Alien life: are we about to find it?

The thought of finding alien life has fascinated people since the time of the ancient Greeks-but developments in astrobiology could be about to turn this possibility into reality. How do you hunt for life beyond Earth-and might this be the decade when we find it?
00:00 - Is there life beyond Earth?
00:56 - How has the search for life evolved?
02:36 - What signs of life are scientists looking for?
03:48 - What are biosignatures?
04:28 - How to find intelligent life
06:03 - How telescopes today have improved our search
07:52 - Expanding the search beyond Earth
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  • @chekov885
    @chekov8852 жыл бұрын

    Nobody knows what it takes to sustain life. We evolved over 3 billion years in this exact environment. life could well be prolific in environments we never imagined. The universe is very creative.

  • @stevennorris7181

    @stevennorris7181

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not in this exact environment, the Earth has changed dramatically over the last 3 billion years.

  • @ejhstmac8783

    @ejhstmac8783

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes, but we have only observed live in a planet like ours so although it has been theorized that life could exist in greatly environments different from earth (silicon life), we don't know exactly what to look for so it's safer to look at planeta that are similar to earth since we know such environments gave way to life, also elements loke oxygen , hydrogen and carbon are far more common than any other heavy elements so there's a lot more planets with the same elements as earth

  • @kevinkey5270

    @kevinkey5270

    2 жыл бұрын

    You do realize life happened One Time over four and a half billion years ago on Earth and we are all cousins of that one and only instance. You pretending life is easy when it only ever happened once it's hilarious.

  • @bensput2471

    @bensput2471

    2 жыл бұрын

    that's somthing that has recently intrigued me. if there is other life in our solar system I think it is most likely microscopic and living near vents in the seafloor on moons

  • @jonathanodude6660

    @jonathanodude6660

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kevinkey5270 we have no idea if it happened once or if the life that led to all modern day life forms is either superior during a direct competition or simply lasted longer than any other forms of life that existed.

  • @erizindo
    @erizindo2 жыл бұрын

    I'm no expert on this, but are we not too focused on finding signs of life based on Earth's standards? I mean we kept looking for water, but what if that is not required for living creatures in some other planet? we kept looking for planets with the same temperature to Earth, but what if some other living creature can only live in temperature of -100 degree celcius?

  • @robertskolimowski7049

    @robertskolimowski7049

    2 жыл бұрын

    My sentiments exactly.

  • @hexanonprime949

    @hexanonprime949

    2 жыл бұрын

    Look into silicon life forms but bacteria. Also something like next generation AI which previous generations were biological but evolved for whatever reasons

  • @jerinjohnson1529

    @jerinjohnson1529

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're making a fair and often discussed point however scientists choose to look at Earth-like planets because we know from experience that these planets can sustain life. All the other planets are a shot in the dark with the hope that something sticks. Whereas we have an idea what kind of shape life would take on Earth-like planets.

  • @pringlw

    @pringlw

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think most experts agree with this but the only archetype of life we know how to look for is carbon based life that relies on liquid water. There are reasons based on organic and inorganic chemistry to believe that this form of life would be the type that would be most common (if life itself exists elsewhere). For example, there is far more hydrogen, oxygen and carbon (the building blocks of our form of life) in the universe than there are heavier elements. Other forms of life (such as silicon based life) have been theorized but it’s much harder to guess what to look for, and since the requisite ingredients are far rarer it’s harder to find them.

  • @deepfried1234

    @deepfried1234

    2 жыл бұрын

    We can only know what life is based off what we know, which is how life is on Earth. Very well may be possible that non water based life does exist, scientists are probably putting more effort to look for what we can already recognize so we know where to look.

  • @CokeCheese
    @CokeCheese2 жыл бұрын

    I can imagine finding signs of extraterrestrial life becoming almost commonplace in the coming decades/centuries. Once humanity understands what to look for, even finding distant alien civilizations may be a not so uncommon event in the distant future. However, with the almost unfathomable distances involved, I can also imagine humanity quickly losing interest in something they will personally never be able to experience themselves.

  • @morbidmanmusic

    @morbidmanmusic

    2 жыл бұрын

    We are alone.

  • @AA-qo5nw

    @AA-qo5nw

    2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine sending a message and alien millions of light years away receiving it ... Bu then it's been million years and we des

  • @etbedtalksAOH

    @etbedtalksAOH

    2 жыл бұрын

    The contact with ET life represents our major enigma at this time. I welcome you to watch a couple of videos I have done to spread some awareness on the UFO/ UAP phenomenon. Et bed talks

  • @cletusjones9411

    @cletusjones9411

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@morbidmanmusicI always thought there were other life forms in this vast universe, with its trillions of galaxies, but then I read your comment and was like…whoa! Never heard it out that way before. That settles it for me.

  • @throwawayidiot6451

    @throwawayidiot6451

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@morbidmanmusic people who say we are alone think humans are special in any way. Simply consider the size and age of the universe, how insignificant we are in comparison to cosmic scales, and accept that humanity is not special in any way shape or form. We are not unique and we are not special, and we are tiny af, we are likely not the only ones.

  • @jackiechan3680
    @jackiechan36802 жыл бұрын

    When you consider how big the observable universe is it’s improbable that there isn’t aliens it’s insanely huge.

  • @geoffreybaigon7789

    @geoffreybaigon7789

    2 жыл бұрын

    unless you believe in the Bible

  • @ButterflyBlossom6415

    @ButterflyBlossom6415

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@geoffreybaigon7789 I personally believe everything the Bible says

  • @ironguanyin123

    @ironguanyin123

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well angels could be aliens, who knows, they don’t look at humans do they?

