What If We Do Find Aliens? How Prepared Is Earth For Meeting Extraterrestrials

[@Soliy87]

Send off the entire internet... that would scare them off if anything with the sheer amount of porn and cat pics

[@Stelum1000]

Solidus327 porn and cat pics? The internet is full of pussies.

[@alexeikafe5388]

Stelum 1000 loool

[@iamlsusam]

Stelum 1000 ding ding ding, we have a winner!

[@mikerogers6136]

Could they afford to buy all the items advertised with 'popups'??

[@jSlazer1988]

redstormfighter29-Solidus327- What if they happen to be cat like?

[@mulder1979]

We should send them a collection of our finest memes.

[@terrywilliams3354]

mulder1979 Oh don't. Forget our cat videos. Show were harmless, unless the aliens are 'cat based'

[@disgustingweeb]

memes are the reason aliens dont visit earth

[@mclovin2408]

@@disgustingweeb no its probably because we are still arguing about if there are more than 2 genders and retards Still think the earth is flat. (Newsflash there are only 2 genders)

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@mclovin2408 and earth is triangle not flat

[@mclovin2408]

@@gamingcreatesworlddd2425 EXACTLY

[@mountainbreeze4176]

If I was an alien I wouldn't come to earth either....

[@kangookangoo9646]

Yeet yahh

[@DefecTec]

Mountain Breeze I'd just get rid of this species

[@alexeikafe5388]

Defec Tec exactly, earth is amazing and right now we're just a cancer to it

[@DefecTec]

Alexei Kafe Exactly. Maybe if we weren't so wasteful and superstitious we could actually take care of our home planet in a reasonable manor as well alongside with the creatures on it.

[@lightninglj]

Mountain Breeze I would, come for the food, stay for the memes

[@GrimYak]

with billions upon billions of galaxies out there and even more solar systems and planets it would very arrogant to still think we are the only planet with life. there are other worlds, that is an almost certainty.

[@frasercain]

And yet, where are they? That's the eternal mystery.

[@GrimYak]

Fraser Cain i have a number of theories, one being that these civilizations may not have the capability to travel vast distances yet. Or if they are technologically superior they chose not to interact with an inferior race such as ourselves as we are deemed too primitive.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

If you want to argue for advanced alien civilizations the most rational argument is that space is just too big and there is no way to reach another civilization. If light is the speed limit of the Universe that seems pretty reasonable. That there is no point in attempting to communicate. By the time you detected an alien civilization they would already be extinct. Otherwise then yes, where the hell are they?

[@ninjaked1265]

Jay G but wouldn’t they want to study us

[@quintonthevillain2745]

Oh god please let first contact be with Asari lookalikes.

[@romualdazz]

oh no the council all over again... x.x

[@frasercain]

I'm so excited for the next Mass Effect.

[@romualdazz]

Fraser, u're the best! :D

[@moshimoshijaydesu132]

@Fraser Cain lets hope they don't change the writer halfway through on us again...

[@quintonthevillain2745]

The Four Eyed Bastard Oh, so THAT`s why ME3`s story ended up so scarce and shitty?

[@Jonathan-xe4ec]

4:13. Why did you say "Hovering over Paris"? Shouldn't it be New York or Washington as Aliens land in USA and only in USA by default?

[@frasercain]

I already mentioned the White House so I figured I'd spread the damage around.

[@Drakcap]

The martians landed in England in War of the Worlds.

[@crankenstein20]

Chad Weber Actually, in War of the Worlds they came from underground, did they not?

[@Drakcap]

It's been ages since I read it. I remember a crater, but maybe it was actually a sink hole and they weren't Martians?

[@pvkjhilk8323]

mexico city is a hot spot i hear

[@mikicerise6250]

I know what I would say to them. "Get me out of here, these people are crazy!"

[@frasercain]

They would be wise to heed your warning.

[@SakiSkai]

Yea better send these aliens the whole internet, including the dank meme compilations. They are gonna blow us to kingdom come

[@frasercain]

Or decide we're not a threat at all.

[@TheNerd484]

What if the first aliens we meet are of a similar technology level than us? I've never heard this discussed.

[@hamptonhansen6498]

From what I understand were the civilization within about a 10ly of us and of similar tech level the only real change would be societal, were they 100l+y out then they would have a centuries lead and as such would likely be way more advanced than us and we would only be seeing their power at that instant

[@TheNerd484]

hampton hansen not necessarily present day, or what if they were closer (i.e.

