I was looking at JMG's viewing figures last night, both here and on Event Horizon, and I noticed the massive discrepancy: mostly he gets under 100k, sometimes a few hundred k - but some of his videos get over a million views. Almost exclusively, those are the ones with titles that resemble clickbait: "10 things that..." and anything with the word "unsettling" (or "alien invasion"!). Such is the nature of this clickbaity era in which we liiive. It made me appreciate this channel even more than before, both because JMG doesn't ever chase the views by forcing things into a listicle format when the topic doesn't suit it, and also because his videos which are in the attention-grabbing format are always just as interesting and rigorous as the others; indeed, they often are the best. So thanks, JMG, for never sacrificing quality for views and still providing us with such excellent content after all this time.
@@JohnMichaelGodier We need more RUclipsr's out there with convictions like you. I try to spread the word the old fashioned way - word of mouth - even though thats a small drop in the bucket.
@@JohnMichaelGodier we will forgive you if you ever have to add keywords to boost views, because the RUclips algorithm is a piece of garbage that rewards spam and punishes quality creators like you.
I don’t know whether it’s intentional of not, but the way John says his outro: _”...in which we liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive”_ Is just awesome. Clever way to make sure people watch right to the end 😄
Commenting and leaving a like for the algorithm but ill be back to listen to this as I'm laying down in bed, which we all know is the ideal time to listen to these videos the synergy is incredible.
5:44 do you know the name of that tune? I love the mystery of it, it's a very old and often used tune, isfaik. (Yes, a real question, but also for the algorithm!)
I can't understand how anyone standing on this special planet could ever say we're not in anyway special. The fact that your alive and in exisistance is a miracle in itself. It's off the scales how special we all are not to mention lucky.
We measure the truth of something by using vastly different measurements to identify it. A dog, for example, we recognize as existing because we can see it, we can smell it, touch it, etc. All vastly different ways of analyzing our environment, all coming to the same conclusion. Going off of that, it’s astounding how similar religious belief and astronomy converge. The fact that we are exceptional in the Universe begs the question: why us? Why here? Whether one wants to view it as a creator (Abrahamic God) or viewing that specialness as our primary objective, it matters little. The fact remains that we are here, we do exist, and there is a way of living that allows us to continue to do that. I would argue the Christian faith is the best way to do that (if only because no other religion has made powerhouses of freedom in the same manner at a country scale).
A couple years ago, I thought the way JMG was saying "in which we live" was starting to sound a little weird, but also figured it could be my imagination. Now I know it's not my imagination. And we know JMG knows we know it's not our imaginations. But seriously, this is my favorite RUclips channel. Thanks, JMG!
The thought of finding artificial lighting on a planet, only to find out we're seeing it several thousand years in its past is deeply saddening. We could be seeing a civilization like ours, far past their extinction. It would be like seeing echoes. It's haunting.
i dont understand the "only to find out" - we would know ahead of time how long ago we were seeing, the distance would be known before we even saw that life was there - and really, we have no idea what is there 'now' - so why assume bad things? Bad things only happen "all of the time" because we have billions of people living all at once.
Fascinating, as always. Back in the early 70s, I was chatting away with several of my ham radio buddies at a wavelength of about 75m. All of a sudden, we all started hearing echos of ourselves. They were strong and delayed by several seconds, at least. I even heard /myself/ repeating short transmissions at a remarkable signal strength, rather strong. We heard double or triple echos. My modest, relatively low powered station was just double echoing. This went on for at least a few minutes.
Sounds like you officially heard an LDE. The official definition is any echo with a delay of 2.7 seconds or longer. Sometimes they repeat multiple times, sometimes only once.
I cannot say how much I enjoy these videos! JMG presents very well researched astronomy, yet still dares to speak about things which orthodox science makes extremely hard for a professional in that field to do. Several of the ideas in this episode immediately bring absolutely *classic* SF to mind as well--quite apart from the 'Attempt No Landings Here' call out. There is a brilliant sequence in an even _more_ brilliant book by Larry Niven, 'The Mote in God's Eye' where an asteroid is found exactly as the one mentioned here. Absolutely ancient remains from mining are discovered, so old that every trace of radioactivity has gone completely cold in the nuclear reactors that once powered the facility. Another fantastic story by Niven, 'The Borderlands of Sol' deals with another topic mentioned here--the existence of a micro-singularity in the outer solar system. In fact I wonder if JMG hasn't been enjoying a Niven-binge lately???