  • @jackiechan3680

    @jackiechan3680

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ButterflyBlossom6415 if you do then you wouldn’t believe in aliens

  • @eldahalas7015

    @eldahalas7015

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@geoffreybaigon7789 Islam thinks there are aliens but its not reliable because it is based on hadiths. There are also thing about sun and moon swimming in an orbit that is described in the book.

  • @marcobaluardo196
    @marcobaluardo1962 жыл бұрын

    I am so glad to be alive in this period of transition for human history. I can tell when we are gonna find aliens it would be a massive revolution never experienced before. Out life will change enormously

  • @chazsroczynski5666
    @chazsroczynski56662 жыл бұрын

    pronunciation of "Bowie" ruined this whole thing for me 😂

  • @senormoll

    @senormoll

    2 жыл бұрын

    like did they have an AI read the script, or some guy off fiverr, or how does this happen

  • @chazsroczynski5666

    @chazsroczynski5666

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@senormoll and did no one at the Economist (a British publication where both the Economist and Bowie are from) watch this before publishing?

  • @BerryFunChannel1

    @BerryFunChannel1

    2 жыл бұрын

    and meethane

  • @chazsroczynski5666

    @chazsroczynski5666

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@BerryFunChannel1 I don't think I even got that far...

  • @BerryFunChannel1

    @BerryFunChannel1

    2 жыл бұрын

    ​@@chazsroczynski5666 it's the worst XD both times I got super confuzzled

  • @wdfaseer5898
    @wdfaseer58982 жыл бұрын

    In order to find Alien Life, we have to give a clear definition of LIFE. What is LIFE? I don't think Alien needs Oxygen or water. They may feed on radioactive elements, etc.

  • @apothecurio

    @apothecurio

    Жыл бұрын

    My uneducated opinion: Life is any sort system capable of interacting with the environment in order to create more of itself. Either in size or iterations. Once you think of life as a general system that perpetuates itself, it’s easier to open your mind as to what living is.

  • @wdfaseer5898

    @wdfaseer5898

    Жыл бұрын

    @@apothecurio You have more wisdom than those stubborn scientist

  • @apothecurio

    @apothecurio

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wdfaseer5898 I’m basically just copying Josach Bach talking points but thank you.

  • @douglasnorth2429
    @douglasnorth24292 жыл бұрын

    this felt like it was made for 5 year olds.

  • @Littletime839

    @Littletime839

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ooh get you, better than us

  • @jej_x

    @jej_x

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Littletime839 are you saying you are 5?

  • @Scitzowicz
    @Scitzowicz2 жыл бұрын

    There’s life on Earth - appreciate it

  • @andrewelam4124

    @andrewelam4124

    Жыл бұрын

    Why can’t we search to see if we’re the only intelligent life in this galaxy?

  • @davidarbuckle7236
    @davidarbuckle72362 жыл бұрын

    A Trillion galaxies. We began believing that the key was finding planets in the habitable zone of its host star. But the real key might actually be, just finding the water. ( as wherever there is water on Earth there is life) And since there are multiple moons in our solar system with liquid oceans beneath their icy crust, it might be that life could exist more frequently in aquatic worlds than in terrestrial worlds, and the habitable zone might not have anything to do with it if the host planet is large enough to tug on its moons enough to create liquid water on a moon. Europa should be our first Habitat after Mars.

  • @engtari

    @engtari

    2 жыл бұрын

    2

  • @Leecriptor

    @Leecriptor

    Жыл бұрын

    @@engtari Destiny 2 you're saying.

  • @deeespinal9666
    @deeespinal96662 жыл бұрын

    Imagine a civilization with Einstein level i.q but not enough metals on your planet to advance technologically. In others words intelligence doesn't always go hand in hand with technological advancement

  • @Globovoyeur

    @Globovoyeur

    2 жыл бұрын

    Arthur C. Clarke imagined this in one of the stories in his collection Expedition to Earth.

  • @stevenscott2136

    @stevenscott2136

    2 жыл бұрын

    Whales are supposed to be smart, but they have no hands and can't use fire. Same for octopi. Elephants might have a chance, but being a herbivore means you have less motivation to solve problems, since your food doesn't run away.

  • @alexpollan6197

    @alexpollan6197

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like to think that science always find its ways. If not metals, which seems improbable due to what we know about planets and stars chemical composition, there could be other "materials" that we don't even know. Anyway, metals is a very broad definition. I guess that if you have Einsteins, you probably also have physics laws, and "materials" affected by those laws.

  • @janicestevenson6496
    @janicestevenson64962 жыл бұрын

    "You are not merely a human being in this one world. You are a citizen of the Greater Community of Worlds. This is the physical universe that you recognize through your senses. It is far greater than you can now comprehend. The extent of its relationships are far greater than you can imagine, for reality is always greater than imagination. You are a citizen of a greater physical universe. This not only acknowledges your lineage and your heritage but also your purpose in life at this time, for the world of humanity is growing into the life of the Greater Community of Worlds. Today, upon the hour, affirm your citizenship in [this greater community] for this affirms a greater life that you are now beginning to discover... In your meditation practices, enter stillness and quietude. This growing experience of stillness will enable you to understand all things, for your mind was created to assimilate Knowledge, and this is how true understanding comes about...born of true affinity and experience." (Steps to Knowledge, Marshall Vian Summers) Also recommended: The Allies of Humanity series of briefings, also received by MVS.

  • @johnchapman5125

    @johnchapman5125

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Janice.

