Another possibility is that of all the lifeforms that FTL travel we are the first that will ever develop the ability to do it. There has to be a first. Maybe that's our #PersonalLegoBrickOfReality. That could be why we've always had ideas of gods and angels, aliens and beings from other planes of existence. Perhaps that's why we obsess about it. We've been to the moon. We're planning to go to Mars. Our fiction is full of heroes and good guys that fly around creation and imagination treating others better (or at leas more humorously...ok, at least more interestingly) than the Bad Guys (or less interesting guys). Maybe this obsession #otherWorldyTravellingAndEttiquette serves the purpose that when we are actually the ones who make First Contact, we'll do so awesomely. We'll only JimKirk the ones that actually understand what it is, are qualified for, and want a #GoodWilliamShatnering
I really enjoy the Good Stuff mainly because I can see how much you guys are invested in each series. It makes it much more engaging and I feel like it helps ensure you guys do a real "deep dive" into each topic, versus just a cursory glance into each subject in order to be commercially attractive. I actually learn things! And that's what keeps me coming back. :)
Thanks GoodStuff team for introducing us to Dr. Johnson. It's so awesome to learn from someone so knowledgeable about this subject, you guys always find not only smart people, but relatable people too. and thanks also for the Benson's holiday hideaway guy, that's a thing that exists, apparently, lol.
Love u wheezy but I'm sick of the fermi paridox it has more hole than swiss cheese maybe we can't see them because we don't have the tech maybe they are so far even light can't make it maybe the don't want us to destroy there world like we did ours maybe we haven't been around long enough maybe a bunch of other stuff.
Vollrohrzucker it would be scary if we found other life and it would be scary if we were alone (theres a quote i cant remember that is something like this)
FreakingThomas7 Thanks! We were really happy how the video turned out with the two different routes. Something we will probably do again in the future.
Man, this playlist is fascinating, and it may be my favorite yet! I love learning about these kind of concepts! (Though not many other 13 year olds do)
Don't_subscribe_plz Hey glad you like it! Learning can and should be a lifelong pursuit and it's never too early or too late to get started. If you're into science or space or just curious about the world, you should check out the rest of the PBS Digital Studios shows (if you haven't already). Lots of interesting and illuminating stuff there. Cheers!
'Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.'-Calvin from Clavin and Hobbes
The good stuff crew goes UFO hunting! I quite love everything you guys do in this show. This particular playlist has been very interesting, but also moving. You guys ask the philosophical questions and not just the scientific ones and I feel like I've gained a better understanding of how I see the world, after every episode. This really is the good stuff.
I've always looked up at the stars and thought, "There must be life out there". Considering the one hundred billion galaxies and the billions of stars in each galaxy, the chances of intelligent alien life existing somewhere are pretty good. I was thinking about The Drake Equation without having learned about it until now.
There's just no way we are the only life in such a massive, massive universe. Doesn't mean we have contacted them or they came to earth, but thinking they aren't out there somewhere seems pretty small minded.
George Washington Bacon Bros Nation: 100 years? Closer to more than 200 years? 1976 was our bicentennial! wait--Ostebrix had it right -- before me. Good going!
Really cool seeing Matt on his own for a bit on the show. I think it's highly likely that there's other life out there. I also think it's highly likely they have never been to Earth and that they won't find any evidence of life during my lifetime.
PogieJoe With so many variables we think one of the most exciting things is that while it's very unlikely we'll be contacted in our lifetime there's still the very very very remote possibility it could happen!
I recently read a book called "Rare Earth," which attempted to explain, well, just how rare earth is. They looked at the drake equation, but then looked at earth's history, and the myriad disparate factors that went into our evolution, from extinction events to plate tectonics, and came up with an equation much longer than drake's. They supposed that microbial life is pretty common in the universe, but advanced life is very, very rare.
First, consider the size of the known universe, well good luck cuz it's impossible for us to wrap our head around just the size of our galaxy, let alone the universe, now imagine 100 quadrillion intelligent civilizations spread evenly through out the universe. You could spend the next 10 million yrs searching for just one, and never find one. Unimaginably gigantic, would be a pathetically sad understatement.
