10 Ways We May Have Already Detected Alien Life

An exploration into ten potential ways that we may have already detected alien life in the universe.
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[@jeffersonfan393]

Y’all seen the Voyager 1 disk? First thing aliens are getting is our address, nudes, and mixtape

[@michaelp.5222]

Da Infinity Stonks lmao ikr

[@isaacosgood9759]

@@michaelp.5222 So we pretty much just said hey this is my dick ya wanna Netflix and chill also I'm trying to get into the music industry wanna hear my raps. No wonder Aliens won't visit were the creeps of the universe.

[@hpdarkman47]

MrAubery 😂😭😭😂😂😭😭

[@jaanth314]

They should have at least made the dude's dick bigger. Then at least the slutty aliens would want to meet us.

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

@MrAubery Okay, Jeranism-wannabe. Flat earth is a joke. Thankfully for the movement, it still has conspiracies and scientific illiteracy to depend on to gain followers.

[@AtroposLeshesis]

"i'm having more fun than should be allowed" says the guy in a monotone flat voice.

[@Deavhrmordhau]

He doesn't have to show it physically

[@CrazyNormie3457]

Maybe he's a Vulcan ;)

[@conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059]

@@Deavhrmordhau no, but he does need to be believable. Saying that while sounding like your about to fall asleep makes it sound like even YOU don't believe what u said

[@duckduckandeby405]

conspiracies are just great stories : Well said, but then again he is a writer and has obviously written down what he has to say, and just because you may be a good syfy writer, doesn’t mean you are a great dramatic reader. It wold be really strange, and it would sound pretty stupid if he said that “.....it’s more fun than it it should...” in an overexcited voice, when everything else is read in the same monotone voice, A tone that I like! What wait A minute, so you’re saying that you don’t believe him have fun making a video for crying babies 👶like you, crying over he didn’t sound happy enough for you. He makes grate videos, and I guess he uses a long time to investigate every single video?

[@anonymike8280]

I like the robot voice. At least I can understand it, which more than I can say for the squeaky chicks and mumbly guys who narrate some of these videos.

[@JohnDoe-vd3dc]

Your voice puts me to sleep. I don't mean that in a dickish way. You just have interesting topics that I enjoy relaxing and listening to. Your voice is just the right amount of calm and intriguing to help me relax. Good work bro.

[@fCauneau]

Another Signal that Makes me Relax ;-)

[@wenceslaogalvan4661]

Yes. And the presentation is excellent.

[@desertdweller9255]

He really nailed it! Much appreciation!

[@mrman174]

you're welcome

[@dupisnupis8114]

John Doe wholesome.

[@browndd]

I'm personally convinced that there is almost certainly life on Europa. And that most life in the universe is probably on Moons both ice shell and terrestrial like. It's kinda crazy to think that most life in the Universe might be trapped under ice and have no idea that anything beyond their ocean exists.

[@blakehaun972]

I feel the same way. Just imagine the creatures that could thrive in the vast oceans under the ice. Europa should be priority one in future missions.

[@mypasswordisredcarrot]

Dude what if there’s life on earth? Probably not but what if...

[@conceptualmessiah01]

@@mypasswordisredcarrotare you crazy son? And what is earth?

[@akelly9528]

@@mypasswordisredcarrot oh boy! Here's the conspiracy theorist everybody!

[@micronuke1933]

I don't think enceladus gets enough credit for possible life, I think both might have life

[@dr.skulhamr3220]

I too was raised on Arthur C. Clark and Asimov and the lot. I flew to great places with them, but more importantly, I grew an even greater respect for the scientific principle, reason, and logic. Now, at 72, I wonder at the world I've traversed over time and marvel at the moments or junctures at which my timeline might have been changed. I puzzle over the nature of time with events far flung temporally feeling like they happened only recently. Certainly, time is subjective and I get that, but it's incredible to view the world with a 72 year yardstick. In some senses it's not unlike swirling down the bathroom drain. (BTW, bought 3 of your books, JMG. I'm looking forward to them; thank you.)

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks Roy! Hope you enjoy them!

[@christiancampbell466]

My kids love watching the water journey down the drain. It’s one of our daily science touch-points. “Look, Daddy, it’s a vortex! Enjoy your trip to the ocean!! I hope you have a nice life!!!”

[@bfx20018f]

You explain things in both a very precise but, also a very easy to understand way. Keep it up. I really enjoy your work.

[@wichitadisciple9874]

At one time I think I remember them saying that if they found water then the possibility of life was almost certain. They've found water everywhere.