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds85812 жыл бұрын

    I really hope we get utterly amazed at the level and layers that Nature and the natural world can be capable of with in our vast ranges of worlds, throughout space, and that there is all sorts of base forms of say like extremophiles or just such foreign based biology that it's like we are looking at unknown technology and we learn how it operates and functions. That's what I really hope to find.

  • @HamburgerWasteland

    @HamburgerWasteland

    2 жыл бұрын

    Know I'm a minority here but I think it would be more interesting if there were no other lifeforms other than the ones here on earth.

  • @RealBradMiller

    @RealBradMiller

    Жыл бұрын

    @@HamburgerWastelandNah, that's scary. Even a bunch of different alien lifeforms would be scary.... but then.... we might actually get to **** them. Eh? Lol

  • @miamitten1123

    @miamitten1123

    Жыл бұрын

    Natural world is earth no the universe.

  • @miamitten1123

    @miamitten1123

    Жыл бұрын

    @@HamburgerWasteland I agree. If we’re literally alone that’s WAY more terrifying. If that’s a ‘Star Wars’ type society out there. We’ll soon get use to it and there will be more tribalism.

  • @PowerHouseProdigy
    @PowerHouseProdigy2 жыл бұрын

    I’m calling right now that we’re going to find complex multicellular life on Europa, Titan, and Enceladus.

  • @NathanJayMusic
    @NathanJayMusic2 жыл бұрын

    That footage at 08:49 of life on Earth beginning has survived quite well

  • @KevinP32270
    @KevinP322702 жыл бұрын

    i understand being in the liquid water zone is important but maybe some life in the universe may use another source.

  • @kevinkey5270
    @kevinkey52702 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe how most people think life is easy because they see all the different species we have here on Earth, but it only ever happened once over four and a half billion years ago and all living things on Earth are cousins. We are related to a cellular Adam after that no life has ever been created.

  • @01DaBoss

    @01DaBoss

    2 жыл бұрын

    Cellular "Adam" huh?

  • @gerdaleta

    @gerdaleta

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah but those cellular atoms you talk about were created in just soups of boiling biochemical b******* their soups of biochemical b******* everywhere in the universe you can't tell me things like plants and trees and animals just aren't f****** everywhere everywhere there's water is probably f****** animals Intelligent life is the real question there's only three possibilities dark Forest theory aliens and the universe the same thing a forest is the associate animals just standing in the forest monkeys don't jump out of trees to greet you everybody's hiding in separate trees because they're worried they're going to be eaten by the others that's what every society in the universe is doing hiding why are they hiding because this universe isn't big enough for all of us every intelligent species that evolves into sentience and hypertechnology must think themselves gods and if they don't they intend to not die I assume just think about it if we found an alien planet with a bunch of medieval people on it and then our scientists came to us and said their brain is 10% larger than ours and they're technological advancement is going faster they're going to be more advanced than us in just a hundred years there would be calls to below these people up to preemptively invade them because what's going to happen they're going to realize that we're looking at them and then they're going to realize how much technology they have on either try to fight us or conquer us because their own self priority is their main concern just like ours is

  • @SuperYtc1

    @SuperYtc1

    Жыл бұрын

    No new life is being created because it gets destroyed as soon as it barely does, but the already existing life. The same goes for intelligence, of course there's only 1, as if another came close to evolving human-level intelligence we'd obliterate them.

  • @him2715
    @him27152 жыл бұрын

    It's strange to experience something and then have the people around you question if it's a reality or not....

  • @justemusicme

    @justemusicme

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s what I always debate with my close friends. “What if I told you a disc shaped ufo came down, aliens spoke to me then flew away. Think of how hard it would be for you a close friend to truly believe I was telling the truth.” Putting things in perspective is step one lol

  • @underarmbowlingincidentof1981

    @underarmbowlingincidentof1981

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@justemusicme wellll... I mean the human mind is pretty freaky. Sometimes it makes up memories when encountering an error, thats how deja vues happen. I mean we literally have a blind spot in the eye and our brain just fills in the missing space and most people live their whole lives without even realizing it. ... So a brain injury leading to the brain trying to fill in the lost time is not such a strange thing... also if there are aliens who have exactly two feet and two hands and two eyes just like us and use vehicles like us then that would be a huge coincidence eh

  • @TheFireGiver
    @TheFireGiver2 жыл бұрын

    When I think The Economist I think hypothetical discussions about if aliens exist.

  • @itchywitch8169

    @itchywitch8169

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @danyellerobinson5940

    @danyellerobinson5940

    2 жыл бұрын

    Right.

  • @xlynx9
    @xlynx92 жыл бұрын

    If we found a warm, oxygen rich planet within 5 light-years, I guess we could have probes in orbit by end of the century (e.g. breakthrough starshot), and we could go there in another century, by way of nuclear propulsion.

  • @Andres_2004

    @Andres_2004

    2 жыл бұрын

    there's actually the Alpha Centauri system that could in fact sustain life or even have it, so who knows. I think that would be the greatest event in history, finding alien life, even if it's just bacteria or something like that.

  • @Dan_Therapist

    @Dan_Therapist

    2 жыл бұрын

    no way would the crew survive the acceleration

  • @KatanaFPV

    @KatanaFPV

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dan_Therapist We may not need "crews" in the future :)

  • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

    @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KatanaFPV robots :)

  • @KatanaFPV

    @KatanaFPV

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman you got it!

  • @ysdnsingh
    @ysdnsingh2 жыл бұрын

    I have a feeling we will make contact with intelligent life within this century.

  • @laszlozoltan5021

    @laszlozoltan5021

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Qwerty Store invade us ? what for ? with what ?

