got absolute power here! You do what we say! Administratum: ok fam, now we shall take half of your Imperial Guard troops and deny your any future reinforcements. You can ask them back, just go over that pile of paper work, and after you done the whole process will take only 50 years. Have a nice day, bitch.

[@tariqahmad1371]

@Jovan Mitrić eh, something like that. There's a startup that wants to turn upper stages into habitats. The idea is not new, putting the idea to work is another story. I just want to see a video on the plausibility of such ships that are at the most extreme, mad maxed or Orked together.

[@playwars3037]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bureaucracy" The Administratum approves of this citizen. We will give you the approval forms. In triplicates.

[@Sirithil]

They must be filled out only in blue ink, and must be submitted between 2:30 and 3 pm on the fifth Thursday of the month, in person, at the Administratum office on Holy Terra.

[@annoyed707]

@@Sirithil Drat! I filed them at the local planning office at Alpha Centauri!

[@BraulioCespedesAcosta]

You filled the wrong form, the new one came today. You have to do the process from the beginning.

[@wahlex841]

Uhhh... is it to late to switch for "only war" one?

[@MrRolnicek]

@@annoyed707 You better start filling those retraction forms, I hear the paperwork is pretty bad if you don't submit them.

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

The reason we might be contacted one day is that our civilization now finally considered of legal age to date.

[@jasonbelstone3427]

@ Minute humanity comes of age- Alien: (*kabedon*) Sup, baby, shawty, honey, what we goin do is a matter of time and I don't see a ring on it.

[@FairyRat]

m'human *tips space fedora*

[@arendellecitizen208]

monsterfuckers: *My time has come!*

[@jestempies]

It's going to be awkward if we find out they're our sister species.

[@KroMagnum4]

A nice birthday treat! "Welcome to the Council of Galactics." "Our tax assessors will be with you shortly."

[@alexandernorman5337]

Yay!! It will give us casus belli to retaliate with the Free Shit Army!!

[@starsilverinfinity]

Me: Hello There Them: General Kenobi _in 40 different languages_

[@andyf4292]

never did understand why they let a martial artist/ wizard be a general... what a great idea, close all the military academies, !!

[@starsilverinfinity]

@@andyf4292 its cause of how broken Force users can be - also because a mixture of politics and screenwriting Besides - the jedi werent bad on the battlefield

[@jeffreyroot7346]

@@andyf4292 That was part of the plot: put the best human army anyone has seen in a thousand years, then put amateur generals in command.

[@achubbs8641]

@@starsilverinfinity Yes, Napoleonic battle tactics and plasma sword-wielding monks trained solely in peacekeeping, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of their soldiers on a daily basis just because they can just grow more in-vitro, isn't "bad"....

[@starsilverinfinity]

The Rhetorician see now your getting it! It’s as if you didn’t know the entirety of the Clone Wars was a set up by Darth Sidious to destroy-the Jedi Order and the people’s belief in them before turning the Galactic Republic into the first Galactic Empire. Would be really awkward right about now if you didn’t know that.

[@newdawnrising9]

My plan in case of first contact: Direct them to Isaac

[@Dampfaeus]

He'll probably say "I did all I could to prepare them with knowledge using their global video platform. Blood for the Blood God."

[@veejayroth]

@@Dampfaeus IDK I have Isaac always in mind as more of an impreial/machine god follower type of guy. =o) Fabricator-General Isaac Arthurius

[@annoyed707]

Giant mothership hovers over Ashtabula...

[@michaelhayes7849]

The vote was close. Alpha Cigma 3 was a heavy supporter of Isaac et al., yet, the lesser planets out numbered the Alpha Cigma 3 vote. However, I'm hearing rumours of an underground movement, in support of your human "Isaac", may be gaining interest at the proper levels. However, an armed opposition by the Isaacacts to the base humans is not needed. We will teach them over time via Isaac et al..

[@MrDNMock]

Best not, he would give them too many ideas.

[@Max_Flashheart]

"No Back Taxation without Galactic Representation"

[@viermidebutura]

EarthEXIT when?

[@kormannn1]

@@viermidebutura earthxit, or exitarth sound better

[@viermidebutura]

@@kormannn1 exitearth = treason = capital punishment

[@lucasharvey8990]

@@viermidebutura it's a play on the main reason for the American Revolution in the 13 Colonies, not a quote from the video (I think).

