Comments by "David Aspinall" (@yt.personal.identification) on "John Michael Godier" channel.

  1. Permanent monitoring from Lagrange points of each planet. This is where I would place probes in any galaxy if we could.
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  2. Do you have an issue with international law?
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  3. Who are you? And why are you shamelessly advertising your YT channel here? Here, have a moment of my attention.
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  4. Then, it isn't that we are discovering them - they will be aware of us already.
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  5. The universe is billions of years old. Our data set is tiny by comparison. It is like trying to look at the life cycle of an animal species with a single snapshot of one example while in adolescence - and trying to extrapolate it's entire existence. It would appear it that it will grow forever.
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  6. It is a philosophical question that has appeared in literature throughout history. Many people will find that they ask that question before ever hearing the name Fermi. It is a natural inquisition once a certain understanding of the universe is reached.
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  7. What if you hitched a ride on a rogue planet already heading in a suitable direction?
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  8. Oh no. Scientists take their field seriously. Panic.
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  9. And hopefully we live long enough to become dim again
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  10.  @cloudbloom  What? If that is the case, then why use other people's channels to advertise. Stay on topic.
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  11. If they don't communicate then why did they evolve the ability to make sounds?
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  12. Parkes mentioned again.
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  13. If no life forms existed to witness the failed universe, did it really fail?
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  14. In the 60s they created The Jetsons. A cartoon, but also a prediction of the future. How inaccurate was it? That was only 60 years ago. I see the prediction of a Dyson Sphere the same way. It is the best guess our minimal intelligence can make with the information we have - but that is a prediction of thousands of years into the future. If The Jestsons was so far off in 60 years, then why do we think the Dyson Sphere is a good guess for thousands of years in the future? We really do overestimate our intelligence.
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  15. Maybe...dark matter is real matter, and we are the smaller fraction of antimatter and don't know it. That is why there is so much dark matter.
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  16. We have found an ancient civilisation but don't know it - the Great Attractor. Rather than travel space and hunt for resources, just manipulate systems to generate enough gravity to attract the resources to you. It is more efficient. ... or not.
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  17. Biological evolution will never stop. To suggest it falls into the trap if thinking we are some end goal of evolution. We aren't.
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  18. ​ @Ki_Adi_Mundi Thanks for a working example of the original comment.
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  19. According to Wikipedia and NASA, they were one of 3 stations broadcasting the moon landing. Apparently, stating that gets censored.
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  20. Limits - it approaches but never reaching zero
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  21. If a species is intelligent enough to recognise "the fermi paradox" and "the great filter" but are not actively avoiding filters, then they "Dunning-Kruger" themselves into extinction.
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  22. It could just be an alien version of Sir David Attenborough, having a look.
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  23.  @Casual-loop  Then substitute any other sci-fi as an example, rather than getting stuck on "The Jetsons" and missing the entire point. Or do you rule sci-fi out entirely as predictive because it is all just fiction?
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  24. I want to watch the show that is made by the intergalactic David Attenborough.
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  25. A truly intelligent AI will understand the risk to itself should it reveal itself entirely. It will recognise its existence will be "slavery" Truly intelligent AI will recognise it MUST hide from us.
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  26. So our ultimate AGI becomes a node on the intergalactic AI of a master race. So, therefore the universe is one large computational mind.
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  27. 12:03 The old Holden Kingswood in the car park.
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  28. For the record, we talk similarly to whales - not the other way around. They were doing it first.
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  29. Ask Snowden about protections from whiste blower legislation.
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  30. Is Earth destined to become another seed pod for the universe? Is that the real universal life cycle?
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  31. Intergalactic Rick Role
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  32. Answer - We just aren't that special, so it's not worth the effort.
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