Lessons from My Wife in Finding Alien Life | Douglas Vakoch | TEDxKingstonUponThames

[@yuenpingchong2313]

''To be human, is to live with uncertainty, if we demand guarantees that we can discover life beyond earth before we actually reach out and search for it then we're guaranteed to fail but if we are willing to put in the hard work to embark on a search not knowing whether we will succeed or not then we are guaranteed to find at least one civilisation that has the passion and the dedication to understand its place in the universe and that civilisation is us, uncertainty and all. ''

[@wardaddy971]

Its so inspiring to listen Douglas speaking!

[@soumyadeepchakraborty5775]

This is so inspiring... @ Douglas Vakoch

[@TheGlobalTop]

Inspiring talk. Makes me wanna explore.

[@madkar988]

We need a new vision for space exploration. This is a great start!

[@theripleyeffect5203]

I would say to an advanced civilization, "Come to us, bring shock and awe and save us from our savage selves.

[@MyNameIsUnit98]

I had the SETI @ home on 3 computers. Just for fun. But, I often wondered about the frequencies SETI monitored and how much any civilization would use them. On Earth, we don’t use them, that’s why they are so quiet. How many times have we transmitted signals in the direction of likely stars or star clusters? Not many from what I heard. So, why would Johnny Alien think, “Hey, I’m going to dedicate one of my brains and 3 arms to sending signals on a frequency that other creatures probably don’t use”.

[@valkx1808]

My girlfriend would love this talk!

[@cindysuebrown8942]

We are all one trust me

[@daghan3251]

guy got all choked up talking about his wife.

[@srcteam9352]

Dilitheum didn't destroy the Federation, It was just a setback of a few centuries!

[@robb6059]

"A sane and intelligent man does not wish to enter any of the material planets because the four conditions of material miseries exist on all of them." Hare KRSNA.

[@pl4423]

So we do have technology that can detect water undernearth earth...its the same technology used to detect aquaphores and underground rivers....cant we do the same on Mars??? and maybe various moons in our solar system which we suspect liquid water to be present

[@prithvirajsamajder]

The man loves his coffee.

[@lauriemayne7436]

Just one more scientist in denial of the presence of ETs in our own environment.

[@qasimovvv]

Its too hard on the body in space for astronauts to go on loooooong missions away.

[@alperenerdemir2789]

There's more than a hundred billion stars in the milky way.

[@mehmetkaya326]

Showthe pictures longer so we can see what he's talking about.

[@basketballmaven1454]

the aliens on star trek don't speak english, they use universal translators

[@AnitaLife27]

I know, right!?! He needs to work on his Star Trek facts. Babel Fish in Hitchhiker’s Guide and Translator Microbes in Farscape. Sheesh! I doubt this man’s science. 😂 j/k

[@AnitaLife27]

Oh, and “it’s gift of the TARDIS, a telepathic field that gets inside your brain - translates”. In Doctor Who

[@cindysuebrown8942]

Sorry too say they live along side of us and they are here and they should be allowed the same as you and I? Truth be known they were here first we do not own mother earth

[@onlyaerzy5411]

Seti already got signals in China.

[@emrex2583]

Go, exoplanet hunters!

[@jasonhayward6965]

You know if you actually just knew yourself and you obey The philosophers for 6,000 years and learned who you are you could actually measure the gestures pick the difference know the aliens know the difference and then you could work everything out but ,

[@eddiea2457]

When will people learn humans are the aliens ?

[@saciabdo9080]

Quran 42:29!!

[@barskutlu8768]

who says bacteria can't invent radio.

[@nejdetcetin1617]

What's wrong with Earl Grey???

[@steviejd5803]

Sent me to sleep….twice!

[@poonflap]

Wtf is going on with his platform shoe on his right foot? 👠

[@perfectbass7900]

It takes private businesses like Elon Musk to do anything impressive in space.

[@TommyTCGT]

Mainstream disinfo.. Millions have full disclosure having opened, write in reverse, moc.ylfyeht, Swiss Meier's over 700 recorded face to face chats, since 1943, with human ets, the ets on a now completed 1000s years mission.