We’re Talking To Aliens

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We’ve done a lot of searching for life in the universe and we need to continue to if we hope to make contact. But not all of our attempts were expected to succeed. That’s where Beacon in the Galaxy comes in.
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@theylied1776 2 жыл бұрын

Let's not get it twisted. We are not "talking to aliens", we are like the crazy Ex-Girlfriend who keeps leaving message after message for the aliens, who won't call us back.

@randyselvidge5594 2 жыл бұрын

Not at all. For one, you assume any of our messages have actually been intercepted by extra terrestrial life. That's severely unlikely. Two, even if they have received a message there's no guarantee they recognize it as a transmission from other life. Three, even if they recognize the broadcast for what it is, there's no way of knowing if they have the technology to decipher it. In reality all humanity has done up to this point is throw a message in a bottle into the ocean and hoped it might be found by someone able to decipher it.

@hattielankford4775 2 жыл бұрын

The difference between talking to and talking at.

@wolvenar 2 жыл бұрын

More like screaming into a void and expecting an answer.

@_JayRamsey_ 2 жыл бұрын

The crazy ex that keeps leaving messages from different numbers, since our actual attempts at sending messages have never been repeated. Actually, I guess I mean that we only call everyone once.

@hattielankford4775 2 жыл бұрын

@@_JayRamsey_ Oh. We're telemarketers cold calling. ☹️

@SCUBTROOPER 2 жыл бұрын

imagine getting a signal back saying "be quite, don't let them find you, good luck"

@a_e_hilton 2 жыл бұрын

I love that our previous two attempts were more like "I'm gonna bring a letter while I run errands in case I run into a friend" and "I'm gonna call a random other person's house in case my friend happens to be there" and only now are we actually trying to CALL OUR FRIEND

@ray1956 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂

@ballsymcfee9882 2 жыл бұрын

You're not wrong LOL

@prapanthebachelorette6803 2 жыл бұрын

Love the way you put it

@ossiedunstan4419 2 жыл бұрын

What evidence do you have they will be friends.

@Epck 2 жыл бұрын

Ever climbed ??

@andromedarising5764 2 жыл бұрын

Announcing our presence, location and details of our existence could be the most worthwhile risk humanity has ever taken. But it also could be the most reckless thing humanity has ever done.

@CritterKeeper01 2 жыл бұрын

We've already given away our existence with radio and TV signals.

@UGNAvalon 2 жыл бұрын

@Critter Keeper Hearing garbled radio signals from weak broadcasts is nothing like hearing an intentionally-strong broadcast of one’s home address. :]

@lordgarion514 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty irrelevant TBH. It's a long way,and a long time to get to a star that might have life. And if they intercept the signal while flying through space, they would probably already know about us.

@OblivionKnight76 2 жыл бұрын

Humans: *--> FREE SLAVES

@promethbastard 2 жыл бұрын

To be fair the first thing we did as humans was send nudes into space.

@ignacioniveiro5471 2 жыл бұрын

Sending a message out to the stars is like the Mayans and Aztecs sending out a big "Hi!" to Europe in the late XV century...

@mixtlillness9825 2 жыл бұрын

And that sure ended up well…………………for Europeans.

@andrefiliks Жыл бұрын

Best part is that most of the anglophone names i see here are all optimistic about it, but people with latin americanish names are all, "HELL NO, we've seen this before"

@gobzdzilla 2 жыл бұрын

Until we find aliens, we are talking to ourselves in a very sophisticated way and then make a videos about how awesome is our high tech talking to ourselves.

@gobzdzilla 2 жыл бұрын

@Arachnotron and now you just wrote to yourself under a comment pointing out talking to ourselves under a video about humanity talking to itself cause I'm not reading rest of your comment.

@stevenlubick2689 2 жыл бұрын

This would be a great video to let us know how great we are😀😀

@gobzdzilla 2 жыл бұрын

@Arachnotron you're subscribed to PewDiePie.

@dryvur 2 жыл бұрын

Proofread

@gobzdzilla 2 жыл бұрын

@@dryvur sentence too long for you? You need to sub to PewDiePie too to feel smarter.

