I’ve always felt like aliens capable of interstellar travel wouldn’t use ships. We imagine them using ships because that’s all we know, but it’s probably the equivalent of someone in the 19th century thinking we’d still be using horses in the 21st century.
Interstellar travel would require stepping beyond the 3rd dimension into 4th or 5th. The only logical solution to traveling millions of lightyears away would be creating portals/gateways; to fold space.
@@seanstamper1459 Physically traveling space through millions or even billions of lightyears at light speed is still extremely improbable. Every lightyear distance adds to a percentage of mission failure possibility, and when you're traveling over 1 million lightyears, the odds against you stack up to impossible odds. If the odds of mission failure is 1 to 1, then physically traveling 100 lightyears away is 100% guranteed mission failure/catastrophe. The shear amount of blackholes, and space objects you gotta avoid along the way is just stacked against you at those distances.
That's a very good point. All we have to do it look at the work of futurists in previous centuries to see how each generation beleives that the future will just be some permutation of their own experience.
You missed a very likely one: #8 The detection hypothesis: We've barely scratched the surface at even mapping the stars in our galaxy, let alone the planets around those stars. SETI projects are even MORE behind than those. Alien life might be all around us, we just haven't found them yet. We've done the equivalent of scooping up a glass of water from the ocean, concluded there are no fish, and labelled it a paradox.
I believe it’s a combination of this, that intelligent civilisations are somewhat rare (but not super rare), that it’s still developing and as we’re looking back in time as well, other planets wouldn’t have had as much time as ours to develop. We may also be one of the first.
Yep. And just the sheer size and that things are so far apart. If it’s a million light years in between solar systems then there’d have to be a life form that could live long enough to get that far.
Menu of hypothesis categories: 1. Fishbowl Hypotheses 3:12 (i.e. aliens are too different from us to interact meaningfully with us) 2. Containment Hypotheses 5:10 (i.e. aliens are deliberately preventing us from reaching/knowing about the outside universe) 3. Island Hypotheses 6:27 (i.e. aliens are deliberately leaving us alone) 4. Remote Isolation Hypotheses 7:52 (i.e. our location is too remote) 5. Predator Hypotheses 8:45 (i.e. everyone in the universe is hiding from, or destroyed by, a great danger not yet known to us) 6. Evolutionary Revolution Hypotheses 10:10 (i.e. sufficiently advanced aliens are no longer interested in the outside universe) 7. Rare Earth Hypotheses 13:08 (i.e. we're really quite alone)
Great summary. Although I think one has been missed: Aliens somehow reach extinction before they're technologically advanced enough for interstellar travel.
Watch the Twilight Zone episode with Rod Serling, where Aliens land and in peace and in the interest of human evolution, they invite 10k people to board their ship to learn and grow and then return…when they take off with these humans, the camera cuts to an Alien cooks waiting for the ships arrival so they can season their soup…apparently humans are tasty
Ahhh, I love the smell of existential crisis, questioning my existence, and thinking about the vast infinite unknowns of the universe in the morning :)
@Idk ___ been dealing with these thoughts - and others - since I was like 12. I used to drive my mom nuts with questions. I've always found it bizarre that I don't encounter more people that think about this stuff, or care to discuss it.
@@VengefulAngeI I think it subconsciously freaks most people out which is why a lot of people tend to not discuss it and fall into things like religion to aleviete that discomfort. They avoid things that make them uncomfortable
Given the size of the universe it's not any surprise that we feel alone. The universe is probably teeming with life just too far away from each other to make the trip.
Yes, too much is explained by science fiction when the science fact is that there is an unimaginable amount of stars very very far away from each other. How would they get here? Why here out of the billions of trillions of potential stars?
I don't think it's a matter of physical space travel, it's beyond our brains' current comprehension but aliens are interdimensional conscious entities that operate higher than 3D. But I guess that also implies the existence of other 3D species like us but they are too far away...
Watching this series makes me deeply, infinitely depressed and lost. Don't get me wrong, I'm addicted to it, and even already understand most of the concepts explored, but to listen to this while trudging away at a keyboard and setting zoom meetings and wondering what I'll eat for lunch... makes me spin out of control into a full blown existential crisis.
Breathe. Most people’s theories about life are just that: theories. As humans we all tend to think we may know the answer to all our questions, but we don’t. We come up with rules of logic that can make those theories theoretically possible, but theoretically possible doesn’t mean plausible.
I think about this too it just seems meaningless to do my everyday tasks as well as doing half of the mundane things i do everyday just seems so stupid and i wonder what were even doing . Seems like everyone is living wrong
Your existence and purpose here doesnt change because of the possibility of another life on another planet existing or not. The idea that aliens control our lives or put us here for whatever reason doesnt change the reality we live in actively. It wont directly change your life until they show up, if they show up. And that happening in the span of our lifetime is small because to our knowledge, it hasnt happened yet and likely wont. So I wouldnt get too hung up on the aliens thing. Just live your life like you would if aliens didnt exist and dont let it effect you that way. Youre still you, on the planet you were born on, and i can assure you almost 100% that nothing will be coming to earth and changing that any time soon.
Whats the point of alien life traveling out into the cosmos in the first place if not to learn and see what other life forms exists. Id assume that the primary catalyst for them to want to venture out would be curiosity imo.
@@MarcosNfilho i assure you that it something has the ability to travel through the cosmos to get to earth they would surely have the ability to communicate with us. Plus this whole ant analogy thing is silly. Hell some of the more intuitive breeds of dogs can know how we are feeling based on our facial expressions.
This is such a vast topic that's like exploring the ocean swimming. However, my intuition says that we simply overestimate our ability to detect alien life. Also, we always consider stellar colonization a given for advanced civilizations, while for us it's still nothing more than a theoretical dream. Maybe billions of planets like ours exist out there and we simply aren't able to detect them. Seems like the most straightforward possiblity for me.
I lean towards this theory as well, but more towards the “we can’t see/understand/comprehend” angle. 85% of the universe is dark matter and we haven’t a damn clue what it is. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. I’m thinking there nah be a higher dimension, and the way we get there is so far beyond the scope of even our wildest imaginations, that we may as well be that goldfish. It’s all that or we’re truly alone for of course reasons I don’t know enough about to make an educated guess at, other than my semi-intuition described here.
Which would lead you to believe that Just Like the Fish in our world, they could Not escape, at least Not survive while doing so. And i think thats similar to where humanity Stands, the Atmosphere as our realm of survival is Not far Off from the water planet. I might be overthinking to much after this Video however 😂
@@Sandro197 yes exactly, that’s what i meant by my original statement too lol. like they’re limited to the water anyways, so there no way they can reach or respond to us humans on earth. very interesting to think about
You’re amazing bro, can’t believe this type of content exists for free. I’m just mind blown at the quality of your programming. I’ve read about a lot of the topics you cover throughout my adult life just out of general interest, but to find most of the myriad of topics us deep thinkers regularly research all in one place, and presented so beautifully; truly a job well done.
In regard to the Fish Bowl Theory: I think the movie Arrival does a great job creating a scenario for this type of contact, one in which the beings do not follow the rules of our world & communicate on a different plane.
@@veeeevo literally none of what the movie shows makes sense. The aliens can see all of time simultaniously and somehow they couldn't avert whatever crisis they will need humanity's help for in a thousand years? If you can literally see how the future will play out, you are able to play through every possible strategy to avert whatever catastrophy might come your way, without any interference or help from the outside. Especially if you had a millenium to do so. You'd be a literal god able to influence the entire course of the universe from the moment you gained that ability. The one thing you certainly wouldn't need is the help of some underdeveloped primate species that never gone further than their home planets own satellite. Secondly, learning a language suddenly makes you able to see and experience all of time? I'm bilingual, almost trilingual, but I've yet to come across the duolingo course for becoming a fucking psychic. Then, the aliens themselves don't make sense. If you want to establish contact to a species that's clearly into self-destroying behaviour and pretty aggressive against _anything_ they don't fully understand, you don't just show up in their atmosphere with what could very well be weapons to destroy the entire planet. And you don't let them decipher your alien-tentacle ink scribbles, but talk to them in their clearly inferior-to-you and easy-to-learn language. Yes, they wanted to teach us their language for all their time shenanigans, but you can _first_ ask for help and _then_ explain the plan, instead of threatening an uninvolved species with complete nuclear self-destruction out of - let me quote the juice media for that one - total fucking panik, dead people and bullshit. And don't start with the "but they're aliens, they think and comminucate differently to us!", because that doesn't fly in this case. They wanted us to do something. If you want someone to do something, you don't behave like some freak, but in a fashion that makes them trust you and willing to engange in closer contact to you. Literally the opposite of what they did there. And for the communication bit: they're clearly able to understand our language and even if they're unable to speak, they travelled lightyears, so I'm pretty confident they can build a freaking loudspeaker and their version of GoogleTranslate. But literally the entire conflict of the movie was based on the stupidity of these ultra-technologically advanced, 4-dimensional beings that they couldn't possibly fathom how an aggressive, young species would react to the word "weapon" when having their first contact. While they can literally predict the future. No one in their first-contact crew responsible for getting the introduction to their eventual saviours thought of running their inklings through a synonyms database just to see if uh-oh, there just _might_ be potential for some misunderstanding in this that would make them think that we came to destroy them, instead of altering the brain of one of their lesser known and unimportant citizens to help us eventually long past her expiration date? And don't call it a test for humanity or something, these sentient calamari can see the fucking future, they know the exact outcome of every test they could possibly run the moment they decide to do it! Nothing in that movie made sense, the characters were horrible flat to the point that they were almost one-dimensional from the sheer gravitational pressure of the amount of pseudoscientific bullshit that script was. I'm glad you liked it, you do you, but from a purely writing perspective, it was baaaaad.