[@hamptonhansen6498]

TheNerd484 Thing is theres no conceivable situation where they are close enough for reasonably real time communication and were they of similar tech level then neither party would pose any immediate threat or benefit to the other as such its simply a matter of the societal effects

[@DefecTec]

TheNerd484 the odds of that seem rather dull.. seeing for contact one of us would have to have mastered interstellar travel

[@mariusgreber6565]

TheNerd484 o

[@mynameisntimportant9341]

id invite the aliens to come have a blunt

[@frasercain]

They might take you up on that.

[@vikinginfidel4293]

They'd wonder why our leaders ever made it illegal

[@RobbieT015]

yep :)

[@sickoffdope]

Hopefully they match you on some of that space weed

[@tygra2886]

For me, the aliens would be Capitalists and/or libertarians, and therefore, they would not have any problem with blunts - Only Capitalist civilisation, with free market, can create technology to reach our planet. I know it might be a little bit Anthropocentric thinking, but We can predict, how this situation would look like on the alien planet, when we look at our civilization. Look at the comments of the so Called SJWs, Environomentalists and the entire regressive left - I don't talk about politics, but about their thinking - Those group think in terms of „Present Day", not „The future". They think that „Space travel" make no sense at all, and that we „should rescue our planet" and other idealistic, unrealistic things. Maybe this same thing happens on alien planet - Some part of alien society is like „No, we shouldn't flight towards this earth, we shouldn't think about far future, we should Rescue, Idk, Trappist-1 from global warming XDD". The part of society that we, as humans, will meet in person, would be that group of aliens that entered the spaceship, and to say goodbye, they unconsciously quoted Kurt Russel and said to the delusional group of aliens „Yeah, f*ck you too"

[@BlueHawkPictures17]

so if we make contact with alien intelligence that is more advanced i will go to my room, compile necessary documents, and apply for permanent residence on their homeworld of blorg and get into the space furniture trade. good life

[@frasercain]

The Blorg economy is booming!

[@Ryan-sn7fq]

We build a wall, what else?

[@All4mula]

zoo or sea world attraction with aliens

[@frasercain]

And make the aliens pay for it?

[@violentdelights56james82]

Tell them it is our way, or the space portal highway!

[@condorboss3339]

Maybe they've already built a wall, just outside the Oort Cloud. " _Sorry, untill you humans are actually civilized, we're not letting you roam around_ ."

[@violentdelights56james82]

It's probably a dome where everything in space we see is a fake and we are also being watched by the Galactic Television Network.

[@jasmineluxemburg6200]

Love that you chose to talk while standing in a forest ! Trees being by far the most impressive life form on the planet - in my opinion ! How about the message “help, we are messing up big time, can you help out ?”

[@spyro1159]

All the girls will be like, "Ah! Aliens! All the guys will be like, "Ah! Space babes!"

[@Icybubba]

And then the nerds...we would be loosing our minds, I mean even if an Alien had me point blank with a lazer gun I would be like "this is so cool"

[@aceshotz5051]

Spyro 115 u never know Alien women can be way more attractive then human girls

[@Heavy_Metal1982]

I mean seriously, If Aliens find Earth it will just be quarantined as a lunatic asylum.

[@violentdelights56james82]

Spongebob: PATRICK ARE YOU READY TO PARTY TONIGHT? Patrick: I'M READY TO PARTY!!!! Spongebob:ARE YOU READY TO GET CRAZY? Patrick: I'M ALREADY HEARING VOICES!!!!! Hah lmfao No aliens invited, we can party it up here on earth!

[@frasercain]

Let's hope that's all they do.

[@albertfeyen5872]

Hmmm, maybe they already have done it.

[@OrchestrationOnline]

Probable 1st contact scenario. Alien message: Hello intelligent civilisation! Earth: Hello aliens! Alien message: Hi, sorry, we were trying to contact the solar system behind you. Earth: Oh right, no problem.

[@BrienMalone]

When it comes to alien life, we need to step back from our human-centric, even earth-centric biases. The very act of communication evolved because our existence favored cooperative, communal behavior. If an alien species evolved to favor individuals, they may not communicate! We must treat an alien species as a thing to be understood before projecting meaning and purpose on it from our human point of view.

[@frasercain]

I'm sure communicating with them will be an enormous challenge.

[@GodWorksOut]

Fraser Cain it probably won't be much of a problem at all. Given that we crack ancient languages with only a few hundred or thousand words, an alien civilization sophisticated enough to be capable of communication, should be relatively easy to communicate with, especially since we have pumped millions of hours of recordings of our languages and society into space (this is assuming they have too and we have access to it). With that much data available, and all the motivated excitement, we'd be chatting with them in no time.

