Dr. Tyson is so smart and a great communicator of science!
@francisfischer76207 ай бұрын
It's such an honor he takes the time to talk to us.
@mamalannightshyaman11 ай бұрын
“Intelligence is the perfect thing to have to render yourself extinct” We know we’re trying!
@CorvusCorone6811 ай бұрын
too smart for our own good
@thewanderingfool443510 ай бұрын
Well i don't think we are trying hard enough!!! Try harder lazy Humans!!! Yes i'm looking at you Gen Z.😠
@CesarGomez-nw4zt10 ай бұрын
We tried 2 times and we failed.... Perhaps we are not that intelligent.... Maybe we should try global warming ?
@brandex20118 ай бұрын
Other than Wile E. Coyote, human beings are the only animal species that would construct their home on the far end of a slender tree branch and then turn around and set the tree trunk on fire while stubbornly refusing to understand the consequences of their action or change their behavior to preserve their future existence.
@thewanderingfool44358 ай бұрын
@@brandex2011 Somewhere between 8 to 10% of humans are great and show the rest what we can all be! About 80% are total idiots who are basically just Sheep! The other 10 to 12 percent are soulless!! Psychopaths to be more precise, who value nothing other then themselves and have zero empathy and the hilarious thing is we not only allow this, but we call them "Elites" there's absolutely nothing (Elite) or of value about these walking skin-suits/oxygen thieves; It's no wonder they see us as cattle and all we do is create our own slow, pointless extinction.
@davidedemurodominijanni988910 ай бұрын
I watched both Brian Cox, who's someone I discovered only more recently, and Neil deGrasse Tyson on *_Solving The Fermi Paradox_* and I must say... while Cox is great at giving answers and explanations in a lucid way that makes everything he says make sense, Tyson is great bringing out questions, like constantly firing up the human curiosity and that's the thing that drives me crazy about what science tries to solve. I feel Neil de Grasse Tyson embodies the spirit of Science, he has the unmatchable capacity of making me emotional about Science in a way I've never been before despite my untold and unspoken dreams about space, astronomy and other forms of life across the universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson has blown into the sleeping fire under the dust and turned that passion of mine on fire again. This short video itself is another one of the many examples of how much emotional I can be listening what he has to say. I find that a gift and priceless. Thanks Professor deGrasse Tyson, thank you!
@dalelawrence858 ай бұрын
I agree
@CoNteMpTone8 ай бұрын
Unlike your passionate fire for science, your fire for poetry apparently never slept ❤
@davidedemurodominijanni98898 ай бұрын
haha thanks man... I guess you're right, it's still there... even if last time I wrote an actual poem was over two decades ago.@@CoNteMpTone
@chadmiller17627 ай бұрын
What I never hear any scientist say is, for an advanced civilization to get to where we are today, there has to be millions of yrs of life prior to such civilization for them to advance technologically so far. Fossil fuels need to be on a planet to have a fire get hot enough to produce and forge certain metals. If we came before the dinosaurs, we more likely would not have been able to achieve what we as humans have. That being said, there might have been billions of potential advanced civilizations that just got stuck in the stone ages.
@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe83076 ай бұрын
the thing is the fact requires solving like why 2+2 doesnt equal 213213213213.234234 needs solving!
@MiguelHernandez-tz4ml7 ай бұрын
Those living in the Americas thought they were alone on earth until the first Europeans crossed the ocean. Thousands of years divided the two areas of existence and we only needed to span a few thousand miles to break the isolation. Why would we not think a similar divide exists at a cosmic level multiplied exponentially.
@hikingwithhollywood5 ай бұрын
Yes, we’ve only yet begun to search
@marthaarciga95942 күн бұрын
I luv how he explains things in plan english how he compares stuff nd give u wooow that makes sense ...just makes it easy to understand nd keeps my attention
@eddiebrown6877 ай бұрын
If I was as smart as Neil, I'd go nuts. 90% of the time he probably feels like he's surrounded by 3rd graders who can't comprehend him. Got to be depressing sometimes.
@SonnyBagodonuts-bd2vk3 ай бұрын
Yes. Its hard but you learn to cope.
@ethankyler83738 ай бұрын
'Intelligence is NOWHERE in the fossil record; it is not necessary to SURVIVAL.' My goodness, Neil has some gems and doesn't even do it intentionally 😂
@Zoze1311 ай бұрын
Why do we assume other life forms would have evolved faster than us? Maybe we’re the first. And maybe a million others are evolving in parallel with us.
@ezraansah11 ай бұрын
That is exactly what I thought
@ragnoxis0511 ай бұрын
I guess it's bittersweet feeling if we're the most advanced species in the universe.
@binhdao646111 ай бұрын
Because statistically, that seems to be the most likely possibility? I mean, people are free to "assume" whatever pleases them, but imo assuming a statistically unlikely scenario & then working your future theories off of that is just unproductive.
@nomadaa598411 ай бұрын
No one is saying they evolved faster than us-they could have just started evolving wayyyyy before us, thus having a head start and being far more advanced than us. Come on, why even ask that question…
@Zoze1311 ай бұрын
@@nomadaa5984 why would anything have started to evolve before us? Maybe all life takes as long to evolve as we needed. Maybe even the large gaps in time between evolutionary steps that we went through are part of the mandatory evolutionary steps.
@SC-mp1lh11 ай бұрын
Considering how psychotic we act even toward our species they probably have enough sense to stay the hell away.
@chrishooge34429 ай бұрын
That's the nature of an apex predator. Consider the constant war between lions and hyenas. They don't kill each other for food...it's straight up malice.
@The1stDukeDroklar7 ай бұрын
@@chrishooge3442 Exactly. Any alien civ would have evolved through the same predator/prey and territorial evolutionary dynamics. They would understand exactly why we are the way we are. As you pointed out, animals fight and have wars mostly over territory and resources, which is one of the primary reasons for the territorial nature of life. This is something we would have in common with aliens.
