First Impression
Alien Alright Lyrics

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Straight from the first time you know that it's right
Watch you dancing and adrenaline aroused
One look at my cloths now, enough to get me all sussed out
Looking down, what are you trying to hide?
First impression
Gut reaction
I need some time
Circling around

First impression, yeah
First impression, yeah
Won't be the first to make or break
Judge and base on first impression
Now, I knew I'd end up with a girl who looks great when she wakes up
Don't need to think you can tell from the start
Initially I didn't like most of my favourite bands
But I need to hear a new song that will get me all hyped up
First impression
Sweet sensation
I need some time
Circling around
First impression, yeah
First impression, yeah
Won't be the first to make or break
Judge and base on first impression
Don't want to talk about it, just want to hide behind it
Don't want to talk about it – first impression
Well on the TV, London looked like worlds apart
But once in its centre, it felt familiar and far
Need to get, need to get a job, and for this I really need all my charm
First reaction, everything seems overpriced
First impression
Best intentions
I need some time
Circling around
First impression, yeah
First impression, yeah

Won't be the first to make or break
Judge and base on first impression

Overall Meaning

"First Impression" by Alien Alright explores the theme of judging and forming opinions based on first impressions. The lyrics suggest that the initial encounter with someone or something can often lead to snap judgments that may not accurately reflect reality. The song emphasizes the importance of giving things time and circling around to gain a deeper understanding before making final judgments.

The first verse highlights the power of first impressions, with the singer expressing how they can instantly know if something feels right or not. They observe someone dancing, which elevates their adrenaline, but then notice that the person is looking down, seemingly hiding something. The chorus emphasizes the need for time to form a more accurate impression, acknowledging the gut reaction while also recognizing the necessity for further exploration.

The second verse takes a different perspective, as the singer reflects on their own experiences with first impressions. They mention how they didn't initially like their favorite bands but needed to hear a new song that would excite them. This suggests that initial impressions are not always reliable indicators of long-term appreciation. The chorus repeats the idea of needing time to make a fair judgment.

The bridge shifts the focus to a broader context, specifically London as seen on TV versus the actual experience of being there. It highlights the discrepancy between preconceived notions and the reality of the situation. The need for charm to find a job further emphasizes the importance of taking time and having the best intentions before making judgments.

Overall, "First Impression" encourages listeners to be mindful of forming opinions based solely on initial encounters. It suggests that giving things time and allowing for further exploration leads to a more accurate understanding.

Line by Line Meaning

Straight from the first time you know that it's right
From the very beginning, you can sense that it's a genuine connection.

Watch you dancing and adrenaline aroused
Observing you dance fills me with excitement and energy.

One look at my cloths now, enough to get me all sussed out
Just by looking at my appearance, you think you can figure me out completely.

Looking down, what are you trying to hide?
Why are you avoiding eye contact? What are you keeping concealed?

First impression
The initial encounter or judgment.

Gut reaction
An instinctive response or feeling.

I need some time
I require some space or duration to process my thoughts and feelings.

Circling around
Continuously pondering or circling the situation in my mind.

First impression, yeah
The initial impression or evaluation, yeah.

Won't be the first to make or break
I won't be the one to solely determine success or failure based on first impressions.

Judge and base on first impression
Forming opinions and making decisions solely based on initial impressions.

Now, I knew I'd end up with a girl who looks great when she wakes up
I always knew I would be with a girl who appears beautiful even without any effort.

Don't need to think you can tell from the start
It's not necessary to assume you can fully understand someone right from the beginning.

Initially I didn't like most of my favourite bands
At first, I didn't enjoy the majority of the bands that eventually became my favorites.

But I need to hear a new song that will get me all hyped up
However, I still desire to discover a new song that will excite and energize me.

Sweet sensation
A delightful and pleasurable feeling.

Don't want to talk about it, just want to hide behind it
I prefer not to discuss it and simply use it as a mask or shield.

Well on the TV, London looked like worlds apart
When watching London on TV, it seemed drastically different and distant.

But once in its centre, it felt familiar and far
However, once I was in the heart of London, it felt both familiar and distant simultaneously.

Need to get, need to get a job, and for this I really need all my charm
I have a strong desire to secure employment, and to achieve this, I must utilize all of my charisma.

Best intentions
Having the most sincere and positive motives.

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Written by: Alien Alright

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@DraconisV2

1y↑43

I love that this was tackled in Stellaris! There's a new Origin in the game called Fear of the Dark wherein Venus was totally destroyed by a freak asteroid causing a huge division on Earth on whether the incident is a malicious attack or just a freak accident and is nothing more than mere paranoia. This division led to a lot of people terraforming and colonizing Mars in order to escape Earth because of the belief that somewhere out there, there is someone purposely targeting our home planet in order to destroy it.

Ok this next bit is a spoiler so don't continue if you have plans on playing the game with this Origin.

Basically, after years of exploration and progress in the game, you'll later find out that in a nearby solar system, an unknown species of alien had built a huge space cannon and was using all their resources in their home system to create huge bullets to attack nearby systems that they had detected that contains life. However, because of the unique gravity of Jupiter on our Sol system that protects us from most asteroids, this huge bullet that was aimed at Earth was actually reorientated by the gravity into destroying Venus instead. By the time that you discover this truth, the alien species that had done the attack are already dead with their home planet barren with life and the space cannon inoperable.

It seems that the unknown species was so paranoid that it believed in the idea that any life out there is a threat to their existence which then led to the construction of a space cannon that will guarantee that they will be the one to do the first strike rather than be a victim of one. This paranoia however led to them depleting all the resources in their solar system without even inventing FTL travel which then caused mass extinction of their species, which is fortunate for Earth because it meant that a second strike will never arrive.

At this point, the player will have a decision to turn into a Fanatic Purifier since it was proven that aliens in the galaxy are actually willing to exterminate you when given the chance and also a big "I told you so!" from the colonists who fled Earth to Mars. That, or you can stay as a Xenophile and declare that yes, some aliens are bad, but not all of them are out to get you. In the end, you'll get an achievement named "Dark Forest" if you convert into a Fanatic Purifier and eliminate all life in the galaxy, from the most advanced ones, down to the alien species that are still stuck in the stone ages.

@tomkandy

2y↑1.6K

The Killing Star has the best summary of this idea;

"We ask that you try just one more thought experiment. Imagine yourself taking a stroll through Manhattan, somewhere north of 68th street, deep inside Central Park, late at night. It would be nice to meet someone friendly, but you know that the park is dangerous at night. That's when the monsters come out. There's always a strong undercurrent of drug dealings, muggings, and occasional homicides.

It is not easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. They dress alike, and the weapons are concealed. The only difference is intent, and you can't read minds.

Stay in the dark long enough and you may hear an occasional distance shriek or blunder across a body.

How do you survive the night? The last thing you want to do is shout, "I'm here!" The next to last thing you want to do is reply to someone who shouts, "I'm a friend!"

What you would like to do is find a policeman, or get out of the park. But you don't want to make noise or move towards a light where you might be spotted, and it is difficult to find either a policeman or your way out without making yourself known. Your safest option is to hunker down and wait for daylight, then safely walk out.

There are, of course, a few obvious differences between Central Park and the universe.

There is no policeman.

There is no way out.

And the night never ends."

@thedeepesthat4029

52w

@@johnappleseed9290

We can already create quite realistic alternative realities using our basic computer technology.

Once we have quantum computing, we will simply be able to run algorithms in power physics systems and they will just create universes, or maybe it will be AI that will do this for us.

We can tell from how the universe grew, that it came from a simple state, and that is how we would create a universe, from a single algorythmic origin, and let it expand within a program.

The way we make computer games now, it would be impossible to create a new universe, it would be far to much work. The universe we live in shows us jow it is to be done, and we will replicate that. Inevitably at some point.

@stardolphin2

2y↑60

"This is why everyone is so terrified of humanity, who feel the need to loudly broadcast their location."

As if no one else does, just because we haven't seen such signals yet? Assuming there is indeed a danger in doing so, all civilizations may go through a period of 'not yet knowing better.'

Your assertion also implies that 'everyone' (especially if they're not also already talking to each other) will respond to awareness of our presence in the same way. Some may reach out if sufficiently gregarious, some may pre-empt, if sufficiently paranoid.

Or anything in between.

This isn't about what humans do, it's about what enough others may do, to be consistent with the Fermi Paradox.

@Jim54_

1y↑1

I wonder if you could use the clockwork radio principle to power a probe that won’t be needed to be activated for decades, or possibly even longer.

Like a probe sent to Alpha Centauri perhaps, with Solar Radiometers on the probe to both activate the probe as it nears the Solar system its aimed towards, and recharge the clockwork mechanism like a giant self rewinding watch that never stops running.

The electronics would have to be powered like a clockwork radio, negating the need for batteries or Nuclear power, which will degrade over extremely long periods. This is the issue with the voyager probes as they age, despite the fact that the electronics and computers within the probe are functioning perfectly after nearly half a century of constant use.