[@ninjaked1265]

And they wouldn’t understand a word we say so yo can insult them without them knowing

[@GodWorksOut]

My first thought is to think this would really challenge people's perspectives, like religion, but then I realized unless they were really close and we were communicating with them regularly, people would just find a way to rationalize it away. It would probably take some time, maybe a whole new generation of young, bright thinkers to really embrace the reality and start thinking science-based, futuristic thoughts.

[@frasercain]

As crazy as it sounds, if we did actually discover aliens, we'd get numb to it too. Like the miracle of smartphones, airplanes, etc.

[@one1charlie643]

"Historical Documents"...... wait .".... galaxy quest?

[@frasercain]

Yeah. :-) Nice catch.

[@zapfanzapfan]

"By Grabthar's Hammer, what a reference!" :-)

[@OGSontar]

I think the writers of "Men in Black" nailed it with this line from Kay: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

[@cortster12]

Could you do a video on why it's quite probable we are the first sapient, space fairing race in the observable universe? Because while prokaryotic life seems to have come into being the moment it was able to, the jump from prokaryotic life to eukaryotic life took billions of years. Then the jump from prokaryotic life to multicellular life took another billion or so. After that, it seems to be a semi-random, but steady, progression to sentience and to increasingly intelligent beings. However, then it took hundreds of millions of years for us to exist. But even then, humans have the exact combination of language skills, cognition, body plan, lifespan, social structures, passing down knowledge, ect to eventually give rise to civilization. That's pure chance, as natural selection literally cannot select fitness for space-faring races. It just comes to chance that our tribal fitness was just barely good enough to be able to build rockets with enough generations of passed down knowledge. And the final nail in the coffin: the Milky Way is not teaming with self-replicating machines. At the very least, we should see von-Neumann probes literally everywhere. But we do not.

[@frasercain]

I feel like that's the case I've been making across all my alien-related videos. :-)

[@UrbanPanic]

Another issue that pushes back the timeline of technological space faring races is that the home planet has to be built on at least a third generation star. A first generation star begins as pretty much just hydrogen and helium, fusing together heavier elements until it dies as a supernova in which iron is the heaviest element it will create. This material would then recondense into a new star, and the iron can then undergo neutron capture and subsequent beta decay to become heavier. Small amounts of this may happen during the initial first generation supernova, but in order to make an appreciable amount of the transferric elements the iron really needs to sit in the star for a long time. This material would then disperse in the second generation's supernova, eventually gathering in the protoplanetary disk around a third generation star such as our sun. Without these heavier materials many of the technologies that our society relies on may be simply impossible: no microprocessors without rare earth elements, no electronics at all without copper, no bronze age without tin, no plumbing without lead, probably not nearly enough commerce without silver or gold, and so on and so on. This is even assuming that life would be possible without certain trace minerals, such as iodine, selenium, and zinc. And then there is a good chance that we wouldn't have gotten to our current technological level without the energy afforded by fossil fuels, so once evolution gets a later start., there need to be vast periods where organisms make far more energy than they use, and this energy is stored away in some form that is useable by a technological organism. Without ancient forests becoming coal and ancient algae storing extra oils, we probably wouldn't be launching into space. The to the question "why can't we find other galaxy spanning civilizations" may be that the universe is just now old enough for them to arise.

[@cortster12]

Benjamin Shaw Exactly. I would have gone into that point as well, but it would have taken up too much space.

[@GodWorksOut]

Bose-Einstein what if we are the exception and our evolution took too long? The universe is nearly 14 billion years old... we are late to the scene. Just think how advanced we could be or how extinct ( I believe that's the kicker) we would be, if we existed then instead of the dinosaurs.

[@cortster12]

+GodWorksOut A shame we'll never know. All we have now is what we see, and what we see is that it took a long time for us to evolve sapience. We can speculate on "what ifs" all we want but, in the end, it took billions of years for us to come about. And since we don't see any evidence of any other sapience life (as anything that lasted longer than a few hundred thousand years would make its mark on the galaxy), the likelihood that we are alone is high.

[@kargi42]

I suppose any alien civilization that can be a threat to us can work out trajectory of the spacecraft without the plaque/record. At least we are sending peaceful greetings with the plaque/record :) Thank you Carl Sagan.

[@MalleusDei275]

If they can travel the great exspances of space, to here. There would be little we could do about it, so hope they appreciate life.

