Are We Alone? When Will Earthlings Find ET? | Dan Werthimer | TEDxSFState

[@l.a.french3063]

It's interesting how different people percieve things. Most people have negative comments about this speaker. I liked him. He made a speech (which are often dry) more intetesting by adding some humour. It's very common.

[@vaxlrstov5856]

they aren't sceptical people. they think it useless. you know why? because those professors working so hard to communicate/find communication in ET while ET flying object sometimes can be found in the sky. why dont government just hit those ET flying object then investigate the pilot. really easy solution

[@IndigenousUndergroundPrimate]

@@vaxlrstov5856 Oh, they`ve done that. But in all the newer UFO videos I`ve seen, they started zipping back & forth, here and there(so fast), like they`re trying not to get hit.

[@chicoliu6057]

Coming from 2020, I can confirm that the Arecibo telescope has also been zapped by hostile space aliens!

[@blazemanize21]

Did the Space Aliens who destroyed Arecibo space telescope use Jewish Space Lasers like famed congressional conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene a la QAnon warned? 😂😂😂

[@chicoliu6057]

@@blazemanize21 lol absolutely

[@finanzasyalgomasconandresm5258]

😂😂te quedo cabron👍

[@derekflegg2510]

What if the aliens we can't find are from the planet we can't find - and our little bug eyed buddies don't want us to find it? 🤔

[@Dlytell]

If we were to ever pick up a signal from space that is like the barrage of tv and radio transmissions that we put out, even if we have great difficulty decoding it, the mere fact of the existence of ET will cause us to re-prioritize our R&D and getting into space will become very important for everyone.

[@ticesine6589]

It has already happened ! , how do you and most others not know this? The nazis did it with their Vrill Society and Tesla himself said he got a lot of his information that exact way. It just depends on what you believe , the problem is most people these days don't believe in much.

[@Withnail1969]

we are clearly alone or we would have picked up plenty of signals by now

[@daltonpechon7335]

@@Withnail1969 we haven't even explored our local galaxy yet. Much less the far parts of our galaxy. Also who says it has to be intelligent life? Id be super excited if we discovered small creatures on another planet

[@Withnail1969]

@@daltonpechon7335 we dont need to explore it to receive radio signals

[@daltonpechon7335]

@@Withnail1969 who says they have to have radio signals

[@RobertsfunWords]

Chances of ET are so slim the search is a waste of time. Nice to hear the software has other, useful uses.

[@derekflegg2510]

What if the aliens we can't find are from the planet we can't find - and our little bug eyed buddies don't want us to find it? 🤔

[@robbleeker4777]

I can only imagine the reaction of an ET after receiving one of our radio broad casts....Would they classify it by WOW too ?

[@dizzyspinner648]

The "Wow!" signal is exactly what should be expected when both sender and receiver are on rotating planets in star systems that are moving at terrific speeds. You'd probably get a brief signal that didn't repeat because you'd rapidly move out of alignment and the signal would no longer be directed toward you. And at interstellar distances signals are incredibly weak.

[@pacovasda5955]

it depends on how hungry they are

[@admiralbenbow5083]

LWA, leave well alone.

[@Saladin239]

Found it brilliant . In a few minutes you realise why SETI's job is so difficult(impossible?) . You also realise how precious human life is .

[@proggravezilla4175]

Except for being a jackass about DJT.

[@nixonsmateruby1]

And religion.

[@justinmorreira6256]

I was loving this until you kept talking about Trump keep politics out of this s*** man

[@jhara812]

Republicans pulled SETI's funding 1 year after it started. Science=Progressive, Pandering to the Religious=Regressive. Politics is a huge part of this. (Those SETI telescopes shown just happened to be 2 of the first to ever "collapse").

[@jaredknuckles]

John O'Hara you realize trump gave nasa a budget bump after Obama cut them for 8 years right?

[@wayneg2139]

SETI's search for ET has NEVER received funding from the government. EVER! All such research has always been privately funded. SETI has on occasion received government Grants and has partnered with NASA for special not ET related projects. Obama is the one who pulled funding from NASA and others. Trump actually restored funding.

[@Navigator001]

Yes, I had to stop the video because his comments made anything he said less credible with me.

[@kingjames6459]

We are not alone and never were. There is life everywhere in every part of space.There is no place where life does not exist always from 3D to 12D.

[@DocHuard]

You started out okay, then you started bashing POTUS. No credibility with me after that. Stick to your science and leave your politics in your briefcase.

[@deplorablepatriot5338]

But Doc, he's smarter than us.

[@karenportillo-chavarria2855]

I lost brain cells reading your comment.

[@robertlawson7132]

I agree.

[@nicknack3648]

Doc Huard did he hurt your feelings buttercup?

