Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?

[@AugustReversal]

A story of our demise heading toward us like a freight train, and it starts with a BMW ad. Even the apocalypse will be sponsored.

[@tomcollins5112]

Automobiles are incredibly dangerous and polluting things. Like so many other things that are mass produced by humans these days.

[@bronsonfernando7133]

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[@ansongabriel8623]

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[@bronsonfernando7133]

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[@jamessheridan4306]

I'll wager that on the day our planet is blown to bits there will be seen on the largest bit a McDonald's and it will be open for business.

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

As George Carlin said many years ago - The earth isn't going away anytime soon .............. WE ARE

[@raintalon6138]

It bothers me when people say "save the planet". Earth has been a molten rock, and a frozen ball. Maybe it will one day be a baren wasteland, but it will still be. Shouldn't it be about saving humanity?

[@dcaotearoa]

Yep, I dont want all our children to perish but maybe the planet could do with us not being here anymore lol.

[@PookieMasten]

@@raintalon6138 yes exactly. This young 16 year old Swedish girl about to sail into some climate change seminar when she should be 'sorting' herself out instead. If everyone focussed on themselves first the planet would be saved as a by product perhaps

[@rhinegun3482]

@@raintalon6138 why? humanity is a cancer and needs to go away, ASAP!

[@raintalon6138]

@@rhinegun3482 life will endure, it has done so long before us and it will long after us. Humanity has not been the first thing to lead about a change on this Earth and it won't be the last. We have been given an opportunity for life. With that life we have potential for great progress as well as great destruction. It will be our destination we find though, if we choose that path. If life is just a fluke we have the potential to seed the universe. If life is an inevitability we have little to worry about. I think the human experiment is worth considering, and so does evolution. For now. Maybe our destination is inevitable, everything runs it's course eventually. But just like every lifeform, we'll fight to hold on.

[@DrWSDavis-mr8xy]

Having known Sir Martin for about a decade now, I have never heard (or read) such amazing seriousness. Hi ability to succinctly examine humanity's role in the universe is both honest and pleading; hopeful, yet accepting that humanity's biggest problem is humanity.

[@kevwhufc8640]

Absolutely true, humanity's biggest problem is humanity. If aliens did exist they wouldn't touch us with a bargepole ( or whatever the alien equivalent is) We kill each other & are destroying our own planet.

[@dennisadmiraal3415]

Just look up? these weird }CLOUD FORMATIONS{ NOWADAYS??????

[@MrAaronvee]

Does he hold any religious beliefs? If he does, then he is part of the problem. All of the misery in the world is due to gangs who promise eternal life to their members ... and kill those who refuse to join. Ironic, eh?

[@rebelstarrhaircolor998]

@@dennisadmiraal3415 what weird cloud formations? Do u mean chem trails or something else?I'm very curious

[@robiii3487]

Sounds like a know it all douche to me

[@kostailijev7489]

Humans are the so-called crowning achievement of Earth's evolution, but they've let me down, often cruelly.

[@Amethyst_Friend]

We are not the endpoint or top of evolution. That is a misconception. Humans are just one branch on the tree of life

[@Amethyst_Friend]

Also: don't blame other people for your unhappiness

[@Ericwvb2]

One thing I found rather odd to hear from an astronomer is that while it's true that in 6 billion years or so, the Sun will expand and collapse, taking the Earth with it, but in just 1 billion years, the Sun's brightness will increase by 10%, which will most likely mean the extinction of complex carbon based life on Earth unless something can be done to shield the planet. Maybe I'm missing something since astronomy was not my main subject in college.

[@DeepLored]

Neil deGrasse Tyson once said that it is pointless to hire someone as a bed warmer as they would obviously wear pajamas and that would insulate them preventing their body heat from warming your bed. I don't think he knows the difference between an insulator and a perfect insulator but then again I dropped out of high school...

[@enerleaf7178]

I appreciate Sir Rees's presentation. It inspires me. Learning to live a grounded life with great curiosity, joy, creativity, self-expression, connection with others and immersed in nature as much as possible, living simply and giving myself adequate self-care.

[@haidijerlstrom6619]

What my empty nesting and divorce in 2014 allowed me in downsizing allowed my life to relish my own life and attention in my belief systems that are at hand in their presence and to get a unlimited amount of attention and loving in a calming and enjoyable manner that is very COLOURFUL and very simple to be PART of if the end comes my carbon footprint will be hobbit sized just me and my colourful cat who I've been able to insight into my super sized life with 1 rule that is silliness COMES FIRST AND TGE MORE RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS I CAN INTERACT IN AND MY CAT TOO MEANS THE GREATER THE DAY WE'VE HAD AND WE KNOW OUR SLUMBERS WILL BE PERFECT BY THE TIME WE STOP TICKLING BACK AND FORTH .....AT 61 IM READY FOR WHAT EVER EVENTS AHEAD TURN INTO ADVENTURES

[@DavidHolcomb1776]

Very enjoyable to watch,everytime I've watched it.He is an amazing man.

[@AsttoScott]

I kept looking at his nose and physique. The guy needs to eat a hamburger.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

@@AsttoScott He is serious about his health and heart. No extraneous weights. Skinny Is Best. Sugar is illness.

[@JFairhart]

We obviously don’t know very much about this universe or how it came into being. But I find the enormous size of the only universe we can see to be comforting.

