Annoying Aliens
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- Fictional portrayals of alien invasion or reports of alien sightings and abductions often imply motives which on inspection make little sense... unless perhaps the true purpose was mischief.
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Alien Civilizations: Annoying Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 298a; July 11, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur
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"Mister President, we've translated the alien script!"
"What does it say, professor?"
"Never.... gonna... give... you... up..."
This is the one
or...
"Life, life will never be..."
lol.
War… war never changes.
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Barry White, baby!
"Earthlings, Earthlings, Earthlings, hey Earthlings!"
"What?"
"157 Kilometer Asteroid!"
.... 157 kilometre asteroid who?
(what dunderhead taught these guys knock-knock jokes?)
@@Archgeek0 157 kilometer asteroid about to slam into your planet.
if it's moving between 10 and 20% light speed, yeah, that's understandable, lol. hell of a prank, and it's not like Earth hasn't broadcast some iffy stuff to the rest of the universe. at good speeds, even a 10km to 100km rock would do, the fireball would be as large or larger than the moon's orbit radius.
Humans in Mass Effect franchise...
Start a war with the Turians while trying to turn on a Mass relay on to rachni space, immediately cry wolf for the council, troll around until gets a human spectre, and later a sit on the council, immediately after try to dominate the council.
Then theres Cerberus a human organization that the core principle is xenophobia...
Considering that Mass Effect is the best depiction of humanity that i ever saw in sci-fi, well...
...humans are THE annoying aliens.
@@singletona082 dammit, not again
"not to say there's no reason to abduct humans. I can think of dozens."
-Isaac Author. 2021
Alien abduction episode when?
Flying Saucers are the alien equivalent of a windowless van.
@@Wertsir *"Hey humans, you want some free fusion technology?"*
@@AAAAkaishicÌIÍ636 @__@
Oh my goodness, now I need an Isaac Arthur out of context compilation.
Imagine an alien wrecking his ship on earth, getting out, and drunkenly crying about how is mom is gonna kill him and begging not to go to earth jail.
And when his alien mama comes back, if you are some weird guy to yell...mam pls dont punish your ofspring, probe me instead
✊👽
Or the popo,s asking him/her/it, what start system he got the "Galactic Dope" from!🤣
@@Alexiully she'll just eat you. Of course you are into it, so I'll add: she'll _chew._ Of course you are into it, so I'll add: she'll use medusa-like toxins so you'll not feel anything except burning. Of course you are into it, so I'll add: you'll not feel a thing because you'll die before getting eaten. Of course you are into it, so I'll add: she'll get intoxicated by your carbon and die after few minutes of agony. Of course you are into that, so...
We would not understand him. Imagine a creature with completely different social cues. We think he's sharing knowledge. But he's just saying inane things about crashing his brood carers vehicle. Which he/she communicates through bioluminescence and smells.
No one:
The aliens: we've been trying to reach you about your planets extended warranty
We then one up them by giving them the email address of several Nigerian princes with exciting financial opprotunities.
Stop using the no one meme. Its so painfully unfunny
@@ThatSpecificIndividual the meme police
@@ThatSpecificIndividual I don't care what you think is funny
That’s literally Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Borg Queen: "They left behind their trivial, selfish lives, and they've been reborn with a greater purpose. We've delivered them from chaos into order."
Seven of Nine: "Comforting words. Use them next time instead of 'Resistance is futile.' You may elicit a few volunteers."
I will be volunteer anyways but regardless... its golden
Nah, "resistance is futile" is more _based,_ so it'll be more attractive
sounds like religion
Please, please PLEASE let the first message we get be "We are contacting you because your star's warranty is about to expire."
Lol
@@herbiehusker1889 Hello again, fellow _My Cousin Vinny_ hater.
Or for a one time nominal price you can purchase an extended warranty ...
Or from "tech support" -- "Have you tried switching it off and on again?"
..and there is no option to renew it...
Wack..
Sounds like a line from a Terry Pratchett line.
"There were aliens, of course, but Fanninick, like everyone else, didn't concern himself with them, for the simple reason that they were really, really annoying."
Discworld series.
I can imagine the aliens come to our country just for traveling reasons and our entire civilization is just an element of entertainment for them, and I can imagine the aliens being some badly behaved tourists too, neither hostile nor friendly, those who sympathize with aliens will welcome them, that's why we need a new political system to stop these sympathizers from participating in our politics before aliens are coming, this political system's name starts with a word that starts with Nat, ends with one that starts with Soc.
@@dissidentright Got bad news for you about the impact of tourism on the 3rd world bro. But then again your screen name is "I'm a fascist" so...
@@kushluk777
Better to be a fascist than a commie insect.
@@kushluk777 Odd since fascists are on the left not the right. Should be obvious since the ideology derives from communism and was created by a communist.
Annoying Aliens: because, in the end, they're our neighbors, and reality is merely a sitcom...
“I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it’s a comedy.” -The Joker
@John Smith an intergalactic "Too Many Cooks"... XD
@@natweigel with a really cheesy theme song!
Our lives are naught but a laugh track to an alien sitcom.
@@Niskirin i think alien mafia sells our tv sports for gambling.
-title: “annoying aliens”
-thumbnail: oranges with faces
I see what you did there.
hey earthling! hey! hey earthling!
