Ray Kurzweil - Where are All Those Aliens?

Most scientists assume that the universe must be populated with innumerable alien intelligences and civilizations—after all, there are billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and planets—we humans can't be so special.

[hillwalker]

refreshing to hear another point of view

[mael-strom]

A truly transcended alien technology may not need to use the physical realm at all. They be past all that nonsense.

[con.troller]

The Aliens are monitoring the internet and thinking, "Nope. Nowhere near ready to join the gang".

[willp]

It is beyond our scope of conscious intelligence at this time to even contemplate the possibilities, never mind the reality of our future. As our consciousness evolves, our reality changes.

[matonmongo]

If the speed of light is indeed unsurpassable, then every civilization, regardless how advanced, is basically 'isolated' by the incredible distances involved, even just within our own galaxy, which takes over a 100, 000 years just for light to cross. And any 'broadcasts' they're putting out are similarly limited. Also as the SETI folks often point out, we'd still have to be aimed at just that particular 'pixel's' worth of the sky in order to detect 'em.

[TehNetherlands]

Ray makes a number of assumptions here, some of which I agree with.
Given the inhospitable nature of our universe, it's likely that life - let alone intelligent life - is unfathomably rare. Yet I don't think it's so rare that no other civilization has developed at least within the volume of the observable universe. My prediction is that primitive lifeforms have developed on millions of moons and planets, that more advanced forms of life are orders of magnitude less common, and that perhaps a handful of actual civilizations have developed, survived and advanced beyond our technological capability.
Given the mind-boggling vastness of the observable universe, it follows that unless faster than light travel is possible, we will likely never interact with or even discover such a species.
Don't forget that the electromagnetic radiation from distant galaxies takes millions and often billions of years to reach us. Even civilizations a billion years ahead of us would not yet appear in the footprint of distant galaxies. Since they are likely incredibly rare, statistics dictate that we should expect them to appear in distant galaxies. The universe is too young for light to have traveled far enough for us to be able to detect them. Add to this the expansion of the space-time continuüm, and the conclusion is that detection and contact are forever out of reach. Perhaps to our benefit.
I honestly believe that this is what's going on.
These assumptions are mainly based on the incredible streak of coincidences and unlikely events that appear to have been required for our species to evolve and survive.

[redhotbits]

we went from moon in 70s to flat earth in 2017 💪

[AuntBibby]

i would personally put forward the theory that if 1) the primordial ooze took a bazillion years to get lucky enough to make life at all, and that 2) lots of stuff that moves for so long it seems like a perpetual motion machine just so happens to run on astronomical processes [the moon's gravity pulls the tide until the moon crashes into the earth, a tiny wheel with solar-panels on it will turn until the light stops shining on it, etc] maybe the vast majority of things outside our solar system that are complex enough for us to consider them as extraterrestrial "life" are all just "planet-sized rube-goldberg machines" with no individual "cog" in the previously mentioned "machine" being any smaller than the average earth city.

[chapbot]

Don't you love how pure logic rattles the nitwit YouTube cages.

[sd]

Another conclusion could be that the civilizations usually destroy themselves before they are able to communicate with other civilizations.

[raymondparsley]

Makes for interesting conversation, that's about it.

[BlueFieldGamer]

intelligence alien is probably rare but it possible

We hadn't search all the radio wave in the universe long enough to find them

[teeniequeenie]

I’m this series!!! I digg anything extraterrestrial lol and anything to do with reality, consciousness and what it all means. Thank you for these!!!!

[bigdevastation]

I thought he was interviewing himself..they look like the same guy lol doppelgänger 🤣😂😅

[MetalMonkey]

When I visited Arecibo a few years back, I stopped at a station where I could fill in the variables for Drake equation and I did so with my best knowledge and intuition. The answer I got was 1.

[easywind]

I have listened to many of these videos. It has been very humbling. I am smart enough to be interested but not smart enough to comprehend.

[trog]

If I were interviewed like this, I'd plant myself in front of my aDs 910 loudspeakers and then keep pointing them out to the interviewer like a crazy person.

[jimbartz]

Crows pass on knowledge to their offspring and the offspring pass that knowledge on to their progeny and other members of their group family.

[edydon]

Are amoebas aware of us?Beings more evolved than us might easily be beyond the limited capacity of our awareness..

[meows_and_woof]

I feel people make mistakes presuming every life develops the way we did, with same senses and same kind of physical abilities.
We know about electromagnetic signals because we developed vision and that allowed us explore into the field of electromagnetism
Not all intelligent life would have evolved with those abilities. Some might have other sensory persecutions which we don’t even understand. Even on our own planet there are so many animals and life forms which rely on other sensory organs rather that vision and hearing.
Aliens also could have some kind of sensory organs which lead them to developing totally different technology and a different type of communication
When we try finding life outside we only look or try to find radio signals. May be we are doing wrong and instead we need to think what kind of other type of communication possible. May be look at our own eco system, intelligent animals and see how they communicate, take dolphins for example.
We are not looking enough and only in a very narrow range of signals