[@geraldmartin8195]

Brilliant ...! One of those TED talks that warrant watching more than once.

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

People who make disparaging comments about this eminent man's appearance don't belong on here.

[@lukeharwood2464]

Undergrad worship? or looking for higher marks from your hero?

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

@@lukeharwood2464 What a ridiculous and puerile response. Drongo.

[@stuartslaugh2722]

@@lukeharwood2464 Asshat

[@simoncuming41]

I really enjoyed that talk, extremely lucid in its content and full of simple logic, no complex equations or rhetoric! Great!

[@robertrichard6107]

I liked the jest about the American Bible belt, or was that a quip? Of course Albert E. regretted signing those two letters to FDR, and our tax dollars secretly went to building a bigger boom-boom. And the USSR plotted on mostly alone to fight the Hun for us. But wait! We've only blown up a little over 1,000 nuclear weapons, lots of them into our precious atmosphere what did the holy Einstein say about nuclear waste? This is three years before Fukushima I realize but Fukushima is a game changer. What does Mr. Rees have to say about Glowball human self absorption of the nuclear Pandora's box?

[@shealdedmon7104]

I have to say your logic is simple and neither you or that speaker are lucid!

[@public.public]

but first a fossil fueled folly advert from BMW

[@deormanrobey892]

Broke My Wallet.

[@abistonservices9249]

You a complete idiot?

[@klausuhlig7141]

and my bank just notified me they are now called chemical bank of bla bla bla

[@davidwoodruff1897]

Comment by Monica: now that was funny! But oil isn’t fossil fuel it is abiotic.

[@chosen_ones777]

@@davidwoodruff1897 Is it not fossil fuel because it origins from fossils?

[@darwinrisdon7141]

There is nothing more pleasing to the ear than the voice of reason and intelligence, ...a rare gift to humanity!

[@77goanywhere]

In order for humanity to change from a destructive to a benign influence on the Earth a fundamental shift in consciousness will need to occur. A fundamental change from a fear and lack based consciousness to a love and abundance based consciousness. Fortunately this is what our Creator has planned to occur.

[@radhakrishna1845]

Sir Martin Rees... To explore the outer cosmos.. We need to explore the the inner cosmos.... Man is a microcosm.... Who am I.. I am not the body, I am not the mind... I am not the thought... Ancient Indian and Chinese techniques for self exploration.. Space, time and matter are only derived from our sensory world... But the soul is beyond... The soul is primordial energy... The omnipresent, omnipotent... Element..... Space and time... Even matter do not exit.. We all need self exploration Best of Luck

[@chosen_ones777]

You're right. Only consiousness is for real.

[@r.bevantrembly3687]

Radha Krishna I AM my body, I AM my mind, I AM my thoughts, I AM alive in time and space, A spiritual being having a material experience, That’s why I’m here and now!

[@Rocco27274]

[@wittohasago]

Ur not wrong..history according to the Queen...here is the truth, kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGaxXn1ondVkn80

[@078moredetails]

Wow you said that very nicely...couldnt agree more and I wish I practiced that more ...I need more self discovery

[@aryanzijlstra6649]

I must admit that in my lifetime I've learned and understand (up to some point) from many different scientists about evolution, nuclear fusion (sorry, I was only 14 years old) , the Big Bang (for which I probably know how it started), worm holes, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, and much more. In primary school when we where tested (through some form of IQ test) the school told my parents that I must have cheated someway as my results where way beyond the maximum expectation. So I had to redo the test with many teachers watching me as the only student in a room to make sure I did not cheat. As I was never prepared for any form of IQ test, I currently scored a few points lower due to being nervous, however still far beyond what was expected from a "standard student". At my current age of 52 I've never heard of Sir Martin Rees. That is up until now, August 2019. And I can say: "what a brilliant man!" I want to know more about him, what he does, who he is, what his major is. And so forth. Whomever read this far, I encourage to do the same, and discover this , but also many other scientists. It enlightens your brain, your knowledge, your freedom. Don't constrict your brain with suffocation religion. Enjoy life. Drink a beer, because in heaven ain't no beer. (Not that I believe in any form of afterlife ;-)

[@phantomwalker8251]

there was no big bang,its just an easy way out,.the universe has been here forever.we have alien dna,science is a lie.yopur life leaning ,is a lie.the truth is hidden from all of us.the smithsonian,the vatican,all gov,s,all religion,is a lie.you think your smart,but you only know what they want you to know.gold is not precious,its plentyfull,but our forefathers,ask an american indian who,our forefathers were......used it as we do now for protection,curcuits,ect.we mined it for them.all over the world.this is why we think its precious.religion has a lot to explain.smoke & mirrors,half truths,fear of god,.why doers it cost so much for education,it should be every humans right to advance as far as they want,not by money.we are kept slaves.as allways we have been...enki,enlil....as to beer,try sapporo..good drop..japan..

[@phantomwalker8251]

oh yeh,i forgot,over 60.ish..sodem & gemmorah,NUKED.& other places..nuke wars in india.recorded,radiation 15 ft under the ground,in jungles.nuked..we now have nuke plants,only for the weapons,not the power.the world had its own free power grid,tesla re discovered it.

[@aryanzijlstra6649]

@@phantomwalker8251 Harry, have you been drinking? Your words make no sense.