@qzbnyv 2 жыл бұрын

Currently reading the 'The Three-Body Problem' series. Our ongoing electromagnetic output terrifies me.

@ElectromagNick 2 жыл бұрын

If you need a bit of counteracting optimism, Isaac Arthur's video on the Dark Forest problem a good bit of "if they wanted us dead, we wouldn't have made it this far to even think about it, and that's assuming they're even out there at all."

@nguyr 2 жыл бұрын

All good, there's less EM output now since there's laws on EM radiation limits nowadays. Even the really strong radio signals are hard to tell apart from the background radiation even 10 lightyears away. Maybe that's a hint for why the ☀️☀️☀️ are so close 😉. From an article: How Far Have Our Radio Signals Traveled From Earth?

@thomas.02 2 жыл бұрын

@@ElectromagNick preach! the three body problem series is fun and thought provoking and all but we can't be led to false conclusions

@MrMichiel1983 2 жыл бұрын

Chances of alien life existing in the bobble of radio emissions around us where they can be detected above background is negligible. Makes more sense to be terrified of an asteroid or solar flare.

@chrishodgson3567 2 жыл бұрын

@@thomas.02 possibilities, I think. I wouldn't use the novel as a true guide but most certainly a new line of reason. Its as possible as any other option I think, given our limited knowledge.

@jeffersondwilliams 2 жыл бұрын

It's like talking to the dead. Anyone can do it. Getting a response is the trick.

@bigfunny6312 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, except one is definitely fake.

@jessicapearson9479 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@lybiwinzenz2880 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!

@timothyreed7241 2 жыл бұрын

There's no trick about it and there's nothing tricky about it. The dead are dead and they can't talk and we can't talk to them. With enough scientific advancement we might be able to somewhat understand thoughts of people dying but no one has ever spoken to a deceased individual and we never will be able to do so. When a person is dead they are dead and there is nothing more. There is no reincarnation or afterlife and it is childish to think that there is.

@timothyreed7241 2 жыл бұрын

Aliens are astronomically more likely than life after death. The odds are literally infinite vs speaking to the dead.

@rainbowbutterflyfan 2 жыл бұрын

Yet another reason the loss of Arecibo is a historic tragedy :(

@donaldbaird7849 2 жыл бұрын

What happened to Arecibo? I've never heard of this happening

@SusanJERitta 2 жыл бұрын

@@donaldbaird7849 It collapsed in 2020

@Aphelia. 2 жыл бұрын

@@donaldbaird7849 It got damaged from hurricane maria in 2017 and it became too costly to maintain. then in 2020 it's cables failed and they had to demolish it

@donaldbaird7849 2 жыл бұрын

@@Aphelia. Aww that's sad :(

@mustafayilmaz2259 2 жыл бұрын

Dunyalilar aptaldır.... Bazıları süper aptaldır Trajediyi süper aptallara sorun..

@Liammort 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like by the time making contact is genuinely feasible we'll have long since gone to find those two probes and brought them back just to put in a museum.

@osmosisjones4912 2 жыл бұрын

maybe we have found alien signals we didn`t recognize

@mustafayilmaz2259 2 жыл бұрын

Uzaylı hepinizi kuşbaşı yapacakmış.. Şifreli mesaj ile bildirdi....saklanin

@bigfunny6312 2 жыл бұрын

@@osmosisjones4912 maybe we find alien signals we DO recognize.

@claudiaarjangi4914 2 жыл бұрын

haha, yep, probably true..