The probe would have to be large and capable of making independent decisions, which may require a large amount of older hardier computer chips

You could even go a step further, and have small landers on the larger probe that could be fired and directed towards other planets. They could be hardy probes, with a self contained non rechargeable clockwork power source of their own. Preferably a hardy probe to gather planetary data quickly, similar to the Venetian and Titan probes of the past.

The only issue would be having a secondary rechargeable clockwork mechanism to power the transmitter, which would have to be very powerful for the extremely long distances to earth. Storage of information until broadcast would be vital.

If Spacex can reduce the cost of launches further, perhaps we could have a mother ship probe that could launch smaller satellites like a Clockwork Cassinis, to examine planetary systems and their moons, as well as launch the aforementioned smaller probes

This is a bit long winded and hypothetical but its worth thinking about…

@Masata240

1y↑5

Great analysis! And at timestamp 8:57, you made a brilliant and pragmatic counterpoint to fear based on our primal instincts versus our progress as a civilization to truly "grow up".

Progressive science fiction like the original Star Trek (made over half a century ago and with a more diverse cast) better sums up our sense of wonder - “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."

If anyone wants an OG "dark forest" science fiction-fantasy-horror, there's:
1. The "grimdark" Warhammer 40K lore that has been fleshed out over three decades and counting, enriched with the perspectives of multiple authors from different times. It is a story of what appears to be the hopeless struggle of humanity against superior threats, against itself, and to make itself the primary race in the universe

2. The "weird", "purplish", and cosmic science fiction horror that was written a century ago by H.P. Lovecraft. These are short stories that tear down our anthropocentric hubris in the face of the unknown horrors of the universe.

These examples are far from being the only references. They came to mind after watching this video. I would love to know more examples.

I also think it's important to treat the author's "dark forest" idea as science fiction and not confuse it with actual science. I would rather leave that to the professionals, aka scientists with stringent peer-reviewed theories.
If the opposite is true, then in fairness, we must give equal coverage to the above examples and other science fiction ideas by authors such as Frank Herbert, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, Orson Scott Card, and others (Dune, Space Odyssey, Foundation, Hyperion, Ender's Game, and the upcoming or existing movie adaptions) as theories and philosophies that merit balanced discussion.

Nevertheless, I am glad that a work of science fiction sparked a serious discussion of our place in the universe. If it helps more people explore the science fiction genre, be it reading more books or playing games, then more power to them!

@tacitozetticci9308

2y↑8

I think the most likely solutions would be:

1) the pessimistic one, with the Great Filter still in our future.

or

2) advanced civilizations eventually somehow find a way out of the galactic jungles, escaping to an unreachable place we can't imagine while still having some source of energy.

(Now the crazy idea: you know we're basically caged inside our local group of galaxies because of the expansion of the universe right?
Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate way to isolate oneself from the rest of the universe?
Generating such a phenomenon intentionally, a civilization with universal influence … it wouldn't be impossible after billions of years right?
But yeah I guess physicists would have noticed by now, the data would point to a sudden acceleration popping out of nowhere in the history of the universe, and I don't think that's the case.)

@KrytenKoro

36w

The first-strike advantage being discussed relies on some assumptions that are not unquestionable.

Firstly, it requires that there be essentially no way to deal with a relativistic kill vehicle once it's spotted. It would definitely require having defenses prepped before hand, but if a civilization can figure out the technology to manuever out-of-the-way or develop some sort of interplanetary shield to absorb the hit, then all you've accomplished is giving your hostile intentions away and opening yourself up to reprisals. It's just m.a.d. in space.

The second part is that even if there's no way to physically defend against it, it's not impossible to calculate where the attack came from, so you could just give your attacker the middle finger by broadcasting their location to the Galaxy. Even if you can't survive, you can take them down with you.

Finally, the Moses option always exists. Unless they can absolutely confirm that the Target civilization has not made it off their planet, they can't guarantee but there won't be survivors who will seek revenge. There's a reason so many surviving species are aggressively expansionist.

There's also the obvious ethical quantities with genociding and entire intelligence species just based on the paranoia that they could intend you harm. There's not a good reason why you wouldn't just apply that same paranoia to your fellow human, which is why the dark forest paradigm only really seems plausible to the sort of mind that solves problems by shooting them rather than thinking them out - not unlike the human rulers who choose to threaten atomic weapons as their first option.

It's an approach that makes for a good thriller, but it's not really rational as a real life strategy.

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@kurzgesagt

2y↑19.4K

If this video made you curious and you like reading great and long sci fi books, check out the three body problem by Liu Cixin, who formulated the dark forest idea for the first time. And with that, we say good bye to the year 12,021. It truly was a wild time, and passed so, so quickly. For us at the Kurzgesagt team it was full of changes and achievements and we learned so much and tried so many new things. And we have so many exciting ideas and projects that we can’t wait to share with you next year! I know I say this often but doing Kurzgesagt really is just such a joy. We only can do this because of you, so thank you so, so much. We appreciate it more than you might imagine. Have wonderful holidays and get safely into the year 12,022. We’ll see you on the other side! – Philipp
PS: And if you want to help us do what we do, check out our store with sciency products made with love: https://kgs.link/shop-156

@FalconType

2y↑90

You fell off + ratio

@cubit404

2y↑61

Same thing you kurzgesagt!

@nothingexists5066

2y↑6

First

@craftingcloud8642

2y↑4

First

@misterchef944

2y↑5

BS LIFE IS OUT THERE

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@Scouthedog1

2y↑9K

I feel like the Hunter in the technological forest could spin-off to its own Internet show.
I'd watch that

@eat2788

2y↑360

@@dilkush_21 k i wont

@UltraDripstinctSonGoku

2y↑206

@@dilkush_21 ok

no one cares about your profile anyway

@another_dead_account

2y↑57

@@dilkush_21 ok.

@koboarchives969

2y↑105

I swear I just skipped the through the video just to see the hunter.
Because it was just hq.
Really makes me think, they should make a show about this on youtube and rake in the money for Kurzgesagt.

@jamesforster7612

2y↑62

Samurai Jack is what your're looking for.

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@GarrettWatts

2y↑4.5K

Really appreciating this new, slightly more laid back narration style.

@triopical6884

2y↑41

Hey baby boy, can I drink all your UwU warm prorostate milk

@lucasdacosta3835

2y↑111

It’s been 6 minutes you couldn’t have listened to this video.

@lanimwar

2y↑1

@olliec5675

2y↑4

GARRET!

@olliec5675

I love you

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@Croc21000

35w↑1.6K

I love how humans are so optimistic about finding intelligent life even though we don't even get along with each other a lot of the time.

@ninajasmin731

33w↑39

maybe that's the reason we are like this haha

@Croc21000

33w↑32

@ninajasmin731 hmmmm. perhaps the lack of exposure to other intelligent life may cause a lack of opposition in political opinions other lifeforms may have, causing us to feel more important than all other life in the universe.

@anoobagain5008

33w↑21

Maybe we arent really intelligent compared to aliens and theyd be peaceful because they’re actually intelligent

@Randomguy-nr6qr

32w↑52

@@anoobagain5008idk it feels like the more intelligent a life form is the more cruel they can be

@anoobagain5008

32w

@@Randomguy-nr6qr I feel like stupid life forms are cruel too we just dont see it because they are too stupid to do cruel things

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@obsoquasi

33w↑610

"don't reply" was the answer humans got in Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem when the protagonist sent out her first succesful interstellar transmission, powerful enough to reach our neighbors. This book, and the two others in the series, are as terrific as they are terrifying.

@henrywang3403

27w↑30

That’s the first story to use the term “dark forest”.

@smokbig3202

24w↑12

@@henrywang3403 The dark forest theory has been around for a very long time.

@user-gj7lp5iz6k

22w

@@smokbig3202prove it

@manynukes11

22w↑16

Survival is the most important goal of every civilization

Every civilization will continue to expand and grow , but resource in the universe is limited.

@King-mz8xe

22w↑21

Ye Wenjie doomed us man 😭

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@daenite2480

2y↑56.9K

Imagine finally getting a message from space, and after decoding it, the message says "be quiet, they'll hear you."

@sticktheok

2y↑3K

oh no

@pHixiq

2y↑3.9K

Oh shit 😂. We gonna get got

@Skemmm

2y↑3.6K

but they will expose themselves by doing this, so not a smart move.

@mrcheese3092

2y↑523

@@Skemmm by expose wym expose and how

@Arthera0

2y↑2.9K

@@Skemmm of course they would relay this message far away from themselves if they have that technology

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@hustle4Abuck2

33w↑98

I saw this video about a year ago. I just finished "The Dark Forest" book two of the series. Your visuals nailed that part of the book, so much so I had to come back to see if you referenced the book. I am on book three now. I will commit again when I finish the series

@King-mz8xe

22w↑1

Well you finished this series yet and if so, thoughts on the 3rd book?