@@bestogril2 I'm not a director, but I'm pretty confident that I could write a better screenplay than that shit... How about you send me the money and I'll get to writing. Otherwise, shut up, because I don't have a team of paid writing monkeys like Hollywood has, who should come up with waaaay better stuff than that pseudo-intellectual bs...
I'm onboard with the "they're just too frickin far away" hypothesis. There very well could be life in every solar system in the universe, and yet be conceivable that humanity will never encounter any of it. If there's a billion civilizations in the observable universe visiting a billion solar systems each, the chance of them visiting ours is still only 1/1000. And that doesn't even take into account that humanity presumably only exists for a fraction of the lifetime of the solar system.
Our telescopes dont see much activity of space travel, we might not see them because interstellar travel might be too difficult, the most they might do is interplanetary travel.
The thought that aliens HAVE and DO visit but realize that this planet is already occupied and then try to get the fuck out without being seen is hilarious
The aliens you speak of would be capable of traveling such vast interstellar distances they wouldn’t need to visit to understand our planet is occupied.
Or maybe they’re as puzzled as us, but thinking “wow man we have looked and looked everywhere we can but nothing yet” and so they’ve just been traveling for so long, but it’s so vast that they haven’t gotten to us nor any other living thing, they’re just travelers. So sad.
Actually, goldfish are more intelligent than youre giving them credit. They do recognize faces, they even play games. I have taught my goldfish many tricks as well :)
I’ll go step further. In The Hidden Life of Trees, author Peter Wohlleben documents the trees unique abilities. Trees can count, as well they communicate w their fellow trees in the forrest. They can sense danger and have the ability to regulate their reproductive amd protective defense mechanisms as needed to suite their environment. They generally sense the world around themselves in ways most would imagine only exist in non-plant life. Fascinating book.
@@DJohnN they go through hoops, they jump out and eat from my hand, they play games with marbles I've given them, they chase me around. They have also learned to make noises with their mouths on the side of the tank when theyre hungry. Treating animals poorly and not giving them any sort of stimulation and enrichment will not allow them to reach their full potential. What happens when you leave a human alone in a room for years? They become completely unable to socialize, unable develop language, and unable to complete certain basic reasoning. Provide goldfish with a 200 gallon tank, filter their water, and feed them well and they'll get huge and smart.
You forget the most obvious hypothesis: They are all around, and we've only begun to squint our eyes and peer out into the universe. Our impatience betrays us.
this 1000% the aliens arnet actual aliens.. they hide in the extra dimensons of the DMT realm.. like amobas and virsus to us... we are to them the same
Very underrated hypothesis, only half of the world has Internet access and many think that we can already find extraterrestrial life if it was there... Humans are very arrogant.
Fantastic video, as always. Deep, philosophical, existential, with a positive outcome. Clear wording and interesting video. Thank you POW. Keep them coming!
The depth of research and condensed simplicity is a sight to behold. Remarkable and kudos to you, this is one of a kind. Brilliant! Remote isolation hypotheses is the most probable.
Robert, you don't ever. Stop blowing my mind with your videos I think that perhaps you are of another world This was utterly fascinating on so many levels thank you for what you do sir.
The planet earth is quarantined, but never left alone. I do recommend you to read urantia book, and at the end of chapter 15, you can find the number of this planet in the catalog of the inhabited worlds, and the reason behind this planet ( urantia) was put under quarantine. Farbot Nia
@@FarbotBurunetNia the meaning is something far out of our knowledge but I personally don’t believe where quarantined or whatever, we’re just not ready for anything else.
you should know by now the government is not EVER going to tell you the full truth. The only info in that report is gonna be "we are not sure what those are"
I am ex-military, and I can tell you that there are things that can't be know. The Truth can never get out. I can't say more, but lot of stuff on UFO's will stay TOP SECRET.
One of the best videos that tackles the Fermi Paradox!!! You sir have my respects... By the way I firmly believe that intelligent life is so rare and space between life forms so immense that we will never get in contact with extraterrestrial life...
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke Just to point out that our efforts at searching for life so far pretty much amounts to taking a cup out of water out of the ocean, inspecting the 8oz inside and declaring the universe empty of intelligent life.
Once again. Statistics and sheer the universe is “x” bit so it must have life is a very dumb argument as it doesnt take into account how life even comes about. And how we have tried multiple times to recreate life from scratch and failed every time.
Theres just so many Possibilities how the Fermi Paradox can be explained, it really means this Paradox does not clearly prove that Aliens do not exist. They sure can. I personally even assume it.
@@matclash4736 Semantics. People are just using the word 'die' to mean slightly different things. Like when you say 'Don't let the candle die out', it doesn't mean that the candle is a conscious being.
When Rick Fermi and his friends split the atom, what was the first thing they did with it? And he couldn't figure out why intelligent life hasn't contacted us?
We are beginning to understand there's a correlation between gravity and time. We don't know how or why yet, we just have a lot of data suggesting the further away you get from a gravitational source, the more time changes. To intergalactic travellers, our recorded existence could be a blink of an eye or their version of a day. For us to experience an alien sighting in our lifetime would mean there is actually pretty heavy traffic in the universe. And their visits would need to be instant quick for those same reasons. Space serves as a time barrier to those who haven't yet evolved to a point where they can traverse it properly. Maybe gravity and time are a construct of an unimaginably evolved species, supporting the purposeful isolation theories. Maybe the alien race IS time and gravity :D
I don’t know where your reply went, but yes a video would be even better…I’d be interested to see how you’d showcase that concept with a small budget. Good luck to you, may your work of art see the light of day
God, I've drunk a few beers and got genuinely freaked out after hearing about the theory regarding fishbowl and having some more intelligent forms of life in my very room. Geez.
Im sure we all know aliens exist but this quote always cracked me up: “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.” -A.C. Clarke 🤣👌🏽 -peace and love from a growing youtuber✌🏽💚
I wouldn't be so sure. We really don't know one way or the other when you look at the evidence we have. It is still completely scientifically possible that we are the only life in the universe. I know that sounds controversial given how many scientists go on TV and say they know life is out there. But really what they have is faith that life is out there because the universe is huge. Thats not a scientific argument, it's just what we hope is true. The Cool Worlds channel did a few vids on this topic that were really good. They looked at both sides of the argument. Life might be out there but based on the things we can prove it equally well might not be.
This is an incredible video. I can't believe how great this content is. I just found this channel tonight, and I am amazed that PoW produces new & brilliant theories for the Fermi Paradox.
The loop theory is more of an attractive theory because we see though our history that we are in fact creating a loop and certain technology has been replaced and forgotten like the jet that travels at the speed of sound, and also I’ve always wondered why scientist at nasa would luanch info on our civilization into the unknown???!!!
i dont think "evil" its a real thing... evil its a human concept, we are just bacterias living on a drop of some dirty water and trying to survive while we say to ourselves that we are evolved and better than the other animals around us
If we are a rare and solitary life form in a vast and empty universe, the thought of it doesn’t depress me. What I’ve experienced, the impact I’ve made on others and the impact others have made on me, and the truth and sincerity other people are capable of gives me hope. It’s a momentary but inescapable existence, and even when everything returns to dust, it was real and it was important.
I agree! The perfect world to me is without poverty, without reproduction and through science and technology you choose if and when to die. Maybe we would learn to be happy, without having to start over and over, and when we feel like it die satisfied.
@@jason5265 it's not pessimistic at all from my point of view! I just feel I have no right in forcing anyone to exist and that there's enough problems to solve and people to help in the world without new children you'd have to care for.
Our brains may be so different that we can't be in the same location without problems arising. This was talked about in the movie "First Contact, Channeling Bashar." The narrator, James Wood, tells of an encounter the main character "D Anka" in one of his meditations. In this meditation he he sees alien "Bashar" lands his ship and slowly walk towards Anka. He says that the closer Bashar gets to his location the more he starts to see himself through he Bashar's eyes. He says that when we are near this gray alien, of witch Bashar is a hybrid, we can't hold our own. We loose our ability to think normally. It's as if their brains are too powerful for us to be near. Maybe because their ESP is taking over our weak minds. Makes me think that the expansion of our mental abilities will be the next big step in our evolution. It was a pretty good movie. D Anka has is brain waves checked to see if something was really happening mentally. The doctor said that his experiences seem to be real.
Our technological advancements outpace our social advancements. If that continues to be the case we might also become the superpredator that stalks the dark forest.
Yes, it is equally palusible that we are currently the most advanced culture in the unverse. The ancients to later cultures that will discover only our relics and ruins.
Theres just so many Possibilities how the Fermi Paradox can be explained, it really means this Paradox does not clearly prove that Aliens do not exist. They sure can. I personally even assume it.
