Why intelligent life hasn't contacted us: Peter Mulvey at TEDxKC
TEDxKC 2013: Defy Impossible. Peter Mulvey taps the world of astrophysics to offer one of the most straightforward explanations as to why intelligent life has yet to (and may never) contact earth.
Peter Mulvey has been a touring singer/songwriter for twenty years, releasing well over a dozen records during that span. In addition to playing shows from Anchorage to the Hague, from Santa Monica to Belfast, he has kept a hand in various far-flung imaginative pursuits, playing each year in a cave underneath West Virginia for the National Youth Science Camp, and arranging tours every Autumn traveling by bicycle instead of by car.
His most recent record of original material, "Letters from a Flying Machine", weaves song and spoken word together to address mortality, Bach sonatas, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, baseball, and the thoughts of children on what DNA might mean.
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Peter is one of our greatest storytellers. He is a prolific writer and musician and if you get the chance to hear his music it’s well worth every second of time.
Peter, every time I see / hear this.. I am mesmerized. One of the best spoken words pieces EVER!
@grovermatic
2 жыл бұрын
A perennial favorite of mine. Always brings me back to center.
You. You keep up the good work, Uncle Peter. Miss your sentience... and oh so honored to have spent some moments in time. Best, Liza
You have the most wonderful speaking voice. It has resonance and power and you use it incredibly well. Thank you for sharing your story.
I listened to this while cranes are call outside my window and I'm imagining that they are echoing my appreciation for Peter's artistry, authenticity, and joy. standing ovation and bowing to you, Peter.
Thank you for spending every day shouting out why it is worth it anyway!!!!
Wonderful, Peter, to have one of your stories recorded so well on video!
I never feel so dreadfully beautifully alone as when I listen to Vlad the Astrophysicist.
@Levelworm
3 жыл бұрын
His voice, the music, and the whole conversation hit me like a train...
@grovermatic
2 жыл бұрын
@@Levelworm This song is truly a masterpiece.
@Levelworm
2 жыл бұрын
@@grovermatic Exactly!
Great story. Brilliant presentation. What a way to explain a highly complicated concept in terms easily understood.
Loved watching you do this! Thanks for sharing it.
A beautiful, thought-provoking song from my favorite PM album!
Simply awesome speech ..wow!
Beautiful writing!
_"Time is too long. Space is too large."_ 😭
Beautiful Peter…
Astropoetry from a master! A tiny slice of time is all we get, and then it ends. This is not a rehearsal...
Near the Nat Youth Science Camp is a motel called the Boyer Motel with a river and a gas station right next to it. I bet that's where they sat when this story was first told. I can picture it.
Great speach! Such letters are a great idea! (But I'm wondering about the left-over robots from such civs.)
This is exactly what I have thought. Time is the bigger divider than space.
@gummybeer119
9 ай бұрын
At the distances we are discussing, time is space/space is time.
@MrApplewine
9 ай бұрын
@@gummybeer119 Well, even if you could travel faster than the speed of light. If a civilization existed millions or billions of years ago it wouldn't matter.
@gummybeer119
9 ай бұрын
@@MrApplewine Exactly my point! 👍🏾
Great!
This is my math teacher's brother
I wonder if Steven Spielberg knows about this.
Hey man, the neck on that guitar joins the body at around the 14th fret. Who makes it. I want one!
@FergusonNGU
7 жыл бұрын
William Skinner Martin and Co I believe, not sure what model
@PeterMulveyMusic43
7 жыл бұрын
It's a CF Martin OM-15, made around 2000. They don't make them anymore. But a 000-15 is roughly the same guitar.
*I can't hear it?
I wonder what Seth Shostak of SETI thinks of this, it kinda makes his work obsolete.
@grovermatic
2 жыл бұрын
That's like saying an archaeologist's work is obsolete.
If intelligent extraterrestrial life contacted us then what would they have to say about humanity and our planet? Would their motives be benevolent or malicious? Would they give us direction for a better future? Would we see signs of their extraordinary technological advancement compared to ours? Maybe the better question to ask is that if intelligent extraterrestrial life contacted us, what would we do to them? Would we treat them hospitably or would we reject their intelligent recommendations? . What would you do if intelligent extraterrestrial life contacted you? . John 8:22-23 So he went on to say to them: “YOU are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. YOU are from this world; I am not from this world. . . . .
Loving the insult embedded into the question.
Why hasn't intelligent life tried to contact us? Because they are way too intelligent. That's why.
Considering that the universe was probably far too chaotic for life in its first couple billion years, if we consider that a sufficient home planet would have to exist to support life, I would say that other life would exist now more than ever. In other words, despite our short lifespans, the odds we are alone are skewed by the first quarter or so of the universe being useless... Just a thought.
@lynxthirtytwo
9 жыл бұрын
lynx tamer In other words, if the most basic forms of life have existed fro about half of earth's life (or about 2 billion years), that makes up a large portion of the useful time since the universe cooled enough for it to be catalyzed (13 billion years - ~3by = 10 by and 2by is a fifth of that!).
@amawalpe
9 жыл бұрын
Yes. But we only travel on moon there is 50 years -> it changes the scale ! ;)
@amawalpe
9 жыл бұрын
That's one small step for a Man, one giant leap for Mankind. A fly dropping for The Big Universe :D.
@grovermatic
2 жыл бұрын
That is a compelling point. We assume intelligent life is evenly distributed across time, when a moment's thought makes you realize that can't be true.
Why does he have the guitar?
@barlowstrada2016
7 жыл бұрын
this was just an exträçt. he played previoußly.
As a Muslim, this reinforces my faith in the One Creator.
@abrahamrivas6555
9 жыл бұрын
hilarious
@lauk05
8 жыл бұрын
+Ziyaad Gurhan You just listened to instrumental music m8 absolutely haram
@shorelockhomes943
5 жыл бұрын
Same here. I'm a Christian. This also reinforces my faith in The Creator too.
@owdpotter7597
4 жыл бұрын
as an atheist, this confirms my complete absence of a any sort of belief in an 'invisible being' and I am more than happy with that
Sounds true. Too bad
What if he is an alien?
people need to learn how to deinterlace video :(
To my mind this was 8 minutes of wasted time.
This sucks wtf
@aekelly
Жыл бұрын
Wtf is right...do you think you added something of value here?