Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

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Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.
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Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

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[@rews3873]

1st

[@szpgeri]

Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell Hey one quick quesion. What if we and some other living species are past the great filter. That would mean that maybe we are not the first but those who are infact the first, arent a type 3 nor a type 2 civilization so we cant know for sure. That means the filter we have passed but we arent the first to do so. Right?

[@rews3873]

@@szpgeri isn't the great filter is veryyy hard to pass?

[@rejerh8731]

1 big omission... we might not be evolved enough to identify super civilizations. The predicate that we observe and understand every single cosmical object is wrong. Also, we have no knowledge of how harvesting a star or a galaxy could be done, how could we identify it is being done? (We barely manage to identify planets around stars a few decades ago) Plus we are still receiving "old" lights from far away places of the universe. The further we look the older it is and therefore the more our view of what exists right now at these places is out dated. Maybe harvesting a galaxy has already been done somewhere far away but we just have not receive the light to show us it has yet. Many more hypothesis that can be made that remove the fermi paradox.

[@iamiam4174]

Blah Blah Blah

[@lizzytheowl577]

Third option: There isn't a filter and all the galaxy level civilizations avoid us and hide because we're *that* planet.

[@hououinkyouma6629]

Wait what? What do u mean by that planet?

[@LunaDelTuna]

@@hououinkyouma6629 Nobody wants to be *_that_* planet

[@hououinkyouma6629]

@@LunaDelTuna I'm still confused

[@strangething4322]

@@hououinkyouma6629 Everybody knows THAT planet. If you don't, then it is probably you.

[@GoogleAccount-pi9ct]

Lol

[@RealEngineering]

We are living our great filter now. Humanities greatest challenge is now. If we can overcome the next 100 years without destroying the planet, I believe we have a solid chance of becoming a multi-planetary species.

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

Real Engineering I agree 100% and that’s why I am subscribed to you! Haha!

[@AtomicFrontier]

No pressure then! But I think life on Earth has always been close to disaster. The Toba Catastrophy almost wiped out humanity, the release of oxygen almost destroyed life on Earth. This time arround we have science, enginering and the capacity to intentionally change the world we live in. It's no longer a game of chance; we can climb the next great filter, not just stumble through it.

[@jort93z]

Yeah i agree. Maybe a little more than the next 100 years, 150 or so, but definitly something of that magnitude.

[@GTX4747]

Love your channel but will disagree on that one, we have no idea if 100 years is enough or it is a million to overcome, our planet will exist potentially much longer, and we still do not posses the power of destruction of that scale, we may wipe out each other and that is most likely scenario for the great filter but we may not assume that a brief moment as 100 years will reveal the outcome of our deeds.

[@tomasjanak4113]

I would say that our great filter was Cold War. We were really close to all-out nuclear warfare back then.

[@zacnewman7140]

An interesting thing about the great oxygenation event (which predated and enabled the development of multicelular life) is that it's a strong candidate for being The Great Filter. Physics is physics, and therefore organic chemistry is organic chemistry. Therefore the early life on any planet is going to have a chance to stumble onto photosynthesis. The thing is the early pre-photosynthesis Earth was being kept warm by methane, but that had to be coming from somewhere. Quite possibly early single cell bacteria itself. Once oxygen production really got going and oxygen started leaking out of the oceans into the atmosphere it bound up all that methane into other compounds and caused a near global ice age. That presents early life with two different ticking time bombs. If life waits too long to start producing oxygen that thickening blanket of methane eventually turns Earth into Venus. Broils the planet and kills everything. On the other side if life figures out that trick too early then the resulting ice age is even worse, and if life is completely wiped out then when volcanic and solar activity melts things again what's left isn't the same primordial soup because of all the oxygen reacting to things. The initial state of free organic molecules is quite possibly a one-time opportunity. We threaded a needle that might be a _lot_ narrower than we realize.

[@freniisammii]

Where did you get this information from? This seems really interesting and I want to learn more!

[@keshav6430]

Well why do every single et need to follow the evolutionary path that we did While all this is correct But they may not need go down the same evolutionary path

[@hedgehog3180]

@@freniisammii Just look up The Great Oxygenation Disaster if you wanna learn more. It is still a hypothesis that this lead to a snowball Earth scenario but it's a pretty strong one. What's more it's suspected that the subsequent melting of the ice and erosion of land washed a ton of nutrients into the ocean and that this could have been the trigger for the development of multi-cellular life. So this might even be a necessary step or at least something that sped up evolution by billions of years.

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

Multicellular life actually predates our oxygen atmosphere.

[@Kontorotsui]

That is indeed a good candidate as Great Filter. Great idea.

[@marcdumont2275]

I've often kind of felt like an alien race advanced enough to discover other life planets would also be advanced enough not to have any desire to travel to them.

[@wren_.]

That makes a lot of sense. For civilization to grow that much they must be highly social and empathetic. Perhaps that embassy leads them to the conclusion that if there is life out there in the universe, they shouldn’t mess with it until it’s ready to be messed with, kind of like what we do with uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. Although that definitely depends on the civilization, just look at the conquistadors. hopefully aliens smart enough to leave their planet would also be smart enough to leave us alone

[@fart63]

@@wren_. maybe. But the thought of an alien species with the same attitude as us is quite frightening. If they were to see us the way we see other species…. Think of how we stomp on bugs everyday without a thought, who says they wouldn’t see us the same way?

[@720BeastMode]

They would take over the bodies of the dominant race so as to have the perfect camo

[@hexagon2185]

@@fart63 Only if they are advanced enough. A civilisation below type 2.5 might still be sympathetic enough to us to not mine our planet for resources or harvest our star. Even if there were civilisations that would destroy us without a second thought, they would probably be so powerful that they wouldn't feel the need to destroy or even notice us in the first place (even though we stomp on bugs, there far more bugs that we haven't stomped on in the wild). It's also rather arrogant to believe aliens will have the same mindset as us, as the evolutionary niches they fill on their planet will likely carry on to their ideology as a species (e.g. a life form that has many symbiotic relationships might progress into a civilisation that values other forms of life far more then us)

[@zkistler]

You are probably assuming that "highly advanced" civilizations have perfected the art of thinking critically and can always with 100% certainty determine if something is worth doing or not. However for such a hypothetical civilization to discover other life implies either a curiosity about the universe or the desire to harvest resources, both of which would bring them to Earth if they can travel that far (and efficiently).

[@Joe-to3kj]

2018: we dont know if the filter is in front or behind us 2020: Its right in front of us

[@0Ploxx]

Those who stayed home will pass the barrier

[@cascas9656]

@@0Ploxx Introverts ... Assemble

[@maucazalv903]

*DAWN OF THE THIRD DAY*

[@MysticAnimations]

*_weebs, assemble_*

[@robertschmidt9301]

@@0Ploxx I suggest that the rapidly completing 6th Great Extinction is the barrier we created that we shall not pass. Would guess that opportunity for self extermination presented by advancing from challenged species to dominant species is the major filter from one end of the universe to the other. So sucessful that we fail.

