There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way
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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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@kurzgesagt 16 днів тому
See the news from a bird's eye view above the framing at ground.news/nutshell
@AmericanMonkee 16 днів тому
First to reply 😮
@Steam_Gamer69 16 днів тому
why da hell the video is 5 minutes ago while this comment is 5 hours old
@philippeert 16 днів тому
@@AmericanMonkeei wanted to say that
@williamlevison9966 16 днів тому
@@Steam_Gamer69 I know right, they found time travel without telling us
@philippeert 16 днів тому
@@Steam_Gamer69i think cuz its like set up to be uploaded now
@Jolfgard 16 днів тому
Statistically speaking, no matter how good Fermi is at approximating things, we're still externalizing from an observation on a sample of N=1.
@FujiwarnerCo1dj 16 днів тому
Shut up nerd
@Milky1348 16 днів тому
Is that wrong?
@mattmaas5790 16 днів тому
Yes it's really really stupid to say because we don't see aliens they don't exist.
@drewwellington9337 16 днів тому
sample size is everything!
@giannimojica5799 16 днів тому
Well considering that there's microbial life on asteroids and other planets, I'd say it's more of like N=1.1 lol
@SewayPL 16 днів тому
An assumption often made is that spacefaring civilisations will be after planets, rather than resources for habitable megastructures and fleets
@gentlemanvontweed7147 16 днів тому
My only assumption is rule 34. Can't wait for my interspecies experience.
@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem 16 днів тому
@@gentlemanvontweed7147 Ummm... I guess look at Mass Effect (or any sci-fi franchise really) for a preview? There's probably a good chance you won't be alive to witness it.
@etienne8110 16 днів тому
Just assuming other species do spacefaring is already a huge assumption.
@zenopath1 16 днів тому
If FTL is impossible, the resources required to launch colony ships across the interstellar void to destinations that may or may not support them seems wasteful. Especially when you consider that with same resources you could build another orbital habitat that could house millions. Which would you rather, build another habitat to reduce the strain on earth's ecosystem, or send a small group of people on a generational trip that will probably end in failure? Humans would probably just densely populate the solar system rather than spread out to other systems.
@skynet5828 16 днів тому
@@etienne8110 Not really. Expansion due to overproductive reproduction is a universal trait of all lifeforms on Earth. It's not a huge leap to assume that alien life behaves similar.
@Siddharth_Joshi 12 днів тому
7:35 Flirted with extinction might be one of my top kurzgesagt phrases
@jonnnnniej 11 днів тому
Weirdly poetic :)
@xamanto 11 днів тому
Humanity is already at a point of having unprotected sex with extinction imho, the only question is wether or not we can find the cure for the extinction-level STDs we're getting.
@Kritux 11 днів тому
I've already heard that phrase in a melodysheep video, titled "THE HUMAN FUTURE".
@OsholitloTF2 5 днів тому
What about “How to Destroy the Universe”
@socksWithHolesInThem1971 3 дні тому
I think humanity has not just flirted but exchanged numbers with and flashed a boob at extinction.
@lukesmith5018 11 днів тому
To extend the analogy - knowing what happened when other civilisations discovered the Polynesians suddenly makes the idea of us meeting with aliens pretty scary
@steelswarm2721 11 днів тому
They meet us every single day, have done so for a long time now.
@WokeandProud 10 днів тому
@@steelswarm2721Take your meds loon.
@heck3143 10 днів тому
Kind of a tangent, but I've noticed a lot of media from the post-colonial seem to be unintentionally expressing fear and guilt at what built modern society. Especially the alien invasion. People with an unfamiliar culture and society wielding advanced technology show up and subjugate our entire society in an attempt to wither extract resources, assimilate, or exterminate in order to take the land. The imperial/colonial guilt inherent to the genre doesn't even seem intentional. Especially in the 80s and 90s. But it's there because art reflects life.
@winterwoods2625 9 днів тому
It all depends who meets who first
@greegorygrimlee5487 8 днів тому
I don't know, they have it pretty sweet now.compared to then.
@MrMoonJooce 16 днів тому
I was not ready for "its free real estate" to show up in a Kurzgesagt video of all places
@GW2Zaruz 16 днів тому
An uwu level of 9000 caught me off guard
@phelan_pt 16 днів тому
@@GW2Zaruz you missed the >, the UwU level is over 9000! 😁
@jayde4872 16 днів тому
I wasn’t expecting it either, but still usual for kurzgesagt to masterfully utilize memes like a baker putting a few cherries on a cake.
@philipbarrett4655 15 днів тому
2 beds no rugs.
@KAZUMA_SATOU7 14 днів тому
@@phelan_pt where?
@RadhakrishnanSrinathan 13 днів тому
For every like I'll study for 1 hour
@MrChilliMan 11 днів тому
Don’t study it’s not in you’re destiny
@Arcane_A.C. 11 днів тому
@@MrChilliMan Pardon, but it's *your
@melgeezy3325 11 днів тому
For each like I get, you have to study the history of porn.
@RadhakrishnanSrinathan 11 днів тому
@@melgeezy3325 Sir, I'm 15
@Arcane_A.C. 11 днів тому
@@RadhakrishnanSrinathan I've been doing that since the age of 6
@dragon3085 12 днів тому
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.
@bunnychop5 6 днів тому
Apparetnly they use the cosmic web for communication and travel.
@MrJoberg 10 днів тому
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
@BillyonTopp 7 днів тому
Sadly above lightspeed is impossible
@gmhs2 6 днів тому
I mean technically as long as you have enough dV, you can get interstellar voyages down to decent levels (at least, for nearby stars), but breaking the lightspeed barrier is essentially impossible, no matter how it's done. The good news is those *on board* the ship would experience time even slower, to the point where time experienced increases non-linearly with distance, so that's nice at least.
@notapplicable6985 6 днів тому
@@BillyonToppSo far and probably forever, but there is still the slimmest possibility. But it is an astronomically slim possibility
@BillyonTopp 6 днів тому
@@notapplicable6985 I mean doesn’t that go against the laws of nature?
@notapplicable6985 6 днів тому
@@BillyonTopp There is always a slight chance we don't fully understand the laws of nature
@colorgreen4999 15 днів тому
"And this, is a hypothesis surrounding aliens" "Kurzgesagt, this is the ninth time you've shown aliens in class today"
@NPCSpotter 15 днів тому
This is religious. They’re trying to convince themselves that aliens exist, and that interstellar travel is possible. Just look at their goofy Mars and Venus terraforming videos for reference.
@ZootOfficial 15 днів тому
@@NPCSpotter yeah, i've noticed this too. not really scientific if you ask me.
@MossyBee 15 днів тому
@@NPCSpotter It IS possible, but nations won't work together to make it happen.
@shoobadoo123 15 днів тому
@@NPCSpottervery ironic that you have that username
@shadowknight997 15 днів тому
@@NPCSpotterwhy are those videos goofy?
@Chevifier 16 днів тому
"Mars is the worst,.... except Venus is even worse" I giggled at that for some reason😂
@aamirrazak3467 16 днів тому
yeah venus makes mars look tame by comparison. it's like a hellish landscape with sulfuric acid and carbon dioxide clouds
@user-ze8it1gp8y 16 днів тому
Me too.
