We Have Never Been Closer To Finding Alien Life | Lightning Round

[@floridafan6931]

As for alien life, I always say “life as WE know it”. I’m sure the universe holds so many more mysteries than we can even imagine that another “life” form may be totally unrecognizable to us.

[@jb76489]

Meh, the rest of the universe is made of the same stuff obeying the same physical laws, if another kind of life were plausible, why don’t we see it here?

[@deltainfinium869]

I always insist that we've already met aliens I mean, afterall.. The deep ocean is basically a different planet. Crushing pressures, darkness and cold, water instead of air. It's a biosphere that's almost completely cut off from the land life we're familiar with, and you can't tell me that Octopi aren't aliens in that sense.

[@ericfleet9602]

@@usernametaken6566 Spock achsualy.

[@theslay66]

It's fine from a philosophical perspective, but mostly useless from a practical perspective when you're trying to find alien life. Because if alien life can be anything, then any observation that has no immediate obvious explanation can be interpreted as potential manifestation of life. This doesn't help us at all. In practice, it's more usefull to look first for "life as we know it", because at least we know what it may look like, and how it could manifest itself.

[@ludite5000]

Sure, but "life" is a concept we invented and that we define. So life that is unrecognizable to us may not fit our definition of life and thus, wouldn't be life. Maybe we'll encounter something that makes us expand our definition to include it, or maybe we'll encounter something amazing and strange that is, nonetheless, not life.

[@brockjames3984]

I started watching Answers With Joe years ago I think he had around 100k followers or less. So seeing he’s on track to hit 2M makes me so happy. He’s such a humble & hard working person that it makes me really happy to see him succeed. I’ll definitely be here as a lifetime fan and I’m excited to see him hit 10M in the years to come. Let’s go Joe!

[@aaronschwartz7396]

Heck yea, I started watching his videos in 2017, it's been a ride

[@youtubeuser206]

@@aaronschwartz7396 schwartzbergstein?

[@andykod77]

Just enjoy his content and don't worry about how many subs he has ,it makes no difference to you and more so nor your concern,good day sir

[@computerjantje]

@@andykod77 The fact that you think Brock should not care about others mostly says something about how you think about others. I am so happy most people do have some kind of empathy and are interested in how well a nice guy giving us his stories is doing on KZbin. Mainly I don't really care what your opinion is as it sounds so self centered that is has no added value to the human society.

[@andykod77]

@computerjantje humans are vile , I wouldn't give ya tuppence nor would I for your opinion,

[@johnh8268]

It's funny listening to this after spending my youth reading Arthur C. Clarke books about these planets and thinking life should be pretty much a given at this point. It's amazing how much of his writing has stood the test of time.

[@FloydYESterZep]

Yes, the Odyssey series was the first thing I thought about when he started talking about Europa and Ganymede. Its almost like they used those books as a foundation for these missions.

[@gringoviejo1935]

Clarke is credited with suggesting that communications satellites be stationed in geosynchronous orbit, GSO. many of us use the term Clarke Orbit for GSO, especially when speaking.

[@crustycurmudgeon2182]

I'm a huge fan of Clarke (as well as Asimov, et al...). You have a good point! Glad you brought it up.

[@SeraphX2]

Hihghly unlikely. It just takes 8 common things for life to exist to not work to basically eliminate the whole known universe at being unable to stumble upon creating life again. And that's just 8 of the hundreds of thousands of things that would have to go right to do something at our level a second time. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ameclJuZms6ci7M

[@rflameng]

Arthur C. Clarke WAS an Alien...

[@theleeoverstreet]

That whole concept of lived history is absolutely fascinating to me, and far more interesting than political and military history as we usually learn it. I've always wanted to write a series of short stories about what the lifestyle equivalent would be for me and my wife at various points in the past.

[@quasimod]

I think questions like that come from overestimating how much the average person "knows" about the modern world. You're not going to dazzle some medieval peasant with your knowledge of electricity, because you probably don't know much about it. You probably just know how to flip a light switch. There would be no light switches, and you're not going to build a generator. All you're going to do is say crazy stuff in a weird accent, and hope somebody feeds you!

[@laurengillette444]

I recently stumbled upon your channel, and I have to say it is such a gem! It's probably in the top 10 of the most uplifting, funny science channels on KZbin. Thanks, Joe, for being the highlight of my week.

[@nomadbynature8811]

Joe may not be pregnant, but he never fails to deliver.

[@gyorgischwartz]

So original

[@AceManning18]

@@gyorgischwartz same

[@aravpanwar2431]

@@gyorgischwartz same

[@cherrydragon3120]

Can people not make actual new jokes today? I seen this one at least a dozen times :)

[@bdrenfro]

Can you confirm he isn't pregnant?

[@anotherpeasant]

In regards to living history, that's why I love living history museums. Ross Farm is such a place in my area (for those who watch Oak Island, this is where Carmen Legg worked when he was introduced as an expert on the show before retiring). It's one thing to know how big projects were done, how armies fought, but without the home life none of it could exist at all. Domestic life is the foundation of civilization.

[@moonshinershonor202]

You on to something. People gotta sleep and eat!

