Skeptical Scientists make some of the best scientists. My favourite example is Rontgen, who, the story goes, was so so disbelieving of his initial discovery of X-rays that he conducted every possible test that he could image to disprove they existed but, in doing so, simply compiled more and more evidence that they did in fact exist. He then shared this with all other scientists and asked them to repeat his tests and prove him wrong. This is how Scientific fact is disclosed, not by someone saying , '" I've done the tests , I've seen the evidence , believe me , it's true." This is not science.
"I can't prove myself wrong, please try yourself" is a great sanity test and perfect science. Sanity test I should say meaning much like computer building making sure it's accurate
That’s exactly how you’re supposed to conduct research. You’re not supposed to prove your hypothesis correct; you do everything you can to prove it incorrect. That is how you prove things to be true. That’s where our first attempts to explain the world around us with religion and philosophy failed. Finding anything that supports what you say or using circular reasoning isn’t truth; just what you want to believe.
I love how this was more about how science works/should work rather than just a mocking video. How a student and phd can have their names on paper without rank, but just with their ideas. Wasn't expecting an educational video, but learned some nice and very fascinating info. Bravo.
I was just thinking the other day about writing a paper showing how to break into ethereum wallets but thought no one would pay attention due to my title. Anyway, I don't believe my solution to the problem is the most optimal or efficient but maybe someone could build upon my work.
@@johnbobbypringle Be careful tho, if you're serious. People will use that info to steal. I work in cybersecurity. If you've really found a legit way to hack ethereum wallets, you can make a nice paycheck legitimately and help a lot of people in the process.
I used to live in Mexico, and the guy who presented the "bodies" is Jaime Maussan, who has spent decades talking about aliens. It was always a bit of a joke, and not many really took him that seriously.
"If an alien comes and says 'take me to your leader'... don't take him to any leaders." Probably the best and most logical suggestion for an alien contact situation ever.
I am a cartoonist and 50 years ago someone challenged me to design an alien that had no features that any creature on Earth had. --I'm still working on it.
@@katherenewedic8076our features evolved to suit earth. The conditions here are different to those we’ve found on alien worlds, ipso facto different features.
I had no idea that that was the reason that our majors, (I am an undergrad) or qualifications are not present upon our publications. I published a research paper with my peers and my Professor on my research about novel Mycobacteriophage a few months ago, and despite the name of our University, there were no further indications of our level of research experience. I greatly appreciete understanding why that is now!
I had a cab driver tell me about a renewable energy project he’s working on after I said I’m an engineering student, he didn’t have a degree but he was in the patent phase of his project, that’s when I decided to quit on my degree
I am a biologist. And I feel delighted to see that your arguments about how this should have been put to the test is almost to the letter equal to what I said to a friend who asked about my thoughts on this matter two or three months ago.
Years ago in the U.S. there was a huge story on the news. Bigfoot had been varified as real, and there was a body!!! They had a press conference and everything!!! Pretty much the same thing. The body was "lost" or "stolen" a few days later
@mexicanolibreypatriota5545 did you understand anything from this discussion? OP might have been able to join the research had they been invited to investigate the bodies.
Notice Neil starts by saying he is the wrong scientist to ask then immediately follows that by saying degrees don’t matter, a good idea is a good idea… fascinating
What's hard to believe is that the greatest discovery in the history of humankind is picked up and observed like a souvenir in a gift shop. No biohazard suits, no controlled environment, no delicate means to preserve. The "aliens" are covered in a dust that can be breathed in contaminate, or infect and we know nothing about. Calling the most media popular scientist to observe and not experts in the field seems like a publicity stunt wanting more publicity. It looks like nothing more than paper mache bodies covered in talcum powder to me.
As an evolutionary biologist and morphologist, i can only agree that this video is spot on regarding the scientific method and the issues with these always "humanoid looking" aliens. Thanks Neil 😊
To master interstellar travel, i would assume they would need at least need an appendage to make tools. Also, I was thinking that a bipedal tool user could be a winning evolutionary pattern so to see it other planets wouldn't be far fetched. These are my thoughts as someone with a basic understanding of evolution, not an evaluationary biologist though.
One of my favorite quotes describes this perfectly: Neil deGrasse Tyson, a science communicator with a Ph.D. in astrophysics, has said, “One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong”
I'm a Canadian living in Mexico and I can tell you there was zero news here about these "aliens". We first heard it on an American news station. Nobody I know here is taking it seriously. Dr. deGrasse Tyson, where can I get one of those awesome bumper stickers???
I liked the xenomorphs from the Alien franchise. The first one looked humanoid but you find out that it was because it was gestated in a human. The one that was burst from a dog was a quadruped.
@@SD_ChosenAquaman isn’t a Greek God, You mean Poseidon, and Nephilim predate Greek ‘Mythology’. So if it is, it’s likely the Greek copied not Vice versa
The thing with the nazca lines is that everyone goes on about how you can't see them from the ground. But there is nearby mountains and hill from which you can see them. Just from the air you can see all of them at once.
And let's say - we know the Chinese used paper kites to transport humans (well for reconnisance and not always that successful) - so even if we don't have proof the Nazca cultures did the same... it's still more likely, than them building the glyphs for aliens...
1:28 The journalist wears a hairnet, a mask, gloves AND a tie... so it must be genuine. Also: radiologists see through everything, that makes it double true.
@@JZsBFF then they must allowed every scientist in this world to test it for their personal confirmation. we don't want some western authority preaching us what is true and what is not.
@@JZsBFFif it was genuine you would place it down locked in a glass box and never touch it again, not carry it around in a plastic carrier bag and wave it around everywhere you go
@@Mr.Haveaword And you would be right but let's face it that not all people with scientific aspirations are equally meticulous. Some are more like... Indiana Jones. That's also why a decent part of present day's doctoral thesises are subject to plagiarism
Because people like mystery. They like things that don't have objective evidence. If extraterrestrials were solid mundane evidence, the whole "ancient aliens were earths architects" would fade away. Why else are conspiracy theories are popular? The people who latch on to them have no genuine desire to really find out.
I still find it odd that the release of this video was so delayed. If they were always going to use this original subpar quality recording, they should have just released it way back when this alien story was still the subject of about every news journalist on earth. During the MONTHS that they waited to release this, they could have re-filmed a similar conversation that hit all the same points as this one, but which had better quality. Instead, we got both the long needless delay AND the original subpar quality recording. What happened?
There are aliens not the money makers that make them for movies and stuff stop putting everybody off of course is aliens people wouldn't say that they saw what they saw you know one could make up such a story so get it right people yes I are aliens maybe not these ones that they have right now
I actually had a science teacher that was this passionate about explaining things. Got everyone so hooked because he would stray off the curriculum and get all conspiracy theorist on us 😂😂 but then we had days where he had to cram so much in one hour just to make up for the days went on ranting 😂😂
They are some sort of hybrid, that used to walk with humans in those times. Peru government confiscated a couple more bodies that were also destined to go to mexico.
Thank you for keeping us centered on common sense. I don't know how many times I've cautioned my friends to stop jumping to conclusions. That is the essence of science.
No offense. Only thing Neil is centered on is himself. Scientists these days are two focused on making sure the science is what they say it is. They want authority, and embrace tactics like a politician to gain and maintain it. Science is dead. It married politics and hung itself. I’m sure you won’t like me saying this. But reality is reality. It doesn’t care what someone says the science is. The science is what it is.
i often try to do the same thing. do any of your friends get angry at you and call you close minded because your not able to believe crap at the drop of a pin. lol
@@knivesron Fortunately, I don't have friends that are THAT closed-minded 😁. Those would only be acquaintances. My friends who jump to conclusions often are taken in by dumb "what if" TV shows. They often know better, but can't distinguish between reality and shows such as "The UnXplained." They fall prey and often say, 'but it must be true." Those shows irritate me because they are not scientific. I repeatedly emphasize to them that science goes far beyond speculation, with exhaustive testing, and to try to adopt that mental attitude.
Your friends should stop listening to you then 🤡 it’s the same type of scientists from after project bluebook who said ufo don’t exist to only a couple of years ago finding out the US government has been secretly studying ufo again
@@antonio0951 they said aliens haven't been to earth not that UFO's don't exist. A UFO is not an alien. UFO stands for unidentified flying object. Not aliens. Ufologists were screaming at the govt to look into UFO's and to do classifie their documents, which the Russia govt investigated and the USA govt declassified only to show absolutely that there is no giga advanced flying ships, just badly film fuzzy pictures and story's from ppl not in the know. Oh and Neil here isent saying aliens don't exist just they haven't come to earth
The aliens are interesting, but the most intriguing thing I get from this video is an explanation of what constitutes scientific evidence and method that my 12-year-old understood.
@@Meninx87 yet your sat here on a video of neil hhahahahaha you really think neil tells the truth i mean hes just said to ou he hasnt even seen the bodies we question people who have seen the bodies not someone who hasnt lol
The jokes on you. Media don't want folks knowing the truth. . Tyson declined because he already knew what they were. They are demon hybrid beings. Not aliens.