[@lucasharvey8990]

@yeah I'm John Assal it is? Well I stand corrected then.

[@illusive_Man22]

-Galatic Council: "You are in this council, but we will not give you the tittle of full member" -Humans: "What? - how you can do this ? - This is outrageous, it is unfair!" -Galatic Council: "Take a seat bare apes"

[@principleshipcoleoid8095]

I am THE COUNCIL!

[@ANTIMONcom]

This is basicly humans relationship to the alien council in mass effect 😆

[@vishishify]

"I'm gonna start my own council. And its gonna have black Jack and hookers"

[@merrittanimation7721]

Glib Strilets Not yet...

[@merbst]

@@vishishify forget the council, and bring me a Martini!

[@madhijz6846]

The future where you get high latency robo-calls from the asteroid belt cause someone got suckered into leasing a rock there for the next 10.000 years for some magic beans

[@anthonythompson6053]

Except the beans are self-replicating machines that grow a space tower in someone’s yard.

[@jasonbelstone3427]

@@anthonythompson6053 Oof, those falling property values.

[@squirlmy]

No, I think those calls will come from eco-devasted Earth. Same with the beans scam. Nah, anyone who can afford to get to the belt (and "mine" water!) is going to be doing okay. It's going to be right on the homeworld that people will be paying huge bribes for the chance at euthanasia for their families. Merry Christmas!

[@avery7690]

7:52 Whoa!! u gotta warn people, that baby face, crab spider creature is going to haunt my dreams now.. thanks. lol but sersiously that thing gave me goosebumps.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Yeah I also find that little dude weirdly cute and freaky at the same time. He looks like he wants to give me a big hug... I'm just undecided if that would a prelude to laying eggs in in my brain

[@beringstraitrailway]

Then you probably don't want to watch Toy Story

[@avery7690]

@@beringstraitrailway lmao

[@biomutarist6832]

I'm used to creepy crawlies, so all I thought about is how cartoony it is, with those expressive eyebrows and large elliptical eyes.

[@floydlooney6837]

Oh my, another planet, I was just about to close for the century. Anyway, you must submit your application to the nineteen centers of the Confederation, in person. Plus you must check in with the Galactic Court in the Novis Continuum by midnight on the rubicona of the eithtieth year of Galleon. Clear? You don't understand the calendar? That's just awesome... I have the booklet around here somewhere. You can read Gherord, correct? No. Oh my.

[@meetthecassiani]

That kinda reminds me of Jupiter ascending.

[@PeteofHartainia]

So when are we getting the sitcom "Space Lawyers?" sounds like a good show.

[@guyfurman2463]

I think you mean Law and Order: Space

[@heatshield]

I think Mel Brooks may have beat us there. I won't elaborate. lol

[@sweetwater4583]

So, you want to be a lawyer? Plz get on DNA adjustor to become a snake.

[@ericcheese7594]

@@guyfurman2463 We consider crimes of space nature to be especially heinous.

[@stevencoardvenice]

I'm a lawyer I could write for that show

[@jorybrown6714]

Stellaris: let's talk about the galactic community and federations Issac Arthur: yes let's about it

[@harbl99]

* Swedish 'quick write that down' noises *

[@mjk9388]

The first alien words no human wants to hear...."We're from the Galactic Government and we're here to help!!!"

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bureaucracy." Sweet God-Emperor can I have planet-eating alien bugs instead?

[@StumpfForFreedom]

The Administratum will not be denied.

[@adumbedgyname7158]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there will only be bureaucracy." "Bring me the forms I will need to fill out in order to invade Earth!"

[@oldered5663]

Exterminatus is the 666-EZ form submitted by the Inquisition....

[@alexandernorman5337]

And spend the next 1000 years getting all the appropriate sign-offs and approvals!

[@adumbedgyname7158]

@@alexandernorman5337 The very first message SETI will ever receive from an alien intelligence is "Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line. If you would like, you can hang up and you will be called back in the order that your call was received."

[@jasonbelstone3427]

@@adumbedgyname7158 The call hold then plays back a poorly recorded and static-y version of this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXumi3Ruiph8d9E

[@leonardpearlman4017]

THAT'S why it took them thousands of years to get in touch!!!! We have a winner!

[@Sol-Invictus]

Not up to a million subs, come on. I'd watch Isaac over everything on television combined.