@TheInfamousNaptoeso10 ай бұрын
As Dr Malcolm says, “Life finds a way”
@lazarusblackwell698810 ай бұрын
Jurassic Park
@petyrkowalski988710 ай бұрын
The universe is infinite and has been around at least 14.8 billion years. We as a human species have been arpund 200,000 years at best. I am sure different forms of life, intelligent and not, have come and gone trillions of times throughout the cosmos, but the chances of intelligent forms existing at the same time and being technologically capable of interstellar travel are absolutely miniscule.
@reydelostontos713111 ай бұрын
Simple answer: distances are too great.
@B4NDIT_1211 ай бұрын
Element 115 bending space and time: Allow me to introduce myself
@andyklapper848410 ай бұрын
I go with the rare Earth hypothesis. In particular I believe that our freakishly large moon, and how that moon was formed is why we have intelligent life here, but not anywhere near by in time and space. Specifically, late in the formation of the Earth a planet the size of Mars slammed into the Earth at an angle. This did several things - one, it gave us a larger than normal iron core, because now we have the iron core of two planets, not one. Two, it increased the spin of that iron core. Combine one and two and you end up with a stronger and longer lasting magnetic field then we should have for a planet our size. A magnetic field that protects us from the solar wind. A weak magnetic field is why Mars has such a thin atmosphere and high surface radiation. Third, the lighter material got blown up into orbit where it formed into the moon. Our moon is freakishly large for the size of our planet. This has several effects, it increases the size of our tides, mixing up those chemicals of life so well, and often. It stabilizes our rotation so that the Earth doesn't wobble, which stabilizes our climate. Our freakishly large moon also provides an asteroid deflector. An imperfect one to be sure, but on that increases the time between extinction level events. Add all of that up and we have a planet that allows a long enough period of time for intelligent life to evolve, something that seems unlikely on other planets.
@russmarkham219710 ай бұрын
I think you are right. These are some of the reasons why Earthlike planets are probably exceedingly rare
@fleetingimmersion10 ай бұрын
Sounds about right, but inevitably, another planet could have a similar history, or even a set of circumstances that achieves the same goals. Don't forget the massive planet nearby (Jupiter) that helps corral nearby objects to reduce impacts on our planet.
@Razahoo710 ай бұрын
If you watch the vid ts basically shows how its way more likely for life to form than ever theorized before. There are planets with better conditions than even Earth possess with equally sized moons. There are over 1 septillion star in the universe so comments like yours are just stupid.
@ardalla53510 ай бұрын
I agree. But Tyson is talking mainly about the prevalence of simple life forms, though his analogies are poor in several instances: actually embarrassingly poor. In fact, at the end, he contradicts himself entirely. But we may indeed have a universe teeming with simple life forms. Intelligent life capable of space travel? No. Which is what we are noting at present -- nobody there to greet us, and no evidence that there has ever been anybody there.
@apollosungod28199 ай бұрын
You contradicted yourself poorly there... Tyson is specifically speaking on intelligent lifeforms capable of space travel (somewhat like humans) but he skips referring to interplanetary and interstellar space travel... he focused on the robot theory which is only an opinion and may be flawed because intelligent lifeforms would likely question why should they bother making robots that replicate themselves no different from current squabbles on political issues and commentary on space travel being too expensive to maintain. There is no science fiction going on in his explanation.
@thedudesdude895610 ай бұрын
Why do we always forget time as a dimension when discussing alien life? Maybe other intelligent civilizations have came and went in the 14 billion year history of the universe or maybe its developing on a slower rate somewhere else in the universe? We've existed for a blink of an eye on the cosmic scale and we're already fearing our extinction. Maybe universe just gives small windows of opportunity for life to thrive and smarter the life gets the harder it is for them to survive for long period of time.
@The1stDukeDroklar7 ай бұрын
That was already explained. If there had been intelligent life in any abundance, it would have only taken a few hundred million years to colonize the entire galaxy. If they had existed in the milkyway, you wouldn't;t be asking where are they... you wouldn't be able to swing a stick without hitting alien civs.
@hikingwithhollywood5 ай бұрын
That’s exactly what the Fermi Paradox states. And when we look into the cosmos, we’re looking at history. The cool thing about the speed of light is we can literally see an entire spectrum of time at once. So far, we’ve yet to detect any life
@martinlisitsata5 ай бұрын
Because we can look back in time . For example when the black hole wave detection thing (i belive the term is ligo detector) was turned on we started seeing results immediately form black holes bilion years ago/away.
@hikingwithhollywood5 ай бұрын
NDT saying “receiving” information at a distance” was brilliant. I’ve never thought of senses that was before
@magusmelanie82811 ай бұрын
My aussie pup is absolutely loving watching!!! He got stoked as soon as he saw your backpack, because I've been wearing mine when we go out to get him used to it
@carltrachy93111 ай бұрын
I choke on my coffee laughing while reading this comment. Thanks for sharing.
@yahdahjames646211 ай бұрын
Some galaxies had a 10 billion year head start before ours. Surely by now . . . .!
@fabianmckenna819711 ай бұрын
To create third generation stars like our sun you require the stellar remnants of first and second generation stars. That pretty well uses up your 10 billion years. That leaves us in a four billion year race to produce intelligent life capable of planetary travel. There are 130 stars within a 20 light year radius of our sun and even the closest ones are around 4.4 light years away. With rough estimates, if some "primitive " space farers even managed 10% speed of light that would make them at least 44 years travel away.........
@Markworks36511 ай бұрын
Could’ve killed themselves off or something killed them. Looking at what can kill off humanity…make me think, are we just lucky?
@johnmcleodvii4 ай бұрын
@@Markworks365I can think of a few close calls for us. All caused by us.
@Wichitan10 ай бұрын
I suspect we're looking at it the wrong way. Life is probably very common in the known universe. But how common are tool users? How common are civilizations that have an interest in using the electromagnetic spectrum? We're basing our findings on use of the EM spectrum. Is that a valid metric?
@johnmcleodvii4 ай бұрын
It's the only way we have of finding technological societies. But: even if life is common, how common is intelligent life, how common is a tool using society, and how common is a technological society?
