Would You Initiate First Contact with Aliens?

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Would You Touch It?

2 ай бұрын

If you could push a button and initiate first-contact with an alien species, would you touch it?

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@bagadonuts78 2 ай бұрын

I absolutely loved Heaton's short stories, "Inappropriately Human." My favorite story was the time-traveling chrononaut. This was a great conversation. I can't wait for the rest.

@SmokeRingsPipeDreams 2 ай бұрын

The most disturbing possibility is that aliens come here for food. By that I mean us. Though hydrogen may be plentiful in the universe, meat may not be.

@punchmclightning5584 2 ай бұрын

I'm a Star Trek nerd so there was an episode that explains all the races of aliens came from one common ancestor that seeded all the worlds including earth. This was a TNG episode. This explains how all the different races can breed with other alien races.

@DrCZDeath 2 ай бұрын

Heaton's analysis of politics with sports reminds me of how I describe politics to others as it's just the Yankees vs the Patriots

@ahickey 2 ай бұрын

It is always so entertaining to watch someone so enthusiastically defend their own hubris. The instant pressing of the button because it fulfills his fantasy, without any thought if he should be the one to do it. If the question was " The aliens are coming no matter what. would you want to make first contact? ", then you can make an argument. I would say, using their question, by pushing the button ( without consulting others ) is the Dunning-Kruger effect in full effect. As Rex stated, there are so many variables from both humanity's and the alien's side that a single person could not fathom the repercussions ( even if you think it just devolves to a coin flip ).

@johnmcelwain5884 2 ай бұрын

Would you touch it merch? T shirt with green button and wording. Voice on button sounds like Briana.. lol.

@marynewsom6037 2 ай бұрын

I second this 😊

@jasonedson4632 2 ай бұрын

I'm so happy to see this idea come to fruition! Excited to see what comes from this.

@birgerandersson8342 2 ай бұрын

Can't wait for more episodes

@jimstanley_49 2 ай бұрын

Miniminuteman did a series on Ancient Apocalypse. You might want to check it out too

@brandonbarker7750 2 ай бұрын

@wouldyoutouchit Saw the Guns, Germs, and Steel book at Half-Priced Books and felt compelled to buy it per to your recommendation. Thank you! Great discussion this ep.

@alpheusOne 2 ай бұрын

dig this....keep 'em coming!! future episode suggestion: simulation argument??

@Michelle-1 2 ай бұрын

Love this!!!

@punchmclightning5584 2 ай бұрын

I just saw you guys have a podcast. I love this conversation. I love a good conversation. I'm in. I subscribed.

@fallenshroud9956 2 ай бұрын

Can't wait for more episodes!!

@vahlte 2 ай бұрын

In regards to ancient apocalypse, I'll just call pseudoscience and point to Milo from the channel Miniminuteman who's broken down the series. Shorthand is that archaeology is a science that takes part in the greater academic discipline of history. In history we work on Popperian falsification, to the best of our ability, not walls with red string. My understanding is that the maker of the show is both the father of a senior executive at Netflix, and at most a sociologist, with no real understanding of academic history or archaeology. He may truly believe in his hypothesis, not claiming he's lying there, but he abandons the pursuit of truth when he discards critical academics and more reasonable explanations. Essentially, historians and archaeologists have absolutely no reason to "hide the truth" or anything like that. We (only a master's student in history here) just don't have evidence that stands up to scrutiny. I've done some work on ancient trade, and it both existed and was more extensive than we might expect, but we don't have any evidence or reason to believe it happened between the old and new worlds. I don't know Heaton's nicotine example, but nicotine may have some other natural sources than tobacco, even if in lower concentrations, such as how caffeine can be found both in coffee and tea. There are good reasons to distrust academics in social and human sciences that value modern political goals more than the pursuit of truth in their work. There is such an ongoing trend, and currently it's mostly coming from the political left. But to believe in what this show proposes requires such a strong distrust for the academic process that findings have to go through that it is ridiculous. It is in the discussions, the theorising, and the selection of research topics that political bias comes forth, but the findings themselves are based on real data and are peer reviewed. Had this pseudo-scientist genuinely found compelling data over the course of his time working on this, his hypothesis would have been accepted into academic archaeology and pre-history. Just like alternative medicine isn't medicine, because then it wouldn't be alternative, so this is pseudoscience until his "findings" pass academic scrutiny.

@ondrejsebecek5201 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, I wanted to make a comment expressing the same opinion. Glad I didn't have to type it out :)

@RD-270 2 ай бұрын

I think a would also add that a major feature of both Ancient Apocalypse and similar works is the concept of looking for patterns. Humans are very, very good at recognizing patterns, to the point that we will find them in truly random noise given enough time.