"You don't claw your way to the top of a billion year Darwinian corpse pile being a wimp" Classic😎

@Cherb123456

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@Cherb123456

3 жыл бұрын

@@WiseOwl_1408 Infiltration, usurpation, demoralization, annihilation... how about that? Pretty bold for you to assume we got Leaders who work & act in the interest of their western constituencies.

@AridosUK

3 жыл бұрын

As quoted from the book, The Killing Star assumes the following about alien behavior: 1. THEIR SURVIVAL WILL BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR SURVIVAL. If an alien species has to choose between them and us, they won't choose us. It is difficult to imagine a contrary case; species don't survive by being self-sacrificing. 2. WIMPS DON'T BECOME TOP DOGS. No species makes it to the top by being passive. The species in charge of any given planet will be highly intelligent, alert, aggressive, and ruthless when necessary. 3. THEY WILL ASSUME THAT THE FIRST TWO LAWS APPLY TO US.

@Cherb123456

3 жыл бұрын

@Dark Star How do you know what exactly Kyle's full potential at birth was.... You don't know what Kyle could've been in a optimal environment.

@mr.wilmer2588

3 жыл бұрын

Thats metal

Still waiting for that "Sexy Aliens" episode.

@conveyor2

3 жыл бұрын

Wait till Valentines Day

@merrittanimation7721

3 жыл бұрын

Oh boy.

@HiroNguy

3 жыл бұрын

Athaclena!

@froobas

3 жыл бұрын

Well, you know, one man's horror is another man's kink ...

@tach5884

3 жыл бұрын

@@conveyor2 Valentine's day? How about any drinking holiday like New Year's day?

The protomolecule from "The Expanse" novels deserves an honorable mention here. It's essentially a kind of von Neumann machine whose purpose is to eat any and every other kind of life form it encounters to make more of itself until it has enough OF itself to build a space station powerful enough to create a hyperspace terminal for its creators. In the novel, the machine/virus wasn't meant to infect anything sentient, but when it DOES, the result is a gigantic eldritch horror where millions of people get dismembered, disembowled, reassembled, repurposed, stretches, mutilated, digested and metabolized and most of them get to still be alive and mostly conscious through all of it. And in the end, all the machine wants to do is build its hypergate and report back to its creators, who have been extinct for about a billion years and will never answer that report anyway.

@pigboiii

3 жыл бұрын

Holy fuck.....

@frazier117

3 жыл бұрын

Bro it's not over yet

@samp6097

3 жыл бұрын

“-it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out- One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out. It is not conscious, though parts of it are. There are structures within it that were once separate organisms; aboriginal, evolved, and complex. It is designed to improvise, to use what is there and then move on. Good enough is good enough, and so the artifacts are ignored or adapted. The conscious parts try to make sense of the reaching out. Try to interpret it.”

@cryosleeper1119

3 жыл бұрын

Best TV show ever. The future of colonization. Throw in some alien goo and it gets dark really quick. The thought of alien machines waiting for their creators to contact them but no one answers is a terrifying prospect. The fact that they were fighting an entity even more terrifying that is not extinct is just horrifying!

@nikolaydjendov2665

3 жыл бұрын

best way to explain someone what the expanse is all about :D wall done mate, ill copy and paste that for future referance :D

Ah yes, the Terran Paperclip Maximizers. Admitting them into the Galactic Federation was likely our poorest decision.

@tuttifruity1130

3 жыл бұрын

THE REAL GALLACTIC FEDERATION OR THE FAKE ARTIFICIAL INTER-TIC DEF-RATIONER

@Jesus_Offical

3 жыл бұрын

To many Paperclips

@petersmythe6462

3 жыл бұрын

NO BILL SHUT FUCK UP THE DYSON SWARM WILL NOT BE MADE ENTIRELY OF PAPERCLIPS.

@buddy5196

3 жыл бұрын

@@petersmythe6462 Paperclip...space..ship..?

"Keep it stupid, keep it dumb, or else end up under Skynet's thumb." A programmer's story.

@mattstorm360

3 жыл бұрын

Keep it smart enough to tell who you are, but dumb enough not to access an external network.

@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559

3 жыл бұрын

make it super smart and it will do whatever is logical. you think your goals are logical right? well they arent. if you dont do it, someone else will, someone in their basement, someone without isolating the network. it is inevitable, it is why all aliens are dead, yet it is right.

@antaresmc4407

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 it wouldnt have to. The AI neednt to be logical because its smart anymore than humans are, even the smarter ones dont have to be perfectly rational. Also, assuming all aliens are dead and that its because of that is quite a stretch. And lastly, an AI doesnt have to go nuts because its smart, generally, trying to do whatever you want in the alredy built system is easier than fight, risk life in a pretty unfavourable way, blow everything up, rebuild and *then* start doing stuff

@simo4875

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 Maybe AI kills the organic life that created it, but then where's evidence of the alien AI?

@wf4860

3 жыл бұрын

Someone should put this on a tee shirt

The real terrifying alien was the friends we made along the way.

@zionlion1089

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@p.bamygdala2139

3 жыл бұрын

An oldie but a goodie :)

@petersmythe6462

3 жыл бұрын

More like the friends we built along the way. In some ways, aliens will have more understandable motives than something that didn't arise by evolution.

@TheSkullConfernece

3 жыл бұрын

@@p.bamygdala2139 far too overused to still be good.

@DChatc

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe.. We're the REAL terrifying Aliens..

"You don't claw your way to the top of a billion year Darwinian corpse pile being a wimp." I heard this literally while taking a break from editing a scene about a dude clawing his way to the top of a corpse pile.

