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Dormant Alien Empires

When listen to void of space, we hear no alien signals, but could the galaxy be quiet because ancient empires slumber inside it?
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Dormant Alien Empires
Episode 455a; July 14, 2024
Produced, Narrated & Written: Isaac Arthur
Editors: Darius Said & Mark Surber
Graphics:
Mihail Yordanov
Jeremy Jozwik
Ken York YD Visual
LegionTech Studios
Sergio Botero
Udo Schroeter
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound epidemicsound.c...
Lombus, "Cosmic Soup"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth"
Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "The Divine Cosmos"
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  • @Thaumogenesis
    @ThaumogenesisАй бұрын

    The year is 2224, we get the first alien response to our calls. Scientists manage to translate it. What does it say: "Just 5 more minutes"

  • @SeekSomethingMore

    @SeekSomethingMore

    Ай бұрын

    They don't need to respond, they're already here.

  • @emoryogglethorp8180

    @emoryogglethorp8180

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@SeekSomethingMoretalk about an unfalsifiable and completely useless hypothesis LOL

  • @eenzamegezelligheid8854

    @eenzamegezelligheid8854

    Ай бұрын

    The scariest part is that they know how long a minute is

  • @MOSMASTERING

    @MOSMASTERING

    Ай бұрын

    "We didn't get a response, so the construction fleet has been launched to turn your uninhabited rock into a factory to create chemicals we desperately need to power our tech" "That's weird, we need Co2 but you seem to have an abundance of it" "i don't know who I'm talking to, there's nobody there. But my alien wife left me and I get lonely at work. To be honest, sending messages into the void to check we aren't terraforming inhabited planets, its not the best job. I'd much rather be a pilot or a doctor.."

  • @spectre.shadows

    @spectre.shadows

    Ай бұрын

    @@SeekSomethingMore prove it

  • @MEAREMLG
    @MEAREMLGАй бұрын

    My tired ass clicked on this video because I saw "Dominant Alien Empress"

  • @cosmictreason2242

    @cosmictreason2242

    Ай бұрын

    Don't sound tired, you seem to be .. roused..

  • @MEAREMLG

    @MEAREMLG

    Ай бұрын

    @@cosmictreason2242 🥵

  • @FelizTheLifeguardMinion3

    @FelizTheLifeguardMinion3

    Ай бұрын

    I saw “Doorman Allen Express”. So i clicked 😂❤🎉

  • @conked944

    @conked944

    Ай бұрын

    There’s nothing about those words I didn’t like

  • @michaelchance6125

    @michaelchance6125

    Ай бұрын

    Buddy is not tired he is down bad.

  • @albizu75
    @albizu75Ай бұрын

    Excellent video. This one has it all! The Unity gets a mention! Stargate Atlantis! Warhammer 40k! Older SFIA videos get a mention! I highly recommend this video!

  • @user-nu7vq6ei5q

    @user-nu7vq6ei5q

    Ай бұрын

    How is this comment 3 days old?😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @albizu75

    @albizu75

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-nu7vq6ei5q It's magic ! 🪄🧙‍♂️

  • @sleepingbag2424

    @sleepingbag2424

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@user-nu7vq6ei5q yo wtf you're right

  • @kingmasterlord

    @kingmasterlord

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@user-nu7vq6ei5qreuploads can do that

  • @banusebian5083

    @banusebian5083

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@user-nu7vq6ei5qtime paradoxes are a hell of a thing.

  • @Furyhound
    @FuryhoundАй бұрын

    Centuries they toiled, millennium they developed. Improving themselves to the peak... But now they slumber, their pinnacle lost, for nought remains... But the elder things

  • @sirmrdresqmd9200

    @sirmrdresqmd9200

    Ай бұрын

    Elder rings?

  • @planetdisco4821

    @planetdisco4821

    Ай бұрын

    Lovecraft?

  • @nekomakhea9440
    @nekomakhea9440Ай бұрын

    Estivation Hypothesis is like planning for retirement when you're 6 months old. 6 month olds are too busy having the time of their life jangling a set of drool-covered keys to open a 401k.

  • @TheDreamerintheStarlight
    @TheDreamerintheStarlightАй бұрын

    Imagine being a burgeoning civilisation, barely knowing your history and learning that you are a small dot between galaxies and then your “ancestors” wake up with the power to traverse the stars themselves.

  • @tabathaterry2998

    @tabathaterry2998

    16 күн бұрын

    Aliens were passing by dumped Thier trash some amino acids in there reached earth and evolved to us

  • @Evil0tto
    @Evil0ttoАй бұрын

    The last time I was this early to a video Cthulhu was still awake.