@@JohnMichaelGodier Hey JMG!!! Yep, me too! I am not sure why, perhaps the cover art caught my imagination but I clearly remember when I was very young I made my mother read the blurb on the back of 'Inconstant Moon' to me and then explain what the words meant! 'The Mote in God's Eye' is _such_ a good book--very much an admix of Trek and Hornblower in a feudal far-future that in my opinion is much superior to Herbert's. I am always astonished it has never been made into a film or a Netflix 'limited series'. Of course the many 'Known Space' stories are also amazingly good. The entries 'Neutron Star' and 'At The Core' are seminal and also represent the two extremes of SF. Both are compelling, but In the first he got things almost exactly right, whereas in the second he was utterly wrong... But that was not his fault really as even mainstream science was still a few years away from accepting the existence of singularities and probably just as well for Beowulf Schaefer anyway! Had he taken the Puppeteer super-ship to the centre of the galaxy and found a super-massive black hole waiting for him there likely wouldn't have been a trip to Ringworld in anyone's future! Plus in both 'The Borderlands of Sol' and especially 'The Hole Man' he did black holes proud. You mention the idea the universe is a white hole. Personally I think we exist within the singularity of a black hole that is in the process of evaporating. I think that would explain dark energy and dark matter rather well and why spacetime is both expanding and doing so at an increasing rate.
I'll read the report of course, but probably won't make a video on it. I'm expecting the same thing we've gotten on the subject since WWII. They're unidentified.
You have inspired me to learn about space, I recently bought a Dobsonian XT8 and saw Saturn with me own eyes. Truly life changing experience that's hard to describe. Thank you for making your videos, they are always amazing and thought provoking.
Arguably, there is more we know than not. We know every element in existence, we know almost all physics. We don't know every rock on pluto. Is that what you mean by not knowing much?
Great content , been a science and space nut since my father showed me the constellations as a kid, IT might also be noted that JMG could probably read me my taxes and ill still find it soothing 😀
John, you magnificent bastard, you’ve once again made a video that makes me want to stay awake when I really need sleep, but also makes me drowsy with that soothing voice.
QUESTION: How do we know how old the universe is when time passes differently in various locations based on to gravity strength and velocity differences? Is it possible some places in the universe have experienced far more than current estimates and others far less?
I believe the speed is measured in relation to us. The further something is from us, the quicker it moves away. If we are measuring everything in relation to us, I don't think this is an issue. I could be wrong.
Re #4, if we can somehow observe artificial light on the dark side of a Kuiper Belt Object, something has gone very, very wrong with the Earth’s orbit.
I respect that Godier sticks to clean objective science. I still wish I could ask him his take on all the viral UFO/UAP phenomenon. It's making the news almost on a daily now.
It's interesting and I've followed it all since the 80's when I was a teen. The problem is that it's unexplained by its very nature. UFO: Unexplained Flying Object. We literally know nothing more about the nature of the phenomenon than we did in 1950. That doesn't sit well with me. I do believe that people see them, many fully credible. But that's anecdote, and I can't really do anything more with anecdotes than I can do with reports of ghosts or other unprovable things. I need some real, solid, hard evidence above and beyond video to ask the alien question with UFOs. Maybe we'll get that some day, in which case I'll make tons of videos about it. But until then, I just don't really trust the UFO phenomenon. Too much money to be made from here say, anecdote, documentaries, books, Adsense profiting youtube channels and so on. One cannot separate the wheat from the chaff. But perhaps that might change.
@@JohnMichaelGodier I admit that my own objectivity is starting to buckle. If the academic community rallies around the findings of radio telescopes, why not those of the commercial optical or infrared variety? If optical footage is being certified authentic by the US Military, why aren't our academics dutifully challenging them with their own counter-analysis? There seems to me to be a degree of cognitive dissonance at play. While I do understand the associated stigma that this topic has within the academic community, the video evidence is mounting and does yield far more information than in prior decades. Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled about the hours of smart speculation over the very distant FRB phenomenon, I just wish that in-atmosphere phenomena warranted the same degree of meticulous scrutiny from our best minds. Thanks for staying open to the question, John! I do hope that one day a reckless UFO pilot leaves us with enough tangible debris for you to openly speculate on. Clear skies!
The video is indeed intriguing, and I certainly trust the pilots. They saw something. And lots of people have seen something. But it gets muddy when you really dig into the videos. For example, some of the footage is linked with Fravor's sighting in the media. That's not true, no footage exists of what he saw (or it's classified). I can't speak for the latest "triangle" videos, that stuff is new, but the previous gun camera footage is a bit dubious in that people have reproduced the effects. And in one case, the HUD in the aircraft is giving information on the object consistent with a party balloon passing below a moving aircraft. But that didn't stop all the media hype about the footage and pinning it on aliens and conflating multiple sightings together into one narrative. What needs to happen is controlled, rigorous scientific study. A radio telescope is a very controlled environment for an experiment, it's custom designed for what it does whereas an aircraft patrolling the skies around a carrier isn't designed to hunt UFOs, and will only encounter them by serendipity. It's designed to hunt human vehicles from rivals. So we need more. I'd guess a good starting point would be specialized radar, or a survey of existing radar data. Another natural point is to look into whatever the hell Bigelow aerospace is storing for the Pentagon that's being purported to be materials related to UAPs. If that stuff exists, then it's fully testable and in principle could answer the question of its origins.
