Arthur C. Clarke on Why Aliens Would Be Superior To Humans | The Dick Cavett Show

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  • @fazbell
    @fazbell 2 роки тому +23

    Dick Cavett is one of the finest interviewers of the past sixty years. You need that caliber of interviewer to talk with
    guests like Clarke.

  • @HistoryTime
    @HistoryTime 3 роки тому +142

    Amazing. Arthur C is one of the greatest Englishmen to ever live. One of my heroes and my favourite science fiction author

    • @VoidHalo
      @VoidHalo 3 роки тому +3

      Scratch Englishman. He's the greatest man to ever live. And I wouldn't say he's my favourite sci-fi author, there are so many good ones that I just can't pick one. But I'd have to say my top 3 would be Philip K Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and of course, Douglas Adams. Asimov would probably be on that list, too. But I'm sorry to say I've not read any of his books yet. I've been gravitating more towards non-fiction science over the last decade.. Which is to say, textbooks and papers from peer reviewed journals on various scientific subjects like math, medicine, electronics, computer science and stuff of that nature. It's very difficult for me to read for more than 10-15 minutes at a time thanks to having particularly bad ADHD, so when I do read, I feel it's wasteful if I'm not learning something of practical use from it.
      Only problem is, because of the ADHD, every time I read, I come up with 15 or 20 more subjects that I want to read about. I can try keeping a list, but it eventually becomes so unwieldy that it's impossible to follow through with anything on it. I mean, at present I have 85 tabs open in the browser on my phone and on my computer, over 300 tabs saved using a session manager extension. Bookmarks are just out of the question. I don't even want to guess at how many bookmarks I have. But they've become so numerous that it's just not practical to use them anymore.

    • @junaidqasim1
      @junaidqasim1 3 роки тому +1

      Arthur Clarke mind blowing Genius . AMAZING

    • @watchmanschannelofdespair
      @watchmanschannelofdespair 3 роки тому +1

      One of the best, no doubt, in the top three along with *Robert A. Heinlein,* and Issac Asimov.

    • @VoidHalo
      @VoidHalo 3 роки тому +2

      @@watchmanschannelofdespair I actually hadn't considered Heinlein. Any recommendations of his to start with?

    • @astrobullivant5908
      @astrobullivant5908 3 роки тому +1

      Greatest Science Fiction writer of all time

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 2 роки тому +32

    I watched this 50 years ago as a 13-year-old. Clarke went on to describe the upcoming Apollo 17 launch, which would be the first one at night. It enchanted me and I counted the days until December. The Cavett show was my reason living back then. Never missed it.

  • @robertrowan9893
    @robertrowan9893 3 роки тому +47

    Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World was a series that left an indelible mark on my youth. The theme music alone was anthemic, then couple it with the crystal skull that brought the programme's intro to its conclusion. Both frightening and awe inspiring in equal measure.

    • @BigPoppieSeed
      @BigPoppieSeed 3 роки тому +1

      You have been decieved.

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 3 роки тому +6

      I remember that series. I had the book which accompanied it. You've just reminded me of the mysterious crystal skull.

    • @LScouser8
      @LScouser8 3 роки тому +9

      Yes, the two first series. Amazing stuff. Terrified us as children but lasted with us. One of the greatest television series’ ever. Utter masterpiece.

    • @mikemiller9835
      @mikemiller9835 2 роки тому

      BS

    • @kaymuldoon3575
      @kaymuldoon3575 Рік тому

      I used to watch that series. I really enjoyed it.

  • @OTOss8
    @OTOss8 3 роки тому +71

    This is one of the very best channels on UA-cam. What a treasure trove of content. God I wish there was a way to get access to the full range of interviews. I wish Dick was still interviewing people, his style stands head and shoulders above his peers.

  • @JakeMabe1
    @JakeMabe1 3 роки тому +199

    My god. Imagine anything this intelligent on late night today.

    • @thehotyounggrandpas8207
      @thehotyounggrandpas8207 3 роки тому +10

      I tried but couldn't!

    • @Geraint3000
      @Geraint3000 3 роки тому +11

      All chat shows are these days are actors promoting their latest films, and the interviewers have to sign contracts so they avoid any awkward areas of the interviewee's life.