@Wichitan4 ай бұрын
@@johnmcleodvii We may ultimately discover that there are advanced civilizations out there that don't actually employ so-called 'advanced' technology, akin to what we know. Look at the Greeks. Theirs was a fairly advanced civilization, but their level of technology wasn't much beyond the wheel and the oil lamp.
@CBrown11 ай бұрын
The universe is too large for there not to be other forms of life in it. The problem with thinking about it is that we think that all life in the universe must conform to our limited understanding of the universe (meaning we don't really know what to look for) and that other life, whether it's more advanced than us or not, may be equally as limited in terms of exploration (meaning we can't find each other even though we're looking). As much as science is about facts and hypotheses, we assume too much.
@user-he1yb7pl1w11 ай бұрын
I would think this makes the most sense. You have to also consider the small footprint humans have on the time scale of the planet. Out of the 3.8 billion years of life, all life has been unable to reach the scale of wanting or caring about space. You could have tons of life in the galaxy and everyone is just happy to be at home.
@98cents11 ай бұрын
Life could be abundant, and probably is, but intelligent life that just happened to evolve at the same time as we did is where it probably starts being rare, and this is on top of whether or not it's even feasible to travel the great distances required to meet them or communicate, without some sort of hyper-advanced technology that seems less and less possible these days. There could be other civilizations out there, but maybe they're in their own stone age, or medieval age. Evolutionary speaking, you go a couple thousand years before or after us, and you've probably missed the one chance you had to communicate... and this is on a scale of time that we can't even fully comprehend, .00000001% of the current age of the universe. That is an extremely small window and probably our biggest hurdle to finding other intelligent life. And this isn't even considering the idea that any civilization that has developed to the level required to find and communicate with us, we probably don't want to meet in the first place for a variety of different and violent endings.
@larryo687411 ай бұрын
There is also the issue that if Einstein is correct that there is a speed limit in that you can’t go faster than light it may be that it is simply impractical for aliens to visit one another because of the vast distances involved.
@kimwnlogdan945211 ай бұрын
@@larryo6874 Wormholes, Einstein's equations
@NUELAMOAKOH11 ай бұрын
WE'RE ALL ALONEEEEEEEE😢
@marthaarciga95942 күн бұрын
I like how he expkains it and compares it to where i can understand nd get it..he keeps my full attention...he reminds me of my 9th grade teachers from classes i didn't mind going to..govt nd science
@jamesdonaldmorris231810 ай бұрын
I believe that we are not alone. But the thought of being alone is scary!
@jamesdonaldmorris231810 ай бұрын
@@darkfarfetch3664 evolution is real and it doesn't happen quickly. Your statement is ignorant.
@aveeksankarkumar39615 ай бұрын
As an intelligent species Alone or not both are scary!!
@alfresco844211 ай бұрын
The possibility also exists that even if they are other intelligent life forms out there, they may not be appreciably more advanced than ourselves. Yes the universe is 13.8 billion years old and the earth is only 4.5 billion. However that does not necessarily mean that other civilizations have billions of years head start on us. Generations of stars had to live out their entire life cycles, then explode in supernovae, simply to make the heavier elements from which we...and our solar system are made. It's pretty awe inspiring to realise that we are as much a natural part of this universe as a star, planet, comet or anything else. As such we are currently the only case we know of that universe becoming self-aware.
@3rdreichball5259 ай бұрын
The aliens are apparently in siberia. Read the 250 page report the cia recovered. Apparently there was a ufo hovering over a military unit in siberia. One of the russians freaked and shot a missile at the ufo. The report goes onto say that 5 beings emerged from the craft with skinny bodies, large heads, and black eyes. They began to merge into a single bright sphere that turned 23 soldiers into pillars of stone instantly. The cia recovered this, apparently and released some of it for the public to read. Could it be russian disinformation? Or could there legitimately be a small skirmish between russians and aliens? Who the f knows because our government is not transparent
@Llyd_ApDicta8 ай бұрын
While I agree, in particular with your mentioning of the requirement of previous stars to produce necessary heavier elements, it feels like once a civilization is past a certain point the increase in knowledge is exponential. The modern human has been around for about 250ky and significant scientific progress only happened in the last 7ky or so. Imagine a species 1000 years ahead of us. Also those stars that a large enough to produce a supernova in order to fuse elements like uranium usually burn only 500my or so.
@nicholascarter91587 ай бұрын
@@Llyd_ApDicta Based on the way that metallicity rises with stellar youth, there's a pretty good chance that only starts one billion years older than Sol or younger have actually got the matter to support space faring civilization. Which doesn't just suggest a limit on which stars could support developing space colonization, but also which stars are worth going to: Many of the oldest planets to support intelligent life probably hosted species that looked out on a vast material desert.
@Llyd_ApDicta7 ай бұрын
@@nicholascarter9158 "Based on the way that metallicity rises with stellar youth..." - It doesn't. The metallicity rises with the age of the star, i.e. the older the more. It is higher in younger generation of stars though, not sure if that is what you mean. "starts (stars?/ [sic]) one billion years older than Sol or younger have actually got the matter to support space faring civilization..." - I disagree and in case you have a source for that claim I'd like a link. It seems a bit arbitrary when we consider that the Milky Way is 13orso bn years old. Our sun is already the third generation in this neighborhood and one super heavy star going supernova would produce all the materials you need. "Many of the oldest planets to support intelligent life probably hosted species that looked out on a vast material desert." - ??? Can you elaborate pls?
@nicholascarter91587 ай бұрын
@@Llyd_ApDicta You had me right in the second paragraph. So the cutoff between pop 1 and pop 2 is at the 1/10th Sol level. Our system is probably not exactly the poorest you can be and build a space-faring civilization, but it's definitely not got the wealth to build ten of them. So some of the oldest pop 1 stars have also not got the stuff. Go back seven billion years and you've got pop 1 stars that have had the time to evolve intelligent life, but it's living on a planet that doesn't have enough copper, cobalt, etc to actually support industrialized society. They get to the rudiments of electricity but every electrical wire might as well be made of platinum for how much it would cost. Go back six billion years and you've got intelligent life on a planet that's got the needed supplies for space travel, but another equally wealthy system within 50 light years hasn't formed yet: there's no star they can go to with the resources to pay off coming back- it's like settling siberia
@richardcarlin133211 ай бұрын
Before we worry about intelligence life, we should focus on finding any life. So far we haven't found any. I do think life does exist elsewhere, but it is very rare.
