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Fermi Paradox and Escathian Hypothesis: Will We Only Find Dying Aliens?

2025-12-28 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the Escathian hypothesis by David Kipping Links: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09970 https://www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsLab/videos Pulsar planet: https://youtu.be/lNUWQcqpu4U Fermi paradox series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9hNFus3sjE7lB0sJRnGLWng0uIPxUVqG Enjoy and please subscribe 0:00 Fermi paradox and Escathian hypothesis 2:08 How we usually detect things in astronomy 4:25 Parallels from human civilizations 5:45 Counter argument - quiet aliens 6:30 Vanishing human civilizations 8:10 Rome and China - fuzzy signal example 11:45 How likely is this hypothesis true? 13:00 Conclusions Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Qiushufang CC BY SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Han_dynasty_%2860_BC%29.png Kaidor CC BY SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#/media/File:Silk_Road_in_the_I_century_AD_-_en.svg Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@dennismcdermot647 2025-12-27

I still lean towards Carl Sagan’s explanation of the Fermi paradox. “It’s a BIG cosmos.”

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@Alleyway_Hierophant 2025-12-28

David namedropping Anton, Anton shouting out to David 😌

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@JeffreyRobbins-vg6rb 2025-12-29

So maybe instead of it being the "Wow!" signal, it actually was the "Ow!" signal. 😆

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@chuckbridgeland6181 2025-12-28

"Sorry we missed your call. We did this cool thing aaaaand, now our sun is going to blow up."

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@stancil80d 2025-12-29

Civilization 1: Anybody out there?... Civilization 2: Hey there... Civilization 1: 💀 Civilization 3: Who this?... Civilization 2: 💀

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@stevenkarnisky411 2025-12-29

We have a hard time communicating with Voyager, and it is not all that far away as the universe goes. If the nearest stars had advanced civilizations similar to ours, we might have recognized signals from them. But say a hundred light years and beyond? Nah! The only thing we know is that right now we don't know if anyone is out there! Thanks, Anton!

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@RabidJohn 2025-12-29

I love how footage from Final Fantasy XIV always shows up in the montage when Anton talks about aliens, but it's particularly apt this time as it shows a memory of a dead alien civilization.

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@RinusBakker 2026-01-05

No Alien wants to get close to the Blue Ball of Garbage and Waste.

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@curmudgeonnn 2026-01-02

that's kinda what that episode of st:tng was about, the one where picard finds himself "waking up" in a dying civilization. you know, the one with the flute.

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@______IV 2025-12-29

The Fermi Paradox is just a more sciencey version of the flawed Sherlock Holmes quote: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however flawed, must be the truth." While true, in practice it’s not feasible to remove (or even account for) all impossibilities.

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