The fact that we may be one of, if not the, first advanced civilisations in the universe is an incredible and incredibly humbling thought.
@jerre6882 Жыл бұрын
first version always full of bugs
@cystarkman11 ай бұрын
It is the most appropriate way to think of it IMHO. To see it any other way is absolving ourselves of our responsibility. Which is to continue the task progressed by those single cells 4 billion years ago. Sun/Earth/Life has overfilled earth and is impatient to spread beyond earth and then the solar"egg" we are still nestled within. We need to get over ourselves and get on with the mission.
@johnirby479111 ай бұрын
Absolutely Absurdly naive
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Think about big numbers. Universe - 13.9 billion years old. Milky Way - about the same, give or take a few. Our solar system - 4.5 billion years old. That means we're two thirds younger than the oldest, roughly. Given the rarity of our stable conditions for life, it's highly likely there have been others like us, but now long gone. There probably are others like us, but too far away - rar too far away. And there will probably be others to come.
@reecechadwick850410 ай бұрын
No it's naive is what it is, not humble at all
@Charlielizard Жыл бұрын
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.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
It should. Next, what are YOU going to do about it?
@Charlielizard10 ай бұрын
@@richardcaves3601 Make sure small minded people like you don't keep the rest of humanity focused on greed instead of preserving our existence.
@JustinLHopkins2 ай бұрын
All species are doomed anyway, so does it really matter?
@custossecretus5737 Жыл бұрын
As our technology advances, we create our own filters.
@user-ed9yb1yv7r10 ай бұрын
Which is the condition to the "great filter".
@peacefulmaroon6 ай бұрын
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.
@SVOceanBird9 ай бұрын
It’s called a miracle 🌎
@JustinLHopkins2 ай бұрын
Yah, this isn’t biblical times. All of this is explained by science.
@ouriel1816 ай бұрын
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.
@RandallHallKaizenReiki Жыл бұрын
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.
@mapharim.jsadiki25422 күн бұрын
Thank you
@Vibes.690 Жыл бұрын
The ideas are mind blowing, and sure thing is that we aren't alone.
@MrJimtimslim11 ай бұрын
We just don't know. There's no evidence. I'm of the belief there isn't another cell or other such thing in the universe. We're alone. But that's my opinion.
@dkdebest11 ай бұрын
that is right we are with Allah
@specifikmc11 ай бұрын
@@MrJimtimslimBut why do you think that? There is almost an infinite amount of the Universe that we haven't even come close to seeing so concluding that there is no life based on the miniscule fraction we have observed is insanely close minded.
@MrJimtimslim11 ай бұрын
@@specifikmc I'm not sure close minded is right. I'm open minded, I've thought about it, it's my opinion. If I had to bet my life on it....we're alone. Fermi paradox, I'm not the only one. You're calling a lot of clever people close minded. Lol
@Cosmo-Kramer11 ай бұрын
@@MrJimtimslim If the shoe fits...
@flyingxtr1188 Жыл бұрын
The “great silence”, yea intelligent is silent!
@hanmeyer13019 ай бұрын
Best answer is probably they don't want us to see them. Or we're in a giant environment waiting to get eaten.
@mikelee5817 ай бұрын
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.
@willemvanmierlo85902 ай бұрын
The chances for life to arise are incredibly small, even on Earth where we obviously know it is possible it happened only once.
@JustinLHopkins2 ай бұрын
Wrong. Life arose on earth almost immediately after conditions became viable. The universe is literally filled with the ingredients for life, so you’re saying these ingredients came together once on this unremarkable planet to create life and nowhere else? How ignorant. 20% of the stars in our galaxy are like the sun and most have planets in orbit. There are between 200 billion and 2 trillion stars in the milky way and you still think we’re the only life? The universe can obviously create life because we’re here so why would it do this just once? It makes no sense whatsoever. It’s your arrogance and need to feel important that makes you think we’re alone. Nothing happens just once in the universe.
@justfly6048211 ай бұрын
We are not ready yet but I do believe they are out there.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Probably, but so far away, we won't hear from them until they're long gone.
@bcarroll7317 Жыл бұрын
We will never know will we.
@domyorich6 ай бұрын
I think the human race will be extinct before we know the actual truth.. do you believe in god?
@michaelhenning1772 Жыл бұрын
We Past thruThe Great Filter in our past and will again in the future. 💥👍😁💥
@kareedamm63378 ай бұрын
✨💚🌎💚✨ NAMASTE SO..... WHAT ABOUT PANGYA????🌬️🧚🏼♀️
@Emy538 ай бұрын
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.