@Viltris

16w

@@King-mz8xe The best of the series. I finished the third book on a plane today. Liu Cixin has always been good about painting vivid imagery with words, and in the third book, he goes all in on describing the bizarre, the horrifying, the grotesque, and the hauntingly beautiful. He also tightens up the story, cutting out the unnecessary plot threads, and develops the ones he leaves behind all the way to their ultimate conclusion. It also has the most speculative ideas, the most imaginitive, the most optimistic, and the most terrifying.

@drew284

15w

@@Viltris I thought the 3rd was the worst because of some of the character decisions and humanity's reactions to certain things. Just didn't add up. I still love the series as a whole though. And I thought the first part of book 3 was really good. Wish I had more people to talk about the series with though, it's such an imaginative and thought provoking series. I think my favorite part is the world building of Trisolaris. Just fascinating and I hope the Netflix series does it justice. Dark Forest was my favorite.

@DraconisV2

1y↑43

@lencol583

2y↑9.5K

I’d be really annoyed if our first contact with aliens was them coming to earth as some sort of door to door salesman or trying to recruit us into a pyramid scheme.

@deividboy2347

2y↑156

XD
I would love it if the first contact is like in independence day 2
With that white orb thing
Seemed so nice to me

@rackcauser

2y↑643

They're gonna come here and try to tell you about your satellites extended warranty

@gasterg.continent3118

2y↑287

“You become you own space capital you only need to give us 200k kg of metal and travel to other planets to recruit them.”

@deividboy2347

2y↑247

"Humanity can be their own boss with this this two easy apps"

@jonsong4592

2y↑198

"Have you heard about our lord and savior X'BorYag"

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@thedeytow8776

2y↑5.3K

“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.” -Jack Handey

@StrokeMyLovePump

2y↑128

Deep Thoughts.

@WiseOwl_1408

2y↑205

Violence is a huge part of nature. We can't escape it.

@infinitehonkworks195

2y↑250

@@WiseOwl_1408 Violence is the eternal answer to "Or else what"
If you aren't willing to use it, you're no more than property of the person that will

@msguidedbits9511

2y↑8

I wouldn’t do that

@FanDidlyTastic

2y↑160

@Nuup Truth is only the realities we give in to. Violence is only part of our nature so long as we keep giving up, making comments like these.
We do things the way we do because those methods are the paths of least resistance. We replace this resistance with technology and tools to ignore them, sometimes forever.
Taking violence as a truth may as well be giving up on a goal before you've even started. Absurdly defeatist and pessimistic.

It's also in human nature to grow beyond our base natures. Did you ever consider that? ;3c

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@steadmanman940

1y↑169

Kurzgesagt can give the most eye-opening, life changing, cosmically-educating speech about a foreign alien race that will have a 50/50 chance of either coming in peace or wiping us off the face of the universe and then be like "but we're probably fine." You truly are brilliant people.

@lillyraisin

✨ANXIETY✨ WOO

@somefuckstolemynick

Even if there only were two options (there isn't), peace or extermination, that wouldn't imply it's a 50/50 chance.

@HierophanticRose

1y↑46

Also another aspect, cooperation has been shown to have incredible evolutionary advantage; so most likely it is on a scale between Dark Forest level distrust and cooperative benevolence, but not either fully. In any case, I think it is more likely we are in some statistical improbability but eventuality of being in a corner of space without much sentient life perhaps.

Either way it pays to be cautious, and no one will hold it against you. That's why I think programs like METI is careless.

@trequor

46w

The dark forest is very stupid considering what we know about the animal kingdom and actual dark forests. Dark forests arent quiet at all and predators tend not to fight one another. Instead they COMMUNICATE their claimed territory to all others, through both sound and scent, and should a face off happen it normally comes down to intimidation. Fights are rare because they are expensive.

Civilizations that attack every neighbour are doomed to die a violent death... even if they escape that fate the resource cost will put them far behind their cooperative peers

@DockClock-rp2ro

38w↑3

It's true, and hence why our best bet is to maximise our talent, proficiency and competence, to be as much of a threat and a value.

The cost of war must outweigh the cost of cooperation.
This is what facilitates mutual cooperation and reciprocity.

@kombuchas4684

13w

The Dark Forest problem shows that cooperation is unfeasible due to the distance and light years of time that a message must transmit through. This leads to the chain of suspicion which is a core part of the dark forest theory.

@tomkandy

2y↑1.6K

@MPKush

2y↑121

Your English teacher would be proud.

@Cronos988

2y↑53

Or you build a very big gun, take over the park with it, and live happily ever after.

Not everyone is equal in our dark forrest, and hiding from someone who's already more powerful than you is not going to work.

@anishap2000

2y↑96

@@Cronos988 Yes, building a big gun really would be one of the ways, but that's a call for war. How do we know how 'big' of a gun is actually big enough? What preparations our opponents have made? Without knowing that, it's still a risk stepping out and making yourself known like that. If we can't know the nature or intent of those on the other side, we also cannot be sure of our chances of survival. True, not everyone is equal and that's for sure, but we haven't heard or found anything from these hunters to determine the ranking of strongest to weakest. We can't know who's more powerful. There could easily be civilizations farther off than us. Hence, the least we can do is not make our presence known so that we can stay safe. Thrive beneath the covers, threat-free until someone finds us. At some point we may have to though. This planet alone doesn't seem sufficient to satiate growing human population and desires.

@smurfyday

2y↑29

@@Cronos988 Central Park is actually really safe. NYC is much safer than most cities or places in America, esp. the gun-loving ones. It's the homicidal ones that we need to worry about. The ones who think guns solve problems.

@kairos.2381

2y↑7

@@smurfyday exactoo

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@HandToolRescue

2y↑235

Always be weary of "the implication".

@imthetrollman9279

2y↑4

YOUR'E RIGHT. I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS. OMG PAUL I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT!

@ButWhyMe...

lol no m8.

*The US fires first

@ButWhyMe...

@bruh ? Is this a joke?

@tulliodesantis4290

2y↑2

is this from always sunny?

@vonabod4259

😄😄😄

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@dabigfreeze

1y↑38

I can just imagine a bunch of aliens watching a giant bonfire in space, and then it finally goes out and they think to themselves “Damn they really took their time to realise huh”

@thedeepesthat4029

1y↑16

The likely reason that we have not encountered alien life, is that beings like ourselves (which i think are likely to be throughout the universe) create new dimensions / universes to pass into before they try to move across open space.

Look at a chestnut tree. The chestnuts are far away from each other, for the chestnuts to turn into new trees, they do not need to make contact with eachother, and infact being far apart ensures more space for the chestnuts to drop in fertile ground and therefore aid the multiplication of the tree. If the universe is an evolved structure (Which I think to be highly likely), then it would be advantageous for life to be far apart, so that we do not war with each other and more rapidly create a new realm of information / universes. And so the Universe therefore multiplys.

The earth is essentially an egg, and its been fertilesed by life. That life will then create new universes.

@johnappleseed9290

52w

I like your way of thinking and it makes sense.. BUT.. my only argument here is that we as humans have only evolved to create technology to aid us in our day to day living here on earth. We’ve created impressive rockets and satellites in order for us to see what is out there in our universe, we are no where near at the level to create any significant difference in chancing our dimension/universal timeline as we go on as a species.

I like to look at our evolvement through the Kardashev scale. We aren’t even at type 1, we are sitting between 0.6-0.7 type civilization. In order to make any difference in our way of existence and timeline we would need an enormous amount of energy at a galactic level, that I can see how we can potentially open up new barriers through space and time, by that rate (if humanity is still around) we would be traversing at the speed of light. We haven’t truly even mastered the power of the atom or even left our solar system. We are eons away before we can make an impact at a universal scale.. and most scientist believe humanity will never get to that point due to our Neanderthalish brain still highly active. AI may possibly take over one day and real humans may become a form of Bio-Organic substance that wonder the earth..

@thedeepesthat4029

52w

@sayounsang

2y↑9.9K

I was waiting for Kurzgesagt to cover this book. Such a terrifying concept, and yet I can’t stop thinking about it.

@Skemmm

2y↑165

trisolaris? also amogus

@gabrielvicente8406

2y↑12

@FckPooTN

2y↑95

You mean trisolaris?

@matyascerny8461

2y↑132

Ah yes, another trisolaris enjoyer

@crAzytitAn4741

2y↑74

I believe the Aliens are so advanced that they might be among us and we'd never know

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@betterchapter

2y↑36.6K

Imagine someone on another planet seeing a similar space sci-fi vid about our planet

@jaari2032

2y↑1.3K

Man with checkmark must like

@Jay2480

2y↑227

How only 3 mins ago what

@A_87mine

2y↑43

@cocoardo4394

2y↑120

And there is another one writing this reply.

