Life as We Really Do Not Know It

[@bigbossimmotal]

It still cracks me up that one of the primary things that WE look for when looking for Alien signals is that it REPEATS.. If it doesn't repeat, we don't bother with it, assuming it is just an anomaly. Sounds logical right? We have sent several signals OUT to try to communicate with Aliens. Do you know what ALL of our signals have in common? Regardless of Nation, direction, wavelength or content, We NEVER REPEAT our transmissions, EVER! Still sound logical?

[@jota6262]

Except, even the "non-repeating" curious signals are vanishingly rare- we're still talking about the "Wow!" Signal from 1977. The importance of the "repeating" bit is that a signal has to be independently verified and observed; if not, how could it be any different from the work of a hoaxster or cultist?

[@bradleypoe6846]

And here's the weirdest answer to the Fermi Paradox ever: OUR repeating signals, in terms of radio signals that we broadcast very frequently, if not at great strength. Those would involve our sports. :) Maybe "they" as such can't be bothered with a society that hasn't seemed to evolve much beyond the "team game with BALL" stage pioneered by the Aztecs? Maybe they're bored with the signals they get that do repeat? You put in all that effort to amplify the signal and get the garbage out . . . and it's more NFL. =)) Sounds like our luck.

[@jota6262]

@bradleypoe6846 it would be impossible for any tech civilization within the 100-light-year radius of our extremely weak radio transmissions, to divine what a "ball game" is. All they would get from the transmissions would be staticky sound pockets, not Babe Ruth.

[@ccvcharger]

@@bradleypoe6846on the contrary, that’s the kind of stuff that would excite an anthropologist, whether we’re talking about the human variety or otherwise. Wait, would it still be anthropology if it doesn’t pertain to humans specifically? Perhaps xenologist is the more correct term. That’s the kind of thing that would excite xenologists of any specie. Having the opportunity to see an alien’s rituals on repeat to the point that you’ve not only figured out the rules but how to distinguish one from the other is a holy grail of information for beings that passionately study other cultures. Imagine the level of nerdly satisfaction some xenologists might have when they can confidently and correctly tell the difference between football and baseball. Imagine when they start to recognize the raw emotions that certain human speech patterns convey when announces get excited over close games. Imagine when they recognize that some of the words they hear repeated are actually the names of individuals and the numbers associated with them are feats that they’ve accomplished. It would be on par with us finding and deciphering the Epic of Gilgamesh. But alas, the odds are more likely that any alien xenologists looking at Earth might not get to learn about our rituals with such depth, at least not from a distance. They would be lucky if they could find any intelligible information at all within the static noise that would be coming from Earth, especially without so much as a Rosetta Stone to show them what patterns to look for.

[@Georgehalasghost]

The average METI supporter 😅

[@ericlondon2663]

And some being out there in the cosmos is thinking, "We should be prepared to encounter the inexplicable. As an example, despite the exotic chemistry, a carbon-based lifeform could breathe oxygen on a world covered with dihydrogen monoxide. Yes, beings that live in jet fuel and drink biotoxins "

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

I got a kick out of this. The reframing of context of jet fuel sounds like something we’d say about another planet.

[@vincentcleaver1925]

Oxygen isn't jet fuel; it's the oxidizer, not the fuel

[@Lobexx]

@higgsbonbondamn

[@RaelNikolaidis]

Alien Professor-Yes, yes, we all know that life can only arise on a stable, non tectonically active planet. But imagine if it could? What would it be like? Alien Professor #2- Please, now you’re just being ridiculous. 😊

[@zstamb]

hah! what a lovely thought

[@GeorgeCostanza_420]

John Micheal GOATdier

[@tomschmitz8884]

John Michael GODier

[@MDE_never_dies]

John Paul Goatier

[@JamesPilkenton-se5cx]

It shrinks ? I don't know how you guys walk around with those things.

[@JamesPilkenton-se5cx]

It shrinks ? I don't know how you guys walk around with those things

[@Dean-whyte]

John mCgoat

[@zappababe8577]

Asimov included a silicon lifeform in his short story "The Talking Stone". He underestimated how interested his readers would be in this lifeform, and he received loads of letters asking him to write more about this "Silicony" as he'd named it! It was a very cute and endearing little chap, totally harmless.