@@nillyk5671 You are right: it should be concerning that those idiots are in charge of the country - well, starting with the ignorant, incompetent and corrupt president
Which is why I dont like him. He mocks even the idea of Aliens. I dont know if these bodies are real or not. But NDT is not the person I would trust if he says these are not real. He seems to have an agenda or just is overconfident.
Bottom line is: he was invited and could've brought ten top scientists with him to take samples. Instead he chose to decline the invitation and ridicule this from a safe distance.
He knew, everybody knew, they are fake. The same guy also presented some 'Alien' bodies years ago and they were paper mache. The university he's with is the only one that is not ratified by the Government. Not even close to credible these 'alien' bodies.
Even if he accepted under those conditions, He'd still look like a fool for believing they could be real. He'd be front page on every super market tabloid!
@usmc1379 No, he wouldn't. The way that science is done is to prove or disprove any and everything. Basically, accepting that any possibility that arises must be disproven with evidence greater than just saying, "bro, it's obviously fake." There's a reason you and I are not scientists
@@anthonyernst999 That's actually incorrect. The burden of proof lies with the one making the claim. If someone comes along and says 'The planet Mercury is made of titanium', it's not up to every other scientist to disprove that, it's up to him to put forward a hypothesis that makes sense, has ideas that can be tested, do the tests, show that the tests agree with the claim, and then make the claim. Only then does anyone else have to even listen. The tests must be repeatable and then others can do the tests, either disproving or proving the claim. Alien DNA would blow the world away. Neil asked them to send DNA to 10 different labs to test. Have they done this? No. End of story. No actual scientist is taking them seriously.
The news was quite sensational, for example saying that the Mexican government revealed the alien, when in reality it was a guy who entered congress, There is a moment where any citizen can say anything in front of the congressmen to demand something or highlight a problem, this guy took advantage of that space.
It all started going down the drain after those navy recordings came out, and they interviewed an aviator who doesn't understand how his equipment works. Should've lost his wings smh...
This was a 7 hour presentation to Congress in 2 days. Some of the top cabinet officials sat in and it was BROADCAST on national TV. I live in Mexico and know AMLO wants to get Mexico involved in changing human destiny.
In many industries we often use equipment without understanding how it works. I drive a car but I haven't got a clue about engines. I program computers but I have no idea how a CPU works.@@VikingTeddy
They invited you for the media attention it would bring, and the apparent endorsement your presence would supply, and they could use all of that to reinforce their narrative. So staying away for that reason is a good move. As you said, send biologists - and make sure they aren’t people whome mere presence would provide a similar level of validation. That fact that they are *not* doing this is suspicious.
Same thing they did with the university of Mexico, they used their name for endorsement and the University issued a communication clarifying that they're not endorsing Maussan's claim.
They are doing this. In fact if you simply check X you can see that they gave samples to various scientists all over the world. This video is fake! I can’t believe he posted this without doing research
Imagine after the video is shot Tyson gets up from his chair, his body opens up to reveal it was a human shaped exoskeleton and pilot inside is a small 3 feet tall alien hoping the cover up was good enough.
You literally missed the entire point of half this video. There is no "correct" "scientific community", there is just peer review and replication in an attempt to falsify. It's like you ignored his entire point about there not being a basis for pedigree for the scientific method.
I don't know why last phrase made me feel on peace with the universe. "You know those humans? They are just like us." I know we miss Sagan, but I'm glad we still have Neil doing his part for divulgation.
what makes u think that, instead the fact that the universe is so giant the chances of a "variety" of extraterrestrial life form is plausible, yet there could NOT be any alien life, which happened to evolve in the same way like humans, alien whose appearance matched a lot with humans the last part made this "reply" vid, OUT OF PLACE, but i do agree on him asking the peru finder to let random credible biologists test on the subject
No way to compare...Neil vs. Sagan. Please?! don't be a fool. Neil may have his moments...but he's too far to be compared to Sagan. Sagan would never sell out to China...and would never make a fool of himself because of his fame among the ignorant.
@@eumesmo_oficial Why there's always at least one Karen in peaceful comments like OPs one? Always at least one. Are you that desperate so you want to prove your point to people that think differently than you?
I am so glad that Tyson spits out the truth, a degree doesn't add to the veracity of a scientific experiment. The experiment is what counts, not the degree.
Even if the objects are not biological in origin, it would be interesting to get a carbon dating on the artifacts. It’s possible that these are an ancient replica, they seem to have a sort of square appearance in their construction.
as noted by several people, including those in the SFX community, they look like Papier-mâché, and not good Papier-mâché at that. Not like any biological material known.
@@TheStoneCodeArt Scientists _are_ the experts. What other experts would be useful? Actually, some doctors would be good. And some movie effects experts. If my comment is 'rtdd' please explain how, rather than making some confused ungrammatical assertion.
@@Tanfo77 Depends what you mean by 'accurate'. Up to about 20,000 years it's accurate to a century or so. Up to 50,000 years it's accurate to about half a millenium. Beyond that you don't use carbon dating, it's useless beyond 50,000 years, you use any one of a dozen other methods. And all these methods cross-check to each other and other dating methods, so radiometric dating can be very accurate given the timespan involved. That statement on its own is so vague as to be useless.
@@Tanfo77 ok well whatever the best method is for determining age, I would be curious to know the age of the object. We need some forensics on this thing. I mean it looks kinda fake but still it ought to be tested.
I think the best alien in films would be from the Alien movie franchise. it starts out as a parasite that transforms into a larger species that mixes with the host DNA to make different creatures that are the ultimate predator against the host species. it seems almost too likely and too scary!
This year I visited exhibition of H. R. Giger... That man was f***ing genius! The exhibition was called Metamorhosis and wasn't really aimed towards just an Alien but captured more broader on Giger's works. I had goosebumps from the moment I walked into that gallery. If you have a chance to visit some of his exhibitions, definitely go!
Alien was undoubtedly one of the best movies in several different categories. The Xenomorph is (as you stated) the most probable, hence it was so believable.
Neil, you are seriously one of the few that makes 100% complete sense with a global platform to reach people. And your personality is hilarious 😂 Love this show so much!
Check out his book called letters from an astrophysicist- it’s his answers to people writing in questions! He replies with some much respect and tactfulness but also honesty
I have always thought this about aliens portrayed in fiction. I never understood why so many were made put to look human like when nearly any form is possible.
For a similar reason why most of the very early (late 19th century) cars resembled wagons and carts. That’s all they had as design examples. We have no idea what extraterrestrials could look like so we make them loose interpretations of ourselves.
@@TonyMarselle Star Trek has a ton of "aliens" that are just people with green skin, or a wrinkly nose or pointed ears. Even klingons in the TOS were just brutish looking humans. They did make a weak explanation for it in TNG in one episode.
Neil touched on it, but I've always felt these and previous aliens should look more like an alien skeleton than a middle school paper mache craft project
It's good to hear someone like him say what I've been saying for years. There's no way aliens would look as human-like as many people think they would. I've had people bring up the topic of convergent evolution in discussions and that has SOME merit, but that would imply that their world of origin would be earth-like enough to warrant a similar evolutionary path as us. Even here on earth the most successful organisms are insects so one would assume aliens from an earth-like planet would've more closely followed that evolutionary path than our own. I feel like the assumption that aliens are humanoids is simply comforting to people because it lets them believe that communication and interaction would be possible. It's a lot easier to sleep at night imagining that a humanoid race will come and ask to see our leaders than it is imagining a colony of giant, intelligent space ants showing up and devouring everything.
This reasoning is why I think that, if the "gray aliens" are real, they are probably humans that have been genetically manipulated by the actual aliens. You can easily imagine that an alien species visiting our planet, but not being adapted to the biochemical and physical conditions of our planet, might want some locally adapted collaborators to do their data collection and any other tasks they might want to perform here. So, they take an intelligent local life form and alter it to suit their particular needs. Perhaps they might use a combination of selective breeding and direct genetic manipulation. This would explain the reports of aliens collecting genetic material from humans. I've long ago said that it's virtually impossible that true aliens could use human DNA in the context of their own biology. But for developing a humanoid type of their own design, the way we breed dogs and other animals-- well, why not?
is it rational to reject humanoid aliens? ok..... no proof though to back up his opinions. And in Mexico they have done public studies and have shared the data and samples. He hasn't researched what they have done. He doesn't know why we have two eyes, and yet claims it is impossible for aliens to coincide with that, for example. He only had some good facts, but even as an astrophysicist he coud've benefit from looking at them. He just CAN'T accept some truth, he hates aliens.
Neil sounds very intelligent when he’s regurgitating someone else’s work, you should listen to Neil’s thoughts on Covid imagine how disappointed I was when I realized he’s an actual blistering idiot. Look at the interview judge for your self. I have absolutely no respect or confidence in his explanations of anything after listening to that interview and his personal thoughts. When it comes to Neil, having to produce an opinion of his own, he fails spectacularly., I couldn’t believe he had so much information wrong, and leaned into it as hard as he could, honestly, it was embarrassing, and I felt a little hurt that I had respected him all the way up till that particular moment in time
Omg, he's dumb as a rock. Anyone with a bit of brain would figure out that isn't a human skeleton, nor belonging to any life form we know on Earth. All you need to check it's if that skeleton is made of organic material or not.
