The Fermi Paradox: Whispers in the Night 

The difference is, large spaceships may be more like the Diamond Princess than a country in terms of population density.

@@petersmythe6462 Ya a big one I dream of going out pioneer style by myself and making a claim on some asteroid just me and my robot mining buddies. Maybe once I get bored I'll build a hotel out of the hollowed out asteroid and let you guys come visit.

neko girls here we come hahahaha

The cat people from Dr Who

Housecat paradox: Fiskers in the night

Just prep yourself some S&M inspired armor and remember that Mohawks are optional.

Same here! Yesterday I thought it was Sunday. It’s never been this bad though. Normally I’m off a day but not two full days.

Enjoy!

Isaac is clearly in the pocket of big snack

Lays: *rubs bbq chip dusted hands greedily*

@@uTubeMeltsYourBrain Noooo it's not fair I only bought staples and not snacks whyyyyyyyy

Same here - try to find ways to maintain mental health - its vital for our immunesystem. try those guys: ru-vid.com

@@jean-lucpicard581 Man, I love those guys! I can't start or end my day without a good meditation, my personal favorite is the exploring the universe sleep meditation go figure huh!

Hopefully Isaac does an episode on Fermi Paradox: Pandemics

@@Xperim now I wonder what a galactic pandemic would be called, if a pandemic is world wide, what is galactic wide, or supercluster wide?

braaaaaaains more braaaaaaaaains

Actually I think there should be a piece on space pandemics.

@@twilightcitystudios yea I mean if there is going to be "space Sex" (Pan Spermia) might as well have space sexually transmitted diseases too!!! Space AIDS !!!!!.. EXcept for the movie Ice Pirates in 1985 already pulled this off with "Space Herpes"

Democracy is only a word...

It would be amazing to know about their culture, the music they create.

I think democracy actually inhibits progress overall. Collectivism is much more conducive to large-scale efforts generally speaking.

Storywalker4 You may be correct, however if the twentieth century has taught us anything it's that governments who actually implement large scale collectivism have done so in a militaristic way, that's fine if you like that sort of arrangement, and technological development is surpressed and controlled, which resulted in inferior products produced in those countries.

@@Storywalker4 I honestly disagree. True, highly authoritarian states gave us the pyramids, the great Wall of china, etc. However, I think a high degree of intellectual freedom and at least some degree of economic freedom is important for the spread of new ideas and technologies. Similarly, I think having a sense of citizenship that includes a role in chosing ones leaders allows people to feel like they have a stake in the system. I think democracy is very good for progress. It may not always be good at putting that progress towards the common good, Authoritarian states are good at maintaining stability. We may in fact go that way to protect us from our selves. Maybe under such a civilization, we would spread out to the solar system and nearby star systems because there would be the will and the resources to commit to such undertakings. This is also progress. Each type of society creates progress in it's own way

Aliens land and they give us the alien flu and we all die!

I dunno...If I were from an alien civilisation I probably wouldn't want to know us either.

Ya what if we all evolved during an intergalactic plague that has destroyed all other civilizations and we have no idea about it

@@alanheadrick7997 Aliens send a probe: "Those f*ckers have Covid19, abort first contact mission immidiately".

If we ever meet aliens we'll probably be wearing suits the whole time. Just shaking hands at first contact we'd infect each other with whatever we're carrying with us. Then every innocuous organism transmitted will find itself on a whole new species with no natural defenses against it.

Was just watching a crazy video about the human eye and reality kind of different compared to Isaac ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PV_gmk4z2GY.html

Well now you can bring it to all of your classes.

And a cigarette 😂🤣 😂

Thanks! 😀

We disclaim that

don't worry about reapers, we are full of Shepards. ;)

@@DanielMartinez-lz3ot We are also full of Illusive Man's (Men?), so I would still be slightly worried.

@@xShadow_God well hell that was discouraging, lets keep our fingers crossed that they all smoke and get space cancer.♥♥♥

I guess the viruses arrived first...

@@totalermist They always do!

Sara, 8347 y/o, 4027 light years from you

Orion babes prefer earth men 😉

Garrett Ord ... Your comment right ☝️there ☝️is freaking hilarious! Nicely played.

This channel is not really about recruiting people into superstitious cults. Are you a Raelian or Scientologist?

Thank~you Ivan. This was a pleasure!

Hey Ivan, I have also read The Allies of Humanity briefings, a very interesting read and definitely an eye opener....not quite like the world of Star Trek hey???

​@@ObiNovi The Allies are definitely an eye opener. I guess I can't even realize at this point how important read they are. The fate of humanity rests on wisdom and perspective from those books. Thanks for the comment.

Hey look a genocidal civilization let's knock them back to the stone age and explain to them the error of their ways.

@@calvingreene90 Not if they genocide you first.

@@MrMonkeybat What makes you think the genocidal will be first?

@@calvingreene90 That's the spirit!

​@@calvingreene90 Repressive Tolerance is just left wing language for "Might Makes Right". One is completely justified in responding accordingly.