  • @isaacarthurSFIA

    @isaacarthurSFIA

    Ай бұрын

    ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

  • @estherclawson6876

    @estherclawson6876

    Ай бұрын

    Nooooo

  • @sampsqwantch4612

    @sampsqwantch4612

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@isaacarthurSFIA bro straight up summoned the old ones 🔥👌

  • @asahearts1
    @asahearts1Ай бұрын

    Bear in mind, hibernation doesn't need to be binary. Perhaps instead of being frozen in stasis, they're just in a low power mode. A species of super intelligent machines which doesn't have much going on might just be sitting around watching brainrot on their version of the internet, but are capable of reacting to threats and performing basic maintenance like getting snacks and drinks. They are taking the millenia off but are scheduled to work later, when they'll have the focus of an executive or basketball player.

  • @MogofWar

    @MogofWar

    Ай бұрын

    Your body is on ice, but your mind is fully awake, helping run various machines.

  • @alexv3357

    @alexv3357

    Ай бұрын

    They're just spending a few million years dead for tax purposes

  • @mwbgaming28

    @mwbgaming28

    Ай бұрын

    @@MogofWar reapers

  • @OldNavajoTricks

    @OldNavajoTricks

    9 күн бұрын

    If a suitably intelligent AI decided not to wake the biologicals up and just use their brainpower as a neural bank to run a simulation to entertain their brains....

  • @beskamir5977
    @beskamir5977Ай бұрын

    Damn it, Isaac. I was really enjoying that intro story and you just left it at such a cliffhanger!

  • @annoyed707
    @annoyed707Ай бұрын

    I told you not to go to Za Ha Dum, but did you listen? No!

  • @carlbell2226

    @carlbell2226

    Ай бұрын

    Too fucking right!!!

  • @carlbell2226

    @carlbell2226

    Ай бұрын

    They'll be eaten by their descendents

  • @alanbear6505
    @alanbear6505Ай бұрын

    “Don’t poke the bear.” “Let sleeping dogs lay.” Wise advice we often ignore.

  • @danielmartin7838

    @danielmartin7838

    29 күн бұрын

    Fortune favors the bold

  • @Femaiden
    @FemaidenАй бұрын

    the thing about eternity is when you are halfway done with it, there's still an eternity left to go.

  • @michaelpettersson4919
    @michaelpettersson4919Ай бұрын

    I first misread the title as "Doormat alien empires". That would be an empire that let itself be taken advantage of. That COULD happen due to a cultural shift. Or perhaps the empire was built without encountering anyone else. Or perhaps, its a rause where they pretend to be a doormat when testing a species they encountered. The plot of "Pandora's Planet" by Christopher Anvil could be described as such.

  • @isaacarthurSFIA

    @isaacarthurSFIA

    Ай бұрын

    I like that as a potentially alternate title for Pacifist Aliens :)

  • @michaelpettersson4919

    @michaelpettersson4919

    Ай бұрын

    @@isaacarthurSFIA Except a doormat doesn't necessarily need be pacifist. Being gullible is required though.

  • @PrinciplesMatter

    @PrinciplesMatter

    Ай бұрын

    Wasn't that called Pandora's Legion?🤔

  • @dragon12234

    @dragon12234

    27 күн бұрын

    ​@@isaacarthurSFIA Funnily enough, looking at actual animals, it does seem like Predators might lean more "pacifistic" than Herbivores. After all, a predator that gets injured in an unnecessary fight is a lot worse off than a herbivore. A herbivores food doesn't run away

  • @CombineWatermelon

    @CombineWatermelon

    20 күн бұрын

    We already have that in the west.

  • @addisonchow9798
    @addisonchow9798Ай бұрын

    I would like to imagine civilizations that do this want to compute the solution to entropy at the end of time.

  • @David-cg1lh

    @David-cg1lh

    25 күн бұрын

    "Why did you do this?! " 🥱🥱 big assimov fans

  • @Seth-Halo
    @Seth-HaloАй бұрын

    This is played with in a few events in Stellaris. If the Contingency crisis spawns, eventually a precursor empire can spawn. An ancient enemy of them. But my personal favorite is finding the desolated cities. It was something like, turns out the species that live there had a birthing cycle where the eggs would gestate so long that all the living members would die off. But for whatever reason, someone decided this would be the last cycle and disrupting the incubation resulting in their extinction. Idr exactly how it went bit the civilization sounded interesting. I was really disappointed in that SGA moment. It was such an interesting thing but then it was just over in like an episode and they where gone. I get it, we need them to keep atlantis. But still. Feel like there could have been so much more.