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I said, "I bet Neil didn't go because he's not a biologist," and Neil did not disappoint. Here's a man who doesn't believe he knows everything just because he knows a lot about one thing and I respect that so much.
Lmao wut? No. They have invited scientists to come do tests and they have shared the data that has already been found. Neil could have gotten samples and given them to people he thinks are more qualified than him to check out. But no, let's make a UA-cam video making generalizations and claims that also lack any evidence. No boom here at all... Just NDT being arrogant as always.
Please apply the scientific method to what is on my channel. I am wanting someone to attempt to falsify. I show you what I found and where I found it. Please repeat what I did in an attempt to falsify it.
Neil really strikes me as a guy that if i told him he was brilliant he'd say "I know I'm brilliant, the question is why do you believe I'm brilliant." 😂 but i gotta say it anyway. You're brilliant brother. Keep up the amazing work
I 100% agree. He’s a joke to scientists. If he was a real scientist, he would know humans have nothing to do w/ climate change and we needs More Co2 to keep Earth thriving. He’s a plant scientist, to tell the false narrative about climate change and many other things. He is a disgrace to scientists and any other scientist that are always on the news. He’s a laughing stock in the lab.
Or you could be brilliant without a PHD. You might be someone that cares for others and uses your life to help those in need. No PHD and you could also still be brilliant.
He is one of my favourite scientists, his approach, and ability to make complicated science, into something we can understand on some level is great. Along with his personality, humour, he makes science even more interesting.
Are you watching the same astrophysics as me? The one above is a paid actor who has taken on the roll of TV muppet to brainwash the screen lickers. You have never met this TV face who reads from an autocue! He informs folk they can forget their senses. And can’t explain gravity when put on the spot. Actors do anything for fame. He is NOT a scientist! He is an actor given the roll of. Wake up if you call yourself adult! The fact you refer to yourself as WE shows even you aren’t confident in your words. Having to reassure yourself with the group mentality.
I wish that he had mentioned The Thing when it comes to creative aliens in cinema. I only say that because we have no idea what it really looks like in its natural form, which adds to the mystery. The fact that it can take on the form of anything that it touches is far more terrifying than any other Hollywood alien in my opinion.
We used to make similar figurines back in preschool; a little bit of clay mixed in with bits of this & that always made it fun but not just for me, all of us! 😄
How do you make an egg and a feto out of clay also? And then be able to pass all biological tests? People commenting these types of things haven’t even taken the time to look at all the proof real scientists from all over the world are presenting
Neil is Ego tripimg here. He got an invitation and is asuming no other scientis but him got it..and he somehow thinks he will go see it and proclaimed himself if they are real..And lets be honest Neil "the scientist" didn't make/write nothing and publish for a very long time if we go down that road of ego,..
“Nope” is dope, good movie and idea for the alien. It felt almost like a 4 dimensional being with its shape shifting, but it also played with the idea of flying saucers. It looked like a creature that could float thru space like a jellyfish it was awesome.
Based on the observation on 'Jean Jacket', the creature shouldn't be alien but originated on the earth itself with thousands of years of evolution and mutation. Since there are ariel beings on the stratosphere like bacteria. It simply means that the concept of alien is not meant to be from outer space but rather being able to identify the creature and it's very origin.
That’s what it saying it feels like a 4D type of creature that can move or interact on another dimension or be from an alternative universe like the fog creatures. N that it played on UFOs like messing with electrical objects and flying in the sky. That’s what I feel idk how it would survive in space but the simpler answer is probably Jordan didn’t have an interest in exploring that part of the narrative keeping JJ a mystery, plus it would get confusing and doesn’t add to much to the movie @@pocketsfullofdynamite
In one episode of Star Trek they had these rock looking creatures that crawled around and turned out to be higher beings. I'm confident Dr. Tyson would give that episode a thumbs up.
I want to seriously give credit and thanks to everyone involved in this upload. All around awesome clip even if it was taken out before. I especially appreciated the music sequence.
Having worked in a museum of biodiversity, I have seen a lot of preserved specimens; fish, mammals, birds, insects... Just from looking at photos of these objects, which granted is not the same as seeing them in person, or taking tissue samples from them, they look like sculptures to me. That is my first impression.
Don’t you just love people who are experts commenting all the time……. Eyeroll….. how about less talk and more examinations from the real scientists……. And then people can talk…. lol
Very true on how science should be represented, but my question is what should aliens look like? I never seen one before, what makes you so sure to tell that alien should look different
I grew up in Mexico and Jaime Mausan (the Quack Alien Hunter that "found them") has been playing this type of things for his entire career. He actually had a TV show doing that that has been snippets in "Ancient Aliens" show too .... A LOT! Also the fact that the Mexican Govt allowed themselves to waste their time with that in congress just means (normally) that they are trying to distract the population and divert their attention from OTHER corrupt things they are doing...."frauds, kidnappings, killings" and stuff like that. dont give in and listen to the scientists
The fact that he is a "alien hunter" should increase his chances of finding aliens. My friend who hunts moose sees alot more moose than I do. but if he is a quack and a trickster its another story.
I'm very confused by your conclusion. The only way to finally resolve this is science. We have all the tools. The possible magnitude of the discovery at least warrants a serious analysis and debate, don't you think? Especially in light of the recent events (Nimitz incident, Grusch testimony, now senators speaking up and millions becoming aware of the issue, etc.), this topic underwent and is still undergoing such a drastic level of destigmatization that serious discussions are very important to find common ground.
I would say, it stands to reason, that life developing in somewhat similiar conditions as earth - oxygene / nitrogene atmosphere, pressure, gravity, radiation - might develop in a similiar pattern. And I use similiar in a very loose fashion. There is a few things that developed multiple times here on Earth - eyes are a good example - we have fish-eyes, which went through a lot of ancestors including us humans, we have insect eyes, which do basically the same thing, but prette differently. Lungs - or rather means of metabolising oxygene and so on and so forth. I think, if there's radiation in a specific spectrum on that world, they would develop light-sensitive organs to discern their surroundings. Also if we talk about civilisation, then there need to be means to manipulate the surroundings - arms or other appendages. Is it two? Maybe. Is it ten? Why not. How many fingers would they have (Also a thing they need - the ability to finely manipulate delicate stufff...) So you would pretty much have something with eyes in some form and appendages. Likely some form of verbal communication as well. Maybe it wouldn't look humanoid - there's no immediate reason why a form of great ape and not... say some lizard, bird, gas filled membrane or whatever would have made the race to the top. But you maybe will recognise them as intelligent civilised beings.
I think we're gonna come back similar to the fermi paradox thing. That stated either life is exclusive to Earth (so rare), or life isn't so rare but the universe itself is just so vast that each presence is very scarce. Following logic number 2, even if there's another kind of living being, they almost certainly won't look humanoid. They must have entirely different variables that classified their existence, in physical form and in everything else. However like what guy before me has said, we will probably still be able to identify that they're an intelligent species, because we are also one with the capacity to do so. No matter how absurd they might look like.
That's not even what I meant. I'm talking about life that is possibly different altogether than how we know it and I don't know how I would even describe it because I can't even imagine it.
Other hospitable planets most likely have the same makeup as here on earth in order to sustain life. I don't think that it is completely outlandish to imagine aliens from another planet adapting and evolving in to something that would resemble a likeliness to humans. Gravity and oxygen levels could vairy and possibly there could be other elements but as a rule science looks for exoplanets that could possibly sustain right now.
@@BarryBollox. Also though, earth has the same makeup as earth; yet there are no other creatures which resemble humans quite like humans. These lil guys look closer to humans than any other animal on planet earth.
Apes/monkeys? Should we just assume aliens would be nothing like hominoids and expect them to be blobs or like something from a Ridley Scott movie? Its all fantasy until there is any proof anyway. I would imagine an advanced civilisation to use drones for investigation of other planets if I am allowed to imagine.
Beautifully put. Just one correction- intelligent aliens might look more similar to us than a banana is different from us. This is due to convergence evolution- similar tasks and purposes lead to similar evolutionary solutions. One of the best examples is how 8 times different creatures evolved into a crab-like creature.
ok... so... that's partly true yes... But those combinations could only exist on earth within the "defined" parameters of earth. Extraterrestrial variables are incomprehensibly bigger... Different levels of oxygen, radiation, light, distance from host star... just to name a miniscule few. With this in mind, such convergent evolution would be statistically improbable. Taking also in to account that those "bodies" have mass which means they couldn't get here faster than the speed of light which narrows the possible galaxies even further...
If an alien WAS exoskeleton based, having multiples of appendages would definitely be a plus. The question is, what would that alien think when it ran across a world dominated by a bunch of meat bags?
