They haven't visited for the same reasons we haven't visited them. Too many obstacles and too much distance and life in general is too fragile and finite to overcome them.
Its very strange that we always ask the question “why arent they here” how abt “why arent we there”? On that note, if we certainly sure of is not being able to travel across that huge distance, what makes us asking such qn and have confidence that if they exist they would have been here?
Sure, but what if they can go faster than the speed of light? Or maybe they’re using a form of propulsion that’s so exotic it breaks out understanding of physical laws? We all know the universe is huge and the distances are massive, but assuming aliens can’t get here because of [insert human limitation] is foolish. It’s like assuming early humans could never cross the Atlantic, because horses aren’t good swimmers.
We have been sending radio out for 100+ years, but we have had biosignatures in our atmosphere for billions of years and techno signatures for millions of years. When we look at an exoplanet, we look for bio and techno signatures in their atmospheres.
How have we showed technosignatures for millions of years?😂 It's always the armchair know-it-alls commenting on these videos and the comments are always ignorant or spewing the same old 'distance + speed of light' stuff that any 12 year old interested in the universe already knows. Ironically the people who think they're the smartest and are drawn to videos such as this are the ones who sound the most simple
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” -Bill Watterson (C&H | Nov 8, 1989)
Could have something to do with vast distances, the unforgiving harshness of space-time, no mechanic shops to fix your space ship when it breaks down, and on and on.
To me it's kind of obvious that he, Elizondo, Grusch, Gallaudet and the rest are correct in what they’re saying. Listning to intellectuals discussing why we haven't been visited yet by other civilizations is getting more ridiculous and cringe worthy by the day. Wilful ignorance, extreme narrowmindedness and complete lack of curiosity still permeates a vast part of the scientific community. It's frankly both sad and embarrising to see.
@@rasmuslernevall6938 Yeah its kind of dumb to still see videos like this even pop up in my recommendation, its pretty obvious that they're here and always have been. We don't need to have these kinds of talks anymore.
Andromeda galaxy is the closest major galaxy to us - It’s 2.5 million light years away. Which means if there is an alien living on a planet in the Andromeda galaxy, and at this moment is wondering why he’s not picking up anything on his SETI radar dish, he still has to wait almost 2.5 million more years until he gets the Andy Griffith show.
Regardless of whether the earth is special or not and that we are alone or not, the universe doesn't care... it will continue to do whatever it's doing according to natural and physical laws governing it...
They've been visiting us for eons are I think it's pretty clear they're very interested in our progression and we are being observed. There was an incident in Zimbabwe in the 1994 where they had an interaction with a bunch of children in a school and telepathically communicated with them. It's come out publicly now years ago that military personnel have had interactions with many ufos, tracking them on radar and also visually. If you don't think they're real at this point you're living with your head in the sand.
So they've been coming to earth for eons, and all they've done is make communication with a bunch of children? Why not show themselves publicly in cities so everyone can see them? Are they scared of us hairless monkeys? And those military pilots were very careful to not say the word "aliens", they didn't present any evidence, they just said we saw something that we couldn't understand, which doesn't prove anything. Maybe they were hallucinating, which isn't uncommon, OR they were just lying so they could get famous. If an alien object even comes close to our solar system, it gets picked up by every space agency on the planet. If it comes near earth, even amateur astronomers can identify them. And guess what? All there is out there is nothing but a bunch of edited photos that even a kid could make them. Believe whatever you want, but don't call people ignorant when there isn't one shred of evidence of aliens' existence.
OMFG I have to google that Zimbabwe incident! That sounds like some epically deep BS right there! 🤣Sidenote I did 20+ years in the military, much of that time working with & around various radar systems. Radar generally "works as advertised" but when it doesn't, it "works in mysterious ways" but eventually cooler heads prevail and figure out what the anomaly is. Spoiler alert 100 percent of the time (so far anyway) the answer is not aliens. Maybe someday it will be, but not so far.
The Earth is more special than you might think because of our freakishly large moon and how it was formed. For the size of the Earth our moon is incredibly large. It was formed when a planet the size of Mars smashed into the Earth at an angle. This liquified the surface of the Earth, added it's iron core to ours, blew out part of our crust into space to form the moon. This gives us a larger than normal iron core, spinning at a faster than normal speed, giving us a stronger magnetic field to protect our selves are our atmosphere from the solar wind. It also gives us a large asteroid deflector that increases the time between extinction level events. Both of those are important, because if it take N millions of years to go from multi-cellular life to technological life, and without a massive moon extinction level events happen every N-Y years, you are not getting technological life. You get all large land animals wiped out before they can develop intelligence and the technology to prevent their own extinction.
People assume that, because of the tremendous technological growth of the 20th century, technology is limitless. That's like a 15 year old extrapolating their grown and predicting they will be 20 feet tall on their 60th birthday.
There may possibly be intelligent life form on some other planet however that intelligence does not mean that aliens can function as we do here on earth can anyone prove that aliens can as much as breathe in this atmosphere?