@@loturzelrestaurant You can bet either way and still be in with a good chance to be right. We have no evidence of alien life but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Given the number of galaxies in the universe, the number of stars in each galaxy, the number of planets going around each star the number is huge. Probability would point to our Earth not being in anyway unique and life emerging and evolving just on this one planet highly unlikely. Intelligent life is another matter and while I believe for similar reasons that we can not be unique with having intelligent life there is an argument to suggest that very few advanced occurrences of intelligent life exist at any given time. If true then the chances of ever seeing evidence of or encountering intelligent alien life is very low... the evidence we have right now would seem to support that idea , i.e. we have no evidence. But we have only just started looking.
I’ve realized it’s usually hard to think about anything within this concept. This is because we’ve evolved a completely separate way so the way we do anything is going to be different meaning, as humans, it’s impossible to imagine their ideals, processes, knowledge, or dimensional state… they could literally be in another dimension that we can’t imagine since we’ve never experienced it.
The answer is that space faring civilizations are so extremely rare and time is so expansive compared to the life of an advanced civilization that no two ever existed at the same time.
Even if the universe did have like a one percent chance of life, the universe being so unimaginably expansive we still couldn’t make up that 1% just by ourselves 💀
What if every galaxy has different laws of physics? This means that other higher intelligent lifeforms in other galaxy could not reach our galaxy as their laws of physics is completely different from ours thus if they are capable of reaching to our galaxy ,the drastic complete change of physics will render their technology useless. This may also explain why we have yet to receive any signals from other higher intelligent lifeforms as wavelengths may work differently in their galaxy than ours. I am not sure whether my hypothesis makes any sense but i am genuinely interested in a discussion in this.
Very interesting hypothesis. The vastness of space and the distance it would take to find out weather this hypothesis is true is practically improbable but would be interesting to find out
Good thought but i think we'd be able to tell from observations of motion and other phenomenon. As far as I'm aware, everything behaves as expected. However, there is the small matter of dark matter.
Their "physics" would be the same as ours. Though they would surely name things differently, the laws of the elements (atoms and molecules), the nature of those elements and how the universe operates (gravity, stars, etc.) would be the same. How they might use all of that differently would explain some of your observations. The physics won't change, but that does not rule out the possibility of life forms being based upon something other than carbon, as we are. 😁
@@wildwesttart1953 His body lives in the real world but his indoctrinated brain lives in a world where magic is real, but only the magic from his specific deity
The dark woods hypothesis is so close the what the Mass Effect series does with the Reapers! SPOILERS AHEAD! It's not exactly the same, but they're an older and more powerful being that basically moderates the galaxy and every so often wipes out all the species that have evolved enough and learned enough for space travel and intergalactic communication so that the universe sorta starts anew and no one gets too powerful and threatens the reapers. it's a very cool concept! also very scary haha
@@Fleurlean4 lmao yes they do, I know that sounds very not possible and the game actually does portray that, most of the "fighting" they all do is just surviving/ fighting the reapers' small human sized minions they send down. There's also more than one ending, so the universe can be saved, but it can also be destroyed if you fail and you grt more than one way to save the universe too iirc. Though mass effect doest have the best choice system, it's still pretty neat that they included not winning. Also im pretty sure killing the reapers is like making some massive space tech of the reapers explode so its not like traditional shooting them with guns :)
I think we’re at one of the oldest and dead parts of space. Like I think there’s other life but they aren’t even bothering looking this far out because everything is essentially dead and has been. I dunno. I just don’t think many are looking because we’re not supposed to be an alive planet.
That's simply not true, nor even the point of the Fermi Paradox, so keep thinking. We should have been detecting something unnatural somewhere, it's not just the matter of aliens landing a spaceship on earth and saying hello not having happened yet. It's the total lack of any evidence anywhere. No signals, no sounds, no flashing lights, absolutely nothing. Even if all the aliens were simply not visiting earth because it's too far away, we would have seen that civilization's "skyline", like looking at a city from a distance.
@@DutchFurnace okay idk much about this topic but would we really be seeing evidence of them anyways? Given that light can only travel so fast the further we look doesn't that mean we're are just seeing further in the past? Like a planet a few million light years away could be teeming with life but we just won't know until their light reaches us in a few million more years? Idk the vastness of space may just mean that unless we have some major advancements in faster than light travel or communication, we may not be able to see these other life forms that are actively living "right now" because to us we see them how they were millions of years ago maybe unintelligent or before they created these skylines.
@@qwaszx3333 "Like a planet a few million light years away could be teeming with life but we just won't know until their light reaches us in a few million more years?" Yes, this. But you have to expand that idea with the concept that there already were millions of planets with life sending out light/signals 5 million years ago, and 10, and 20, and 50, and 100 too. Yes you're right two planets who spawned intelligent life around the same time won't know about each other because of the possible millions of years of light travel, but if one planet was just a couple million years earlier, the second would have seen the first. There should be huge overlap of planets just starting with life and planets who've already been abandoned for (tens/hundreds) of millions (or even some billions?) of years and everything in between. We should be seeing some young planets just starting with life, other middleaged planets being in the process, and other ancient ones with dyson spheres spreading across millions of lightyears of space lighting up space like a christmas tree with "non natural" signs. Unless of course; .
@@DutchFurnace that whole light thing makes me think of a situation of people seeing aliens evolve enough to comprehend space and shit, only to realize the 1000 years waiting was wasted and they get shot down by lasers because the aliens thought we were a threat even though we are just stupid monkeys
@@Th3Goober Yup, that's one of the Filters talked about the greater Fermian Paradox: There's some alien species who reached supreme levels of technology to a point they control the entire galaxies and they don't allow lower level intelligent beings to really know what's happening, but keep them around as entertainment/for whatever reasons, and wipe them out once they could become a nuisance. Another filter is that the Universe itself is simply too random, and we're due for some kind of galactic event happening somewhere in our region, like something going supernova, and life in any and all forms in a large part of the galaxy get destroyed/reset back to zero, and this happens often enough for no intelligent life to reach levels of permanent existence.
I've always thought the assumption that intelligent life, particularly intelligent life that can communicate or travel over long distances, is likely rare. I would be a little surprised if we were alone. We've also only really had the tech to communicate for 80 years and for most of that it was primitive. It still is somewhat primitive. It would take awhile for one of our radiowaves to cross the Milky Way and inform a more advanced life we are here.
and if we are like toddlers, who still need to develop before they can be told Santa does not exist and what reality actually is. Maybe it's just a step of the journey, we haven't reached the right age just yet, before we can watch adult movies and do adult stuff.
@@danielekirylo That's practically what the whole Galactic Zoo theory is. Except, instead of toddlers we’re just a bunch of caged and ruthless animals who don't get along.
@@MarcusMaddox91 Everything in the simulation would be happening exactly as it was coded to happen. Peace and war. Health and sickness. Contentment and depression. You’re mistakenly assuming that the simulation is supposed to have one particular outcome.
Issue with rare Earth is that 1% survival rate in an entire universe is crazy high, also that other species existed previously before the calculation, meaning an inteligent species will likely exist on earth after humans creating larvaetube & making similar videos as to why they see strange sightings and/or they must be rare.
I think your overestimating the percentage. Their are probably trillions of planets out there, and we know all of them can’t be habitable judging by our own solar system’s planets and view of other planets outside of it. Intelligent life could be a 1 in 100 trillion chance of happening to the point where our own species’s upbringing could be seen as an evolutionary accident. That’s the type of rarity we’re looking at.
1% survival rate in the universe does not mean 1% survival in the milky way galaxy, there are millions of galaxies i won't be surprise if there was one intelligent species per galaxy.
Technically speaking, ANYTHING is possible, and that applies to virtually any subject matter under the sun. Similar to yourself, for example, I could claim, or suggest, that a planet, 3 million light years from Earth, is made of gorgonzola cheese, with rivers, lakes and oceans of low-fat, strawberry yohurt. The problem here wouldn't be the claim, or suggestion, as such - it's the PROBABILITY of it being either true or untrue. Accordingly, spurious claims are effectively worthless in the absence of evidence, and besides, the burden of proof always rests with the person making the claim - not with the skeptic that questions it. In short, and with respect, there's no point in speculating as you have done because any claim - yes, even the most ridiculous imaginable - still has a 'probability factor' of it being true, no matter how insane the proposal may appear to be....so what's the point? More simply: zero (or near zero) credibility to a claim = absurdity.
@@Turrican60 The “Unfalsifiable Hypotheses” - which is also what makes debating against the concept of God/religion or even what happens after death, so difficult. (Right now anyways) Because while science explains much or even most of our current understanding, the universe is far too infinite and unknown to definitively or outright disprove the concept of “God.” Or it allows the goal post to be frequently shifted. If science does disprove one aspect of God, the criteria of a theoretical God could then be shifted into something science can’t yet explain or confirm!
I feel like there probably has been alot of life in the universe but due to the speed of light putting a maximum cap on how far any given lifeforms can travel and the fact the universe has existed so long makes me think the chances of us being here now being the right time and place to meet these being is just so small that it may as well not even exist at all.
