Should we use the JWST to look for alien life? Let John know what you think.
@LAMPROS3112 жыл бұрын
One of the most interesting aspects of space exploration is the search for alien life and alien civilizations. We should definetely use it for this purpose.
@roblockstock2 жыл бұрын
100 % we should why not the tech is there , thank's for the quality output John.
@007yeti2 жыл бұрын
Most definitely.
@Rick-Rarick2 жыл бұрын
100%
@secretbassrigs2 жыл бұрын
🥂
@thedoruk63242 жыл бұрын
I seriously wholeheartedly hope that they *will* use the immense opportunity that james webb gives to look closer to water moons like europa enceladus that could gave huge hints about themselves and biome - perhaps they could look systems like trappist 1 or gliese 581 ! My genuine answer is *defiitely yes!* We really should actively use james webb telescope to search for habitable systems and life harboring planets and moons
@Fatusbeergutus2 жыл бұрын
it's infrared telescope, may not detect anything that cold
@thedoruk63242 жыл бұрын
@@Fatusbeergutus ıt is more than worth a shot like very much so also the other exoplanet systems too
@friendlyone27062 жыл бұрын
and the star now thought to be the WOW signal source.
@thedoruk63242 жыл бұрын
@@friendlyone2706 u serious
@Fatusbeergutus2 жыл бұрын
@@thedoruk6324 yes it is, it would prove if Europa has a hot core, if it does that would almost prove an ocean
@MyLifeInVideos2 жыл бұрын
I like when he said "we are someone else's alien civilization" I never thought of it like that fascinating.
@OShackHennessy2 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite channel now. What an awesome thing you’re doing here man great job!
@friendlyone27062 жыл бұрын
The raw data from JWST should be released publicly as soon as received. When the raw data was finally released from a Jupiter probe, the officials in charge were astounded how much more quality information "amateurs" were able to ferret out of the data than had been thought possible. The "amateurs" asked questions the officials had not thought of and -- like all good questions -- led to new insights.
@rapomnam2 жыл бұрын
JWST should be used to look for alien life. It should also be used to look at everything we think is in the designed capability envelope, and many things we think are outside that envelope. Learn all the things, push all the limits.
@BadOompaloompa792 жыл бұрын
You can look up what observation time has be allotted towards so far and find out more about how observations are selected from proposals online. I think both NASA and the ESA have websites that discuss it.
@rawbebaba2 жыл бұрын
I think they will look at everything it's capable of looking at. Personally I don't think finding signs of life is that important. It would literally take an idiot to think it hadn't existed, problem is, we will be getting info the is millions to hundreds of millions of years old.
@BadOompaloompa792 жыл бұрын
@@rawbebaba sure, odds are that life exists somewhere. But how common is it? What is it's nature? So many questions and finally being able to observe the composition of exoplanet atmospheres could possibly show that simple life is quite common. ( Or the opposite)
@stephenhurd14892 жыл бұрын
I honestly don't think we're in the right time. Life in newer galaxies maybe but our old glowing coal, a remnant of better things past. N
@Kenny-zv4pp2 жыл бұрын
@Charles blythe • Duh? One telescope 🔭 can only do so much! Thousands of people around the world 🌎 are waiting for their alloted time on the scope, so importance of projects depends upon individual perspective of endeavors.
@oiocha57062 жыл бұрын
Advanced intelligences with high technology are extremely rare, and among those few that do emerge...some of them become ultra efficient, some move into their "Matrix," some stay quiet, some self destruct, and so on, and so on....I think this is what explains the Fermi Paradox.
@ShellyBBird2 жыл бұрын
So excited for this one! This exact title is something I’ve been hoping for. Thank you Mr. Godier.
@Henrikbuitenhuis2 жыл бұрын
Just in time, as always. Thanks so much for the video and info. I wish you All the best.
@StevieObieYT2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Imagine if the JWST actually detected alien life... I wouldn't be surprised really because the JWST is so advanced and there's no way we're alone in the universe... But at the same time, I'd be really surprised because aliens... 😱👽 🤯
@Laurasiana2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for mentioning what I think is the most compelling answer to the Fermi Paradox: colonizing space is hard, and offers little return. The idea that a civilization would - or could - maintain a 1.5 million-year-long project to populate the galaxy seems ludicrous. One solar system can support a population of many trillions. I don’t see any serious effort being made to send multitudes of colonists in sleeper ships, much less generation ships.