  • @El.Duder-ino
    @El.Duder-ino2 жыл бұрын

    I can answer it to u already - life is much, much more rare than we think… life as we know is truly a miracle and we don’t value it as we should!

  • @BardhokNdoji
    @BardhokNdoji2 жыл бұрын

    The real reason why we still have not found any Alien life is because we still don't know what are we looking for and how to look for it. In other words, we have not yet evolved enough to truly comprehend what is around us, despite the common belief. We expect to find alien life that mimics the one in the planet earth because we believe that life can only form on the condition found in our planet. We couldn't possibly be anymore wrong. There is a possibility other life forms are all around us, we just have no means to see our understand it because we are not build or evolved enough for such thing. The same way an Ant colony does not understand that their nest is build just in the house corner of life forms that are far far superior to them, called Humans. Our mistake is that we believe we are the pinnacle of intelligence, and on the grand scale of things that's just halirious, considering we have barely stepped on the Moon, which is just on our doorstep.

  • @ejhstmac8783

    @ejhstmac8783

    2 жыл бұрын

    it's not the we believe live can only exist on a planet like earth but more so that we know for sure that it can so it's safer to look at planets similar to earth, it has been theorized that live can exist on planets that normally aren't considered habitable but we don't know for sire and we don't know how life there would look so looking for life there would be a shot in the dark

  • @myself5812

    @myself5812

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ejhstmac8783 well

  • @funkyjunkyjai

    @funkyjunkyjai

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes. Exactly this ! We are just so primitive, we can't even begin to understand what's out there ? We've only been around a few minutes in comparison to far more advanced life forms

  • @josueramirez7247
    @josueramirez72472 жыл бұрын

    We cannot answer definitely whether viruses are alive, so it seems odd to think that there could be other structures that are almost alive but not quite.

  • @JerseyLynne

    @JerseyLynne

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@RedLemon69 8 miles of mycelium in 1 cubic inch of rich soil that sends info in both direction s

  • @xlynx9

    @xlynx9

    2 жыл бұрын

    This seems like an artefact of our need to categorise a disorderly world, rather than an unanswered question. But yes, it would be fascinating to see what RNA/DNA analogues exist in the cosmos. My thinking is they would be quite similar in principle due to the abundance of the same organic compounds, the same laws of physics. We see in nature the same problems being solved multiple times independently.

  • @gwen6421

    @gwen6421

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@RedLemon69 it's Pando

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    2 жыл бұрын

    Life creates it own environment and is based on the same physics.

  • @triggsonelectronics1249
    @triggsonelectronics12492 жыл бұрын

    I believe it's ignorant to think life forms outside earth require the same fundamental building blocks. It would have evolved under very different conditions.

  • @EJD339

    @EJD339

    2 жыл бұрын

    I understand it in a sense because that’s all we have to go off so we have to start somewhere. Id be curious if there are other theories of what could be building blocks for life outside of what we know.

  • @wdfaseer5898

    @wdfaseer5898

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@EJD339 Silicon base

  • @flemminghansen6500

    @flemminghansen6500

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nobody think so. But we have limited resources and therefore have to prioritize our search.

  • @pottingsoil
    @pottingsoil2 жыл бұрын

    The Mothman is still out there

  • @mr.goldfarmer4883
    @mr.goldfarmer4883 Жыл бұрын

    Scientists already tell us we'd be insane to believe there wasn't any form of like out there in the cosmos. The chance we are alone is just too small.

  • @esuus
    @esuus2 жыл бұрын

    Cool to see the face to the voice that I know from your many podcasts.

  • @bhangrafan4480
    @bhangrafan44802 жыл бұрын

    A planet can be too hot for life, but I doubt that a planet can ever be too cold for life. In descending towards the core of a planet the temperature rises. There are also 'tidal' gravitational forces which can produce heat. For this reason a number of bodies just in our own solar system alone, are though to have large oceans inside.

  • @Brian-vk1hm
    @Brian-vk1hm2 жыл бұрын

    Intelligent life has already found us and it's obvious to anyone who is paying attention.

  • @realtimeprivacy5085

    @realtimeprivacy5085

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you believe in the Kardashev scale who discovered who is irrelevant. It just and was. 🖖

  • @kudakwashezvaita1017
    @kudakwashezvaita10172 жыл бұрын

    Aliens don't exist, aliens are like bigfoot, santa clause and super heroes.

  • @boywithadolphin
    @boywithadolphin2 жыл бұрын

    First alien watching the earth They have nuclear weapon. Are they intelligent? No, they are aiming them at thereselves

  • @virgiljamesart4192
    @virgiljamesart41922 жыл бұрын

    Just a theory but I believe that there are other variables to life that we don’t have the imagination to fathom or the technology to find it. I believe there to be an infinity of information beyond our comprehension and we will never understand everything in our lifetime or even within the existence of mankind. I don’t say this to be negative I meant it to glorify science and in admiration of its complexity.

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes life could be based on a geometrical process that part of mainstream science.

  • @virgiljamesart4192

    @virgiljamesart4192

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, that and any number of other various possibilities. What I was getting to was that with our limited understanding of life and what that consist of I feel as though we are missing things that could be of significance. I believe that there are elements and other things that we are not able to trace yet. For example there could be a planet close enough to explore that contains life but maybe has a different atmosphere with unknown elements. I’m definitely not a scientist and I’m sure someone much more intelligent than me has already thought of these things. It is interesting to think about though. Intelligent life beyond the human imagination. Hidden gems just beyond our horizons and we are just scratching the surface of exploration. It’s a beautiful thing, I love the curiosity and the sheer will of humans who seek the knowledge of the universe it’s a commendable and unselfish way to live one’s life.