@ThePhilosophyOfNature Жыл бұрын
"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:)
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Fiction
@theycallmejpj5 ай бұрын
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
@Samuel-up3xc Жыл бұрын
I love your KZfaq Shorts.
@watgaz518 Жыл бұрын
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.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
And time! Civilizations don't last long, 400 to 4000 years. By the time we hear from them, they're long gone, and by the time they hear from us, we'll be long gone.
@picivyvortac264110 ай бұрын
Frankly, I think we way underestimate the complexity of intelligent life, or of life at all. You can look up the actual numbers, but I've done the math in a university course: if you assume every star in every galaxy had a Goldilocks planet (which are actually estimated to be around .00001% of planets) and each of those planets had primordial ooze 100ft deep (way more than is theorized for earth), and in each cubic inch of this fluid there are 1 billion collisions/second of psuedo-biomass that generates an opportunity for a randomly forming line of proteins/amino acids to take shape, AND you assume that the smallest length for a line of DNA to sustain self replicating life is actually 1/10,000 the currently estimated minimum, the heat death of the universe should have occured before life generated a single time (actually, even if all of the planets were formed at the big bang and lasted to the heat death, the time before those odds become likely is about 10^15th times the total estimated lifespan of the universe) Edit: and that's all for a single line of DNA. Not to mention one that actually sustains life! People talk about the universe like it is infinite. Maybe the space is, but the matter and energy is not. "everything is happening somewhere" is simply not true and there are odds so small that they are unlikely to happen at all, not to mention more than once.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
@@picivyvortac2641unfortunately you left out the dozen variables biologists have PROVEN are needed for multicellular life to evolve. I'll just run through a few you can work into your equation. Rotating iron core to create a magnetosphere. Goldilocks moon size and distance to create favourable tidal movement. Goldilocks gaseous giants orbiting outside to deflect asteroids, meteors, etc. Goldilocks planetary tilt for regular seasons. Extremely long period of stable climate - 3/4 of the planet's age. Goldilocks number of extinction events to allow mammalian life to evolve. And that's before you get to a self aware species evolving. Need I go on?
@watgaz51810 ай бұрын
@@picivyvortac2641 even if every star (200 billion?) in the galaxy had a planet in the 'Goldilocks zone', the chances of having a planet with intelligent life and is habitable, are around 200 billion to 1, hence planet Earth. Today we are told that revised estimations think there is around 2 trillion galaxy's in the observable universe. So a quick calculation and using layman terms, nothing like on the scale of your university course, this tells me there is around 2 trillion other civilisations, beside humans, throughout our universe. Unfortunately, due to time n distance, we will never be able to communicate or visit one another.
@vimaljoshi53985 ай бұрын
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.
@smallstudiodesign9 ай бұрын
There’s a very strong possibility of alien life … but whether there’s any/many alien civilizations is a totally different matter.
@pokerphil1st5 ай бұрын
By the time they find Earth we will have destroyed ourselves.
@JustinLHopkins2 ай бұрын
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.
@paktype3 ай бұрын
What if we were the only intelligent life in the universe, and ended up destroying ourselves? Would the universe still exist?
@p.j.027 ай бұрын
There could be many great filters
@nimitjohri16 ай бұрын
Is that someone running on Mars? 4:37
@williamelliott62587 ай бұрын
Shouldnt we take from the last extinction level event till now + time from when life first started to first extinction level event???
@Larimuss Жыл бұрын
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.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Not quite - as at 2015 about 10% . More now the JWST is up and running.
@TheNerdyBox7 ай бұрын
Would much prefer just a video of brian cox and not the generated voice over too
@Kayash_Kino10 ай бұрын
If we are the Ancients we better learn to reduce our mistakes before spreading them around the solar system and then the galaxy.
@GinaCarmichael-nd2pt6 күн бұрын
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.
@StebM8 ай бұрын
What ai software did you use to make this vid asking for a friend
@ByteMeCompletely8 ай бұрын
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.
@matthewniemann5479 Жыл бұрын
Tic Tac ufo
@scottbrown784910 ай бұрын
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.
@donfinley7986Ай бұрын
Maybe just maybe intelligent life is beyond radio waves so they're not emitting them
@dinodude69929 ай бұрын
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.
@Pikestnt9 ай бұрын
Apparently, on alien planets “they’re” is a thing called Splooge which behaves exactly like wood. Doesn’t make a good spaceship but give the Sploogians time.