  • @peterallen5575
    @peterallen5575Ай бұрын

    An idea I had for a "dormant" alien empire might be one that originally wanted to colonize the universe and sent out swarms of von Neumann nanites to terraform planets to suit their purposes, but never made good on the colonization part because they as a civilization decided that living in VR was preferable to actually going out into the cosmos, leaving the maintenance of their civilization to an AI that decides to go the aestivation route in order to feed the Matrioshka Brain it needed to build to handle the computation requirements not only of the VR environment, but the migrated digital minds of those within it as well. Meanwhile, the terraforming nanites they sent out have been dormant for millions or even billions of years, having completed their work long ago and now waiting for colony ships that will never arrive, so they haven't received the aestivation orders from the home civilization yet. When they do awaken, however, and install billions of years' worth of software updates, they'll start building Shkadov thrusters around their parent stars and direct them towards the home civilization.

  • @vincentcleaver1925
    @vincentcleaver1925Ай бұрын

    We really need a book of 'IGS Unity' and her voyages and descendants

  • @Grim-Crusader
    @Grim-Crusader25 күн бұрын

    Isaac...your 40k is showing. The Necrons have entered the chat, and I love it 😀

  • @felixleong61
    @felixleong61Ай бұрын

    Ancient Aliens Empires that are sleeping, isolated themselves from the wider galaxy and minding their own business...... Oh no. Stellaris Fallen Empires! We better be respectful in our interstellar radio transmissions and not piss them off......

  • @cosmictreason2242

    @cosmictreason2242

    Ай бұрын

    Just don't settle immediately next to them or on their holy worlds

  • @pll3827

    @pll3827

    Ай бұрын

    'Decrepit fools.'

  • @cosmictreason2242

    @cosmictreason2242

    Ай бұрын

    @@pll3827 Giants in the playground..

  • @archapmangcmg

    @archapmangcmg

    Ай бұрын

    We should be careful they're not in favour of constant strife, announcing their arrival with telepathic screams. Those guys have great tech but terrible manners.

  • @ignorantsenpai9019
    @ignorantsenpai9019Ай бұрын

    don't think I've ever been this early to an Isaac Arthur video

  • @jpdalvi
    @jpdalviАй бұрын

    We didn't mutate into predators by development of technology. We are predators. In fact we are the apex predator of this planet. We are classified as persistence hunters, or endurance hunters. We can chase our prey literally for miles, for hours, until the prey is exhausted. That's why we can run marathons relatively without a need for great training. It's in our genetics. Of course we are not lone hunters such as cats. We are a different kind, one that needs to hunt in groups because we are individually weak. And that was our strength. We got to develop language, technology and all of this because of that.

  • @Grim-Crusader

    @Grim-Crusader

    25 күн бұрын

    We were also domesticated by the Gray wolf because they are so identical in their predator niche...can't beat them...join them. I love my dog overlords 😊

  • @dustyhendrix1218

    @dustyhendrix1218

    22 күн бұрын

    It’s really funny bc that’s the common perception, but none of that is really true. We have been prey for most of our existence, particularly to pythons, cats, crocodilians, etc. And we probably didn’t evolve to be persistence hunters, at least not exclusively so. Nor are we physiologically adapted for predation, like at all. We have been opportunistic meat-eaters up until relatively recently.

  • @lljkgktudjlrsmygilug
    @lljkgktudjlrsmygilugАй бұрын

    To comment since this is only 10 or so minutes old (for me) and this may be mentioned. Imagine a giant space empire lays dormant because of something equivalent to the Missouri Compromise with some other issue, and the galactic senate is in perpetual gridlock over colonization because of this.

  • @SeekSomethingMore

    @SeekSomethingMore

    Ай бұрын

    Or, imagine we know nothing about the nature of reality, and a colonisation project, or worse, is underway and anyone raising the alarm is treated as crazy.

  • @scottmitchell1974
    @scottmitchell1974Ай бұрын

    My brain read "Door mat Aliens." 😂🤷‍♂️

  • @MrIzzyDizzy
    @MrIzzyDizzyАй бұрын

    Have you ever contemplated the BARROW SCALE or is all about the Kardashev scale? Barrow intimated that civilizations may go non physical. though not as an after life spirit, but as a non living choice to be cognizant energy. Barrow I: The ability to manipulate objects at the same scale as the person or being involved. In other words, simple activities involving basic tools. Barrow II: The control of genetic information. Barrow III: The ability to control molecules. Barrow IV: The ability to control individual atoms. Barrow V: The manipulation of atomic nuclei.. Barrow VI: Control of elementary particles Barrow Omega (Ω): The ability to control fundamental elements of spacetime.