That’s your personal truth but that is not objective truth because it has to be reproducible and evidence must be produced in order for educated people to believe.
I appreciate the discussion and thoughts on it but I believe it's a faulty question from the start. We can't prove they are here already but we also can't definitively prove they are not either. Just because we don't have the smoking gun for the trial doesn't mean there isn't circumstantial evidence that they have been/are.
They HAVE visited. I'm from Phoenix buddy, and I SAW the lights in 1997. That was NOT man made. It was HUGE from end to end. No apparent propulsion system that I could say and totally silent. Come on man how do you explain that I'm an eye witness you are not.
@@danielcohen4839 Nobody denies you saw something a UFO…unidentified flying object…but to jump to the conclusion that it’s ET is not how science and scientist work or think 🤔
No no. Then they would have to actually learn about visiting civilizations. Why would they want to do that? They are scientists. Curiosity and considering possibilities is not their style.
Yeah, or David Grusch, or Garry Nolan, or Tim Galledet, or David Fravor, or Ryan Graves, or anyone actually capable of talking about this subject that has some insight knowledge.
A space-faring civilization that is just half way across the galaxy traveling at 10% of the speed of light might take half a million years to 'get here' (say 50,000 LY). By then they might have forgotten why they left home. At 90% the speed of light it still means more than 50k years to get here. So vast distances mean something.
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” -Bill Watterson (C&H | Nov 8, 1989)
They have. You are failing to keep your mind open to all possibilities and the evidence for the visits in the historical record. Typical modern scholar arrogance.
I think evolution gave us the brains and bodies to survive on the plains of Africa and preindustrial cities *but not now* that we have the ability to make parts of the world too hot to live in or for a few people to hoard so much that billions of people don’t have enough. Evolution may be one of the great filters.
Sam Harris is playing fast and loose with planet discovery. (or is clueless) Despite thousands found, not a single planet has been found that is truly analogous to earth. Size, orbit, star, rotation. There is always something that’s off.
I wonder if an extremely advanced civilization (or at least its probes) visited Earth when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and decided that it was extremely unlikely to ever evolve into something more advanced. And, they simply went on to the next candidate and ignored earth. Or is it possible that advanced civilizations do (or did at one time) exist but did not co-exist at the same time. Or, they were so far apart that even the most advanced never made contact before they were destroyed by natural processes?
we could be the first or the last. I think both of this possibilities are very unlikely. a more likely possibility is civilizations evolve here and there, but exhaust their planets before they can overcome the vast distances, assuming space travel above light speed is even possible. I do believe there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe, but I doubt contact of some sorts is possible. even if it is possible, what interest would civilizations that advanced have to get in contact with us.
We live in an age where so many people have smart phones. The phones in the last 20 years have good picture and video capabilities. Why is there no good amateur video of UFOs? If there are UFO crashes why is there no decent footage from these phones?
My friend recorded a static ball of light, like 2 times the size of a star, but maybe a couple of hundred yards away. It never moved, but occasionally fired out a light across the night sky, the same colour as itself...yellow/gold. 19 ten-twenty second video. The last video the object fired a multicoloured twirling light directly at his camera phone, he got scared and ran inside. The next day, the headlines in the newspaper read, UFOs spotted all over the midlands. My drunken friend urinated, and destroyed his phone a few weeks later. From Ireland ☘️ 🛸 ☘️
There actually is. In fact, alot of the military recordings are purposely distorted. We've been getting visited on and off for a long, long time. Just because they don't sit down on good morning America and do a "MTV Cribs, starring their alien space ship" doesn't mean anything. And believe it or not, phone technology can be distorted as well.... By humans and I'm sure, by aliens too...
If you look, you will find dozens of decent UFO videos uploaded every week. There’s a lot of CGI BS, but also lots of very convincing footage. The problem is that video footage on an iPhone is not scientific data so we all dismiss it. The mass sightings and first hand accounts are a lot more convincing for me. Check out the Ariel school encounter or Westall Australia encounter.
They haven't visited because some of the first TV signals they received were from political ads and the aliens rightfully determined that there was no intelligent life on Earth.
They are here. I saw an object land and two small beings glide right out of it on a Caribbean island while I was there. Not walking with steps as we do. An oval craft like chrome. The strangest thing I ever saw in my life 1996 at 1 am with my wife.
I think any alien species visiting earth would be very occasional, probably alien species learning about the life forms in the galaxy. I don’t believe that aliens and their spacecraft visit earth regularly, otherwise depictions of aliens and their spacecraft would be regularly shown in human art, in sculptures, paintings, ornaments and written about in plays. The reason alien species only visit earth occasionally, is I see it as if you had a person living in a modern city with all that modernity can provide, and that person knows of a rather primitive people in the wilderness, that person wouldn’t have any impetus to visit those rather primitive people. The only people that would visit those rather primitive people would be scientists and explorers. Also, any alien species that wish to protect other intelligent life forms from being conquered and their planet taken over, would build a federation of good alien species that put into place a Galactic Prime Directive, where species that have not reached a certain technological level, are left to evolve in their own way. Of course for a Galactic prime directive to be enforced, their must be some form of a galactic judiciary and a galactic police force.
