Is an Earth-like Planet Hiding in the Kuiper Belt? With Patryk Lykawka

The orbits of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) can indicate the existence of an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system. Is there a hidden earth-like planet in the kuiper belt?
Patryk Lykawka joins John Michael Godier to discuss how his simulations show that a possible Earth-like or Earth-Sized planet is hiding in the kuiper belt.
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[@patryksofialykawka]

Hi, this is Patryk (Sofia Lykawka). I appreciate your interest in my study about the distant Kuiper Belt. I also enjoyed talking about this exciting topic! 😊Concerning the observational constraints (the groups of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) located beyond 50 au), I would like to add that it is vital to consider their population numbers (or relative fractions). For example, a less massive hypothetical planet or a planet not perturbing the distant Kuiper Belt long enough is not likely to produce populations of detached, high-i, and extreme TNOs large sufficient to match observations. In addition, it is also vital to observationally bias the model (simulation) results to compare them directly with observational data. I considered these points when analyzing and interpreting the results of the study. Well, the future will tell us if the proposed Earth-like planet exists or does not. 🔭Meanwhile, let us keep exploring this fascinating distant region, as it presumably holds several clues to understanding the solar system better. All the best, Patryk

[@realzachfluke1]

Thanks for coming on the show, Patryk!!! I really enjoyed watching and hearing about your research 😎

[@goncaloteixeiranunes7064]

@@realzachfluke1 ⁸⁸⁸⁸⁸⁸⁸⁸⁸0

[@mizzshortie907]

What brilliant work. Please keep us updated on what you find. It’s all so fascinating. 😊

[@kurtjk01]

Thank you for your insights. It's always refreshing to hear from the folks directly involved in the cutting edge of things, and you did a fantastic job explaining the parameters and search methods. It helps that Mr. Godier is a fine interviewer, of course!

[@faizanrana2998]

IM PATRYKS BIGGEST FAN

[@ParameterGrenze]

I love how you let your guests talk at the professional level they want instead of reverting back to some pop science baby talk that they feel obligated to sometimes. I can look up concepts and jargons myself if I do not follow what they are saying, we live in the information age after all. But it gives me a more representative view of what their actual work is about and what kind of questions they ask and try to answer. Oh, and paper graphs are beautiful

[@franklin519]

I can't stand watching all those "science communicators" on TV shows anymore. They are like Bill Nye the science guy, for the noobs.

[@robertsaca3512]

​@@franklin519Bill Nye is a bit a douche. He's presented misinformation on a number of occasions and won't apologise for it.

[@itsfonk]

I love how no matter what we’ve previously discovered, or how well we believe to understand the order of things, time continues to unveil an endlessly fascinating cosmic reality.

[@brick6347]

Perhaps the most infuriating thing about finding a planet out there would be that the most I'm likely to see of it in my lifetime is a pixel. Still, at least the imaginations of sci-fi writers can run wild for a few decades!

[@johnhickey6114]

We went from the Wright brothers to the moon in under 70 years - You never know what's around the corner.

[@jtjames79]

​@@johnhickey6114 I can't wait until physics AI is public. I haven't given up on cold fusion.

[@belstar1128]

Telescope technology has been improving quickly he already got very low res images of exoplanets

[@PetraKann]

It’s not about you my friend. Apologise for projecting an aura of trivial self-importance

[@jtjames79]

@@PetraKann That's right, it's not about him, it's about me.

[@p1ls726]

This guy is brilliant and you can tell he has a passion for this. Would love to see him on the show again

[@Sheeshus9]

Love the content event horizon and JMG! Looking forward to listening to this.

[@EventHorizonShow]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@DGPPhysics]

Earth-like unlikely, Earth-mass and size maybe.

[@mizzshortie907]

Another amazing episode ❤! Cant wait for the next. The guests are wonderful each and every time… now off to Isaac Arthur’s channel for my other favorite channels video ❤. You two are hands down the best channels on KZbin I have ever watched

[@Mediumdoo]

Saved for my lullaby

[@stricknine6130]

Great interview! Thanks!

[@gregkelly2145]

I'm listening to this while making a batch of sheep milk soft cheese. Wouldn't it be amazing to find a planet of similar size and chemical composition to Earth in deep freeze. Now I'm imagining terraforming with orbiting fusion energy sources ala Niven's puppeteer farm worlds.

[@EventHorizonShow]

Mmm cheese

[@PetraKann]

Tsalafouti? Malaka or Tiromalama cheese from Crete?