@zachb80122 жыл бұрын
Even if you look at birth rates on Earth over the last 100 years the impact of technology and education have inversely affected the birth rates of many cultures. There just doesn't need to be a population of trillions. It could be eventually a species learns it's all about quality over quantity, and focuses on making their own planet a verdant utopia. Especially if they've mastered terraforming what reason is there to move to another world, let alone another star system? There might be trillions of technologically advanced civs, by millions of years, but other than scientific endeavors or an extinction event they're content to stay at home and chill with the family. Maybe priorities simply change once your civ gets far enough down the tech tree. A dyson sphere makes sense to us but it could just as well sound laughably absurd as building a nuclear power plant to run your PC. I honestly think he nailed it when he said, "maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is that alien civilizations are just difficult to see."
@bozo56322 жыл бұрын
Imagine interstellar internet latency. I bet civs stay small, like as small a radius as possible. Light seconds not light years.
@RyanGoodin-bh3py7 ай бұрын
What would you propose?
@Rick-Rarick2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the amazing content! So relaxing and informative!
@chrischrzanowski76172 жыл бұрын
And let’s go Bills! Originally from Fredonia.
@madmattdigs95182 жыл бұрын
Definitely we should. Finding another intelligent civilization somewhere out there in the cosmos would be such a HUGE discovery. I would be content to die after that discovery. Just to know… My gut feeling is that they are out there. Just very rare. We’re very special.
@friendlyone27062 жыл бұрын
Or know we live in a dangerous universe --- and we are "like an escaped pet canary, singing from the tree tops, beneath a sky full of hawks."
@markstewart58222 жыл бұрын
I dont think we are special at all. I think that can of arrogant thinking, could be humanity's downfall.
@madmattdigs95182 жыл бұрын
@@markstewart5822 you don’t think intelligent life in the universe is special??? It sure doesn’t appear to be common. It’s pretty amazing that billions of years ago we had a planet around a star with some chemistry going on… and now we have “ all this”. Isn’t it? And it’s arrogant of me to say so??? That’s a bizarre comment to make. I would love to hear your definition of special.
@friendlyone27062 жыл бұрын
@@markstewart5822 Or not appreciating our specialness can lead to taking for granted our lives.
@rwarren582 жыл бұрын
@@friendlyone2706 It’s only four years at the speed of light to Proxima. Have we sent a message there?
@007yeti2 жыл бұрын
I'm new to this channel and I'm loving ❤ it keep up the good work 👏 from England 🇬🇧 with love.
@glorymanheretosleep2 жыл бұрын
You know, I am under the impression that it can't find alien life. There's too many variables as to why methane happens, etc. Too many variables. And the mirror is not big enough to image the surface. It won't find life.
@imstevemcqueen2 жыл бұрын
Maybe it'll see something besides methane
@glorymanheretosleep2 жыл бұрын
@@imstevemcqueen It will have to see much more than just methane or anything else to convince the community that there's alien life on that planet.
@stricknine61302 жыл бұрын
Great interview! I feel spoiled with all the content lately. Thanks for the episode. 😁
@davedogge22802 жыл бұрын
Small increments in technological advancements each one presenting us with more of a chance of finding intelligent life out there comparable to ours or above that is !
@robbabcock_2 жыл бұрын
Finally! Some scientist says what I've suspected for years; the notion of Von Neuman probes just may be too fantastical. It's hard to extrapolate our technology to a point where we can make self replicating machines that can keep working for millions of years. Our oldest probe (Voyager) is failing due to the radiation in interstellar space and it's only 50 years old. It's tempting to have a "Marvel MCU" belief in technology eventually just magically doing whatever the plot requires. It may be a bridge to far for a probe to be able to mine all the raw materials, fabricate the necessary building materials (eg titanium, steel, silicon wafers, "unobtainium" panels, etc), refine fuels and then build another copy of itself, all without any intervention from us. It's tempting in light of our last 100 years of innovation to think tech has no limits but that may not be the case. At any rate, great episode!🙏 I hope you can have Haqq-Misra on again soon.
