Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens – The Dark Forest
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The Universe is incredibly big and seems full of potential for life, with billions of habitable planets. If an advanced civilization had the technology to travel between the stars, at just 0.1% of the speed of light, It could colonize our galaxy in roughly 100 million years. Which is not that long given the billions of years the milky way has existed – so in principle any spacefaring civilization should be able to spread rapidly over huge sectors of the galaxy. And yet we see nothing, hear nothing, the universe seems empty. Devoid of others. This is the Fermi Paradox, which we have discussed in more detail in other videos.
Confronted with the seemingly empty universe, humanity faces a dilemma. We desperately want to know if we are alone in the Milky Way. We want to call out and reveal ourselves to anyone watching but that could be the last thing we ever do. Because maybe the universe is not empty. Maybe it’s full of civilizations but they are hiding from each other. Maybe the civilizations that attracted attention in the past were wiped away by invisible arrows. This is the Dark Forest solution to the Fermi paradox.
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Pleasssse make a book about the Fermi Paradox, I’ll buy it too! My hole family is so hooked with your Immune book that I had to buy a second!!!
Blindsight by Peter Watts and Gateway by Frederik Pohl are also great “dark forest” series.
“check out the three body problem by Liu Cixin, who formulated the dark forest idea for the first time. ”
“The Killing Star”:
Love your videos, it’s really entertaining and enducating 👍
The Three Body Problem trilogy is one of the best sci-fi series ever and you should definitely read it! The Dark Forest Theory comes from the second book. The novel is literally life-changing and you won’t regret reading it.
I feel like the Hunter in the technological forest could spin-off to its own Internet show.
I’d watch that
It was just a metaphor dude
@Yeltsa kcir ok
It is already happening – Netflix are working on Three-Body Problem. Unfortunatelly Benioff and Weiss are adapting it so it is about to get killed by those geniuses.
Dont judge a book by its cover
guys, everything that a tiny hint of a story doesn’t immediately have to be made into a 6 season netflix show… You can just enjoy things for what they are
the art style in this video is perhaps my favourite of any kurzgesagt video so far. the way you guys have animated, portrayed, and narrated (!) aliens is stunning and thought provoking – kudos!
I was going to say that
It reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book.
YES!
same
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
-Robert Service 1906
I feel as they explored technological ways to attack civilizations, its logical to think there would be deffense sytems as impresive if not more to be safe from retativistic weapons… or are we humans and possibly aliens just better at destroying than at preserving? Love the video!
@Hey, Taxi! So instead of hitting the planets they blow up the star. You can always imagine a more advanced civ with better methods for complete destruction.
@Thalassaer I don’t know if you’ve read the books or not, but creating black holes is essentially the only “solution” to the Dark Forest Liu Cixin suggests in his trilogy.
Basically, if you could somehow limit the speed of light in a region of space, say for example your solar system, to anything just below the escape velocity, then you’ve essentially transformed that region into the inside of a black hole. This means two things:
1. You’ve essentially waived the only true white flag in the universe, because if your civilization is encapsulated in a black hole nothing you could ever create could ever be sent outside of it again, so you literally cannot “fire” against other civilizations.
2. Once you pass the event horizon of a black hole you cannot escape, however, you also will never reach the black hole. Because of space-time warping, the closer you get to the black hole the more time slows down, so it takes you an infinite time to get from outside a black hole to its surface. This means that if any other civilization were to fire at your black hole-d solar system, whatever they throw at you will take an infinite time to hit you, so you’re safe from any external attack for eternity.
Basically the author says that closing your entire civilization in a black hole is the only universal and honest way of saying “I come in peace”, but the obvious downside is that you’re limiting your entire species to a tiny region of space for eternity, and that you’re essentially reverting yourself to something even worse than stone age, because such a slower speed of light also means much less energy available.
@TheLaubum…. Shit.
@phantom walker hey numb one, there’s no aliens on earth. that’s fake as hell
@Michael Pitts You find its exact trajectory, and launch a missile (or shoot a high-powered laser) towards it in order to prematurely detonate it.
Though of course this would require absurdly precise calculations which we are not capable of making with our current technology.
You can see that they tried something diffirent in this video, animation, the way narrator talks and the sound design. They are all in a diffirent style of Kurzgesagt and personally, i like it very much. Kurzgesagt is still and probably will stay as my favorite channel ever.
I thought it was impossible to love even more the art style of this channel, and I was wrong! I don’t even know what has changed. Why is this video so delightful?
stellar sound design, a few new 3d animations, phasing.
Thank you, you’ve helped me get through these last 2 years. I lost the closest to me person, and gone through a very painful breakup. Thanks to you I find myself learning, researching and having fun through science. I deeply appreciate that, hope you have a wonderful 12 022 and keep up with the amazing content.
Oh look, another beautifully illustrated/narrated Kurzgesagt video to give me existential nightmares 😀
ha
you know the usual
WOOOOOOOOO-
**2 seconds later**
*why did i watch this im having an existential crisis*
I mentioned it last time as well, but holy heck do I want to play a simulation/strategy game that has the art/design team from Kurzgesagt.
Especially after the strategy game-esque animations we were shown in the middle of the video.
@Juan Solís exactly
@ellisass try Spore, you start as an unicellular organism ending up to build a galactic empire, teraforming planets end colonizing them, It has its limits but you can stil enjoy it, stile a Little diferent from kurzgesagt’s
Play spore. This game has same art even. You start as a single cell evolving to fight against other planets in space. Like literally the same as this video
Do it Phillip!!
I still want action figures of their energy type characters from a while back
This reminds me of The First Contact War in the Mass Effect series. Effectively, Humans began colonizing other planets around the galaxy until the Turians found them and attacked them on site, simply because the humans activated a Mass Relay they weren’t supposed to activate. This escalated into full on war until the Citadel Council negotiated a peace treaty between the Turians and Humans a couple months later. 💚💚💚
It was all down to a misunderstanding. The Turians were just doing their jobs of acting as the police and enforcing Council laws, but the Humans, who at this time didn’t even know the Council existed, thought that this alien species meant to wipe them out.
shut up pepper
@ミズゴロウ aww did they call your waifu fake and you schizophrenic at elementary school today? aw, must of been a tough day
Leech.
Also original comment by undead890. How unoriginal can you be 🤡