  • @tallyboyle9148
    @tallyboyle91482 жыл бұрын

    Interesting...mentions the importance of the Goldilocks Zone, but misses out the fact the Goldilocks Zone only works if there is a LOT of water (aka the amount only found in a Frost Zone usually). So not only does an Exoplanet need to be in a Goldilocks Zone,it also needs a oversized moon, or a large Jupiter class gas giant- something that indicates the transfer of volatiles from the frost zone to what is still the 'too hot zone'. Getting volatiles from the frost zone to the Goldilocks Zone needs a large gravity source causing chaos so you can have a Late Heavy Bombardment/Theia type collision. Otherwise? Goldilocks is a red herring.

  • @rodeo293
    @rodeo293 Жыл бұрын

    IIST (Indian Institute for Space Science and Technology) should start with an academic offering in exobiology.

  • @matthewkehoe4015
    @matthewkehoe40152 жыл бұрын

    Great video 👍

  • @fortune_roses
    @fortune_roses2 жыл бұрын

    Of course! *Sheer probability* = definitely yes

  • @DieFlabbergast

    @DieFlabbergast

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not necessarily. Bacterial life, almost certainly. Multicellular life -- maybe. Intelligent, technological civilisations, possibly not. Thus far, there has been absolutely ZERO evidence. If THEY exist in another galaxy, then we will never know, and thus, effectively, they will not exist, and neither will we from their viewpoint.

  • @xthrth1320
    @xthrth13202 жыл бұрын

    Guess I'm here wayy too early

  • @russoksk
    @russoksk2 жыл бұрын

    This video makes me feel like makind is going back to the right way and i love that.

  • @rogerkreil3314
    @rogerkreil33142 жыл бұрын

    Wasn’t the signal discovered in the 70’s just a pulsar?

  • @lain11644
    @lain116442 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the economists are the ones I trust when it comes to this topic.

  • @TheOriginalDaveJ
    @TheOriginalDaveJ2 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this but we should really be looking after the planet we live on rather than look for another to ruin.

  • @Lucian86

    @Lucian86

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, we are. We spend more on basic superfluous consumer goods than in the space exploration

  • @Hillberty224

    @Hillberty224

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed, sick of this obsession with space exploration. “oh look, this sedimentary rock suggests water on Mars” great, who cares?

  • @JerseyLynne

    @JerseyLynne

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Lucian86 Feed the children

  • @billlyons7024

    @billlyons7024

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JerseyLynne Far more money is spent on charity than space exploration. By a wide margin.

  • @Munchausenification

    @Munchausenification

    2 жыл бұрын

    They study of other planets understanding their development might give us a better understanding of what might happen to our planet. Besides, who are you to tell others what to do? If studying space is their passion, let them do so.

  • @tomodachi1644
    @tomodachi16442 жыл бұрын

    every search starts with the same bias, water, life as WE KNOW IT needs water but it doesn't mean another life form might need it

  • @gctzx
    @gctzx2 жыл бұрын

    1:53 Does anyone know what movie this is?

  • @michaelcolleary8245
    @michaelcolleary82452 жыл бұрын

    Nope. The WOW signal has been explained.

  • @johnmartin5671
    @johnmartin56712 жыл бұрын

    Whether or not we discover life in the Universe is by far not the most important question. The most important question is: will we be able to obtain an immortal and infinitely better body than the one we have now? Ah,..ah,...it's not worth doing genetic manipulations that would never achieve this ambitious goal!

  • @MrCat-sl6zf

    @MrCat-sl6zf

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope, immorality is impossible. And how attractive it is it's super disturbing, we will have to stop Child making because resources are finite and Rich will remain rich and poor will remain poor forever. Because, money makes money.

  • @RATLEEA10

    @RATLEEA10

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just the title is enough to tell me this is nothing more than a ploy at disinformation, your either very slow or your being paid to say this, listen up everyone Alien`s have been here for many years and if you have not bothered to do your homework get some done as this is real! ask the children from ARIEL SCHOOL ZIMBABWE or WESTALL SCHOOL MELBOURN.

  • @stevenscott2136

    @stevenscott2136

    2 жыл бұрын

    We need to get rid of these sloppy meat-bodies. If we seriously plan to travel the galaxy, we need to find a way to turn our minds into software, or at least pass along our culture to AI's instead of biological children.

  • @johnmartin5671

    @johnmartin5671

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stevenscott2136 Sorry but I think the exact opposite!

  • @lp712

    @lp712

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrCat-sl6zf You are a complete dope…. If we achieved immortality then we wouldn’t NEED or HAVE physical bodies anymore…. We wouldn’t need food or any of that limiting bullsh1t. There wouldn’t be poor and rich… don’t be dumb please

  • @audiosourceunknown2673
    @audiosourceunknown2673 Жыл бұрын

    Great little documentary

  • @logicbehind8653
    @logicbehind86532 жыл бұрын

    Excellent report. The only comment I can give is just that newer telescopes has and will have bigger mirrors, not lenses. Because they will be almost exclusively reflectors. Not refractors.

  • @shytuncer
    @shytuncer2 жыл бұрын

    The goldilocks hypothesis is outdated, and I'm not referring to extremophiles. We now know that the inner core of ice planets could contain liquid water, there are other sources of heatt, other than a star!

  • @paologrigis1509
    @paologrigis15092 жыл бұрын

    It would be so exciting to find -aliens- MORE TAXPAYERS! 👽💰

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    2 жыл бұрын

    That could be why they don't want to be found! LOL

  • @anima6035

    @anima6035

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time sounds like intergalactic tax evasion, lock them up. Ps that's a joke aliens please don't hurt me

  • @Irfanribut87-st5xd
    @Irfanribut87-st5xd2 жыл бұрын

    I have seen the best interest rates only at staking sites with Cross Staking technology, oreol staking for example

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz29642 жыл бұрын

    Nice video.

