“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Arthur C. Clarke

"This one didn't give me as much of an existential crisis as I'd hoped." Nerd points awarded for that line! Great reaction as alwyas.

humans can't get along with each other but still convince themselves that talking to an alien species would go smoothly, still, this is the type of topic that I could honestly talk for hours

One way they estimate galactic size is by their gravitational effects. We may better know the masses involved than in the number of objects that mass is divided into.

I’m still convinced the galaxy is using Earth as an insane asylum.

Kurzgesagt's content, especially their more recent stuff, is absolutely amazing. They have plenty of videos that WILL give you that existential crisis feeling.

One of my most favorite Kurzgesagt videos is their animation of the short story "The Egg" by Andy Wier, definitely caused some existential reflection on my entire life. The concept of the story both changed and reaffirmed my worldview, and I feel the philosophy of the story is a very beneficial mindset to take on.

Personally, I think the knowledge alone of alien life actually existence would give me so much motivation and inspiration. Currently, I find life unbelievably boring and monotonous and I don't have much motivation to do things that aren't absolutely necessary to stay alive. If actual evidence came out regarding outer-planetary life, I would be ecstatic and would try my darn hardest to find a way to interact with them myself.

Thanks for producing an interesting, no-nonsense channel with intelligent commentary. It's the right balance between the content and commentary, a rare thing on a KZfaq infested with people who think the whole point is not to captivate and interest people, but rather to impress us with how awesome they are. Gracias.

For me, it comes down to time. I think there could be many civilizations like ours and maybe we are all just advancing in technology at the same rate. None of us would know about each other because our signals haven't had time to reach anyone yet

Been watching your vids for awhile... and subbed. I love your simple and thoughtful takes... great voice... chilled out and ready to learn and trade knowledge. I love that. You've won a new fan.

I believe we are either alone, or alone enough that we'll never know. I do believe there is a great filter ahead of us. I kinda just think kindness and keeping promises and all that kind of thing are what matters most. I don't think the discovery of life on another planet would change that. Usually it's something like a famine that changes that attitude in people. ...Or maybe things like famines only reveal that attitude to be untrue in some people. Enjoyed the double feature

So far, I have seen a couple of reaction videos from you, on quite a vast variety of topics, and I was really intrigued by them all. You come up with interesting and clever comments very often and right on the spot. I have rarely seen such a logical smart mind in a young person. Hats off to you, young lady!

I love that you are doing reactions to kurzgesagt. One of my favorite channels of all time for sure! I enjoy watching these with you 😁

This is one of my favourite things to think about, and you give such a genuinely insightful commentary on your videos. I know it’s gunna be a good one.

I have to say, I stumbled on your channel by complete accident, and I love it! Too few people in the world (or perhaps just in america) are TRULY curious, thoughtful, people who crave knowledge and perspective the way you seem to. I can tell just from your looks of thoughtfulness and genuine smirks and smiles that you LIVE for this stuff. Also, completely unrelated, girl I am SO JELLY of your smile. Keep ot up! Your reactions are highly underrated!

i love your mindset and personality, you're very open-minded which is so nice. keep it up! 💗

I appreciate your videos. It is comforting to see others thinking and discussing these subjects intelligently

I love how varied your content is.. got here from Al Murray and always interesting and intelligent reaction.

A great book (series) regarding the Fermi Paradox: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (in essence the idea of a "Dark forest" is introduced, where simillar to the video, type 2 and above civilizations exist, but are hidden to one another thanks to their stars being concieled in Dyson spheres. The books than go in to a what-if idea of large scale predation driven by fear.) Another nice piece of media that might interest you is the Dead Space video game trilogy, which introduces a version of the "Great Filter" mentioned in pt. 1.

Nice reaction, keep it up with the content

i am loving this channel! keep up the great posts please :) big love to all people :)

One of my favorite Kurz videos is The Egg - A Short Story, It really makes you think outside the box and opens up a new perspective on things. Would love to see your reaction

I enjoy your openness and the insightful comments you regularly make, which are quite often something I've never thought of. Your radiant smile is quite special too. Don't hate me for saying that, please.