[@martinm.1967]

Is carbon life a talking coal?

[@Whatever94-i4u]

@@martinm.1967 No, it's a walking diamond, obviously.

[@jlee1014]

Thanks! Very much appreciative of your work.

[@rogergavind6279]

I feel a great disturbance and discontinuity emanating from that closing sentence

[@Yezpahr]

Would have felt less disruptive to the Force if he went "thiiiiiiiiink". I agree.

[@RichardPryor-pv6tc]

Shhhh

[@xanderunderwoods3363]

"As though suddenly a million voices cried out..."

[@Shafterr]

Imagine if every galaxy is a cell in a giant cosmic entity too large for us to observe or interact with that moves and exists on a scale of billions of years, and is just in its infancy, and that’s why the universe is growing.

[@CHFafard]

All sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from nature

[@OzymandiasWasRight]

That doesnt sound too far from spacial dimensions theorized in string theory. Dunno how you'd ever test it but its an interesting thought.

[@oberonpanopticon]

The speed of light means that if the universe is alive, it won’t be for long. Imagine every cell in your body being splattered across the continent, moving faster away from each other than signals could ever travel between them.

[@JaceDeanLove]

@@oberonpanopticonno. You’re applying laws of earth based biology to a universe.

[@autisiens]

And that cell, is a neuron...

[@TheAngryPothead]

This upload couldn't have been timed better. You're a goddamn treasure JMG.

[@sciencefirst7880]

The wife and I love your videos... thanks for a fun and interesting evening!

[@______Daniel]

I’ve watched all of your videos probably 2-3 times by now, and I think this is my all time favorite one. Man, could you imagine if 85% of matter in the universe is dark matter, and so is 85% of life?!

[@jfinney225]

Now that’s a scary thought

[@jota6262]

Surprise pop- I love it! This is the Golden Age of JMG vids.

[@jaycobobob]

I love when you go full Author Mode

[@Ethan7s]

This video, aliens did it.

[@abdulsmith9298]

Exactly 😂

[@ProLaytonxPhoenix]

Ha!

[@thedarkestowl4224]

Aliens made you say that.

[@MatthewWatkins-uh5ov]

This comment, aliens did it

[@VildhjartaFanGurl]

Me the way I am. Aliens did it.

[@AP-lw4rw]

THANK YOU FOR USING THIS GOOD OLD CREEPY SOUNDTRACK. It's been a while since you've applied it to your videos.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Oh it's still in the library, I just reserve it for special occasions when the topic really creeps me out.

[@klocugh12]

@@JohnMichaelGodier it's good, but too loud here IMO. Please tune it down next time, I struggled to pick up your voice over it in several places.

[@jimmyyungg7329]

@@klocugh12 I didn’t struggle at all, seems good to me

[@troymcguffey8801]

I literally open this as fast as I could

[@ethomson201]

Who literally cares?

[@jfinney225]

I open all of his uploads like that lol

[@God-k5b]

Stop simping bro. You would live in KZbin… get a life.

[@JR-xy2jo]

@@ethomson201i care.

[@eddieclay92]

My day just got better. Thank you John. 👍

[@AironTube]

We are the universe and we are thinking

[@jerkfudgewater147]

Pretty sure we don’t meet the minimum requirements of that statement

[@AironTube]

@@jerkfudgewater147 well humans do a good job of removing themselves from the universe/reality. However you, me, and everyone else are the products of of an unending chain of events stretching back billions of years. We are the universe aware of itself.

[@mattorr2256]

@@jerkfudgewater147yes, for sure!

[@grindcoreninja6527]

​@@jerkfudgewater147 People love their "woo" pseudo science nonsense, it makes them feel better.

[@jordanm2984]

We are the way the universe haunts itself as an "other".