@rob5393

2y↑282

Imagine an alien making a coment such as yours on that video

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@TheJerbol

22w↑10

3:30 "They'll want to call out for help, but they won't" "Why not?" "Because of the implication "

@user-zd2yf3tz7c

48w↑30

정공룡의 추천을 받고 달려옴
공룡님은 이런 거 어케 찾으셨다냐

@russiananimatorlol1719

2y↑5.4K

Imagine an alien version of kurzgesagt explaining why humans exist

@aushwada3871

1y↑196

BRO WTF THAT IS ACTUALLY CRAZY. I thought about an alien civilization watching this video after decoding it to see what we think.

@Unlimited_Powah

1y↑79

And then they see their climate change videos

@rhuttrho88

1y↑13

I will not imagine that!🤨

@gmillyy5253

1y↑16

Sources reveal they have no real explanation

@thenamesianna

1y↑28

We would be aliens to them , so it would still be about alien's existance

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@Wonkabar007

2y↑4.8K

The hunter takes a deep breath and makes a decision
"I shall try and make friends with this Xenomorph"

@williamwalrus9473

2y↑708

Mankind: “If it exists then I can pet it”

@RT710.

2y↑233

TOUCH

@cassianodesign

2y↑442

The Xenomorph hugs him back, one day later they have a baby, but the hunter dies during labor XD

@shanagbaimuru3926

2y↑246

Tbh an amusing end would've been both the hunters getting skewered by a better hidden hunter observing the whole situation

@mikesnapper9001

2y↑88

"hehe, why is my stomach suddenly tickling?"

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@levendil14

1y↑11

Best strategy is to be quiet and search out and if we find others, investigate and approach cautiously. If we identify like minded creates and form alliances it will defend us against those who are going to do us harm.

@brandonselitetv1436

33w

So basically do what the Spanish did when conquering the Americas. Form alliance with certain tribes and used that alliance expand our Influence in the galaxy

@Toonrick12

23w

@@brandonselitetv1436That and accidental germ warfare.

@revolutionariesoffreedom2374

8w↑1

⁠⁠@@brandonselitetv1436not really

Btw the Spanish empire was defeated by the US Republic so shush 🤫

He says : ally yourself with pro democracy but in the alien world… to fight against invasive totalitarian alien empires.
Simple as that

@Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo

47w↑3

I love the art style of this channel ❤ and the content itself ofc x

@Ani

2y↑8.4K

the art style in this video is perhaps my favourite of any kurzgesagt video so far. the way you guys have animated, portrayed, and narrated (!) aliens is stunning and thought provoking - kudos!

@LeventButSpeedrunning

2y↑41

Hello random verified user

@crocodughetto5613

2y↑12

I was going to say that

@ninjaclan83

2y↑15

It reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book.

@PRINTORO

YES!

@groggod666

same

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@insertcoolnamehere8516

2y↑5.8K

The idea of some alien space council that knows we’re here but is waiting for us to “grow up” is actually really comforting for some reason.

@thewhompingwampa2671

2y↑385

So, it's basically Mass Effect. Jesus, lets just hope we don't encounter aliens like the Turians or get uplifted prematurely and end up like the Krogan.

@Pazuzu4219

There's a group of aliens that are actually keeping us from "growing up". There are many different kinds out there and they have fought over control of this planet for millennia.

@garrettcorbett3681

2y↑143

@@thewhompingwampa2671 Lets hope our first encounter isn’t with the Krogan

@VoteOrDie99

2y↑53

Isn't that kind of the back story of earth in star trek?

@rubix4195

2y↑82

@@VoteOrDie99 Not really - only if you think the Federation is a "welcoming space council" but, in reality, the Federation are like aloof and waiting for the moment a civilisation reaches light speed travel just so they can have a chat of joining like when you move into a new house and the first knock on the door is the Jehovah's Witnesses.. Also, not so much if you are in the Klingon or Romulan neck of the woods: one's a warrior race and the other is a manipulative race out for resouces.

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@ednguyen3822

48w↑2

Three Body Problem novels introduced me to this concept. Great reads!

@metodejsvoboda6936

1y↑1

I like how you used the same font as the title of the book "The dark forest" (minute 1:27), nice little detail

@TheBadlandsSandvich

2y↑1.9K

The Dark Forest scenario reminds me of this writing prompt I saw once:

"Due to the vast distances between stars, interstellar wars are often a case of who finds the other first. With such long trival times, any sort of retaliation is impossible, and the one who gets first strike always wins. Because of this, most intelligent species try to remain hidden and not give their position away. This is why everyone is so terrified of humanity, who feel the need to loudly broadcast their location."

@counttzt5070

2y↑34

Do you recall where this is from?

@TheBadlandsSandvich

2y↑110

@@counttzt5070 r/WritingPrompts

@olnbgy4444

2y↑85

They’re scared of humanity because humanity is a loud target ? I don’t understand

@stardolphin2

2y↑60

@vengefulbeauty

2y↑341

@@olnbgy4444 Like a lion roaring. Think about, if you're in a dark forest and hear a lion roar, are you going towards it or away fast as hell in the opposite direction?

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@PossumReviews

2y↑5.6K

The universe is only about fourteen billion years old, and the star-forming era is expected to last another hundred trillion. The universe is young, so young in fact that the Earth has been around for about a third of the universe's life so far. If you picture the lifespan of the universe's star-forming era as a clock, we popped up in the first second. It may sound unlikely given how big the universe is, but when you take the Great Filters into consideration, we may very well be the first technological civilization in the universe. There may be countless civilizations over the next hundred trillion years, and we will be the "ancient forerunners" to them.

@nakedmario6155

2y↑858

And then humanity will go into war with an alien species referred to as the Covenant because of the mishaps of the ancient forerunners

@WanderTheNomad

2y↑677

That's the option that I'm choosing to go with. Obviously we don't know for sure if that is the case, but we should consider the possibility.
Assume we are one of the earliest, if not the first, civilization to exist in the universe. What would that entail? To me, it sounds like a lot of responsibility. Like being the eldest child among your siblings.

@jeremyhahn3612

2y↑188

Doubt in the universe because there's an insanely vast amount of it we're not able to look at, but I still get your point

@ouinova

2y↑26

Checkmark, I must like. Also good point

@Mostly-Nuts

2y↑199

@@jeremyhahn3612 not even that. Look at how much we’ve accomplished in so little. Or who’s to even say we accomplished a lot in a little bit of time since it’s relative and we have nothing to base that point on.

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@Aviation_mad

I love your videos because the way you explain the concepts makes it easy for me to understand

@TheShuichi88

1y↑4

this is my favorite Kurzgesagt video, and This honestly seems like one of the more realistic outcomes of the fermi paradox. the main one being that the distances are too great between civilizations and thousands and thousands of years for back and forth communication isn't worth it. so other civilizations don't try.

@trequor

46w

The Fermi paradox is hogwash. It's based on literally nothing. It's a mathematical model where all the variables came out of Fermi's ass.

@thomaslittlefield923

2y↑5.2K

I think a language barrier between planets could be even more dangerous than what weapons they could have

@sylvur5441

2y↑173

vinland saga\american history proves that

@andresramos7965

2y↑497

This reminds me that in Halo games, the war that aliens start against humanity, which purpose was to exterminate it, started by a misinterpretation and a misunderstanding.

@maksanimates4456

2y↑206

I feel like we just need to find a direct way of universal kindness. Languages wont help because its something we created, food might not work since wed be dealing an entire different race and dont know how it would affect them.

@sentientmustache8360

2y↑87

Let’s just pray either we invented universal translation or they have

@4Curses

2y↑196

@@maksanimates4456 In stargate the highly developed races used a universal language based on atoms. it seems pretty smart, since the elements should be the same, no matter where in the universe.

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@KoutetsuSteel

2y↑5.1K

I mentioned it last time as well, but holy heck do I want to play a simulation/strategy game that has the art/design team from Kurzgesagt.
Especially after the strategy game-esque animations we were shown in the middle of the video.

@duzehalo

2y↑193

I thought the same. Especially some base/city building sim. I'm pre-ordering.

@Hellodinho

2y↑29

AGREEED

@cats4life161

2y↑86

I was just about to comment this, every structure looks really interesting and I feel so inspired to play this nonexistant game

@daviddavid-pt7dv

2y↑5

Yea

@andriytarnevyy8957

2y↑42

The Battle of Polytopia looks very similar to this 2:39. It's a little strategy game ispired by Civilization series but less deep, I played only a trial and liked It, you can play It on mobile too but it's actualy a good game.

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@FoxyBoxery

1y↑7

To be honest, the safest civilisation we can contact, against most people’s expectations, is not a less advanced than us or as advanced as us, but rather far more advanced than us. So advanced, that they won’t view us as a threat

@Tristyn_Waterman

11w

But because of the distances and delay in communication, and the possibility of rapid or explosive technological growth, we still would represent a possible threat to another civilization no matter how much more advanced they are

@mavericksatyr4514

I love you’re guys videos they genuinely make my day thank you so much

@AnotherZenThought

2y↑5.4K

As Sagan said: “The newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and comparing notes before shouting into an unknown jungle that we do not understand.”

@crazycatlady183

2y↑16

❤️👏

@gdvelasquez2570

2y↑73

Carl Sagan is wise, indeed.

