10 SETI Technosignatures We May Not Want to See 

lmao true. Humans!

Got em

Great point. We always think of things in the form of how it relates to us as humans. We need to think outside the box. Who’s to say aliens are on the same technological path as us? Maybe they skipped something like oil and went straight to antigravity. Maybe they have elements from their host star that is able to create stable heavier elements.

Humans are not a monolith.

Let’s just pulse a laser off the moon into the distance

It just works!

Or naughty dog

But I want people to act like Oblivion npcs

@@ultrabomb1 that would be amazing!

This would explain my life's terrible writing.

LOL Suing then obliterating infant civilizations for unauthorized DNA usage

"Failed experiment #28166, do not release into biosphere"

LOL. This is so scary, thanks for lightening it up

youtube gets copyright struck by alien super AI for stealing their bots.

Or worse yet..... Propriitary Property of Microsoft

Yeah, but then we found a star with plutonium in it and the scientists are all "yeah it's probably natural"

Sounds like a cliche movie quote from some lost soul.

Nah. It would be the one to follow, since we wouldn't have gotten the first message until long after it was sent: "YOU WERE WARNED. IT HAS FOUND YOU."

Or "the experiment will reboot in 9 Earth years"

Yeah, then the Doomsday Machine from Star Trek enters our solar system...

Only to find out 10.000 years later that this message was sent by an artist on a distant planet trying to prove some political point to their government.

I was thinking the same thing the other day .

Same here! I like the shorter ones, i like to watch them on my breaks

Me 2 man....me 2

Same! I'm a big fan of John so I like hearing him speak a lot too. Much love to event horizon ❤

Same. The channels have very different feels to them -- both are great.

Very cool!

Wtf are you doing here?

it's the legend himself

**moves away from mic to read intelligent life signatures**

I remember watching you when I was 11, now I'm 24

Then our scientists find it and falsely think its natural and it flukes up our models of the universe lol

@@nothingnobody1454 alien RU-vid prank videos be like: “lol accidentally started a new religion on earth again.”

And imagine that was their science project.

I would go PPV prices for that.

Fear the crabcat!

People like you are why we have the Bible and the Quran…

Is this what the kids refer to as "thirsty"?

MurphyBoy ! John has a second channel, a long form interview format channel called Event Horizon, that I’m sure keeps him busy. Far from slumbering

Yeah, thank the gods,

This channel RULES. Every upload is awesome

Hmmmph! A very small piece of wisdom, mixed with a load of BS.

Or... Hello and welcome to DnD online.

No no I doubt that. It just doesn’t make sense

We would need to develop ASAP a relativistic kill missile...

Me: "they found a way to monetize the universe" *sigh*

We ve been trying to talk to you about your extended planet warranty!

Look, if they were dying, they wouldn't bother to imprint "Aaargh." Theyd just say it.

An unfathomably advanced civilisation wants to know: "What's your favourite colour"

...maybe he was dictating...

Perhaps it's dictation?

Oooooohhhhhhhhh!!!!

I tell people all the time my biggest regret is I’ll die long before I can travel the stars.

ahhh a fellow man of culture ! i too will be rolling a blunt inorder to completely geek out with this video 😀 happy trips bro !

That does sound quite good

We might be lucky and one of the theories about universal consciousness is correct. That way we would find out (already know) all these answers, and not bound to the time dimension could experience everything at once, after we die. But as we don't remember anything before birth I doubt it'll be very useful because we'll never know until then. It's all very depressing lol.

The only thing that goes together better than astronomy and weed is astronomy and mushrooms!! Or alittle LSD😝

Quality over quantity ;)

Maybe he was!

@@suthinscientist9801 he was. cuz this episode is out of this world!

Make sure you check out his other channel!

They demanded to know Obama's last name but he wouldn't tell em. Good guy

Yes !

We did!!

Thank you!

yikes

Interesting thought. Almost Twilight Zone worthy! I wonder how it would be detected, though. Would it be periodic lensing of the star's light?

Perhaps, to wait out the lifespan of the universe, then only to emerge from the shroud of the event horizon? Planetary cloak that allows your enemies to think you've left the chat, but it's really just allowing you to see the universe around you go in fast forward.

Who's the say the LHC isn't manufacturing tiny black holes that are accumulating at the center of the earth

@@nosuchthing8 Scientists for one.

That's right! Let's kill them all to find that bloody scribble. Oh...

Error correction theory says that no intelligent civilization capable of doing such a thing would embed a message in such a constrained population if they had any significant intention of communicating it to anyone else. Instead, it would be placed into a very large variety of organisms.

@@absalomdraconis Something like "The Chase" in Star Trek TNG wouldn't surprise me at all.

@@danaralston6688 I dunno. How do you preserve a message in DNA when it is constantly mutating and evolving?

@@desther7975 you don't lol,alien conspiracy theorist are wild

So now you know we are observing it in real time here on Earth? We have front seats for runaway Arctic amplification & that's just for starters.

