Either We're Alone In The Universe...Or We're Not.

As the quote goes, both prospects are equally terrifying.
What's your favorite Fermi paradox solution?
They arrived, saw Wattpad, and noped the fuck out of here - / membership
We've already made first contact, but it wasn't humans who met with the aliens, it was Earth's real intelligent species, squirrels - x.com/parsons_tor
Aliens know about Earth, but they don't know Earth is home to Culver's - / mrsluds
They're hiding among us, but not very well (their leader is Tommy Wiseau) - / tor.in.oregon
This video dates back to the days of the Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities podcast; I wrote the original script in 2022 to get extra credit in my astronomy class. Obviously, it took a lot of updating. Considering that aliens are one of the Internet's longtime favorite topics, if you're into aliens/UFOs/UAPs/space in general, you'll likely have already heard of most of the topics discussed in this video. This is a rundown of some of the most plausible scientific evidence for aliens and it's much more of a general "intro to a vast topic" kind of video than the typical deep dives I do. I don't currently have plans for any other videos on aliens or space, but I'll probably do something else along these lines at some point.
Even though these stories are intriguing and I'd love to see first contact in my lifetime, I'm a proponent of a Rare Earth hypothesis, as I say in the video; that said, I'm definitely not an expert in any of this, and doing the research for this video has moved me closer to being a believer. If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, check out the channels Event Horizon ‪@EventHorizonShow‬ and Astrum ‪@astrumspace‬ which cover a lot of topics similar to the ones I covered in this episode, much more in-depth, with just the right balance of open-mindedness and scientific skepticism. Be aware that there are a lot of crackpots in this corner of the internet, though. Be open-minded - but not so open-minded your brain falls out.
Sources & Further Info:
An interesting perspective on abiogenesis (TL;DR: We don’t know if life may have evolved multiple times on Earth, because if an entirely new type of lifeform was created from non-living matter, the existing life would have eaten it before it could turn into something new, therefore, abiogenesis might be more common than we think on Earth, so possibly on other planets too): / how_come_abiogenesis_d...
Debunking of phosphine on Venus: blogs.nasa.gov...
But wait! There’s a debunking of the debunking! There still may yet be phosphine on Venus - and ammonia, which is an even more important biosignature! Everything so far is uncertain, take it all with a grain of NaCl: www.cnn.com/20...
Gary Sacco on the dimming period of Tabby’s Star: • Tabby's Star KIC 84628...
A possible explanation for the Wow! Signal published in August 2024 - this is a preprint and hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet, but it’s one of the most credible explanations anyone’s come up with: arxiv.org/abs/...
The insane trajectory of the Project Lyra spacecraft, designed to catch up to Oumuamua and land on it: x.com/leometri...
Avi Loeb on Oumuamua and his theory about humanity being too boring for aliens to visit: • Why Oumuamua May Have ...
Most recent Pentagon UFO/UAP report (they're doing them annually now!): media.defense....
Luis Elizondo gets caught flat-footed presenting a lamp reflected in a window as a “UFO mothership”: anomalien.com/...