Is this some kind of a joke? And at a YouTube channel which attacks pseudo-science, to boot! But then, there is a slightly jocular tone in this presentation...
The clip is about "obscure solutions to the Fermi paradox". Most are cornucopian in nature. Maybe the aliens are throwing a never-ending psychedelic party inside a black hole? Maybe they live inside a super-computer floating around in intergalactic space? Try locate it, it´s like trying to find a needle in intergalactic space...
Or maybe the aliens are invisible god-like beings who, after giving everyone a free pony, simply self-destruct when realizing that existence is ultimately pointless.
The most interesting proposal is that alien intelligence is so strange that humans simply can´t detect it. This reminds me of Rupert Sheldrake´s idea that the sun is alive. The analogy used in the video is an ant which can´t comprehend a computer. For the ant, the computer is just another feature of the landscape. Little does it know that it´s the product of a powerful "divine" intelligence, shit posting stupid videos on something called "the internets".
Maybe existence is pointless, after all.
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