  • @virendrajanakiram2365
    @virendrajanakiram23652 жыл бұрын

    If you consider all the many factors that need to come together to make life possible, it's pretty evident that we humans are really unique. Drake's equation is far too simplistic.

  • @Mehhl81

    @Mehhl81

    2 жыл бұрын

    They're only required factors from the perspective of humans. If we don't know everything about the universe, there's no way to say for sure that water is needed in every single situation for life to develop. It's our very minimal knowledge that gives us this opinion.

  • @virendrajanakiram2365

    @virendrajanakiram2365

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Mehhl81 It's fairly well established that non carbon based lifeforms are pretty much science fiction.

  • @Mehhl81

    @Mehhl81

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@virendrajanakiram2365 It's fairly well established based on limited human knowledge. We also used to think the world was flat. Try not to be so narrow minded.

  • @Mehhl81

    @Mehhl81

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@virendrajanakiram2365 The logic youre using is the same logic that told explorers they would fall off the side of the planet. You're narrow minded just like them and arguing with you will be a waste of my time, so I'm gonna walk away.

  • @lp712

    @lp712

    2 жыл бұрын

    You’re a complete dumbo aren’t you? Pea brain

  • @Dodgevair
    @Dodgevair2 жыл бұрын

    "I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." J. Edgar Hoover-Director of FBI The security guard called and said, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I’ve got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.” We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs were in the area… (A high ranking Air Force officer) said, “Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final report. I heard that many of the guards that reported the incident were sent off to Vietnam." Captain Robert Salas, USAF, during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program. "A few insiders know the truth...and are studying the bodies that have been discovered." -Dr. Edwin Mitchell Apollo 14..the 6th NASA employee to walk on the Moon. "Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.” CIA Director, Allen Dulles, 1955. “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960. “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” -William Casey, CIA director, 1981 “Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out. ” ― Edgar D. Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds MEANINGFUL congressional hearings, ala the Watergate hearings, including aerospace/defense contractors and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson must be held to address a vital issue that transcends politics and we will never properly advance until it happens: The 75+yr ongoing-constitutionally illegal, EXTRATERRESTRIAL cover-up. How can we truly believe anything our elected officials say? The dog n pony shows must cease.

  • @RATLEEA10

    @RATLEEA10

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just the title is enough to tell me this is nothing more than a ploy at disinformation, your either very slow or your being paid to say this, listen up everyone Alien`s have been here for many years and if you have not bothered to do your homework get some done as this is real! ask the children from ARIEL SCHOOL ZIMBABWE or WESTALL SCHOOL MELBOURN.

  • @Dodgevair

    @Dodgevair

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@RATLEEA10 Wo..you really got this one all wrong. The goal here is simply to wake folk up. And yes, I purchased the latest film on the Ariel school event...possibly the most important film/documentary ever.

  • @RATLEEA10

    @RATLEEA10

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dodgevair WATCH LATER ADD TO QUEUE The Mysterious UFO Encounter by English Woman in Staffordshire, England (1954) - FindingUFO

  • @jonahp8271
    @jonahp82712 жыл бұрын

    Anyone know the song that starts at 0:56

  • @billr1129
    @billr11292 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps like in “The day after tomorrow “

  • @DwainDwight
    @DwainDwight2 жыл бұрын

    3 levels for life. 1. microbial, 2. plant/animal & 3. intelligent. 1. common (1 in 10 solar systems with habitat zone planets). 2. (1 in 1,000) 3. (1 in 1,000,000) - milky way approx. 250b star systems. 15% habitat zone planets

  • @jerinjohnson1529

    @jerinjohnson1529

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'd put two more levels 4. Sentient and aware of the consequences of their mortality 5. Sentient and have transcended their mortality Intelligent life isn't sentient life. Dogs, pigs and even crows are intelligent but there's a step between intelligence and consciousness as that is what allows technology and science to develop.

  • @jerinjohnson1529

    @jerinjohnson1529

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@person737 Yeah I meant self aware. "I think therefore I am". Perceiving their individual reality and existence at a level greater than that of survival etc.

  • @coillmaher3239
    @coillmaher32392 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps we could are looking for carbonocentric life similar to Earth. Life may have developed using a different base element 🤔🤔🤔

  • @morbidmanmusic

    @morbidmanmusic

    2 жыл бұрын

    Everyone's realizes that. Everyone. Especially scientist. The most logical place to start is with what worked here. Then branch out.

  • @scl9671
    @scl96712 жыл бұрын

    I don't understand why there isn't a massive focus on going to Europa with some sort of drilling drone/underwater drone. It is almost confirmed that Europa has an ocean undernearth it's vast icesheets. I know the technology doesn't exist right now to drill through but we should be working towards it at speed.

  • @babydragon2047
    @babydragon20472 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @jeshkam
    @jeshkam2 жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @dee-jay45
    @dee-jay452 жыл бұрын

    Or maybe we are the ancient aliens Sci-Fi stories so love. Maybe it's our calling to spread life throughout the universe.

  • @salkeld571

    @salkeld571

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hope not. If so the Universe is done for.We have destroyed a perfect planet.

  • @TYTU83
    @TYTU832 жыл бұрын

    Where are they getting their graphics from?

  • @tpyu007
    @tpyu007 Жыл бұрын

    Just curious how this relates with the economy for The Economist.