3:27 I don't agree with that because if they came here that much ago, they must have knowledge of us now, and if they do, I think they would communicate or welcome us to space community.
From a Quranic perspective (I'm a Muslim) God says the following in 42:29: "And among His signs are the creation of the heavens and the earth, and all of the living creatures which He has caused to multiply throughout them, and He has the power to gather them (to him) whenever He wills."
Млечный путь, я так понимаю, это как раз таки плоскость галактики, т.е. плоскость орбиты солнца? Точнее линия среза этой плоскости. Я тоже об этом не читал, но так как я умею мыслить логически, то я догадался. Галактика ведь представляет из себя диск, а не шар как и солнечная система.
Я, кстати, раньше думал, что существует только одна галактика, та, в которой мы живём и когда смотрел фильм "Люди в чёрном", где они там искали какую-то другую галактику, думал, что это научная фантастика.
It's a question of probability. What do we know of that exists in uniquity? The likelihood that life has only happened in one place ever is astoundingly improbable. As for why they're not here, why would they be? Pretend we had the technology to safely travel even a fraction of how far we'd need to meet other life. Now think of the amount of resources it would take to accomplish that. It would be like saying "Well, I could go to the grocery store a mile away, but I choose to go halfway across the world to pick up a tomato." No.
I think one issue with the way people think about aliens is being to Earth-centric. We think we have an understanding of how aliens would develop and how to find them, but all of that understanding is based on us and living on Earth. If there was life out there (which I think there is), it's very possible that it isn't life as we necessarily understand it. Different planets, different galaxies, probably yield entirely different means of development of life than we understand
I feel it may be a bit "prejudge" to think that life outside of Earth would require water to spawn. Even on Earth there is life that uses arsenic instead of phosphorus in its DNA, plus extremophiles able to survive in conditions that would kill 90% of the rest of life on Earth. I think we should greatly expand what our definition of "life" is when researching exobiology. Please forgive my English.
The galaxy has bilions of stars,the univerce has bilions of galaxies,all this was there for 14 bilion years and will be for another trilion years or so.You still wonder where are all those aliens?
I live in Albuquerque, and some nights I look up and fix my eyes on one faint star, and one time I saw a swarm or ultra faint little "stars" zooming around the one star I fixed my eyes on! Like a space station on Star Trek or something. I'm sure they're out there and the government just isn't ready to reveal it to us yet
In the science and math I was fed up on during the educational process, it was a requirement that all questions and methodologies be tested in the forward and reverse paths logically. So asking if we are alone in the universe is the reciprocal of is the universe alone in us, and we have thoroughly established that one system of math-science pervades what is observable. Questions are answers and symmetry implies that we are a "topical" compound combination, example of one collection of math-physics in a potential infinity available. A holographic description is not really comprehensive.
my sighitng a few years back, over the course of a couple of weeks, I saw the same llight in the sky. Just hovering not moving, just getting brighter and dimmer, it was no bigger then a car. The second sighting I had was a few week later, but this time there was three of them two of them was moving around the one which was hovering. Then the two lights vanished in a blink of a eye, then the one hovering just faded out. And a couple of weeks later I saw the first light again. It also faded away. the light was just above some trees and a lake. I'm pretty sure the lights when they moving knew I was filming them. As they would not show up on my camera for some reason. Soon i started filming they vanished
In the huge vastness of space & all of the different universes & everywhere in between we don't even know about yet. If this is the only planet with life on it, if there's no life whatsoever anywhere else, then Existence itself if nothing more than 1 MASSIVE waste of . . . well, Space.
The odds of everything being fine tuned for advance life is so low that there not enough planets in the universe to make it possible! that drake equation was before we understood how many things have to be fine tuned to have life> and the more we learn the more things we find out have to be fine tuned make=ing the number grow and increase the odds that we are alone!!!