"This amazing universe in which we liiiiiive." I love how the word live gets imperceptibly longer in every video. Eventually, a majority of the video will just be a creaky high fronted vowel, softly droning for minutes on end.
The way this video navigates the mysteries of the solar system, from potential hidden planets to strange radio signals, is both engaging and spine-tingling. It’s a must-watch for anyone intrigued by the unknown
Woo!! Wow I'm early this time...love watching these videos while I smoke a full fancy bowl and relax. Hope everyone here is well!! Remember to have some water and something to eat:))
Regarding point 2 (the unknown lurker), there may be a magnetospheric explanation. It is possible for radio waves to couple with the plasma above the ionosphere (such as in the plasmasphere) and subsequently propagate out to several earth radii in altitude, where they then undergo continuous refraction that bends the ray path at every point along its trajectory. These paths have the possibility of redirecting the beam back toward earth and can lead to reflection at the upper ionosphere or in the plasmasphere. In some cases this allows the wave to bounce multiple times back and forth across great distances in both space and/or the ionosphere before finally making it back to Earth's surface. This can lead to long path delays in the same time range you describe, although to actually trace the ray path, one would need to know the particular properties of the emitted wave (frequency, power, beam direction/pattern) as well as the geomagnetic conditions at the time. Also, if anyone wants to understand some of the physics behind this, here is a recent paper showing examples of magnetosphere-refracted electromagnetic ("whistler mode") wave paths that arise under certain plasma conditions at selected wave frequencies approaching radio bands: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JA023546 Admittedly it is not the most beginner-friendly read, but there are references within that may provide sufficient background to get a sense for what's going on
You havevreally changed my view of the universe, these videos have filled me with wonder about what could be out there, all kinds of stuff and things are everywhere, the universe is full. There's still lots of stuff waiting to be discovered, even in our own solar system.
Thanks John I really appreciate your videos! They are one of the few things that help me/I look forward too, during the darkest period of my existence..
THANK YOU for adding new content to this Chanel. I am a big fan of your longer format channel where you have excellent guests (event horizon) . But this is by far my favorite. I do with they were bbit longer in time and more frequently. Buy its just a suggested. You continue to make the well enjoyed videos as you see vit
Pops and I, as well as many other folks we've known through the years - have all seen some really weird stuff in the sky. With the recent pentagon video stuff I'm starting to think the idea that aliens might already be here could very well be closer to truth. Some of this stuff looks natural, some of it doesn't.
They have been here since before 2001, they said they had 57 species in 2001 , including humanoids that look just like us. I could link you a video on RUclips of it if you want
2 Lurking Dark Planets disliked this video. He's giving away their devious plans for an extinction level impact, and John Michael Godier is snitching on em to mankind.
The bit about the Wow signal shattered my heart knowing that we now probably know what caused it, and that it’s not anything of alien origin. I liked not knowing way better. It’s upsetting that we used to be able to at least speculate about it being radio signals from an et, but now there’s no hope for that and we’re just left with nothing now. Feeling veryyyyy alone right now haha
Nine got me thinking randomly, it’s crazy to think how there’s been so many extinctions and over long and vast amounts of time. And each time life has persevered and it’s gotten to this point. Like something restarting or coming to an almost stop yet through time it’s allowed life to evolve and create. It’s crazy to think that could be happening on other worlds. Idk if it’s the Fermi paradox or another but how we maybe be the first signs of intelligent life and if not we are just starting out. Ik the course of evolving to where we are now or to where dinosaurs were it took over hundreds of millions of years and we’ve only been able to really advance in the span of let’s say 4000 years to be generous. It’s like a baby, so much waiting to happen. Unfathomable thoughts
That has been bugging me for a long time, imagine if the dinosaurs never died out, sheer fluke an impact wiped most of them out, who knows what would have happened over the millions of years, looking for life outside our system, perhaps they are reptiles.
@@Taz6688 Reptiles exist on earth and their DNA is indicative of our planet. Reptiles don't exist somewhere else. It would be something we wouldn't consider a reptile if it existed. Even if a planet is 95% like earth, the species living on it would likely be very different. Our planet would be useless to them.