[@bitemethehardest]

How exactly do you cheat on an IQ test?

[@aryanzijlstra6649]

@@bitemethehardest I didn't. The school lured me into the test without any preparation. On the first results they did believe I cheated, but how could I, I had no idea there would be an IQ test. After a chat with my parents I had to redo the test, me in one classroom with four teachers watching me constantly. That made me a bit nervous, so I scored about 2 points lower. That was when I was 12. In those days I stopped asking questions to teachers, as they could not answer my questions, so I resorted to books from a university library and I started to create my own hypnotizes of nuclear physics and quantum mechanics. When I sent a letter to a nuclear fusion laboratory with questions (before the internet started) I was invited by some professor working there to discuss the matter. On arrival He believed it was a joke that a 14 year old kid showed up, but I convinced him in less than two minutes I was serious. So; no I did not cheat on my IQ test.

[@hotdog7988]

We'll all be fine as long as this fella can find his Flux Capacitor.

[@PeopleHealthTru]

Yes. He looks like an old cartoon character on the Simpsons.

[@pssst3]

@@PeopleHealthTru You look like Sans Serif.

[@brucemcbain3150]

Damn that British accent making him sound so clever. Question: How can I think about concepts that he is discussing without my brain exploding? Amazing stuff!

[@brockfettes8446]

Hofstadter has a nice american accent, try him :)

[@jackgillies5638]

That's just what clever sounds like. I could show you a ton of British voices that sound absolutely think as planks!

[@atahulpa3584]

Humanities biggest problem is Humanity ... /

[@public.public]

the middle class is unfortunately for our entire species all too willing to do absolutely anything for any regime as evidenced globally and through all history. And the middle class is administrating our entire species to the ecological abyss. There is a common factor there.

[@anahata77]

Humanities biggest problem is Inhumanity.

[@GEricM]

We are the disease and the cure. Unfortunately the cures always seem to lose out to short-sighted greed.

[@davidm9618]

WOW, can I put that on a bumper sticker. Then burn my car for making it worthless?

[@Wildcat5181]

Only those parts of humanity that represent the four references of existence; the super wealthy investors, the productive workers, the perpetually super poor and those captured by dreams in the narrow transition. zones.

[@inyourgenes]

"Hello god, are you there still?" "No?.....Guess we (some of us!) have moved on from your bronze-aged bullshit"

[@jeffposey386]

This rambling video cured my insomnia brilliantly.

[@CobraManEng]

hahaha

[@Lettime1]

If you can't appreciate this ,am afraid you do not have a heart and feelings to emulate great work.This is fantastic!!

[@davidowens5898]

Love the rumpled professorial look. Especially those trouser cuffs. For what its worth: the wild card for humanity has always been, and will always be, the optimism, ingenuity, and courage of the young. Humanity's back is against the wall, once again, and in past crisis', the young have found ways and means to escape calamity. Let us hope, for the sake of our endangered specie, and all earthly life, that they will rise to this challenge as well. It's something to hope for. And hope is about all we got left..........

[@johnmoates5709]

Have you seen the kids these days? We are so screwed it ain't even funny. And they think it's funny and cute. We're doomed

[@NondescriptMammal]

The notion that we will always find a way to weasel out of our own collective stupidity, just because we have thus far, is not as sensible as it might seem. It is not unlikely that the scale of the problems we have created for ourselves is insurmountable. Technology and optimism will not always and forever be capable of solving every calamity we create, simply because it has in the past. We continually dig deeper and deeper holes for ourselves, always with the trust that our cleverness and resourcefulness will save the day. But at this point technology might not provide us with a ladder big enough to climb out of this abyss, it might just give us nothing but more shovels. Never fear though! The Elon Musks of this world will solve it by allowing us to escape to Mars! A world a thousand times more desolate than Earth even if we spend another thousand years destroying our own habitat here!

[@dicktater2122]

@@johnmoates5709 standing on guard for thee

[@xqt39a]

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Oppenheimer's sentiment after the first nuclear test (ouch).

[@SoberParty]

And the Kali Yuga is ending.

[@chosen_ones777]

@@SoberParty Yes.

[@davidm9618]

@@SoberParty Mythological horseshit.

[@atonasr.207]

@@SoberParty Yuga and Kali are two opposite notions!

[@SoberParty]

You will have to take that up with those of the East. Please explain that to them I am sure they will apreciate it. Better to remain silent then remove all doubt sir.

[@katherinesage]

when do these 1000 people show up in Monterey?!? this is brilliant

[@iain5615]

I respect him. He clearly stated that 'I am going to speculate from now on'. That is true - the Multiverse for example is just a philosophical idea and not even a scientific hypothesis as there is no test to prove or disprove any attribute of it.

[@timotb1]

I can tell you sat in on a few lectures with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

[@hippiedachshunds1632]

A real treat to get to hear this lecture!

[@aaronstinson9479]

The earth (a big rock) will be fine. The living things that survive & thrive on it may change.

[@chuckmurphy4948]

AMEN

[@Ratigan2]

@@chuckmurphy4948 lmao

[@Ratigan2]

hey, we can make a religion out of this

[@AsttoScott]

How many rocks have you found in your life time that were liquid filled with a thin outside?

[@DeepLored]

@@AsttoScott phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog

[@fab60s64]

cant help but admire these type of people with amazing minds . My school days were spent jumping over the fence and going to the beach .