    • @johnmarshall4442
      @johnmarshall4442 3 роки тому +9

      Today's society is to dumb'd down.

    • @ivanmatic618
      @ivanmatic618 3 роки тому +5

      carpool karaoke with chubby unfunny dufus isn't intelligent you say?

    • @ivanmatic618
      @ivanmatic618 3 роки тому

      @Just Saying James Corden is pretty wild and animalistic, he's very edgy

  • @BladeRunner-td8be
    @BladeRunner-td8be 3 роки тому +14

    Arthur C. Clark is unique in that he is one of the few humans to exist that understood a multitudinous assortment of things on an ultra-deep level. Listening to him was and still is a valuable educational experience. Cheers

  • @descendantoffools9767
    @descendantoffools9767 3 роки тому +15

    Bob Newhart had a comedy bit about a guy abducted by aliens and taken to their planet and then returned to earth.
    "Sir would you say these aliens are more advanced than we are"?
    "Yes, they are definitely more advanced"
    "How far ahead of us are they"?
    "Two, maybe three weeks."

  • @Engineer_Who
    @Engineer_Who 3 роки тому +155

    "There was just one flat-earther, but I think he died of a broken heart."
    The '70s were such an innocent, relatively sane time.

    • @LiradeTerpsichore
      @LiradeTerpsichore 3 роки тому +1

      ?????😧🤷‍♀️

    • @mowazalvi8531
      @mowazalvi8531 3 роки тому +17

      vietnam had a lasting impact, watergate, the war on drugs, the rise of several epidemics in the US. Sir, there has never been an innocent, sane time in the US.

    • @FLATSWISS
      @FLATSWISS 3 роки тому

      History will have some major revisions in the near future... optics are exposing mistakes and more likely lies... with an open mind and true heart ask yourself were the 69-72 moon landings real or fake?
      Truth is Paramount... Peace

    • @mrcoiganable2988
      @mrcoiganable2988 3 роки тому +3

      @@mowazalvi8531 oh give over fs, u may aswell say the world is bad so lets just end it. Theres evil everywhere, wtf is ur point

    • @brachiator1
      @brachiator1 3 роки тому +9

      @@FLATSWISS Truth is that the moon landings were real. No question about it.

  • @warhorse2034
    @warhorse2034 3 роки тому +14

    Clarke is a legend. His TV series in the 70s and 80s was amazing.

    • @ellie-tk4jy
      @ellie-tk4jy 2 роки тому +1

      What series?

    • @warhorse2034
      @warhorse2034 2 роки тому +2

      @@ellie-tk4jy Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World. It’s on dvd.

  • @egverlander
    @egverlander 3 роки тому +12

    It was my honor and privilege to have met Sir Arthur in 1971 at Central Connecticut State University.

  • @Hard-Boiled-Bollock
    @Hard-Boiled-Bollock 3 роки тому +34

    Arthur C. Clarke was from Somerset, one of the few parts of southern England to retain the accent most people in southern England had round about the time of 18th century. I think his accent is much closer to that of the original colonists than a modern 'standard' southern English accent

    • @billbogg3857
      @billbogg3857 3 роки тому +2

      I was thinking that I had never heard his accent anywhere else. .It appears to be a perfect cross between an English and American accent which means your explanation makes perfect sense.

    • @sticky59
      @sticky59 3 роки тому +1

      He loved the younger man ....if you catch my drift.

    • @jeff__w
      @jeff__w 3 роки тому +2

      That’s a fascinating comment. Clarke’s accent sounded, to me, a lot more “North American” than English. If his accent is, in fact, much closer to that of the original colonists, that would go some way to explaining why North American accents are what they are today.

    • @josephyearwood1179
      @josephyearwood1179 3 роки тому

      @@sticky59
      Cavett looks the size of a ‘younger man called “Dick”.
      Also seems to have markworthy ‘tongue action’ …0:33

    • @powerbite92
      @powerbite92 2 роки тому

      @@sticky59 watch Steven Spielbergs Amblin' .. his debut film, for more on this reference.

  • @solcutta3661
    @solcutta3661 3 роки тому +3

    Arthur c Clarke... Visionary author and inventer of the communication satelite (as it said on his awesome series)...
    We wouldn't be here right now watching and commenting on this is without this man.