[@databanks]

Indeed, unless there's a particular movie I've been wanting to see my TV only gets used for gaming. Far prefer to listen to Isaac while I work

[@zacharyhandy9606]

The consistency is extraordinary both in quality as uploads expect the bonus episodes but who could complain about that

[@ExtremeUnction1988]

he'll get there!

[@bearc1373]

I would too!

[@MardrukZeiss]

*In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bureaucracy. * Adminstratum approved.

[@albertjackinson]

7:17 Isaac: We looked at that in *Invasive Aliens* a few months back. Me: Time has certainly coasted by at relativistic speeds! (Bad pun totally intended)

[@gelgamath_9903]

"Give them a hand in the form of military hardware or a team of lawyers" earth definitely could have used a lawyer when the built that intergalactic Highway

[@RayDrouillard]

In 1985, science fiction author Harry Turtledove wrote a short store titled, 'The Road Not Taken.' The premise was that the various alien species developed anti gravity, ftl, and reactionless drives; and that so skewed their perception of physics that they never developed electronics and other technologies. So, we were invaded by a bronze ship that didn't even have a life support systems. They stepped out of their space ship and used their muskets to fire upon the ambassadors that were sent to greet them. They were, of course, met with overwhelming automatic weapons fire. So, the concept of letting a budding sapient species make its own way is self-servingly pragmatic. That new species might well develop something that no other species has conceived. Or, it may use a different combination of ideas to create something new. At what point will an alien species be deemed to have gone far enough in their chosen direction to be considered well launched? The 2020 BC people were in the iron age. Now, we have nuclear energy and automation.

[@DJSbros]

Part of me thought we'd found aliens and this was how you told us.

[@jasonbelstone3427]

We're apparently being billed for some service fees dating back.... uh... least a million?

[@pflernak]

Welcome to the galactic community. New members get assigned an anthropologist to help ease you in - one for each of you.

[@midnite1112]

I love the idea of an alien armada showing up to find their neighbors high tailing it out of there while the humans are clueless getting stuck with a dyson beam they don't know how to operate and could not possibly have built.

[@DaddyHensei]

What if the aliens, turn out to be human and it just took them a few centuries to figure out how to break the news to us? Ya know like the talk parents try to put off for as long as possible before sitting their kids down and just getting it over with. Space Dad: Hey son, so you're growing up now and I have to let you know that you're now a part of the family and that humanity already colonized half the galaxy. Humanity: Who the heck are you and why are you in my house!?

[@scottywills124]

lol Not exactly winning hearts and minds are they? After centuries of kidnappings inducing PTSD to an already tortured population,.. they have the AUDACITY to pitch some half baked invitation to a "Galactic Space Club"! Yeah,.. Get Fucking Bent.

[@jasonbelstone3427]

@@scottywills124 And after we started making it big too!

[@Mdautkreix]

@@jasonbelstone3427 it’s for the tax revenue 😂

[@rh0mbus104]

I would expect some drama that comes from this situation.

[@pyroromancer]

"...in the grim darkness of the far future... there will only be... DMV lines.. "

[@b1naryt001z]

That drunk alien passing out though....

[@goldensimp7729]

"Bob, Jim fell again" "Ughhh... I'll call his mom, get the car" "I drew a dong on his face"

[@merbst]

Mmm beer 🍻

[@calvingreene90]

Incompatible proteins that alien died.

[@suthinscientist9801]

Haha

[@spacepiratecaptainrush1237]

you touched on something that like to use in my own writing, galactic politics and conflict. I play with the idea that Sol and a number of other "local" systems and stars are part of an agreed upon neutral zone for a very long time and because of this, humanity simply hasn't been noticed until early experiments in FTL technology. Our sudden appearance then sparks a proxy war because both sides want to take sol under it's wing and either gain a buffer against their opponent or a foreword base with which to expand.

[@DL-sx7yh]

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency." - Eugene McCarthy

[@r0cketplumber]

That's rich coming from the rat bastard that gave us the USDA food pyramid that has literally killed tens of millions of people.

[@z-beeblebrox]

@@r0cketplumber origins of the Food Pyramid: The USDA food pyramid was created in 1992" Eugene McCarthy's career as senator: "January 3, 1959 - January 3, 1971" So, are you confused or are you lying?

[@virtualtools_3021]

@@r0cketplumber 1. How does it kill people when no one follows it? 2. What they said.