@illacq54162 жыл бұрын
Yes
@MarkyCannoli2 жыл бұрын
Love the content, keep ‘em coming!
@Mr.Deleterious2 жыл бұрын
Best day of the week! New Event Horizon video day 🤘🏻🤘🏻
@mckirkus2 жыл бұрын
It seems like there has been a shift where scientists are suddenly more open to talking about these once taboo topics.
@nutyyyy2 жыл бұрын
If anything they've always been overly optimistic. It's only really a taboo to talk about UFOs as Aliens because they probably aren't. Intelligent life is still likely exceedingly rare and I'd put money on us never detecting it.
@90days902 жыл бұрын
i didnt know you had a second channel! both are so much qualityyyyy
@rickstorm41982 жыл бұрын
@Jacob ..... Fellow percussionist here.... Best way to detect life is looking for paradiddles in space. 😁
@rarabbb2 жыл бұрын
i love how many of these have been coming out lately this is amazing its like a new one to help me sleep nearly every night sometimes ive to listen to one 3 times tho soooooo relaxing
@justinfocker2 жыл бұрын
I’m saving this gem for 10pm.
@nicholasmills64892 жыл бұрын
The new seti technology is so exciting. The ability to perhaps identify techno signatures on exoplanets is tremendously exciting. I’m looking forward to techno signatures being spotted on distant worlds. For me it’s only a matter of time.
@Big.Ron12 жыл бұрын
Yes, We should be looking for sure.
@ballsack65472 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing for to listen as I go to bed,always interesting, cheers John . From Scotland 👍🏴
@singletona0822 жыл бұрын
Miss Erin's ad read at the start? Even with me not really trustful of the offered service? I love he ad roll based on her reading of it. Thank you for making it an entertaining listen.
@quantumac2 жыл бұрын
Can JWST find alien life? At this point, with UAPs and all, I'm leaning toward $97 binoculars instead of a $9.7 BILLION telescope. But that's just me and my refusal to trivially dismiss UAPs until they are properly explained.
@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby54752 жыл бұрын
Yes. Humans have never built something that can go from hover to hypersonic and back to subsonic flight. We don't even have a conceptual idea of how to do that. Yet we have recorded exactly this on multiple systems. Multiple observers. Tracked by radar. Keep looking up.
@000fisherman2 жыл бұрын
tHIS IS ONE OF YOUR BEST SHOWS, BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@cliffhoelzer68952 жыл бұрын
I think this is great! It may find evidence of civilizations similar to the technological level of Rome but not yet having the technology yet to send radio signals!!
@nomadicmedicprincess72092 жыл бұрын
By far my fav channel
@cowlevelcrypto23462 жыл бұрын
I think when we say "Techno-signature" we need to admit that we mean "Techno-signatures like ours" . Electron charge manipulation has certainly given us many options and conveniences , but may not be the end-all and only high tech that we currently think it is.
@eric34342 жыл бұрын
Imagine having a box full of marbles, picking the first marble from the box and noticing a crack in the marble. Than thinking "Aha! This marble has a crack in it. So it must be unique and this marble is the only marble with a crack in it." This is the mentality of many that believe life only exists on earth.
@BalsamicWater2 жыл бұрын
Have your subscriptions been shooting up lately ? Your smashing it, appreciate the great content 😀
@shelby38222 жыл бұрын
New JMG, new Kosmo New History of the Universe... another new Event Horizon...gonna have to go to bed @ 6pm to get all caught up!
@TuneintoLearning2 жыл бұрын
Explain away all the events that happens at skin walker ranch. Millions of dollars have been put into research at that ranch, countless man hours from reputable scientists, measurement devices such as magnetometers, infrared cameras, temperature sensors, etc. You also can go there your self, and experience these phenomenons. I would like your thoughts please. Also, the tic tac situation that occurred years ago, as well as many pilots reporting to the faa about oval shaped, and cubed shaped crafts. They have been around us for eons.