Even later: "Buuuuuut ..... It's pretty stupid to worry about imaginary problems when I have real-world problems to face. Otherwise I might go back to worrying that the Nothing will consume us all if the Child-Like Princess is not given a name."

dont worry i had Covid, its not that bad. even my mother had it and shes 75 and she beat it too

If that rattles your cage, Ask the dinosaurs what they thought of asteroids.

Instead of worrying about imaginary problems I prefer to worry about things that people did a long time ago before I was born which after hearing about it has left me so traumatized I am unable to work or do much of anything.

"... but PLEASE don't push the big red button when you find it!"

Or: “All Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning To The Universe”

If you were ever to use my WC I'd have to say 'Sorry for the convenience'.😁

"We have updated our terms of service."

thanks for all the fish 🐟

THANKS FOR THE WARNING, WE WILL BE READY, BITCHES👌

*sigh* Again? Okay, fine. Just give me a minute to put on my formal being-assimilated suit.

Even worse "Resistance is futile. You will be annihilated"

“Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your culture will adapt to service us.”

But that was long, long ago though

I will even go so far as to say it would not surprise me if a citizen scientist in his garage with available technology could find something despite our inability to fully understand it

I doubt it. Anything that's been around for more than a few million years, which is extremely likely if any advanced species ever existed, would have signatures on a galactic scale. They'd also likely have sent self replicating probes across the galaxy, at least. The only plausible way an advanced alien race might exist in our galaxy is if it's relatively young. Which would be a huge coincidence.

It wasn't too long ago that human scientists didn't believe in radio waves, they scoffed at the idea that invisible waves of energy could pass through solid objects, much less that they could be received again after passing through solid objects. "POPPICOCK I SAY!"

@@sparramore That's one of the problems with science. There's only science where the money is aka grants. And if any citizen scientist does find something or try to publish something "iT wAsNt iN tHe jOurNalS!!!!" This is why we see these dark matter/energy people so insistent on the theory when its slowly starting to fade when held to scrutiny from new data sets and experiments. No money in discovering other theories because all this money has already been spent on this theory, therefore it MUST BE RIGHT!!!!! Look at the parker solar probe, an easy instrument could have been attached to do some science regarding the Electric Universe Theory. Did they? Nope. Same reason NASA's never figured out how to put a microscope on a rover, yet the Russians did in like the 80s. Now where going to have to wait another what 20-50 years before another probe goes to the sun again. It's a hard place to get too. For example, I can't do a gardening experiment in my own yard, write about it the academic standard, with proper protocols, because I have no degree. Therefore no ones going to vouch for some CITIZEN SCIENTIST to get published in the journal. Then you have all these phosphate junkies saying SEE THERES NO SCIENTIFICAL EVIDENCE TO BACK UP THAT METHOD (Hugelkulture). The money is in the phosphates, which is surprise, surprise is one of the biggest polluters.

Ant: What if there's aliens everywhere but we can't smell them anymore than humans can smell the queen?

Same

Make sure you're keeping up with weekly uploads at his other channel "event horizon"

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Brilliant!

😊😄😅

Lolol

Deep.

They probably will.

Lol so true

That's just how science works . Of course scientists are interested in receiving an alien signature but they don't want to jump the gun and assume something is of alien origin without ruling out the far more common natural causes.

Exactly. "It's never aliens!"

Hope they have toilet paper. Too that would be harsh for us.

Yes, it is called critical thinking. Give it a try, you might like it.

Hadn't thought of that, but I would imagine a good ox probably is worth more than a phone.

@@JohnMichaelGodier Especially if it's 5,000 years before cell towers! LOL

Hahaha Only for humanity finds out 5422 years later that it was done by a rogue artist so engulfed in layers of multiversal irony that she actually meant the exact opposite. Anyways, the piece was rejected as "highly misleading and confusing" by the art comitee and forgotten because at that time the artist was having another five comissions running. One of which made her multiverse-wide famous - the Cosmic Microwave Background - which is basically a visualization of governmental corruption regarding energy spending.

Or .....sterilize upon reciept of this transmission

sad thing is evening knowing that, were too dumb to prevent it every human ever: MUST BREED

Soon enough then. ;-)

How to serve humans

If we are a simulation, they need to stop and restore the system to the last restore point before year 2020.

Sure. "Real" or "simulation," we life and then we die, and so, presumably does the universe as we know it. Whether it's natural or artificial, the outcome for us would be the same, barring some interference from our simulating overlords. Would be tragic if we were obliterated so they could try running some other simulation instead. It would be interesting if we were in a simulation meant to test whether and how long it takes for us to work out that we're in one.

That is a use for an acubeire i haven't thought of, huh

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@@laurawillits176 Don't Panic!

Didnt think id love that game.. i was so wrong

Lmao No Mans Sky

I don't get it

love nms

It's called dna do some research

You mean like that "object " discovered a few years ago at the edge of the solar system?

I dunno man, the chances of having ANY direct collisions when the milky way and Andromeda galaxies merge is pretty low which is basically just a way of saying "There is a ton of empty space there." I would think the chances of a spaceship drifting through our solar system by accident would be even more remote, unless there were either some intentionality behind it, or there are just a metric butt ton of ships out there.

