The 4 Most Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox 

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I've always thought it was a crazy question. We are,arguably intelligent ,but even if we knew there were 500 intelligent species in Andromeda, it would still take millions of years at the speed of light to reach them and the same for a reply. Even our closest star would be extremely hard to communicate with and very slow, taking a lifetime for a conversation. The only way to get around the universe requires generational ships, ships almost the size of planets with generations being born, living and passing on as it travels amoung the stars. We will really have to make some hard choices if a ship like that ever shows up here. After traveling for hundreds or thousands of years to get here, we might not have the option of telling them,"Move along! Nothing to see here! Move along!".¥

If you assume that there is life out there on other planets you might also agree that among all of them one is the most advanced of all. What if that planet is Earth and there is no shortcut to the stars. We have to be the ones to figure it out.

Voyagers and Pioneers are very small and soon the Voygers will join the Pioneers in silence when their weak transmissions end. If we in the future would like to pick them up and put in a museum, it would be a very hard job t find them even when we know their direction and speed. An alien civilization finding them, even when there are billions of years for them to find the spacecraft, is very, very low indeed.

The zoo hypothesis reminds me of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", one of my favorite novels. To me, the hypothesis that makes the most sense is the idea that a technological society has a self-limiting life span, that any society with the ability to destroy itself will eventually do so through climate change, nuclear war, or other self-inflicted harm. If we assign the beginning of our technological civilization with the industrial revolution, it is entirely possible that the life span of a technological society is only a few hundred years before it destroys itself. The hazards may not completely annihilate all life on the planet, but could certainly kick us back to a pre-industrial society that could again take hundreds or thousands of years to recover, at which time, the technological cycle begins anew.

Read the Three Body Problem trilogy （三体) and you will be thankful that we have not found aliens. The 2nd book is _literally called_ The Dark Forest.

I like your take on things. Easy to watch and listen

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]

There are many people who experience a temporary death. I feel these are important because the more science we learn the more significant the invisible becomes apparent. Dark matter and the electromagnetic spectrum being a couple examples. One person who was temporarily dead asked their guide to see a couple worlds one of which was less evolved and the other being more evolved. Not only was the more evolved world more technologically advanced they were spiritually advanced too. Two questions our current science seems to avoid are consciousness and spirituality. If science manages to tackle the question of consciousness then I suspect many doors will be open and many questions will be answered. However like our previous discoveries when one question is answered many are raised.

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… as a German Biochemist Ph D - We can not imagine What an Advanced Civilization is What advanced technology is What other Civilizations are far advanced The transition from Bio Life to Techno Sphere Synthetic “Life” The way we are eager to see What other worlds may look like How to get there… The same way Earth was detected Millions of Years ago By other curious beings And eventually get here To study Earth and Life in situ And transmit that in ways unimaginable to us We are like Ants Compared to any higher Civilization And they may treat us like Ants… Assisting in our Self Titanick

This script is all over the place. Did you use AI to generate it?

I find it extremely surprising that the Sentinalese can not make fire. It's such an ancient human skill, and every previously uncontacted tribe I've ever learned about had a technique for generating fire. To me it suggests they have been isolated for a ridiculously long time if they have no knowledge of fire making. It just seems so crazy to me. I had assumed that fire making was ubiquitous human skill shared by all humanity. Im really surprised by this.

the policing from a distance to save us from an unknown (to our species anyway) hostile scenario sounds like "The Black Knight Satellite" to me...anyone else thinking along a similar line of thought?!

I went to the ocean with a cup, I dipped it in and concluded that sharks do not exist, there were no sharks in my cup.

The Fermi Paradox has no answer because life cannot be proven to exist apart from Earth.

That assumes they can still detect such primitive communications. They might have long since found a faster communication medium.

In the Copernicus principle you can not take earth as a random sample

One favourite explanation for the Fermi Paradox is that an extremely advanced alien race breeds inferior species to develop intelligence and weaponry. When they are ready, the aliens come to make them warriors, a delightful Twilight Zone episode, A Small Talent for War.

3 stars that disappeared could be from the Perseus meteor shower from July 17 to August 15 1952 that is in the time frame but then you got those 7 other that were much dimmer that would be a picture right before they burned out what are the chances of that it could happen and that would definitely be at a peak time frame

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While I am a believer in “Rare Earth” if I am wrong, I wonder if the solution to the Fermi Paradox is the “Methuselah Trap”.

I think the power we seek and they had in ancient times is a magnetic top spun with refracted sunlight. Something like that.

Perhaps its simply that Fermi couldn't be bothered to pull his head out of the sand, and consider that he was as wrong as anyone coukd be.

Humans have been on the scene 3 million years give or take. The cosmos is up to and probably older than 13.8 billion years old. Hundreds of civilizations if nor thosands may have come snd gone and we just happen to be the only compmex life in he universe at the moment. Probably not as "soecial" as we think.