8:40: Oh I don't know about that one, as there's countless examples of convergent evolution, especially carcinisation -- where non-crab crustaceans evolve into crabs. And then there's spiders with claws that looks like crabs. So aliens will most likely be crabs or crab-people.
I found this whole thing to be riotously funny from the start… no one really understood why I found it so funny, and I asked them: can you imagine if the royal family announced to the entire world that they found actual dragon bones and were immediately proven wrong? 😂
He’s wrong about a lot of things. All mummified bodies still have their noses intact. Also why do aliens have to look so different? Every planet has the same elements.
This is true, and had a second convention with more bodies and tests and scientists that came with to discount people like Mr Tyson here from just discounting them as fake. Also the hoax claim from 2017 was debunked as yet another group that had decided not to actually test them, decided instead to just not do it and claim they were fake.
I'll give you an example of why what you're saying doesn't matter... I'm leaving this comment to get your reaction... See we can all say things we don't mean.
This is great. Logically and factually put. 9:54 - Totally agreed. Aliens can have infinite possibility of shapes and forms that can be totally opposed to what we find on this planet (Earth). Yet popular media cannot let hold of the concept of the golden ratio when designing concept art for aliens.
@@hunterpatrick5210 Even more than that. Most of them have a face and a head. Dont forget that live after being wiped out(dinosaurs) it started again and evolved again but the bone structure and the had pretty much remaind the same. So maybe it's in the DNA.
Do you think the alien bodies are real?
No
False
No
I hope the universe would be more creative than that
No sir!
Anyone who had these and thought they were legit real would WANT every scientist on earth to study them to verify them.
Biologists and chemists should be the only ones, or at least the very first ones.
Having physicists there would have absolutely zero impact
They did reach out to NDT. Now they have to get that dna to at least 4 different labs.
@@TheMissiIeliterally what NDT just said in a video
Science is a dead end.
@@kalijasin ok. So Harry Potter is real.
Skeptical Scientists make some of the best scientists. My favourite example is Rontgen, who, the story goes, was so so disbelieving of his initial discovery of X-rays that he conducted every possible test that he could image to disprove they existed but, in doing so, simply compiled more and more evidence that they did in fact exist. He then shared this with all other scientists and asked them to repeat his tests and prove him wrong. This is how Scientific fact is disclosed, not by someone saying , '" I've done the tests , I've seen the evidence , believe me , it's true." This is not science.
Science is scepticism.
"I can't prove myself wrong, please try yourself" is a great sanity test and perfect science. Sanity test I should say meaning much like computer building making sure it's accurate
Neil has seen it all before...
That’s exactly how you’re supposed to conduct research. You’re not supposed to prove your hypothesis correct; you do everything you can to prove it incorrect. That is how you prove things to be true. That’s where our first attempts to explain the world around us with religion and philosophy failed. Finding anything that supports what you say or using circular reasoning isn’t truth; just what you want to believe.
Easy cause they are clearly fakes!
I love how this was more about how science works/should work rather than just a mocking video. How a student and phd can have their names on paper without rank, but just with their ideas. Wasn't expecting an educational video, but learned some nice and very fascinating info. Bravo.
I was just thinking the other day about writing a paper showing how to break into ethereum wallets but thought no one would pay attention due to my title. Anyway, I don't believe my solution to the problem is the most optimal or efficient but maybe someone could build upon my work.
@@johnbobbypringle Be careful tho, if you're serious. People will use that info to steal. I work in cybersecurity. If you've really found a legit way to hack ethereum wallets, you can make a nice paycheck legitimately and help a lot of people in the process.
Of course you may already know all that if you've written a paper about it, heh.
No
0:20
I love how Neil always makes sure science is understood AS a process to gain knowledge through proper processes like peer reviews.
I used to live in Mexico, and the guy who presented the "bodies" is Jaime Maussan, who has spent decades talking about aliens. It was always a bit of a joke, and not many really took him that seriously.
Thats funny how u say that, like oh they talking about The lockal Wacky hobo 😂
$20.00 they are Paper Mache over chicken wire.
Professional Mexican here, I support this opinion.
Seems like a diversion scenario in the works.. sponsored by sorrywood for upcoming block buster on ameragedon & then an alien invasion .. 😮
Thats what i been saying 😂 even joe rogan talked about it and jaime has been doing this forever
"If an alien comes and says 'take me to your leader'... don't take him to any leaders."
Probably the best and most logical suggestion for an alien contact situation ever.
Like?
I have always wondered why the supposedly vastly superior intellect of an alien species had to ask for directions to whomever was in charge.
@@Lil-JensStudio You are right, I would expect them to go straight to Kim Kardashian or someone like that.
@@philippenachtergal6077 Take them to Joe Biden, they may show us mercy if they think we are all fools.
Definitely don't take them to the white house to see the kook running it
I am a cartoonist and 50 years ago someone challenged me to design an alien that had no features that any creature on Earth had. --I'm still working on it.
The Simpsons has the best aliens.
why wouldn't any possible alien have more human features than not?
Awesome challenge for a cartoonist honestly. I’m sure you’ve had many cool ideas over the years. Have any favorites?
Mushrooms
@@katherenewedic8076our features evolved to suit earth. The conditions here are different to those we’ve found on alien worlds, ipso facto different features.
I had no idea that that was the reason that our majors, (I am an undergrad) or qualifications are not present upon our publications. I published a research paper with my peers and my Professor on my research about novel Mycobacteriophage a few months ago, and despite the name of our University, there were no further indications of our level of research experience. I greatly appreciete understanding why that is now!
You have been ignored for a reason!! Its not meant to be for public eyes... Simple
I had a cab driver tell me about a renewable energy project he’s working on after I said I’m an engineering student, he didn’t have a degree but he was in the patent phase of his project, that’s when I decided to quit on my degree
@@BigDaddy-je2nq My electric bill is pretty damn high... I already love this guy cant wait to happen
@@ETSpaceRocks I’m working on a few projects after I make my foundry and saw mill, that’ll make it easy to live off the grid
@@BigDaddy-je2nq Wise Man!
As an alien myself I see this as an absolute fact.
illegal Alien....
Which country did you came from to become an alien in your new one, human ?
He came from a planet…. Not country duh. Don’t you watch sci fi movies I mean science movies 😂
Exidor I missed you.
Same here. If you ever get to the Glorborg District I may invite you to a bleerg to celebrate
I am a biologist. And I feel delighted to see that your arguments about how this should have been put to the test is almost to the letter equal to what I said to a friend who asked about my thoughts on this matter two or three months ago.
Years ago in the U.S. there was a huge story on the news. Bigfoot had been varified as real, and there was a body!!! They had a press conference and everything!!!
Pretty much the same thing. The body was "lost" or "stolen" a few days later
@mexicanolibreypatriota5545 did you understand anything from this discussion? OP might have been able to join the research had they been invited to investigate the bodies.
Notice Neil starts by saying he is the wrong scientist to ask then immediately follows that by saying degrees don’t matter, a good idea is a good idea… fascinating
What's hard to believe is that the greatest discovery in the history of humankind is picked up and observed like a souvenir in a gift shop. No biohazard suits, no controlled environment, no delicate means to preserve. The "aliens" are covered in a dust that can be breathed in contaminate, or infect and we know nothing about. Calling the most media popular scientist to observe and not experts in the field seems like a publicity stunt wanting more publicity. It looks like nothing more than paper mache bodies covered in talcum powder to me.
@@TheStoneCodeArt Your name says it all, dude. Nobody is taking this story seriously except for you.
As an evolutionary biologist and morphologist, i can only agree that this video is spot on regarding the scientific method and the issues with these always "humanoid looking" aliens. Thanks Neil 😊
assuming they are alien is where it starts.
Yes humanoid seems unlikely sure. But then consider convergent evolution it could be possible
To master interstellar travel, i would assume they would need at least need an appendage to make tools. Also, I was thinking that a bipedal tool user could be a winning evolutionary pattern so to see it other planets wouldn't be far fetched. These are my thoughts as someone with a basic understanding of evolution, not an evaluationary biologist though.
ua-cam.com/video/mJA3DKhFRHc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=CanaldoPirulla debunked is lhama bones and other animals
Almost all fictional aliens are humanoid.
8:21 Perfect clip for this whole thing
One of my favorite quotes describes this perfectly:
Neil deGrasse Tyson, a science communicator with a Ph.D. in astrophysics, has said, “One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong”
Amen
@@soylabonitabruv, he said exactly the same thing to Terrace!
@@Nerd-gasm in not the same words. he informed him of dunning kruger
And on most subjects, Tyson is wrong.
@@DankSwegSkuxxXhayelmore accurately, The Dunning-Kruger Effect
I'm a Canadian living in Mexico and I can tell you there was zero news here about these "aliens". We first heard it on an American news station. Nobody I know here is taking it seriously.
Dr. deGrasse Tyson, where can I get one of those awesome bumper stickers???
😎😃🤣
If you are telling the truth thats saying sth
Dios Mio
True because we Mexicans all know Mausan is a joke.