[@bitemethehardest]

Your time was far better spent

[@8inchmegohulk307]

This is one of my favourite KZbin videos. When I first saw this years ago, I wrote to Professor Rees and amazingly he replied very kindly.

[@jacopman]

Sir Martin Rees is the man.............his insight is great and humorous at the same time...........

[@silberlinie]

This is what the Indian Vedas have always claimed, Martin Rees: that there are a countless number of universes. They are constantly being reborn and decaying. And here we speak expressly of universes and not of galaxies. And that this metacycle is a perpetual one, say the Vedas, forever.

[@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt]

There's nothing about ancient peep-holes that gave them some greater insight or intellect than anyone today. They simply engaged in the use of powerful hallucinogenics which have demonstrated can give you NDE type of experiences. There's nothing new here.

[@TheFossie12]

@Heindrich etc - quite correct. Thousands of years of the ancient wisdom and further. Chaldean era and further back in the mists of time when Gods were little more than men and visits from other dimensions to nudge and guide the fledgling human race including warriors 10 ft tall and blacker than ebony...... Madam Blavatsky did a great job of interpreting the Bahagavad Gita. The western and other recent eastern religions tend to ignore what you mention, but the great 4th level eastern teachers of Vedic traditions eg Nisargadartta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi on occasion did discuss the cyclic coming and going of universes. Modern man his sheer arrogance and the frittering scientific mind is so sure of itself and it’s relentless indoctrination of short term ignorance and dismissal of the ancient wisdom that it’s like observing noisy children in a sandpit building sandcastles. But never mind. Nothing a good visit to an Observatory one fine evening, wouldn’t cure. There’s nothing better for the restoration of wonder. And childlike wonder is a cure in and of itself.. Apols for the ramble but this is one of those days. YT can be a blessing

[@silberlinie]

@@TheFossie12 I read the German translations by Armin Risi. He takes the translation of the Vedic texts from Sanskrit into English by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada for his interpretations. I like your contribution.

[@SteveParkinson]

At 2:50 he says that those stars probably don't have planets, but that was 10 billion light years ago. Today they probably look completely different... it's just that the light hasn't reach us yet... and they are probably so far away that the light from those systems may never reach us because we are travelling away from them... things a certain distance from us are not worth wasting time over, because they will never affect us.. let us work more on what lies a head and how we can prepare for that and make the future better for our planet and all the wonderful life that lives on it... and if we need to get ready to live somewhere else at some time in the future... lets start working towards that now.. Just a thought...

[@Likexner]

But the light that is just reaching us IS our point of "now", nothing is faster than light

[@timotb1]

A pretty good summation.

[@hermanhelmich]

Steve Parkinson 🐣

[@TheHelghast1138]

"... Except in the American Bible belt..." Ha! That part had me rolling! Good show sir! Great lecture!

[@theworthyman3708]

CurbsideUnderwood What a threatening story follow it at your own peril

[@peredavison8987]

Excellent presentation . Brilliant man and a fine speaker.

[@portianl]

I now am closer to understanding "the big bang theory" excellent presentation!

[@chuckpitts2666]

Whatever

[@bitemethehardest]

PT Barnum was right!

[@VenueVideoUK]

TED - The most annoying intro when listening on headphones

[@TheMaxlizzy]

hi how are you? are you still on YT?

[@sci-filover7541]

No, it’s good now, your headphones aren’t new as now

[@jokkey05]

I know that when I die, the universe ceases to exist.

[@mynxl]

Agree. In our lives alone does nature live.

[@paul1234364]

I have noticed that old people tend to believe in catastrophic events

[@MkBl-ll5zp]

Paul Gerek / You think so, genius? And I believe that all young punks are marxists since you all worship demoncrats and liberals

[@paul1234364]

@ferkemall Valid point of course but not to forget, and I am 72 , that our knowledge becomes obsolete instantly. The old and wise seems almost sarcastic now.

[@paul1234364]

@@MkBl-ll5zp I am delighted to find the angry anti-liberal like myself. I normally reply in such style to them. The point of curiosity is though why I - person who left USSR in 1975 and have personal disgust with anything 'commie' would be calle the one???

[@AlloAlloVeraLynn]

Some have lived through catastrophic events. However, a discussion that begins with Darwin and the big bang and those faked airbrush NASA pictures is kind of heading in the wrong direction

[@drlouiscardinal752]

Old men know more.......

[@elizabethtaylor9321]

Jeezz I’m glad I came here, I never knew all this before and I’m still none the wiser ?

[@XHALE303]

Earth doesn't need us to survive & endured much worse then us, we need earth

[@Seebergster]

He has a great look for Doctor Who

[@aryanzijlstra6649]

I've never heard of Sir Martin Rees until this video, and the capture pics I've seen before I clicked on this video, didn't do him good, I admit. But This "Dochter Who" - as you claim - seems to know much more that you and I (and most probably, many more people) combined together. I think that deserves some kind of respect.

[@magisterhpp]

Yes, and he does not need much makeup too....

[@PricelessBinkey1337]

I was gunna say he kinda looks like smithers from the Simpson's

[@PricelessBinkey1337]

Mr burns**

[@MrAaronvee]

Technically speaking, that 'look' is termed 'vulpine'. Not a good look if one wishes to be believed.