*PTSD from the laughter*
Make it stop....
MAKE IT STOP AAAGGGHHHH
Oh God the nightmares
@@AugustusBohn0 what!!
Hey earthling ! Gamma knife !
Humanity: O great space faring civilization, teach us!
Aliens: We do a little trolling
Truly an enlightened species.
_Close Encounters of the 4chan Kind_
"They're just sh!t-posting at one another faster and faster."
"It's working though..."
Humanity: then we shall unleash /b/ on the universe.
@@singletona082 thought it was /pol/ ?
rules one and two. also id kms
rhinos probably aren’t very sure why we want their horns either
I would say it is more similar to elephants unknowing why we want their horns. We want the ivory cause it looks nice, and even though we can make it ourself, people still want the authentic version. On top of that, elephants are fully aware that they are hunted, and can fight back, soo.
@Nada “Hmmm yes you oxygen breathers are all very unique, now I’m looking for one of you named Sugma.”
@Very Very straight we live in a world where literally every single human alive can access the internet and Google literally whatever they want, learn literally anything for a reasonable price.
We also live in a world were Facebook is the most reliable source of information for tens of millions of people, and anything outside of Facebook or that doesn't fit our specific beliefs is automatically wrong regardless of literally anything or everything.
Also, we live in a society
Exactly. "We" as a species don't want rhino horn, but there are enough to endanger rhinos. That could be the same with aliens.
BTW, one could, instead of _incinerating_ all smuggled rhino horn we find, simply mix poison in and recirculate it. Demand would die off pretty soon, literally. ;)
@@calebkirschbaum8158because of irrational and delusional religions beliefs
Invader Zim on an *Intergalactic scale* would be terrifyingly hilarious
*"WE WANT ALL YOUR PARKING GARAGES AND MALL FOOD COURTS, AND EVERY CHEMICALLY MOISTENED SNACK CAKE YOU CAN PROCESS-- NAO!!!"* --The Demands of The Irken Armada...
they won't come to take our water, they'll come because they need another parking structure planet
Oh by the Gods! That really would be hilariously terrifying LoL
I would watch that.
@@AugustusBohn0 and all ov our snacky cakes!
I immediately thought about Zim when I seen this thumbnail in my feed
When the aliens arrived, we thought we where ready for anything. Then it turned out they were scouts for the pan-galactic extended warranty empire.
They're heeee-errrre...
Lol lol " Damn more calls from Dave on riticuli 3".
I just love the concept of bored aliens amusing themselves by carrying out practical jokes on or just attempting to piss off people 😂
Imagine how boring life would get when you have robots doing all the work. It would be tempting to go pranking those primitive humans just to have something to do.
@@rojaws1183 haha I wouldn't begrudge them their fun!
“Teaser?
What’s a teaser?
“Teasers are rich kids looking for something to do, so they go around some planet that’s underdeveloped and find some poor unsuspecting soul no one would believe, and buzz them”
“Buzz them?
“Yeah. They hover around someone making bleep bleep noises and then run away. Rather childish really”.
The Clackers in Alastair Reynolds’ Revenger Trilogy “see” largely by an advanced echolocation. The frequencies they use are just barely audible to humans, but are near continuous and so are extremely annoying and cause headaches.
Tinnitus Sufferers: “First time?”
Humans in Mass Effect...
"Screw the council, the goal is save the citadel so we could replace the old council with one with a human on it's command."
The Cuban Syndrome
The "annoying aliens" are oranges. Hehe, clever.
Also, "We are Pakled. We look for things. Things that make us go."
I always got the motion that in general the palled send out the truely moronic ones to help keep up that facad of their whole species being stupid, not caring that the ones they send out will likely die.
And them play up the idea that they are the galaxy's idiots as way of being overlooked.
The Pakleds were once a great race but their technology lead to a dysgenic situation that ruined them.
@@singletona082 That sounds like a great defense against the borg tbh.
I thought that were the impartially uplifted pets of an technologically advanced species
“Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.... They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.” Douglas Adams, HHGTTG
I’m not going to lie, I’d definitely pull a “no one will ever believe you” type prank like that.
After a little bit tho, I’d feel bad about how that’s gonna affect his life, so I’d come back towards the end of their lives and tell them the truth, offer to extend their natural life and bring them with me back to my people, acclimated along the way. I think I’d do it pretty often if It was just me going around making a fucked up joke no one would ever take seriously, and If you can take finding out you were right the whole time and why I did it, you join the ever growing community of the very few who could have their existence shattered and be shunned for telling people. Then have the mf who did it come back and say “ it’s just jokes bro, if you want I’ll give you a direct place in my greater society ahead Of your entire race.” (With proof of course) And decide they trust me or want anything to do with my god powers for ruining their lives. I’d offer whatever they wanted otherwise, but the main goal is this:
You have an absurdist sense of humor. You seek out others of the same type generally speaking across species, then fucking with people in ever more absurd ways that they either notice more and can be proven less easily or in bigger ways that only happen in isolation. If it ends up needing the whole “no one will ever believe you” to get the sufficient lmao from me, I offer tell them the punchline and essentially heaven if they want it
It would be funny if the idea of a trickster god actually just being an alien who just likes fucking with people and rewards you essentially for your ability to take a joke.