@jrssimracing50922 жыл бұрын
Always appreciate your Content 👍
@AndrewBlucher2 жыл бұрын
I love it when I hear Astronomers, Astronauts, Astrobiologists and the like talking about events in terms of Northern Hemisphere seasons. It's like "I think about BIG things" in a really parochial way.
@mattlucas64402 жыл бұрын
Great show!
@xlostlovex2 жыл бұрын
I think it is a very clear and logical explanation all e way up till 10 mins but as a person who knows nth at all, not even suggesting after watching thiis, but from young I alrdy think that why not look for the same signature as what we will find on Earth as we look back from our own satellite etc. This is because I learned that we can see the kind of gases thru prism spectrum..so yeah why is this. Thing now and not always? Or am I missing out something? That this guy is the actual guy who suggested what I learn and saw when I was young.. I'm 36 this yr and I probably heard about finding signatures like this when I was 12 or 13
@jmanj39172 жыл бұрын
32:30, Yeah, maybe we just happened to spot them in THEIR "1980s Hair" days.
@bk830822 жыл бұрын
The topics you cover are always good, but my favorite episodes are the ones where the guest uses a real microphone. So many of them sound like they have their iPhone on speaker and are yelling from across the room while they do the dishes.
@mzindelo2 жыл бұрын
Does it have the ability to see them "Now" or at all?
@glynndraper4372 жыл бұрын
It was James lovelock that sorted the CFC problem , also the genius behind Gaia theory
@oraz.2 жыл бұрын
Great guest. I want to read his book.
@FlyMIfYouGotM2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the solution to the Fermi Paradox is .... We don't know what we don't know and we won't know what we don't know until we know what we don't know. Got it!
@alanheadrick79972 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they use lighting similar to us. So say Mercury vapor lighting from the 1950's , also Neon and now LED's. These should show up as weird spectral spikes when looking at the light from the planets? I wonder too if tidally locked planets might set up mirrors either on the ground or in space that also might be visible.
@c_douglasdillion7452 жыл бұрын
OMG...JMG...Love, love, love your channels. Can’t get enough and so glad you are able to post more. Your shorts on the ‘other channel’ are so understated yet thought provoking they are spooky ! One correction or clarification here. As I am an AMS seal holder as well. AMS seals are (were) issued by the American Meteorological Society, not any university. Although Penn State is notorious for Meteorological research, no doubt. As a side note to the said seal, AMS no longer issues this seal (although they allow 5 year renewals for a fee and ‘professional points’) their new seal is CBM. Not to be confused with CMB and that Big Bang echoing. Doh !! Keep us the stellar work, my friend !! Have Netflix producers called you yet ?
@yoredeerleader2 жыл бұрын
I don’t think we should stop just at looking for techno signatures. I think we should look for all forms of electronic dance music
@leonardwitucke12 жыл бұрын
I believe we already have had contact. Also, the population is not growing, and birth rates are plummeting around the world.
@glorymanheretosleep2 жыл бұрын
Your mama passing gas does not count as 'contact'.
@leonardwitucke12 жыл бұрын
@@Quickcat21MK The amount of anecdotal evidence has me leaning that way. You go ahead and keep on moving. Why reply is my only question? seems like a waste of time...
@leonardwitucke12 жыл бұрын
@@glorymanheretosleep ?
@paulb34363 ай бұрын
The population of the west is plummeting. Not so in Africa, India and South America though. You guys better keep up...
@leonardwitucke13 ай бұрын
@@paulb3436 Great point. The problem the west has is we think we are too smart to have kids. The west has fallen to Marxist ideology. Soon we will rise from the globalists ashes though.
@fluffyspunsugar2 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for a video on this subject! Thank you.
@_jkb2 жыл бұрын
Great voice, sir.
@adamwiseman58312 жыл бұрын
I think you're right about Mars!
@MarkyCannoli2 жыл бұрын
With scientists, there will always be a debate…….look at the UAP stuff. Some scientists are at least coming around and saying, hey, we really need to start looking at this. While others will ridicule any evidence, no matter how interesting and credible.