You've been coming out with some many videos lately always makes my night. I play your videos when I wind down for the night I love your channel. Also your content is really interesting but your voice is so soothingly boring that I fall asleep always a good night's rest. Thanks for the videos
I’m the 11th spooky object. I lurk right here.
This is a crossover episode I did not expect.
Waiting … Watching… Molting?
Omg TayZonday! The legend!
Dude I totally didn’t expect to find you here, you made my childhood so much better with song Chocolate Rain!
There it is! Get it!!
Ah what a pleasure to relax to the soothing voice of John Michael Godier while learning interesting science at the same time!
His voice is well suited for this
My favorite is when he claims be excited yet is still very dry. Ha ha
*burps up mushrooms*
Ah what a pleasure to relax to the soothing voice of John Michael Godier while having an existential crisis at the same time!
Precisely
Taking a fat rip off my bong while listening to JMG’s videos. Love your stuff, dude. It’s really changed my life. This rip’s for you.
Hahahaha I love that JMG liked your comment.
@@meltee01 He's a stoner !!
Take a toke for Michael Collins. May he RIP
"Taking a fat rip off my bong while listening to JMG’s videos"
It would be rude not to! :D
Need a nice sativa named for cosmic videos like his
The most underrated channel in the cosmos.
I don't know … Xerxian Bloodball Fun Facts from Beta Durani is also not too well known, despite its original content and rigid 3x/s upload schedule.
I was looking at JMG's viewing figures last night, both here and on Event Horizon, and I noticed the massive discrepancy: mostly he gets under 100k, sometimes a few hundred k - but some of his videos get over a million views. Almost exclusively, those are the ones with titles that resemble clickbait: "10 things that..." and anything with the word "unsettling" (or "alien invasion"!). Such is the nature of this clickbaity era in which we liiive.
It made me appreciate this channel even more than before, both because JMG doesn't ever chase the views by forcing things into a listicle format when the topic doesn't suit it, and also because his videos which are in the attention-grabbing format are always just as interesting and rigorous as the others; indeed, they often are the best. So thanks, JMG, for never sacrificing quality for views and still providing us with such excellent content after all this time.
It'll never change. I prefer to deliver honest content to a core audience with consistency and the quality they expect rather than chase the views.
@@JohnMichaelGodier you and Isaac are the GOAT'S never stop posting I don't want to resort to riddle and that type of second tier science channels
@@JohnMichaelGodier We need more RUclipsr's out there with convictions like you. I try to spread the word the old fashioned way - word of mouth - even though thats a small drop in the bucket.
@@JohnMichaelGodier It really shows, man. Thanks for the amazing content!
@@JohnMichaelGodier we will forgive you if you ever have to add keywords to boost views, because the RUclips algorithm is a piece of garbage that rewards spam and punishes quality creators like you.
Saving this for when I'm winding down for the night. Listening to this channel then is the best
I don’t know whether it’s intentional of not, but the way John says his outro:
_”...in which we liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive”_
Is just awesome. Clever way to make sure people watch right to the end 😄
Indeed, I would not be surprised if alien civilizations were tuning in to this channel just to hear Godier say, "in which we liiiiiiiiive" at the end.
This one was so long I think it had to be intentional. It got a laugh from me.
It's intentional. It has become the meme of this channel and it's absolutely addictiiiiiiiiive.
How does he know i live here ?
Simulation theory lol
Its 2 am here but JMG is worth it.
That's the best time to listen to these videos for me.
Same
2am is wakeup time for me
The dichotomy of soothing audio and existential dread keeps me listening!
This channel is the pinnacle of Space/SciFi content on RUclips, so many new ideas vs the same rehashed things most channels do
Best channel on RUclips hands down.
“The solar system is one huge legal liability” -John Michael Godier
LOL I love you dude
Commenting and leaving a like for the algorithm but ill be back to listen to this as I'm laying down in bed, which we all know is the ideal time to listen to these videos the synergy is incredible.
5:44 do you know the name of that tune? I love the mystery of it, it's a very old and often used tune, isfaik.
(Yes, a real question, but also for the algorithm!)
@@daddyleon "Darkest Child" by Kevin MacLeod.
I've noticed you upload much more frequently in the past few weeks, I am very happy about this change
I can't understand how anyone standing on this special planet could ever say we're not in anyway special. The fact that your alive and in exisistance is a miracle in itself. It's off the scales how special we all are not to mention lucky.
We measure the truth of something by using vastly different measurements to identify it.
A dog, for example, we recognize as existing because we can see it, we can smell it, touch it, etc.
All vastly different ways of analyzing our environment, all coming to the same conclusion.
Going off of that, it’s astounding how similar religious belief and astronomy converge.
The fact that we are exceptional in the Universe begs the question: why us? Why here?
