If a species comes to us as refugees, meaning they are running from something, AND they have the ability to GET here my mind goes to two things: 1) What are they running from? 2) We are so boned.

Reminds me of the 4chan thread where someone posed as an alien looking for a habitable planet his people could flee to after their star went nova, and asked if humans would be ok with sharing Earth in exchange for technology. And the first response was "f*** off, space ****ers, we're full. You can crash on the moon if you want." And people were just "man, imagine if this was real, and that's the response they get."

Aliens won't learn much about Earth from Galactipedia when the entry probably reads "Mostly harmless."

I enjoyed District 9. Was a great adaption to 'Alien refugees'. But it was less "running from some enemy" and more "damn our ship busted near this inhabited planet"

Can't wait for Dumbest Alien Invasions. I haven't been able to decide which is dumber, invading a planet covered in water when water burns you like acid, or invading a planet for water when it's one of the most abundant resources in the universe.

This channel has a real gift for asking really solid questions and considering a very reasonable, broad range of suppositions and conclusions.

An idea that popped into my head, is that alien refugees arriving here might have records of the civilization they left behind and wish to emulate it, have records of the laws and such that they need, but aren’t confident in their citizens’ ability (or maybe will) to adapt to these laws. So they wish to build the structure of this civilization while in close proximity to another stable civilization similar to their ideal, so that they can ask us for advice on how we handle situations. Then, after they’re confident they themselves are stable in their new setup, they’ll move to a neighboring star system they can make entirely their own.

You may not claim to be a philosopher but I love how philosophical this episode gets. As always, I love your logic, Isaac.

The Bobiverse books did a sort of forced taking of refugees. The Bobs essentially had to conduct an alien abduction operation on a small town of industrial revolution aged ferrets to save at least a part of their civilization that was going to get microwave-beamed by a dyson swarm. I really enjoyed the role reversal, and how abducting a small town and breaking the news was planned out among our characters.

My favorite piece of "Alien Refugees" media so far is the Defiance TV show, one of the better sci-fi TV shows out there with good firefly vibes, sadly canceled for being too expensive to produce It had a lot of the points you talk about, like crime, salvaging tech from refugee ships and a war caused by saying no to a spaceship

District 9 was the director salvaging a movie budget for the video game series Halo. The movie got its support pulled in the franchise and they decided to still produce an alien movie with a bit more of a spin.

As Earth: Final Conflict showed, the primary "resource" that an alien refugee fleet will be looking for, will be us. As you point out, any other resource can be found practically anywhere.

Imagine thinking you're taking in the alien equivalent of French refugees of WWII, only to find out later you've been harboring the alien equivalent of nazi war criminals instead.

My point stands: the scariest message we could receive from an alien civilization would be something on long the lines of "Help, they are coming-" with the message cutting out and there being no further messages/elaboration after

"it's not an asteroid, it's 10 million orbital defense systems gathering dust" Love your videos.

Regarding the question of why a hostile alien group may want slaves when perfectly optimized robots are theoretically available, my thought is that it may be similar to why an artist might prefer to purchase and display an original piece rather than a print. It's a difficult argument to dictate, as I'm not an artist myself, but it mostly boils down to some combination of the value placed in authenticity and novelty. An original is often seen as more "real" than a print of the same painting. An alien group seeking slaves may similarly view living biological slaves as more of a novelty or as more uniquely valuable than an optimized robot, even if organic "original" slaves would be less efficient and more expensive than the robot "print" equivalent.

Really appreciate all your work man!, A few years ago i started listening to you. It really helped me expand my point of view in all sorts of subjects and made me realise how little I knew/know. Then that allowed me to start advancing my learning again. thanks Isaac!

I believe the aliens from Signs should be lumped into the refugees category. Invading a world covered in a corrosive allergen (water) seems like a bad idea unless you had no choice.

In a story I'm casually writing we're sharing the solar system with aliens who came as refugees a couple of thousand years earlier. They came here while we had our current level of technology after noticing us on route to their planned destination. They realised we'd soon face the same danger they did, so they may as well work with us. They colonised Saturn.

