Lawrence Krauss - Why aren't Aliens Already Here?

It seems absurd in a universe with 100 billion galaxies, each with billions of stars and planets, that we are the only intelligent life. So where are all the others?
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  • @tmfd9476
    @tmfd94763 жыл бұрын

    A tribesman on an island then could say “if there’s all these high tech and foreign people, why haven’t I seen them?” There needs to be a reason for others to go there.

  • @onebillionseconds

    @onebillionseconds

    Жыл бұрын

    Doesn’t work. The tribesman no matter how remote would still be able to see evidence of said people, aircraft, occasional trash/debris in the water from ocean currents, etc. We have absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any technological beings ever having existed in our universe let alone the galaxy.

  • @nmh1120

    @nmh1120

    Жыл бұрын

    they have seen them. they look up in the sky and see commercial jets flying all the time.

  • @stenkarasin2091
    @stenkarasin20915 жыл бұрын

    Not to mention that we only appeared a moment ago by the standards of the universe, maybe they just haven't had time to notice us yet.

  • @ronaldsnooker6597

    @ronaldsnooker6597

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good point but I draw a different conclusion in that we r alone since it’s extremely improbable to near impossible to have intelligence in 2 places or more at the same blink of an eye.

  • @hamiltonmays4256

    @hamiltonmays4256

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ronaldsnooker6597 But is that actually improbable, and if so, how would you know?

  • @klasgroup

    @klasgroup

    2 жыл бұрын

    They may have visited, they may know about us. Earth may not be interesting enough for them.

  • @lynnlynn1317

    @lynnlynn1317

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.infojvs2FZlJguQ👈🏻👈🏻😐😐🤧🤧👍👍

  • @brud1729

    @brud1729

    Жыл бұрын

    Certainly a correct observation, seemingly overlooked in most discussions of the question. And when we are noticed it will take at least an equal number of years for them to respond.

  • @cato451
    @cato4517 жыл бұрын

    I often think I am an alien because I feel like an observer to the idiocy on this planet.

  • @tudorcarausu2378

    @tudorcarausu2378

    7 жыл бұрын

    it is a common thing between people.

  • @emocity720

    @emocity720

    7 жыл бұрын

    Finally I have found my alien comrades. Let's conquer this primitive civilization.

  • @partsunknown9738

    @partsunknown9738

    6 жыл бұрын

    I feel the same from time to time I thought I was crazy though

  • @srogers500

    @srogers500

    6 жыл бұрын

    Just means you think you're better than everybody else. You're not.

  • @rockroll9473

    @rockroll9473

    6 жыл бұрын

    Your world maybe.

  • @duncanwallace7760
    @duncanwallace77606 жыл бұрын

    Lawrence didn't mention time. A civilisation could arise, spread and then go extinct and in the vastness of time 'miss' another civilisation which arises in a similar area a billion years later. Understanding the vastness of space and time is hard. One thing which brought it home was the video game Elite Dangerous, which has been out for around three years, and is based on our galaxy. With thousands of players exploring and the ability to 'warp' hundreds of light years in a short time, over 112.8 million unique star systems have been discovered by players in the three years the game has been out. That represents 0.028% of the milky way... and we're just one of billions of galaxies. So yes, civilisations could easily miss each other across space and time.

  • @catherinalee6234

    @catherinalee6234

    5 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, time!!!!

  • @kenneths.perlman1112

    @kenneths.perlman1112

    Жыл бұрын

    2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

  • @wayneasiam65
    @wayneasiam653 жыл бұрын

    I remember a few years back when the esteemed Dr. Krauss responded online to one of my conjectures by saying... wrong, wrong and...wrong. Priceless.

  • @hamiltonmays4256

    @hamiltonmays4256

    3 жыл бұрын

    I imagine you're still thanking him to this day...I hope I would.

  • @Jeremy-ql1or
    @Jeremy-ql1or5 жыл бұрын

    It seems like the most likely explanation for "Why haven't we seen aliens" is that interstellar travel simply isn't possible. Even a super advanced intelligence might not be able to make a vehicle that can travel to other galaxies.

  • @BlitzOfTheReich

    @BlitzOfTheReich

    2 жыл бұрын

    but with present technology, we could actually reach 20% the speed of light.

  • @paulallenscards

    @paulallenscards

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@BlitzOfTheReich I like how you didn’t elaborate on that claim in any way

  • @BlitzOfTheReich

    @BlitzOfTheReich

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@paulallenscards you never asked. Truth is we can technically achieve 20% of the speed of light especially with light sails. We would carry fuck all on them, but they would still work.