"erdähnliche Planeten potentiell selten sind. Es seien viele unwahrscheinliche Zufälle zusammengekommen, die Leben auf der Erde möglich machten." - это похоже на правду, возможно, что такие планеты как Земля и очень редки во Вселенной, но всё же не невозможны. Среди такого количества даже не звёзд, а галактик я думаю найдётся хотя бы одна. Конечно, нужно ещё и развитие интеллекта, вероятность существования развитой цивилизации ниже, чем такой планеты.
Heh, the life on the other planets... There is even no any planet we can observe in solar systems, except of our system, because they appear too small from that great distance.
did you do that because of that project that some scientists (and popular scientists) are doing right now? forgot what it was called... but there is a "trailer" with Seth MacFarlane...
What if, aliens exist, but due to the age of the universe, life only just now or recently developed sufficient intelligence to gain sentience... of these, we are among the first.
isnt the drake equation the one "calculated" with a bunch of professionals stuck in a room making up arbitrary numbers and parameters in the 50s or 60s? there's a documentary about it and the way the guy describes how they came up with the measurements is hilarious.
All these theories of life on other planets make an assumption that life is common and the obvious product of leaving stuff alone for long enough. But if life is exceptionally uncommon, if the likelihood of life developing ex nihilis is 1 in a billion billion billion billion, then we would be the only planet to have developed life in ten billion galaxies. That would make it highly improbable to find other lifeforms or for them to find us. It also assumes that other life forms have developed highly enough to leave their planet and star system and galaxy, and it also assumes that their culture would want to leave. Given how unique we increasingly seem to be we should perhaps treat life with a little more respect and worship the sanctity of every bug and leaf on our fragile planet.
Smart: the expert in this video mentions that the numbers used in the Drake equation are guesses...so would yours be. We simply don't know how likely it is or not. And if something is on the other side of the UNIVERSE, the chances of our ever encountering signs of it are pretty damn slim. As Arthur C. Clark wrote, the chances of there being other life and there NOT being other life are both equally frightening. Or something to that effect. Though I don't know why it would be frightening to think they may NOT be out there. I think Stephen Hawking is actually quite concerned that they may be carnivorous--of US. He has suggested we ought NOT to be sending out deep space probes lest they act as EAT HERE signs to hungry aliens. I think he has a point.
Haha, true! Although I would point out that my comment wasn't a guess but a counter argument to the seemingly common assumption that given the probable large number of inhabitable planets in the galaxy and the universe that there "must be" life on many of the others. I totally agree that the probability of life developing is a complete unknown, but it seems to me that many people start with what we know, that life developed here on earth, and extrapolate that it must therefore be a common outcome on life-supporting planets.
I knew Wisconsin was hiding something...makes me love Wisconsin even more
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Those poor hicks have been taking shots of fireflies! You would think they would know the difference. Unless they just take pictures at random without physically seeing anything, and "UFOs" just turn up on the film.
I think it's weird when the fellow says that they could have come two billion years ago. They who? Sir, do you mean that there is only one of them? A hivemind, or a singular spacefaring species? An imperium of intergalactic corporations of empires? Is it an allcaps, must be sung by a choir of angels type they of THEM? Or was it just a cutely human thing to say? Couldn't peoples from all over the place be developing interstellar travel, basically, all the time? Wouldn't it stop being okay to come for vacation at a certain point? Hmm... when did there stop being living prophets and hugely awesome miracles.... Maybe around that time in a species development, the "Grownups" come along and say, "Stop poking it with a stick, dear." And then when they start poking it again, the mature ones come back and say, "Darling, you're so cute! I love you. You're so awesome! Congratulations on the new development and technology. While you're pleased with yourself, I'd like to talk to you about those things you're pestering again. I told you to stop it... Yes, I do want you to stop probing it. You can see that it's not enjoying it. Good. If you do it again I'll OBLITERATE you... No, I won't be forced to do it despite my feelings of love for you. I'll still #LoveYouAsImObliteratingYou. You're a spacefaring race, dear. This is when you know better" So is it because we learned too much and intelligent life uses its technology to be unmeasurable to us because we've become sufficiently advanced to need the isolation to mature? Or is it because We're the first to evolve thus? Will be the first aliens? Are we alone in the universe (with no otherworldliness at all)? Or was the intelligent life, like 2 billion ears ago, and it came straight to Earth, then because nothing was going on, the story of life elsewhere ended immediately? #ThereAreNoOtherMovingPieces
I think aliens saw us years ago in our early life and said "fuck that shit, these things are intelligent and still kill each other" so they haven't reached out or included us. Also we're apparently far away from other life based planets.