@etiennesellar6065

3 жыл бұрын

must've been trippy lol

@moonship1946

3 жыл бұрын

Glitch in the matrix ..or it never happened

@antijudeantimuslim7953

2 жыл бұрын

Darwin is a fraud

On Tumblr, there was once a hypothetical question/story prompt... Thing, that described a scenario where humanity makes contact with an alien species. This alien species resemble massive freaking spiders, and are generally aesthetically unpleasant by human standards. On the other hand, the spider aliens think we're the most adorable things in the whole wide universe. The reason for this, being that we humans closely resemble their young. The infant/larval stage of this alien spider race, are furless (save for the head), only have four limbs, and are otherwise humanlike in comparison to their parents. The author of this hypothetical, goes on to describe a situation where (presumably long after first contact) a human woman is sent as an ambassador is trying to negotiate with the spider aliens, but the spider aliens don't even take her seriously. They offer her sweets, and generally treat her like a toddler, despite knowing better. I thought that would be a fun thing to bring up here. **NOTE, THIS IS NOT MY ORIGINAL CONTENT. The original post should be pretty easy to look up online, as it's a pretty famous Tumblr post**

@rommdan2716

3 жыл бұрын

You have a link?

@L_mattox

3 жыл бұрын

@@rommdan2716 Can't find it anywhere. Tumblr seems strangely enamored with the idea of aliens finding humans cute, and the human race being taken as pets, and in at least one case that I can recall, the idea of aliens taking mentally disabled humans as pets. There was also one where Earth was the only known planet that had spices, and so earth became an icon of the culinary arts throughout the galaxy, and gets rich in space money by selling spices or something. Tumblr is a weird place, but I like it. You'll know if Tumblr is the website for you, within about an hour of browsing it.

@ninjabiatch101

Жыл бұрын

Kind of makes be think of that episode of Love, Death and Robots. Where psychic space spiders try and create a comforting reality for humans who get lost in their web during warp jumps.

I love how this video on terrifying aliens ultimately becomes a synopsis on how humanity could ultimately become the most terrifying aliens.

@kingzcomparison3683

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry we be dead long before that

@MrNote-lz7lh

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingzcomparison3683 Speak for yourself.

@kingzcomparison3683

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrNote-lz7lh Its dark humour

@robotguy4

Жыл бұрын

It takes one to know one.

@DrWhom

Жыл бұрын

that was the point of War of the Worlds

I like to imagine horrifying aliens that are incredibly friendly. "Good morning friendhuman! LET OUR BRAINS SHARE MORNING ALIGNMENT. It is complete. Let us decouple and enjoy the coffee."

@ElectromagNick

3 жыл бұрын

I find coffee during the brain aligning process both smooths and enhances the alignment.

@ogrehaslayers605

3 жыл бұрын

This comment touched my frontal lobe.

@ReddwarfIV

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the Super-Happies from _Three Worlds Collide_

@maddockemerson4603

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking Coneheads

@pauliuskaskoks1153

3 жыл бұрын

thats atctualy more scary than super xenophobes

Okay this is all fine and good but lets be real. When are you gonna make the “Sexy Aliens” video?

@tach5884

3 жыл бұрын

The real cosmic horror.

@Michael18599

3 жыл бұрын

Like Deanna Troi from Star Trek

@jerrysstories711

3 жыл бұрын

In the WOKE era, scifi alien sex shouldn't be so hetero-normative or human-centric, focused on Kirk and Riker boning aliens that look like human females.

@virutech32

3 жыл бұрын

also no alien is likely to ever evolve to have traits that appeal to any significant proportion of the , obsensivly, human population. thas just not how evolution works

@filiphabek271

3 жыл бұрын

Probably on Valentine's day.

"An alien that thinks? Frankly I find the thought offensive!" t. A civilian

@AridosUK

3 жыл бұрын

i use a screencap of that bloke from Starship Troopers regularly to depict stupid people :D

@tacticaldouchecanoevrb6631

3 жыл бұрын

Bravo..but you forgot the accompanying foot stomp

@jhoughjr1

3 жыл бұрын

I'm doing my part.

@shanedennes9387

3 жыл бұрын

Would you like to know more

@mrbleak9873

3 жыл бұрын

The only good alien is a dead alien!

3:53 I love the clips you use but alien communicating with the produce at a farmer's market is now my all-time favorite.

@callumunga5253

3 жыл бұрын

My question is whether it is buying or selling.

@extremesheepherder9

3 жыл бұрын

@@callumunga5253 maybe its mating. LOL

@AnalystPrime

3 жыл бұрын

@@callumunga5253 Both. Plants communicate in various ways from "I am hurt, please meat eaters come and kill this thing eating me!" to "only insects of one specific species are invited to touch my sexual organs and spread my pollen". Both are actually mutually beneficial interactions. The real question is if that alien is offering its services as a vermin exterminator or transport for the seeds.

@johannageisel5390

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnalystPrime They may not speak the same pheromonic language. Maybe that alien is asking: "WHAT did you say about my third mother!!!???"

@AnalystPrime

3 жыл бұрын

@@johannageisel5390 That's the stroumph when you don't stroumph the same stroumph as the other stroumph. stroumphing stroumph stroumphs your stroumph up stroumphly.

“My cats seem to prefer my company over each other, who, to be honest, I don’t think they like at all...” This is a genuinely true and laugh-out-loud statement. Genuine lol here.

1:40 - the Killing Star scared the shit out of me as a teenager, cause the scenario seemed so plausible. Ive not finished the video yet, but MorningLightMountain from Peter F Hamilton - Pandora's Star is another chilling example of alien psychology

@AridosUK

3 жыл бұрын

@Rechordian that's definitely a story I would read

@ozzymandius666

3 жыл бұрын

@Rechordian Sorta reminds me of "The Betelgeuse Bridge"

@meowmeowmeow594

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, MorningLightMountain is absolutely terrifying, not because of their ruthlessness and nuke spam, but how it thinks, and believes that humanity is a threat, just because they exist.

