Seth Shostak on SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) | Singularity University

[@FryskFS]

Seth was an inspiring teacher at university Groningen and he is still an inspiring speaker. You should invite him for a 2022 Lecture!

[@ketchupcommander]

Set is a liar.

[@FryskFS]

@@ketchupcommander Seth may hold back on the truth but he would almost never lie

[@ketchupcommander]

i will ask if he wants to speak at my conference next year, the one which exposes nasa and seti.

[@johnwoelfel7326]

He needs to bag an alien or two!

[@HArryvajonas]

Seth " they have been right under my nose for 70 years" Shostak. What a pioneer.

[@TheBOUNCERCHANNEL]

Seth always cracks me up, speaking about such an important topic while ripping on the audience and mankind lol.

[@Deciheximal]

40:28 "Sagan figured there's a million broadcasting societies. If he's right, then by 2015 we might get one." - It is currently 2019. :(

[@guilhermesilveira5254]

Sagan was wrong. Life is unique.

[@alltownarentwe3297]

@@NilsExp and never will be

[@MarcusN-kp1jn]

2025 and still nothing :(

[@zapfanzapfan]

Seth is hilarious, I've seen it before but worth seeing again :-) His book is good too.

[@soubhikmukherjee6871]

Seth is really intelligent. I love him.

[@1701_FyldeFlyer]

I love watching Seth's presentations but come on, thiswas 8 years old when you first posted it !

[@mrdim362]

Stanton Friedman, Nuclear Physicist, stated - Silly Effort To Investigate.

[@anddontcallmeshirley-]

He's a great speaker, very engaging.

[@UtraVioletDreams]

All those little arguments/jokes. Fantastic, it really gets the point across.

[@minuterepeater2257]

Though I dont Always agree with him; his lectures are never boring.

[@mrquiff123]

If there are 2 trillion galaxies , and every galaxy has billions of stars we can’t be the only intelligent species . There probably is intelligent , communicating species out there but too far away to know, how sad.....

[@gariusjarfar1341]

No one in science ( at the top ) makes a modest living.that's why we have Seth as the guru.

[@capitalistrevolution6711]

From 2010! I wondered about the low number of planets found and none earth like.

[@jeschinstad]

Yes, when he said four hundred planets found, I thought he misspoke, because I'm from 2019 and today we've found 4102.

Wouldn't aliens communicate by quantum entangled systems that preclude finding a radio signal. If there is a reason in physics why this isn't likely please enlighten.

[@jeschinstad]

Maybe Clarke-tech will proclude us finding aliens, because it will appear to us as magic. Maybe we'll discover that some of the stars are artificially created as habitats for advanced cultures. We have extremophiles on Earth, living in unimagible environments; why couldn't an unimaginably advanced culture be extremely extremophile? They're looking for things they know how to find, because it's easier than finding things you can't imagine. But radio doesn't necessarily imply communication. We wouldn't replace radar with fibre optic cables, for instance. They might use radio for beacons to guide drones. Light-speed communication will probably never become completely worthless, regardless of how advanced a civilization is. The hammer was invented 3,3 million years ago, some say, but we still use hammers today, because it's a useful thing. We have nail guns, but sometimes, all we need is a hammer and if we do find alien beacons, they'll probably still be using hammers too.

[@Rayalot72]

This is answered in the talk. Physics implies entanglement cannot communicate information faster than the speed of light, meaning it's obsoleted by radio waves (since they're photons).

@@jeschinstad But radio gives away their location to species with unknown intentions and capabilities.

[@jeschinstad]

@: Source?

[@remekficko]

Perfect proportion of information and humour!

[@davedave1064]

How could they possibly keep it secret..........THEY HAVENT..... TONS OF PEOPLE HAVE COME FORWARD.

[@mjmcrae1168]

Which would you be more likely to find in a solar system with two Earth like planets? Planetary commerce…or planetary war?

[@thatdutchguy2882]

He's the sales guy for SETI by now.

[@anddontcallmeshirley-]

And rightly so.

[@geoffreywright95]

The story of the early mistakes in the observation of Mars is very interesting.