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John Thorgard We use that track a lot on the show. To me it conveys a feeling of mystery and exploration. Maybe its a little silly sounding to you, but that's just our style. We're definitely not trying to poke fun at anyone.
Personally I believe that the universe has countless races far in advance of us .and that it is arrogant to think that we are the only ones around , I see humans like ants Compared to other races ,with technology that we could not even begin to imagine.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke.
Another possibility is that of all the lifeforms that FTL travel we are the first that will ever develop the ability to do it. There has to be a first. Maybe that's our #PersonalLegoBrickOfReality.
That could be why we've always had ideas of gods and angels, aliens and beings from other planes of existence. Perhaps that's why we obsess about it. We've been to the moon. We're planning to go to Mars. Our fiction is full of heroes and good guys that fly around creation and imagination treating others better (or at leas more humorously...ok, at least more interestingly) than the Bad Guys (or less interesting guys).
Maybe this obsession #otherWorldyTravellingAndEttiquette serves the purpose that when we are actually the ones who make First Contact, we'll do so awesomely. We'll only JimKirk the ones that actually understand what it is, are qualified for, and want a #GoodWilliamShatnering
and their lies the problem with us humans we are always so AFRAID of the unknown MAYBE we need to GROW UP 1st ...before we contemplate anything..
I love how you guys can look the crazies in the eye and be polite. That is something I have so much trouble with.
I really enjoy the Good Stuff mainly because I can see how much you guys are invested in each series. It makes it much more engaging and I feel like it helps ensure you guys do a real "deep dive" into each topic, versus just a cursory glance into each subject in order to be commercially attractive. I actually learn things! And that's what keeps me coming back. :)
Lynn Lochlynn Thank you so much! That's great to hear! We try :)
this is my new favorite channel, keep up the great work and thanks for the great videos :D
Thanks GoodStuff team for introducing us to Dr. Johnson. It's so awesome to learn from someone so knowledgeable about this subject, you guys always find not only smart people, but relatable people too. and thanks also for the Benson's holiday hideaway guy, that's a thing that exists, apparently, lol.
tho2ea Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
I hope we're alone in the universe. Think of all the space I could populate with clones!
How many more episodes will there be?
WheezyWaiter I think it would be the sadest thing if we truly were alone. But still: your clones everywhere would help :)
Love u wheezy but I'm sick of the fermi paridox it has more hole than swiss cheese maybe we can't see them because we don't have the tech maybe they are so far even light can't make it maybe the don't want us to destroy there world like we did ours maybe we haven't been around long enough maybe a bunch of other stuff.
Vollrohrzucker it would be scary if we found other life and it would be scary if we were alone (theres a quote i cant remember that is something like this)
phxtonash this is the good stuff
What a good video, I love the way you guys took 2 different routes. Hats off to you.
FreakingThomas7 Thanks! We were really happy how the video turned out with the two different routes. Something we will probably do again in the future.
Man, this playlist is fascinating, and it may be my favorite yet! I love learning about these kind of concepts! (Though not many other 13 year olds do)
Don't_subscribe_plz Hey glad you like it! Learning can and should be a lifelong pursuit and it's never too early or too late to get started. If you're into science or space or just curious about the world, you should check out the rest of the PBS Digital Studios shows (if you haven't already). Lots of interesting and illuminating stuff there. Cheers!
'Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.'-Calvin from Clavin and Hobbes
these episodes just keep getting better! How is this possible? :D
-also this one was kinda sad
The good stuff crew goes UFO hunting! I quite love everything you guys do in this show. This particular playlist has been very interesting, but also moving. You guys ask the philosophical questions and not just the scientific ones and I feel like I've gained a better understanding of how I see the world, after every episode. This really is the good stuff.
Benson's Hideaway omg! I used to live in Dundee and went there all the time as a kid. Such unexpected nostalgia lol
I've always looked up at the stars and thought, "There must be life out there".
Considering the one hundred billion galaxies and the billions of stars in each galaxy,
the chances of intelligent alien life existing somewhere are pretty good.
I was thinking about The Drake Equation without having learned about it until now.
this channel is a hidden gem
There's just no way we are the only life in such a massive, massive universe. Doesn't mean we have contacted them or they came to earth, but thinking they aren't out there somewhere seems pretty small minded.
1:17 got a little vsaucy there for a sec
ikr
+George Washington WHAT YOU HAVE A UA-cam CHANNEL!! I THOUGHT YOU DIED 100 YEARS AGO
You and everyone else
BACON BROS more like 200 years bro
George Washington Bacon Bros Nation: 100 years? Closer to more than 200 years? 1976 was our bicentennial!
wait--Ostebrix had it right -- before me. Good going!
Really cool seeing Matt on his own for a bit on the show.
I think it's highly likely that there's other life out there. I also think it's highly likely they have never been to Earth and that they won't find any evidence of life during my lifetime.
PogieJoe With so many variables we think one of the most exciting things is that while it's very unlikely we'll be contacted in our lifetime there's still the very very very remote possibility it could happen!
***** Ahhhhhh that's true too! I mean I doubt any point in time is more likely than the other, come to think of it!
Vsauce music? So you really are the same person. I knew it.
Kristóf Szentpétery When? I would've recognised Jake Chudnow.
MrKamekazePenguin 1:18
Kristóf Szentpétery Oh shit! I must have momentarily thought it was a Vsauce video for my brain to not question that.
LOL I noticed it too
+Kristóf Szentpétery also, at 2:56 you can clearly see Rhett from Rhett & Link (Good Mythical Morning).
I recently read a book called "Rare Earth," which attempted to explain, well, just how rare earth is.
They looked at the drake equation, but then looked at earth's history, and the myriad disparate factors that went into our evolution, from extinction events to plate tectonics, and came up with an equation much longer than drake's.
They supposed that microbial life is pretty common in the universe, but advanced life is very, very rare.
Great episode gents!
Nils Rohwer Why thank you Mr. Rohwer!
First, consider the size of the known universe, well good luck cuz it's impossible for us to wrap our head around just the size of our galaxy, let alone the universe, now imagine 100 quadrillion intelligent civilizations spread evenly through out the universe. You could spend the next 10 million yrs searching for just one, and never find one. Unimaginably gigantic, would be a pathetically sad understatement.
3:27 I don't agree with that because if they came here that much ago, they must have knowledge of us now, and if they do, I think they would communicate or welcome us to space community.
Matt was so cute when he giggled
Greatest good stuff yet
If you want to find intelligent life, you shouldn't be looking in Wisconsin.
Always enjoy.
Teri Scallon Glad you do!
AHHHH! Freaking out!! You went to my dad's office in Madison! I wish I could have met you!
Stacks of Books Sorry we didn't!
u guys are awesome!
How did you guys get Warowl on this show?
From a Quranic perspective (I'm a Muslim) God says the following in 42:29:
"And among His signs are the creation of the heavens and the earth, and all of the living creatures which He has caused to multiply throughout them, and He has the power to gather them (to him) whenever He wills."
This was the best yet, great job guys!
Maybe next you can checkout the "Lunar Wave" about our Moon, very intriguing!
the artist Thanks! Never heard of this before. Guess we're gonna have to go to the moon and check it out!
0:35 Not a fair contest because Matt clearly had a head start.
