Solution to the Fermi Paradox Found! Scientists Hope They're Wrong 

There is also the possibility that we are looking at the scale of everything incorrectly, as we have our own perspective as tiny organisms. In the way that our entire universe might be inside of the bowel system of a "creature" beyond our comprehension.

I'm still hoping we find intelligent life on Earth 🌎

The reason why we have not picked up radio signals from other civilizations might be because there's a technology that renders radio communication obsolete. If nobody uses "slow" radio waves anymore, there's nothing to pick up.

We are not an intelligent species until we can operate without ego and become a cohesive and thriving community that doesn't kill and manipulate each other.

How can we expect to "make friends" with aliens when we cant even get along with our own species?

We're probably the equivalent to an 'Uncontacted tribe' to advanced lifeforms, if there are any.

I like to think there is an alien laying in bed on his planet, watching an informative video about the possibility of extra terrestrials on his mobile device, looking at his sky, pondering the same things we are...

i grew up and lived on an 11'000 acre cow ranch, there was a beautiful creek that twisted through our property and i would often walk/hike around the acreage surrounding the creek but there are hundreds of acres that over the years i never saw even once...maybe our galaxy is like that and we just aren't in a populated part of it.

We might be being watched by aliens so advanced that we cannot detect their presence, but what would be funny is if they, in turn, were being watched by far a more advanced civilisation, maybe one from outside this Universe.

the fact that we exist on Earth, is proof in itself that there is life in the Universe

Time is the biggest culprit here. Considering all the light and signals we receive are millions and billions of years in the past, the Milky Way alone could already have multiple civilisations. We just took off into space around 70 years ago. A mere human lifespan. Imagine how advanced others may have been at this point. Time is our biggest culprit.

Even finding plant life in other planets would be interesting.

The answer is actually pretty simple: by the time you have the technology to traverse the universe, you no longer care about traversing universe. An example would be: creating a virtual reality that is infinitely better than real life.

Imagine if our universe is in a petri dish in some lab. The life forms who control that lab could be so large that we can't even comprehend their size.

And the title-picture tells us, Cthulu himself is the Zoo keeper. H.P. Lovecraft would be very delighted. 😅

The overwhelming majority of stars are unstable red dwarfs. Our sun is a rare yellow dwarf. We ARE special.

Are we alone ? There’s a reason why this question is so intriguing ; it defines how we see ourselves . Finding life would greatly alter our worldview and our place in the cosmos .

This shows man's hubris having the assumption that our technology is the pinnacle of the universe and somehow a standard.

Maybe the aliens will notice us if we complete the limestone cover on the pyramid.

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

It's like the new born zebra stepping out onto the savannah & saying "Who wants to be friends" without knowing about the predators.

Well...we can never really know anything when we are lied to and truth hidden from us. Knowledge is power.

If you studied ufology well enough you would know that they are here and have been here well before us, but they're so advanced that we can do nothing about, nor even understand their plans. They're not scared of us, not at all, in fact we've lost each and every confrontation with them, and that's why "we" are still trying to keep the "secret".

I think interstellar travel is impossible for short-lived squishy lifeforms like us; and the "robot" species that ARE capable of it, have no interest in squishies like us. We're like pond fish to them.

I recently bought my first house and played all your videos while I painted the rooms and did some minor repair over the course of two months before fully moving in. Your videos are the best and are now forever part of my memory of my new home. I was born and raised in Hawaii but moved away. This video is so fitting for me to finally have made a comment with a Hawaiian name given to the super cluster. Thank you.

Humanity has been on the edge of survival for so long we forgot what time it is time to grow up that is

Ive always felt it was reckless to beam and send all our info out into space letting any life know exactly where we are. Of course the space race was motivated by advancing our military capability. Just one more thing that endless waring has gifted us with.

This is why I believe the simulation theory over every other theory religious books actually hint towards that. “Life is but a dream” “it’s as if your entire life were a couple hours”

on self-replicating probes, didnt Sagan say that any civilization intelligent enough to build them would also be intelligent enough to know that they shouldn't?

The universe is filled with intelligent life; we aren't one of them.

