Are We Alone? When Will Earthlings Find ET? | Dan Werthimer | TEDxSFState

Berkeley Chief SETI Scientist Dan Werthimer discusses the possibility of intelligent life in the universe and how Earthlings could detect other civilizations. Dan presents the new $100M Breakthrough Listen project, as well as the SETI@home project, which analyzes data from the world's largest radio telescope using desktop computers and cell phones from millions of volunteers.
Dan Werthimer was in the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak; everyone in the Homebrew Club became ultra-rich except Dan. Dan is currently chief scientist of SETI@home, Breakthrough Listen, and several SETI programs at the University of California, Berkeley. Werthimer also directs the Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER), and is associate director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). Werthimer was an associate professor in the engineering and physics departments of San Francisco State University and a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, the University of St. Charles in Marseille, and Eotvos University in Budapest.
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  • @chicoliu6057
    @chicoliu60573 жыл бұрын

    Coming from 2020, I can confirm that the Arecibo telescope has also been zapped by hostile space aliens!

  • @blazemanize21

    @blazemanize21

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did the Space Aliens who destroyed Arecibo space telescope use Jewish Space Lasers like famed congressional conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene a la QAnon warned? 😂😂😂

  • @chicoliu6057

    @chicoliu6057

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@blazemanize21 lol absolutely

  • @finanzasyalgomasconandresm5258

    @finanzasyalgomasconandresm5258

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂te quedo cabron👍

  • @derekflegg2510

    @derekflegg2510

    10 күн бұрын

    What if the aliens we can't find are from the planet we can't find - and our little bug eyed buddies don't want us to find it? 🤔

  • @l.a.french3063
    @l.a.french30634 жыл бұрын

    It's interesting how different people percieve things. Most people have negative comments about this speaker. I liked him. He made a speech (which are often dry) more intetesting by adding some humour. It's very common.

  • @vaxlrstov5856

    @vaxlrstov5856

    3 жыл бұрын

    they aren't sceptical people. they think it useless. you know why? because those professors working so hard to communicate/find communication in ET while ET flying object sometimes can be found in the sky. why dont government just hit those ET flying object then investigate the pilot. really easy solution

  • @UndergroundIndigenousPrimate

    @UndergroundIndigenousPrimate

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vaxlrstov5856 Oh, they`ve done that. But in all the newer UFO videos I`ve seen, they started zipping back & forth, here and there(so fast), like they`re trying not to get hit.

  • @RobertsfunWords
    @RobertsfunWords3 жыл бұрын

    Chances of ET are so slim the search is a waste of time. Nice to hear the software has other, useful uses.

  • @derekflegg2510

    @derekflegg2510

    10 күн бұрын

    What if the aliens we can't find are from the planet we can't find - and our little bug eyed buddies don't want us to find it? 🤔

  • @Saladin239
    @Saladin2393 жыл бұрын

    Found it brilliant . In a few minutes you realise why SETI's job is so difficult(impossible?) . You also realise how precious human life is .

  • @proggravezilla4175

    @proggravezilla4175

    Жыл бұрын

    Except for being a jackass about DJT.

  • @nixonsmateruby1

    @nixonsmateruby1

    5 ай бұрын

    And religion.

  • @Dlytell
    @Dlytell6 жыл бұрын

    If we were to ever pick up a signal from space that is like the barrage of tv and radio transmissions that we put out, even if we have great difficulty decoding it, the mere fact of the existence of ET will cause us to re-prioritize our R&D and getting into space will become very important for everyone.

  • @ticesine6589

    @ticesine6589

    2 жыл бұрын

    It has already happened ! , how do you and most others not know this? The nazis did it with their Vrill Society and Tesla himself said he got a lot of his information that exact way. It just depends on what you believe , the problem is most people these days don't believe in much.

  • @Withnail1969

    @Withnail1969

    Жыл бұрын

    we are clearly alone or we would have picked up plenty of signals by now

  • @daltonpechon7335

    @daltonpechon7335

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Withnail1969 we haven't even explored our local galaxy yet. Much less the far parts of our galaxy. Also who says it has to be intelligent life? Id be super excited if we discovered small creatures on another planet

  • @Withnail1969

    @Withnail1969

    Жыл бұрын

    @@daltonpechon7335 we dont need to explore it to receive radio signals

  • @daltonpechon7335

    @daltonpechon7335

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Withnail1969 who says they have to have radio signals

  • @robbleeker4777
    @robbleeker47775 жыл бұрын

    I can only imagine the reaction of an ET after receiving one of our radio broad casts....Would they classify it by WOW too ?

  • @dizzyspinner648

    @dizzyspinner648

    4 жыл бұрын

    The "Wow!" signal is exactly what should be expected when both sender and receiver are on rotating planets in star systems that are moving at terrific speeds. You'd probably get a brief signal that didn't repeat because you'd rapidly move out of alignment and the signal would no longer be directed toward you. And at interstellar distances signals are incredibly weak.

  • @pacovasda5955

    @pacovasda5955

    4 жыл бұрын

    it depends on how hungry they are

  • @admiralbenbow5083

    @admiralbenbow5083

    Жыл бұрын

    LWA, leave well alone.

  • @kingjames6459
    @kingjames64596 жыл бұрын

    We are not alone and never were. There is life everywhere in every part of space.There is no place where life does not exist always from 3D to 12D.

  • @dierdrebolton6806
    @dierdrebolton6806 Жыл бұрын

    Trying to pretend Earth is still trying to contact Aliens when government know they’re already here

  • @randaljbatty
    @randaljbatty5 жыл бұрын

    We may have to consider that "intelligent" life, e.g., an intelligence that uses technology in our own manner, may be several trillion more rare than previously estimated. Not a happy prospect, but one that may end up being a reality.