Too many believe in Aliens even though all extinct & extant life on Earth evolved from 5 unrelated cells in 1B years: 2 for fungi, 2 for plants and 1 for all micro/macroscopic life. *Think:* More bacteria have lived on Earth in the last 1B years than there are stars, planets & moons in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE yet only ONCE did two of those bacteria merge to form a cell that spawned all animal & plant life on Earth in the last 1B years. 1 generation of 1 TRILLION bacteria live and die on Earth every few days. We are lucky to be alive.

@@hiqhduke Yeah, this is a point I read in the beginning of both, Micheal Chichton's novel Sphere, & The Kassa Gambit, one Isaac Arthur also noted, either as part of what he believes the most likely scenario for the Fermi Paradox, or as one of the plausible options on the table. Heck it's the point that made the theory of evolution click for me, perfectly addressing the last issue I had with the model. I find the fact that we're here now as not just multi cellular, or chordate (has a spine) life, all of which are incredibly uncommon groups to find yourself within, but as human beings, within the information age at that, is incredulous.

PS. Basically every Earth-like planet will have billions and billions of one-celled creatures replicating constantly. Even if life is one in a trillion, any planet supporting carbon-based life should eventually evolve multicellular life. Also your calculations aren't taking into account that these forms of life might have arisen many times, but just get eaten or otherwise destroyed by the life that became established previously. That all present life arose from very similar life (is genetically descended) doesn't mean they were the only forms that arose. Your logic is faulty.

Octopus and squid. Recently Joe Scott presented a thesis to suggest these creatures may have a separate biogenesis. Worth checking out!

@@polarisraven5613 you have NO counter examples. No life found off earth, to even begin estimating these odds. It's just as likely, without more evidence, that everytime life arose it develops into technological intelligence. There's countless science fiction that present lizard/dinosaur people.

soon bro, soon. ;)

What were the other 2? I only saw this

Industrial belts and a trillion people

Yes, the beer virus got you.

The pandemic is still not over because stupid people refuse to wear masks!!!! Mankind are officially idiots

I’m from there

If we receive a signal and it is compressed digitally, then it is likely the signal's intended target was not us. We would be ease-dropping on some alien HBO show without a decryption device! Aliens with an intention to communicate with a group that does not have decryption (like a new contact) would not use encrypted signals. I am a futurist and I believe first contact will be over unencrypted channels... because you cannot have a first contact on an encrypted channel!

@@roblaquiere8220 eaves-dropping, ease dropping is what you do in the toilet.

@@lucidnonsense942 oops lol! You got me I stand corrected.

@EmperorJuliusCaesar I never realized how many amazing astronomers were in South America is it because they have lots of clear air or what?

Discomfort - You just proved the existence of God.

@@harpodjangorose9696 I disagree.

Jonathan Cole - Of course you do. It was a joke.

@@harpodjangorose9696 Not 'a' God, but many. Possibly dark ones, hungering for the energies found only in young Universes. And now they eat away throughout the multiverse, faced with an infinite buffet of sustenance, ever consuming what they come across. I pray the near-infinitesimal probability they shall sink their teeth in ours never comes true.

I'll be looking that up now, thank you.👍

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At this point I’d take the flipping Draconian Empire over what’s going on these days. At least if they really exist, they’ve been doing SOMETHING right to persevere for 100000 years.

Oh we gonna clap those alien cheeks believe me.

@Sal Vastola It was hungry, so it decided to takeout some Chinese

Last time I was this early covid-19 only affected bats

@Sal Vastola Winnie the Flu!

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong.

Edward Dutton's " At Our Wit's End ".

tf

That idea has been done to death

Not as bad as say building pyramids in hopes of carrying your junk to the afterlife. Now we're getting less epic with our mistakes, stay positive. :)

@@mikejones-vd3fg Are we ?(!) I doesn't meant to be negative But the humanity; despite the age, still suffers from a few unsane groups choices, such as the New plague resulted form unsanitary consumption habits :/

many cheap antennas in phase behave as one extra expensive and extra large.

@@stanislavbandur7355 there isn't even a single advanced antenna on the orbit either :[

@neil u *Exactly!* Sars - Swine Flu and now we have Corona

James Kirk would just ignore it...

Well... At least that implies they will show you around the site of their civilisations, might be worth it, for the amazing sights.

If I could create such a device and unleash it I would. So there literally is a non zero chance of such a thing.

@@Drak976 But doesn't that mean you would unleash a "grey goo" scenario? Not cool, my dude..🤣🤣

If there was an alien civilisation right here right now (and I believe to some degree there is although they're definitely not flying around in weather balloon shaped UFOs) it would be more feasible to help us bit by bit along the way but accept viruses that kill 1% of the population or large natural disasters as collateral. They'd probably not even intervene if we nuked ourselves to heck because who would want to give a race like that super cool alien technology if all they do is kill each other.

I am curious to see that video but am prepared to be saddened by the limited possibilities - non carbon life will probably be really simple. I hope he goes into the possible chemistry a bit!

@@scrambo6182 what about lifeforms that are not based on atomic nuclei

@@rockoyhead Well, this video was made in 2020, and the schedule for the Non-Carbon based life episode was April 16th. I watched the video two years ago, and now you can too! It has the exact name, "Non-Carbon Based Life". Still, non-atomic life would be very extreme and limited in scope, given the limitations that you impose upon complexity when you deprive yourself of atoms to work with.

lack of toiletpaper?