Whether one wants to view it as a creator (Abrahamic God) or viewing that specialness as our primary objective, it matters little.
The fact remains that we are here, we do exist, and there is a way of living that allows us to continue to do that.
I would argue the Christian faith is the best way to do that (if only because no other religion has made powerhouses of freedom in the same manner at a country scale).
Feel this one fits in with your October Spooky series... just a few months early preview
Actually ended up with more spooky October scripts than I was able to use in time, so I think it's also going to be spooky December.
@@JohnMichaelGodier sounds good to me!
A comment thread between two legends….and now me.
I love the underlying tones in your videos. It fits so well.
"Whatever produced the Wow signal, is slowly moving towards us"
Fuck
They're baaaaack.
SPACE FRIENDS
makes me wonder if it could possibly have been attempted contact by something maybe still somehow living on one of those rogue planets passing by
It was a spy Satalitte....
A couple years ago, I thought the way JMG was saying "in which we live" was starting to sound a little weird, but also figured it could be my imagination. Now I know it's not my imagination. And we know JMG knows we know it's not our imaginations.
But seriously, this is my favorite RUclips channel. Thanks, JMG!
At least he doesn't do the Paul McCartney "in which we live in" add-an-extra-preposition-and-call-it-art thing ;)
@StVandal: Nice avatar! ;-D
@@ComaDave "in which we're livin'"
The WOW signal source "...might be moving towards us." Gee, thanks. Now I'll sleep better.
Same here LOL
Dude is just rolling out quality material these days . I love passing out to a JMG video after work! Keep up that good work
So much quality they put you to sleep.
I lovely spooky thought-provoking ones
spooky :O
Proper shpookie
all our homies love da spook 👌
lol
I swear i could spread this mans voice on some toast. I could listen to you all day.
The thought of finding artificial lighting on a planet, only to find out we're seeing it several thousand years in its past is deeply saddening. We could be seeing a civilization like ours, far past their extinction. It would be like seeing echoes.
It's haunting.
Is it possible to be in contact with a civilisation across the galaxy and then by the time you travel to meet them all you find is a graveyard
i dont understand the "only to find out" - we would know ahead of time how long ago we were seeing, the distance would be known before we even saw that life was there - and really, we have no idea what is there 'now' - so why assume bad things? Bad things only happen "all of the time" because we have billions of people living all at once.
Good life is evil
@@PrimeNPC it's the most likely scenario
That's exactly the most accurate comparison, is a true, yet science fiction film thought
Releasing at new top 10 spooky video on a Friday night? You are the man John!
Brilliant content mate! As always!
Fascinating, as always. Back in the early 70s, I was chatting away with several of my ham radio buddies at a wavelength of about 75m. All of a sudden, we all started hearing echos of ourselves. They were strong and delayed by several seconds, at least. I even heard /myself/ repeating short transmissions at a remarkable signal strength, rather strong. We heard double or triple echos. My modest, relatively low powered station was just double echoing. This went on for at least a few minutes.
Sounds like you officially heard an LDE. The official definition is any echo with a delay of 2.7 seconds or longer. Sometimes they repeat multiple times, sometimes only once.
Plot twist. There was a parrot in the house
I cannot say how much I enjoy these videos! JMG presents very well researched astronomy, yet still dares to speak about things which orthodox science makes extremely hard for a professional in that field to do. Several of the ideas in this episode immediately bring absolutely *classic* SF to mind as well--quite apart from the 'Attempt No Landings Here' call out.
There is a brilliant sequence in an even _more_ brilliant book by Larry Niven, 'The Mote in God's Eye' where an asteroid is found exactly as the one mentioned here. Absolutely ancient remains from mining are discovered, so old that every trace of radioactivity has gone completely cold in the nuclear reactors that once powered the facility. Another fantastic story by Niven, 'The Borderlands of Sol' deals with another topic mentioned here--the existence of a micro-singularity in the outer solar system. In fact I wonder if JMG hasn't been enjoying a Niven-binge lately???
Not lately, but I did interview Larry Niven over on Event Horizon a few months back. I absolutely love his writing and have since I was a kid.
@@JohnMichaelGodier Hey JMG!!! Yep, me too! I am not sure why, perhaps the cover art caught my imagination but I clearly remember when I was very young I made my mother read the blurb on the back of 'Inconstant Moon' to me and then explain what the words meant!
'The Mote in God's Eye' is _such_ a good book--very much an admix of Trek and Hornblower in a feudal far-future that in my opinion is much superior to Herbert's. I am always astonished it has never been made into a film or a Netflix 'limited series'.