Definite evidence of intelligent life on other planets would change my life in two ways and they are dependent on one condition: can we interact with them or not? If we can, learning about them would probably be one of the main ways I'd spend my time. If we cant and just know they are there, I'd be amused about the reactions of certain groups among my fellow humans for the forseable future. No comic, meme or stand-up comedy could beat people freaking out about that.

"this wasn't the existential crisis I was hoping it would be." How are you this damn awesome?

I loved your reaction and the fact that you choose this (amazing) video. I don't know if you'll ever see this comment, your channel is big and I like it! Anyway, I would reccomend you a react to "Tim Minchin - Thank you God", we can say it's pretty well done - a performance both comical and musical and takes some questions in a very (but "kinda")trully way.

"That didn't give me the existential crises I was hoping for"... lol, that's awesome

One the best react channels on youtube

Thanks again for the entertaining video.

To answer your question about if finding out would change you life in a meaningful way, I'm going to reference "Star Trek." On April 5, 2063, Zefram Cochrane made the first warp flight. A Vulcan survey ship was passing through our system at the time and picked up the warp trail (exhaust basically) and made first contact. When we learned that we weren't alone, all conflict on this planet ended within 100 years. Personally, I hope it happens something like this, and soon. We really need guidance.

Your young, at 65, I could imagine a life without grief or pain. Sometimes I can't tell which is worse, living or not.

Newish to ur channel i love the content, really relaxing to chill and watch to pass and forget all the stress and life struggles. Only channel i have the bell on.

If I found out for certain, without a doubt, that I was in a simulation, then I would do my best to break free of such a simulation. If you know there is no spoon, then what awaits is just the beginning.

I like your videos. Subscribed.

“This one didn’t give me as much of an existential crisis as I’d hoped” 😂

Thanks for the great video!! A.I. and Crisper technology might be great filters in our future. I wouldn't be surprised if simple life is super common. Planets that are conducive to evolution and habitable to complex life might be insanely rare. Things like: having a undersized black hole for our galaxy, not being in a dangerous part of the galaxy, having a "calm" star, a nice sized moon with decent tidal forces, an abundance of a lot of different elements, a thin mantel with an active tectonic crust, a molten core that creates a magnetosphere to protect an atmosphere and a liquid ocean, as well as many unknown factors helped earth out. Having all the correct pieces fall together might be a difficult dice roll to achieve. Early life started 3.5+ billion year ago, leading to the "boring billions", complex life started 800+ million years ago, on a slightly less habitable world they might still be in their boring billions or their star could die out before complex life even takes off. Maybe there is complex life our galaxy but it's near geothermal vents and trapped under miles of ice. Alien civilizations might be almost unique to each galaxy (if a galaxy is capable of life and not some hyperactive galaxy that is sterilizing life before it can begin), but we have one example of it happing in our galaxy, so it's not impossible.

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I believe the great filter is comfort. When a civilization gets so advanced and life becomes easy, evolution stops and eventually civilizations tear themselves apart. I already see it starting for us.

The other videos about the scale of the Galaxy, and the reach of our Radio signals already answered this question. The distances are just so vast, that even with Signals traveling at speed of light, they have only reached a minuscule distance away from our solar system. Even if the signals reached another star system, there is no guarantee that that signal isn't disrupted by the energy that is dispersed from the other stars.

I just want to know before this ride is over!!

I just came across your channel, and I like the way you try to share your thoughts. As a matter of fact, in the process of finding information on a book I wrote concerning aliens. I had a thought experiment. This was after watching the voyager nearly a billion miles away turning around and taking a picture of Earth which was a dot in space. And the late Carl Sagan had to point it out. So I was wondering say aliens had some kind of superior technology to travel through interstellar space at some warp speed. First of all, with the vastness of space, you have to kind of no which direction you need to go, or target your radio beam. Another point is maybe aliens whose planets about eight billion years old for example could have visited our planet maybe nearly 4 billion years ago and thought nothing here let's move on. Then there is the idea that maybe aliens had already discovered other aliens on the other side of our galaxy. Then they might say Oh so there are other life forms all over the universe so why waste resources searching for another species. I actually wrote in my book's prologue how an alien species could try and find out about other aliens with a certain kind of technology.