[@kevinsayes]

I often wonder if we’re the super advanced civilization. I mean if life is common, think of the vast variety of forms it took here; once life starts it doesn’t seem to be at a loss for ideas. But we’re an animal that has escaped our planet. That may not be in the cards to even occur to anything out there, or seem absolutely preposterous. It is kind of wild that we go to space when you think about it. Thanks JMG

[@jfinney225]

“Once life starts, it doesn’t seem to be at a loss for ideas.” What a very interesting, yet on the nose, observation. I’ve never thought of life in general quite like that. I love it! And you couldn’t be more right! Just look at oceanic creatures. Talk about alien forms there! 😅

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

I think you're right, we are the firstborn. At least in our neighborhood. We are the Old Ones. It's just too early for any explorers to stumble upon us and be confused and terrified.

[@darth_trump]

Thanks!

[@OnlyLevel9]

Thanks!

[@Splizacular]

"In which we think"!? What kind of ending is that!? I need my "liiiive"!

[@jacobalford6167]

Great video as always John! I’ve really been appreciating the Planets playlist. Keep up the hard work!

[@shaneoconnor5319]

Perfect thanks jmg

[@squeakinjoe]

This one was an absolute banger. We need a whole video just on dark periodic table speculation

[@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627]

Man, i just love hearing the theories proposed on this channel. Im a rather curious person and often wonder. Hearing other peoples ideas about what could be possible, helps me expand my own thoughts and imagination.

[@Tekaisuwu]

The emergence of life on Earth is merely a sentence within the infinite volumes of the universe’s Library of Babel.

[@MCsCreations]

Fascinating stuff indeed! Thanks, John!!! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@doyouwanttobuildasnowman4726]

Mr. John Godier, keep up the good work. I enjoy every video that you create. Because of that, you are going to be a character in my book as the Captain of a space ship called the USS event. Your name will forever echo in the universe of Warhammer 40,000.

[@piRatCaptain]

I'm glad I found you doing this speculative science channel. I've been wanting something like this for a long while.

[@jfinney225]

He is amazing. I’ve seen nearly every one of his videos. My favorites are the Fermi paradox videos.

[@Kevin_Street]

"...It may be that dark matter isn't what we think it is. Rather, non locality manifests in our relativistic level in that gravitational attraction gets multiplied over spread out areas because they are non locally connected, and it's really just normal matter behaving in an unfamiliar way." That's an interesting idea. I had to write it out to really parse what you're saying. (Apologies if I made any mistakes in transcription.) Quantum non locality is "spooky action at a distance," where quantum particles somehow "know" the state of other quantum particles, so that when one changes the other can can adjust its state to match, even when the particles are separated by great distances and there's no apparent connection between them. It's instantaneous, even appearing to go faster than the speed of light. So, you're saying that dark matter may be some sort of particle that only interacts with regular matter through its mass, hence it reacts to and creates gravitational fields. But it's non locally connected to other dark matter particles... So it gives the impression there's a lot more of it out there than there really is? Gravitation is multiplied over spread out areas because the dark matter that's out of range of a particular gravitational field (but non locally connected to in-range dark matter) will act the same as the dark matter in range of that field? I'm kind of fuzzy on how that could work. Seems like it would violate conservation of energy. But then, this is an idea that's square in the middle of uniting classical and quantum physics, so I guess it makes sense that it would be hard to understand.

[@patrick_on_here9914]

“Dark matter may be some sort of particle…” no, he is saying that dark matter may not exist; it may be an inappropriate ad hoc explanation to fill gaps in our understanding of how gravity works on different scales and across different regions of space

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Quantum non-locality doesn't have a change in state on each particle - both particles are put into a superposed state, so knowing the state of one tells you the state of the other : both particles always were in those states, you just measured one so now you know the other.

[@54032Zepol]

"The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. '”- So crates Me: “That's us, dude!”

[@arostwocents]

That's like SO crates, dude 😎

[@gerald-gs2vh]

Thank you, John, for all the inquiries. Who really knows what is real and what is not? I have appreciation for your channel and all the questions it sparks in my mind! Thank you for allowing me to still question everything even after 70 years of life.