[@sinisacubric8087]

yes bat religion is strong and if seey we found life what they gona say or Alien almost like human look bat GOD make human how Alien bicome

[@gerloke914]

They found water but what about food? Nothing can survive out there.

[@DjDesim]

Ger Loke micro organisms survive just fine.

[@highvoltage6371]

Also need electricity thou

[@baileypanama]

Desim not true. You still need food. Plus there’s no water nowhere in space. Is so name the planet. GOD created us only

[@Hackenberg]

Here is my prediction: We will find life in at least two places in the Solar System. It will be microbial and understandable by current science.

[@anonb4632]

The Viking probes may have found it forty years ago.

[@RevCo78]

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.

[@Redrum___]

@@RevCo78 what?¿

[@g.burger2286]

I agree. This was also my prediction. **nerd sounds**

[@mixererunio1757]

@@RevCo78 Ah, I see you're Man of culture as well

[@TheTruePopeFrancis]

As one man once said: “Life finds a way”

[@LukeLane1984]

Life... Uh... Uh... Finds a way.

[@FairGame-w2i]

More like - A dick always finds a pussy !!

[@toby10bears21]

That was in a movie... Real life says there is no other life out there. Offer proof. Real proof. Not childish wishful thinking.

[@anonb4632]

@@toby10bears21 The materials are out there, the conditions are out there and there is even possible indirect evidence of microbial life.

[@Pangolin-Mandolin]

......uh.....

[@amandas2639]

Not gonna lie. When you mentioned the Vikings, for a nanosecond, my mind immediately defaulted to, well, *our* vikings, and I thought, "Are you kidding? They found ALIEN LIFE first too? Man, those guys were busy!" ...I'm running on not a lot of sleep right now.

[@frippp66]

well the Vikings DID get around...

[@robmc3338]

Vikings, found alien life and stole their gold lol

[@biliminsrlar5752]

What if Vikings are the aliens?

[@richardyoung1398]

Amanda S clearly this was an exhausted Brain thought

[@TheBlowMachine69]

Amanda S have you slept yet?

[@8888Rik]

As a (retired) evolutionary biologist, epistemologist, and former astrophysics student, with a strong interest in exobiology, I'm always searching for solid, well-grounded science videos on youtube, and this is one. I just discovered your channel, and I'm very happy that I did, as I enjoyed this particular video very much. I corresponded for a bit with Gil Levin, in the late 1980s, and I very strongly suspect that the Viking landers did indeed detect life on Mars. Experiments similar to, the LR and gas spectrometer, but much more sensitive and sophisticated, should be included in a future mission designed to sample soil from the surface through several centimeters to perhaps half a meter below the surface layer. With regard to the WOW! signal, one possibility for it had been the presence, in 1977, of two comets that were in the vicinity of the signal's apparent origin, that might possibly caused a similar signal on that frequency. Those comets were due to return to that area of the sky, although not simultaneously, in the past couple of years. The signal wasn't repeated, which presumably rules out that natural cause. I think that the idea that inhabited subsurface oceans on natural satellites is an exciting possibility, and is certainly high on the agendas of NASA, the ESA, and the Russian program. In any event, thank you for this very entertaining piece of work.

[@dnlcast2]

Too bad you don't have solid, well grounded evidence of evolution.

[@davidschadeberg3786]

@@dnlcast2 He does have solid, well grounded evidence for evolution, and so does Mi6.

[@f1rebreather123]

​@@dnlcast2its funny because this kind of stuff comes from the same people that talk of a magical entity from another realm that has 0 tangible proof as if its fact, while saying eveolution cant possibly be real despite us having a moslty complete puzzle. The theory with the least assumptions is usually the answer.

[@BriarLeaf00]

You're far too humble for a KZbin God, even if it was years ago. JMG is a KZbin treasure trove of awesome content.

[@punkypinko2965]

Funny you compare him to a god ... because practically this whole video is pure fantasy. This is science fiction, not science.

[@birdsandthingsbeachandbush1064]

@@punkypinko2965 who hurt you as a kid

[@chongli3007]

@@punkypinko2965Lemme guess, creationist?

[@vermasean]

@0:06 - congratulations on the channel reaching 3K Sub’s. I’m over here like a delayed constant 3 years later catching up on these amazing videos & now JMG’s channel has cleared 300K subs!! Awesome work! Your work is timeless! ( love the closing comments!!!).

[@steveharris3045]

Just come across your channel, I shall be returning.