@fabianmckenna819711 ай бұрын
Or it could be just very far away, as in at least 4.4 light years.
@c.gilliland833811 ай бұрын
Intelligence is just the thing to have to render your self extinct .... powerful stuff
@chronalvault804610 ай бұрын
it's such a true quote!!
@soliloquy816310 ай бұрын
You people are easily lead sheep watching click bait content...
@banmate67 ай бұрын
Yet intelligence is also the thing to avoid going extinct. 💡 Come on. Bacteria aren't going to intercept killer asteroids. Humans can do this, offering some hope...as we of course have to avoid killing ourselves.
@thinkersanonymous91067 ай бұрын
Ya know if we get all these answers then we are going to end up in atleast a brief moment of " well, now what?"---thats what i want to be there for, that moment to see what humanity decides to do with these answers...and what new qiestions we can pursue.❤
@johnbeltran273611 ай бұрын
The only real foundation of Fermi's paradox is our misconception of the scope of the universe.
@username8276510 ай бұрын
The fermi paradox deals with the Milky Way galaxy. So your statement doesn't make much sense
@johnbeltran273610 ай бұрын
Is Milky Way not part of the universe? What percentage of it have we observed so far? "High probability for Earth-like planets", really?! Fermi and the others sure like to assume things.
@username8276510 ай бұрын
@@johnbeltran2736 you said the foundation of the Fermi paradox is the "misconception of the scope of the universe". That's like saying... Problem with Bob's idea is he doesn't understand the size of Massachusetts. However, Bob is only talking about things that happen within the city of Boston.
@johnbeltran273610 ай бұрын
Well, if Bob is armed with his toy binoculars, can only see about 0.003% of Boston and have no real idea about the scope and nature of the rest of MA, but makes highly speculative conclusions about Boston, based on his very limited knowledge about MA, then yeah... I think Bob is full of crap. Don't you?
@username8276510 ай бұрын
@@johnbeltran2736 no this is simply way to discount people's views you disagree with. It's a type of logical fallacy called "moving the gold post." Sticking with our analogy, If Bob proved to also be an expert on Massachusetts you could simply say "well he's not an expert on New England". And if it was an expert in New England you could simply say "well he's not an expert on the East Coast" and so on and so on. And if you still don't believe me I can simply use your logic to discount anything you have to say. Since you don't claim to be an expert on the Milky Way Galaxy let alone the universe. I can simply discount anything you have to say.
@BrileyBeConsulting7 ай бұрын
Here’s something to blow your mind. Time spans infinitely in all directions( the past is infinite, the future is infinite). What’s the likelihood that multiple civilizations would evolve in parallel given times infinite reach. And what’s the likelihood they’d have the technology at the exact same time that we’d be conscious enough to perceive their existence (or vice versa). I say this with the understanding that humans only recently (within the last 10000 years out of the nearly 4 billion years of earth history ) formed semi advanced societies. What if they’d showed up 200000 years ago and found apes who are only capable of living in the wild, or what if they show up 3000 years from now and it’s a complete nuclear wasteland. It’s like threading a needle from a far distance. And then of course the same could be true for them, but with a timeline that happens 1 million years in the past or future.
@nomadexplorer668210 ай бұрын
Well summarised Dr. Tyson... "We are they"...👍
@scienceclipssavant4 ай бұрын
What a beautiful video about the paradox!
@keithgrady603611 ай бұрын
Extraterrestrial life will only make its self know when we can all get along with each other
@GrimDarkness19727 ай бұрын
I was thinking about it lately and I realise the answer to the Fermi’s paradox is quite simple: starting to count from the ancient Egypt (3150bc) it took the Mediterranean people something like 4640~ years to find the people leaving on the other side of our own planet! 😂 And we started searching for extraterrestrial life something like 70yrs ago… 😂😂😂😂 Get comfortable, Enrico: it may still take a while. 😉
@dervis6217 ай бұрын
It is not about us, given the age of the universe, an alien race could already explore our galaxy by now, but they are nowhere. They should be here already.
@Adam-08211 ай бұрын
It would be very sad if we were the only intelligent beings in this vast universe. What is even worse for me is if life is abundant but the technology to travel the vast reaches of space in a reasonable just doesn't exist, and the time needed to travel between the galaxies let alone the stars is just a fools undertaking.
@geraldhills417 ай бұрын
I can only hope there is a higher intelligence and it is benevolent !
@richardasshat832310 ай бұрын
where did this audio of Neil Degrassi originate from? Id like to know
@geekwithabs11 ай бұрын
We spend way too much time on Fermi paradox. The simplest explanation could be that space is so vast and our radio signals attenuate so quickly. Even if there is other intelligent life out there, we can't hear them and they can't hear us.
@richardcaves360111 ай бұрын
More likely they've long gone, just like we will be by the time anyone gets to hear us.
@mamalannightshyaman11 ай бұрын
People say mathematically it’s a certainty there is other intelligent life in the universe. Considering how old it is and how much older it will get, being alive while another civilization is also meandering somewhere in the universe is a huge mathematical improbability
@BusinessMan161910 ай бұрын
It's nice to read so many smart and thought provoking comments.
@connor20068 ай бұрын
Thumbnail was hard asf‼️‼️🗣🗣🔥🔥🗣‼️🗣
@jessewalters53615 ай бұрын
I think the best way to describe sending radio signals into space is like dripping red food coloring into a bathtub full of water. A normal radio signal would be like a drop of food coloring lightly dripped into the bathtub... it immediately dissipates and soon the red is completely gone, too dispersed to see with the naked eye. Now we can put a lot of power behind the signal... like putting that red dye in a squirt gun. You fire that squirt gun into the water, and with some pushing strength behind it, the drop makes it a lot further before it completely dissipates. Now realize that tub of water is just our solor system, this experiment would be more accurate using an Olympic sized swimming pool.