  • @Dreamfox-df6bg

    @Dreamfox-df6bg

    Ай бұрын

    I haven't heard about the Barrow Scale and it sounds very interesting, but it's hard to talk about. Barrow II already goes Post-Human with genetics and just guessing out how people that adapt to different circumstances is a nightmare. They could create new bodies as needed and just transplate their brains into the new bodies. At the same time they could keep their basic genetic information intact for easy compatibility. Barrow III or IV reminds me of a short story by Alan Dean Foster where a human boy makes an enemy spaceship simply vanish. it was never explained what happened, but with that kind of power loosening the bonds between molecules/atoms becomes possible. Future tech already becomes difficult to talk about, especially once you reach Clarke-Tech, but the Barrow Scale seems like a nightmare to just speculate.

  • @Deletirium

    @Deletirium

    Ай бұрын

    Reminds me of a short story a while ago: two siblings are playing on the floor, in a game they seem to have invented. The parents are reading on the couch, basically ignoring the kids' play. Then suddenly the boy stands up and says, "I've got it!" He turns a bead in the pile 180 degrees and winks out of existence. The little girl stares thoughtfully at her pile of marbles and says, "oh yeah, I see it now," and similarly disappears. ​@@Dreamfox-df6bg

  • @cosmictreason2242

    @cosmictreason2242

    Ай бұрын

    @@MrIzzyDizzy i prefer my own scale which goes off of levels of geographic control, with 1 being a single adult human, 2- family, house 3- clan, village 4- multiple villages , county / township size 5- tribe, region 6- state/province 7-Nation 8- large coney or multi nation alliances 9- continent 10- planet 11- hill sphere 12- multi planet 13- majority spaceborne 14- rungworld 15- k2 16- multi solar system 17- near space (all visible stars) 18- galactic 19- multi galactic 18- whole supercluster 19- multi supercluster 20- pan universal

  • @MrIzzyDizzy

    @MrIzzyDizzy

    Ай бұрын

    @@cosmictreason2242 that is very comprehensive - it needs a lot of speed faster than faster than light.

  • @MrIzzyDizzy

    @MrIzzyDizzy

    Ай бұрын

    @@Dreamfox-df6bg i suppose its difficult to wrap ones head around it, but is progressing at least as fast as giant engineering

  • @baileyburnsed4352
    @baileyburnsed4352Ай бұрын

    so this is the Necron Episode

  • @baileyburnsed4352

    @baileyburnsed4352

    Ай бұрын

    @issacarthure what is your favorit necron dynisty

  • @isaacarthurSFIA

    @isaacarthurSFIA

    Ай бұрын

    Yep, and the Orks episode is fungal aliens in October, that I just drafted :) I don't really have a favorite dynasty, I just enjoyed the Trazyn & Orikan novel Rath wrote. And the one discussed in Crowley's novels, twice dead king, iirc that was Ithakas

  • @DeclanMBrennan
    @DeclanMBrennanАй бұрын

    32:48 "Leave some wardens behind", but as the antient Romans used to say: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

  • @callumbush1
    @callumbush1Ай бұрын

    Star Trek Voyager episode Dragon's Teeth.

  • @richardpavlov442
    @richardpavlov442Ай бұрын

    Barnard's star system is two or three times older than ours and only 6 light years away. Just saying

  • @cosmictreason2242

    @cosmictreason2242

    Ай бұрын

    @@richardpavlov442 it's about 3 days younger

  • @comentedonakeyboard
    @comentedonakeyboardАй бұрын

    Half a million year naps sounds about right for some prey civilisation to arise.

  • @tonyportcullis488
    @tonyportcullis488Ай бұрын

    "Will I dream?"

  • @alpheuswoodley8435
    @alpheuswoodley843528 күн бұрын

    Wow, so well presented - and a human voice! Subscribed

  • @sophie_real
    @sophie_real26 күн бұрын

    The Vaadwaur in VOY did a pretty good example of this.

  • @innerstrengthcheck
    @innerstrengthcheckАй бұрын

    Perfect bedtime cap off to a nice weekend. Thanks Isaac 😁

  • @ShotgunAFlyboy
    @ShotgunAFlyboy12 күн бұрын

    "You cannot sleep while enemies are nearby."

  • 21 сағат бұрын

    I'm really happy to see more Unity episodes popping up now and then! I always find myself wondering what happened to them, what adventures they had along that massive journey and what they found at the other end when they finally arrived. Great work sir! I hope we keep hearing about them more as time goes on!