[@johnanderson5500]

Same here

[@brendonadams9330]

The WOW signal is perfect. Earth traveled through it at over 500,000 MPH. Earth's movement caused a Doppler effect, thus the signal wasn't the perfect 1420htz that they expected it was off slightly. Also because of how fast we travel through space it is impossible to monitor the same point in space (Everything we know of is in motion). They think the signal came from an area between 40,000 and 60,000 light years away due to the cluster of stars the Big Ear was aimed at at the time of receiving the signal. It's more likely that the signal is far older and came from an almost unimaginable distance away but that star cluster just happened to align with Earth and the signal. This makes perfect sense, we're never going to be able to receive repeating signals from space. Space is just too vast.

[@danfruzzetti7604]

right and the idea of contact at that distance is irrelevant - the sender of that message is long since gone as would we be by the time their reply to ours arrived. i think alien "persons" are absolutely out there - CERTAINLY more likely than spacecraft-wielding earth society lasting another 80,000 to 120,000 years and remaining equipped for that conversation

[@skz5k2]

The Solar System is travelling at ~220km/s (~500000mph), but toward galactic longitude l=+90, while the signal came from Sagittarius that is at l=9 b=-15, so respect that source there is just the 30km/s of the Earth revolution around the Sun. The Galactic center is at ~8kpc=26000lyr. If the source of the signal is at 40,000lyr, then it is located 10500lyr (3kpc) below the Galactic plane, far away from star clusters, except globular clusters, but there are any of them there.

[@jethropeters4686]

@@skz5k2 huh? What? 8kpc? Is that alien language? LOL

[@DoctorLifeMD]

@@jethropeters4686 kpc = kiloparsecs. One kiloparsec is 1000 parsecs and one parsec is 3.26 light-years. A light-year is the measurement of distance traveled by light in one standard Terran (or Julian) year, so 365 days.

[@GladDestronger]

so where do you think it came from then? what far flung system might it have traveled from?

[@Dr.Westside]

If aliens wanted to communicate over vast distances I think quantum nonlocality signaling (can't use entanglement for transmitting data) would be the tip of the iceberg , which we are a long way from. I just can't buy using radio though. That would be like trying to comment on KZbin using smoke signals.

[@someguythatlookslikeme8306]

Best analogy ever

[@brucejackson1377]

It depends what you want to communicate with. To flip the analogy, if you want to communicate with (or just tease your existence to) lesser species, using your advanced communication tools on us would be so far beyond us...it would be like using KZbin comments to reach people who only know smoke signals.

[@zodammit]

Why couldnt entanglement be used for a binary code type signalling?

[@sinisacubric8087]

yes and what Alien gona talk with as, they mach older smarter bat we have sameone to look as or we are yust in like reservation or BB .Where are others, that is mistery

[@gerloke914]

How do we escape that kind of communication? I have to escape these electrical signals coming from the skies.

[@DO-ol3jg]

Who says Von Neumann probes cant be microscopic? Even we can build machines at the molecular level, a million year old species could perfect that technology. We could be surrounded by probes right now.

[@bearcubdaycare]

That makes me itch.

[@yolbert335]

What if we are the probes?

[@cfandersonz8033]

Bro that shit is true as, look up the US Navy “tic tac” UFO sightings, which has also been recorded by other militaries. There’s something in this

[@Nautilus1972]

I think we could well be surrounded, they're just cloaked.

[@sharksareneat8723]

Callum Anderson Yeah SETI really needs to re-evaluate its stance on the UFO phenomenon since the Nimitz incident was declassified. While its perhaps unlikely that UFOs are Van Neumann probes, the possibility is distinctly there, and an unidentified object being able to outmaneuver fighter jets with ease does deserve an eyebrow raise at the very least

[@TheBroccoliFox]

I am thrilled to see that your channel has grown from 3K subscribers in March of 2017 to 158K on Independence Day (US holiday) 2019! That is absolutely wonderful and as someone who thoroughly enjoys your work, I am not the least bit surprised and quite expect continued growth. As for this video specifically, very interesting list with a lot of detail given for each item. Great work. :)

[@alanh2830]

My goodness! A well balanced, concise, non-nutty analysis! Subscribed.

[@rigomrtz]

really happy to have this Chanel ,more full length videos please

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks and I'll definitely be doing more longer videos in the future.

[@MrQuangvha]

I like to listen to this dude, even though everything he say is going above my head.

[@flydeath1841]

trevor unswin

[@tinypoolmodelshipyard]

Gotta love when you got that Chanel, that Chanel ish is the 🐐

[@desertdweller9255]

Your voice is so soothing and your content is extremely intriguing. I can watch your videos whether I want to learn or fall asleep. Perfect mix!