[@nicknack3648]

@@salinagrrrl69 No i'm not from the US mate, people should be able to make a little joke about presidents and world leaders without loads of people throwing their toys out the buggy, people get offended about nothing these days, It is the highly sensitive generation right enough

[@tabularasa9554]

The short explanation: 1. No we are NOT alone. The human race is one of the youngest sentient races in the Universe. 2. Not likely. The human race is too primitive for Contact to be worthwhile, but still a curiosity because we are so unlike other alien races. All other alien races never went through a Self Destructive phase.

[@spartysmile5243]

Lord help me. I can't even try to learn some science without an intellectual bashing Trump. Note to this smart guy. Blue collar working people want to learn and explore. Keep your propaganda to yourself. We tune into science and here come the thought police..... remember boys and girls here is how to think.

[@blipmachine]

Na mate you’re sounding like a flat earther who thinks f@$k climate change and thoughts and prayers to dead kids in schools 🙏

[@11bfollowme19]

Sparty smile here here!

[@karenmoran2944]

Well said!

[@davidoneill913]

Trump and the search for intelligent life in Murica !!!

[@dierdrebolton6806]

Trying to pretend Earth is still trying to contact Aliens when government know they’re already here

[@randaljbatty]

We may have to consider that "intelligent" life, e.g., an intelligence that uses technology in our own manner, may be several trillion more rare than previously estimated. Not a happy prospect, but one that may end up being a reality.

[@snirhadary]

Advanced ET civilizations do not make contact through electromagnetic communication devices, but through consciousness. If SETI would invest it's 100M$ budget on CE-5 related projects we would be in a whole different new world.

[@knock_knock3007]

After the 2nd political based insertion I started losing interest and staring at walls...

[@LeofromFreo]

It’s not always about you.

[@shadyman6346]

Leo from Freo I thought it was all about me, lol.

[@bulldoguf7318]

I agree completely, I just got to that and I’m about to turn it off.

[@sparkynm156]

@@LeofromFreo To bad this guy doesn't see it that way. Instead of teaching he is using his platform to interject hate of something that has nothing to do with him. His comments also don't even relate to the politician mentioned. It's common at many schools with certain funders. It's called conditioning and it is generally subtle but lately they have gotten blatant about it. Where was he over the last 20 plus years? Plenty of deserved hate there.

[@placerdemaio]

ahh republicans.... haha

[@rickyricardo520]

I sure hope there is intelligent life somewhere because it sure isn’t on this planet!

[@dianejean4522]

Ha Ha ........ I love you and Lucy..... Peace baby

[@jacobsmith818]

@@dianejean4522 Truth! Evidence is our current president here in the United States, Joe Biden...how were our best choices Trump or Biden, lose lose situation

[@Xentrick]

We’ve only been out of the caves for 30k. We have a lot of potential but we’re still using Stone Age neurological hardware to run modern cerebral software.

[@Nautilus1972]

They've already found us, they're already here. @t

[@youraverageguy2495]

@Lord Kenyon How do you explain UFOs

[@sideswiped6874]

I called SETI once, no one would talk to me, I felt that was wrong of them

[@Holy_hand-grenade]

Gotta love how SETI sent out directions to earth without asking the rest of us if we were cool with the idea... 50/50 odds they’re friendly explorers vs. parasitic colonizers.

[@Paul-te8mz]

It wasn't SETI who sent out. I think it was a UN or a US initiative. In any event, the hyper extraordinary energy required to travel and communicate between stars is highly unlikely to have arisen from a combative rather than a collaborative enterprise, so I would suggest that any advanced civilization which choses to contact us is about 90% more interested in assisting us than eating us, though more like 95% more interested in ignoring us.

[@MichelleDespres]

Holy_Hand_Grenade-of-Antioch they’ve been here since the beginning. They made us. If they were hostile we’d have already been destroyed. Remember when we sent that info out into space from the Arecibo radio station in Puerto Rico way back in the 70s? They replied with a crop circle in the early 2000s I believe with a response to our message. Look it up. It’s proof positive to me. Evolution theory is lacking many vital answers to our questions... where’s this “missing link”?

[@pacovasda5955]

@@MichelleDespres and that's it? so you feel there's no other intelligent life other than us and our monkey makers?

[@GeneralCane]

Well either way you have to admit that it would spice things up on this planet.

[@gremlinsarered5259]

Pretty much absolute probability any alien civilisation will have out competed millions of species on their own world...they will be, like us, the apex predator...there's no 50/50 about that.

[@oscarmuffin4322]

Just an Englishman passing through that doesn't give two fucks about US politics. Good presentation.

