@@misanthropichumanist4782 Nah man that's kindergarden stuff taking advantage of empt yspace existing the same way you'd drownd someone because handy pool of water. I'm more thinking take that ame pool of water and putting it thorugh a pressure hose to cut people in half.
Scientist 1: "If the universe collapses because of this experiment you owe me $500,000. Scientist 2: "Deal, but if it doesn't collapse you owe me $500,000.
Actually it was just a joke by Fermi. They knew Trinity was not going to end the world. And the concerns were not about some space-time thing, but the possibility of a self-sustaining N-N fusion reaction in the atmosphere. There is a declassified report about this from the early 1945. It is called LA-602 or "Ignition of the atmosphere by nuclear bombs" and you can find it online. In the report Oppenheimer calculates that even a huge H-bomb probably wouldn't "ignite" nitrogen - and small fission bombs of the Manhattan project were absolutely not going to do so.
@@yastreb. "probably"! they did not know for sure but they did it anyway. i mean even when the chance is 99,9% that earth will not be destroyed woukd you take the risk?
This episode made me think of this odd idea: What would it take to destroy a black hole? Not 'destroy' as in leeching it dry over millions of years. I mean something more like 'dynamite in a watermelon' kind of destroy. What would happen if an extremely large object (think "Galactic Baseball Bat"), travelling at relativistic speeds, were to smash into a smaller black hole? Would the black hole simply absorb the matter that crossed its event horizon, while the remaining matter just flew past? I guess, for me, many concepts about black holes make them seem like they are simply the ultimate object. Nothing is 'stronger', bigger, more dangerous, or impervious in comparison to them.
I am not an expert, but I think the most appropriate answer would be: We don't know. As for your "Galactic Baseball Bat", chances are the black hole will just break the bat into two, and It will most likely also add mass to the black hole, thus making it bigger (which is the opposite of destroying). Another outcome could be, that the black hole is send on, let's call it, a "Homerun Trajectory" through space XD, provided the "Galactic Baseball Bat" doesn't break. If a black hole can be destroyed on purpose, then I'm certain that brute force won't work. Black Holes are so much brute force on their own, that they quite literally break the known laws of physics. What could possibly top that? The only thing that comes into my mind, would be the cause of the big bang... whatever that might be, no one has figured that out either. So, bottom line: We simply don't know.
I am a layman to other laymen, but I would think that slamming anything into a black hole would only cause a massive explosion. The event horizon is rather small, so 99% of the material would fly past it or would be destroyed in the explosion.
@@barkasz6066 Could be possible. Though, it should be mentioned, that there is more then one theory about black holes and currently we have no way to verify which one is correct, its not like we could just fly to the next one to experiment. So, it still stands: We don't know.
iSAAC, I found you on Jimmy's show and am so very happy about that. You make things so much easier to understand and every show of your's that I have listened to so far intrigues and keeps my gray matter alive! Thank you sir! :)
Isaac and Anton are by far my two favorite channels on RUclips. Most people loose most of their imagination as they age. Not only do you have a child’s imagination you have Neil Tyson’s brain to go with it. Thanks for the wonderful videos!!!!!
Isaac Arthur man you are a gem for many of us who wish to experience the possibilities of what this universe has to offer within the short time we'll be here. Thank you for what you do man, from the bottom of my heart.
If a wave of energy was passing through the universe at the speed of light, vaporizing the atmospheres of any planets on it's way, we probably wouldn't know it was there before we got hit by it.
I don't understand how that would be relevant to the Fermi paradox though, you would still be seeing all these alien civilizations right up until the moment your own planet was roasted, meaning it wouldn't explain why you can't see them right now. And if this speed of light force has already roasted everything, we should have some evidence that it did. I mean we know things that happened super duper early on in the universe well before any stars or planets ever formed, something like a light speed force roasting planets we surely would be able to prove happened if it did.
Those waves always have a build-up time tho. It can be anything between 3 seconds and 5 episodes depending on the animation budget, the protagonist's hairstyle, and whether it's Yamato or Dragonball. Animecologists classify that kind of wave as "weaponized exotic energy buildup" (WEEB) btw.
This an interesting video as I'm currently writing a story set after the extinction of humans and other life in the galaxy (after an event at the end of a large war against an evil from the dawn of time) and where the AI that humans built have rebuilt civilisation and are beginning to explore the galaxy as the first emerging life and humans are mythological gods. So this video is giving some interesting things to consider for that story.
Right now my favorite "Fermi Paradox" books are the Bobiverse series on Audible. 3 books with a long 4th in the audio booth right now. Amazing video! Thanks for the hard work.
Hi Isaac, long-time fan here. I just wanted to say thank you for what you do, no one else does science and futurism like you do and I'd even go as far as to say you're a real asset to humanity. I also started reading science fiction like a madman after finding your channel and haven't stopped. Mostly reading books you or others have recommended (thanks in particular for Revelation Space, the Expanse, and Dune.) And I wanted to share a recommendation of my own I found just browsing books on amazon that I'd never heard of before. I found one called Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky that deals with uplifting and I have to say I really love it and think it's right up your alley. I'd love to hear what you think, especially since youve directed me to so many great stories this is my attempt at returning the favor. Much love from Las Vegas, NV ✌
"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries." - (same guy)
The thought of gravitational wavefronts colliding and forming micro-blackholes - which then very violently undo themselves - is probably my favorite catastrophe i've heard of on SFIA so far! :D Brilliant video as always! :)
I like the solution paradox to the fermi paradox being that eventually we get so smart that we create something that is unintentionally brings our own down fall like imagine every civilization figures out the easiest way for faster that light travel and when implemented some unknown law of the universe brings out a massive wave of gravitational energy destroying the civilization.
The first thing I thought hearing the opening was, "Ok so Mars and Venus might have been a colder and a warmer Earth, but they never recovered from some cosmic disaster. Maybe a supernova to close to Sol, thinking half as fart as Betelgeuse is from us."