[@GoyslopGladiator]

I've had a feeling in my loins here lately that we're on the cusp of finding life, be it microbial or more complex. This feeling has been what's keeping me going for the past few months

[@jelmerwouda8635]

It's always a nice surprise to spot those telescopes in the shot at 0:16; those are 30 minutes away from my home and I regularly walk in the surrounding woods

[@shallowhal-i4n]

Thats not a telescope hommie, thats a satellite dish 😂

[@stricknine6130]

The Salvagers is a great book! Thanks for the video!

[@StupidusMaximusTheFirst]

Heh, he was talking about us, humanity, and what the universe might think of us, and I read the title of his book as "The Savagers" lol 😂

[@benisman]

I’m so happy every time you upload

[@RunD.Ones1s]

NEW JMG DROPPED LFG

[@systemicsystems703]

LETS DO THIS!!!!

[@radiofreeacab]

37 rogue LFG, East Commons Tunnel

[@animeandwieardness6132]

Word up!

[@wtfdfw]

Lol before I knew what LFG meant, I seriously thought it meant "Looking for Group". I'm such a gaming nerd lol

[@davachi]

TIME TO SLEEP GG!

[@noelbreitenbach8673]

Dark periodic table, that’s a super fun idea

[@fsmoura]

12:10 _"...this amazing universe in which we think."_ Liiiiiiiiiive, in which we liiiiiiiiiive! Currently suspiciously eyeing the dark matter doppelganger alien that replaced JMG and thought we wouldn't notice the subtle differences, but were too smart for it! ( oДo)

[@user-deleted]

This was a fun video . I love fringe hypothetical science concepts

[@janosv5401]

Already missing the long "in which we liiiiiveee" at the end of the video.

[@terryboyer1342]

Ya think?

[@jfinney225]

I can’t believe i didn’t notice that until you said something.. 😢

[@fl00d69]

I have to know - what is that sign-off about exactly? Is it a reference?

[@User-jr7vf]

His voice is boring and his narration is prosaic and I really don't know how he still manages to have many fans

[@michaelramirez6877]

​@@terryboyer1342 indeeeed.

[@mencken8]

“They are a catch-all.” Best line. What we cannot see or measure otherwise will inevitably make us revert to what we know- one reason why most treatment of “aliens” is relentlessly anthropomorphic. This is why my favorite depiction of aliens in fiction is ‘Roadside Picnic’ by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The effects and artifacts of an alien visitation to Earth are very real, very much a preoccupation of scientists and scholars, but pretty much incomprehensible, i.e., alien.

[@jimjimsauce]

i wonder if advanced alien civilizations have figured out how to communicate via non localities, able to instantly message anyone across the universe. yet this something else we may know about, but have no idea what to search for

[@memmudmemmed3022]

dude, listening to your videos is one of the joys of life! Thank you!

[@ourcommonancestry6025]

Man, this was a really great video... I'm gonna watch it again

[@beefandbarley]

Oh man, fantastic! I’ve wondered about the neural network appearance of our Universe too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and observations. ✌️

[@StupidusMaximusTheFirst]

It's always within the realm of possibility that the universe is alive itself. This obviously could have religious implications.

[@AlexWalkerSmith]

When Einstein spoke of "spooky action at a distance", he was not referring to quantum entanglement itself. He was referring to the supposed "collapse of the wavefunction", which he didn't not believe was a real thing due to it being unobservable. And it being unobservable is the reason quantum entanglement doesn't send any information faster than light.

[@ReddAngry]

I absolutely love the discussions around life that seems impossible and actually alien. It drives me mad people are so anthropomorphic centric that they can’t even entertain the idea of life that doesn’t look like what we already know.

[@miboxcmpinto4977]

Finally, Jon! A new video! Now I can dream.

[@Paul-ou1rx]

"I lost my keys over there by the fence." Then why are you looking for them here? "There is more light here under the street lamp."

[@rpbajb]

Nasrudin?

[@DevinDTV]

5:10 is there some reason the lava needs to be on the surface? What about magma below the surface? Could the Earth's mantle harbor silicon life right now? How do you identify it?