[@jackcummings4121]

WHY EARTH, DID HE HAVE TO POLITICISE THIS ? IT TURNED ME OFF, AND. WILL NOT LISTEN TO HIM AGAIN. POLITICS HAS NO PLACE HERE.

[@assassindelasaucisse.4039]

Crawl back to your safe space, snowflake.

[@garynorton8122]

@@assassindelasaucisse.4039 he's not a snowflake. He's one of us.

[@ChuddleBuggy]

I would renounce my Christian belief the moment it is confirmed that ET's who aren't scared of Jesus Christ exist.

[@deanrowland1509]

Yahweh bin hir, do you mean?

[@ChuddleBuggy]

I mean it just wouldn't make sense anymore you know.

[@craigscott5661]

Not sure what’s more terrifying the fact that we may not be alone or the fact that we are.

[@douglasbeaulac4499]

It would seem to me that ETS have already found us and when their ready, or when they evaluate that we're ready, they'll make themselves known to us. In fact, this may have already taken place and it's our leaders who are keeping this information under wraps.

[@edwin7126]

I think it's more like primitive life looking for advanced life

[@derekflegg2510]

What if the aliens we can't find are from the planet we can't find - and our little bug eyed buddies don't want us to find it? 🤔

[@l4zrh4wk]

So many of you Trump supporters get triggered just as easily as the "liberal snowflakes" you hate so much. The guy can have an opinion, he can even share it, it's called free speech. You know, that thing you bang on about so much?

[@yootoober2009]

In the movie Contact 1997, Jodie Foster intercepted and decoded an alien message that gave us the plan on how to build a time travel machine. The technical plans in the message was encoded in the track between each frame of video. So the government built one (two actually). And Jodie went somewhere and talked to the "alien. Great movie! What if we encode a message in laser beam pulses, like a morse code with short and long blank spaces between each laser "chunk". That would "identify" them as artificial light. Then the message can travel at the speed of light. Then, broadcast the laser message beams from points of the globe to cover the whole universe. Then wait for the "reply"..

[@PeteOliva]

Great movie. One of the best science fiction movies ever, in my opinion. It was very intelligently made, and did an excellent job of blending its more fantastical elements with hard science, and then synthesizing the two approaches perfectly by the end. Cool idea, by the way.

[@astronmr20]

That's basically what Aricebo did in the 70's.

[@ShorkGamer]

8:58 it actually zapped 2020, a line of cables broke

[@itzed]

Unfortunately, I think his jokes and references undermine his credibility somewhat.

[@arnie24070127]

Ed Mathews totally agree

[@robertoatallabjj]

I am reading the comments but can't waste my time watching the video with a guy since he stated we been asking if we are alone since a few hundred thousand years, he clears have no clue about human evolution or timescales, how can he handle such a complex subject?

[@Alexi7666]

In what way? Donald Trump is a joke in so many ways.

[@EdwinYee-ds5ys]

@@Alexi7666 , Donald Trump is smarter than you.

[@douglloyd9662]

I did not like the jabs at President Trump.

[@dhardy6654]

I know.

[@janjae2300]

Clearly not funny except to those on the left. These nut jobs think they are at some leftist country club where everyone thinks the same as they do. I couldn't finish watching this wind bag.

[@MikeHughesShooter]

Looses focus. I agree.

[@TOTiDAU]

It was just a joke

[@degan1919]

He didn't do enough research when he quoted Moore's law. Moore's original law has been stagnating for the past few years and from Moore himself, "I see Moore's law dying here in the next decade or so" - 2015. Computers are becoming more effective due to advancements in the understanding of quantum mechanics and designing chips that don't follow the standard Von Neumann architectures; as well as many other technologies.

[@Dan.50]

If it wasn't for government contracts, this guy would be living under a bridge.

[@Latexi_LMX]

There is intelligent life in our galaxy, but not human like intelligence, there might be and surely be like apes/dolphins like. So for for human like intelligence we need to start lookin at other galaxies. These latest studies start to show the fact that Humans seem to be the most developed species in Milky Way. Good or bad? Who knows? Maybe we should be proud of that.

[@Latexi_LMX]

@PJ Vent Never assume anything, it starts to look like we are the most intelligence species in the Milky Way. Sorry mate, or show me civilisation that outsmart us!

[@sunpallinkarvat]

FYI You'll get fired from Berkeley if you don't joke about Trump in every talk.

[@sameasnow]

and of course its unfortunate that boys and girls are already different at a young age god forbid our species have two distinct sexes, anethema.

[@mathewfonger7048]

Trump sucks

[@sameasnow]

@@mathewfonger7048 go on we're listening no doubt you have something insightful to say

[@sunpallinkarvat]

@@mathewfonger7048 Nice argument, man! Orange man,,,, bad,,,,, rump,,, bad!