[@spiffycat]

Everyone: Please... have mercy... No more existential crisis, Kurzgezagt: Creates existential crisis playlist

[@jamoyky1]

hanson chen i read this in the narrator’s voice

[@tomwanders6022]

hanson chen this is great I love it

[@DXDgamingsubnow]

yeah i used to adore this channel now I'm at war with it XD my mind isn't liking this living being anymore XD

[@Sprite-od4xl]

I feel relaxed.

[@dragonizerx6462]

Me:AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bugdestroyer1258]

What if the filter is internal discourse? Almost everyone yearns for world peace, because world peace would allow us to focus on the small problems slowly breaking us apart. We would be able to speed up research immensely with cooperation, and we would never be under the threat of war, dictators, or lack of resources. But internal discourse is nearly impossible to eliminate, since that would mean 8 billion minds would have to converge on one single idea. Only a hivemind would be able to solve this, and that might have problems on its own. Technology allows a single being to become so powerful that it separates one from another. But space travel is impossible without these inventions. The world is one bomb away from dying out completely. The launch of one nuke would trigger every other country that has access to fire their own. Only 50 25,000 megaton bombs would send the world into a nuclear winter killing crops.

[@Noical]

25,000 megaton bombs don’t exist. The most powerful ever was only 57 megatons.

[@fart63]

But hive minds do exist in life dont they? Ants and bees being two examples. Isn’t it small minded to assume all intelligent life the same as us? Couldn’t a hive mind species from the great beyond exist and become intelligent?

[@bugdestroyer1258]

@@fart63 but even in those groups there is likely some discourse, as i said before, one individual getting power through technology (which is inevitable if you ever want to travel through space) sets the entire thing off balance. Bees and ants dont have this technology, and arent intelligent.

[@hencethebeetroot]

@@fart63 Sure. In fact, if we found alien life I think it would be our individuality that surprises them most. I feel the big problem with that just being commonplace is the fact that things like greed, territorialism, and the desire to conquer were all things that pushed humans (and possibly much of alien life) to planet-wide dominance; much like how sugars tasting sweet was desirable when it was hard to come by, but now often leads to humans eating much more than they should. Honestly, ants and bees do amazing things for their small size and lack of opposable thumbs. Bees construct hanging complexes, and ants build theirs underground. Bees refine pollen into nutritious honey to feed their colonies, and some species of ants use agriculture to raise fungi. Frankly, I think the main thing limiting them from becoming a dominant species is their very instinctual behavior. So it's not impossible to pass through this barrier, just hard - and that's exactly what a great filter is.

[@assafsharabi4473]

The idea of countries is the songle most devastating thing to humans in my opinion

[@hab2katzenlol652]

What is if we find a more advanced civilization? If we don't think about how they treat us, isn't it a sign that there isn't that much of a great filter?

[@ahlex3185]

no if that happened it would likely be aliens from a nearby solar system if anything, and would be very bad and practically guarantee that there is a great filter

[@viltzer8787]

If we find a more advanced civilization, that would be bad, because if it would not be almost impossible to get to that stage of advancement, we would have already encountered alot more advanced civilizations than only 1

[@mrvk39]

it's a common proposition, along with a great filter, to the Fermi paradox. Why we haven't seen any evidence of other civilizations? Because there is a very advanced civilization in our galaxy that systematically destroys all civilizations as they reach the technological point of beginning interstellar travel or some other technological milestone. Maybe, our own curiosity is our doom.

[@jordancarneal9459]

Fun fact: if they were observing us from millions of light years away, they would be looking at dinosaurs

[@williamhutchinson5574]

Unless light speed isn’t the fastest thing we know of...and they observed us with some other technique.

[@VoxTenebrae]

They opened up a wormhole and popped their heads through while no one was looking XD

[@izzypuma7318]

no, Jordan. no..

[@hunormagyar1843]

Well or something. They'd need real good cameras to observe the surface of the Earth, but also, it's not all dinosaurs, they'd need to be at a specific distance, maybe ranging from round 200 to 65 million lightyears away, to see the Earth in the dinosaur era. Our observation tech is good, but it isn't capable of really making out anything smaller than whole planets if several lightyears away. At times, astronomers have to work with dots, or starlight and its magnitude to suspect that a planet is there.

[@braindamage5652]

@@izzypuma7318 yes

[@MrbigPnslolisaidpns]

I’m sure if we ask the filter nicely, it will move out of the way

[@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385]

You can't ask a filter to move its not a tangible thing tho lo.

[@sohansanjeev]

@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 r/whooosh

[@aelinluna3434]

We should send our best Canadians

[@chicomydawg]

The fermi paradox is only a theory

[@hrf6548]

Lmao

[@NoMoreWhat-Ifs]

Well.. uh-oh.

[@infinityseven5924]

While it's constructive to think out this problem, it's important to realize that we really have no idea whether the filter is behind or in front of us or which is more likely. There are so many variables associated with the concept of a great filter, almost all of which we don't know. Even the world's leading scientists would just be throwing darts at a colossal dart board. The emergence of the first eukaryotic cell could have had a one-in-trillions chance of happening, then there's the step to intelligence, the survival and evolution of that intelligence...the likelihood of each step occurring as it did is practically incalculable because we just don't have any relevant, reliable data to reference. Considering the probability of the great filter being ahead of us is impossible as we are now.

[@JackKorbin123]

0:01 I skipped "Imagine" and i was horrified

[@CatholicWeeb]

*Oh no*

[@GoogleUser-dwcy]

Saaame

[@Tabibito-Tsubasa]

Jack Korbin little genius

[@piyush2465]

Omg😂

[@Dragon.gaming_]

Lmao.

[@anicorner7723]

The lag would be insane if you’re trying to match make with someone in the other side of your galaxy.

[@cuneicaptions4131]

Mann imagine all the internet complications-

[@dont_i_know4858]

Not to mention where you would meet

[@blackknightjack3850]

As I recall, the estimate is that it would take around 10,000 years for packets to travel from point A to point B.

[@mayomage5064]

just make 6G

[@davelasertie4967]

Yeah, I think it would be a little difficult playing fortnight with them online :p

[@TheFlammableThing]

How about the filter being more complex than a single event, but rather a long, difficult process that we're in the middle of and currently doing our best to get through

[@gagaplex]

Another option is mentioned in the Three Body Problem: Advanced civilizations that don't hide effectively are immediately destroyed by other advanced civilizations.