[@Depresso_Espresso99]

Coming back to videos like these in 2023 is wild, considering what's recently happened.

[@ayushkatheria8232]

Day made. So happy for this channel John. More power to you!

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks again Ayush!

[@michaelwidener9925]

Ayush katheria i

[@futureboy7372]

I like long videos with no adds in the middle, this is perfect,time to relax and listen

[@ljessecusterl]

One of the few channels where I thumbs-up the video before watching it.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Many thanks!

[@dennisadmiraal3415]

INDEED!!!

[@erickemnitzer2579]

Your channel is awesome and is an inspiration to mine that FINALLY comes out next week. Years in, and I and many others are still here. Thanks for always providing awesome content.

[@summern3064]

I love your videos so so much! Thank you for all the effort and information you put in. You really deserve your own tv show!

[@robhenry4616]

I think the failure of NASA to follow up the Viking tests on later missions (eg repeat the LR test with left, then right, handed molecules) is an epic mistake. It's as if they concluded that chemical testing for life was too academically challenging for them, and so just decided to look for water then scream' COULD MEAN LIFE' whenever they saw it.

[@edlingja1]

Rob Henry Well if you remember, NASA lost funding during various presidencies. As a result, their scope was focused more onto what we have today: A blend of orbiting research facilt(ies), probes, and "little" area/volume scanners.

[@omgz8876]

Competence doesnt require funding. When you bungle basic experiments thus wasting the funding, guess what happens next... And the guy who decided to mix the LR payloads into one should be forever posted in alaska in search of fungi spores. This is what lost em further funding, enter the new project 'in search of water (enjoy the downgraded level of trust to run anything more complex) If it wasnt for ESA, NASA would still be having trouble with that, so NASA is either full of incompetent theorists or effective saboteurs. Im betting both.

[@Ouchthathurt843]

You dumbasses actually think that's all they look for, water? They look at the general conditions of planets, whether or not they could possibly have water on them. Water is also a pretty good strategy to look for organisms that us humans would recognize as life as we know it. The search for alien life is so unlikely it's more possible for us to go extinct before we find even a signal. If you think you're more competent than acclaimed NASA theorists then why aren't you one? Lol a bunch of snobby idiots who think they have the IQ of a Rick and Morty fan.

[@milanstevic8424]

@@omgz8876 Well, saboteurs are an interesting possibility... What would be their motive? And I'm not being cynical. In all seriousness, what could be their motive? On the other hand, what are the chances that such a project has incompetent idiots bungling such an important mission? Ok, accidents do happen, but accidents in such professional environments should be scarce and flat-distributed, statistically speaking. For example, what are the chances of such negligence or clumsiness happening during the opening of Chinese Olympics? Corporate logistics? Military or rescue operation? I don't want to assume but this is definitely testable and verifiable within a reasonable degree of accuracy. What I'm saying is that there must be a way to calculate the odds that could hint whether such a botch is more likely to be a sabotage or just an accident, considering all comparable human endeavors with comparable logistics, level of expertise, scope and budget.

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@milanstevic8424 You forget what a big change to the status quo the Discovery of extraterrestrial life would be. For everyone.

[@theneighbourhoodnonbelieve922]

This is the first content of yours I’ve seen, and I’m impressed! You are doing a fantastic job. I can’t wait to see future content! 👍👍

[@thelowmein9143]

A lot of videos on you tube, and heck even tv documentaries are full of fluff and repetition. Your videos are not, in fact if anything they may have the opposite problem. They are so chock full of fascinating, well stated information that’s it’s hard to digest and keep up with!! I have to watch a few times to get it all! That’s a good thing! Keep it up, I love the channel!

[@GodBreathedOnMe]

Love your videos John. Happy one year & congrats on 3k subs

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks Jake. Still hard to believe how fast this channel is growing.

[@GodBreathedOnMe]

John Michael Godier yeah, it's pretty awesome to see it grow, I can tell you put forth effort into your videos that's why I stuck around. Keep it up John the universe is a mysterious place ☀️🌏

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

It is indeed a mysterious place and I'm totally energized to keep up making videos!

[@GodBreathedOnMe]

John Michael Godier you here about Elon musk sending private space tourists to space. Seems pretty risky since we haven't been back in 4 decades

[@Cambria399]

So the risk window has closed and no one can go lunar? I agree with you that it will be risky. Deliver me unto the risk takers! Deliver me the moon...even if by Amazon!