The whole "matter/antimatter" dynamic makes me want to write a sci-fi parody of "Romeo and Juliet" where one of the star-crossed lovers is from an anti-matter universe.
I remember finding your channel a while a go, I remember when you used to say that there's CC available, although I never used them because of your speech (I honestly though it was just your accent) I used it to get more "involved" in the story telling. I think it's a great tool for half listening half imagining the scenarios that we are talking about. :)
I truly appreciate what you do here. Ive been dealing with health issues from a botched procedure for years and at times it helps take my mind off things... I was always a bit grim in my fascinations
@@isaacarthurSFIA you've reinvented my fascination for space. I kid you not Isaac, your channel captivates both visually and verbally which has even bridged the connection for someone like my mother and step father who love space but the content discussed can be intimidating and confusing. However it's become a integral part of our pandemic routine on Sundays. Lol not to mention it helped me through a severe depression spell that was debilitating to say the least. Everytime I hear your bit on the "CC" and to grab a drink and a snack made it just a bit more tolerable. I'd continue about how your channel has indeed made a huge impact in my life and has kept me looking forward to every Thursday and even a Sunday sometimes? Lol but seeing your reply felt like no better time. 💯 I'm extremely interested in how your team puts all of this together. Have a great week Isaac and sincerely, thank you!
The plot of the 2018 novel, The Silent Stars, explores mass extinctions as a solution to the Fermi paradox. Not Galaxy-wide but ones such as a magnitar quake that could wipe out a star faring civilization. Galactic habitual zones, etc... Artificial intelligences called Angels are created to figuratively sit on the mountain tops and watch. If there is an extinction event, it's their job to restart humanity.
I can't access Audiable because it's Amazon, i live in Denmark, and Amazon does NOT like the 3 Danish letter ( ÆØÅ ) and my name contains all thee, and my address contains two of 'em... Their database is old and that is the reason it will not accept neither name or address. And if i was to use the old method of write those 3 letters: Æ=AE, Å=AA, Ø=OE i get told i don't exists or the address does not exists... There is literally no way for me to sign up for Amazon... I have contacted support 3 times, and the final time i talked in a skype call with one who worked in their IT department and he was scratching his head for 4 hours, trying to get this to work. Amazon uses an old, outdated database
Ask your email provider if they run a UTF8-ASCII converter. (Like Punycode.) It's pretty common for IDNs. If so, they should be able to give you an ASCII'd version of your email address (both the domain (their address) and the local part (your name)) that actually works on sites like Amazon.
@@copperboltwire320 Ah. My apologies. Completely missed that. Only things I can suggest is to contact your postal service (you can't be the only one with the issue), or try using Google Maps in English and zooming in on your street/city and see what spelling it uses. Amazon might use the same. (Although, Google is reasonably good at using ligatures and diacritics. Bing Maps?)
There's an excellent but little known author called Robert Reed, who has a book where something very similiar to the "oops, I blew up the universe" scenario happens. The book is called Sister Alice, and the main plot point involves vastly transcendant, post-post-post humans attempting to create a new universe that's connected via wormhole to our own. They botch the experiment, and sterilize a large fraction of the galaxy before the ensuing "explosion" is mostly contained. Needless to say, this makes a lot of people very unhappy with them. Great book by a great author.
On that note of nicolle-dyson beams, I think that it could also be possible that two K3 civilizations murder each other with them in a war of mutual destruction. Such an event would kill two galaxies or more.
No one goes into as much depth in these topics as you do. There have been tons of times where I read sci-fi, and say "Oh, I remember this idea from the Elmer Fudd show". Then usually they barely scratch the surface of it without exploring it too deeply, and I'm left a little bit disappointed.
I'm really curious to see the "Nomadic Space Fleet Civilizations" on Sept 3rd differs from my favorite subject on this channel - Gardener Ships. Okay, I admit I love anything dealing with O'Neill Cylinders too. ;-) Okay, I admit I just love everything on this channel.
I mean scientist said that the Higgs boson could be unstable and cause a vacuum collapse... It didn't stop them to keep fucking with the thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hi Isaac; i very rarely send comments on youtube, however this particular video had me gripped! Probably about the 15th/17th one of yours ive watched.. but this one was excellent. Thanks :)
Hey Isaac, just got done binging a whole load of your videos again, your commentary is always an inspiration. I would much appreciate some thoughts on an idea I had while watching this. One of the common themes in Fermi Paradox discussions is artificially occurring disasters. In the case of a False Vacuum Collapse, the results are catastrophic on a potentially universal scale. What are the odds that the universe may have developed some kind of safeguard against intelligent life due to its potential to destroy massive swaths of space? When I say "the universe", this could mean small, unthinking developments in space, all the way up to a "God" figure.
Is it normal to be totally fascinated with this paradox and terrified of the implications the the evidence lends itself to? I’m staring into the void, and the void stares back. It feels like nerdy self harm at times, yet I keep coming back for more.
How do you make heavy elements higher in the periodic table than helium AND producing the shockwaves to trigger star formation? Supernovas. What would threaten multicellular life capable of locomotion living on the surface of a planet that would have the potential to build a technical civilization? A nearby supernova. Supernovae were more plentiful in the early days of a galaxy's life. So the very thing that makes life possible also takes it, and it doesn't violate non-exclusivity either. Giving our current understanding of star formation and cosmology, there are strong indicators that the frequency of early supernovae would make an excellent Fermi paradox solution.
This is also ranodmly makes me wonder about galactic asteroidal debris. In the early days this could have increased the Deep Impact filter across the Galaxy.