[@240pixel]

*pumps SPAS-12* _"I like to keep that for close encounters"_

[@SPACETVnet]

If we find Aliens then we know for a fact that life is not unique to Earth. Which would be a huge relief. But until that day comes we must go to the stars and take life to where there is none.

[@frasercain]

It would be nice not to have the pressure to colonize the Milky Way.

[@josecolon2717]

SPACETV Hello baron rock in the arse end of space, would you like to hear the word of your lord and conquerer life? No!? Well too bad!

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Will it be a huge relief when they kill everybody on Earth? Maybe they'll keep some of us as pets? Look at the history of what happened to every less advanced human tribe who encountered a more advanced one. An alien species is straight up terrifying.

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@Jordan-Ramses doesn't matter even if we will not signal within a range of 20 light-years earth's radioewaves can reach aliens

[@Jordan-Ramses]

@@gamingcreatesworlddd2425 true enough. There isn't any real danger because the universe is too big. It's just wasted effort. But it would be really dangerous if it could actually be done.

[@LordBitememan]

In all probability any species that ever discovered us would be advanced enough that we wouldn't have to worry much about our response. They'd either be advanced enough to understand a diplomatic flap due to cultural differences, or disinterested in talking as opposed to simply ignoring us or scouring our planet clean of the "human infestation."

[@bmartinez7173]

Man your Like to dislike ratio is soo good, you deserve it, one of the more healthy Community's on KZbin.

[@frasercain]

Thanks a lot. But then, the alien haters eventually show up.

[@vrstovsek]

A cook book? If a tall, bald, non speaking alien comes to Earth with 'To Serve Men' book in his hands I'm definately NOT going to visit their world I love you Fraser :)

[@frasercain]

Just don't make the recipes. Everything should be fine.

[@gunsgiftsgalleries7711]

has anybody here read "childhoods end" by Arthur c Clarke ?

[@frasercain]

Absolutely, one of my favorite books.

[@jpaetaa5679]

GunsGifts Galleries I saw the movie, it's really great.

[@unapologeticallylivinwitho1312]

BLAIR M Schirmer Well with that attitude we might as well be doomed already.

[@vitamincisgoodforme]

I watched a movie based on it.. Depressing as..

[@Heavy_Metal1982]

The over whelming character of humanity is greed. None of our other traits dominate our daily lives more than that. The old saying actions speak louder than words. We can claim that our core motivation is enlightenment or discovery but our actions make it clear once the handshake and introductions are over, it's back to greed for us.

[@frasercain]

Maybe the aliens will show us new vistas of greed. Greed at a cosmic scale, and we'll feel downright benevolent in comparison.

[@yousircantknow8987]

Then all of a sudden there will be an advocacy group for Humans sexually attracted to our new Pray Mantis overlords.

[@frasercain]

Of course.

[@saltymonke3682]

Yousir Cantknow and new porn category and titles like "ET Hardcore", "Alien Anal", "Space Gangbang"

[@user-og6ol2im7v]

I was born in a human body but I identify as alien

[@idonttrusttheinternet4454]

Space herpes!!!!! you just don't know what kind of funk they've got.

[@ninjaked1265]

I think it would be impossible for humans to be attracted to aliens, like it’s impossible for us to be attracted to dogs or bears

[@Deus0tiosus]

If there is another advanced civilization in our universe, our extinction via invasion is really not that bad from an outside observer's perspective. The most important thing is for some intelligent life to exist, ours or another. So signal away, it is a win-win situation; either we get friends or we die, but without negative impact on the universe.

[@frasercain]

I agree, if we do discover aliens, it takes a lot of pressure off us.

[@evollove19]

Hey because of the large distances between habitable planets, the energy and tech required for those distances, do you think anything being able to travel that would need anything from us? Id feel they'd only be traveling for curiosity sake,.. I do not see what they would want or need. Its almost as if the large distances required to make is a natural defense. only super smart civilizations with abundance of energy and tech can make the trips and wouldnt need to enslave or attack others. Biological life would make crappy fragile slaves compared to the robots they probably could make. and theres no scarcity of resources and energy if they could make the trip. And if we are boring to them and they are only traveling for energy and resources, they would probably mostly go to stars with planets that are dead to harvest.

[@mrnice4434]

What if they want us as pets? We don't need cats for anything but many hold them in small apartments same for pet snakes or birds or fishes.