@doughnutnizzle2620 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like a lot of people don't realize that with our current level of tech we wouldn't be able to detect an alien civilization at our own tech level at Proxima Centauri

@SuLokify 2 жыл бұрын

We could probably detect radio signals or look at atmospheric indicators or city lights at night with our current tech, IF we went to the trouble of building instruments specifically for that purpose but it would be an expensive undertaking

@jasonreed7522 2 жыл бұрын

I think with the james web telescope we could prove the existence of life by monitoring atmospheric chemistry, but that alone would still require a ton of effort to definitely prove the existance of trends and that they are most likely the result of life. And then a whole bunch more effort would be needed to puck up and sort through radio signals used for local coms, probably requiring the same techniques as when we (as a species) took a photo of a black hole. And all of this would take years of observation and data collection to say nothing of the time spent analyzing and debating results. Tldr, we are probably at the edge of being able to detect aliens in that system if they were just like us, but it would be very difficult to pull off. (Also the question of whether we want to meet them, humans don't have a good history meeting ourselves, first contact with ET could go very wrong)

@duality4y 2 жыл бұрын

@@SuLokify you will never see city lights in the noise

@SquirrelASMR 2 жыл бұрын

Some paper recently said JWST might be able to detect agriculture if aliens life is close enough to earth life and they use similar methods for agriculture.

@LENZ5369 2 жыл бұрын

Actually we could. For example: if the Space shuttle orbiter was at Proxima and fired it's engines -it would look more or less like a flare on our detectors.

@oakgreenoak 2 жыл бұрын

I know that they don't mean we're literally right now in the process of talking to aliens but this is still the fastest I've ever clicked a youtube notif.

@Endrw 2 жыл бұрын

yea

@wyndy5886 2 жыл бұрын

Dude same

@poopdaddy1865 2 жыл бұрын

so it was click bait

@justalivetothrive529 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@Endrw 2 жыл бұрын

@@poopdaddy1865 thanks poopdaddy18

@andreask.2675 2 жыл бұрын

On the topic: How should aliens understand us? After all we often don't understand each other... even if we are speaking the same language! 🤣

@TehKryven1 2 жыл бұрын

It's never aliens. Until it is.

@Slash687 2 жыл бұрын

That's what I keep telling myself as I click these clickbait stories

@christopher7086 2 жыл бұрын

@Tren10 until...it is

@jwa007 2 жыл бұрын

I just don't know that sending our location out into the Cosmos like this is the best idea. But, what do I know.

@theopminer952 2 жыл бұрын

Literally never been this early, I just happened to open the app less than 30 seconds after upload.

@NewMessage 2 жыл бұрын

Our first question should be "What's that probe stuff all about? I mean, what can you learn other than one in 10 subjects doesn't really mind?"

@EchoNovemberDelter 2 жыл бұрын

kinda k i n k y (sorry)

@TheBlueB0mber 2 жыл бұрын

Former CIA John Ramirez may have disclosed the reasoning behind abductions. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKyBp7yXtNPcqKc.html

@sgctactics 2 жыл бұрын

The whole time I was watching this, I couldn't stop thinking, "why do we expect them to be listening?" If we received a message like the ones that we are sending now, or any other possible method or source, would we ourselves even notice? Have we even thought of making the technology to look for what we are even sending? Or counting blips in the skies as binary code? Or are we just overlooking small anomalies that we can detect, but are actually messages that we haven't noticed? It's kind of absurd to expect other life to if we couldn't. And if they could, I'd be worried, since they'd obviously be more advanced than us,. And our own history has shown that that rarely ends good..

@rmsgrey 2 жыл бұрын

We have a number of long-running programs that listen for extraterrestrial signals. That's how we discovered pulsars, among other things. As to whether we'd recognise a signal, one of the standard techniques we've come up with is to transmit two different signals - a clear simple pattern as an attention grabber, alternating with the actual message, which can look a lot more like noise if you're not trying to analyse it. If someone just sent an information-dense signal, there's a reasonable chance we'd dismiss it as noise, but the simple attention grabber should stand out.

@kayakMike1000 2 жыл бұрын

Rarely ends WELL. Maybe the reason why it didn't end well is because humans were not really that advanced at the time. Also, if this universe is a simulation, we might expect aliens in the next patch, but black holes are a wee bug that might get fixed along with the memory leak causing accelerating expansion.