[@mathewfonger7048]

@@sunpallinkarvat 50. 50 with YOU.. U r interesting.. I like interesting.. Not boring

[@bigmaristuff]

I am surprised at how thin skinned some people are . Instead of taking the time to comment on the content of what was presented by a speaker who apparently has many years of experience in this field , they choose to dwell on on a comment or two about some two bit politician enjoying his 15 minutes of fame who is quite frankly, here today and gone tomorrow. I for one will be downloading the screen saver on to my PC.

[@jamesblunt006]

These people are snowflakes.

[@klash4527]

Big Maristuff me too

[@kclevitt1]

LMAO

[@l.a.french3063]

I agree.

[@alexismamadou2193]

That's my first encounter with a violent bashing of Carl Sagan's voyager: "porno to the stars", really?? Indicating our position out there on that golden plate is foolish, I agree. But the man was a poet and it was fantastic reality TV.

[@kevino8172]

what else would you expect from a jealous college professor.

[@alexismamadou2193]

That's right, a little bit.

[@shananagans5]

Alexis: I do agree it would be foolish to announce our position but Voyager is to slow to really get anywhere & they knew that. It was launched 40 years ago & just now left our solar system. If anything is going to announce our position, it will be the high powered radio & TV broadcasts starting 90+ years ago and are still traveling through space 17,000 times faster than Voyager. Even signals sent out by Voyager will forever be 50 years behind early TV & radio broadcasts. Voyager's main function was to get people interested in science, the universe etc & exactly like you say, it did that beautifully. It truly was fantastic reality TV.

[@marcusdolby1]

Stop it, we are alone. Complex life is so special that most who know the truth are to afraid to come to the obvious answer. It took a cataclysmic event for us to even be here. If that asteroid hadn't slammed into our planet, guess what, lights out for us.

[@Dulcimerea]

Since 1982, humanity has gone from E.T. to E.D.

[@Darkanight]

Great talk.

[@kicknadeadcat]

We should be concentrating on the search for terrestrial intelligence. So far no one has been found.

[@rawdog42]

A trillion planets in our Galaxy alone... A trillion into perspective - A million seconds is 11.5 days. A trillion seconds is 34,700 YEARS !

[@rawdog42]

@Dirk Knight One. (That we know of so far)

[@TheJulianwilde]

Why, as we search for intelligent life...don't we factor in the thousands of "UFO" sightings and experiences that we have had???

[@adamn2550]

Julian Wilde because people claiming they might have seen a ufo is not conducive to scientific research

[@vdw941]

A 8 that didn’t age well...

[@FreakyChumy]

LOL yeah, I guess they're just waiting until ETs will finally introduce themselves to the public.

[@RobertsfunWords]

If a legit one ever happens, someone will take a look. Btw look up.what UFO means. It doesn't mean alens

[@jakubhladik5898]

Adam N Is looking at the stars not scientific? It’s just people looking at something. You have to first observe something a study it to make a science of it. The evidence for intelligent life visiting this planet of overwhelming. And now the government is finally coming clean. More disclosure to come. Stay tuned. Go to r/ufo to learn more.

[@brunov958]

Great personality!

[@blakew9422]

He needs to worry about aliens and let Trump worry about bringing jobs back and getting the illegals out

[@blaster-zy7xx]

You moron, Trump is not bringing more jobs back. All he is doing is riding the job increases than have been going on through a majority of the Obama administration. You have been lied to and scammed by the liar and scammer in Cheif.

[@stub2022]

B W If by that you mean we're still hemorrhaging jobs while kicking out fathers and mothers and teachers, then yes, Trump's getting it done.

[@ahlong2339]

Now that trump is elected, military budget is increasing.he should waste more for NASA too we probbaly pass by mars right now

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

@@stub2022 You mean ILLEGAL mother's and fathers? I don't know what you mean by teachers, but there are way too many liberal "teachers" at all levels of "education" that should not be teaching children! They cannot keep their political views out of the class rooms, where it doesnt belong!

[@alaingSEO]

You people are so sensitive.

[@Paul-te8mz]

Solution for SETI and the Fermi paradox: Scotty, we looked everywhere, all over this blue planet, but there is no sign of intelligent life, just beam me out of here!