The probability of that is infinitesimally low. The probability of us seeing it is even lower. We can’t even keep track of all the asteroids in our solar system.

ReivecS That's right. But I'll still bet my money )

I think we as humans have already recovered ancient alien probes that where sent to earth like 10000 years ago, simular to humans sending probes out to our solar system (think voyager) also our internet/computing tech has been built on these/a alien probe *drinks another beer*

The bait is there, it's just a nice juicy grub that's worth taking a bite out of

We might just be alone. Maybe life at all is just not very likely

Imo it seems this is most likely. It’s probably a large conglomeration of filters that when put together make the chance of a advanced alien civilization arising akin to flipping a coin 50 times and each one landing on heads (credit to Isaac Arthur for that parallel) We think of ourselves as pretty advanced, yet we are a long way from being truly space-fairing and meaningfully detectable by other civilizations. Reasonable to say that the large technological gap we have to fill may lead us to even more dangerous and easily proliferated technology than nuclear weapons. Right now state and non-state actors can’t make nukes without being detected; even if they have the full picture the infrastructure is impossible to conceal. If in the future these things could be concealable and easy to create then non-proliferation becomes impossible and opens a significant threat to society from non-state extremists. From the lens of bio-engineering deadly viruses or even crop/livestock diseases this will probably be a reality in the near future.

The most likely signal: "Go fuck yourselves."

Well if you can do ftl travel or anything close to it you could send harddrives at those speeds as a data transport

@@orbismworldbuilding8428 Or if theres wormholes that can stay open near indefinitely as long as somethings supplied into it, you could just wormhole to another place and have a Galactic spanning Internet perhaps.

FTL communication/travel will never be possible because of how spacetime works with relativity. Any FTL method would violate causality and make paradoxes possible like killing yourself in the past.

Sub space transmission 😜

@@bluenightfury4365No wormhole has been discovered.

I watch them at night before I go to sleep. They help to calm my brain down.

I watch them when am high...they hit hard! You might wanna try it

Look up isaac arthurs youtube page. Youll love it. He has done videos with this channel too.

We're not ready as a species.

For us oldies, please in the next 20 years? : )

@@Obssy we are, its just the weak closed minded people that arent

We are NOT ready.

@@trent4439 It's not about the weak-mindedness of individuals but the current state of today's fragile geo-political climate. Whether the aliens are peaceful, we'll either unite or we fight. And I havd a feeling it'll be the latter.

David W I agree. Merely making this kind of discovery would be far more important than the label of "positive" or "negative" we could choose to apply to it. A lot of the thoughts behind this video are very emotionally driven rather than logically driven, and it feels very almost myopic.

Change it from seen to "recognize" because we may have already seen it, we just didn't think much of it.

There are only 2 possibilities : Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

There is a way to create error correcting genes and even program them to iterate a set number of times and then stop. These concepts are being tested in mosquito as a way to sterilize a population (mostly) but then stop working after x number of generations just in case it has unintended effects we can "undo" it. I think there was a radiolab podcast on this awhile back involving crazy uses of CRISPR but I may be confusing it with something else. But I would agree with your point that if such a thing existed in all life on Earth, we probably would have spotted that by now.

Or it could be a specific sequence that is repeated at regular intervals in all the genetic material. Sure, most of these sequences may have been modified through generations, but by studying the repeating patterns it would be possible to determine what was the original content of these sequences.

Like backups in IT, there are mechanisms that allow for corrections. Checksums, multiple copies etc. Nature uses some of such mechanisms - the most obvious ones being symmetry. All life we know is symmetrical. It can be lateral symmetry, or radial (octopuses etc.), but it's there, because natural selection is set up so that it favors it - noone wants to mate with asymmetrical specimen, since it's a red flag warning about mutation and DNA damage. I believe this is how humans will bio-engineer themselves within 500 or 1000 years. The reason why we're getting older and finally die is mostly because copying errors accumulate over time. But if you had 5 copies of your genotype, and everytime something is off, your body would compare the copies, it could identify the "common denominator"; this gene is different in copy B, but the same in copies A, C, D and E , so it's obvious which one must be correct, and we can safely ditch version B because it's corrupt. No cancer, no aging, back to Eden. Evolution is cheap, and its ultimate goal is survival of the species, not individuals, so it didn't waste resources on creating such an error proof mechanism. It would be an overkill. But deliberate bioengineering very well could.

There are probably ways to pull it off, plus these seem to assume tech beyond our capability. I'm sure we could even be capable of something like it one day.

@@vibovitold Not all life is symmetrical: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_featuring_external_asymmetry

That’s so interesting. For me it’s the complete opposite. This topic is extremely interesting and I want to watch this video so bad, but his way of speaking annoys me, the constant going from high to low with his voice within one word on the end of sentences, such as at for example 4:29. It actually gives me misophonia vibes. Funny how different his way of speaking is perceived to different people.

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//TODO Remove humans