Rare intelligence. We are the first with tech and the will to explore. I wouldn't be surprised if we find life but I doubt we will find even hunter/gathering aliens. But I do think we will seed the Galaxy with life... hopefully 😃

I, personally, think it has to do with how unique our Earth and solar system is. - We have an exceptionally stable and well-behaved star that's located a fair distance from the galactic core, relatively safe from gamma ray bursts, supernovae, black holes, and other hazards. - Our gas giants help shield our planet from asteroids. - One particular asteroid struck the earth at just the right moment to eliminate those pesky giant reptiles and ultimately gave rise to humanity. - Our moon entered the solar system at just the right moment, angle, and velocity, to collide with earth and be captured, giving us additional protection. - Earth has just the right rotation to give us a 24 hour cycle ideal for plants and animals. - Earth has just the right axial tilt to give us mild seasonal differences, again ideal for plants and animals. - Earth has a molten core that causes plate tectonics to stir up the crust and make metals and other rare resources available to us, and also generates a magnetic field which protects us from solar radiation. - Earth also formed with just the right mix of elements to allow life and to let us develop a technological civilization (especially phosphorus, which is both essential for life and an exceedingly rare element in the universe). Each of these things, by themselves, isn't so unique, but all these things taken together create and incredibly rare thing our Earth is. But also look at our political history and how unlikely events led our technological civilization: - Had history gone even slightly differently, we'd be living under a worldwide dictatorship. - Had France not aided the American revolutionaries, the USA would never have succeeded in its revolution. - I realize this statement may be a bit contentious, politically, but without the American revolution, free market capitalism may never have arisen, or have merely been adopted in limited ways, and the world may even still be ruled by kings. And without free market capitalism, it's debatable whether anyone would have ever invented the telephone, automobiles, computers, and a whole host of technologies we take for granted today. - I know this may be a controversial opinion, but I think, perhaps, this latter may be the answer to the Fermi Paradox: I bet'cha that if we ever find aliens, they'll be living under worldwide feudalism that has existed on their worlds for millennia, with progress stifled because kings see no value in peasants having conveniences like reliable heating and cooling, or the ability to talk to each other over long distances, etc., etc. Lastly, and I know this will sound insane to some people given the tremendous speed of advanced technology in recent years, but have you ever seen the film, _"Idiocracy?"_ Our technology is thwarting natural selection, removing all risk from stupidity and predators. Part of me believes that a kind of "idiocracy" may be wholly, or partially, an explanation for the Fermi Paradox. If you doubt that there is, at least, a wee bit of truth to this, just examine how well most students on most college campuses understand economics and the value of basic liberty. If there are technological civilizations out there, there's probably less than one per galaxy on average. Even if we develop immortality (or effective immortality, i.e. lifespans of billions of years), would you want to spend a million years of that life cooped up on board a spacecraft? So exploration/travel between galaxies is probably not very common, IMHO. EDIT: I know that some of my statements above defending political liberty, and crediting economic freedom with our technological advances and prosperity, won't win me many friends among the intelligentsia elite here in the comment section, but history is what it is.

Rare earth, mixed with anthropic principle... Imagine millions of years from now we’ve spanned the galaxy. How will other intelligent species arise? There has to be a first with expansionist tendencies, and that first might prevent others. Not necessarily intentionally, but just through their civilization’s metabolism in younger star systems.

@@HungryGuyStories Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

This is a simulation and the simulators are saving on computing power. Every other Fermi solution doesn't make sense. Rare Earth hypothesis violates the mediocrity principle by claiming the conditions for advanced life are very very rare, which makes Earth very very special. Why should we assume we're special? That's a massive violation of the mediocrity principle. Simulation theory doesn't violate any first principles and it answers the paradox quite nicely with a plausible scenario: simulation creators want to save on computing power. It's just us in this universe.

Raymar Football I do for sure. I have insane anxiety at night and this show and JMG’s other channel are a godsend!

Sounds great to us! Great channel btw.

Guilty

@@lifeonenceladus4420 glad the channels help you.

I would if the intro music wasn't so much louder than the rest of the video... Wakes me up lol

Haha

People like me complained about the short ones. You're welcome 😉

I love these debates.

Lol, yes, john does quite love us.

Thats what I said.... "Oh, WORD!!!! *gets popcorn ready*" 😂😂😂

I love this. I was thinking about it earlier and then I came back to the video by chance and saw your comment again. Is it a quote? I find it clever and amusing.

@@Meilk27 I heard it someplace and always liked it. Kind of explains how huge the universe is.

@@craigthescott5074 thank you

I like that

They are so far away, they could as well be in a different dimension, wouldn't matter. Except for travelling through worm holes or alike.

