Brian Cox Found New Solution To The Fermi Paradox And It Isn't Good

Famous Physicist Brian Cox has finally got an explanation for the Fermi paradox but it's unbelievable and somewhat shocking.

[scrull]

Wow. You could skip all the way to 17:00 and still not learn anything new. I love the topic, but this presentation was nothing but word salad.

[MrLennart]

The Fermi paradox is no paradox at all. The fascination with it stems from the inability to comprehend what a microscopic piece of space and time we inhabit. It's like a man waking up on a boat in the middle of the atlantic, spends 10mins looking and calling out in all directions and then asking “where is everyone, am i alone in the universe?”

[Pyraxis]

I just lost 19m15s of my life, there is no actual 'New solution to the Fermi Paradox' in this video.

[DG-dytv]

There's a good bit of redundance here. I watched the whole thing. I give it a D on a scale of A through F

[williamgutsch]

This comes off as a term paper cobbled together by a junior high school kid by a wide variety of sources. It is not coherent, folds back on itself and dies the viewer and the teased incorporation of Brian Cox an injustice.

[S_Drake]

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” D. Adams

[thomassicard]

"Apart from hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity." - Harlan Ellison

[mannymistry]

I think any theory (and these are theories, not "solution" as the title suggests) makes the mistake of assuming that any intelligent life must be detectable by our capabilities of measurement, based on our understanding of physics and mathematics. And therefore if we can't detect any life, there can't be any. Considering that even the nature of space-time is now being revised, the presence of it even being theoretically refuted by certain scientists, makes it a fallacy to assert anything about the presence of intelligent life in our galaxy based on our current methods of measurement. "We don't know and we are not advanced enough to know yet" is probably the best thing we can say. Scientists don't like to admit to this. Or even that, if intelligent life is in the neighbourhood - perhaps even on this planet, and are a species that are so advanced that they can travel to our Earth, then our methods of measuring their presence is likely to also be too primitive to do so.

[mysticwanderer]

So two minutes of Brian Cox stating that alien civilizations might have a "Prime Directive" like Star Trek that prevents them from contact or interfering with a more primitive civilization and that "isn't good?' I think it's a lot better than many of the alternatives. Having said that, that has been my theory for a long time. What has Earth got to offer that isn't found on many planets in the Galaxy? The zoo or ant farm hypothesis has merit as well. Perhaps a civilization a hundred thousand years older than ours that has never known war populated by beings with an average lifespan of over a thousand years and an average intelligence level that would make us look like mentally challenged toddlers might just be able to visit this zoo without a handshake or a welcome kiss? Maybe they have solved the issue of interstellar travel in a way that is beyond our capability to even conceive. Nahhhh, we are the first, the best, and the most intelligent. Did I mention the best looking as well? No doubt.

[careerprofessional]

The Octopus is a very intelligent invertebrate that lives underwater where paper, blackboard and chalk, electricity, and fire are technologies unavailable to it. Ditto whales, dolphins. So what are we potentially going to find on the moons of the gas giants? Creatures living under the surface, swimming around in vast seas that are not going to be able to communicate with us using paper, blackboard and chalk, electricity or fire. Eyeballs are a common evolutionary outcome. However, even if we could send them Morse Code with laser beams, the underwater little green aliens are going to have a hard time flashing us back. Water is the great filter - can't live with it - can't live without it.

[XYZ-bieb]

after watching this world for many decades, i don't think there is any intelligent life on earth either. problem solved.

[orogenicman]

If we look at the natural world on our own planet, we see that life is engaged in an unending struggle for survival. Perhaps the reason other species in the universe are not engaging with us or anyone else that we know of is because where there is life, there are 'lions, and tigers, and bears'. In that instance, not advertising one's existence increases the probability of survival.

[dwsmyyth]

If faster than light speed travel is impossible we will probably never see or hear any aliens.

[nicodimus]

It might just be as simple as this: Biological matter ages like milk in space. Radiation kills it quickly, and the extreme cold, micrometeorite punctures, and the vacuum of space don't help. Pair that up with the vast distances, and it makes sense that most life just cannot exist very far from its own planet unless it develops a perfect system to overcome these challenges.

[Space_Library]

If we are indeed one of the first civilizations, what does this mean for our responsibility to protect the planet and develop technology to expand beyond Earth, to ensure the long-term survival of the human species?

[adolfhochhaltinger]

We underestimate two things: the vast size of the universe which only can be conquered by a technology able to travel faster than light, and the vast amount of time, meaning that most other civilizations may have happened millennia in the past or will happen millennia in the future.

[paulgracey]

The probability that a search for intelligent life, whether by us or a more advanced species out in the region close to our small planet, may have missed us completely in the brief amount of time we have been able to signal our presence electronically is rather high. For example, I spent some time studying the captain's log book of a 1906 voyage by an American sailing ship which went aground on an un-charted reef northwest of Australia. Though only a hundred miles or so from normal shipping routes, it took that crew two and one quarter months to get free of that reef, and be once again sailing in commonly traversed shipping lanes. Once that happened they were rescued by receiving needed supplies from a passing steamship. More than 200 American sailing ships of that sort, still active near the end of the age of steam by carrying coal to depots for the more direct steamships, or other non-urgent cargoes, went missing in that era with no record of where, or how they became unable to complete their voyages.
If humans can miss each other on ships at sea even in heavily traveled corridors of commerce, and with tall masts easy to be detected by, what chance have we of being found or finding any other species, especially one that does not wish to be found.

[Genuinely_Vague]

I think it’s purely that life doesn’t last long enough to escape their star systems.

If that doesn’t apply then the next most likely option is that those advanced technologies simply can not exist.

[georgecarlinismytribe]

It's not the lack of habitable planets - it's the mind bending distances.

[stellaluuk]

The problem with colonizing other planets is you need ones with a similar chemical composition and size.