2023 Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life & Our Future in the Stars

September 21, 2023, at the Linda Hall Library
21st Annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture
Combining cutting edge science, physics, and philosophy, Professor Avi Loeb revolutionizes the approach to our search for extraterrestrial life and our preparation for its discovery.
The Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture is presented by the Linda Hall Library in association with the Yale Club of Kansas City, the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Kansas City, and the Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City.

[@johnryan2193]

Avi was bold enough to go where not many others are humble enough to follow his lead . Thank you Avi !

[@matthewpower3062]

Im sorry, Avi, his books, his speeches and his approach to science is driven by money/funding and fame, not the pursuit of knowledge. He capitalized on the oumuamua finding with outrageous claims, with hardly any evidence. He brags about how many papers he's published on the back of students. His papers over the last few years are fluff. Just ask the fellow who paid for the whole 'lets drag the bottom of the ocean for meteor fragments", Im sure that was a solid investment.

[@terrychesterman2523]

I love your work Avi. In these difficult days (the Israel/Hamas disaster), I wish you much success, and also, I sincerely hope you have lost no-one back in Israel. In these difficult days, please stay focussed on the task at hand. Warmest regards, dear friend.

[@tomaskurkinas5419]

Bold enough to make loads of money 😂

[@rayagoldendropofsun397]

Harvard Professor Avi do not understand the Physics difference between Occupied Space, and Empty Space. His Harvard knowledge is also locked in on Einstein Space Bending and Newton's mythical Gravity, so then, is he about Science Facts ?

[@carlsonjc11]

Dr. Loeb, thank you for being one of today's best examples of how a great scientist thinks, speaks, and works.

[@hinthegroove9740]

The humble professor (or farm boy) has opened my eyes more than any other scientist. I lived blindfolded for over fifty years. Thanks to everyone involved in this presentation.

[@juliafox7904]

Outstanding discussion Professor Avi Loeb - shared far and wide. We Earthlings must to learn the value of Peace.

[@wattsmichaele]

He and his team are heroes! Support this man and his research!!👏👏👍

[@Thomas-ls6qe]

I wish I had a professor like professor Loeb.❤

[@michaelbrennan6811]

You are the most honest, down to earth and refreshing Physicist I've ever had the privilege of watching. Please don't give up avi. Yours Sincerely Michael Brennan...

[@diogenesaraujo6869]

Soon you'll be a hero and pioneer to be remembered.

[@sisterblissuk9253]

Avi, thank you for all your hard work ❤

[@Herc4ever]

Wonderful person asking intelligent questions.

[@jimmycychowski1142]

I need all these instruments delivered to my Country Australia, Mr Loeb, they deny everything, and dont acknowledge the topic of UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena).😂

[@kirkgilbreath5094]

Another great video is ""Why we might be alone" Public Lecture by Prof David Kipping" .

[@michaelb.42112]

Mathematically alone, we are NOT alone.

[@marctorrades1760]

Well done Avi Best of luck with the next expedition. Very interesting 👌

[@TurboBMRProjectLove]

We need more like Avi. Screw the haters. It blows my mind how people repeat history just like Avi said. They rather not look for proof since they are so caught up on how people would look at them. In the famous words of Jack Scarfotti = “fuck em’”

[@gagarinone]

Thanks for sharing! This is the most important question for the survival of mankind. Instead, our simple-minded leaders devote themselves to spreading mistrust between us.

[@justbecauseOK]

the humble farm boy who keeps reminding us endlessly just how humble he is.

[@gagarinone]

I think that is a good start in life.

[@justbecauseOK]

@@gagarinone he is not starting, he is in his life already....

[@gagarinone]

@@justbecauseOK To be a humble farm boy is a good start in life.

[@justbecauseOK]

@@gagarinone i agree. But self righteousness is not a good way to conduct your life....or Science

[@marcopaluszny]

very interesting, excellent presentation and very good questions

[@LindaHallLibrary]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@danielash1704]

I often find myself trying to match up a plasma vision spectrums to get a duplication of the energy and sameness of waves in each one to make entanglement in the same way they're doing a lot of work on single types but it is much much harder to get the resonances out of a single song of vibrational currents that activates the sameness will keep looking for a good relationship to find a better solution

[@RawLu.]