As to the one welcomed alien then waving in more, may I recommend a novel called "The Sails of Tau Ceti". It's about an alien species that is fleeing a supernova in their home system in a light sail spaceship, riding the outgoing photons to Earth. In this novel, Earth has interplanetary flight happening regularly, but not interstellar yet. We see their deployed light sail and incoming craft, and deploy an investigatory/welcome craft to meet them. It turns out there's actually thousands of their ships headed this way, but the others have not yet deployed their light sails, only the vanguard ship did to attempt to negotiate peacefully for refugee status...

Happy Arthursday! If you're an alien refugee, don't forget to wash your appendages before and after shaking hands with us at first contact!

Did you just slip in a Spelljammer image of an Illithid fleet? AWESOME!

Mindful that other than FTL (faster than light) and non-FTL travel, there could easily be ELS (exactly light speed) travel. (Say some travel bubble converts you to bosons for the duration of a trip.) In this case you don't arrive faster than light, however, for you the trip is instantaneous. (Bosons do not experience time.) The ship feels more like a teleporter. Step in, then step out. While inside any amount of time and distance can be traversed.

The whole "humans are space orcs" fiction line might make for a fun episode. It's an idea that uses sci fi to poke fun at some of our weirder habits that we consider normal. An example would be the fact that humans enjoy foods that are deadly to other animals. Examples like chili peppers (capsaicin is a poison), mint (an insecticide), caffeine (also an insecticide), and chocolate (contains highly poisonous theobromine) are delicacies and candies to us. Our temperature tolerance. Our ability to recover from injury. The fact that humans tend to settle and thrive in places they've become stranded in. All of these and more are explored in sci fi like Nor Crystal Tears, which tells the story of Human-Thranx first contact from the perspective of the insectoid Thranx.

Your “R”s are night-and-day better than earlier. Particularly when the sound is followed by a vowel. My kid’s in speech therapy and I appreciate being able to use you as a case to look at!

You are not only a science fiction writer and futurist, but also a great philosopher!! Very well done video!!!!!

6:03 that's... optimistic, cause I can imagine a LOT of scenarios where they definitely would open fire if they found out they shot down our ship with 'no provocation' from our end, despite how logically they laid it out

Why would non humans have human rights?

Can't believe you didn't mention the Asgard from StarGate. I guess you didn't find the "we're to smart to think of dumb ideas like humans can" very probable

Happy Thursday friends! One day we all may be alien refugees. Let’s hope not! Live long and prosper 🖖🏻

After watching this, I have an idea for something where aliens show up disguised as something greys because they watched just enough of our media to think thats what we expected.

The Aliens are coming because they can't sign up for Nebula to watch SFIA off planet...

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In old man's war they talked about two things that resulted in the death of two entire races of aliens the first was clone armies and the second was a robot army. The first one resulted in the annihilation because of the use of a single biological weapon and the second was because of a mass reprogramming even. I also read a book years ago and there was a refugee situation where the species were actually trying to save earth in an attempt to prevent most of the galaxy getting wiped out.

One of the most though-provoking episodes to date. Thank you for the videos Isaac, and congrats on 700k subs!

22:45 I am so glad I'm not the only one who asked why General Zod didn't just used the device on Venus first. You don't just attack entrenched people, you build a forward operating base.

Hey Arthur! This episode was another classic and fun entry in the Alien civilization series. If I may offer an idea that was on one of your polls a while ago, I think Probability Manipulation would be a great episode as it's rarely used in Sci-Fi and has seemingly limitless potential.

The more I watch your shows about AI and uplifting, the more I’m convinced that part of the problem with the Fermi Paradox for us (and anyone else really) is that once a species reaches a certain level of AI advancement and life extension, they stop existing as biological entities altogether and become a fully digital civilization. This occurs long before they have colonized large portions of a galaxy and once they reach this plateau, they more or less stop expanding because there is no point in it. Once you’ve seen a few million different stars and worlds, you’ve seen them all basically, and life becomes whatever you want it to be inside of a supercomputer. 🤖🤷‍♂️

Considering the fact that District 9 is my favorite film of all time, this is the perfect episode for me.

You raise many logical and interesting points, very robust and stimulating Topics, well done my friend.

Any alien who ventures near Earth ought to be really desperate. They probably settle on Mars. If they have the technology skills to travel between stars they will find building something up there safer. Way safer.

One of the best episodes, i like when you study possible scenarios of what it could be if ... Like First Contact and Iron Stars end of time civ and other few episodes, mind blowing

that was a great vid. we loved the contnent and the production. we thank you for the respect of no stupid ad harassment interruptions. take care and please keep the vids coming.