@@alfonsohernandezo.2816yep. guy has made a career out of this. Musan
I liked the xenomorphs from the Alien franchise. The first one looked humanoid but you find out that it was because it was gestated in a human. The one that was burst from a dog was a quadruped.
Absolutely...😊
I Like The Greek Gods People Play Like Aquaman, Those May Be Closer to the Nephalim Truth 💯
@@SD_ChosenAquaman isn’t a Greek God, You mean Poseidon, and Nephilim predate Greek ‘Mythology’. So if it is, it’s likely the Greek copied not Vice versa
@@smurf_n_wesson9064 Wherever it Was, The Bible Records it, And Other Manuscript Record Other Things, Only God Knows Every Single Mystery
@@SD_Chosen Why couldn't your god make you smart enough to know you don't capitalise every word in a sentence?
I did not know the terminology for the shoulder star/bar/badge racks. I learned something new today. Thanks
The thing with the nazca lines is that everyone goes on about how you can't see them from the ground. But there is nearby mountains and hill from which you can see them.
Just from the air you can see all of them at once.
And let's say - we know the Chinese used paper kites to transport humans (well for reconnisance and not always that successful) - so even if we don't have proof the Nazca cultures did the same... it's still more likely, than them building the glyphs for aliens...
Fact.
The most funniest part for me is that they were holding it like a doll. 😂😂
1:28 The journalist wears a hairnet, a mask, gloves AND a tie... so it must be genuine.
Also: radiologists see through everything, that makes it double true.
@@JZsBFF then they must allowed every scientist in this world to test it for their personal confirmation. we don't want some western authority preaching us what is true and what is not.
@@JZsBFFif it was genuine you would place it down locked in a glass box and never touch it again, not carry it around in a plastic carrier bag and wave it around everywhere you go
@@Mr.Haveaword And you would be right but let's face it that not all people with scientific aspirations are equally meticulous. Some are more like... Indiana Jones.
That's also why a decent part of present day's doctoral thesises are subject to plagiarism
So you see something and don't believe it wow it's right there in your face
Telling the aliens to go to a comic con is genius.
I don’t understand why people think that ancient indigenous people are not capable of creating large geometric structures or paths.
Because people like mystery.
They like things that don't have objective evidence.
If extraterrestrials were solid mundane evidence, the whole "ancient aliens were earths architects" would fade away.
Why else are conspiracy theories are popular? The people who latch on to them have no genuine desire to really find out.
By default Europeans are always right.... ha ha..... indegenious people lived with some basic sense which is better than just being skeptical.
This has to be one of my top 5 star talk videos. It's amazing that this was released finally, and we got to see it.
I still find it odd that the release of this video was so delayed. If they were always going to use this original subpar quality recording, they should have just released it way back when this alien story was still the subject of about every news journalist on earth. During the MONTHS that they waited to release this, they could have re-filmed a similar conversation that hit all the same points as this one, but which had better quality. Instead, we got both the long needless delay AND the original subpar quality recording. What happened?
There are aliens not the money makers that make them for movies and stuff stop putting everybody off of course is aliens people wouldn't say that they saw what they saw you know one could make up such a story so get it right people yes I are aliens maybe not these ones that they have right now
Thoery. Aliens are a placebo to massice MRI Scan Mind Reading
@@ryanwilhite
Do you know that "wine" and "whine" are homophones?
If my science teacher was like you, I would have aced my science years ago.
Or maybe you have more of a foundation in the sciences and a more developed brain.
I actually had a science teacher that was this passionate about explaining things. Got everyone so hooked because he would stray off the curriculum and get all conspiracy theorist on us 😂😂 but then we had days where he had to cram so much in one hour just to make up for the days went on ranting 😂😂
Aliens or not, big thanks to the production team for making this video a reality! Well done!
They are some sort of hybrid, that used to walk with humans in those times. Peru government confiscated a couple more bodies that were also destined to go to mexico.
Very well said in this video. Very well said.
Thank you for keeping us centered on common sense.
I don't know how many times I've cautioned my friends to stop jumping to conclusions. That is the essence of science.
No offense. Only thing Neil is centered on is himself. Scientists these days are two focused on making sure the science is what they say it is. They want authority, and embrace tactics like a politician to gain and maintain it. Science is dead. It married politics and hung itself. I’m sure you won’t like me saying this. But reality is reality. It doesn’t care what someone says the science is. The science is what it is.
i often try to do the same thing.
do any of your friends get angry at you and call you close minded because your not able to believe crap at the drop of a pin. lol
@@knivesron Fortunately, I don't have friends that are THAT closed-minded 😁. Those would only be acquaintances. My friends who jump to conclusions often are taken in by dumb "what if" TV shows. They often know better, but can't distinguish between reality and shows such as "The UnXplained." They fall prey and often say, 'but it must be true." Those shows irritate me because they are not scientific. I repeatedly emphasize to them that science goes far beyond speculation, with exhaustive testing, and to try to adopt that mental attitude.
Your friends should stop listening to you then 🤡 it’s the same type of scientists from after project bluebook who said ufo don’t exist to only a couple of years ago finding out the US government has been secretly studying ufo again
@@antonio0951 they said aliens haven't been to earth not that UFO's don't exist. A UFO is not an alien. UFO stands for unidentified flying object. Not aliens. Ufologists were screaming at the govt to look into UFO's and to do classifie their documents, which the Russia govt investigated and the USA govt declassified only to show absolutely that there is no giga advanced flying ships, just badly film fuzzy pictures and story's from ppl not in the know.
Oh and Neil here isent saying aliens don't exist just they haven't come to earth
The aliens are interesting, but the most intriguing thing I get from this video is an explanation of what constitutes scientific evidence and method that my 12-year-old understood.
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HERE ARE NO ALIENS. THEY ARE DOLLS.
If you consider those puppets to be "interesting" i'd highly recommend you the muppet show, it's way more entertaining trust me.
Good point. I wonder if we could get the CDC to watch it.
@@Meninx87 yet your sat here on a video of neil hhahahahaha you really think neil tells the truth i mean hes just said to ou he hasnt even seen the bodies we question people who have seen the bodies not someone who hasnt lol
@@WookiRahh Go back to your cave and beware of those nasty saber tooth cats.
I'm from Mexico and here those aliens are taken as a joke, it's kind of embarrassing that it made into the international news
The jokes on you. Media don't want folks knowing the truth. . Tyson declined because he already knew what they were. They are demon hybrid beings. Not aliens.
Do you think it is weird that the Alien looked like ET from the movie?
Why? It shouldn't be embarrassing.
@@nillyk5671 because it's actually cake lmfao
@@nillyk5671 You are right: it should be concerning that those idiots are in charge of the country - well, starting with the ignorant, incompetent and corrupt president
Very good points - very well said. I really love how you explain things so clearly. We are not all PhD's - thanks for "dumbing it down" for us.
Love the fact that is Neil giving us instructions on how to make convincing fake aliens :)
I thought the exact same😂
True 😂 but then convincing the 10 independent biologists might be a tough task
Bone Nose Football.😂
Why eat corpses? Dominion (2018)
These are fake although we're not the only life there's at least 8-9 civilizations other than humans
By Neil saying "if you find an alien, take it to comic con" he's telling us exactly how he feels about this entire situation 😂
@@kingscounty6742 you have experience with other worldly beings? Please do share
Which is why I dont like him. He mocks even the idea of Aliens. I dont know if these bodies are real or not. But NDT is not the person I would trust if he says these are not real. He seems to have an agenda or just is overconfident.
derp@@kingscounty6742
Bottom line is: he was invited and could've brought ten top scientists with him to take samples.
Instead he chose to decline the invitation and ridicule this from a safe distance.
@@kingscounty6742ohh so u have more?
Respect for turning down the invite. Wish you would've accepted but on the condition that you bring the scientist that can actually help to verify
He knew, everybody knew, they are fake. The same guy also presented some 'Alien' bodies years ago and they were paper mache. The university he's with is the only one that is not ratified by the Government. Not even close to credible these 'alien' bodies.
Bruh. Obviously its fake
Even if he accepted under those conditions, He'd still look like a fool for believing they could be real. He'd be front page on every super market tabloid!
@usmc1379 No, he wouldn't. The way that science is done is to prove or disprove any and everything. Basically, accepting that any possibility that arises must be disproven with evidence greater than just saying, "bro, it's obviously fake." There's a reason you and I are not scientists
@@anthonyernst999 That's actually incorrect. The burden of proof lies with the one making the claim. If someone comes along and says 'The planet Mercury is made of titanium', it's not up to every other scientist to disprove that, it's up to him to put forward a hypothesis that makes sense, has ideas that can be tested, do the tests, show that the tests agree with the claim, and then make the claim. Only then does anyone else have to even listen. The tests must be repeatable and then others can do the tests, either disproving or proving the claim. Alien DNA would blow the world away. Neil asked them to send DNA to 10 different labs to test. Have they done this? No. End of story. No actual scientist is taking them seriously.
I love your sense of humor sir.