[@YnseSchaap]

The greatest beatnik cosmologist (although he aged a bit)

[@JamesdeChrist]

Well trained and intelligent scientists are crippled by the false reality within which they live.

[@dougyates7218]

Well said.

[@matvimat]

Father Dinosaur to his children - "Look kids, those are human fossils. They were searching for multiverses and multi-dimensions. They got kicked out of this 3 dimensional space. They are now in 11th dimension, pondering over who they are? Are they mind? Are they body? Are they soul?"

[@JC_dk]

Hey it's Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons

[@winnifredforbes8712]

Jens Christian Kaltoft Thanks! Couldn't think where I had seen him!

[@gregkientop559]

Only if you are the Police Chief Wiggins and only report what you think you saw. Listen to his words...

[@bobgillis1137]

Excellent...Smithers

[@joegodfree2524]

Doh! Homer is notthat bwhat u really think . Is that the only critique, u have for this eminently far superior being. ?... yes, I I imagine it is and all u will ever havenij your cell .l.llesss brain. I actually feel sorry 4 u..

[@recoveryministriesdiosef3434]

Jens Christian Kaltoft LOL he is stuck in one place .

[@mentuemhet]

Wow, this was here since 2008. Holy crap.

[@stephenthompson5413]

So? The info is outdated. And the dude is probably 6 feet under by now.

[@whatshisname3304]

@@stephenthompson5413 no , check wiki

[@TheWinezen]

Quite impressively presented. Understandable to the common person, entertaining and informative.

[@yadigjamesgang-xs7jj]

I'd buy him an Eggroll. ; )

[@sngscratcher]

Misleading title.

[@aleksandar0777]

Agreed.

[@rupertmurdoch4657]

I guess that makes three of us. I was expecting.... more than a few sentences on the subject matter related through the title.

[@imemyself2820]

misleading name for a bot "openminded skeptic" (sKeptic spelled wrong)

[@shiitakestick]

iMeMySelf - no , both c & k are correct.

[@robertrichard6107]

We're suppose to conclude we'll be evolving into large grasshopper morphs to survive the toxic sludge of the industrial/nuclear relativity revolution.

[@ManuTheGreat79]

What a joy to listen to Sir Martin Rees. Not only does he say interesting things, he says it in poetry

[@JA-kq8ei]

When Man Will Become Immortal only then man Can Explore Whole Universe

[@prettyplayfull]

What if we are immortal already and our parts wear out.. then we get new ones!

[@strings-n-keys]

Our SOULS are immortal.

[@vazi8627]

@@strings-n-keys People don't have a soul, like monkeys dogs and cats, an immortal soul means it existed even before birth, a body is meaningless, how do I know a grandfather's soul?

[@strings-n-keys]

@@vazi8627 Yes, that`s exactly what it means.....our souls existed even before birth.

[@leoxiv1942]

Julia Walker proof

[@tripzville7569]

If you only new the magnificence of the 3,6 and 9 then you would have a key to the universe [Nikola Tesla]

[@yadigjamesgang-xs7jj]

If a 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind............

[@frankieocco4751]

Only seeing this now,thanks for posting.

[@handonmgt]

Earth will be fine. Humanity will face possible consequences.

[@TheUntubed]

bruce bromberg Mother Earth will fix what we have walked in an trashed. Yes, we will be going out with the trash in many areas. Disaster, Famine, lack of water. So, let’s hope there is a rapture and skip the destruction.

[@abistonservices9249]

A true talk by an eminent astrologist. Anybody listening to the end may have their eyes opened, others may not understand, others it will be what they already know such as me. The human race in astrological time has been around for 5 minutes, we should be proud of what we have achieved apart from the bad stuff such as war. Anybody who likes to think of travel to the future as Martin Reese say’s would be surprised at what has happened to reshape humans if we have not destroyed ourselves which is also possible. My thought is what would existence be then?

[@fidziek]

"worried member of a Human race" to jednak trochę więcej niż po prostu "zaniepokojony człowiek" - choć przyznać trzeba siłę w tej prostocie :-) dziękuję za waszą pracę!

[@AlmostEthical]

What a humbling concept - that beings 6 billion years in the future could be as different from us as we are from bacteria. We might even be immaterial by then - maybe digitised wireless personalities. Nothing quite like a cone and a bit of existential speculation.

[@rodfast8196]

How can you date the universe?

[@erikjamison5284]

Sir Martin Rees, 2008. He saw it all so to speak, commercial/related brain implants now just on the horizon. Who knows what new worlds of changes that will introduce.

[@yadigjamesgang-xs7jj]

The Chinese have already been CRISPERing Human and Primate DNA trying to turn back the Clock.

[@dmulugeta]

What we can say for sure is this man's jacket went extinct several decades ago.

[@sarahvegangarden4822]

That's Oxford professors for you.

[@MountCarmel-sc8od]

yes! awon! may be from the 80's?

[@d1want34]

this video is in 2005, but the quality is like it was in 1970

[@rachel_v_k]

The ancient people understood a lot more than we realize, since many cultures saw the Orouboros as a symbol of creation.

[@davidm9618]

They also didn't understand a lot more than they understood; they thought that gods threw lightening bolts, sacrificing virgins caused crops to be bountiful, and that demons caused disease - too name a few examples.