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14:19 Unless of course they developed long-range communications via means other than radio. The Tool Breeders come to mind as not quite aliens who likely would have no idea what a radio is.

Hey Arthur! Been wondering if you could do an episode on Alien Art

I love your voice and this channel! Keep up the work

The ancient Dino Asteroid Belt Defense System is by far the coolest idea for why aliens haven't messed with us I insist that it fires T-rex's into the hulls of invaders that cross the Oort cloud

Thank you for making this video, I literally had the same idea of Alien Refugees in my head in the past lol.

District 9

Video Well Done!!! I look Forward to watching more!!!

You've thought of every scenario and then some! Excellent video👍

If we recieved some fugitives from an interstellar civlization, shouldn't we at least try to independantly verify what they were running from? Otherwise we would be dealing with an information asymmetry in all our negotiations. On the other hand the fugitives might be very keen to not allow us to make any contact with their origins for fear of us giving away their position and might take extreme measures to prevent that.

I think this will be the 2nd-most-likely reason for any of them to come to Earth in colonizer mode… the 1st being an idea not tackled yet here: “Ideological Aliens”

this is an awesome show Issac 👏 you make so many good points! both good and bad.. love Your channel Issac ❤️ keep'em coming Buddy 🖖

Earth is so beautiful that it attracts visitors from across the universe.

To serve man..."It's a cookbook!"

I think "escaping the gravity well" is not thought about much. Once you can get off a world like Earth, you shouldn't go back unless you can guarantee you can get off again. Refugees might want nothing more than to get back into space. Thinking living on a planet and space-faring aliens wanting to live on ours feels provincial and maybe quaint.

My favorite movie that covers this Topic really well is District 9.

"South Park," of all things, had a fun take on the idea that you should always be skeptical of the reasons for an interstellar space ship crashing with no clear communication about why. In the episode Pinewood Derby, the alien space ship was a morality test to see if humans would try to keep stolen Space Cash.

I guess the best answer would to offer them a few asteroids to hollow out. Or if they really need a planet, we can offer them Mars to settle. Showing we let them stay safe but also not let them get too close too quickly. And if someone comes after them, they shouldn't come to us. ^^

I think Star Trek Enterprise has shown us what we'll do. Shoot the aliens and take all their tech while they are weak.

I have quite liked watching a good number of your episodes/playlists and have been astounded at the number of topics discussed... Quite enjoyed them and definitely have given me food for thought. There have been a couple topics I've not seen though and not sure if I missed them, you've avoided them as not needed to be discussed, or you've merely have not thought of them: One is all the satellite types and satellite constellation types out there and best orbit for each and minimum numbers needed for full planetary (or moon) coverage. Just off top of head I get: - Communications - Audio (AM, AX.25, CB, FM, FM-SS, FRS, GMRS, HAM, MURS, NOAA, Optical, Packet Radio), - Weather - Local (Bathymetric, Gases (Ar, C, CH4, CO2, H, He, Kr, N, Ne, O), Infrared, Lidar, Magnetic, Radar, Sonar, Temperature, Topographic, Ultraviolet, Visual, Water, Wind) - Defense (ECM, Laser/Energy, Missile/Torpedo, Railgun/Kinetic) - Navigation (Navigational Beacons, GPS) - Communications - Video/Data (Broadband, Cellular, Microwave, Satellite, Tachyon, Television, WiFi) - Weather - Global (Radiation, Solar Wind) - Telescopes (Asteroid Tracking, Gases (Ar, C, CH4, CO2, H, He, Kr, N, Ne, O), Gravity Lensing, Infrared, Microwave, Radiation, Solar Wind, Spectral, Tachyon, Temperature, Topographic, Ultraviolet, Visual, X-Ray) Another is an extension of asteroid mining and resources... what of dust and ring mining? Like: - Dust and Ice Rings around Asteroids and even the Gas Giants and Ice Giants - Kordylewski Clouds around Earth-Moon L4/L5 LaGrange points (possibly Mars-Moon points as well).

thanks for portraying not all aliens as bad guys. We need to rethink aliens in order to live in a multi-species empire and grow as a civilization.