[@TheAspenator117]

Life: *exists* The universe: We need to build a WALL

[@marcosmilicijapenotti3162]

And México Will pay for it

[@nightmare4254]

Lmfao

[@anthonyclark9591]

@@marcosmilicijapenotti3162 Those damn space Mexicans, taking all our planets.

[@Krawna]

I see you didn't skip the obvious joke

[@ghostboyalt6239]

LETS MAKE THE MILKY WAY GREAT AGAIN

[@peter_patson5497]

Colonize the solar system? *Britain intensifies*

[@verdenballnonotthatonethev9516]

We rule the sea, we rule the sky, why not rule space?

[@tomgray7302]

They should make a film of British controlling the solar system and have like a 1880s theme to it lol. Would be so good

[@simonk4174]

HAHAHHHAA

[@bunkerdown8494]

*RULE BRITANIA*

[@bayareajokester9456]

*British Grenadiers intensifies*

[@WestCoastWhat]

2023 Update: The filter is definitely in front of us.

[@hellotheregenerealkenodies5108]

I honestly think we are the first species and the great filter is a great obstacle and that the empty space is the obstacle to reach other life

[@Jordan-qb4wn]

you have no idea. Aliens are 100% aware of our existence and do not plan on revealing themselves anytime soon. And rather they probably see no point in it. Why would they ruin something and create worry. Humans are not as smart as they think they are, the first thing they think of when imaging an intelligent species is them pursuing evil by creating tyranny in this world. Intelligent species will most likely see no point in that and want peace through out the world. There are also things that you cannot comprehend that you will say is not true when we are just blind as human. There are things faster than light, there is more within infinite imagination somewhat like the multiverse theory. but either way if there is more “like us” they are definitely watching us and are way smarter than us

[@hellotheregenerealkenodies5108]

@@Jordan-qb4wn They saw twitter and decided we are not worth it

[@heisenberg6442]

@@hellotheregenerealkenodies5108 *And Tiktok

[@shelletonianhuman]

We might just be the first species, think of it this way. Our universe is pretty new. And we're only ~12000 years in with progression (as humans and by progress I mean actually progress of our civilization). Could be that other life could take longer or that their environments aren't optimal enough to develop a civilization.

[@Shady90133]

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying”

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

-Mahatma Gandhi

[@conesinker_4209]

Were obviously not

[@barakdeathsong4265]

Well that's necessarily true, there's a pretty good chance that we are actually alone in the universe, this theory is backed by quite a few things, which if you took like 10 seconds to go and google, you'll find that the answer to whether or not we're alone in the universe is not that obvious. Oh and also it's "We're", not "were"

[@littledgy4316]

@@barakdeathsong4265 we are obviously not alone The fact that how enormously large the universe is , there HAS to be another planet pf our kind where people are living or maybe some lifeforms wont even need earth like habitat , depends on the variation that obviously will be different

[@barakdeathsong4265]

I'm not saying I think we're alone in the universe, I'm just saying that there's a possibility that we are, I myself hope that aliens do exist, but I also look at facts, and the fact is that there's a chance there are no aliens, however small a chance that is.

[@justsomeguywithoutamustach8695]

The catchphrase of humans: These possibilities are terrifying but... I think my great grandchildren can deal with it.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

At this point, it's going to be our children.

[@thisismyname2971]

That's my profile picture lol

[@1w598]

kidmosey Ignorance is bliss.

[@estolee5485]

It's crazy to think that in some people's lifetimes they have seen the progression from horse drawn carriages, to cars, to airplanes, to putting humans on the moon. All while living through two world wars. Just image what we might see.

[@waterb-g9114]

@F G I would like to say that overall the level of intelligence and knowledge has improved. But sometimes it doesn't feel like those statistics and such are really telling the truth. Personally I hold out hope that the people who are classified as the "stupid" and so on that don't think through things at least have their own reasons and can problem solve. Though with the fact that school is zero learning and all parroting it seems nowadays the only way people really get problem solving skills is one of two main ways. Either 1, they don't have the generic super protective parent and decide to try a bunch of stuff out (which has psychologists and better places to "play" being done some places) or 2, they've gotten to the age where they don't have a choice and have to learn to take care of themselves. Sorta like one of the lines in Matilda from the narrator "She learned what most people learn in their early 30s. How to take care of herself". Not sure how well it holds up nowadays but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

[@berfinozturk8135]

I actually started to think that if we found a greater civilization, we could see our future ourselves in them and if they became extinct because of an specific event(maybe the filter we are talking about), we could try to prepare ourselves for that one and after we become a civilization as they were we could survive it

[@AYVYN]

That’s actually genius. If there are multiple great filters, then your hypothesis would prove that the last civilization will go the farthest. Just like how modern countries learned from Rome.

[@berfinozturk8135]

@@AYVYN exactly

[@historicallegends3702]

Tbh I think there are greater civilization than us but they are not in this galaxy Earth is the only civilized planet in our galaxy.

[@3dilson]

so the best scenario is that we are alone here, and it is our mission to expand and even create new civilizations

[@keithprice475]

Self-appointed mission, at that! What makes such a mission compelling, exactly?

[@manoz6194]

@@keithprice475 It's called the Human Spirit

[@keithprice475]

@@manoz6194 You are right, except that the Spirit in question is not at all limited to us - it is the inbuilt Spirit of life - all conscious beings - for more life, more awareness, more knowledge, more everything! There is no reason whatsoever to think that we are in any way unusual in having it to the extent we do, and no reason to fear that other beings having it will detract from us, far less doom us!

[@gsilva220]

"it may be wise to leave them alone for a while." Perhaps, *we* are the ones being left alone for a while...

[@justnuttedinasock2054]

gsilva220 oh fuck u doing me a bamboozle and educate at same time

[@alaminkadir9543]

Good point

[@flipflopzthreeonethree1873]

That's always lowkey been my thought

[@TatoMusicLive]

Hmmm... I like that. Perhaps we are the ones being left alone for a while. Good one mate

[@justincronkright5025]

Comedy is how we survive... Carl Sagan saying ''that would just be showing off'' to whether we should have added some music by Bach to the Voyager Space Probes is all well and good. But Comedy is how we'll get along, manage the planet and the people & organisms on it properly, and how we might better get along with alien life. Sex might have worked intra-specially beforehand, but it isn't going to do nearly as much for our existence beyond procreation within our own species once we venture into space. We need a lot more time and technology to get to creating fundamentally novel life-forms!