  • @rickyricardo520
    @rickyricardo5205 жыл бұрын

    I sure hope there is intelligent life somewhere because it sure isn’t on this planet!

  • @dianejean4522

    @dianejean4522

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ha Ha ........ I love you and Lucy..... Peace baby

  • @jacobsmith818

    @jacobsmith818

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dianejean4522 Truth! Evidence is our current president here in the United States, Joe Biden...how were our best choices Trump or Biden, lose lose situation

  • @Xentrick

    @Xentrick

    3 жыл бұрын

    We’ve only been out of the caves for 30k. We have a lot of potential but we’re still using Stone Age neurological hardware to run modern cerebral software.

  • @brunov958
    @brunov9583 жыл бұрын

    Great personality!

  • @Nautilus1972
    @Nautilus19724 жыл бұрын

    They've already found us, they're already here. @t

  • @leekenyon8705

    @leekenyon8705

    3 жыл бұрын

    No creditable evidence has ever been discovered that suggests that life exist anyplace else in the universe making such claims the stuff of fantasy and wishful thinking.

  • @youraverageguy2495

    @youraverageguy2495

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@leekenyon8705 How do you explain UFOs

  • @sideswiped6874
    @sideswiped68745 жыл бұрын

    I called SETI once, no one would talk to me, I felt that was wrong of them

  • @Holy_hand-grenade
    @Holy_hand-grenade6 жыл бұрын

    Gotta love how SETI sent out directions to earth without asking the rest of us if we were cool with the idea... 50/50 odds they’re friendly explorers vs. parasitic colonizers.

  • @Paul-te8mz

    @Paul-te8mz

    6 жыл бұрын

    It wasn't SETI who sent out. I think it was a UN or a US initiative. In any event, the hyper extraordinary energy required to travel and communicate between stars is highly unlikely to have arisen from a combative rather than a collaborative enterprise, so I would suggest that any advanced civilization which choses to contact us is about 90% more interested in assisting us than eating us, though more like 95% more interested in ignoring us.

  • @MichelleDespres

    @MichelleDespres

    4 жыл бұрын

    Holy_Hand_Grenade-of-Antioch they’ve been here since the beginning. They made us. If they were hostile we’d have already been destroyed. Remember when we sent that info out into space from the Arecibo radio station in Puerto Rico way back in the 70s? They replied with a crop circle in the early 2000s I believe with a response to our message. Look it up. It’s proof positive to me. Evolution theory is lacking many vital answers to our questions... where’s this “missing link”?

  • @pacovasda5955

    @pacovasda5955

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MichelleDespres and that's it? so you feel there's no other intelligent life other than us and our monkey makers?

  • @GeneralCane

    @GeneralCane

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well either way you have to admit that it would spice things up on this planet.

  • @gremlinsarered5259

    @gremlinsarered5259

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pretty much absolute probability any alien civilisation will have out competed millions of species on their own world...they will be, like us, the apex predator...there's no 50/50 about that.

  • @snirhadary
    @snirhadary4 жыл бұрын

    Advanced ET civilizations do not make contact through electromagnetic communication devices, but through consciousness. If SETI would invest it's 100M$ budget on CE-5 related projects we would be in a whole different new world.

  • @ShorkGamer
    @ShorkGamer3 жыл бұрын

    8:58 it actually zapped 2020, a line of cables broke

  • @edwin7126
    @edwin71265 жыл бұрын

    I think it's more like primitive life looking for advanced life

  • @derekflegg2510

    @derekflegg2510

    10 күн бұрын

    What if the aliens we can't find are from the planet we can't find - and our little bug eyed buddies don't want us to find it? 🤔

  • @yootoober2009
    @yootoober20094 жыл бұрын

    In the movie Contact 1997, Jodie Foster intercepted and decoded an alien message that gave us the plan on how to build a time travel machine. The technical plans in the message was encoded in the track between each frame of video. So the government built one (two actually). And Jodie went somewhere and talked to the "alien. Great movie! What if we encode a message in laser beam pulses, like a morse code with short and long blank spaces between each laser "chunk". That would "identify" them as artificial light. Then the message can travel at the speed of light. Then, broadcast the laser message beams from points of the globe to cover the whole universe. Then wait for the "reply"..

  • @PeteOliva

    @PeteOliva

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great movie. One of the best science fiction movies ever, in my opinion. It was very intelligently made, and did an excellent job of blending its more fantastical elements with hard science, and then synthesizing the two approaches perfectly by the end. Cool idea, by the way.

  • @astronmr20

    @astronmr20

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's basically what Aricebo did in the 70's.

  • @fobusas
    @fobusas5 жыл бұрын

    Moore's law projections are so outdated on that slide. Last data point from like 2002? Computers hit power wall by 2006 (Dennard scaling), and by 2012-15 it slowed down significantly. Heck, we've been on the same node for the past 4/5 years now. Industry is struggling to reach 10nm, let alone smaller.

  • @douglasbeaulac4499
    @douglasbeaulac4499 Жыл бұрын

    It would seem to me that ETS have already found us and when their ready, or when they evaluate that we're ready, they'll make themselves known to us. In fact, this may have already taken place and it's our leaders who are keeping this information under wraps.

  • @craigscott5661
    @craigscott56614 жыл бұрын

    Not sure what’s more terrifying the fact that we may not be alone or the fact that we are.

  • @kicknadeadcat
    @kicknadeadcat4 жыл бұрын

    We should be concentrating on the search for terrestrial intelligence. So far no one has been found.

  • @degan1919
    @degan19195 жыл бұрын

    He didn't do enough research when he quoted Moore's law. Moore's original law has been stagnating for the past few years and from Moore himself, "I see Moore's law dying here in the next decade or so" - 2015. Computers are becoming more effective due to advancements in the understanding of quantum mechanics and designing chips that don't follow the standard Von Neumann architectures; as well as many other technologies.