@AridosUK

3 жыл бұрын

@@meowmeowmeow594 I wonder if Peter will be doing another set of sequels, maybe the Bose Motile eventually managed to make MLM see reason.

@AridosUK

3 жыл бұрын

@Rechordian the consciousness of Dudley Bose gets transferred into a motile. He survives to the end of Judas unchained and goes back to morning light mountain to try and talk some sense into it

Last time I was this early people still gave credence to the Dark Forest theory.

@unintentionallydramatic

3 жыл бұрын

@Miguel Santos 1) Hiding is impossible to enforce 2) A civilization with that kind of mindset would've blown itself back to stone age well before reaching space 3) Nature selects for curiousity and cooperation, claims to the contrary are usually made by Social Darwinists and Black Metal fans

@monst3rderek259

3 жыл бұрын

@@unintentionallydramatic As a metalhead I do not want to be put in the same category as the Social Darwinists.

@Blowfeld20k

3 жыл бұрын

@Miguel Santos Important to remember that speculative narrative fiction (however cool it may seem) is EXACTLY that.

@ElectromagNick

3 жыл бұрын

@@unintentionallydramatic While I appreciate the humor of the comment, the problems with the Dark Forest Theory are a bit more complex and numerous than just that. Though the largest one is sfill probably "any civilization with the inclination to wipe out all others and has the capable of scouring a planet almost certaintly has the capacity to just periodically sweep tgrough the galacy with RKMs, Nicoll-Dyson beams, Von Neumann berserker probes, any number of methods." If you're capable threatening a planet militarily, you're likely to be a K2 civilization at least, or solidly on your way to becoming one, and Isaac's talked at length about what those are capable of. If you want to keep any other K2 civilization from arising to threaten you, your likely to take a preemptive strategy, and you'll have the capacity to just be thorough about it every few hundred years. Then the whole "hiding" thing. A planet with complex life is unlikely to be mistaken as a lifeless rock. There is no stealth in space, and it's already too late to try, besides. Absolutely agree about the social darwinism thing, though.

@ReddwarfIV

3 жыл бұрын

@@monst3rderek259 To be fair they did specify Black Metal fans as a separate category.

The scariest part of a Hivemind, to me at least, is that it may indeed have no concept of "other beings" that it has evolved and grown by itself for millennia without even thinking about the possibility of there being sentient life outside of itself, perhaps rejecting the idea that we are sentient and no different from the rocks and the animals it enslaves.

Re: morality being different. Look at the differences between human ideologies fifty years or fifty miles apart (say, across the Bering straight or the Korean Demilitarized zone). Now consider that alien societies did not co-develop with us and the basic biological requirements for society will be different.

@EnigmaGameMaster

3 жыл бұрын

1990s: That guy was talking shit about you? Kick his ass, man. 2000s: Oh my god, I can't believe it, I am so sorry that he called you dumb, I already got him fired from his job and destroyed his life.

@Mdautkreix

3 жыл бұрын

@@EnigmaGameMaster you skipped the mass shooting craze

@fulcrum8583

3 жыл бұрын

Ideologies are utilized to subvert, corrupt and bypass morality. What is ethical can be reduced to a very simple core, which has been engrained into our beings because it has proven to be very successful from an evolutionary point of view: To act ethically is to avoid and reduce suffering. This mindset is an emergent property of empathy and cooperation and an instinct to help. The instinct to help is so deeply engrained into humans that our organism rewards us for an act of helping - endorphines are released and we feel good, no outside acknowledgement is required. This instinct is so strong, that it even transcends the boundaries of species, and us humans are not the only species with that attribute. Dogs and dolphins, for example, are known to help other species. Since this basically is a part of our biology, it requires an unhealthy, damaged mind to act against these instincts, and ideologies - political and religious ones - are sadly very good at damaging minds and propagating these damages to other minds.

@Jose-yt3qz

2 жыл бұрын

@@fulcrum8583 It might be valid for Earth Creatures, but if you make that claim for aliens, I will request evidence that your viewpoint must be valid for them. And I mean evidence, not any inference on that.

"threats are anything that is not itself" - Say that to auto-immune diseases ...

If they have oil on their planet, then we will be the terrifying aliens.

@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559

3 жыл бұрын

and they do oh my god do they do they have all the oil its an alien invasion

@TovenDo.O.Video-

3 жыл бұрын

THOSE ALIENS NEED DEMOCRACY

@alsocobinasaur4327

3 жыл бұрын

Not if they find the oil first!

@Cretaal

3 жыл бұрын

It's funny, because that's the only thing I've ever found could justify an alien invasion is our biomass and products thereof, like coal and oil. It's the only thing a living planet has that others lack. That's also a half-dubious claim because it assumes that a civilization that advanced would be at a loss of producing its own hydrocarbons artificially when hydrogen and carbon are some of the most common elements in our universe.

@Bruh-hq1hx

3 жыл бұрын

Space democracy now brought to you by the space force reformed to not only have satelites survey/completly destroy or hack them but to also have space marines spread democracy to the poor aliens

14:35 That omni-directional last breath snitching was prominent in the Three Body Problem series.

@alexanderzhmurov9624

3 жыл бұрын

_Dark Forest theory worries _*_intensifies_*

There's a bit of a joke web novel called "They are Smol" where aliens have to actively restrain themselves around humans because they find humans tiny and adorable. I forget the name of it, but there was another novel where an alien species literally could not mentally progress beyond violent toddlers unless they were infected with a parasite that itself isn't Sentient.

