Time travel is the best way to find alien civilizations | David Kipping and Lex Fridman

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David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of the Cool Worlds KZbin channel.
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[@borz55]

these poor scientists keep theorizing while Bob Lazar worked inside an alien ship lol

[@OBGynKenobi]

Reminds me of the Star Trek episode The Inner Light. An extinct civilization leaves a satellite that contains the entire history of it and draws those who come near and imprints their culture into their brains.

[@LexClips]

Full podcast episode:

[@tonyphillips4549]

I like the idea that we just haven't been in existence long in a cosmic scale. Like for anyone to even see us, or us to see anyone. People far away would look to earth and see it as it was long long ago. The scale of the universe is so vast we leave that part out really often. We are a literal flash of life thus far. Hope we stay bright.

[@xzingular1956]

Love it!

[@davidvernon3639]

I've always imagined we could build something out of stone. Maybe in a shape that could be detected like a pyramid, maybe three pyramids in the shape of a star.system.

[@michaelleffler5219]

David Kepping, one of the best. Well done.

[@nozrep]

the thumbnail had a screenshot from the movie Contact with Jodie Foster, a 1990s movie. I frikkin’ lovvvvvvved that movie. Even though I had already watched the 1970’s Star Wars by that age, I still really didn’t know what was meant by the words “science fiction movie”. Star Wars was just a really awesome movie to me at that age. But when I saw Contact, it was really the first time in my nascent adolescent life where I understood what was meant by the phrase, “science fiction”. But I also loved the story of the movie Contact on its own.

[@percilenis8464]

“Guys! I figured out how to live forever! Just clone yourself!”

[@thejanitoryt8583]

Omg finally !! I love Cool worlds

[@bertdrake]

Yes, we should be passing our information on like this.

[@Seannyskillz]

Makes me think of the star trek episode where Picard lives a whole life to honor the extinct civilization

[@Spaceadventure2]

I think this very conversation should be put on a golden record.

[@IamCartaphilus]

As we go on together we remember all the good times we had together. Niel Armstrong

[@anandkishor2791]

This podcast reminds me of my childhood, when we where high on sugar and use to talk about getting on moon and flying like bird but don't know how !!

[@ForceOfChaos1776]

4:28

[@SD-vd3mh]

I would recommend sticking with visual pictures and videos and audio. If he was able to see problems with the previous visual communication attempts (a sense we are familiar with), imagine how much worse translation may be in a medium we are not good with.

[@RobertHorovitzND]

The moon is also a great idea because we can upload our information relatively easily and timely should something happen.

[@bryanricketts8637]

if Time travel is ever possible in the future then it is possible now🤔

[@thomasomalley510]

Morrissey really knows his stuff!