  • @awakeawareness1759
    @awakeawareness17593 жыл бұрын

    Within 20 years we will make contact!

  • @Dulcimerea
    @Dulcimerea5 жыл бұрын

    Since 1982, humanity has gone from E.T. to E.D.

  • @leekenyon8705

    @leekenyon8705

    3 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps some fancy, Alien life of could of long since been replaced with robots and machines that slowly took over the alien civilizations that end up controlling everything from the military , police, tech and science labs, development , news , internet, media to mining refining and manufacturing of everything and then slowly reduced the alien population and managed to keep twisting the truth just enough to keep the aliens from being suspicious except for a handful of paranoids individuals that believed that the drop in the population was the fault of the machines and never reached numbers to even worry the machines until finally the aliens died out or where transferred to a domed animal preserve in case of needed lab animals in the future. Robots are our friends.

  • @alexismamadou2193
    @alexismamadou21937 жыл бұрын

    That's my first encounter with a violent bashing of Carl Sagan's voyager: "porno to the stars", really?? Indicating our position out there on that golden plate is foolish, I agree. But the man was a poet and it was fantastic reality TV.

  • @kevino8172

    @kevino8172

    6 жыл бұрын

    what else would you expect from a jealous college professor.

  • @alexismamadou2193

    @alexismamadou2193

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's right, a little bit.

  • @shananagans5

    @shananagans5

    6 жыл бұрын

    Alexis: I do agree it would be foolish to announce our position but Voyager is to slow to really get anywhere & they knew that. It was launched 40 years ago & just now left our solar system. If anything is going to announce our position, it will be the high powered radio & TV broadcasts starting 90+ years ago and are still traveling through space 17,000 times faster than Voyager. Even signals sent out by Voyager will forever be 50 years behind early TV & radio broadcasts. Voyager's main function was to get people interested in science, the universe etc & exactly like you say, it did that beautifully. It truly was fantastic reality TV.

  • @RedWinePlease
    @RedWinePlease6 жыл бұрын

    I am mixed on this. How do we balance the introduction/invasion of one species into another environment due to man's intentional/unintentional actions against human's pursuit of short/long term values? Aren't sidewalks, lawns, roads, and buildings like an alien species in an environment? Therefore, should human migration and spread be minimized or eliminated so as not to harm an environment? Is any configuration of nature better than another? Better for whom and for what? Like any discussions about values, the answer will be gray not b/w and should be resolved thru politics.

  • @sparkynm156

    @sparkynm156

    4 жыл бұрын

    All Hail the Great Picard ! If we kill the ones who angered him, he will give us Favors, he can bring back those we lost last winter.. The Prime Directive a good starting point? Could be a fun discussion. As much Star Trek as I've watched yet you bringing that up got some rusty gears in my head turning.. (Inject random hate comment hear) continue statement.. Great point, I guess it's like Antarctica and the guy who tried three times to sail there. Out in the middle of nowhere while trying to stay away from shopping lanes and being seen. He was caught and taken to South America.. the third time they showed up with enough pieces of his boat to identify that they stumbled across his wreckage by chance floating in the middle of nowhere and no survivors. We aren't "Allowed " to see the universe, let alone Earth...

  • @scottehftm
    @scottehftm4 жыл бұрын

    I remember the running SETI at home in the 90s, the first P2P collaboration I recall hearing about. Paved the way for Bittorent and then of course Bitcoin. :D

  • @shereepfeiffer6356
    @shereepfeiffer63565 жыл бұрын

    Thank goodness Star Trek has already addressed a lot of the ethical issues

  • @MikeHughesShooter

    @MikeHughesShooter

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sheree Pfeiffer War. Poverty. Disease. Star Trek tackles the big ones.

  • @jamesblunt006
    @jamesblunt0065 жыл бұрын

    Summary: - No ET so far - We're still working on it.

  • @jondoe2099

    @jondoe2099

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. The title alone lets me know this guy doesnt have a clue. Not a single clue.

  • @workingonanames

    @workingonanames

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jondoe2099 It's his own summary of what he talked about

  • @jondoe2099

    @jondoe2099

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@workingonanames thats fair. I guess when your looking at title to get an idea of ptesentation, it comes across as he doesnt know if we are alone. (Obviously not alone.) Very good point you made.

  • @RobertsfunWords

    @RobertsfunWords

    3 жыл бұрын

    We are alone. This summary will be on a slide in 100 years

  • @jeffgarcia5210
    @jeffgarcia52105 жыл бұрын

    I use the lights on my blue tooth speaker.. It works great

  • @doublehelixe2616
    @doublehelixe26166 жыл бұрын

    just downloaded the SETI at home software.

  • @Paul-te8mz
    @Paul-te8mz6 жыл бұрын

    Solution for SETI and the Fermi paradox: Scotty, we looked everywhere, all over this blue planet, but there is no sign of intelligent life, just beam me out of here!

  • @Alexi7666
    @Alexi76665 жыл бұрын

    Of course we're not alone. The aliens are just too far away, and even if they could master faster than light travel, they wouldn't care.

  • @JordanConley808
    @JordanConley8084 жыл бұрын

    I see that information map and cannot help think about there areas left out.

  • @killap3nguin
    @killap3nguin5 жыл бұрын

    I bet that’s no longer in Puerto Rico after the hurricane.

  • @Dan.50
    @Dan.506 жыл бұрын

    If it wasn't for government contracts, this guy would be living under a bridge.

  • @TheJulianwilde
    @TheJulianwilde5 жыл бұрын

    Why, as we search for intelligent life...don't we factor in the thousands of "UFO" sightings and experiences that we have had???