[@chilanya]

But it's also kind of liberating that we don't have to spend so much time on it anymore just to feed ourselves and keep ourselves, our possessions and our houses clean. Housework can be .. homely, for lack of a better word, and a social activity and rewarding. It can also be mindnumbingly boring and repetitive. Especially if there is no way of escaping it.

[@paparoo9924]

I like how he described life on our planet as "our situation here" lol it felt apt

[@likebot.]

I'm really happy to hear you're ready for another freeze. I'm a Canadian polar bear and never have I ever had to deal with the brutal freeze y'all had in '21. They'll sing ballads about the Texas Freeze for ages. I dealt with a polar vortex and power outage around that time and you all had it much worse and for longer - and a couple'a thousand miles closer to the equator at that!

[@40watt53]

Genuinely love how he made a lightning round video and spent an entire normal video length on one question.

[@stevestolarczyk8972]

I'm not sure you did the best job explaining water towers. You described their purpose in terms of both storage and pressure. They're not really about storage, though. They're an incredibly helpful way to maintain fairly consistent pressure levels in the water mains. Without them, the pumps at the water treatment plant would cycle on every time someone opened a faucet, then off again when the faucet was closed. Without sone pretty complex setups, you would end up with significant swings in the water pressure within the mains. Towers use gravity and the weight of the column of water to keep the pressure much more consistent. The pumps, then, only need to cycle long enough to keep the water level within a certain range in the tower.

[@joescott]

It’s a rabbit hole that I just skimmed the top of. (That may be the most strained metaphor ever written)

[@zombiasnow15]

Thank you

[@1locust1]

More like flywheels.

[@ssokolow]

Haven't gotten to that part of the video yet but, according to a Practical Engineering video I watched recently, they also serve as giant versions of those water hammer arrestors you sometimes see in home plumbing systems... something that never occurred to me, despite having known the part about using a water column to maintain constant supply pressure without needing precise pump management since I was a kid.

[@spider0804]

Love your videos sir, your channel always survives my subscription purges. May as well of won the hunger games at this point.

[@joescott]

May the odds be ever in my favor.

[@kindlin]

Interesting idea. I haven't ever (I don't think?) unsubscribed, unless YT did it for me, which I don't think it's done for a while. I have a couple hundred good channels subscribed I would say.

[@MrGreenotwo]

Hey, the hair looks great ! I am here for the information and humor. I have learned a ton from this channel that has gotten me to look deeper in all the subjects you have brought up.

[@TitaniusAnglesmith]

I say he should grow it out, death metal style.

[@merentori]

​@@TitaniusAnglesmith so true

[@MrGreenotwo]

@@TitaniusAnglesmith LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@boathousejoed1126]

As long as he doesn't style it into that cotton candy hairdo u know who sports!

[@JonMartinYXD]

Finding life (alive life) in our star system would be terrifying. It would make it far more likely that The Great Filter is ahead of us instead of behind us.

[@kyjo72682]

Yeah, it would bump the odds even if it was extinct. But it would have to be genetically unrelated to Earth-life. If it was related then it wouldn't tell us much about the odds of abiogenesis, because we would share the same point of origin.

[@AaronLitz]

It would mean that the "Great Filter' doesn't need to exist. It isn't an inevitable principle of physics, it's just an idea for why we haven't found other life yet.

[@p3tj4]

@@AaronLitz also, it would still leave many many options for the great filter, not sure why it should terrify anyone. We already have the capacity to destroy ourselves, that should terrify us, if anything.

[@p3tj4]

if there is great filter at all... like you said.

[@221b-l3t]

The Great Filter is just a metaphor to explain a lack of signals during a very short period of time. We have seen lots. Most discounted. Couple not. But inconclusive. Though not nothing. 1978 we heard something pretty weird. Usually just pulsars or the like.

[@K.KILLORAN]

As someone who had a close encounter with a giant ufo, I can’t express how strange and amazing, but also alienating (no pun intended) it is for me to watch everyone debate this topic…since, like many of you, I once didn’t know, but then I found out in a life altering way, and now I just sit back and am amused by the whole thing. I do often wonder if the skeptics will be more able to accept experiences like mine once we inevitably find primitive life or past primitive life in our solar system, but I doubt it. I imagine the argument will just switch from “is there life elsewhere” to “is there intelligent life elsewhere”, which is actually kind of sad to me because I know so many people are desperate to know the answer, yet refuse to hear it. I get it, there are some Gaia TV/History channel profiteers that just make the whole topic intolerable, but those bad actors shouldn’t stunt the knowledge of our incredible place in the cosmos. I used to argue with people who would try and explain it away when I would describe my encounter, but honestly it was exhausting being treated like some feeble child who doesn’t know the difference between Venus and a half mile wide craft floating over me above the treetops. At this point I just take comfort in knowing that in my lifetime at least I know, I found out, I don’t have to quest endlessly on this topic anymore.