  • @defectedanonymous3329
    @defectedanonymous33292 жыл бұрын

    Nice click bait I fell for it

  • @finderskeepers7293
    @finderskeepers72932 жыл бұрын

    Why are scientists only thinking of life like us- carbon based? An alien species could be very different in their make up. Maybe they need something other than water to live. I think the possibilities are endless and our scientists are being short sighted.

  • @adamc1966

    @adamc1966

    2 жыл бұрын

    So true 👽

  • @henrycho9990
    @henrycho99902 жыл бұрын

    I want to know the names of the songs used in this video

  • @estherseabra9347
    @estherseabra9347 Жыл бұрын

    Gostava que explicassem os fenómenos aeronáuticos, abducções, implantes, relatos de pessoas que passaram pela experiência de estar dentro duma nave extraterrestre ?!

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds85812 жыл бұрын

    Farts: we are looking for signs of farts. Because farts are the universal language in the universe.. lol

  • @mindaza0
    @mindaza02 жыл бұрын

    imagine we were bacteria contemplating what other forms of life looks like. would be swimming in the gut of human and not being able to comprehend it...

  • @stuartsmith5561
    @stuartsmith55612 жыл бұрын

    I really want to believe what out there. We might not be only life in universe.

  • @CoyotePark
    @CoyotePark2 жыл бұрын

    Why there are suddenly soo much videos about finding alien life? NASA has also begun a mission on researching ufos. Is the mainstream media preparing people now?

  • @chriswiles87
    @chriswiles872 жыл бұрын

    The universe is infinite. This means there are infinite galaxy, starts, plants. infinite planets with life. Infinite planets with intelligent life. Eveything is far apart. Most planets are too many light years away to ever communicate with.

  • @mattsapero1896

    @mattsapero1896

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not really infinite, but filled with trillions of galaxies and it’s still expanding.

  • @chriswiles87

    @chriswiles87

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mattsapero1896 Actually it is infinite, we can only can see a fixed volume due to the speed of light know as the the observable universe.

  • @protohale
    @protohale2 жыл бұрын

    The search for extraterrestrial life began in the 1950s with the advent of the space age. The search for life was common in science fiction, but it was considered to be somewhat of a laughing stock in reality because we lacked the technology to actually do it. In the last few decades, astrobiology has become this incredibly exciting frontier for these big questions that need to be answered. Scientists have discovered 59 worlds outside of our solar system that are just right. The planet with the most potential is called tea garden b 12 light years away. With a 6.5-meter mirror, the world-famous Hubble telescope is outclassed by the james Webb telescope. Large ground-based telescopes with 40 meter wide lenses will be available by the end of the decade. NASA's 2022 budget is the largest it's been since the 1960s. Ground-based telescopes with mirrors 25 to 40 meters wide are anticipated to go into service. They could be joined by two planned NASA spacecraft, one of which is intended to capture pictures of inhabited planets. By 2020, you'll be able to comprehend what a day is like on every planet.

  • @yap5995

    @yap5995

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah, are we able to see peter pan and neverland with those telescopes?😂

  • @w0mblemania

    @w0mblemania

    2 жыл бұрын

    The search for ET life predated the 50s. There was a lot of speculation about alien life in the late 1800s, particulary about the "canals" on Mars. e.g. War of the Worlds was written in 1897. In 1899 Tesla was convinced his radio system was picking up signals from Mars. And Lowell wrote "Mars As the Abode of Life" in 1908 Cheers.

  • @bri5033

    @bri5033

    2 жыл бұрын

    By 2020?

  • @curiousbystander9193

    @curiousbystander9193

    2 жыл бұрын

    wrong, but whatever...even your dates

  • @ahmetakgun5358

    @ahmetakgun5358

    2 жыл бұрын

    A small meteorite penetrated a panel of the webb and opened a hole :(

  • @meejinhuang
    @meejinhuang2 жыл бұрын

    We need to explore another earth like water planet to find it. They are very far away.

  • @AZ-ev3vp
    @AZ-ev3vp2 жыл бұрын

    I didnt even watch the video befor liking it … drop more Alien videos

  • @sentiencepsn2714
    @sentiencepsn27142 жыл бұрын

    Mildly insulted at the lack of recognition of non-Western research efforts. Especially with the very recent announcement of possible technology signal discovery by the Chinese.

  • @curiousbystander9193

    @curiousbystander9193

    2 жыл бұрын

    what was N. Draganic and his gang up to?

  • @yeon723
    @yeon7232 жыл бұрын

    imagine all that brain power being wasted on religion when we could colonize planets instead

  • @friedstein4289

    @friedstein4289

    2 жыл бұрын

    We won't be able to colonize planets.

  • @yeon723

    @yeon723

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@friedstein4289 you get the point

  • @infact5376
    @infact53762 жыл бұрын

    Sri.M, spiritual Guru from India explains in his autobiography, "Apprenticed to Himalayan Master' of his meeting an extra-terrestrial being in the shape of a large snake with hoods in pressence of his master. It came in a luminous spherical vehicle, opened one hemi-sphere and got out. It communicated with his Master in a hissing language. After the discussion, master introduced Sri.M to the being. It blessed him over his head. It returned in the same vehicle from the Himalayas. Science Correspondant could explore.

  • @pm5905

    @pm5905

    2 жыл бұрын

    Seems legit

  • @underarmbowlingincidentof1981

    @underarmbowlingincidentof1981

    2 жыл бұрын

    thats what we call "drugs" like come on... too many people have seen the machine elves but we still don't treat them as extraterrestrials

  • @infact5376

    @infact5376

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 This is not that stuff. He is still a living being, moving around the world giving talks at Google, universities in US and elsewhere. India Govt. has awarded him with one of the highest civilian honour. I suggested Science Correspondant to exlore as he is still a living being.