  • @johnbyrne2127
    @johnbyrne2127 3 роки тому +23

    I love this channel. What an amazing man Sir Arthur was writer, inventor and undersea explorer. He had a vast imagination and mind to match.

  • @castorphans
    @castorphans 3 роки тому +17

    We won't have interviews like this in our time. When serious meant "interesting", not "boring" entertainment;

  • @louduva9849
    @louduva9849 3 роки тому +26

    Love that West Country accent!

    • @silverkitty2503
      @silverkitty2503 3 роки тому +4

      its lovely

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 3 роки тому

      The Robert Newton ("Long John Silver") of Science Fiction.

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 3 роки тому

      @@silverkitty2503 1:45 "alTERRRnate endings" ARRRR!!! Aye, me mateys, close the innERRRRR aiRRRRRlock dooRRRR."

  • @jamesdrynan
    @jamesdrynan Рік тому +3

    A brilliant and innovative writer.

  • @SamMcDonald83
    @SamMcDonald83 3 роки тому +23

    Wow, back when Pluto was still a planet and there was just one flat earther…

  • @deecee784
    @deecee784 3 роки тому +10

    There was a few Flat-Earthers in Canada. One of them was a professor in Ontario. I watched an interview on him and he said that most of the members of the Flat Earth Society (real thing) joined it pretty much as a gag ---- and that part of admission was writing out an essay to prove our planet's flat. He said that so many of the society members has made pretty convincing arguments --- if you ignored some facts. He said most members did it on a lark.

    • @richardburnett-_
      @richardburnett-_ 3 роки тому +1

      Can't believe how much we've devolved since then.

    • @stardolphin2
      @stardolphin2 3 роки тому +1

      Until a few years ago, I didn't think they took themselves seriously, either...

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому

      The proud boast of the Flat Earth Society is “we have members all around the world!”

  • @gregorysagegreene
    @gregorysagegreene Рік тому +2

    The first science fiction novel I ever read was
    'A Fall of Moondust'.

  • @wizkidsvideos
    @wizkidsvideos 3 роки тому +1

    Wonderful interview. Please post the entire interview.

  • @johnaspinall5457
    @johnaspinall5457 3 роки тому +13

    Can you please upload interview clips of the late, great Robert Shaw. He was such an interesting and engaging guest appearing on the show at least 5 times.
    E.g:
    Woody Allen/Robert Shaw/Beverly Sills/Jacqueline Wexler (29 Dec. 1969)

  • @phillipecook3227
    @phillipecook3227 3 роки тому +15

    Man he never lost his Somerset accent.

  • @lotusalivelight24
    @lotusalivelight24 3 роки тому +2

    “...HARD TO IMAGINE THE REVERSE !”. LOL. He is SO ASTUTE. 💜. You could spend at least a year, reading all that Sir Clarke ever wrote... i’ve never had the chance to do that, but i would !

  • @jorgeespinosa3179
    @jorgeespinosa3179 3 роки тому +2

    Charles Kettering was quoted to saying he lived in the future. Clarke explored it prolifically; imagined it, invented it, predicted it, and, most amazingly, most of it came to be.

  • @tomzeeh6618
    @tomzeeh6618 3 роки тому +1

    I have no idea what Mr. Clarke is talking about, but I love it.

  • @VCYT
    @VCYT 3 роки тому +9

    '' My mind is going. I can feel it '' -- HAL, circa 2001

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly 3 роки тому +4

    "Only a few extreme fundamentalists will be upset..." This interview was in 1972. Clarke called it fifty years ago.

  • @tjmusa
    @tjmusa Рік тому +1

    we only had 4 t.v. channels back then and we watched dick cavett. clarke was a great brain. as kids he layed the path for the future. thanks for posting.

  • @Petra44YT
    @Petra44YT 2 роки тому

    What a great video! ... I mean, I was no fan of 2001, but then, that was the Science Fiction of the 1960s, and he's still a very smart man.

  • @penduloustesticularis1202
    @penduloustesticularis1202 Рік тому +2

    What a wonderful human being.