[@jeschinstad]

Yes it is, and even more so if you consider the War of the Worlds panic broadcast in 1938 and the emergence of modern UFO sightings. It's almost like it's a cultural phenomena. :)

[@ethonboutte2754]

Everything you seek is literally under your feet...' Right under your feet'...shhhhhhhhhhhhhh🤔

[@sargejackson6136]

Thankyou sir n you are hilarious keep it moving n stay bless nice work

[@augustadawber4378]

The answer to the Fermi Paradox.There is a beautiful loving Universe many people claim they experience when they are undergoing an NDE. Long before any Advanced Civilization gains the technology necessary for Interstellar Travel - they find a way to escape to that Universe. In other words, it is technologically easier to get to that other very pleasant and safer place, than it is to develop the Type II Civilization Technology necessary for Interstellar Travel. This explains why we have found no sign of an Advanced Alien Civilization anywhere in our Universe.

[@gariusjarfar1341]

Fast radio busts, the recent black hole torus that ejects mass and is a plasma sitting in the space/time thing, that recent object tracked entering our solar system and correcting it's angle and speed to exit our solar system.

[@cptechno]

Questions for SETI: - What is the maximum distance of stars that SETI is currently probing? - I've never heard Dr Seth Shostak talk about the fact that we are probing in the past for extra-terrestrial life. It would be nice to know what a prominent scientist like Dr Seth Shostak has to say about that. As an example, if SETI detects a signal from a solar system that is 500 to 10,000 LY away, that would mean that the level of technology of the civilization where the signal it is coming from is currently (advanced enough to send signal + 500 to 10,000 years of additional evolution). If we add that technology tends to follow an exponential evolution, the implications for that civilization would be very scary for us. That civilization would necessarily be much more advanced than us. It would change humanity''s self-perception to something else forever! In a sense, it's a blessing that such signal has NOT been found yet! Is humanity ready for this?

[@tedbates1236]

This is interesting and coincidental. I just started reading Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. I haven't read science fiction in years.

[@1701_FyldeFlyer]

Loved it how Seth glossed over intelligence not being a hard step for life. Only the total opposite of what most astrobiologists think.

[@AndrewPlanet]

51:00 As someone that believes that humans by the mere fact we use technological computers are already an AI, I would find important that I and anyone else is this Universe consciously aware of itself.

[@charjl96]

What a glorious bastard

[@thomashackney17]

In Crick’s book Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature, he writes: “The immensity of complex coded and precisely sequenced information (in DNA) is absolutely staggering. The DNA evidence speaks of intelligent, information bearing design. For life to form by chance is mathematically virtually impossible.” What's more, scientists have no idea what caused the Cambrian explosion when animals with brains, eyes, skeletons, appendages, hearts, etc. appeared out of nowhere from simple multi-cell organisms like sponges, overnight. Fermi's Paradox explained? Not to mention how DNA appeared on Earth only 600 million years after the Earth was formed.

[@scottbuchanan3461]

Yes and love that what isn't created by mankind and know. Love what is in diversity and we pray for all things great a dismally. Praise to thee and fathers mothers and children of the light, we mYfind ourselves in others a d smile .

[@rajatkumarsingh1292]

How can i work in seti. I am soo eager to work there. I am an indian so what all things i need to do in order to reach there?

[@MrKen-wy5dk]

You might start by learning proper English.

[@deplorablepatriot5338]

One of the overriding themes and criticisms of SETI is that we likely wouldn't recognize any signals coming from alien civilizations or that they might not have even used radio waves on frequencies that we are able to comprehend...but then, many of these same scientists go on to mock the idea that extraterrestrials would have the ability to have come here or are here on a regular basis because the distances are too vast...forgetting that really only a couple of hundred years ago, it was incomprehensible to think that man could sail around the earth...or that the earth was even round. Shostak claims that alien ships would require more energy than the earth consumes in three years (or some such figure) in order for them to travel at a acceptable rate of speed to traverse the universe. Really? He knows the technology limits of other civilizations?

[@TheBeatle49]

I believe he makes the comment about OUR capabilities, not theirs

[@philliprobinson129]

Hes speaking from a point of view of our understanding of the laws of physics and energy. We have no idea how to build something that could power a ship to speeds fast enough to move around the galaxy in any short amount of time. Hes not saying for a fact that he knows no other alien civilization could figure this out, hes saying that its unlikely they have came here because its extremely difficult.