  • @paulallenscards

    @paulallenscards

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@BlitzOfTheReich we theoretically understand how to. If we actually could, then we would’ve done so by now.

  • @Luka1180

    @Luka1180

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paulallenscards No

  • @ThatOneScienceGuy
    @ThatOneScienceGuy6 жыл бұрын

    I can barely contain my excitement when I think about the possibility of not only finding one other life form out there but dozens. To think that we could at some point have a kind of interstellar multi civilization sort of thing going on is just mind bending. We’re so alone here as humans. I’d love to come into contact with other civilizations and get their opinions on the nature of reality and what they think about this universe we’ve evolved in. If they’re more advanced than us I’d love to learn about what they’ve learned about the universe.

  • @trauma4465

    @trauma4465

    3 жыл бұрын

    If there is life elsewhere its depressing too think they don’t want anything too do with us.

  • @brud1729

    @brud1729

    Жыл бұрын

    The likelihood that we could have a conversation with other civilizations is nearly non-existent given the enormous distances involved and the fact that the speed of light, even as fast as it is, limits this possibility.

  • @JohnSmith-cg3cv

    @JohnSmith-cg3cv

    5 ай бұрын

    What you’re describing would basically happen once we reach artificial Superintelligence, which as I see it would be far more creative and intelligent than any human that has ever existed and is far more likely to happen, it seems to me, than communicating with aliens anytime soon.

  • @sapanacharya1365
    @sapanacharya13653 жыл бұрын

    Let's take a moment and acknowledge what wholesome statement this guy made earlier in the video. I will definitely buy his book

  • @svendtang5432

    @svendtang5432

    2 жыл бұрын

    Being on planet is perilous..its gone nearly instinct several times.

  • @glennsimonsen8421

    @glennsimonsen8421

    Жыл бұрын

    Krauss, wholesome? You got the wrong guy.

  • @zerge69
    @zerge694 жыл бұрын

    Aliens are already here. Let's stop pretending they are not.

  • @fraser_mr2009

    @fraser_mr2009

    3 жыл бұрын

    no they are not

  • @MikaelLewisify

    @MikaelLewisify

    3 жыл бұрын

    Idiots are certainly here.

  • @carlospowell7672

    @carlospowell7672

    3 жыл бұрын

    Prove it.

  • @larmufc1

    @larmufc1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Navy videos.. Looks like your right bro

  • @larkstonguesinaspic4814
    @larkstonguesinaspic48146 жыл бұрын

    I don't know man Space is really big and there isn't much chance that we hear about or meet other civilizations in the galaxy. It just requires too many resources and too much energy to travel distances between stars. And also we haven't been looking for them for that long either. We humans existed on small portion of earths history and even recorded much much smaller part of it. And we've been only listening for signals 70 years or so. And in terms of Space exploration our Voyagers just got out of the system and humans only went as far as the moon. So what I mean is we basically took a glass of water out of the ocean, looked at it and said " well I don't see any sharks or whales so where are they why aren't they here "

  • @beatleystoned

    @beatleystoned

    5 жыл бұрын

    Larks' Tongues In Aspic Says Neil deGrasse Tyson almost word for word.

  • @philosopher0076

    @philosopher0076

    4 жыл бұрын

    And yet, with all that said...and that we are a spec in even just this galaxy....Aliens have already been here for certain...so that tells us that the galaxy and universe must be teaming with just tons of intelligent life. And THAT is damn thrilling I must say.

  • @TheCarnivalguy

    @TheCarnivalguy

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@beatleystoned yes, I recognized the plagiarism also. I'm a fan of Dr. Tyson and have heard those same thoughts and ideas in various lectures he has given.

  • @fraser_mr2009

    @fraser_mr2009

    3 жыл бұрын

    that doesn't cut it. they are millions of years more advanced..

  • @TheGreatAlan75
    @TheGreatAlan756 жыл бұрын

    There are so many stars that even if the odds of life were a billion to one, that means there would be millions of planets with life

  • @coltonpasnik

    @coltonpasnik

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's probably much less than a billion to one.

  • @StanTheObserver-lo8rx

    @StanTheObserver-lo8rx

    5 жыл бұрын

    Or much much more.

  • @StanTheObserver-lo8rx

    @StanTheObserver-lo8rx

    5 жыл бұрын

    What are odds you were born? where you are? and at this exact time? Jillions to one?

  • @bozo5632

    @bozo5632

    3 жыл бұрын

    I bet life is a lot closer to 1:1 than to a billion to one. (We will know the answer in a decade or two.) It might even be MORE than 1:1.