@sgctactics 2 жыл бұрын

@@kayakMike1000 ha, I always gotta throw in a grammar fail, makes my day to make someone's eye twitch. The beta universe has a lot of bugs too, I think it'll take a few more updates to finally get it fully worked out

@sgctactics 2 жыл бұрын

@@rmsgreyGood point. That's not a bad approach, but if we were to come across such an attention grabber, I can imagine it being rather unlikely for us to recognize it as such and would probably try to analyze it as a possible new undiscovered phenomenon. Not to be such a cynic, but we aren't that great at noticing the obvious

@PicassosCat 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say it's best if they think it's just some random sound

@mikibish 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I'm all for extra-terrestrials and all that but after getting through The Three Body Trilogy stuff like this just scares me; I'm convinced that the dark forest theory is probably right and we should just stfu before we all end up 2D.

@steverempel8584 2 жыл бұрын

I sort of subscribe to the dark forest theory, except WE are the evil species that ends up destroying everything out there. One we become an interstellar species, there's no way to police all the different crazy factions, and that's when it will happen. There are no aliens because we are the first ones, and will prevent any new ones from arising.

@lucas9269 2 жыл бұрын

It's way too stupid to start sending messages to aliens, our technology is still garbage, we should wait at least 200 years before we start madly broadcasting our location.

@steverempel8584 2 жыл бұрын

@@lucas9269 If they wanted to find us, they would probably have found us by now, whether or not we try to contact them.

@KellyClowers 2 жыл бұрын

No, "talking to" implies a conversion or at the very least that we know they are there and possibly listening.

@GingerMafia48 2 жыл бұрын

so we are talking at them? or at the universe in general

@gabrielzarate8459 2 жыл бұрын

@@GingerMafia48 precisely.. I left a similar comment as well.. we are basically talking at aliens.. even if they are responding there was no speech connection as we cannot understand those messages or don't know how to receive them, therefore at most.. we are simply both talking at each other..

@gabrielzarate8459 2 жыл бұрын

The clickbait title in short is technically stating we have established contact.. which of course would be SUPER IMPORTANT TO KNOW.. 😂

@lucas9269 2 жыл бұрын

They ARE there, it's impossible to not there be anyone, the building blocks of life are common.

@GarrigKitten 2 жыл бұрын

I want to say, Savannah's nerdy shuffle on to screen bubbling with excitement was absolutely adorable. I love when someone has that sort of energy because it suggests to me that they both really know the subject they're about to gush about and that they absolutely love it. Looking forward to what you bring, Savannah.

@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep 2 жыл бұрын

They putting made up pronouns now in a science based education channel. Seems counter productive to pander to the nonsense.

@Toastmaster_5000 2 жыл бұрын

This was way more interesting than I would have expected. Lots of good points made here about our previous attempts to communicate.

@Hulnbfrijabl 2 жыл бұрын

never thought we'd see the day where SciShow would fall into clickbait.

@Kirhean 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I think if I had as much money and time as I needed, I'd want to invest in an extrasolar beacon. Something we could send to nearby stars, that then would assemble into a powerful transmitter to broadcast. At it's core would be one of the super durable storage techs like the 5-d borosilicate glass cubes, containing as much writing from the world as we can gather. If the beacon doesn't translate, anything that can find it would be able to find the storage device and study it. And if they're smart enough to study it, they might figure out how it's encoded and be able to get the message that way. A pipe dream, but a cool one.

@Techno_Idioto 2 жыл бұрын

Now you're thinking with portals.

@valentinaaugustina 2 жыл бұрын

That’s certainly a title

@gewamser 2 жыл бұрын

Ever since I read “The 3 Body Problem” novel trilogy, I have had serious 2nd thoughts about revealing where Earth is….yep, its just fiction, but brings up very serious questions. After all, Earth IS rare and priceless.

@jevinrobertson 2 жыл бұрын

No its not If aliens can travel the speed of light to get here they can find another planet with the same chemical components. There's nothing rare about earth water is everywhere in the galaxy if anything life should be valued not the resources

@MrCmon113 2 жыл бұрын

No, it's not. At least not as habitability is concerned. The trisolarans could have easily built space habitats and colonized any other solar system with only a fraction of their tech. You do not need a planet of a certain kind to expand into space.