What's the song at 1:33
thepenguinftw I think it's called 145 poodles.
It features prominently on Vsauce's videos..
Млечный путь, я так понимаю, это как раз таки плоскость галактики, т.е. плоскость орбиты солнца? Точнее линия среза этой плоскости. Я тоже об этом не читал, но так как я умею мыслить логически, то я догадался. Галактика ведь представляет из себя диск, а не шар как и солнечная система.
i always find out that you came to my hometown afterwards.. ugh!!!:) kinda cool that i live where u went to college
I hope you guys talk about SETI and the screen saver to help search for Alien Signals!!
KiddsockTV Just looked this up and plan on participating right away!
***** YEAH! I hope you guys contact them too. They have a UA-cam Channel too! I Love Searching for Life out there!!
I think that they're watching us from afar, disguised as like a moon or something, observing us, and guiding our civilization
Я, кстати, раньше думал, что существует только одна галактика, та, в которой мы живём и когда смотрел фильм "Люди в чёрном", где они там искали какую-то другую галактику, думал, что это научная фантастика.
It's a question of probability. What do we know of that exists in uniquity? The likelihood that life has only happened in one place ever is astoundingly improbable. As for why they're not here, why would they be? Pretend we had the technology to safely travel even a fraction of how far we'd need to meet other life. Now think of the amount of resources it would take to accomplish that. It would be like saying "Well, I could go to the grocery store a mile away, but I choose to go halfway across the world to pick up a tomato." No.
can you guys take a roadtrip to ken ham's creationisim museum? i'd love that goodstuff episode enough to partially fund it!
Yeah, that UFO is probably just a firefly. It's still a cool picture.
I think one issue with the way people think about aliens is being to Earth-centric. We think we have an understanding of how aliens would develop and how to find them, but all of that understanding is based on us and living on Earth. If there was life out there (which I think there is), it's very possible that it isn't life as we necessarily understand it. Different planets, different galaxies, probably yield entirely different means of development of life than we understand
I feel it may be a bit "prejudge" to think that life outside of Earth would require water to spawn. Even on Earth there is life that uses arsenic instead of phosphorus in its DNA, plus extremophiles able to survive in conditions that would kill 90% of the rest of life on Earth. I think we should greatly expand what our definition of "life" is when researching exobiology. Please forgive my English.
The galaxy has bilions of stars,the univerce has bilions of galaxies,all this was there for 14 bilion years and will be for another trilion years or so.You still wonder where are all those aliens?
I live in Albuquerque, and some nights I look up and fix my eyes on one faint star, and one time I saw a swarm or ultra faint little "stars" zooming around the one star I fixed my eyes on! Like a space station on Star Trek or something. I'm sure they're out there and the government just isn't ready to reveal it to us yet
vsauce music at 1:20 :)
In the science and math I was fed up on during the educational process, it was a requirement that all questions and methodologies be tested in the forward and reverse paths logically. So asking if we are alone in the universe is the reciprocal of is the universe alone in us, and we have thoroughly established that one system of math-science pervades what is observable.
Questions are answers and symmetry implies that we are a "topical" compound combination, example of one collection of math-physics in a potential infinity available. A holographic description is not really comprehensive.
i saw 3 times in lisbon. i guess they were lost
Should have set up multiple cameras pointing to the same sky.
my sighitng a few years back, over the course of a couple of weeks, I saw the same llight in the sky. Just hovering not moving, just getting brighter and dimmer, it was no bigger then a car. The second sighting I had was a few week later, but this time there was three of them two of them was moving around the one which was hovering. Then the two lights vanished in a blink of a eye, then the one hovering just faded out. And a couple of weeks later I saw the first light again. It also faded away. the light was just above some trees and a lake. I'm pretty sure the lights when they moving knew I was filming them. As they would not show up on my camera for some reason. Soon i started filming they vanished
Sulzer 24 Kind of like Bigfoot , he's camera shy too, apparently, lol
ufo @ 5:15 ... (or bird)
Pentagon declassifies three UFO videos taken by Navy pilots
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In the huge vastness of space & all of the different universes & everywhere in between we don't even know about yet. If this is the only planet with life on it, if there's no life whatsoever anywhere else, then Existence itself if nothing more than 1 MASSIVE waste of . . . well, Space.