Hold on mate, there are semi-habitable life planets and possibly a fully habitable on like kepler series planets, it isn't confirmed that kepler has or even may be suitable for life but there's quite the chance since the kepler series planet look quite simmilar to earth, plus we have mars that semi-habitable.
I attended a lecture way back in the 70's that was on the subject of "The Cosmic Quarantine"! The idea was, that if life was "uncommon" to begin with, and technologically advanced Civilizations even more so, they must be spread across the galaxy at great distances from each other. Then even an average distance of just a few hundred light years between such rare Civilizations would essentially guarantee they WOULD NEVER EVEN BE AWARE OF EACH OTHER! AND THUS NEVER INTERACT! That's where I'm placing my "Bet"!
It may be that we are "The One" organisum that has to multiply and diverse into different beings. Like staying on a different planet will inevitably cause us to evolve according to the conditions on the planet.
Exactly. Always go into positive mindset when approaching new things/relationships. There's a chance that we haven't met an alien civilization but there's also the possibility that we have had contact with them but they aren't revealed because of the reactions that it would cause. And even the possibility that they don't exist whatsoever.
Unfortunately just about every big lie ever told started with, "trust me". Aliens aren't visiting us, we are just really really easy to fool, even the smartest of us. Have you ever seen that which line is longer illusion on paper? We have a million things like that built into our heads. We see a light in a video or in the sky and it must be aliens. Except that just about everything else we know and can prove would somehow have to be wrong for that to be true. It is still completely scientifically possible that we are alone in the universe. Its possible that abiogenesis is so unlikely that it happens once in 14 billion years and an uncountable number of planets. I dont think that's likely but it is still completely possible based on what we know and can prove. I think the advanced aliens everyone imagines are just what we think we'll evolve into if we survive long enough. And the idea of a Savior to fix all our problems is just so seductive that people just want to believe it. Since the beginning of history gods have come down from the sky to save us from this or that and tell us stuff that we should already know. That we should be nice to each other. Now its Aliens coming to save us or save the planet or whatever. Its the same thing. Nobodies coming to save us and turn us into what we already know we should be. We are just gonna have to try to do that ourselves. And I really dont care how many people have seen something, I've seen something too. I was just lucky enough to learn what it actually was and suddenly it wasn't amazing anymore. Eye witness accounts are not evidence, its just to easy to fool us and make us see what we want to see. Also some of us are liars looking for fame, paid interviews, books or whatever. If Aliens ever come here it won't be some blurry ambiguous blob on a 30 year old flir camera. It will be obvious and incontrovertible like all real things are.
When I was at that young age trying to comprehend the universe, I conceded to the gold fish/test tube theory. Somewhere out there... we are the science project in a sixth grade class room. That freckled face kid is your God.
Great job on this video!👏👏 (Communication is being defined too narrowly. We can communicate with all animals on the planet. Just not in words, but with actions. Even human communication has a significant body language / physical component. If you poke a fish, it swims away, that’s communication.)
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Why haven't Aliens visited our Solar System yet?
They looked at the reviews...only 1 star.
lol
Ba dum tiss 🥁
Damn I'm gonna remember that one!
Being that a solar system by definition is a single star (our sun) orbited by 1 or more planetary bodies..
Hahaha
I’ve always felt like aliens capable of interstellar travel wouldn’t use ships. We imagine them using ships because that’s all we know, but it’s probably the equivalent of someone in the 19th century thinking we’d still be using horses in the 21st century.
Interstellar travel would require stepping beyond the 3rd dimension into 4th or 5th. The only logical solution to traveling millions of lightyears away would be creating portals/gateways; to fold space.
@@povang interstellar ships could exist in the form of self sustaining generations ships
@@seanstamper1459 Physically traveling space through millions or even billions of lightyears at light speed is still extremely improbable. Every lightyear distance adds to a percentage of mission failure possibility, and when you're traveling over 1 million lightyears, the odds against you stack up to impossible odds. If the odds of mission failure is 1 to 1, then physically traveling 100 lightyears away is 100% guranteed mission failure/catastrophe. The shear amount of blackholes, and space objects you gotta avoid along the way is just stacked against you at those distances.
@@povang when you fold space, you skip the space in between the fold, so you don't need to worry about objects in the flight path.
That's a very good point. All we have to do it look at the work of futurists in previous centuries to see how each generation beleives that the future will just be some permutation of their own experience.
You missed a very likely one:
#8 The detection hypothesis: We've barely scratched the surface at even mapping the stars in our galaxy, let alone the planets around those stars. SETI projects are even MORE behind than those. Alien life might be all around us, we just haven't found them yet. We've done the equivalent of scooping up a glass of water from the ocean, concluded there are no fish, and labelled it a paradox.
Wow
Damn dude... You're right
You’re right.
I believe it’s a combination of this, that intelligent civilisations are somewhat rare (but not super rare), that it’s still developing and as we’re looking back in time as well, other planets wouldn’t have had as much time as ours to develop. We may also be one of the first.
Yep. And just the sheer size and that things are so far apart. If it’s a million light years in between solar systems then there’d have to be a life form that could live long enough to get that far.
Menu of hypothesis categories:
1. Fishbowl Hypotheses 3:12 (i.e. aliens are too different from us to interact meaningfully with us)
2. Containment Hypotheses 5:10 (i.e. aliens are deliberately preventing us from reaching/knowing about the outside universe)
3. Island Hypotheses 6:27 (i.e. aliens are deliberately leaving us alone)
4. Remote Isolation Hypotheses 7:52 (i.e. our location is too remote)
5. Predator Hypotheses 8:45 (i.e. everyone in the universe is hiding from, or destroyed by, a great danger not yet known to us)
6. Evolutionary Revolution Hypotheses 10:10 (i.e. sufficiently advanced aliens are no longer interested in the outside universe)
7. Rare Earth Hypotheses 13:08 (i.e. we're really quite alone)
thankss
Thanks a lot!
You are the most useful to mankind right now at this moment like Zeno's arrow. (Although his paradox is falsidical)
Great summary. Although I think one has been missed:
Aliens somehow reach extinction before they're technologically advanced enough for interstellar travel.
@@okkk934 When it comes to greater questions, either guesses or beliefs come to fiddle.
this shit is so fascinating. Sad to think we were born far too early to see the potential or true "destiny" of the human race.
Yeah we gon be dead in 70-80 years. Would've been cool to live through the 2500's and stuff
@@Atharva550thunder Not necessarily. Look into longevity escape velocity or LEV for short
Or we were born to witness it’s end, or born to try and change it
Yet without us that potential would never come true
Unless we hit a breakthrough in Neurotechnology or cryogenics, guess we can just build toward it for them.
I always thought about how we put cameras that look like animals to record without spooking them, and how that could be happening to us...
Fax
Humanoid "aliens" are probably that tbh
if they're not *just* hallucinations, ofc
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Watch the Twilight Zone episode with Rod Serling, where Aliens land and in peace and in the interest of human evolution, they invite 10k people to board their ship to learn and grow and then return…when they take off with these humans, the camera cuts to an Alien cooks waiting for the ships arrival so they can season their soup…apparently humans are tasty
Or maybe we’re just not that special and aliens wouldn’t care to go to all that effort just for us. Ever consider that?
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy
That’s a great quote, and he’s a heck of a writer.
Never heard this before i love it.
Like with the Taoist Farmer story!
@@wilkstheguitarman3103 he was a great writer 🥺
What if it is better that we are alone in this universe? We are already pretty hectic idk if adding more intelligent life would really help.
Ahhh, I love the smell of existential crisis, questioning my existence, and thinking about the vast infinite unknowns of the universe in the morning :)
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@Idk ___ been dealing with these thoughts - and others - since I was like 12. I used to drive my mom nuts with questions. I've always found it bizarre that I don't encounter more people that think about this stuff, or care to discuss it.
Existential crisis, a hot cup of coffee, and a bagel with cream cheese✅the breakfast of champions? Or a cruel simulation?😪
Who doesn't love the smell of some fresh existential crisis and questioning the essence of your very being in the morning?
Very lovely indeed 😂💖
@@VengefulAngeI I think it subconsciously freaks most people out which is why a lot of people tend to not discuss it and fall into things like religion to aleviete that discomfort. They avoid things that make them uncomfortable
Given the size of the universe it's not any surprise that we feel alone. The universe is probably teeming with life just too far away from each other to make the trip.
100% spot on correct
Did you watch the video
@@jasonsimms8251 Part
Yes, too much is explained by science fiction when the science fact is that there is an unimaginable amount of stars very very far away from each other. How would they get here? Why here out of the billions of trillions of potential stars?
I don't think it's a matter of physical space travel, it's beyond our brains' current comprehension but aliens are interdimensional conscious entities that operate higher than 3D. But I guess that also implies the existence of other 3D species like us but they are too far away...
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not, both are equally terrifying". Arthur C. Clarke
How original
@@Dreway Not meant to be original. You probably missed the quotation marks and author's credit. They are subtle.
Yes I spotted Pursuit of Wonder ending on that credited quote too.
If I'd a £1 for everytime a dipshit put that quote up, i'd move to mars
@@keekstar2914 I thought this was a friendly comment section. Pretty salty.
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us" (Calvin & Hobbes)
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NASA really is putting earth in danger
@@wandilenondabula4724 how?