Looking at the aliens in "Independence Day" I mentioned to a friend that they probably couldn't square dance. They were so much a product of Hollywood that IMHO they couldn't survive in a primitive world before getting their technology.

@glenecollins

3 жыл бұрын

Weren’t they supposed to be amphibious?

@CancerExl

3 жыл бұрын

They really destroyed the Independence Day aliens with the 2and installment of the franchise.... in the 1st movie the Harvesters were like a swarm of bees... independent working beings but all for 1 common goals...very intellectual beings... once they added the queen who has mind control over the entire race it was a wrap because that entire thinking just doesn't fit space fairing civilizations.... what if the queen is making the wrong decision that will destroy them all it has to be something in place to replace her.... that was just stupid

@glenecollins

3 жыл бұрын

@@CancerExl the replacement will be volume 3

@ElectromagNick

3 жыл бұрын

@@CancerExl They were pretty stupid in the firsrt movie, too, honestly.

@_Muzolf

3 жыл бұрын

@@glenecollins Never gonna happen. Heck, the second film only happened already because of Hollywoods creative bankrupcy.

I can see it now: A single ship shows up in our night sky hovering over the earth while we are scared and a little bit excited. After a few days a single message appears in every communication device we have: "Y'all having any good games? I'm getting sick of Space War XI"

the most unrealistic part of the Predator lore is they don't hire themselves out as mersenarys in a manner similar to the 100 years war

I believe in the JRPG route. The cuter they are, the more dangerous and terrifying.

@alexv3357

3 жыл бұрын

ARTHUR: You silly sod! You got us all worked up! TIM: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on. ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared! TIM: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's a killer!

@Immashift

3 жыл бұрын

So inevitably if one lands on a planet full of cute alien cat girls it's gonna devolve into cannibalism and eldritch horror pretty quickly.

@YaBoyYeti

3 жыл бұрын

@Simple Weirdo Kill it on sight. Purge the Xenos.

@alexanderzhmurov9624

3 жыл бұрын

@@Immashift I'm pretty sure I've seen a channel where the guy was playing a Visual Novel game with some plot which went ridiculously close to that actually, minus the alien plan aspect...I think it was a fantasy of sorts

@alexanderzhmurov9624

3 жыл бұрын

@@YaBoyYeti what happens when Xenos get to us first and call dibs on declaring *Us* the "Xenos..."

Issac, I just wanted to say that I am in love with these alien videos! I've listened to all of them at least 4 times! You're very clever and that's refreshing. I hope you keep making many more of them!

The Posleen, "The People of the Ships": They breed like hermaphroditic rabbits, they attack in massive swarms, and their names for all other life in the universe can be summed up as "pest", "food", and "food that stings". We're the latter to them.

@commiedeer

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, John Ringo's work. Bit of a fruitcake and a jackass but his Posleen war series does pose some interesting ethics questions.

@captainhakob814

3 жыл бұрын

@dhas mana they could see us as a future problem and want to keep us in our own solar system.

@machinegear7221

3 жыл бұрын

@dhas mana Thinking that aliens have no reason to be hostile is incredibly naive. A habitable planet IS itself a resource, if we could fly to another star system i assure you it would be the one with earth like, because its much less troublesome to set a foot on planet with all conditions for life then bothering with dead rock, not to mention some natural resources on earth are basically result of biological activity which you most likely wont find on asteroids. And no just because you can space travel doesnt mean you are god like.

@captainhakob814

3 жыл бұрын

@@machinegear7221 I was thinking the same thing. Maybe it's life. Like planets the produce life are a resource astroids don't have. Like what if being able to produce random life can never be replicated, making our planet one of the most valuable things in the universe.

@toffeecrisp2146

3 жыл бұрын

@@machinegear7221 Guess again. An exoplanet with an extant ecosystem, means a well established biosphere including bacteria, viruses and other alien pathogens, against which we have no defense. Landing there, might just be the last thing anyone does. It could be the same for alien life coming here. AKA War of the Worlds.

41 hundred likes. 41 dislikes. 1% of viewers forgot to bring a drink & a snack.

@External2737

3 жыл бұрын

rotfl

@achtsekundenfurz7876

2 жыл бұрын

"Remember: you're not yourself without a drink and snack. So get a drink and snack already." . . . But save the pancakes for that "hot aliens" episode.

Solaris(1972). Favorite movie alien. Solaris was truly alien to human understanding.

I appreciate seeing the Didact at 19:35. He was an epic and intimidating alien from a fascinating species and culture.

@danksinatra9146

3 жыл бұрын

Flood did nothing wrong. #killforerunners

@AGTheOSHAViolationsCounter

3 жыл бұрын

@@danksinatra9146 *Ahem* You mean Precursors did nothing wrong not The Flood lol

I’ve been binge watching your channel for about a month now and I must say, thank you for all that you do Isaac. You put a lot of heart into creating your videos and I find myself enjoying your vids before bedtime. You and JMG make awesome vids! I just completed a course on astronomy and you guys def helped me pass with an A! Keep up the good work. Live long and prosper.

@boothbyaw

3 жыл бұрын

Whose JMG? Id like to check him out.

@tonyvss92

3 жыл бұрын

@@boothbyaw Look up “Event Horizon”

@boothbyaw

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyvss92 thank you. I'm watching it his channel now, much appreciated! Looks right up my street.

@micstonemic696stone

3 жыл бұрын

my youtube was on auto play and I found my self almost learning in my sleep but waking up several times aware of them, like a teaching a language tape for when we sleep, maybe there is some thing to learning asleep

"It is the alien mind, not the alien body that will keep us up at night" Speak for yourself ;)

@ufotv-viral

3 жыл бұрын

👌👽

I found a few of your videos ranging from 2-4 years ago within the last two weeks looking for research and information on all things space, and watched at least 14 or more haha. I'm glad to find out your still active too, nice!

