Invasive Aliens

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

Science, Futurism, Sci Fi, Future, Scifi, Technology, Space, Engineering

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Alien Invasions have been a staple of science fiction for years, with motherships and UFOs assaulting Earth, but how realistic is such a thing? We'll take a look at what might motivate an attack, how it might happen, what alternatives might make more sense, and what might prevent extraterrestrials from trying. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/rBFubEKHR7A Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: 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: Invasive Aliens Episode 196, Season 5 E31 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Jerry Guern Keith Blockus Matthew Campbell S. Kopperud Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - [email protected] Music Martin Rezny, "Lifelight" https://soundcloud.com/martin-re-n-1 Aerium, "Waters of Atlantis" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ AJ Prasad of Dark Future, "Cold Shadow" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-7qwaEPU Paradox Interactive, "Distant Nebula" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Lombus, "Goldilocks Analemma" https://lombus.bandcamp.com Ross Bugden, "City Lights" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKGLOK2FqmVgVwYferltKQ 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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0:20.0	This episode is sponsored by CuriosityStream.
0:24.3	Maybe invading aliens won't show up with laser guns blazing, but instead making an
0:30.4	offer we can't refuse.
0:32.1	Music Almost as soon as alien life began showing up in fiction, the notion of an alien invasion came up too, which probably
0:55.8	speaks volumes about humanity's mindset. Of course, caution of the unknown is a wise idea,
1:02.8	and evolution encourages that, since in general nature is not a friendly place. Interestingly,
1:09.9	most early fiction assumed parallel evolution, aliens
1:14.1	who looked and acted a lot like us, so it would make sense they might have designs in our
1:19.4	planet as a place to live or conquer. But as we've noted on the channel before, even
1:24.7	if there was some parallel or convergent evolution, it's
1:28.4	not very likely they'd be biologically similar to us enough to breed with us or look just
1:34.0	like us, but evolution might drive them to have fairly similar mindsets about many things.
1:40.8	It's hard to be a technological civilization if you aren't curious by nature, and hard
1:46.0	to have a chance to have the stability and numbers for civilization that can in turn develop
1:51.4	technology if you aren't fairly aggressive and expansionist in some fashion.
1:57.0	This doesn't necessarily mean you went around murdering or conquering your neighbors.
2:01.8	Expansionism might take on the form of actively pursuing trade and peaceful unification,
2:07.4	but it is hard to imagine an interstellar civilization arising without such motives.
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