I really think as a species develops the idea of seeking out other civilisations lowers. Even our own technology has gotten smaller and smaller as it gets more powerful, I think advanced species might reach a stage where they stop looking outward and focus their technology on preserving their own habitat and keeping their civilization thriving. As they get smarter they could realise it just isn't viable to terraform other planets so use the tech to mine asteroid fields and other such things.

When I was kid, I was concerned that we had sent broadcasts into space, but that we haven't heard a response. Then I learned that that even our earliest broadcasts have only reached out ~116 light years. Granted, that reaches ~14,000 stars, but maybe, if there is intelligent life on any of the planets in within that that ~116 light-year bubble, they are a few decades/centuries/millennia behind us. I do tend to believe that the "great filter" theory is the most probable reason for an apparent lack of a intelligent signals from the other side of the galaxy (>100K light years away), but as the Fermi Bubbles, discovered in 2010, might suggest, the galaxy is a dangerous place.

Science fiction books often tackle this topic. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds is my favorite, the author is a former astronomer and can explain real life science concepts in simple terms, while also having really cool worldbuilding and action.

I am a little sad...Not only do I want to tell NO Protocol of how much she is beautiful. Of how much she inspires, and of course, I spoke of her incredible smile....All I want to do...Is wish her a Merry Christmas. I don't know why...the internet people call me Joe Joe D. Merry Christmas

The star wars phrase, "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away", is very aptif we think that the earth has only been around for the last third of the universe's existence....

im sorry to write two comments back to back but on the idea of knowing that life exists elsewhere changing our lives in any meaningful way; I feel like the perspective it would give us would massively shift how we view ourselves and our relationship with the universe. the reason i feel that way is because despite most people have a real sense of feeling special, especially when it comes to certain religions. I honestly feel like the realization would make a lot of people have an existential crisis about their place in the universe. as for me i would simply be excited at the prospect of getting to see another intelligent species. If it became a new field of study i would go into it no questions asked

I think Brian cox said, one form of intelligent life in each galaxy. also, universal by Brian and Jeff Forshaw is a good read.

I think confirmed knowledge of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe would change everyone's life in some meaningful way. That knowledge would shift our perspective of humans and our place in existence, even as individuals. This is huge because perspective is what we use to determine how to move forward or why we do anything in the first place. So even though we still have to do human things like eat, sleep, and socialize, why you go to work -- if you decide to continue working at all -- or what you decide to study/do in life could definitely be altered simply by the knowledge that there is more out there than previously known.

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People who don't believe in the space and instead believe that we are in some sort of computer simulation or in a truman type show are the most ignorant and rather most hypothetical existential creatures 😅 As the narrator said in the end.. the universe is too beautiful to be not enjoyed by anyone. And imo.. we, as humans, on our planet Earth are one of the most complicated yet excellent bio-chemical organisms evolved to enjoy this universe by getting to know about it as much as possible. We will always be bounded with the laws of physics and will probably never able to reach to any other location in space where life can be found.. but this will never mean that there is no life out there in some other part of this universe... similarly bounded by the same physics laws as well. That's the beauty!! That's the thrill! We know we won't exist forever, and we know we will never see/meet anyone else other than us, yet we will keep evolving to find/learn more and more about the history, present and future of the universe

Can you please do a video/reaction on the "Double Slit Experiment" 🙏🏼

Once they use standard candles or relativistic shift to determine a distance to a particular galaxy, cluster, or super cluster, they can estimate the number of stars pretty well using its proportions of spectral lines and overall luminosity.

I'm pretty sure I remember reading that based on how old the universe is now, and how old it will be at the time of its inevitable heat death, of the planets that will be able to support intelligent life to evolve only 8% have currently been created. The universe is effectively still in its infancy. I just wish I could remember where I saw it.