Of course the many 'Known Space' stories are also amazingly good. The entries 'Neutron Star' and 'At The Core' are seminal and also represent the two extremes of SF. Both are compelling, but In the first he got things almost exactly right, whereas in the second he was utterly wrong... But that was not his fault really as even mainstream science was still a few years away from accepting the existence of singularities and probably just as well for Beowulf Schaefer anyway! Had he taken the Puppeteer super-ship to the centre of the galaxy and found a super-massive black hole waiting for him there likely wouldn't have been a trip to Ringworld in anyone's future! Plus in both 'The Borderlands of Sol' and especially 'The Hole Man' he did black holes proud.
You mention the idea the universe is a white hole. Personally I think we exist within the singularity of a black hole that is in the process of evaporating. I think that would explain dark energy and dark matter rather well and why spacetime is both expanding and doing so at an increasing rate.
Unknown Lurker . . . sounds Lovecraftian !!!!! Can not wait to read it!
Audible is the way to go! Just ask Isaac Arthur how well it works 😉
"Giant Space Piranhas with razor-sharp ice teeth". There totally needs to be a movie made about those.
Something like Europa Report?
Surprises !e there aren't.
Produced by the people behind the Sharknado movies...
@@michaelpettersson4919 LOL
*syfy boardroom* WRITE THAT DOWN!
My absolute favorite RUclips channel. I don't think I've seen a single video of yours that wasn't interesting. Keep up the good work
Finally finished Supermind today, excellent read! Everyone who loves these videos should really check out this book, I'm hoping you write more!
Nice. I love these longer videos. John Michael Godier's uploads are my favorite bedtime stories.
Are you going to look into the government admitted UFO/UAP issue and the report due out in June?
I'll read the report of course, but probably won't make a video on it. I'm expecting the same thing we've gotten on the subject since WWII. They're unidentified.
@@JohnMichaelGodier Unidentified clearly means alien spaceship, i saw it on the internet!
Another fantastic video. Best videos on youtube, love you're books also
You have inspired me to learn about space, I recently bought a Dobsonian XT8 and saw Saturn with me own eyes. Truly life changing experience that's hard to describe. Thank you for making your videos, they are always amazing and thought provoking.
I'm a simple man. When I see a JMG video, I watch it.
I too enjoy a similar simplicity to life, fellow kindred spirit ☄🚀🛰
Amen to that brother.
Science!!!!!! :)
I love cosmology and astrophysicists so much I can’t even describe it
The fact there is so much we don’t know makes it more interesting :D
Its a shame all our govts would rather invade others homeland than actually explore space!
Yes you dont know much I'm sure it's a blast...👍
Supertindergoodguy3rdplace haha if you have the courage why don't you blow my whistle👇 ???
Arguably, there is more we know than not. We know every element in existence, we know almost all physics. We don't know every rock on pluto. Is that what you mean by not knowing much?
@orkhiss9974 What about it?
Great content , been a science and space nut since my father showed me the constellations as a kid, IT might also be noted that JMG could probably read me my taxes and ill still find it soothing 😀
Ironically, JMG filed his own taxes just today.
Now imagine fishing in Europa. 😬
That's what I call an adventure! 😂
Fantastic video, JMG! Thanks a lot!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Yesssss some JMG to start my vacation! Can't wait to get off work today and listen! Keep it up!
Fantastic stuff! Hopefully the Le Baron is safe! 👽👾🤖 😂😁
John, you magnificent bastard, you’ve once again made a video that makes me want to stay awake when I really need sleep, but also makes me drowsy with that soothing voice.
Hello, John! Thanks for making excellent content and stoking our curiosity and wonder!
My man is blessing us with these back to back posts
My wife, who knows nothing about astronomy, found this episode fascinating.
🤔 ...and yourself..?
Me, who knows nothing about astronomy, found this episode fascinating.
You're uploading so often recently, I love it!
QUESTION: How do we know how old the universe is when time passes differently in various locations based on to gravity strength and velocity differences? Is it possible some places in the universe have experienced far more than current estimates and others far less?
I believe the speed is measured in relation to us. The further something is from us, the quicker it moves away. If we are measuring everything in relation to us, I don't think this is an issue. I could be wrong.
The score for these videos are top notch as well as the content 👍
Re #4, if we can somehow observe artificial light on the dark side of a Kuiper Belt Object, something has gone very, very wrong with the Earth’s orbit.
Not even Sunday... Christmas come early!! JMG oh hell yeah
Love the frequency of videos lately! JMG the real MVP 🛰🚀☄
YES
xtremely undersubbed channel
I look forward to notifications every week from John
the "wow" signal needs a name update for modern times to emphasize how unique it was,,
the "holy fuckin shit" signal if you will
That’s a good one 💀
I respect that Godier sticks to clean objective science. I still wish I could ask him his take on all the viral UFO/UAP phenomenon. It's making the news almost on a daily now.
