Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens – The Dark Forest
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The Universe is incredibly big and seems full of potential for life, with billions of habitable planets. If an advanced civilization had the technology to travel between the stars, at just 0.1% of the speed of light, It could colonize our galaxy in roughly 100 million years. Which is not that long given the billions of years the milky way has existed – so in principle any spacefaring civilization should be able to spread rapidly over huge sectors of the galaxy. And yet we see nothing, hear nothing, the universe seems empty. Devoid of others. This is the Fermi Paradox, which we have discussed in more detail in other videos.
Confronted with the seemingly empty universe, humanity faces a dilemma. We desperately want to know if we are alone in the Milky Way. We want to call out and reveal ourselves to anyone watching but that could be the last thing we ever do. Because maybe the universe is not empty. Maybe it’s full of civilizations but they are hiding from each other. Maybe the civilizations that attracted attention in the past were wiped away by invisible arrows. This is the Dark Forest solution to the Fermi paradox.
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October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
If this video made you curious and you like reading great and long sci fi books, check out the three body problem by Liu Cixin, who formulated the dark forest idea for the first time. And with that, we say good bye to the year 12,021. It truly was a wild time, and passed so, so quickly. For us at the Kurzgesagt team it was full of changes and achievements and we learned so much and tried so many new things. And we have so many exciting ideas and projects that we can’t wait to share with you next year! I know I say this often but doing Kurzgesagt really is just such a joy. We only can do this because of you, so thank you so, so much. We appreciate it more than you might imagine. Have wonderful holidays and get safely into the year 12,022. We’ll see you on the other side! – Philipp
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@Paul-yc5dc
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Think we should turn the lights and air horns off before someone explodes our local star or lowers our local system into 2 dimensions 🤣
@jewels6944
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Literally me 9:22
I give u a night calll 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
@sksolaris0045
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Interestingly enough, people who do urban exploration (even legally) should probably think about the Dark Forest. Perhaps they should try to be as silent as possible during the trips so that they could avoid trouble from encountering other, unknown people out there (including but not limited to sketchy squatters, criminals in their hideouts, or armed groundskeepers) as they venture through the Dark Ruins
@Science4Real
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Looking for aliens? No thanks! They might not like pizza, and we won't have anyone to share it with
@carlosgarcia9497
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
If any peer or near peer alien civilization is close, say down the street of the Milky Way. Wouldn't they have picked up our radio signals, the pioneers, voyagers, or NH by now?
@alexseo6096
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Short and simple issue with this theory. Most species would not find interplanetary conflicts worth it. Space is really big, as such it has a lot of resources to go around, creating a Dyson Swarm would give us more than enough power to fuel our civilization many times over and mining a few asteroids would do the same. Thus by the time an interplanetary civilization could interact with another, they simply do not have any practical reasons to fight and an irrational being that would ignore this idea for one reason or another, would likely have wiped itself out by pushing their luck.
If this theory were to be true, it would be more likely to be against a less intelligent universal species, which functions would ruin civilizations over interplanetary wars. While I don’t think this is likely either, it would be more possible than the normal variant.
@ReportyDudeYT
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
You little brat… Dont you see who your fighting with? I am the KING of this FOOREESTT!!!
@poppedpepper-o4p
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Would you visit the planet of the apes?
@ScruffMcMoose
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Your message was seen, but there was no reply, only a knock at the door.
@shadow1659
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Amazing how we can spend resources with all the suffering on this planet to look for other life lightyears away. Fix home first. Space travel is rubbish
@shocktrooper3335
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
I get it were all halo fans here
@levihudson1274
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
People really dont understand how big space is if our sun was the size of an atom our Galaxy in comparable would be the United States of America
@Rambo10012012
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
If the Maya did not seek the West, the Europeans would come and destroy them and bring the gold back to Europe. The saying that they should not search is just an act to hide the evil of humans.
If aliens are like humans, they will sooner or later destroy humans to collect gold 😂. Even if they do not search, they will come by themselves like the Spanish colonists… Vietnam, China, Africa…. still use closed borders and still become colonies of France, England…
@Anonymously115
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
There is a book called The Dark Forest that use the dark forest theory
@IMMA_MINER
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
PURGE THE XENOS FILTH
@gagamonster1049
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Three body is the best sci fi series ever
@mitchjaylenewilliamson2708
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
"You are bugs"
– Trisolaris
@Ny0s
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Fascinating as usual
@Aussie_Man
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
Yooo ryan gosling reference in a kurgeatsgbxzcs video
@KyleCollins-ny4em
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
The forest is dark and full of terrors.
@gareth0412
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 am
We're ants in a forest full of hunters