@michaelrider 2 жыл бұрын

Feels like I'm seeing aliens already.

@KellyClowers 2 жыл бұрын

The beacon should probably be less a message and more, well, a beacon. Like the prime number broadcast in Contact.

@archionblu 2 жыл бұрын

my favorite movie of all time

@catherinebaldwin6580 2 жыл бұрын

When I heard we had send messages to star clusters hundreds of thousands of lightyear away, my first thought was- “Why bother?Humans will be long dead before that.” Very positive view about humanity there brain. Good job.

@boulderbash19700209 2 жыл бұрын

Someone at Arecibo design team must answer the question of how could they forgot that stars are moving? Aren't they scientists ffs?

@FireHax0rd 2 жыл бұрын

I expected better than clickbait from SciShow

@UGNAvalon 2 жыл бұрын

Battleship film: “The Arecibo broadcast told these invaders where to go.” Real life M13 aliens: “Wouldn’t it be cool if we got a message from aliens?” “Haha, yeah. Hopefully they know where to aim tho…”

@carljalal3855 2 жыл бұрын

What an interesting video, thanks!

@LeTtRrZ 2 жыл бұрын

We are talking to aliens no more than I am talking to Hank when I go to the middle of nowhere and start yelling.

@THETRIVIALTHINGS 2 жыл бұрын

"Talk to aliens". Then when they listen and come visit us, we're like "No such thing as UFOs", the most effing self-contradictory species in the whole Universe.

@the_clawing_chaos 2 жыл бұрын

We're not sending a message, we are shining a torch in a dark, dark forest.

@PariahSojourner 2 жыл бұрын

I, for one, am thrilled that we are trying to contact our future Galactic Overlords, and I will be a very obedient pet willing to do the tricks necessary in order to keep myself out of the Galactic Overlord's slave-pits and off their dinner tables. ALL HAIL THE GALACTIC OVERLORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@thedesucomplex4365 2 жыл бұрын

welcome on Savannah! always good to see new hosts

@jeffreybernath6627 2 жыл бұрын

I don't care for the subject line. "We're talking to aliens" is in the present tense. More accurate would be "We talked to aliens" or "We tried to talk to aliens," if you're referring to the Aricebo message, or "We're planning to talk to aliens" or "We want to talk to aliens" for the Beacon project. Nothing is happening in the present.

@MrTPM123456789 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so happy to see you here Savannah! You TikTok’s are amazing!

@zachariahdearing9611 2 жыл бұрын

People are talking about the potential downsides and dangers of revealing ourselves like this, but I'd much rather be hopeful that we attract a more peaceful species. Like Star Trek, or Arrival.

@EvocativeKitsune 2 жыл бұрын

When Hank says 'Beacon in the Galaxy', I think 'Beacon in the Warp'. And the xenos tremble.

@serenity1378 2 жыл бұрын

Jokes aside, imagine being the aliens that make first contact with us and learn 90-99% of our alien-based fiction is about how evil and barbaric they are and how we're going to exterminate them with our superior human Gumption.

@KiddsockTV 2 жыл бұрын

Carl Sagan's alien signal in Contact was genius and the Movie took it to a whole new level. I am surprised that was not referenced.

@DderwenWyllt 2 жыл бұрын

Shouting into the void while hoping that we never hear the void shouting back and hoping something in the void does shout back

@nightshift001 2 жыл бұрын

Best episode in a long time.

@GadreelAdvocat 2 жыл бұрын

Might be an idea to send three different radio signals each of the signals represent a direction. One signal for straight line forward. The other two are turn left or turn right. Pictures could be drawn. The other idea might be to send Morse code. Simple example, with the first set of signals draw a square. Then pause and Morse code square. Then draw rectangle, and Morse code rectangle. Various other simple shapes that would be universally common if in the age of receiving radio waves could be sent. Simple and easy to understand.

@MNbenMN 2 жыл бұрын

That might be an interesting approach; however, there are some nontrivial bits of missing information in the scheme. some that first come to mind: How do you send the explaining which of the three channels is which, or specify the intention of drawing on a two dimensional plane? What's the indication to end the current drawing? How do you indicate moving the pen to a new location to start the next drawing?