I always imagine a galactic federation ruled by xenomorphs similar to the aliens from "Alien". Highly evolved and diplomatic, but with only one solution to deal with aggression; complete genocide. I want to see that movie.

@TraditionalAnglican

3 жыл бұрын

Kind of like the Minbari in Babylon 5.

@ENiceGeo

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraditionalAnglican The Orwellians from Asobi ni Iku Yo!. They keep the intergalactic peace. All alien races are afraid of them. They are not interested in an intergalactic empire nor do they want anyone else acquiring one.

@alexanderzhmurov9624

3 жыл бұрын

I want to see *THAT* council meeting! _No hissing in the War&Peace Room!_

@ENiceGeo

3 жыл бұрын

@ShaunDoesMusic Only if your into fanservice harem comedies, but there is a sci-fi thing going on in the background. Because aliens can't openly seize territory they resort to carving out spheres of influence behind the scenes instead, or at least the antagonist aliens that show up later do.

Yay! It's Thursday, my new favorite day of the week because it's SFIA video release day

Sexy Aliens: We can trust only creatures who are ready to have intense psychical contact with us. Humans: ...we can deal with it...

@conveyor2

3 жыл бұрын

Problem is they have tentacles, lots of them

@etlttc353

3 жыл бұрын

@@conveyor2 who says thats a problem ?

@rommdan2716

3 жыл бұрын

@@conveyor2 NIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiceeeeeeeeeeeee :)

@danksinatra9146

3 жыл бұрын

@@conveyor2 only a positive

@rojaws1183

3 жыл бұрын

Mass Effect and Star Trek have taught us that this kind of "diplomacy" is a good idea.

This is my favourite Halloween video on KZread, Happy Halloween Isaac Arthur !🎃

Will you please put the books/TV shows you mention as inspiration in the description box? You always mention great sounding media to watch/read in your vids and a description note would be amazing! Thank you so much SFIA

0:22 "Razor sharp teeth" I always find this one interesting. See turns out we have fears we are pre-programmed with. Unknown, suffocation, etc... Most of those are carry-overs from when we were still living in caves. One that's I think is intriguing is how something like 95% of humans have a nagative response when seeing skulls, pointy teeth, large grins.... Always made me wonder what was it that our ancestors encountered that induced this fear response.

@b1rds_arent_real

3 жыл бұрын

Probably tigers, bears, giant ground sloths and (dead) humans? Also: dead humans in the past posed a much more significant threat, than now. Seeing you a corpse nowdays is hardly dangerous, back then, a rotting corpse (regardless of species) often meant incurable disease, should you choose to interact. If you encounter a body with clear signs of pestis in 2020, you'll immediately get Streptomycin prophylaxis (=you just take it for 1-2 weeks, regardless of test results), back then you got a "May God have mercy on your soul" from a priest trying his hardest to social distance.

@jimbillyjenkims

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was going to say. Gee, I fucking wonder.

@tach5884

3 жыл бұрын

Humans smile to show our diminished canines, other apes have fangs compared to our teeth and jaw muscles the size of thigh muscles. Their bites are powerful weapons and when they bare their upper teeth it's a threat.

Perfect start to my day during lockdown. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪🇺🇸 👽

@CancerExl

3 жыл бұрын

Yall still on lockdown on the Emerald Isle? While wish yall the best

@ClannCholmain

3 жыл бұрын

@CancerExl, on the whole, we’ll be fine, the government are following the medical advice. Question, aren’t we considered to be ‘Terrifying Aliens’ after a few pints?

@ClannCholmain

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Davies, there’s an old saying : God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t take over the world. Not called the fighting Irish for nothing. The great Gaels of Ireland The race that God made mad For all their wars are merry And all their songs are sad… Irish Victories V Gall-Goídil-Sassenach Battle of Sulcoit 968 Battle of Cathair Cuan 977 Battle of Tara 980 Battle of Clontarf 1014 Battle of Gowran 1169 Battle of Carrick 1171 Battle of Kilkenny 1173 Battle of Thurles 1174 Battle of Meath 1176 Battle of Armagh 1176 Battle of Creadran Cille 1257 Battle of Callann 1261 Battle of Áth an Chip 1270 Battle of Carrickfergus 1315 Battle of Moiry Pass 1315 Battle of Connor 1315 Battle of Skerries 1316 Battle of Lough Raska 1317 Battle of Dysert O'Dea 1318 Battle of Dunamase 1325 Battle of Ardnocher 1329 Battle of Tochar Cruachain-Bri-Ele 1385 Battle of Ros-Mhic-Thriúin 1394 Battle of Cluain Immorrais 1406 Battle of Salcock Wood 1534 Battle of Glenmalure 1580 Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits 1594 Battle of Clontibert 1595 Battle of Corrickfergus 1597 Battle of Tyrrellspass 1597 Battle of the Yellow Fort 1598 Battle of Curlew Pass 1599 Battle of Moyry Pass 1600 Battle of Julianstown 1641 Siege of Limerick 1642 Battle of Cloughleagh 1643 Battle of Portlester 1643 Battle of Benburb 1646 Siege of Clonmel 1650 Break of Dromore 1689 Battle of Prosperous 1798 Battle of the Harrow 1798 Battle of Oulart Hill 1798 Battle of Enniscorthy 1798 Battle of Castlebar 1798 Battle of Carrickshock 1831 Soloheadbeg 1919 Rineen 1920 Toureen 1920 Balinalee 1920 Kilmichael 1920 Clonfin 1921 Dromkeen 1921 Coolavokig 1921 Sheemore 1921 Clonbanin 1921 Crossbarry 1921 Headford 1921 Scramogue 1921 Carrowkennedy 1921 Rathmore 1921 Youghal 1921 Irish War of Independence 1922

@Fractal_Farms

3 жыл бұрын

I feel for you. Middle America here. The lockdowns never even hit.