@ramonmujica3193 16 днів тому
Wait until you find out about Uranus.
@rafsan1578 16 днів тому
05:01 way too expensive, too expensive, still too expensive😂😂😂
@zealousdoggo 16 днів тому
Hey Venus gets less credit than it deserves, sure the surface is hellish but go a few kilometres up and it's a warm earth like temperature and pressure with adequate radiation protection, the same gravity as earth and no acid rain. I see the prospect of making a balloon to be far more in our grasp than making artificial gravity or an atmosphere and magnetic field
@manolomosquerah 12 днів тому
The kuleshov/Eisenstein/Hitchcock reference on your Ground News ad really cracked me up, thank you.
@JosePineda-cy6om День тому
what minute was that?
@Brambrew 8 днів тому
Large distances in space become a non-problem once wormhole routes are established
@thomas.02 16 днів тому
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.
@placeholdername0000 16 днів тому
And if you find a decent sized rock with some uranium or thorium in it, you can live on that for thousands of years. This would allow you to travel interstellar distances, just by hanging out and waiting for generations on a rock. Also, the stars move, meaning that any civilization in a star system that lasts for millions of years, will inevitably have a close encounter with another star.
@joost199207 16 днів тому
But a planet is always preferable though. No tech can match the scale and freedom you have on a planet (that suits your needs). You could get close though, with enormous stations powered by an artificial sun and other trickery. But at that point it's probably easier to just find or terraform a planet.
@EamonnLawler 16 днів тому
Gravity wells may well be for suckers! In the distant future it may well seem strange to live in the constrictive environment of a planet.
@firewoodloki 16 днів тому
@@joost199207 Even in real life, we have people living in vehicles, like trucks and boats. If it can be done, it will be done.
@kuney6518 16 днів тому
While I get what you are saying, unlimited energy is not everything required to live, water is important too. Thus, finding a planet with water and actually living on it would be much more cost efficient than transporting that water to a space station.
@scottie_2024 16 днів тому
I just want to say, analogizing Oceania to space is brilliant
@toddberkely6791 16 днів тому
how lol. you cant fish in space, it doesnt rain and there is no wind.
@pickledgarf 16 днів тому
i think he meant from an exploration standpoint
@brendanrisney2449 16 днів тому
We've been doing it for years. The number of sci-fi medias that don't equate spaceships to... well, ships in space, is in the single digits.
@greensteve9307 16 днів тому
I'm also impressed by them using the term "Oceania" correctly, so many people incorrectly lump in the entire continent of Australia.
@nocturn9x 16 днів тому
@@toddberkely6791 it's an analogy for a hostile place...
@khipp13 12 днів тому
After reading the 3 Body Problem series, this is a much more optimistic view of the universe. But I’m still leaning towards Cixin Liu’s Dark Forrest idea. Pessimistic, but understandably so. It would be awesome to see a video from you tackling that series and its ideas.
@med2904 12 днів тому
It's a cool story, but it ignores some very easy solutions for safe interstellar contact. Just put goddamn relay beacons in interstellar space and send signals from there. You don't have to reveal the location of your planet or solar system in order to establish interstellar contact. And if all technological races would use these relays for safety, then they might as well share knowledge and cooperate peacefully. It's like the internet anonymity.
@anodynos6398 7 днів тому
😂😂😂you r right
@Artsie835 11 днів тому
Thanks kurzgesagt you always make videos for us even through it takes hours and loads of work,thank you kurzgesagt
@MCArt25 4 дні тому
it's almost as if they were literally paid to do this
@Artsie835 2 дні тому
@@MCArt25 no one said kurzgesagt couldn’t be cheapskates
@GentrifiedPotato 16 днів тому
I really want a Civilization-style video game with Kurzgesagt's art style where I can colonize or conquer space.
@Eagle-2448 16 днів тому
Someone started to, but they didn't finish it
@amongusgaming123 16 днів тому
Stellaris (minus the art style)
@uriargaman7241 16 днів тому
Spore, the OG
@Hi-pk5mf 16 днів тому
@@uriargaman7241”og”
@iglipoleshi1522 15 днів тому
if it was properly made it would be literally terabytes of just maps of galaxies
@difubao8882 6 днів тому
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)
@ShadowEclipex 11 днів тому
Adding this video to my inspiration playlist. Great things to think over for my scifi setting.
@jamesg872 13 днів тому
1. Complex life being really difficult to evolve and 2. the chances that two civilizations occupy the same epoch in time really should not be underestimated.
@bujfvjg7222 12 днів тому
Neither should the scale of things.....
@Zurround 12 днів тому
It takes A LOT of evolution for a world to evolve a species that has at least human level intelligence and is even more advanced than we are. If you look at our world over a span of 4.5 billion years you will see countless species of life from the smallest microbes to the largest whales and dinosaurs yet in all of that time our world has only produced ONE species that is somewhat tech advanced. I say "somewhat" because we sure are not at the level of the aliens in this video. I do not believe that life is rare. I think its very common but that only a very very tiny percentage of worlds with life get to the point of advanced technology. I believe that almost all inhabited worlds just have plants, animals and sometimes beings with human level intellect but low technology. 2 high tech species being near each other (within 10 light years lets say) is like 2 state lottery winners happening to be next door neighbors.
@MrCarpediem6 12 днів тому
I've heard the same
@Zurround 12 днів тому
It takes a lot of evolution for a world to evolve a species that has at least human level intelligence and is even more advanced than we are. If you look at our world over a span of 4.5 billion years you will see countless species of life from the smallest microbes to the largest whales and dinosaurs yet in all of that time our world has only produced one species that is somewhat tech advanced. I say "somewhat" because we sure are not at the level of the aliens in this video. I do not believe that life is rare. I think its very common but that only a very very tiny percentage of worlds with life get to the point of advanced technology. I believe that almost all inhabited worlds just have plants, animals and sometimes beings with human level intellect but low technology. 2 high tech species being near each other (within 10 light years lets say) is like 2 state lottery winners happening to be next door neighbors.
@ddplzz 12 днів тому
Another thing is the jump from complex life to space faring societal life. Complex life was on Earth for well over a Billion years, full brains, cortexes, highly specialized abilities etc etc were here for hundreds of millions of years and not a single one of them figured out you could use rocks to break stuff. Let alone space travel. Humanity existing is a very recent thing, humanity having space travel is a very very VERY recent thing in the geological scale.
@CHEMopath 14 днів тому
Every Kurzgesagt video: - Facts - Scares you - Calms you down - Birb (or bird somehow) - Also the remarkable authoritative British accent
@Haha.your.reading.this.idiot. 14 днів тому
Why is the british accent authoritive ?
@kamberlin22 14 днів тому
Is it really a Kurzgesagt video if you aren't fascinated/frightened by the end of it?
@PhillipWenger 14 днів тому
The _fake_ British accent, you mean.