I remember a movie. In the movie we, earth, were sending out signals to find other life. One scientist was trying to tell everyone to be careful, we might just find some.

One problem with predicting how many "habitable planets" there are, is that it is possible that there is something about our planet that is extremely uncommon, but because he don't have any real frame of reference we don't realize that it is rare. Also, eventually the universe will be a completely dark void absent of life and light, because stars burn out faster than they are created. So at the end of the day, that will be the greatest filter.

Another great video from a very intelligent lady. You're a breath of fresh air on platform full of noise. You should d listen to professor brian cox on "we are all made of stars"

Back in 1998, I mentioned the FParadox and life to my neighbor, a Ph.D. working on post-doc research at the Stanford University Particle Accelerator. He said there probably, not possibly, "an incredible amount of life out there, but at least two things keep us mere humans from coming across any by now: 1. the inconceivable distance between life forms (see info on the average distances between even neighboring solar systems, galaxies, and clusters), 2. given the distances, life forms with just a minimum IQ is not enough to seek out communication on both ends or life forms that care enough about other life forms out there---they may be in a similar situation to Earthlings, not trying hard enough to not annihilate each other with planet-killing weapons we have now. We would have to find a way to communicate using a method much faster than the speed of light and hope that at least one or both civilizations must translate language, which could itself take thousands of earth years, also."

There were changes that came from humans discovering and interacting with other humans. Caffeine, gun powder, bathing techniques, germ prevention, birthing techniques, etc. So discovering other alien life forms might not affect the layperson in the interim, but it would surely have a trickle down effect

You asked for recommends of this ilk, so I will suggest the channel "Rational Animations." Specifically the video, "Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens." I'm pretty sure its narrated by Robert Miles who has his own youtube channel "Robert Miles" where he talks about AI safety research which might also be of interest.

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It boils down to windows of opportunity. If they don't kill themselves, or their planet, every advanced civilization reaches a point of being able to listen for signals and explore nearby planets. Not only are the distances between habitable planets vast, but advanced civilizations must exist at the same points in time just to be able to recognize that someone else is out there. Due to the overwhelming odds against life forms like ours, I would guess that there may be a few civilizations per galaxy, and that none of them will ever meet..

Literary recommendations: "If The Universe Is Teeming With Aliens...WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Fifty solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the problem of extraterrestrial life" by Steven Webb. It is great fun to read, and he does eventually give his opinion to the question. Liu Cixin's 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' trilogy consisting of "The Three Body Problem", "The Dark Forest", and "Death's End". Suppose technologically advanced civilizations become aware of your existence and your location? Of course, human hubris doesn't help

You are right about bordum It makes us appreciate life more

It seems that you might be interested to check out Isaac Arthur's channel. He goes into these kinds of existential topics to a much greater extent than Kurzgesagt. Much like them he collaborates with scientists in various fields to do deep dives into the big questions and their consequences. Take a look at his playlists to pick a topic that sparks your curiosity. They are on the longer side though (big ideas need more time to explore), so I am not sure if they would work for a reaction type video, but definitely should reach a broader audience in my humble opinion. His earlier videos might need captions to help with understanding his speech, but his community (rightly) persuaded him to keep being the voice on the videos instead of hiring a voice actor. If anyone has a recommendation for a good video of his to start the journey off with, please put them here. (I got to know him through the Fermi Paradox Compendium playlist, and was instantly hooked)

There's a good sci-fi series of books from Stephen Baxter that deal with the Fermi paradox, alien life & its solutions called the Manifold Trilogy, it's been 20 years since I've read it & I still think about it. As for what I would think of alien life being confirmed, like you said it would give us some perspective, but it wouldn't change anything useless there was proper communication between use; I remember another sci-fi book having a throw away line about alien life in that sort of vein, about how they'd confirmed an alien civilisation in another part of the galaxy, but it had quickly become old news because it was tens of thousands of lightyears away. As for the Matrioshka brain/downloading your mind into a simulation to live forever, that is something that appeals to me on some level & I don't think it would mean a life of boredom or one without struggle; it would be able to simulate anything so could be set up to allow you to experience anything & everything, your perspective would change from what we have now as we're so limited by having to deal with all the little things that are required to survive in the modern world.