[@2dnxtdimension]

Great list and wonderful work as always. Congrats on 3k subs, I'm so happy for you John.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks again Rahul :)

[@MrKago1]

according to one of my biology proffs, microbe are present in our own atmosphere, and account for much of seeding that forms the water droplets in clouds. which would be very good for microbes in Venutian clouds.

[@atflokee]

Watching this again in May 2020... Pleased to be one of, get this, 234k subscribers! Congratulations to JMG and team for two awesome channels!

[@impufinstuf]

I do like the vids you put out and you have a voice that is easy to listen to. I just became one of yours a few days ago pretty much like that and i want to say keep up with your style of vids cuz they are great.

[@daveb5041]

DNA life could be von nymenn probes.

[@TechNed]

von Neumann*

[@spacesciencelab]

Yeah! Have you seen the bacteriophage? Looks like a machine!

[@noeditbookreviews]

That's what I was thinking

[@alexprice104]

That's what I was thinking too...life is seeded by interstellar asteroids...we are aliens...we are stars...

[@dphorgan]

@@spacesciencelab haha they remind me of Borg nanoprobes from Star Trek.

[@rachapach6192]

I'm a new subscriber.. Your videos are great!! You should have alot more subscribers than u do. ❤

[@lisasky5094]

Does anyone know if the script John uses is available for download? I am hard-of-hearing and read subtitles to keep up. I would much prefer reading along in full. Love this channel!

[@WakenerOne]

24:24: What if extraterrestrials are expecting *us* to say hello on that frequency, and do not broadcast on it for that reason . . . ?

[@LastVoyage]

Thank you for your videos. The content you upload is truly amazing.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks for watching Alex!

[@bonedoc4556]

I remember seti saying we would likely find evidence of extra terrestrial life in the next 20 years , 20 years ago. It's how they keep the funds going.

[@bearcubdaycare]

To be fair, most of the known exoplanets were discovered in that time period. Not radio signals carrying alien pop songs, granted, nor by SETI, but still significant scientific progress on yea or nay to exolife, and to exosentience. The question might be, what's the best way to investigate the questions, and is that by radio?

[@sonnyburnett8725]

Jim Baker , Have to agree with Bone Doc as it seems a requirement to get science to even speak the word alien it’s always deep in our future. Almost like they’re purposely trying to not frighten anyone.

[@anonb4632]

@@sonnyburnett8725 They err on the side of caution in all things.

[@perfection4749]

I don’t like seeing SETI talking about geology on another planet when there primary task and really there only task is to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence!!

[@srspanksalot4501]

@@perfection4749"I'm mad because scientists accidentally discovered something unrelated to their mission" you're a dumbass.

[@reddog7046]

I like this guy he does not make any assumptions on anything he speculates with the information available

[@kiraakapixxxi22]

Such a soothing voice you have! Love from Texas 🙂😊❤️

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks!

[@nightbreed4219]

hmmm, if we don't broadcast on the hydrogen band cos of SETI, maybe all the aliens have the same rule. So everyone is listening and hearing nothing cos no-ones saying hi.

[@lilaclizard4504]

rofl! That's an awesome but sad thought. Maybe we should broadcast once a month or year or something. Can you imagine if your right & the whole universe has been doing this for thousands of years & we decide to be the ones to break the silence & they ALL respond & then everyone realises what they've done & hears each other rofl would be TOO funny! gotta be a novel or movie in that!

[@Sanctor95]

I think what he meant was that we don't broadcast on that band for our everyday/commercial purposes. Pretty likely that we if we think of that as the universal hello we are gonna be saying hello because we're a bunch of lonely bastards.

[@Robert-mx3id]

exactly, just watch the night clear movements, of as pilots have discussed for decades. "Foo Fighters" duh

[@caffiend81]

More recent revisions to the Alcubierre drive bring the energy requirements down to much more reasonable levels. The big sticking point now is that it would require exotic matter that has negative mass. If that doesn't exist then it doesn't matter how little of it we need if we need any non-zero amount.

[@Boogaboioringale]

Exactly. However, it’s already hard enough to contain antimatter (with positive mass/energy), grabbing a hold of negative mass may be a little dicey(if it even exists).

[@primatesrusb.p4823]

This is a great approach to questioning and asking the unknown about alien life outside our planet without a biased tone..

[@DarkWorldOrder]

Gratz on 3k subs mate

[@pjsbulldog67]

Excellent video

[@tyulik]

at first I thought "Oh great another top 10 alien bullshit", but this is actually very reasonable and I like that you give your (scientific) opinion! Very cool video

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

*excellent video and channel !*

[@free_spirit1]

years later I still go back to your old uploads

[@rhouser1280]

6 yrs later, still making awesome videos I click on right away! Thanks man

[@GeneticNoob]

Looking forward to more videos! Like the rationalism!