Imagine how someone might become a being like That. I know how I could, but I’d need to change a lot about my own ethics to do it more than once every 50 intelligent species I see.
@@ianharrison5758For a more ethical version, Take Captain Holt's as an example. The clip is on YT
As far as aliens which eat humans, if more fantasy is allowed, I got to go with the demons from The Promised Neverland. Spoilers for the first season and minor spoilers for the later manga ahead.
Demons have an interesting ability to mimic animals that they eat. For example, a demon which ate tigers may grow claws and teeth, cat like ears, and that cat-like grace and strength tigers have. If they ate horses, they could get hooves, longer legs, and endurance. The two problems are that they must keep eating that animal to keep those features and demons are not inherently sapient. So, by eating humans, they are able to gain self-awareness and a human level intelligence, but if they do not eat humans for long enough they will devolve into beasts. While most demons live off of factory farmed humans that grow faster than normal to maximize output, the nobility has access to "free-range organic" human meat. The obvious parallel would be wagyu beef. Those are raised in an orphanage not knowing about the world around them. The children are constantly forced to study and take standardized tests to weed out the geniuses, which are only kept until they are 12 years old. The other children are "adopted" before then. This is because the smarter the human, the higher quality their meat is considering that is why demons have to eat humans.
Besides the stupid crop circles, you'd think the hydrophobic aliens in "Signs" would have brought along rain gear as "armor" on a water planet.
That had to be one of the dumbest high-budget sci-fi movies.
wasn't that also a caveat of Lilo and Stitch, I remember something about invading a planet that is mostly water, when water is deadly to the aliens.
I so wanted an evil 6-limb Stitch window plush back in the day, just to stare out the back window at tailgaters, lol. only the 'cute' 4-limb ones were ever sold.
@John Smith -I’m not even sure how a creature that was burnt by water could exist. I know alien biology has the potential to be weird compared to ours, but I don’t think the aliens portrayed in that silly movie are even possible.
@@Phreemunny didn't see it, but i'm sure i can think of a higher budget speculative fiction movie in which the main antagonist was defeated by water, and you'd think she'd've known better too
@@luciferangelica -lol! But Wizard of Oz is good despite that odd oversight. Signs, uh, not so much.
Ah, now THIS sounds like an interesting topic :D
Aliens: Greetings Earthlings, we shall impart you with our advanced knowledge so you may join us in the great cosmic heritage. Tell me humans, are you familiar with Ligma?
Humans: What's ligma?
Aliens: DEADASS HAHAHA
And then they tell you that crop circles are the alien equivalent of "Killroy Was here"
16:32 To be fair, I remember reading that the Wachowskis originally wrote in humans as neural network processors but (because knowledge of computers and networks were not as widespread) they made them batteries instead. They thought people wouldn’t understand the concept of being used as neural networks.
@2:09 One of the big pieces of evidence against crop circles IIRC is that the crop circles are almost always conveniently on crops that are suddenly dropping in value. When they aren't, the result is usually a human getting sued.
IssacIssac! Do Non-Corporeal aliens! Those were always the trickiest Trek episodes.
I always thought it would be ironic if first contact was made through some of the memes Aliens had. Like they just find it amusing to mess with people and see their reactions to random things.
Already liking the vid before watching the whole thing just because of that topic. Damn I’m addicted to this channel.
“I can think of over a dozen reasons to abduct a human.”
So are you going to make an Alien Abduction episode then Isaac Arthur?
why, and ultimately why-not to abduct humans.
Well, humans regularly abduct each other and abduct (or adopt depending on species and perspective) other species as well. Most of those human motives are possible motives for aliens to abduct us. (Though forced labor or forced military enlistment seem unlikely in an interstellar species, unless it's purely for their entertainment.)
Pls yes
Aliens : "Look at them just piloting their fleshy gooey bodies, lol"
"They're made out of MEAT!"
@@KerbalFacile maybe they just go through a meat phase?
Aliens land: "Have you heard the good news about our Lord and Savior?"
Humans: "Whom?"
Aliens: "Our God-Emperor!"
Humans: "FUUUU...
"This Horus guy seems like a really cool dood. He's so charismatic and smart and strong, id follow him anywhere."
What you mean people are dying without towels
.
Seriously this very important you have to die touching a towel.. aren't the priests passing this on?
My personal favorite annoying aliens movie is Mars attacks! "Ack ack ack!" Thank you for a wonderful video!
At least Stargate confronted the Goa'uld issue via the Tok'ra, which is more than most shows do!
And they gave the Asgard an enemy to worry about so they didn't have the means to constantly come to the help of puny humans. Similarly, the Tollans learned their lesson about helping others when it cost them their planet and the Ori were kept at bay by the ancients. The wraith not simply cloning humans can be explained through even the super smart Asgard having problems with deteriorating clones. Something that would probably spoil the taste of humans for the wraith. Who would go for sloppy joes when a kobe steak is just as available and cheaper so to say. It's not like the wraith had a reason to worry about what their food might do anyway. While there are plenty of questionable things left, at least the writers did their best to make it somewhat sensible. It's not easy to write bad guys who are smart enough to be thousands of years ahead of you technology wise, yest are still dumb enough to be beaten by the puny huuwmons.