In re the distance issue - our best scopes can pick up 2 W at 120 AU (Voyager 2); our best single broadcast is about 2 MW; 120AU is 0.0019875 LY. That's 1,000,000 times the power, for 1000 times the readable signal range. which said, we get a range of about 2 LY... we would miss our equal in the Centauri system.... Now, it's thought the Grand Bank might be able to pick up Voyager to about 150 AU... but we still remain blind to Alpha Cen. At a few dozen LY, our radio noise would be closing on backgrouond. Careful filtering can get signals lower than background, but not trivially. So let's double that... maybe 20 LY to detect the non-intentional broadcast.

If you look into a pond, you see nothing, no life forms etc, put your head in the water you see lots of life forms, darting around, wiggling here and there and of tiny moving particles, grab some of those particles and look under a microscope, you will be amazed just how populated a small amount of liquid can bring. If you stand and look at the night sky, we see a few stars here and there but if we could magnify this, I think life would be in abundance, life forms don't have to look like us or be the same size, I think sometimes we cannot see the wood for the trees, it's there, we just need to find a way to see it.

Aliens are just waiting for humanity to wipe itself out.

2 things I think are detrimental for contact 1. the time gap of civilizations' development technologically 2. the distance in space between civilisations to create contact else, in so many billions of galaxies, stars, planets... life has to be there... in whatever form

Is there any way i can get the name of the audio you use from 8:45 to about 9:05?? Im a total music junkie and that melody is awesome when thinking about the scale and impossibility of our planet itself.

Kudos to the creators for shedding light on the potential implications of the Great Filter hypothesis and the concept of civilization types. It's a fascinating exploration that sparks curiosity and encourages deeper reflection on humanity's place in the cosmos.

We are gazing into the past once we look in a telescope.

To paraphrase Sagan. If we're the only living beings in the universe, what a waste of space.

Tyranids: Whats on the menu? Humans: HERE!!! WE'RE HERE!!!!

Just left a comment on Anton Petrovs channel about this. I love this idea, in fact why not?!

If NASA or SETI or anyone else actually DID discover intelligent life out there, do you really believe they would tell you?

The period during which life has existed on Earth is hundreds of millions of years, so the probability that aliens are aware of Earth is very high, and at the very least, wouldn't they know about dinosaurs.

1. Aliens may know about Earth, but that doesn't mean they care. They don't exactly struggle or suffer, for anything. 2. Aliens may be undetected, but how would ants ever detect humans in a way that actual comprehends? 3. Do you believe that what you experience right now is even 1% of the possible intelligence, consciousness, or awareness?

It's interesting that we always depict aliens arriving in spaceships and that they are near the same size as humans.

The cosmos is extremely huge. Just as them not making signal to us and so we didn’t made any signal to them. Why? Because of extreme distance and complete different and unique tech and science different than ours.

Your content is so incredibly thought provoking. thank you for the mental stimulation ❤

Good, except I had to keep adjusting the vertical hold on my telly.

Another possibility is the Levinthal paradox. However, to give it serious consideration, we will need a much greater understanding of enzyme folding.

When I hear about interesting things about the universe, it excites me and motivates me to learn more about it. But the voice in the video made me fall asleep without even realizing it

I been saying it my whole life. We are the microverse to a larger universe.

In reality, we are not alone, we are being shielded from this. I worked at arecibo observatory, we constantly found planets with a similar make up of our planet

Determining how life began on this planet would go a long way towards figuring the odds of life developing elsewhere.

I have this recurring thought that we're a failed experiment abandoned here to wipe ourselves out.

Are we alone? Absolutely not! Someone or something is flying these Tic Tac craft, and if it's not us, who the heck is operating them? They have been acknowledged and confirmed on navy radars, and also confirmed by top gun pilots dropping from 80 thousand ft to sea level in a few seconds, humans do not possess such technology that are capable of doing this!

Communication is why they are working so hard to unravel dark matter. If you can somehow manipulate the dark matter and attach a signal to it, you can essentially get instant communication... In theory.