[@MarvinHartmann452]

I've seen one in Montreal in 1990. I was visiting family members who were at the hotel where it happened. There was Amber/yellowish lights and it appeared gigantic and it stayed for at least an hour. No sounds. People came with 2 theories. The first one is it was really a ufo and the second, a rare phenomenon called luminous zenith pillars and the lights were a reflection of the light of the pool at the top of the hotel. I still don't know what it was but there was something for sure. It's a well known event. It was in winter or late autumn. The police and the rcmp came to take the account. Look it up if you want. It's interesting. Edit: it's a very interesting topic but it was, as you said, high jacked by sensationalist "journalists" and nut jobs who made the entire topic very hard to discuss seriously. There was also many hoaxes, but there's also many unexplained sighing that can't be explained with anything else than alien intelligence. Edit2 grammar, English isn't my language.

[@deborahparr3451]

My mother in Kansas had a huge saucer hovering over her house in the 80s. She explained it to me in great detail, and I drew it. After that, we heard of and saw other photos and descriptions that were identical. I'm wondering what yours looked like. My sister in Kansas accidentally caught a photo of one in the sky, further away, just like the one I drew.

[@joelcarson4602]

Abiogenisis has got to be the case, it probably helps having a petri dish the size of the whole planet to run the experiment on.

[@desperadox7565]

And a billion years time.😎

[@ancellery6430]

i dont think it makes sense for there to be a billion years of the same bacteria before the Cambrian explosion. If something wanted to run an experiment they would probably speed it up

[@Yvaelle]

Yea the idea that Miller-Urey managed to go from elements to amino acids in a couple weeks, in a volume of about 1L, to me suggests that on a planet that is 75% ocean covered, over a billion years, you absolutely get abiiogenesis. Plus there has been further experiments linking most of the whole process, acids to cells, single cells to multi-cells, etc.

[@XEN-ZOMBIE]

Well obviously. You exist.

[@morosis82]

​@@desperadox7565 the funny thing is that they reckon the origin of life on earth occurred almost as soon as it was possible given early earth was a hot mess, literally.

[@EmazingGuitar]

I always imagine that there’s a civilization out there that got it right the first time and live in complete peace.

[@davidbowman2001]

Yeah people wonder why we haven’t been contacted by aliens and it’s like, have you seen us lol? I wouldn’t either!

[@raidermaxx2324]

hahaha keep dreamin lol

[@browngreen933]

Civilisation might be self annihilating by definition.

[@ambulocetusnatans]

There is a lot more time ahead of us than behind us, so statistically it's likely that we are the first, or at least very close to the first. That's probably why we haven't observed any signs of life out there yet.

[@smellthel]

I think they probably uploaded their consciousnesses into computers and put themselves into worlds of pure bliss

[@sirleebutler]

one of the things that made it way more feasible for me to get solar panels eight years ago was working with a solar coop. a bunch of people banded together to select the best company to work with, get the permitting streamlined, and negotiate good rates. once i got involved with them, it was just a matter of signing on the dotted line. highly recommend if the complexity is holding you back. (very glad it wasn’t anything like when my parents installed solar panels back in the early 80s! talk about permit hell…)

[@debbiehenri345]

The whole 'what would you do to change things in Mediaeval England without risking being branded a witch' thing is worth a complete episode. I think I would just pretend I was a foreigner with a slight grasp of Englishe, to explain why I could understand some words and not others. Perhaps I could say I was Australian, since they wouldn't know where that is. Using the 'foreign' excuse as a reason for all this new knowledge is probably the best route. *I'd try and introduce proper drainage, sewage, water pipes and pipe from clean water sources, explaining that in 'my country' people don't get sick if they pipe fresh, clean water from a spring or clean stream. *Also - deodorant. You can make your own out of beeswax, natural scent extracts. That'll help make the people smell better for starters. *Toothpaste and toothbrushes, and when to use them. Give a few hints as to the reason for tooth decay. *I'd advise against using things like Arsenic and Lead in certain medical and beauty products, which might mean a need to encourage the doctors of the day to conduct experiments to prove the point. *Introduce washing hands well with soap before eating and not spitting on the floor during mealtimes (apparently, our lack of personal hygiene used to appal the Dutch when they came over to work in Eastern England during the 17th century). *And that's another one - learn about how to reclaim land from the sea, draining fenland marshes to improve agriculture and get rid of Malarial mosquitoes. *Rat and mouse traps that work. *To start the process of introducing germ theory - I'd start with the whole Smallpox-Cowpox-oh look at the dairy maids thing. *To explain some of the needs of replacing felled trees, as it wasn't until Admiral Nelson who was the first to show concern at the severe decrease in good, large Oaks suitable for ship-building. To value the trees and hedgerows early on as ways of stabilising soil, soil building and preventing erosion would save us so much grief in the future. The only down side of going back to this era is - you'd have to start attending church. No way could you get away with being an atheist, unfortunately. And you'd have to be prepared to dance back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism at the drop of a hat (or the drop of a monarch). So might be worth learning a couple of simple prayers before you got in the time machine.

[@payableondeath7]

How crazy would it be that there is potential for life all over the universe, but it turns out we're just the first to get this far

[@kyjo72682]

Not crazy at all. Habitability doesn't mean that abiogenesis happens. And even if by chance it does, there are many other hard steps on the way to intelligent life. Until we find at least one extra-terrestrial sample of life we can literally be arbitrarily rare.

[@raphaelkern206]

27 minutes and 12 seconds well spent. Thank you Joe!