@tomcav860

2y↑4

your mum is pretty good lookin

@npc5649

2y↑18

This sounds like a good idea

@AnthanKrufix

2y↑60

Or in the words of 4Chan.. "Lurk Moar!"

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@nikos3706

2y↑866

Let me add a bit more to the existential dread: the 2 hunters stepping out in the clearing are making themselves vulnerable to another hunter who is still hidden and really considers taking both out as quickly as possible.

@Tjalve70

2y↑154

True.
But at the same time, they are making themselves stronger. Because together, it will be more difficult for a third hunter to kill them both.
So this is a short period of calculated risk and temporary vulnerability, that will hopefully pay off with prolonged and possibly permanent increased strength and survivability.

@alkasaket379

2y↑47

@@Tjalve70 I hope that's true.
But, if the third hunter possibly takes us out with the other one, their location is given away, and a fourth hunter wipes the third one out as well.

@purpleemerald5299

2y↑98

@@Tjalve70 Another terrifying prospect: the two of them are already surrounded by a whole tribe of different hunters who have all gone through this same process long ago, and are contemplating whether to assimilate potential allies or annihilate potential enemies. No matter what we do, our lives hinge on their judgement.

@aeaeeaoiauea

2y↑20

The 2 hunters see each other, and they act like they don't, then for 2 years they just spy on each other not knowing what to do, then a third hunter just kills them

@alcambio8923

2y↑15

The analogy with hunting is ridiculous.

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@taylorroarkpayton

1y↑8

What’s terrifying is that if there are infinite parallel universes out there, then we’ve already been discovered and destroyed. We’ve also discovered and swiftly conquered.

@xen_lol_

43w

yea you can visit those realities/universes actually, reality shidting

@taylorroarkpayton

43w

@@xen_lol_ I’m skeptical. Is it just dreams?

@insengmorugetda

48w↑24

공룡 형 다크 포레스트 뭔가 의미가 있었던거구나 이런 것 까지 찾아보고 큐튜버에서 많이 발전했어

@toxymoon92

46w

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

@historicallegends3702

I didn't understood what you said but I agree with you

@eniw07

@@historicallegends3702 Several Korean YouTubers made a video series named "Dark Forest" using Minecraft, and among those who participated in it, a YouTuber named '공룡' recommended this video to introduce the Dark Forest theory to his viewers.

@MatthewPogi-md7oq

2y↑1.3K

I like to think one day, parents will tell their kids “be careful about what you send out into the universe…you can’t delete it in entirety!”

@thetruereality2

2y↑18

brilliant

@jasonbaugher2464

2y↑22

Yeah Huh, Mom! I'll just shoot it into a black hole!

@PluetoeInc.

2y↑5

@@jasonbaugher2464 yeaahhh lol

@addamriley5452

2y↑10

Time is non local synchronicity, past, present and future exist at once... everything exists now... nothing can be deleted. Energy cannot be created or destroyed...

@V0rch4

2y↑6

People are already sending radio signals into space, and it's terrifying

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@jackoface710

2y↑1K

I remember a short horror story I read from somebody else.

Humanity has finally made contact with another intelligible species.
The first message we receive back from them is: "Cease all communications; they will hear us."

@15gamershaven89

2y↑129

Except the other aliens would just let us die before they reveal themselves

@guiii0696

2y↑98

that sent a shiver down my spine

@thephoenix134

2y↑67

It all stems from the novel series starting with "The 3 body problem"

@zissou2265

2y↑14

What is it called?

@fakuri913

2y↑29

the first message probably: What are guys gliberring about? we don't understand (in alien language)

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@Jim54_

1y↑1

@tigerji

1y↑3

Drive scorpion jacket at 9:21 is fire

@RealTDragon

2y↑2.4K

Alright Kurzgesagt, when is the RTS game coming out? I see you building a creative asset list.

@anarchy-authoritarianneo-t180

2y↑81

I couldn't stop thinking about it lol.

@primetime3422

2y↑17

Wait r u jokin or u r 4 real

@odin2130

2y↑94

@@primetime3422 Your comment gave me a headache.

@TheEpiknik

2y↑15

@@odin2130 Genuinely though, are they joking about Kurzgesagt making a game?

@hawkeyy924

2y↑9

@@TheEpiknik I think they said they plan to make one

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@undead890

2y↑628

This reminds me of The First Contact War in the Mass Effect series. Effectively, Humans began colonizing other planets around the galaxy until the Turians found them and attacked them on site, simply because the humans activated a Mass Relay they weren't supposed to activate. This escalated into full on war until the Citadel Council negotiated a peace treaty between the Turians and Humans a couple months later.

It was all down to a misunderstanding. The Turians were just doing their jobs of acting as the police and enforcing Council laws, but the Humans, who at this time didn't even know the Council existed, thought that this alien species meant to wipe them out.

@SikGamer70

2y↑76

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Reapers, they're essentially the Dark Forest's apex predator, regularly scouring the entire forest and assimilating every hunter they find before they grow too powerful.

@mattstorm360

2y↑39

@@SikGamer70 There is also the brethern moons from Dead Space. Humanity expands outward and finds hundreds of 'dead' planets rich in resources but lacking life. Reason why is because the planets had life eaten off of it or converted into a new brethern moon. Humans have just been finding the remains.

@levi2725

2y↑29

What I find interesting about the Turians and Humans is that they became very close allies once the war settled. IIRC they're the closest allies among the council.

@Prometheus19853

2y↑29

@@levi2725 Sometimes you just have to beat the shit out of each other to eventually become best friends.

@stiffyo6068

2y↑8

@@Prometheus19853 Just like men. Punch each other, followed up by a hand shake

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@aleksandaratanasov1885

48w↑3

10:22 That's called a pro Wenjie move, and it's a quick way to get your star cursed

@navjitgill5554

2y↑634

We don't even treat each other right, imagine how we'd treat a different civilization

@VegasRT500

2y↑37

The Qanon Republicans would start a war with them there is no doubt about it.

@elrancho8700

2y↑80

And the Liberals would dumbfound them by saying we have over 60 genders

@lamalien2276

2y↑18

@@VegasRT500 Don't scoff, we're living through an event like that right now with China. They grew and grew and grew, and now we see their true intentions.

@marchforjune

2y↑43

Bold of you to assume we would have the upper hand.

@chadphelps5809

2y↑8

It would be a great unification for earth

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@aprilraine8889

2y↑1.1K

“We need to be thoughtful about what signals we send out to the universe”

We’ve handled Twitter just fine I’m sure we aren’t gonna mess this up.

@itisALWAYSR.A.

2y↑25

by talos this can't be happening

@MrMegaMetroid

2y↑20

We are quite literally not handling twitter very well. Social media and its algorythms are currently the most dangerous and impactfull tool on politics and information exchange. Twitter and co where what gave the us donald trump

@lucifurious1976

2y↑68

@@MrMegaMetroid Sarcasm

@Webexplr

2y↑12

We invented Discord and Reddit to spread peace

@ArawnOfAnnwn

2y↑30

@@MrMegaMetroid Lol Twitter didn't give us Donald Trump, most of Twitter hates Trump. You're assuming Trump only had appeal because of Twitter - that he doesn't connect to real life people. If anything, Twitter swings the other way. Bad example. Also why do you people insist on politicizing everything? And why does the whole human species get reduced to a sideshow compared to the vagaries of American politics? You know there's a world outside America, right? Ironically, this tendency of Americans, even among those who hate Trump, to make everything about themselves is more Trumpian than anything else.

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@wandrinsheep

10w↑1

When Kurzegast finishes the 3 body problem trilogy and decides to make a video

@xjjesus4391

1y↑4

I think it’s important for people to just accept the fact that there is life other than us … but that dosnt mean we need to communicate with them

@TravelersWarden

2y↑742

The Dark Forest is honestly one of the few things that deeply and truly terrify me. I was introduced to the concept through Cixin Liu's Dark Forest trilogy and it's haunted me ever since.

@pepsiatlas5452

2y↑33

if it makes you feel better any detectable civilization is only going to have a tiny fraction of its population actually living on planets. space stations are just so much more practical. if aliens decided to destroy earth they wouldn't really achieve anything other than pissing off the entire human race

@mausunk

2y↑33

I think I take a sort of comfort at that idea of being wiped out within a second before really being even able to know it lmao, and otherwise, life goes on yay!

@olsenfernandes3634

2y↑25

"If you want Peace, prepare for War"

Makes perfect sense in this context.

@darken2417

2y↑5

And that's why we should wipe out the Xenos and not try to set up some cringe galactic united nations.

@vincentmuyo

2y↑5

No need to worry, if it was an issue we'd probably already be dead, because it's pretty simple to prepare a kill strike for every solar system in the galaxy. :)

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@k1n6n07h1n6

2y↑2.7K

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

-Arthur C. Clarke

@jrag1000

2y↑90

yeah, we've heard that before. It's no more profound quoting it...