@Haha.your.reading.this.idiot. 14 днів тому
@@PhillipWenger wha brua u gota broplim brodda ill throw me boltte o waer at ye
@CHEMopath 14 днів тому
@@PhillipWenger Definitely yes lol!! *FAKE* British accent
@OrlandoDesmons 4 дні тому
I believe that colonizing planets by any alien is just extremely hard and practically impossible. For example, the nearest planet outside our solar system (Proxima Centauri b) is about 4.2 light years away from us. And right now, our fastest space craft is about 1/1675 the speed of light. That means that we would have to build a space ship that could fully sustain human life for 7035 years while not running out of power to even reach Proxima Centauri, which most likely could not even support human life. And that is THE CLOSEST plant.
@maxvandersijp 12 днів тому
Why are alien civilisations always portrayed as biological ones rather than AI, which I find nearly infinitely more plausible considering our own progress
@buddygene5918 2 дні тому
My hypothesis is that precisely. That all the UAP videos that the military have released are in fact drones. No life inside or life that we comprehend as life. But rather AI or tech drones that are gathering data on various planets.
@jorgec98 6 годин тому
It's in the name. AI = Artificial Inteligence Something biological has to come first to launch an AI
@maxvandersijp 3 години тому
This is true, but considering earth as an example, I think the window between the emergence of intelligent life and the emergence of AI is actually very very small, and a window for intelligent life to become multiplanitary without developing AI to be nonexistent..
@Insanity-vv9nn 16 днів тому
“No man’s sky” is a perfect game to represent this idea. If you play the game blindly, you may never find a earth like planet, even a pretty planet can have a environment or creature that will kill you
@Worldcracker 15 днів тому
Yep. And in that game there are galactic empires so maybe truly at a certain tech level I becomes trival.
@NYKevin100 15 днів тому
Hilariously, on my current save, I spawned on an inhospitable ice planet... whose moon is basically perfect. It has zero environmental hazards, zero hostile creatures, and I've barely seen any sentinels on it (they are not hostile anyway). Bonus points: I built a base on the ice planet because it's prettier, just on top of a random hill that had vaguely good views and was near a ground station. Then, after I unlocked the resource visor, I discovered that I accidentally built right next to a dioxite deposit... which effectively means my life support will never run out, because I have way more dioxite than I can possibly use up on charging it.
@nerag7459 15 днів тому
I wish they had gas giants you could float around in.
@GojiraBiscuits. 15 днів тому
In my 400+ hours of playing no man's sky I landed on around 2000+ planets on my journey through black holes to the centre of the galaxy. I came across 3 planets that were similar to earth. The first one was the most similar but had no fauna. The second one had fauna and realistic mountains and continents but was incredibly toxic. The third one ticked all the boxes but had weird floating mountains so was a no go. I'm still trying to find a planet to build my homebase on but so far have had no luck. I should have just stuck with the third one.
@chickencurry69420 15 днів тому
tbf theres plenty of creatures on earth that can kill u too
@vick229 15 днів тому
Kurzgesagt: " Mars is the worst except Venus is even worse " that killed me
@mrdjchasm 14 днів тому
That and the free real estate whisper.
@Joe-jv5mm 14 днів тому
You Humans can live in the upper atmosphere and still be shielded from the 🌞 harmful Ray's
@soongwanjun9381 13 днів тому
Well you don’t wanna get poisoned, burn and melt at the same time. That’s why Venus offer right now pretty straightforward I must say, compared to Mars Humans still has chance to survive by bunker inside Mars to avoid radiation
@Electrodexify 13 днів тому
More CGI and fish lens!
@KenSherman 13 днів тому
The reasons after is what kills me...or what *would* kill me.
@Omer-is6my 11 днів тому
Animations are great and you guys can talk about any topic objectively. Really good.
@collectorbynature152 4 дні тому
Aliens don’t want to bicker with us. A household can go to war just deciding what to have for dinner.
@Vespuchian 16 днів тому
I find one of the greatest ironies of interstellar colonization is that if you have the ability to create ships to travel those vast distances, or settle on the surface of extremely marginal planets like Mars, you've also the ability to make artificial habitats, bottle worlds, completely undercutting the need to colonize another planet in the most extreme version of an invasive species. This actually makes colonizing other systems easier because you don't need to look for planets to live on, the asteroids within a system become a more valuable resource because of accessability. This also means you don't need to go sailing off vast distances because just about any system will do, which means expansion happens in small jumps rather than great leaps. This keeps inter-planetary civilizations quite compact, even if each system in that civilization might have a much greater population than a planet might sustain.
@Aureonw 16 днів тому
Yeah and any civilization near a blackhole has a megastructural starting bonus since nearly all blackhole megastructures are fairly easy compared to other objects since its WAY easier to collect energy from a blackhole than a star resource and time wise
@generaldelasmontanas2699 16 днів тому
I feel that this is like saying "why did the europeans colonize america if they had infrasturcture in europe?" or something like that
@MaxMaxx-tb6nz 16 днів тому
@@generaldelasmontanas2699 Yeah, exactly. People will colonize other planets because we .. emmm.. don't like other people sometimes. And distance is good way to be out of reach of those people. Ask Europeans which go to the New World to go out of European monarchies sphere of influence.
@Vespuchian 16 днів тому
@@generaldelasmontanas2699 It bears pointing out that what drove the initial wave of exploration from Europe wasn't to settle somewhere, it was to make ridiculous amounts of MONEY by bypassing existing trade routes and monopolies. The colonization was a byproduct. I suppose a decent historical parallel is how the Dutch just made more land to farm instead of relying on colonial expansion. Oh sure, they had colonies, but those were about resource extraction for making said ridiculous amounts of MONEY rather than finding somewhere to live. Dutch colonialism wouldn't have worked without native populations to -enslave- offer minimum wage jobs to, while the polders were entirely homegrown. Another might be the Boat People in SE Asia, where whole communities float on rafts/barges because it's a better use of resources than taking up land with homes.
@jacquelinekirk5601 16 днів тому
Yes that sounds plausible to me, It’s how nature does things, kind of like diffusion.
@bobbyd.roberson5588 16 днів тому
04:33 “We stop for nobody” Nice Spaceballs reference 😂😂
@ICountFrom0 16 днів тому
I scrolled to find the jokes about this, was worth it.
@MrNerv 16 днів тому
Nearly right, although I appreciate the reference highly, it's 'we brake for nobody'! But point taken, nonetheless. 😃
@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing 16 днів тому
In the grim darkness of the far future...there is only Kurzgesagt.
@Mormielo 16 днів тому
Not sure it's relevant but he also pronounces Years like the Year in the BadYear Blimp...
@-IE_it_yourself 15 днів тому
i missed that
@noah1502 11 днів тому
the divergent evolution of different planets is something i felt was really missing in dune, that i really wanted to see more of
@arianematollahi8130 12 днів тому
This was poetic. Thanks. Also awesome thumbnail.
@_XRMissie 14 днів тому
Steve whispering "It's free real estate" isn't something I knew I needed to hear
@andrewseguin9443 13 днів тому
This is a Tim and Eric reference right?
@drsax3622 13 днів тому
Absolutely
@Galaick 13 днів тому
COME GET YOUR PLANET, IT'S GOT YOUR NAME ON IT
@oofoof69 12 днів тому
When
@SomeGuy-sq3vw 12 днів тому
@@oofoof698 minutes in
@emissne5068 13 днів тому
i wish that if we meet aliens, they will be entirely chill and just explain things and talk to us about cultures, math, and existence.