The surest sign that fairies exist is that they never cross into our world from their dimension.
Only stupid dogs bark when a beast is lurking around.
Watching this series makes me deeply, infinitely depressed and lost. Don't get me wrong, I'm addicted to it, and even already understand most of the concepts explored, but to listen to this while trudging away at a keyboard and setting zoom meetings and wondering what I'll eat for lunch... makes me spin out of control into a full blown existential crisis.
Breathe. Most people’s theories about life are just that: theories. As humans we all tend to think we may know the answer to all our questions, but we don’t. We come up with rules of logic that can make those theories theoretically possible, but theoretically possible doesn’t mean plausible.
I think about this too it just seems meaningless to do my everyday tasks as well as doing half of the mundane things i do everyday just seems so stupid and i wonder what were even doing . Seems like everyone is living wrong
Enjoy life this almost sounds like the anti life equation making like seem pointless. So make about something.
As humans must of us are so staggeringly full of ourselves that we scarcely see or contemplate the world around us.
Your existence and purpose here doesnt change because of the possibility of another life on another planet existing or not. The idea that aliens control our lives or put us here for whatever reason doesnt change the reality we live in actively. It wont directly change your life until they show up, if they show up. And that happening in the span of our lifetime is small because to our knowledge, it hasnt happened yet and likely wont. So I wouldnt get too hung up on the aliens thing. Just live your life like you would if aliens didnt exist and dont let it effect you that way. Youre still you, on the planet you were born on, and i can assure you almost 100% that nothing will be coming to earth and changing that any time soon.
The universe is large enough that ALL of these theories may be true
Always makes me cringe when someone
says the Fermi-Paradox "proves Aliens dont exist;
go deal with it!".
Always.
@@loturzelrestaurantaliens be avoiding your moms 70s style bush
but mostly not old enough
BINGO! 👍😉
@@DJohnN are you literally 9?
Considering we haven't explored our own planet in its entirety, I can't imagine the whole universe has been explored already.
I don't bend down and try to talk ants whenever I'm out hiking.
But what if one day... we did 😳
Whats the point of alien life traveling out into the cosmos in the first place if not to learn and see what other life forms exists. Id assume that the primary catalyst for them to want to venture out would be curiosity imo.
Scott Campbell False comparison.
@@chrishedley115 i agree with you, but.... how to dialog with an ant?
@@MarcosNfilho i assure you that it something has the ability to travel through the cosmos to get to earth they would surely have the ability to communicate with us. Plus this whole ant analogy thing is silly. Hell some of the more intuitive breeds of dogs can know how we are feeling based on our facial expressions.
This is such a vast topic that's like exploring the ocean swimming. However, my intuition says that we simply overestimate our ability to detect alien life. Also, we always consider stellar colonization a given for advanced civilizations, while for us it's still nothing more than a theoretical dream. Maybe billions of planets like ours exist out there and we simply aren't able to detect them. Seems like the most straightforward possiblity for me.
That’s would fall under number 4 the remote isolation hypothesis
I lean towards this theory as well, but more towards the “we can’t see/understand/comprehend” angle. 85% of the universe is dark matter and we haven’t a damn clue what it is. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. I’m thinking there nah be a higher dimension, and the way we get there is so far beyond the scope of even our wildest imaginations, that we may as well be that goldfish. It’s all that or we’re truly alone for of course reasons I don’t know enough about to make an educated guess at, other than my semi-intuition described here.
The evolutionary revolution hypotheses is basically Return to monke.
The time is here 🐵
Return to bacteria
That’s what I was thinking lol
Good thing evolution is the bunk, 19th century pseudoscience.
@@wms72 funny
what if the other species is nothing but like highly organized fish on some water planet.
Dinosaurs dressed down doing drugs disco dancing
Which would lead you to believe that Just Like the Fish in our world, they could Not escape, at least Not survive while doing so. And i think thats similar to where humanity Stands, the Atmosphere as our realm of survival is Not far Off from the water planet. I might be overthinking to much after this Video however 😂
@@brodychapelle 😂
Or some microorganism
@@Sandro197 yes exactly, that’s what i meant by my original statement too lol. like they’re limited to the water anyways, so there no way they can reach or respond to us humans on earth. very interesting to think about
You’re amazing bro, can’t believe this type of content exists for free. I’m just mind blown at the quality of your programming. I’ve read about a lot of the topics you cover throughout my adult life just out of general interest, but to find most of the myriad of topics us deep thinkers regularly research all in one place, and presented so beautifully; truly a job well done.
What a sweet and profound posting…I agree,
In regard to the Fish Bowl Theory: I think the movie Arrival does a great job creating a scenario for this type of contact, one in which the beings do not follow the rules of our world & communicate on a different plane.
Arrival was a movie so bad, I didn't even notice the stream looped back half an hour of it...
@@midnight8341 It’s one of the most well done first encounter style movies ever made. You’re tripping.
@@veeeevo literally none of what the movie shows makes sense.
The aliens can see all of time simultaniously and somehow they couldn't avert whatever crisis they will need humanity's help for in a thousand years? If you can literally see how the future will play out, you are able to play through every possible strategy to avert whatever catastrophy might come your way, without any interference or help from the outside. Especially if you had a millenium to do so. You'd be a literal god able to influence the entire course of the universe from the moment you gained that ability. The one thing you certainly wouldn't need is the help of some underdeveloped primate species that never gone further than their home planets own satellite.
Secondly, learning a language suddenly makes you able to see and experience all of time? I'm bilingual, almost trilingual, but I've yet to come across the duolingo course for becoming a fucking psychic.
Then, the aliens themselves don't make sense. If you want to establish contact to a species that's clearly into self-destroying behaviour and pretty aggressive against _anything_ they don't fully understand, you don't just show up in their atmosphere with what could very well be weapons to destroy the entire planet. And you don't let them decipher your alien-tentacle ink scribbles, but talk to them in their clearly inferior-to-you and easy-to-learn language. Yes, they wanted to teach us their language for all their time shenanigans, but you can _first_ ask for help and _then_ explain the plan, instead of threatening an uninvolved species with complete nuclear self-destruction out of - let me quote the juice media for that one - total fucking panik, dead people and bullshit.
And don't start with the "but they're aliens, they think and comminucate differently to us!", because that doesn't fly in this case. They wanted us to do something. If you want someone to do something, you don't behave like some freak, but in a fashion that makes them trust you and willing to engange in closer contact to you. Literally the opposite of what they did there.
And for the communication bit: they're clearly able to understand our language and even if they're unable to speak, they travelled lightyears, so I'm pretty confident they can build a freaking loudspeaker and their version of GoogleTranslate. But literally the entire conflict of the movie was based on the stupidity of these ultra-technologically advanced, 4-dimensional beings that they couldn't possibly fathom how an aggressive, young species would react to the word "weapon" when having their first contact. While they can literally predict the future. No one in their first-contact crew responsible for getting the introduction to their eventual saviours thought of running their inklings through a synonyms database just to see if uh-oh, there just _might_ be potential for some misunderstanding in this that would make them think that we came to destroy them, instead of altering the brain of one of their lesser known and unimportant citizens to help us eventually long past her expiration date?
And don't call it a test for humanity or something, these sentient calamari can see the fucking future, they know the exact outcome of every test they could possibly run the moment they decide to do it!
Nothing in that movie made sense, the characters were horrible flat to the point that they were almost one-dimensional from the sheer gravitational pressure of the amount of pseudoscientific bullshit that script was.
I'm glad you liked it, you do you, but from a purely writing perspective, it was baaaaad.
@@midnight8341 Excellent 😂
@@bestogril2 I'm not a director, but I'm pretty confident that I could write a better screenplay than that shit... How about you send me the money and I'll get to writing. Otherwise, shut up, because I don't have a team of paid writing monkeys like Hollywood has, who should come up with waaaay better stuff than that pseudo-intellectual bs...
I'm onboard with the "they're just too frickin far away" hypothesis. There very well could be life in every solar system in the universe, and yet be conceivable that humanity will never encounter any of it.
If there's a billion civilizations in the observable universe visiting a billion solar systems each, the chance of them visiting ours is still only 1/1000. And that doesn't even take into account that humanity presumably only exists for a fraction of the lifetime of the solar system.
Our telescopes dont see much activity of space travel, we might not see them because interstellar travel might be too difficult, the most they might do is interplanetary travel.
Feeling alone in the universe is not a bug, it's a feature.
Its a gift. How i met my best friend ❤ .....!!Me
I think it is more of an indulgence 😉
The thought that aliens HAVE and DO visit but realize that this planet is already occupied and then try to get the fuck out without being seen is hilarious
That’s actually a pretty common thought in science fiction.
The aliens you speak of would be capable of traveling such vast interstellar distances they wouldn’t need to visit to understand our planet is occupied.
They are here for the water. Pure and simple.
@@davidrink1291 YES finally someone says it why do you think they always see them submerging under water/coming out of the water
Or maybe they’re as puzzled as us, but thinking “wow man we have looked and looked everywhere we can but nothing yet” and so they’ve just been traveling for so long, but it’s so vast that they haven’t gotten to us nor any other living thing, they’re just travelers. So sad.
“We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile!”