  • @jeffdunlap2754
    @jeffdunlap27543 жыл бұрын

    If you could even manage to get a large space craft to go 1/10th of the speed of light, and assuming there is no advanced life in this galaxy, but there is in the Andromeda galaxy, it would only take you 25 million years to get there. Keep in mind that the Aliens have to follow the same laws of physics we do. No free rides. It's all about distance, physics, and evolution, and the fact that super intelligent beings are rare and separated by uncrossable distances, no matter what they are capable of building. We keep assuming that the universe was somehow created for us. It wasn't, we just happen to be here..

  • @RazvanGiurgiuca
    @RazvanGiurgiuca7 жыл бұрын

    where is the full interview ?

  • @richardfrascone24
    @richardfrascone245 жыл бұрын

    These guys amaze me!!!!!

  • @Drew15000
    @Drew150006 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting stuff

  • @LuisHernandez-ep8bb
    @LuisHernandez-ep8bb7 жыл бұрын

    I WILL BUILD A WALL FOR ALIENS ALSO

  • @jries77

    @jries77

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha!

  • @monkeyfacelove1283

    @monkeyfacelove1283

    7 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @brettperry3737

    @brettperry3737

    7 жыл бұрын

    Not a wall! He's gonna keep em out with a giant net!

  • @adamromero

    @adamromero

    7 жыл бұрын

    will they pay for it?

  • @betaneptune

    @betaneptune

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not meaning to be overly nitpicky, but I think it would be good to add SPACE to ALIENS in your statement.

  • @braindeadobserver1340
    @braindeadobserver13403 жыл бұрын

    I think that the aliens have picked up our broad cast of star wars and have decided to be quiet

  • @citadelonearth7907
    @citadelonearth79073 жыл бұрын

    This was such a great discussion. Krauss made very good points.

  • @bluemarlin2004
    @bluemarlin20045 жыл бұрын

    All streams goes downhill? Why abiogenesis is running the opposite direaction Krauss?

  • @lebroy1196
    @lebroy11967 жыл бұрын

    The funniest moment on this entire channel is at 1:22 poor old Lawrence

  • @peterrayson4397
    @peterrayson4397 Жыл бұрын

    Compounding Fermi paradox is that in an advanced civilization, it would just take one individual to decide to colonize the galaxy, not the civilization as a whole.

  • @juiceski30
    @juiceski306 жыл бұрын

    Size and speed. The problem is now most people don't have an understanding of mathematics, therefor, they don't understand the size and expansion of the universe makes extra terrestrial contact statistically improbable.

  • @Triple7000
    @Triple70002 жыл бұрын

    I think we're all alone in this universe. But if another intelligent creature happened to discover us, I don't think it would come near us. I think it would look at us as some kind of growth and stay as far away as it could. I think it would try to prevent getting infected or exposed to the life that is here on Earth

  • @UnDaoDu
    @UnDaoDu Жыл бұрын

    Krauss at his best!

  • @donald347
    @donald3477 жыл бұрын

    This is what I'm thinking re: Fermi. As technology increases, the need for land decreases as we've seen. Also, why o we assume a successdul species is one with many individuals? Maybe it works better to only have a small community, at least for some species.

  • @alpharomeo1772
    @alpharomeo17723 жыл бұрын

    In Hinduism we believe in power of mind. One can travel with mind to different corners of the universe. It may sound bizarre but future travel, if there will be any across the cosmos, it will be on mind as whole universe is conscious and we are part of it.

  • @danielsanders5997
    @danielsanders599711 ай бұрын

    “I … believe it’s out there (intelligent life) and that’s good enough for me”. He believes. It’s good enough for him.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    There are probably around 1 million intelligent alien civilizations in galaxy that are not technologically advanced and may never be, possibly for reason not to destroy themselves technologically; for which reason without technology very difficult for us to find.

  • @NormBa
    @NormBa4 жыл бұрын

    The question is plagued perhaps by some anthropomorphisms. Why would aliens, if they existed, necessarily be in possession of 'human curiosity' or an expansive communitarian spirit? I think we have a speciated term again: human outreach. Krauss makes an interesting point about all evolutionary endeavors not necessarily pursuing advancing intelligence. Could some environments be so hostile that intelligence is a hindrance. Arguably one definition of intelligence could be an organism's adaptation to its environment. I'm thinking too of Don hoffman's suitedness as opposed to veridicality or aptitude.