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks for watching! Rational thinking + curiosity = mind blown.

[@dusanmal]

As a scientist who in early days got the Nikola Tesla Society prestigious award for young scientists I had opportunity to directly study his writings/works at Belgrade museum. Truth about his "receiving radio signals from Mars (and Moon)" is much simpler and more important for the history of Science than guess-work on aliens: Before Tesla, radio-astronomy did not exist in any shape or form. Not even the radio (modulated EM signals), he invented it (despite Marconi's sneaky attempt to steal the glory). Interesting thing is WHAT Tesla decided to do once he invented the concept of the radio and had it working in the lab. He have not chosen simple target but built a very strong transmitter, wondering how would his invention perform in the vacuum of space and at astronomical distances. Before Marconi's "feeble" transmission over the Adriatic Sea, Tesla sent long wave radio signal modulated with his own voice toward the Moon and Mars. Not to "talk to aliens" but to see how would signal propagate over vast distances in vacuum and how/if it would (as he expected) reflect from the astronomical bodies. His notes on receiving and decoding reflections of his own signal, in the years to follow, were misinterpreted as him receiving something of alien origin. To better grasp why would Tesla first do something seemingly so "odd" instead of announcing his great invention of radio to the World, one must understand his scientific invention process, vastly different than "will it stick to the wall" of Edison. Tesla always deeply investigated science of his inventions before releasing them, he needed to have deeper understanding of what he found before being ready to let the World on it. Why is this important for the History of Science?- Because Tesla not only invented radio but also in the process did the first Radio Astronomy experiment/observation, founded the field of Radio Astronomy far earlier than the current history states.

[@JulianSarnoff]

The “alien civilization” thing comes along with the hypothesis that it was once a water-world that was quickly destroyed when an asteroid opened a near-surface magma chamber that turned the entire core out onto the surface, evaporating the oceans in a matter of days and covering over any evidence of these people. It cannot be ruled out as maybe having happened. All the more interesting that official maps of Mars include the Atlantis Chaos Region. Reality itself starts to seem like an ARG when we delve into the Mystery of Golgotha.

[@unclerico1106]

Dude I love your videos!!!!! Great stuff and I love how you explain stuff to the common man. Not everyone is gonna understand this and you help alot thanks!!!

[@Eulogy466]

Some one far (or close) in the future is watching this and laughing at how much we don’t know compared to them

[@slinkerdeer]

Or maybe they already are

[@kimghanson]

Nope. They'd be saying, "Finally someone smart enough to say 'I don't know.' "

[@xlChronos]

They may even read your comment Think about that

[@burtpanzer]

They are, and that would be me... having observed life forms or ships possibly a half mile wide crawling all over the Lunar surface while this guy talks about microbial traces in fossils makes me wonder how we got this far. Go to BRUCE SEES ALL and see for yourselves!

[@velkylev4217]

You were right . I am here , one year later, laughing my ass off

[@taha-ks3gj]

This was 6 years ago, why do i not think of 2017 when i think 6 years ago

[@jeffandhisdogs]

Wow! You have over 300k now! Congrats! Your videos have been great from the start!

[@ryanosborne7246]

Hell, #4 on this list aged pretty well

[@maccmoses]

If theres only 1 Earth like planet in every Galaxy theres Hundreds of Billions were not alone the Universe is just to big.

[@kingt.hawkings32]

We come from a dead solar system...aliens picked the best planet out of the group EARTH of course! Mars and Venus used to have life but then they died out. Earth was the last planet with the help of the moon to get us where we are today!

[@alfie2113]

S Tman no proof life ever existed on Mars and Venus yet, stop being a twat

[@LONEWOLFTRUCKA]

@@kingt.hawkings32 you've watched too many Documentaries lol

[@nenadmilovanovic5271]

Read up on great filter theory

[@suqmadic6672]

Thank you John! You made me lose a lot of sleep but your channel is fascinating!

[@Enjoidalo]

you might have the greatest youtube channel of all time and i mean that iv watched at least 30+ videos within a few days span

[@nickpeterson8080]

Great video, from a couple thousand to almost 150k congrats!

[@theresbob8878]

Did you ever notice that in the search for intelligent life in the Universe, all the technology and equipment is facing away from the earth?

