Annoying Aliens (Narration Only)

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🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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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. Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/4zlHXTSPR9I Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Alien Civilizations: Annoying Aliens Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 298a; July 11, 2021 Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: Jason Burbank Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik Ken York of YD Visual https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Legiontech Studios Music by: Martin Rezny: https://soundcloud.com/martin-re-n-1 Aerium: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ Miguel Johnson: https://migueljohnson.bandcamp.com Stellardrone: https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners, in this month's Nebula exclusive, Big Alien Theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:20.4	This video is sponsored by CuriosityStream.
0:22.5	Get access to my streaming video service, Nebula, when you sign up for CuriosityStream using
0:26.6	the link in the description. When we contemplate our first meetings with alien civilizations,
0:32.1	we tend to fear they will be hostile, hope they will be benevolent, and guess they will be a mixture of both,
0:38.5	just like our own civilizations often all. But what if it turns out they aren't so much
0:42.8	benevolent or hostile as just really insufferable and irritating?
0:48.4	Welcome back to Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur for another mid-month sci-fi
0:53.1	Sunday's episode, where we examine
0:55.2	popular notions from science fiction and ask about how realistic they are, and this month
1:00.4	we'll be returning to our Alien Civilization series for a look at alien civilizations or strategies
1:05.7	that are presumably meant to be profound or clever, but our inspection are stupid or annoying.
1:11.4	This summer was also the 25th anniversary of the Alien Sci-Fi Blockbuster Film, Independence
1:16.8	Day, which while an enjoyable film is full of this sort of behavior, so I thought we'd
1:21.3	give it a bit of extra attention today.
1:23.8	That film came out in the mid-90s, and the preceding decade had been big on alien conspiracies
1:28.7	and ancient aliens.
1:30.4	Indeed that film's director of Rol than Emmerich's previous film had been Stargate, the founding
1:35.0	film of the Stargate franchise, which focuses on a lot of ancient aliens.
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