  • @Dr_Larken
    @Dr_Larken2 жыл бұрын

    @01:53 The Martian w/ the New Jersey “Accent” yeah that martian doesn’t seem suspicious?!!

  • @gmshadowtraders
    @gmshadowtraders2 жыл бұрын

    Superb tactics. Nobody cares about us economists anymore, having lost the plot completely, so let's talk about clickbait instead.

  • @joshramirez7

    @joshramirez7

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't know, if alien life is ever confirmed, pretty sure that would be one of the biggest impacts on the human world ever, which would then impact every system we have, including economics.

  • @awakethemaster

    @awakethemaster

    2 жыл бұрын

    The economic aspect (pandemic,fed raise, anything from finance to contability it's just for pure entertainment and pain) because the peoples and countries that own the energy and resource has invested in technological equipment and armaments.

  • @publika6883
    @publika68832 жыл бұрын

    weird way to pronounce methane, but ok dude

  • @josueramirez7247

    @josueramirez7247

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same thing with how he said “Bowie”. 😂

  • @bhangrafan4480
    @bhangrafan44802 жыл бұрын

    Water is not necessarily the ONLY solvent which could provide a medium for life to form. There may be other solvent media in the galaxy, or even in our own solar system (Titan). These alternative solvents could lead to alternative forms of biochemistry distinct from our own. All that is really needed is a mixing medium for chemicals to get together and react.

  • @MicahFoxxMusic
    @MicahFoxxMusic2 жыл бұрын

    Dan Winter: ET Politics

  • @sedefashley2021
    @sedefashley20212 жыл бұрын

    It's only been 50 seconds since I clicked on the video, but I've always believed in the existence of aliens. The planet cannot only consist of people, animals or plants, right?

  • @xlynx9

    @xlynx9

    2 жыл бұрын

    On Earth? It's possible but seems unlikely. Like where are they? In the ocean?

  • @T_J_

    @T_J_

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why not?

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    2 жыл бұрын

    They might look at this planet as a zoo that they don't interact with!

  • @machinmon.

    @machinmon.

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wrong

  • @823sanction

    @823sanction

    Жыл бұрын

    The government may know about aliens but feel that people couldn't handle it so keep it hidden in a way to protect us

  • @connorpowers702
    @connorpowers7022 жыл бұрын

    We are the aliens.

  • @canadaclub8920

    @canadaclub8920

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol no, well maybe just you

  • @SuperYtc1

    @SuperYtc1

    2 жыл бұрын

    Obviously to other extraterrestrial life we are, by definition. But they are the aliens to us, again, by definition.

  • @etbedtalksAOH
    @etbedtalksAOH2 жыл бұрын

    The contact with ET life represents our major enigma at this time. I welcome you to watch a couple of videos I have done to spread some awareness on the UFO/ UAP phenomenon. Et bed talks

  • @themayne6303
    @themayne63032 жыл бұрын

    I don’t think we will ever discover alien life elsewhere. I’m convinced of this more & more everyday

  • @deminada3964
    @deminada39642 жыл бұрын

    We need find intelligent life first in white house and both chamber as well before looking far away from earth.

  • @pt4963

    @pt4963

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @phinix816
    @phinix8162 жыл бұрын

    First comment

  • @AuNTIeGreen

    @AuNTIeGreen

    2 жыл бұрын

    Who care! Why not comment with something constructive?

  • @fernandough2117
    @fernandough21172 жыл бұрын

    Why did he say Bowie like that???

  • @gregnixon1296
    @gregnixon12962 жыл бұрын

    If aliens can travel light years to get here, maybe they can tell us how to power our Toyotas and Hondas once and for all.

  • @williamdrijver4141
    @williamdrijver41412 жыл бұрын

    @Economist: please do your homework before uploading such cringe / ridicule videos. Read and listen into the subject. And it might prevent you from making such garbage. Watch videos with Ross Coulthart, Christopher Mellon, Garry Nolan and Luis Elizondo here on YT. You might learn something.

  • @etbedtalksAOH

    @etbedtalksAOH

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thx William. The contact with ET life represents our major enigma at this time. I welcome you to watch a couple of videos I have done to spread some awareness on the UFO/ UAP phenomenon. Et bed talks

  • @williamdrijver4141
    @williamdrijver41412 жыл бұрын

    Typical MSM video. Completely uninformed on the phenomenon.

  • @crazi25

    @crazi25

    2 жыл бұрын

    What information should this give? What was the misinformation?

  • @mamakaka73
    @mamakaka732 жыл бұрын

    We spend billions looking for life outside our solar system but we spend that much destroying the one here....

  • @Homo_sAPEien
    @Homo_sAPEien Жыл бұрын

    Scientists, you better not disappoint me!

  • @celtspeaksgoth7251
    @celtspeaksgoth72512 жыл бұрын

    no mention of the Drake Equation or the Fermi Paradox or that life (as we know it) needs phosphorous - which is not abundant

  • @Dany.adnannis
    @Dany.adnannis2 жыл бұрын

    At least, space is growing

  • @cweefy
    @cweefy2 жыл бұрын

    We've always been " about to find extraterrestrial life "

  • @moonman239
    @moonman239 Жыл бұрын

    I'm no scientist, but it seems the question of "is there life elsewhere?" could be answered in part by trying to calculate how many planets should have hosted an abiogenesis at some point, or perhaps by calculating how many carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphate atoms there are in the universe and then calculating how many DNA molecules we should expect to be produced.