It seems like a fleeing alien faction would easily be able to set up in Alpha Centauri or all of Sol (minus Earth) if they can make it all the way over here. Besides, there is little we can do for a species so much more powerful than us

They're already here. They're been bused to Washington D.C. right now.

Thanks to you Sarah. You are more than a question Giver at the end of the month. A fascinating premise, yes. I have been listening to sfia for quite some time and this is one of the better ones. Yes thank you Isaac thank you Sarah. All this time and I still can't deal with this phone very well.

Love your videos, you are amazing 🤩

I prefer the version in which the aliens come as benevolent girlfriends, with lots of technological and other gifts, for the sake of a shared brighter future :)

Could you imagine? Kinda hard to build a wall around the earth. "They're takin our jobs!"

"You don't have to live like a refugee! Don't have to live like a refugee" 🎶

Had to go to work and just now getting to watch this before no man's sky vr. Ps you should do a scifi Sunday on which games and movies you like the most for either the science or the fiction aspects. Would low key go along way to helping with world building

Haven't listened to this episode yet... Just here to ask, did DALL-E make the thumbnail art for this episode? I would guess so!

Before I finished watching the video about Alien Refugees, I was thinking this guy has read my comments. Then I realized that I have commented on a few other videos on this topic by Isaac Author. I shared short stories at a KZfaq video about a Star with 3 planets in the Habitable Zone. The complete book that I haven’t published is about three alien species that come to Earth as refugees. They don’t share that they are supposed escaped prisoners that were falsely given long sentences. In the second book that I hardly started the prison guards let them escape to prepare the Earthlings for the ‘Peacekeepers’ arrival. but they honestly don’t know this, so in the book, they become contributors to the Earth society. The Micallic Aliens An escape occurred in a galaxy far-far-away where three planets support life. The life forms of these planets differ from being Seven-foot Giants to five-foot beings with high intellect. Now the third planet has the largest population and is the most volatile. A number of communities of MonMicallics on this Planet are at War. A union was formed on the grounds of having common enemies of the many MonMicallics communities. This union formed the MonMicallics Empire. Like most Empires, they didn’t just want to run the planet this Empire wanted to run the solar system. Over the next decades, the Empire grew to control most of the goods and services around this solar system. Most of the TonMicallics from the closest planet liked the Empires Peace Keepers that kept the conflicts on their planet to a minimum. There are two main assemblies of TonMicallics that are mostly at peace with each other. Some communities wanted to grow their relations with the MonMicallics Empire to help their economy grow. They see the peace the Empire brings to this once chaotic planet. The PonMicallics keep to themselves, but after the MonMicallics Empire investigated colonizing their planet, they had to act. The Empire was overconfident and thought the PonMicallics would be easy to subdue. After their first landing, the Empire thought that they would land a battlecruiser, but the PonMicallics were prepared. No, they didn’t bomb the craft. The PonMicallics had bio-engineered workers that they turned into soldiers. These soldiers took the battle cruiser and killed all on board with ease. The MonMicallics Empire took these actions as acts of War. The Empire was driven back to their planet, but this Solar system was never the same. The Bio-Soldiers that the PonMicallics created at first as workers with the ability to learn did learn a lot from this War. These soldiers kept the peace by imprisoning criminals and all who rebelled against their order. A Moon of the PonMicallics planet was cold but sufficient to hold a number of prisoners. A group of prisoners from the Empire started to form a union with other prisoners from all three planets. The few Care Takers of this Prison Moon didn’t see a reason to mind about prisoners working well together. Over the next year, these prisoners started a person-to-person relay by the willing pilots that carried goods to the moon. There was a monthly transport from the planet to each prison camp on this moon. The united prisoners couldn’t join any of the other camps before a craft was available to ship these united prisoners away. The craft that the prisoners acquired was a scientific environmental craft that was suited for long-term passengers. The prisoners took the craft out of the solar system to a far-off system in the Milky Way. I Must Escape I got to get out of this prison I’ve, we all have been unjustly imprisoned. I try to remember my ball-playing days. I was running left and right, catching and throwing the ball. Not dropping it, no never. I have good hands, but I loved running. I would aim each throw for the green shirts. Our rivals had red shirts. They can’t touch the ball. We ran side by side with each other but never touching. The ball was in the air we knew where it was going. The fastest runner would reach the ball. The first one of us that saw it first, got it. I didn’t like being the chaser. Our prison is full of comrades, and adversaries that I try to become allies with. Most of the prisoners just want to get home, but fear the Bio-Soldiers. I hear there is a plan to escape. I’m told to wait and make friends with once foes. I try to remember good times, but my last game comes to mind. I was looking; the ball hit my eye first. A new teammate that I wasn’t looking to have the ball, threw it to me. I didn’t jump for it. He never threw a high ball again. He plays a good ball game that I just watch now. My vision in one eye hasn’t come clear. An old player recruited me to be a city runner. I have to remember that I love running and then I ran to deliver packages. The crowded prison has become less lonely now, but we all want to get out. I have befriended two MonMicallics that at times can upset me. They run and jump in a small room that I can just take a few steps around. We get scolded in the big room for running. The MonMicallics are scolded often. I feel for them. The PonMicallics were few. The few that were at this camp stayed to themselves. I watched them more these days. They seemed more alive. The other TonMicallics stayed out of trouble. Unlikely teams of prisoners were forming around me. I just watched and waited. This morning there was a ruckus. I stayed in line and followed the way. We boarded a craft. I didn’t know what was happening. I just stayed in line and hoped for an escape. The PonMicallics established a science craft that has three environments that suited each of us. I stayed in line and followed the way. The craft left the solar system through a Gateway past the outer inhabited systems and it was announced to make preparations for high-speed travel. We all were given the proper medications, and half of us chose to sleep. The PonMicallics have a hard time staying asleep at these speeds. Most of the TonMicallics stayed awake in case of trouble. The MonMicallics that stayed awake were the most trouble on this five-year trip. I didn’t have trouble being awake, and I didn’t cause trouble either. I read a lot and learned a lot on this trip to an inhabited planet with the three atmospheres we need to live. In an unlikely reality, these prisoners are to prepare the Earth’s inhabitants for the arrival of the Micallic Peace Keepers… The second book, I hardly started, will tell us why they chose Earth amongst the many options of solar systems and planets, to build a Gateway.