[@perhapsyes2493]

In 2008 this was a question. In Mid 2019 ... this is a serious worry.

[@timotb1]

I'm going to ride off into the sunset....I don't know about you.

[@aviramvijh]

Stimulating talk by a great scientist of our era.

[@thewrongperson676]

If you believe that house flies could evolve into Tyrannosaurus Rex, you have absolutely no grasp of the evolution theory and should make an attempt to research the matter before dismissing it.

[@dansorkin6985]

Excellent. He's a wonderfully engaging speaker, able to take the very long view. A pessimist? I see him as giving the human race warnings that we ignore at our peril.

[@grawl69]

I am not a British but happy and proud to see such a man to be the UK Royal Astronomer.

[@jameswaterhouse-brown6646]

If this dream ends, there’s a never ending number of other dreams awaiting us.

[@karlmeadows1487]

the world will last for ever , humans won't last very long

[@sunnyboynfs]

Also nothing lasts forever, not even universe..

[@sunnyboynfs]

***** Not toasts but it will dissolve in nothingness..

[@jtc1947]

World will NOT last forever! In approx. 1 BILLION years the Earth will be an uninhabitable desert. In approx. 5 BILLION years the SUN will become a RED GIANT and Earth ( along with Mercury, Venus and Mars) will be destroyed. Better start looking for a NEW HOME ( and a way to get there)

[@rhadamesasenjo79]

This a very critical time we live in. The chances of a nuclear holocaust are very real. Nothing can survive it. But if we can come to understand the severity of our present situation, and that the crazy, radical despots of the world, I e, Kim Jong un, refrain from blowing us all up, it's possible we may continue to evolved into a radically different type of sentient beings unlike our present selves. I refer to beings composed of metal and plastic, or perhaps some other type of material not yet developed. In order to withstand the rigors of outer space, we, by necessity will become other than flesh and bone. Also, our lifetime in our present form is too limited when traveling to other star systems, where we may "seed" a suitable planet with our DNA and those of other organic living things. Whether we survive our self-induced extinction depends on how fast we can develop machines capable of saving ourselves from ourselves.

[@albertrogers8537]

The planet will exist until the sun goes Red Giant from consuming almost all of its hydrogen by fusion to helium. It is indeed absurd for humans to fret about slightly used nuclear fuel one percent being the supposedly deadly plutonium, half of which it will take 24 thousand years to emit helium nuclei as "radioactive decay", It is more useful to ask whether there is any decent moral excuse for allowing our global numbers to go from about 3,250 million in 1962, to >7,500 million today. There is also the reckless burning of fossil carbon, changing the content of the atmosphere much faster than at the time of the most recent mass extinction.

[@GigawingsVideo]

Video: True educated man who can legitimately talk about the topic. Comment section: Wikipedia and Google search warrior with very limited knowledge about what the hell they are talking about.

[@magicalsimmy]

GigawingsVideo THIS. You win the Internet today. So much ignorance. This is why Brexit, Trump, BoJo and anti-vaxxer BS are realities in 2019.

[@rationallogic5325]

Also mix in the odd religious comment proclaiming Darwin to be a "satanist".

[@matthewtayloryowieresearch1912]

@@rationallogic5325 and ergo Jesus a Darwinist? bwaaahahahaa. Religions are the opiate of the masses (K. Marx) as well as being all a pack of horrible lies.

[@Tearstank]

Wonder if Covid 19 was once such door that was accidentally/intentionally opened ?

[@hawkesworth1712]

The thing that's always annoyed me is the penchant of cosmologists and astrophysicists to use the present tense when describing the universe. It seems to me that when you're relying on light that's been travelling for billions of years, everything you observe is an ancient historical event. For instance, they still talk about galactic collision NCG 2207 as if it's an event that's happening now and will continue to happen for the next few million years. When in fact what the Hubble photographed happened 80 million years ago and the collision was probably over when the dinosaurs still walked this planet.

[@curtisrenkin9684]

They are using the "anthropocentric" principle. Events that happened zillions of years ago light years away don't happen here until "our" time. Kind of like our time zones. Something in NY happens 12 hours "later" in Hong Kong, for example.

[@hawkesworth1712]

Something that happens in New York happens at exactly the same instant no matter where in the world you are. If you watch film of it later you are watching the past and it should be explained as such. When they say the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate they are using present tense to describe an event the evidence for which may be hundreds of millions or billions of years out of date. In fact the universe could be contracting but humanity will never live to see it. Astrophysicists are essentially historians describing the past. None of the objects they observe are actually in the locations they observe them in and many may have creased to exist billions of years ago.

[@hawkesworth1712]

@@Domesticated_Ape . If I agreed with you we'd be talking about two different things. An instant in time is the same anywhere in the universe but I think you're talking about how we interact with that instant.

[@hawkesworth1712]

No. Your's is a philosophical point - mine deals with reality. If you map the universe based on what you can see now, the map would have no basis in reality. Nothing we see in the night sky is where it is when we see it. What we're doing is taking a picture of a speeding train and then showing someone the picture two days later and telling them that this is proof the train in that position when it's actually a thousand miles from that position by the time you showed them the picture. When people say the universe is expanding and that the expansion is accelerating they are talking about historical data that in some cases is billions of years old. In fact we don't know whether the universe is expanding. All we know is that it was.