@mioszskrzynski7101 8 днів тому
It sounds wonderful, but, if You could indulge me, how would you communicate with them?
@emissne5068 8 днів тому
@@mioszskrzynski7101 we have actors
@mioszskrzynski7101 8 днів тому
@@emissne5068 What actors? Movie actors? How would actors talk to aliens? I am genuinely curious
@luisyupari 7 днів тому
@@mioszskrzynski7101math is a universal language
@mioszskrzynski7101 7 днів тому
Hello, let's assume that math is universal. My problem with communication with aliens is empathy, or rather intentionality. In general, you need to know when someone is sending a signal or not. For instance we emit transmissions, heat and radiation into space all the time. And yet we send probes with special information for aliens. Sure, but how do they know what is part of the engine and what isn't? We recieve Magnetic waves from space from time to time, but how would you know what is a message and what isn't. And even worse is the language itself. It is very dependent on your content of everyday life. Communicating with aliens wouldnt be like speaking to humans, talking to Animals or even to plants. It would be closer to trying to communicate with s rock, or sand. I Hope what I wrote was understandable. If you disagree with it, feel free to write back. Goodbye
@RadicalDan4 11 днів тому
Love the idea of stars like islands and also what a great sponsor!!!
@zacharywong483 12 днів тому
Fantastic video, as always!
@RowanOakley 16 днів тому
Who needs sleep when you can have an existential crisis instead?
@Shaanveer_Singh 16 днів тому
True
@EEEEEEEE 16 днів тому
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@thedootguy4444 16 днів тому
thats more of an exurb1a thing
@Have-a-good-day2764 16 днів тому
Ture
@Shaanveer_Singh 16 днів тому
@@Have-a-good-day2764 ah yes, ture
@matthewegeler 16 днів тому
"would you go to war because someone's great grandfather killed yours" Actually yes, we've been doing it for centuries.
@SisterSunny 16 днів тому
right, because Germany and France are famously still at war the century-long conflicts that endure, endure because you have a continued personal stake in it (e.g. religious), and often occur over fighting over a singular resource (be that land/rights/etc)-which isn't really the case in separate solar systems
@matthewegeler 16 днів тому
@@SisterSunny so nobody will have stakes in a planet which they've already put tons of resources into?
@flowersforferdinand375 16 днів тому
The fact that people are already replying trying to dispute this is mind-boggling.
@blenderbanana 16 днів тому
@@matthewegelerSunk Cost Fallacy.
@SpaceCat908 16 днів тому
You would only go to war because it doesn't take light-years to get there.
@isaaccastanon3382 5 днів тому
Kurzgesagt should make a video on human evolution. Itd be great to see it in their style.
@Solostylevids 8 днів тому
5:19 i’m just gonna go ahead and say that if it sounds that easy it is that easy if it seems like nobody else has done it that’s because we’re probably the first. It means that it’s up to us to be the leaders in that frontier it’s up to us to start that process and to be pioneers in that, beautiful design
@senyor8774 16 днів тому
I was just thinking about this and I saw "5 seconds ago", like no way.
@Norra1234 16 днів тому
this was 2 minutes ago and i saw 1.8k views already i came to yt for music but this is way better
@Reflected4 16 днів тому
No way...
@nico.deluxe 16 днів тому
creative way to say "first"
@unknownlegendsfreefire1843 16 днів тому
Yeah me too😮
@drdoom7157 16 днів тому
I was playing stellaris and then saw a new Kurzgeasgt video saying uploaded 3 minutes ago
@FacterinoCommenterino 16 днів тому
Today's Fact: In 2021, astronomers detected a powerful burst of radio waves from a distant galaxy, which lasted for just a fraction of a second.
@paulinakurnatowska5819 16 днів тому
Congrats, ur 1st
@ikosaheadrom 16 днів тому
bot
@mrfoxyx 16 днів тому
Oh look who copy and paste facts from internet
@desoxynore5840 16 днів тому
source
@sephrot6830 16 днів тому
that could be anything
@pepsiatlas5452 11 днів тому
honestly, theyre all good islands. you dont go to a new star system for planets, you go for the giant, free fusion reactor
@Mynamewashere 10 днів тому
Sometimes I like to think about all the incredible stories being writen right now by all people alive. It's amazing to think about all the lives going on in the universe.
@uniduckus 13 днів тому
It's fascinating to ponder the possibility of thousands of alien empires scattered throughout the Milky Way, each navigating the challenges of interstellar existence. The comparison to islands in an ocean paints a vivid picture of the vastness and complexity of our galaxy. It's a reminder that while we may feel isolated on our own "island" of Earth, there could be countless civilizations out there, each with its own story and struggles. The idea sparks both curiosity and humility, reminding us of the enormity of the cosmos and our place within it.
@RapperLilDownSyndrime 11 днів тому
thats the biggest possibility. were a grain of salt in the universe, for all we know life could be a common thing throughout the whole universe
@theroyalteabagyoutube4928 11 днів тому
This comment has chat gpt prose
@jlil2836 11 днів тому
Star wars taught us that they needed hyperspace travel to connect the galaxy
@KevinCleghorn 11 днів тому
@@RapperLilDownSyndrimeThe universe and milky way are two completely different entities 🤦♂️
@KevinCleghorn 11 днів тому
Lets ignore we know exactly what’s in the Milky Way galaxy and the universe is a completely different entity to a galaxy star system 😂
@joefrew1614 16 днів тому
8:10 I love the “It’s free real estate!” Joke
@dstovell 16 днів тому
So good!
@coreythosaurushair2821 15 днів тому
It got me
@JohnnyTronny19841 15 днів тому
Thank you Mr Heidecker
@definitelynotanAIchatbot 15 днів тому
For your health!
@RobertoDeMundo 15 днів тому
That timestamp is way too late It's more like 8:00, 10 seconds earlier
@DrewBoivie 2 дні тому
People just have no way to conceptualize how big space is. Unless its possible to teleport or fold space or something along those lines any notion of trade, conquest, or communication between star systems is preposterous. This video mentions it in a sort of off-hand way, but distance is a much greater hurdle than the average person can truly comprehend.
@anzaklaynimation 16 днів тому
8:02 “It's free real estate” most intrigued me.
@dangerfly 16 днів тому
Why do we still have the primitive need to spread and colonize like animals if we have advanced control of our biology? Why is the future advanced in ONLY one way? We have starships, but medicine hasn't advanced at all? Makes zero sense.
@robbyburty 16 днів тому
Thanks for that. Was watching on my phone, and totally missed it. Pretty funny, though. You're right
@justinnicholson6885 16 днів тому
It's a good Tim and Eric reference!
@ao_tsuri 16 днів тому
I have now witnessed the birth of a Kuzrgesagt video
@thething444 16 днів тому
They finally uploaded fr
@EEEEEEEE 16 днів тому
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@Have-a-good-day2764 16 днів тому
Same
@supranova1 16 днів тому
huh
@christopherrobin1616 16 днів тому
lol
@DivineStardustAlchemy 3 дні тому
You guys are the best. I wish i knew how to make these videos. I would have made something like the egg & the news when i was young.♡
@Tmitric 8 днів тому
The thumbnail is the best thing ever.