“Where are all those advanced Civilisations, with their warp drives and other technology?” They’ up there flying around enjoying themselves. Why would they want to come down here, to our kindergarten?

perhaps we ARE the organisms that was created to explore the rest of the universe

We've only been sending radio waves for 120 years the nearest planets are 1000's of light years away and then we have to wait for the signal to come back.

They've already admitted to having aliens here

That end credits scene in men in black with the marbles blew all our minds back then

There is no fermi paradox. Aliens live in small numbers on starships. They do not colonize other worlds. Once interstellar travel becomes possible, due to time dilation, planets are prisons in time, and liabilities to survival.

As each day passes. Regardless of where we are in our the existence of aliens, we will always be closer then ever to knowing.

Maybe extraterrestrial alien civilizations (who are biological organisms, like us) don't waste and deplete all of their planetary ressources in search of intelligent life, that is so far away that they can never reach it. If that is the case it would make them smarter than human beings.

There is a giant alien looking at us through a microscope while water bears and dust mites are wondering if there is life outside of their vision 🤯

If they created us from their own dna/genetic material for a specific purpose as some older civilizations suggest, I'd think it's less of a zoo, and more of a genetic/biological and resource farm.

58:00 A higher gravity enviroment could also have a much denser atmosphere thus a greater displacement of weight via buoyancy to support them against the gravity. Counter wise a low gravity enviroment with a thinner atmosphere could actually make flying or creating lift harder, albeit jumping would be easier.

Saying that we are the only intelligent life in our galaxy is the most unintelligent thing ever said.

When he analogized that it would be like a construction crew destroying an ant hill to build a mall and not even realizing it, whooaa dude that's trippy 😊

i often hear the thinking: if there was aliens they would have found us by now.. but what if they are same stage as us or more primature? we could just aswell be the first intelligent life and the most advanced

As humans, I suppose we do have an appetite for destruction, since we continue to destroy ourselves, every day. It would make sense for other intelligent life to fear us. We've given them plenty of reasons to.

The answer to the Fermi Paradox is we are functionally blind and our astronomers are too proud to admit it

Yes Joel, good perspective...we might very well just be a little speck in a Petri dish