"Baby-Fart-Mageezaks!" "There is no space cash, there is no Galactic police force, there is no space jail." "I mean how stupid is your species?" South Park is the greatest!
The speed of light is incredibly slow. Not compared to a walking human but on even the smallest cosmic scales it is a snails pace. Watch some of the simulated videos of light leaving the Earth, until it gets to just the edge of the solar system. It takes hours to get to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. It takes 1.8 years to reach just the edge of the solar system. It takes 4 years to the nearest star. It takes 100.000 years to cross our own galaxy. It takes 2.5 million years to get to the nearest galaxy.
Since we know there are trillions and trillions of galaxies, stars, planets, etc, statistically it is almost certain that life existed, exist or will come into existence on one of the trillions of planets! We will probably never know due to the unimaginable distances!
Not necessarily. The best OoL theories still involve statistical probabilities so improbable there is no guarantee it would happen elsewhere in the universe.
@worker-wf2em, due to the immense vastness of the universe, it IS very probable that there has been, is, or will be life on many of the trillions of planets that are in the so-called goldilocks zone! But of course those favorable conditions have to stay stable enough for millions of years so that life can come into existence and evolve! Of course if there is life, the creatures will be very different. Because all lifeforms evolve and adapt to the changing environment! And the environmental conditions will be different on every planet. We can see that here on earth as well! 99 % of the species that once existed has become extinct. The dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 160 BILLION years before they got extinct due to the impact of a massive asteroid some 66 million years ago! If that disaster would not have happened, the then existing small mammals would not have been able to evolve into larger mammals and eventually into the species of great apes including the homosapiens! So, the homosapiens would not even have come into exiexistence all some two hundred thousand years ago! So yes, the statistic probability that there has been, is, or will be all sorts of lifeforms on other planets in the goldilock zone, is indeed very high! But if so, it will be all sorts of different lifeforms!
Or we could just be the first to have advanced this far. Or maybe advanced civilizations came and went millions or billions years ago, and we're the only ones left
@@jeffmccloud905 indeed! For life to advance this far, the conditions on a planet have to stay stable for billions of years. Here on earth after life started of, it took 3,5 billion years and only in the past hundred years we were able to explore space in a decent way.
Why haven’t aliens visited us yet? Aliens find earth and asks his people why don’t we visit ? Leader says to the alien the weapons that they invented aren’t pointing up towards space, they are pointed down at themselves.
Life begins in the ocean yet we think the first being to gain high intelligence on earth was a land mammal. It sure is nice to be the center of the inverse, huh guys?
Very ignorant argument, and a typical logical fallacy you see often in these kinds of arguments. Why does life having its start in water prohibit a land animal becoming intelligent/technological first? Why would it be any more or less likely either way? You don't have those answers, because you're just spouting nonsense like it's some kind of logical trap you can't argue against. You see multitudes of these ridiculous logical failings wherever you look on the internet now, and they're always just a dumb false equivalence that sound like they came from an 8 year old
They literally did, as the very first thing. Brian Greene says 150 years of radio waves from Earth, 150 light years compared to the 92 billion light years of the observable universe.
Yes it did almost sound like Sam was saying that humanity went from barely walking upright to sending out radio signals in only 300 years! 🤨If true, color me impressed by any species/society that could advance that rapidly! 👍
An advanced ETI civilization could visit Earth every 1,000 years for a billion years (that is one million visits) and leave no evidence of their visits. So those who ask the video's question are asking the wrong question. The aliens could ask why haven't we visited them? Is it because we don't exist? EDIT: This is not a criticism of the scientists in the video, they attempt to provide some explanations. It is a criticism of the bad logic of those who claim there are no aliens because they allegedly haven't visited, such as the misnamed Fermi Paradox, that is not a paradox and is not logically constructed, and therefore is an unsound argument.
The same amount of proof that unicorns and fairies don't exist - or put another way - you can't prove a negative - or put another way - it's encumbant on you (or someone) to prove aliens have visited...
Earth is very special. Big moon. Add onto that how dangerous technology is. Only chance is self-replicating machinery. Honestly, we should stop 'progressing', enjoy life and keep as quiet as possible. Shhh - the machines might hear us!
There ain't none out there & if their are why would they want to come here? If they exist at all why do we think that they have the same compunction as humans? Maybe they aren't interested in exploration? And if they were smart enough to get here they'd be as interested in us as much as we are in garden snails, we'd be trivial & unimportant to them. We will be able to visit other planets when we are spirits, speed of thought!
Asking a materialist reductionist this question is a waste of time. The materialist narrative of our reality and our place in the universe is at best inaccurate. I employed the scientific method during throughout my career, which is is sound but the larger picture narrative is suspect.