@mwangikimani39709 ай бұрын
The great filter is the fact that intelligent life exists for only a fraction of time it takes for electromagnetic signals to travel to other earth-like planets.
@oscar40587 ай бұрын
It's a good possibility that other life forms also were stupid and self destructive and we are the last not the first hmmmm😮
@user-fs5gg4pl6l Жыл бұрын
Thanks ok
@GamerplusMore Жыл бұрын
Could be many planets with dinosaur type animals that ate all potential human animals and were never wiped out by an asteroid
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Probably so, one of the variables in the evolution of our civilization is the "Goldilocks" number of extinction events that left mammalian life as apex species.
@tropixi533611 ай бұрын
i just dojnt think were the only ones
@Adam-qt1sz8 ай бұрын
Insignificant.
@Prometheushighaf Жыл бұрын
Great channel
@leepd19 ай бұрын
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.
@meetx07 Жыл бұрын
What if we are one of the cell organelle of a huge organism
@gubjorggisladottir3525 Жыл бұрын
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.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Almost correct. You need to consult a historian to learn about civilizations, and their average length. Anywhere between 400 and 4000 years, and not a lot of the latter - most are very short. So your projection of alien civilizations is way, way off. Next you need to consider stability. Our solar system has been stable, and our planet has been stable, for three quarters of its life - about 3.5 of the 4.5 billion years. That is extremely rare in the universe. So rare, we're probably the only one in our galaxy. Hope that answers your question, and doesn't depress you too much. What it really means is that each and every person alive is cosmically very rare. Maybe, we should ALL start treating each other accordingly.
@StrangeAttractor9 ай бұрын
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.
@idiotidiot5821 Жыл бұрын
Is it possible to actually comprehend a true paradox?
@-Subtle-9 ай бұрын
Yes. The liar's paradox is probably the best at demonstrating what a paradox is. Fermi's is probably the worst because it isn't contradictory.
@John-cc9my11 ай бұрын
We're not alone because God is there for us
@jamesedwards-nc3gp10 ай бұрын
Hahahahaha nice try! NEXT!
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
This is a science forum, try religious forum for your remarks.
@Elvis5O1 Жыл бұрын
We are not alone, we are one of the last ones.
@tabularasa060610 ай бұрын
More likely one of the first ones. The chemical elements needed for life probably weren't around in enough quantities before.
@robertanderson8096 ай бұрын
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.
@hanmeyer13019 ай бұрын
How lucky. Then a baby bird is hatched into ants. Or someone is born paralyzed etc. Almost was lucky. Just random I guess
@WifeMamaArtist9 ай бұрын
Very interesting, but the AI voice is beyond annoying!!!!!!!!
@dkdebest11 ай бұрын
Allah have only let us survive cause allah is great
@Swampsong11711 ай бұрын
Drivel.
@tabularasa060610 ай бұрын
Allah is a fairy tale character.
@TheMilwaukieDan Жыл бұрын
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.
@adrim7924 Жыл бұрын
It’s important to be humbled by what we know and even more by what we don’t know, but I guess that the quick explanation of “a god made it” it’s just our way of coming up with something we can understand in order to not be so overwhelmed my friend
@richardmcquade9832 Жыл бұрын
Scientific Theory A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world and universe that can be (or a fortiori, that has been) repeatedly tested and corroborated in accordance with the scientific method, using accepted protocols of observation, measurement, and evaluation of results. Where possible, theories are tested under controlled conditions in an experiment. In circumstances not amenable to experimental testing, theories are evaluated through principles of abductive reasoning. Established scientific theories have withstood rigorous scrutiny and embody scientific knowledge. A scientific theory differs from a scientific fact or scientific law in that a theory explains "why" or "how": a fact is a simple, basic observation, whereas a law is a statement (often a mathematical equation) about a relationship between facts and/or other laws. For example, Newton’s Law of Gravity is a mathematical equation that can be used to predict the attraction between bodies, but it is not a theory to explain how gravity works. Stephen Jay Gould wrote that "...facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts." The meaning of the term scientific theory (often contracted to theory for brevity) as used in the disciplines of science is significantly different from the common vernacular usage of theory.[5][note 1] In everyday speech, theory can imply an explanation that represents an unsubstantiated and speculative guess,[5] whereas in a scientific context it most often refers to an explanation that has already been tested and is widely accepted as valid. Scientific theories are testable and make falsifiable predictions.[9] They describe the causes of a particular natural phenomenon and are used to explain and predict aspects of the physical universe or specific areas of inquiry (for example, electricity, chemistry, and astronomy). As with other forms of scientific knowledge, scientific theories are both deductive and inductive,[10] aiming for predictive and explanatory power. Scientists use theories to further scientific knowledge, as well as to facilitate advances in technology or medicine.