Maybe a hybrid of alien cookies and vortex

Fermi impair-adox

It really is very stimulating isn't it

@@i_sin_solo yeah it is!

🥰🤏🏾same

Brian Fike lol oouuuu 😂🔥🔥🔥

You are equal to them.. they just have a little less space on their SD card.

so you got lucky last night......... :)

Haha same here 🙈😂

I got lucky yesterday also haha, perfect to listen while u fall a sleep.

Yourself?

Ive got lots of sleep podcasts, forum borealis does 3 hrs ! Dark journalist too , Joseph Farrell is wicked to fall asleep, no ads !

Technology is not like a never ending river, it is like a mountain.

If they wished for stealth they would most likely create black bodies with near zero albedo. Or just live around red giants in habitats which we cannot detect at any distance without physically getting within a few light years even with much more advanced technology

Papawill13 Sure. And we are at the peak of our civilization, said every smartass ever about his world. Banal mistake.

@@danie7kovacs Who is talking Civilization? I am talking Technology. Look at Aircraft, the means of propulsion is near its Zenith and once there a New Technology will be needed. Same with Rocket Tech, and really anything to do with propulsion. And to be clear I am talking about Better Tech, not different yet worse. Better yet, Speed of Information is also nearing its Zenith. Or how about lighting Tech, no one will invent a better lightbulb, they will have to invent a completely new way to Light things. Technology is like a Mountain, not a River.

I experienced it. I walked at a obious UFO landing site and suddenly I was i their huge excalator. I could not see it from 1 m distance. As I walked through, my head looked above the moving stairs where 3m tall machine-aliens moved down the 50..100 m long stairs. I sticked my hand out to one of them and could feel a pulsating warmth.

We plan to. He’s fantastic.

Congratulations! Thank you for watching Event Horizon.

@@EventHorizonShow thank you for the content! It's inspiring

@macsporan thank you so much

Felicidades Alfredo. Mucho éxito.

@@Manuelordorica880 muchas gracias, lo aprecio

What if they want to save us? We might not want want they are happy to offer

@@zoompt-lm5xw perhaps not. could you give some examples?

Me too

Great minds think alike!!

Same! I wait all Thursday waiting for it.

Bring on Thursday!

Even while sex?

Thank you Sam. Stephen Webb and John is a perfect combination.

Especially when you consider that we cannot even say with database 1 (us) what "rarely" means. Stephen himself mentions this in his Ted Talk, although he admits that he actually looks at us as rare, possibly unique.

@@thwh77 ok so where is everyone?

@@drewsachs6238 @home

@@drewsachs6238 in a long enough timeline everything that can happen will...the timeline is just toooooo longgg...alos warp is likely just the grest filter :○

There could be a 100 alien civilizations at various stages of development in our own galaxy right now and we'd be lucky to find them with our current tech. The Milky Way is 200k light years across, has roughly 250 billion stars, and probably a trillion planets. Mathematically this would be 1 out of 10 billion planets have intelligent life. Crazy rare, but there's just so many planets the odds of us being the only ones are basically zero, and that's not even counting the billions of other galaxies.

hahha looks like its my turn.

I recommend to disengage a bit, because it will take a long time to figure this one out ;)

Yes. A great scientist and person.

Thanks for the info. Sad to hear.

@@EventHorizonShow great vacuum cleaner too

Sorry to hear it, although it sounds like he had a fulfilling life.

@@EventHorizonShow &&😀

As I see it I'm an expert on the *Fermi Paradox.* I know that it's not a paradox and that knowledge _makes_ me an expert.

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Nothing better, get stoned watch cosmology vids.

Good new strain name maybe EVENT HORIZON lol ✌

Q: How high did you get last night? A: John Michael Godier.

@Daniel Gregson right on Dan !!

iinRez: Amen, it really is that simple.

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The opposite thing happened to me. I grew up with cartoons from the 50's, so I thought the futuristic technology they sometimes used was actually so new it hadn't been introduced to my country (Mexico), so I believed that in the 2000s people would regularly go to the Moon in those old pre-Apollo rockets, that I would need to learn Morse code for when I inevitably would have to use a telegraph, etc.

you mean you were brainwashed , you said it , they prepared you so that you accept it , yes they did that , and are still doing it , same patern . First talk about raising taxes then raise them , dont raise them then talk . Its politics

@@dedskin1 Hello, yes, uhmm... What the fuck are you talking about?

Thanks that means a lot

Thank you Tony!

I thought that sound was his false teeth.