Love the nod to Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, from Marvel Comics in the Kurzgesagt vid.

Could you please react to : Timelapse of the future / A journey to the end of time ? It is one of the most amazing videos I have seen in many years. It starts now and ends when the last black holes have evapurated. It is just incredible. Love from Germany

The mass of the milky way can be estimated by how fast its spinning. My guess on why the number of stars vary is they first have to estimate how much of that mass is dark matter, then divide the rest by the average mass of the stars we've counted so far.

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Interesting thing to think about in regards to the likely hood of life. The conditions for life to start existed here on earth. however given that we have only every seen life start here once. every form of life we have ever found shares DNA in common witch each other. so even under the right conditions it only happened once. that we know of anyway. its also posable that this version of life was just so much more successful that it wiped out the other version so fast theres no record of them left anymore.

On another video when talking about books recommendation you said you didn't really like sci fi. But watching this I was thinking that to me you couldn't possibly be fascinated with some these astrophysics and metaphysics questions without loving sci fi themes lol. So anyway, I was wondering if you've ever watched (or read) The Expanse? If not I highly recommend it. The part of the Kurzgesagt video about the differences in perspective between advanced civilizations and ours made me think of it.

I like your brain : ) The space we live in is so vast, it defies human comprehension. Kinda magic, kinda depressing.

The first filter they mentioned, the difficulty of life spontaneously forming, seems one of the more plausible to me. The complex folded proteins that could make other proteins repeat the same complex folds has an incredibly small probability of occurring randomly. From current understanding of biology, there has not been enough time in the visible universe for that to have occurred once over the trillions upon trillions of planets out there and the billions of years the universe has existed…clearly it has happened or we wouldn’t be here but it gets you thinking. Of course, we might figure out that there’s a mechanism that makes those complex proteins inevitable…but we’ve yet to replicate that process, or seen evidence of it not being a fluke occurrence.

May 24, 1844, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" ex Royal Signals Morse operator speaking. I knew of the Fermi paradox as a keen sci-fi reader in the 70's. I think one of the hardest things for us to wrap out brains around is the scale, just how vast just our milky way is. Without "hyper drive" or other fantasies, it is pretty much beyond our foreseeable means - and I would suspect that is the cause of our apparent isolation. I do think "knowing" we are not alone would be beneficial for the human race.

Please do the video "The egg - A short story" from kurzgesagt. It's one of their best videos imo

Great video. Isaac Arthur has some nice science videos on KZfaq I think you might like. Could be a little long for a Reaction video though.

It is frequently mentioned how many planets could potentially support life, as though this is the only pre-requisite. There are many other factors to consider. The gas giants in our solar system protect this planet from most of the meteors and other large debris that would hit us, because their gravitational pull is so much larger than ours. Given that the incredibly rare occasions that our planet is hit by larger meteors are considered mass extinction events, there would be very little opportunity for life to begin if this was a more regular occurance. Our planet has existed for 4.6 billion years and yet it took almost one billion years until the earliest forms of life started. More advanced forms of life have only been around for about half a billion years and whilst humans have existed for around two million years very little advancement happened until the last ten thousand years. These advances only occured as the result of a relatively stable climate, which allowed settling and eventually farming. Now consider that that major technological advances have only really occured since the industrial revolution in the past two hundred years, which is a microscopic window of time. If we assume then that there is a very small chance for life on these myriad planets that could potentially support life. There is a slightly smaller chance for advanced, mulit-cellular life, but a much smaller chance for a lifeform with the potential to become highly intelligent and a much smaller chance still that that life will have the opportunity to develop further. Then we get to that incredibly small window of two hundred years that had a tiny chance of occuring, before we start making noise that the universe might hear. So there is the tiniest chance that other life forms have been able to make similar noise and an even smaller chance that they would be making that noise at anywhere near the same time as us. Then if we think ahead, how long will humanity survive. Will it just be this incredibly short two hundred year blip of technological advancement or do we have a long future ahead of us. If any similar technologically advanced life has only lasted two hundred years, then we would have virtually no chance of it being at a time point that would still leave any trace of it's existance. If it lasted any longer, how advanced would it become. Certainly within a very short time it would advance far enough to be able to ensure we would not be able to trace it. Think what we have achieved in the past two hundred years, now imagine another two years, another two thousand years, twenty thousand years, is there a limit to what could be achieved and how invisible we could make ourselved to any less avanced species. Now consider the expansion of the universe. As fast as any technology can advance all of the planets and systems in the universe are moving further apart from each other, making the chances of reaching out to other planets that much smaller.