  • @CASoxFan12
    @CASoxFan12 3 роки тому +7

    Same man who predicted the tech in 2000 in 1964...genius!

    • @reinforcedpenisstem
      @reinforcedpenisstem 2 роки тому

      Wrote a paper in 1947 that came true too (com. satellites).

  • @adrianbrowne7962
    @adrianbrowne7962 3 роки тому +3

    A true Visionary with an " Unquestionably " Giant intellect whose theories did see the " light of Day " !! And we have certainly benefited as a result, may Arthur C Clarke continue 2 RIP !! From Adrian Browne @1965.Com

  • @jan_phd
    @jan_phd 3 роки тому +1

    A very likable guy, Arthur C. Clarke.

  • @martytdd1606
    @martytdd1606 7 днів тому

    Floyd Patterson was mentioned as one of the other guests, he bought property in Buncranna Ireland around this time. There's an excellent interview on you tube of him out for a run on the beach talking with RTE. 👌

  • @cratecruncher6687
    @cratecruncher6687 3 роки тому +5

    Even 60 years on Clarke's novels still engage me where Asimov, Bradbury, and Heinlein just seem sophomoric. Philip K Dick holds up as a great story teller but Clarke engages my brain!

  • @adamhg7040
    @adamhg7040 Рік тому

    I live how the host sounds like he has not come fully prepared haha
    But seriously amazing stuff

  • @sabercruiser.7053
    @sabercruiser.7053 3 роки тому

    what a great footage this is

  • @Pulsonar
    @Pulsonar Рік тому +1

    Arthur would be enormously excited by what AI could do today. That Blink comparator task he mentioned would only be a few seconds work, rather than a huge mind numbing exercise that eats up the life of a scientist.

  • @reason827
    @reason827 3 роки тому +4

    He was a rational man. He wrote about space travel, computers and contact with extraterrestrial life.

  • @Gannooch
    @Gannooch 3 роки тому

    Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades network.

  • @garyproffitt5941
    @garyproffitt5941 2 роки тому +1

    2001 the Space Odyssey including Leonard Rossiter with cubic state of the🏛 Gods🏛
    Rest in Heaven Arthur C. Clarke.

  • @DrCrabfingers
    @DrCrabfingers 3 роки тому +5

    Minehead...in Somerset produced that very clever man. Not every West Country man is a red faced cider drinker with baling twine for a belt. But most are I'll grant you...say's he sitting here drinking a tankard of cider adjusting his baling twine...

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 3 роки тому +1

      I have been to Somerset (from Kentucky). It is beautiful. Give my love to Wookey Hole Caves.

  • @junaidqasim1
    @junaidqasim1 3 роки тому +3

    He was a special gift from God.
    Mind blowing Genius

    • @tacticalix
      @tacticalix 3 роки тому +2

      Which 'god'?

    • @goawaytours
      @goawaytours 3 роки тому +1

      He was a gift of science

    • @Ephilly-rz2pb
      @Ephilly-rz2pb 3 роки тому

      @@tacticalix one that u apparently don’t know…I know u don’t believe and blah , blah but can u say or can anyone involved with science prove “god” doesn’t exist?!?! If so, I’d love to hear your undeniable proof!

    • @JustJessee
      @JustJessee Рік тому

      @@Ephilly-rz2pb prove to me Odin doesn't exist. Heck, can you provide us "undeniable proof" that your preferred god exists? We'll keep waiting.

    • @Ephilly-rz2pb
      @Ephilly-rz2pb Рік тому

      @@JustJessee you texting back in this chat proves he exist! U just don’t realize it yet. One day, u will know him G. Have a blessed weekend

  • @guacamoleg
    @guacamoleg 3 роки тому

    How about that introduction music?

  • @phrtao
    @phrtao 3 роки тому +1

    Fascinating. The idea of alien life being different from us is always assumed but it could be just like us but slightly more evolved. I think that is what Charles Darwin was getting at in his book the "On The Origins of the Species" - that all evolution of life is evolving towards a single species and we are a step on that path (maybe not the final destination ?)

