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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[RadhakrishnanSrinathan]

For every like I'll study for 1 hour

[Jolfgard]

Statistically speaking, no matter how good Fermi is at approximating things, we're still externalizing from an observation on a sample of N=1.

[Montlev]

Just for the fun of it, I have translated every single space letter into our alphabet based on how they are shown in each topic's title. So here's what every single timestamp of the video says:

0:49 -
Teddy. Daniela.
Mari. Yvo.

*Asteroids!!!!*

2:56 - C-A-S galaxy
Simba
Nala
Mufasa
Salem Group
Mrs. Norris System
Cheshire Cluster
Tom
?i?i Cluster [Could be Jiji, Qiqi or Zizi. These 3 letters were never presented in their space form]
Crookshanks Cluster
Garfield Group
Meowyh Star

8:24 -
Send donuts!

8:33 -
The Great Frog
Of Frogisland

8:37 -
Lunch Date at
? PM Today [Could be any number]
Don't forget!

*Vessel Approaching!*

8:58 -
How dare you!!!

9:04 -
Easter System

[lakmalabeyrathne]

Man every time i watch your videos i always wonder how much it took for you guys to finish a single frame. Steller animation guys. Keep up the good work

[SewayPL]

An assumption often made is that spacefaring civilisations will be after planets, rather than resources for habitable megastructures and fleets

[scottie_]

I just want to say, analogizing Oceania to space is brilliant

[Mr--_--M]

I see the Dune inspirations throughout the video and it’s awesome 😊

[idlewildwind]

Love this alien font. The Cat Galaxy replacing the Polynesian Islands! Simba, Mufasa, Tom, Cheshire et al. :D

[colorgreen]

"And this, is a hypothesis surrounding aliens"
"Kurzgesagt, this is the ninth time you've shown aliens in class today"

[MrMoonJooce]

I was not ready for "its free real estate" to show up in a Kurzgesagt video of all places

[donaldengel]

The idea of this video is amazing; it's a fabulous example of free association coming up with new ideas.

[TSwiftie-ts]

You guys at kurzgesagt are so awesome at making things simple to learn and grasp. Keep up the great work ❤

[Chevifier]

"Mars is the worst, .... except Venus is even worse" I giggled at that for some reason😂

[Siddharth_Joshi]

7:35 Flirted with extinction might be one of my top kurzgesagt phrases

[samuraichicken]

The thing that really blows my nipples right off is the fact that this conversation is just about one galaxy, the Milky Way. Now remember that there are billions upon billions of galaxies, many of them vastly larger than our own. It's bonkers and absolutely mind boggling.

[timebubble]

"It's free real estate" lmao. Also loved the music in this one

[thomas.]

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.

[solaries]

Perhaps one of the biggest examples of human hubris is thinking, "if there were tons of advanced alien species, we would've detected them by now", even worse is "if there are advanced aliens out there of course they would immediately make themselves known to us [we're the most interesting thing in the universe]", and even, "if there are advanced aliens species out there and they haven't come to contact us, then it must be impossible ['cause otherwise they would've of course come as soon as they could]".

[leonestello]

The idea of divergent galactic civilization evolutions is fascinating, and that they may never be in touch with each other🤯 Wow! Just Wow!

[GentrifiedPotato]

I really want a Civilization-style video game with Kurzgesagt's art style where I can colonize or conquer space.