What I find interesting is the growing evidence for a nearby supernovae 2.6 million years ago (as identified by short lived radioisotopes linked to core collapse supernovae that suggest one had to have occurred around 150 light years away though this is largely based off sediments from the Earth and Apollo lunar samples). It had several indirect effects which may have actually have set our primate ancestors down our current trajectory as it seems to have triggered the onset of glaciation in the northern hemisphere drying the atmosphere while also increasing the frequency of fires and fire based ecology. The latter aspect matches models which suggest at that distance radiation can directly penetrate to the upper troposphere driving increased charge polarization within clouds i.e causing significantly more lightning in the near term. In effect this may actually be the event which sent our species down the path towards higher intelligence technological advancement and increased social complexity etc. so the increased hardship of life on Earth due to a nearby supernovae might actually have the effect of selecting for intelligence.
Big fan here, since the very early days. For a long time now, I withheld a comment about the cheesy stock videos you started using a few years back. I'm very happy to see you abandonded them. The channel is back to perfect.
Im sad after watchim this video. It remembers me once messing around and testing my brand new first black hole bomb. Accidentally fried a dyson and a few planets... Lucky that wasnt really well aimed. Sorry. XD
"The Gods Themselves"...yep, I first read that many years ago, and still have that book in my possession, and read it again year after year. Speaking of Asimov, "I, Robot" is also awesome, obviously a colllection of stories involving the development of non biological sentience - best not to say much about the "I, Robot" movie though . Also - "Nightfall One" - love all the stories in that collection, but "Nightfall" - oh man - that is utterly amazing. I'd best get to bed, because tomorrow I have to get up very early and feed the hymenoptera in my garden (those who have wings and those who do not).
I thought the "I, Robot" movie was decent, actually. I mean, yes, it was unnecessarily action-packed, but at its heart, it was a mash-up of "Lost Little Robot" and "The Evitable Conflict" with the antagonistic robots reversed. To my mind, those were two of the stronger short stories in the collection, and the resolution of the evil AI was fairly similar to that of Gaia in the Foundation series, though presented in a much more negative light.
Unlike the grabbed my snack and watching Isaac Arthur people here i usually listen to your videos while I'm trying to sleep keep up the good work Isaac,i slept a lot of times listening to your voice so you definitely have a place in my subconscious hahahah
This is.. It is an amazingly extraordinary fact that we are here and don't know for sure if there is anyone else out there. It is most likely.. But we don't know. It's truly mindboggling lol. This truth is stranger than fiction. It is amazing! I appreciate it. It's awesome.
Regarding the disastrous use of futuristic tech, Star Trek always made me wonder. The warp drive is treated by Trek writers as a pretty mundane and safe device, as common as a steam turbine is in today's oceanic shipping, but it seems to me to be quite a bit dangerous. For starters, it's powered by antimatter, which is stored in magnetic bottles aboard the starships and then there is the fact that this thing actually warps the fabric of spacetime out to a certain distance around the spacecraft. Yet they operate these things in low orbit and close proximity to populated planets, and even engage in destructive battles close to large settlements. At least in one original series episode Kirk remarks that if an antimatter bottle were breached near an earth-like planet it would strip away the atmosphere and wipe out life on the surface, yet in many other episodes starships are seen to be completely destroyed in rather small explosions. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock depicts a starship self-destructing and entering the atmosphere, presumably to break up and crash on the surface, with no regard to the breaching of the antimatter containment devices, the main characters actually stand on the ground looking up at it as if they are watching Skylab fall or something, sadly bemoaning the loss of their ship rather than bracing for the imminent annihilation that should befall them.
my best guess is that the storage containers are made of some super tough alloy. strong enough intact that it can easily survive reentry and crashing into the surface intact. I mean these things are super dangerous so it makes sense they'd have safe guards.
You know, you could argue that the lack of disasters is just as disasterous for intelligent life as too many disasters. If a non-intelligentspecies or group of species became dominant on a planet it might stop the development of intelligent life (intelligent enough to create technology) and if that non-intelligent life isn't wiped out then that might be a strong barrier. Would humanity have ever emerged if the dinoasaurs were still the dominant lifeform on earth?
To funny was thinking on the Fermi Paradox most of this week and most of it had to do with one disaster :) and what i was was thinking was that dark matter or energy could be the answer we are looking for to the paradox, it would explain why we cannot detect dark matter and how it makes up most of the Universe, maybe we lucked out and were in a very rear area without dark matter or energy and that's why we can develop :)
I've never played Mass Effect, but I'm still hoping for a reference to the Reapers. Maybe I'm just weird and should content myself with 40k references. Despite never playing that, either.
@@saltymcginger2027 I've heard a lot about the Mass Effects, and they're somewhere on my "to play" list. But I'm one of those guys who compulsively buys interesting games on Steam when there's a sale and has hundreds of unplayed games in his library, so...
No direct reference, but the concept at least is covered near the end when he talks about the potential that a species may intentionally sterilize their galaxy, or neighboring ones. It's discussed in more depth in Sleeping Giants, as he mentions.
But the Reapers are basically the Inhibitors from Alistair Reynolds Revalation Space series xD ...played and read both.. both are awesome :D ...both endings are underwhelming a bit ...lol xD
To me the most likely answer to the Fermi paradox is that it isn’t a paradox at all. We’re it, there is no one else and when we’re gone that’s it. Game over.
In the iconic cult soviet sci fi novels by Strugazky brothers the future Earth's space fleet was divided into four branches : One of the most prolific and sought after as career path was "Trackers" (Sledopyty) - their mission profile is mix of scouting for new inhabitable planets and most importantly evidence of advanced civilizations .
"in the context of einsteins E=MCsq its only about the energy release of 10 to the 27 kg of matter". Those numbers are bananas Isaac holy shit XD the fact that the word "only" was used in this sentence tells me im at SFIA
If pure survival of species is the goal the solar system colonised would be enough to survive, however humans are expansionists - we will go to other stars
I'm looking forward to both the "Government Types of the Future" and "Nomadic Space Fleet Civilizations" episodes, the latter of which I could imagine might consist of nomadic interstellar civilizations that travel from solar system to solar system, breaking down planets, and building dyson swarms around stars to allow them to move with the rest of the fleet via Shkadov Drive while also providing other kinds of services, such as providing additional shipbuilding materials via Starlifting, or propelling ships (or sterilizing worlds) via Nicoll-Dyson Beam, all in order to expand the sizes of their fleets, and thus, their power bases, without necessarily having to deal with the issues that come with trying to run a galactic empire whilst lacking faster-than-light communication capabilities.