    • @lapislazuli7876
      @lapislazuli7876 7 місяців тому

      Except we know now via the experiencers over the decades that they are millions. If not billions of years ahead of us. That hypothesis of Clarke and others is just wrong. All the abduction literature tells us otherwise. Sorry to have to break to news to you by that way. If you’ve been keeping up with the Grusch and congress hearings after the tic tac debacle you will also know that to be true. “They” / whoever they are , are light years and so far ahead you wouldn’t even be able to recognise them except anything but pulsating light.

  • @Bootrosgali
    @Bootrosgali 3 роки тому +1

    Perpetual motion machines get to look like they'll go on and on but they lose energy little by little due to friction

  • @jamesalanstephensmith7930
    @jamesalanstephensmith7930 3 роки тому

    Where is Clarke from?

  • @Gannooch
    @Gannooch 3 роки тому +1

    have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rare much like the other ones.

  • @bikingchad
    @bikingchad 9 днів тому

    7:00 he acknowledge a possible 0 point energy

  • @tiroa3267
    @tiroa3267 3 роки тому +8

    I don't know if it's sad or reassuring that there were flat-earthers even back then!

    • @richardburnett-_
      @richardburnett-_ 3 роки тому +5

      Funny then, sad now.

    • @VCanisMajorisY
      @VCanisMajorisY 3 роки тому

      @@richardburnett-_ It depends, I like the debates that stem from questions put forward by the flat Earther community.

  • @fullerexplanations7872
    @fullerexplanations7872 2 роки тому

    volume is so low

  • @Amal757
    @Amal757 3 роки тому +4

    Did he get to observe modern computers and the internet?

    • @franmellor9843
      @franmellor9843 3 роки тому +3

      YES he did he predicted the internet too

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 2 роки тому +3

      Right up to 2008.

    • @lapislazuli7876
      @lapislazuli7876 7 місяців тому

      @@spikespa5208so what did he have to say about the internet and other tech like mobile phones?

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 7 місяців тому

      Never heard, myself. He's been kinda quiet last decade and a half.

  • @davelazenby77255
    @davelazenby77255 3 роки тому +3

    entertainment really has regressed

  • @markmarsh27
    @markmarsh27 3 роки тому +3

    50 years ago Arthur C. Clarke predicted EVERYTHING that exists now but didn't exist back then. ... and he NEVER made a mistake or miscalculation ... not even ONE.

  • @shamiemcguire1588
    @shamiemcguire1588 3 роки тому +3

    Absolutely adored the man. A real Genius!. Elon Musk got lucky???

  • @madbadger85
    @madbadger85 2 роки тому +1

    I agree, they would! Because no intelligent alien would ever come to earth!!! They’ed either get shot, eaten or corrupted by us, they would get a million miles from earth, see us killing each other for no good reason and say , ‘let’s give this one a miss’

  • @joselucca2728
    @joselucca2728 3 роки тому

    5:20 Since then, flat Earth has made come back. That dead fellow had relatives and friends that kept things alive.

  • @johnschaefer2238
    @johnschaefer2238 2 місяці тому +1

    We had Clarke and now we have DeGrasse Tyson. Like both but I’ll still stick with Arthur.

  • @dr.calebrobbins.3177
    @dr.calebrobbins.3177 2 роки тому

    Imagine , indeed !

  • @ModMokkaMatti
    @ModMokkaMatti 3 роки тому +2

    Star Child looks down and weeps.

    • @tacticalix
      @tacticalix 3 роки тому

      The only 'Star Child' I know of is George Clinton.

  • @blindazabat9527
    @blindazabat9527 2 роки тому

    Examining 50 million pairs of star pictures. That's 1.5 year non-stop if you look at each pair for 1 second. I think Mr Clarke is exaggerating slightly... :P

  • @Pedro8k
    @Pedro8k 3 роки тому +1

    It is pretty obvious if they made it here from wherever they came from they would be far more advanced in terms of technology

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 2 роки тому

      And, if having been in existence a lot longer than us, somehow solved the issue of self destruction.