[@Seth-mu3wo]

The video is only 27 minutes and 11 seconds on my end! I was shorted 1 second! Ha ha ha

[@TJRune]

Encouraging sanitation methods and understanding where disease actually comes from would have been a game changer. Though language barriers and the potential to just die in earlier times prior to any help given is considerable.

[@jec6613]

The most important step to improving lives would be to help with waste handling. Sewer and garbage collection have done more to increase lifespans than doctors. But, you also have to be sort of careful ... what sort of impact would increasing lifespans, for one area and then eventually one country as it catches on, have years down the line when there are more people for colonization and no birth control? Add a million people to England and suddenly that's a hundred thousand more expeditionary forces available during the American Revolution or to fight more wars with France ... it doesn't end well for humanity.

[@scifieric]

The "I weigh less than a duck" made me howl with laughter. Glad to know you are a fan of Monty Python!

[@CChissel]

I’ve been watching every thing that Curiosity and Ingenuity do, there’s a great channel that pieces it all together every three months and goes through everything. It’s SO damn COOL! Watching from a rover and helicopters pov on the surface of another planet, it’s just.. amazing. Blows my mind everytime I think about it and have to remind myself it’s real

[@connorhood9344]

Keep growing it out! As someone who grew through the awkward phase - you'll love it. You have nothin to lose but your chains!

[@5icklund]

Monday is my rest day and I love to relax and watch joe

[@robsquared2]

They were able to fully extend the juice instrument!

[@joescott]

Oh, good! I should pin that in the comments.

[@esnevip]

@@joescott The Juice is loose.

[@ryantwombly720]

@@esnevip 😂 Beat me to it.

[@Mr_Fairdale]

Despite Dallas’ reputation as an oil town, it’s location allows it be a great place for both solar and wind energy production. Kind of a fun fun wrinkle imo ☺️

[@JohnLumpp]

Speaking of alien life forms… your hair has been looking good! Keep up the good work… on the videos… and the hair.

[@funnyitworkedlasttime6611]

Joe, forgive me if you’ve already talked about this, but what are your thoughts on the Viking probes having found life back in the 1970’s?

[@realsatoshihashimoto]

Great question. The team behind the original experiments still believe that life was detected. And amazingly there have never been any further attempts to detect life on Mars since the Viking landers in the '70s.

[@ATADSP]

It really depends on how far back you travel if you could communicate with other English speakers. Old English is a foreign language compared to modern English. Middle English is close enough that with enough time and effort, you could probably learn to communicate but it would be very difficult, And by the 1500's you could probably communicate relatively efficiently.

[@petraw9792]

You could learn the basics - or as much as we were able to reconstruct - before the trip. Btw. Old English is fairly easy when you already know Modern English and German (or presumably any other Germanic language).

[@ATADSP]

@@petraw9792 True true, I was assuming you had no prep time.

[@chilanya]

Even if there was no common ground to start from, or books or teaching method, it's possible to learn a new language - it just takes more time. Travellers did (and still do) do it all the time.

[@crowboy0666]

that's assuming they'd give me time to speak before stoning me to death or smthn- i have bright blue hair and four facial piercings so i don't think they'd be very willing to hear me out

[@axnyslie]

I live close to Perkins observatory where the Big Ear captured the WOW! Signal and I've done several astronomy observing sessions on the exact same spot, now a golf course. I hope we get a verified ET signal in my lifetime.

[@timfriday9106]

I so agree about the whole 'losing how people actually lived back then' it's so fucking true. LIke, my next door neighbors last name is 'lightman' and when they traced back their ancestory, they got their name because there was a job...where guys just walked around with fucking lights...and were called lightmen... in a large castle...there could be several hundred lightmen who would walk the battlements and around the town, to make sure there was enough light around for people...

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

Interesting!!!!

[@birdmoney]

A great personality goes a long way in making education fun and engaging. I love how you explain in simple terms, as oppose to trying to impress me with a bunch of random big words

[@joshmnky]

3:30 "habitable life," my favorite statement from the 1979 classic The Black Hole.

[@yoni-in-BHAM]

This is all so cool!!! Hope I'm still around for the results of these missions! 😅

[@dzvnxn]

are u alive?

[@yoni-in-BHAM]

@@dzvnxn 💀

[@sarahhunter6415]

You make learning things fun!! I’ll never get tired of your videos

[@vinz2029]

Hi Joe, on the off chance you don't already know this book, you might enjoy 'At Home' by Bill Bryson which deals with the everyday life in previous eras. Thank you for the cool videos!

[@malicemadden]

I didn’t know this existed and it’s absolutely something I want to read now, thanks!

[@1minutecomicswalahollywood648]

Hello Joe, I am a new subscriber.

[@smellthel]

I honestly think single celled life would be pretty common. Theres a type of bacteria with only 182 genes. I think life becoming multicellular is the biggest hurdle. Single celled life on earth showed up pretty much as soon as it could have. Multicellular life showed up billions of years after that. Just think of how astronomically rare it must be for bacteria in a germ eat germ world to not only evolve to live together, but to actually survive.

