 All right, let's start this. I mean, it's legal, right? It's totally legal. OK. How does that work? Do people get upset at you if you do certain things? Exactly. Perfect. Balances it out. This type of wick before, but Molly decided to bring it home. And also, that she doesn't particularly space shuttle is such a, well, really, any rocket launch. It's such a, I'm just going to show you something to visit his home village southeast in the southeast Peloponnesas. I think I probably got these in Athens. And it's a long-standing tradition there. Not sure how far back it goes. Maybe you guys can tell me. I never quite figured out how to use them. But they do serve a purpose to relax, almost like a meditation of sorts. So they give us something to focus on. They're called worry beans. They help relax, even give ideas just from the depths and maybe allow a fascinating thing. It's so close and intimate yet. This interesting conceive. Just what aliens might be like or a desire to explore is arguably as deep as eating, drinking, and sharing both squirmed for a million years, albeit by a titanally burdensome environment. Why do we do that? But still, this was an environment that gave our ancestors the impetus to grow legs, run fast, swing from trees. Anthropologists, we struck out from Africa, maybe just 100,000 years ago, to face the unknown, but also to eventually birth the earliest cogs of the cooperative invention we call civilization, fertile earth, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers to historians, the age of discovery, also known as the age of exploration, the most important periods of geographical exploration in human history. It's lasted from the 1400s, which was perlasted. So it's the 15th century. It lasted until the 17th century, after we had already mapped out most of her. In this period, areas of the Americas, Portugal and Spain dominated these first, and the very improved significance of it is that it proved the true size of the earth. We had already had inclinations that it was round, a sphere, but this helped us prove the true size in existence, North and South America. And with Galileo's improvements on the telescope in conjunction, it helped define our sense of perspective. A heliocentric system on a biological spaceship, massive fusion reaction, heating us, giving us warmth in the cold depths of space, in turn revolving around the galaxy, which is just a series of heliocentric systems. It helped us get that much closer to mapping the enduring reality. It was that juxtaposed that with our common conception, so often portrayed in movies. My view of the slowly peeling back this is by Trey written on September 3rd. Doesn't have a year, so I assume it's 2018. He's a social and political sciences major at, did I say it was on the medium.com website? It's called Musings Benevolent Aliens. Culturally, our representations portrayed as something that wanna colonize us and exterminate us. Intent on pillaging our resources, whether it's water or minerals, rocks, that this is how any dynamic presumption of malicious intent, clearly a projection necessarily universal in the impulse to cock was not present in contrast to Columbus's subjugation of the name instead of to understand this in the context, psychological projections based on our own, not to dismiss the possibility entirely, but it is reconsidering the motives. We know collective advancement arises from two things, cooperation, just as it did. Well, in any city, state, at any point in history, it's, you might argue that it's enforced tyranny, dictation of many by a few, but in reality on a daily analysis, we all are cooperating to keep the system. Given that the beings in question would have developed technologies, allowing them to contact us and themselves through space, we can assume that they're both. This suggests that the ubiquitous motive of resource extraction is possibly, probably. They're intelligent enough to travel this far and be able to efficiently harness energy in a very conceivably, in a starship, spaceship, deflect particles that would otherwise render them completely, would render the travel so fast across such vast achieve this level of easily an asteroids, much closer to them in their own systems, construct Dyson spheres to the most amount of solar radiation from their local star, their sun, extremely efficient fusion. They would probably biologically inhabit for their minerals, at least a type two civilization. So it's not safe to assume that they would have figured out renewable resources. We recognize that the interplay from the interplay of intelligence and cooperation, it arises as an expansion of morality, morality being the wisest way. The answer to what is the wisest way as the capacity to put ourselves in another's shoes is both a rational and emotional exercise. You can't achieve either without cooperation. And I find it very, an innate viewing thing. That's really where science intersects with morality, I suppose, that's really cool. I didn't think of it like that. So we can assume that an alien race with immense knowledge, it wouldn't be hatred or desperation, but curiosity and altruism. You can only be altruistic if you've a society sophisticated and that is sophisticated enough to be able to relieve the more base impulses that cause violence, such as hunger. And I can imagine a civilization who has reached the Star Trek Federation level of sophistication would possibly want to, they would have understood the true importance of cooperation and assisting various civilizations in their mark. Trey and I, I think it's a compelling argument to be made that we have little to worry about terrestrial, extraterrestrial contact, what Stephen Hawking gave us, or breed, a civilization could advance so far, technologically, find so much about the truth of reality to be able to transport across entire interstellar space, star systems, while still having an ultimately belligerent attitude towards the universe and each other, you know? And being content with that ignorant, of course they would by then have robots, very sophisticated machines to do all their labor that hypothetically we might be used for, mean also that they have a way of efficiently, but certainly it would be very unlikely that DNA would be, we have to share polymers or RNAs for storing our genetic, the exact, adenosine, guanine, guarin, E-C-G-T genetic letter that we use that make up the fundamental structures for food, which would be on a stretch to get a dinner of crabs. They'd have to have enzymes that allow them to successfully break down and make use of polymers and amino acids in the bases and sugars and membranes of phospholipids, fat, they would steal our water because even in our own system, we have your mostly ice. It holds more liquid water beneath its frozen surface, pure liquid water than we even have here on Earth. So again, assuming their non-molivalence, and I really think there's a great case to be made for that, they wouldn't have any reasons spent of our lives. I'm just looking at a list of possible reasons. And as they wanna use our raw materials, they wanna enslave us, they want to eat us. They, if they were looking for gold or diamonds or even iron, so many more, so much more of those materials, they would have no reason if they came to visit us. The most rational answer, taking everything into account, our own psyche, our own evolutionary origins, our physics, our structures, our ecosystems, the presence of raw materials out in the cosmos. It would be as researchers, they would come as biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keying to understand the peculiar workings of all that life on Earth. Meet humanity to get where we are. It's there, we have a desire. We might be fearful, feels the same way. Civilizations in our situation must slip through to come out on the other side of the light. The underlying central theme is actually curiosity. I think something that's severely in all societies but nor is as well very glad that I have decided to shape or form by giving your support. So to those of you who have chosen to donate, I just wanna say how immensely grateful I am. It inspires me to keep going and to get better and just, I wanna say thank you. Seriously, I don't wanna sound stereotypical and say it wouldn't be the only, it wouldn't be, you know, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here. That's all true but I wanted to express this in a personal way, I guess. So individualized to my situation because I certainly wouldn't be taking the time to make these videos if I didn't know that people that were interested beyond watching them subscribing and commenting and then of course donating have chosen to do. So it means so much. It's actually the thing that keeps me going. 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