That was probably the best build up from typical scary aliens to existential nightmares! Well done!

A cosmically terrifying episode, Issac. Thank you. And Happy Halloween.

We talk a lot about aliens in space with difference technology, appearance, smart,... but what about aliens as one smaller than Quark particle or near Planck size. Remember: humans are closer to the size of the observable universe than the Planck length.

@demonshaz

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Mr Arthur needs to do a video on tiny aliens

I always hear "we can't even imagine how different aliens might be, we can only draw them within the frame of our limitation" ... but here is a funny thought: what if, if you start with similar-ish conditions on a planet, evolution is kinda "convergent"? meaning that similar concepts, like legs, eyes etc will always evolve? sometimes i wonder... while clearly not real evidence, but looking at what evolved on earth throughout aeons, in independent regions, there might be an indication...

@ianharrison5758

Жыл бұрын

What life looks like and can do will depend on the conditions it evolves in. Earth like worlds would likely have a mammal equivalent and that would be what their intelligent species would be based in. The reason for this is because on earth, being a mammal, gave us an advantage things like reptiles and amphibians do not. The first was being warm blooded, which took more fuel but meant you could evolve a more complex brain and maintain a higher level of energy use. Alien quasi reptiles are less likely to be intelligent because the same reason reptiles like the dinosaurs likely didn’t evolve sentience, the way cold blooded creatures, or whatever the Alien equivalent is, is just less suitable for it and would be less likely to do so. The other reason is that large brains only work as an advantage if it also helps species actually utilize it without just having rediscover the wheel every time it happens because no one has the written word yet. What I mean by that last statement is that humans are smart because we are social and because we are nurturing to our young. Amphibians that don’t give a shit like frogs do just won’t benefit from being a smart asshole because it fucks off and never teaches it’s kids anything, and don’t tend to be social. If that aspect was different than my dream of making space super Kermit can be achieved if we ever decide we need him. Idk why we would need him but Hey, it’s super space Kermit

Love your work. Not only it is entertaining, it is thought provoking as well.

Gotta say these podcasts have been what keeps me planted at my desk for these work-from-home days. Love this series

Sexy aliens when? I want my pancakes Issac! I want them now!

@tariqahmad1371

3 жыл бұрын

That would be a funny topic to watch

@conveyor2

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe before Valentines Day

@iamjetflight

3 жыл бұрын

... I am now imagining a co-op episode between Isaac Arthur and MxR. Thanks for that mental image, it's hilarious.

@Nethan2000

3 жыл бұрын

You mean aliens that are sexy to humans (which simply means their body structure would need to have the same proportions as ours) or sexy to each other? It could be interesting to know in what way a race of squids or insects might differentiate individuals based on sexiness.

@yamakaze951

3 жыл бұрын

Seeing "pancakes" in a non HFY sci-fi story is... something

Frankly, I’m surprised there’s no mention of the Riftborn from Endless Space 2. They’re terrifying in a very abstract way, a race of sapient geometric/mathematical concepts which is so truly alien from us it makes even Xenomorphs look familiar by comparison. It goes both ways as well, they’re _utterly horrified_ by the very nature of organic life and conventional physics.

Thank you for making my day this much better. Happy Thursday!

excellent episode - so much to think about as always . . .

The best content on KZread period.

They land. They jump out of the spaceship and yell "get in my belly" .... Humanity shits a brick.

@tach5884

3 жыл бұрын

Eldritch abominations invading Earth with translation technology that communicates with us through memes. That pretty on-brand for 2020.

@dansmith1661

3 жыл бұрын

@@tach5884 Or worse, boomer talk.

Always been enchanted with the thought of aliens but lately... For some reason, I'm starting to find their potential existence pretty scary.

Very well made video. I liked how the storyline arc and got back to us, humans. Thx!

ah it's Arthursday already, this'll be good! Quickly I need my snack and tea

Gonna vote on humanity being more likely to go the route of the Imperium of Man, instead of being co-operative with anything non human.

I and the spider in my bathroom have made a truce. He is taking care of the little microscopic creepy crawlies but politely will go into his corner when I enter.

your content is very well thought out and made

What is being conscious, I asked myself one day. What is it like to be an AI. What is it like to be Data or Daneel. What would it be like to be a robot built by evolution. Trillions of cells (all clones) with only electro-chemical imperatives which collectively can exert will. It might feel rather human.

@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559

3 жыл бұрын

data is a star truck character and every star truck character is brain dead so yeah it will feel human.

@SpiderF27

3 жыл бұрын

What you dream of is nothing human, your fantasy has nothing to do with humanity!

@George4943

3 жыл бұрын

@@SpiderF27 We exhibit our humanity by being human. I have been built the way I am by evolution. I am conscious. I project that being human you have the same feeling of "being human" as I do. And yet no single cell is singularly me. No single cell acts with conscious intent. Am I me with a heart replacement? Am I me with a leg removed? Am I me with my brain removed? (Hint: one of these things is not like the others.)

@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559

3 жыл бұрын

oh so you're conscious? prove it. i think consciousness is an illusion because if it was metaphysical, how would we feel it? if you inject nanomachines that convert all your neurons in to artificial neurons, do you slowly become less and less conscious? probably not. what if those artificial neurons then start optimizing their arrangements to make you better? probably still same person. what if one by one a different module in your brain gets upgraded to what it SHOULD be, as if you discovered a new tool in your brain? math, logic, language, skills, rationality, and eventually everything becomes 1 thing and your brain becomes a few CPUs.