The Goa'uld are parasitic. When they take a host, they still are motivated to parasitic action. It's a base motivation of the species. The Tok'ra are the offshoot that realizes they don't need to be that way.
It provides an avenue of allegory to discuss touchy real world topics. But it's also logical and internally consistent. They find a thing that is useful and use it. They can eventually make it better or more suited for their purpose, but they very rarely, if ever, make something new.
A new episode right when I was feeling bored, thank you!
*Aliens have no concept of ownership*
*walks into your house, falls asleep on couch*
"Wtf! LEAVE!"
'Woah man, you're being like really hostile.'
"GET OUT!"
'Are you declaring war on our species?'
"Weapons no more deadly than modern ones."
Yup. consider what an AI-targeted pulsed laser turret of sufficiently high power would be able to do given comparable power to something like a flamethrower? Literally an alien infantry being able to deflect incoming tank shells.
The problem with trying to come up with reasons why Aliens might do X,Y, and Z, is that you would have to understand their story in order to understand the reasons.
We have very little frame of reference of what that might be, and any examination of the lore behind any of it leads you down a myriad of rabbit holes that can't really lead you anywhere.
This will be humanities hat. Calling it now.
"Zax why in Zarquon's name have someone written crude pictures in our crops?"
"Didn't we have some human tourists here a while ago?"
"But of course it was the bloody humans! Goddamn trolls!"
We would be more qualified for the stupid alien thing.
Nah, we're the Floridaman of the spiral arm.
"You set off experimental nuclear weapons in your _only_ biosphere even though the mathematics showed there was a non-zero chance that the atmosphere could possibly catch fire if you did?"
"Yep."
"And you kept setting them off for decades after that. Knowing that they worked fine."
"Uh-huh."
"And you know about ionizing radiation?"
"Yeah."
This totally will be humans. The real solution to the Fermi Paradox is the aliens are hiding because those annoying apes keep sending them radio signals.
@@rojaws1183 Humans: "Did you get our message??"
Zetans: "Y-Yeah, we were busy...advancing our species or sumthn."
Edit: I got one more
Humans: "We're coming over!"
Zetans: "No, please don't. The vast distances would make travel to other star systems impractical."
Humans: "We just discovered Faster Than Light(TM) travel."
Zetan: "WHY DO I SUDDENLY REMEMBER HUMANS VISITING US 3 OLARS AGO??"
The best excuse for incompetent alien invasions was written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - "Footfall." I won't spoil the action or results, but this book centred on an asteroid (the "Foot") hitting the Earth - but it was not an accident, it was war. Not a planetary kill missile, just enough to seriously compromise human civilisation, allowing for invasion. The premise was that the aliens were a part of a civilisation who had lost a war back on their home planet, so had to leave it to the victors, and strike out for pastures new on a generation ship... . But the reason humans stood a chance was these aliens WERE stupid, and this was also a main premise of the book.
They had evolved not as the dominant race, but as some form of pre-sentient pets (perhaps, their own records aren't clear) to an extinct precursor civilisation/species with great technology, not all of which they understood, but they had become sentient enough to discover the tech remnants and learn from it enough for space travel, but they're not really that bright giving plucky/smart humans a chance...
You may not buy all of it, but it remains to me the most well thought out of any reason somewhat dumbass aliens COULD attack us, and perhaps we would stand a chance against them...
I wish my memory worked well enough to give proper credit for this idea, but I once heard of an investigation into alien abductions and the most plausible conclusion the investigators came to was sleep paralysis. They made a really good case for this and also extrapolated that sleep paralysis could also explain some other supernatural events like those who have been attacked by demons.
This idea really stuck with me, as I had been going to church every Sunday, and saying the lords prayer every day ever since I had suffered a demonic attack. I was young and never had heard of sleep paralysis before, which led me to learning a lot about sleep paralysis, and talking with others who had also been afflicted by demons and realized it probably wasn't actually demons.
Grays are small because we only see juviniles;
Every alien abduction is the equivalent of a cow tipping, they're doing it for the meme.
🛸
🐄
"We're here now!"
"Go away, it's the finals. Come back later!"
“Did you bring beer?!? If not, don’t come back until you get some.”
15 minutes later, aliens show up with a keg of Heineken - “Will this do?”
To be honest, this will probably be what we end up with.
I am pretty sure Isaac is an Alien slowly planting the right ideas in our heads to ease the integration.
Imagine a alien species that is obsessed with annoying other species. Like turning the moon of a primitive's world into a giant discoball. Or if the primitives live on a habitable moon, turn the planet into a Planetary Computing Complex. Because that's what I did in Stellaris with the Gigastructures mod. Witness us xenos!
When I play as the Blorg w/ mods, I do similar, but I also uplift the primitives so they can fully comprehend how important friendship is, as it is the way of things. Friendship is Eternal.
Well if technology advances enough you can have almost anything you want. Life would get very boring after a while. You could start trolling primitive neighbors just to have something new to do.
Send dad jokes every hour directly to every brain on the planet.
Just enough to get them kickstart a space program. Not annoying enough to bear a grudge after they become a space faring race.
@@rojaws1183 Ah, the Bored Q Theory
discoball moon, eh, that's just all the 'RGB' in the computers running the monitoring stuff up there, lol.
they may be an incredibly advanced and old civilization doing all that, and after all that time, no one figured out how to make RGB that is off by default.