The news was quite sensational, for example saying that the Mexican government revealed the alien, when in reality it was a guy who entered congress, There is a moment where any citizen can say anything in front of the congressmen to demand something or highlight a problem, this guy took advantage of that space.
It all started going down the drain after those navy recordings came out, and they interviewed an aviator who doesn't understand how his equipment works. Should've lost his wings smh...
This was a 7 hour presentation to Congress in 2 days. Some of the top cabinet officials sat in and it was BROADCAST on national TV. I live in Mexico and know AMLO wants to get Mexico involved in changing human destiny.
Ahh that makes sense.
names please@@VikingTeddy
In many industries we often use equipment without understanding how it works. I drive a car but I haven't got a clue about engines. I program computers but I have no idea how a CPU works.@@VikingTeddy
They invited you for the media attention it would bring, and the apparent endorsement your presence would supply, and they could use all of that to reinforce their narrative. So staying away for that reason is a good move. As you said, send biologists - and make sure they aren’t people whome mere presence would provide a similar level of validation. That fact that they are *not* doing this is suspicious.
Same thing they did with the university of Mexico, they used their name for endorsement and the University issued a communication clarifying that they're not endorsing Maussan's claim.
They are doing this. In fact if you simply check X you can see that they gave samples to various scientists all over the world. This video is fake! I can’t believe he posted this without doing research
Bang on
They sent open invites to all scientists you just dnt keep up
@@pandaxpres How many scientists is "all scientists"?
Imagine after the video is shot Tyson gets up from his chair, his body opens up to reveal it was a human shaped exoskeleton and pilot inside is a small 3 feet tall alien hoping the cover up was good enough.
Why did he say “HIGH ABOVE” like that 😂😂 @1:00
Allow them to be properly accessible to the correct scientific community
already did, was confirmed to be fake and made from animal and human bones, they literally put leg bones where its arms should be lol
And not handed /only/ to a university that had just lost their certification and /no/ /other/ /university/ /in/ /the/ /country/....
You literally missed the entire point of half this video. There is no "correct" "scientific community", there is just peer review and replication in an attempt to falsify. It's like you ignored his entire point about there not being a basis for pedigree for the scientific method.
yeah literally saying theres no way to know except making contact by our own @@Naught359
doesn't need a permit for making contact@@Naught359
You’re right, it’s weird that they’d invite an astrophysicist to do what exactly, speculate where the stars were when they were built.
That’s Neil’s way of telling you it’s fake without telling you it’s fake😂
😂😂
I don't know why last phrase made me feel on peace with the universe. "You know those humans? They are just like us."
I know we miss Sagan, but I'm glad we still have Neil doing his part for divulgation.
what makes u think that, instead the fact that the universe is so giant the chances of a "variety" of extraterrestrial life form is plausible, yet there could NOT be any alien life, which happened to evolve in the same way like humans, alien whose appearance matched a lot with humans
the last part made this "reply" vid, OUT OF PLACE, but i do agree on him asking the peru finder to let random credible biologists test on the subject
No way to compare...Neil vs. Sagan.
Please?! don't be a fool.
Neil may have his moments...but he's too far to be compared to Sagan.
Sagan would never sell out to China...and would never make a fool of himself because of his fame among the ignorant.
@@eumesmo_oficial Why there's always at least one Karen in peaceful comments like OPs one? Always at least one. Are you that desperate so you want to prove your point to people that think differently than you?
Bro was scared
@@maboleth... well...because I can "think"...and no need some "influencer" to make me think.
I am so glad that Tyson spits out the truth, a degree doesn't add to the veracity of a scientific experiment. The experiment is what counts, not the degree.
Even if the objects are not biological in origin, it would be interesting to get a carbon dating on the artifacts. It’s possible that these are an ancient replica, they seem to have a sort of square appearance in their construction.
as noted by several people, including those in the SFX community, they look like Papier-mâché, and not good Papier-mâché at that. Not like any biological material known.
@@TheStoneCodeArt Scientists _are_ the experts. What other experts would be useful? Actually, some doctors would be good. And some movie effects experts.
If my comment is 'rtdd' please explain how, rather than making some confused ungrammatical assertion.
Carbon dating isn't accurate.
@@Tanfo77 Depends what you mean by 'accurate'. Up to about 20,000 years it's accurate to a century or so. Up to 50,000 years it's accurate to about half a millenium. Beyond that you don't use carbon dating, it's useless beyond 50,000 years, you use any one of a dozen other methods. And all these methods cross-check to each other and other dating methods, so radiometric dating can be very accurate given the timespan involved.
That statement on its own is so vague as to be useless.
@@Tanfo77 ok well whatever the best method is for determining age, I would be curious to know the age of the object. We need some forensics on this thing. I mean it looks kinda fake but still it ought to be tested.
This is why I respect Neil deGrasse Tyson so much.
He is brutally honest and realistic.
But never rude or condescending about it either !
@@na3rialask terrance howard
lol respect for a scientist who doesn't do any science ?
@@WookiRahh Dude literally has dozens of published research papers...
@@WookiRahh
Ignorance must be bliss for you.
I think the best alien in films would be from the Alien movie franchise. it starts out as a parasite that transforms into a larger species that mixes with the host DNA to make different creatures that are the ultimate predator against the host species. it seems almost too likely and too scary!
and Prometheus that starts out as a spore dust.
This year I visited exhibition of H. R. Giger... That man was f***ing genius!
The exhibition was called Metamorhosis and wasn't really aimed towards just an Alien but captured more broader on Giger's works. I had goosebumps from the moment I walked into that gallery.
If you have a chance to visit some of his exhibitions, definitely go!
The aliens from Arrival seem the most accurate, hence the secrecy and slow drip
The thing...
Alien was undoubtedly one of the best movies in several different categories.
The Xenomorph is (as you stated) the most probable, hence it was so believable.
"History channel" has all the answers for these alien bodies.
In which episode? Can you place the link here please
Neil, you are seriously one of the few that makes 100% complete sense with a global platform to reach people. And your personality is hilarious 😂 Love this show so much!
Hi Neil!
Check out his book called letters from an astrophysicist- it’s his answers to people writing in questions! He replies with some much respect and tactfulness but also honesty
I have always thought this about aliens portrayed in fiction. I never understood why so many were made put to look human like when nearly any form is possible.
Because it is less expensive.
For a similar reason why most of the very early (late 19th century) cars resembled wagons and carts. That’s all they had as design examples. We have no idea what extraterrestrials could look like so we make them loose interpretations of ourselves.
@@TonyMarselle Star Trek has a ton of "aliens" that are just people with green skin, or a wrinkly nose or pointed ears. Even klingons in the TOS were just brutish looking humans. They did make a weak explanation for it in TNG in one episode.
@@g8kpr3000so had the show "Space: 1999” from the UK. Not a very large budget
@@g8kpr3000you think it's a weak explanation?
Lol it's literally the ONLY logical explanation as to why something like that would happen.
Neil touched on it, but I've always felt these and previous aliens should look more like an alien skeleton than a middle school paper mache craft project
I built a model of ET when I was 11. It looked way better than the Mexican aliens.
@@stuartculshaw5342you should probably change your wording a bit
@@abas656thegodemperor9 ua-cam.com/video/aqQv3qef21A/v-deo.htmlsi=Q5rr1ANi2Faj3p11
@@abas656thegodemperor9what’s wrong with what he said?
@@mrcontroversy222 theres nothing really wrong, saying "mexican aliens" just sounds racist lol
It's good to hear someone like him say what I've been saying for years. There's no way aliens would look as human-like as many people think they would.
I've had people bring up the topic of convergent evolution in discussions and that has SOME merit, but that would imply that their world of origin would be earth-like enough to warrant a similar evolutionary path as us.
Even here on earth the most successful organisms are insects so one would assume aliens from an earth-like planet would've more closely followed that evolutionary path than our own.
I feel like the assumption that aliens are humanoids is simply comforting to people because it lets them believe that communication and interaction would be possible.
It's a lot easier to sleep at night imagining that a humanoid race will come and ask to see our leaders than it is imagining a colony of giant, intelligent space ants showing up and devouring everything.
This reasoning is why I think that, if the "gray aliens" are real, they are probably humans that have been genetically manipulated by the actual aliens. You can easily imagine that an alien species visiting our planet, but not being adapted to the biochemical and physical conditions of our planet, might want some locally adapted collaborators to do their data collection and any other tasks they might want to perform here. So, they take an intelligent local life form and alter it to suit their particular needs. Perhaps they might use a combination of selective breeding and direct genetic manipulation. This would explain the reports of aliens collecting genetic material from humans. I've long ago said that it's virtually impossible that true aliens could use human DNA in the context of their own biology. But for developing a humanoid type of their own design, the way we breed dogs and other animals-- well, why not?
This is the right response of a true scientist. I would expect nothing less from a decent, honorable person like Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Why eat corpses? Dominion (2018)
Why eat corpses? Dominion (2018)
Neil and his rational explanations is why we LOVE him.
is it rational to reject humanoid aliens? ok..... no proof though to back up his opinions. And in Mexico they have done public studies and have shared the data and samples. He hasn't researched what they have done. He doesn't know why we have two eyes, and yet claims it is impossible for aliens to coincide with that, for example. He only had some good facts, but even as an astrophysicist he coud've benefit from looking at them. He just CAN'T accept some truth, he hates aliens.
