The Fermi Paradox: Zoo Hypothesis

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Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Zoo Hypothesis is a Fermi Paradox solution that assumes extraterrestrial civilizations can't be detected by our SETI efforts because they keep our whole world in an Alien Zoo. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/nOuh_nJWSlM 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: The Fermi Paradox: Zoo Hypothesis Episode 228; Mar 5, 2020 Writers: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Jerry Guern Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Cover Art: Jakub Grygier Graphics: Fishy Tree Jeremy Jozwik Ken York LegionTech Studio Sergio Botero Music: Lombus, "Cosmic Soup" Aerium, "Waters of Atlantis" & "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory of Earth" 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,
0:05.0	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:28.1	using the link in the description.
0:30.9	We often wonder why we can't see any aliens, and it might be that they are out there and
0:36.1	can see us, but make it so we can't
0:38.8	see them. That Earth is essentially a zoo. Of course if we are in a zoo, it does make one
0:44.8	wonder what their equivalent of peanuts would be.
0:52.3	The Fermi paradox is the big question of where all the aliens are, when we don't seem
1:00.1	to hear from them but the universe seems to be a huge and ancient place.
1:04.4	In our galaxy alone there are many billions of stars, likely possessing a planet of around
1:08.8	Earth's mass, orbiting at a distance where
1:11.0	liquid water might be on the surface, and which are as old as our own sun, or order.
1:16.5	And of course we have many billions of galaxies.
1:19.4	It just doesn't seem probable that we could be it, either the only advanced civilization
1:23.8	out there or the first on the galactic stage.
1:27.2	Last fall we continued our discussion of the various hurdles or filters that might make
1:31.3	advanced civilizations less probable than we tend to assume in our great filter series, but
1:37.0	I thought we'd spend a bit of time this spring looking at some of the Fermi paradox solutions
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