Yes.
The odds of everything being fine tuned for advance life is so low that there not enough planets in the universe to make it possible! that drake equation was before we understood how many things have to be fine tuned to have life> and the more we learn the more things we find out have to be fine tuned make=ing the number grow and increase the odds that we are alone!!!
"erdähnliche Planeten potentiell selten sind. Es seien viele unwahrscheinliche Zufälle zusammengekommen, die Leben auf der Erde möglich machten." - это похоже на правду, возможно, что такие планеты как Земля и очень редки во Вселенной, но всё же не невозможны. Среди такого количества даже не звёзд, а галактик я думаю найдётся хотя бы одна. Конечно, нужно ещё и развитие интеллекта, вероятность существования развитой цивилизации ниже, чем такой планеты.
We are not alone
Yes, completely alone.
how do you guys have only 68k subscribers and not like 68 million? just found you Because of your own plug on the other station you are on
Heh, the life on the other planets... There is even no any planet we can observe in solar systems, except of our system, because they appear too small from that great distance.
Were those terrestrial fireflies or extraterrestrial fireflies?
***** Most likely earth fireflies, but I suppose we can't rule out alien insects!
*****
Possible versus probable.
did you do that because of that project that some scientists (and popular scientists) are doing right now? forgot what it was called... but there is a "trailer" with Seth MacFarlane...
1. we are alone
2. there are aliens
Both are scary though
if I throw a pocket glow ball 30 feet up; thats lights in the sky
Where is everybody? apparently NOT in Wisconsin. lol
No we (sentient life) aren't alone. But we *are* very conceivably an extremely rare occurrence.
What if, aliens exist, but due to the age of the universe, life only just now or recently developed sufficient intelligence to gain sentience... of these, we are among the first.
This is how teachers IN CLASSROOMS should be...like CRAIG AND MATT to have a better future...
Am I the only one who was thinking "XFILES XFILES XFILES" the entire video?
isnt the drake equation the one "calculated" with a bunch of professionals stuck in a room making up arbitrary numbers and parameters in the 50s or 60s? there's a documentary about it and the way the guy describes how they came up with the measurements is hilarious.
All these theories of life on other planets make an assumption that life is common and the obvious product of leaving stuff alone for long enough. But if life is exceptionally uncommon, if the likelihood of life developing ex nihilis is 1 in a billion billion billion billion, then we would be the only planet to have developed life in ten billion galaxies. That would make it highly improbable to find other lifeforms or for them to find us. It also assumes that other life forms have developed highly enough to leave their planet and star system and galaxy, and it also assumes that their culture would want to leave.
Given how unique we increasingly seem to be we should perhaps treat life with a little more respect and worship the sanctity of every bug and leaf on our fragile planet.
Smart: the expert in this video mentions that the numbers used in the Drake equation are guesses...so would yours be. We simply don't know how likely it is or not. And if something is on the other side of the UNIVERSE, the chances of our ever encountering signs of it are pretty damn slim. As Arthur C. Clark wrote, the chances of there being other life and there NOT being other life are both equally frightening. Or something to that effect. Though I don't know why it would be frightening to think they may NOT be out there. I think Stephen Hawking is actually quite concerned that they may be carnivorous--of US. He has suggested we ought NOT to be sending out deep space probes lest they act as EAT HERE signs to hungry aliens. I think he has a point.
Haha, true! Although I would point out that my comment wasn't a guess but a counter argument to the seemingly common assumption that given the probable large number of inhabitable planets in the galaxy and the universe that there "must be" life on many of the others. I totally agree that the probability of life developing is a complete unknown, but it seems to me that many people start with what we know, that life developed here on earth, and extrapolate that it must therefore be a common outcome on life-supporting planets.