[@evollove19]

Mr Nice Being pets for a higher life form doesn't seem that bad. A lot of pets seem to be volunteers. but i really think because of the large distances anything being able to effectively travel that has so much energy and tech, there pet needs have already been met. they can already make whatever pet they want. Once your able to cover such large distances, only reason i could see them traveling is curiosity.

[@freespuddy]

I agree 100%

[@Bertydude]

Gotta mine that helium-3 baby, won't find that on a planet like earth. That's a good point Mr wil mach. Also in the same line of thought, they could just scoop hydrogen from empty space while traveling, gather energy from the stars, and many more. No limits to imagination but still going in pair with the law of physics. The Universe is teaming with ressources the Earth would be a spec of dust compared to the giant Nebula clouds and Gas Planets that could power them.

[@kingkushton2069]

I like the way you think

[@SwissMilk0]

also any lifeforms evolved far enuff for interstellar travel would surely have become wise and peaceful by that point :)

[@maulid3514]

What if aliens do exist but our entire existence is so trivial to them like an ant colony, like they just casually notice us.

[@frasercain]

Even if they don't care about us, we could still see them. We're not concerned about ants, but they sure see us, and bite us.

[@vitamincisgoodforme]

@@frasercain *tinfoil hat ON*- well people claim to see ufos.

[@neolynxer]

I know it prooved to be not feasable, but i love your old production of Guide to Space and green screen Q&As. I come back to old episodes from time to time. KZbin is clearly unfair with it's exposure.

[@frasercain]

Hah, I'm sure I'll get back to a different form of production at some point. :-)

[@RepublicCommando]

Wouldn't it be funny if there weren't any aliens, but other humans someplace in the galaxy? I wonder what there culture would be like and how they would talk😂

[@unapologeticallylivinwitho1312]

Ender Wolf they would still be aliens though. Being that they come from a different planet.

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

'Mars Attacks!' It is amazing how much insight into the variety of human psyches that story explores.

[@omeshsingh8592]

Have you guys seen the new Amy Adams movie "Arrival"?

[@frasercain]

Not yet. I hear it's good, though.

[@starvoyager523]

Yes. An interesting take on the visitors.

[@yankeepeddler8040]

Time may not be as linear as you think. It isn't as "sci-fi" as your making it out to be.

[@BobbedMcBob]

Omesh Singh yes, why?

[@Majinant]

Love the little Galaxy Quest reference. My favorite movie ever!

[@schnitzelvonlichenmenutz3204]

Imagine the virus’s and bacteria they may unintentionally bring. Could potentially be the end of all life on earth. Also, I hope they have a good immune system for our planetary virus’s and bacteria

[@frasercain]

If they didn't evolve in our environment, it's unlikely we'd be able to infect each other with our bacteria and viruses.

[@schnitzelvonlichenmenutz3204]

Fraser Cain - thank you for your reply :) id agree with that, but but there is still a chance it could also work the other way. I did just watch the recent aliens movie which sparked the thought. Once again, thank you for your response - love the channel

[@itslevin5577]

If there is a war with humans and aliens, I think humans will have started the war

[@frasercain]

Starting wars is a thing we like to do. :-)

[@Cornefeu]

Do not send the entire internet you fools, they will at best laugh at us XD

[@frasercain]

At least they'll know what they're dealing with.

[@Cornefeu]

Giving them everything they need to know to crush us!

[@VulcanOnWheels]

Interesting video. 2:08 Don't you mean "phenomenon?" 6:44 You're assuming they've already found us or were even searching.

[@tomspeed2000]

They are already here even before us

[@frasercain]

Whoa, where are they?

[@BlueBirdgg]

what are your opinion on this?

[@treymiller5736]

Umm maybe we are aliens? Maybe life here came from somewhere else. But on real notes any “massive threat” to us would already know we are here and if they need to find a single from us they likely aren’t a threat. Bc they aren’t advanced enough. Getting some kinda ship here would take years at the speed of light and if they can’t hit 10% speed of light it would be optimistic to say the ones who left would even be the ones who get here and are we that important? To send ppl who won’t live long enough to get here? The closer star is 4.7 light years away then moving to 8 light years and so on so. So 10% the speed of light would take 47 or 80+ years and likely much longer and if light speed they can hit they already very aware of us and so much more. Also what do we matter to them unless they think of us as a threat? Unless they want to study what makes us us but that’s another whole argument.

[@tsovloj6510]

I think the big problem's going to be internal, the civil unrest, if we ever see anybody else out there.

[@Steaphany]

How would aliens take having religious missionaries try to convert their belief systems to Earth faiths ?

