Name: Would Aliens Interfere with Human Life
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Would Aliens Interfere with Human Life' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Would Aliens Interfere with Human Life' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-12. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
You look at the, this is another point that Tim, I'm just giving Tim a shout
out to give him credit for the stuff that I've been noodling on for the past,
you know, yesterday and today on, I've had a lot of time just sitting on a
plane looking out the window going, man, where are all the aliens?
And so the other thing he talks about is like, if the history of human
civilization was an 800 page book, so say 160,000 years that we've been like
homo sapiens sapiens with like the kinds of civilizations that, well, even pre-civilizations,
right?
Nomadic peoples and so on.
Then each page of that book is what, 250 years, I think I'm doing that maths
right, or 200 years, 200 times 800, yeah, 160,000.
Like if you can open that book to almost any page and the same shit's going on,
right?
Like all the way up until the, like, yeah, basically people, people are
wandering around with pretty primitive tools.
A few of them sort of figure out how to use fire, a few of them figure out like
how to use metals and stuff like that.
A few of them figure out how to ride horses and domesticate animals, but it's
basically the same shit for like 790 pages of the 800 page book of the
civilization, of, you know, of human, of our species.
And then just towards the end, it's like the page before the very end, like the
United States gets settled, Australia gets settled, the industrial revolution
happens.
And then like on the final page, if each page is 250 years of an 800 page book,
you know, it's the last half of the page, nuclear weapons, you know, going into
space, landing on the moon, the evolution of the internet, vehicles, cars,
climate change, like all of this.
And it's like the final few lines, like Facebook and all this shit, Axie
Infinity and little coins and your VR and your orgasmatron and everything.
It's like the final two lines of an 800 page book.
So, you know, sometimes people will say to me, oh, you know, people always
think that they're living through amazing times, Josh.
You know, you think you're living through an incredible time, but I'm sure
people were saying that in like the 1820s.
I'm sure everyone was like, oh my God, things are changing so fast.
And I'm like, no, I'm going to call bullshit on that.
If an alien who knew nothing about anything took that 800 page book, they'd be
like, page 233 is roughly the same as page 722.
But they'd get to the end and they'd be like, holy shit, what's going to happen
next?
Like, I want to read the sequel to this book.
I want to read what's 801.
Well, that's when they would keep an eye on us.
You know, when they dropped Fat Man and Little Boy on Japan, that's when UFO
sightings started happening all over the globe.
There's a giant uptick in UFO sightings.
Was it Kenneth Arnold was one of the first, I believe?
He's the guy who spotted, I think it's Kenneth Arnold, was the guy that spotted
the flying saucers.
He was the first one to discuss them as saucer-shaped discs.
But they started seeing them all over the place.
Like there was encounters in Washington, D.C., and there was encounters over
nuclear bases where they said that they had shut codes down.
And I don't know if there was alien life and if there is alien life out there
that's aware.
I don't know if they would intervene because we don't really do much when we
find chimps.
Well, the intelligent scientific community doesn't try to interfere with their
life and give them guns and, like, this is how you start a fire.
Right.
But chimps have noticed that we exist.
Yes.
So, like, even if they don't come, like, I'm not talking about, like, why haven't
aliens come and visited us, like, in Independence Day.
I just mean, like, when we train our telescopes on the sky, why isn't there any
evidence of, like, little flickering radio waves coming from somewhere?
But a possible explanation is the one that you say, which is we're looking for
the wrong things.
Like, we've only been emitting radio waves for a century.
And we might be just about to end that and go into some virtual reality metaverse
or something and maybe we'll meet them all there.
Maybe we'll unlock some door of the Zuckerberg multiverse and be like, oh, here
are a whole bunch of preexisting civilizations of aliens who already exist on
this platform.
Well, also, if you think about the various planets that we know exist just in
our solar system and the conditions that exist on these planets, there's not a
lot of them that can support life.
Like, they believe that Mars at one point in time had liquid water and they had
an atmosphere and they're probably hit with some sort of an asteroid that wiped
out everything.
But other than that, you've got Europa that has frozen water on the outside.
