10 Positive Alien Civilization Scenarios

An exploration of 10 Positive Alien Civilization Scenarios and how first contact might unfold.

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[twokidsmovies]

Hey, just got my bachelors degree and now am applying to grad school for astrobiology. Thanks for keeping me inspired with your videos.

[davidhayward]

I can't remember the title, but I once read a short story detailing how we discovered a new form of near-instant quantum-based communications. As soon as we powered it up, we became aware of the sheer number of other civilisations out there, all talking to one another in almost real-time. When they realise we can now access that technology, we're invited into the galactic internet, of sorts, and begin to learn from all the other species out there. It's not original, but it always made me feel a little more positive about first contact with alien life.

[EVILJAMARR]

Humans: Hey aliens, what’s the meaning of life?

**waits 5, 000 years**

Aliens: No idea, dude. Was hoping you guys knew

[cliffhoelzer]

I posed this question to a SETI podcast and Seth Shostak took it as a point of discussion. What if earth were the most advanced civilization and we were surrounded by dozens of civilizations at the technological level of Rome. How would we find them or count them?

[Maphisto]

I like the scenarios that involve cooperation between alien species (us and other extraterrestrial species). Not only does it give you fuzzy feelings of happiness but it also seems to play out in nature on Earth. Cooperation is just as prevalent among many social species as is competition.

[rogerwabbit]

Like many of your viewers (it seems), I really struggle to fall asleep at night without your soothing but informative videos… Most important and entertaining channel on YouTube. Thanks so much for what you do 🙏

[AJScraps]

Its always nice to hear the positive outlooks on extraterrestrial life 🌌

[astroman]

13:36 My take on this has always been that, maybe if we ever get to stablish colonies in distant planets, the way we could comunicate instantaneously without the limitations of causality, is to establish a galactic network of probes that are composed of quantum computers that are all linked together by quantum entanglement, so when you decide to send a message, the quantum entangled comunication mechanism shares the information to all or certain probes instantaneously. To establish this comunication network you could do it by way of subluminal space travel or by FTL engines or whatever. This would also explain why there's no big radio meesages being sent throuout the galaxy...

[lukaskywalker]

If I only had 3 questions definitiveltly answered:

1. What/why exactly is gravity?

2. What's inside a black hole? 🕳

3. What's before and after time?

[princevesperal]

In the show "The Orville", there is an episode in which the crew of the spaceship receive a radio signal from a fledgling civilization, and I found that the crew's outburst of joy at this first contact was genuinely moving. They were so excited to meet these people and establish diplomatic relations, hoping to welcome them into the galactic community. I would hope that an advanced alien species would feel this way; a sense of fraternity and belonging, like upon learning that you have a secret brother that you never knew about and who is excited to make your acquaintance.

[sunspot]

Maybe it’s no accident our universe seems reasonably well-tuned for life. Maybe it arose from the end of a previous universe that wasn’t as well-tuned, whose occupants came up with a way to tune the parameters of the subsequent universe. Perhaps this has been going on since the first universe arose capable of generating any sort of life. Each subsequent universe is better-tuned for the creation of even more consciousness.

[radicalveg]

For me the big question is: do other civilizations have the virtue of compassion. Do they experience empathy for sentient beings who suffer, and are they motivated to help lessen the suffering? Conversely, given that the human species, or many members of it, are perfectly fine inflicting suffering on other sentient beings, would an empathic civilization withhold their knowledge, seeing humans as mental cases best left alone? Of course, one can conceive of an advanced civilization with the ability to alter human consciousness in any number of ways, including the ability to transform them into an empathic species. But maybe that would violate the doctrine of non-interference.

[KingZoa]

What’s amazing is that I just genuinely thought “hey maybe John posted something cool again”
And here we are! Great content and keep it up!

[The.Kyle.Scott.]

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You have a life long fan in me.

Thanks JMGoat

[AlexWalkerSmith]

That last one made me rethink the "Prime Directive" (refraining from interfering with the development of alien civilizations). If life is exceedingly rare, and we happen to find an intelligent civilization, deciding not to interact with them seems like such a tragic waste.

[KB-idge]

John Michael Godier and Anton Petrov single handedly cured my insomnia and brought up an interest in physics that I never had, applied to uni recently.
Imagine if our teachers were like this lol. All this in two years just listening to videos each night.
Thanks I guess, worked better than therapy

[erictaylor]

7:30 Perhaps there have been many big bang big crunch cycles, but in this cycle someone found a way to stop the next crunch and we see that today as Dark Energy.

[godlessqueertheywarnedyouabout]

I love that this came out on the same day Kurzgesagt released a video on the Dark Forest solution of the Fermi Paradox.

[williamreyes]

Love the high level high velocity content. Your my favorite futurist and over all YouTube. Keep it up you make my day everytime you uplaod.

[Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove]

Our radio transmissions 100 light years out would be very hard to discern from the background radiation. It'd be very hard for anyone to recognize it as something produced by an intelligent civilization. Not randomly at least. If by chance they had a solar system wide receiving antenna pointed our way, they'd not recognize it.