  • @adamn2550

    @adamn2550

    4 жыл бұрын

    Julian Wilde because people claiming they might have seen a ufo is not conducive to scientific research

  • @vdw941

    @vdw941

    4 жыл бұрын

    A 8 that didn’t age well...

  • @FreakyChumy

    @FreakyChumy

    3 жыл бұрын

    LOL yeah, I guess they're just waiting until ETs will finally introduce themselves to the public.

  • @RobertsfunWords

    @RobertsfunWords

    3 жыл бұрын

    If a legit one ever happens, someone will take a look. Btw look up.what UFO means. It doesn't mean alens

  • @jakubhladik5898

    @jakubhladik5898

    3 жыл бұрын

    Adam N Is looking at the stars not scientific? It’s just people looking at something. You have to first observe something a study it to make a science of it. The evidence for intelligent life visiting this planet of overwhelming. And now the government is finally coming clean. More disclosure to come. Stay tuned. Go to r/ufo to learn more.

  • @Hal5705
    @Hal57054 жыл бұрын

    AWESOME

  • @juanmoralespr
    @juanmoralespr6 жыл бұрын

    join SETI@home project

  • @davidrapalyea7727

    @davidrapalyea7727

    6 жыл бұрын

    Puertorican Family - Seti@home? Very fond memories of my own efforts. I built a dedicated gamer CUDA capable machine for the purpose of achieving the most production for the least power home PC on the planet. Fanless platinum power supply, smallest cpu chip capable of driving the game boards. I ganged two motherboard powered NVIDIA GT-650s with two wired EVGA GT-650s. The results were good. Mostly it just sat their all day crunching numbers. It produced about 100,000 credits (cobblestones) per day drawing about 250 watts. Over a year or two I had accumulated enough total credits in all the BOINC associated projects to rank in the top 99.98% on the planet. Tens if not hundreds of millions cobblestones. Then I upgraded one of the NVIDIA gamer boards and crashed the entire system. I was the only guy in the county who had ever manage to gang up four parrallel CUDA boards and even I could not set this mess straight. So my system has gone dark.

  • @phthisics
    @phthisics5 жыл бұрын

    An article in the September 2018 Scientific American makes a compelling argument for the conclusion that we're probably alone in this galaxy. For example, we have a n unusually powerful Van Allen belt and a truly unsual big Moon--the the result of a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized planet over 4B years ago. That collision gave us a thinner crus--which became the Moon---and a thicker Iron/niickel core; toghether those enable plate terctonics, stabilize Earth on its polar axis, prevents space radiation from sterilizing our planetary surface and from the surface getting weather too violent for advanced life to exist. Plus the discovery and mapping over 320 planets in nearby solar systems shows that our configuration is unique among them, further lowering the likelihood of an Earthlike planet out there. I'd love the galazy to be full of intelligent life, but it's becoming clear that we understimated how unusual Earth is. Too bad we're destroying it, because thrre's no Plan B out there.

  • @ianoconnell7256

    @ianoconnell7256

    5 жыл бұрын

    There's trillions of planets in our galaxy alone ridiculous to conclude there couldn't be any others with similar structures and environment to ours

  • @perfectfutures

    @perfectfutures

    5 жыл бұрын

    Um so life can only live on Earth-like planets? Why? Even on our own planet it lives in a bewildering variety of circumstances and has an incredible ability to adapt to them.

  • @Terlin1466

    @Terlin1466

    4 жыл бұрын

    if we find Life on Europa so called articles will be burned and cease to exist as everyone celebrates the fact life exist in different conditions. Our moon might of played a huge part of our existence but it also plays a huge part of our Religion superstition that help feed us. Also right in our solar system Pluto has a similar issue. Its moon is like our moon very big. So for 2 planets dwarf or what not in 1 solar system to have that probably suggest that the big moon is much more common then you think. your whole thing revolves around the Moon being rare. Now that its debunked we can say while rare in our solar system its probably not in our galaxy.

  • @maximuscomfort

    @maximuscomfort

    3 жыл бұрын

    The vastness of the universe and the fact that it's expanding close to light speed if there is intelligent life it disappeared. The deep and the deeper space pictures from the Hubble scope has not seen a grade 3 civilisation's smiley face.

  • @joebeeber8693
    @joebeeber86935 жыл бұрын

    WE ALL READY HAVE !!!

  • @Latexi_LMX
    @Latexi_LMX4 жыл бұрын

    There is intelligent life in our galaxy, but not human like intelligence, there might be and surely be like apes/dolphins like. So for for human like intelligence we need to start lookin at other galaxies. These latest studies start to show the fact that Humans seem to be the most developed species in Milky Way. Good or bad? Who knows? Maybe we should be proud of that.

  • @Latexi_LMX

    @Latexi_LMX

    4 жыл бұрын

    @PJ Vent Never assume anything, it starts to look like we are the most intelligence species in the Milky Way. Sorry mate, or show me civilisation that outsmart us!

  • @chrisbrown3549
    @chrisbrown35495 жыл бұрын

    God is an alien. ✌🌐

  • @artemislisserman1305
    @artemislisserman13055 жыл бұрын

    Yea right so that you can then forward everything we do to NSA.

  • @Veritas6671
    @Veritas6671 Жыл бұрын

    The last recital of wisdom by Alan Lightman is know to almost all. It should result in almost all being circumspect, yet it does not. WE remain human.

  • @Xentrick
    @Xentrick3 жыл бұрын

    We’ve only been out of the caves for 30k. We have a lot of potential but we’re still using Stone Age neurological hardware to run modern cerebral software.

  • @AceDevGames
    @AceDevGames4 жыл бұрын

    A ET race responded in the crop circles, now what?