After seeing this, DISTRICT 9 come off as a documentary on how we as a species will deal with this "refugee crisis".

5:13 I was not expecting you to just say "nuke it" like that, absolutely hilarious 🤣

I can potentially see some alien organization creating something akin to an exclusive economic zone so many light years from a planet. It would make sense then that aliens would find it essential to ask whether or not they could seek asylum in your exclusive space.

DEFIANCE etc., this trope has existed for a very long time. Thank you Isaac Arthur for giving the people something to think about when it comes to refugees and the understanding as to how things go wrong etc.,

Fantastic episode. Philosophy and space. Envisioning the best in humanity.

So great to hear Isaac going strong.

I'm starting to think that the reason we haven't been visited by Aliens is because like the video says, we have been broadcasting all kinds of content for about 100 years like horror movies, Alien movies, natural disaster movies, Marvel movies and so onto if the Aliens picked up these signals imagine if they don't understand it's just shows or movies, they probably think this planet is extremely dangerous and all fkd up. I mean even adult movies, if Aliens don't mate the way humans do they probably think we are savages that have to stab the female with our PNS. Lol

One important thing (to me) is that "Darwinian morality" should be renamed for at least a couple of reasons. First, Darwin himself hated the concept of Social Darwinism and wouldn't want this named after him, either. Secondly, we have a morality that was selected for by evolution, that is, codes of conduct that aid the survival of the species, rather than an individual. And that's what is important in evolutionary terms. See Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene which is about genes doing better when you help those related to you, ie the genes are selfish, not genes FOR selfish animals/people. More on topic, I think that social species are more likely to achieve and maintain space travel. That should mean the odds that the refugees care about other people are higher due to the selection pressures they faced to get there.

Battle Field Los Angeles was another example of extraterrestrial refugees. Granted the were armed and read for a fight.

"Our Wowld." i love the unique way in which you sound.❤️

The distinction between a refugee ship and a colonization fleet can be pretty blurry. Pilgrims and 1940s Jews fleeing to Palestine could be considered refugees. Yet the projects they ultimately ended up building turned out very poorly for the indigenous populations of those places. I would say every effort needs to be made to encourage alien refugees to play by the rules WITHIN human institutions modified to generously accommodate them, rather than getting ambitions of conquest or nationalism, either as self-defense because we treat them as subhuman, or because we don't make them play by the rules and they just decide we're pushovers and Earth is their manifest destiny.