Actually, goldfish are more intelligent than youre giving them credit. They do recognize faces, they even play games. I have taught my goldfish many tricks as well :)
I’ll go step further. In The Hidden Life of Trees, author Peter Wohlleben documents the trees unique abilities. Trees can count, as well they communicate w their fellow trees in the forrest. They can sense danger and have the ability to regulate their reproductive amd protective defense mechanisms as needed to suite their environment. They generally sense the world around themselves in ways most would imagine only exist in non-plant life. Fascinating book.
@@johnnypk1963 wait, seriously? I have to read this book!
@@owenreel3916 absolutely
You taught your goldfish many tricks? I think you’re just really high.
@@DJohnN they go through hoops, they jump out and eat from my hand, they play games with marbles I've given them, they chase me around. They have also learned to make noises with their mouths on the side of the tank when theyre hungry. Treating animals poorly and not giving them any sort of stimulation and enrichment will not allow them to reach their full potential. What happens when you leave a human alone in a room for years? They become completely unable to socialize, unable develop language, and unable to complete certain basic reasoning. Provide goldfish with a 200 gallon tank, filter their water, and feed them well and they'll get huge and smart.
I love how easily digestible this is yet so so interesting and mind blowing
You forget the most obvious hypothesis: They are all around, and we've only begun to squint our eyes and peer out into the universe. Our impatience betrays us.
this 1000% the aliens arnet actual aliens.. they hide in the extra dimensons of the DMT realm.. like amobas and virsus to us... we are to them the same
Very underrated hypothesis, only half of the world has Internet access and many think that we can already find extraterrestrial life if it was there... Humans are very arrogant.
@@sa.8208 What if we are the aliens? we're just seeing ourselves in a 3rd dimension view...
@@user-iu9dr3fp4o we are? It's all you bro
@@sa.8208 ??? u scaring me
Fantastic video, as always. Deep, philosophical, existential, with a positive outcome. Clear wording and interesting video. Thank you POW. Keep them coming!
The depth of research and condensed simplicity is a sight to behold. Remarkable and kudos to you, this is one of a kind. Brilliant! Remote isolation hypotheses is the most probable.
Robert, you don't ever. Stop blowing my mind with your videos I think that perhaps you are of another world This was utterly fascinating on so many levels thank you for what you do sir.
The fart hypothesis: Aliens are avoiding us because we are on Planet Stank.
Renaming that the Dutch Oven hypothesis.
That would explain the cigar-shaped UFOs... They're trying to cork us up! :O
@@jamesgrey13 I think we can still count on the southern offensive to bowel them over.
Must be all those greenhouse gases.
Statistically, the organisms on earth are the main cause of farts
Ah time for another existential crisis, beautiful but still necessary to develop more theories about this whole thing
The planet earth is quarantined, but never left alone.
I do recommend you to read urantia book, and at the end of chapter 15, you can find the number of this planet in the catalog of the inhabited worlds, and the reason behind this planet ( urantia) was put under quarantine.
Farbot Nia
@@FarbotBurunetNia the meaning is something far out of our knowledge but I personally don’t believe where quarantined or whatever, we’re just not ready for anything else.
Aliens are admins and dev's checking in on their minecraft worlds.
Wake up sheeple
You thinking you're awake is what they want you to think
@@JakeKilka lol they don’t care
@@JakeKilka we're just villagers on a vanilla server
we dont exist.
I think we are 3d verse of AOT lol
Man! Can’t wait for this UAP report, finna be juicy
They will say it's definitely not secret american black projects, and point fingers at China knowing damn well it's either USA or aliens or both
you should know by now the government is not EVER going to tell you the full truth. The only info in that report is gonna be "we are not sure what those are"
What the hell is a finna? Is that an aerospace term? Unit of measure? You mathematicians and scientists are truly remarkable with your vocabulary.
I am ex-military, and I can tell you that there are things that can't be know. The Truth can never get out. I can't say more, but lot of stuff on UFO's will stay TOP SECRET.
@@PoeLemic I have the 4%
One of the best videos that tackles the Fermi Paradox!!! You sir have my respects...
By the way I firmly believe that intelligent life is so rare and space between life forms so immense that we will never get in contact with extraterrestrial life...
What if when you die you wake up with a weird alien bong in your alien hands and the other aliens around you lean in and say... “so how was it?”
lol DMT
That’s exactly what it is!
Mr. Natural!
That's a story for another what if...
Next is im gonna question why they did it and dip myself to existential crisis again.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Just to point out that our efforts at searching for life so far pretty much amounts to taking a cup out of water out of the ocean, inspecting the 8oz inside and declaring the universe empty of intelligent life.
In that scenario, we’d still be right though.
@@vwr32jeep Corrected! Declaring it/universe empty of intelligent life
Once again. Statistics and sheer the universe is “x” bit so it must have life is a very dumb argument as it doesnt take into account how life even comes about. And how we have tried multiple times to recreate life from scratch and failed every time.
I think the universe is teeming with life, it’s just not the life we want or expect.
Theres just so many Possibilities
how the Fermi Paradox can be explained,
it really means this Paradox does not
clearly prove that Aliens do not exist.
They sure can.
I personally even assume it.
Ah, so bird size mosquitoes. Got it.
@@matclash4736 when I stare at the sun. I go blind.
@@matclash4736 Semantics. People are just using the word 'die' to mean slightly different things. Like when you say 'Don't let the candle die out', it doesn't mean that the candle is a conscious being.
When Rick Fermi and his friends split the atom, what was the first thing they did with it? And he couldn't figure out why intelligent life hasn't contacted us?
We are beginning to understand there's a correlation between gravity and time. We don't know how or why yet, we just have a lot of data suggesting the further away you get from a gravitational source, the more time changes.
To intergalactic travellers, our recorded existence could be a blink of an eye or their version of a day. For us to experience an alien sighting in our lifetime would mean there is actually pretty heavy traffic in the universe. And their visits would need to be instant quick for those same reasons.
Space serves as a time barrier to those who haven't yet evolved to a point where they can traverse it properly.
Maybe gravity and time are a construct of an unimaginably evolved species, supporting the purposeful isolation theories.
Maybe the alien race IS time and gravity :D
I like this, a lot. Please write a scifi book, you’d kill it.
I don’t know where your reply went, but yes a video would be even better…I’d be interested to see how you’d showcase that concept with a small budget. Good luck to you, may your work of art see the light of day
omg you just exploded my mind right now, fcking goosebumps all over my body
Ok, Rick Sanchez.
@@MarcosNfilho stfu
God, I've drunk a few beers and got genuinely freaked out after hearing about the theory regarding fishbowl and having some more intelligent forms of life in my very room. Geez.
Ha Ha, imagine the unseen observer is so huge that it lives on a much bigger space-time scale of billions of years.
maybe this is why you felt your beers didn't last as long as you expected they should :p
@@MrZoomZone Imagine a body that almost fills the room craning it's neck looking directly at you
Try edibles
We only see what we want to see in the narrow bandwidth of our sensors.
Im sure we all know aliens exist but this quote always cracked me up:
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
-A.C. Clarke 🤣👌🏽
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I wouldn't be so sure. We really don't know one way or the other when you look at the evidence we have. It is still completely scientifically possible that we are the only life in the universe. I know that sounds controversial given how many scientists go on TV and say they know life is out there. But really what they have is faith that life is out there because the universe is huge. Thats not a scientific argument, it's just what we hope is true. The Cool Worlds channel did a few vids on this topic that were really good. They looked at both sides of the argument. Life might be out there but based on the things we can prove it equally well might not be.
Basically
I dont know if aliens exist
By far the best video on Fermi Paradox hands down :"
Clearly this video is one of a few that I would call the best ever seen. The delivery is as important as the message.
This is an incredible video. I can't believe how great this content is. I just found this channel tonight, and I am amazed that PoW produces new & brilliant theories for the Fermi Paradox.
The loop theory is more of an attractive theory because we see though our history that we are in fact creating a loop and certain technology has been replaced and forgotten like the jet that travels at the speed of sound, and also I’ve always wondered why scientist at nasa would luanch info on our civilization into the unknown???!!!
Always thought that was a bad idea
Psychedelics are the vehicle to inner and outer space✨
They open the universe inside you. We are WAY more than we think
@@Paradroidx yes it seems to me that things are different than we are told. And thank goodness for that😂
@MIO you're damn right.
@@jerrodcorning6138 I'm so happy you have had the experience friend🙏🏻
This overthinking is gonna kill me one-day...
Well you won't be the first and you won't be the last, that much I'm sure of.
I starts thinking at night 2:30 am ,
You can imagine my problem 😂
Seriously
It does feel like this planet is a prison colony, at times. So many acts of evil, large and small, every day.
Iv been saying this since i left school, we are the alians on a prison planet
Sometimes it literally reminds me of the show Colony.
I have always wondered that. The matrix idea always resonated with me because it is hard to believe some things are really happening.
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i dont think "evil" its a real thing... evil its a human concept, we are just bacterias living on a drop of some dirty water and trying to survive while we say to ourselves that we are evolved and better than the other animals around us
If we are a rare and solitary life form in a vast and empty universe, the thought of it doesn’t depress me. What I’ve experienced, the impact I’ve made on others and the impact others have made on me, and the truth and sincerity other people are capable of gives me hope. It’s a momentary but inescapable existence, and even when everything returns to dust, it was real and it was important.