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Phew! This didn't turn out as I thought it would. Kudos on neutrality about the subject! :)
Grimbot2 We always try to be as objective as we can which is hard sometimes, thanks for the compliment!
Do these videos use the same music as Vsauce?
I knew Michael & Craig were the same person!
I knew Wisconsin was hiding something...makes me love Wisconsin even more
Those poor hicks have been taking shots of fireflies! You would think they would know the difference. Unless they just take pictures at random without physically seeing anything, and "UFOs" just turn up on the film.
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I think it's weird when the fellow says that they could have come two billion years ago. They who? Sir, do you mean that there is only one of them? A hivemind, or a singular spacefaring species? An imperium of intergalactic corporations of empires? Is it an allcaps, must be sung by a choir of angels type they of THEM?
Or was it just a cutely human thing to say? Couldn't peoples from all over the place be developing interstellar travel, basically, all the time? Wouldn't it stop being okay to come for vacation at a certain point? Hmm... when did there stop being living prophets and hugely awesome miracles....
Maybe around that time in a species development, the "Grownups" come along and say, "Stop poking it with a stick, dear."
And then when they start poking it again, the mature ones come back and say, "Darling, you're so cute! I love you. You're so awesome! Congratulations on the new development and technology. While you're pleased with yourself, I'd like to talk to you about those things you're pestering again. I told you to stop it... Yes, I do want you to stop probing it. You can see that it's not enjoying it. Good. If you do it again I'll OBLITERATE you... No, I won't be forced to do it despite my feelings of love for you. I'll still #LoveYouAsImObliteratingYou. You're a spacefaring race, dear. This is when you know better"
So is it because we learned too much and intelligent life uses its technology to be unmeasurable to us because we've become sufficiently advanced to need the isolation to mature?
Or is it because We're the first to evolve thus? Will be the first aliens?
Are we alone in the universe (with no otherworldliness at all)?
Or was the intelligent life, like 2 billion ears ago, and it came straight to Earth, then because nothing was going on, the story of life elsewhere ended immediately? #ThereAreNoOtherMovingPieces
I see strange light sometimes but it turns out they are airplanes ....
I think aliens saw us years ago in our early life and said "fuck that shit, these things are intelligent and still kill each other" so they haven't reached out or included us. Also we're apparently far away from other life based planets.
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I don't really remember what happened but I have a small memory of it. I could draw a pitcher of it (wrong pitcher)
Look at the other planets in our system compared to earth, a staggeringly beautiful life filled planet , why would they find earth then leave?
Ufos 🛸 and Extraterrestrials 👽 Exist!
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UFO doesn’t mean 👽!!!!!! It means what it stands for unidentified flying object
Wheezy waiter I seen that cheeky comment why was it removed?
Maybe alien are not interested in travelling just because they have created virtual world that are much more interesting and plesant to live in.
8 people are aliens.
1:43 the music playing is patronising. "Look at this cooky man". I understand that is what they are, but why disrespect a guest on your show?
John Thorgard We use that track a lot on the show. To me it conveys a feeling of mystery and exploration. Maybe its a little silly sounding to you, but that's just our style. We're definitely not trying to poke fun at anyone.
Universe no earth yes
Всё это хорошо, но у меня есть земные дела.
earth is probably a leper or a penal colony for the galactic civilizations
But, you guys did it wrong. There's a simple way to know if there are aliens out there: just invade Area 51 with a camera, easy...
***** Of course! Why didn't we think of that?
Personally I believe that the universe has countless races far in advance of us .and that it is arrogant to think that we are the only ones around , I see humans like ants Compared to other races ,with technology that we could not even begin to imagine.
One person thinks you did this video all wrong!
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We were the only hominids to make it to today. What does that tell you? (Neanderthals, Homo Erectus, ETC)
stopped watching after 0:43.... jesus christ, wtf was that..?
"Aliens" and Spaceships Are Real! I (Sorry, no pun intended) Encountered one when I was younger. Believe Me or not, It's True!
Vsauce music!!!!!!!