@derekl_ 16 днів тому
4:34 Spaceballs: The Colony Ship! Nice!
@ICountFrom0 16 днів тому
If your living in a bubble and you haven't got a care....
@bricc9964 16 днів тому
Well you’re gonna be in trouble ‘cause they’re gonna steal your air…
@MrNerv 16 днів тому
"WATCH OUT "!
@greensteve9307 16 днів тому
May the Swartz be with them.
@anh26079 15 днів тому
"The extremely isolated Pitcairn islands" meanwhile Easter island in the corner be like "we're definitely in touch with island thousands of kilometers away"
@TSwiftie13-eh2ul День тому
You guys at kurzgesagt are so awesome at making things simple to learn and grasp. Keep up the great work ❤
@TheSystemIsFlawed 15 днів тому
One of the spookiest explanations for the Fermi paradox is that civilizations might create their own virtual universes to live in, instead of colonizing into space. Considering how hard humans are diving into the Internet and virtual reality, this sounds really plausible. Imagine a galaxy full of civilizations that live in computers, maintained by robots, living in a virtual "heaven" until the computers finally degrade and shut off.
@mukilanselvakumar4927 15 днів тому
Like a Matrioshka Brain?
@fryncyaryorvjink2140 15 днів тому
Or the matrix
@STroB 15 днів тому
It's what makes more sense. Send too much radio waves out, a biger civilization kills you. Best plan to assure existence whould be. 1 Consume ALL ressources of the planet as much as possible so it lowers the chances of being taken over. 2 Hide every outgoing signal. 3 take brains, connect them to a computer almostnthe size of the planet. 4 encarnate into a simulation of the universe where we are alone and don't remember that there's a world outside this virtual world.
@ButzPunk 15 днів тому
Seems pretty nice tbh
@gmork1090 15 днів тому
Pretty sure that will be the goal of AI for us. Much like The Matrix I suppose, but a bit less intentionally evil. It will love us as its creators and want the best for us, but will not tolerate us being in its way as there are so many of us and we are so antagonistic to anything that looks like it might disagree.
@theredbastard 16 днів тому
I feel like a lot of people overlook the time problem, especially with fermi’s paradox. The universe was extremely hostile to life forming planets up until very recently. We are probably one of the earlier planets that has been around long enough to develop intelligent life, and it is reasonable to think that other planets are also just breaking into interplanetary travel
@TheFinalChapters 16 днів тому
You're close, but your final conclusion is seriously flawed. Life has thrived in the galaxy for billions of years. Unless intelligent life is abundant (which is clearly isn't), it's extremely unlikely for two civilizations to form even within tens of millions of years of each other. In other words, we are the only planet in the galaxy with such a civilization. Otherwise, you have to come up with absurd theories like the one in the video to explain why aliens haven't even been here, let alone colonized here.
@N12015 16 днів тому
@@TheFinalChaptersOR any more advanced civilization is so far away we can't detect them. Still, the result is the same, we won't contact aliens for thousands of years at best.
@ehta2413 16 днів тому
@@TheFinalChapters Either that or we are the aliens, as we might be genetically tailored invasive species, dropped on the planet to fill their grand plan. My hypothesis is that the grand plan is to lift life from this solar system and keep spreading it like a galactic virus. :D
@TheFinalChapters 16 днів тому
@@N12015 Well, "far away" in this case would need to be outside the galaxy.
@joelt2002 16 днів тому
"Long enough", we have a single data point. We don't even know what the average "long enough" would need to be to expect to see intelligent life. There are a lot of factors that go into that, such as extinction events.
@rhager842 8 днів тому
We can finally prove that Spore's space stage was somewhat accurate
@sylvestervitali359 12 днів тому
thank YOU for this channel.
@jrodartec 14 днів тому
I love how Kurzgesagt ranges wildly between (1) extremely grounded facts based on cold-hard-established science; and (2) ambitious speculations based on hot-crazy assumptions. Always a joy to watch, sometimes for the information, while others for the imagination. Best!
@4RILDIGITAL 14 днів тому
The concept of the galaxy being an ocean with islands brings a different perspective to our understanding of the universe. I guess we just have to keep pondering and exploring the unknown patiently while hoping to find a good island someday.
@srrealism1530 12 днів тому
We are standing on it.
@jonatand2045 12 днів тому
The ocean is good when you are a fish.
@Zurround 12 днів тому
Not a perfect analogy. The Polynesians did NOT have telescopes to scope the ocean with (would not work anyway due to curve of Earth) and see the islands from a distance even if they could not get every detail perfect but we have the technology even now to see other stars and exoplanets so a spacefaring civilization would have even better telescopes and other detection devices than we do. So space faring civilizations are not going at it quite as "blindly".
@six106 12 днів тому
and we will destroy it
@maximipe 12 днів тому
@@Zurround we can't see other islands neither, not their present at least. Alpha Centauri is +4 light years away, the system could have just exploded and no one would know for +4 years (being the closest to Earth btw). We are as blind as them if you ask me.
@auronheimdall1072 11 днів тому
Nice preview of the redesigned escape the black hole poster ! Can't wait !
@dooder39 15 днів тому
"Would you go to war with some body because their great grandfather killed yours?" I mean, this is literally still causing conflicts to this day...
@tmdblya 15 днів тому
Seriously. I almost spit out my coffee at that line.
@johnladuke6475 15 днів тому
Well, sort of. The context in the video is of a more remote event. Would you want to go to war with somebody because you just recently received word about your great-grandfather's cause of death, might be more accurate.
@marcpeterson1092 15 днів тому
Except that a lot of other stuff has happened in the meantime. It's never just about that.
@thelocalbear8754 15 днів тому
"I will fight you, like my father fought your father, going back generations, cause your ancestor stole a cow from my ancestor. I don't care that it's been seven centuries, give us our cow back!"
@GoodLordBagel 15 днів тому
You missed the point where you have to travel 25 years each direction to do the fighting. No one in Europe went to Mongolia to get revenge for the Mongol invasion. Marching your army for a couple weeks to fight your neighbor is a lot simpler than moving an army thousands of miles to fight a campaign.
@Someone-ym1ny 14 днів тому
Ngl, watching these videos always gets me excited about space. Just imagining the fact that there could very well be beings which we’d call alive, going about their day or whatever their form of that concept of they even had it, right at this very moment. Just vibing or struggling like I am rn, and perhaps impossible to ever meet. It’s surreal
@THEDrew-trek 14 днів тому
Same. It's a fascinating concept.
@amc1140 13 днів тому
What about the decent chance of Aliens being here now? Those navy UFO sightings, Lazar, etc are pretty convincing
@Dereliction2 13 днів тому
For their sake, I hope they don't know about Communism.
