The fact that we may be one of, if not the, first advanced civilisations in the universe is an incredible and incredibly humbling thought.

Truly makes one stop and think about our own planet's finite resources. Exploration for life on other planets, moons, solar systems and even galaxies is all well; however, as a result of our own undoing, have we reached our own expiration date? By being such a rarity, will we ruin the future of our own existence by our greed? That alone, scares me.

As our technology advances, we create our own filters.

The universe we observe is the past, sometimes billions of years past. So when they see us we don’t even have single celled organisms yet. To meet one another will require a leap of faith into the abyss.

It’s called a miracle 🌎

Honestly, when talking about alien life, fermi paradox and life, i think we humans got it wrong. If i look at things from outer perspective, we first need to question our definitions, Lets start from life, take ants for example, or hive creatures in general, they fairly similar to us, they creates colonies, they have hierarchy, leader, roles, even agriculture, they build, and work together, Yet if you try to get an ant attention, you will fail, block ant route with your finger, they ant wont understand what you are, the ant would see you as surface only, so, despite your best efforts, and being "smarter", you cant make the ant acknowledge your status as living entity, Lets extend that to microorganisms, they live on you and won't notice you, you are like planet to them, same for us on earth, we are basically bacterial parasite, and earth just got cold (or heat ○~●). Are planets living thing?, they exist longer, keeping some sort of homeostasis, and have chemical activities, they arnt self aware?, how can we know?, does a virus know you are self aware? What we define ourselves as human?, our basic blocks are cells with no brain and just reactions, and they form us, we are like states, if we are living indeed, so dies states, they interact, invade, have "brain" (insane one, they dont function 🤭), they argue and fight, invading and creating colonies and reproduce, how can we claim that we are living and they are not?, we made up of many individual cells and so they are. We arnt anything special, even on earth. Now thats maybe reason for trying to find life fail, because we are trying to find ourselves in the universe, a life that we can see with self awareness/soul in our own image, Maybe we are right, but we getting it wring again. The universe is limitless, so technically we should find the image of us somewhere, and imagine us in.. lets say 2 millions years, if we survive we would colonize the galaxy, so the likes of us should have done it. But they didn't, why? Because we get it wrong. If we were in the technology level enabling us to travel the universe.., why would we terraform planets?, such a waste of energy and resources, the distances would seperate us and creates fractures nobody wants. At thus technological level, there is better solution, just find a red dwarf, build dyson sphere and live in a Matrix style virtual world that fed off the star that now will be hidden from the universe, unlimited surface and resources, infinite age, paradise (until we ruin it), for billions of years. And thats my solution to the fermi paradox, that the likes of us evolved into higher society, maybe with time fade and become part of an AI and transformed into synthetic life form, maybe an AI soaceship that roam the galaxies. We humans love to make assumptions and stick into our narrative, and find complex solutions. Reminds me, the dark energy theory, we say the universe is one, and now expending faster than ever, to explain it we "invented" new energy that we cant detect and blaning it. Why there is one universe? Why would we be unique? Maybe there are infinite universes, like bubbles in cluster, they have gravity and maybe there are big ones or big black holes powerful enough to stretch us from the sides and expending our universe and sucking it? Seems more simple. Idk, maybe im wrong because now i again tried to explained things with what we familiar with, I never studied physics and knows nothing about it, so maybe im completely wrong about this entire article.

What if there is a society that developed underground because their surface is inhospitable. They may know nothing of the rest of the Universe because they have no way to study it. Maybe there is no path to the surface, so they think their underground society is all there is.

Thank you

The ideas are mind blowing, and sure thing is that we aren't alone.

The “great silence”, yea intelligent is silent!

Best answer is probably they don't want us to see them. Or we're in a giant environment waiting to get eaten.

Imagine waking up after a good night's sleep, stretching out the stiffness, opening up the curtains to let in the beautiful warm rays of sunshine but you realize you live on a frozen barren tundra on Europa and your sun is a massive planet devouring party balloon with a raging pissed off bloodshot tornado 10x your entire planet staring straight at you no matter where you look as if it's your fault or even worse. It's your turn. Yep, back to bed.

The chances for life to arise are incredibly small, even on Earth where we obviously know it is possible it happened only once.