  • @Ratcity69

    @Ratcity69

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @adasadas8289

    @adasadas8289

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @inismona27
    @inismona274 жыл бұрын

    File the elementary school anecdote in the "things that never happened" folder

  • @imboblol8238
    @imboblol82385 жыл бұрын

    So who's gonna do the setti program up

  • @mycount64
    @mycount646 жыл бұрын

    The original ideas to communicate wit ET are probably not much different than us looking for radio signals.

  • @knock_knock3007
    @knock_knock30074 жыл бұрын

    After the 2nd political based insertion I started losing interest and staring at walls...

  • @LeofromFreo

    @LeofromFreo

    4 жыл бұрын

    It’s not always about you.

  • @shadyman6346

    @shadyman6346

    4 жыл бұрын

    Leo from Freo I thought it was all about me, lol.

  • @bulldoguf7318

    @bulldoguf7318

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree completely, I just got to that and I’m about to turn it off.

  • @sparkynm156

    @sparkynm156

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@LeofromFreo To bad this guy doesn't see it that way. Instead of teaching he is using his platform to interject hate of something that has nothing to do with him. His comments also don't even relate to the politician mentioned. It's common at many schools with certain funders. It's called conditioning and it is generally subtle but lately they have gotten blatant about it. Where was he over the last 20 plus years? Plenty of deserved hate there.

  • @placerdemaio

    @placerdemaio

    4 жыл бұрын

    ahh republicans.... haha

  • @aaronbarlow4376
    @aaronbarlow43765 жыл бұрын

    Girls would nag the ice away.

  • @jamesblunt006

    @jamesblunt006

    5 жыл бұрын

    Most underrated comment here.

  • @tattabox

    @tattabox

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not by me

  • @jasmineluxemburg6200

    @jasmineluxemburg6200

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes they might, but not before they squashed all you low life misogynists !

  • @nufansm

    @nufansm

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jasmineluxemburg6200 was that a joke? I know the first one was... and it was kinda funny, even though he didn't call names :/

  • @stuartfury3390

    @stuartfury3390

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jasmine Luxemburg girls arent strong enough to squash anything.

  • @oscarmuffin4322
    @oscarmuffin43225 жыл бұрын

    Just an Englishman passing through that doesn't give two fucks about US politics. Good presentation.

  • @tonycampbell4982
    @tonycampbell49825 жыл бұрын

    There is life out there we have to change our bodies hence project human 2.0 and faster ships or non human missions using robots. If the big bang is real all life no matter how far away from us it is is about the same age only that matter may work different in that galaxy or part of space. Its not a matter of when we find life elsewhere will we servive with our differences here to have such a discovery bestow onto us.

  • @jfitz3133
    @jfitz31335 жыл бұрын

    One thing about Tedtalk,: anything relevant will never appear here.

  • @jfitz3133

    @jfitz3133

    5 жыл бұрын

    disinformation controlled by the money-minds, and brainwashers. I see you.

  • @bigmaristuff
    @bigmaristuff6 жыл бұрын

    I am surprised at how thin skinned some people are . Instead of taking the time to comment on the content of what was presented by a speaker who apparently has many years of experience in this field , they choose to dwell on on a comment or two about some two bit politician enjoying his 15 minutes of fame who is quite frankly, here today and gone tomorrow. I for one will be downloading the screen saver on to my PC.

  • @jamesblunt006

    @jamesblunt006

    5 жыл бұрын

    These people are snowflakes.

  • @klash4527

    @klash4527

    4 жыл бұрын

    Big Maristuff me too

  • @kclevitt1

    @kclevitt1

    4 жыл бұрын

    LMAO

  • @l.a.french3063

    @l.a.french3063

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree.

  • @kansascityshuffle4141
    @kansascityshuffle41416 жыл бұрын

    It seems everytime I hear about this habitable zone i disagree, temperature seems not as concrete as stated. What you need is a planet with water. The distance from the sun seems not nearly as important as I think led on. 4/5 of those based on temperature alone are habitable at some point. Mercury - 275 °F (- 170°C) + 840 °F (+ 449°C) Venus + 870 °F (+ 465°C) + 870 °F (+ 465°C) Earth - 129 °F (- 89°C) + 136 °F (+ 58°C) Moon - 280 °F (- 173°C) + 260 °F (+ 127°C) Mars - 195 °F (- 125°C) + 70 °F (+ 20°C)

  • @petefluffy7420
    @petefluffy742011 ай бұрын

    There are very many games that add extra time, it will be easy to find.

  • @ambientsoda106
    @ambientsoda1064 жыл бұрын

    interesting but i see an image using sound that is a mixture of 2d and 3d...essentially a person being dropped down from space with reddish skin...a white spaceman lol...

  • @Paddyllfixit
    @Paddyllfixit5 жыл бұрын

    "They" are already here, and have been for a very long time. Forget SETI, Silly Effort To Investigate.

  • @tabularasa9554
    @tabularasa95542 жыл бұрын

    The short explanation: 1. No we are NOT alone. The human race is one of the youngest sentient races in the Universe. 2. Not likely. The human race is too primitive for Contact to be worthwhile, but still a curiosity because we are so unlike other alien races. All other alien races never went through a Self Destructive phase.

  • @rawdog42
    @rawdog424 жыл бұрын

    A trillion planets in our Galaxy alone... A trillion into perspective - A million seconds is 11.5 days. A trillion seconds is 34,700 YEARS !

  • @rawdog42

    @rawdog42

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Dirk Knight One. (That we know of so far)

  • @larencegagland506
    @larencegagland5065 жыл бұрын

    A few hundred-thousand yrs, I say BS.

  • @soundmapper
    @soundmapper5 жыл бұрын

    Can't enjoy anything without political bias, can we?

  • @ronalds.658

    @ronalds.658

    5 жыл бұрын

    It would seem he believes his personal political bias is important to the rest. After his political wisecracks, I lost in his talk.