[@kyjo72682]

Genes are already pretty complex structures though, so "only 182 genes" is not the best sign of simplicity. There's still a lot of what needed to happen before that. All the molecular machinery, etc. And what if abiogenesis is extremely rare but the Solar system and Earth just happened to have the right conditions for it? This could still be the case. For all we know, until we find at least one other sample of life which is not related to us, it could have been an arbitrarily rare occurrence.

[@smellthel]

@@kyjo72682 Whoaaa dude you're right! Thanks for teaching us!

[@QALibrary]

They fully fixed RIME now after a few heat and cooling cycles they managed to break it free and fully unwind the system this pass week or so

[@jnhopwood]

Very informative and entertaining. A good book to learn "living history", especially about the middle ages is The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. In the year 2154 a history graduate student goes back to the middle ages and finds much of what she learned about the time period was not correct.

[@ceec5741]

So glad you mentioned this book! Absolutely one of the best science fiction books ever written with such human, endearing characters that I loved, wept for, and desperately wanted good things to happen to. The "Doomsday Book" is of the few books with two different storylines (or timelines), where each storyline was as interesting as the other. Loved what the story told us about life in the Middle Ages where I learned things painlessly. In a prophetic section (this book was written in 1992), there's a deadly pandemic going on in the "current" timeline, and there's a group of Americans more concerned about their rights to perform bell ringing being taken away because of a sensible quarantine than keeping other people alive. Hmm, that mindset sounds familiar, yes?

[@MeganVictoriaKearns]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out! ❤

[@DawnDavidson]

I immediately thought of this book as well! Absolutely gripping. I’ve loved most of what I’ve read by Connie Willis, but that one is truly outstanding. Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror is a scholarly book on Medieval History (specifically the same time of the Black Death covered by The Doomsday Book) that is surprisingly readable. I read it for fun when it first came out, and then read parts of it again for a history class in college a couple years later. It’s been decades now, so my memory is hazy, but I recall it having a lot more in it about day-to-day life than the typical wars-n-kings-n-dates approach of most history textbooks. Also, I’m betting whoever asked that question is a Brandon Sanderson fan. 😂

[@nerminsnowhuseinbasic9340]

Nothing is true about anything in history, nothing, Gobekli tepe is first proof and others will follow just watch.

[@me_yessik]

I have to point out that the statement "we have never been closer to finding alien life" is literally always true every day you say it... for instance, five minutes from now we will be even closer, and a week from now we will be even closer than that… Lol... it's sorta like when someone says "it is what it is"... yes... it is... what it is... because it can't be what it's not. Lol. Love you with boundaries mr. Scott.

[@aalhard]

18:17 NO JUICE FOR YOU!

[@Snorting-tuna]

The BBC did series on how UK farms were run back in history. I think one of them is called Edwardian farm. If you’re interested in lived history, there are definitely a good series to watch

[@DiZoSoMom]

I LOVE those!! They’re so well-done!

[@HeisenbergFam]

The fact Joe's hair looks a bit different makes me believe this is not Joe, its paranormal SCP imitating him

[@DiAbLo_BlAnCo87]

You’re literally everywhere

[@KeithKiddy]

I thought the hair was the alien life

[@tycarne7850]

It;s Joe GPT.

[@Kamitsukai]

Have you ever been interested in the mysterious disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi? I'm sure there would be a lot of people whom love your mystery videos that would love your take on that; the way you research and present it and separate the facts from your own take on it afterwards is one of the key things that made me a fan of your channel. love all the science and interesting (historical and such) facts videos too. Thank you very much for all your efforts in making these wonderfully entertaining yet educational videos.

[@SportyAussieGirl23]

Mirella Gregori is another Vatican teenager whose disappearance is also fairly mysterious.

[@juergenheymann6362]

I am glad you mentioned the brown outs of your system as I went with two Tesla Powerwalls, covering the entire 2150 square foot house, including AC. There is no interruption in power, which is exactly what we needed for the way our house was set up electronically. The only way we know that the power failed is through a Tesla app message after five minutes and/or a text from the power company. Kind of fun as we loose power frequently. Since we got our system in Jan 2021, the batteries worked during 48 events, totaling 48 hours, with the longest event lasting 6 hours.

[@mattmullett9521]

20km thick, holy shit. I'd been excited about Europa probes, but I'd never heard the exact thickness of the ice.

[@alexcrouse]

If you are seeing any switch over time (those power blinks), something isn't right. It really shouldn't have that long of a switch over time.

[@joescott]

May need to look into that then, thanks.

[@smithwillnot]

I'm totally with you on fairly disappointing history education, and I'd like to add. It would also be neat to learn about how settlements were formed. As far as I remember we were taught "and then this city was formed". To be fair for a lot of places it is probably hard to tell when exactly it was settled, but still anything would be welcome.

[@raidermaxx2324]

Could be worse, Russia's history books dont teach history that the rest of the world is taught. .So they really fucked

[@XEN-ZOMBIE]

I learned how settlements, cities and whole civilizations formed. Not sure whats up with the schools you have. My education is broken for other reasons.