[@ChrisBrown-fx6ts]

A often overlooked take on aliens comin to earth.they obviously have mastered invisibility,so they may have been by many times n simply werent seen

[@daieast6305]

Well we have developed the ability to not care so e everything is just fine

[@oneshot2028]

11:50 - They will be like YOU!

[@thetherorist9244]

we can not contact them until we are done creating them

[@fnersch3367]

The earliest human made signals date from 1837 (Morse) and were very weak (1-10 attoJanskys at the orbit of pluto). I Love Lucy would be about 1 microJansky is strength at 5 light hours out.

[@bobbyd6680]

Yep. Those 1837 "signals" of Morse were spark gaps, basically static from electric sparks. Most of the those low frequency would've been bounced back to earth off the ionosphere. It wasn't until after WWII when VHF (above 50mhz) frequencies were coming into use. Even the AM radio broadcast channels wouldn't leave the atmosphere. That said, assuming around 1950 with broadcast TV, and public service, becoming popular those signals have only traveled 70 light years from earth and would be very, very weak. Unless they were directed in a straight line beam and another planet was pointing a receiving antenna toward earth, then it would be remote chance they have been intercepted.

[@mrdim362]

A while back, Seth Shostak , who then had black hair, told me they are coming. One week ago , with white hair, he told me again they are still coming. What will he tell me when he is dead in a box. ?

[@alanchong7513]

Dude, you know as well as many, that Seth knows nothing about aliens. He's never investigated an actual case.

[@raphaelandrews3617]

Seth it is not about size, it is about water, H2O, there is so much water in the solar system that find a planet with water is most likely. Then you look for life by products, oxygen, Co2, methane, ammonia, nitrogen dioxide.etc

[@jeschinstad]

SETI isn't a search for life. It's a Search for Extra Terrestrial _Intelligence_.

[@alanchong7513]

Seth is one of the great debunkers of the alien presence. Amazing how he can be paid for being continually wrong.

[@oneshot2028]

44:00 - My prediction is that the most probably scenario is that the aliens will look just like Seth Shostak, i.e human.

[@username6135]

I think we ought to keep a low profile and not bait any aliens here if they exist. We also need to have an emergency Earth distress protocol like a nuclear missile SOS signal.

[@anjayapant]

NICE

[@hardergamer]

"Frank Drake is 80" so this is 8-9 years old then, I wondered why only fund 400 planets lol

[@andrewhutchinson36]

Yes, I wondered why he thought Pluto was boring!! Now know to be one of the most interesting objects in the Solar system.

[@alexcorrea4828]

Space is like a piece of paper..their are many things you can do to paper..For your species it's still like a peice of plywood...

[@beekeeper7535]

My question is what the hell are pilots selling. The navy pilot inconter what the hell are those tic tac things

[@7Earthsky]

Seth is looking for life in space ace ace ace ace.

[@TasmanianTigerGrrr]

28:22 "You can tell hes intelligent because hes adding some RAM to his computer there"

[@gisselacosta3957]

👽👽👽🌎. They are in contact and a lot of people knows. TELEPATÍA 👀. 29/6/2019

[@CandidDate]

How do you know? Put 2 and 2 together?

[@anthonyamp3091]

Also this video is not even a good example. SETI is a joke !

[@beekeeper7535]

My opinion yes there's INTELLIGENT like out there. We dumb ass humans can't be the only life there's absolutely other life out there somewhere

[@whirledpeas3477]

Why does Seth always try to be a comedian 🤔

[@petrolekh]

Great presenter. Better than Black Science man.

[@anthonyamp3091]

It amazing that he just dismisses all the evidence on the internet. For such a smart guy he is really not living in reality. He shows one image of something on mars but doesn’t go into detail about how many other things are just obviously out there.

[@JAYFULFILMZ]

Anthony AMP i just don’t understand why y’all want something to be true that obviously isn’t! This guy wants to know if the existence of aliens more than anybody... if you ask me, it’s people like you that aren’t living in reality lol this guy watches & listens to the stars for a living & what do you do ? Exactly lol

[@nc687-]

Bro, you have a serious problem, just because it's on the internet DOES NOT make it evidence nor does it make it true

[@anthonyamp3091]

Not that I want it to be true. It’s the fact that many things line up. I take all the information out there and make my own ideas. I don’t look at one video on the internet and make a decision. I do my research. For one look into Billy Carson the science lines up.