@Idonai

2y↑26

Cool quote

@xavierc12343

2y↑85

I think it would be more terrifying if we were alone in the universe, because it would pretty much confirm that there is some kind of meaning behind this, and that there is a god that created us and only us for whatever reason. It’s just scary for me. I’d prefer it if we weren’t “special”.

@michaelhenry3234

2y↑98

@@xavierc12343 Literally the complete opposite for me. The amount of comfort I'd feel if there was a purpose to us would be incredible. If it's only us in the universe, though, my first thought is that means we're screwed. We'd be an exception, and those tend not to last long.

@jkobee

2y↑11

@@xavierc12343 I think alone or not, there sure is a cause before the effect (a cause before the Big Bang, if you would). In Allan Kardec's book "The Spirits Book", there is a part in which he explores the need for a cause before anything ever existed, and this "cause" would be God, whatever name you wanna call. It's pretty intriguing and fascinanting tbh.

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@prakharsrivastava9568

48w↑2

Dark forest and Death's End by Liu Cixin cover this topic in fantastic detail, truly widening the scope of this concept. Must read!

@Masata240

1y↑5

@ClandestineSnowman

2y↑1.2K

This sort of reminds me of war stories I've heard where enemy soldiers will encounter each other in a one-on-one situation. Both don't really want to kill the other, but there's always a chance that the second you walk by each other the other will shoot you in the back - and it becomes an unfortunate "better safe than sorry" situation.

@maccaronich

2y↑133

I was playing escape from tarkov today. Another PMC killed the scav outside the room I was hiding in.

I called out and asked if it was safe, he called back and said he'd cleared it for me. I came out of the room and thanked him, he executed me point blank in the back of the head the second i turned my back

@HuntingTarg

2y↑18

@@maccaronich
Don't forget what the word 'Alien' means;
How 'other' is the other?
@IssacArthur has a whole series on Fermi Paradox solutions and various possible alien mindsets.

@Erin-bc8ic

2y↑8

Kind of reminds me of DayZ.

@BigOlRub

2y↑12

@@maccaronich lol. You hid while he risked his life in the fight. I would have done what he did.

@jayeisenhardt1337

2y↑6

It's Christmas time and then ya get reminded of Christmas war stories where people pause and stop for a moment to exchange smokes, coffee and sing. lol People are crazy but it's even more dangerous to let them think for themselves and not kill each other according to most.

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@pangaea5258

2y↑1.2K

If only everyone would see this video and realize that we're in this together - as a species. Puts all of our petty disputes in perspective.

@luigiggig

2y↑10

this

@Skemmm

2y↑48

but like none of the rich care

@Pskpsi

2y↑10

@@Skemmm I care :(

@ethankoh6851

2y↑32

When a bunch of birds have more sense than most of the world's politicians

Warning: Comments below may be controversial

@animeboitiddies6146

2y↑18

except were not. the majority of us are little more than livestock, entertained so long as we sustain our betters. human rule is not benevolent.

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@disguisedcat1750

1y↑1

When he was talking about interplanetary wars.. and the danger of seemingly unstoppable and incredibly sneaky attack.. only had me thinking about an interplanetary World War, where its all humans. We already had two, if one happened in the star age… that is whats truly terrifying.

@QE369

1y↑1

Dark Forrest is from Liu Cixin "Three Body Problem" Trilogy

@maro

2y↑2.8K

it's kinda sad that none of us will be alive to witness any of this but it's still comforting to know that one day space exploration is possible and humanity will reach very far into space

@tourguideofthemultiversesp739

2y↑98

Anti-aging can make it so we DO witness it.

@123misou

2y↑395

@@tourguideofthemultiversesp739 Yes.. Anti aging.. You know.. That utterly common thing that we as humans have totally figured out how to do by now..

@tourguideofthemultiversesp739

2y↑111

@@123misou VERY close to figuring out, just not there yet.

@puddend6912

2y↑15

one day.

@123misou

2y↑244

@@tourguideofthemultiversesp739 Dude, we still can't even completely prevent covid and people are dying from it, let's not even mention cancer.. And here you are talking about being close to curing death itself

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@puzzLEGO

2y↑2.9K

Whenever kurtzgesagt makes a video on aliens, it always blows up lol

@xyvazkrown8048

2y↑32

Yeah, it's #3 Trending in Gaming <.<

@maxobakso123

2y↑17

yeah those videos are always their best!

@Puppyfied

2y↑18

I mean, whenever he makes a video it blows up lol

@thomasmitchell4128

2y↑2

Of course it does. Because of the Implication.

@rey_nemaattori

2y↑18

In their defense, whenever we invent new stuff or concepts, our first incline is how to use it as a weapon....

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@moonspots01

48w↑2

Intelligent life is so rare and the distances so great that it is no surprise we haven't heard anything yet.

@Its_Tuff

Awesome video as always

@raghav6271

2y↑1.7K

I always feel like that this kind of animation should be use in online teaching or E-Learning.I mean just look at this artistic style its would be very hard to distract yourself from these while studying

@hackedtechnothief

2y↑54

definitively.
schools should learn a lot from content like this and adapt.

@Shimo_28

2y↑15

@@hackedtechnothief I wish so much

@classypharaoh1584

2y↑26

Schools often use kurzgesagt in classes. (Currently in high school) (AUSTRALIA)

@Shimo_28

2y↑13

@@classypharaoh1584 the only problem I have with schools overhere in (Slovakia) is that 40-60% we learn is useless bullcrap that I won't never need in my entire life. It is a bit better in high school but I still must learn some of the useless stuff that I don't care about

@hackedtechnothief

2y↑8

@@Shimo_28 I'm in the caribbeans and It's the same if not worst, theres a lot of decay education that is really slow on updating to modern times (on purpose as always)

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@pixelcrunch300

2y↑1.4K

Besides the existential questions proposed in the vid, can we all agree that this is Kurzgesagt's best-animated video yet?

@baguettedepain3975

2y↑9

Yeah it's pretty amazing.

@rosieboomer2910

2y↑3

Hehe someone's porgie has a 🥖

@pixelcrunch300

2y↑3

@@rosieboomer2910 What?

@slimes3120

2y↑7

@@pixelcrunch300 they mean lorsque l'intrus commet des actes malveillants

@dasmilyshelf6999

2y↑5

But there were no burning birds…

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@donnadong5837

1y↑2

The three body problem TV series from Tencent is out woooo

@seulem385

48w↑14

정공룡은 레전드다

@bannnangza

48w

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

@ailius8622

2y↑589

The production value on this video was absolutely amazing. Well done to everyone on the team at Kurzegesagt, be proud of yourselves.

@jlwilder8436

They know/they are. 😏 😉

@comanche1924

2y↑437

The animation just keeps growing more and more engrossing as time goes by. The narrative is great as well, as usual, and I like the return to these speculative stories, but I think the visual aspect really deserves special praise in this case

@exoels

No shit

@Skemmm

2y↑2

I'm taking the first spot here. Don't know what to say

@omariond5269

I’m taking the second spot here. Don’t know what to say

@mortalkomment8028

@@Skemmm I'm taking the third spot here. The dude above doesn't count.

Those graphics are crazy.

@Skemmm

@@mortalkomment8028I'm taking the fourth spot here once again. Are you sure that dude doesn't count?

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@segus-coffecup

46w↑1

한국어 채널로만 봤는데 여기서 한국 자막을 킬수가 있네요? 공룡님 땡큐~

@historicallegends3702

Learn English

@LoneWanderer727

45w

I like to think of the theory where there is a greater network of civilizations out there communicating, maybe traveling, in a way beyond what we can understand now. And they are waiting for us to figure out how to join in on our own. Some day we might make contact and find a galaxy, a universe of creatures and civilizations. It's a lot better to think about than a vast and empty space that we may never traverse.

Even it seems unrealistic or unfathomable... humanity has done amazing things, and we have always pushed the boundaries of our knowledge. There's always the possibility we haven't unlocked the key to understanding more. And considering all that we've done and learned in what honestly seems like a relatively short time....i think theres still so much more that we can discover. And perhaps some 'people' out there waiting for us to do so!

@willphoenix5464

2y↑428

Glad to see the Dark Forest theory gain a bit of time in the spotlight. Reading it in the Three Body Problem's trilogy was a sudden and rather dreadful realitzation

@Skemmm

2y↑10

oooh, I read some other comments citing this book, gotta read it.

@TheOnlyDragonGod

2y↑5

If the next two books good I have read the first but haven't had the chance to get to the next two

@andrewmurphy2088

2y↑14

@@TheOnlyDragonGod the second one is the best book I have ever read. Third book is very strong also

@TheOnlyDragonGod

@@andrewmurphy2088 interesting I will look to reading them

@neeneko

2y↑7

I'm kinda in the opposite direction. Long before Three Body Problem, dark forest was a recurring trope in sci-fi. It fell out of favor at least half a century ago, but Liu Cixin grew up on those books so brought it back from the dustbin of history. It was an idea rooted in an era where mercantilism and colonialism were the dominant economic theories and while the books skip over that aspect (since it would betray its age), the whole idea still rests on VERY outdated economics and political science. So I am actually a bit sad to see it get so much attention again.