[@gregkelly2145]

@@PetraKann What I make is closer to a French brebis. If you want to see images of what we do google Dayspring Dairy.

[@PetraKann]

@@gregkelly2145 I also make cheese (amongst other things like beer). It came from a job I had in the Dairy Industry a long time ago. Most of the production was process cheddar on a large scale. At home I like to make Feta, ricotta, some harder cheeses.

[@PrinciplesMatter]

It's so ironic that we can find Exoplanets more easily than one in our own back yard...

[@davidlane2069]

Yeppers, kinda dumb in my mind

[@TheCakeIsNotaVlog]

I wouldn’t say so. With exoplanets, we know where to look. Stars are big and bright. Planets are small and dim. Think of it like trying to see a single deer, in a bush, a few hundred yards away. Compared to looking out across a ravine, looking for movement of an entire herd on the other side

[@bearlytamedmodels]

@@davidlane2069 Why? There's a big ol' star near exoplanets hinting at them and giving them away. Some icy rock a (few) hundred AU is out in the dark depths though? There's no reason to expect we'd just stumble upon it. Planets are small, space is big.

[@franklin519]

Maybe we should send a Kepler or JWST out far enough to detect a wobble or dimming of the sun.

[@TheNativeTwo]

It might not even be there. There are other possible interactions that could have created the kuiper cliff, as he said…

[@kskaiseraaron]

Always a good Thursday! Keep up the great work and make sure you keep Ana and that troublesome possum inline!

[@natechops4993]

Hands up if the first thing you also look at is how long the episode is... Which also determines the size of the smile

[@EventHorizonShow]

Longer is better?

[@bearlytamedmodels]

@@EventHorizonShow As in most things, John. As in most things.

[@mizzshortie907]

@@EventHorizonShow Absolutely! Even if I can’t finish it all at once I ALWAYS come back to finish the rest. I use your show to unwind and relax. The knowledge I’ve gained from your channel is amazing ❤

[@PlanetXMysteries-pj9nm]

Your channel is my go-to source for all things science-related. I appreciate the effort you put into creating informative and engaging content for your viewers.

[@JAGzilla-ur3lh]

There's something very exciting and dramatic about the idea of this planet. It's sort of comparable to the idea of Earth having an undiscovered continent. It's something 'close', something within relatively easy reach, a final frontier that we can discover and explore within the boundaries of human territory. The edge of the empire, a border outpost so distant that humans might still have been hunting mammoths the last time it completed a trip around the Sun. So distant we don't know we have it. But it's ours.

[@armandomercado2248]

A volcanically active super Venus in the Kuiper Belt would be interesting.

[@oberonpanopticon]

It’d need something more than internal heat keeping it warm. A super Io might be more plausible.

[@uncleeric3317]

Great interview!

[@amangogna68]

Great video and information !

[@LuisAldamiz]

Knowing the (theoretical) orbit is a good beginning: something as shiny as Eris should be something we can find. I still like better the primeval black hole the size of a mug theory, mostly because that'd be extremely difficult to find (perfectly black albedo, zero brightness, impossible to detect micro-lensing, nano-lensing?) and yet heavier than Earth and able to modify the orbit of stuff out there. But whatever it is, let's find it for real!

[@mikehenderson631]

Please try to get Brian May on your show talking about cosmic dust

[@Thoughtful_Balance]

Have not seen the video in its entirety as of yet. There is a difference between "Earth-like" and "Earth-sized".

[@thomas.parnell7365]

One things for sure any earth sized body would be a frozen snowball

[@cavetroll666]

thanks John cheers from Toronto.

[@WCO3]

As I sip my chocolate mac nut coffee in a dense hawaii jungle... I can't help but have robert harrington flashbacks. I love this show.

[@pres9314]

Great Video

[@JohnnyNiteTrain]

Planet Nine was initially hypothesized to follow an elliptical orbit around the Sun with an eccentricity of 0.2 to 0.5, and its semi-major axis was estimated to be 400 to 800 AU, roughly 13 to 26 times the distance from Neptune to the Sun. So it may not be found for hundreds, if not maybe thousands of years.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

Isn’t the “semi-major axis” actually called the minor axis?

[@rajkrishansingh980]

Planet 12, then PLANET X, now the less scary planet 9 and agreed!

[@lucasgibbs4879]

​@@rajkrishansingh980what happened to Nibiru l was ready to welcome our alien overlords

[@timedeathe]

Laughs with Terra scope

[@oberonpanopticon]

I’ve heard it said that if it’s out there, we’re almost certainly going to find it this decade.