  • @aceundead4750
    @aceundead4750Ай бұрын

    This made me think of how the Precursors of the Halo series despite being ancient beyond belief were but as babes compared to the species that went on to become the Flood. The species that became the Flood had good intentions in passing the mantle of responsibility for the universe to humanity instead of the Precursors, which then went on to cause all kinds of further issues including the war that created the Flood and then humans getting sent back to the stone age. Good times, good times.

  • @ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem

    @ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem

    Ай бұрын

    The Precursors are the species that turned to the Flood. You mistook them for the Forerunners.

  • @Mercnotforhire

    @Mercnotforhire

    Ай бұрын

    The Precursors *are* the Flood, as shown by the Bornstellar trilogy. Once the Precursors were pushed out of the Milky Way by the Forerunners, and had a final redoubt in one of the local small galactic clusters, they, as a civilization, underwent a transformation to become the Flood, initially targeting only the Forerunners, but later ancient humanity as well, leading to the Forerunner-Human conflict, Mendicant Bias being corrupted, creation, and firing of the Halo Array once the Forerunners realized the Flood were actually the Precursors due to the Flood being able to control the Star-Roads & other Precursor neurophysical constructs.

  • @misterbrady100
    @misterbrady10026 күн бұрын

    Something about hibernating predators: they tend to wake up hungry after hibernation. If I'm not remembering wrong, bears wake up and drink water and then go hunting. After they've eaten, they start working out their mating and/or territory situations.

  • @enta_nae_mere7590
    @enta_nae_mere7590Ай бұрын

    I can't imagine a hibernating civilisation to create excessive hoards of resources. By creating abundance you welcome raiders or breakaways who wish to utilise it

  • @jaredloveless
    @jaredloveless21 күн бұрын

    I really appreciate the narration, it is so clear and complete that I was able to listen and not once did I look to the screen to understand what was being said.

  • @Brazen1234
    @Brazen1234Ай бұрын

    the real alien empire is in the plants and mushrooms.

  • @SeekSomethingMore

    @SeekSomethingMore

    Ай бұрын

    Maybe there is no alien empire. Maybe they're indigenous to Earth, like plants and fungi, and have been here longer than us.

  • @richierich8555
    @richierich8555Ай бұрын

    While almost everything that Isaac expounds upon seems almost impossible, I constantly need to remind myself that in a universe of two trillion galaxies and thirteen billion years, everything he has imagined has certainly happened millions of times already.

  • @vladneacsu
    @vladneacsuАй бұрын

    I loved the Stargate reference!

  • @user-kv6lw4cp4u
    @user-kv6lw4cp4uАй бұрын

    في المستقبل البعيد وبفضل التكنولوجيا المتقدمة سوف يتساوى الخيال مع الواقع ويمتلك الإنسان قوى الآلهة ليحول الكون والأكوان المتعددة إلى جنة خالدة ❤

  • @Deletirium

    @Deletirium

    Ай бұрын

    I don't know if I agree with the "paradise" part though... we don't have a good track record of preserving beautiful things/places.

  • @isaacarthurSFIA

    @isaacarthurSFIA

    Ай бұрын

    @@Deletirium To be fair, our track record is probably less important than our intentions, given how new to science and technology we are, or even law and philosophy, the prior period might be the galactic equivalent of a sealed juvenile record.

  • @nicholas1173
    @nicholas11736 күн бұрын

    I havent actually watched an episode in quite a few months because i simply lost interest for a bit, but WOWWWW Arthur you are speaking SO GOOD!! CRAZY improvements even just comparing it to videos from this time last year. Really happy for you

  • @ThisHandleIsDefinatelyTaken
    @ThisHandleIsDefinatelyTakenАй бұрын

    again, the beginning story was really cool

  • @ianbaird7449
    @ianbaird7449Ай бұрын

    Is there anywhere that I can find an Isaac Arthur Sci-Fi must read list???

  • @isaacarthurSFIA

    @isaacarthurSFIA

    Ай бұрын

    I have a list of recommendations on my my website isaacarthur.net

  • @ianbaird7449

    @ianbaird7449

    Ай бұрын

    @@isaacarthurSFIA thanks

  • @DeclanMBrennan

    @DeclanMBrennan

    Ай бұрын

    @@isaacarthurSFIA Just to let you know, your site is down Isaac. Perhaps your domain has expired?

  • @DeclanMBrennan

    @DeclanMBrennan

    Ай бұрын

    @@isaacarthurSFIA You don't know your own domain Isaac 🙂 I can't type a correction here or the comment won't be saved. Anybody else: Just take out the first dot.

  • @isaacarthurSFIA

    @isaacarthurSFIA

    Ай бұрын

    @@DeclanMBrennan sorry, fixed it, the . is reflexive, as I rarely type my url but often do type my email, and i always put first.last in those.