[@EinsteinsHair]

Water and transportation are key ingredients. Over the years I've picked up bits of local history. A lot of tiny communities formed around springs (before they drilled or pumped water long distances.) Most of them never developed beyond a few homes. A railroad passed through, connecting cities. Some communities along its path grew, shipping out agricultural products from the area. Over a hundred years ago apples were a big thing. The railroad and most of the apples are long gone and the largest employer is now the poultry industry. There was a time when schools had to be within walking distance of a child's home. I once read that Oklahoma had 26000 one-room schools. I'm sure it was similar for my state. And there were tiny towns here, where someone set up an Academy or College for some sort of further education. It is so fascinating to learn some new piece of local history that I never knew before.

[@raidermaxx2324]

@@XEN-ZOMBIE are you talking to me?

[@slartibartfast7921]

Very excited for all these missions, and the life condition experiements are fascinatong… One of your best episodes imo… even if the thumbnail left me at least somewhat disappointed 👽

[@joescott]

Why disappointed? Just curious.

[@THEORDEROFSTARS]

You can have 2 outcomes with this thumbnail. Disappointed there are only microbes or not talking about finding real ET thumbnail photo like terrestrials😁

[@hata6290]

@@joescottSOON 👽

[@slartibartfast7921]

@@joescott It wasn’t a dig, just a bad joke. “Disappointed” in that I was hoping for the life you were referring to, to be a tad more anthropomorphic.

[@bhanwaribishnoi3846]

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[@mencken8]

This video takes the subject and wanders WAY beyond improbable.

[@griegosta7159]

I have studied at Mac and had conversations with both Dr. Putridz (on the left) and Dr. Rheinstadter (on the right) who lead the experiement. I find it so interesting that you need input from state-of-the-art models about things ranging from planet evolution, climate in young planets, pre-biotic chemistry, etc. and the theory, observations (astronomical) and experiments kind of go hand-in hand. In fact, one of the reasons JWST is so phenomenal is because it is expected to build our catalogs on chemical composition of exoplanets - which is crucial in studying bio signatures and modelling the bio-chemistry of these systems.

[@U_Geek]

Ok I have to do this before watching the video. Until we do find alien life we will always be the closest to finding alien life.

[@user-wi3yx3gy2o]

“We’ve never been closer.” Sometimes I feel this way about my lost bank card. But the truth is, though I have turned my car and every room in my house inside out and upside down, and just realized I did not look in the clean laundry basket, the card is in a dumpster behind the gas station.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

The same is true for aliens. they're in a back alley dumpster.

[@RiaanEloff]

Hey there Joe, thanks so much for these extremely informative and interesting videos. I love watching 🙂 A question: is it possible to publish in such a way that the viewer has the option to turn off background music? If so, may I humbly suggest/request?

[@clusterstage]

That's for KZbin Team not the uploader. There is no option at the moment. I do love his music tho --u find it annoying?

[@lijohnyoutube101]

Its so odd when people speak to this. Other videos I have seen similar comments. I wonder if its tied to some sort of disorder. All I hear is him speaking. Until you commented I had zero clue there was background music. I did play it for a child ( who typically can hear better than adults) on max volume and like 18 inches from their ear and they said yea there is an extremely faint piano undertone.

[@fazstudios]

In order to have a music less version, he would need to manually edit out the music and upload a separate version of the video that has no music. Currently on KZbin there is no option to disable background music in a video that is already uploaded as it is baked into the video file itself.

[@clusterstage]

@@lijohnyoutube101 i make my own music. why do you think its a disorder to hear a faint piano?

[@RiaanEloff]

@@fazstudios yeah, I realize. I just have this memory of many years ago, that when one uploaded content, you could select the option to remove a music track, or at least treat it as a separate entity, and the listeners had the option to mute it if they wanted to. Either I am imagining things, or KZbin may have removed that :-)

[@BillBodrero]

The parallels between the old kitchen life he showed and spoke of, and the Factor concept, are interesting.

[@TweaQAU]

Joe, I had to pause the video and say your hair still looks amazing, I really think the longer style suits you and what you're doing with it now is working, so keep it up you'll master it in no time!

[@leviandhisbae7375]

If you live on a moon near Jupiter, doesn't that make Jupiter your version of a moon in your night sky??? Altho, knowing Jupiter, it would take up the entire sky XD Also, loving all the talk about Jupiter and Europa, especially since I named my new kitten Europa! And I just love hearing that name, and all about Jupiter's system.

[@floridanews8786]

Plot twist: Jupiter is the galaxies toilet.

[@kurgans]

There's this game that takes place on a moon of a planet, Kenshi. Seeing a whole ass planet right there in the night sky is pretty dope.

[@alwayshere6956]

​@@floridanews8786were the quantum worlds sewer system

[@rogermiller2159]

A friend of mine went through permit purgatory and never got solar power but spent a lot of money paying the contractor to hear him say he can’t do it.

[@kyjo72682]

What was the reason? And where? (just curious)

[@TheGreatKrystoff]

Love to hear about your house power upgrades Joe. And love to hear people are learning to avoid Tesla like the plague!

[@crowboy0666]

hearing him talk about the miller-urey experiment reminded me of the primordial soup jokes i see around sometimes , one of my favs is 'i would've stayed in the primordial soup if i knew it was gonna be like this'.