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay 2 роки тому

    Even the great predictors of the past , like Jules Verne and H.G.Wells made ludicrous predictions. I bought a very interresting book about past predictions, from the 18th 19th centuries, mostly. BUT, Well's predicted, in 1911, that all future Wars, would be fought from Hot Air Balloons.
    Forgetting that the heavier than air Aircraft of the Wright Brother's , had flown 8 yrs before, AND, Frenchman Louis Bleriot had flown the English Channel, only 2 years before; I find his prediction incredible. I think he was in ore of the massive Zeppelins flying longish distances then. Of course, within 3 years, WW1 had begun, and maybe he changed his mind, especially as Huge German Bomber's had Bombed London by then.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому

      But hot air still is the most crucial technology in warfare. Hot air like “there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” and “North Vietnam blatantly attacked us in the Gulf of Tonkin.”

  • @samslick9000
    @samslick9000 3 роки тому

    What happened to this mystery planet?

  • @assi47
    @assi47 3 роки тому

    The gravitational findings have proven to be an error: the used telescope was rotated by gears. The moving of the gears caused a small vibration, which éxactly was the gravitational error. Sorry guys: no planet X.

  • @wurzelausc
    @wurzelausc 3 роки тому

    How come he s got an American "r"? I almost mistook him for an American in thre beginning.

    • @lukestephenson2704
      @lukestephenson2704 Рік тому +2

      He’s from the south west peninsula of England, what we call ‘the west country’. It’s the norm (or at least was). It’s where a lot of the early American colonial accents originated.

    • @lapislazuli7876
      @lapislazuli7876 7 місяців тому

      @@lukestephenson2704a rather peculiar accent. Half the English/half american by today’s standards.

  • @Photoshotgun
    @Photoshotgun 3 роки тому

    Science fact ☝️

  • @caterinadelgalles8783
    @caterinadelgalles8783 3 роки тому +1

    West Country accent comes through there, despite his fake posh one!

    • @lapislazuli7876
      @lapislazuli7876 7 місяців тому

      He sounds half america and half English. It’s a very strange accent but it’s pleasant.

    • @redmatters9318
      @redmatters9318 10 днів тому

      Your slip is showing. He speaks well. Jealous heart, eh ?

  • @chezzachezza7325
    @chezzachezza7325 3 роки тому +1

    2021

  • @dylantaylor9375
    @dylantaylor9375 3 роки тому +1

    He is alluding to Planet 9.

  • @catheadmoon
    @catheadmoon 3 роки тому

    Well if they're we're any it's because they would be smart enough to stay away from us, basically, which of course would only make it easier for us to detect them. Pretty sure...

  • @DavidRLentz
    @DavidRLentz 2 роки тому

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • @solcutta3661
    @solcutta3661 3 роки тому +1

    Could have watched hours of this.. Too damn short

  • @bdogthegreat1
    @bdogthegreat1 2 роки тому

    Why tho? Alien life would have started evolving at the same time. I don’t understand why there would be an assumption that alien life would advance faster.

    • @kiq654
      @kiq654 Рік тому

      Well universe is not that much older than solar system but consider how fast humans evolved and how genetically similar we are to simpler life forms. Difference of one year can be sequence evolved to comprehend nature of stars. Difference of billions of years wont necessarily make us interior design objects for superior specie, but they wouldnt understand how evolution made us so imbecile we barely speak in vocals.

  • @tacticalix
    @tacticalix 3 роки тому

    Not ALL 'people' have been here for a long time. And I'm NOT talking about EBEs.

    • @UnderSprayedWhiteSkies
      @UnderSprayedWhiteSkies 3 роки тому

      (EBEs?) Are you referring to the ruling clan responsible for gargantuan lies like the official 8+1 slash 10+1 story, Charlie Victor 20-1 scam "public health sisirc", as well as heavy sky spraying w/murky white chemicals?

  • @tacticalix
    @tacticalix 3 роки тому

    Nibiru

  • @proveritate9312
    @proveritate9312 2 місяці тому

    Astrophysicists estimate that there's 200 billion trillion stars in the universe. Some guess 2trillion to 5 trillion galaxies in our COSMOS ! Mankind is still in its infancy re what is out there, and what life do exist on planets in the goldilocks zone that rorate around their sun. There will be millions of habitable planets in our cosmos. On some, life will be developed beyond our comprehension .

  • @keithbickerdike4621
    @keithbickerdike4621 3 роки тому

    Its all about time distance and coincidence...