@thebeatifulgame9777Ай бұрын
"Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools" Rom 1:22 Acknowledge God because you know He is there before it's late
@Anudorini-Talah7 ай бұрын
1:17 that voice crack XD
@soulcampbell9 ай бұрын
"Maybe we are they". Mind blown instantly.
@vaiosfrangoulis7811 ай бұрын
The universe is so big that is mind blowing, maybe there are civilizations that we will never encounter others might have been destroyed and maybe intelligent life is so rare that we are alone, in any case we don't know and we might never ever know.
@user-he1yb7pl1w11 ай бұрын
I wouldn't classify us as intelligent yet. I think we got some serious work to do first before we do that. But, to your point, an intelligent civilization wanting to travel the stars is probably extremally rare or potentially non-existent. I also btw, don't believe Humans will be that intelligent civilization to travel the stars. If we were your chances of existing on Earth vs another planet, would be another planet. There's no reason for you to exist now at the beginning, if humans colonize the galaxy. It's like better odds then winning the lottery. LOL! So, we most likely don't.
@vaiosfrangoulis7811 ай бұрын
@@user-he1yb7pl1w The fact of being able to talk about the degree of intelligence is enough, In less than two hundred years of some sort of admirable technology and only 54 years since we landed on the moon I think we can hope to colonize the stars if we stick around for a million years, that's if we don't destroy ourselves due to stupidity.
@davetabuyan217211 ай бұрын
Its equally terrifying. Both, in this vast universe we are not alone and in this vast universe we are alone.
@rrp640510 ай бұрын
Of the time for life on our planet compared to illegent life, its very very recent there has been illegient life and we are already talking about human impact impacting human survival in almost milliseconds compared to life in general. plus we do like to kill each other for no particular reason and have enough nuclear weapons to kill everyone pointed at ourselves. we are smart enough to create nuclear weapons, are we smart enough not to use them. the same could be true for most other "intelligent" civilisations around the universe
@Tom-ok2rh10 ай бұрын
The thing that always makes me stop and wonder is the fact of just how vast the universe really is..just hard to imagine that stars and planets are so far away from everything..and how can something reach out forever with no end? And something else that amazes me is how much energy our sun has produced in however many billions of years in its existence and yet it is still predicted to not die out for like 5 more billions of years.. hard to believe something so immense can last that long.
@SolarDNA11 ай бұрын
For all intents and purposes, the universe is infinite. Bearing that in mind and the infinitesimal chance that we're the only or the first planet that's developed life, I can't make myself even entertain the thought that we're alone in the universe. I know it's not how science works, but in my mind it might as well be a certainty that we're not.
@omadduxo9 ай бұрын
The universe isn't infinite and dosn't contain an infinite number of stars and planets. It has a diameter of ~90b lightyears and contains ~2 trillion galaxies with ~100b stars on average each. It's just because of the architecture of the universe and that there isn't space outside the universe, you could travel in one direction for an infinite amount of time without reaching the end. The universe essentially is a 3D Möbius strip.
@karansjet382311 ай бұрын
one of things i think is overlooked a lotis; We always say with a universe as old as ours but actually our universe is still in its infancy. It will continue to exists for at least 100 trillion years (eventual galactic cataclysms not counted here) so why is nobody suggesting that we might be the first? Maybe we are the precursor. After all the univserse is only 14 billion years old. Its barerly passed a few percent of its total lifetime. And by the first i mean intelligent beings, altho if we're talking humans intelligent might be a bit of stretch
@russmarkham219710 ай бұрын
good point. I think we are one of the first. Or may be the first in the Milky Way
@rainman79925 ай бұрын
Finding evidence of other intelligent life in the universe is like two people separated by the atlantic ocean. We've dipped our toes in the water, swam around in it a bit, but never ever lost sight of shore. Also, we can scream as loud as we want, and we can look all we want, but no matter how hard we try, we cannot find the intelligent life living on other continents because the distances between us is so vast we can only surmise the other intelligent life it out there, but not only where, but when in time.
@merdufer7 ай бұрын
The most abundant thing in the universe isn't the elements that make up life. The most abundant thing in the universe is empty space. There has to be life out there, but there is even more vast emptiness between us that we may never be able to cross in order to meet one another.
@CaraVerde6 ай бұрын
Intelligence -> want more for ourselves -> disrupt the balance that's needed for the life to keep circling. Hmmm... Makes sense
@-Subtle-9 ай бұрын
This is why Fermi's friends needed an English teacher. It's not a paradox. A paradox is two logical statements that CONTRADICT each other. These two statements don't contradict each other therefore it's not a paradox. Earth is in the outer rim of the Milky Way Galaxy.
@oleonard73198 ай бұрын
We are living the answer to the fermi paradox
@jamesdavis235910 ай бұрын
We are listening to LaSteroid Daddy Hack the IV. You sir are a champ in sports and in science, who'd a thought.
@laftiskuno13578 ай бұрын
It is just like things already in front of us for so long, but we never have a thought of it existing. Because, that is not what we are looking for.
@elton665610 ай бұрын
Given the distances in the universe and our intelligence I don't think we could detect other "life" until now.....i believe it will happen soon
@titanrem20108 ай бұрын
I think we think we're smarter than we really are. We're going off our few hundred year old understanding of science and assume we know it all. Why would other civilizations let us see them. We can't stop blowing ourselves up over religion.
@WaniKasir-ew3wk11 ай бұрын
Intelligence is not necessary for but the cellular intelligence is necessary
@duckilythelovely304010 ай бұрын
Intelligence is free will. And it by grace we have it, this is why it makes no sense for survival . We live as gods.
@rockdragon10010 ай бұрын
ever consider we might be under Quarantine? "do not poke or feed the animals", WARNING! Beyond this point you will encounter DANGEROUS BSC SPECIES!