@momsspaghetti619511 ай бұрын
You see, finding those answers IS admiring the Greater Divine. It's not like we're changing laws of physics or anything. We're just searching. If god made us, he made us this way. Maybe he wanted us go out and search, and learn and give meaning to our life.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
To do so is to deny your humanity. We are hard wired in our DNA to find things out. That's what makes us what we are. Creation stories are fine for kids, but you're an adult now. Behave like one.
@StofftiereLindner10 ай бұрын
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 😉
@michaelbreed725511 ай бұрын
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.
@momsspaghetti619511 ай бұрын
We actually don't know what might be next for humanity on an evolutionary scale. As we are at the peak of evolutionary hierarchy. What's divides us from other living beings here on Earth is Self consciousness. Frustratingly, we don't know how or why we are self conscious. You see, one certain thing about evolution is it's uncertainty. We never know what direction we are going. So these technologies that we are coming up with will most likely play a role in our evolution. We are relying so much on these technologies that it's become a part of "Nature" itself which influences our evolution. As you mentioned, why we have made mobile phones, computers, etc. it's mostly a matter of convenience.
@randommadness102111 ай бұрын
The invention of the transistor was definitely something that without today's world wouldn't exist. And it all boils down to greed after, of course, curiosity.
@Felix-Sited11 ай бұрын
We are approaching the singularity, from a technological viewpoint. It's exponential and terrifying.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
To answer that properly you need to read up on anthropological biologists. There's a school of thought that proposes, based on archeological evidence, that humanity became apex mammal due to cooperation as THE key to survival. This cooperation became four things: communication, curiosity, respect and altruism. The development of language (communication), the development of science (curiosity), the development of husbandry (care for land, environment and visitors and clan/tribe - respect) and the development of the trait of putting others interests ahead of our own (altruism) in that ultimately adults would sacrifice their lives to protect the next generation, or the greater benefit of the clan/tribe. Think that through, and you can see where we've come from, and why, as well as where we're going.
@-Subtle-9 ай бұрын
The first technology was probably using a stick to get food. Technology is certainly part of our evolutionary drive.
@paintriarchdave79779 ай бұрын
This "Dr" can't prove 1 thing he says... But tells college humans what to read? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 What a joke
@cakes0fLOL Жыл бұрын
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.
@cakes0fLOL Жыл бұрын
I'm an atheist btw.
@johntyb9495 Жыл бұрын
@cakes0fLOL an athiest that thinks we were created?
@smokinggunsaloon20811 ай бұрын
@cakes0fLOL Please don't label yourself an Atheist: it has religious connotations in itself. Rather, refer to yourself as a Humanist.
@randommadness102111 ай бұрын
@smokinggunsaloon208 or at least agnostic. The word atheist gets flung around too much when in truth the majority of people who use it don't understand what a proper atheist actually is.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Try reading then updating the Drake Equation. Then read "The Lucky Planet" dealing with the rare earth theory. Conclusion: humanity is rare, extremely rare - that means each and every one of us is rare and precious. We should ALL start treating each other accordingly.
@Ziggletooth Жыл бұрын
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.
@momsspaghetti619511 ай бұрын
Evolution is not entirely based on propagation. You see it's mostly about survival and continuation of the species. Reproduction comes under the continuation part. But what's more significant is to keep the organism alive until it reaches a stage in it's life where it can reproduce, which brings us to survival. Multicellularity held tonnes of advantages over unicellularity. There's division of labour which made survival easier. Also, the life span of multicellular organisms is much higher. Multicellularity allows an organism to exceed the size limits normally imposed by diffusion: single cells with increased size have a decreased surface-to-volume ratio and have difficulty absorbing sufficient nutrients and transporting them throughout the cell. This ensures the survival of the species. I think when life first emerged, evolution just made sure that it never comes to an end. So it just kept favouring more lucrative scenarios which brings us here today. From unicellularity to multicellularity, from consciousness to self consciousness, it's come so far that even if it is a mistake, it's a truly amazing one. Humanity has come so far that even the universe would itself be surprised by it's own creation at this point. Questioning the course of evolution is a fool's errand as it's been concluded that evolution is random and directionless. But going from unicellularity to multicellularity is big milestone to achieve. Bigger than we can imagine actually, it took thousands, or even a million years to achieve this.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
@@momsspaghetti6195exactly. See Brian Cox's TV series for confirmation.