[@theinternetpolice2078]

What if we just took the Great Filter... _And just pushed it somewhere else?_

[@nandoskitty1723]

*_SNEAK 100_*

[@jaysonklein6018]

That plan might just be crazy enough... *TO GET US ALL KILLED!*

[@onyxrafle8066]

Just push it forward we can deal with it later

[@jedziibeatbox3830]

The Internet Police switch the _filter_ to something more trendy lol

[@jedziibeatbox3830]

Jayson Klein it won’t tbh

[@tuckerricklefs4830]

This is my personal favorite Kurzgesagt video. I think the new ones are of much higher quality and are still amazing, but I have a soft spot for this video specifically. Its story, visuals, and music have touched me in a way that 99% of KZbin videos don't. This video also marks the point at which I truly fell in love with this channel. Thank you Kurzgesagt!

[@bellatordei3440]

For me it's the weakest one

[@suntorytimes1]

Too bad it’s mostly BS.

[@mrsillytacos]

​@@suntorytimes1tell me how. I would like to be enlightened.

[@suntorytimes1]

@@mrsillytacos It's basically "begging the question", i.e. assuming the conclusion in the premises. Firstly, there's no proof that alien civilizations would want to spread, it's just an assumption. Secondly, there could be many different reasons why, even if they'd want to, they would have not reached us: maybe they're too far to be able to reach us before we become extinct, maybe they lived a very long time ago, maybe they're so different we couldn't recognise them, maybe they don't want to be seen or heard, maybe they went a different way, and so on. And thirdly, there can be a lot of reasons why they became extinct: maybe they ran out of resources, or they were exterminated by some kind of illness, or by some other species, or their life cycle ended somehow. The point is we don't know anything about them, and whatever we can come up with is just wild speculation. So that there can be only one cause, one "Great Filter", is just one big, unfounded assumption; in other words, it's BS. But I agree with the OC: the story, music, animation and narration are all top-notch, and that is - unfortunately - what makes this video so compelling, when it should be facts; of which this video is, sadly, almost completely devoid.

[@snapslingpeavine1371]

100% Agree.

[@chasepicard6046]

I personally think the idea two cells going together was a filter or the idea that all are predators went extinct allowing us to become an advance civilization I feel like both are a great achievement

[@redbepis4600]

aliens: hey lets meet! human: k their diseases: its free real estate our diseases: its free real estate

[@jesselapides4390]

me: wears bio-suit

[@redbepis4600]

@@jesselapides4390 outstanding move

[@swifferwetjet1_288]

Bro we should send them the black plauge

[@redbepis4600]

@@swifferwetjet1_288 the senate will not approve such thing

[@lavamaster2863]

the only problem would be that diseases evolve specifically to infect a set number of species so theri diseases wouldn't know how to infect us and vice versa.

[@Tr0lliPop]

another option: the filter is ahead of us and we are gonna become the first absolute madlads to ever cross it

[@Ama3l]

yES So intelligence

[@Tr0lliPop]

@@Ama3l we already crossed intelligence what I mean is a barrier that we didnt pass YET but WILL pass. or are you talking about the sheer number of stupid people in the world?

[@Ama3l]

@@Tr0lliPop nonono What I mean is YOU'RE intelligent because you said "another option: the filter is ahead of us and we are gonna become the first absolute madlads to ever cross it"

[@Tr0lliPop]

@@Ama3l Oh, okay. Sorry for the misunderstanding :V

[@thewind652]

@@Ama3l who are you to be calling out someone else for their lack of intelligence when you used you're instead of the correct, your.

[@yungmonsterxs8929]

rewatching a bunch of these videos and I just noticed Cute King and his subjects were in this one. 2:58

[@robertg7249]

i would assume there are solar systems where multiple planets are in the goldilock zone similar to earth and all of them are harboring life. imagine how weird it would be for the inhabitants to realise they have close neighbours

[@mortal9917]

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

[@azel5594]

Not really. If we are alone that means all universe is ours to shape. We can also do all type of species we want, like tentacle monsters and stuff. And if we are not alone maybe its some cute anime girl aliens that looking for male protagonists around the universe to f*ck with. That wouldn't be bad isn't it. Arthur C. Clarke is a pessimist anyway.

[@DaDoughboi88]

@@azel5594 yeah cuzzo ur alone on that one

[@Who1156]

@@azel5594 kinda cringe

[@petergant8767]

If we can stick around for half a planet's lifetime, maybe we've got a fair chance!? If we're the only intelligent race ever, or, so far, it's going to be millenia before we get very far past our own solar system. We cant even decide where our Solar System ends, or, exactly what constitutes a planet!

[@republicshallriseagain419]

Filthy weebs everywhere

[@yuuuh3803]

If there is another advanced civiliization in the universe, I really can't wait to see all the memes they've come up with

[@danielwoods3896]

Hopefully they even have a sense of humor, but its unlikely.

[@bodie6783]

When the galaxy controlling super Alien doesn’t have memes There seems to be no intelligent life here

[@nix4110]

Daniel Woods It’s more likely than unlikely, if they exist.

[@SamHeaton264]

They will surely be the dankest and highest level memes ever conceived

[@scottbigley5126]

Grumpy gazorpazorp! Ha!

[@HazemeII]

This was my first video from Kurtzgesagt 5 years ago. Congratulations on 10 years!

[@jaimevidrio1461]

Space is a dark forest with many hunters and travelers. Some are fragile imps ,some are experienced warriors,and some are demigods fighting in the dark. And Earth is the stupid little child with a fire shouting " Here I am ! Here I am!" - From The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

[@uprockboat3823]

Aliens: Why Human Discovery could be our end

[@pizza7yearsago609]

Yeah if aliens sees us use our technology they might think we are stronger and more superior than them.

[@lookinglikeabelugawhale338]

$*ş:ďïş}avd Hümäñš &@b#-snfhs Jr's&ß?ë1€ ]â?ş!!!®©jdk«¡€°¤¤no-! ω^^¢ fãł2+ł?

[@hankfrancoisanimo2688]

@@lookinglikeabelugawhale338 why r yous trying to destroy our cover agent A-51

[@Idkwhattowritehere123]

Okay I know that's a joke but it's pretty smart

[@zenthichutt7071]

It would be our end cause someone would turn them into some furry crap and make them delete the planet

[@tiagofcampanholi]

This is one of the best videos in the channel. Maybe a re-visit video after all this time? Would be nice to see this subject with new theories and views :)

[@RANDOMGUYBRO2763]

the great filter is like waking up and trying to figure out if you missed school or it's before school

[@quandary1382]

Option 3: We are living in a simulation, and didn't pay for the Aliens expansion.

[@ryukthegodofdeath8063]

Still better than stock sims 4.

[@quandary1382]

@Brownie Amanteigado I've heard this self-deprecating thought process before. It's not a very positive way to view the universe if you hold that position in my opinion. To hold the human race with such contempt. No doubt we are flawed and have huge issues to be solved, but it's no reason to liken our entire race to a virus.

