Lessons from My Wife in Finding Alien Life | Douglas Vakoch | TEDxKingstonUponThames

Science isn’t just a dispassionate search for truth. It also provides lessons for living our daily lives in the face of uncertainty and the need for commitment.
Dr Douglas Vakoch is president of METI International, a San Francisco-based scientific organisation that transmits powerful, intentional radio signals to nearby stars, in the hope of eliciting a reply from extraterrestrial civilisations. As an elected member of the International Astronomical Union and the International Institute for Space Law, he explores the scientific and societal dimensions of the search for life beyond Earth. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @wardaddy971
    @wardaddy971 Жыл бұрын

    Its so inspiring to listen Douglas speaking!

  • @madkar988
    @madkar988 Жыл бұрын

    We need a new vision for space exploration. This is a great start!

  • @yuenpingchong2313
    @yuenpingchong23137 ай бұрын

    ''To be human, is to live with uncertainty, if we demand guarantees that we can discover life beyond earth before we actually reach out and search for it then we're guaranteed to fail but if we are willing to put in the hard work to embark on a search not knowing whether we will succeed or not then we are guaranteed to find at least one civilisation that has the passion and the dedication to understand its place in the universe and that civilisation is us, uncertainty and all. ''

  • @TheGlobalTop
    @TheGlobalTop Жыл бұрын

    Inspiring talk. Makes me wanna explore.

  • @soumyadeepchakraborty5775
    @soumyadeepchakraborty57756 ай бұрын

    This is so inspiring... @ Douglas Vakoch

  • @valkx1808
    @valkx1808 Жыл бұрын

    My girlfriend would love this talk!

  • @garyloughman4292
    @garyloughman4292 Жыл бұрын

    I had the SETI @ home on 3 computers. Just for fun. But, I often wondered about the frequencies SETI monitored and how much any civilization would use them. On Earth, we don’t use them, that’s why they are so quiet. How many times have we transmitted signals in the direction of likely stars or star clusters? Not many from what I heard. So, why would Johnny Alien think, “Hey, I’m going to dedicate one of my brains and 3 arms to sending signals on a frequency that other creatures probably don’t use”.

  • @daghan3251
    @daghan3251 Жыл бұрын

    guy got all choked up talking about his wife.

  • @theripleyeffect5203
    @theripleyeffect5203 Жыл бұрын

    I would say to an advanced civilization, "Come to us, bring shock and awe and save us from our savage selves.

  • @prithvirajsamajder
    @prithvirajsamajder Жыл бұрын

    The man loves his coffee.

  • @cindysuebrown8942
    @cindysuebrown8942 Жыл бұрын

    We are all one trust me

  • @pl4423
    @pl4423 Жыл бұрын

    So we do have technology that can detect water undernearth earth...its the same technology used to detect aquaphores and underground rivers....cant we do the same on Mars??? and maybe various moons in our solar system which we suspect liquid water to be present

  • @qasimovvv
    @qasimovvv Жыл бұрын

    Its too hard on the body in space for astronauts to go on loooooong missions away.

  • @srcteam9352
    @srcteam9352 Жыл бұрын

    Dilitheum didn't destroy the Federation, It was just a setback of a few centuries!

  • @lauriemayne7436
    @lauriemayne7436 Жыл бұрын

    Just one more scientist in denial of the presence of ETs in our own environment.

  • @mehmetkaya326
    @mehmetkaya326 Жыл бұрын

    Showthe pictures longer so we can see what he's talking about.

  • @emrex2583
    @emrex2583 Жыл бұрын

    Go, exoplanet hunters!

  • @alperenerdemir2789
    @alperenerdemir2789 Жыл бұрын

    There's more than a hundred billion stars in the milky way.

  • @onlyaerzy5411
    @onlyaerzy5411 Жыл бұрын

    Seti already got signals in China.

  • @robb6059
    @robb6059 Жыл бұрын

    "A sane and intelligent man does not wish to enter any of the material planets because the four conditions of material miseries exist on all of them." Hare KRSNA.

  • @basketballmaven1454
    @basketballmaven1454 Жыл бұрын

    the aliens on star trek don't speak english, they use universal translators

  • @AnitaLife27

    @AnitaLife27

    Жыл бұрын

    I know, right!?! He needs to work on his Star Trek facts. Babel Fish in Hitchhiker’s Guide and Translator Microbes in Farscape. Sheesh! I doubt this man’s science. 😂 j/k

  • @AnitaLife27

    @AnitaLife27

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh, and “it’s gift of the TARDIS, a telepathic field that gets inside your brain - translates”. In Doctor Who

  • @cindysuebrown8942
    @cindysuebrown8942 Жыл бұрын

    Sorry too say they live along side of us and they are here and they should be allowed the same as you and I? Truth be known they were here first we do not own mother earth

  • @eddiea2457
    @eddiea24579 ай бұрын

    When will people learn humans are the aliens ?

  • @steviejd5803
    @steviejd5803 Жыл бұрын

    Sent me to sleep….twice!

  • @barskutlu8768
    @barskutlu8768 Жыл бұрын

    who says bacteria can't invent radio.

  • @jasonhayward6965
    @jasonhayward6965Ай бұрын

    You know if you actually just knew yourself and you obey The philosophers for 6,000 years and learned who you are you could actually measure the gestures pick the difference know the aliens know the difference and then you could work everything out but ,

  • @poonflap
    @poonflap8 ай бұрын

    Wtf is going on with his platform shoe on his right foot? 👠

  • @nejdetcetin1617
    @nejdetcetin1617 Жыл бұрын

    What's wrong with Earl Grey???

  • @saciabdo9080
    @saciabdo9080 Жыл бұрын

    Quran 42:29!!

  • @perfectbass7900
    @perfectbass7900 Жыл бұрын

    It takes private businesses like Elon Musk to do anything impressive in space.

  • @TommyTCGT
    @TommyTCGT Жыл бұрын

    Mainstream disinfo.. Millions have full disclosure having opened, write in reverse, moc.ylfyeht, Swiss Meier's over 700 recorded face to face chats, since 1943, with human ets, the ets on a now completed 1000s years mission.