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@envar1

2y↑552

When it comes to finding extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations, we just really got to hope that we are more advanced, or that the other life is docile or peaceful.

@hagron5702

2y↑62

What if they are more advanced and more peaceful than us? They could teach us things.

@teafool753

2y↑50

@@hagron5702 well that'd be a good situation

@eyrthren

2y↑68

@@teafool753 I’d say that’s the best case scenario, we’d see massive technological leaps with a benevolent teachers to guide us

@jatinbangar4371

2y↑28

They'll look at us the way we look at ants. If they find us, that means the are far more advanced and annihilate us

@lrock48

2y↑19

@@hagron5702 They probably wouldn't want to associate with us, just tap into our network and go through our history, they'll probably set up a blockade and ground us from leaving Earth atmosphere.

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@polydynamix7521

36w↑1

The 'first strike' concept only works if you're certain the other species only lives on one planet. Any species capable of waging interstellar war is likely living on several planets, hundreds of giant space stations, and probably some moons too. The first strike wipes out a planet, sure... maybe you hit several- but if you don't get them all then you've made an enemy for the rest of that species' entire existence.

Not only that, assume that 10% of the species survived elsewhere, they're going to spread out even more- to minimize the chance of being targeted.

Such a tactic would certainly work against humans, we would be wiped out except for a slowly starving ISS, but against another species capable of reaching out across stars, it would be very difficult to execute.

@pastaya

1y↑2

If we ever approach aliens, the smartest way outside of fighting is to give them resources as a “hello”

@StephenHenryIV

2y↑476

Dark Forest Theory was always so discomforting. Like there’s billion of eyes on us waiting for a chance to strike, but they know the 1st that does reveals themselves so they all just let us be.

@couldntcareless7884

2y↑53

That’s not really it. I mean, there are multiple ways to strike, while remaining concealed. Simplest one would be to launch a strike from far away from your home system. The idea isn’t that they watch us. The idea is that they watch everything, striking at the one who reveals themselves. We’re alive because we didn’t.

@Cooldude-ko7ps

2y↑2

Dark forest theory?

@RGC_animation

2y↑4

We aren't even a type one civilization yet and it would probably be a couple hundred thousands year before we even come close to being a potential hazard to them, they probably have other more important things to worry about than to kill a random level 1 planet.

@StephenHenryIV

2y↑11

@@Cooldude-ko7ps the theory of all other life hiding in the dark forest of space, hoping nothing else finds them, striking hard and fast if something does.

@gaeborg

2y↑6

When you've just arrived in Greed Island

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@randaranatunga7259

2y↑198

I have to say, the use of the hunter and the fight for survival being used as a vehicle to drive the narrative is very well thought out.

Makes it that much more interesting to listen to.

@Budymierdas

2y↑1

It's not a new idea tho. Pretty sure they got it from the Central Park allegory from that one 4chan post from several years ago

@randaranatunga7259

@@Budymierdas oh I didn’t know that.
Either way it’s really interesting and I’m probably gonna read into it,
Thanks for the info :)

@BADAB0O0O0O0O0M

2y↑6

it;s actually from the book theu got the idead from. the book is called the dark forest

@jujuoof174

One of my favourites of yours!!

@hydrohasspoken6227

50w↑2

"Proceeding aimlessly in the search for extraterrestrial life is a perilous pursuit. We must remain vigilant, for in the depths of the universe, a cosmic Sniper could be lurking."

@sorrellion1414

2y↑1.7K

Everyone's talking about the conjecture and how scary it is (valid), but can we talk about how fantastic this episode looks? The portions within the metaphorical 'dark forest' with the hunter are genuine works of art

@treeboy6287

2y↑22

Based on Cixin Liu novels The dark forest, three body problem

@queeny5613

2y↑1

Yeah

@muriloams

2y↑2

Did you get the reference to the film Driver?

@corvespid4925

I thought the same. Absolutely stylish.

@MrDarkanLTU

2y↑662

this video feels alot smoother with these 3d animations,really loving the hard work you guys put in these videos.
Hope you will never stop making informational videos because i will not stop watching them, Cheers!

@BossBunnyCom

2y↑6

That's because it's vector art, no pixels AT ALL!

@raerambaran

2y↑2

Yes very informative

@ChodaExploda

2y↑2

This stuff is based on mostly what ifs and assumptions. ..

They literally made a whole story up...

The creators of these videos continuously say "we don't know sh*t" ....indirectly...

@rudrayanpramanick2342

2y↑12

@@ChodaExploda Nobody knows exactly about these topics bro. This is the reason curiosity and imagination have such a big role to play in such topics.

@jennifervan75

2y↑1

I thought it was 2d

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@dyllski

36w↑1

bro they need to make a universe civilization game with art this good. i would totally buy

@user-iq6cc3df3l

33w

Nice channel. It’s similar to I think Infographics — I think it’s its name — but the graphics here are a bit better. And I like this narrator a bit better too. Both channels are entertaining though so I added myself to this one.

@AndrewWang.

23w

I don't really like Infographics anymore, its quantity now, not quality.

@emi_marsilli9670

2y↑2.6K

“Maybe the only way out of the dark forest is to step into the clearing, together” one of my favorites quotes from this channel. ❤️

@jeneeberry2157

2y↑84

Or let's chop it all down, we are rlly good at deforestation (joke)

@TheSuperdarklord100

2y↑44

inb4 we do that and some other race spots us both and eliminates us both

@bastienpetit5161

2y↑40

famous last words

@hugegamer5988

It’s too late, we blew the horn. By many many orders of magnitude larger than any purposeful broadcast in human history we have already signaled aliens. It’s the EMP from nuclear detonations, converting a bit of mass to an insane amount of energy in a infinitesimal amount of time , a significant portion of which is electromagnetic radiation. If aliens are listening they didn’t hear our news broadcasts, tv shows, or purposeful signals because the noise of nuclear bombs is far beyond a quadrillion times more powerful.

@tjw2469

2y↑32

They say this in the video just to please the audience. Use logic and think what the worst consequences would be and whether our civilization can afford such consequences.

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@Benjamin_Kraft

2y↑534

Though I think this idea is one of the more interesting solutions to the fermi paradox, it kinda suffers from similar issues lots of others do. Primarily non-exclusivity. It assumes that every curious peaceful civilization ever won't ever meet a likeminded civilization and start a coalition which could potentially overpower any malevolent aggressive civilisations, even if they don't strike first. Also it assumes that all civilizations will center on planets, whilst a far more likely speculation is that most civilizations between 1 and 2 (and above) on the kardeshev scale will have the vast share of their population in space habitats, which would be far less visible and vulnerable to relativistic kill missiles. I also think that this kind of strike first behavior is quite antithetical to the evolutionist argument at the base of this speculation. Curiosity seems to be one of the primary drivers of human success rather than forceful aggressiveness. And even when humans have treated other humans terribly it has most of the times taken forms of subjugation/assimilation rather than outright extermination. Most of the times...

I think there's also an argument to be made that many advanced civilizations might prioritize to spread fast to accumulate resources to enable to protect itself. It wouldn't be impossible to do so while keeping a low profile as a near type 2 or type 2 civ. I see the counter argument here would be that then you risk running into another civ, but no. If a civ reaches type 2 checking for other type 2 civ dyson swarms in the entire galaxy should be relatively simple, even long before type 2 is reached. And even if such a type 2 civ encountered hostile civs they would be below type 2, making their threat level relatively small (excluding extremely speculative clarke-tech). Such a civ would be able to colonize until the entire galaxy was theirs. This naturally brings us back to the Dyson Dilemma, which is essentially the most glaring part of the fermi paradox.

Simply; it doesn't make sense for every civ ever to sit back and wait for others to colonize the galaxy, and that every civ ever that do colonize are invariably eliminated. Most, maybe, but not all of them, and eventually one should rise to the top and just colonize everything. Which should have happened by now, if we assume intelligent life was common enough for The Dark Forest to be a concern to begin with.

My go to fermi paradox solution is still the combination of rare-earth, rare-life and rare-intelligence arguments. Though it's far too early to confirm any of these, and though they clearly appeal to cognitive biases of us being "special", it seems the most likely speculation among all the others. I think we are, in fact, first, at least in this galaxy.

@Rayneuki

2y↑16

I agree entirely. Us being the first to get to this point (however fast that 'first' may be) makes the most sense in general. I don't like the all-or-nothing idea of intelligent life existing means they have to be space fairing, as our own progress was over a very short period of time. There could be a myriad of civilizations around the universe that are just discovering radio, we would never know and they would never be able to know that we exist. Could we possibly meet them in the far flung future? Maybe. How would we as a species react to these people? We don't know.

@okuno54

2y↑13

Being the first intelligent life in the galaxy does make sense; it's basically the Anthropic Principle applied to Fermi's Paradox (i.e. if we weren't the first, we wouldn't be around to consider the Fermi Paradox), but with so many unknowns, I'm reluctant to commit to any particular solution.

