Eric Idle Knows What's Up

Thanks Eric Idle and YouTube user “galaxysong123” for providing an excellent look at the insanity of everything that we cling to.

Watch the video first. Seriously, do it. Or at least listen to it.


I think there are many ways to explain the fact that we have not contacted or been contacted by alien civilizations without falling upon the “zoo theory”. I just personally find it rather hard to swallow that a bunch of super-intelligent and peaceful civilizations had a galactic conference to decide to set up a boundary around us until we become peaceful. Our galaxy is so obscenely big, it is a definite possibility that intelligent civilizations are simply too rare and spread out to possibly ever contact each other. With the current model of the universe, faster than light travel has been ruled impossible, and even speeds close to the speed of light seem very improbable. At the fastest speed ever attained by a manned spacecraft, it would take 110,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star outside of our solar system. If a highly intelligent species exists on the other side of the galaxy and is even able to effectively colonize worlds in other star systems, we are still unable to reach out of the solar system and have only been able to receive radio transmissions for seventy years. For mankind to receive communications from civilizations from hundreds of thousands of light-years away, it would make sense that we give more than seventy years to the search before giving up and crowning ourselves with the title of the only intelligence in the galaxy. If we ever do receive a signal, it is very possible that by the time it gets to us, communication would be impossible due to the distance involved requiring thousands of years to transmit, and the possibility that the civilization extinguished itself after colonies developed their own cultures and infighting tore them apart. Regardless of the improbability of being contacted by alien life, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fix things up down here just in case they decide to stop on by and see how things are going. And as Eric Idle beautifully put it, “pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there’s bugger all down here on earth.”