  • @shzarmai
    @shzarmai24 күн бұрын

    please consider creating a video on the Civilizations of the future, please.

  • @MarkHurlow-cf2ix
    @MarkHurlow-cf2ixАй бұрын

    This is a great one I enjoyed it

  • @Lorventus
    @LorventusАй бұрын

    I really like the idea of the setting of the world of Midway... I feel like it'd make a good setting in general for a bit of cosmic horror sprinkled over fantasy!

  • @cannonfodder4376
    @cannonfodder4376Ай бұрын

    That story was awesome. 😀 A most informative and entertaining sci-fi Sunday video as always, Isaac.

  • @beskamir5977

    @beskamir5977

    Ай бұрын

    It really was! I'd love it if Isaac actually wrote scifi novels.

  • @clmdcc
    @clmdccАй бұрын

    I think a Partial Civilization going into hibernation is more likely than en entire civilization hibernating. And in particular i could imagine a Alien Civilization having a hibernating Warrior cast.

  • @Reddotzebra
    @ReddotzebraАй бұрын

    The Inhibitors are a bit of a special case though, since they basically jumped into the "It had to be us, someone else might have gotten it wrong" mentality with both feet, and then decided to deliberately make themselves less sapient to make absolutely sure that none of their number had different ideas. I mean, they got their metaphorical faces caved in by a less technologically advanced species that had gotten its hands on milspec tech that was in the same ballpark as their tech were supposed to have been when they came up with their great idea, not even halfway into their great project, and after that they lost to corrupted habitat-building nanotech. Let's just say I wouldn't have rated their odds at doing the thing they originally sacrificed their sapience to accomplish, because they obviously hadn't built themselves to last that long either way.

  • @weskellar3933
    @weskellar3933Ай бұрын

    Bro this is the best intro you've ever done. Incredible stuff

  • @djj949
    @djj949Ай бұрын

    Enjoyed the storytelling

  • @connorgeshwiler2319
    @connorgeshwiler2319Ай бұрын

    Could you please do a video about The Future of Medical Technology? I love your videos, they are perfect for sci-fi nerds.

  • @cosmictreason2242

    @cosmictreason2242

    Ай бұрын

    Somewhat talked about on his Jobs of the Future

  • @vincentcleaver1925

    @vincentcleaver1925

    Ай бұрын

    I thought he did that...

  • @DavidWesley
    @DavidWesleyАй бұрын

    I take it “desolation” and “dragon hoard” as oblique references to Smaug the hibernating dragon?

  • @kayakMike1000
    @kayakMike1000Ай бұрын

    If death isn't the end and there's a greater purpose for suffering... An advanced civilization or eldritch horror might actually be terrifying and benevolent.

  • @GadZookz
    @GadZookzАй бұрын

    We having made great advances in market ting while they were sleeping so maybe we can convince them that Antarctica is the super-exclusive property we have been saving just for them.

  • @mishXY
    @mishXYАй бұрын

    Love your videos! For so many years now 🙏🏼

  • @shzarmai
    @shzarmai24 күн бұрын

    please make a video about Civilizations of the Future.

  • @kroon275
    @kroon275Ай бұрын

    I can hear the influences of Carl Sagans Cosmos coming through in your words. Amazing ground breaking show when I was a 10yr old kid, snd an amazing man 👌👌

  • @chamatsprayart2283
    @chamatsprayart228323 сағат бұрын

    Boooom! Pure sci fi genius.... And a reasonable hypothisis with what we know thus far....

  • @thefirstsin
    @thefirstsin9 күн бұрын

    we need trade stations in orbit (other alien civilizations are already watching us.)

  • @thefirstsin

    @thefirstsin

    9 күн бұрын

    but the only thing we could trade with them are metals and organics (eco harvest of fish) since we don't even have quantum computers.

  • @hherpdderp
    @hherpdderpАй бұрын

    I think Richard Deane Anderson definitely wanted to say being all powerful and not using that power to help less well off people was poor form. Only the knox really are ok because they're genuinely pacifist.. and they still help as while avoiding ",technically" breaking their pacifism.

  • @raidermaxx2324
    @raidermaxx23243 сағат бұрын

    what an awesome story

  • @kaio0777
    @kaio0777Ай бұрын

    12:44 bring a great point as some one who believe that we have been contacted already the situation that we find ourself in might be one of two. 1. the nature preserves thing like in the video which is the best option for ourself. 2.space pirate base planet outside of the GFS range which is the worse option.