@robertroach4 Жыл бұрын
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!
@DerringerHK Жыл бұрын
No. If we are indeed alone in the galaxy, or the universe, that doesn't suddenly prove the existence of God or any other type of creator. The only thing it would 100% prove is that the conditions and events that led to life on this planet are incredibly rare. We'd be living proof of that. Science doesn't argue, it simply is, which is why contemplating "if we are alone, then science must be wrong and therefore religion is right" isn't bad or anything, it's just incorrect. Science isn't opposed to religion, it just rarely takes it into account because there's nothing scientific about faith, besides some scientists trying to figure out why people have a faith, I suppose. Science is also very good at admitting when it doesn't know things (usually followed by "yet"), and the answer we as humans have to "Is there life out there?" right now is "We just don't know". Having said that, even if we are the only/most advanced civilization in the Milky Way, it is highly unlikely that intelligent life hasn't cropped up at least a few places in the universe as a whole. The reason why most scientists believe life exists out there is just because it would be *incredibly* unlikely that in the entire universe our planet is the only one that managed to cultivate an environment which put carbon and hydrogen and iron (and others) together to form life. So that's basically it. It's possible we're alone, it's likely not the case, but if it's true then that doesn't automatically prove the existence of any god amongst the thousands worshipped throughout human history. And if you are religious, you can also be a fan of cosmology or botany or any other scientific discipline you like. It's not an either-or.
@shagzzz644311 ай бұрын
@@DerringerHKNicely said.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
No, there has been others, and are others, and will be others. Just too few and so far apart, they rarely hear from each other. And when they do, they are long gone. Read The Lucky Planet and the rare earth theory. What it means from a humanist view, is that each and every one of us is rare and precious, so we should ALL start treating each other accordingly.
@-Subtle-9 ай бұрын
Which god? Out of the thousands of religions, which one got it right? The one that's popular now? That's called recency bias.
@DeeegerD8 ай бұрын
Actually it took God 8000 years.
@rhenry7949 Жыл бұрын
It's almost like a God created the earth and life on it.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Try quantum physics and mathematics
@nelsonhoyos620910 ай бұрын
It's possible that God created the universe...but not earth. U can't follow the bible too closely there's crazy shit in there. U kinda have to pick and choose and focus on the overall moral value of the stories rather than the stories themselves.
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
@@nelsonhoyos6209 nope, try science - astronomy, astrophysics, mechanics, biology, molecular biology, chemistry, astrochemistry. Go with what you can prove, anything else is BS.
@picivyvortac264110 ай бұрын
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.
@picivyvortac264110 ай бұрын
Frankly, I think we way underestimate the complexity of intelligent life, or of life at all. You can look up the actual numbers, but I've done the math in a university course: if you assume every star in every galaxy had a Goldilocks planet (which are actually estimated to be around .00001% of planets) and each of those planets had primordial ooze 100ft deep (way more than is theorized for earth), and in each cubic inch of this fluid there are 1 billion collisions/second of psuedo-biomass that generates an opportunity for a randomly forming line of proteins/amino acids to take shape, AND you assume that the smallest length for a line of DNA to sustain self replicating life is actually 1/10,000 the currently estimated minimum, the heat death of the universe should have occured before life generated a single time (actually, even if all of the planets were formed at the big bang and lasted to the heat death, the time before those odds become likely is about 10^15th times the total estimated lifespan of the universe) Edit: and that's all for a single line of DNA. Not to mention one that actually sustains life! People talk about the universe like it is infinite. Maybe the space is, but the matter and energy is not. "everything is happening somewhere" is simply not true and there are odds so small that they are unlikely to happen at all, not to mention more than once.
@picivyvortac264110 ай бұрын
Also, if we find life in our solar system we will REALLY need to rethink our origin of life theories.
@johnirby479111 ай бұрын
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 😊
@johnirby479111 ай бұрын
Have not been..wtf autocorrect
@johnirby479111 ай бұрын
Furthermore..we human beings..only perceive reality based on 5 senses...electrical signals recieved..analyzed..and percieved...it is most likely there are numerous life forks all around us..all the time..that we are unable to even comprehend in any sort of manner whatsoever
@johnirby479111 ай бұрын
Forms...not forks wtf autocorrect
@richardcaves360110 ай бұрын
Carl had great hypotheses, including that one. Small problem, there's not a single shred of evidence to back it up. And science is about evidence.