[@chrisbrown3549]

God is an alien. ✌🌐

[@Patrick.Edgar.Regini]

How these scientists conclude "we are alone" is mindboggling! Why don't any of them factor in the progress of a growing intelligent engineering and scientific capacity as another part of the equation? Have they all forgotten we couldn't do much better than walk anywhere some centuries ago? Or that we would die of a common cold, and be eaten by Tigers ? He said that in that year long metaphor of the Universe's existence, we came in during the last 12 hours of the year, but life in other worlds could have been existing for six months. WELL ... how capable would some of those intelligent beings be by now THEN !? I think we all need to face the fact that what we don't know or understand yet, is why THEY DO NOT WANT US TO KNOW THEY'RE THERE ! Or why they may have to wait for us to confirm to ourselves that they are there, or reach some phase of development, and that they have always been there even before we were here, waiting for us to realize that without needing to prove it. In other words, a 180 degree turn around from how we think of it today. There's nothing to discover or prove. We are either their plan, their intention, their monitoring, their offshoot, their children, their workhorse, their thing they do or created for whatever reason... we just don't know. They're either watching, or waiting, or using us, or raising us, but what we do know is that the situation is reversed to how we are thinking about it. None of these guys factor in the exponential acceleration of intelligent material and communicative progress ! It's unbelievable . Aren't people just stunned that scientists themselves are not saying this?

[@shereepfeiffer6356]

Thank goodness Star Trek has already addressed a lot of the ethical issues

[@MikeHughesShooter]

Sheree Pfeiffer War. Poverty. Disease. Star Trek tackles the big ones.

[@mickmccrory8534]

We are looking for "intelligent life". Intelligent life is defined as a civilization that sends out repeating signals that can be located. We do not send out any signals like that, therefore, we are not "Intelligent Life."

[@ericdebord]

Ted is getting so bad i cant even watch it anymore. These people talk in circles and tell us nothing new or the least bit interesting. Done. Bye.

[@karenmoran2944]

The Trump bashing ruined it for me.

[@reason5591]

This was posted back in 2016! Duh

[@reason5591]

@@karenmoran2944 i love it! Trump is the worst president ever.

[@RedWinePlease]

I am mixed on this. How do we balance the introduction/invasion of one species into another environment due to man's intentional/unintentional actions against human's pursuit of short/long term values? Aren't sidewalks, lawns, roads, and buildings like an alien species in an environment? Therefore, should human migration and spread be minimized or eliminated so as not to harm an environment? Is any configuration of nature better than another? Better for whom and for what? Like any discussions about values, the answer will be gray not b/w and should be resolved thru politics.

[@sparkynm156]

All Hail the Great Picard ! If we kill the ones who angered him, he will give us Favors, he can bring back those we lost last winter.. The Prime Directive a good starting point? Could be a fun discussion. As much Star Trek as I've watched yet you bringing that up got some rusty gears in my head turning.. (Inject random hate comment hear) continue statement.. Great point, I guess it's like Antarctica and the guy who tried three times to sail there. Out in the middle of nowhere while trying to stay away from shopping lanes and being seen. He was caught and taken to South America.. the third time they showed up with enough pieces of his boat to identify that they stumbled across his wreckage by chance floating in the middle of nowhere and no survivors. We aren't "Allowed " to see the universe, let alone Earth...

[@Alexi7666]

Of course we're not alone. The aliens are just too far away, and even if they could master faster than light travel, they wouldn't care.

[@fobusas]

Moore's law projections are so outdated on that slide. Last data point from like 2002? Computers hit power wall by 2006 (Dennard scaling), and by 2012-15 it slowed down significantly. Heck, we've been on the same node for the past 4/5 years now. Industry is struggling to reach 10nm, let alone smaller.

[@steadifinetti]

How original...A Donald Trump insult. Makes you so cool and relevant to the young crowd

[@ianoconnell7256]

He also had a dig at boys in schools suggesting "toxic masculinity" and not being as intelligent as girls, typically what far left extremists do

[@ScienceFan1859]

Not an insult: reference to news report that he wanted to nuke hurricanes.

[@killap3nguin]

I bet that’s no longer in Puerto Rico after the hurricane.

[@jfitz3133]

One thing about Tedtalk,: anything relevant will never appear here.

[@jfitz3133]

disinformation controlled by the money-minds, and brainwashers. I see you.

[@Xentrick]

We’ve only been out of the caves for 30k. We have a lot of potential but we’re still using Stone Age neurological hardware to run modern cerebral software.

[@phthisics]

An article in the September 2018 Scientific American makes a compelling argument for the conclusion that we're probably alone in this galaxy. For example, we have a n unusually powerful Van Allen belt and a truly unsual big Moon--the the result of a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized planet over 4B years ago. That collision gave us a thinner crus--which became the Moon---and a thicker Iron/niickel core; toghether those enable plate terctonics, stabilize Earth on its polar axis, prevents space radiation from sterilizing our planetary surface and from the surface getting weather too violent for advanced life to exist. Plus the discovery and mapping over 320 planets in nearby solar systems shows that our configuration is unique among them, further lowering the likelihood of an Earthlike planet out there. I'd love the galazy to be full of intelligent life, but it's becoming clear that we understimated how unusual Earth is. Too bad we're destroying it, because thrre's no Plan B out there.