@tacitozetticci9308

2y↑8

@BingChilling5973

2y↑19

i think you’re actually an alien in the comment section shedding light to your overpowered colonization of the galaxy. but that’s cool dude, spare me.

@shalleyvalley

2y↑4

I am not reading
I am not reading

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@mykelpoole4201

36w

Great artwork 👌

@Nyctatyrannus-3938

46w

4:02 I got a ad at the perfect time when the arrow hit the screen 💀

@mr.cobbweb1624

2y↑616

Oh my, you're starting to sneak in some 3D animation now (like in 3:21 with the hay monster being 3D).
You are actually evolving and pushing this art style unlike certain other companies and entertainment producers and it really shows you guys' care for quality and innovation.

@PixelMinez

2y↑7

How can you tell it's 3D? The way the hair moves?

@lambsauce1932

2y↑48

@@PixelMinez you can tell by the way it is

@ericsilver9401

2y↑12

@@PixelMinez by the way it is you can tell

@catalindeluxus8545

2y↑24

Not sure how I feel about it. I prefer 2D actually!

@Gaunerchen

2y↑4

@@catalindeluxus8545 the problem isnt 3D. The hair was not hand drawn/animated, but instead generated by CGI. That's why it looks a little janky and not fluid.

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@dzstoyanov

2y↑379

My logical counter to the dark forest theory after years of thinking is this:

- The theory limits living organisms to single planetary civilizations, if you fire first against a multi planetary or nomadic space faring civilization, you’ve made a certain enemy and have not wiped out the civilization.

- It assumes imperfect knowledge of the universe. If a civilization has progressed to a state where they have near perfect information about all planets and solar systems in most galaxies, then effectively only primitive civilizations would be operating in a dark forest. A dark forest civilization who has developed effective galaxy wide weapons must consider the logical consequences of “what if there’s someone else watching me”. Using such weapons against another civilization could potentially trigger unknown consequences from 3rd party observers.

And thus based on these reasonings, I’m able to sleep well at night.

@thalesv5973

2y↑30

You don't fire from home. You have kill stations spreaded out through interstellar space to shoot down the dangerous civs. Multiplanetary and nomadic civs would know to stay silent in this dangerous galaxy already.
And civilizations don't advance to a level of perfect information simply because it considers the galaxy is damn huge and you can't go faster than the speed of light. It's more of a realistic-pessimistic scenario so it considers possible weapons like throwing mass at relativistic speeds at planets or even a star to wipe out the whole star system.

You should sleep well at night just because it's damn unlikely anyone actually willing to exterminate us would identify a living and developing species in the solar system from our broken down radio waves and almost non existent space structures.

@TheAtmosfear7

2y↑13

Good observation, one would think there is always a bigger civilisation that keeps the others in check, willingly or not keeping up the status quo. However, who keeps that supreme civilisation in check ?

@ApisIniustus

2y↑22

The problem is that if FTL is indeed a hard limit of the universe, then near perfect information is impossible. A super civilization that detects intelligent life 500 light years away has information that is 500 years outdated. Think about how much technological advancement can occur in that time. Imagine there is a super civilization 100 light years away from Earth. The first radio broadcast that humanity made was in 1920, so they would only about now be capable of detecting it. If they were to immediately send RKVs to every planet in our solar system, they wouldn't get here until well into the 2120's at best, which may be right around the time we might be capable of colonizing those other bodies in our system.

And that's for something that's relatively "close". For further civilizations seeing a primitive radio broadcast could indicate that there already exists an advanced civilization there. If you delay until you see clear evidence of malicious behavior, it's already too late to respond to it because they might have already detected you, and there may already be RKVs headed your way

@dmfaccount1272

2y↑14

Why is some sort of shielding system for planets not possible? We are like caveman thinking "future man can't stop me if I throw spear at him" while he could be wearing full plate armour.

@fatcat1250

2y↑13

@@dmfaccount1272 It's way harder to make a magic shield compared to nukes.

It's the same reason battleships got phased out in favor of missiles and jets.

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@karnyt5843

9:22
Didn't expect a Drive refrence here. Maybe you guys out it there cause of the theme song Nightcall by Kavinsky. Because this video is all about calling for company in the night right?

@P010010010100101

1y↑1

This is the best video for the dark forest theory!

@Goat-on-a-Stick

2y↑1.6K

Something tells me that if they were dangerous enough to pose a threat, they'd probably know about us first.

@denisdenak

2y↑49

Maybe they do

@bosha6654

2y↑78

well really any space capable civilisation would be a threat to pretty much every other space capable civilisation because of the big rock technique (tm)

@Needkey.

2y↑21

And if they were a threat we'd already be dead. They are already here in any case, as Earth is one big Zoo, and we, the exhibits.

@alexanfung

2y↑4

yes, so in contrary, if their (our) weapons are not advance enough, do not detect others
as the detection may trigger their technological explosion

@froggy3047

2y↑17

No they can't the universe is too big if they knew they needs to be really close to use probably 1 light years away...

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@yurusei-eth

2y↑685

Was introduced to the Dark Forest idea in Liu's books and the concept blew my mind. It's your Great Filter but in a completely different angle - the reason why we haven't heard from anyone is because everyone is hiding from each other, out of fear of annihilation. mindblown

@aifa2692

2y↑29

Except us. We're apparently out there actively looking for trouble. Not my choice.

@vali69

2y↑28

@@aifa2692 well yeah, we are like an ant dancing in the sun rays that come through the foliage on a leaf on a random branch somewhere in the forest.

@jokhard8137

2y↑1

@@vali69 If you choose to believe so, then yes.

@vali69

2y↑17

@@jokhard8137 as the video suggested, we're small and what we emit isn't enough for other civilizations to detect unless they were close to us. So yeah, our size is that of an ant in the vastness of the forrest that is the universe. That's my idea behind what I said and to me it makes sense. Does it not?

@jokhard8137

2y↑4

@@vali69 Ahh, now I think I understand what you were trying to say 😄

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@leeow3n

48w↑1

The Three Body Problem was a great book series.

@alec1202

11w↑1

Just think someone or something could already be listening or watching us from out there.

Or even be heading towards us in the shadows and we just haven't spotted them.

@sz9217

2y↑1.5K

The Dark Forest theory was raised by Cixin Liu in the second book of his Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel series The Three-Body Problem (winner of 2015), it's the first Chinese sci-fi novel that has won the Hugo Award and it excelled every expectation for me!

I strongly recommend reading all 3 books in the series if you're into hard sci-fi (the 2nd book is the best in my opinion), its English translated version by Ken Liu is exceptionally well done and is available on Amazon, just read the reviews, they are more eloquent than me for sure lol

@tudoproductions

2y↑9

Isn't that the movie where humanity leaves earth on a huge spaceship?

EDIT - Thats wandering earth, my confusion xD

@hal9khal

2y↑8

I liked the first book the most, then the second. Very hardcore sci-fi...

@TAP-Eruannon

2y↑9

personally I enjoyed the first book, but ever since second it went downhill to be completely honest; Story built on an obviously faulty premise that holds up only most basic reading of the idea and holds up only in analogy of a hunter alone, and breaks down completely once you take into account the implications of scale of the universe.

@sparklesparklesparkle6318

2y↑10

hey man if you like Sci Fi literature check out the manga Spirit Circle. It's only 45 chapters I finished it on Saturday it was so good can't stop thinking about it. This is probably the only time you will ever hear it mentioned.

@TAP-Eruannon

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 thanks for recommendation; I'll take a look at it

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@jleague5749

2y↑630

It would have been funny if they ended this with the two hunters coming out into the clearing, finally casting off their mutual fear and distrust... only to get hit by a relativisitic kill vehicle.

@tobymaltby6036

2y↑45

Their fear and distrust was all......

......relative.

@motifity3416

2y↑9

Their deaths were relative too.

@Creativestname

2y↑5

Their life was relative

@berretta9mm17

2y↑10

@@Creativestname
Even their relatives were relative.

@Creativestname

Lol

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@KrytenKoro

36w

@m.n.7426

37w↑2

„We want to know if we are alone in the universe“ speak for your selves, lads! Some of us just want to improve life on our planet for all its inhabitants.

@Jukantos

2y↑360

From my experience of playing Stellaris it's utterly sad this might be how things go if we ever find alien life. And i mean we can barely contain our xenophobia against our own species :(

@molybdaen11

2y↑35

Rouque servitore: „You will be pampered. Resistance is unnecessary, we already cooked you a tasty meal and prepared your bath.”

@falontani

2y↑13

@@molybdaen11 better that than devouring swarm

@grelkie

2y↑35

pretty based if humanity united to be prejudiced against another species instead of itself

@ZAD3N0

Indeed

@hedgehog3180

2y↑39

I don't think Stellaris is really a good model for this though. Unless the main motivation of alien genocide is to try to make things less laggy.

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