It's a little close by, though, but when you're talking about the scale of the
universe, it's almost like talking about rolling the dice on the numbers of
COVID in a population.
Like, you don't need very high numbers before once you go to that size.
My point was the solar system that we exist in is very unusual.
And, you know, we obviously have a planet that exists in this Goldilocks range,
but we also have an extremely large asteroid belt.
And it's indicative of the initial impact between Earth 1 and Earth 2.
You know, Earth 1 was a planet that got hit by another planet.
Right.
And that's what created the moon.
And they believe that also created the asteroid belt.
And if there's a solar system out there that didn't have that sort of event, so
didn't have to worry about these intermittent cataclysms where, you know, that's
one of the things that Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock have done some great
research on, is the indication that at least one time that we know of while
civilization existed, it was probably almost wiped out.
Right.
And it's somewhere in the Younger Dryas impact theory.
Somewhere around 11,000.
Is this when we were all like 5,000 people or something?
Or like 10?
There were only...
There was...
No, that was a...
That was 70,000 years ago.
And that was, I believe, was Indonesia.
That was a volcano eruption.
That there was a super volcano that erupted that wiped out almost everybody.
And we got down to like 70,000 people or 7,000 people.
They don't know exactly, but it was right about there.
And then we pulled back out.
We did a lot of fucking...
And here we are today.
Thank God we didn't have an orgasmatron.
Otherwise, you know, people would have been in their basements with sore thumbs.
The point is, if there's a planet out there that doesn't have that issue, and
like, let's
imagine, because I don't know what the reality is when it comes to like ancient
Egypt or Mesopotamia
or, I mean, these incredible structures that these people built, where
unfortunately, because
of the burning of the Library of Alexandria, we don't have the real records of
how they did
it or how they accomplished it or who they were, or even really how long ago
they really
made it.
We know that some of them, they've done carbon dating on some of the stuff, and
they know
it's at least 2,500 BC, but there's some indications that some of it might be
far, far older than
that.
So let's imagine that there was some sort of a civilization 10,000 years ago,
20,000 years
ago, that was very advanced and was allowed to advance without any interruption,
without
nuclear war, without solar flares, without asteroid impacts or super volcanoes.
Maybe they lived in a much more stable climate, and they got to a place where
they're a million
years more advanced than us.
A million years.
Imagine what the fuck we're going to be in a million years.
I mean, I can't even imagine what we're going to be in a hundred years.
So if that's the case.
And then take a thousand years.
10,000, 100,000.
Yeah.
If that's the case, like, if they were out there and they were watching us,
they'd probably
just make sure we don't blow ourselves up.
Yeah.
Or not.
Well, I don't think, I think they would probably rather.
You reckon they're benevolent?
Well, you've got to think that, well, I don't know if it's benevolent or malevolent.
Like, if you think about what a scientist is, it's someone who wants to observe,
but sometimes
protect.
You know, like we protect endangered species.
Activists get together and they say, hey, you know, there's only a few of these
birds
left.
Yeah.
We have to do whatever we can to preserve them.
If they have that same mentality about the human race, I think they would have
a pretty
standoffish attitude and just sort of wait for us to figure it out.
Especially if they look at the acceleration of our innovation and this
exponential acceleration
of technology.
I can't remember if it was like Michio Kaku or Neil deGrasse Tyson or one of
those
like great science guys who was saying like, maybe any civilization that would
be advanced
enough to be able to reach out to us or to be noticed by us would also have to
be the
kind of civilization that would not be a predatory colonizing species.
Because in that case, it would have devoured itself with internal squabbles.
Right.
You know, before then.
Klingons.
Yeah, you basically have to reach a certain level of spiritual and
psychological wisdom
and self-awareness and compassion in order to sustain yourself over the course
of, you
know, so far we've had a couple of hundred years since the industrial
revolution and it's
only been a century, less than a century that we've had nukes.
Yeah.
We've had the ability to actually do some serious damage on a global scale.
We're just kids.
We are toddlers with an AR-15 right now.
I mean, we don't know what we're doing and we're going to have to grow up into
adults
and we're going to, you know, have a grown up civilization.
Thank you.