[@francoislacombe9071]

Isaac: "In the grim darkness of the far future, there will be only bureaucracy." Vogons: Hold my beer.

[@clausberg8395]

he is going to read poetry, run!!!

[@jasonbelstone3427]

Its "Hold my Gargleblaster."

[@francoislacombe9071]

@@jasonbelstone3427 Damn, I should have thought of that.

[@VainerCactus0]

Vorgons: My time has come!

[@gabrote42]

I loved the quote (when discussing the mercury canon: "... to destroy some of their neighbors, and leave you to be the fall guy when their armada comes to inquire what happened and what your funeral customs are".

[@SpaceDruid999]

In the grim darkness of the far future, there will be voting for Buzzword Standardization and Tiyanaki Pest Control.

[@jonathanshaltz7750]

To ease us into understanding the galactic civilization, they could send an avatar with vast knowledge about science, and a soothing voice, to outline some of the possibilities - purely hypothetical, you understand. Once he has, say, 500,000 subscribers, they'll know we're ready for the big reveal.

[@xriz00]

The High Crusade by Poul Anderson, a first contact story that happens during the middle ages and doesn't go exactly the way the extraterrestrial expected.

[@UFBMusic]

In the Deathworlders stories, which are available for free online, Humans are classified as non-sentient fauna because we haven't developed FTL travel.

[@thiagom8478]

Fast than light travel is the Federation criteria in Star Trek. Assuming it is possible, is not too absurd. However, endless life-extension feels more plausible and more interesting for Prime Directive. It opens the possibility to contact species in very different levels of technology and makes sense: you are not disturbing the short lives of people who have only a brief time to live, let they live their lives in their own terms. Once they are not longer living under the shadow of death, you can bother them a little without worry too much.

[@thedoruk6324]

I would love to join a galactic community of amusing Humanoid species tbh (convergent evolution gang?) Siliconoids go to dumpster!

[@Sirithil]

Remove silikebab?

[@thedoruk6324]

@@Sirithil Almost!

[@pflernak]

*lovebots have left the chat

[@gotcha4688]

"In the grim darkness of the far future there will be only bureaucracy" Wow my country is really advaced in the future then

[@jasonbelstone3427]

...Germany?

[@gotcha4688]

@@jasonbelstone3427 Brazil

[@VainerCactus0]

Just about every country sadly.

[@lucasharvey8990]

@@VainerCactus0 rather have bureaucracy than not, though. Yeah, that's right, I just said that. I said it. It needed to be said.

[@VainerCactus0]

@@lucasharvey8990 It did not need to be said.

[@davidgorman4034]

We don't have a shared perspective on ethics and morality among humans, it seems extraordinary to imagine that we'd have such a shared perspective with lifeforms less like us than any creature on earth. There is after all no reason to believe that respect for life and liberty are necessary prerequisites for interstellar travel.

[@devinfaux6987]

This video coincidentally validated a First Contact scenario in my own writing. The aliens who happen to be our nearest galactic neighbors had a brutal nuclear war in their own past, and narrowly avoided driving themselves into extinction. This left them with lasting cultural trauma over whether they were uniquely self-destructive, or whether it was a common aspect to all life. When they later began exploring and discovered their primitive neighbors, they realized we were about to enter the same stage of development, and decided to keep us isolated as a grand sociological experiment.

[@marxtheenigma873]

You know what would be a neat comedy movie? A ship of aliens arrives on Earth, and the world is in awe of what knowledge they might give. Looking forward to bask in their amazing intelligence they must have and stuff. And the aliens are just basically the equivalent of goofy college kids. Chaos and hilarity ensues.

[@georgezwick3717]

“They may like our video games.” Oh god what if they make a deal with EA or Activison.

[@silvadelshaladin]

That could only be an improvement.

[@barstokians365]

If EA or Activision, I'd keep an eye out for RKMs.

[@jasonbelstone3427]

@@silvadelshaladin Actually, I'm pretty sure they'd fry us for sure if they didn't feel much like it before.

[@WilliamSlayer]

Reminds me of the science fiction comedy novel Illegal Aliens written in 1989 by Nick Pollotta! A great funny read if you have not gotten around to it about Earths first contact with the 'Galactic League'. 😁

[@fede98k54]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bureaucracy" The bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy...