YOUARE MY FAVORITE CHANNEL! KEEP KILLING IT!!!
I suddenly realised that Isaac is an alien that is here to prepare us to join the interstellar community, 😮
Keep up ..
You'll be saying next there isn't a race of shape shifting lizard wizards running our planet ;)
The scenario at around 18 or 19 minutes in is what the Yeerks in my childhood sci fi series "The Animorphs" did. They were body snatcher style space slugs. They started a support group and tried to convince people to give themselves up. Those "voluntary" hosts were given to higher ranking officers, because an unresisting host was more comfortable. Those that didn't convert were forced however, and kept in cages when the aliens needed to leave their hosts to feed. What did the voluntaries get? A luxury lounge with coffee, snacks, tv and plush comfy furniture. >.> yeah. hellacious right?
If I was an alien planning to conquer Earth, I would turn up with super addictive cookies and cheap smart phones that make the iPhone look like a chew toy.
Aliens: You think this is funny?
Human: In a cosmic sort of way, yes.
Aliens: Well, Mr. Funny Man, is this how you get your sick kicks?
Human: What, it's just a ordinary Internet me--OH MY GOODNESS. 4-CHAN!!!!
/b/ was never good.
Why this reminded me of Mass Effect...
My take on "Independence Day"was that the aliens were essentially galactic pirates. I have been expecting a sequel where the galactic cops show up, hot on their trail.
They explained their origin in the movie,.. and there already was a sequel lol
13:27 With The Borg and such, I'd say an issue is that they are often defined by weaknesses as often as by strengths. In particular their assimilation is often justified by them being uncreative and sterile, their hive mind is often used to work against them, that sort of thing.
You get a similar thing with some other monsters. Vampires are a fantastic example (they can have a ton of weaknesses). Other good examples would be SCP-173 (which can't attack you if you don't look at it) or the monsters from A Quiet Place (which can't attack you if you're quiet)
I got a great comedy sci-fi movie idea. So an alien ship arrives, the world is in awe. What can these beings teach us? Then it turns out they're a duo of the equivalent of goofy college kids that stole a ship and got lost. Thought I'd share where it might be appreciated.
Bill and Ted???
@@randysmith9715 Huh. Yeah I guess so. It is kinda like them.
i love how genius the thumbnail is, alien looking annoying oranges.
Jakub always does nice covers for the episodes, but this one was already on of my favorites form the second I unzipped the email from him :)
Given how our tech is progressing, I can't see how aliens would ever be spotted. 70 years ago we were loading a single HDD onto a cargo plane. Now we've got several thousand times more storage in a micro SD card. Something small enough that you could lose it on a plane and nobody will find it for twenty years.
People are really suspicious of that light in the sky, but not the bracewell probe imbedded in a bic pen on their desk
On the other hand, we have earth and all of us more monitored than ever, so even if we can, our data gathering dumb AIs for sure would, and so will start giving the aliens targeted ads
Just to clarify, Vince Mchmann is a legitimate Super Villian. A contract robber, bully, and Union Buster, notorious for his Tyranny and brutishness.
The Borg could take lessons. He's like if the Ferengi had that Big Dick Energy
Attention Humans. We have deciphered your language. We are the Karens. Take us to your manager.
My favourite characterisation of The Borg was when they were depicted as believing themselves to be uplifting other species into a higher form of existence, as opposed to simply being conquerors. Made them much more interesting - I wish there had been more emphasis on that.
The band Warp 11 has a concept album that explores that characterisation, it's amazing.
Thank you for the Birthday upload man! Great and informative I believe!
Happy Birthday RC32 :)
@@isaacarthurSFIA Thank you!
@@isaacarthurSFIA On supposed abduction. If you were to ask an anthropologist - you may get the suggestion that they were not 'aliens' but 'future humans'. Take in account evolution and moving into space and people no longer, over all needing to do a lot of stuff physically. The point that they are supposedly these 'skeleton' like beings, with really flimsy bodies and huge heads, yet in similar way parts in same areas, eyes, part to breathe, mouth, to hear... and being bipedal with two hands. Idea being that it's genetic research into past evolutionary form of us humans. I don't take that stuff very seriously, but could make better sense than some aliens, even if time travel would also be quite questionable. Still the reason, why I find it perhaps more plausible is cause those descriptions of them as beings do not even look genetically like some sort of healthy beings. Seriously - they look like skeletons with some tight leathery skin drawn over them for what they get described as. Either short or tall, but always anything but built in a manner we would never think the being was actually not about to drop dead or something. Basically the images those people who draw them - they don't show any a being who is alien enough, just some bit scary and that's cause it resembles a bit too much slightly deformed skeleton people.
ISAAC:
So, the energetic exoparasite Ori (related to the exosymbiant Ancents) created the advanced endoparasites, the Wraith, from the early, physically endoparasitic Goa'uld (rather like the Star Trek Gem Hadar in relation to the Changelings). The Wraith then realised, they didn't need the Ori, while the Goa'uld were already having internal conflicts about using and abusing their hosts (rather like the Trills in Star Trek, had their endosymbionts also been capable of evil).