Look. If they did exist: 1. If they are advanced, they likely aren't using radio for communication. For example low frequency waves will actually repel charged radiation particles - yea that happens on Earth too and could be perhaps used partially to protect space ship's astronauts from some of that radiation. So could be that radio and electromagnetic type of things are used for some other purposes - even if the use of low frequencies are less used on Earth, something to do with submarines. Anyhow - there are likely other means to communicate. Sure lasers, but also even more advanced. 2. Another point is - why do we think that we are so important that they would care to even say hello? Sorry but no-one is that very important in the vast universe, that some other beings just should have to contact us or reply. More advanced, maybe they really don't have any need to. And that's only if they know we are here. In fact, they don't need to want our planet or our solar system resources or even us - there are billions up on billions of stars just within Orion's Arm alone... what was it like 800 billion. And according to really loose estimates that would leave like 2 400 000 Earth -like planets with similar star type within about 2000 light years. However, 'Earth -like' is actually quite wide description. Making these sort of estimates is nothing but guess work - and having a planet in right sort of place with similar star still wont assure there will be intelligent life on it. First is that planets could also turn our like Mars or Venus, or countless other ways. This is about the only place where the arbitrary response 'It depends.' could ever make sense, without needing to explain all the things something can depend on. Even just the size could have huge impact on end result. Second point is that getting life may be easier than ever managing to have intelligent life - how many times we had re-start on Earth before humans got along? At least five - and that is literally so long a period in time that there could have existed similarly developed intelligent life form with similar level to technology on our own planet - only to have had it vanish somehow - literally leaving no fecking traces what so ever to be found by our time, now that we know at least something about archaeology to figure shit out. There is literally time limits on how long stuff stays around. We may think the opposite, but you know, we don't even find traces of 2% of all dino species that ever existed, simply cause seeing things turn into fossils is really rare. Just how very fragmented the oldest stuff we find about our species already is. And yea, the nature will indeed erase also built environments, including modern kind, it all turns to dust with long enough time. At this point we might be able to find some anomalies in geological layers for chemicals or if some ice managed to exist long enough, from what ever that trapped from air, within it. But then again, similar traces that our civilization is making could also be the result of really active volcanic activity, vast undersea gas emissions and such. Well my point is a bit more simple than would even have required the details above - planet having intelligent life may be far less common than having life is, and at the same time, that life managing to survive and not go extinct can also be a thing. So basically, we may even not have anyone near enough to notice us - even if some planet out there was covered in algae. 3. This leads some what from the second point. Why should aliens need to contact us? Like stated - there is a ton of planets and stars out there. Never forgetting all the rogue material in between. The thing is - it does not need a life bearing planet to mine or extract other resources from somewhere. Besides if those aliens are at that point - aka capable of mining things and traveling between stars and so on - then they really have even less reason to need to come into our patch of the woods. At that point they can likely also build massive tubes or other short of structures with suitable environments for themselves and so on. And if there were many of them - well - keeping your own people relatively close may just be easier defense strategy. So instead of colonizing all over place, perhaps they just build places or even terraform. 4. What do most advanced nations all have incommon on Earth? Places with best conditions for quality of life, when we take any sort of control politics out of the equation. So what do you think happens possibly to advanced civilizations if they are well capable of providing their own kind? Many nations currently are already having issues in Europe because no-one had enough kids to take care about all the jobs those who retire will leave behind. My point is that - somehow having less challenges for individuals seems to reduce birth rates. So it could be possible that space age aliens are not actual expanding as much as we would assume. On one hand, perhaps due keeping close to their own original home planet or because they aren't perhaps having birth rates enough to do so. Well those are few points. Basically - I think that even if we have been noticed - they don't likely need to care about contacting us or even visiting the area where we are at. Sure there are folk who claim to have met aliens. But if those even were true - even partially - then who knows, perhaps the 'UFO' are actually 'time traveling' humans. And nope, there is absolutely no telling that our species would look like we do now few billion years into future. Going up into space and low gravity would likely turn us less strong physically, so that idea of large head and small body could make sense for a story. Even now we are turning more and more 'baby like' aka our features are turning softer, larger eyes and so on - than many of the earlier forms of humans were. And that's been the trait for some time. Oh well, I watched a video with some anthropologist making that point about how we will keep on evolving, but that's what I have wondered myself too - if ufo would be something to take seriously. Sure there can be many more points ideas and possible explanations. This video discusses a lot. But still, I do really think that the aliens don't necessarily need to have any reasons to need or want contact us. And if that's the case, depending on why, it may even will be really good that they do not. We all know what has happened to less advanced cultures on Earth, when more advanced folk from other areas of the planet have intruded into their lands - don't we?

It would be great if we could figure out a way to use radio waves as a cloaking device… being as we are engulfed in them..

What AI engine are you using to create AI images? :)

Maybe they stay away because they saw star wars transmitted into space from satellite and they think we have death stars. 😂

I wonder if aliens look at us the same way we look at animals and have furries, except they have hummies. They dress up and pretend to be us lol

Information between particles travel instantaneously no matter the distance. The quantum world is magical.

All of these theories are interesting, but yet they are assuming that God is not part of the equation and thus will go no where

What if alien life on other planets aren’t being found because they are using technology not found on earth? What if they are using a different wave length that we are unable to detect with our current technology?

I think the paradox is extremely arrogant. It's like thinking noone is out there because we don't see smoke signals. Or can smell their pee, rather. We had radio waves for slightly over a century and have already largely moved on to other forms of communication. And we look for... Radio waves. Were we not here before? Will we not be here after? They're there. We just don't know how to see them yet.

Ever thought that our perception of life is just stupid and arrogant? Would this view ever bring us to finding extraterrestrial life? We and you in the video assume that every possible life is like life on earth, but this is such an arrogant view that if we continue like this, I think we reduce the chance of even possibly finding some theoretical extraterrestrial life massively

Maybe it's different biology that keeps us apart from different advanced lifeforms. Our biosphere could be toxic to their bacterial makeup and vice versa.

Never mind the government knowing about aliens & having their reverse-engineered tech... But that "Cant be proven"... Yet.. Nice video either way. I love this content.