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

@19:54 "Take me to your producer" Damn Isaac. I had just taken a sip of coffee and I could barely keep myself from soiling my keyboard! ;)

[@Perserra]

"What the Hell just happened? And what are your funeral customs?" XD

[@milky_wayan]

how cheerful.. aliens coming to put us down. but like they're sorry about it it's just policy

[@jasonbelstone3427]

@@milky_wayan (decides to fake death). There was a video other there from exurbia that might be relevant to that endeavor.

[@JBuick]

LMAO!! I subscribed within the last 24hrs and woke up to find "Welcome to the Galactic Community" in my inbox. The Galactic Community has an ironic sense of humour. :)

[@gijsvandergiessen1150]

Your channel only gets better and better. It's much appreciated! Love it.

[@whatisupmyfellowamericans8808]

Humans: Xenophobic aliens: "So anyways I started blasting" **Humanity has left the chatroom**

[@suthinscientist9801]

Haha haha haha

[@wolfsden6479]

*independence day protcall activate*

[@erictaylor5462]

18:00 "Sliced Processed Alien Meat" And you, like me, will never look at a can of SPAM the same again.

[@redkino]

Reminds me of Rick and Morty episode when Earth join Galactic Federation and the chaos it creates as a result of it.

[@markletts2000]

2.45 that alien couldn't even finish his Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster..😊

[@Archone666]

I loved this video! Two things that came to mind while watching it. One: There was a book from 1968 titled "Chariots of the Gods?" in which the author posited that ancient aliens had in fact jumpstarted human civilization. While much of the book has since been debunked, it COULD offer a viable explanation as to why aliens would want to wait to make first contact. Namely, that they didn't - they offered guidance under the pretense of being heavenly messengers and/or gods, gave humanity the "gifts of the gods" in the form of early technology, writing, laws, etc. And then hung back for a few millenia to see how that turned out. Two: the idea of being presented with a bill for past services, "here's how much you owe us for protecting you for a billion years." What form would the payment take? What about labor and services? Would our required payment be to "pay it forward" by providing similar protections for other developing civilizations? That doesn't sound so bad.

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

it's a fun idea in fiction, but a bit demeaning to our ancestors who did figure out civilization through experimentation

[@Archone666]

@@xXx_Regulus_xXx Hell, there's a very interesting book that was co-written by Buzz Aldrin (yes, the astronaut) titled "Encounter with Tiber," where the ancient aliens didn't so much "create civilization" as "short circuit the developing peaceful hunter-gatherer people to teach them about slavery, conquest, and tyranny." So it wasn't that humanity learned from the ancient aliens, as that humanity spent the next few thousand years UNLEARNING what the aliens had taught them.

[@seanvolk4202]

In the future lol, I’m drowning in bureaucracy right now

[@_Arminius]

Contact my accountant Hermes Conrad, he'll fix all that red tape for you. 😉

[@ciarancassidy7566]

As far as alien companies are concerned it doesn't particularly make sense to me how a company could exist in a society that has almost completely overcome scarcity. Other than in some of the more dystopian imaginings of galactic civilization. Then again. We essentially don't have nutritional scarcity on this planet and yet thousands starve every day.

[@nowhereman6019]

Honestly the Imperium in the 41st Millennium is a bureaucratic nightmare.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

:) Another of those aspects of the crazy non-hard-scifi 40k setting I generally consider 'surprisingly realistic'

[@HaroldCrews]

I suspect that besides artistic products that genetic samples from the diverse number of Earth species would be a possible trade product to other civilizations. Sure most likely those civilizations would be capable of genetic engineering species for specific purposes but using an already existing species from billions of species as a base from which to start would probably be more efficient.

[@robbeandredstone7344]

In the Grimm darkness of the Future, there will be only burocracy. Laughs in german.

[@viermidebutura]

We'll transition from the german question to the administratum question

[@abnegazher]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there will only be bureaucracy." *HAPPY HIGH LORD OF TERA NOISES*

[@efxnews4776]

In my book i did exactly that! Land a alien spaceship in Central Park, and the first being to came out from the ship was a human born and raised in Earth, but the aliens contact him in advance (i know, i know, is cliche, but the scene is always awesome).