Hypothetical: The Immaterium is real, and it is possible to traverse it. What are the effects of travelling to another point in the galaxy, using it? Assertions: -The Immaterium does not mix well with material reality. -They separate like Oil and Water. -While corrosive to reality, a device can be used to keep them from doing so to ships. You know what I'm getting at. The Warp from 40k, minus all the demons and ruinous powers (For now).
i've got a galactic disaster in my comic where lovecraftian denizens of an intersecting universe are taking bites out of ours, leaving empty voids where stars and civilizations should be. The missing matter starts steadily warping the shape of the galaxy, too, which wrecks havoc on the survivor's navigational systems. It's kinda hard to get anywhere when you have no idea where the stars ended up, or which ones are even still around, due to their light taking so long to reach you. Sure sucks to warp to your favorite vacation planet but find literally nothing there anymore. Even worse is that the thieves stole all of the photons in that region, too, so it's pitch black in all directions and you can't even find your way back. it's not a very realistic disaster, of course, but i'm going more for the spectacle of seeing unfathomable monsters "surfacing" from the dust of the milky way with their maws open, catching stars in their teeth like whales eating plankton. space whales will never not be cool.
"You can also weaponize a black hole, see our episode on "weaponizing black holes" because of course we have an episode on weaponizing black holes!"
"If brute force isn't working, you're just not using enough of it!"
We are human. We figure out how to weaponize EVERYTHING. Give us enough time and we'll figure out how to weaponize empty space.
@@singletona082 That's easy! Just expose typical biologicals to it... they'll eventually die. Pretty horribly, too! 😁
@@misanthropichumanist4782 Nah man that's kindergarden stuff taking advantage of empt yspace existing the same way you'd drownd someone because handy pool of water. I'm more thinking take that ame pool of water and putting it thorugh a pressure hose to cut people in half.
@@ElectromagNick blackhole weapons actually seem very elegant and
Scientist 1: "If the universe collapses because of this experiment you owe me $500,000.
Scientist 2: "Deal, but if it doesn't collapse you owe me $500,000.
Actually it was just a joke by Fermi. They knew Trinity was not going to end the world. And the concerns were not about some space-time thing, but the possibility of a self-sustaining N-N fusion reaction in the atmosphere.
There is a declassified report about this from the early 1945. It is called LA-602 or "Ignition of the atmosphere by nuclear bombs" and you can find it online. In the report Oppenheimer calculates that even a huge H-bomb probably wouldn't "ignite" nitrogen - and small fission bombs of the Manhattan project were absolutely not going to do so.
@@yastreb. Has anyone ever thanked you for explaining a joke? 😝
@@Ian_sothejokeworks It looks like 13 people have thanked me for getting the facts straight.
@@yastreb. Fair enough! 👍
@@yastreb. "probably"! they did not know for sure but they did it anyway. i mean even when the chance is 99,9% that earth will not be destroyed woukd you take the risk?
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
― Carl Sagan
my god you're thirsty
@Dom Bul for vodka? 😂😂😂
I guess since 99% of everything that ever lived on the planet Earth has gone extinct, I have to admit Carl is right.
@@freeamerican2708 Can't we say 99.999999%?
Extinction is the end result for everything...
This episode made me think of this odd idea: What would it take to destroy a black hole? Not 'destroy' as in leeching it dry over millions of years. I mean something more like 'dynamite in a watermelon' kind of destroy. What would happen if an extremely large object (think "Galactic Baseball Bat"), travelling at relativistic speeds, were to smash into a smaller black hole? Would the black hole simply absorb the matter that crossed its event horizon, while the remaining matter just flew past?
I guess, for me, many concepts about black holes make them seem like they are simply the ultimate object. Nothing is 'stronger', bigger, more dangerous, or impervious in comparison to them.
Commenting just in case someone knows the answer
Someone give this guy an answer! (I’m curious!)
I am not an expert, but I think the most appropriate answer would be:
We don't know.
As for your "Galactic Baseball Bat", chances are the black hole will just break the bat into two, and It will most likely also add mass to the black hole, thus making it bigger (which is the opposite of destroying). Another outcome could be, that the black hole is send on, let's call it, a "Homerun Trajectory" through space XD, provided the "Galactic Baseball Bat" doesn't break.
If a black hole can be destroyed on purpose, then I'm certain that brute force won't work. Black Holes are so much brute force on their own, that they quite literally break the known laws of physics. What could possibly top that? The only thing that comes into my mind, would be the cause of the big bang... whatever that might be, no one has figured that out either.
So, bottom line: We simply don't know.
I am a layman to other laymen, but I would think that slamming anything into a black hole would only cause a massive explosion. The event horizon is rather small, so 99% of the material would fly past it or would be destroyed in the explosion.
@@barkasz6066 Could be possible.
Though, it should be mentioned, that there is more then one theory about black holes and currently we have no way to verify which one is correct, its not like we could just fly to the next one to experiment.
So, it still stands: We don't know.
iSAAC, I found you on Jimmy's show and am so very happy about that. You make things so much easier to understand and every show of your's that I have listened to so far intrigues and keeps my gray matter alive! Thank you sir! :)
Isaac and Anton are by far my two favorite channels on RUclips. Most people loose most of their imagination as they age. Not only do you have a child’s imagination you have Neil Tyson’s brain to go with it. Thanks for the wonderful videos!!!!!
Neil Degrasse Tyson is an overrated psuedo intellectual.
Anton? Why not John Michael Godier???
Isaac Arthur man you are a gem for many of us who wish to experience the possibilities of what this universe has to offer within the short time we'll be here. Thank you for what you do man, from the bottom of my heart.