You incredibly gorgeous 😌 and so is your intellect.. I absolutely love your perspectives...

"Kurzgesagt TRUE Limits Of Humanity - The Final Border We Will Never Cross" is pretty humbling if you're looking for that.

I recommend checking out the Remembrance of Earth's Past book series by Liu Cixin. It's an exploration of an theoretical answer to the Fermi Paradox: The Dark Forest Hypothesis.

Of course they don’t consider the possibility that we were put here deliberately. That option is automatically rejected because it terrifies some people. I don’t know why. I’d expect it to be kind of comforting to think there was a plan to all this chaos and beauty. My best friend was terrified at the thought that we are alone in the universe. Again I don’t understand why. The only terrifying thing about that is realizing just how fragile human life is considering the way we treat each other and the planet. That’s one reason why I’m a strong supporter of space travel and colonization. If we are hell-bent on destroying this planet, then let’s move some of our eggs to safety far from the basket. But whether we are alone in the Universe or we are one intelligent species among millions, neither option bothers me. I grew up watching Star Trek and reading science fiction, so I have a romanticized image of aliens. But if they aren’t out there, then it doesn’t change anything for me in my day-to-day life. The only way aliens might affect my life in any meaningful way is if we actually crossed paths with them, either physically or at least communication. Let’s just hope if there are aliens and they decide to contact us that they are benevolent.

In the movie Contact the main character says something interesting on this, "if there is nothing out there it is an awful waste of space". Even if other life forms exist their tech maybe so different any signals they might transmit on could be well out of our ability to pickup. Plus I heard theories that if there is other life perhaps they are exploring their neighborhood (as we are) and not ours.

I don't think either that the discovery of other life forms on other planets would change our day to day life, but I think it would certainly change our future in a sense that it would lead to a shift in the way we see ourselves, a bit (and probably on a much larger scale) like when Occident rediscovered that Earth wasn't the center of the Solar system. Just this fact would, in my opinion, operate a notable change of perspective and priorities in many subjects, be they scientific, social, artistic, economic, etc. For now, we are so incredibly egocentrics, and narcissistic than we keep acting like if all things that exist is there just for us, self-appointed ultimate form of life (funny how most religious system still emphasize that fact while preaching humility... what a paradox!).

You asked how would the knowledge that we're not alone would impact us... personally I have been raised with the notion that it's mathematically impossible that we're alone in the universe, so it's just another day for me.

Very appreciated video! Fun interesting stuff! To the open minded it is obvious we are not alone, and may be we are just amoebas to them? Very BIG subject.

I think one possibility not discussed much in the video is the possibilities of life/ civilizations beyond our perceivable understanding. Maybe this ties into civilization #3 somewhat but they could also not perceive us. Maybe they travel at the speed of light, or are infinitely small or big and we are all a part of another being. Or most likely some other way we can’t comprehend and have no idea about.

You can estimate a lot by only counting a small volume and extrapolate it to a bigger. The error rate is then not really high, with large numbers. The higher the number the lesser the error.

I think that if we found that there is life other than on Earth, it would not have an immediate impact on our lives, but it would have an immediate impact on our way of thinking and our technological development. So eventually it would impact our lives.