@svetievboris10 ай бұрын
Yes but there would've always been someone or something dumb enough not to heed that warning if that was the case.
@redbullstatus10 ай бұрын
@@svetievborissays who
@johnmcleodvii4 ай бұрын
@@redbullstatusI just saw a video of someone trying to pet a lion in a zoo by reaching through the bars (after climbing over a fence). I don't believe he is getting his hand back. Just like in humans and other animals we know about, I would expect a range of intelligence in any other intelligent life form. Just think about the stupidest person you know and the most intelligent person you know of. There's a pretty wide margin.
@achimwokeschtla758211 ай бұрын
Maybe the universe is full of intelligent life but there is just no way to travel faster than light, not even close to the speed of life so everybody stays within their solar system and never meet their neighbors. The idea of generation ships looks like a viable solution in sci-fi movies but in reality who would want to spend their entire life inside a spaceship and have their children and grandchildren confined to that kind of life just for the possibility that somewhere out there is another habitable planet with friendly aliens
@lads.771511 ай бұрын
Physics holds that Timespace may have “shortcuts” via Wormholes or Warp Travel.
@achimwokeschtla758211 ай бұрын
@@lads.7715: it works well in sci-fi movies but in reality not so much
@lads.771511 ай бұрын
@@achimwokeschtla7582 You mean just like how "Black Holes" once "didn't work in reality" - but they are derived from some of the same physics equations as Wormholes? Who knows, if we only managed to perfect writing a few millennia earlier, and didn't abandon stuff like the Antikythera mechanism to the sea floor, we'd be more up on such things already.
@achimwokeschtla758211 ай бұрын
@@lads.7715: If wormholes do exist, first you have to find one, then one that’s big enough for a spaceship to fit trough, then you have get to it, which might be just be as difficult as to get to another solar system suitable for humans and then that wormhole has to lead to somewhere suitable for humans or at least interesting. Well, keep on dreaming!
@alfresco844211 ай бұрын
@@achimwokeschtla7582 You've also got to be willing to take the risk of being turned into a string of spaghetti if you don't get the trajectory exactly right around that black hole.
@CrumBummin10 ай бұрын
I am about to watch every video on this channel
@brentbarr4987 ай бұрын
5:58 Nice Firefly reference there with that fly-by.. ;)
@The1stDukeDroklar7 ай бұрын
There are a couple other things to consider: 1- Life took around 4 billion years to get to where we are now. If life didn't get an early start, let's say it just started, and it doesn't;t get to our level for another 4 billion years, we would be at the end of life of our star and would not have time to become spacefaring. 2- We have recently discovered organic compounds in space. It is currently believed that the early universe, as it cooled, the entirety of space would have been about the temperature of bathwater for a very long time. The new twist to the Panspermia theory is that complex organic compounds formed during this period and had been captured with ricks/asteroids. These compounds would have seemed earth with these organic compounds in the early bombardment phase of earth and that is why it appears that life sprung up so quickly.
@crimsonwolf449011 ай бұрын
Universe is far beyond massive. There is no chance for not existing of another intelligent life out there.
@strategicsage769411 ай бұрын
That depends on how likely it is for intelligent life to form, and we don't know nearly enough about the universe to make a good conclusion on that.
@ericluba628710 ай бұрын
I love the way you think.
@user-xc3kw9qm7e7 ай бұрын
I believe we have yet to detect all the complications that allow for intelligence, let alone animation and life. I think we are just barely scratching the service when we use terms like hive mind and the brain. I believe intelligence is more universally spread out than we know And if we are ever able to get to point where we can detect these other forms we will have suddenly started to scratch a little deeper into true intelligence beyond our current comprehension.
@quackyduck14997 ай бұрын
The more I look into it the more I believe we all move along together on different dimensions on this planet. We have shared this planet for thousands and thousands of years. It explains a lot of things. With all the satellites and different devises we have looking out into space. No astrophysicist has ever seen a UFO. Even with the Nimitz they only saw them coming down from 80,000 ft. Not from space. And as far as we know this is still the only planet in the Goldilocks zone.
@Mike-hp2dd11 ай бұрын
The most interesting thing about the Rare Earth Hypothesis as a solution to the Fermi Paradox is the necessity and number of extinction level events required. The Earth has had 5 extinction level events. For intelligent life to emerge on Earth - that was precisely what was necessary. There is no evidence of intelligent life before the last EL event. 4 was too few - 6 will be too many. If we haven't made it to the stars by the 6th EL event - that's it. Could it be intelligent life is transitory?
@thinkforyourself154711 ай бұрын
But if some of us survive the next extinction event, as species in our past have, then they will have a HUGE head start on intelligent life, than life on earth ever has, before the NEXT extinction event. Perhaps enough time to move to other worlds & colonise other planets . . . or to simply detect & prevent future extinction events. Perhaps this is how intelligent life reaches the peak of evolutionary & technological advancement & interstellar travel. Seeing how far we have advanced in technology over the past 100 years, and technology appears to be expanding exponentially, perhaps there is even time for us to set up colonies elsewhere or simply prevent extinction events. 🤔
@michaelsmitton198811 ай бұрын
But if it wasnt for the asteroid maybe dinosaurs would of evolved into intelligent lizard type humanoids. Your comment is setting rules for only which we know of. Maybe the is intelligent life that had no extinction level events and its life we can't possibly understand.
@Mike-hp2dd11 ай бұрын
@@michaelsmitton1988 I agree with you - there might be silicon, rather than carbon-based life. There might very well be intelligent life we don't have any conception of - very true. However, the dinosaurs had almost 200 million years to evolve into what we define as 'intelligent life', yet they did not. Intelligent life from tree dwelling mammals evolved quite rapidly - probably around 3 million years. Things that were necessary here - four limb mammals with opposable thumbs for instance, might not necessarily be a requirement - but one has to take into account other factors, a galactic habitable zone, a solar habitable zone, a non-binary star system, a perfect, stable elliptical orbit with a large moon for tides, an exceptionally stable star, the perfect elemental distribution of universally rare metals and gasses, the perfect distribution and size of other planets to allow some, yet absorb and limit comet and meteor strikes (the Jovian factor) - not saying people like you and Sagan are wrong - but one must be open to the possibility that even simple life might very well be rare, complex life even rarer, and intelligent life extremely rare indeed. And of course - Fermi's comment of "where is everybody?" demands more rigor than 'they must be somewhere'.