[@frasercain]

Poorly.

[@ninjaked1265]

Aliens might have they’re own religions and try to convert us

[@bluebull399]

I wish there was a Fraser Cain in every school. He teaches science and astronomy in such a fun way. Absolutely love these videos and astronomy cast.

[@shallabim912]

And run the dimensional portal project out of Cheyenne mountain complex. Lol

[@markanderson1088]

I liked the Galaxy Quest drop Fraser 😂

[@frasercain]

Still one of my favorite sci-fi movies.

[@muskyelondragon]

To serve man, It's a cookbook!

[@frasercain]

Wait, there's a little spacedust there. It says, "How to Cook *For* Humans"

[@muskyelondragon]

😋

[@Jordan-Ramses]

What is that from? I know what To Serve Man is from. How to Cook For Humans, was that from the newer twilight zone series? Oh the Simpsons LOL. They made a lot of twilight zone references.

[@Musicman81Indy]

"To Serve Man" was the title of one of the original Twilight Zone episodes in the 60s".

[@matteoaldon6160]

This video is giving me Contact flashbacks lol

[@starvoyager523]

They are probably vexed by human emotion and violence.

[@frasercain]

Let's hope they've figured out how to deal with their violence, especially if they're able to travel great distances and visit us.

[@seriouslyrelax]

Okay random question.....I know in a previous episode, Fraser mentioned that the discovery of gravitational waves could be helpful in our understanding of the inner-structure of a black hole. Has there been any data connecting gravitational waves to black hole structures inside the event horizon thus far since their confirmed discovery? That was just the first time I had heard of that specific possible connection.

[@SPACETVnet]

The point is not about finding aliens. There are already non-human beings on Earth that have intelligence which may rival or even exceed the most intelligent humans, but they just don't have technology. The point is finding intelligent AND technologically advanced aliens. If you just want to have an conversation with an intelligent being which is non-human, there are Dolphins and Whales on this planet We are trying to communicate with Dolphins and some impressive progress is being made. Imagine in the near future that we are able to have conversations with Dolphins, and we can teach them about the planet they live on. Should we teach them our history? What would those dolphins think of humans when they see and comprehend what some humans have done to their species? What would an intelligent, technologically advanced think?

[@kurtreber9813]

Space TV who are these non humans? Dolphins?

[@luckyjohny181]

Dolphins aren't smarter than us.

[@kurtreber9813]

Lucky Johny thats why im asking for clarification

[@Cythil]

Bots. I bet it is us bots.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

I think space tv is just insane. There is no species on earth smarter than us. Computers have no intelligence at all. They are purely mechanical devices. Its like saying your refrigerator is intelligent. An abacus can count, i guess its smart too?

[@dagothur2666]

If we get a message from Aliens I think that it would say "You are not alone".

[@frasercain]

That would be nice.

[@LuisEdGm]

I just hope we never find aliens more advanced than us

[@frasercain]

Or if we do, they're nice.

[@alivewithpassion]

No one ever discusses about the possibility of humans being the ”Genesis” species. What I mean by Genesis species is, being the first intelligent life form that’ll colonize space. After thousands and even millions of years, our offspring on other planets would look completely different but have all some similar “human” qualities and traits. Why don’t scientists ever discuss that as a possibility?

[@danielchapman547]

Maybe if we send hostile aliens our pornographic movies they'll lose interest in invading us.

[@sderry]

:-(

[@frasercain]

Or appreciate our honesty.

[@Crushonius]

that ship has sailed a long time ago we have sent the first LOUD and CLEAR message to the stars when we blew up our first nuke . that event is probably very easy to spot by aliens who are vastly more advanced and paints a clear picture that there is somewhat intelligent and advanced life on earth

[@frasercain]

Our first nuke, in fact the first time bacteria started pumping out oxygen into the atmosphere of the Earth.

[@toxicgraphix]

ok , but wouldn't it take millions or billions of light years to talk to each other? . radio waves would have to to travel faster than the speed of light. for any communication to be possible. unless the aliens are already within our solar system? hehe they are! I kid .....

[@violentdelights56james82]

That's why we should only focus our attention to our Galaxy and local neighbor galaxies, unless there's someway of communicating in a relative sort time frame.

[@frasercain]

Yup, it'll take a long time to communicate back and forth.

[@gethgod2350]

Mass effect proved that the chinese can help the world and America wasnt run by the illuminati, China is already helping humanity so now we just need to get rid of the illuminati so America can go back to bieng a democracy

[@jaycub6130]

When aliens invade, its always the US that suffers the wrath of a space empire

[@frasercain]

I wonder why that is...?