I came to read the comments, but everyone wrote paragraphs...tldr😂

Funny one of voyagers messages is have you eaten yet, human buffet anybody.

Considering the likelihood that interstellar space travel is impossible in the timescale of human lifetimes it’s probably pointless to worry about these questions!

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If intelligent life ever existed on other planets and are anything like us humans, I can see why we never see any signals from them. They only get to a certain point in their advancement before power, greed and war wipe themselves out.

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Here's a possibility to the Fermi, All the space travel capable intelligent life has begun its nice to the edge of the galaxy in anticipation of Andromeda and Milkyway merging. And figure if a civilization can't save it self from its own sun, and to a safe distance in the galaxy, then not to interfere and contaminate its growth.

There is no paradox, just bad assumptions about the nature of life and the universe.

All the aliens work in hollywood 😊

Admitting that we know that there's a lot we don't yet know !!! Dimensions are first on that list !!!

This is the Prime Directive of the Federation . Makes sense to me

These civilizations, if they exist, are hundreds of millions of years ahead of us. I cannot imagine any technology we could develop that would threaten the safety of the galaxy, that they could not easily counter.

I think that describing the Earth is zoo. It's not a zoo it's more in that theory and preserve a preservation. There's huge differences there. A wildlife reserve.

When you say not common in our universe maybe just in our neck of the universe you got to remember we're on the farthest points of our universe we're on like an arm that reaches out to nowhere in the center of our galaxy there could be a ton of life

the answer is super simple: we are them , and we are protected by species in bible and old greek methology

So what you are saying there towards the end is that there may be an intergalactic version of Team America: World Police out there? AMERICA! F YEAH!

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Ok so I think anyone that has watch Rick and Morty can agree that it would be funny if aliens saw us in early evolution and decided to convince us they were god

It's likely a predator species out there,we are like the baby bird that can't fly yet, screaming our lungs out ....we need to learn to listen,instead of screaming.

Scariest message to receive from aliens: "Be quiet. They might hear you."

@ InsaneCuriosity- we have been broadcasting since 1974?!? LOL Yeah that's technically correct but we have been broadcasting a LOT longer than that! I might 'technically' be wrong but no I don't see how!

The number of advanced civilizations we have seen, 0. We have sent a handful of men to our moon, so we aren't even an interplanetary civilization, so if we can't find warp or jump drives then we aren't going to colonize the galaxy.

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Based on the evidence, my vote is that we are alone.

Even if Earth is very rare mathematically there should still be millions of planets with some kind of similar life is Earth

They have already got on video showing them beam a red cross at nuclear silos and rockets to neutralise the bomb inside them

Maybe human thinking causes aliens 👽 to get headaches, so they stay away.

How are you still speculating about the Fermi Paradox solution when I've told you about it months ago already? Just look it up with the phrase "Ethics on Cosmic Scale" to know the real reason, thanks.

I would assume that it takes a universe to support a living planet...meaning everything that has happened in the universe including supernovae cosmic rays etc etc etc in the past was what it took to make a planet that supports life....everything happening in the present universe is to maintain that planet and everything in the future will lead to the end of life on the planet and then there will be no need for this universe

I kind of like the idea of a galactic police force roaming around protecting civilians who don't even know it.

I honestly believe we are the sentinel island, virtually everything they do is exactly what powerfull supposedly advanced nations would do, but the irony of the fire scenario, 80 % of our power generation comes from coal or other hydro-carbons which is similar to waiting for a natural event to occur in order to produce something you need.

I think it’s simple there is most likely plenty of life out there but it’s just too far away: 50,000 year to out close star with our current technology.. think about that 50,000 years!!

The speed of light is far too slow to cross the vastness of the universe, hyper sleep maybe ?

If we don't have their technology, how do we know they have technology above ours? I'm just saying 😅 when will Area 51 be open for spaceship rides?

How bout ... The energy requirements prohibit interstellar travel for ANY of us living beings. They are at home surfing their own internet

I think the Zoo Theory is the most plausible theory.

Maybe we have heard and The Masters just haven't told us? Why would they tell us? It would cause a worldwide toilet paper shortage!

The Zoo hypothesis is kind of laughable.

I think this question is very closely linked to the question of God's existence. We need to distinguish God as the creator of the universe, and there are two possibilities. Possibility 1 is the creator carried out creation by accident, and doesn't even know he created us. Or creation was a deliberate act but as the universe split from the creator's reality instantly the creator doesn't know he was successful. Finally, God may have known he created a universe but has been careful not to interfere with the evolution of the universe. All of these possibilities would end up being the same if God does not exist at all, so all of these possible universes can be called atheistic universes. God either doesn't exist, or God plays no part in the way things go. God is an observer only, even if he does exist. On the other hand God may have deliberately created the universe, knows it created the universe and plays an active role in the evolution of the universe. Call this a theistic universe. This is still not the Biblical God. It could be anyone from an all powerful a knowing super being to a kid making our universe as a school project that will earn a grade of D. In an atheistic universe the universe has no reason for being created and our lives are random events. In an atheistic universe life will be very rare. In a theistic universe life could be a rare accident or it could be everywhere. If it's the latter, there may be a vast interstellar confederation of aliens all around us, but the deliberately hide this fact from human civilization. It can't be that hard to isolate a single system, especially if you take humans from Earth in the past then send them to live on Earth, helping to maintain the isolation. How hard would it be to accomplish that. Any sign of life is written off before it can be published. It should also be noted, in the 1970's a deliberate message was sent to a star cluster very far away. We know for certain that this is a message sent deliberately. But if the aliens receive such a message have the same technology and the same protocols that we have, it could not be classed as a message sent from "others." It is possible we have already gotten such a message, but because it failed to meet our high standards to qualify such a message as "for sure from aliens" we just don't know it yet. Scariest message to receive: Be quiet, them might hear you.