There's also the possibility previous civilisations here on Earth have ventured out into space. Also, I hear scientists say the universe is infinite...which implies there's an identical version of us somewhere else.

In the absence of evidence of other life, I feel we must assume we are the first. Or the only ones still alive. That means shouldering the responsibility of preserving the fragile and beautiful thing that is life. We must go forth and populate the universe. In the hope that some form of intelligent life will still be around to witness the terrible glory of the universe's final moments.

It is improbable, given the size and scale we are witness to, that we are either alone or the most advanced form of life in either our beautiful and diverse galaxy or indeed the seen or unseen universe. It is, however, far more likely that advanced life has evolved in all areas of this vastness in relation to gravitational constraints, molecular availability and environmental atmospherics. The search for an indication of advanced life should not be limited to an assumption of signal related to our own abilities, projected capabilities or biological restraints. This would foolishly rule out the unrestricted possibilities of quantum physics and the need for immortality of individual consciousness enhanced by technology. An obvious parallel objective of any advanced life form searching for an ability to understand and therefor manipulate the fabric of space/time. ie, live forever and travel the universe in time and distance. All possible. You have a brilliant mind young lady, and I was extremely impressed by your videos. Keep it up. I am British and also from Newcastle haha.... The best accent as you say. Salute.

the thought that we may one day become the type 3 species who keep the "flame of life alive" makes me feel a sense of duty to mankind as a whole. with how "crazy" the world is today i feel like we need more people who will stand up against everything and unite us all under the banner of something grandiose like this. idk i feel like it could get our minds off of the silly stuff we argue about

In a nutshell: Our universe is a construct of our combined will, narrowing our perceptions in exchange for heightened clarity between us. There is only one person, and it's all of us, like facets of a gem. This is Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and his World of Forms. I, personally, think he described it really poorly, but he did sketch the rough outlines, thousands of years ago. It isn't that this world doesn't exist, the material and temporal are transitory, but the relationships and interactions among all things are actually forms of communication between ourselves. The only truly "real" things are values, in all sorts of aspects. If there are aliens on other planets, then they, too, must inevitably be part of the great Self. Else they are extra-universal intruders born from a different construct.

I'm arrogant so the idea that we are the first sentient species in the Universe really tickles my fancy. Being the first wave of life to experience reality as we do. That makes all our Pioneers and Explorers THE PIONEERS. OG of all OGs. Our 200,000 year history of firsts if discovered by future sentients would be really cool. For them to go over out History and be like these lifeforms were the first they tread where none had before. I hope they learn from our successes and failures and we could be the stepping stone for others future greatness. Or still there to help and or rival them to grow together as enemies. I mean I don't believe we'll ever be able to travel the stars without breaking physics but maybe some other species well be able to travel the stars. We won't, unless you become some type of energy being you need to stay in our Gravity or else shit gets weird real fast. And we can't fake gravity and never will be able to. It's weirdly cornered off from us almost like the universe knows how dangerous it would be to fuck with. Atomic weapons are scarey but what if some dude to could amplify or turn off gravity. We'd all speed apart into small parties at light speed. Or crush into one mass of matter.

I read "behold a pale horse" like 20 years ago, but basically it was a naval intelligence office saying we made contact. If it's true then that is one hell of a story.

I would suggest watching some Isaac Arthur. I would also agree with his analysis, that there are no other technological aliens in our galactic cluster.

It is also possible that we are just unable to see other life forms, given that we are still only capable of perceiving a relatively small spectrum of light especially at great distances, even at close distances we are unable to see the very air we breathe. Also there have been recordings of events in history that depict humans being unable to see things directly in front of them that are beyond their understanding, if I'm not mistaken it was either Alaskan Eskimos or native Americans and something to do with ships or photographs... and maybe, they're already here. So, I think that the impact of the knowledge of extraterrestrial life would be largely dependent on their proximity to us, and or perceived potential influence in that regard. It would likely inspire a great degree of intrigue or fear.