@dmfouge 10 днів тому
0:15 There are a lot of people who have experienced that yes in fact they are visiting us, and I think their cases deserve serious study rather than ridicule. Btw this was a great video 👍
@TheAdminVRChannel 5 днів тому
I love how the gorilla always holds something diffrent in the intro😂
@SciMinute 16 днів тому
Honestly, I think aliens exist in this vast universe, but within my knowledge that we can't move faster than the speed of light, we probably won't be able to see aliens in our lives..😢
@disguy6168 16 днів тому
hopefully never if at all, or that we're the earliest sentient life in the galaxy. i understand why people would like to see non earth life atleast once but honestly if we come into contact with aliens that have nuclear fusion tech they'd transform our planet into a larger wetter moon in a few million years, even lesser should they have ftl and decide to chuck asteroids at us.
@dylanbowers6292 16 днів тому
But that's going by the assumption that extraterrestrials don't have superior knowledge about physics and superior technology since they could be millenia ahead of us in technology
@universaltoons 16 днів тому
C
@disguy6168 16 днів тому
@@dylanbowers6292 i almost hope they have tech faster than light. we wouldnt even have to know if they come in peace, or want us gone. id rather have my death be so quick it goes from biology to physics.
@ShoeBun 16 днів тому
@@disguy6168That's scary and interesting at the same time :0
@moanamartel1506 15 днів тому
0:07 kinda looks like my country 1:25 ngl I didn't think I'd be hearing about my people in such a video 2:56 Ahhhhhh, THAT's why Thank you Kurzgesagt for the credit, incredible video as always
@lithunoisan 15 днів тому
Moana.
@semih_dilek 12 днів тому
Asıl biz teşekkür ederiz böyle mükemmel videoları bize sunduğunuz için.
@nodlimax 12 днів тому
I think the biggest challenges for every civilization are going to be whether they evolve enough to even reach the stars or self-destruct before they accomplish that and to actually develop a technology make traveling between planets even possible within reasonable amounts of time (speed). I heard a theory before that a potential reason why no one has interacted with us yet is that every civilization that gets far enough in terms of development ends up at a point where it will self-destruct in one way or another which creates an endless cycle where species will always just be limited to their own immediate solar systems. I think it's possible but it would be a pretty negative outlook. The other problem obviously is speed. Even light in terms of speed requires 8 minutes to get from the sun to our planet. No think about how many images we've seen from stars and other types of things in space that are light years away meaning it takes years at the speed of light to reach them. I think even reaching that barrier of making it possible to transport humans (or other living beings) at the speed of light safely from point A to point B is such a huge challenge that I'm not even sure if it's possible at all. Humans so far have managed to reach 39,937.7 km/h with the Apollo mission going to the moon. This is pretty far off from the 300.000 Km/s light travels in the vacuum of space. Also I think it's not just the speed itself but the acceleration and deceleration as well that humans need to survive with these speeds. Just considering this scientific barrier alone makes me question whether there are any species/civilizations out there that have managed to accomplish that. Without it there is no extensive exploration or colonization of space and I wouldn't even start talking about building any kind of empire out there because that requires to reach even higher levels of scientific development. And if any civilization ever reaches that level we better hope that they have peaceful intentions if they come here because if they don't then we're royally screwed. No bacteria, infectious disease or computer virus would help us in that situation.
@philippeert 16 днів тому
This is way better than studying
@Edgtheow 16 днів тому
*than. Perhaps you should go back to studying, after all.
@pepegroda9609 16 днів тому
@@Edgtheow you are my favorite person
@philippeert 16 днів тому
@@Edgtheowssssst (It was a joke cuz yk the spelling mistake and studying, i didn't think someone would find it this fast tho lol)
@bibbagamer1284 16 днів тому
Sure it was@@philippeert
@gabrielgoncalves2763 16 днів тому
@@philippeert yeah... you totally made a "joke"... nobody is falling for your bullshit.
@JeffThePoustman 15 днів тому
0:30 "But this idea is built on a lot of assumptions." That's a succinct summary of every Kurzgesagt video.
@_ayohee 15 днів тому
Assumptions lead to interesting ideas. Not to say interesting ideas can't come from ground truths, but assuming "what if...?" can lead you down many interesting roads, including many which end up leading somewhere.
@DarthQuantum-ez8qz 15 днів тому
Well said.
@NPCSpotter 15 днів тому
@@_ayohee or nowhere, because, it's easier to make popular videos for atheist NPCs than using scientific facts that strongly point towards that aliens do not exist and that humans will never colonize the solar system, let alone achieve interstellar travel
@reiforsale2 12 днів тому
Kurzgesagt videos like this are supposed to be speculations
@jacobmaliakatoa 8 днів тому
Im Tongan 🇹🇴 and i love this Analogy 😊
@akheeenaton 12 днів тому
in every civilization at a given point thechnology is mature enough to discover thruth about consciousness, then everybody kills himself.
@Galateja 16 днів тому
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." Calvin
@jotarokujooraoraoraoraora 16 днів тому
I don’t understand, can u explain pls 😢
@yeeyee5057 16 днів тому
@@jotarokujooraoraoraoraoracultural contamination
@gurlakthedestroyer 16 днів тому
@@jotarokujooraoraoraoraoratake a good look at all of human history
@sophisthemlock246 16 днів тому
@@jotarokujooraoraoraoraora It's a reference to the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. IIRC Calvin is discussing how species keep going extinct because of humanity.
@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69 16 днів тому
@@jotarokujooraoraoraoraora It's a joke
@Countrytournament 16 днів тому
I like the idea that life is actually very common in the universe, but coincidentally not in our really dead galaxy or region.
@coolkid006 16 днів тому
or dark forest
@doubleFay 16 днів тому
Our galaxy doesnt have to be dead. Our radio signals have barely left a single arm of the milky way. So for everyone outside that arm, life here might maaaybe detectable by spectroscopy or something. Likewise there might be life all around us in the milky way, their signals might just not have reached us. Or when they do, there is no intelligent life here anymore, or none yet.
@Arnaz87 16 днів тому
@@coolkid006"dark forest" usually has a darker implication, which is that civilizations are intentionally hiding because it's dangerous, not that they just don't wanna enter the forest.
@coda567 16 днів тому
I prefer an idea similar to this video but less optimistic from the start. "Rough Ocean" implies that intelligence is already common in the galaxy just isolated. I prefer "Arid Desert" existentially. Microbes are common. Large fauna are not. Intelligent technical fauna are extremely rare. Less than a dozen per Milky Way of stars. Asking for an excellent one capable of sending living members across interstellar distances for realistic profit on sensible time scales just isnt "reasonable". It's not. They're not common. At most, there could be a couple neighbors in the galaxy with machine drone explorers that can get around very quickly.
@thememery767 16 днів тому
@@coda567i am of the belief that life is common, but intelligent life is exceptionally rare
@AustinWollitzBodyElectric 10 днів тому
Finally a video to explain this. I've been trying to find a video to explain to my friends why I don't believe we have communicated with aliens...yet.
@LeoMendes-ic6wo 11 днів тому
I feel people just assume civilizations will spread over millions of years, with terraforming or whatever. But there's probably some limit of travel time to lifespan that limits reasonable expansion.