I've been 20 metres from a triangular UFO and they communicated with me via telepathy. I've had several encounters. The craft was totally silent. Sounds crazy, but, true. They are visiting all the time 🙏
@@negrildoc You are human like me, I wouldn't believe either 👍🙏 Unfortunately, with encounters, extraterrestrials know we always need proof. Have you noticed not one true close encounter has ever been filmed? I'm not talking about military pilots, that's not a close encounter 🙏🙏
@@negrildoc I'll give you an interesting perspective. In WW2 we saw photos of butterfly bombs. My parents actually knew people that unfortunately picked up the devices and died. You can see a picture, but, sometimes you have to believe accounts 🙏
@@negrildoc One other thing to take into account. People mostly share for gain of attention,, some, actually many want to share to enlighten others 🙏 I have nothing to gain by sharing my experiences 🙏
Any intelligent life form even mildly more advanced than our own, would understand the futility of existence. Not the smiley optimism of primitive forms. Until you understand the futility of life, the absolute pointlessness of existence, you will be as you are, confused mist
Because is a delusion & like every story, it has to b reinforced by believing activity. Huxtley! Universal happiness can only b attained by dehumanizing activity.
The question should be: “why haven’t Aliens visited 3 dimensional space” The answer “they have and do frequently” Aliens would not waste their time travelling for aeons under the restrictions of relativity. As soon as they have the technical ability they would raise themselves in to a higher dimensional state. Think bigger
There's always this argument about 'higher dimensional states' and people like you spew it as if you have the first idea what that may be, look like, or how it may be quantified. You could just be talking nonsense, and it sounds like it. Yes, a civilisation may discover and/or harness science that is completely unknown to us, such as a way to beat the speed of light. If they had say an Alcubierre Drive we might say that is technology connected to other dimensions in space (if they exist) but the ETs wouldn't be 'raising themselves to a higher dimensional state' in that case any more than Picard or Kirk were😂
Full discussion here: ua-cam.com/video/FVzdcs6sZ8w/v-deo.htmlsi=BLkGf_TfLKddsqkg
They haven't visited for the same reasons we haven't visited them. Too many obstacles and too much distance and life in general is too fragile and finite to overcome them.
Time and Distance.
Asking that question is like scooping a cup of salt water out of the ocean and asking why there aren't any fish in it.
Brian green speaks terribly
Its very strange that we always ask the question “why arent they here” how abt “why arent we there”? On that note, if we certainly sure of is not being able to travel across that huge distance, what makes us asking such qn and have confidence that if they exist they would have been here?
Even at the speed of light, distances are very long. We'll probably be long gone by the time they arrive.
Finally someone understands how huge the universe is. We will never meet the aliens.
@@blueabattoir unless we already have! Been following the election?
Sure, but what if they can go faster than the speed of light? Or maybe they’re using a form of propulsion that’s so exotic it breaks out understanding of physical laws? We all know the universe is huge and the distances are massive, but assuming aliens can’t get here because of [insert human limitation] is foolish. It’s like assuming early humans could never cross the Atlantic, because horses aren’t good swimmers.
Do you have some kind of super horse?!
I never got this argument. A million light years away is no problem if you a 100 million years in travel time.
"Why Haven't Aliens Visited?" Because they're too smart to give us the time of day.
Life in the universe is extremely rare.... and I think 99 percent of life is microscopic organisms and microbes......
We have been sending radio out for 100+ years, but we have had biosignatures in our atmosphere for billions of years and techno signatures for millions of years. When we look at an exoplanet, we look for bio and techno signatures in their atmospheres.
How have we showed technosignatures for millions of years?😂
It's always the armchair know-it-alls commenting on these videos and the comments are always ignorant or spewing the same old 'distance + speed of light' stuff that any 12 year old interested in the universe already knows.
Ironically the people who think they're the smartest and are drawn to videos such as this are the ones who sound the most simple
I think that no self respecting alien would ever visit Earth. It's the Alabama of the Galaxy.
More like New York City.
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” -Bill Watterson (C&H | Nov 8, 1989)
Humans will never leave the solar system , and Aliens will never leave there’s 😢
Hopefully the Aliens would learn how to spell and use the word “Theirs” properly since humans cannot.
Could have something to do with vast distances, the unforgiving harshness of space-time, no mechanic shops to fix your space ship when it breaks down, and on and on.
What do you guys think of Colonel Nell from the SALT conference?
To me it's kind of obvious that he, Elizondo, Grusch, Gallaudet and the rest are correct in what they’re saying. Listning to intellectuals discussing why we haven't been visited yet by other civilizations is getting more ridiculous and cringe worthy by the day. Wilful ignorance, extreme narrowmindedness and complete lack of curiosity still permeates a vast part of the scientific community. It's frankly both sad and embarrising to see.
Totally embarrassing.
@@rasmuslernevall6938 Yeah its kind of dumb to still see videos like this even pop up in my recommendation, its pretty obvious that they're here and always have been. We don't need to have these kinds of talks anymore.
Andromeda galaxy is the closest major galaxy to us - It’s 2.5 million light years away.