  • @conni70

    @conni70

    5 жыл бұрын

    scientists can be cucks too...

  • @craigbowlby1465

    @craigbowlby1465

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mycount64 I'm afraid that I must disagree with you. Everything about SETI is political. People who make their living by pushing the SETI belief system must be political animals in order to appeal the people who fund them. Generally, the people who fund this nonsense are shallow thinking liberals with much education in biology or the other sciences. The way to reach these people is by pandering to their political views, and that is exactly what this guy is doing.

  • @assassindelasaucisse.4039

    @assassindelasaucisse.4039

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can always crawl back to your safe spaces.

  • @chrisholton2011
    @chrisholton20114 жыл бұрын

    Lick is over 110 years old...great ride by motorcycle and bikes...i have been there close to 50 times...

  • @MayankGaurm
    @MayankGaurm4 жыл бұрын

    One more thing as when we go to other planets we see rocks, ice might be possible ET always look at Antarctica and they haven't find there

  • @jackcummings4121
    @jackcummings41214 жыл бұрын

    WHY EARTH, DID HE HAVE TO POLITICISE THIS ? IT TURNED ME OFF, AND. WILL NOT LISTEN TO HIM AGAIN. POLITICS HAS NO PLACE HERE.

  • @assassindelasaucisse.4039

    @assassindelasaucisse.4039

    4 жыл бұрын

    Crawl back to your safe space, snowflake.

  • @garynorton8122

    @garynorton8122

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@assassindelasaucisse.4039 he's not a snowflake. He's one of us.

  • @justinmorreira6256
    @justinmorreira62564 жыл бұрын

    I was loving this until you kept talking about Trump keep politics out of this s*** man

  • @jhara812

    @jhara812

    4 жыл бұрын

    Republicans pulled SETI's funding 1 year after it started. Science=Progressive, Pandering to the Religious=Regressive. Politics is a huge part of this. (Those SETI telescopes shown just happened to be 2 of the first to ever "collapse").

  • @jaredknuckles

    @jaredknuckles

    4 жыл бұрын

    John O'Hara you realize trump gave nasa a budget bump after Obama cut them for 8 years right?

  • @wayneg2139

    @wayneg2139

    4 жыл бұрын

    SETI's search for ET has NEVER received funding from the government. EVER! All such research has always been privately funded. SETI has on occasion received government Grants and has partnered with NASA for special not ET related projects. Obama is the one who pulled funding from NASA and others. Trump actually restored funding.

  • @Navigator001

    @Navigator001

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I had to stop the video because his comments made anything he said less credible with me.

  • @Ratcity69
    @Ratcity694 жыл бұрын

    Where do I find the app ??

  • @davidvarley1812
    @davidvarley18122 жыл бұрын

    The golden eye disc recently cracked.

  • @itzed
    @itzed6 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, I think his jokes and references undermine his credibility somewhat.

  • @arnie24070127

    @arnie24070127

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ed Mathews totally agree

  • @robertoatallabjj

    @robertoatallabjj

    5 жыл бұрын

    I am reading the comments but can't waste my time watching the video with a guy since he stated we been asking if we are alone since a few hundred thousand years, he clears have no clue about human evolution or timescales, how can he handle such a complex subject?

  • @Alexi7666

    @Alexi7666

    5 жыл бұрын

    In what way? Donald Trump is a joke in so many ways.

  • @dagon3580
    @dagon35805 жыл бұрын

    Talk about your topic not the President pls

  • @thomasgassett7157
    @thomasgassett71575 жыл бұрын

    How would we react to knowing that humans are the only sentient life in the universe? What would be more incredible, that we are alone or just one of many?

  • @buddyvegas8938
    @buddyvegas89385 жыл бұрын

    The Millky Way! My Galaxy, their are abour 7000 game's running on 10 channels, It is my first panet, it was used for several game's befor I made it my entry level planet, and samples, I'm currently using it for your challenge. ☺have a nice day.G.M.

  • @rickjames5998
    @rickjames59985 жыл бұрын

    jokes about cereal, cool. Poltical jokes in my science lecture? No.

  • @MultiBikerboy1
    @MultiBikerboy14 жыл бұрын

    The lovely ironic thing is that it is Trump who has pressed the green light on disclosure and now it’s rolling out through ‘to the stars academy’. The joke’s on this guy.

  • @reason5591

    @reason5591

    3 жыл бұрын

    This was posted in 2016 I feel sorry for you if you support someone as unintelligent as a man that can only claim he is intelligent. He is pathetic yet dangerous.

  • @MultiBikerboy1

    @MultiBikerboy1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Reason * see the ‘Phil Larson declaration’ issued out in 2011 by Obama.

  • @mickmccrory8534
    @mickmccrory85345 жыл бұрын

    We are looking for "intelligent life". Intelligent life is defined as a civilization that sends out repeating signals that can be located. We do not send out any signals like that, therefore, we are not "Intelligent Life."

  • @343TNT
    @343TNT6 жыл бұрын

    the human didn't ask this question few thousands years ago . they thought the earth was flat and the starts were holes in the big carpet above ...

  • @Joemensa
    @Joemensa5 жыл бұрын

    Stopped listening with off hand comment about President Trump andderrogatory comments about boys v. girls.

  • @DaisyOpals

    @DaisyOpals

    5 жыл бұрын

    yeah if youre a fan of trump you should probably stay far away from science and just keep watching fox news

  • @ericdebord
    @ericdebord5 жыл бұрын

    Ted is getting so bad i cant even watch it anymore. These people talk in circles and tell us nothing new or the least bit interesting. Done. Bye.

  • @karenmoran2944

    @karenmoran2944

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Trump bashing ruined it for me.