[@marcr3170]

this is one of those games where the devs were rushed to meet the release date and only added basic gameplay.

[@quandary1382]

@@marcr3170 I'm waiting for the starship expansion, but unfortunately my character won't live that long.

[@dalegribble8657]

Damn overpriced dlc

[@liamoconnor74]

Writers: Malicious AI? Animators: drones with knives

[@mzaproduction]

I am scared 😣

[@Alexios_CV]

one does not simply make such a hilarious comment

[@OmegaMegalodon]

lol

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Liam Oconnor we have no goal. Physics doesn't exist for a goal

[@liamoconnor74]

Nice

[@tortoiseyeeter7232]

Love the adventure time references 1:39

[@shreya3531]

The animations in this have my heart, they're just so good!!!

[@sia8364]

Finally saw 'Mitochondria: the power house of cell'. Our schools prepared us.

[@bigbicepbill3928]

Lmao I was waiting for that.

[@savvyladylondon5841]

Lol me too 😅

[@buggoanis8641]

Only reason it prepared us, is because it prepared him which prepared the generation before him and so on

[@Chicky-yy7nk]

Yes

[@justabdur9381]

i found that by memes not school owo

[@Mattatat9ty3]

I feel like earth and our solar system is “the hood” and other life know not to turn down that street.

[@kayruwijaya3901]

Lmao

[@vijendraa.g.7069]

me and da homies just tryna make it out the hood

[@jakenikolia1453]

Yeah were the dumb aliens that nuked are own and tried setting our own atmosphere on fire with nukes

[@sitiliquinizyli-ri8bw]

y

[@jeffmcgiver899]

@@searchfluoridemakesyoustup5883 not necessarily, energy leaves the atmosphere and earth would die out eventually, just much later

[@Unavalivle]

The filter is that we haven't learned how to come together as one species instead of fighting with each other.

[@jacobmartinez9339]

I HIGHLY recommend Isaac Athur's Femi Paradox Compendium video for those that saw this. He goes through just about every conceivable factor that could affect the creation of life as we know it. Everyhting from techtonic plates to the influence of things like Jupiter and the Moon. It's possible that there is no paradox at all, and no great filters behind us. Instead there have been hundreds or thousands of different minor filters, each with varying chances to occur. When all are combined, the odds become significant enough to rival the sheer size of the galaxy.

[@sellers737]

as the old saying goes: the dinosaurs went extinct because they didn't have a space program

[@denizjati5014]

Smart joke there i hope more things like this develop

[@Zorander2008]

Everyone is familiar with how the dinosaurs went out, as you allude to, being the massive asteroid or whatever 65 million years ago... But very few realize that it's happened to US too, and very recently. Search online for the cataclysms that began and ended the Younger Dryas. The data shows there must have been something that happened. It starts (some scientists working on this theory think) with the Hiawatha Crater.

[@MrShoopdawoop97]

Well in fairness you're not wrong there...

[@sheerazmasood826]

😂🤣

[@agoosewithinternetaccessan3218]

@@Zorander2008 dude it was a joke

[@paradice9920]

"Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

[@cancerguy5435]

If we are alone in the universe we can still try to play gods and create sentient life ourselves. We have nearly infinite time anyway.

[@nihalloumouh8247]

Cancer Guy infinite time? So laughable 😂

[@cancerguy5435]

Nihal Loumouh you know, even a million years is an infinite time for humanity, we've become sentient enough not so long ago.

[@WhoTFMadeThisChange]

@@cancerguy5435 it took us a few thousand years to get to this point so I gotta agree with you on that

[@cancerguy5435]

Rohit Datir infinity is not even a number though, it's like comparing a lemon and blue color.

[@gamerknight1014]

Guy: does a neo around the filter Kurzgasagt: NANI?!?!!

[@alastairrabie5428]

It might sound exaggerated of how amazing the mitochondria's relationship with another cell and that this was the start of cells evolving to eventually become us (me). You guys are doing (in my opinion) Nobel prise for inspiring our future scientists and informing the the stubborn, know-it-all masses. I salute everyone at Kurzgesagt

[@phipsy6941]

Just imagine that somewhere out in the universe there is an intelligent being thinking about the same thing!

[@CommandoFighterPilot]

Its 100% certain that is happening

[@phipsy6941]

@@CommandoFighterPilot if the universe is infinite there must be another civilization somewhere out there! Matter the fact, if it actually is infinite there must be a civilization that is identical to ours.

[@CommandoFighterPilot]

@@phipsy6941 that's exactly the reason why I said that mate

[@Claptrap_]

@@CommandoFighterPilot but it's not infinite. If it would you would live again. The chances are small that your atoms will regroup in the same environment but hey even the smallest possibility will happen in infinity.

[@potayto_potahto732]

@@phipsy6941 its expanding infinetely, there's a difference

[@yuletide4452]

Kurzgesagt: "The filter is behind us-" Me, a pessimist: *"Who says there is only one filter"*

[@hammedbadmus7773]

Who says there is a filter

[@user-vv1do1wg1j]

@@hammedbadmus7773 it's the only explanation for the lack of alien life, the filter is most likely behind us not ahead.

[@leozheng8654]

@@user-vv1do1wg1j Maybe the aliens are just avoiding us because we are the filter? destined to destroy all other species we come in contact with

[@Tarototh]

That makes no sense. They wouldn't avoid us due to destiny. And if the galaxy is buzzing with advanced life, it would only take ONE SINGLE rogue alien to break the rules and say, SCREW IT I'M MAKING CONTACT.

[@Tarototh]

Hammed, no one guarantees there is a filter. It's just that brains bigger than ours are trying to figure out the answer to The Great Silence. Check out "fermi paradox" on KZbin. I recommend John Michael Godier, he's got a fantastic futurist science channel and a great Fermi video.. Oh.. And anyone who thinks they've figured out the Fermi Paradox... Hasn't thought about it enough (it's why it's called a paradox... The more you analyse it the more the answers conflict.. It's quite interesting). Check out those videos. Cheers

[@jefferychamberlin1687]

Watching this when it first came out I was filled with a lot of existential dread. Watching this now. It is just extremely fascinating and kinda hype for space colonization. Maybe not in our lifetimes even so.

[@JimKrause1975]

I love to binge watch these videos! Even if I have seen them before I pick up something the second or third time around that I missed before!

[@barrymcnr7395]

Born too late to discover the planet, born to early to visit another star, but born perfectly in time to post d a n k m e m e s

[@arandomdude1529]

True

[@JD-ky9ys]

True

[@julien1]

Close ... its a curricular planet.

[@Max-px5ym]

You can still discover your own brain

[@barrymcnr7395]

@@Max-px5ym xD

[@dsend_]

It's too early in the morning to have an existential crisis

[@icantnames8533]

It's never too early...