This channel is always killing it!!
The Self-Extinction Hypothesis is the one that makes most sense
I agree! The perfect world to me is without poverty, without reproduction and through science and technology you choose if and when to die. Maybe we would learn to be happy, without having to start over and over, and when we feel like it die satisfied.
@@michelelentini that’s such a pessimistic view of humanity. I hope you’re young and change your mind as you have a family
We are so fearful ...
@@jason5265 it's not pessimistic at all from my point of view! I just feel I have no right in forcing anyone to exist and that there's enough problems to solve and people to help in the world without new children you'd have to care for.
From our perspective, to be sure. The jury's still out on the question of whether human consciousness is a durable survival trait.
It would be scary if we're alone and it'd also be scary if we're not alone...
No. 6 - the evolutionary revolution hypothesis was mindblowing, would love a whole video exploring that one. such amazing content, thank you
Our brains may be so different that we can't be in the same location without problems arising. This was talked about in the movie "First Contact, Channeling Bashar." The narrator, James Wood, tells of an encounter the main character "D Anka" in one of his meditations. In this meditation he he sees alien "Bashar" lands his ship and slowly walk towards Anka. He says that the closer Bashar gets to his location the more he starts to see himself through he Bashar's eyes. He says that when we are near this gray alien, of witch Bashar is a hybrid, we can't hold our own. We loose our ability to think normally. It's as if their brains are too powerful for us to be near. Maybe because their ESP is taking over our weak minds. Makes me think that the expansion of our mental abilities will be the next big step in our evolution. It was a pretty good movie. D Anka has is brain waves checked to see if something was really happening mentally. The doctor said that his experiences seem to be real.
If the last theory is true, we ourselves might just be The Ancients...
Or we might be so far away, we don't exist.
Our technological advancements outpace our social advancements. If that continues to be the case we might also become the superpredator that stalks the dark forest.
@@miniverse2002 Well, now that I know being a Reaver is an option... 🤩
Yes, it is equally palusible that we are currently the most advanced culture in the unverse. The ancients to later cultures that will discover only our relics and ruins.
@@andrewjohnson6716 LIKE OUR STARGATES!!!
i think about aliens like ctchullu, they are so literally alien that their comunication can make your brain boil.
All mysteries can be solved with an appropriate T-Shirt.
Theres just so many Possibilities
how the Fermi Paradox can be explained,
it really means this Paradox does not
clearly prove that Aliens do not exist.
They sure can.
I personally even assume it.
@@loturzelrestaurant You can bet either way and still be in with a good chance to be right. We have no evidence of alien life but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Given the number of galaxies in the universe, the number of stars in each galaxy, the number of planets going around each star the number is huge. Probability would point to our Earth not being in anyway unique and life emerging and evolving just on this one planet highly unlikely. Intelligent life is another matter and while I believe for similar reasons that we can not be unique with having intelligent life there is an argument to suggest that very few advanced occurrences of intelligent life exist at any given time. If true then the chances of ever seeing evidence of or encountering intelligent alien life is very low... the evidence we have right now would seem to support that idea , i.e. we have no evidence. But we have only just started looking.
I’ve realized it’s usually hard to think about anything within this concept. This is because we’ve evolved a completely separate way so the way we do anything is going to be different meaning, as humans, it’s impossible to imagine their ideals, processes, knowledge, or dimensional state… they could literally be in another dimension that we can’t imagine since we’ve never experienced it.
Thanks for stacking these tidbits together in this way. It has been quite some time since I found the Fermi paradox properly interesting.
Maybe life on Earth just exists in the "wrong" time
Born in the wrong millennium.
The answer is that space faring civilizations are so extremely rare and time is so expansive compared to the life of an advanced civilization that no two ever existed at the same time.
Do you think if we ever get to the point of exploring the universe we will find alien civilization ruins?
@@allyson186 I’m hoping we’ll find ancient alien ruins but that wouldn’t be for at least a few thousand years if we ever do.
@@Zorlof oh yeah we'll never see it but I think the idea is just really neat.
thank you for these amazing videos
Even if the universe did have like a one percent chance of life, the universe being so unimaginably expansive we still couldn’t make up that 1% just by ourselves 💀
True but u can also say we are less than 1 percent of species on earth
Its more like 0.00000000000000001%
Life is extraordinarily rare. Period.
What if every galaxy has different laws of physics? This means that other higher intelligent lifeforms in other galaxy could not reach our galaxy as their laws of physics is completely different from ours thus if they are capable of reaching to our galaxy ,the drastic complete change of physics will render their technology useless. This may also explain why we have yet to receive any signals from other higher intelligent lifeforms as wavelengths may work differently in their galaxy than ours. I am not sure whether my hypothesis makes any sense but i am genuinely interested in a discussion in this.
yesss!! this is what I always think about!!!
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Very interesting hypothesis. The vastness of space and the distance it would take to find out weather this hypothesis is true is practically improbable but would be interesting to find out
Good thought but i think we'd be able to tell from observations of motion and other phenomenon. As far as I'm aware, everything behaves as expected. However, there is the small matter of dark matter.
Their "physics" would be the same as ours.
Though they would surely name things differently, the laws of the elements (atoms and molecules), the nature of those elements and how the universe operates (gravity, stars, etc.) would be the same.
How they might use all of that differently would explain some of your observations.
The physics won't change, but that does not rule out the possibility of life forms being based upon something other than carbon, as we are. 😁
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"The more you know the more you know you don't know."
I love these types of videos. Makes you ponder....
This video is incredible. It’s completely speculative, yet it is still so fascinating. I’m kind of blown away.
"The best universal entertainment isnt scripted, its real!"
Jesus: “In my house there are many rooms”
me: "I love fries"
Me:
"Ew did a Christian just talk about Jesus as if their superstitions are real?"
@@NathanAMeyers bruh i was like "no way he even watched this without questioning himself". some people are just robots and won't ever see
@@wildwesttart1953
His body lives in the real world but his indoctrinated brain lives in a world where magic is real, but only the magic from his specific deity
@@NathanAMeyers and as much "magic" as he'll allow himself to
The dark woods hypothesis is so close the what the Mass Effect series does with the Reapers! SPOILERS AHEAD! It's not exactly the same, but they're an older and more powerful being that basically moderates the galaxy and every so often wipes out all the species that have evolved enough and learned enough for space travel and intergalactic communication so that the universe sorta starts anew and no one gets too powerful and threatens the reapers. it's a very cool concept! also very scary haha
Do the protagonists manage to do battle with them? Beat them? Lol
@@Fleurlean4 lmao yes they do, I know that sounds very not possible and the game actually does portray that, most of the "fighting" they all do is just surviving/ fighting the reapers' small human sized minions they send down. There's also more than one ending, so the universe can be saved, but it can also be destroyed if you fail and you grt more than one way to save the universe too iirc. Though mass effect doest have the best choice system, it's still pretty neat that they included not winning. Also im pretty sure killing the reapers is like making some massive space tech of the reapers explode so its not like traditional shooting them with guns :)
@@mrbie2380 Stooop you’re giving me too much hope for our own destiny hahah
The Dark Forest Hypothesis makes the best Science Fiction. It's a must for any grand space sci fi in my opinion.
Brilliant, as usual. Thank you.
THe Quarantine bit.. just gave me a brilliant sci short story idea!
I think we’re at one of the oldest and dead parts of space. Like I think there’s other life but they aren’t even bothering looking this far out because everything is essentially dead and has been. I dunno. I just don’t think many are looking because we’re not supposed to be an alive planet.
That's simply not true, nor even the point of the Fermi Paradox, so keep thinking.
We should have been detecting something unnatural somewhere, it's not just the matter of aliens landing a spaceship on earth and saying hello not having happened yet. It's the total lack of any evidence anywhere. No signals, no sounds, no flashing lights, absolutely nothing. Even if all the aliens were simply not visiting earth because it's too far away, we would have seen that civilization's "skyline", like looking at a city from a distance.
@@DutchFurnace okay idk much about this topic but would we really be seeing evidence of them anyways? Given that light can only travel so fast the further we look doesn't that mean we're are just seeing further in the past? Like a planet a few million light years away could be teeming with life but we just won't know until their light reaches us in a few million more years? Idk the vastness of space may just mean that unless we have some major advancements in faster than light travel or communication, we may not be able to see these other life forms that are actively living "right now" because to us we see them how they were millions of years ago maybe unintelligent or before they created these skylines.
@@qwaszx3333
"Like a planet a few million light years away could be teeming with life but we just won't know until their light reaches us in a few million more years?"
Yes, this. But you have to expand that idea with the concept that there already were millions of planets with life sending out light/signals 5 million years ago, and 10, and 20, and 50, and 100 too.
Yes you're right two planets who spawned intelligent life around the same time won't know about each other because of the possible millions of years of light travel, but if one planet was just a couple million years earlier, the second would have seen the first.
There should be huge overlap of planets just starting with life and planets who've already been abandoned for (tens/hundreds) of millions (or even some billions?) of years and everything in between. We should be seeing some young planets just starting with life, other middleaged planets being in the process, and other ancient ones with dyson spheres spreading across millions of lightyears of space lighting up space like a christmas tree with "non natural" signs.