[@ianoconnell7256]

There's trillions of planets in our galaxy alone ridiculous to conclude there couldn't be any others with similar structures and environment to ours

[@perfectfutures]

Um so life can only live on Earth-like planets? Why? Even on our own planet it lives in a bewildering variety of circumstances and has an incredible ability to adapt to them.

[@Terlin1466]

if we find Life on Europa so called articles will be burned and cease to exist as everyone celebrates the fact life exist in different conditions. Our moon might of played a huge part of our existence but it also plays a huge part of our Religion superstition that help feed us. Also right in our solar system Pluto has a similar issue. Its moon is like our moon very big. So for 2 planets dwarf or what not in 1 solar system to have that probably suggest that the big moon is much more common then you think. your whole thing revolves around the Moon being rare. Now that its debunked we can say while rare in our solar system its probably not in our galaxy.

[@maximuscomfort]

The vastness of the universe and the fact that it's expanding close to light speed if there is intelligent life it disappeared. The deep and the deeper space pictures from the Hubble scope has not seen a grade 3 civilisation's smiley face.

[@theheatshow8324]

we've proved this

[@soundmapper]

Can't enjoy anything without political bias, can we?

[@ronalds.658]

It would seem he believes his personal political bias is important to the rest. After his political wisecracks, I lost in his talk.

[@conni70]

scientists can be cucks too...

[@craigbowlby1465]

@@mycount64 I'm afraid that I must disagree with you. Everything about SETI is political. People who make their living by pushing the SETI belief system must be political animals in order to appeal the people who fund them. Generally, the people who fund this nonsense are shallow thinking liberals with much education in biology or the other sciences. The way to reach these people is by pandering to their political views, and that is exactly what this guy is doing.

[@assassindelasaucisse.4039]

You can always crawl back to your safe spaces.

[@chieftenbets2114]

ET comes to me every day. We talk about all the things that could make this world a better place. Sadly once the prescription effects wear off he disappears too.

[@beardsleymcbearderton6492]

No wonder the trump jokes, freaking Berkley. UGH. Stick to the topic. you lose credibility, seriously.

[@responsibleparty]

Uh, we don't understand how self-replicating molecules form, but we're pretty sure it's common throughout the Universe? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say we don't understand how self-replicating molecules form and so we have no idea how common life is throughout the Universe? We don't know! While it might be true that life originated early in this planet's history, our current understanding is that all life on Earth originated from a single source. That means, regardless of when life here originated, it didn't do it any other time. And since most of us would consider Earth to be an ideal environment for life, that fact that life only originated once here would seem to contradict the assumption that it is a common event. The fact is, we don't understand how life originates, and we can say nothing about how likely it is to originate beyond the fact that we know it's possible. And when you combine that with the fact that, whether you're talking about exploring other planets or the SETI program, we've yet to find a shred of evidence for alien life, life in the Universe might indeed be very rare.

[@ryanculp5166]

Politics yay! Stopped watching. Too much TDS going on.

[@aujax1]

Ryan Culp trump is deranged enough. no need for tds

[@nicknack8459]

Then he says right after that boys and girls are different adding "unfortunately" to the end of it. Yup. What a freaking far-left weirdo.

[@SPQR7117]

@@aujax1 His opposition daily says "hold my beer" tho. Its a competition none of us care for.

[@CosmosZeroX]

Humans have not yet found aliens. However, Aliens have found earth & humans, a long time ago....

[@jamesblunt006]

Summary: - No ET so far - We're still working on it.

[@jondoe2099]

Thanks. The title alone lets me know this guy doesnt have a clue. Not a single clue.

[@workingonanames]

@@jondoe2099 It's his own summary of what he talked about

[@jondoe2099]

@@workingonanames thats fair. I guess when your looking at title to get an idea of ptesentation, it comes across as he doesnt know if we are alone. (Obviously not alone.) Very good point you made.

[@RobertsfunWords]

We are alone. This summary will be on a slide in 100 years

[@flipjenl9616]

We will find ET's before 2050, mark my words.

[@awakeawareness1759]

I think within 20 years

[@vafangul5716]

Keep insulting Trump for no reason.... Now, I don't even care what you have to say. Trump 2020

[@MultiBikerboy1]

The lovely ironic thing is that it is Trump who has pressed the green light on disclosure and now it’s rolling out through ‘to the stars academy’. The joke’s on this guy.

[@reason5591]

This was posted in 2016 I feel sorry for you if you support someone as unintelligent as a man that can only claim he is intelligent. He is pathetic yet dangerous.

[@MultiBikerboy1]

Reason * see the ‘Phil Larson declaration’ issued out in 2011 by Obama.