Thank You Avi 😊

[@EdwardJC51]

Thank you, Professor

[@JimmyBackbeat]

I don't know what to think about the energence of non human intelligence in public conversation. I certainly hope that there is intelligent life out there, and I assume that there is. I also don't know what to think about the panspermia hypothesis. Because contrary to what many people seem to claim; it absolutely doesn't solve the issue of biogenesis. I want there to be a future out there among the stars.

[@alfonsopayra]

Gracias por existir Profesor Loeb!

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

He's a down to earth guy but also an out of this world guy

[@danielash1704]

You can make a lot of information about Torsional fluid and dynamics of strangeness in a stretched bubble in a 90 degree bend and a gelled rotation starts with in pipeline assembly spinning occurring after leaving the bend and how it draws in volumes of volts in minute amounts how does Noble gas dots growth glow in a non voltage level??

[@johnnysosa8158]

Avi#1

[@darwinlaluna3677]

So ur the genius sir, my life is not a game, how lucky u r sir, how lucky u r

[@juliafox7904]

I’m fascinated- shared far and wide. Thank you Professor Avi Loeb and team.

[@kirkgilbreath5094]

Watch the great video "Turns Out, Solar System Is The Rarest Planetary System Out There" by Anton Petrov which shows a new study which shows that our type of solar system is very rare and although there are billions of star systems with planets , most are not like ours which is bad news because this means that we are probably alone.

[@eltipoquecanta]

This video could be called. The search of funds

[@michaelbrennan6811]

Aviation, I used to think Neil de'grasse Tyson was completely infallible { regarding Astrophysics & Hmmm🤔 let me think 🤔 well anything really x lol.} But I've since noticed he's a phony PMSL, WHOOPS🤭 LOL😂. He is a compulsive Debunker & my word, does he like listening to his own voice or what Mr Loeb? What a fantastic video I've just watched of yours. Such an inthusiastic, excitedness with an almost child like excitement & open-minded approach to match Judge Judy x Wonderful Mr Avi Michael Brennan

[@ReolSPro]

this man

[@onethreefiveeye]

I wish I had Professors like him...during a time,when Exoplanets were denied by the mainstream science...what I find silly when I was 8 years old..

[@danielash1704]

❤Diolectric I bet it would have a lot more momentum as gravity is attracting more than the normal average of a astroidal event 😉 ❤love honor and respect for all people who understand what you found 👍

[@peat11]

Hmm momentum now there is a problem!!!!!.

[@8twospiders]

Dude's barely gray. Farm boy, don't smoke. Happens.

[@topgundoc01]

I love Dr. Loeb and I wish him success. However, I believe that if advanced aliens are within detecting distance (very close), they would already have accessed our internet, figure out who Dr. Loeb is, understood that he is trying to find them and how he is trying to find them. They can then decide if they want to allow themselves to be detected or avoid detection. Of course, they would also know where to find him should they decide to introduce themselves.

[@danielash1704]

Get put of your litter box 📦 😉 👌 nicely said 😊

[@thomasboomer9809]

This book is really great and makes a very strong argument to at least search for evidence of Extratrerrestrial Life. Make the effort. Right now the scientific community does not make an effort. They do not even allow for the possibility. Even well known scientists like Neil DeGrasse Tyson scoffs at the idea.

[@gailbecker7960]

They are afraid they will find someone who is smarter than they are!

[@abstractobject5337]

Very strong argument? Humans are stupid. The low cost of the instrumentation which is discussed on this video is nothing based on what we could possibly learn and advance based on that knowledge.

[@peat11]

YOU NEVER SENT ANYTHING ANYWHERE COME ON AVI TELL ME HOW. Sould have stayed on the farm.

[@257rani]

I would love to have this types of Observatory's in Victoria Australia 🇺🇲🇦🇺🎇✨🌌🌄🙏🦉❤🌎🌍🌏❤🦋

[@danielash1704]

I wonder if the rock you bumped into was a huge piece of the astroid that was shattered 🤔

[@jamesbooth7510]

I asked the same question

[@satishkumar-mt2iy]

There is definetly in the universe there are species which are higher than all the energy levels on the planet earth ,or else it is impossible that all the creations are recognising me werever at any place on the planet this is happening ,,this is not normal 😊🧜‍♂️🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️🧜‍♂️🛌🛀🛌🙏🙏🙏

[@nigellawson8610]

Correction - Where are they?

[@gagarinone]

They are in no rush to make contact with our newly advanced, but highly volatile, dangerous civilization. Maybe they will be interested in us if we survive current and future challenges.