@GadreelAdvocat 2 жыл бұрын

@@MNbenMN I believe even a slightly intelligent species would be able to figure out the direction pulses. Like in Morse code a longer pause would end a drawing.

@davidherrera8748 2 жыл бұрын

Not gunna lie Him like Cis him saying "lets all give them a warm welcome" idk if made my hear go all a flutter or give me superfluous digestion but it feels like healing thanks

@captain_context9991 2 жыл бұрын

Soooo were infact NOT talking to aliens.

@osmosisjones4912 2 жыл бұрын

maybe we have found alien signals we didn`t recongize

@Laurastar2009 2 жыл бұрын

This topic has a few challenging aspects (what to transmit, how to transmit and where to transmit to) but I think the hardest must be deciding what to transmit. I wonder if historians/archaeologists who specialise in dead lanuages and lost civilisations could help devise something. Although we still at least have a bit of context (cave paintings for example depict animals because we've seen the same or similar animals). Looking forward to seeing more of Savannah, I love them on Shorts.

@spud4242 2 жыл бұрын

you forgot the major question of "should we transmit" , it is mostly moot when you consider that we have been transmitting radio and TV for 70+ years . there is no guarantee that an alien species is peaceful.

@Cassandra_Johnson 2 жыл бұрын

If you absolutely have to ring the dinner bell, I am a big fan of the repeating, non natural sequence of ticks following the rythym of 1,2,3, 1,4,9. You can broadcast it stupid strong without worrying too much about information loss, it's pretty hard to consider a natural phenomenon, and if they care, they can trace it back. Nothing says taste brains quite like simple math & high power radio transmitters.

@balaclavabob001 2 жыл бұрын

I'd be more impressed if someone figured out how to talk to Whales , Dolphins , octopi, ( octopodes, octopuses) or squid .

@Painted_Owl 2 жыл бұрын

Marine biologist here. To my surprise back in uni, octopuses is the correct plural for octopus, due to the name being Greek in origin. My whole life before, I thought it was octopi

@solemnwaltz 2 жыл бұрын

And elephants

@balaclavabob001 2 жыл бұрын

@@solemnwaltz Elephantses , Eliphi :)

@greensteve9307 2 жыл бұрын

Octopodes or octopuses, never octopi. That is an incorrect Latinisation.

@greensteve9307 2 жыл бұрын

@@Painted_Owl Seconded.

@punkdigerati 2 жыл бұрын

You mentioned a pitfall of earlier messages being that the destination will have moved by the time the signal gets there. Have they rectified that and plan to point towards where it will be instead?

@PhilmannDark 2 жыл бұрын

Not really, AFAIK. The big senders haven't sent the messages again. There were private attempts but those had only very limited power, so it's questionable whether the signal will reach much further than 5 light years (which means only a single star system could receive them and Alpha Centauri doesn't look inhabited from here).

@TeddieEddieBear 2 жыл бұрын

Oohohhhh i love this kind of stuff

@lbraine2313 2 жыл бұрын

THE FLORIDA TO MONTANA PIPELINE IS SO REAL! I’ve dreamt of moving to Missoula since the first DFTBA mercy drop! Now in Idaho, I’m working my way there. Welcome Savannah!!

@norryvamp 2 жыл бұрын

I saw a video pointing out how far our messages are actually able to go... it is such a tiny space within our galaxy that we have practically zero chance of contacting somebody. So unless there is a way to make things travel faster than light or open star gates, this seems all pretty hopeless :(

@emmettturner9452 2 жыл бұрын

Woah. I just finished watching some crazy guy’s upload from more than a year ago titled “Talking to Aliens” where he literally uses a clip from an old Sci Show episode and within an hour of watching that you put up this one titled “We’re Talking to Aliens.” WTF?! Dude was cray-cray too… tried to say that gamma rays from nuclear reactors are actually being used to talk to aliens. I was digging through his channel since he had some amusing vids of disputes with the neighbors and it seems the algorithm just blessed him (only other comment was from 9 hours earlier).