It also seems that one factor which continues to be overlooked here that would allow us to extrapolate how much is actually known, would be the fact that humanity has been lied to as long as history has been recorded. The governments know so much and secret away technologies and ancient writings also hidden in the Vatican and many other strongholds on the planet. We can hypothesize and dream as much as we want, however until all information is shared openly, we don’t even know the half of what we’re capable of and what we have already achieved, along with what our true history and evolution is as a species.

I've always thought that we /are/ the self replicating machines dropped onto this planet but we didn't evolve properly to continue the mission of spreading to other planets.

Density of dimensions changes our perception of distance of time

I always thought as if time and space is relative so may be possible that our entire universe is like a piece of mold on a corner of an untouched area of some house. As when we clean dust each particle can easily be a universe. In the same way bacteria is tiny to us, our galaxy can be a atom as well to another civilization.

This has to be one of the absolute best videos I have ever seen on RU-vid ! The amount of research time and effort it took to create this video was immense. All of the incredible subjects were described so plainly and simply. And all of those incredible computer graphic alien creatures, planets, solar systems was so impressive. I kept putting the video on pause while I enjoyed observing the incredible pictures and images.

now they have a convenient explanation for the dome covering the earth

They've probably been trying to contact us too but in a way that is far different and complex us that we miss it altogether

Being a 80's baby, watching this brings the song smooth criminal by"alien ant farm" to a whooooooole new level

For interstellar flights you would need a communication method that is faster than light. This is why we can't detect any of their signals. Since this is well beyond our present technology.

Another possibility is the fact that as we've developed we've stopped broadcasting radio signals as much as we did around the 1940s. Scientists are starting to think it's a blip in a civilizations development so we basically it like looking for a needle in a galaxy of haystacks

I am a total layman with limited understanding of a lot of these concepts, yet I have a huge interest in all of it. My question is this. If we have legitimate footage of things flying around on our planet, and we have no knowledge of what they are or who made them, and they defy everything we know about flight, and propulsion, and can maneuver in ways we thought impossible, why are we still questioning whether or not we are alone in the galaxy or universe? From where I stand, that seems like some pretty solid evidence for extraterrestrials from somewhere. Again, total layman, and truly trying to understand it all as best I can. I would greatly appreciate anybody with a better understanding of these things helping me understand a bit better.

100% what I've been thinking it's a possibility more and more in the recent years. Or more so like an experiment. Find habitable planets and modify or port the life there and observe. Why not lol we do it all the time on a smaller scale.

Dyson spheres are ridiculous, do you understand how many planets that would take and the millennium it could take to build such a thing. I am sure in the future when the understanding of the fabric of space we will find much easier was to obtain the energy we need, after all the universe is made up of energy.

A question regarding Voyagers 1 and 2 ... As far as I know, both Voyagers 1 and 2 have left what is considered our solar system and are now in interstellar space. What means of propulsion does either craft still have? If fuel supplies have been completely depleted, that would mean each craft is adrift and could be affected by any cosmic body that happens to pass within a proximity that its gravitational pull could affect either voyager 1 or 2's trajectory and could either craft be gravitationally pulled back toward our sun? There are comets and asteroids that follow some wildly eccentric orbits that bring them back toward the sun every 76 years (Haley's Comet) could either voyager 1 and/or 2 get caught up in this type of eccentric orbit ?

Why does everyone jjust assume that all intelligent alien life would be similar to us, or life on earth as a whole? Imagine life that never made the migration on to land, how would a civilization based in liquid evolve? Or lifeforms without some of our senses that instead evolved to interact with their surroundings in completely different ways..

Just because "nobody" is out there doesn't mean there life isn't absolutely everywhere in the universe, our galaxy and perhaps our solar system. It took something like 3.6 billion years for very intelligent life to appear on this planet from the very first form of life. Were we lucky it happened that quickly? For all we know, conditions might be incredibly rare for life to become very intelligent. I'd be skeptical of any signs of life found within our solar system anyway. I'd be thinking that such life likely hitched a ride from something like an asteroid strike.