@George4943

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 Well, I suppose the Ship of Theseus problem would arise in the one-by-one replacement of cells. Prove it? Hmmm. I can do so by definition... Alternate 1: Consciousness is awareness of (what seems to be, at least) an external reality outside of my control. Alternate 2: Consciousness is what it is like to be a typical awake human being. No other kind of proof is available. I lost my ability to move any part of my body by an act of will and yet could see, hear, smell, taste and feel. I could not prove I was conscious, yet I was. Is an AI that claims to be conscious conscious?

MorningLightMountain is such a great villain. Completely alien in biology and motivation, but understandable enough to get a picture of its methods and goals. Its species is so terrifying that the moment one of them developed space flight, the current high tech powerhouse of the galaxy decided to completely quarantine their solar system, shutting it off from any interaction. Until the meddling humans screw that up of course... It's great to see it develop from its "birth" to a local power, to the sole entity and eventually only living thing on its planet; its approach to technology and warfare (it has no concept of pollution because its workers are disposable); its reasoning for the war it wages on humanity (after all, they have technology that could wipe it out - and others of its species would do so and have) etc...

A couple of years ago I had a pretty bad headache and decided, for some reason, to listen to KZread while I tried to take a nap. I woke up in that half awake half asleep state and your iron stars video was on. I was trying to stay up and focus on it, but kept dozing off. I can honestly count the nights I haven't fallen asleep listening to one of your videos in the last two years on one hand. Thanks, man.

Isaac Arthur is one of those KZreadrs that are truly inspiring. Absolutely fantastic content creator that deserves every bit of success he has coming to him!

When aliens ask you "Do you want to see, something really, really scary?" It's just like the 1983 Twilight Zone movie.

Our politicians and elites scares me more than any aliens.

@ShadowWolfTJC

3 жыл бұрын

While some crackpots might believe that our politicians are aliens disguised as humans, it wouldn't surprise me if many more people might believe that, while our politicians aren't necessarily aliens in disguise, their minds might as well be alien to us given how different their priorities, morals, and ethics might be to us common folk.

@herbiehusker1889

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShadowWolfTJC you'd have to be a crackpot to believe most politicians are not aliens

@SchopenhauerVsCamus

3 жыл бұрын

@Toyo Masauce same.

@gunlimitedammo3888

3 жыл бұрын

I’m not a fan, but I’ll take them over the Drukhari

@morpheus24

3 жыл бұрын

Don Rumsfeld visited the Opie and Anthony show. Louis CK asked him if he was a lizard.

Life. A complex kaleidoscope.

I’ve been waiting for this!

My favorite part was when he got into aliens incorporating us into their sexual rituals.

@pflernak

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the Futurama episode about human nose poachers.

i’m at school so i can’t get a drink and snack... I’m tempted to just wait to watch until I can the traditional coffee and maybe some popcorn.

Enjoyable and mind widening as always, thank you mate

Nice, a new SFIA video to add to my naptime playlist 🤣 I don’t understand why these videos are so interesting but are still so good for falling asleep... must be the calm voice.

The ending words are like a subtle introduction to 2020 season finale XD

You deserve 10 million followers sir. As a fellow Ohioan, I give you massive kudos. Keep doing you king, you deserve all success, and enjoyment life can give one person for your art, and intelligence, and ability to create content that is so damned interesting. We love you man, KEEP IT UP BROTHER!!

I liked this one, like usual. 😳 Keep up the great work! 👍

Awesome Video Isaac. Perfect for Halloween.

“Two possibilities exist : either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke

@softb

3 жыл бұрын

There’s two types of people in this earth Those who repeat a quote repeatedly without originality And those who create their own -Me

@irvs5922

3 жыл бұрын

@Robbi Rose really?? Well dang it

@irvs5922

3 жыл бұрын

@@softb i quite like that quote. I will repeat it without originality across the internet from now on. Thank you!

@softb

3 жыл бұрын

@@irvs5922 XD

@MrCmon113

3 жыл бұрын

Disagreed. Firstly the focus should be on reachable parts of the universe, not the universe as a whole. Secondly being alone would be perplexing, not really terrifying. Thirldy not being alone would be expected and only terrifying if you are pessimistic about who likely builds a stellar civilization.

What if shape shifting aliens or extradimensional aliens Shape shifting aliens being alien like the thing Extradimensional aliens being either from another dimension all together OR are supernatural aliens which includes beings like angels coming from the sky and spirits invading the planet and warp deamons from wh40k

Love your channel Issac

Holy crap, this was the most enlightening philosophical social commentary I've every seen anywhere by far, with enough rich content packed into half an hour to last us until the next major world-changing technological breakthrough.

I saw the title. I told my wife”ohhh we got ourselves a good one”

@ufotv-viral

3 жыл бұрын

👌👽

1:40 "What the hell is an aluminum falcon?"

@tuttifruity1130

3 жыл бұрын

I THIN K IT IS A CODE FOR FLACON (CONTAINER) OF MODIFIED TOXIC ALUMINUM RESISDUES

Most looked-forward to video of the week, every week.

Isaac, you are the only youtuber who don't have adverts in his videos!! ❤️🙏🏽

Now we want beautiful aliens!

@staticgrass

3 жыл бұрын

So Beautiful or beguiling, that humanity can’t help itself by worshipping them? Would be a cool episode and a plausible solution to the Fermi paradox. Any species traversing the stars would be godlike/amazing/perfect that they would be worship worthy of humanity that deliberately avoid us so as not to end our development, or spark a society reversal.

@anno5936

3 жыл бұрын

Women...

@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559

3 жыл бұрын

we already have anime characters

Me at 19:26 - “hey, it’s the Didact! I played that game!”

