Matt Walsh

I'm just saying the distances are...

incomprehensible i mean they're so great that even if we could travel the speed of light which we can't obviously probably never will but if we could it would still take 25 000 years to make it to the closest neighboring galaxy like 100 billion galaxies in the universe that we know of just to make it to the closest one this is yeah just galactically we're talking about next door to us and uh it would be 25 000 years 300 lifetimes traveling at a speed that's impossible

So why haven't we, as far as we know, been contacted by any life in the universe?

Well, because everything is really, really, really far away.

I mean, that's actually the reason.

It always is funny to me when people kind of blow that off as, oh, come on, that's a lame excuse.

No, it's not.

I mean, that's the reason.

It's just, it's huge.

It's really big.

I don't know how else to put it.

It's like, imagine if somebody told you about blue whales, and you never heard of blue whales before.

They told you about largest animals on earth, and you never heard of them.

They said, oh, there's blue whales.

You said, where are the blue whales?

And they said, oh, they're in the ocean.

And so you go to the Atlantic Ocean and you go to the outer banks, North Carolina, and you swim out into the surf and you put on a snorkel and you swim a little bit farther and you don't see any blue whales.

And so you come back to the shore and you say, well, the whole blue whale story is a myth.

I mean, if these whales are really out there, why didn't I see one?

It's the blue whale paradox.