Which means if there is an alien living on a planet in the Andromeda galaxy, and at this moment is wondering why he’s not picking up anything on his SETI radar dish, he still has to wait almost 2.5 million more years until he gets the Andy Griffith show.
Yes agreed…and???
Life in the universe is extremely rare.... and I think 99 percent of life is microscopic organisms and microbes.
Me too. I believe the 1% are far, far away.
Regardless of whether the earth is special or not and that we are alone or not, the universe doesn't care... it will continue to do whatever it's doing according to natural and physical laws governing it...
Who’s to say they haven’t
Indeed. Listning to this nonsense in a post David Grusch world is just embarrasing.
There is zero evidence and they give some of the good reasons why.
@@pinkfloydhomer There is overwhelming indirect evidence. But it's not 100% proven lf course. I'd say we're at 85-90% probability at the moment.
@@rasmuslernevall6938 there is zero evidence and the probability is more like 10 to the -85
@@rasmuslernevall6938 no evidence at all and probability is 0.00000000000000000001
My fav answer on that: they came, found no intelligent life on earth and left.
Because the people of earth are freaking nutz 🤤
They've been visiting us for eons are I think it's pretty clear they're very interested in our progression and we are being observed. There was an incident in Zimbabwe in the 1994 where they had an interaction with a bunch of children in a school and telepathically communicated with them. It's come out publicly now years ago that military personnel have had interactions with many ufos, tracking them on radar and also visually. If you don't think they're real at this point you're living with your head in the sand.
Not a shred of truth in your comment. Your head is buried deep in the sacred text of your ufo cult fantasies.
So they've been coming to earth for eons, and all they've done is make communication with a bunch of children?
Why not show themselves publicly in cities so everyone can see them? Are they scared of us hairless monkeys?
And those military pilots were very careful to not say the word "aliens", they didn't present any evidence, they just said we saw something that we couldn't understand, which doesn't prove anything. Maybe they were hallucinating, which isn't uncommon, OR they were just lying so they could get famous.
If an alien object even comes close to our solar system, it gets picked up by every space agency on the planet. If it comes near earth, even amateur astronomers can identify them. And guess what? All there is out there is nothing but a bunch of edited photos that even a kid could make them.
Believe whatever you want, but don't call people ignorant when there isn't one shred of evidence of aliens' existence.
@@joeldriver-sp2rg it's not sand. It's tinfoil.
OMFG I have to google that Zimbabwe incident! That sounds like some epically deep BS right there! 🤣Sidenote I did 20+ years in the military, much of that time working with & around various radar systems. Radar generally "works as advertised" but when it doesn't, it "works in mysterious ways" but eventually cooler heads prevail and figure out what the anomaly is. Spoiler alert 100 percent of the time (so far anyway) the answer is not aliens. Maybe someday it will be, but not so far.
No..
Your wrong
Let's just pretend Commander Fravor and the crews of the Nimitz and Roosevelt are all insane.
The Earth is more special than you might think because of our freakishly large moon and how it was formed. For the size of the Earth our moon is incredibly large. It was formed when a planet the size of Mars smashed into the Earth at an angle. This liquified the surface of the Earth, added it's iron core to ours, blew out part of our crust into space to form the moon. This gives us a larger than normal iron core, spinning at a faster than normal speed, giving us a stronger magnetic field to protect our selves are our atmosphere from the solar wind. It also gives us a large asteroid deflector that increases the time between extinction level events. Both of those are important, because if it take N millions of years to go from multi-cellular life to technological life, and without a massive moon extinction level events happen every N-Y years, you are not getting technological life. You get all large land animals wiped out before they can develop intelligence and the technology to prevent their own extinction.
Yes, the number of unique contingencies that allowed us to be here is rare.
People assume that, because of the tremendous technological growth of the 20th century, technology is limitless.
That's like a 15 year old extrapolating their grown and predicting they will be 20 feet tall on their 60th birthday.
There may possibly be intelligent life form on some other planet however that intelligence does not mean that aliens can function as we do here on earth can anyone prove that aliens can as much as breathe in this atmosphere?
Just because they don’t visit you doesn’t mean they haven’t visited me. I believe they have visited and continue to visit us
That’s your personal truth but that is not objective truth because it has to be reproducible and evidence must be produced in order for educated people to believe.
I appreciate the discussion and thoughts on it but I believe it's a faulty question from the start. We can't prove they are here already but we also can't definitively prove they are not either. Just because we don't have the smoking gun for the trial doesn't mean there isn't circumstantial evidence that they have been/are.
I'd say the inderect or circumstantial evidence is overwhelming by now. It's just embarrasing listning to this in a post Grusch world.
Because they don’t exist.
How do you know that ?.
They HAVE visited. I'm from Phoenix buddy, and I SAW the lights in 1997. That was NOT man made. It was HUGE from end to end. No apparent propulsion system that I could say and totally silent. Come on man how do you explain that I'm an eye witness you are not.
Lights in the sky do not an ET make
But it does make intelligence and advanced technology not from our civilization. E.T. is only one alternative.