[@5yearsago404]

lol

[@Naymy]

lol

[@accountnolongerinuse3433]

I used to get existential crises at these videos but now they seem to lift my depression. I hate being told "people have it worse" or "it could be worse" but when it's like this...I realise how small my worries really are. We've got aliens and nuclear wars to worry about! Why should I be struggling to get out of bed? Heck, there could be aliens out there who _need our help._ And aside from that it just makes me amazed at how big and wonderful the world and universe are, and it makes me realise that whether that filter thing is ahead or behind of us, humans and the other living things on Earth are pretty fucking awesome for getting this far, right?

[@raffimolero64]

if aliens need our help, they'd be screwed, we can't travel a hundred light years in a day.

[@helciobmello]

I love this channel. Never get tired of watching this episode in particular.

[@shitanotosaurus]

the scariest thing about this is seeing humans instead of birds in a kurzgesgagt video

[@fullerton3303]

Haven't you ever played spore? The great filter stopping you from reaching space stage is game crashes.

[@TiddyTwyster]

It's the Grox

[@TiddyTwyster]

Nostalgia from just thinking about the name

[@Hoichael]

remember the great reveal at the end? :P

[@SquidgytheGreat]

It's Steve that little shit.

[@freddyli5356]

Wow, my captains always get stick inside buildings when exploring planets.

[@mateopirchi7148]

Alien-Kurzgesagt: Why finding humans would be our doom

[@charliehe472]

Mateo Pirchi But they wouldn’t know that we were called humans.

[@mateopirchi7148]

(it was a joke i know it, it was just for humor)

[@spiderycider]

@@charliehe472 its like we call them aliens *they just guessed and got it correct*

[@charliehe472]

@@spiderycider The term "alien" doesn't just mean extraterrestrial life. It can also mean a stranger, or really anything that doesn't really belong. Obviously, only we know that we are called "humans," so in any case, they would just call us "aliens." Just like if there was an alien species out there called the "A'afuhe" species, we wouldn't know that. We would still just call them, and all other potential extraterrestrial life, "aliens."

[@spiderycider]

@@charliehe472 you're right

[@gelatinousmonster]

who's here after the Congress UFO hearings

[@Mintymondos]

Scenario yes: there is no great filter and the aliens just hate us and want to avoid us because if we know about them we will begin to throw rockets at them

[@OfentseMwaseFilms]

Plot Twist: There is a filter, The Galactic alliance put it up to stop us from seeing beyond.

[@Illuminatea]

And you can only be a part of alliance if you can overcome the planetary disasters and ascend to other life suitable planets

[@communistbear9883]

Lol copied

[@Myday_145]

Commenting because your verified

[@jacobfredman9442]

no its probably to stop us to make anti-pixelator

[@noobantimonitor1014]

Thy are scared of us Even to destroy us Destroy us mean to destroy the whole universe cz we have a massive black whole in the earth crust

[@skypandakicks8971]

Time traveler: hey where do ya live Me: Canada Time traveler: oh your still on earth? Me: ...

[@eepleskreep1244]

Time Traveller: Arrives in Canada on Earth Also Time Traveller: LmAo DuMbAsS YoU sTiLl LiVe On EaRtH

[@4ssh4t]

eeple skreep that’s what I was thinking😂

[@moniquerodriguez3013]

canada 1 or canada 2

[@bigwijdsljla]

@@moniquerodriguez3013 canada²

[@bram5338]

Skypandakicks hi me you me but a different time line and life you me I’m you were every one and every thing and every body dead two hitler/everybodythatdiedbyhim/abraham/ Jesus’s,yourdad,yourmom,

[@ateteu_]

lol its funny how after hearing the soundtrack alone over and over again, the orignial video feels weird, like the other sounds are disturbing the composition behind the soundtrack of this video is very good!!

[@RubberDuckKid]

I don't think the filter would be something that means death for everyone, it could just be something impossible to cross through practicality. Like there's not enough resources in the home solar system to reach other stars which are extremely far away, or something. Finding alien bacteria wouldn't mean we're doomed to destroy ourselves in that case.

[@salvadormendoza8400]

It’s actually crazy to think that we could be the only species to make it this far. Life really could just be that rare and difficult to overcome

[@curlyfrysoncbmeth3949]

humanity was born at the beginning of the end of the universe, if we are the first group of INTELLIGENT life on a planet i would be very surprised.

[@salvadormendoza8400]

@@curlyfrysoncbmeth3949 it’s like you didn’t watch the video lmao

[@krisolson6515]

The universe is so inconceivably huge that there’s no fucking way we are alone, in all honesty we’ve probably been contacted or at least observed by many species of other life

[@krisolson6515]

Our galaxy is literally a speck in the grand scheme of things, and I swear to fuck I saw a ufo with lights that are almost tentacle in appearance, nicknamed the jellyfish ufo as first documented in Russia. I thought I hallucinated until I researched it

[@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU]

It might be but when you have millions of tries at it then no, we surely arent the only species this far, at all.. Its statistically highly improbable.. These all stupid science speculations are usually not taking into account how resilient life can be.. Its like the phrase you might have heard in the jurassic park.... Life finds a way.. Its pretty much true or we might not be here, or other animals at least if you would like to think that we re just some alien experiment.. A really boring one at that

[@zallie1881]

How to get past the filter: 1. Make a hole in it 2. Make a road around it 3. Make a ladder and climb over it 4. Get wings and fly past it 5. Burn it 6. Teleport around it 7. Tell the US there is oil behind it 8. Tell the internet they will find Obama’s last name behind it

[@honeybell4403]

Seeing as how the Area 51 raid actually went, that last option wouldn’t really do much...

[@k-ozdragon]

So Obama's last name is still a mystery

[@CeresEros]

Big brain time

[@nickniehaus1763]

Zallie 1 or just push it some place else- patrick star

[@skyofstorms]

@@k-ozdragon Actually, it's sortero.

[@michalvician5435]

This is so beautifully said. Thank you!

[@spiff796]

No joke, this is one of my favorite KZbin videos EVER!!

[@ragemanoj]

1900: we will have flying cars in future. 2019: two ads playing back to back.

[@anishavanishkoneti5765]

Lololololololololol

[@MIGHTYxMUKESH]

Lol

[@patrickpatterson7986]

uh... are you a little kid? do you not remember television?

[@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385]

Lmao humans r brain dead af😅

[@therealdeal566]

1900: we will have flying cars in future 2019: we have flying cars in the form of giant quadcopters that are also self-driving

[@satevo462]

If we're the only ones, it seems like an awful waste of space.