The answer are: 1) Talk to women, don't care if you feel like an idiot trying to get some 2) Act like an idiot trying to get some 3) Repeat until it works. Women love men because they would never do obvious embarrassing things like we do to approach them; which fascinates them.

There's a saying, I'll butcher it but: the guy who goes around the bar and asks every woman if they want to fuck gets turned down a lot. He also gets laid a lot.

Wow that`s a solid skill .

You either fart too much or talk too much not shure which

@@NewGoldStandard Laid, out on the floor from a back hander. A lay is a lay ,either way you got F....d !

Lions have the instinct of attack and hunt. maybe humans have the instinct of making war and conquer. thats why we will never be allowed to leave this galaxy.

No sleep just more thought

Thanks Strick! We will schedule a chat soon.

@@EventHorizonShow Cool looking forward to it. 😁

hoping they show up sooner or planning to stick around for 20k years?

We should be dead already relax

@@mididoctors 🤣

Right. I want the war now!!!!

You can either fight like a Krogan or run like a leopard but you'll never be better than Commander Sheppard.

True. Have you seen our Wow! Signal episodes? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rpxnfpCH1pevh58.html

Check out this article - it shows that multicellular life is possible without mitochondria, which means that the transition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes may not be a filter at all

Event Horizon: I loved the Wow! Signal episode!

Here’s a link to the article about multicellular life without mitochondria. They seem to have lost mitochondria, rather than having evolved without it. www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-first-known-animal-that-doesn-t-need-oxygen-to-survive/amp

its not egocentric, if anything its realistic . We have no undeniable evidence that there is life in our observable universe. I'm sure the general consensus is that, there must be life SOMEWHERE out there. Our goal right now is to find it. Science deals with facts, and the facts are that we have yet to see alien life.

*You are arrogant

@@kalani8729 There's probably life in our solar system. Fools

I agree but there's a complete different approach also, have you heard of thunderbolts project? Its pretty cool. This is a great talk.

Very well said.

Embarrassing for us.

dang....I thought it was 2 AU not 2 parsecs

Whats the point?

@@norml.hugh-mann Hey even when we reach the tech I mentioned in my original post we still won't have the answer to THAT question.

But we are probably looking at them however many light years behind right ? The wow signal let's say it was from aliens probably took 28 thousand years to reach us. This is my point in my comment. The universe has been designed in a way where this stuff is not really suppose to happen and if it does it will be rare very rare

@@thamananm3159 so they only sent one signal

@@420247paul we only sent one signal too in our attempt to day hello to others . They talk about it on the video. My point is basically whoever's created this universe has ensured that it will be bloody difficult to extremely rare - for different civilisations to communicate with each other. Furthermore, actually travelling distances and surviving is more likely to be done by machine civilisations. Our biological dna is the second obstacle after time and distance.

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Probabilities only apply to unknowns, e.g. the future. The chance of winning once in the future is very low. The chance of winning twice in the future is even lower. However, when you've won once, you don't need to win twice in the future in order to have won twice. Your chance of winning a second time is identical to the chance of winning once in the future. Regardless of that: If the Wow! signal means that ETI was in that direction then, it'll still be the most likely place to find ETI again. It's then a place where we know that ETIs have had cause to be. Maybe it's where they live, maybe it's where they travel to, maybe it's where they end up when something goes wrong (galactic equivalent of the ditch at a sharp turn); regardless which, the fact that they've been there once makes them more likely to be there again, than any randomly chosen place. The trouble is, we don't know that they were ever there. If they were, though, the few hours pointed in that direction have a higher likelihood of success than the same hours pointed anywhere else. If they were.

Is there?

I would join as well

Is there?

Thank you for watching!

It’s the good stuff.

How very rare though? One per galaxy? One per galaxy cluster? ....

@@TheSwordofra Good question, I would guess maybe one per galaxy cluster (if that), otherwise we'd expect to see signs of them, unless there is a great filter which leads to annihilation.

@@CouncilEstateTV Maybe we appeared after some kind of annihilation cycle and the local cluster is just now starting to blossom again with new life. We aren't seeing any big obvious signs, because they are all still primitive or just bacteria. This will only work of course if such an annihilation event is unbelievably thorough and casts its net out to galaxy cluster scales - which seems unlikely. A galaxy scale event I can sorta imagine, but something that destroys all advanced civilizations at the scale of a cluster... that is insane.

I just think space is too vast for any kind of contact, intelligent life seems rare and then to overlap in some way seems very unlikely

Even so that would mean theres an unfathomable amount of them...

The dark Forrest buddy their hiding

Wow, how about saying you know based on mathematics. The book is called Probability 1.

We miss Art as well.

Space Possum!