@@Badge01Kenobi It wasn't just lights in the sky though, even the governor of AZ said this craft was blocking out the stars.
They haven’t … full stop. Stop lying.
@@danielcohen4839 Nobody denies you saw something a UFO…unidentified flying object…but to jump to the conclusion that it’s ET is not how science and scientist work or think 🤔
Ask Karl Nell. Or, have him on the interview.
No no. Then they would have to actually learn about visiting civilizations. Why would they want to do that? They are scientists. Curiosity and considering possibilities is not their style.
Yeah, or David Grusch, or Garry Nolan, or Tim Galledet, or David Fravor, or Ryan Graves, or anyone actually capable of talking about this subject that has some insight knowledge.
They're not just far away (assuming they exist), but long ago. I hope we can identify the existence of alien life, but I doubt we will ever meet any.
A space-faring civilization that is just half way across the galaxy traveling at 10% of the speed of light might take half a million years to 'get here' (say 50,000 LY). By then they might have forgotten why they left home. At 90% the speed of light it still means more than 50k years to get here. So vast distances mean something.
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” -Bill Watterson (C&H | Nov 8, 1989)
They have. You are failing to keep your mind open to all possibilities and the evidence for the visits in the historical record. Typical modern scholar arrogance.
You sound like a typical arrogant ufo cult member
Bwahahahaha
I think evolution gave us the brains and bodies to survive on the plains of Africa and preindustrial cities *but not now* that we have the ability to make parts of the world too hot to live in or for a few people to hoard so much that billions of people don’t have enough. Evolution may be one of the great filters.
Sam Harris is playing fast and loose with planet discovery. (or is clueless) Despite thousands found, not a single planet has been found that is truly analogous to earth. Size, orbit, star, rotation. There is always something that’s off.
I wonder if an extremely advanced civilization (or at least its probes) visited Earth when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and decided that it was extremely unlikely to ever evolve into something more advanced. And, they simply went on to the next candidate and ignored earth.
Or is it possible that advanced civilizations do (or did at one time) exist but did not co-exist at the same time. Or, they were so far apart that even the most advanced never made contact before they were destroyed by natural processes?
Both possible.
we could be the first or the last. I think both of this possibilities are very unlikely. a more likely possibility is civilizations evolve here and there, but exhaust their planets before they can overcome the vast distances, assuming space travel above light speed is even possible. I do believe there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe, but I doubt contact of some sorts is possible. even if it is possible, what interest would civilizations that advanced have to get in contact with us.
We live in an age where so many people have smart phones. The phones in the last 20 years have good picture and video capabilities. Why is there no good amateur video of UFOs? If there are UFO crashes why is there no decent footage from these phones?
My friend recorded a static ball of light, like 2 times the size of a star, but maybe a couple of hundred yards away. It never moved, but occasionally fired out a light across the night sky, the same colour as itself...yellow/gold. 19 ten-twenty second video. The last video the object fired a multicoloured twirling light directly at his camera phone, he got scared and ran inside. The next day, the headlines in the newspaper read, UFOs spotted all over the midlands. My drunken friend urinated, and destroyed his phone a few weeks later. From Ireland ☘️ 🛸 ☘️
@@BunnyWatson-k1w there’s a shitload of ufo video out there.
There actually is. In fact, alot of the military recordings are purposely distorted. We've been getting visited on and off for a long, long time. Just because they don't sit down on good morning America and do a "MTV Cribs, starring their alien space ship" doesn't mean anything. And believe it or not, phone technology can be distorted as well.... By humans and I'm sure, by aliens too...
If you look, you will find dozens of decent UFO videos uploaded every week. There’s a lot of CGI BS, but also lots of very convincing footage. The problem is that video footage on an iPhone is not scientific data so we all dismiss it. The mass sightings and first hand accounts are a lot more convincing for me. Check out the Ariel school encounter or Westall Australia encounter.
alanmurray5963
A heartwarming story!
They haven't visited because some of the first TV signals they received were from political ads and the aliens rightfully determined that there was no intelligent life on Earth.
They are here. I saw an object land and two small beings glide right out of it on a Caribbean island while I was there. Not walking with steps as we do. An oval craft like chrome. The strangest thing I ever saw in my life 1996 at 1 am with my wife.
No…you didn’t..Stop telling lies
Would you visit here, if you had a choice?
I think any alien species visiting earth would be very occasional, probably alien species learning about the life forms in the galaxy. I don’t believe that aliens and their spacecraft visit earth regularly, otherwise depictions of aliens and their spacecraft would be regularly shown in human art, in sculptures, paintings, ornaments and written about in plays.
The reason alien species only visit earth occasionally, is I see it as if you had a person living in a modern city with all that modernity can provide, and that person knows of a rather primitive people in the wilderness, that person wouldn’t have any impetus to visit those rather primitive people. The only people that would visit those rather primitive people would be scientists and explorers.
Also, any alien species that wish to protect other intelligent life forms from being conquered and their planet taken over, would build a federation of good alien species that put into place a Galactic Prime Directive, where species that have not reached a certain technological level, are left to evolve in their own way. Of course for a Galactic prime directive to be enforced, their must be some form of a galactic judiciary and a galactic police force.