[@adot911]

You’ve been on a roll man

[@laroark5036]

Are these "planets" too close for the James Webb telescope to see ?

[@LuisAldamiz]

The problem is less to "see" than to locate: such a tiny thing you need to be either very lucky to find or you need to know where to look for it. Uranus for example is barely visible to the naked eye but was not discovered before well into the age of telescopes, after much astronomy had already been done in several centuries prior. It's like searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack.

[@roadkillanonymous4807]

I’m sure if we knew EXACTLY where to look, if it was there, we could see it. But we don’t!

[@biosphere8488]

Saving this episode for use in lieu of nyquil

[@SammeLagom]

Very interesting! I want to explore all the moons. :p Patryk sounds so kind!

[@30035XD]

Love u John ♥

[@z4zuse]

So, once the aliens land on our front lawn, we should ask them if they came past a planet beyond what we call Pluto

[@johncouch9062]

Why are the episodes since May 18th not showing up on Apple Podcast? Does anyone know? I like to listen to them when walking but have to use YT now.

[@robsquared2]

I tried to resubscribe to your podcast on Anchor, but the latest episode is from months ago :( Is there any other way to get your show as a podcast? if not, it may be worth removing the link, as there's no new content there.

[@EventHorizonShow]

Content will be fixed on there very soon.

[@EksaStelmere]

Should there be no big planets out there, I would feel happy with a veritable swarm of Plutoids. Makes the possibilities of owning your own planet that much more feasible.

[@stevelenores5637]

Maybe for Eskimos. 🤣

[@W1ldSm1le]

It could be useful in super late game. Lifeboat for leaving the solar system.

[@russellneitzke4972]

If the planet has a magnetospere could we scan for that to help with the search?

[@usnairframer]

Oh, neat, Kindai university is only about a 5-6 hour drive from me.

[@justsmashing4628]

My Thursday is complete…

[@MrIamestranged]

Hey Dr. Lykawkwa, your a cool M.F.'r !

[@SUNDOGG97]

Hi, I given some thought to our future in space. I think it would prudent idea to try a sense of what going on in our solar system. Why not send out probes that take note of events we may not even be aware of. The more the better too. They could stop, orbit. Move to an event. The information would be worth it.

[@johnathanmann1120]

How far away from the sun it must be, it may be earth mass, it may be a rocky planet, it may even have water on it, and I use water very lightly here as it’s going to be so frozen, it will be harder than concrete. It would be a stretch to call it “Earth Like”

[@robertsaca3512]

5:30 researching Gallardo 2006b is difficult. On a separate topic, Italian supercars are very sexy.

[@Edward-om8mz]

Hi jmg

[@JRose-zn7iw]

My favorite topic, planetary perturbation.

[@richardcaves3601]

It may be earth sized, but given its distance from the sun, there's no way it'll be Earth like.

[@michaelkent2203]

It could still be inhabited. Maybe it’s where “they” are coming from.

[@richardcaves3601]

@@michaelkent2203 sorry mate, biological sciences confirm the necessities for life, and in our solar system, Earth is it. If you doubt this, read the Rare Earth Theory and watch the documentary. We're it for this galaxy, and the others are just too far away.

[@jondoc7525]

Everything exists in our universe just needs more internal heat . Like Venus could be that far . Wonder what temp it would be over there etc .

[@richardcaves3601]

@@jondoc7525 true, but very little multicellular intelligent life

[@jondoc7525]

Haha you don’t know that either look what jwst is changing already . Look at the vent life in the ocean . Give that millions or a billion years it’s possible . Plus could be panspermia or that life transfer or maybe even aliens planting life to go . Europa or that other ice moon could be that planet with a hest source from within and trapped Venus heat that makes it more normal temps

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Pluto has five moons. One, Charon a Binary really. Could most of these Tens (say 50) of KBO's 100's to 1000's of AU out in any direction, be multiplied by 5 moons? Giving 200 - 250 KBO's with possible guysers from under the ice shells just from their tidal resonances alone. If there's any video or podcast on KZbin I've ever seen proving we have a butt load of Solar System left to explore, it's this one.

[@RiverOfElfenhill]

Interesting topic but I had so much trouble understanding what was being said 😢

[@Icspiders247]

Yeah I had to turn the volume way up and slow the video down.