[@AceDevGames]

A ET race responded in the crop circles, now what?

[@RatCityprincess]

Lol

[@adasadas8289]

Lol

[@workingonanames]

This comment section is comedic in itself.

[@purpleturnip3016]

Public speaking is definitely not his forte, and I lost interest when he started talking about politics.

[@craigcurtice3642]

Yup

[@reorg]

I totally agree....it shows he has a poor ability to deal with the democrats failure.....

[@KayAvalon]

The single mention that does not deter from the facts?

[@alaingSEO]

He's an excellent speaker IMO.

[@ucheucheuche]

Are we alone? What, 8 billion other beings not enough for you?

[@ProfileUserNumber]

File the elementary school anecdote in the "things that never happened" folder

[@joebeeber8693]

WE ALL READY HAVE !!!

[@Joemensa]

Stopped listening with off hand comment about President Trump andderrogatory comments about boys v. girls.

[@DaisyOpals]

yeah if youre a fan of trump you should probably stay far away from science and just keep watching fox news

[@Veritas6671]

The last recital of wisdom by Alan Lightman is know to almost all. It should result in almost all being circumspect, yet it does not. WE remain human.

[@REVV0219]

Leave politics out of science,

[@343TNT]

the human didn't ask this question few thousands years ago . they thought the earth was flat and the starts were holes in the big carpet above ...

[@Paddyllfixit]

"They" are already here, and have been for a very long time. Forget SETI, Silly Effort To Investigate.

[@pamelabrunson6513]

Most people haven’t seen anything first hand. We just believe everything we are told

[@baldimusprime3533]

Lost me by making underhanded political digs, despite the seeming decent ideas regarding how to get a hold of ET. God help us all if they encounter Californian University gasbags first.

[@mycount64]

The original ideas to communicate wit ET are probably not much different than us looking for radio signals.

[@siamjim3120]

political ...you lost a subscriber

[@XOPOIIIO]

Life was created quickly but first multicellular organism was mutated only billion years later. What makes this milestone very unlikely event.

[@jsigmon57]

Can we not have a science lesson without getting political?

[@karenportillo-chavarria2855]

Joe, we kind of have to when we have a president that doesn't belive in science.

[@bobby33x97]

No, because that's what PHONY, Left-Wing Jews do everywhere!

[@moby1kanob]

he is a Democrat who still can not get over the election, of course not

[@jamesblunt006]

Oh did he trigger a snowflake Trumptard?

[@michaelpitzel5430]

When indeed. Consider that we have had radio for about a century at this point. If we continue to use radio in this way for a thousand years, that's a problem. If there are about a million worlds that are somewhat close to us and visible in our galaxy that have once used radio as we do now, that would mean, over the last few billion years, they would have given off a pretty clear signal of it. You see, we here on Earth are many times brighter than the sun in these specific radio wavelengths. In fact, we stick out like a sore thumb when one switches between regular visible light and radio light. First, if we assume that radio is the be all and end all of long distance communication, then, if there were even just thousands of civilizations in the nearby part of the galaxy, still using radio presently, we should see plenty of them out there. But we don't. So eventually civilizations replace radio, or dies trying. But how long do they last with radio? So let us assume that there is some combination of how many radio civilizations there are in the nearby part of our galaxy, at any one time, and also assume, on the average, how long they stay with radio, also on the average, in order that over the last few decades, we haven't seen the evidence of them, despite looking. Let us assume that for the last 4 billion years there has been the opportunity for a civilization to arrive at radio. That's a fair amount of time after the galaxy formed, about 8 billion years, give or take a billion. The fractions are within a single order of magnitude, so we can work with that. At 4 billion years, at 10 million civilizations, on average that means that the limit is that every 400 years on average a new one appears locally. Let's say that we've been watching for 100 years. Under these assumptions, we could watch for an average of 300 more years before detecting another one of us just starting. However, if they hold on to radio for 1,000 years, we should see at least 1 or more of them at this time anyway. So, locally, there should be less than 10 million such civilizations, and they should last with radio for less about 1,000 years each, on average. Otherwise, that's 10 billion radio years in 4 billion galaxy years. They should be easily found around us. So that's a kind of limit on these two variables. However, for instance, if there were only about 1 million such civilizations, out of the billions or so suns in our galaxy, that would mean a new one appears every 4,000 years. Even if they last for 1,000 years, that would mean a long enough, on the average, wait in between them so that we wouldn't see them if we looked for say 100 years. Or there could be 10 million or so such civilizations, each holding on to radio for slightly more than 100 years. That would do it too, on the average, but not for 100 years of searching, unless we were particularly lucky, or unlucky, depending. What this means is that, since we don't see many neighbors with our obvious pattern of visibility in visible and radio wavelengths, one of 2 things is true. Either being a civilization with radio spells doom for it within a short period of time, much less than 1,000 years, or they are smart enough to graduate to something else, and become effectively radio dark within a fairly short period of time after the first 100 years, or so. I pray that it's the latter. If so, however, then that establishes a different problem. What replaces radio? Is it some kind of sub-space radio, that takes advantage of the 4 dimensional sub-space that we are really in, as a 3 dimensional surface universe? When do we start to properly investigate hyperspace so that we can find this novel form of communication? Perhaps we must find a new model of the standard model of particles that explains dark matter as a 4th, and above, dimensional model of this invisible matter and energy. Do we have a 3-ball model for matter? Yes, we do. It's called the TRIMOBIUS(R), and was patented under US Patent 4,138,744. Go figure. Let's start an investigation right away.