  • @reason5591

    @reason5591

    3 жыл бұрын

    This was posted back in 2016! Duh

  • @reason5591

    @reason5591

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@karenmoran2944 i love it! Trump is the worst president ever.

  • @aadyasharma2060
    @aadyasharma20605 жыл бұрын

    Read his description

  • @workingonanames
    @workingonanames4 жыл бұрын

    This comment section is comedic in itself.

  • @spartysmile5243
    @spartysmile52434 жыл бұрын

    Lord help me. I can't even try to learn some science without an intellectual bashing Trump. Note to this smart guy. Blue collar working people want to learn and explore. Keep your propaganda to yourself. We tune into science and here come the thought police..... remember boys and girls here is how to think.

  • @blipmachine

    @blipmachine

    4 жыл бұрын

    Na mate you’re sounding like a flat earther who thinks f@$k climate change and thoughts and prayers to dead kids in schools 🙏

  • @11bfollowme19

    @11bfollowme19

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sparty smile here here!

  • @karenmoran2944

    @karenmoran2944

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well said!

  • @davidoneill913

    @davidoneill913

    Жыл бұрын

    Trump and the search for intelligent life in Murica !!!

  • @baldimusprime3533
    @baldimusprime35334 жыл бұрын

    Lost me by making underhanded political digs, despite the seeming decent ideas regarding how to get a hold of ET. God help us all if they encounter Californian University gasbags first.

  • @Jobby1975
    @Jobby19753 ай бұрын

    Transit Photometry pioneered in San Francisco? Wasnt it by two Swiss guys in Geneva?

  • @tigerclaw8454
    @tigerclaw84545 жыл бұрын

    If there's intelligent life I see something contacting us through radio. In the words of Carl Sagan "We may be the first life" . I find it highly unlikely that we are a 1 IN A QUINTILIAN chance to be the only ones? Maybe there's some kind of life out-there probably not as we know it.

  • @DocHuard
    @DocHuard5 жыл бұрын

    You started out okay, then you started bashing POTUS. No credibility with me after that. Stick to your science and leave your politics in your briefcase.

  • @deplorablepatriot5338

    @deplorablepatriot5338

    5 жыл бұрын

    But Doc, he's smarter than us.

  • @karenportillo-chavarria2855

    @karenportillo-chavarria2855

    5 жыл бұрын

    I lost brain cells reading your comment.

  • @robertlawson7132

    @robertlawson7132

    5 жыл бұрын

    I agree.

  • @nicknack3648

    @nicknack3648

    5 жыл бұрын

    Doc Huard did he hurt your feelings buttercup?

  • @nicknack3648

    @nicknack3648

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@salinagrrrl69 No i'm not from the US mate, people should be able to make a little joke about presidents and world leaders without loads of people throwing their toys out the buggy, people get offended about nothing these days, It is the highly sensitive generation right enough

  • @douglloyd9662
    @douglloyd96624 жыл бұрын

    I did not like the jabs at President Trump.

  • @dhardy6654

    @dhardy6654

    4 жыл бұрын

    I know.

  • @janjae2300

    @janjae2300

    4 жыл бұрын

    Clearly not funny except to those on the left. These nut jobs think they are at some leftist country club where everyone thinks the same as they do. I couldn't finish watching this wind bag.

  • @MikeHughesShooter

    @MikeHughesShooter

    4 жыл бұрын

    Looses focus. I agree.

  • @SkepticRaider

    @SkepticRaider

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was just a joke

  • @theheatshow8324
    @theheatshow832411 ай бұрын

    we've proved this

  • @michaelpitzel5430
    @michaelpitzel54303 жыл бұрын

    When indeed. Consider that we have had radio for about a century at this point. If we continue to use radio in this way for a thousand years, that's a problem. If there are about a million worlds that are somewhat close to us and visible in our galaxy that have once used radio as we do now, that would mean, over the last few billion years, they would have given off a pretty clear signal of it. You see, we here on Earth are many times brighter than the sun in these specific radio wavelengths. In fact, we stick out like a sore thumb when one switches between regular visible light and radio light. First, if we assume that radio is the be all and end all of long distance communication, then, if there were even just thousands of civilizations in the nearby part of the galaxy, still using radio presently, we should see plenty of them out there. But we don't. So eventually civilizations replace radio, or dies trying. But how long do they last with radio? So let us assume that there is some combination of how many radio civilizations there are in the nearby part of our galaxy, at any one time, and also assume, on the average, how long they stay with radio, also on the average, in order that over the last few decades, we haven't seen the evidence of them, despite looking. Let us assume that for the last 4 billion years there has been the opportunity for a civilization to arrive at radio. That's a fair amount of time after the galaxy formed, about 8 billion years, give or take a billion. The fractions are within a single order of magnitude, so we can work with that. At 4 billion years, at 10 million civilizations, on average that means that the limit is that every 400 years on average a new one appears locally. Let's say that we've been watching for 100 years. Under these assumptions, we could watch for an average of 300 more years before detecting another one of us just starting. However, if they hold on to radio for 1,000 years, we should see at least 1 or more of them at this time anyway. So, locally, there should be less than 10 million such civilizations, and they should last with radio for less about 1,000 years each, on average. Otherwise, that's 10 billion radio years in 4 billion galaxy years. They should be easily found around us. So that's a kind of limit on these two variables. However, for instance, if there were only about 1 million such civilizations, out of the billions or so suns in our galaxy, that would mean a new one appears every 4,000 years. Even if they last for 1,000 years, that would mean a long enough, on the average, wait in between them so that we wouldn't see them if we looked for say 100 years. Or there could be 10 million or so such civilizations, each holding on to radio for slightly more than 100 years. That would do it too, on the average, but not for 100 years of searching, unless we were particularly lucky, or unlucky, depending. What this means is that, since we don't see many neighbors with our obvious pattern of visibility in visible and radio wavelengths, one of 2 things is true. Either being a civilization with radio spells doom for it within a short period of time, much less than 1,000 years, or they are smart enough to graduate to something else, and become effectively radio dark within a fairly short period of time after the first 100 years, or so. I pray that it's the latter. If so, however, then that establishes a different problem. What replaces radio? Is it some kind of sub-space radio, that takes advantage of the 4 dimensional sub-space that we are really in, as a 3 dimensional surface universe? When do we start to properly investigate hyperspace so that we can find this novel form of communication? Perhaps we must find a new model of the standard model of particles that explains dark matter as a 4th, and above, dimensional model of this invisible matter and energy. Do we have a 3-ball model for matter? Yes, we do. It's called the TRIMOBIUS(R), and was patented under US Patent 4,138,744. Go figure. Let's start an investigation right away.

