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We Have Concerns

Another One Fermi

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Fermi Paradox is the story that started We Have Concerns, and Anthony and Jeff return to the topic this week. There is new research that might explain why we haven't seen evidence of alien life in the universe, and it's shockingly simple.

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0:00.0

I'm gonna take his hands. He has beautiful talented hands. This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff Genata. I am the Nicarbonis. Hello, concerned citizens. Jeff.

0:24.4

It's a classic Jeff's choice. I love a Jeff's choice. It's a classic Jeff's choice, buddy. Here's what we've got you can choose.

0:37.4

High highly conceptual space philosophy. I mean, I like it already. Okay. The psychology of video games and what they do to us.

0:50.4

It's a tough choice. It's a tough choice. That's why I had to make it a Jeff's choice because I don't know which way I want to go.

0:59.4

I think I want to go with A. I want to go with I think people would expect me to go video games, but I feel like that's going to make me feel like a bad dad.

1:09.4

Well, I'll tell you what's behind curtain B in typical Monti Monti Hall style. I'm gonna let you know what you didn't choose.

1:18.4

The showcase you didn't take was study finds video game playing causes no harm to young children's cognitive abilities.

1:25.4

I'm a good dad. All you need to know about B is you're a good dad. All right. I feel good about that. Right. What's A? A is great. Jeff.

1:34.4

Cause A brings us back to gosh, it's practically where we started this whole thing. We're going back to the Fermi paradox, baby.

1:42.4

Hey, that is well, episode zero of we have concerns. I love a good Fermi paradox, although it, you know, terrifying that's ramifications, of course.

1:52.4

Sure. So the Fermi paradox is the is the whole the whole thing of like why haven't we found aliens yet? Where are they?

2:01.4

What's going on? And the Fermi paradox suggests that we might be the only civilization because if there was evidence, we would have found it.

2:10.4

Yeah, the Fermi paradox says there's so much out there that we can see the law of probability says we should see some evidence that there's some other intelligent life.

2:24.4

There should be some out there unless something terrible, something terrible happened to all of them.

2:31.4

And then the whole thing is like, and if something terrible happened to them, how long do we have until it happens to us?

2:37.4

And you know, we've talked about this before and we've talked about all of the, you know, a lot of people who who disbelieve the Fermi paradox say, hey, because there is so much.

2:46.4

And because the idea is that, you know, you got to have just the right conditions to create life.

2:52.4

It's entirely possible. Civilizations have come and gone or there are civilizations, but they're on a different timeline than us.

2:58.4

And we just we're not going to be in the same place at the same time in order to see them, but they're out there.

3:04.4

We got to believe they're out there because also to to say that we would have found them by now if there was any other life, there's also a little bit of like human exceptionalism and human centric human centric view of the universe, which we know is, come on.

3:19.4

That's a little bit of ego, isn't it?

3:21.4

Yes, but you know, there's been so much time.

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