[@anthonyamp3091]

Did you know there are pyramids on Mars that line exactly to the constellations that the pyramids are on earth! Do your research ! Don’t believe me see for your self.

[@anthonyamp3091]

Ok I’m not going to post anymore because I can go on for a week. Open your consciousness and realize that god is in you and we all come from a Single consciousness. I bet you never read the Law if one. Check it out.

[@mikebrown4975]

I don't wanna meet them they might not be good.i think we here to protect not bring it .

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

IF there were to be contact, the "public" will not be informed. The public is too emotional, irrational, uneducated and immature to handle the event. The religious upheaval (mass suicides), social unrest (murder, rape, etc.), shortages of food, water, fuel (you really think people will still be working at their jobs?) and the eventual imposition of Martial Law nation wide, you folks really think YOU are going to get to meet them and ask questions? Get real. The best you can expect is getting beamed up off a country road and anally probed.

[@thetherorist9244]

the problem they are having searching for intelligence is that they aren't intelligent enough to identify it when they find it (or it finds them)....tell em SETH...tell em how smart you are.....lol

[@anthonyamp3091]

DONT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. Do your research !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jerseyirish]

"Do your research" has become the most cringy term since 2020 began. It's always used by tinfoil hatters who don't even know what research is.

[@KoMar551]

i feel sorry for people who have to work with him and put up with him every day.

[@KipIngram]

Well, this guy has a sense of humor at least. Is this supposed to be informative or entertaining?

[@druvik2052]

2:01 LOOL

[@Jon6429]

Tough crowd

[@justabob22]

The crowd was not miked

[@gariusjarfar1341]

Whether the universe is discrete or continuous does matter, discreet = big bang, continuous = something else.

[@TheBeatle49]

Relevance to this discussion?

[@NakedSageAstrology]

Ironic, Eye See You. OM

[@thetherorist9244]

as we sit here doing real science we laugh uncontrollably at Seth Shostak.....lol

[@mikeschatz9153]

Your a d- bag. Self righteous piece of Shamir.

[@mikeschatz9153]

Real science.... “climate change “

[@scottbuchanan3461]

False premise as they kn😮 ow fully well. Tbey consult for nasa and the military. Their scientists must be higher ethically than those they consult and be heard.

[@thetherorist9244]

"Jerry Ehman"....Contact Alien..........hahahahahah....72 seconds?

[@garyvee6023]

What if it wasnt a meteor that crashed into earth killing the dinasaurs.., what if it was a spaceship that disintegrated on impact because their ship couldn't handle our gravitational pull..., just saying.., ha ha

[@korncows1]

A spaceship carrying bipedal creatures. .which brought their dna to the earth and introduced it to the planet which thats how we evolved ....innnterestting

[@Jobby1975]

He personally will find something the day before he retires.

[@ianstewart6021]

With the ufo's flying around planet earth I think you guys are looking in the wrong place...

[@tedbates1236]

The assumption that is the foundation is that life self originates. If life's presence on Earth is not by materialistic naturalism but by an intelligent cause, then an estimate of millions of extra terrestrial life could be zero. An equation that makes a prediction of millions when the actual numbers are zero is a bit humiliating I would think. But it's based on the assumption that life creates itself. When I was a little boy, I asked my Dad where I came from, he said from mother's tummy. Until then I thought I created myself. I had to face the shocking truth.

[@gariusjarfar1341]

Galaxies distributed on filaments, sounds electric.

[@valvoxvo2755]

Totally wrong,ET communacate only by telephaty.

[@thetherorist9244]

prove it

[@otrondal]

Right. telepathy is nonsense. It don't exist.

[@huskvarsm]

Seth is like a rude lounge comedian off the strip.

[@miramarensis]

Hey, SETI is privately funded, at least that’s my understanding, so it’s ok for it to carry on with its search. I doubt it’ll find anything relevant but at least isn’t costing the taxpayers any money. Go ahead Seth with your work, you seem like a very nice man.

[@Yatukih_001]

Yeah, privately funded by politically correct bullshitters.

[@VinayakVidhyasagar]

Seth i think there is a faster way of communicating, radio search for aliens is stupid, and also i think after advancing to a point unimaginable, i think they become single entities and alien civilization do not exist only single entities, but wish u luck, u gave me a lot of excitement to live when i was young, great cheers!!