[@macfine]

There could be alternate angiogenesis's happening all the time, but since there is so much existing , established life it's almost immediately out competed or destroyed

[@johnsober]

"Angiogenesis is the process of new capillaries forming out of preexisting blood vessels in your body." Not sure if it was a typo and you meant abiogenesis. And yeah, it could be happening but it's irrelevant until we can create a study out of baseless speculation. What good is asking questions of this nature: "What if there's this process, that if real would be one of the most important scientific discoveries, but I have no evidence of its existence nor do I think there is any evidence; however, it's theoretically possible." The search for Alien life is almost of that nature with one critical caveat: we have spent literal decades devising what *could* be evidence. With that, studies were formulated.

[@jfinney225]

@@johnsoberthanks for explaining. I was about to google angiogenesis. I too thought he meant abiogenesis at first.

[@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment]

It's funny you just posted this because just earlier today I was thinking about the fact that we are so biased on how we mainly communicate through sound when there's no reason to think a alien lifeform would do the same. It's just as likely that they would communicate through smell or sight or even to some sort of sense that we don't even have access to like telekinesis.

[@jota6262]

If intelligent aliens do not communicate via technical means like radio we will never encounter them and it will be impossible to search for them. The only way we will ever determine if we have company in this galaxy is if we detect measurable evidence, like radio or radar transmissions, megastructures or atmospheric evidence of industrial activity on an exoplanet. Otherwise we might as well just be contemplating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

[@ELMT03]

Has the idea that non-human intelligence might perceive time significantly faster or slower than we do been addressed by John? Ie, the information received is over such a long time period that a pattern can’t be seen or so quickly that it won’t be noticed.

[@jfinney225]

That’s an excellent theory to be fleshed out or written about.

[@jota6262]

Interesting idea. Perhaps a redwood tree or a grove of Aspen could sense changes over millennia. But how would such an organism develop intelligent self-awareness if it was not necessary for their survival?

[@dmdrosselmeyer]

Whoa, curveball there at the end!

[@WombatXBT]

Hey JMG, I’ve often wondered about the possibility of humans cropping up in other parts of the universe ? Assuming earth like planets with very similar conditions exist out there would it be too far fetched to assume other humans could exist on other earth like worlds ? Just totally foreign to our own concept of humanity but similar enough in likeness that we couldn’t distinguish them from ourselves. I don’t hear too many people talk about this particular idea or concept but I always thought of it as an interesting idea.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Well, there are two ideas here I can toss out that are within the laws of physics. 1. If someone came here any time within the last 240,000 years and grabbed some humans and took them to another star system and started a population without messing with them too much genetically, then yeah you could have other full on humans out there. 2. Convergent evolution. Maybe a bipedal bioform is good for technological civilizations and nature tends to go that route in evolution, so perhaps many civilizations look vaguely human. I wouldn't have a lot of confidence in #2 though, I'd imagine lots of different bioforms that Earth does not have might be able to pull off advanced tech.

[@TheeRookie]

I’m waiting for Wow! 2.0 it’s haunting and exciting at the same time. Something that’ll scare the shit out of you but also intrigue you for years to come

[@kanight98]

I think I'm in an alternate universe, JMG didn't say "in which we liiiiive" 😱 How do I get back. Jokes aside, I really liked this one JMG.

[@beridus]

Do your books come in audiobook format with your voice? That would be awesome if so!

[@knightmare8083]

Lol, threw me there with the outro change.

[@woltersworld]

Simpsons did it!! Thats all i could think of at that first part.

[@cmfrtblynmb02]

I know it is your signature but if you could end your videos without that long dragging of last syllable, I would put your chanel on all night while going to sleep. That last part wakes me up man

[@Blue0000FF]

Our amazing Universe in wich we liiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE.