@themichael4079 2 жыл бұрын

with the entire universe in motion the idea that we can beam a signal to a place when that place is moving adds a really dificult curve to the process. because even if we can predict where the planets and stars in OUR galaxy are going to be and beam it to the location that they will be in the future, the galaxy itslf is also in motion towards a diferent point so while galacticly we may have the right spot, universally we may not

@mainman2256 2 жыл бұрын

This is cool but we don’t even do a good job looking around our own sky to find out what the unknown stuff flying right above us is lol

@lucas9269 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine an alien spaceship flying by and we don't even realize it 😂

@Yinzermakesvids 2 жыл бұрын

Aliens probably came to earth to welcome us but saw how crazy we were and was like nope and built a wall around our Star.

@trollme.trollmehard.9524 2 жыл бұрын

I personally wonder how many other planets have transparent (to them) skies so their potential inhabitants even _know_ there are stars.

@josephd.5524 2 жыл бұрын

Consider this: most alien biospheres may have not encountered an asteroid in their geologically recent past. If intelligent alien civilizations are multi-metre-scale Allosaurus analogues, we've got problems.

@rickseiden1 2 жыл бұрын

I have to wonder about how that first message was "aimed." If M13 is not going to be there in 25,000 years, it makes me wonder if they were aiming at where we saw M13 in the sky when we sent it, or where M13 would actually be in the sky when we sent it. That's a 25,000 year difference in movement right there.

@filthyrych 2 жыл бұрын

I seen a van wreck one time and watched about 22 aliens get out and start running.

@klocugh12 2 жыл бұрын

There's a great recent video about Schelling Point on Cool Worlds channel, probably made in relation to this.

@TheRealInscrutable 2 жыл бұрын

I've played Stellaris. Are we sure we want to announce where we are?

@k-isfor-kristina Жыл бұрын

It seems we have this obsession with making contact but it's like, the odds of the timelines matching up right are so low. For all we know, other civilizations have blasted all sorts of messages and greetings for us for thousands or even millions of years and gave up because until fairly recently, no one on earth could receive them. It's also possible that there's a steady stream of transmissions directed at us right NOW, from thousands of lightyears away, so it will get to us thousands of years in the future, and who knows if anyone will still be here by then. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@some_random_loser 2 жыл бұрын

“Come on over, there's good eating over here.”

@halvorhansen 2 жыл бұрын

Hank looks a little bit like swift for the office

@ckl9390 2 жыл бұрын

Has anyone considered that sending a message would be a lot easier (or at least more efficient) if the transmitter was in space? Even better if it was out of the inner system and further away from our own sun's magnetic interference. Better still, assuming we get around to sending probes to other solar systems, we could have a powerful transmitter transmit our invitation from there instead.

@sunnyd9884 2 жыл бұрын

i wanna make my screams heard out in that sea of light and garbage and life whether its understood or received or not, like blasting fart mp3s in a electric car in traffic

@kunalkothari1005 2 жыл бұрын

Not one joke about Send Nud- COME ON PEOPLE!

@devilsposterboy 2 жыл бұрын

to aliens this is probably the equivalent of pigeon mail

@nickduplaga507 2 жыл бұрын

When I had my encounters the most they spoke was “it is loke” when one did not understand how the top door lock opens from inside, and kept turning the door handle about 1 hour. Static in the air, balls of lightning flying around, and warping drones flying through walls. Deja vu showing the future etc. They speak telepathically, but it’s mostly emotions. They don’t know much English, or chose not to speak it.

@peterhumphreys9201 2 жыл бұрын

'Static in the air' - I'll remember that one.

@nickduplaga507 2 жыл бұрын

@@peterhumphreys9201 More like the audio in the recording had a sound like a ram jet of air. Not sure if actually static that time. There was a ozone smell also.

@nickduplaga507 2 жыл бұрын

@@peterhumphreys9201 Magnetic north goes crazy sometimes, and spins, or locks wrong north not near any metal.