[@hawkesworth1712]

The example I gave was of NCG 2207. It's said to be 80 million light years away. Hubble took a picture of the two galaxies colliding and astronomers said that the collision would be going on for about 3 million more years, which is not true because the light we are seeing is 80 million years old. So the collision was over when the dinosaurs still roamed our planet. Even when we look at the other side of our own galaxy we are looking at a picture of how it was 100,000 years ago. Einsteins relativity isn't relevant. We supposedly know how far away something is so we know how long light took to get here so what we're looking at is an historical event. I fail to see how astrophysicists can say the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate when the data they are using can be billions of years out of date. Plus the fact that two galaxies can collide means the expansion isn't uniform because one galaxy must have been travelling faster than the other in order for them to catch up to each other.

[@219garry]

One things for sure. It's his last century

[@winnifredforbes8712]

Gee purrs I actually think he is one of the space aliens, sent to earth to bring the message!

[@dddux]

Do you mean it's our last century? The humanity? Then I agree.

[@joegodfree2524]

You sir dont even have a century bcos u r the ameabanfrom whence we all came... wot a cretin u r.....

[@theobserver9131]

You are a lowlife.

[@joegodfree2524]

I love the intelligence, displayed on these comment domains...

[@Enko1989]

He looks aerodynamic

[@toddprifogle7381]

Your comment was 9 months ago. I'm curious. Has your general perspective evolved in any way worth noting ?

[@Enko1989]

todd prifogle not really

[@tuxedo_monkey8805]

@@toddprifogle7381 i see what your doing.

[@tuxedo_monkey8805]

@@toddprifogle7381 trying to ack as a annunaki in disguise as by asking questions that make no sense yet sounding smart. Unless you are annunaki but then why youtube unless you wanna check in. But why? Considering its only 2 years and you could probably time travel.

[@toddprifogle7381]

@@tuxedo_monkey8805 Do your parents know you are on the internet again ?

[@geoff_lol]

"The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture -- outside the American bible belt, anyway" Rekt

[@stephenthompson5413]

when the Rapture happens, you will be left behind, - GOD

[@geoff_lol]

@@stephenthompson5413 lol ok.

[@stuartslaugh2722]

@@stephenthompson5413 Enjoy your rapture.

[@stephenthompson5413]

@@stuartslaugh2722 'rapture'? i thought the brochure said 'rupture'?

[@stuartslaugh2722]

@@stephenthompson5413 Lol! You got me...

[@jimcipriano5322]

The earth is not in its final stages. We might be

[@kirstinstrand6292]

We are.

[@petermanski9684]

Best speach I heard in my life.

[@Matowix]

we are doomed thats why I get drunk

[@Aris4tote]

me too !

[@Ghostrabbit22]

ARE YOU STILL ALIVE

[@kevwhufc8640]

I prefer the weed myself, but yes I agree were doomed already, the whole world wants to move into my country or the USA Poor people with nothing to offer too! Draining our resources because they've ruined & overpopulated their own,

[@briantetford7435]

Matowix qwetypqweertqwertyuiiopasdfghjlzxxcvbnnnnnnm,.asdqweqqqqq

[@The_Tiffster]

You get drunk; that is why you are doomed.

[@kitanarcorvidae]

Thoroughly enjoyable video as a whole. If only people in the comments would realise he was SPECULATING and not stating fact. Still, enjoyable.

[@267BISMARK]

i think this guy is at the end of his century

[@fiddlesticksbessette398]

'' WE ALL ARE''THE EARTH IS RETURNING TOO THE SUN FROM WHICH IT CAME MANY BILLIONS OF YR.AGO.BUT WE WILL BE GONE BY THAT TIME.CAUSE OF THE HEAT.

[@fultonalan]

Just brilliant and very alarming, Every leader needs to see this.

[@Kittens_Cats_Karma]

The sound burst at the beginning and at the end is deafening! Please adjust your videos with consistent levels of audio intensity.

[@jducky3643]

Point of privilege.......

[@abistonservices9249]

Never heard any loud sound, maybe you have a computer problem!

[@futurfry]

Holy shit. this finally helped me understand the multiverse theory

[@kabong257]

It's struck me in the past ten or so years that mans' general elementary thought (thus far, we seem not far advanced - we hope for thousands more years without nuclear decimation or blind over use of resources to environment-breakdown) cannot grasp infinity. Even astronomers like our friend in this video, cosmologists, physicists, cannot comfortably understand that there is no beginning or end to 'time', that there is no beginning or end to 'cubic area'. Thus a host star, fostering a Goldilocks zone planet aging for 10 billion years, say, in an aftermath of (if the theory of big bang is even partially accurate), is of no chemilurgic significance, we are just a chemical reaction, an electro glazing for a nanomoment - we don't mean anything. we are just we, a fizz, a eyeblink effervescence. of no meaning or purport, in dimensional existence meaning nothing, in a soup of infinite matter, and infinite empty cubic area sharing, too, no 'all', as that word connotes a beginning and and end. we are the finite ones - in a cradle and bath of infinity.

[@Ed-sg4iy]

+Ka Bong no "beginning to time". You know how I know you don't understand reality??? Einstein from exactly 100 years ago called, he want's Newtonian fan-boys to stop prank-calling him.