It's interesting and I've followed it all since the 80's when I was a teen. The problem is that it's unexplained by its very nature. UFO: Unexplained Flying Object. We literally know nothing more about the nature of the phenomenon than we did in 1950. That doesn't sit well with me. I do believe that people see them, many fully credible. But that's anecdote, and I can't really do anything more with anecdotes than I can do with reports of ghosts or other unprovable things. I need some real, solid, hard evidence above and beyond video to ask the alien question with UFOs. Maybe we'll get that some day, in which case I'll make tons of videos about it. But until then, I just don't really trust the UFO phenomenon. Too much money to be made from here say, anecdote, documentaries, books, Adsense profiting youtube channels and so on. One cannot separate the wheat from the chaff. But perhaps that might change.
@@JohnMichaelGodier I admit that my own objectivity is starting to buckle. If the academic community rallies around the findings of radio telescopes, why not those of the commercial optical or infrared variety? If optical footage is being certified authentic by the US Military, why aren't our academics dutifully challenging them with their own counter-analysis? There seems to me to be a degree of cognitive dissonance at play. While I do understand the associated stigma that this topic has within the academic community, the video evidence is mounting and does yield far more information than in prior decades. Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled about the hours of smart speculation over the very distant FRB phenomenon, I just wish that in-atmosphere phenomena warranted the same degree of meticulous scrutiny from our best minds. Thanks for staying open to the question, John! I do hope that one day a reckless UFO pilot leaves us with enough tangible debris for you to openly speculate on. Clear skies!
The video is indeed intriguing, and I certainly trust the pilots. They saw something. And lots of people have seen something. But it gets muddy when you really dig into the videos. For example, some of the footage is linked with Fravor's sighting in the media. That's not true, no footage exists of what he saw (or it's classified). I can't speak for the latest "triangle" videos, that stuff is new, but the previous gun camera footage is a bit dubious in that people have reproduced the effects. And in one case, the HUD in the aircraft is giving information on the object consistent with a party balloon passing below a moving aircraft. But that didn't stop all the media hype about the footage and pinning it on aliens and conflating multiple sightings together into one narrative.
What needs to happen is controlled, rigorous scientific study. A radio telescope is a very controlled environment for an experiment, it's custom designed for what it does whereas an aircraft patrolling the skies around a carrier isn't designed to hunt UFOs, and will only encounter them by serendipity. It's designed to hunt human vehicles from rivals. So we need more. I'd guess a good starting point would be specialized radar, or a survey of existing radar data. Another natural point is to look into whatever the hell Bigelow aerospace is storing for the Pentagon that's being purported to be materials related to UAPs. If that stuff exists, then it's fully testable and in principle could answer the question of its origins.
"This amazing universe in which we liiiiiive." I love how the word live gets imperceptibly longer in every video. Eventually, a majority of the video will just be a creaky high fronted vowel, softly droning for minutes on end.
The way this video navigates the mysteries of the solar system, from potential hidden planets to strange radio signals, is both engaging and spine-tingling. It’s a must-watch for anyone intrigued by the unknown
JMG for Hypergalatic Megapresident!
John its always a treat to listen to you thank you.
This is one of the more terrifying videos
I LOVE the way you say "Number 10".
Woo!! Wow I'm early this time...love watching these videos while I smoke a full fancy bowl and relax. Hope everyone here is well!! Remember to have some water and something to eat:))
Pathetic weasel
I love your comments at the end of the videos. Excellent video. Thank you.
Imagine a creature that isn’t bound to a planet. Roaming the emptiness of space
C’thulu
Trying to learn something new about the universe...
2 minutes in 💤 out cold.
Goodnight John
Thank u for tonight’s scientific lullaby.
Regarding point 2 (the unknown lurker), there may be a magnetospheric explanation. It is possible for radio waves to couple with the plasma above the ionosphere (such as in the plasmasphere) and subsequently propagate out to several earth radii in altitude, where they then undergo continuous refraction that bends the ray path at every point along its trajectory. These paths have the possibility of redirecting the beam back toward earth and can lead to reflection at the upper ionosphere or in the plasmasphere. In some cases this allows the wave to bounce multiple times back and forth across great distances in both space and/or the ionosphere before finally making it back to Earth's surface. This can lead to long path delays in the same time range you describe, although to actually trace the ray path, one would need to know the particular properties of the emitted wave (frequency, power, beam direction/pattern) as well as the geomagnetic conditions at the time.