Got a drink and a snack ready to go.
Bruh fr lmao. Im warming up stew listening to this right now.
Check that ✔️✅
i think i need a bottle of whisky for this one
Making sandwiches 👁️👄👁️
Make sure you have a snack with a shelf life of 1 trillion years, just in case we survive this episode.
"Ah yes, Reapers..."
"We have dismissed those claims!"
"The immortal race of sentient starships, allegedly waiting in dark space... We have dismissed that claim"
Subnautica
The Halo rings firing.
Colluding with Russia
If a wave of energy was passing through the universe at the speed of light, vaporizing the atmospheres of any planets on it's way, we probably wouldn't know it was there before we got hit by it.
I don't understand how that would be relevant to the Fermi paradox though, you would still be seeing all these alien civilizations right up until the moment your own planet was roasted, meaning it wouldn't explain why you can't see them right now. And if this speed of light force has already roasted everything, we should have some evidence that it did. I mean we know things that happened super duper early on in the universe well before any stars or planets ever formed, something like a light speed force roasting planets we surely would be able to prove happened if it did.
Yeah but if we know the cause of those we can observe it before it will happen
@robo336 You can leave that "probably" out, at least if the wave started without some build-up time.
Those waves always have a build-up time tho. It can be anything between 3 seconds and 5 episodes depending on the animation budget, the protagonist's hairstyle, and whether it's Yamato or Dragonball. Animecologists classify that kind of wave as "weaponized exotic energy buildup" (WEEB) btw.
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Your post is made of awesome!
2020: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!
Bro Thats cringe 2020 bad joke got old and unoriginal pls stop
Just another Authoritarian you are wrong. Bye
@@chunkydurango7841 ok you refuted me i accept my defeat
@@chunkydurango7841 also i swear loyality to you as my king
@@siluda9255 based flexible loyalty peasant
"Black Hole Sun"
I didn't know you were a Soundgarden fan😁
Won't you come, won't you come...
Black old Son! He won’t come, back to Spain, causing pain.
He also mentioned "Supermassive Black Hole," since he's a big Muse fan.
The Bacca That Chews great song
So maybe we are alone in the super unknown
This an interesting video as I'm currently writing a story set after the extinction of humans and other life in the galaxy (after an event at the end of a large war against an evil from the dawn of time) and where the AI that humans built have rebuilt civilisation and are beginning to explore the galaxy as the first emerging life and humans are mythological gods. So this video is giving some interesting things to consider for that story.
Which one are you part of the AI or the mythos ?
@@tuttifruity1130 I'm the writer, so I'm the real god.
@@charlestownsend9280 I would read this.
Sounds dope
@@jamescouncillor7926 me too
Right now my favorite "Fermi Paradox" books are the Bobiverse series on Audible. 3 books with a long 4th in the audio booth right now. Amazing video! Thanks for the hard work.
Ooooooooaaarrtt ... good video beside how you pronounce “er”.
Finally an audible sponsorship! i really needed a new book :D
This was especially epic!! Happy Arthursday
I am so thankful that you don't fill your videos with ads. Thank you Isaac.
Hi Isaac, long-time fan here. I just wanted to say thank you for what you do, no one else does science and futurism like you do and I'd even go as far as to say you're a real asset to humanity. I also started reading science fiction like a madman after finding your channel and haven't stopped. Mostly reading books you or others have recommended (thanks in particular for Revelation Space, the Expanse, and Dune.) And I wanted to share a recommendation of my own I found just browsing books on amazon that I'd never heard of before. I found one called Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky that deals with uplifting and I have to say I really love it and think it's right up your alley. I'd love to hear what you think, especially since youve directed me to so many great stories this is my attempt at returning the favor. Much love from Las Vegas, NV ✌
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan
"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."
- (same guy)
"Hello"-Carl Sagan
@@ravenmad9225 "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Carl Sagan
isaac you just made my entire day with this video. thanks dad
The thought of gravitational wavefronts colliding and forming micro-blackholes - which then very violently undo themselves - is probably my favorite catastrophe i've heard of on SFIA so far! :D
Brilliant video as always! :)
This is all meaningless conjecture.
We must focus on the real threat.
The Reapers.
There are no reapers you conspiracy theorist! Stop wasting the Council's time!
It was obviously the Halos.
Thanks for the episode!
Nothing like an episode of SFIA before school
Well hell son, ya got a sub. Keep it coming
I find his voice so relaxing.
I did too - until every ”r" started being pronounced as a "w" and felt like I was back teaching super smart second-graders again.
@@Pugetwitch poor guy has a lisp he can't control it
pugetwitch hey, pugetwitch, don’t be an ass. It’s clear that the guy has a sort of speech impediment, and he’s worked hard for years at overcoming it.
Chunky Durango How do you know?
@@Peter_Trevor he's talked about it before
Love your videos isaac
I like the solution paradox to the fermi paradox being that eventually we get so smart that we create something that is unintentionally brings our own down fall like imagine every civilization figures out the easiest way for faster that light travel and when implemented some unknown law of the universe brings out a massive wave of gravitational energy destroying the civilization.
The first thing I thought hearing the opening was, "Ok so Mars and Venus might have been a colder and a warmer Earth, but they never recovered from some cosmic disaster. Maybe a supernova to close to Sol, thinking half as fart as Betelgeuse is from us."
Yup, gotta watch out for those half farts from Betelgeuse. It comes out sounding like... "day-o, day-ay-ay-oh." Scary stuff.
It would need to be much closer to Sol than that to have an effect.
Yoooo perfect timing a great video to watch over breakfast 🙏🌄🌅🌇
Great vid to watch while falling asleep! Enjoy your breakfast.
I do exactly both of those lol. Also really great to do chores while listening to this.
Not sure how I stumbled on this channel but I'm glad I did!
Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come (won't you come)
Hides the face, lies the snake
In the sun, in my disgrace
Call my name through the cream and I hear you scream again
3:10 I think there's a rave inside that space station. Damn, a space rave! And here I am sitting on my couch with a drink and a snack... ;)
Audiotistic 2050
The whole "matter/antimatter" dynamic makes me want to write a sci-fi parody of "Romeo and Juliet" where one of the star-crossed lovers is from an anti-matter universe.
Intergalactic romance to molecular bond or not
I remember finding your channel a while a go, I remember when you used to say that there's CC available, although I never used them because of your speech (I honestly though it was just your accent) I used it to get more "involved" in the story telling. I think it's a great tool for half listening half imagining the scenarios that we are talking about. :)
Oh right. More disasters to think about in 2020. I will give it a go anyway!
Finally 7 am and I can sleep!
Crazy that they leaked the season finale script so far in advance
@@piedpiper1172 off, big off.
Jan. 01 2020... Hi there, My name is Pandora...Welcome to my first unboxing Video!
A galaxy-sterilizing calamity would be on-brand for 2020.
I truly appreciate what you do here. Ive been dealing with health issues from a botched procedure for years and at times it helps take my mind off things... I was always a bit grim in my fascinations
Gawd I LOVE Fermi Paradox related content! Thanks Isaac!
Thank you Isaac for putting such cool and complicated concepts and ideas into such an entertaining and digestible form.
Like clockwork 💯 great content!!
More to come!
@@isaacarthurSFIA you've reinvented my fascination for space. I kid you not Isaac, your channel captivates both visually and verbally which has even bridged the connection for someone like my mother and step father who love space but the content discussed can be intimidating and confusing. However it's become a integral part of our pandemic routine on Sundays. Lol not to mention it helped me through a severe depression spell that was debilitating to say the least. Everytime I hear your bit on the "CC" and to grab a drink and a snack made it just a bit more tolerable. I'd continue about how your channel has indeed made a huge impact in my life and has kept me looking forward to every Thursday and even a Sunday sometimes? Lol but seeing your reply felt like no better time. 💯 I'm extremely interested in how your team puts all of this together. Have a great week Isaac and sincerely, thank you!
Thank isaac. I listen to you every night. Not many videos left 🙄
Lol same!
Great channel to learn about the univors, the multivors and disastors!
I'm just pulling your leg here, it IS a great channel!
Love your videos my friend keep it up. Gonna start making more of my own because of these.
Yes! Another Fermi paradox video!
This is how I know it's thursday. New video.
Right there with ya bro?
The plot of the 2018 novel, The Silent Stars, explores mass extinctions as a solution to the Fermi paradox. Not Galaxy-wide but ones such as a magnitar quake that could wipe out a star faring civilization. Galactic habitual zones, etc... Artificial intelligences called Angels are created to figuratively sit on the mountain tops and watch. If there is an extinction event, it's their job to restart humanity.
I can't access Audiable because it's Amazon, i live in Denmark, and Amazon does NOT like the 3 Danish letter ( ÆØÅ ) and my name contains all thee, and my address contains two of 'em... Their database is old and that is the reason it will not accept neither name or address.
And if i was to use the old method of write those 3 letters: Æ=AE, Å=AA, Ø=OE i get told i don't exists or the address does not exists... There is literally no way for me to sign up for Amazon... I have contacted support 3 times, and the final time i talked in a skype call with one who worked in their IT department and he was scratching his head for 4 hours, trying to get this to work.
Amazon uses an old, outdated database
Ask your email provider if they run a UTF8-ASCII converter. (Like Punycode.) It's pretty common for IDNs. If so, they should be able to give you an ASCII'd version of your email address (both the domain (their address) and the local part (your name)) that actually works on sites like Amazon.
That really sucks.
@@1FatLittleMonkey we aren't talking e-mail address, but HOME address. Where I live.
@@copperboltwire320 Ah. My apologies. Completely missed that.
Only things I can suggest is to contact your postal service (you can't be the only one with the issue), or try using Google Maps in English and zooming in on your street/city and see what spelling it uses. Amazon might use the same. (Although, Google is reasonably good at using ligatures and diacritics. Bing Maps?)
@@copperboltwire320...
Get a post office box?
You make my busiest day so much better Isaac, thank you.
There's an excellent but little known author called Robert Reed, who has a book where something very similiar to the "oops, I blew up the universe" scenario happens.
The book is called Sister Alice, and the main plot point involves vastly transcendant, post-post-post humans attempting to create a new universe that's connected via wormhole to our own.
They botch the experiment, and sterilize a large fraction of the galaxy before the ensuing "explosion" is mostly contained.
Needless to say, this makes a lot of people very unhappy with them.
Great book by a great author.
This video is just tempting 2020
Why people think 2020 bad joke ist still funny
Seriously this wasn't a joke to begin with. You guys are just complaining and trying to be funny about it
Funny how you still think the universe spins around the earth
Y'all took this way out of proportion, were y'all born with a stick in you bottom? Or are you just more dense than osmium?
Most underrated channel on youtube. Wish you get past 1M subscribers soon 💐💐
On that note of nicolle-dyson beams, I think that it could also be possible that two K3 civilizations murder each other with them in a war of mutual destruction. Such an event would kill two galaxies or more.
No one goes into as much depth in these topics as you do. There have been tons of times where I read sci-fi, and say "Oh, I remember this idea from the Elmer Fudd show". Then usually they barely scratch the surface of it without exploring it too deeply, and I'm left a little bit disappointed.
I'm really curious to see the "Nomadic Space Fleet Civilizations" on Sept 3rd differs from my favorite subject on this channel - Gardener Ships. Okay, I admit I love anything dealing with O'Neill Cylinders too. ;-) Okay, I admit I just love everything on this channel.
I mean scientist said that the Higgs boson could be unstable and cause a vacuum collapse... It didn't stop them to keep fucking with the thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hi Isaac; i very rarely send comments on youtube, however this particular video had me gripped! Probably about the 15th/17th one of yours ive watched.. but this one was excellent. Thanks :)
I really enjoy your videos. You talk about such interesting stuff. Thank you for sharing.