[@ITSFRICKENADAM]

theresbob funny. But they actually pointed a probe at earth as an experiment to detect life using pure data and removing all assumpions. Life was found based on the data.

[@shanestover3829]

Ha haaa! Burn! 🤣

[@RustyShacklefardd]

That just blew my mind

[@dnlcast2]

Well that's the whole point...to look in outer space, away from Earth lol

[@elrushbo]

The whole thing about Dyson spheres or similar structures to me is the amount of resources it would take to build something like that. I mean come on you're talking something many many hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a death star. Any civilization capable of gathering just the raw materials for that endeavor would have already long ago been capable of interstellar flight, hence, able to generate massive amounts of energy. I can't imagine it would be worth the effort.

[@boring7823]

I suspect you're thinking of the SciFi misunderstanding of a Dyson's concept. Dyson did not describe a solid sphere, his "sphere" was a very large number of objects in solar orbits arranging themselves so each of them gets as much solar radiation as it can. This tends to be called a Dyson swarm nowadays. You'll notice can be built in the same way that a transcontinental road or rail system is ... one little useful step at a time. Our current technological and scientific level is sufficient to build this, but it would be very expensive to get started; something of the order of a World military budget or three. This doesn't mean that very large constructs are impossible; but realistically you generally need as least a power collecting Dyson swarm a a prerequisite. Interestingly, interstellar flight looks significantly more difficult than building solar power collectors within a Dyson swarm. One of the easier methods looks like using a few of these collectors to beam power to the spaceship (perhaps a light sail?) though slowing down at the other end is very "interesting".

[@danfruzzetti7604]

exactly. a dyson sphere would be part of a wireframe with pv and similar mounted to it. very thin, possible to build but yeah it would require a huge amount of material and coordination and resources to position it. you're right; they're shown as a complete shell around a star which is a major lofty goal even for a spacefaring civilization that's commencing with shell construction. it's more likely to begin with a couple big pv banks orbiting the planet outside its line-of-sight with its star anyway

[@thecaptain29]

@@danfruzzetti7604 self replicating drones could accomplish it relatively quickly, provided the building materials were available nearby.

[@InvasionAnimation]

Imagine this whole time asteroids were just old probes and we conidered it normal. Unlikely scenerio but funny.

[@esuus]

To me, the undisputed #1 is Oumuamua. But I checked, it passed by earth the year you made this video, 2017. Funny. I think otherwise it would've made your #1 too.

[@sigurdkaputnik7022]

Oumuamua may not be a single object, but a succession of several smaller obejcts. All Oumuamua pictures are artistic renderings, there is no real photograph of it. Whatever is was, it was weird.

[@pinkberryconsumer4059]

The still photos of space you chose for the video are just plain AMAZING, well done.

[@Jothaxify]

Jamie from the Rogan podcast knows science, guys!

[@browndd]

Working from a number of basic assumptions listed below one likely solution to the Fermi Paradox maybe as follows. (1) Since the advent of predation nature has expressed a preference for intelligence in predators and a relative lack of intelligence in prey animals. This is because predatory animals need to process far more information about their surroundings than the animals they prey upon do. (2) Nature has also expressed a pattern in the social structures of both predator and prey. For exsample prey animals tend to have highly developed social bonds between members of their own species. Gathering together in large groups for the benefits that come from "safety in numbers". Predators on the other hand tend to lead more solitary lives rarely interacting with members outside their immediate or extended family. This is because they are in competition for the same resources and view each other as a threat. Obviously there are exceptions to these rules and humanity is a prime exsample of a highly social predatory species. But perhaps we ARE the exception not the rule. It may well be very uncommon for intelligent life in the universe to possess the same sort of social requirements that we do. Instead the tendency might be to view other intelligences as nothing more than competition or perhaps even as a threat to their continued existence. A less pronounced exsample of this may be humanity itself. Atfer all our species has never known a time in which we were not in conflict with each other somewhere and for the very same reasons listed above.

[@colinp2238]

John what if the microbes on Venus could actually use the acid in the atmosphere? We use acid in our stomachs to digest foodstuffs.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Colin, I would expect that actually, it seems to me that if they exist, they would have likely adapted to use the acid to their benefit, either in their biochemistry or in interacting with their environment.

[@Zero11s]

heliocentric venus is a fantasy planet

[@microwah]

Great Vid John! Love your work and your humor! :D

[@felisszerjin9073]

Bro, you really love those Von Neumann probes.

[@furrball]

I live in Europe and we do have some life here, mostly on saturday nights. But it’s still pretty trivial, I don’t think it’s worth visiting...