@mrwumpass 2 жыл бұрын

Scrolling along and I swear I saw bacon in the galaxy. I had to stop because that raised so many questions not the least of which was: can you cook bacon in space? In space can you hear bacon sizzle? What does space bacon taste like?

@leemiller4375 2 жыл бұрын

The first place I visited when I left Florida was Missoula. Lol

@firstcynic92 2 жыл бұрын

How would they make sure that the signal could even be understood? Currently we could only send intelligible signals a couple light years. Beyond that the message is just noise. We would also have to transmit for a long time.

@scrotiemcboogerballs1981 2 жыл бұрын

The way the world is now we would look like someone hanging there butt out the window as a hello

@TrashJack3000 2 жыл бұрын

I, for one, welcome our new extraterrestrial overlords.

2 жыл бұрын

if we use pixelated messages, I would highly suggest space invaders, makes a lot more sense then tetris (or whatever arecibo sent there). its quite easy to prove that all possible candidates comprehend, since self recognition is non optional for any intelligence to be conceivable by us.

@supralogical Жыл бұрын

In our first attempt to reach the aliens, we sent, of all things, Chuck Berry's, Johnny B. Good. What? Johnny B. Good ?? Johnny B. Good ??????? What were we thinking?? I hope that the Beacon will correct that HUGE, grievous error and send NADINE. "Nadine, honey is that you?" !!!!! Please guys, or dear God - Nadeeeeen. Let's get it right this time. (I can just hear the aliens now, "We so wanted your Nadine, but got Johnny B. Good. We spit on your Johnny B. Good.")

@gosuckacat 2 жыл бұрын

I've played half life 2, I don't want to talk to other intelligent life.

@h7opolo 2 жыл бұрын

welcome to scishow, savannah.

@dillonjohnson6017 Жыл бұрын

Hey Hank? It feels like this would also have effects on how we should look for life in the universe? like if our messages are getting better we might better have knowledge what to look for from e.t. life?

@carpemkarzi 2 жыл бұрын

Cool and welcome

@SG-ql1qn 2 жыл бұрын

For the location part, we can just send google maps location coordinates to find us :D

@SeminarChauffeur 2 жыл бұрын

1:39 it was claimed that the target star cluster is big enough that the transmission will still hit a part of that cluster when it does arrive there

@troyclayton 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. Hope to see ya soon, Savannah!

@oceandrop7666 2 жыл бұрын

Dark Forest Theory. Talking to aliens is a bad idea.

@Bitterjackal Жыл бұрын

Can we follow this up with an episode on the "Dark Forest" theory? Some food for thought in that one....

@gordonlawrence1448 2 жыл бұрын

In the words of a song "and pray there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, Cause there's bugger all down here on earth".

@3800S1 2 жыл бұрын

Literally took me minutes to understand this horizontal reference of the new host. I pictured the host being introduced bed ridden for some reason and a while later I realized that some people watch videos on a phone not turned sideways and that's what they meant.

@Ohmloud 2 жыл бұрын

We need a soundproof space wall to keep them out...

@dreadwinter 2 жыл бұрын

We're screaming at the Void.

@SuperYoonHo 2 жыл бұрын

awsome

@RichardRagan 2 жыл бұрын

We have a sophisticated video about how to send messages to nonhuman intelligent species, but we fail to mention anything about the Dark Forest... whether who hears our message might be an enemy who will come kill us. In other words, yes we can send a message but... should we?

@ZentaBon 2 жыл бұрын

See, this is what I'm saying. Everyday people are so divorced from the matter of everyday survival and the reality of it, and you know people would push for us to communicate intentionally, I wouldn't actually be that shocked if aliens were discovered and simply kept hidden so there wouldn't public pressure to reach out and communicate. If I were running a large country, interested in long term self preservation, I'd hide this from everyone for as long as I can.

@CritterKeeper01 2 жыл бұрын

Liu Cixin's "The Dark Forest" springs to mind. Who's out there listening, and will we *want* them to find us? I'm optimistic, a lot moreso than Liu, but it does make you think!