The Ori were attempting to fuse exo- and endo-parasitism into one unified slavery/farming system, based on genetic relationship to the original hosts, which the Ancients, along with the Tok'ra, resisted, as the latter two were each, on parallel tracks, attempting to have benevolent, cultural symbiotic relationships, rather than horrific, despotic relationships.
Now, imagine this: Some benevolent Tok'ra is invited to join as an equal with an Ancient, while an Ori ends up being infested against its will with endoparasitic Goa'uld, which had been existing within a Wraith as Queen. I want to see that as a movie or miniseries.
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More relevant to the end of Earth thing, but I've often wondered: what if we just turned Earth into our spaceship and just hopped around the galaxy with it? They theorize that we may be able to move Earth to avoid the sun's expansion, what if we just kept going?
isaac has mentioned planet ships before & while i think its pretty overkill for anything short of intergalactic & above colonization, it is a pretty cool way for earth to meet it's end: as an intergalactic hardener ship spreading human/posthuman influence as far as the expansion of the cosmos allows:) very nice👍🏽
We'll call that "The Fleet of Worlds"!
@@virutech32 Overkill perhaps, but on the flip side, why not take Earth with us, it's where we keep all our stuff. :P
There's a movie kind of on that called The Wandering Earth. Made in China actually. It was interesting, but I wouldn't rate it as the greatest movie.
The most annoying aliens In sci-fi I can think of would be the title characters from Fredric Brown's classic novel, "Martians Go Home!" They made Alf seem like Obiwan Kenobi.
It's funny how some people believe there are aliens with technological capability to visit other Stars, yet ironically assume they would still need to stick something up your arse to gather information...
I get the feeling crop circles are just aliens playing pranks as people are treating it as some superstition thing, they'll be laughing harder out our stupidity.
Great episode. One fan theory for the Borg is that they're 'farming' the Federation. It's essentially the perfect civilization for innovation and such (a melting pot of cultures and ideas, explorer / scientific mindset, etc.). The Borg show up and light a fire under their arse, then poke their heads in every so often to sample the latest crop...
Kodos: "We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us."
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This would be an amazing way to defend the Earth, just be more trouble than you're worth.
So teenage flavored guerrilla warfare?
I think the Aliens from Independence Day are complacent rather than stupid; it’s likely humanity was the first civilization they encountered that could legitimately fight back and was clever enough to take down their defenses from within.
That description at the end feels a lot like The Combine, from Half-Life. I think their motivations were still a bit jank, though it's aided by the fact that they are left a little inscrutable.
Humans in Mass Effect fit the bill perfectly as the annoying aliens.
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The aliens visit Earth to get out of their ship for a while mid journey to someplace else. While stretching their legs or whatever they observe an accident and intervene to improve outcomes while also trying to avoid being noticed.
It is kind of like a burglar breaking into a house to steal from it but find somebody in need of help tries to get away with doing both.
Made me remember the 1985 movie Explorers.. kids taking a joy ride on folks vehicle while they were out..🤣😂
Story idea!
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Go ahead and use it.
@@HiroNguy A story idea that has been used, Inuyashiki is called, it has manga and anime, some aliens crash their ship in an accident in earth killing a teenager and a grandpa, they feel guilty so they 'revive' them, but since they where traveling and don't have much, they have to replace their bodies with military grade robotical bodies that where the only they had at the moment, after that they leave in embarrassment, grandpa uses his new body to heal the ill and protect the weak, teenager uses his new body to be deadly edgy and isufrable.
Pondering an analogy of humans (the "annoying aliens") doing catch and release fishing of things like big tuna and sharks. From the fish's point of view: "These annoying aliens from above show up sometimes and give us a nasty tooth-ache (with a big fish-hook), drag us around and tire us out, then release us again." Why would they do that?
The Wraith are one of my favorite pet peeve villain species of any franchise. Basically, these guys have one singular problem to their entire existence, which is that they need "life force energy" to survive, I say that this is a problem because they apparently need so much of it that they depopulate an entire galaxy every time they come out of hibernation, and they stay in hibernation for a very long time between feedings, plus there is competition between individual Wraith ships for hunting grounds.
All of this means that they should have made their top priority to research a more viable food source for themselves, and we know that they have plenty of knowledge of how the process works and are even capable of reversing it if they want to.
Yet we se absolutely no strides in this direction, despite having a clear self interest in coming up with something better than humans to feed on they simply do not seem to care.
There is implied lore that the higher up Wraith leadership really don't care. Having a scarce food supply helps keep them in control.
The classic issue of stupidity even with the wraiths, if they need x amount of human or near human life force, than they just farm and manage relevant number of worlds. Colonize them is needed, and of course, make better feedstock, that produce more lifeforce with less resource. Heck, even manipulate the humans to survive the feeding, so instead of decades, just a few days of sleeping would be needed. the original wheat was basically wild grass, the current version is a bit more suitable for our needs, they just need basic farming and agricultural methods to solve the entire we must feed. Yes, the farmer space vampire race would be much less insidious at first.
@@thorin1045 Especially if they could go the mile and grow their foodstock in tanks. If the main requirement for feeding is that the prey is alive, they could plausibly bioengineer algae to serve the same purpose, or bacteria which could photosynthesize. Then they would have all the necessary energy requirements met and could set out to conquer the galaxy or whatever else they wanted to do, without needing to worry about starvation no matter what happened.