@emorysuchan14647 ай бұрын
My answer to the Fermi paradox works a little bit like this If you look up in the sky and you don't see any civilizations yours must be first so we're first! No paradox.
@hamzarafi588610 ай бұрын
The earth is a blessing for mankind
@GvsvillagesАй бұрын
I could never work out if Neil.... (sorry can't spell whole name) was a comedian, presenter, or scientist. I think he's all three. His style is comic but what he actually says is top grade scientific philosophy.
@deeestuary11 ай бұрын
There’s no point even thinking about whether there is advanced intelligent life in the whole universe. The universe contains trillions of galaxies and we will never know if life exists in those near infinite numbers. So the question we should be asking is is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on planets in our Milky Way Galaxy other than here on earth. But there could be millions of planets with life in the Milky Way without a single one with a technological advanced civilisation. If you look at the history of life on our planet you will come to understand how unlikely our civilisation is. Vast reserves of oil and coal were crucial but only exist because of climatic flukes in the deep time of our planet, there was nothing inevitable about it. As for interstellar travel, I think we vastly underestimate how hostile space is to life, and also vastly underestimate how difficult it would be to successfully travel those vast distances.
@Lychee-Nut11 ай бұрын
We are not the only planet in even our own solar system with varied resource deposits. With the vastness of our universe there is more than enough chances for there to be life of all types. Nothing says they have to be close though.
@eliteteamkiller3195 ай бұрын
"Maybe we _are_ the aliens?" As usual, he nails it. We're so convinced there has been intelligent life before us, but what if we're the first born?
@D4Skewer10 ай бұрын
It's wise to assume that the reason we haven't ran into anything resembling alien civilizations because we are probably meant to be the first precursor, as in the first space faring species before all others, the one that other species will look up to and do research on a few millennia down the line.
@kvast139 күн бұрын
Theres also the “Great filter” hypothesis. We havent seen aliens, because before a civilization reaches a texhnological state that allows for advanced interstellar travel, the civilization will have collapsed from various factors. Such as wars, natural ressource exhaustion etc.
@SergSpace5 ай бұрын
5:02 Nature? What's Nature. Is it smart enough to produce intelligent life? Is it chaos? Because symmetry and motive to build up things do not come from randomness. You need program (plan how to build) , you need motive (what for).
@laserbeam0024 ай бұрын
There are two very good possible reasons we have not found evidence of others life in the universe...1 that life may be too far away for us to detect....2 WE ARE THE FIRST.
@bradb474011 ай бұрын
Humanity is, very slowly, discovering the answer to this paradox.
@bobbear44379 ай бұрын
The Fermi paradox doesn't consider distance between planets where life is possible! And as the space is expanding, it becomes even more unlikely where meeting other life would happen!
@twstf89058 ай бұрын
Word 👍
@rendacynkum84027 ай бұрын
“Trees haven’t figured out how to move??” 😂😂
@davidm57077 ай бұрын
They haven't, but their offspring can and do move. 😉
@ronalds.65811 ай бұрын
I like the idea of being alone. This means the universe and all its treasure belongs to us.
@richardcaves360111 ай бұрын
Actually it means life, intelligent life, is very, very rare, so we should treasure and value each and every one of us.
@CurtZilbersher8 ай бұрын
Here's my solution to the Fermi Paradox: As a species' intelligence evolves, its technology advances linearly as evidenced by our first reaching the Copper Age, then the Bronze Age, Iron Age...Industrial Revolution ... Information Age ... AI Age, and so on. Moving forward along this path, it is likely that humankind will arrive at an ability to create absolute immersive artificial environments which are indistinguishable from reality. In these environments, we will be able to do, be, accomplish and experience anything we desire. It is entirely possible that we achieve that level of technology before we develop a technology that would permit faster-than-light travel. Even if we were able to overcome the universe's speed limit of 186,000/miles per second, why would we want to risk the inherent dangers? What is "out there" that we couldn't conjur up ourselves as a virtual/augmented reality environment? In all likelihood, we will remain in our neighborhood (perhaps terraforming Mars and possibly a moon or two in our solar system). And other civilizations in far off galaxies have probably done the same. What could possibly be accomplished by sitting in a spaceship for years over what we could artificially manufacture for ourselves?
@JellowGelo10 ай бұрын
There are two possible solutions: 1. Life in the Universe aren’t that advanced or has just begun their livelihood, which makes us the most advanced species in the universe Or… 2. Life in the Universe is so ADVANCE that we don’t have the technology to find them due to their advances of technology, which makes them the masters of the universe.
@Apple_Teck10 ай бұрын
Life finds a way.
@thewanderingfool443510 ай бұрын
Exactly! Just look at transvestites, life finds a way.🤣
@omadduxo9 ай бұрын
One mistake we often do when talking about colonising the universe is forgetting about Einstein and just look what could be theoretically possible. According to Einstein nothing can travel faster than light and the energy needed to speed up is getting bigger and bigger the closer you get to the speed of light. Until you need infinite energy to reach the speed of light. Scientists have many nice ideas about theoretically possible forms of energy that could make faster than light travel possible and theroretically possible materials that could contain this energy. But what if there just arend't such exotic energy sources and materials? What if Einstein is right and you just can't travel faster than light? This would mean that even the most advanced godlike civilisation would be stuck with sub lightspeed travel and that it would travel with just a fracture of the speed of light because going faster would cost to much energy. Which would make leaving there solar system with anything other than generation ships unpractical. So civilisations will stay in their solar system until it becomes inhabitable and just then make efforts to travel to other solar systems to find a place to stay. Until this solar system becomes inhabitable and they have to move again. Maybe that's the reason why we never encountered aliens. Because it's simply not possible to beat Einstein.