[@tomsmith6878]

you use so many long words to say nothing. youre not as smart as you think

[@ArnoldvanKampen]

It is part of the holistic theory of the universe, that spacetime and gravity are emergent. So that would mean that there is a beginning to what we experience as time.

[@ArnoldvanKampen]

In at least this bubble we are in, the amount of matter is not infinite. There is something you might call the bit, the smallest amount of 'information': the Planck scale. Even black holes grow in size when they absorb other 'information'. Information is not lost. It does not mysteriously disappear. On top of that, it is the black hole's surface area which grows proportional to the absorbed information. Besides a law of conservation of energy, there now also seems to exist, a law of conservation of information .

[@tylerrjohnson68]

Welcome to the age of aquarius.

[@karih9592]

"Races from beyond the world have faced these situations. It is well known, and that is why exploitation of the Earth now and Intervention are being carried on with such determination, carried on without the use of force." To learn more, read the Allies of Humanity Briefings.

[@haydenwayne3710]

Man!!!! Lights are on and somebody is definitely home! What a mind and still unencumbered.

[@DokktorDeth]

Sir Martin has a swipe at the Godists; good on yer, mate.

[@hughjarrse]

I'm fairly sure Martin believes in God, he was the recipient of the Templeman prize once

[@PricelessBinkey1337]

He kinda looks like a real life version of Mr burns from the Simpson's

[@Ade2bee]

Let's be honest, they are making it up as they go along 🤪😂

[@stuartslaugh2722]

Really? I think it's far more likely that you don't understand any of it and you resent people who might be smarter...no definitely smarter than you. Plenty are smarter than me, but at least I'm smart enough not to resent it.

[@gregkientop559]

Lets be honest, you wouldn't know if they spelled it out in donuts -just for you.

[@Multimeli123]

Humans need not worry if Jesus is your savior, or you can keep on listening to this fella. Intelligent yes, wise, not so much prayers.

[@greenyonline]

People……..perhaps. The Earth…………no. It will be here after we are gone.

[@curbmassa]

The takeaway? Nature always wins. Always.

[@curbmassa]

@geezusispan It's always been man vs nature. Just because you kill an animal to wear its skin to keep from freezing to death does not automatically make you a small part of nature. It makes you an adversary.

[@faisalhbsh254]

@@curbmassa sorry but nowadays they use it for fashion...

[@curbmassa]

@geezusispan I hope you don't live in a flood zone.

[@77goanywhere]

There IS another realm of dimensions in what we call the spiritual realm. And science is indeed exploring and verifying this realm. This physical dimension is only one expression of an infinitely vast reality. There is nothing to worry about. We can find peace in this.

[@maggieadams8600]

It's the name that cannot be named, awe inspiring and endless. What about the wisdom of ages, doesn't that unite the inner and outer worlds, reveal all life to be one? Same as Einstein in his old age. We are ageless, spirit, life is.

[@windtalker1113]

Well said

[@davidm9618]

Sure. Whatever. What kind of dressing can I have with that Word Salad?

[@maggieadams8600]

@@davidm9618 whatever you can come up with mate! :)

[@TheFossie12]

And I raise my wine glass to you Maggie Adams ....

[@maggieadams8600]

@@TheFossie12 Thank you Karen, it's a rarity for me! :)

[@hlnbee]

Thank you, Sir Martin.

[@timotb1]

I know, he makes so serious it becomes silly.

[@hyqhyp]

Some day someone will figure out why the apocalyptic is so attractive to so many. Maybe it isn't so weird for mortal beings. It is tough to come to terms with the knowledge that the party will go on without us. So much more satisfying to think that everyone and everything and not just the self will be terminated sooner rather than later.

[@timotb1]

I don't think my 115 IQ can wrap my head around this concept completely. This guy must be fully aware of his being. After listening a little more, I'm feeling a little uncomfortable. I think I am going to sell the farm and all my chattels, climb a high mountain, raise my hands in the air, and say "oh creator, please take me now.

[@timotb1]

@manemebasat and the meek shall inherit the Earth

[@IloveDoubleD]

If aliens were watching us? Yea, they are, and likely had some input with our genetic modification.

[@aryanzijlstra6649]

ALIEN: Literally meaning: "stranger, not from our country."

[@Mrbfgray]

Absolutely zero reason to think any outside intelligence has altered genetics on Earth. If anything this vid could be the 'solution' to the Fermi Paradox, nothing new here but technological civilizations may be inherently unstable and short lived.

[@IloveDoubleD]

@@Mrbfgray Zero? Really? I would say science disagrees with your comment. www.techtimes.com/articles/244404/20190621/neanderthal-mystery-human-dna-found-in-the-dark-heart-of-our-chromosomes.htm www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/artificial-intelligence-study-human-genome-finds-unknown-human-ancestor-species-180971436/ www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/human-dna-carries-hints-unknown-extinct-ancestor

[@IloveDoubleD]

@@cq33xx58 Certainly not the best at punctuation. And my name far outshines your number letter combo. And of course I am far better looking.

[@IloveDoubleD]

@@cq33xx58 Beauty is indeed subjective. (and it was of course a joke).

[@killytoo]

At last one guy saying the red spheres are a universe next to ours

[@Iheartdgd]

Wow , that picture of titan was incredible

[@fidziek]

13:25 - unless some other forces keeps us, Earthlings, in their hugging grip...