@martonnagy8939 16 днів тому
All the alien tests translated: 0:08 The compass in the top right corner has the directions in the standard way: N E S W 0:49 In the bottom right corner the text reads: Teddy Daniela Miri Yvo (the little o-s at the end of the words are not included due to a lack of understanding, but my tip would be , or ;) 0:52 In the bottom right corner the text reads: asteroids!!!! 2:57 The compass in the top right reads N E S W, the bar in the top left reads c_a_t galaxy, the islands/groups of solar systems are: Fiji - Simba, Samoa - Mufasa, Tonga - Nala, Society Islands - Mrs. Norris system, Cook Islands - Salem group, Austral Islands - Cheshire cluster, Papa Iti - to_, Tuamotu Islands - _i_i cluster, Marquesas Islands - Crookshanks cluster, Gambier islands - Garfield group, Easter Island - Meowth star (the letters in the places where _-s appear are unknown, but they are either q, j or z and in one word only one type appears) 6:19 The compass in the top right reads N E S W 6:33 The compass in the top right reads N E S W 8:06 The compass in the top right reads N E S W 8:24 The text bubble says: Send donuts! 8:33 The text in the background says: The great f[...] of frogisla[...] 8:38 In the top left corner: lunch date at _ pm today don't forget! (the number is unknown for me) 8:41 On the radar: vessel approaching 8:46 The compass in the top right reads N E S W 8:59 The text bubble says: how dare you!!! 9:04 On the hologram: easter system 9:18 The compass in the top right reads N E S W
@Noname-iq1gz 16 днів тому
Thanks, I was learning English for my mission and this helped a lot!
@loganyost334 16 днів тому
@@Noname-iq1gz 🤨
@The-real-kingkah 16 днів тому
Epic
@HyperionHarry 16 днів тому
What is the language?
@thomas4841 16 днів тому
considering the Stars and systems at 2:57 are all named after cats, I think it's safe to assume that _i_i is Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service.
@leghunter2316 16 днів тому
kurzgesagt is one of those serious channel but also manage to sneak in jokes such as "its free realestate"
@dangermonkey866 16 днів тому
love them sm
@Mr.McWatson 10 днів тому
Something no one considers is the massive scale of time in the universe. The time it takes for a sentient species to develop to the point of being able to explore the whole galaxy (without first killing itself, if we assume they develop along similar lines) would be massive. That is to say, the chances of existing outside one of these periods is very high.
@danw3735 5 днів тому
Stunning graphics.
@ShirleyitsJohn 16 днів тому
The assumptions with aliens get me because they always assume if there are aliens they must be more technologically advanced than humans. Like why can’t they exist and we also just so happen to be the planet that’s the most advanced? Technically even bacteria on another planet would be considered an alien.
@mme.veronica735 16 днів тому
Well, we are assuming that intelligent aliens would be intelligent like us. In just a few hundred thousand years humans have gone from making stone tools to harnessing the power of the atom, our technology some would say has advanced exponentially. Unless Humans are among the first intelligent life in the universe, one or two million years extra on humans, or in other words evolving 0.5% to 0.25% earlier in the life of the universe, would cause their technology to advance that much more exponentially to the point where interstellar travel is possible.
@pocketmarcy6990 16 днів тому
Any planet that has potential for life would have bacteria, we just want to find a species that is like us
@MrTuneslol 16 днів тому
it's a matter of scale and time. Even if an intelligent species evolved a mere million years before us, their technology should be a million years ahead of ours. Can you imagine what our tech will be like in a million years? And all of this is considering only the tiny difference of a million years, what if they were a billion years ahead of us?
@ShirleyitsJohn 16 днів тому
@@MrTuneslol See that’s what gets me, in a million years I imagine OUR tech could get pretty impressive, but I think its a bit of a stretch to assume the same would go for whatever form life took on another planet. Like I don’t doubt life of some form exists out there, but i think it’s probably much more likely it’s just some form of very resilient bacteria (most species on earth predate humans). I mean some planet has to be the top dog so why not us?
@ashleyobrien4937 16 днів тому
@@MrTuneslol Many people seem to lean toward aliens being more advanced than us, but, it isn't likely, based on available evidence. If there were any aliens out there, now, and ahead of us technologically, some form of electromagnetic radiation from them could be detectable by us, but we hear nothing. Why ? Quite possibly because we are the first, small G type yellow dwarf stars like ours aren't that common (~ 10 %) and are the best for life because they do not flare and are long lived and output sufficient energy to make a planets surface dynamic with variable energy strata. The other over riding factor is the age of the universe, it is YOUNG, as far as the "age of starlight" goes, which is at least 100 trillion years or so before the last stars fade into darkness, the statistical probability is obviously that the vast majority of the universes life forms have barely even begun. People tend to forget that much of the universes early days were not friendly for life, the first generation of stars, the population three stars were no good because apart from Hydrogen, a little Helium and even less Lithium they were the ONLY elements around, most of the rest of the periodic table didn't show up after the next generation of stars, and seeding interstellar hydrogen gas with enough of these elements for the formation of rocky planets from proto-stars and their protoplanetary discs took billions of years. Given the se and other things that had to happen to get us here, it seems more than likely we are first, we may turn out to be the dominant life form across the entire galaxy, or even further.
@marcasrealaccount 16 днів тому
"it's free real estate" xD
@davidpacifico1019 16 днів тому
8:01
@maxwellabbushi1650 16 днів тому
Jim boonie!! It’s free!
@ly2 16 днів тому
xD
@ArthurMorgan_Gaming 16 днів тому
Never thought I'd hear the Kuzrgesagt narrator say that
@eyyy2271 16 днів тому
I love their pop culture references lol
@cleevestory 8 днів тому
Great work again 🎉
@captain_context9991 11 днів тому
Going from, why has nobody taken over the galaxy", to... We must be alone here. Is such a MEGA jump in logic that its hard to move on from that.
@The13thRonin 16 днів тому
Kurzgesagt: "The Polynesian islands are free real estate." Europe: *Rubs hands together.*
@eliserhodes837 15 днів тому
Me wondering if it was the disease from Europe 😅
@thenovicenovelist 15 днів тому
@@eliserhodes837And that's why we shouldn't ever visit North Sentinel Island. They have made it very clear they don't want visitors and are perfectly fine with bucket communication instead.
@jessetorres8738 16 днів тому
My personal theory is that intelligent alien life does exist in the universe, but humans are the most technologically advanced which is why we've never made contact with any of them. It would be like someone traveling back in time then trying to call Alexander Graham Bell with their cellphone; the technology is similar but too advanced to communicate.
@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69 16 днів тому
It is possible, or at least most advanced in the vicinity.
@2MeterLP 16 днів тому
Ah, the firstborn hypothesis, one of my favorites as well, as it is one of the more optimistic ones. Especially beccause it leaves open the possibility that FTL drives are possible. And it does not pose that all civilisation is destined to failure. We have not been visited by elder siblings because we are the elder sibling!
@SpaceCat908 16 днів тому
@@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69we could also simply not be base reality and instead a simulation. Everyone always argues that it requires too much energy and computational power but that is assuming the entire universe is simulated at once, rather than only simulating the portion you have access to, kind of how in a video game it only renders the portion you see. Its also assuming all universes are the same. There could very well be a universe with less laws if physics that constraint its energy use, they could simulate us or smaller universe. We do it every day, to a lower degree of complexity and more "laws" inside of a program.