@Prowler Cam , or their species had idiots like you.

@@douglasrowland9986 because he is right? Trump is just a symptom, the disease is a cult of ignorance.

@@gameoverinsertcointocontin8102 : And his short-term focus shows him to just be an example of the other half of the same coin.

@@gameoverinsertcointocontin8102 , because I am sick of idiots like him bringing his cow feces into everything. If I wanted to hear orange man bad, I would watch CNN!

If slavery was not fun for the master it would not be practiced today because there are cheaper ways to get work done.

@@calvingreene90 I heard somewhere that if child slavery ends, cocoa beans prices would skyrocket. So there is still at least one industry that uses slavery for profit. There might be better ways of farming cocoa beans that are yet to be discovered.

on utube u can find clips of official slave markets in north east africa in 2018-20. the current price for an african male slave is $700 and dropping, it was $2000 a few years ago. afaik it was a steady ~ $4000 a few decades ago. even if slavery was 100% legal worldwide in the future, slavery would in practise be gone bcuz a slave is just self-taxing with more costs, dangers and liabilities than use and profit when compared to the technology the same money buys. in the future only a few will take a slave even for free. especially male slaves are useless and burdensome, women may have that one use. equality for male slaves union members when lol...

@@calvingreene90 theres always that 🤔

Depends on your definition of slavery. We are VERY fond of creating slaves. In fact, from a certain point of view you're probably surrounded by them right now. Really, the question in practice isn't 'Do I own any slaves' but 'how intelligent are my slaves?' I mean 'advanced, automated society' by definition essentially implies robot slavery. Granted, whether you actually care about the technicality that a robot which follows a simple program and cannot do much of anything else, nor has much of a 'life' to speak of... It's still a slave of sorts. Something you have doing work for you without it having any kind of say in the matter... So, in that regard, can you really ever say that we're free of slavery? If you're talking about human-level intelligence or something... Then the problem of advanced AI crops up. I might not consider the computer I'm typing on right now a slave... But what if, 40 years from now I have an android maid? I 'own' that android. The nature of it's intelligence may not line up with that of a human, but it is reasonably comparable... I don't pay it. It does whatever I tell it to (within reason), and generally does the things I don't feel like doing... Is that a slave? Because it sounds like one to me... Would it make it better if it was less intelligent? Would it make it better if it enjoyed it's work? See what I mean? It's very hard to avoid scenarios where there are not slaves of some description, because in the end it often devolves into an argument about the nature of life, individuality, choice and so on. Do I know that my computer is OK with what I do with it? Well I can't exactly ask it, and I generally don't even consider the question in the first place. But just because it cannot communicate it's desires to me, does that mean it stops being a slave? What about if that hypothetical robot maid has similar rights to a human being? I would have to pay for it's services and it can choose not to work for me (even if the pay is very low by our standards) Does that make it OK now? How about if we forced this situation on the android against it's wishes just to make ourselves feel less guilty? After all, it was purpose-built to be a servant (very definition of a slave race, really, isn't it?), and if it's programming is in line with that, it might be upset by the extra steps it has to go through now to fulfill it's own desires... Extra steps we introduced solely to make us feel less guilty about the slave labour surrounding us... Then again, you could make the same argument about having a job, given the consequences for most people of actually quitting their job... That's technically not slavery, but... Where do you draw the line? Being forced by threat of (indirect) death to spend a substantial chunk of your time doing what someone else tells you to is... Anyway, do you see how confusing this gets? Where's the line between slavery and just having a job? Where's the line between a living thing where the idea of slavery holds meaning and an inanimate object where it does not? It's not as simple as saying one is a slave and another is not... The delineation can get pretty vague at times for a wide variety of reasons. People that are officially considered slaves may in fact have more freedoms than some groups which are not. Where do animals factor into this? If I keep a horse in a field and force it to carry me around, does that make the horse a slave? Why, or why not? Is my pet cat a slave? After all, if I tried to keep a human as a pet that likely wouldn't be well regarded, and the most likely accusation would be that I own a slave, regardless of how I treat that person... This is a really messy subject once you actually try to consider what slavery actually is in a broader context...

Dovahkin, dohvahkin, not a single sardine.

Maybe I'm the dragon born and I don't know it yet.

Who would win in a fight between the Dragonborn and 2B/9S?

As he points out, the colonies may quickly become our competition.

in space, transfer of personnel and material is regulated and monitored, and if we're talking long distances word of an infection braking out will reach the destination long before the ship carrying the potential infected(hell, depending on the illness, they might go through the whole sickness and be infection free by the time they get where they were going anyway). basically, quarantine is supper easy in space, as things need to be airtight, filtered, cleaned, monitored, etc. anyway.

work? a rare thing nowadays... you work in a toiletpaper plant?

I’d imagine that’s one of the reasons he says you’d be sending out as many as you could, if you were smart

possibly but unlikely.

Roarke Griffon I think Isaac Arthur has in one of the Great Filters episodes, either rare life or rare intelligence.