[@Jayguevara1982]

Hi Fraser, would you be disappointed if it turns out humanity is actually the most advanced civilization in the galaxy? :-P

[@NovaRexus64]

Jan-Albert Hootsen Nah, that could mean that we were the most dominant and wouldn't get messed with. then again it would still be cool to me a passive advanced alien race

[@Jordan-Ramses]

What if humanity is the only intelligent life in the galaxy? There are billions of species on earth and only one is sentient. What if there are trees and plants and sometimes animals. That is it? What if there are an infinite number of universes beyond ours? So distant that the odds of receiving even a photon of light from them are nearly zero. What if the closest Universe to ours is so many light-years away that it would require new notation to express it? Bigger than any other number we've ever imagined? What if matter is made up of infinitely small pieces going all the way down. That electrons are made up of smaller pieces that are made up of smaller pieces that are made up of smaller pieces etc etc to infinity. What if the amount of 'solid' matter in this universe and an infinite number of them is effectively zero?

[@jameswashbuirn580]

if all these alien races are anything like humans, they've nuked themselves back to the stone age, hundreds if not thousands of years ago. so atm we probably are the most advanced civilization in the galaxy

[@anthonymartinez7844]

Fantastic video of on your research and awesome pictures of brilliant ideas. Great job.

[@robertogrigolatto8565]

How would the mayor religions of the world react?

[@alexeikafe5388]

Robert Gratto I asked my religion teacher(christian) and she said that maybe there they had their own kind of jesus lol

[@robertogrigolatto8565]

Alexei Kafe Two-headed green Jesus😹

[@dougrogan379]

Alexei Kafe we were made in God's likeness weren't we? the aliens might be jealous about that

[@alexeikafe5388]

Doug sillig xd

[@voyagereternal11]

Not too shabby. They probably also had a Jesus. If there exists life, God would let everybody know.

[@rebeccathestarmonkey4858]

I've been trying for years..hope to be alive to see this all come out

[@adyatamsi]

it's not a question of should we go into space it's a question of are we ready as a race? except for a narrow range of population, the rest of us are pretty stupid and have a sheep like mantality, so untill we find a new way of existing, ranging from racism, conduct, technology on a global scale, we deserve to stay right where we are. imagine a scenario where a ruthless leader such as hitler found his way to an inhabitable planet and perpetuate his regime than later posing a security risk for earth. there is a reason why evolution works the way it does.

[@frasercain]

We do all kinds of things that we're not ready to do. That's what humans do. We'll take our bad things to space, but also our good things too. We did an episode on this topic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHuqaWmAd9Skns0

[@jaredchristianabasolo5586]

Fraser Cain g

[@unvergebeneid]

If aliens were sending a message, I'd love it to be their entire Internet. OTOH we don't know if their culture can appreciate the honesty, so maybe a more curated data dump would be less of an invitation to come here and destroy us all.

[@frasercain]

They're going to find out everything about us eventually any way. We might as well get the uncomfortable getting to know yous out of the way.

[@unvergebeneid]

Fraser Cain Yeah but tell me _you_ never wanted to blow up Earth after reading KZbin comments ;)

[@frasercain]

That seems a little overkill. The only comments I read are these ones, and they're downright pleasant.

[@unvergebeneid]

That's true, this channel is one of the few with a quite civil comments section.

[@lwilcox1124]

My new favorite channel!

[@frasercain]

Thanks a lot, welcome aboard! Lots to catch up. :-)

[@lwilcox1124]

You are welcome and no problem with catching up, science never gets old :-)

[@nicodemusedwards6931]

Well, we discover Aliens... and they discover the majesty of the Tardigrade.

[@frasercain]

The tardigrades are Earth's true champions.

[@sdbo7102]

I'd offer them a warm beverage. I make a mean hot cocoa.

[@frasercain]

Mmm, sounds good.

[@randommandoade1465]

So what is the score on the scale is for a friendly aliens that will be happy to trade and connect us to the rest of the universe?

[@synchro505]

What if the majority of life in the universe resides in the realm of what we call dark matter/energy?

[@heberfenderful]

Your awesome Fraser!!

[@frasercain]

Thanks a lot for watching!

[@kaidenflynn878]

Galaxyquest reference, nice :) "Historical Documents" (y)

[@frasercain]

Hah, glad you caught that one.