[@RiverOfElfenhill]

@@Icspiders247 its a bit too much mumbling and skipping words not pronounced correctly, it doesnt help with the low quality mic. English isnt my first language, but usually consider myself pretty good at it. But I’m lacking here 🙁

[@darthjarwood7943]

Im gonna throw the alien angle in here...there could be alien observation posts using artificial gravity, escaping our observation by the expectation of finding a big 3 earth mass size planet but its a very small in comparison space station

[@Icspiders247]

Maybe that's where Santa and his elves are. It's just as likely as aliens.

[@bryanshoemaker6120]

They really need a different term. I'm sorry but Earth-like planet better has some beaches and forest.

[@deltalima9640]

I can't resist but wonder: given those models are physically based, with only a small degree of empirical parameters, it should be possible to formulate a data assimilation algorithm, which, so to say, would look at the search for a planet nine as an inverse problem. Given the distribution of Kuiper belt objects and known planetary mechanics, such an algorithm should be able to objectively derive plausibel orbits and orbital positions for such a hypothetical far out object 🤔

[@oberonpanopticon]

I suspect that that’d be a rather NP hard problem.

[@deltalima9640]

@@oberonpanopticon hm, Don't know too much about computational complexity to argue. But given that data assimilation is widely used in numerical weather prediction on a global scale (a system which is highly chaotic), orbital dynamics appear much more deterministic to me. Just a thought. Pardon my ignorance.

[@oberonpanopticon]

@@deltalima9640 Simulations were run to predict the future of the solar system based on the current positions and velocities of the planets. When they moved mercury 1 centimetre closer to the sun, the result almost completely changed. Orbits are deterministic so far as we know, but they’re also chaotic (see: the 3 body problem). You can only truly predict them if you have 100% accurate information about them, which we don’t and quite possibly never will. And weather forecasting.. I mean, it’s a chaotic system too, even the best supercomputers in the world can only get decent predictions for a few days into the future

[@deltalima9640]

@@oberonpanopticon right. Well then, keep on looking for faint dots of light it is.

[@oberonpanopticon]

@@deltalima9640 Aye. With large survey telescopes coming online in the next few decades, if it’s out there, we’ll probably find it before 2050.

[@darrin173]

There can't be....it would be to cold out there....freeze your butt off!!😅

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Earth; We're going to the stars! Non Earth Folk; Hold on a second. You've explored 5% of your Solar System. Only 45/800AU. Then the Oort Cloud. Stars are on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

[@russellneitzke4972]

Is matter the decay of darkmatter and is dark matter the decay of dark energy? Is space-time the measure of the decay? Is dark energy, clumps of new big bangs that are so young they are still opaque?

[@Maidiac]

Long answer of course not. Short answer No. Only thing out there are frozen rocks. And a lot of them. So by that standard they're all "earth like"

[@aidkik580]

Shheeiiittt I'd hide from us too...

[@astraltraveler257]

If I watched human civilizations on beautiful planet earth develop and destroy themselves over and over and over I'd certainly hide behind the sun.

[@largerthanlightmedia8162]

I love your channel but I wish you would flip the bright white images such as science paper stills to black with white text. Because when you show a pretty space photo then switch to a white screen it's jarring 😅 especially when I'm in a dark room trying to enjoy the show 😅😢

[@francoislacombe9071]

Wouldn't those resonnant orbits have been disrupted by close encounters between the Sun and passing stars during our 4.5 billion years history? 🤔

[@michaelreagan7149]

Fascinating. Wonder if it would be possible to send a telescope into Pluto's orbit to look for more Kuiper belt objects and beyond. I'm sure nothing we have (today) has the raw delta-V to send a JWST sized instrument there but maybe something half the size with instruments that can scan in the optic as well as infrared?

[@scarling9367]

I think they've proposed an infrared telescope on the darkside of the moon.

[@jondoc7525]

We can still take photos along the way and get to Pluto slower . Or who even cares just make it a telescope voyager . It would stay cold enough out there

[@LordTempist]

They finally found Yuggoth.

[@gospelofsatoshi9168]

Problem: no sun energy.

[@bucko4597]

😀

[@KevinCullen]

We need to send Siri Keeton out there. Rorschach awaits...

[@zapfanzapfan]

Maybe time for an update on Planet 9 search from Mike and Konstantin?

[@alaskansummertime]

Does this mean the Annunaki are gonna come back and make us mine gold? I never understood that. Fly across the galaxy. Find apes and give them hammers to get gold. I don't see how that is a natural progression of events.

