What If Aliens Make Contact? - Neil deGrasse Tyson on Intelligent Alien Life

What would we do as a civilization if we found evidence for intelligent alien life? How would we deal with it? Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why alien civilizations may be rare, even though life in general may be ubiquitous throughout the galaxy and beyond. Neil deGrasse Tyson also explains how intelligent alien life might not think of us as intelligent given the fact how we think of chimpanzees. We share around 99% common DNA with chimps yet we cannot communicate with them. Is it hubris to even imagine we could communicate with an alien species billions of years ahead of us? The cosmos is filled with trillions of stars. There are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone. Many of them, are just like our own sun. Based on that number, it would seem we are most certainly not alone in the galaxy let alone in the universe. So where are all the aliens? As far as our civilization has come technologically, we are nowhere near of reaching the stars. It takes light, th