  • @stephenpaxman6180
    @stephenpaxman6180 Рік тому +1

    as if no one would know aliens would be more superior than us DUH !!!!

  • @richardchingas5997
    @richardchingas5997 Рік тому +1

    Flat earthers still exist today

  • @jonb4020
    @jonb4020 3 роки тому +1

    Clarke was an excellent writer, a highly intelligent and fascinating man and, it seems, a really pleasant and friendly character. Unfortunately he had a blind spot in that he thought science could explain more than it can and failed to give due weight to other philosophy. The fact that there are so many billions of planets most certainly does not logically mean that there is life, let alone more intelligent life, on any of them. The laws of probability are scientific in one sense but by their very nature cannot be conclusive.

    • @robert8884
      @robert8884 3 роки тому

      But if there are billions or for all we know infinite planets and or even galaxies, doesn't it then follow that there are billions and or infinite possibilities?

    • @jonb4020
      @jonb4020 3 роки тому

      @@robert8884 Yep. Agreed. I'm not arguing against possibilities. I'm arguing against using probabilities to underpin theories that they cannot possibly validate.

    • @lapislazuli7876
      @lapislazuli7876 7 місяців тому

      @@jonb4020you’re wrong either way. We know from so many credible eyewitnesses, experiencers and even investigative journalists that non human intelligence has been interacting with planet earth for a VERY long time. Your scientific allusions sound quaint. You need to follow the whistleblowers and exploitive commentators. You’re simply wrong.

  • @bargainwallart653
    @bargainwallart653 2 роки тому

    PDFile same as Pieter Overmeire Anglican Church

  • @roberthrodebert9263
    @roberthrodebert9263 3 роки тому +2

    5:10 They tried to take over America back in January. (2021, if this comment survives).

  • @Scalihoo
    @Scalihoo 3 роки тому +4

    It's been revised humans have been on earth between 5 & 7 million years

  • @pauls.6360
    @pauls.6360 3 роки тому

    "Magic" is just science beyond our capability to understand. Hence the baggy-armed woman who seems unnaturally present at the beginning of this vid. Who is she?

  • @FredPlanatia
    @FredPlanatia 3 роки тому +2

    Cavett was a bit too self deprecating here. Just let the man talk though, its Arthur C. Clarke! And flat-earther's even get a mention, who'd have thought they've been around that long.

    • @josephyearwood1179
      @josephyearwood1179 3 роки тому

      From about 0:33 your man (or the reptilian in him) whips out two inhuman tongue flicks!

  • @JustJessee
    @JustJessee Рік тому +1

    'why can't you just look in the telescope and see it [an undiscovered planet]?'..... 😒

  • @uprebel5150
    @uprebel5150 3 роки тому +1

    Imagine that. More "Flat Earthers" now than back then. Where's the ice wall? On the internet..!!!

  • @krm398
    @krm398 3 роки тому

    that was so old that the ideas there are either totally redone by now or dead. just because someone 20 years ago said something doesn't mean its any more true than people today.

  • @2Snails1Shell
    @2Snails1Shell 3 роки тому

    #YAY 🦆💨🤢

  • @firouz256
    @firouz256 Рік тому

    His entrance music was waaaay too dramatic!
    Jus' sayin'

  • @jeffwelshJedidivemaster
    @jeffwelshJedidivemaster 6 місяців тому

    I know a faster way of doing the blink comparotor

  • @vgfxworks
    @vgfxworks 3 роки тому

    flat earthers, perpetual motion machines, it's all around, on youtube, still ..

  • @daleboxsell2805
    @daleboxsell2805 3 роки тому

    I guess the crazy alien theory is nothing new.

  • @AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada
    @AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada 2 роки тому

    Is this the Matrix pill?

  • @alexdarby9392
    @alexdarby9392 Рік тому

    Fusion energy

  • @20alphabet
    @20alphabet 3 роки тому

    Baloney! Greasers will never be superior to humans!

  • @tbc210
    @tbc210 3 роки тому +1

    Geez, Cavett can’t really keep up at all.

  • @meestermeesterhastings.3159
    @meestermeesterhastings.3159 3 роки тому

    The earth is flat....