[@christopher1367]

Music cut out when a line repeated, just fyi

[@High-Overlord-Snarffie-Pug]

once while quite high someone said "If the majority of the universe is much colder than Earth does that mean aliens will think we're lava monsters" at first it's silly but then you remember that in the vast majority of places water is very cold and very hard ice that's much like rock just with the temps shifted a bit

[@jamesdreads7828]

when falling asleep to your old vids last night, I was watching the vid you did on gravitational lensing events. One of the entries was what you described as a 'cloud' of rogue planets all tidally unbound by stars together in a nebula. I'd love a vid on the possibilities of life on these planets if the research is there. Also, heres my 2 pence: I think life is a bi product of the Thea impact, What I mean by that is our strange moon, possibly our orbit, our large core and large magnetic field, these are all hangovers from Thea, and when its completely calmed down, life wont be possible here. i think of life as a fuzzy layer of mould on a warm, moist rock. lol. Rare earth, indeed.

[@MrJamesjustin]

I love this channel.

[@kkupsky6321]

I once saw a documentary about a man named Joe and a volcano. It was shot in real time in front of a live studio audience I think. But yeah, he was an extremophile

[@robertanderson5092]

Would jumping into a volcano turn your brain into a cloud?

[@oscard9429]

I know it’s cool to think about, but realistically we are just too far from any alien civilizations to make contact. No one understands how rare life is and how vast space is

[@r1Scooby]

i do

[@scottbruner9266]

1:18 “It’s never aliens, until it is…” Well said, my friend. Well said.

[@TheZombieSaints]

"The Tholian" species in Star Trek are the only space faring, silicon based lifeform the federation knows of I believe. They go into their biology a fair bit in the alternate universe episodes of Enterprise. They're cystaline and exist in really, really hot temps. The "evil" Dr flox shatters one by lowering it's temperature. But not before it uses its entire body at a short wave raido transponder to signal for help. Cool episode.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

I seem to remember three from Star Trek. There were the tholians, but the really big one for silicon was the Horta from the TOS episode "Devil in the Dark". They went into its biology as well and Dr. McCoy literally had to glue it back together to treat an injury lol. Also, they don't outright say it, but another one was probably the crystalline entity from TNG. I can't think of how that would work without silicon, so I'm guessing that's what Roddenberry had in mind.

[@GaiaCarney]

Thank You, JMG 🕊

[@forrestallison1879]

I think there's an even greater mistake that the Fermi paradox makes. If we calculate the number of civilizations we also have to assume that most of them are more advanced than us, and so we would assume they would find us before we find them. So we should actually be looking for intelligent signs of life checking out our own planet, its more logical to do so.

[@jota6262]

The science doesn't go in that direction though. If the experience of our own planet is any indication, it takes billions of years for life to go from abiogenesis to intelligent, space-faring organisms and the necessary raw material- like useful quantities of phosphorous- simply was not available in the eons before our planet popped into existence. Instead of searching wistfully for angelic super-beings it might be more logical to look for organisms like us who are taking their first steps into the void.

[@dappernarwhal2177]

Uploaded three minutes ago. I was not ready for my daily existential crisis, but here we go.

[@NobodyNowhere888]

That’s why it’s called an *existential crisis*

[@STaSHZILLA420]

"..in which we.... *think* " That broke the trance.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Ah, dark matter. Such an amazing example of the consequences of a bad name choice. Einstein's theory of relativity does an amazing job of predicting the motion of everything from molecules to moons to planets around stars to motion inside galaxies. But once we get to scales larger than that, there's a problem. General relativity stops predicting what we see. So maybe general relativity is just imperfect, the way newton's laws were. That's one possibility (modified theory of gravity). But that's pretty unlikely. The catch is, dark matter is not uniform. By comparing what general relativity predicts vs what we see, we can map where the dark matter is. And it's completely random. Some galaxies have tons of dark matter, while others seem to have almost none. So there are two possibilities: 1) gravity works differently in different places and times. If this is the case, we're pretty boned. Our entire understanding of the universe is that the laws of physics and consistent. So they leaves us with 2) there's something going on that only interacts with gravity, but doesn't interact with light or magnetism (IE we can't see it), and whatever it is, it seems to be randomly distributed around the universe. THAT is what we call "dark matter".