Also, if anyone wants to understand some of the physics behind this, here is a recent paper showing examples of magnetosphere-refracted electromagnetic ("whistler mode") wave paths that arise under certain plasma conditions at selected wave frequencies approaching radio bands: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JA023546 Admittedly it is not the most beginner-friendly read, but there are references within that may provide sufficient background to get a sense for what's going on
I listened to the whole thing, then fell asleep!
Got wonderful sleep in. WOW..
Best medicine ever!
If you were my teacher my career path would have been very different
eh, hes telling you about the cool things that serves as entertainment. actual astronomy requires a lot of hard work and math
Was about to sleep but then I see JMG uploaded, another good night incoming
Same here..
number 11: scary evil monster planet
I live right down the road from the fermi lab. Thanks for the great video.
There is nothing less spooky about observing our cosmic consciousness.
Subbed. I’m gunna enjoy these videos during late nights
you forgot black ancient monoliths
Been waiting to watch all damn day!!!
You havevreally changed my view of the universe, these videos have filled me with wonder about what could be out there, all kinds of stuff and things are everywhere, the universe is full. There's still lots of stuff waiting to be discovered, even in our own solar system.
I just love your videos john, I always feel more intelligent after watching one hehe
Thanks John I really appreciate your videos! They are one of the few things that help me/I look forward too, during the darkest period of my existence..
THANK YOU for adding new content to this Chanel. I am a big fan of your longer format channel where you have excellent guests (event horizon) . But this is by far my favorite. I do with they were bbit longer in time and more frequently.
Buy its just a suggested. You continue to make the well enjoyed videos as you see vit
Pops and I, as well as many other folks we've known through the years - have all seen some really weird stuff in the sky.
With the recent pentagon video stuff I'm starting to think the idea that aliens might already be here could very well be closer to truth. Some of this stuff looks natural, some of it doesn't.
They have been here since before 2001, they said they had 57 species in 2001 , including humanoids that look just like us. I could link you a video on RUclips of it if you want
I've been a sub for over a year now. I love your close. .... universe in which we liiiiiiiiive.
2 Lurking Dark Planets disliked this video. He's giving away their devious plans for an extinction level impact, and John Michael Godier is snitching on em to mankind.
The bit about the Wow signal shattered my heart knowing that we now probably know what caused it, and that it’s not anything of alien origin. I liked not knowing way better. It’s upsetting that we used to be able to at least speculate about it being radio signals from an et, but now there’s no hope for that and we’re just left with nothing now. Feeling veryyyyy alone right now haha
WOW *first contact*
It has been a long time since one of your videos has come up on my feed. I’ll be looking at more of them in the very near future!
Nine got me thinking randomly, it’s crazy to think how there’s been so many extinctions and over long and vast amounts of time. And each time life has persevered and it’s gotten to this point. Like something restarting or coming to an almost stop yet through time it’s allowed life to evolve and create. It’s crazy to think that could be happening on other worlds. Idk if it’s the Fermi paradox or another but how we maybe be the first signs of intelligent life and if not we are just starting out. Ik the course of evolving to where we are now or to where dinosaurs were it took over hundreds of millions of years and we’ve only been able to really advance in the span of let’s say 4000 years to be generous. It’s like a baby, so much waiting to happen. Unfathomable thoughts
That has been bugging me for a long time, imagine if the dinosaurs never died out, sheer fluke an impact wiped most of them out, who knows what would have happened over the millions of years, looking for life outside our system, perhaps they are reptiles.
@@Taz6688 Humans should have gone extinct many times over. Intelligence isn't something evolution favors.
@@Taz6688 Reptiles exist on earth and their DNA is indicative of our planet. Reptiles don't exist somewhere else. It would be something we wouldn't consider a reptile if it existed. Even if a planet is 95% like earth, the species living on it would likely be very different. Our planet would be useless to them.
I saw this video come out earlier but I waited for this moment to enjoy it at night
last time i was this early the universe was still opaque
Your monotone voice is cool and relaxing
"Always send in a robot first"
That's exactly the attitude that will get us put in the matrix.
#11 - I'm lurking. Not exactly sure how you missed me but yeah definitely lurking.
Don't forget My Ex ! She is still out there somewhere ! BEWARE !!
Thought I’d come back & thank you, your videos used to help me sleep a lot, don’t watch them as much now but I do gotta stay in starting to come back!
How can 9 ppl dislike this video? Honeslty of all the youtubers john Mike should get all you're likes
Just got home from work...John Michael Godier's new video is up....this makes me happy. :)
You've been coming out with some many videos lately always makes my night. I play your videos when I wind down for the night I love your channel. Also your content is really interesting but your voice is so soothingly boring that I fall asleep always a good night's rest. Thanks for the videos
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#4 on this list is one of the most original and cool ideas I've heard in some time.
You have a good voice for this. Keep it up!