[@kaidenflynn878]

Lol, made me grin ear to ear hearing that reference, one of my all time favorite movies from 99

[@alonsomontoya3618]

The aliens would of attacked us by now im pretty sure they are friend

[@alonsomontoya3618]

Friendly

[@billc.4584]

Great stuff Fraser.

[@lcoopcooperl]

Your videos are really great.Love your channel.

[@frasercain]

Thanks a lot!

[@nathanmcdaniel9898]

Finding any kind of life on another planet or moon would put a serious dent in the Abrahamic religions. This would shake many people's faith and hopefully allow them to begin to take off their "God glasses." I believe that the number of non religious and humanitarians would increase which would very good for humanity and the scientific community.

[@BenMonroe964]

Sci-Fi would get very strange if we know there is an alien race or say a dyson swarm but we have no other idea what's there. Suddenly every Sci-Fi will have to explain who those aliens are. Star Trek would have a version, Dune would have a version, Warhammer 40k would have a version, etc.

[@frasercain]

I honestly wonder how people would react if we knew there was an alien civilization out there, but nothing else about them.

[@LordBitememan]

Guaranteed if we discovered an alien civilization we would turn it into an excuse to party and get wasted.

[@frasercain]

Just let know where the party is, I'm in.

[@punkyroo]

How humans would react would be related to proximity to Earth. If aliens are on a distant planet we'd all be like, "Hey neighbors! How ya doin'?". If we first see them within our solar system we'd freak and immediately declare war.

[@quintonthevillain2745]

I might be giving humanity a bit too much the benefit of the doubt, but even then i don`t think we`d declare war. If they have the tech to travel all the way here, they could quite literally blow up our ENTIRE planet without us even noticing and those guys in the government know that too (....i think... hope?).

[@frasercain]

It depends on how tough they look. We'll freak out either way, though.

[@browerkyle]

Off topic for this video: Astronomers use Type 1a Supernovae to calculate large distances and we can see them from across the universe. These explosions require a binary star system. How common are these systems? I, from my relatively uneducated perspective, feel like they would be pretty rare and even rarer to have them end in such a dramatic fashion. Thanks, and great work as always, Mr. Cain!

[@Mike-pj1kv]

I'll cross that bridge if we get there. In the mean time there's lots of TV to watch.

[@northvanman1283]

It would only strengthen my faith in The Flying Spaghetti Monster, if I heard about aliens

[@hypercomms2001]

After more than 50 years of serious searching (SETI) and not finding them... instead it would be better for us to accept that they do not exist...we are unique in this universe...

[@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701]

The spaceship at the end is from a german sci-fi show called "Raumpatroullie Orion"

[@MichaelHrenka]

We should trade alien knowledge for images and videos of cute animals. Best shot we have :D

[@darthblacc4421]

What if aliens try to save us from are selves

[@CountArtha]

It humanity discovers another intelligent species, the people who comment on KZbin videos will have taken all the novelty and wonder out of it in a few hours.

[@BryanEshbaugh]

Fraser, thanks for the knowledge

[@frasercain]

Happy to do it!

[@themightykyuss]

"What we'll do if we actually make contact...". Give them a copy of Hendrix's first album.

[@frasercain]

I hope they'll enjoy it.

[@richardgordon8110]

Weve had them and worked closely with them side by side for over 60 years.

[@seanhartnett79]

I feel like part of the answer is that they don’t have much of a reason to bother interacting or coming to us.

[@darkduck95]

You guys are so excited to Meet us

[@AvyScottandFlower]

Do you know Yahoo! News sends me into your videos constantly, Fraser?

[@frasercain]

That's awesome, thanks Yahoo!

[@AvyScottandFlower]

Wow, I really thought you knew, worked a deal with them or something! Here's the article that brought me here, for example: www.yahoo.com/news/m/cd8b811d-2a84-3545-be81-aa88c8cba07d/ss_what-if-we-do-find-aliens%3F.html Or this one (I get those fairly regulary.. guess you have a fan over at Yahoo, haha) www.yahoo.com/news/m/b46e804a-e832-32b7-8550-67106ed64fc8/how-do-we-colonize.html

[@elfsong713]

Why can't we build the interdimensional space portal?? Alienese lol

[@puffskoko1323]

Why dont we have more people like you teaching in our schools...geez

[@chrismoderate3495]

Send them the John Wick movies. Then the Aliens will be afraid of us humans, thinking we could pull of that!

[@seanhartnett79]

The only thing I can think of, is if they want to learn about our culture, technology or biology. I call this the space explorer theory.