@chadrushing468511 ай бұрын
The complete evasiveness of how rare life is was very tricky. Phosphorous is the "other" element that is KEY to life on Earth and is only created by Supernova close to a forming Solar system. Our solar system was flooded with Phosphorous early on and that was a sheer accident. Try growing any plant without it and you will fail.
@jameswilliams-ov2uc11 ай бұрын
Somebody has to be first, what if we are the first species in the universe to become this advanced?
@granderwishes7 ай бұрын
Everytime I hear "Life as we define it" I have to ask if that is not the problem. We're looking for something that matches OUR definition of life, something that we recognize along the lines of something OUR planet would produce. What if just as switching continents, altitudes, above or below the surface of the oceans, or even forests, life on this planet changes in fairly significant ways, changing planets or solar systems etc changes in even larger ways. What if we have neighbors the next solar system over but don't realize it because it is so alien to our own ways that we can't recognize it (nor it us)?
@KimoBruddah-ki2oo11 ай бұрын
Its a matter of timing, and distance.
@Puyax0110 ай бұрын
This just reminded me of the book: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1) There should be a movie about this. But it will not be popular because it will be very polarizing.
@alejandroarroyodeanda419210 ай бұрын
Maybe we are they!!!!!!. That was amazing.
@alstclair10 ай бұрын
Maybe it is because Einstein was right that nothing substantial can travel faster than light. It takes a lot energy per pound to send anything into space. In other words sending John Deere tractors to planets out of our solar system will never be possible. Also the time frames involved would most likely be longer than any biological unit could have. The only thing that would be practical to move over those distances would be knowledge and lets face it we don't have much of that.
@mattiapezzano171310 ай бұрын
'maybe we are they' that's terrifying
@bethesdaterrace483010 ай бұрын
The universe is teeming with life. I do not have enough faith to believe otherwise. You're welcome.
@HoochMakooter6 ай бұрын
this stuff is so damn interesting.
@C0lbyte5 ай бұрын
Never agreed on the statement "if there are other intelligent life out there we would have seen them by now" Come on we can today just barely see a few close planets if they have oxygen and thats it. Also if they are at they stage as us they wouldnt have gone anywhere.
@user-ho5on2cv7r8 ай бұрын
“Intelligence as we have defined it” what he’s point at to me is that we have maybe miss-defined intelligence so horribly that we can’t find it in the fossil record.
@adventurewithbackbenchers70347 ай бұрын
We would someday for sure
@thedeadp00l8011 ай бұрын
This reminds me of when a teacher asked a bunch of students about a World War 1 plane where there was a bunch of bullet holes all over it and ask where the armor need to be, and everyone thought that they needed to be in the places where there were lots of bullets, but in fact the truth. The reality is any plane that got shot in the place where there wasn't bullets didn't make it back and thereforeneed the armor where the bulletsaren't at. A smart amimal wouldn't die somwhere that would get itself fossilized. 🤯
@abhishekchaudhari757411 ай бұрын
Survivorship bias
@biocapsule731111 ай бұрын
Not really, even humans are fossilized. Your assumption is that accidental fossilization doesn't happen to smart animals. While there is a kind of sense that increase in intelligence also increase the challenges we face with technology.
@pauljaworski938611 ай бұрын
^^ That's a true story. But it happened in WW2. About where to armor planes. A Mathematician, later to be famous but I forget his name did that study for the Brits in WW2. He saved many lives.
@ZombieKitty32110 ай бұрын
That would imply that animals have the ability too worry about there body post mortem, which i highly doubt.
@eistaimalakes84937 ай бұрын
The million dollar question is NOT if there’s Life in the Universe or even Intelligent Life.. BUT If there’s Self Conscious Life out there that has evolved long enough technically to InterGalactilly Travel
@rainman79925 ай бұрын
it isn't a question of " Where is Everybody " it's a question of " When is Everybody in Time " It took us 4.5 Billion years to reach this point in time...how many " intelligent " civilizations in other galaxies living on another planet, have come and gone....and I'll venture a guess some of those planets with intelligent life met a really bad ending.
@JEFFREYMEISNER-qp7jk4 ай бұрын
Fermi Theory, and yes Neil-IQ123, intelligence is rare.
@Shadows_10111 ай бұрын
videos like this make many people brains short circuit as they can not grasb their toughts around the point of this video.. thats why we have people that refuse to be open to the idea we are not alone in the cosmos.. i know 1 dude from i was young that was close minded out of fear.. or ability to think outside the box
@Mrbigmike31111 ай бұрын
Imagine if aliens did visit our planet, but maybe like millions of years ago when it was before the dinosaur, and move on to another system, because for them it was no life or something like that, why would they even come back? If they catalog our planet as non sustainable to have life? So I’m guessing the same could be said to those millions of planet that we basically identify as non sustainable but will most likely do have but millions of years from now.
@mikedytham999611 ай бұрын
Doesn't have to have been millions of years ago - 300,000 would do. And we could do the same. We could land on a planet where the top life form is a lion like creature. It rules the place but is not yet intelligent. Earth has had a series of random events that have sculpted evolution and that may not have happened on other planets. Or they may have had their own series of events. I personally think the Universe is just too big for intelligent life forms to meet each other and that might be best for all. There are some excellent thoughts in this thread.
@michaeljones397410 ай бұрын
I always imagine if we went to a different planet with life, no matter the status of the creatures or their intelligence. What would we do? We'd set up cameras. We'd send rovers, antennas. Maybe a search party. If anyone was here before or after the dinosaurs then they'd have done just that. Maybe their presence boosted our own evolution. Meteors destroy all evidence. Maybe it's covered by water now or tectonic plates swallowed the evidence. So many questions, and no answers for any of it. Maybe we're in a simulation.
@TheFinalChapters10 ай бұрын
Why would they ever leave a planet with complex life, considering how incredibly rare complex life is in the universe?