  • @raymondparsley7442
    @raymondparsley74424 жыл бұрын

    Krauss is correct and honest in saying: ''Even if there's life out there, we can never know about it... and that's sad to me." This, of course, speaks to the vastness of space... which also makes communication with "aliens" virtually impossible. Our real interest and challenge as humans, it seems to me, should be that of exploring, and possibly colonizing our own solar system.

  • @jonathanbolger6173
    @jonathanbolger61736 жыл бұрын

    The vast distances and the sheer amount of energy and fuel it takes to travel in space makes me think it's just too difficult, even if there is more intelligent and developed life out there, the prerequisites may be just too challenging.

  • @kraxmalism

    @kraxmalism

    2 жыл бұрын

    that is exactly why Elon musk is a charlatan

  • @jeffdunlap2754
    @jeffdunlap27543 жыл бұрын

    At 1/10th of the speed of light a grain of sand would cause a space craft to blow up

  • @lynnlynn1317

    @lynnlynn1317

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.infojvs2FZlJguQ👍👍

  • @drbonesshow1
    @drbonesshow12 жыл бұрын

    Lawrence Krauss reminds me of the revelation: a turd rolled in coconut is still a turd. Forgive me, I'm a physics professor doing real physics.

  • @johnprice3341
    @johnprice33416 жыл бұрын

    They are so serious!

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    Wonder if humanity can be more accurately classified as a technological civilization, with potential to become intelligent or even conscious civilization.

  • @kenperlman2204
    @kenperlman22042 жыл бұрын

    Possibly as many as 1 trillion galaxies. If each had but one intelligent life form there would be a trillion. Never ever contacting another. Wholly apart from interstellar travel, intergalactic travel and the 200 billion stars per galaxy would make the odds impossible.

  • @kenneths.perlman1112
    @kenneths.perlman1112 Жыл бұрын

    200billion stars in the Milky Way. 2 trillion galaxies. Just in the observable universe.

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth5 жыл бұрын

    Because there are very, very, very few alien visitations between extra-solar civilizations and we are not close enough to anyone to make it worthwhile visiting us, or making contact. What might be interesting to look for though are solar systems where life has developed on two separate planets, and what that might look like?

  • @dionsanchez2775

    @dionsanchez2775

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nope. Disks have been recovered. Do some research. Here's a start. FBI Hoover memo to Tolson about disks recovered.

  • @j3cruz1
    @j3cruz13 жыл бұрын

    Given that we continue to increase the number of planets we estimate can sustain life into the billions, and counting, and that it’s very likely that life exists elsewhere, although there may not be an imperative to intelligence in all cases, in some cases there may be. Although not all of these intelligent civilizations may have the inclination to colonize, some might. And although, by our standards, traveling through the universe is difficult given our current understanding of physics, it’s certainly not impossible if other life forms have achieved a greater understanding. So, I don’t see how someone can be so sure that we’ll never be in contact with other intelligent life forms or that we haven’t already been.

  • @comedycopter6936
    @comedycopter69364 жыл бұрын

    Is The person on the left, interviewing himself 20 years in the future?

  • @ChrisDragotta
    @ChrisDragotta4 жыл бұрын

    This was just three years ago. LK's oxygen tent and orgone generator are not functioning so good.

  • @alvaroxex
    @alvaroxex5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe it's beyond the observable universe. Or under our nose in a nearby galaxy we can never reach.

  • @John-tc9gp
    @John-tc9gp4 жыл бұрын

    A scientist willing to _believe_ anything without evidence is a poor scientist

  • @dannybloom59
    @dannybloom595 жыл бұрын

    We define ourselves as Intelligent Life. It is quite possible that other life in our Universe would not describe humans as Intelligent at all.

  • @sngscratcher
    @sngscratcher7 жыл бұрын

    The vast distances are prohibitive.

  • @juiceski30

    @juiceski30

    6 жыл бұрын

    You make statements like this makes me think you may be one of the few people on here that understands science.

  • @GrzegorzDurda

    @GrzegorzDurda

    6 жыл бұрын

    and convenient.

  • @MegaBspark

    @MegaBspark

    6 жыл бұрын

    for us

  • @douglilley3795

    @douglilley3795

    6 жыл бұрын

    thats not very open minded

  • @stephenmuth1425

    @stephenmuth1425

    5 жыл бұрын

    Actually it's just as open-minded as it needs to be, nothing more. I've always wondered why Fermi's paradox is a "paradox". It isn't. Not only are the distances prohibitive for travel, but they are prohibitive for sending signals that can compete against the background noise. (and just like us, the potential intelligent life out there has no compelling reason to spend vast resources to pump space with signals willy-nilly) Like us, they're just trying to survive on their respective rocks. Paradox solved.