Rational😂 ok OK, maybe selective rationality because he definitely sold out a long time ago.
His humour is the reason I follow him.😆
He’s just and idiot with big ego
Neil sounds very intelligent when he’s regurgitating someone else’s work, you should listen to Neil’s thoughts on Covid imagine how disappointed I was when I realized he’s an actual blistering idiot. Look at the interview judge for your self. I have absolutely no respect or confidence in his explanations of anything after listening to that interview and his personal thoughts. When it comes to Neil, having to produce an opinion of his own, he fails spectacularly., I couldn’t believe he had so much information wrong, and leaned into it as hard as he could, honestly, it was embarrassing, and I felt a little hurt that I had respected him all the way up till that particular moment in time
His intellect is out of this world. They tried to play him, but he wasn’t falling for it. Damn I love this guy.
Omg, he's dumb as a rock. Anyone with a bit of brain would figure out that isn't a human skeleton, nor belonging to any life form we know on Earth. All you need to check it's if that skeleton is made of organic material or not.
He's as woke as Disney lol
How was he played?
Sure thing, Inner-city.
That sounds like a movie tagline, lol
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I said, "I bet Neil didn't go because he's not a biologist," and Neil did not disappoint. Here's a man who doesn't believe he knows everything just because he knows a lot about one thing and I respect that so much.
Boom. THIS is a great explanation of how the scientific method works, and how it should be applied to pretty much everything we want to understand.
Boom, indeed! 8-D
Lmao wut? No.
They have invited scientists to come do tests and they have shared the data that has already been found.
Neil could have gotten samples and given them to people he thinks are more qualified than him to check out.
But no, let's make a UA-cam video making generalizations and claims that also lack any evidence.
No boom here at all... Just NDT being arrogant as always.
Please apply the scientific method to what is on my channel. I am wanting someone to attempt to falsify. I show you what I found and where I found it. Please repeat what I did in an attempt to falsify it.
As a Medical Laboratory Scientist looking at the methods of verifying a biological sample as you explained was informative and well balanced.
Neil really strikes me as a guy that if i told him he was brilliant he'd say "I know I'm brilliant, the question is why do you believe I'm brilliant." 😂 but i gotta say it anyway. You're brilliant brother. Keep up the amazing work
He is a scientist with a PhD in astrophysics .. You would be a brilliant too if you had that degree my guy lol
He's either an idiot or in the cult that runs the world. I say this because i have seen and been followed home by extraterrestrial life.@@SailRahh
I 100% agree. He’s a joke to scientists. If he was a real scientist, he would know humans have nothing to do w/ climate change and we needs More Co2 to keep Earth thriving. He’s a plant scientist, to tell the false narrative about climate change and many other things. He is a disgrace to scientists and any other scientist that are always on the news. He’s a laughing stock in the lab.
Or you could be brilliant without a PHD. You might be someone that cares for others and uses your life to help those in need. No PHD and you could also still be brilliant.
@@SailRahh not necessarily 😆
I'm wondering if they could sequence the genome if they have one?
Neil, the technical difficulties were OBVIOUSLY the aliens. It’s all the evidence you need 😂
I hobestly think he delayed this in order to not rain on their parade as they say. The whole vibe of the video is.
" They can't be serious."
Neil should use more tin foil next time.
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Aluminium*@@kalijasin
Come on you it’s impossible to fake digital photos X-rays
LoL 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣
"take the aliens to the Comic Con. They'll feel right at home." That cracked me up LOL 11:30
He is one of my favourite scientists, his approach, and ability to make complicated science, into something we can understand on some level is great. Along with his personality, humour, he makes science even more interesting.
too bad he thinks there is more than two genders and so is a shill to the "thing" rather than actual science
Are you watching the same astrophysics as me? The one above is a paid actor who has taken on the roll of TV muppet to brainwash the screen lickers. You have never met this TV face who reads from an autocue! He informs folk they can forget their senses. And can’t explain gravity when put on the spot.
Actors do anything for fame. He is NOT a scientist! He is an actor given the roll of. Wake up if you call yourself adult!
The fact you refer to yourself as WE shows even you aren’t confident in your words. Having to reassure yourself with the group mentality.
I wish that he had mentioned The Thing when it comes to creative aliens in cinema. I only say that because we have no idea what it really looks like in its natural form, which adds to the mystery. The fact that it can take on the form of anything that it touches is far more terrifying than any other Hollywood alien in my opinion.
We used to make similar figurines back in preschool; a little bit of clay mixed in with bits of this & that always made it fun but not just for me, all of us! 😄
How do you make an egg and a feto out of clay also? And then be able to pass all biological tests? People commenting these types of things haven’t even taken the time to look at all the proof real scientists from all over the world are presenting
Five months later, love your answer to declining invitation
He says the mummified alien tissue has undergone a metamorphosis, turning it into paper mache, through no fault of his own.
Wonderful and approachable intro to the scientific method. Thank you for resurrecting this!
Love this. Unfortunately, Neil is fighting an uphill battle against generally widespread idiocy.
Neil is Ego tripimg here. He got an invitation and is asuming no other scientis but him got it..and he somehow thinks he will go see it and proclaimed himself if they are real..And lets be honest Neil "the scientist" didn't make/write nothing and publish for a very long time if we go down that road of ego,..
And no me myself don't believe they are real but I can be wrong...
Neil thinks man is girl and girl is boy . Dude is so smart 😂😂
@jonn5182 Judging by the previous replies you received, alone, you are 100% right. Widespread idiocy
He also said in the past that Space-x would go nowhere, that there was no chance on Earth a private space agency could succeed....
“Nope” is dope, good movie and idea for the alien. It felt almost like a 4 dimensional being with its shape shifting, but it also played with the idea of flying saucers. It looked like a creature that could float thru space like a jellyfish it was awesome.
Based on the observation on 'Jean Jacket', the creature shouldn't be alien but originated on the earth itself with thousands of years of evolution and mutation. Since there are ariel beings on the stratosphere like bacteria. It simply means that the concept of alien is not meant to be from outer space but rather being able to identify the creature and it's very origin.
Yes that was an amazing movie
That’s what it saying it feels like a 4D type of creature that can move or interact on another dimension or be from an alternative universe like the fog creatures. N that it played on UFOs like messing with electrical objects and flying in the sky. That’s what I feel idk how it would survive in space but the simpler answer is probably Jordan didn’t have an interest in exploring that part of the narrative keeping JJ a mystery, plus it would get confusing and doesn’t add to much to the movie @@pocketsfullofdynamite
In one episode of Star Trek they had these rock looking creatures that crawled around and turned out to be higher beings. I'm confident Dr. Tyson would give that episode a thumbs up.
I think he mentioned that in an episode.
It was called a Horta, I think, and some Humans were mining them.
@@silentdrew7636 Thanx. Your info helped me find it. Yes, it was called a Horta. The Star Trek episode is entitled "The Devil in the Dark".
@@yowzephyr And that devil looked like a lumpy pizza. 🙂
@@silentdrew7636the miners were mining ore but the creature didn't want it's eggs disturbed
@yowzephyr
There was a similar creature in an outer limits episode "the probe" in 1965.
Thank you, especially for the phrase "Keep looking up" so often used by the late "Star Hustler" Jack Foley Horkheimer.
The alien from the movie Life was in my opinion one of the best interpretations of "aliens" in a semi-science-fiction movie.
That thing was truly horrifying.
"Life", starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence? 😂🤣
Carl Sagan was my childhood hero. Neil is my adult hero, he is like a comic book character, such a wonderful attitude.
I want to seriously give credit and thanks to everyone involved in this upload. All around awesome clip even if it was taken out before. I especially appreciated the music sequence.
This was an intriguing listen and quite humorous. Thank you Ty for giving me a laugh so early in the morning.😅😂
Having worked in a museum of biodiversity, I have seen a lot of preserved specimens; fish, mammals, birds, insects... Just from looking at photos of these objects, which granted is not the same as seeing them in person, or taking tissue samples from them, they look like sculptures to me. That is my first impression.
I love the wheat flour liberally sprinkled on them for added tastiness.
they have been x-rayed etc and tested in a lab.
Don’t you just love people who are experts commenting all the time……. Eyeroll….. how about less talk and more examinations from the real scientists……. And then people can talk…. lol
@@purefoldnz3070 And found to be an assembly of human and lama bones often sawed off and put together in an inverse position.
@@igorjee no they didnt. In a previous fake yes but this one all the bones lined up perfectly.
Him saying that "your academic pedigree is irrelevant" was super inspiring for some reason.
It's amazing to watch Neil explaining the basics to people....I envy his gigantic patience! Go Go Neil!
We really need to educate humans.
@@rioriggs3568 at all cost! Education and make sure all have the basics assured. Then we can start thinking about thriving with full steam!