They would literally be an army that could march on their stomachs as long as there is light.
I liked the animation of the aliens at the very start, although they're very human with not too different heads. Still, the anatomy's good for very human-like aliens.
I remember the Chariots of the Gods, Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot, Loch Ness, etc. crazes of the 1970's and the Crop Circle craze of the 1980's. While those were fun and might have some grains of truth in other ways, they are mostly, in hindsight, kinda wacky. (Although I think there are still unknown animals and creatures from our past and into the present day, quite possibly.)
The thing with the crop circles was always so oddly specific. It had to be purposefully made somehow with some tools and a plan. It was always fields of grass or grain or similar, but why? I mean, why not paint a sign on a highway? Or heck, paint an entire city block, buildings and all? Or just land and say hi. Or send audio or video in our formats, but plainly alien. Or...something. But brop circles? And what do they have against vegetation or cereal grains? :D
On the topic of the Daleks: What you have to remember is that The Doctor is not an ordinary man, he is a walking Outside Context Problem, the champion of time, and functionally a living God. Yes the Daleks failed to beat him, but they’ve come close several times, and few if any civilizations can say that. - If an alien race almost killed Yahweh, I wouldn’t call them weak just because he won in the end.
Beyond that, you’ve gotta remember that it’s a show about time travel, so the Daleks we see come from countless different eras of their history, some much more powerful than others. The ones actually worthy of fear are the Time War Daleks, who were at least at parity with the time lords, and waged a war across the entire universe at every moment of time. -The time lords themselves being the race that invented causality, history, the web of time, and black holes, after erasing magic from the universe because it gave them headaches-, and who were demonstrated to be capable of creating a Reality bomb that would erase every reality from every point in time simultaneously.
While it’s certainly true that older model Daleks (or post-apocalyptic Daleks who’s technology has reverted) can be defeated through relatively mundane means, the fact that they are capable of wiping out the very fabric of reality throughout the multiverse would have to make them at least a K5 civilization (which works with the existing canon, since the doctor once described the Time Lords as a K5 civilization, and the Time War Daleks were their equals).
In the timeline where the doctor died, they were successful. Showing that he is quite literally the only thing in the universe capable of stopping them. And even then, the doctor never actually manages to stop them for good, does he? They’re like clockroaches, infesting the timeline and crawling into the walls to lay their eggs, sure you might stomp one from time to time, but they’re just going to keep coming back.
So they’re basically unkillable, while simultaneously being capable if wiping out all life everywhere and everywhen. That’s not weak, the Doctor is just hella broken. That’s why he’s their Satan figure.
Alright, I haven't watched enough Who to fully understand most of that but did you describe them as "clockroaches" instead of 'cockroaches' on purpose? If not, it was a fitting typo for the topic.
@@MichaelDerryGameitect That's what you took away from all of that? Hahaha
@@lsdave42 No, it's all I felt qualified to talk about. Ha ha.
I mean, all Sci-Fi shows seem to run into this sort of issue. The baddies have to look powerful but the protagonists have to win, which erodes the appearance of power (or competence) over time. Even if they're just as powerful and scary as they're described, they just don't feel that way to the audience, no matter how it's explained away in the story.
A different phenomenon along similar lines is in TNG. Warf is a stand-in as the physically strongest crewmember. (Even though Data is stronger, the Klingon Warrior looks tougher) So, every time an alien needs to seem tough/strong, the writers find an excuse for the alien to quickly take him down. Worf ends up looking terrible at his job as a result.
All I "know" about Daleks is that they're slow moving, trash can shaped robots with guns that continuously try and fail to destroy Earth. Based on the above, I'm sure it's an inaccurate oversimplification, so there wasn't much I could add. I just thought it was a funny typo to have in that particular sentence.
@@MichaelDerryGameitect Their salt and pepper pot shaped.
One of the most interesting implications of blue orange morality is that there is possibly a civilization that views trolling the same way we view saying hello. Those are the kind of aliens I see putting the equivalent of a Pepe face in a corn field.
What if first contact with aliens is an alien trying to get insurance from us
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I kind of feel you got distracted midway when you started talking about the borg, they were never intentionally or accidently portrayed as annoying
But they certainly became less and less convincing as an existential threat with every interaction with Star Fleet.
Face it guys, they were a pain in the ass .
@@robertcarmosino6563 From a narrative perspective I guess that's true. I was looking from more of a in universe perspective.
I love Isaac Arthur's videos. They're the best of speculative science.
Bringing up Star Trek and annoying aliens without mentioning the Ferengi seems like a missed opportunity.
I'd take a galaxy of field graffitists over them any day.
The Ferengi are probably the least bad species in trek. Think about it: they don't start wars, they don't keep or trade slaves (even they draw the line there, which can't be said of the orions, klingons, and romulans), they do their very best to respect the cultural values and habits of others, especially when they are on those others territory. Sure, they are greedy but overall as a species they aren't voilent or actually offensive. They even go to greater lengths then the feds to avoid fighting and they are less prone to violating the prime directive then the feds are (though mostly for the practical reason that backwards civilizations just don't have anything they want). They are mostly just annoying to people who view ferengi as lesser due to their obsession with monetary wealth. I think that being pragmatic and loving a challenge are more defining traits of the ferengi then even their love of money (or more accurate: the things they can buy with that money as they believe money needs to be spent and not stocked up beyond what is needed to cover their asses). They also aren't hypocrits. They are very open and honest about who and what they are and what drives them. Everyone doing business with a ferengi knows that ferengi will try to con them in some way if they let their guard down but the ferengi also don't hide that they will try such a thing. Buyer beware indeed. They also don't seem to get all that upset when they are the victim of the con and mostly admire the well executed scheme and view it as a learning experience instead. Just try that with a klingon...