Unless of course; .
@@DutchFurnace that whole light thing makes me think of a situation of people seeing aliens evolve enough to comprehend space and shit, only to realize the 1000 years waiting was wasted and they get shot down by lasers because the aliens thought we were a threat even though we are just stupid monkeys
@@Th3Goober
Yup, that's one of the Filters talked about the greater Fermian Paradox:
There's some alien species who reached supreme levels of technology to a point they control the entire galaxies and they don't allow lower level intelligent beings to really know what's happening, but keep them around as entertainment/for whatever reasons, and wipe them out once they could become a nuisance.
Another filter is that the Universe itself is simply too random, and we're due for some kind of galactic event happening somewhere in our region, like something going supernova, and life in any and all forms in a large part of the galaxy get destroyed/reset back to zero, and this happens often enough for no intelligent life to reach levels of permanent existence.
I've always thought the assumption that intelligent life, particularly intelligent life that can communicate or travel over long distances, is likely rare. I would be a little surprised if we were alone. We've also only really had the tech to communicate for 80 years and for most of that it was primitive. It still is somewhat primitive. It would take awhile for one of our radiowaves to cross the Milky Way and inform a more advanced life we are here.
The Galactic Zoo theory makes more sense tbh.
and if we are like toddlers, who still need to develop before they can be told Santa does not exist and what reality actually is. Maybe it's just a step of the journey, we haven't reached the right age just yet, before we can watch adult movies and do adult stuff.
@@danielekirylo That's practically what the whole Galactic Zoo theory is. Except, instead of toddlers we’re just a bunch of caged and ruthless animals who don't get along.
I always crave this kind of content , great video and I’ve always been mind blown with the Fermi Paradox.
This guy deserves more credit and popularity
If we are a part of a simulation, then there is a creator.
They're not doing a good job then.
@@MarcusMaddox91
Everything in the simulation would be happening exactly as it was coded to happen. Peace and war. Health and sickness. Contentment and depression. You’re mistakenly assuming that the simulation is supposed to have one particular outcome.
The creator is a jerk
@@miguelnascimento2847
How so?
And that creator can delete us in any given day
I feel like it could be a combination of the aforementioned hypotheses. Especially since the theories don't contradict each other.
Issue with rare Earth is that 1% survival rate in an entire universe is crazy high, also that other species existed previously before the calculation, meaning an inteligent species will likely exist on earth after humans creating larvaetube & making similar videos as to why they see strange sightings and/or they must be rare.
I think your overestimating the percentage. Their are probably trillions of planets out there, and we know all of them can’t be habitable judging by our own solar system’s planets and view of other planets outside of it. Intelligent life could be a 1 in 100 trillion chance of happening to the point where our own species’s upbringing could be seen as an evolutionary accident. That’s the type of rarity we’re looking at.
Always makes me cringe when someone
says the Fermi-Paradox "proves Aliens dont exist;
go deal with it!".
Always.
1% survival rate in the universe does not mean 1% survival in the milky way galaxy, there are millions of galaxies i won't be surprise if there was one intelligent species per galaxy.
@@69Kazeshini lol there aren’t millions of galaxies, there are many trillions and more.
Amazing, well organized video!
exploration/colonisation of the universe should be our number one priority
What if your future partner is an alien living across the galaxy at this moment. Who’s to say it’s not possible.
Bruh, imagine
Would still be a better love story than Twilight
Maybe miss Martian type
If that’s the case where are you!? I’m okay waiting 🤣
Technically speaking, ANYTHING is possible, and that applies to virtually any subject matter under the sun. Similar to yourself, for example, I could claim, or suggest, that a planet, 3 million light years from Earth, is made of gorgonzola cheese, with rivers, lakes and oceans of low-fat, strawberry yohurt.
The problem here wouldn't be the claim, or suggestion, as such - it's the PROBABILITY of it being either true or untrue. Accordingly, spurious claims are effectively worthless in the absence of evidence, and besides, the burden of proof always rests with the person making the claim - not with the skeptic that questions it.
In short, and with respect, there's no point in speculating as you have done because any claim - yes, even the most ridiculous imaginable - still has a 'probability factor' of it being true, no matter how insane the proposal may appear to be....so what's the point?
More simply: zero (or near zero) credibility to a claim = absurdity.
@@Turrican60 The “Unfalsifiable Hypotheses” - which is also what makes debating against the concept of God/religion or even what happens after death, so difficult. (Right now anyways)
Because while science explains much or even most of our current understanding, the universe is far too infinite and unknown to definitively or outright disprove the concept of “God.”
Or it allows the goal post to be frequently shifted. If science does disprove one aspect of God, the criteria of a theoretical God could then be shifted into something science can’t yet explain or confirm!
I feel like there probably has been alot of life in the universe but due to the speed of light putting a maximum cap on how far any given lifeforms can travel and the fact the universe has existed so long makes me think the chances of us being here now being the right time and place to meet these being is just so small that it may as well not even exist at all.
Hold on mate, there are semi-habitable life planets and possibly a fully habitable on like kepler series planets, it isn't confirmed that kepler has or even may be suitable for life but there's quite the chance since the kepler series planet look quite simmilar to earth, plus we have mars that semi-habitable.
I attended a lecture way back in the 70's that was on the subject of "The Cosmic Quarantine"! The idea was, that if life was "uncommon" to begin with, and technologically advanced Civilizations even more so, they must be spread across the galaxy at great distances from each other. Then even an average distance of just a few hundred light years between such rare Civilizations would essentially guarantee they WOULD NEVER EVEN BE AWARE OF EACH OTHER! AND THUS NEVER INTERACT!
That's where I'm placing my "Bet"!
Ok
Now I know why I always fuck up my interviews, I end up watching videos like this past my bedtime 😄
Outstanding as always
and my hypothesis: its all hypothesises combined.
Interesting
POW: “Aliens see us as inferior organisms”
Aliens: “What is this, a center for ants”?
It needs to be...at least...3 times bigger!!
It may be that we are "The One" organisum that has to multiply and diverse into different beings. Like staying on a different planet will inevitably cause us to evolve according to the conditions on the planet.
The development of new cultures, languages and genetic alteration can speed up the speciation process. Humans would literally become aliens.
Look up All Tomorrows. There's a video on RUclips about it that came out recently.
Great video, thanks! I also find the Grabby Aliens theory pretty cool.
Well done...Very eloquently, I must say. 😊👍🏾
I wonder if they will kill us because of how much we are gossiping about them
If they can
I doubt they're even concerned smh
I choose NOT to be unsettled when the aliens make themselves known. That is NOT the way to go into a new relationship.
Exactly. Always go into positive mindset when approaching new things/relationships. There's a chance that we haven't met an alien civilization but there's also the possibility that we have had contact with them but they aren't revealed because of the reactions that it would cause. And even the possibility that they don't exist whatsoever.
@@lukaposeidon8490 trust me, they exist. And are more concerned about our capacity for violence than they are interested in wiping us out.
Unfortunately just about every big lie ever told started with, "trust me". Aliens aren't visiting us, we are just really really easy to fool, even the smartest of us. Have you ever seen that which line is longer illusion on paper? We have a million things like that built into our heads. We see a light in a video or in the sky and it must be aliens. Except that just about everything else we know and can prove would somehow have to be wrong for that to be true. It is still completely scientifically possible that we are alone in the universe. Its possible that abiogenesis is so unlikely that it happens once in 14 billion years and an uncountable number of planets. I dont think that's likely but it is still completely possible based on what we know and can prove. I think the advanced aliens everyone imagines are just what we think we'll evolve into if we survive long enough. And the idea of a Savior to fix all our problems is just so seductive that people just want to believe it. Since the beginning of history gods have come down from the sky to save us from this or that and tell us stuff that we should already know. That we should be nice to each other. Now its Aliens coming to save us or save the planet or whatever. Its the same thing. Nobodies coming to save us and turn us into what we already know we should be. We are just gonna have to try to do that ourselves. And I really dont care how many people have seen something, I've seen something too. I was just lucky enough to learn what it actually was and suddenly it wasn't amazing anymore. Eye witness accounts are not evidence, its just to easy to fool us and make us see what we want to see. Also some of us are liars looking for fame, paid interviews, books or whatever. If Aliens ever come here it won't be some blurry ambiguous blob on a 30 year old flir camera. It will be obvious and incontrovertible like all real things are.
I really hope most feel this way bc if they are real and here and wanted to hurt us...they would've already
@@eternalsunshineoftheresili1385 and that's why I'm not worried. There is really nothing we can do about it.
When I was at that young age trying to comprehend the universe, I conceded to the gold fish/test tube theory. Somewhere out there... we are the science project in a sixth grade class room. That freckled face kid is your God.
Again, another Earth!? ... D
Oh, wait... his parents are alumni and sponsored the indoor pool and the dimension portal! ... B-
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This video was more entertaining than most TV shows.
Great job on this video!👏👏
(Communication is being defined too narrowly. We can communicate with all animals on the planet. Just not in words, but with actions. Even human communication has a significant body language / physical component. If you poke a fish, it swims away, that’s communication.)