Comments by "Brandon" (@gravoc857) on "Strange Things Found In The Solar System" video.
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@Gareth Evans As our universe observation technology continues to become sufficiently more advanced, we’re realizing how easy it is for super or hyper intelligent civilizations to find us. Humanity already has technology to see if there’s lights on a planet that’s billion(s) of miles away. Meaning if we think a planet has a possibility to host intelligent life, we have ways to look & test for it.
Every solar system has a natural telescope powerful enough to see images in stunning detail from unfathomanle distances away. This telescope is called the sun and it’s accomplished by something called Gravitational Lensing. A type 2 civilization would be capable of exploiting this advantage. Hell, humanity might have solar sail probes capable of reaching the suns gravitational focal point before we become a full type 1 civilization. It’s only 625 astronomical units away from Earth. Minimal distances when you consider humanity is already in the process of developing very fast drones to explore Proxima Centauri.
Now the real question is intelligent life there? Does it exist at the same time as us? Is it actively looking? Remember, humanity has been here for a blink. Our first radio waves haven’t even traversed 1/3rd of our galaxy yet.
Earth has 3 forms of higher natural intelligence. There’s social intelligence formed from mammals, mastered by us.
There’s hive intelligence, which is a relatively new concept to our planet, mastered by ants.
Then there’s solitary intelligences, mastered by Cephalopods such as octopus & cuddle fish.
So we know 3 classes of what’s considered higher sentient consciousness just here on Earth. We see lots of opportunity for life just in our solar system. We know of countless Extremophiles here just on our planet. We know the observable universe is incredibly vast, with billions of galaxies, trillions of stars and planets. We know water is common throughout the universe. We know our star is common in the star family tree. We know Earth like planets around the habital zone is fairly common. Our technology continues to reveal more to us & its beginning to become odd that we aren’t finding life. It’s why we need to push harder for answers. There’s more reason to believe life not only exists, but thrives in the universe rather than is extremely rare. So where is all of it?
That’s where the Fermi Paradox comes in. If you’re interested, I strongly encourage you to research it. It provides several logical answers to why we’re not finding life. Whether we’re alone or not alone. Both answers are equally exciting and horrifying.
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