[@floridaman4073]

Maybe the aliens didn’t bring their pick axe 😂

[@seanpgardner7374]

It's an ant (human) farm, caged animals. Hey" Probably Big show nights for ET's! Let's go see what the barbarians are doing tonight. Lol

[@samanthaqiu3416]

why not? you are getting cheap labor for hundred of thousands of years on every planet, sounds like a very reasonable ROI

[@BruceWayne-hf7ut]

I am SO glad this guy didn't teach my Intro to Astronomy course... or ANY of my courses.

[@preludeh22a57]

Selling first comment

[@alanheadrick7997]

I wonder if a large planet 3 to 5 earth mass collided with the sun what effect it would have on solar output? Could we end up in an ice age? Or has it happened already.

[@logansmall5148]

My guess (As a layperson) would be no, since the sun regularly gives off solar flares that would easily engulf such a celestial body. Although I guess it could have an effect like tossing a small pebble in a pond - that has a turbulent surface.

[@jondoc7525]

Nah the planet would touch the surface it was shot at it direct at a good angle and speed . We had a probe touch the surface of the son . I’m sure a bigger body could . But like someone said pebble in a pond maybe create a godly super storm

[@geoffsharp2436]

The big problem with so called unknown planets in our solar system is that planets that have reasonable mass and distance have a large effect on the orbit of the Sun around the SSB...the JPL data tells us there is no unknown large planets out there.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

The idea is that the planet may be the size of mars and way far out so that the perturbations to the sun is within the noise of the perturbations from the other 8 planets.

[@geoffsharp2436]

@@blaster-zy7xx Incorrect...the further the planet is from the Sun the greater the effect on the Suns orbit around the SSB. A planet the size of Mars at a longer distance would make an enormous change to the solar orbit..this is not observed.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

@@geoffsharp2436 So... the further the mass is from the sun, the greater the effect? Then why don't the stars from other star systems overwhelm this effect? Plus, you can look at the equations for planetary bodies and see that gravitational effect reduces with distance. While the barycenter is offset further, the time factor is so great at that distance, the effect is practically lost in the noise from the other planets.

[@geoffsharp2436]

@@blaster-zy7xx totally wrong...this is basic astronomy 101. Other stars are not orbiting our Sun so the wobble effect is non existent. A barycentric wobble is controlled by mass and distance, move the moon further out and the centre of mass moves further towards the moon. This is not rocket science and proves that no large extra planet (esp one at great distance) can exist in our solar system that orbits the Sun.

[@kimghanson]

I don't really approve of the way the term "Earth-like" is thrown around so loosely. To me it would have to be habitable, or at least could naturally become habitable. This seems unlikely for even the best candidates in the Kuiper Belt.

[@kimghanson]

@@mal2ksc Glad you agree.

[@Privacityuser]

will be when the sun heat up

[@MatTheeDarkOverLordSimons]

No

[@SaltyBR0TAT0]

Simple answer. . . NO

[@PaulikasKarolis]

Fir... Aghh..

[@hasegawataizo4069]

I can't answer this without watching the video. No.

[@Makabert.Abylon]

🤣

[@samm928]

They can see invisible black holes and exoplanets in the next Galaxy over, but they can't figure out how many planets our solar system has .. I think these ass-tronomers are overpaid

[@babybluesky9238]

it would make ancient aliens more likely

[@LuisAldamiz]

No.

[@babybluesky9238]

@@LuisAldamiz Well, actually, yes - If there's a planet on a 10,000 year orbit persistently interfering with the Kuiper belt, that requires a change in perspective to numerous tales here on Earth Not doing so is bad Science

[@bearlytamedmodels]

@@babybluesky9238 What does that have to do with ancient aliens?

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@babybluesky9238 - No, because that planet has been dead (frozen) since the early Solar System and the evolution of complex, let alone intelligent, life requires quite apparently a very long time: most of Earth's history was unicellular life and that's what we can expect to find (if at all) elsewhere in the Solar System, be it alive or fossil. If there are aliens secretly traveling to Earth, now or in the past, they MUST come from beyond the Solar System, from other stellar systems, at least Proxima Centauri. And that would require technology we can only dream of, that seems to breach all the laws of physics, that we ourselves are very far from achieving. That's actually my take on the Fermi Paradox: interstellar travel is essentially impossible and that's why aliens are nowhere to be seen. We may in the future see some of them but, separated by many light-years of the extremely hostile vastness of outer space, we can not hope to reach them or vice versa. We're used to overcome all barriers (or almost) down here on Earth: we can cross the deserts, sail the seas and even fly to some clumsy extent even to the near space. But the scale of space's vastness and hostility to life is mindboggling in comparison.