@eldy9382 жыл бұрын
I'm for all kind of sciences, space science as such is important to a set limit, what in practical terms this new telescope will give us as a specie ? The oceans probably holds more practical secrets then open space does. Does zero gravity on our space stations have more value then looking out into infinite space ? Just asking. :)
@mikeavery40982 жыл бұрын
The civilizations could be building 30 or 40 story buildings on one mile growing their food that way to conserve how much land they have to use to grow food and then just recycle the chemicals and everything indoors without any of it getting to the atmosphere it's actually what I've been proposing for us to do
@alanbrady4202 жыл бұрын
I literally can’t get enough of this channel thanks for another cool upload John 😁
@thefoolishhiker31032 жыл бұрын
This discussion was fascinating.
@garryjones18477 ай бұрын
An obvious answer to the Fermi Paradox is that no one leaves home! Not even machines!
@TheEGCRACKER2 жыл бұрын
Been awhile, like your info. ✌️🤘
@lukaskywalker77912 жыл бұрын
Love you, man
@MattPSU022 жыл бұрын
Another Penn Stater! So awesome to see our university so well represented in these scientific fields.
@EventHorizonShow2 жыл бұрын
PSU has a fantastic SETI department.
@AtheistBelgium2 жыл бұрын
The most annoying thing is the fact we have to speculate about all this stuff. The most interesting thing is the fact that we speculate about all this stuff.
@MTB2142 жыл бұрын
Interesting discussion. I always think of possible advanced life as like a person going out to work, while their cat or dog stays home.
@SugaSharp2 жыл бұрын
Doesn’t like to give his favorite Fermi paradox solution? Does he realize what show he’s on!
@sssshhhh74642 жыл бұрын
This is my opinion and I believe life exists outside our solar system and possibly ours but what sort of life i have no idea but something im sure we can recognise if we see it.
@Est.8.1.862 жыл бұрын
ok I've got a question and I feel this is the right place to ask it. So, when we talk about lightyears and the light we see means we see back in time, if we use a telescope to look, do we not see the light earlier than it is expected to reach us? What i mean is, does a telescope not remove some time as we're cheating and see the light earlier therefore something that is 1.5 light years away we now see it at 0.5 light years away??
@mrbamfo50002 жыл бұрын
You don't think Mars will eventually be an out post for Asteroid belt miners?
@nobodysunderdog2 жыл бұрын
Not only can the JWST find alien life, it Will find alien life. Will it detect an Alien civilization? That's a totally different question.
@timberwolf272 жыл бұрын
"oh hey Rog, how did you get so successful in life?" "Well I watched a youtube channel about aliens and masterworks just sung to me "
@colonelgraff91982 жыл бұрын
We’ll learn a lot about planets. However I doubt we’ll be able to find life.
@thedoruk63242 жыл бұрын
Not unless the telescopes search habitable systems like gliese kepler and trappist
@nutyyyy2 жыл бұрын
@@thedoruk6324 'Habitable' Well that's the question isn't it? Are they habitable?
@slinkerdeer2 жыл бұрын
@@nutyyyy for our current life, the right distance from the star it orbits, once we know it's there we can search for things inside it's atmosphere to determine if life exists there, or perhaps we might find evidence of fossil fuel usage
@thedoruk63242 жыл бұрын
@@nutyyyy they have several planets that orbit entirely on the goldilocks zone so that would be the most safest bet
@thedoruk63242 жыл бұрын
@@slinkerdeer agreed
@patrickspringer65342 жыл бұрын
ALL FERTILIZER has quadrupled in price in just 6 months. May not sound too bad but just my farm went from $200,000 to just under $1,000,000 in fertilizers alone. I farm 1600 acres and most farms are many orders of magnitude larger! 20,000 ac. isn't uncommon. Get ready for outrageous produce & meat prices! Fuel went even higher than that. I really enjoy your show John. Keep up the great work!
@JohnMichaelGodier2 жыл бұрын
You're not kidding. I live in a farming state, and everyone is telling me it's getting really bad. And it's going to be compounded by growing global food supply disruptions because of the Ukraine situation. Not good.