  • @brianmcnellis5512

    @brianmcnellis5512

    3 жыл бұрын

    Huh?

  • @w.c.orielly9059
    @w.c.orielly90594 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes you can just tell when you don't like someone right away, I don't like his "style" at all... I'm out

  • @beenrare

    @beenrare

    4 жыл бұрын

    You don’t like his energy or vibration that’s all

  • @sunpallinkarvat
    @sunpallinkarvat4 жыл бұрын

    FYI You'll get fired from Berkeley if you don't joke about Trump in every talk.

  • @sameasnow

    @sameasnow

    4 жыл бұрын

    and of course its unfortunate that boys and girls are already different at a young age god forbid our species have two distinct sexes, anethema.

  • @mathewfonger7048

    @mathewfonger7048

    4 жыл бұрын

    Trump sucks

  • @sameasnow

    @sameasnow

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mathewfonger7048 go on we're listening no doubt you have something insightful to say

  • @sunpallinkarvat

    @sunpallinkarvat

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mathewfonger7048 Nice argument, man! Orange man,,,, bad,,,,, rump,,, bad!

  • @mathewfonger7048

    @mathewfonger7048

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@sunpallinkarvat 50. 50 with YOU.. U r interesting.. I like interesting.. Not boring

  • @Patrick.Edgar.Regini
    @Patrick.Edgar.Regini5 жыл бұрын

    How these scientists conclude "we are alone" is mindboggling! Why don't any of them factor in the progress of a growing intelligent engineering and scientific capacity as another part of the equation? Have they all forgotten we couldn't do much better than walk anywhere some centuries ago? Or that we would die of a common cold, and be eaten by Tigers ? He said that in that year long metaphor of the Universe's existence, we came in during the last 12 hours of the year, but life in other worlds could have been existing for six months. WELL ... how capable would some of those intelligent beings be by now THEN !? I think we all need to face the fact that what we don't know or understand yet, is why THEY DO NOT WANT US TO KNOW THEY'RE THERE ! Or why they may have to wait for us to confirm to ourselves that they are there, or reach some phase of development, and that they have always been there even before we were here, waiting for us to realize that without needing to prove it. In other words, a 180 degree turn around from how we think of it today. There's nothing to discover or prove. We are either their plan, their intention, their monitoring, their offshoot, their children, their workhorse, their thing they do or created for whatever reason... we just don't know. They're either watching, or waiting, or using us, or raising us, but what we do know is that the situation is reversed to how we are thinking about it. None of these guys factor in the exponential acceleration of intelligent material and communicative progress ! It's unbelievable . Aren't people just stunned that scientists themselves are not saying this?

  • @fullbowl2125
    @fullbowl21256 жыл бұрын

    So if I found et life, do I put my name on it? What is in it for me?

  • @jsigmon57
    @jsigmon575 жыл бұрын

    Can we not have a science lesson without getting political?

  • @karenportillo-chavarria2855

    @karenportillo-chavarria2855

    5 жыл бұрын

    Joe, we kind of have to when we have a president that doesn't belive in science.

  • @bobby33x97

    @bobby33x97

    5 жыл бұрын

    No, because that's what PHONY, Left-Wing Jews do everywhere!

  • @moby1kanob

    @moby1kanob

    5 жыл бұрын

    he is a Democrat who still can not get over the election, of course not

  • @jamesblunt006

    @jamesblunt006

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh did he trigger a snowflake Trumptard?

  • @soundboy57
    @soundboy575 жыл бұрын

    Stopped after the second political Jab.

  • @georgeworthmore

    @georgeworthmore

    4 жыл бұрын

    His juxtaposing of the way Trump attempts to problem solve with those of a 3rd grade schoolboy , while somewhat gratuitous, was accurate. And he did get a laugh from a room full of other intelligent people who also see Donald Trump as an unfortunate joke. Trump was punchline way before this lecture

  • @assassindelasaucisse.4039

    @assassindelasaucisse.4039

    4 жыл бұрын

    Triggered.

  • @suryakaushik.tutorialsandp6450
    @suryakaushik.tutorialsandp64504 жыл бұрын

    What if we are seeing the et's far past due to the delay in the reaching of there light to us???

  • @sijojose9447
    @sijojose94473 жыл бұрын

    Arecibo Telescope has been zapped !!!!!!

  • @ryanculp5166
    @ryanculp51665 жыл бұрын

    Politics yay! Stopped watching. Too much TDS going on.

  • @aujax1

    @aujax1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ryan Culp trump is deranged enough. no need for tds

  • @nicknack8459

    @nicknack8459

    4 жыл бұрын

    Then he says right after that boys and girls are different adding "unfortunately" to the end of it. Yup. What a freaking far-left weirdo.

  • @SPQR7117

    @SPQR7117

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@aujax1 His opposition daily says "hold my beer" tho. Its a competition none of us care for.

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