[@kellyviolette1419]

“How the human system is happening, in the same way the universe has happened. In the same way that the micro is happening, that is how the macro has happened. If you look at the micro and perceive it, you will also know existence.” ― Jaggi Vasudev, Of Mystics & Mistakes

[@live-casting5140]

content is excellent. I wish the narrative style was a little more varied.

[@ggfatale351]

I really Love your Beautiful Voice. It calms me down after a ridiculous day of work.

[@Fuzzmo147]

He said sounds like John Goodman.....

[@rogntudjuuuuu]

I started reading the comments section. Better stick to the video.

[@ethanlocke4162]

I live in New York, and just last summer I saw something really interesting and confusing. There was this light that was about the size of a star, maybe a little bigger, that would blink in a very odd way. Some nights it wouldn't be there, some nights it would, some nights it would blink in randomized frequencies and lengths. I watched this light for months after I noticed it, and almost every night I would see it. If it was there it was in the same exact spot. Only a few months ago, I went outside and watched as the light appeared then it just flew away. It was the only time I had seen it move, but it was obviously moving very fast. Last I checked, I saw it in the same spot that it moved from. I wasn't the only one to see the light, but sadly I was the only one to see it fly away.

[@Jaggerbush]

Wow you can tell this is old- the sound quality has gotten so much better over the years.

[@JabberCT]

You definitely do your homework. Great video.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Thanks!

[@yishaqdavid2029]

Wow, 3k. You are at almost 300k now! Awesome dude. I love your channel.

[@markcoren2842]

If 3k subs was unfathomable, I can only imagine what you'd have thought about this video passing 1.7 million views... thanks for keep up the great work!

[@Merennulli]

"We are intentionally avoiding the bandwidth SETI is searching" - said every civilization ever.

[@dubuyajay9964]

"Ugh, I don't want those cavemen spamming me with ads selling their trinkets!" 👽🖖🛸🪐

[@brunodeandradeful]

Probably my favorite video on YT

[@winkletinkle8007]

that galaxy at 9:06 is absolutely terrifying

[@Camcolito]

'But over the years further research has revealed that it's just a strange rock' - Pretty much sums up SETI

[@deenanthekemoni5567]

Celebrates 30k subs. Currently sits on 236k subs. Good work John Michael. Love your channel I'm glad to see it grow.

[@xjesssssica]

“this is a full length documentary”

[@favoritemustard3542]

...as compared to my other vids?

[@supercomrade5050]

0:44 me when I realize the edible is starting to kick in

[@TheHelghast1138]

The Wow signal was probably just an alien updating their social media on how some fast food place on a starship dock got his take out order wrong.

[@nicolechafetz3904]

I love your vids, John. But I have this question: do you...use this monotone voice with occasional sing-song highlights in real life?

[@emersonbarreras5339]

Mr Godier, in a totally appropriate way you have a very soothing voice. I like to listen to your videos before going to bed

[@skud9999]

Shit man. Talk about exponential growth. One year, 3k subs. Two years, 33k. Good job man!

[@niagaradrones]

skud9999 He's at 61k now!!

[@infinity26890]

92k!

[@ArcherWarhound]

102k now.

[@yungwiremu8685]

Lol

[@alexprice104]

I love this channel...

[@josemorales5117]

I have a three sad and frightening Questions since I was a kid....: - what if we are the first ones? - what if we are the last ones? - what if we are the only ones (ever)?

[@Joe-xp8rb]

If we are the last and if we are the only the result is the same. The fate of all life rests with us. There are so many possibilities if we are the first.

[@thedankest1974]

Man your narration really makes these videos enjoyable 😌

[@garman1966]

What would really suck is if I get to Alpha Centori and found a paradise planet with beautiful humanoids where I would have to isolate myself from them. The viruses and bacteria I bring from Earth would probably wipe them all out, or their bugs would do the same to me. I would have to bring along special isolation gear, and wear it like an astronaut regardless if there is breathable air and beautiful naked alien women running around! That would suck ass!

[@DoorThief]

>Beautiful >Naked >Woman >👽

[@bnv4292]

Lol 3k subs

[@beszebalint512]

413k

[@kylehogankh]

@@beszebalint512nice pfp

[@beszebalint512]

@@kylehogankh Thanks man

[@arthurfleck629]

@@beszebalint512What is your pfp? It looks fascinating.

[@iamnuklear3266]

half a million

[@gavinvick3592]

“Thank you guys so much, i have so much fun making videos” *says in the most monotone, bored voice ever*

[@Stratocoaster08]

I chuckled at that, myself... lol