We are not ready yet but I do believe they are out there.

We will never know will we.

We Past thruThe Great Filter in our past and will again in the future. 💥👍😁💥

✨💚🌎💚✨ NAMASTE SO..... WHAT ABOUT PANGYA????🌬️🧚🏼‍♀️

I will be afraid if we were truly face to face with an alien, but it would be amazing to see what they look like and if they would attempt to kill us. Honestly, I believe we are the hostile species.

"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS - EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE." 2010: Odyssey Two - Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (I hope the scientists read those books...:wink:)

These questions should be directed at biologists, not astronomers. The truth is we still don’t know where life started or where intelligence comes from

I love your KZfaq Shorts.

Surely each galaxy has a unique planet that harbours intelligent ? beings, like our Milky Way with it's human beings. Each environment will differ from others, creating different forms of beings, but they will have intelligence like us and some more advanced. Like us, they too will have difficulty in contacting others or travelling outside their galaxy, due to distance, the biggest obstacle which will ensure we never cross paths.

There is intelligent life some where in deep galaxy. Keep sending different language radio signals they will respond. We are searching them in physical form may be they can camouflage.

There’s a very strong possibility of alien life … but whether there’s any/many alien civilizations is a totally different matter.

By the time they find Earth we will have destroyed ourselves.

Saying we’re alone is like dipping a cup into the ocean and declaring that whales don’t exist. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Hubris, arrogance and self-importance leads people to believe we’re alone. We’re not special and neither is the earth.

What if we were the only intelligent life in the universe, and ended up destroying ourselves? Would the universe still exist?

There could be many great filters

Is that someone running on Mars? 4:37

Shouldnt we take from the last extinction level event till now + time from when life first started to first extinction level event???

We dont see anything... your looking at what.. 0.00000000000000000001% of all matter? Based on a guestimate of how big it is when really it could be endless. Their is millions of earthlike planets. Our one started at this time but many could start earlier or later.

Would much prefer just a video of brian cox and not the generated voice over too

If we are the Ancients we better learn to reduce our mistakes before spreading them around the solar system and then the galaxy.

Brian if you should decide to come to my home, next door is a cosmic query. Please witness. Ask your colleague (white hair, name?). What is consuming aluminum at an alarming rate? Barcaded in the home, forces attached like skin tags all around the house. Pink house.

What ai software did you use to make this vid asking for a friend

Scientists say they see the building blocks for life on Mars. I see the building blocks for buildings on Mars, i.e., rocks. But I don't see any buildings on Mars.

Tic Tac ufo

Perhaps it's like Startrek - where we'd only be approached when we develop faster-than-light transport or communications? If we are alone in the Universe, then it is our duty to spread life as far and wide as we possibly can. Elon is at least trying to give this a shot. Also, AI married with Quantum Computing could be either very good, very bad or render all life immaterial if could self-perpetuate.

Maybe just maybe intelligent life is beyond radio waves so they're not emitting them

Perhaps the great filter is just that plants on exo planets just evolve differently to the point their useless in providing the suitable material for construction material. Tree's provide humans with a suitable material for building structures, wood, while providing a use for making tools and boats that can be used for fishing.

It's a good possibility that other life forms also were stupid and self destructive and we are the last not the first hmmmm😮

Thanks ok

Could be many planets with dinosaur type animals that ate all potential human animals and were never wiped out by an asteroid

i just dojnt think were the only ones

Insignificant.

Great channel

If, as suggested here that we might be the only life in the universe, then what is the point of the rest of the universe existing at all..? But, as also suggested here, the immensity of it all clearly says that there must be other life out there.. but either way, why does ANYTHING exist at all..?? Must there be a point to all this? Ive no fucking idea.

What if we are one of the cell organelle of a huge organism

Fermi Paradox does not take into the math... how big the universe is and what if no one has found a way to a) leave their "own" Galaxy and/or b)traval faster than the speed of light. If an intelligent species other than us developed i.e. 9 or 10 billion years ago... and left their planet i.e. 8 billion years ago. Lets say that they have not been able to travel faster than i.e. 1/9 the speed of light. Thus they would be able to travel 1 lightyear in 9 years... I do not think that this species have any reason to travel to the Mikly way nor do I think they have explored the Andromedia Galaxy... If they are from a Galaxy that formed 13 billion years ago... (the universe having formed - big bang - 13,8 billion years ago) they would have been travelled (never stopped for long) at most ca. 1 billion lightyears in all. The Earth could easily die long before this species would be able to get here... even if they know where to go and not taken any side-tours i.e. to other Galaxies. I find the Fermi Paradox to be too egocentric.

