Humans are the First Aliens. Here's Why.

Where are all the aliens?! This is the essence to the Fermi Paradox. It's most popular solution is the "Great Filter." What is the obstacle that life and/or intelligent species are unlikely to survive? Let's discuss. 00:00 Cold Open 00:18 Introduction 00:48 History of the Fermi Paradox 02:48 Fermi Paradox Explained 03:55 Drake Equation Explained 07:04 The Great Filter 09:56 Rare Earth Hypothesis 10:53 Geologic Time in Galactic Years 14:48 Evolution of Intelligent Life 17:03 Conclusions 19:11 Poll Results 19:47 Outro 20:10 Featured Comment Nick Lucid - Host/Writer/Editor/Animator Natalie Wells - Researcher ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS What is Life?    • What Makes You ALIVE? Is Life Even REAL?!   Cosmic Time:    • Cosmic Time is UNIMAGINABLY HUGE! Let's fi...   ________________________________ RELATED YOUTUBE VIDEOS PBS Space Time on Fermi Paradox:    • Are We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge      • Why We Might Be Alone in the Universe   Kurzgesagt on Fermi Paradox:    • The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Alie...      • The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas...      • Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Gre...   ________________________________ SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM Patreon:   / scienceasylum   YouTube Membership:    / @scienceasylum   Advanced Theoretical Physics (Paperback): http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-lucid/a... Advanced Theoretical Physics (eBook): https://gumroad.com/l/ubSc Merchandise: https://www.scienceasylum.com ________________________________ HUGE THANK YOU TO THESE SUPPORTERS Asylum Counselors: Nikolaos Vasiloglou II Asylum Orderlies: Dhruv Singhal, Fabio Manzini, Medec Hurtz Einsteinium Crazies: Bosphorus, Eoin O'Sullivan, Ilya Yashin, Jonathan Lima, Joseph Salomone, OnlineBookClub, Sean K, Wacky, Blank NA, Flying Monkey, Christopher Schiele Plutonium Crazies: Al Davis, Compuart, Ellis Hall, Kevin MacLean, Rick Myers, Vid Icarus Platinum Crazies: Benjamin Dixon, Benjamin Reynolds, Clayton Bruckert, David Johnston, James Coley, Jon Adams, Jonas Wepeel, Jonathan Reel, Marino Hernandez, Mikayla Eckel Cifrese, Mr. Orn Jonasar, Olga Cooperman, Stephen Blinn, Stephen Gailey, Don Wilshe ________________________________ OTHER SOURCES General Background: https://www.seti.org/project-ozma https://www.seti.org/drake-equation-i... https://www.aip.org/history-programs/... https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publica... https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5746675-w... Details and Facts: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatf... https://www.technologyreview.com/2008... https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/blueshift/i... https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery... https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... https://naturalhistory.si.edu/educati... https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo... Scienfic Papers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB... https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/201... https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404 https://doi.org/10.2307/2709100 https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2014.1247 Books: https://openstax.org/details/books/as... "Intelligent Life in the Universe." by I. S. Shklovskii & Carl Sagan (1966) https://books.google.com/books/about/... "Is Anyone Out There?" by Frank Drake & Dava Sobel (1992) https://books.google.com/books/about/... "If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life" by Stephen Webb (2002) https://books.google.com/books/about/... ________________________________ LINKS TO COMMENTS    • One Side of the Moon ALWAYS Faces Us. Why ...      • One Side of the Moon ALWAYS Faces Us. Why ...      • One Side of the Moon ALWAYS Faces Us. Why ...   ________________________________ IMAGE CREDITS Heavy Bombardment (Bennu's Journey): https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/det... Los Alamos ID Badge Photos: https://www.lanl.gov/about/history-in... Herbert York: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Frank Drake: https://repository.aip.org/islandora/...