@BWMiller i'm on the bit about the fermi paradox and this guy only has two exlanations for "human limitations" and I'm assuming he's just choosing to ignore the hilariously obvious one "we can't see the aliens because we don't have any devices capable of detecting them yet"

ufologists btfo

Nah he gets to that

Game theory

what does game theory have to say about the inverse square law and interstellar distances

That's more of the theoretical engineering. He crunches the numbers on how far aliens would get from their starting point if they tried. Game theory suggests that even if they didn't have an insatiable appetite for resources they would still spread out to prevent another possible species who might have an insatiable appetite for species from getting there first

Zoo hypothesis is one suggested answer

But it's not that we can't spot them. It's that they're hiding

wtf

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@BWMiller you're not understanding me. We only barely observed the fact that Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor even has planets. How can we even possibly detect an alien satellite around their planet?

much less a star further away

Dyson speres would be noticable

not really

Spheres*

maybe on really close stars

Spreading blackness

Also they would be here by now

spreading on a thousand year time scale

no they wouldn't you're discounting how vast our galaxy is

ftl is impossible

No your discounting how low we've been around. You're missing the entire point of the video

The universe is like 12-14 byo

we've only been observing planets for the last decade dude

Earth has been around for 4 by

we haven't been observing stars for the last 12-14byo years

Yes but they've had that entire time to spread out

and they probably haven't gotten here yet

because of the vastness

Planets have been around for billions of years

Even light speed isn't an impediment on that time scale

look that's true, but the stars that formed in the early galaxy are different from the ones that formed in the one we have now

it probably took billions of years for habitable planets to form

Yes but earth like planets have been around for billions of years

there could be a hilariously vast stellar system all around us and we just can't see them because we literally have no means of seeing them past like proxima centauri

they could have a billion space ships in proxima centauri and we wouldn't be able to observe them

But they would be here by now. In the video he says how many galaxies would have to be devoid of life for them not to be here by now

they could have checked up on us a billion years ago and found no traces of life

and then went on not to care forever

maybe they found that the kali yuga we live in is just the facade and tunneled to a different universe

but this doesn't change the fact that the galaxy is hideously vast