[@brianmcnellis5512]

Huh?

[@soundboy57]

Stopped after the second political Jab.

[@georgeworthmore]

His juxtaposing of the way Trump attempts to problem solve with those of a 3rd grade schoolboy , while somewhat gratuitous, was accurate. And he did get a laugh from a room full of other intelligent people who also see Donald Trump as an unfortunate joke. Trump was punchline way before this lecture

[@assassindelasaucisse.4039]

Triggered.

[@filipbuskovic3373]

100.000 years of asking Are we alone?

[@QuoVadis88]

Until we are not alone. Our turning point was the dinosaur asteroid. We came out of hiding and started destroying the earth 65 million years ago. The Sun will expand and fry the Earth sooner than you think. Our man made global warming is nothing compared to the power of the Sun. It is imperative to look "out there" because we are going to run out of "here and now". Nirvana on Sunday, Armageddon on Monday.

[@w.c.orielly9059]

Sometimes you can just tell when you don't like someone right away, I don't like his "style" at all... I'm out

[@voolyn]

You don’t like his energy or vibration that’s all

[@kansascityshuffle4141]

It seems everytime I hear about this habitable zone i disagree, temperature seems not as concrete as stated. What you need is a planet with water. The distance from the sun seems not nearly as important as I think led on. 4/5 of those based on temperature alone are habitable at some point. Mercury - 275 °F (- 170°C) + 840 °F (+ 449°C) Venus + 870 °F (+ 465°C) + 870 °F (+ 465°C) Earth - 129 °F (- 89°C) + 136 °F (+ 58°C) Moon - 280 °F (- 173°C) + 260 °F (+ 127°C) Mars - 195 °F (- 125°C) + 70 °F (+ 20°C)

[@juanmoralespr]

join SETI@home project

[@davidrapalyea7727]

Puertorican Family - Seti@home? Very fond memories of my own efforts. I built a dedicated gamer CUDA capable machine for the purpose of achieving the most production for the least power home PC on the planet. Fanless platinum power supply, smallest cpu chip capable of driving the game boards. I ganged two motherboard powered NVIDIA GT-650s with two wired EVGA GT-650s. The results were good. Mostly it just sat their all day crunching numbers. It produced about 100,000 credits (cobblestones) per day drawing about 250 watts. Over a year or two I had accumulated enough total credits in all the BOINC associated projects to rank in the top 99.98% on the planet. Tens if not hundreds of millions cobblestones. Then I upgraded one of the NVIDIA gamer boards and crashed the entire system. I was the only guy in the county who had ever manage to gang up four parrallel CUDA boards and even I could not set this mess straight. So my system has gone dark.

[@davidvarley1812]

The golden eye disc recently cracked.

[@redneckextraordinaire3073]

So I should let my computer be used by someone who tells cheap Trump jokes but who is also looking for aliens... Umm, no. Thumbs down.

[@brabbit303]

Maybe we should stop waiting for the et to come and help us and focus more on colonization

[@assassindelasaucisse.4039]

Yep. Saving the human race is more important. There won't be any "contact" if we're all dead...

[@claytonkr05]

We get it dude, you voted for Hillary.

[@jamesblunt006]

Oh did he trigger a snowflake Trumptard?

[@Joeah89]

@@jamesblunt006 His comment doesn't really suggest that. However he made you reply a whole year later.. Sounds like he triggered you, haha.

[@MrBillkaz]

Lol hahahaha

[@billpittman5185]

Another comedian? I stopped watching after the second remark about President Trump.

[@terrismith9662]

Yes and I am just heartbroken! NOT.

[@billpittman5185]

@@terrismith9662 I am not concerned about your emotional state.

[@leeSouthend]

Stick to the science fellah. I watch scientists to find out about science.

[@sijojose9447]

Arecibo Telescope has been zapped !!!!!!

[@dagon3580]

Talk about your topic not the President pls