10 Unpleasant Alien Civilization Scenarios

And exploration of 10 Unpleasant Alien Civilization Scenarios and speculation on what they might mean.

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[BigZebraCom]

Unpleasant Alien Civilization Scenario: Really Smelly Aliens.

[CewyahAlt]

Isn't it crazy how the human brain is capable of thinking this deep when, we've never left our solar system?

[visassess]

I always liked the idea that aliens are just studying and observing us instead of the common thought that aliens want to destroy the Earth.

[BigZebraCom]

Unpleasant Alien Civilization Scenario: They contact us, and all they want to do is talk politics and religion.

[bentwineham]

Great video as always. 17:35 That’s essentially the twist of Ender’s Game. An ant like alien species attempts to communicate with humanity by destroying a few cities, assuming that humans work as a hive-mind like themselves and the deaths of a few million drones would get the hive’s attention, without retaliation, as who cares if some drones are killed? They accidentally trigger a intergalactic war that results in the near total genocide of their species. Communication is hard, man.

[JustSumGeek]

V2 rockets were made before space rockets, atom bombs before nuclear power, and I imagine sticks or stones were used in combat before they were used as tools. Aggression shaped our destiny and if some aliens are out there in space, you can be fairly certain they will be aggressive too.

[MrEdfed]

I love the point you make about in what form a dying civilization might leave their archives for the universe. I instantly thought of the Star Trek episode The Inner Light, where the Enterprise finds a probe floating in space, which zaps Picard and he lives an entire lifetime as a member of their society as they observe their own sun destroying their world, but are unable to save themselves from it.

[TheCraigHudson]

I really liked the analogy of the ants and humans being them. Also alien warfare in distance gamma ray bursts. I guess what makes it really scary and intriguing is the size of space is so vast that every single sci fi tech, world, species, weapon from movies games and books is all possible merely based on the fact how vast the universe is.

[grey-spark]

This reminds me of that one scene from The TItanic where a giant red flare is sent in the air, but then the camera cuts to a far out view where the flare is only a silent blip in the distance.

[retroneer]

One of my favorite theories is that *humans* are the super advanced precursors and that we just haven't gotten to that point yet. (I mainly like it because it's one of the only ones where humans don't end up alone or in constant danger)

[ironmustardseed]

The most unpleasant reality for me would be finding evidence of the Great Filter in the form of self-annihilation, and a universe riddled with dead alien civilizations. Maybe the anarchy-technology dilemma is a far greater hurdle than the earlier evolutionary transitions; such as: abiogenesis, eukaryogenesis, sexual reproduction, multicellularity etc

[delamain]

The idea that they are beings that if we saw we wouldn't be able to comprehend what they are, as well as the idea of them dealing with us like how we deal with bugs has to be the most terrifying way to think about aliens

[martinstallard]

0:00 start of video
0:53 All Alien Civilizations are Necessary Aggressive
2:44 The Civilization Literally Next Door
4:49 The Technosignaturs of War
7:52 The Galactic Necropolis
9:57 The Warning Signal
11:59 Identical to Humans
13:54 The Enforced Great Silence
16:00 They Work Like Ants
18:21 The Universe was Created by Aliens
20:17 Berserker Machine Intelligence

[beyerdr]

Another interesting but troubling idea on alien civilizations, was covered in an episode of Star Trek Voyager. Early warp capable humans sent a Probe out with the best of intentions but that Probe found an less advanced civilization and radically altered their life, eventually for the worse. Imagine our first contact being something like this. A Probe sent with good intentions crashes or explodes in our atmosphere causing catastrophic damage that we have no idea how to combat. Or it's technology leads us even faster down the road to our own destruction.

[LIONTAMERD]

Most terrifying scenario: any civilization advanced enough to explore & visit planets inside their own galaxy is capable of rendering humanity technologically indefensible in any military context. A civilization capable of intergalactic travel cannot be defeated militarily by humans, at all.

[willyreeves]

my take on the "paradox" of why we dont see alien life all around us in the galaxy is:
you have to take into account all of the possible scenarios which includes all of the time in which civilizations could arise. in theory a civilization similar to us could have started perhaps 4 or 5 billion years before ours, although the likelihood drops the farther back in time you go. also civilizations could arise in the future for another perhaps 200 billion years before the age of stars starts to die off and it becomes more likely as time passes due to the increase in heavier elements from supernova and white dwarf collisions. even without the increased likelihood from heavy element creation over 95% of all civilizations that will exist have not started yet (with it it's over 99.9%). many of the stars that they will arise around have not started forming yet. we are just a bit early, we should find a couple in the next 5 billion years be patient.

[winstonsmith]

A highly advanced, space faring civilization would most likely have transitioned to advanced robotic exploration considering how vastly more suitable self-repairing AI robotics are for such pursuits with no need for food and atmosphere, just energy, and far more radiation resistance.

[johnwickspencil]

It was once explained to me that trying to understand some of the things that goes on outside of our planet is as comprehensible as building a highway over a ant hill and trying to explain it to the ants.

[TheNightWatcher]

We really shouldn’t be trying to contact other life forms. The chances that it could trigger an aggressive response is just as likely as the chances to trigger a positive or neutral response. Those odds make it not worth the risk in my eyes.

[metroidragon]

Cool video! 2:57 I always disagreed with the notion that a star system nearby is unlikely to be inhabited. There is the concept of a 'galactic habitable zone' that's more complex and nuanced that we understand.

Our Sun is unusually metal-rich for a star of its age and type. Other stars nearby plausibly have comparable levels of rare and heavy elements as Earth and Sol, but that doesn't hold for other areas of the milky way that had different distributions of gasses.

I suspect that life bearing solar systems develop in 'small' groups about the same age. A huge supernovae might spread heavy elements in a ring of life bearing systems. multiple 'nearby' oasis of life in an otherwise almost lifeless desert.

Our 'region' of the milky way likely hasn't seen major sterilization events such as nearby supernovae. Radiation levels, metal richness of stars, lack of disruptive gravitational forces, a galactic orbit that doesn't cross any spiral arms, et al; All of the same variables that conspired to make our Sol system what it is, are likely to hold true in a local swath of space; If there is alien life in the milky way, looking nearby is a very good place to start, especially around nearby yellow dwarf stars of a similar age.