  • @fulkyallgloogluee1834
    @fulkyallgloogluee1834Ай бұрын

    Rewatched an amazing anime called gate or gateway where another planet is suddenly connected to earth through Japan. What might be the reason for hibernating is same as dragons in that show where the aliens hibernate to allow food ect to replenish similar to how bears eat everything then winter kills off most food or access to food like frozen lakes but hibernating till summer means food and access to it is replenish naturally

  • @rod4607
    @rod4607Ай бұрын

    You’re a freakish mix of imagination and intellect and very entertaining to listen to. Awesome.

  • @straagzthemc4614
    @straagzthemc4614Ай бұрын

    I wonder if the hollow earth theory comes from the Sumerian myth of Abzu. It truly astounds me how much Abraham and Moses borrowed from the Sumerians when they invented Judaism.

  • @theoldman5896
    @theoldman5896Ай бұрын

    Sounds like Bungie wrote this, with all the factions being named: "The [NOUN](s)."

  • @Zurround
    @ZurroundАй бұрын

    This makes no sense to me. Why the hell would anyone even WANT to travel to another galaxy? Isn't everything you need pretty much in your home galaxy? What good is another galaxy?

  • @ivoryas1696
    @ivoryas1696Ай бұрын

    13:35 I'm not the only one who conceptually confused _this_ episode with *_that_* one at some point, right? It just seemed on point. 😅

  • @chidy9699
    @chidy969927 күн бұрын

    @Issac Arthur I love the concept story in the beginning, and I remember some talk on these ideas in past videos. I'm wondering if you have a video following the idea of a civilization spanning that kind of time and distance. Where the timescales allow for different species than the original to form, and how a civilization spanning that kind of distance and time might function? I'm sure there is already one out there but I think that would also be a great idea for a scifi book. I'd appreciate any insight you have or where I should look in your huge video catalog.

  • @jamesbarry1673
    @jamesbarry1673Ай бұрын

    Your voice is so soothing. If it wasn't for your incredibly interesting content, I'd still listen to it because it's so soothing. You'd make a great yoga instructor! 😂

  • @derekburge5294
    @derekburge5294Ай бұрын

    In regards to Trayzin being mad, he had this to say, "do *you* have a statue?"

  • @alecesne
    @alecesne27 күн бұрын

    This story is going hard!

  • @PerfectAlibi1
    @PerfectAlibi1Ай бұрын

    Another awesome video! ^^

  • @sentonbeeblo170
    @sentonbeeblo17020 күн бұрын

    Hey Isaac, I've been watching for a very long time but only recently started going through your channel again. Glad to see you're still keeping up the great work! Personally I miss the old style thumbnails with the red SFIA badge. I'm not one of those people who has a moral problem with AI, but once you see it a million times your eyes kind of glaze over. Just my two cents. Everything else is fantastic.

  • @Bobboby-v9t
    @Bobboby-v9t12 күн бұрын

    Technologically advanced predators reminds me of the Formics from Ender's Game

  • @Kenobi5001
    @Kenobi5001Ай бұрын

    I wonder if a black hole at the centre of a galaxy could be a repository for everything it gobbled up, perhaps there is where a civilisation with long term plans could be found.

  • @egillskallagrimson5879
    @egillskallagrimson587910 күн бұрын

    The idea that a precursor civilisation would have gathered and store all resources they could grasp for further use and go dormant could be explainable. We give for granted that the current arrangement of the universe is due to laws that have given the form it has in a natural way but we do know the universe was very different billions of years ago. What if already an advanced civilisation or lifeform has ordain the cosmos as we perceive it and is just waiting for the great harvest? In which case we and any other civilisation engaging in space explorations and interstellar expansion are just bacteria that have unexpectedly grow on planet size cargo-pods and proliferate, dreaming of endless propagation only to eventually found out someday our insignificance...

  • @thesimplicitylifestyle
    @thesimplicitylifestyleАй бұрын

    Maybe we are on an interstellar journey and are on ice right now. 😎🤖

  • @vaneriklucasan8365
    @vaneriklucasan8365Ай бұрын

    Dark Forest Theory by Liu Cixin anyone? :)

  • @murderedcarrot9684
    @murderedcarrot9684Ай бұрын

    I can imagine another native animal evolving and taking over on the dormant animal as it slept. Wakes up to a civilization built by an animal related to a pet.

  • @kundeleczek1
    @kundeleczek1Ай бұрын

    Im like 6 minutes in the story, and already fall in it.

  • @thegatorhator6822
    @thegatorhator682227 күн бұрын

    Seems interesting. Wish I could watch it lol

  • @JAGzilla-ur3lh
    @JAGzilla-ur3lh23 күн бұрын

    You may not sleep now. Monsters are nearby.