“Cause, that’s how science works!” - I LOVE how he says this phrase for everything he speaks on & explains ❤
I’m so deeply in love with the way Mr Tyson delivers his point of view ❤️
makes me want to vomit
Just a little bit of common sense goes a long way. This is why I enjoy listening to Neil.
He can explain things so that a layman can understand them.
I appreciate the release of commentary on old news. If there are any more videos on the floor, lets have them as well
I'm sorry Neil but predator was one of the most incredible makeup jobs in cinematic horror history
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"Some of the Nazca lines were airport runways for aliens"
That always cracks me up.
Thank you, sir!! You said exactly the words we needed to hear.
That was a great talk. I love when he said, dont bring aliens to a president but to the scientist community instead.
Very true on how science should be represented, but my question is what should aliens look like? I never seen one before, what makes you so sure to tell that alien should look different
I grew up in Mexico and Jaime Mausan (the Quack Alien Hunter that "found them") has been playing this type of things for his entire career.
He actually had a TV show doing that that has been snippets in "Ancient Aliens" show too .... A LOT!
Also the fact that the Mexican Govt allowed themselves to waste their time with that in congress just means (normally) that they are trying to distract the population and divert their attention from OTHER corrupt things they are doing...."frauds, kidnappings, killings" and stuff like that.
dont give in and listen to the scientists
Yes, DO listen to scientist.
I CONCUR!!! Nevertheless, David Grusch is a different story.
The fact that he is a "alien hunter" should increase his chances of finding aliens. My friend who hunts moose sees alot more moose than I do. but if he is a quack and a trickster its another story.
I'm very confused by your conclusion. The only way to finally resolve this is science. We have all the tools. The possible magnitude of the discovery at least warrants a serious analysis and debate, don't you think? Especially in light of the recent events (Nimitz incident, Grusch testimony, now senators speaking up and millions becoming aware of the issue, etc.), this topic underwent and is still undergoing such a drastic level of destigmatization that serious discussions are very important to find common ground.
“Every society has the government it deserves” Joseph de Maistre
I used to watch Carl Sagan with my Father in 70s. The COSMOS. I can see why he had taken in Mr Tyson. Dude is brilliant. So was Sagan.❤
The thing is... I don't think we could really recognize real aliens anyway because we seem to be looking for life as we know it.
The assumption that “alien life looks humanoid is ignorant” is just as ignorant
@@scotmcpherson So both is ignorant as you used the word "as". May you suggest a better idea?
I would say, it stands to reason, that life developing in somewhat similiar conditions as earth - oxygene / nitrogene atmosphere, pressure, gravity, radiation - might develop in a similiar pattern.
And I use similiar in a very loose fashion.
There is a few things that developed multiple times here on Earth - eyes are a good example - we have fish-eyes, which went through a lot of ancestors including us humans, we have insect eyes, which do basically the same thing, but prette differently. Lungs - or rather means of metabolising oxygene and so on and so forth.
I think, if there's radiation in a specific spectrum on that world, they would develop light-sensitive organs to discern their surroundings. Also if we talk about civilisation, then there need to be means to manipulate the surroundings - arms or other appendages. Is it two? Maybe. Is it ten? Why not. How many fingers would they have (Also a thing they need - the ability to finely manipulate delicate stufff...)
So you would pretty much have something with eyes in some form and appendages. Likely some form of verbal communication as well. Maybe it wouldn't look humanoid - there's no immediate reason why a form of great ape and not... say some lizard, bird, gas filled membrane or whatever would have made the race to the top.
But you maybe will recognise them as intelligent civilised beings.
I think we're gonna come back similar to the fermi paradox thing. That stated either life is exclusive to Earth (so rare), or life isn't so rare but the universe itself is just so vast that each presence is very scarce. Following logic number 2, even if there's another kind of living being, they almost certainly won't look humanoid. They must have entirely different variables that classified their existence, in physical form and in everything else. However like what guy before me has said, we will probably still be able to identify that they're an intelligent species, because we are also one with the capacity to do so. No matter how absurd they might look like.
That's not even what I meant. I'm talking about life that is possibly different altogether than how we know it and I don't know how I would even describe it because I can't even imagine it.
I would love to sit with Neil and listen to him talk all day
Yep. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Thank you for your scientific rigor.
I agree with all the points about testing... but again, who can tell what an actual alien should look like?
Other hospitable planets most likely have the same makeup as here on earth in order to sustain life. I don't think that it is completely outlandish to imagine aliens from another planet adapting and evolving in to something that would resemble a likeliness to humans. Gravity and oxygen levels could vairy and possibly there could be other elements but as a rule science looks for exoplanets that could possibly sustain right now.
@@BarryBollox. Also though, earth has the same makeup as earth; yet there are no other creatures which resemble humans quite like humans. These lil guys look closer to humans than any other animal on planet earth.
Apes/monkeys? Should we just assume aliens would be nothing like hominoids and expect them to be blobs or like something from a Ridley Scott movie? Its all fantasy until there is any proof anyway. I would imagine an advanced civilisation to use drones for investigation of other planets if I am allowed to imagine.
Beautifully put. Just one correction- intelligent aliens might look more similar to us than a banana is different from us. This is due to convergence evolution- similar tasks and purposes lead to similar evolutionary solutions. One of the best examples is how 8 times different creatures evolved into a crab-like creature.
lmao always love the try hards who think they have to correct people in videos
@@RandyPeterson17 now now... dont be naughty. hehe
Thats only applicable on earth. You have no idea what kind of tasks an alien would have😂
ok... so... that's partly true yes... But those combinations could only exist on earth within the "defined" parameters of earth. Extraterrestrial variables are incomprehensibly bigger... Different levels of oxygen, radiation, light, distance from host star... just to name a miniscule few. With this in mind, such convergent evolution would be statistically improbable. Taking also in to account that those "bodies" have mass which means they couldn't get here faster than the speed of light which narrows the possible galaxies even further...
If an alien WAS exoskeleton based, having multiples of appendages would definitely be a plus.
The question is, what would that alien think when it ran across a world dominated by a bunch of meat bags?
8:40: Oh I don't know about that one, as there's countless examples of convergent evolution, especially carcinisation -- where non-crab crustaceans evolve into crabs. And then there's spiders with claws that looks like crabs.
So aliens will most likely be crabs or crab-people.
Doctor Zoidberg would like a word.
I found this whole thing to be riotously funny from the start… no one really understood why I found it so funny, and I asked them: can you imagine if the royal family announced to the entire world that they found actual dragon bones and were immediately proven wrong? 😂
What’s interesting is that people in the past found dinosaurs bones and concluded they were dragon bones.
We laughed here, too. It sure didn't do anything to increase the Mexican government's credibility, that's for sure.
But he denies aliens 👽 lol so I woulda done the same n called him to come check them out since he's in denial
@@raulmachado182 I’m pretty sure Neil doesn’t deny that aliens exist, just that they haven’t visited earth in a real capacity.
@@The.Nasty.He said he doesn't believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life
Hi Neil, I'm glad you dedicated an entire video to emphasise these points. 👍
i agree
As always. This video was a breath of fresh air. Listening to someone that makes sense ❤
He’s wrong about a lot of things. All mummified bodies still have their noses intact. Also why do aliens have to look so different? Every planet has the same elements.
@rickybrown7687 also, why use my comment. If you disagree. You disagree and f@$% off. You just annoy people trying to debate no one
@@rickybrown7687 of course he's wrong. He's a buffoon lol He's for ages 5 to 9.
Right
I assumed the guy was drunk, full of himself..
4:11 sounds like a real meritocracy based on actual results hard work and success. Bravo
Good one! I always enjoy Mr. Tyson’s point on point discussion and scientific rants!
To my knowledge they invited other laboratories to conduct experiments on the bodies. It was said in the hearing. They welcomed other laboratories.
This is true, and had a second convention with more bodies and tests and scientists that came with to discount people like Mr Tyson here from just discounting them as fake. Also the hoax claim from 2017 was debunked as yet another group that had decided not to actually test them, decided instead to just not do it and claim they were fake.
But the /only/ institution they took them to was a local university that had just lost its certification....
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@@mjjsjd1786 ...by a guy who said he was a scientist but is actually a known--and un-degreed--conspiracy theorist and crank.
I'll give you an example of why what you're saying doesn't matter...
I'm leaving this comment to get your reaction... See we can all say things we don't mean.
This is great. Logically and factually put.
9:54 - Totally agreed. Aliens can have infinite possibility of shapes and forms that can be totally opposed to what we find on this planet (Earth). Yet popular media cannot let hold of the concept of the golden ratio when designing concept art for aliens.
Then why are most animals on earth have 2 eyes 🤦♀️. I’m sure any other planet, would be a lot like ours.
I strongly suspect that evolution will converge based on most effecient form.
@@hunterpatrick5210 Even more than that. Most of them have a face and a head. Dont forget that live after being wiped out(dinosaurs) it started again and evolved again but the bone structure and the had pretty much remaind the same. So maybe it's in the DNA.