Are We Ready For Aliens?
FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce **Big thanks to Antonius from AVbyte for helping with audio! His channel is great: http://www.youtube.com/avbyte ** My video about...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. But what could beout there? The likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligencehas been the subject of an equation and the current lackof any communication with aliens the subjectof a paradox. But here's a different question. If we were to hearfrom intelligent life beyond earth, what would reallyhappen next? Well, no governmenthas ever officially adopted a post-detection policy.And when asked how they would deal with a confirmed message fromextraterrestrial intelligence,the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairssimply said that their job does not include any issues regardingthe question you pose.So are we unprepared? Would chaos ensue?These things are unlikely but the waywe prepare for, and anticipate our species encountering one fro...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. But what could beout there? The likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligencehas been the subject of an equation and the current lackof any communication with aliens the subjectof a paradox. But here's a different question. If we were to hearfrom intelligent life beyond earth, what would reallyhappen next? Well, no governmenthas ever officially adopted a post-detection policy.And when asked how they would deal with a confirmed message fromextraterrestrial intelligence,the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairssimply said that their job does not include any issues regardingthe question you pose.So are we unprepared? Would chaos ensue?These things are unlikely but the waywe prepare for, and anticipate our species encountering one fro...