[@atomicwinter31]

Nah, we just gotta make our own aliens. G E N E T I C C A T A S T R O P H E I N B O U N D

[@arshawitoelar7675]

Yea, that's what I keep thinking too...

[@stephen_2091]

What if we make robots and then they will conolize the galaxy and then we unplug all of them so that we can take their hard work from then

[@buntaokita991]

Golden Mask bruh

[@heyitsruby7257]

@@stephen_2091 modern problems require modern solutions

[@Veeveebear]

Bro the second I got told I was about to die I got a bike ad 💀

[@blake7587]

It’s very possible life is everywhere but that the distances required to travel through interstellar/intergalactic space are just too large. If nothing can go faster than light even the most advanced civilizations would be stuck in their own stellar neighborhood. It would take 4 years going the speed of light to get to the nearest star.

[@syarafanareslan2181]

I can't imagine if this Kurzgesagt narrator is replaced. His voice plays important part in the mood of their videos.

[@chefgiovanni]

Excellent point "in a nutshell" you have me smiling here. It seems digitalized to the precise ear.

[@SuperScottCrawford]

They could use the guy who played Ultron / Jarvis.

[@msita4283]

It’s sooooo satisfying

[@Nekronium]

Humans: We will conquer the universe!!! Great filter ahead of us: Omae wa mou shindeiru. Humans: NANI?!?

[@10op1ng4]

Infinities End Humans:No u Filter: 0 o 0

[@lhordkentbasubas9917]

Infinities End I can't understand what is the great filter?

[@Shadethewolfy]

@@lhordkentbasubas9917 It's a planetary event, according to one of my friends. As explained in the video, it's challenge or danger so hard to overcome, that any theoretical extraterrestrial species that's come to it has been eradicated. This could be due to war or similar conflicts, technology becoming too dangerous to control, a fundamental step in early cellular evolution that's REALLY RARE (the example used is the evolution of the Mitochondria in early Hunter Cellular lifeforms, which allowed for more complex organisms due to the increased energy budget)... there are probably more examples but those are the ones that people tend to think of when they think about The Great Filter(TM).

[@This_Little_Wolf]

Humans: We did it! We passed the filter! We will conquer the universe!!! Great Filter behind us: *teleports in front of us* Nothing personel, kid.

[@A12C4]

Great filter ahead of us: I'm about to end this man's whole career !

[@aperson7281]

I think there’s probably multiple filters. What filter we probably passed was using evolution to give us features that while don’t work well in the wild, go great in civilization. Such as hands. Our hands don’t have claws and are weaker than more primates but they are delicate and careful enough to create fantastic machines even if they don’t have claws to get meat

[@jgbonkers4364]

We must be either so terrifying that no aliens want to meet us, or so weak and insignificant, that they treat us as "unintelligent life"

[@batmeth1998]

The most important part of the video is learning that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[@idlickthetoiletjotaroshitt553]

Batmeth BYE

[@user-rm1lm3rt7e]

Dont let the haters get you down you have a wealth of knowledge Batmeth 👌👌😂

[@yourownpersonalexistential2470]

Batmeth I’m too late...

[@ayshb2150]

+Ann Oynmous it's a meme

[@bilwisss]

Batmeth whats a better skill base to be knowledgeable about? flint knapping or mitochondria. ...see that's the tricky part... that's the trick and the trap. success is also luck, time place and circumstance, not just what you know.

[@akorn9943]

So we could be alone in the universe because only we realized that the Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell?

[@teigakunen8944]

ACorp Productions yes.

[@jowaonia367]

ACorp Productions yeet

[@2beans1cream]

Maze Bean

[@jaysonklein6018]

Maze Bean? Maze Bean.

[@moleculegirl]

Or maybe it's that ... The Fittness graham pacer test is a multistage aerobic compasity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues

[@SomeoneSomewhere1984]

Option 3 possibly the higher a civilization expands the less likely the great filter even exists for them since the great filter should be different for each civilization

[@ironicmilktea]

If what the NASA guy said is true... Does that mean the filter is ahead of us? Is humanity doomed?

[@kaylynnrod]

i think their just trying to scare us, i dont really believe that aliens are amongst us. i feel as if it’s a major distraction like the millionares dying on the ship, the feds is up to somethin but not aliens! 💆🏽

[@jevilz9858]

I like the Guy who talks in the videos he sounds so calm

[@TheGoukaruma]

He sounds calm because he doesn't get it.

[@hudeyfaabdi610]

My man katakuri 😤💯

[@dominicwilson309]

Yeah even when he's talking about the destruction of humanity

[@geopixels6886]

JN Dunno He’s German. Why the fuck do you think his username is Kurzgesagt? Dumbass

[@speedwagon3447]

Jevilz hey katakuri

[@gomesgreen]

So you're telling me, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?

[@ProfessorWumbology]

Yes sir

[@inkbold8511]

Yup it is.

[@Johninadelaide2022]

So it's not midichlorians LOL

[@eyadsy6208]

can someone explain this to me? I always see this joke or meme I don't get it

[@gomesgreen]

@@eyadsy6208 it's a meme making fun of mostly unusable knowledge taught in schools

[@ozma6918]

Thinking about it, it doesn't seem far-fetched to believe that there are more than one filter. Heck, dinosaurs might have cleared a bunch of them, while we cleared maybe one or two more than them. Also, maybe these filters ahead of us aren't all that bad. Maybe very hard to overcome, but still not impossible. Time will tell, I guess!

[@crunchysteam]

An idea for what the great filter could be is the host star. Outliving the collapse of said star could be something no species has managed to do, and fleeing from said collapse could be a form of filter in and of itself.

[@Fritz_Schlunder]

