Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us

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This was actually optimistic.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it. -Jack Handey

Humans quite possibly being the first (or among the first) sentient species in the universe makes it really interesting. Eons from now, they'll dig up our bones, and learn of our futile attempts to call out to a cold unfeeling universe, desperate for any evidence that we aren't alone.

Dark forest theory: don't make noise or will be killed. Kurtz: imagine someone cutting down trees and starting fires. 😂

Kurzgesagt is the only channel that is able to talk about the race between civilisations to conquer the universe and still make it a wholesome story

I love how this answer to the Fermi paradox basically states that the galaxy is pretty much a Stellaris game. Wait no, that's actually terrifying.

This reminds me of a story idea I wanted to write. It's about a Star Trek like universe where you find out that ALL of the Alien species came about because Humanity (now basically extinct in the story) spread far and wide and teraformed so many new planets then billions of years go by and now all of these planets that Humans created and grew are now evolving life of their own. Basic premise is Humanity is alone in their time. No major flora or fauna on any major planet. Humanity turns out to be the Gardeners and cultivators of the universe and are the reason the universe is teaming with life in the far future. In our search for life we end up being the catalyst that starts the boom.

I've been thinking about this recently... Imagine how difficult it would've been to start civilization without wood. Imagine if trees didn't exist. Not just for the oxygen, but for a robust yet malleable building material, renewable and overall just much easier to work with than rock.

I wish they expanded on the concept of "How close would humanity need to be to detect itself?"

This is actually really well shown in the game Stellaris, where everyone starts off at about the same point despite there being primitive civilizations in the galaxy. The primitives basically stand no chance of ever expanding because you've claimed every bit of space around them. If they want to be part of the galaxy you have to integrate them, ether peacefully, through subterfuge, or good old fashioned bigger army diplomacy.

Something that seems to be forgotten; any light we see is a direct representation of the past, equivalent to the time it took for the light to get here. When looking to further parts of the galaxy, you have a much greater chance of looking towards life, except for the fact that for every additional light year further out, you add a year in to the past of whatever you’re seeing. The civilizations could be everywhere say 1000 light years away, but we’re seeing 1000 years into the past.

"put themselves as equals" we can't even put our owns as equals lmao

Star Wars is on its way to become a reality.

The idea that our Sun developed as soon as the Universe stopped being so hostile and celular life appeared as soon as oceans appeared on a planet of it gives me a lot of optimism.

Interplanetary racism is gonna be wild

I just imagined some aliens on the other side of our galaxy that are also thinking "Are we alone?"

As an alien, I can confirm the content of this video is accurate.

As Arthur C Clarke said “ we are either alone in the universe or there’s other life out there, either is equalling terrifying “

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