You immediately remind me of Barry from BBT and I think I love it.
Get in from work, new Isaac Arthur video. Volume up, feed up, beer glass filled up
Hey Isaac, just got done binging a whole load of your videos again, your commentary is always an inspiration.
I would much appreciate some thoughts on an idea I had while watching this.
One of the common themes in Fermi Paradox discussions is artificially occurring disasters. In the case of a False Vacuum Collapse, the results are catastrophic on a potentially universal scale. What are the odds that the universe may have developed some kind of safeguard against intelligent life due to its potential to destroy massive swaths of space? When I say "the universe", this could mean small, unthinking developments in space, all the way up to a "God" figure.
Is it normal to be totally fascinated with this paradox and terrified of the implications the the evidence lends itself to? I’m staring into the void, and the void stares back. It feels like nerdy self harm at times, yet I keep coming back for more.
How do you make heavy elements higher in the periodic table than helium AND producing the shockwaves to trigger star formation? Supernovas. What would threaten multicellular life capable of locomotion living on the surface of a planet that would have the potential to build a technical civilization? A nearby supernova. Supernovae were more plentiful in the early days of a galaxy's life. So the very thing that makes life possible also takes it, and it doesn't violate non-exclusivity either. Giving our current understanding of star formation and cosmology, there are strong indicators that the frequency of early supernovae would make an excellent Fermi paradox solution.
This is also ranodmly makes me wonder about galactic asteroidal debris. In the early days this could have increased the Deep Impact filter across the Galaxy.
What I find interesting is the growing evidence for a nearby supernovae 2.6 million years ago (as identified by short lived radioisotopes linked to core collapse supernovae that suggest one had to have occurred around 150 light years away though this is largely based off sediments from the Earth and Apollo lunar samples). It had several indirect effects which may have actually have set our primate ancestors down our current trajectory as it seems to have triggered the onset of glaciation in the northern hemisphere drying the atmosphere while also increasing the frequency of fires and fire based ecology. The latter aspect matches models which suggest at that distance radiation can directly penetrate to the upper troposphere driving increased charge polarization within clouds i.e causing significantly more lightning in the near term. In effect this may actually be the event which sent our species down the path towards higher intelligence technological advancement and increased social complexity etc. so the increased hardship of life on Earth due to a nearby supernovae might actually have the effect of selecting for intelligence.
Big fan here, since the very early days. For a long time now, I withheld a comment about the cheesy stock videos you started using a few years back. I'm very happy to see you abandonded them. The channel is back to perfect.
This is great! Thanks for making these videos
Im sad after watchim this video. It remembers me once messing around and testing my brand new first black hole bomb. Accidentally fried a dyson and a few planets... Lucky that wasnt really well aimed. Sorry. XD
"The Gods Themselves"...yep, I first read that many years ago, and still have that book in my possession, and read it again year after year. Speaking of Asimov, "I, Robot" is also awesome, obviously a colllection of stories involving the development of non biological sentience - best not to say much about the "I, Robot" movie though . Also - "Nightfall One" - love all the stories in that collection, but "Nightfall" - oh man - that is utterly amazing. I'd best get to bed, because tomorrow I have to get up very early and feed the hymenoptera in my garden (those who have wings and those who do not).
I thought the "I, Robot" movie was decent, actually. I mean, yes, it was unnecessarily action-packed, but at its heart, it was a mash-up of "Lost Little Robot" and "The Evitable Conflict" with the antagonistic robots reversed. To my mind, those were two of the stronger short stories in the collection, and the resolution of the evil AI was fairly similar to that of Gaia in the Foundation series, though presented in a much more negative light.
2 words almost everyone is thinking of
Mass Effect
Warhammer
Mass effect, warhammer and lovecraft are what came to my mind
Unlike the grabbed my snack and watching Isaac Arthur people here i usually listen to your videos while I'm trying to sleep
keep up the good work Isaac,i slept a lot of times listening to your voice so you definitely have a place in my subconscious hahahah
Star: *explodes into supernova
Life on nearby explanet: "Its not big brain time."
"Let's bury an wait a few millenia."
Blackhole Mojo is a great track name. Love you Isaac
This is..
It is an amazingly extraordinary fact that we are here and don't know for sure if there is anyone else out there.
It is most likely..
But we don't know.
It's truly mindboggling lol.
This truth is stranger than fiction.
It is amazing!
I appreciate it.
It's awesome.
Regarding the disastrous use of futuristic tech, Star Trek always made me wonder. The warp drive is treated by Trek writers as a pretty mundane and safe device, as common as a steam turbine is in today's oceanic shipping, but it seems to me to be quite a bit dangerous. For starters, it's powered by antimatter, which is stored in magnetic bottles aboard the starships and then there is the fact that this thing actually warps the fabric of spacetime out to a certain distance around the spacecraft. Yet they operate these things in low orbit and close proximity to populated planets, and even engage in destructive battles close to large settlements. At least in one original series episode Kirk remarks that if an antimatter bottle were breached near an earth-like planet it would strip away the atmosphere and wipe out life on the surface, yet in many other episodes starships are seen to be completely destroyed in rather small explosions. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock depicts a starship self-destructing and entering the atmosphere, presumably to break up and crash on the surface, with no regard to the breaching of the antimatter containment devices, the main characters actually stand on the ground looking up at it as if they are watching Skylab fall or something, sadly bemoaning the loss of their ship rather than bracing for the imminent annihilation that should befall them.
my best guess is that the storage containers are made of some super tough alloy. strong enough intact that it can easily survive reentry and crashing into the surface intact. I mean these things are super dangerous so it makes sense they'd have safe guards.