Philosophically speaking, it is unlikely another civilisation based on a biologically different basis would come up with the same idea of property, and therefore theft, as we would. Many earth societies have had no idea of personal property, and modern philosophers came up with a very reasonable defence of the idea "all property is theft". It is also very unlikely that the arbitrary ideas of who it is ok to kill (which again, differ in time and space on earth) would be likely to coincide between ourselves and a different civilisation.

Main setting for sudden impacts unannounced that I have in my lore basically is one where FTL is possible in setting using a parallel universe, our ships force their way into it, and move through it before dropping back out normally, often at many times the distance. That said there are connections between universes and that one isn't entirely empty on it's own either, so while quite rare stuff does sometimes happen. In one setting this is an unknown something happens that causes the ships FTL systems to fail, overload, and get disrupted, the dozens of normal safety, backup, and distributed systems were not designs with the idea of space behaving this way in mind, so all of them fail and the entire ship halfway disintegrates as it tears back entirely into our universe. This is in part happening at a gravity well so our ship naturally falls out next to a planet or local body, in this case resulting in a massive twenty mile long ship appearing above a planet, in about a thousand pieces that start rapidly breaking apart. Pieces of seemingly solid metal with molecular bonds broken at random all throughout might be strong enough to hold together, or might crumble to dust at a touch. The massive distributed computer systems almost all have major failures and no longer work, the low tech backup systems in most cases also experience failures or the power systems to them have. Out of the several hundred thousand people on board less than five humans end up surviving, all with rather serious internal injuries and often brain damage as random parts of their body aren't connected or even present at the molecular level, but these were the lucky ones so nothing that happened to instantly kill them unlike most. This is the only story setting I have where a damaged ship shows up with no warning or notice. The only other situation that arguably comes to mind is a long dead wreckage. Say a warship someplace got shot, and blown in half, the rear half or sections is drifting through space at speed with no power, likely no one left alive (maybe in a corpsicle ish state...), and thus is basically any old dead body/debris that's been floating for who knows how long. The odds of a ship or object that took such damage randomly making it's way to an intersecting with a planet is so insanely low though. Afterall if it happened in system there would have been comms and events and warnings early on, even just outside a system you'd still get some early signals and warnings likely reaching a planet nearby, no warning means it was likely drifting for hundreds or thousands of years as a wreck... and the odds of that neatly crashing into a planet in a way that doesn't completely disintegrate every part of it just seems so astronomical...

I'd go beyond simple nuking for a plague ship, but nuclear imploding. That is, 3+ nukes detonating around and above the target, so any microbes don't get blown out by the blast but instead crushed by the simultaneous shockwaves.

They’ll send their murderers, their rapists, and some I suppose will be good people.

if refugees come, i hope we treat them with care and dignity.

Putting a whole nother meaning to the phrase "illegal alien"

This is still my favorite sci Fi channel.

Anyone advanced enough to come to our solar system in masses, is advanced enough to make a living in a sterile solar system. There is no reason for them to come to ours, except wanting a paradise world for themselves. Trade and curiosity doesn't justify settling billions or trillions (or more) of aliens in our solar system, which is the population sizes you'd expect to flee from a galactic conflict. Unless it is a very small population, there is no reason to have them settle here. If it's a big population, they can have the next solar system and leave an embassy for trade and cultural exchange. And there is absolutely no reason at all to let them settle on our planet, they can have some barren rock or live on space habitats. Unless every single bit of their being has been understood, I would not let them anywhere near our planet. If they leave us a choice, that is. But then you can't call them refugees, can you?

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This may be the best channel on Earth

Good work my man.

Earth Final Conflict was one of my favorite TV scifi shows in this theme. I hated it at first, until they started showing the Alien "saviors" as nefarious creatures with suspect motives. It was a refreshing change (at that time) from the Alien Savior trope so common in Hollywood.

Stargate SG1 and Babylon 5 reference? Great connection to culture. Love these videos

Isaac, After listening to you talk about how much you loved Stargate while talking with John Michael On Event Horizon, I decided to give it a try and I LOVE it. I feel like I'm watching Star Trek for the first time, and I'm only on season 3 of SG-1. Now I'm gonna take a break from binging that to watch this awesome video.

"Please help us. We want to come home."