@JNB0723 16 днів тому
@@2MeterLP That would be sad for us though because we are no where close to advanced and probably wont even have Mars colonized for another few centuries.
@The_Sojourn_Experiment 16 днів тому
I find this interesting especially with how it contrasts with my view. My theory is that life does exist, however between unfathomable distances and luck with what planets we might not or never be able to meet these aliens because of a few things, #1 being that they're simply outside the explorable universe or on a galaxy that's already gone that distance. #2 if there are space empires, these empire are spaced out so much simply because of how space works and we've not gotten the chance to even detect them yet. or #3 space colonization beyond your system is just not very motivating so they simply stay in their systems. (a good portion of my ideas are based on these videos but these videos mainly just reinforced my ideas. also please feel free to debate me if you want, I find debates like this fun and good for expanding ideas and minds (even my own) 🙂
@toxicman6411 4 дні тому
Hello! Can you do a video explaining the curvature engines?
@Jimbo1221 4 дні тому
whoever animates these videos should make a sci fi feature film.... PLEASE!!!!
@Kyuuwai 16 днів тому
When I saw "Alien Empire" I immediately remember The Viltrumites
@AmonTheWitch 16 днів тому
🫡 R.I.P
@THECHEESELORD69 16 днів тому
My mind went to the tidan empire
@optimusprime3340 16 днів тому
Maybe there's an Omni man living among us
@AmonTheWitch 16 днів тому
@@optimusprime3340 we're dead
@hariskhan01 16 днів тому
idk what is wrong with me I read this as Tidian empire
@go-djtheexplorer 4 дні тому
"Would you go to war with someone because their greatgrandfather killed yours," is the saddest and realest reason humans still struggle with war today 😢
@janakysunil2118 3 дні тому
I wonder how much we ignore the assumption that the alien civilization would think similar to human beings, while for millions of years, the living beings were completely okay not thinking about expanding the empire..
@LeonMRr 16 днів тому
This made me realize one thing: We don't need to worry about alien invasions, the aliens are just waiting for us to terminate ourselves before settling.
@Joe-dy7bb 16 днів тому
wow platitudes
@Eric0225 16 днів тому
Trying to exterminate humanity is like trying to exterminate all the ants on Earth. We are one of, if not THE most populated mammals on Earth, 8 billion of us. We have technology allowing us to adapt easily. Not to mention, you only need a few hundred to repopulate Earth, that is nothing. Like, if you killed everyone on Earth except the city of Amersfoort, we would still have MORE THAN enough to repopulate Earth.
@danielmedela8725 16 днів тому
Maybe. Or maybe they terminated themselves first.
@borntokill442 15 днів тому
Aliens are watching us all the time
@MRMIKE276 15 днів тому
Or perhaps they've been around for millions of years, maybe longer. We might even owe them our existence.
@seanpeters7284 12 днів тому
Federation code number one: do not interfere with a Civilization to an extent that would influence the culture and furthermore humanity has a proclivity to subjugate itself and so in being that culture would dictate absolute zero interaction other than that which has been and that which has stipulated the current conduct
@Rendaro 16 днів тому
The assumption in this video is that in order to colonize the galaxy a civilisation must terraform planets. Given that it's vastly more efficient in both time and resource terms, it's logical to say that it's far more likely any sufficiently advanced space faring civilisation would prefer to disassemble asteroids, and eventually even planets or stars, to build huge numbers of giant rotating space habitats that can be constructed to precisely match their ideal gravitational and environmental needs. Even a small and relatively resource barren star system is going to be economically attractive for someone to colonize one way or the other. So, there likely are no "bad islands", just less good ones.
@mme.veronica735 16 днів тому
That is assuming that it is easier to maintain life support systems on space stations for thousands of years, rather than settling a habitable planet with a decent atmosphere
@Rendaro 16 днів тому
@@mme.veronica735 The chances of finding a habitable planet with the precise atmospheric conditions you require for life with 0 required terraforming is extremely unlikely. All planets, even ones that are very close to the conditions of your home world, are highly likely to require some kind of terraforming of some sort to make them liveable. By comparison maintaining life support systems on gigantic space stations is, relatively speaking, child's play compared to even light terraforming. We currently have life support technology that could in theory be scaled up to the 99% of the job. I'd highly recommend checking Isaac Arthur's (SFIA youtube channel) many videos on the subjects involved if you're interested. He does an infinitely better job at explaining than I ever could, but basically the argument is that constructing giant space habs is always going to be multiple orders of magnitude easier than terraforming a world, with results that match your home world's conditions almost perfectly.
@Rendaro 16 днів тому
@@mme.veronica735 A big part of terraforming planets is going to be maintaining the atmospheric changes you make over long time periods. A terraformed planet won't just magically keep the atmosphere you give it through terraforming. It's always going to be many orders of magnitude easier to build and maintain giant space stations than it will be to terraform a single world - let alone maintain that terraforming for millennia.
@kashutosh9132 15 днів тому
@@Rendaro They covered that in this video that there are very few good islands. Good islands are those which could match their home environment. They put even Mars in bad island category. Rather than doing enormous task of terraforming,they are looking for good islands where they could settle easily.
@hunter11000 3 дні тому
How about videos on how various types of crystals form and how they can be so different from each others.
@sasanzojinjy874 11 днів тому
this is a weird question but I've been watching videos from your channel for quite some time and I'm even drinking tea from my in a nutshell mug as I'm typing this, but I just noticed that the alien language text that is used in this video and also in other ones actually has letters it replaces when it fades into English and that they're always the same letters, I was wondering if you guys had ever thought about making like a translation key for it or if its just something that there for the videos? if there is an image with all the corresponding symbols Id actually really love to see it as i often use things like that for painting minis or doing set pieces for DND
@murphjam11 16 днів тому
one of my favorite things about this channel is just how obvious it is that you guys put love and care into every tiny detail of your projects- even your advertisements are selected with thoughtfulness! thanks for all you do, Kurzgesagt!
@user-et1vi6jo3w 15 днів тому
1. Survival is the primary need of civilization. 2. Civilization continuously grows and expands, but the total matter in the universe remains constant.
@ryans1632 15 днів тому
Which misses the entire point of this video mister three body problem.
@JonoFinley 15 днів тому
@@ryans1632if the dark forest hypothesis is true, then it at least informs the point of the video right? The dark forest would imply that if there are other civilizations, they are probably hiding
@xeniko1226 15 днів тому
We transform matter into humans mwahahaha.
@_martian101 15 днів тому
not necesarilly true, because ther's also a sustainable way of life, and it's undoubtedly better for any civilization even if we are truly alone
@delta3039 15 днів тому
The total matter in the universe may not be constant though, or "constant" in the sense that it's always infinite. But the extent of the universe which is currently seen as cosmic microwave background could literally keep going forever. And then there's the possibility of other material dimensions, individually distinct but connected universes, other quantum insanity, etc.... But with the size of the observable universe, there would never be a question of scarcity assuming it's all accessible anyways.
@homemadecringeycontent6363 12 днів тому
Alien videos always remind me of Independence Day, one of my favorite movies. Too bad they never made a sequel.
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