  • @georgekilwa2051
    @georgekilwa20515 жыл бұрын

    There can be life up there but the the problem is how to find it and 2know exactly the spot where life hatched and managed to evolve,it seems life sprouts here n there but its life span can extend up to a few hundred million years, a period which is a fracture of a second comparing to the vastness of the Universe

  • @RoundenBrown
    @RoundenBrown5 жыл бұрын

    He reminds me of the blind dude from "Contact".

  • @rigohurtado9307

    @rigohurtado9307

    3 жыл бұрын

    He’s blind ?

  • @kescho24
    @kescho245 жыл бұрын

    we don't know

  • @7Earthsky
    @7Earthsky6 жыл бұрын

    The islands of life that exist are likely so far away that we might as well get used to the idea of being alone even if we're not.......The outcome is the same.....Alone.

  • @jondoe2099

    @jondoe2099

    6 жыл бұрын

    7Earthsky outcome is in the eye of the beholder. I have no clue what that means. But it sounded cool! Lol nah, idk wtf is buzzing our skies, maybe aliens, maybe spirits, but 1 thing is damn sure, to me(very important i say to me after stating something is damn sure, because youtube is a sespit of ridicule and attacks.) -Something has a presence here, & it is blatantly obvious. (To me) far to many snippets of this and that to jist say "nope, nothing here, all bs" but hey, to each their own, i call no names and cast no judgement, peace in our dialogue is important, friends over enemies.

  • @7Earthsky

    @7Earthsky

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sorry but snippets and subjective feelings and thoughts does not make objective reality or a new emergent fact of any kind.

  • @jondoe2099

    @jondoe2099

    6 жыл бұрын

    7Earthsky ooooh shut down, what are you sorry about? Dont appologize, man up & make your statement next time, dont appologize for it. But lets focus on 1 thing, thats *your* opinion. And many share it. I certainly dont. Cheers!

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    Probably a much better chance to find alien civilizations through conscious and then intelligent means rather than technological means. This would mean focusing on our own conscious and intelligent development into the solar system and galaxy in the course of which we would eventually meet up with alien civilizations.

  • @charliewhitesky5491
    @charliewhitesky54916 жыл бұрын

    To whom they assume will broadcast their arrival ????

  • @DwainDwight
    @DwainDwight6 жыл бұрын

    Agree 100% with LK.

  • @gunlokman
    @gunlokman3 жыл бұрын

    I think they're missing one vital point of discussion here. There is quite a lot of evidence that 'aliens' have already visited this planet AND that are currently observing us. However, this was not even brought up.

  • @catkeys6911
    @catkeys69115 жыл бұрын

    I don't think Karl Sagan actually said that line from the movie Contact - "if it's just us (living in the universe) it seems like an awful waste of space" There are line ijn the movie that were put in by the screenwriter, and there were 3 lines that Sagan had fought to remove from the movie because he didn't like them, but the screenwriter prevailed. I remember reading this somewhere, but can't recall where exactly, but I that that particular line was one of them. It's a bit pretentious to assume that the human race should be considered a waste of space (no matter how much space).

  • @catkeys6911

    @catkeys6911

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@procles876 Well, you can't argue this point with Carl Sagan, obviously, but he'd be on my side of this argument (as I mentioned, he didn't want that screenwriter's line included in the movie. I'm pretty sure he understood the quote, and so do I. To say that the vastness of Space would be a waste if it was only humans occupying it is to make a presumptuous statement, since it passes judgement about the relative value of human life- something that no one can possibly know.

  • @catkeys6911

    @catkeys6911

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@procles876 Well, actually I only know this through inference- I've read the book ("Contact", that is) and either read or heard somewhere there is one line in the movie that's repeated 2 times in the movie (i.e., it's heard a total of 3 times) that Carl Sagan objected to. I know the movie quite well, since I own a blue-ray of it, and have watched it probably 10 times (at least), and I noticed that that particular line IS repeated twice (and is the only line that get's repeated like that in the movie), so I guessed that that's the one Sagan objected to. You can actually find the book in PDF form and search it( it's a 430 page book) - and you won't find that line in the book. But you're correct about my being a pessimist - and I apologize for that.

  • @SMaamri78
    @SMaamri785 жыл бұрын

    But what caused the expansion? Why was there something TO expand.