[@babybluesky9238]

@@bearlytamedmodels You'll figure it out some day.

[@mikael557]

IMO our astroid belt used to be a planet called, "Maldek" that was destroyed by it's inhabitants because they couldn't get along. Then Mars was inhabitanted and destroyed, then Venus was inhabitanted and destroyed. And here we are on Earth which already has multiple society resets, on the cusp of destruction if we don't get our act together. Oh and don't forget Nibiru which orbits next to us every few thousands years.

[@Makabert.Abylon]

Cool, let’s just forget science and ask Mikael when we wonder something

[@olencone4005]

The combined mass of every asteroid would amount to less than 3% of the mass of the Moon -- sorry, but it was never a planet.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

IMO all the planets were made by elves l, and one used to be the banana planet that was used as the basis for Gillian’s island.

[@andrewmoonbeam321]

The woman who introduces the videos always sounds very, very drunk.

[@marcoschapman5769]

Earth like planet means life on and habitable and earth like. It's not earth like.

[@marcoschapman5769]

@@jamesalexander781 then why does the title say earth like planet? It should be called earth sized. Earth sized is the correct term.

[@EventHorizonShow]

The title is based upon the guests paper. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aceaf0

[@joelcarson4602]

They should be referred to as "terrestrial" planets, like Mars and Venus, Earth and Mercury. Only one of these is "Earthlike" and "Habitable" Water Worlds and sub-Neptunian planets may or may not have "terrestrial" features or "habitability" and it may be quite a while before we can say with great certainty exactly what describes any exoplanet in detail.

[@franklin519]

How about it's urability....as described in a previous show.

[@LuisAldamiz]

I understood without any second thought, no idea why would you imagine an inhabitable planet. Earth would be a frozen desert at such a distance from the Sun and that's obvious. Habitable zones matter!

[@allnewjient7651]

A Brazilian-Italian-Nigerian-pakistani with roots in Vietnam. The new world order, better get ur boostershots.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Cosmopolitanism: a sign of refinement.

[@bearlytamedmodels]

Wow, I can almost *hear* that dog whistle.

[@notmypresident4066]

Sorry, but I am missing some words of the guest due to unclear pronunciation so I am not getting all the content as usual. Had to bail on this one ..

[@JROD082384]

You need to be much more careful with your choice of verbiage when it when it comes to describing a possible earth SIZED planet potentially lurking in the Kuiper belt. Describing the hypothetical planet as Earth LIKE creates certain mental images in the minds of the general public, where one imagines a planet with a stable, complex, breathable atmosphere, liquid water oceans, and complex multicellular life on a planet, that if it indeed does exist, could not possibly support such things at such a monumental distance away from the sun. As a capable science fiction author, I would expect you, of all people, to be capable of being better at choosing the right words when discussing topics like this that require a bit more nuance to prevent giving the general public the wrong idea of what is being discussed. Stop misinforming the general public, and learn to choose your words more carefully, for everyone’s sake…

[@digitalfootballer9032]

But it could be earth like in more ways than just size, such as composition, mass, etc. That doesn't mean it's habitable. Venus is earth like, but you couldn't live there. There is nothing wrong with using that description.

[@redcalx9568]

1st time I ever just lost interest ans stopped watching after 4 mins

[@hughstan1]

I really like your programming, but I can’t take you seriously when you have to announce your guest by his ethnicity. Nobody announces John Michael Gotye as a white American. Could you imagine the backlash?

[@Brazen1234]

just shows what pre occupys your mind.

[@EventHorizonShow]

We use the official bios available to us.

[@bozo5632]

He's a guy in Japan with a Euro-sounding accent and a name that looks maybe African. That's confusing. If they hadn't told me his background I probably would have had to look him up, so I'm glad they did. JMG is an American with an American accent in America. There's less to explain. But if he was an American in Tibet speaking Swahili with a Swiss accent, I'd be curious as to why.

[@kenm1167]

Pretty sure the bio referred to a dual citizenship

[@logansmall5148]

​@@CoruscationsOfIneptitude Yep, technically Elon Musk is an African American.

[@scottbandeen7670]

Boo. Hiss. Worse guest yet.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Not good enough. Explain your point in detail and make your case convincingly please. Do it competently please, and do not waste our time.