@patrickspringer65342 жыл бұрын
@@JohnMichaelGodier It's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. I just had to buy 8 tractor tires and it cost me $15,000 instead of $8000 this time. It's absolutely ridiculous. Everything is 100% more expensive and the end consumer is just barely starting to feel it. I suggest that you start buying in bulk and learning how to can veggies! No end in sight either. Buy yourself a good shotgun and several hundred shells. 😉
@EventHorizonShow2 жыл бұрын
Hope it gets better.
@michaelinzo2 жыл бұрын
We could look at 100 million light years galaxy. Surely we can zoom in to exotic planets and look for sings of life.
@michaelinzo2 жыл бұрын
@Smee Self why?
@cjustintoekes22852 жыл бұрын
I’m waiting for you to see the link between CRISPR and interstellar travel.
@mikeharrington55932 жыл бұрын
I think JMG has a better, more realistic, handle on this subject than Jacob's woolly chat.
@1kielykj2 жыл бұрын
I believe it will give us a much better understanding of what life may be present in our universe. Future tech will be able to then hone in on these signs and detect alien like.
@gusess57432 жыл бұрын
I WANT TO BELIEVE
@notmadeofpeople49352 жыл бұрын
Starts at 2:18
@MrTommispilot7 ай бұрын
Yesterday I wrote that Putin's mistake could one day have a beneficial effect on freedom. But I wouldn't have thought that you could see the beginnings so quickly.
@Dragrath12 жыл бұрын
Regarding replicators random mutations would likely consequently drive replicators to undergo natural selection and evolution it is possible that this may make Von Neumann replicators undesirable as they quickly in terms of the scale of colonizing the galaxy mutate outside their initial design parameters as machine fauna which may undergo evolutionary bottlenecks limiting their ability to disperse to distant star systems when someone tries.
@LockedInTheZoo2 жыл бұрын
JMG proving he is the CR7 of the podcast world!
@__hjg__21232 жыл бұрын
I think we are going to see some amazingly beautiful things in incredibly sharp focus with JWST.......and also a whole lot of nothing that indicates life elsewhere..... and we will feel even more alone..
@stevesanders53482 жыл бұрын
Yes. As long as data does not get suppressed.
@michaeltrivette17282 жыл бұрын
This guy gets it.
@bernardfox90782 жыл бұрын
Of course we should use it to look for life elsewhere. Would be the greatest discovery ever made.
@Emmet722 жыл бұрын
Aliens have been watching us grow weed for years.
@morcheba21842 жыл бұрын
A simple man like me just thinks that when humans visit mars we come to the conclusion that there's a reason robots haven't found remnants of life because there never had been any ever
@Sarconthewolf2 жыл бұрын
Taby's star should be one of the first stars to look at.
@d00mch1ld2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting thoughts about the Wow! signal. I wonder if we ever looked at what is needed/made that could transmit that signal, or if we sent that same signal back in the direction it came from.
@patrickoconnor6612 жыл бұрын
Awesome interview
@spleefthedude77472 жыл бұрын
Where are the pictures!?!?!
@S.L.12112 жыл бұрын
What’s the outro music for these videos?
@JohnVance2 жыл бұрын
I'm 38, and I don't think I'll get to travel to Mars or maybe even ever into space, but I strongly believe we're going to pick up a convincing technosignature before I die. At least I certainly hope so.
@aaronm85522 жыл бұрын
1984 represent
@DAYBROK32 жыл бұрын
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@Wolffur Жыл бұрын
If we come across terrestrial exoplanets and/or sizable exomoons in the habitable zones of their parents' stars, and should their spectroscopy yield possible atmospheres, I don't see a reason why we shouldn't.
@christopherbaby38422 жыл бұрын
Dammit I'm late to the party. John, Something I've been thinking about. I agree with you that likely the microbe universe is right but could you (or have you already?) explore the societal implications if JWST finds the galaxy teeming with biosignatures? Say like .8 habitable planets with biosignatures per star?
@isaacbranch62442 жыл бұрын
I'd love to leave Earth and be part of a new civilization
@garygallegos1032 жыл бұрын
Like to ask if we can detect ag gas's having to do with good how easy is it to detect other man made elememts , even if the planetary system has gone through a star out gasing . Is it are ability to detect man made elememts ? Please sed info about my statement thank you very much 😀