Please take a minute to watch this astounding video:

In this video Epic Spaceman scales the size of our Milky Way Galaxy down to the size of the continental USA, then shows us how our ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM at that scale would fit… on a fingertip!

If you’ve driven across wide swaths of the USA you realize how HUGE a space that is, and if our solar system is only as big as the tip of my finger?

This might be why we don’t have aliens all over the place, they don’t know we exist!

Perhaps there are aliens here on earth, carefully hidden and disguised?

Back to the Milky Way… our galaxy has over 400 BILLION stars, so there could be an advanced civilization with colonies across 1,000 star systems… but that 1,000 star civilization is on the other side of the Milky Way… or there could be a vast civilization with planets around 10 million stars, but those stars are in a distant galaxy.

400 billion stars in our little galaxy, and there are MILLIONS of other galaxies out there.

Our tiny blue marble, orbiting an average star… with a race that has ONLY been in existence for the last 400,000 years… in an area the size of the United States, our Earth is the size of a red blood cell…

Perhaps alien races don’t notice each other until they both reach far larger sizes, and they are simply hidden by distance up to that point. Maybe when humans have colonized planets around 10,000 stars our galactic peers will suddenly appear, and start a meaningful dialogue.

An advanced race that controls 10,000 star systems (or 100 million) would probably hide it’s technology and communications for tactical and strategic purposes, only revealing it’s true abilities once it can assess any outside alien species.

Perhaps all sufficiently advanced races become peaceful because at intergalactic scale there is zero competition for resources, unlike the wars fought on our planet over land, oil, or wealth.

Even within our own solar system we can find unlimited mineral resources on asteroids as well as the moons of planets like Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

Hell, our puny tech might be simply unremarkable and not worthy of study to an advanced race 100,000 years ahead of us. And we have nukes, so why risk interaction with a violent race when there are plenty of planets out there without nuclear weapons, controlled by primates who still rape and kill each other.

I hope you enjoy the Epic Spaceman channel, he does great work!

Ben Alexander

April 2024