"Baby-Fart-Mageezaks!" "There is no space cash, there is no Galactic police force, there is no space jail."
"I mean how stupid is your species?"
South Park is the greatest!
They have been here for thousands of years.
The speed of light is incredibly slow. Not compared to a walking human but on even the smallest cosmic scales it is a snails pace. Watch some of the simulated videos of light leaving the Earth, until it gets to just the edge of the solar system. It takes hours to get to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. It takes 1.8 years to reach just the edge of the solar system. It takes 4 years to the nearest star. It takes 100.000 years to cross our own galaxy. It takes 2.5 million years to get to the nearest galaxy.
In a universe of finite age, somebody has to be first to develop radio. Us?
Definitely a possibility. Maybe we're just early to the party.
Who wants to go To Wagadogoo?
“Aliens” have had an infinite time to develop the technology that would allow interstellar travel. Why haven’t they visited us?
They have. At least since the 1940s and probably for thousands of years.
No not infinite time.
"Why haven't Aliens Visited?" Here's another question - Why haven't you made a video asking that question?
Here's another question: How many times is he going to upload the same video from 6 years ago?
warrenny
That’s a very good question. Clickbait is the answer.
Since we know there are trillions and trillions of galaxies, stars, planets, etc, statistically it is almost certain that life existed, exist or will come into existence on one of the trillions of planets! We will probably never know due to the unimaginable distances!
Not necessarily. The best OoL theories still involve statistical probabilities so improbable there is no guarantee it would happen elsewhere in the universe.
@worker-wf2em, due to the immense vastness of the universe, it IS very probable that there has been, is, or will be life on many of the trillions of planets that are in the so-called goldilocks zone! But of course those favorable conditions have to stay stable enough for millions of years so that life can come into existence and evolve! Of course if there is life, the creatures will be very different. Because all lifeforms evolve and adapt to the changing environment! And the environmental conditions will be different on every planet.
We can see that here on earth as well! 99 % of the species that once existed has become extinct.
The dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 160 BILLION years before they got extinct due to the impact of a massive asteroid some 66 million years ago! If that disaster would not have happened, the then existing small mammals would not have been able to evolve into larger mammals and eventually into the species of great apes including the homosapiens! So, the homosapiens would not even have come into exiexistence all some two hundred thousand years ago! So yes, the statistic probability that there has been, is, or will be all sorts of lifeforms on other planets in the goldilock zone, is indeed very high! But if so, it will be all sorts of different lifeforms!
Or we could just be the first to have advanced this far. Or maybe advanced civilizations came and went millions or billions years ago, and we're the only ones left
@@jeffmccloud905 indeed! For life to advance this far, the conditions on a planet have to stay stable for billions of years. Here on earth after life started of, it took 3,5 billion years and only in the past hundred years we were able to explore space in a decent way.
Why haven’t aliens visited us yet? Aliens find earth and asks his people why don’t we visit ? Leader says to the alien the weapons that they invented aren’t pointing up towards space, they are pointed down at themselves.
Life begins in the ocean yet we think the first being to gain high intelligence on earth was a land mammal. It sure is nice to be the center of the inverse, huh guys?
The universe is isotropic and homogenous. Everywhere is the centre of the universe
Very ignorant argument, and a typical logical fallacy you see often in these kinds of arguments.
Why does life having its start in water prohibit a land animal becoming intelligent/technological first? Why would it be any more or less likely either way? You don't have those answers, because you're just spouting nonsense like it's some kind of logical trap you can't argue against.
You see multitudes of these ridiculous logical failings wherever you look on the internet now, and they're always just a dumb false equivalence that sound like they came from an 8 year old
There aren't any
sad - waste of a universe
@@tonybanton6787 not for the universe
My boy with the Occam’s razor. Simplest answer
False information, they're here and always have been.
@Anomaly_Files18 I can think of Einstein, Beethoven, Leonardo, and Newton as maybes.
They're probably happy right where they are.
Look at the new Nazca bodies. Also the Turkish 2007 ufo. Its clear they have.
Why Haven't Aliens Visited? Because there are none.
Well that’s not likely and you know that so stop being disingenuous
They didn’t mention the obvious - the incredibly vast interstellar distances
They literally did, as the very first thing. Brian Greene says 150 years of radio waves from Earth, 150 light years compared to the 92 billion light years of the observable universe.
Errr yes they did
My god, just let Brian talk lol
It's a freak show out there in the galaxy 👽👽👽
Total pseudoscience bs.
Aliens have and are visiting earth all the time.
Because they don't know where we are 😂
We laffing thery of big bangers
They got them flashy things.....neuralizers😊
and why visit a deep amazonian Tribe with no Starbucks
They heard Harris' views on Palestinians and they went "nope, we not going on this planet".
1:14 "barely upright to sending radio signals in 300 years..."; HOW is that possible? Do aliens live among us... hmmmm?
