There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way
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Published 2024-04-16
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We often assume that advanced technology will make it easy for aliens to colonize space. But what if space exploration is always difficult, no matter how advanced you are?
Let’s travel back in human history, to the colonization of Oceania over 5000 years ago, to find parallels between ancient explorers and extraterrestrial civilizations.
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All Comments (21)
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See the news from a bird's eye view above the framing at ground.news/nutshell
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Statistically speaking, no matter how good Fermi is at approximating things, we're still externalizing from an observation on a sample of N=1.
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An assumption often made is that spacefaring civilisations will be after planets, rather than resources for habitable megastructures and fleets
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7:35 Flirted with extinction might be one of my top kurzgesagt phrases
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To extend the analogy - knowing what happened when other civilisations discovered the Polynesians suddenly makes the idea of us meeting with aliens pretty scary
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For every like I'll study for 1 hour
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"And this, is a hypothesis surrounding aliens" "Kurzgesagt, this is the ninth time you've shown aliens in class today"
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I'd love to see an episode exploring this theme more, regarding all the means of communication that other civilizations might be using, that we are not or cannot yet look for.
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I feel like for interstellar communication or interaction between civilizations. You need to have one of three things: 1) Travel speeds above light speed 2) Wormholes 3) a species which ages very slowly. If their life expectancy is 2000 years, traveling for some hundred years is still feasible
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I was not ready for "its free real estate" to show up in a Kurzgesagt video of all places
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There's one complication: we don't actually need to live on planets. With the high tech that allows interstellar travel, you can easily build giant space stations to live on, powered by your friendly neighbourhood fusion reactor (your Sun) even if you yourself haven't figured out fusion.
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The kuleshov/Eisenstein/Hitchcock reference on your Ground News ad really cracked me up, thank you.
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Thanks kurzgesagt you always make videos for us even through it takes hours and loads of work,thank you kurzgesagt
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"Mars is the worst,.... except Venus is even worse" I giggled at that for some reason😂
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I just want to say, analogizing Oceania to space is brilliant
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Adding this video to my inspiration playlist. Great things to think over for my scifi setting.
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Animations are great and you guys can talk about any topic objectively. Really good.
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I really want a Civilization-style video game with Kurzgesagt's art style where I can colonize or conquer space.
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Im still just a child and don’t have money but I got your app purely bc of how much I love science and your videos and noticed it’s been a while since you updated it and I’m really hoping for new updates(I know your team is really busy on videos but I’ve been waiting for a while and it’s just a hope for it to update more bc of how much I love u and ur vids)
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the divergent evolution of different planets is something i felt was really missing in dune, that i really wanted to see more of