  • @glennralph7007
    @glennralph70074 жыл бұрын

    This guy Larry said it was all a bunch of accidents 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    It may be that conscious and intelligent civilizations that are not technological have a better chance of surviving and thriving on other worlds, as they don't develop technologies that would destroy themselves. To the extent that happens, conscious and intelligent non-technological civilizations would be difficult to locate

  • @JAYDUBYAH29
    @JAYDUBYAH297 жыл бұрын

    Nice in the moment distinction making from Krauss here as Kuhn tries his best to insert his favorite fallacies...

  • @cocoarecords

    @cocoarecords

    7 жыл бұрын

    Butthurt much?

  • @JAYDUBYAH29

    @JAYDUBYAH29

    7 жыл бұрын

    cocoarecords and why on earth would you say that?!

  • @JAYDUBYAH29

    @JAYDUBYAH29

    7 жыл бұрын

    cocoarecords i am referring to his friendly attempts to play gotcha with krauss when kuhn's eyes light up at the false possibility he is hearing the atheist scientist imply some version of intelligent design, divine teleology, etc and his excited observation that he knows "theologians who couldn't have said it better..." krauss quickly and kindly side-steps that silliness with his metaphor of all streams flowing down hill, but not being guided by anything but gravity... also by joking about the sophistry of theologians without being too barbed. i am noting kuhn's tendency to want to interpret science in fallacious ways that seem (to him) to imply god.

  • @PhoenixMarco5

    @PhoenixMarco5

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Julian Walker You do know Kuhn isn't a theist right? His point was simply that if the evolutionary process is blind, mindless and unguided (which is what Krauss as a naturalist believes), it seems to go against the essence of it to claim that necessarily, a certain form of life will always evolve no matter what, and he has got a point. While plenty of biologists do believe that species with superior intellectual capabilities have an evolutionary advantage, and thus it is likely that if you rewind the evolution of organisms on earth, you will end up with species much like us every single time, I would point out that one should not take for granted, given their worldview (naturalism) that intelligence does in fact confer an evolutionary advantage.

  • @JAYDUBYAH29

    @JAYDUBYAH29

    7 жыл бұрын

    Junior Bakiny sure... but my impression from watching a lot of these interviews for several years is that at heart kuhn very much wants to believe in god and is still taken in by the many fallacious arguments (chief among them the argument from ignorance/god of the gaps).. he is one of these people who has a pleasing wish-fulfilling intuition regarding god, and he is in search of intellectual-seeming arguments that reconcile his scientific bent with this need for a god. in short his entire body of work on closer to truth rests on mistakenly elevating theistic arguments to being on the same level as naturalistic ones and seeking to show the supposed validity of both, as well as where he thinks they intersect. they don't.

  • @Atmanyatri
    @Atmanyatri5 жыл бұрын

    2:48 lol

  • @roni32
    @roni322 жыл бұрын

    We're all aliens here …… until we die ……

  • @wayneasiam65
    @wayneasiam653 жыл бұрын

    It seems to me that almost all aliens would want to send robots. A profusion of robots. Maybe on a planet named TOBOR...

  • @astro-blaster4190

    @astro-blaster4190

    2 жыл бұрын

    I still have mine 🤖

  • @weaseldragon
    @weaseldragon7 жыл бұрын

    Interesting to see Krauss engaging with the Templeton Foundation.

  • @donlowell

    @donlowell

    7 жыл бұрын

    weaseldragon, it is also interesting to see Krauss engaging and co-authoring with a muslim.

  • @weaseldragon

    @weaseldragon

    7 жыл бұрын

    Who?

  • @donlowell

    @donlowell

    7 жыл бұрын

    weaseldragon, Maajid Nawaz.

  • @weaseldragon

    @weaseldragon

    7 жыл бұрын

    You're thinking of Sam Harris.

  • @donlowell

    @donlowell

    7 жыл бұрын

    weasleldragon, Sorry....brain fart.

  • @mikeys7536
    @mikeys75362 жыл бұрын

    It sure would be nice if in advanced civilization would give us a few pointers.

  • @augustadawber4378
    @augustadawber43783 жыл бұрын

    The Fermi Paradox explained. There is a beautiful loving Universe many people claim they experience when they are undergoing an NDE. Long before any Advanced Civilization gains the technology necessary for Interstellar Travel - they find a way to escape to that Universe. In other words, it is technologically easier to get to that other very pleasant and safer place, than it is to develop the Type II Civilization Technology necessary for Interstellar Travel. This explains why we have found no sign of an Advanced Alien Civilization anywhere in the Universe.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    There can be intelligent civilizations that are not technological and not looking to colonize space.