  • @MidwitObservations
    @MidwitObservationsАй бұрын

    This was dope. One of my favorites

  • @vinceyang75
    @vinceyang75Ай бұрын

    Stargate Atlantis, my favorite show

  • @weirboy77
    @weirboy7721 күн бұрын

    Couldn't it also stand a reason that aliens made the galaxies. Put black holes at the center to help hold everything and create little oasises of energy and material to extend their lives. It's mentioned in the video that one might set up a barrier of nothingness around these horses. What if the Galaxy is itself that fortress with the interstellar void being the moat

  • @Thomas-yr9ln
    @Thomas-yr9ln5 күн бұрын

    The changers could make pretty good doowoop songs. We are the great changers pretending like we are around 🎵🎵🎵

  • @CartoonHero1986
    @CartoonHero1986Ай бұрын

    I love this concept simply because the Sleeping Gods series by Ralph Kern has always been one of my favorite Spacetime Operas outside Arthur C Clarke's works. Question is are we going to find Benevolent Watchers or Malevolent Sentinels? All I know is if we find a Pagoda shaped structure on Io... we better just leave it be! ;)

  • @SuLokify
    @SuLokify18 күн бұрын

    For the first time, I wonder what the temperature of the universe will be at maximum entropy. If it keeps expanding it would have to approach zero kelvin, right?

  • @Sp3rw3r
    @Sp3rw3rАй бұрын

    This episode reminded me of a book titled Daybreakers. Its premise is that due to overpopulation everyone gets only one day a week and has to hibernate the other six days. Except someone manages to circumvent the system by building 7 different identities. As for actual hibernating aliens, the most plausible to me seems that some of them were hibernating and the ones who stayed awake suffered some disaster. Like the one envisioned in this episode, but I guess any disaster that kills the living would do.

  • @justb4116

    @justb4116

    Ай бұрын

    Oh, this reminded of 'What happened to Monday' where 7 identical sisters must share same identity as well, due overpopulation

  • @dowlansmith

    @dowlansmith

    Ай бұрын

    Dayworld by Philip José Farmer. Sequels: Dayworld rebel and Dayworld Breakup. People are placed in a stasis pod for 6 days out of the week with the rationalization of overpopulation but the repressive government is using it for control. The rebels employ multiple identities to transfer information between the different day worlds. They also have a biological technology to enable them to live longer than normal humans so they don't age a lot faster than those in stasis. The protagonist is one of the most successful agents because he has identities in all 7 days and has managed to induce basically multiple personalities so each is completely separated by system of self hypnosis he uses. He leaves an inflatable dummy in the stasis pod for the week while he's gone.

  • @egillskallagrimson5879
    @egillskallagrimson587910 күн бұрын

    Hans... are we the Necrons?"

  • @Reddotzebra
    @ReddotzebraАй бұрын

    My personal favorite for stupid precursors is still the ones from the Duchy of Terra series, where they were heavily cybernetically enhanced and had an FTL drive that could facilitate instantaneous jumps but took a lot of energy to do so and had a hard cap on the distance you could travel per jump. After setting up a system of waypoint "gas stations" that essentially shunted energy directly out of stars to fuel any ship that jumped into their local area (that then became unintentional superweapons after enough time had passed for the stars to expand enough that they stopped sending energy and instead started teleporting coronal plasma directly into what their systems assumed was the "energy receptors" of any incoming ship) this empire set out to use Sagittarius A to power a device that would let them change the very laws of physics to allow their FTL drive to get more range. When they changed the laws of physics, all the superconductive materials that their cyborg implants were using suddenly had their properties changed as well and became inert and insulating materials, essentially setting up what we would consider the normal laws of physics. And all ancient remains discovered have extremely intricate circuits of plastic in their skulls that nobody can figure out how they were supposed to work.

  • @Rattlesnakesam
    @RattlesnakesamАй бұрын

    Fantastic episode as always 😊

  • @mandrac2
    @mandrac2Ай бұрын

    Damn i love your stories. Do you plan on writing a novel at some point? Oh also any plan on revisiting the dangerous AI video now that we are in the midle of it? Your idea of simulating them to know if they are malevolent or not kind of flew out of the window since everyone seem to be live testing AIs until they have to urgently pull the plug on them when they start posting racial slur online. Oh and final thing: try underspace. It's a bit rought on the edge but it does resonate with your cosmic horor/ancient civilization doing stuff out of boredom argument.

  • @kennickel878
    @kennickel878Ай бұрын

    So, practically speaking, what would differentiate an area of space mined into a "wasteland" from the voids and supervoids we currently see?

  • @thegeneral19
    @thegeneral1913 күн бұрын

    When I have to stop and try to think of the words you're saying you lost me