[@JamesFox1]

Creeping Closer and Closer to that 2 Million Subscriber Milstone = Congratulations Joe

[@calciumgoodness4073]

Quite literally. All points in the past will have been further away from work discovery than now.

[@Chamonix.frequently]

I think they found us already and decided we werent worth the effort😢

[@elizabeth9841]

So theres a chance that the first alien life we discover will be... Europeans

[@aaronschwartz7396]

You should be able to set the system you have to discharge to any level you want overnight to save money. If you are on Time of Use tariffs with your utility you can have your installer program to discharge during the tariff period to so you buy no electricity during those hours. With regards to battery life, they are warrantied to some amount of cycles, you might as well use them to try and save more money to pay back the cost of installing them. Source: I work as a PV System designer

[@evancikaluk8625]

The long hairs looking good, Joe! Nice flow.

[@ccarmean1968]

Before we drill through ice, we should consider if we are potentially bringing in outside viruses or contamination that would destroy a pristine alien biota.

[@the-letter_s]

the space programs utterly sterilize everything they put up there, except the astronauts of course. so I wouldn't worry to terribly about that, unless they intend to give a lucky astronaut a one-way ticket to the Inuit version of hell inside that drill-ship.

[@stevestone76]

I think I was just able to diagnose myself with ADHD after fixating on the moving shadow on your forehead instead of what you were saying. 😊

[@SaintPhoenixx]

I have spent a decent amount of my life watching Joes videos and just looking at the stuff in the background because my recently waxed smooth brain can't comprehend what the video is even about and I just enjoy hearing smart people talk about stuff.

[@johncliffalvarez6513]

Personally, I feel if we ever do find life elsewhere in the universe, unless we already have, the government is definitely going to either stagnate or absolutely not release that info to the masses. I hope they just come right out and say as soon as proof is found, but I feel there will be something to lose if they did I feel.

[@shigekax]

Why would they keep it hidden though

[@Inertia888]

On the bright side, most of the people who are searching for life, are not government officials. From professors, to researchers, to hobbyists, there are many, many people, and all sorts, looking for interesting things in the sky.

[@salt-emoji]

The nice thing is if any evidence is discovered I'd like to see a government try and stop those nerds from telling all their friends

[@mojoneko8303]

@@salt-emoji If more than one person knows about it, It's no longer a secret...

[@TerraVulture]

Why would they hide it?

[@thankyouand3260]

1. love the new hair (you look younger) + better skin ? 2. New setup + music = cool

[@dragovian]

About travelling back to the past, i think a good approach would be to try to just survive at first and learn the language, and then slowly introduce science, as incremental mechanical contraptions, like pulleys, mechanical automation (perhaps by using rivers?), gears and try to create clocks and also explain the calendar. slowly gaining their trust and exposing them more to everything you know about our current knowledge, but also concealing/limiting some things as you said not to freak them out

[@alwayshere6956]

We have to tentatively approach this subject. It's a mix of a humanitarian and ecological crisis, and even whether or not to approach a new civilization may be an interesting bureaucratic solution to the fermi paradox.

[@PerversePoster]

I think the most interesting thing about finding other life will be watching religions scramble to change their interpretation of their texts to allow for its existence.

[@Odiesscool]

Do certain texts say otherplanet life isn’t real? I’m a Christian and I believe in alien 😭

[@PerversePoster]

@@Odiesscool you would need to speak to a religious scholar of some kind, I am no expert. But i know there are more than a few contradictions there.

[@PerversePoster]

@@Odiesscool You are? Then you should know your bible, especially the part where it talks about god creating all life, specifically us in his own image but fails to mention anything else… little odd if there are other civilisations out there, don’t you think?

[@LarryG-Unit]

0:46 your hair is just "unbelievably random thing". I kid, I love your vids Joe, and your hair! Keep it up!

[@michaellee6489]

the Monolith told us to Leave Europa Alone. it didnt say...dont drill or melt any deeper than 4.2 inches, or we can look but not touch... it said Leave Europa Alone in no uncertain terms. Plenty of other opportunities for science, guys. Dont press that big red button that says "Do Not Press." Love your channel, Joe. And TMI as well!!!

[@zombiasnow15]

Thank you JOE!! I repeat myself every time I comment but You always deliver !🎉🎉 You’re awesome, keep doing what you’re doing 🎉🎉 Peace

[@Locut0s]

The longer I've looked into and thought about it the more I think the answer is that we (as life) are extremely early in the history of the universe (among the first intelligent life). Likely means we are very very alone right now in the cosmos. Which, if true, is a bummer but also means what we have is all the more precious. If true it would mean the vast majority of intelligent life has yet to evolve.

[@rybfish76]

I love your channel, I would love for you to do a detailed video with all of this UFO/UAP stuff going on. I mean what the heck is going on with NASA being involved? Anyways from another science nerd your videos are amazing and I appreciate what you and your team are doing. Cheers!

[@hugokeys602]

Once in a VERY blue moon there comes a KZbin channel such as Joe Scott. Your videos capture the mind and imagination in such a way that leaves the viewer all the better for having watched. To say your channel has me hooked is for want of a stronger phrase. I discovered it two days ago and have been binge watching ever since!

