Brian Cox - Alien Life & The Zoo Hypothesis

🌌 Join world-renowned physicist Brian Cox as he delves into one of the universe's greatest mysteries: Are we alone? This thought-provoking journey takes us through the staggering expanses of the cosmos, exploring the profound question of extraterrestrial life.

🌟 Dive into the depths of space with billions of galaxies, each a home to countless stars and potentially habitable planets. What secrets do they hold? Brian Cox brings his unique perspective, combining scientific insight with a captivating curiosity about our galaxy and beyond.

🔭 Discover the latest in astronomical advancements that have unveiled thousands of exoplanets, many in habitable zones. Could these distant worlds harbor life? What kind of civilizations might exist out there, possibly advanced beyond our imagination?

👽 Tackling the enigmatic Fermi Paradox, Cox delves into the intriguing contradictions between the high probability of alien life and the lack of concrete evidence. Why haven't we found them yet? Are they avoiding us, observing from afar like a cosmic zookeeper?

🚀 This video is not just a quest for answers; it's a reflection of our desire to understand our place in the universe. Whether we're part of a grand galactic community or alone, each hypothesis brings us closer to unraveling the universe's secrets.

Join Brian Cox on this fascinating exploration, and ponder the possibilities that lie in the vast, mysterious universe. Are we truly alone, or are we part of something much bigger?

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[osssshhh]

A fish at the bottom of the sea doesn’t know we are here. Its looking for other fish near its home, but nothing. We are outside its water in another dimension, air. So could it be theres another level of life we are unaware of as it stands

[theunambiguous]

Really pissed that I’m living and will die to never experience the discovery or interaction of other species throughout the universe, this theory fascinates me more than anything else in life.

[neverBSTILL]

You can take a 5 gallon bucket of sea water out of the ocean and not see any fish but it doesn't mean there are no fish in the have only just begun to explore space the over whelming scale is almost unimaginable

[Doctor-vnes]

I watched a BBC documentary last year. On it a cosmologists said, go out into the middle of the Atlantic ocean and scoop up an egg cup full of water. That's equivalent to the proportion of space we've looked at for life.

[DadBooom]

Whenever they ask "Why haven't these advanced alien civilizations contacted us?" Imagine a colony of ants trying to contact us. Either we don't understand their method of contact, or simply don't care cuz they're ants.

[CX]

My own personal twist is the analogy of having a good life and driving by a bad neighborhood. Would you stop to hang out with the locals on a really sketchy street? Especially if you have a nice car? No, you wouldn’t. You’d avoid them all together as they are toxic and dangerous. For example is there a single super power on this planet that wouldn’t shoot down an alien craft just to harvest and weaponize its tech? Humanity is a crap show right now. Any alien civilization passing by would roll up the windows and hit the throttle.

[batouttahell]

The comments from everyone here are most ALL the BEST & MIND CHALLENGING I've ever read on ANY other site!!! BRAVO, ONE AND ALL'

[pablomax]

The issue with being able to detect an advanced alien civ is also one of timing. If they have moved on from radio waves, which is likely, then they are not randomly blasting waves for us to detect, but they were in their past. However, we have only been looking for 60 years! That means, the windows of time in which they were using radio + the travel distance from their planet to our would need to fall into the last 60 year window. That seems like a really tiny chance.

[mattchandler]

For me, far more interesting (and terrifying) than the Zoo Hypothesis as a proposed answer to the Fermi Paradox, is the Dark Forest Hypothesis, as depicted in Cixin Liu's brilliant 'Three Body Problem' series of books. It's based on three axioms, as explained by one of its central characters:

One - intelligent life is not only present, but abundant in the universe.
Two - survival is the primary need of any civilisation.
Three - civilisations expand over time, but the total available matter in the universe remains constant.

Under these three axioms, it paints a horrible picture: life everywhere, but since growth is constant and resources are finite, each galactic civilization is strongly incentivized to destroy any others upon discovery. The only defense against this is to remain unnoticed.

It could be why we haven't encountered aliens yet - they're hiding, and for good reason. We meanwhile, are like birds chirping incessantly into the darkness, running the risk of attracting hunters. Bit dark, but fascinating when you start to explore it.

[youtubesewers]

I think the biggest problem is everyone is so fixated on life being similar to the life here on Earth. Who would even begin to think for a single minute that alternative life forms in other galaxies would look anything like the human being or living species on our planet. One of my favorite movies that is super plausible and possible is called arrival. The species of extraterrestrials that came to Earth were nowhere near anything we could even comprehend. The communication and technology in which they possessed isn't even fathomable to our society.

[Chez-kfcy]

I think one of the scariest scenarios of the zoo hypothesis is aliens waiting to harvest life on earth like in the movie Jupiter Ascending. As an aside whoever came up with that idea for a screen play was brilliant. It was as brilliant as the Matrix movie.

[johngodfrey]

Alien life visiting Earth or not wanting to identify themselves is like comparing the likelihood of an ant living in Australia wanting to visit London, England. Just as the vast distance and differences in culture and environment would make the journey daunting and potentially fruitless for the ant, so too might extraterrestrial beings find the idea of revealing themselves to humanity unappetising or unnecessary. The complexities and unknown factors that would come with such a meeting may be enough to keep them hidden in the shadows, observing from afar much like the ant may prefer to stay in its familiar surroundings rather than venture into unknown territory.

[Timwit]

Weve only had the means to search for life for less than 100 years. With how big the universe and scale of time behind us i dont think its that surprising we havent found anything

[lachazaroony]

If there are aliens out there capable of visiting us, they are surely able to conceal themselves from us as well.

[Spaghatee]

There’s definitely been contact made. You release that kind of information to the masses, the establishment that you’ve fought so hard to build and uphold, crumbles. Imagine finding out your holy book and beliefs only exist here on this planet and no where else where life exists in the universe. Your entire belief system is gone, and when you look at that on a world wide scale, well that just causes chaos.

[gamewithadam]

Zoo hypothesis is quite an interesting one. Like we're just in a big black box section in the universe and we won't learn how to get out until we're ready or never. Or a way to preserve the universe somehow.

[PeterSedesse]

The cool thing about the zoo hypothesis is that we have invented the Prime Directive in our fiction, but are much more likely to be the victim of the Prime Directive in reality. In Star Trek, we have this code to not interfere with less developed civilizations, but the zoo hypothesis is basically other civilizations not interfering with us.

[Drumhandsmike]

Maybe there is life staring us in the face but it is in a form we cannot comprehend with our smooth brains.

[youexx]

The British accent, deep voice, and GRAVITAS of the host's voice adds to the overwhelming mystery of the Universe - all of which makes us VERY VERY

[AndrewMarq]

Love the Prometheus and Covenant clips ❤️