[@zebonautsmith1541]

Unfortunately it cannot detect spotlights reflecting off clouds; hallucinations and image artifacts due to equipment issues; but it will likely detect aerial debris. But I do hope I'm wrong and it detects something truly interesting and alien. The equipment might have some trouble detecting delusions and eye floaters.

[@ernestmac13]

Why couldn't Amoyamoya be a piece that broke off of an asteroid; it's poor reasoning to assume it's an artificial object without more data, such as that which has been gathered from commits and asteroids by space probes.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

You do not randomly name your sensor system "Dalek", someone is a Dr Who fan. 😄

[@kylesundell1554]

Can't they make a sonar or some kind of wave that hits a object and creates a exact 3d video game like shape of a object maybe even inside?

[@jamesbooth7510]

Shouldn't that rock that the magnet went over have been covered over by so called snow if it has been there thousands of years or was it dropped off a ship what if it was the remaining piece of the meteor

[@nigellawson8610]

If technological species only have a limited lifetime we could indeed be alone. If you take our own civilization for example, it increasingly looks like humanity will be lucky to survive the 21st Century. Taking the mediocrity principle as a starting point, if the average technological civilization capable of communicating across interstellar distance has a lifetime measured only in centuries, there will be no one to talk to. The chances of an extraterrestrial civilization existing in the same temporal time frame as our own will be extremely remote? In a universe that is fourteen billion years old, a few centuries represent a tiny sliver of time. If extraterrestrial civilizations do happen to come and go in a flash, it would go a long way to proving that Fermi was right when he posed the question - Where are they way," way back in 1950?

[@monsterlair]

Don't go looking through people's windows trying to find potential dates. 😅

[@loveistheonlything3626]

Charles Hoskinson who funded this expedition, is the founder of CARDANO.

[@clairerobsin]

Starbound - J.J. Cale kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5SolJ5tpap8f6ssi=GNgfANjObHNwttMa via @KZbin

[@257rani]

❤🌏🌍🌎❤🕊

[@roberthutchison8197]

I have two answers as to why our planet with humans ARE unique! When they find two people with the same finger prints, or, when they find two identical snowflakes, then will change my opinion! The reason most given by people as to why intelligent life is out there is that there are billions of stars and galaxies and planets, and somewhere among them are creatures like us. Look up fingerprints and snowflakes and read what they say. They say the odds of finding two being identical, is astronomically low, if not impossible. It's almost like trying to find the last digit of Pi...

[@tokajileo5928]

it is almost 10 years since a big airplane Malaysian MH370 just disappeared and we cannot even find it in the 21st century. I have doubts considering the wastness of space and our capabilities

[@gagarinone]

The truth of this could have major political/economic consequences. So for now you have to wait, at least until the archives are opened, after the year 2150, or a whistleblower comes forward.

[@tommychook4552]

human is food ?,

[@satishkumar-mt2iy]

I want to ask you that ,what is the reason that the real time happening with respect time and space ,it is happening at instant 😂😂😂

[@HankAron-cp2ex]

It seems like most scientist are so stuck in a faith that there right I won’t allow new findings if it contradicts them

[@darwinlaluna3677]

U don’t owe me , even a cent! Then u go ur self.

[@aliceinwonderland887]

The one holdout juror in a rape trial. The person demands DNA as proof or maybe there was no crime he says. He says he needs scientific proof to convict. That's after watching thousands of witnesses testify to what they seen with their own eyes.

[@determinednetworkguy]

All of this has to stop immediately!

[@kevinheath7588]

I'm pretty confident we are alone.

[@Moomin360]

This guy talks nice but among the scientific community, he is contributing nothing. He is also very arrogant and dismissive when someone disagrees with him. This video gives hint of the money he received for a jolly expedition and the video is also a invitation for more money.

[@9thebear]

He strikes me as a con man.

[@gagarinone]

Wow. Those are very harsh words you use about a colleague. Avi Loeb is one of the biggest contributors to popularizing space science. Carl Sagan, did the same thing during his lifetime, and had to put up with a lot of rudeness from jealous colleagues.

[@gottogo8675]

Earth is flat farm boy

[@BrianKelsay]

@ellieinspace @angryastronaut. Have you seen this or a similar lecture by Dr. Loeb? Maybe you could both boost the signal of this talk in my hometown KC.

[@Dailyartpallette]

There is going to be a pole shift soon be prepared and god bless you