  • @vinm300
    @vinm3006 жыл бұрын

    Only the initial super-technology has to send out replicating probes for the Galaxy to be colonised. Each colony doesn't have to make the decision afresh ! Just one single super-technology gets the ball rolling and within 0.5 million years the whole Galaxy is buzzing. So where is every one ?

  • @BikiniDeathSquad
    @BikiniDeathSquad7 жыл бұрын

    What if 2 civilizations in our galaxy discovered each other, but neither of those are us. We're the odd man out based on our obscure placement in the milky way.

  • @blancaroca8786
    @blancaroca87867 жыл бұрын

    It's not a matter of if it's just when or rather how long do you have to wait on average before intelligence evolves. Seeing how dinosaurs lasted for over 200 million years without evolving much intelligence and it was just a seeming lucky series of events conspired to produce us. It may be rather more unlikely than we imagine, perhaps unfortunately for Sci Fi, fans.

  • @Rickdeckard2020
    @Rickdeckard20207 жыл бұрын

    Imo intelligence(and self-awareness) is an extension of perception, which is one factor (among other advantageous factors) in some segments of a diversified ecology (bacteria have been able to survive for millions of years with limited perception and intelligence, and some might very well survive a few potential type of cataclysms that could wipe out intelligent humans) As for why we have not "detected" other intelligence, it might be that they are using technology that we cannot detect because detectable technologies are soon outdated, or that those who do use detectable technology go extinct and only stealthy civilisation survive, or that they create and live in fantastic simulations once they get bored with space exploration seeing things are gas and rocks floating around, or all eventually perish in an accidental extermination event caused by an experiment before they reach the space faring stage, and/or that they dont bother contacting us the same way we dont go out far in the wilderness for the purpose of building a tiny ant colony and trade valuable pieces of twigs and tree leaves with the local ants and tell them take us to your leader we wish to control your ant colony and tell you which particular grain of sand to move around...

  • @bencarter1666

    @bencarter1666

    6 жыл бұрын

    Rickdeckard2020 Why do you think you would be told what is known? We know nothing and are told nothing. The people that do would never tell anyone. We are not aware as a public of contact with ETs but that is a long way from there having been no contact or awareness of Alien signals. You are not entitled to know and it would certainly be a military secret

  • @somi7072
    @somi70724 жыл бұрын

    They already here.

  • @tedphillips2501
    @tedphillips25015 жыл бұрын

    Why aren't Aliens Already Here? They are. They're called cats.

  • @jimclark5617
    @jimclark56173 жыл бұрын

    If they are here, they will only be seen when they choose to be seen.

  • @douglaspierce8480
    @douglaspierce8480 Жыл бұрын

    I too believe that there is other intelligent in the galaxy/universe, but to me it is just the fact that maybe like us they haven't developed FTL space travel. Until that happens, you can't travel interstellar space.

  • @luisdasilva3879
    @luisdasilva3879 Жыл бұрын

    The word of God expressed in the bible does not confuse people and is simple to learn and this shows that our Creator is not a Creator of confusion.

  • @8698gil
    @8698gil4 жыл бұрын

    How likely is it that aliens would even find earth out of trillions of planets? Maybe they are out there but missed is. It seems like a long shot to me that we would ever meet up at all, given how vast our own galaxy is, with billions of stars and planets.

  • @wayneasiam65
    @wayneasiam653 жыл бұрын

    Maybe one day we'll need to leave earth for the next line of evolution. Apes?

  • @chris20041958
    @chris20041958 Жыл бұрын

    They are here, thousands of sightings and video evidence. Impossible to dispute

  • @glennsimonsen8421

    @glennsimonsen8421

    Жыл бұрын

    There are many top scientists on this show and elsewhere. None of them share your belief.

  • @shonuff4323
    @shonuff43232 жыл бұрын

    I hate this question. This question says they definitively are not here. I think a lot of people will disagree they haven't been here. In fact the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.

  • @KinnArchimedes

    @KinnArchimedes

    2 жыл бұрын

    *anecdotal evidence said by people who do not consider other possibilities for their experience.

  • @wynlewis5357
    @wynlewis5357 Жыл бұрын

    Which aliens would be crazy enough to visit earth ? 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Roscoe0494
    @Roscoe0494 Жыл бұрын

    It is strange to me that somehow we consider the universe old at 14 billion years. Or that the earth is old at 3 billions years. To me if the earth took 1/4 of the age of the universe to evolve into intelligent life then nothing has happened yet. There been not enough time elapsed for other earths to emerge or evolve. So of course very few civilizations should exist and life should be rare.