You know, you could argue that the lack of disasters is just as disasterous for intelligent life as too many disasters. If a non-intelligentspecies or group of species became dominant on a planet it might stop the development of intelligent life (intelligent enough to create technology) and if that non-intelligent life isn't wiped out then that might be a strong barrier. Would humanity have ever emerged if the dinoasaurs were still the dominant lifeform on earth?
of course not. Its a fact that the reason humanity was allowed to come about was the extinction of the dinosaurs. Its not really a question... lol
Yes! More Fermi paradox, please :)
That gives me so much ideas just imagine some beings with the knowledge how to make something that cleans the entire galaxy of life.
That's been covered in previous videos
Yeah but If they have that amount of tech they prob have no reason tô kill the entire universe
To funny was thinking on the Fermi Paradox most of this week and most of it had to do with one disaster :) and what i was was thinking was that dark matter or energy could be the answer we are looking for to the paradox, it would explain why we cannot detect dark matter and how it makes up most of the Universe, maybe we lucked out and were in a very rear area without dark matter or energy and that's why we can develop :)
Noooooo the new ads have made it so I can't fall asleep listening to these clips, as the ads wake me up when drifting off :(
Remember the days when ads were just banners?
i remember when there were no ads anywhere. companies wanted to kill the internet because they didn't know how to make money on it.
Ahhh, the hardest paradox - can a SFIA episode exist without a drink and a snack?
Simple. No. Drink and snacks are necessary.
I've never played Mass Effect, but I'm still hoping for a reference to the Reapers.
Maybe I'm just weird and should content myself with 40k references. Despite never playing that, either.
You should! Mass Effect, at least. Never got to Warhammer either. 1-3, and you can ignore Andromeda if you want.
@@saltymcginger2027 I've heard a lot about the Mass Effects, and they're somewhere on my "to play" list. But I'm one of those guys who compulsively buys interesting games on Steam when there's a sale and has hundreds of unplayed games in his library, so...
@@timothymclean I fully understand. I do the same.
No direct reference, but the concept at least is covered near the end when he talks about the potential that a species may intentionally sterilize their galaxy, or neighboring ones. It's discussed in more depth in Sleeping Giants, as he mentions.
But the Reapers are basically the Inhibitors from Alistair Reynolds Revalation Space series xD ...played and read both.. both are awesome :D ...both endings are underwhelming a bit ...lol xD
To me the most likely answer to the Fermi paradox is that it isn’t a paradox at all. We’re it, there is no one else and when we’re gone that’s it. Game over.
I absolutely love «The Gods Themselves». It was a total surprise.
Drink. Red squash. Snack. Apple and Ginger bar. Ready to board the spacecraft, captain.
In the iconic cult soviet sci fi novels by Strugazky brothers the future Earth's space fleet was divided into four branches :
One of the most prolific and sought after as career path was "Trackers" (Sledopyty) - their mission profile is mix of scouting for new inhabitable planets and most importantly evidence of advanced civilizations .
Great video Issac!
"in the context of einsteins E=MCsq its only about the energy release of 10 to the 27 kg of matter". Those numbers are bananas Isaac holy shit XD the fact that the word "only" was used in this sentence tells me im at SFIA
Much Respect Issac. Love you’re show! -E
Excellent video. I hope no asteroid destroys Earth and we are able to travel to other star systems.
If pure survival of species is the goal the solar system colonised would be enough to survive, however humans are expansionists - we will go to other stars
LOOKS LIKE ISAAC ARTHUR IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
Brilliant episode as always. Going to check out that Asimov title. Cheers Mr. Arthur.
I'm looking forward to both the "Government Types of the Future" and "Nomadic Space Fleet Civilizations" episodes, the latter of which I could imagine might consist of nomadic interstellar civilizations that travel from solar system to solar system, breaking down planets, and building dyson swarms around stars to allow them to move with the rest of the fleet via Shkadov Drive while also providing other kinds of services, such as providing additional shipbuilding materials via Starlifting, or propelling ships (or sterilizing worlds) via Nicoll-Dyson Beam, all in order to expand the sizes of their fleets, and thus, their power bases, without necessarily having to deal with the issues that come with trying to run a galactic empire whilst lacking faster-than-light communication capabilities.
so thats why Pho (bo) gives you so much energy! #lessonlearned :)
Nice bobverse reference there with the ramming a sun from two opposite directions with RKV's.
I've watched so many of these videos I may as well call myself Titan's Snacks! 💎
Hypothetical: The Immaterium is real, and it is possible to traverse it. What are the effects of travelling to another point in the galaxy, using it?
Assertions:
-The Immaterium does not mix well with material reality.
-They separate like Oil and Water.
-While corrosive to reality, a device can be used to keep them from doing so to ships.
You know what I'm getting at. The Warp from 40k, minus all the demons and ruinous powers (For now).
Last time I was this early, the galactic apocalypse hadn't occurred!
Last time I was this early, Corona was still a beer!
Last time, NASA has not gone woke.
Thanks Isaac, this one made me think of the halo ring effect from the game.
i've got a galactic disaster in my comic where lovecraftian denizens of an intersecting universe are taking bites out of ours, leaving empty voids where stars and civilizations should be. The missing matter starts steadily warping the shape of the galaxy, too, which wrecks havoc on the survivor's navigational systems. It's kinda hard to get anywhere when you have no idea where the stars ended up, or which ones are even still around, due to their light taking so long to reach you. Sure sucks to warp to your favorite vacation planet but find literally nothing there anymore. Even worse is that the thieves stole all of the photons in that region, too, so it's pitch black in all directions and you can't even find your way back.
it's not a very realistic disaster, of course, but i'm going more for the spectacle of seeing unfathomable monsters "surfacing" from the dust of the milky way with their maws open, catching stars in their teeth like whales eating plankton. space whales will never not be cool.
Good for you Elmer found a new hobby now you dont have to worry about which season it is rabbit or duck 😉
Well if the theory on galactic current sheet initiating star micro novas regularly is correct,then perhaps that is the explanation.
Any theory (IF CORRECT)... IS the explanation.
These vids are my bedtime stories every night