[@sunshine3914]

And I felt bad for taking 5 years to discover him… I feel better now 😘

[@SaintPhoenixx]

@@sunshine3914 You've got YEARS of content to work back through.

[@sawmakai]

The intro had me cackling.. hahah freakin Joe Scott! 😂😊

[@jeredjamesaz]

Been seeing some really great videos and podcasts with very smart people discussing the lack of aliens and there are some really great theories answering the fermi paradox. My favorite at this time, and best case scenario... is that we are actually early in the Universe developing intelligent life. Basically, we'll see signs of an intelligent species at some point, but keep in mind they'll be hundreds or thousands of light years away so we'll basically be able to watch their development as we develop. So we'll have hundreds of years (hopefully) before we can make any meaningful contact. Worst case scenario, we are in a dark forest potentially, where one dominant intelligent species developed first and is out there wiping out potential competition.

[@kyjo72682]

Depends on how fast they expand. If they expand at some big fraction of the speed of light we won't see them until they are almost here. Look up the "Grabby Aliens" model by Robin Hanson. PBS SpaceTime has a good video about it.

[@vyrUS79]

I too have been growing out my hair for the past two months. Having to fight myself every so often from cutting it. Keep it growing man, we can be each other's support, lol. Just have to make it to winter and then it'll be to far and too long to go back.

[@ososkid]

My neighbor is a Stanford medieval history professor and once asked him about taking tech with me into the past and risk of witchcraft accusations and he had a really interesting answer. He said my biggest threat would be bad timing. He thinks they would be awed and the materials would be unrecognizable to them, but they understood the world was a big place full of mysteries and there was a lot they didn’t know. The danger would be if I showed that stuff off and the local priest or bishop, purely coincidentally, dropped dead anytime near my arrival. Then it could get bad

[@zapfanzapfan]

Good with the solar panels! Do you use electricity for heating and cooking too or is that gas?

[@geoffreymartin6363]

Hearing Miller's story and others like it makes me wish for a Life's Work grant of some sort, where famous scientists who are more likely towards the end of their life get their work reevaluated or further explored. Just to see what more they could have discovered with better tech, and/or have unfinished work or work in their field expedited (as much as they can be with money) so that they get to see their results. For example if it was granted to Hawking, we/he might've boosted funding to the Event Horizon Telescope so he could see the black hole, or something similar. Like a Nobel prize Make a Wish that gets spent on your work in your field or a scientific celebration of your work.

[@tracewallace23]

@19:07 Isn't it better to run your batteries (from full charge) down to around 15-20% at first charge and then occasionally thereafter, to create and maintain a "battery memory"? Or does that depend on the type of battery?

[@elwynyouard5129]

Have you ever done a video surrounding oak island? It’s an interesting topic with probably many debunkable theories that could be a cool video

[@ryvman1000]

I take a drink every time I hear Joe say "Whatnot." My doctor wants me to stop.

[@libmananchannel]

Hello "Joe Scott"! Thank you for showing us such a wonderful video! I feel so happy! I'm looking forward to your next work! Have a nice day!

[@Life_42]

Your hair here reminds me of Jupiter's atmosphere. I love your hair!

[@zapfanzapfan]

JUICE shook loose that antenna some days ago.

[@jasonmorahan7450]

Thankyou Joe. Good content after a hard day at work.

[@LudvigIndestrucable]

As much as I am thrilled that we may get an answer, the whole point is that we will never stop having questions. An important part of science is accepting there will be limits on what we will know and what we know. Whether we discover life of any stripe in our solar system and galaxy are ripe with mystery.

[@jamesgray5067]

I liked the segue from alien life to solar panels.

[@danielwingmx]

I would love if you could make a short video explaining, for example, how we know the ice there is 20 km deep. I think it is one of those rabbit holes that a lot of us would enjoy and hopefully does not require as much investigation as a regular video. Thank you for creating for us.

[@TheOrganicartist]

Dear Joe Scott, have you ever grown your hair out to be long? 0:24 just imaged you with 80's metal hair style.... have fun with the mental image everyone! ;D

[@LukasKetner]

I'm fond of Jeremy England's theory of how thermodynamics explains that life is just an inevitable function of entropy. Complex systems (life, physics, etc.) exist to dissipate the energy of the universe and return it to a pre-bang state (presumably to repeat the process). The more advanced the life, the more energy it consumes. It's a spiritually bleak idea, but it makes it all the more likely we'll make some extraterrestrial friends along the way. EDIT: There was a crappy Dan Brown novel called Origin that (spoiler) -- -- uses the theory as the punchline to the story's main mystery.

[@jamesdaniels3699]

Imagine other life and they're friendly and they want to know us, that would be fantastic.

[@221b-l3t]

Maybe they just want to eat you. We could be a rare delicacy. Served with a special sauce from Proxima Centauri. Our corner of the galaxy might be really flavorful. Perhaps human stuffed with pig and then turkey, roaster over the open core of a reactor until crispy.

[@itsneonoir3801]

Here's to hoping that the first contact would be made by fairly pacifist creatures who just want to be friends.

[@itsneonoir3801]

@@221b-l3t ...bro?