You know what be the first thing somebody would do but try to steal the technology from them second they don't come here is how we treat each other we are very Savage look at all the alien movies we attacked first or try to cut them up scientific reasons not one movie tried to be be friends with them first

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So you're saying there's a Skynet hypothesis.😂😂

Is this an AI voice?

The Fermi paradox has always been stupid to me. We haven't even scratched the vastness of the universe to say that it isn't teeming with life. And there aren't ancient technologies on our own planet that we can't create, we don't even know what to look for out there.

If there is oil out there Texas will find it.

The real paradox is that any one if us is alive to start with. Like why wasnt I john from 1833 or sarah from 2257, why now a concious and here. And life should either be so normal we should easily have found it by now or so rate we are the only ones and technically shouldn't exist... I mean even in the perfect lab conditions with everything perfect for life from non living stuff. Nothing ever appears. Odd to how they make artificial coal and oil in just days or weeks as they claim it takes millions of years in nature...

The only way we can even know exoplanets exist is by listening to the amplitude modulation signal of the power of a sun as an exoplanet shades us from a bit of their suns power. Only by transmitting a signal with the power of a sun can we hope for somebody to hear us. We have no ability to generate such power and probably neither do any aliens.

Anyone who thinks that The Earth isn't so Special.... doesn't deserve to be here ! *F Anyone who doesn't think that The Earth is Special !* *FJB too !*

Aliens don't want to communicate with us, you say why?, simple, because to the aliens we are still swinging in the trees.

Very good and intuitive video. Just hope that USA is not part of our journey into the galaxies.

As I understand it, any signal from somewhere outside our solar system would take far to long to reach us, even at the speed of light.

Being a police force in the universe.........how's that working on planet earth? Guess we need universe judges,DA,lawyers,jails prisons( what if earth is a jail or prison and those in jail /prison earth did some crime that we must know life and know death.....) and to tell a species that they can't do what they want to do .......that are smarter and tech advanced would be kinda funny

We know nothing regarding exoplanets. It's all theory and conjecture...

If you believe in a creator there’s no reason to think the creator stop creating

Sumerians and all old civs say GODS CAME FROM THE SKY they say they gave us the knowledge. You get it. You have it on earth lots of histories monuments etz , but yes human still weak on their brain.

What is more likely? That all the intelligent life in the universe looks like us or is vastly different from us?

I guess my main issues is the amount of hubris exposed when you think you have any ability to understand an alien culture. Its is the same amount of hubris and thinking error shown when talking about true AGI. Humans know humans the best of any life in the universe and we regularly can't understand why some of us act and do the things we do, but we will regularly pontificate on why we do or dont see aliens, what their motives or interests might be to explain what we do or dont see. I dont think it is a useless excercise, but there needs to be regular and concrete caveats letting everyone know, all of this is absolute fantasy.

The reason that we have not heard from ET is simple. We are far to infantile. As long as we posses the means to exterminate ourselves several times over. As long as we exhibit our nature of tribalism for all the universe to see. As long as we squabble amongst ourselves with useless wars that only kill our fellow humans. As long as we let whole nations starve and suffer needlessly as we look on unfazed I wouldn't want to contact us either. In short as long as we refuse to get our sh!t together as a civilized planet we are not likely to hear from anyone out there. Except to hear the words "O.K. we are done with this bunch time to start over with a new batch". That is if they even bother to do that much.

We've had highly developed civilizations on Earth before the last ice-age.

5. We are the dirty smelly kid of the universe. Since we haven't figured out clean energy or how NOT to pollute our planet, aliens look at Earthlings as that kid in Elementary that smelled bad with the 3 day old koolaid stain around his lips.

Consider using a normal voice rather than sounding like a game show host.

why the stupid music, you think we need it, or it makes the vid more interesting ?....AFC vid..... anything for clicks right ?

Had to stop half way in. Too long talking about those natives on that island. I thought this was supposed to be a video about Fermi paradox in relation to possible extraterrestrial civilizations, not people on an island living in the Stone Age. 👎

Dumb theory: there's intelligent life out there, just not as many as you see in certain sci-fi TV or movies.