[@CapinCooke]

JMG is like a mind expanding drug that blows your mind. And just like a very addictive drug, you keep coming back to JMG for more… And more… And more… And more… …. … Lava life? Ask JMG! Neutron star life? Ask JMG! Dark matter life? Who else BUT, JMG!!! Rock on John. You are the best. Rock on.

[@AppiusOS]

Thanks John for my irritational new fear of a silicon-based shadow biosphere existing within the mantle and core of the Earth, preparing to unleash the Siberian traps as a preemptive strike because of all the mining we're doing.

[@themoviejunky3918]

There are only two forms of life. Those that watch JMG vids, and those that do or can, not.

[@htos1av]

The "alien" in the 1971 version of "Andromeda Strain" is a silicon based virus, VERY interesting movie, to this day. All the science in that movie was correct and proper, and quite scary as to the capabilities of that cellular structure.

[@GeminiTwinsofLove]

Consciousness....the universe expands as humanity observes it, expanding collective consciousness and understanding information. As humanity interprets more of the universe our collective consciousness expands, interestingly faster as technology has progressed allowing humans to visualize more of the universe. Makes connections between many aspects discussed in the video to me.

[@bison_life]

Another gem by the King of the Universe!

[@traildoggy]

Universe: "I'm not angry at you, I'm just disappointed."

[@therealdonaldtrumpjr]

ending with “think” instead of “liiiiiife” jarred me awake

[@oldguyinstanton]

Oh wow. At 10:21, the expansion of the universe would separate different sections of the universe's brain structure. So... split personality? Or maybe... birth, as in multiple cell division at light speed? Hm. What would the universe eat to get the energy to expand? I love this video. Mentally stimulating in the extreme. Thank you.

[@OMADRevolution]

Great ending! “…universe in which we THINK!”

[@TheDarksai]

The illusion of other is why this problem keeps happening. WE DID IT. Every time, no matter the form.

[@ADDeeJay]

We don't know about high pressure physics in gas giants either. Things can occur at high pressures creating new undiscovered chemistry. Center bonded molecules from Helium. That's right. Helium.

[@Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove]

A few millions from now some radio astronomer in Andromeda will pick up the Arecibo message we sent, and write, WOW! Beside it, but it will never repeat.

[@greedowins]

Wow, I missed closing the video before the last word ("liiiiive" - /shudder), and was pleasantly surprised.

[@Robinhood1966]

MOND theory could explain how with galaxy expansion, it's neural network would remain instantaneous, electromagnetism, quantum omni entangled bonds, hypothetically of course.

[@paulristow3454]

My impression of SETI has always been one of that with a very, very strong normalcy bias.

[@ElSwanman]

In which we think?!🤯

[@jimmyzhao2673]

ha. Caught me off guard as well.

[@marywright4934]

As above so below and everything is connected

[@spacemissing]

I am sick and tired of people proposing that "aliens might use some communication technology that is superior to radio" without even suggesting what that might involve. I doubt there will Ever be an alternative to radio no matter how "advanced" it could be.

[@bradleypoe6846]

Try coughing up some alternatives yourself . . . you'll see how quickly the bots and Russians shoot you down, immediately saying "the physics can't *possibly* work" and things. Like we know everything there is to know about quantum physics.

[@FirstnameLastname-cx6go]

Because faster-than-light communication via quantum entanglement is so last year?

[@mycount64]

With radio signals anything more than 100 light years out from the source is indistinguishable from background noise.

[@robbabcock_]

Terrific stuff!

[@LAMPROS311]

On an unrelated subject, John, have you watched the "3 body problem"? I recently watched it and I liked it.

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

I am indeed, though just three episodes in. It's very good so far.

[@LAMPROS311]

@@JohnMichaelGodier By the way, Pavlos from Astronio channel has announced that in a few days he will release a video reacting to "3 body problem" from a scientific point of view. I believe that he will use English subs and that it will definitely be interesting.

[@GreatBigBore]

I think we’ll find lots of intelligent life out there as soon as we figure out how to use neutrinos for communication instead of photons

[@rickl.1603]

Thank you so much for your content. It's hard to speculate on whether or not the whole universe is thinking just based on whether or not it contracts an expands.... So many variables huh