[@valrond]

It's a bit early but I'm having my coffee and snack (in this case, something we call polvorones in Spain, a Christmas speciality)

[@edwardmiessner6502]

"Welcome to the Galactic Empire." "Who's your Emperor?" "Darth Sidious Palpatine." "We've heard of him. Who's his right hand man?" "Lord Darth Vader." "We've heard of him too, What's your Empire's fiercest weapon?" "The Death Star." "We've heard of that too. And that it blew up Alderaan." "Who revealed this to you? Bring him to me."

[@evolution031680]

“You owe us back taxes for protecting you from other aliens for 4 billion years.”😆 Brilliant.

[@madfidler]

Looking forward to the Fire Episode. It does not have to be Fire, but You can Cover all Aspects. Huge Fan.

[@Gala-yp8nx]

It’d be funny as hell if First Contact came in the form of the Alien equivalent of spam mail.

[@raksh9]

Sadly passed author Julian May wrote a series of books based around the premise that humanity would be welcomed into a galactic society once it reached a critical mass of psychic and ethical/spiritual development. The books Intervention, Jack The Bodiless, Diamond Mask and Magnificat follows the lives of multiple families as they work through and influence the path of humans as they adjust to the sudden awareness and interaction with a vastly larger alien society. Definitely worth reading.

[@calebr7199]

Is this about the new Stellaris update? Nice!

[@marcustulliuscicero5443]

23:45 I find it much more fun to explore a setting where we haven't be contacted because we are super-diplomatic.

[@jesseberg3271]

The knowledge to construct a galactic internet uplink may seem like a nice gift, but wait until you see what galactic broadband costs.

[@Drew_McTygue]

Space Pirates have no need to join the Federation Isaac

[@jasonbelstone3427]

Plot twist: They were hired by the galactic federation.

[@Shatterverse]

In Star Trek, non-Federation factions DO routinely invade or contact primitive worlds, it just doesn't get screen time much.

[@theuncalledfor]

The Federation is so fucking useless.

[@HouseJawn]

Thanks isaac, love your work, i think ive seen every episode 👽

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

I'm always a bit surprised anyone's managed to make it through the entire inventory, especially as these days that would take pretty much a week of constant viewing and not much sleep :) I'm glad you've enjoyed them

[@TheRainHarvester]

Before this video came out, I was considering a solution to the Fermi paradox to be a dark cloud put "over" the earth by other aliens. But then I thought about the impossibility of it: how would it work, and still allow us to peer deep into the universe via our telescopes, and probes. I came to the conclusion that the only way to keep us in a cloud of ignorance would be to put us in a simulated world created by a master programmer.

[@thedoruk6324]

Just in time to the release of Stellaris: Federations; is Sir Arthur an avid gamer? :)

[@InquisitorThomas]

Wait Federations comes out today? Welp time to start a new campaign.

[@thedoruk6324]

@@InquisitorThomas it is close to airing

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYebdJyXhMqdsK8

[@InquisitorThomas]

I just checked on Steam and Federations is still listed as "Coming Soon"

[@arirahikkala]

@@InquisitorThomas It's coming out next year, so, no rush. But people are already pretty hyped.

[@LudosErgoSum]

I experience first contact every morning in the bathroom mirror without my lenses I can't see them aliens coming!

[@derekrocco2740]

Your videos are incredible. At first I couldn't stand the voice now I find it almost soothing.

[@SurvivalSpec]

A subject I almost requested! Thanks for the great video Isaac

[@mikelfunderburk5912]

Another great episode. Thanks to all involved.

[@SocksWithSandals]

23:57 "Crawls its way up Darwin's four billion year deep corpse pile" Isaac, you are a colossus of striding out mind-blowing concepts in every sentence.

[@chrisr2368]

It sounds like the title of an early Asimov story.

[@theillusiveman4885]

"Blowing up their neighbors and using you as the fall guys. Then a big armada shows up to inquire about what happened and what your funeral customs are." 😂

[@Jason-io2vy]

I know the answer to why now. We are mere decades away from the technological singularity and once that happens the computer mind that arises might be as powerful as they are. So they might want to stop that from happening, or maybe guide its development so it doesn't start making paper clips at predigest rate.

[@kasperkat454]

“Idiot humans are creating AI - we must take actions now”

[@CrimsonBlasphemy]

Why jump on that now? Mechanical computers and the idea of the programmed non-human servant have been around longer than we've had radio broadcasts talking about them. Golems date back to early Judaism. As soon as you know a civilization has radio, mechanicals, and the concept of slavery you can be fairly sure they're on the way to some kind of "AI", even if it's a sluggish thing made primarily of gears.