[@lylemccullough908]

I like Seth.but when stating what would Aiken’s come here for, NOT Tex mex, NUCLEAR TESTS WERE RAMPID at that time. and if they HAD visited before,they definitely would have stopped by for some info.

[@boogiecat55]

ruined by bad jokes

[@sychrovsky]

SETI is kindergarten level aliens search

[@robertwhitley6233]

We haven't found space aliens because there is no life to find out there.We are completely alone in the universe,all the data collected over the decades proves this.The only thing believers can say is "There has to be life out there because space is so big".With that way of thinking you might as well say Santa must exist because space is so big.Easter Bunny,yup,must be out there also...

[@kimokla3874]

see USS NIMITZ, USS PRINCETON, USS ROOSEVELT PROOF, RECORDED sine 1943 MANY witnessed ET in SUPER ADVANCED UAP/UFO. AAV'S BY MANY MANY IN KIREA, VIRTNAM WARS AND RECENT AS beginning in 1700 BCE

[@teksal13]

@Vlasko60 I actually saw the Easter Bunny when I was 5. Doesn't my testimony count?

[@gringoguapo]

Its chip whitley!! How unfortunate, a small mind and a dumb name!

[@lazargolubovic6938]

Exist but more far than our galaxy. Because inteligent civilizations rare only 1 in 100 000 galaxy that seem they are hundred millions light year away from now planet. In our galaxy exist aliens animals as in our planets but not technology inteligent and they because that didnt cominications with humans. Humans are god race in local group galaxy. And i hope that must helped our planet even aliens animals but we are very dangerous species unfortunately. 😏😏😏😏

[@lazargolubovic6938]

Only versus Sun we are unhelped that is so sad.😈😈🌞🌞😢😢

[@ChingFong58]

Captain Kangaroo

[@kimokla3874]

CAPTAIN WAS MORE truthful than this fool

[@peterdeutsch6378]

He is the last person who should be looking for intelligent life in outer space.

[@Yatukih_001]

Now I am sad.

[@TheBeatle49]

Why? Quite a smart guy, it appears.

[@whirledpeas3477]

Seth needs stop the Meth

[@jamesmorrow9093]

A lot of bad jokes🤔

[@rbrtwlkr1003]

"Seth... your such a comedian. you know nothing. Leave Mars alone.

[@jamesstaley5611]

Interesting talk. However sarcasm has no place in scientific discussions. This guy needs to decide if he is a scientist or a stand up comedian.

[@deplorablepatriot5338]

These scientists are always so obnoxiously smug.

[@marcomartinezlanzarin1572]

Interesting topic ruined by disinteresting humor. He’s not a comedian- he should stick to his day job.

[@gariusjarfar1341]

Seth makes a fortune out of telling us we didn't see anything. Seth puts all his eggs in the progression of 19th century science, It's obvious to us misinformed that we are being visited.

[@TheBeatle49]

Give your evidence the press.

[@huskvarsm]

I admire Seth but when he talks about ET he speaks of them travelling the speed of light,which is unlikely the probably bend time and space so he tries to belittle aliens whenever he can, and who is he to say that the millitary and the CIA NSA FBI AND THE PENTAGON HAVENT GOT EVIDENCE OF VISITS OR EVEN LIVE ALIENS OR DOWNED OR GIFTED CRAFT.....he is a brilliant guy but according to him ALIENS EXIST BUT ARE NOT HERE.....and I TOTALLY DISAGREE.

[@aussieaeromodeler]

SETI = silly effort to investigate

[@Yatukih_001]

Fun lecture to listen to.

[@kimokla3874]

SILLY CRAP BY SETH

[@jamaljewell425]

@@kimokla3874 yeah to you lol

[@257rani]

❤Fender Bender😊,your wonderful in your presentations I Love Astronomy, but I hope I can save enough money to buy a Telescope. 🔭❤🦘🦋🦉My interest in Astronomy in my Teens, now in my 70,never to late for me to see the Sky with a Telescope ❤🌏🌍🌎❤✨🎇🌄❤🔭🦉🦋❤🇺🇸🇦🇺🇱🇰❤

[@justincarroll9846]

This mans on NASA,S pay roll.Which means lies lies lies.

[@anthonylee5982]

This is all nonsense... 🥱