Yes it did almost sound like Sam was saying that humanity went from barely walking upright to sending out radio signals in only 300 years!
🤨If true, color me impressed by any species/society that could advance that rapidly! 👍
What proof is there that aliens haven't visited?
That's the point: they would cover their tracks!! So it's obvious they are among us.
@@alonzochurch8616 exactly.
An advanced ETI civilization could visit Earth every 1,000 years for a billion years (that is one million visits) and leave no evidence of their visits. So those who ask the video's question are asking the wrong question. The aliens could ask why haven't we visited them? Is it because we don't exist?
EDIT: This is not a criticism of the scientists in the video, they attempt to provide some explanations. It is a criticism of the bad logic of those who claim there are no aliens because they allegedly haven't visited, such as the misnamed Fermi Paradox, that is not a paradox and is not logically constructed, and therefore is an unsound argument.
The same amount of proof that unicorns and fairies don't exist - or put another way - you can't prove a negative - or put another way - it's encumbant on you (or someone) to prove aliens have visited...
What proof is there that unicorns don't exist is the same question. That doesn't make the existence of unicorns more likely of course.
Because there are no aliens!
Earth is very special. Big moon. Add onto that how dangerous technology is. Only chance is self-replicating machinery. Honestly, we should stop 'progressing', enjoy life and keep as quiet as possible. Shhh - the machines might hear us!
Why don't these two know that Aliens have visited and still are visiting??
They cannot accept that because of their scientific indoctrination. They are irrational, and wilfully ignorant.
Because it’s BS and your lying
@@johncronin7875 Perhaps the fact that we exist can be considered BS?! :-)
If there is a God and He stuck us in this unimaginably vast universe just to see how many of us will stroke His ego, then He is one sick mofo.
There ain't none out there & if their are why would they want to come here? If they exist at all why do we think that they have the same compunction as humans? Maybe they aren't interested in exploration? And if they were smart enough to get here they'd be as interested in us as much as we are in garden snails, we'd be trivial & unimportant to them.
We will be able to visit other planets when we are spirits, speed of thought!
Asking a materialist reductionist this question is a waste of time. The materialist narrative of our reality and our place in the universe is at best inaccurate. I employed the scientific method during throughout my career, which is is sound but the larger picture narrative is suspect.
Ummm..earth is very special..it’s all we have.
Makes me sick how these people dont do any physical research before spouting this rubbish.
They are. Coming across borders everywhere. Think I'm being sarcastic perhaps correct. However hide amongst the crowd.
They are here, they have been here long before human civilization.
Nope. No evidence
They have, are among us and are known as wokes.
I've been 20 metres from a triangular UFO and they communicated with me via telepathy.
I've had several encounters.
The craft was totally silent.
Sounds crazy, but, true.
They are visiting all the time 🙏
Show me the evidence please then I will also believe
@@negrildoc You are human like me, I wouldn't believe either 👍🙏
Unfortunately, with encounters, extraterrestrials know we always need proof.
Have you noticed not one true close encounter has ever been filmed?
I'm not talking about military pilots, that's not a close encounter 🙏🙏
@@negrildoc I'll give you an interesting perspective.
In WW2 we saw photos of butterfly bombs.
My parents actually knew people that unfortunately picked up the devices and died.
You can see a picture, but, sometimes you have to believe accounts 🙏
@@negrildoc One other thing to take into account.
People mostly share for gain of attention,, some, actually many want to share to enlighten others 🙏
I have nothing to gain by sharing my experiences 🙏
@@BarryMillard and I’m not doubting your encounter it’s just not proof that aliens have been on earth..it’s just your personal experience
Any intelligent life form even mildly more advanced than our own, would understand the futility of existence. Not the smiley optimism of primitive forms. Until you understand the futility of life, the absolute pointlessness of existence, you will be as you are, confused mist
Aliens have already visited.
More importantly how is it that these guys know nothing about the topic.
Wilful ignorance on this topic is held in the highest regard in the scientific community.
Well , certainly more than you tin foil hat
Nope
Naybe because there aren't any? Lol
Sam’s one creepy looking dude
Human are too low development...
Because is a delusion & like every story, it has to b reinforced by believing activity. Huxtley! Universal happiness can only b attained by dehumanizing activity.
The question should be: “why haven’t Aliens visited 3 dimensional space”
The answer “they have and do frequently”
Aliens would not waste their time travelling for aeons under the restrictions of relativity. As soon as they have the technical ability they would raise themselves in to a higher dimensional state.
Think bigger
There's always this argument about 'higher dimensional states' and people like you spew it as if you have the first idea what that may be, look like, or how it may be quantified. You could just be talking nonsense, and it sounds like it.
Yes, a civilisation may discover and/or harness science that is completely unknown to us, such as a way to beat the speed of light. If they had say an Alcubierre Drive we might say that is technology connected to other dimensions in space (if they exist) but the ETs wouldn't be 'raising themselves to a higher dimensional state' in that case any more than Picard or Kirk were😂
Total pseudoscience.