We have contacted them, or at least a few of us have, including me. Feel free to ask questions, just try to keep an open mind.

Is it possible to actually comprehend a true paradox?

We're not alone because God is there for us

We are not alone, we are one of the last ones.

There are too many assumptions and suppositions it in this 'paradox' to even bother with. Intelligence may not support ANY comparison to individuals, animation, needs, or loneliness. Ugh.

How lucky. Then a baby bird is hatched into ants. Or someone is born paralyzed etc. Almost was lucky. Just random I guess

Very interesting, but the AI voice is beyond annoying!!!!!!!!

Allah have only let us survive cause allah is great

My intellect is incapable of comprehending these over the top.. complex assumptions. Every time. I try to go so deeply in to these complexities that I always ‘wonder’….how the miracle of energy or forces initially started that over billions of years developed into the world we exist in today. For myself, and my lack of comprehension… my simple mind says that there is a ‘Grand Creator’ of all that exists. My wor to explain it is GOD… simple humans were never expected to ‘understand and explain minutiae’. Simply admit to ourselves our intellectual weaknesses for what we are and admire tgat greater power of everything.

Most of the life, is in the condition, that we call „dead“, which we cannot detect or even recognise, so there is „dead-life“ out there, but we aren’t yet able to recognise it, until we are „dead“ too 😉

One question I have is why has evolution taken us so unnecessarily far? We haven't felt any evolutionary pressure to develop iphones or space telescopes. We don't need vehicles or escalators to survive. I definitely think all the wars humanity has had have significantly influenced progress in technology. But still. Why in such a relatively short amount of time have we came so far, I think is a question we're not asking or attempting to answer nearly enough.

This "Dr" can't prove 1 thing he says... But tells college humans what to read? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 What a joke

For me the maths is just too much... probability and chance. I feel like perhaps not that we evolved, but were created. And the milky way and 'billions of galaxies' that we observe are some sort of optical illusion. What a paradox that we are so lucky to be here yet still treat our planet like shit. I find it equally inspirational and despondent.

Maybe you're looking at this wrong... are human beings the apex lifeform? Well in evolutionary terms we equate success with propagation. Single cell life forms far out number us and therefore we are more of a failed side show. This could be what makes people so rare, because it's not so much a natural progression of evolution but a mistake that came about from a series of very unlikely evolutionary events.

If we are alone, does that mean religion is right? This entire universe was created to house just one species with intelligence and to worship one god. That would be messed up if it’s actually true!

Actually it took God 8000 years.

It's almost like a God created the earth and life on it.

TLDR the fermi paradox is asking the wrong question. I mean there's a simple solution, our model of the formation of life is incorrect. When Darwin sailed in the beagle and created macro-evolutionary theory, it was a point of scientific consensus that WORMS spontaneously generated in dirt. Worms are waaaaaay to complex of course, and the modern theory doesn't say that worms were the first organisms as Darwin did, but it still relies on the theory of spontaneously generated life. That is something that outside of origins, is scoffed at. There's also the problem that we are losing genetic complexity in nature WAAAAAAY faster than we are gaining it. How many species went extinct over the last 50 years? How many new ones were generated? You could say that humans caused this, but the long form theory requires repeated mass extinctions. You can't tell me that modern humanity is worse than a meteor the size of Texas, wiping out 90% of life in a day. This all means that the trend is reduced complexity and increased specialization. Run that backwards and you get a theory of INCREASED complexity and reduced specialization in the ancient past and that is completely opposite the theory of macro-evolution.

Of course..there are beings that operate in our dimensions that function within different time dialations....their dimension..like Carl Sagan explains the tesseract....operates around and within our dimensions..just like we reside in 3d land within 2d land...understand..or do I been to elaborate further 😊

AI voice completely ruins this video.