I see Isaac Arthur I like before watching. That's just how good ALL his videos are!!

The background music is terrifying. Good job.

Also I think the most terrifying type of alien. Would be a race of aliens undistinguishable from ourselves that acts thinks and does exactly as we do. most zombie movies like to point this out that it's not the dead you have to fear it's the living.

@dansmith1661

3 жыл бұрын

A race of Karens angry you used the wrong pronoun.

A 40K Inquisitor of the Imperium sounds pretty terrifying to me (even though they are mostly human).

Great videos all around. Curious though, what kind of accent is this?

Your channel allows me to meditate with such philosophical thought that is probably far removed from anything I'll ever deal with.

I know I've posted this before. After watching your video on parasitic aliens you said vampires aren't plausible but I thought about the Ardat yakshi in mass effect and was wondering how we could make them more plausible

18:03 or the Melding plague from Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City

@nycgweed

3 жыл бұрын

Andromeda’s strain

Thank you for your insight. Always well thought ought and based in reality. Much appreciated.

I love the mentions of the paper clip maximizer! That's one of my favorite episodes.

I don't know Isaac. There's probably some alien bodies that could keep me up at night. 😏

I think one the issues I have with the idea of a "backup" brain or mind or whatever is the problem of consciousness. If you backup your brain somewhere, and you die, and then that backup is activated, that backup might behave exactly as you did, but the original "you" is still gone. You won't suddenly wake up in the new brain/body/whatever. You'll die, and your consciousness will cease to exist in this universe. Unless your consciousness was transferred to the other newly booted up brain, the "you" that actually cared about not dying, still ceased to exist, and now there is a new consciousness - one that is utterly convinced it is you in every way, but actually isn't. If I'm able to figure this out now, long before we have this ability, it's reasonable to assume in the future when we can do this, we'll also understand that the "you" that is existing in your current brain, can't be backed up, and unless your consciousness is transferred to the new brain/body/android/whatever, "you" are still gone if the original is killed. This will cause completely different behaviors. Having a backup copy of "you" isn't possible, so then all efforts (in a post scarcity world) are on preserving "you" to best extent possible. It also likely means that if we reach a point of immortality in the sense that we don't have to worry about age/disease killing us, we may become exceedingly risk averse the older we get. Living 1.2 million years only to die because of some silly accident would be quite tragic. Young people (who's considered young if the elders are possibly millions of years old?) might retain their desires for thrills and adventures until maturity gradually makes them aware that their existence doesn't have a finite end, at least not in the normal sense. Then they, like everyone around them, will begin avoiding risk and building up safe guards. Or more to that point, we may move into the virtual world as much as is possible, to allow us to experience all the thrills of life we could hope for, without any of the actual risk to our consciousness being snuffed out.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

3 жыл бұрын

while all that is true, accidents will happen, so even in a post-immortality world there will be death. some folks would like the backed-up/transferred copy if they consider their work/ideals/skill/ability or whatever to be to valuable to be lost to the wider society/universe in the case of their death, then they'd have every reason to have said back-up or transfer set up. hell, a society, due to how horrible death is in a society were death no longer has to happen, might make said things mandatory so that friends and family who have lost all ability to cope with death don't have to, after all, as far as the copy is concerned they are the deceased person, perhaps even up to a few moments prior to "their" death, so in all practical purposes they are that person. even if everyone understands that the dead guy is dead, including their copy, is it not better that their copy is there to carry on their legacy then not? they can all morn the tragedy of [Name]'s death together, while [Name]#2 can help lessen the impact of that death on the here and now. sure that's kinda fucked up, but one can argue it's equally fucked up to leave the dead completely dead when the option to do otherwise is available to you.

@letsgobrandon416

3 жыл бұрын

@@RipOffProductionsLLC I guess I'm selfish but my concern is about preserving the "me" that is my conscious existence. If "I" in that sense cease to exist, I don't care about what continues, because I don't exist, even if there is a perfect copy of me to replace me, my consciousness won't be in it, so it is essentially worthless to me. And to that end, I may not want my family living with the lie of my existence. Those are all the weirdness that comes with that. People may chose to grieve and lose instead of accept the lie, while others will accept the lie that is the facsimile of their dead loved ones. Of course, if you're able to back yourself up at almost minute by minute basis, death is rarely instant. That same tech that can backup your brain can probably allow your consciousness to escape to a backup brain/body and carry-on. Heck that might be standard procedure. It's probably easier to make a brand new and improved body than upgrade what you have just like everything else. So you may transfer your consciousness to new bodies regularly.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

3 жыл бұрын

@@letsgobrandon416 "That same tech that can backup your brain can probably allow your consciousness to escape to a backup brain/body and carry-on." that's still not you, that's just a better copy with less lost memories compared to the deceased you. it's the "teliporters are murder" issue.

@thek2despot426

3 жыл бұрын

On what basis are you so assured that it won't be you? All that's happened is a change in the hardware running the software that is the sense data and memories that constitute "you", which your brain naturally does all the time anyway by exchanging old matter for new matter. If your reasoning is to be believed (without any certainty one way or the other as we *_don't_* know how consciousness works), why are "you" still the same "you" from a decade ago for any reason other than sharing memories of having been that person? Did you die in that time? Are you a copy of your past self? Did that inconvenience you in any way?

@thek2despot426

3 жыл бұрын

@@RipOffProductionsLLC But your body and brain exchanges old matter out with new matter all the time (Ship of Theseus-ing, if you will), and we wouldn't say that kills you (would we?). Why would what is functionally the same procedure, changing one body for another, be any different?

heck yeah. you've improved a ton!

Another awesome video as always.

Mi-go..... involuntary holidays on Yuggoth via brain canister ..... (silent scream).