"Why we might be alone" Public Lecture by Prof David Kipping

Public Lecture from Nov 18th 2022 held at Columbia University.

[@ankh79]

I know why I’m still alone, I keep watching videos like this instead going out 😂

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

"Oracle. Are we alone in the universe?" she asked.

[@Aurochhunter]

Let's be honest here: We're never going to accept that we're alone in the universe, we're going to keep looking for extra terrestrial life for as long as our species exists.

[@jasonfeulner5620]

Finally! Michael Crichton made similar points some years ago (it would take a fiction writer with a scientific mind to sniff out BS so keenly). The compounding of UNKNOWN variables still make them unknown. That popular scientific personalities talk about the Drake equation and other similar notions with such bias has seriously dumbed down the scientific dialogue in our society. We also talk about modeling in other areas in the same way, as if these equations are not speculative but somehow predictive. Kudos to Dr. Kipping for treating science like a process, not a corruptible worldview.

[@droidnick]

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

[@frasercain]

The fact that intelligent life only formed shortly before Earth becomes uninhabitable is really interesting. I'd never thought of it that way.

[@dougieh9676]

Brian Cox actually changed course. Respect to Brian 💯

[@MrTeff999]

It’s not just that space is vast, but also that time is vast. Perhaps there was once a civilization in our galaxy that sent out radio signals hoping to find other life, but it ceased to exist billions of years before humans discovered how to detect those signals.

[@N_Ides]

Videos like this make me grateful to be alive in the time of the internet.

[@rockiesecho8518]

A true scientist is supposed to think this way. Great Lecture!

[@vincenthaddad]

Such an informative and well spoken individual. Thank You.

[@lincolnyaco5626]

Dr. Kipping is a bracing gust of cool logic.

[@andregomesdasilva]

FINALLY someone speaking straight about this subject. Thank you.

[@trainyoumust]

Thank you for the work you are doing professor Kipping. I would have loved working in your team. Our world needs more minds like yours to profess reason and expand our knowledge. ❤

[@homerfutol2864]

Key word to take in’WE have no IDEA’ this probably the most accurate statement in human existence.

[@HonorGuard117]

I really liked the way Professor Kip lectures/teaches. He has a genuine smile and its more like he's conversing with you about something so casual, except it's about the universe and scientific equations lol.

[@RachaelLines]

Fantastic, thanks for posting this David! Loved watching it.

[@jessemills6683]

Perspective from emotional bias seems to be a huge problem in science throughout our history. Please keep more of these coming, they’re incredible!

[@tasos1112]

incredible lecture, professor kipping. a breath of fresh air after hearing so many scientists conclude there has to be life in the universe other than us.

[@ICUDR]

“We might be alone”. Why would anyone think we are alone?! What we have sampled of the universe is equivalent to taking a cup, dipping it in the ocean, looking at what’s inside the cup and conclude “yep, no life in the ocean”