Interesting vid, although I personally see most of it as being nothing more than debris and the effects of being in the vacuum of space. I think people are tricked into seeing things that can usually be described through simple physics in a zero mavity environment.
Saying that though I think its absurd to think that there is no alien life out there.
I think its a mathematical certainty that there is life on other planets. As we're seeing more and more often on television, in newspapers and on the net, highly reputable scientists are coming forward and saying that there IS life out there, its just a matter of finding it. Intelligent/complex life would certainly be much rarer, but the sheer size and numbers involved in the universe would tell us that intelligent alien life is actually very popular, well to the human mind, number scale it would be anyway.
Its actually more improbable to suggest that out of the 100s of billions of stars in our galaxy, and the 100s of billions of galaxies in our known universe, that we, our tiny planet, is the ONLY rock that found that "right spot" for harboring life. Its pretty silly to say that it is the only one.
Then if you consider evolution and the brief spec of time that human civilization has been around, it begs the question of just how advanced and evolved these aliens could actually be.
What I mean is, human beings have only been around a tiny fraction of time on the evolutionary scale. I think scientists have settled on somewhere between 200-100 thousand years since human beings first arrived based on current evidence. The majority of this time we've been living in small tribes as hunter gatherers. Yet its only been the last 6 thousand years that human civilization and advancement has really started to take place. The last 150 years alone has seen our civilization and perception of the world and the universe turned entirely around from what it originally was. Our science/technology in the last 100 years has developed at an alarming rate and shows no sign of slowing down. So what would we and the earth be like 500 years from now? (that is if we don't destroy ourselves.)
Now with that in mind, imagine another intelligent alien species from another galaxy in the universe. One that managed to survive its time isolated on its planet, developed a means to colonize its moons and local planets and survive in space colonies. Witnessed the destruction of its home planet and maybe even saw the eventual burnout of its own sun. Now imagine that this happened 500+ million years ago and that in all this time, this species has evolved in a space environment and learned things about science and physics that today we would think of as silly science fiction. How would these beings think and perceive the world around them? In what way would they have evolved in space? Would they have developed new senses and perceptions that we cant fathom yet?
When people say things like "why would aliens travel 100's of lightyears to visit earth just to spy on us and not say hello" I think they're looking at it in the wrong way. I mean why would they see us as anything special? An alien race millions, or even just tens of thousands of years more technologically evolved than could see species like us everywhere? Perhaps they're simply just passing by? What makes us so absolutely special that aliens so old and evolved would want to come down to earth and engage with a violent and extremely primitive species of primates?
err... sorry for the long post. I went into Carl Sagan mode