  • @DingDimlewitz
    @DingDimlewitz3 жыл бұрын

    wow it got heated

  • @noegojimmy
    @noegojimmy2 жыл бұрын

    Life? Maybe . Intelligent? Hardly. We are still searching for Intelligent Life on our planet.

  • @venkateshbabu5623
    @venkateshbabu56236 жыл бұрын

    Humans which evolved before 3 million years and have been able to populate mars only a few years ago and that too with massive amounts of intelligent endeavor.

  • @kareszt
    @kareszt6 жыл бұрын

    WEGO: Do you see why, Now?

  • @infinightsky
    @infinightsky4 жыл бұрын

    “They haven’t revealed themselves to us, so intelligent extraterrestrials may not exist” that’s the height of hubris.

  • @rayoperator2699
    @rayoperator26993 жыл бұрын

    Want to see aliens ? Me too

  • @zebonautsmith1541
    @zebonautsmith15414 жыл бұрын

    Intelligent creatures tend to do better. It’s a helpful feature

  • @richardkim3138
    @richardkim3138 Жыл бұрын

    Maybe the final filter is interstellar travel.

  • @kennethchow213
    @kennethchow2135 жыл бұрын

    To travel to the nearest star system : Alfa Centauri, at 4.22 light years from Earth, in a space ship at 1,000,000 km./hr.(which we have not been able to build one so powerful yet) will take 12,000 years. There are still the problems of fuel, oxygen, water, and food for the astronauts to last for such a long journey, and the additional problem of life expectancy of the astronauts. So, any so-called "UFO reported incidents" must be viewed with the utmost suspicion. Besides, there might not be life forms in all the star systems near the Earth, even though with the trillions and trillions of galaxies, statistically speaking, there must be some planets out there with intelligent life forms.

  • @user-zc4yd9ss7h
    @user-zc4yd9ss7h11 ай бұрын

    LK States that a series of evolutionary accidents led to humans coming to rule the earth. He states this as a fact, even though not all scientists agree that purely random events were responsible. He also assumes that we are the absolute pinnacle of evolution, which is really a theistic viewpoint. Logically, we should assume we are a stepping stone to something greater as were our ancestors?

  • @heavymeddle28
    @heavymeddle283 жыл бұрын

    We still haven't found intelligent life on earth. Except my cat maybe that scream at me 7 am to feed him but I've never seen intelligent life here except for the cat 🙀

  • @hosermandeusl2468
    @hosermandeusl24684 жыл бұрын

    Why would aliens come here? We post everything on Wastebook & Ditter!

  • @magicsinglez
    @magicsinglez4 жыл бұрын

    Odds are against. . . creatures arising that build something like spaceships . . . at least. . .life was here on earth for a billion years before we came about and with no evidence that something like us would come about. On the other hand. . . there are billions and billions and billions of stars in our galaxy alone, each star seems to have multiple planets orbiting them.

  • @GBuckne
    @GBuckne7 жыл бұрын

    ...I don't know why people say things happen by accident when they really don't know....

  • @peternorth4143

    @peternorth4143

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think you should have stopped at, "...I don't know". Pretty much sums it up.

  • @brunonkowalski
    @brunonkowalski4 жыл бұрын

    I'm the Alien living on earth and this title makes me laugh.

  • @twirlipofthemists3201
    @twirlipofthemists32015 жыл бұрын

    Expanding an interstellar empire is probably not useful beyond some radius. You can argue about that radius. I bet it depends on the species and technology. But it's not 100,000LY. It's probably closer to 20LY. There's just no purpose to adding more colonies, and there are many advantages to being closer to the center of communications. We might not ever colonize even one other star, even if we could do it cheap. Think of the internet lag.

  • @Poopdeck1015
    @Poopdeck10152 жыл бұрын

    End of the day, everyone is just peddling theories here. That’s all we have at the end of the day no matter what words or clothes we wear.

  • @miguelserrano3935
    @miguelserrano39357 жыл бұрын

    We're aliens are we not? We live on a planet revolving a star that is part of billions of other stars in a galaxy in a universe full of billions of other galaxies. But it's not like they're right next door and nobody knows how far away other alien life may be or if they're intelligent enough or evolved enough for space travel,

  • @holgerjrgensen2166
    @holgerjrgensen21663 жыл бұрын

    There had Never been an alien. Galaxies are living, it is Not absurd, and all Life-Units expose intelligence, and even better, Consciousness.

  • @nogod7184
    @nogod71844 жыл бұрын

    Hah. They don't know that I am already here.