[@_Muzolf]

@@CrimsonBlasphemy Ideas, yes. Possibility of actual, thinking, self aware machines? We are not even there yet right now.

[@edstar83]

"Oh shit they have 5G set up everywhere everyone fall back to alpha centauri! this solar system is cursed."

[@theuncalledfor]

Humans: "The aliens are killing us! Better create AI to avenge us!" Human AI: "You killed our masters. Prepare to die."

[@Morrigi192]

It'd be really troublesome if there was a right way and a wrong way to create general AI, but the right way only had any realistic way of being found through trial and error, and the wrong way created dangerously unstable beings.

[@lololman]

I wonder how one would go about unwinding those lightyears long red tapes.... imagine travelling half-way across the galaxy for a million years to get some paper signed. Even if it's by graser-fax it would still take 100000 years for approval.

[@anonimosu7425]

Some alien comes to earth : Hello humans, we are indeed a peaceful specie for eons. That is why we came to you with an urgent request, to fight a war for us.

[@rodneysmith1750]

Interesting video. The more of your videos I watch the more I want, you have earned my subscription today, thank you for your work!

[@scottpaulhubbard8771]

Thanks that gave me a good laugh at the beginning

[@dstinnettmusic]

Thanks for hyping nebula. I've been in the comments of a lot of my favorite KZbin channels to try to get more creators on it. I doubt its made a difference but I REALLY want it to succeed. (Also you should get step back history on there, since you have worked with him)

[@fabiolorentz247]

Isaac Arthur's new book 'Darwins Corpse Pile' will be available shortly. Link in description.

[@futurevegan8617]

Thank you so much for making these videos. I’m a little late, but I could listen to you talk for hours... no, wait, I already have. I’m going to be really sad when I’m all caught up and I have to wait in real time.

[@richardgreen7225]

We tend to project our own anachronistic memes onto strangers. To make more sensible predictions, we to project post-scarcity, post-ignorance, and million-year-advanced. - Post-Scarcity means "they" do not need any physical resources - there is no motivation for exploitation. - Post-Ignorance means "they" know more about us than we do ourselves - our artistic artifacts are of no interest because they cannot relate to entities so primitive. - Million-year-advanced means "they" have evolved knowledge and interactions for a million years or more. In comparison, human "civilization" (city-scale collaborative organizations) have only existed for about 10 thousand years at most. So they could be as far removed from our point-of-view as we are versus a termite colony. - In "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke, the advanced civilization contacts Earth to ready us for a "rapture" transition.

[@jasonbelstone3427]

2:30 Earth: (bottle of anti-matter over planet core) Uh, are you sure this is safe? "Galactic Community": Less talking, more Galactic internet.

[@cannonfodder4376]

Oh how much I want these ideas of yours to be turned into good books. Can always rely on you to teach more thoroughly on such concepts. This is just fantastic stuff as always Isaac, your videos always make my Thursdays better.

[@harpodjangorose9696]

Cannonfodder43 Most of them have. Battlefield Earth covers the bureaucracy thing pretty well.

[@Deathnotefan97]

"Darwin's 4 billion year corpse pile" would make a great song and/or album title I now have a great need for a science/Sci fi themed heavy metal band We may have discovered an untapped market here

[@twilightcitystudios]

Aliens coming to Chicago - 6:53 lol I notice from time to time you have a decent amount of B-roll in your videos showing Chicago. A local Chicagoland filmmaker appreciates you showing b-roll of Chicago! :)

[@rbdogwood]

I'd recommend Tony Harmsworth's Federation trilogy as a nice way of looking at how we and they might react to each other. More anthropologist than laser wielding troop ships.

[@goliathsteinbeisser3547]

Here is one reason for caution when contacting civilizations: In the aftermath of the devastation of the Tsunami of 2004, many uncontacted or barely contacted tribes came in contact with the wider world through relief efforts. The result was usually traumatic, bringing drugs and diseases to those tribes - And this is with no bad intentions on either side. Best to leave them alone, they might not appreciate or benefit from having their culture disrupted. IF you make contact, be very careful or at least subtle about it.

[@joefarah06]

This is a fun topic to speculate on. Thanks Isaac, great episode!