Is TIMING the reason we haven't found aliens? #shorts

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]One of the big reasons for why we haven't found alien life yet could just be timing. Not quite the same timing that kept Jim and Pam apart for three seasons of The Office, but more for the fact that humans have only existed for around 300,000 years. That [music] might sound like a lot until you remember that the entire Earth is 4 and 1/2 billion years old. And the first simple single-celled life appeared 3.8 [music] billion years ago. It then took evolution another 3 billion years to create life with multiple cells working together. Fish only crawled out of the sea onto land 375 million years ago.

[00:00:38]Dinosaurs ruled for 165 million years before being wiped [music] out, meaning that humans have only been around for 0.007% of Earth's history. Meaning that if you took those 4 and 1/2 billion years and compressed them down to fit into just a single Earth year, >> [music] >> so that the planet formed on of January, dinosaurs don't even show up until mid-December. And us humans only walked in at 11:42 p.m. on the 31st [music] of December. But the invention of the wheel, civilization itself, every historical figure, and every person you've ever loved all fit inside the last 60 seconds. [music] So, if we want to make contact with an intelligent alien species [music] on another planet, they then need to be at a similar point in their evolution on that big cosmic calendar as we are. Add to that fact that we've only had the technology to search and look out for alien life [music] for, let's say, the past century if we're being generous, which shrinks that time in our cosmic calendar to just 2 seconds before midnight. [music] 2 seconds out of an entire year that have to align. [music] AKA, a century out of 4 and 1/2 billion >> [music] >> years. And yet, here we are, still pointing our telescopes at the sky, still hoping beyond hope that just [music] maybe one day we will get our first contact moment.