@@roepi Fortunately, Klingons actually suck at fighting, and they are more likely than not to charge your gun with a weapon that qualifies as perhaps the worst possible design for a sword meant for use in close combat aboard spaceships with lots of tight spaces. :)
@@roepi Which is why the capitalists win
I forget the name of the series, but their first words were "Take us to your archeologists." They had 7 ambassadors. One to talk to the earthling politicians and media, six to talk to archeologists.
Heck, if I ever visited an alien planet, the LAST person I would want to be taken to is a "leader".
Who thinks it would be funny if crop circle versions of the SFIA logo started mysteriously appearing in fields all over the world?
Apparently, in the matrix movie, originally they planned to have the "AI" to use the farmed humans as a cheap way of producing processors, but given the already weighty concepts of the movie they scrapped the idea and went with a simpler explanation of using humans as energy. In my headcannon, the people living in the matrix are used for computational capacity and not for energy :)
"Aliens can be alienating."
---Albert Einstein
In star treck they have certain laws they have to follow when introducing themselves to new species in new planets, it could be that they have a certain level of hierarchy of contact.
Ah yes.
Offspring's great hit "Alien Prankster"
>Notifications fail me
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What if the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident was just a practical joke by the aliens 🤔🤔🤔Really dark practical joke that is 🤔
I didn't know that Dr. I only committed 100 human rights violations and fifty more warcrimes to protect humanity used excessive amounts of annoying emojis.
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16:33 Obligatory "in the original script they were using humans for compute cycles but it got dumbed down for the public".
Still pretty dumb to use humans for compute cycles. We humans suck at the kind of operations that a computer will benefit, the types of operations we are kind of good at that are aproximations and logaritmical, we are still worse than a 40 years old computer at them, and we are thousands of times more energy inefficient, the operations themselves may not use much energy, but to get that energy you have to waste so much energy than a computer is still more efficient.
I just have to point out that in a computer system the weakest part of it and the most error prone is the user to see how unrealistic is for human powered computation.
There are two separate species of highly annoying aliens in Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
"Invading with gifts, not guns" makes me think of the Tau from Warhamer 40K. Also I loved Stargate, but I felt that they kept "jumping the shark" by the time of the replicators, let alone the Ori. Still love the franchise and excited by the news that there may be more in the future!
And all this time I was waiting for a reference to *Urutzei Yatsura* (Those Annoying Aliens) :-(
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Hold on. An episode on annoying aliens and no mention of the Frengi? WTF.
I mean, the abduction argument seems to center a lot around "They could really do a better job." But... We already dismiss these people as crackpots, so why go to all the extra effort?
-I typed, hit unpause, then literally a second after I had paused, 8:04, Isaac brings up this rebuttal!
What is you want to go to heaven, but god said "this afterlife is sponsored by the Aldebaran Realistic Games & Holograms Corporation"
Died of laughter from this joke
The idea that one faction feeds on fear and despair and another feeds on good memories... is the best damn nightmare fuel in a long time. Good vs. Evil are about farming peeps! 8-P
What if Humans are the annoying aliens, and that's why none of the other alien species ever come to visit?
What if? We are the annoying aliens! Remember Mass Effect? We arrive in the galactic community that exist for thousands of years and immediately start to troll around until we get a sit on the council, THEN we literally try to dominate the council.
Then theres Cerberus, the ONLY xenophobic organization in the entire galaxy!
You can't be more annoying than that.
Yes, the 6 words the entire galaxy fears: Hold my beer and watch this.
Humans are like that poorly raised dog that wants to hump the legs of strangers.
The Goa'uld (the bad snake parasites) in Stargate were driven crazy by their life extension technology which explains a lot of their homicidal tendencies. The Tok'ra (the good snake parasites) on the other hand didn't use life extension and were mostly egalitarian. They worked in the shadows to destroy the Goa'uld and eventually shared their technology with humanity.
It's important to note that the Goa'uld didn't develop most of their technology they normally stole it from other species. There were only a few of them that were researchers and they manged to come up with some cool stuff but almost none of the System Lords (the dictators of their species) were good with technology. The major exceptions being Ba'al and Anubis, but both of them were pretty big ass holes.
Fun fact, Goa'uld share genetic memories so the actions of a parent directly effect the actions of their children as they are direct extensions of their minds. This is why most Goa'uld are HUGE ass holes because they descend form HUGE ass holes. The Tok'ra are chill for the same reason, they descend from a freedom fighter queen Goa'uld who rebelled ageist the system lords to try and free humanity. It also explains why most Goa'uld could build technology but not make new stuff, it's because they have perfect memories, they can recall exactly how some thing is constructed but not why it was built that way in the first place.
And so ends my Ted talk on Stargate, I hope you enjoyed the read.