Outliving stellar nova or supernova threats is relatively straight forward, even without interstellar travel capability. 1. Invent fusion technology, space flight capability, and AI ("artificial intelligence"). 2. Implement fusion technology at large enough scale to be able to fully power your civilization's total energy needs, independent of your original host star(s). 3. Begin removing mass from your host star(s), and collect the gases into a series of gas giant planets, which are managed and kept small enough to avoid starting stellar fusion. 4. Continue with step #3 above, until the original host star(s) in the system get small enough that they stop fusing. At this point, there is no further threat of nova or supernova events messing up your civilization. Additionally, turning off the star(s) in your system saves the fusion fuel that the star otherwise would have wasted, by radiating energy into space at angles not useful to your civilization. Turning off the star(s) in your home system (and elsewhere in the galaxy) thus allows your civilization to survive greatly longer, than would otherwise be possible, if one arbitrarily allowed themselves to prematurely run out of fusion fuel to power their civilization. That said, turning off your home system star(s) and trying to save fusion fuel will not help your civilization survive, if some hostile alien AI one day shows up at your worlds and destroys your civilization through warfare. To solve this problem, one has to preempt the warfare, by sending out your own AI forces across the entire galaxy, and implement a "no hostile AI development allowed" policy on all other intelligent alien races that it may find. This policy must be enforced not only on existing races, but also upon intelligent races that do not currently exist, but which may arise in the future, due to the presence of "Goldilocks Zone" style planets and moons within various star systems. Once one has done the above, their civilization has the potential to live peacefully for an exceedingly long amount of time, but there is still a hypothetical threat of hostile alien AI forces one day showing up from some foreign galaxy or universe. To minimize the risk of this threat, it is necessary to maintain highly capable military forces available at all times, and to continuously monitor the galaxy for any signs of incursions of objects entering the galaxy from either intergalactic space, or through either "portals" or "supernatural manifestations" from another universe. However, not all aliens from alternate universes should be assumed to be hostile, and one should not attempt to make war with them immediately upon discovery. It should be assumed that some such aliens may have the ability to destroy this entire universe, from their universe. Consequently, diplomacy is advised, at least when interacting with unfamiliar aliens, particularly those that demonstrate an ability to break the laws of physics in this universe. Some such entities are portrayed as deity figures in various human religions, but they are more accurately described as powerful aliens from an alternate universe, some of which do have the ability to violate the laws of physics in this universe. It is highly probable that the initial contents of this universe, and the laws of physics that govern this universe, were created by an alternate universe alien entity.

[@adamaenosh6728]

What if the filter is just space travel? There could be many happy, thriving solar systems where the species lives on all the planets in that solar system, but there isn't a galactic civilisation because stars are just stupidly far away from each other. That's a positive idea worth mentioning, surely.

[@BazzBrother]

yeah, what if one of the big things all other civilizations discover is that if you enter a black hole, you end up in an eternal blow job universe. Cant ditch this backwater universe fast enough.

[@adamaenosh6728]

@@BazzBrother I agree. There is definitely an eternal blowjob universe and it is science and I am going to reincarnate until I go there

[@knightmare21627]

Naah, because in a decade or two, we are on our way to colonize moon, mars and then titan..

[@mechadoggy]

@@varyolla435 “as well as develop the requisite technology” But is the requisite technology actually possible? I feel like this video along with many other videos on this channel makes a ton of assumptions…

[@Youngnrrwhtjwtjetk]

@@knightmare21627 A few people on Mars isn't going to fix the problems on the planet. Especially if such innovation is made by a private corporation. We're doomed.

[@c4call]

Humanity is clearly going through puberty I needs to stop being so damn melodramatic.

[@alphapicturesentertainment]

This is called science and it's keeping you alive, tough guy

[@heavypokelover5532]

Alpha Pictures it’s called a joke it’s keeping us happy, tough guy

[@alphapicturesentertainment]

@@heavypokelover5532 You know, scientists always tried to explain the world as we know it, starting with greek scholars and ending now with the modern physicists. Science is not really that melodramatic, it's just a neutral state, regardless of feelings. This is the true beauty of the exact sciences. No interpretation, no biases. So, that guy's comment really doesn't sum up this video's point at all.

[@heavypokelover5532]

Alpha Pictures I didn’t say that I’m saying it’s a joke..

[@alphapicturesentertainment]

@@heavypokelover5532 And I didn't say you didn't say you are saying it's a joke

[@kravandal]

7:47 What u can hope for... is sooooo way better... sooo much deeper beyond ur best possible imagination..., so unsayable.. Like when u hope for a grain of sand to have something to play with for a minute, but u get a deeply loving family for a lifetime.

[@albertoteshiba316]

*The Great Filter is ahead of us* Everyone: Damn, we are doomed. My optimistic dumb ass: WOOO! We can do it! Let's get this bread!

[@prathmeshp7956]

*THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL*

[@Joseferberger]

THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL

[@arisoda7497]

ARE* jesus fking christ

[@Joseferberger]

Just google it, duh. It's a meme.

[@arisoda7497]

Josef Allerberger nonetheless

[@callmeEmvy]

Pretty sure everyone that has studied biology has given this answer at least once

[@earthlingel.2238]

"Us humans are afraid of aliens because we think they might treat us the same way we treat and exploit animals"

[@RAWRzooted]

Elli loves pizza yeah I feel bad for animals

[@dharmakyahlai4749]

@Eli loves pizza while that does make sense, whether we treat animals well or not probably will not change the way the aliens want to treat us

[@earthlingel.2238]

@@dharmakyahlai4749 but the thing is THAT we treat animals bad, we know how other "superior" species exploit other species because WE do it, that's why we're afraid that someone else might do it to us. we're the bad guy and we're afraid that someone exploits us the same way we exploit animals

[@TheBoost103]

That’s a twilight Zone episode :0

[@OM-st6uz]

Basically what the aliens do in Half Life 2

[@Stromko]

The first principle of the 'Great Filter Theory' is that not being able to pick up signals from distant alien civilizations is somehow strange, and the problem with this principle is we won't know if it's strange or not until we receive a single clear and discernible signal from a distant part of space. It seems very plausible that over the distances of hundreds or thousands of light years, every radio signal we've ever sent is nothing more than background fuzz, not even discernible above the radiation of our own sun let alone millions of others, plus pulsars and black holes and perhaps the howling cacophany of a few thousand other alien radio stations on that exact same band.

[@almaz.8802]

This aged well

[@ClearlyHunter]

Theory: What if Aliens already visited Earth looking for life but did this millions of years ago before life happened and they just haven’t check up on us again.

[@user-gf8zs4hj4w]

Life started on earth billions of years ago, just after it formed.

[@michaelkemp7199]

Shoulda coulda woulda

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@user-gf8zs4hj4w I heard life started 3.6billion years ago in earth

[@Jackmerius_Tacktheritrix5733]

They did. They talked to Joe Biden and never returned.

[@pyrite2060]

There already is the theory of the Annunaki , which is has evidence in all religions above a certain age but is so fantasy esc it doesn't really sound credible

[@YoylecakeJ]

"Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." -Arthur C. Clarke

[@nebulousisgod]

- At least one unoriginal KZbinr under every single damn video discussing alien life.

[@noobsunleashed9703]

yep

[@server1ok]

Everybody is alone until they learn to communicate with wildlife, which is the only form of communication that is void of lies and ulterior motives while human communication is mostly a complex power game and/or indication of various social ladders.

[@hawkvolante4903]

I love you!

[@eo9107]

I disagree. The fact we might be alone is so frightening

[@bellatordei3440]

I still don't understand why it'll lead to our doom 😒

[@harshu573]

There is no meaning in thinking so hard about it. We just have to move forward and just enjoy the moment. For me this enjoyment or dream means to be able to travel another planets and much more.