He has some really good points, and they're pretty true. We're intelligent by our standards, but other aliens probably don't see us that way. They may think we're pretty clever, the way we think monkeys, dogs and dolphins are. One theory I've heard that I really like is that perhaps the universe is in fact pretty crowded, but we're in a "dead zone" part of the galaxy; kind of like Death Valley, I suppose, or any vast open desert with nothing around for miles. This is definitely possible considering our galaxy is relatively young compared to the rest of the universe. If other alien life forms have existed for billions of years, they'd be around before our galaxy even started to form. So, they probably saw it as dead space and thus have no reason to even travel here.
Really good point. If they were to ever return say, I can imagine to much of surprise to the aliens, a "clever" species has evolved and developed primitive forms of technology
that attitude saved your ancestors from being killed. Don't act like that primitive way of thought is wrong in any way shape or form. And if you come out and say "We should all love each other" I would like to send you to a state prison and make you love people there.
Just what I thought, when this guy who _thinks_ he is such a smart man, thinks it is normal and OK to just walk around killing worms. Psychopaths like Neil are the reason why our species cannot make progress.
No, Aliens are just going hold our hands and sing Kumbaya my lord and we’ll all be best buds. Survival of the fittest is a universal law, not some manmade credos. Animals kill each other daily in order to survive. Plants feed on insects. A strain of microbes and germs die so that a stronger and more adapted strain can be born and take its place and so on. All beings thrive on eliminating competition to subsist. It’s just Pacifists who see the world adorned in rainbows and the sky is pink and the sun is ever so shiny. if an alien is at your door you will get to see just how friendly they are, assuming they choose to let you keep your eyes, brain, body or whatever’s left you.
You're putting this in perspective of some insanely intelligent life form that's millions of years more advanced than us. You can't compare us to that. It's like comparing the modern human to the ice age human and asking who's more technologically advanced? Humans are intelligent but we only have ourselves to compare it to. It's the only scale of intelligence that we know of.
"Where's the nearest star system? FORGET IT!" First I laughed so hard and then I started sobbing the more I look from the fact that we're so insignificant in this galaxy, let alone the universe.
It makes me sad that i was born at this peak of time and it scares me that there could be life out there far more advanced and just finds us as useless beings
Considering our species is now broadcasting stellar programming like the Kardashians, American Idol and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, my suspicion is that the aliens are choosing to give our planet a wide berth. Like knowing to avoid that crazy neighbor's house.
Yeah, but r music tho. ALL genres. How can they not think we rock! I jus can't picture more amazing music. All genres have bomb songs!!! And music is amazing
@@matthewmoran5297 IF they existed they COULD, but they probably have a relationship to us like "we" do with those people on that island that have "never" come in contact with other humans. My point is, they'd probably just observe us. Like if we were in a simulation. I'd think humanity is pretty entertaining if I didn't live on Earth...
Hey dummy just because man can't make those distances doesn't mean that aliens can't I assure you that they can travel 100 million light years in the twinkling of an eye but as long as you listen to chubby pork chop chasing clowns like this fool you'll never know shit
Just because he works as an astrophysicist doesn't mean he knows shit about aliens and I can assure you he doesn't this clown doesn't even know that they're all over this planet I've spoken to an alien face to face I don't need some chubby pork chop chasing clown to tell me what exists
imbrawler dubz it is true, we should really forget it If earth was the size of a tennis ball, how far would be the closest stellar system from us? Alpha century is in reality 4.3 light years away from us. If earth was the size of the tennis ball and the solar system also reduced in size, the solar system would be 209,000 kilometers away from the tennis ball. This is almost the distance from earth to the moon, and that with earth being reduced to a size of a tennis ball
Exactly. Scientists are a special kind of stupid: Nurds, who are too stupid to keep morons like Donald Trump from accessing power. Nurds, who distract themselves with the delusion that this is all just a game until reality slaps them in the face with World War 3 and the end of our species. Nurds, who flatter themselves about how "intelligent" they are and who avoid to face life & death.
JT we have been extracting and releasing astronomical amounts of carbon in the atmosphere. Sheets of Meters and meters of thick methane ice (some in not so cold anymore northern places, some at the bottom of the ocean as it’s getting warmer everywhere), we don’t even have an idea of what that’s going to be the result of that... the smartest people in the world are all saying the same thing. Is it a conspiracy theory .... do you believe the earth is flat too? Do you think we never went to the moon too JT?
Zain Kazani Even if earth was the size of a tennis ball, what do you think how far the closest star system would be from the tennis ball (also reduced in size)? In reality, the closest star system is about 4.3 light years away from us. If earth was even smaller than the globe Mr Tyson used here, say the size of a tennis ball. Then, the closest stellar solar system alpha century (also reduced in size) would be 209,000 km away. IF the earth was the size of a tennis ball only, 209 thousand kilometers. Yes, it is creepy
Markloweh De Jose no i think it would be like all the way to the sun because nearest star is 4 light years away and one light year is like billion billion miles
to Rusty Childers: Me neither, but maybe Neil meant we don't go round checking to see if we might be treading on any worms. Do you that everywhere you walk on grass, soil or leaf litter? Do you check to see if every step you take you might be treading on worms? I don't think any of us do, and so, without bothering to check, we often do end up treading on worms (and ants, and lots of poor wee creatures).
When political parties, countries, governments, mothers/fathers/wives/husbands and so on and so forth can't even communicate with each other, how do we expect to be able to communicate with aliens? We can't. But we can ask one very sensible question: What do you think we ought to know to help us improve our ways of thinking?
***** In reality? You don't know for a fact that aliens are at all similar to us. In fact, if they have the technology to travel all the way here, they probably aren't anything like us. We have never even spotted alien life on other planets yet, so NO ONE can presume facts about alien lifestyles. I really can't tell if your comment is just a troll or just stupid, pardon my bluntness.
lets start by being consistent and stop being hypocrits. taxation is theft, lets recognize that. maybe when society stops letting itself be enslaved by governments through violence then maybe we can start bettering ourselves as a society.
Gazi If they do exist, it is impossible for them to visit us or vice versa. By the time the light from us reaches them, they won't see who we are today. If they were to zoom in right now, all they'd see are dinosaurs.
Is that supposed to be impressive? What if there was life out there that did that same thing in 1/4 of that and 10x further and faster. Without another species to gauge our accomplishments against, we'll never know if your accomplishments are worth praise.
Angelo Gopaul probably not, but more realistic thought is that aliens population has lived much more than human race and the time would actually be the difference.
Humans aren't ready for alien face to face interaction simply because the general populace would be waaay too afraid. Such a shame really. But I could understand.
rsuriyop I definitely agree. There'd also be no way for us to communicate unless the hypothetical aliens prepared vaccinations for foreign diseases and studied human linguistics and communication enough to understand us and allow us to understand them.
I completely agree with Tyson about Hawkins’ pessimism about the aliens. Subjugation and slavery are typical inferior beings behavior. High civilizations only evolve having ethics, moral and compassion, and I’m not saying this based in any religious belief, but this is LOGIIICC, nothing can get out of a simple solar system without EXTREME coordination and cooperative natural character. Hawking sometimes throw balls further than a home run in his ideas.
@@DeborahMacaoidhSelim that is the case. Humanity Isn’t a high civilization. Never has been. And any say on aliens, is an educated guess. Because we haven’t met any.
Well this is late but that's imposing human characteristics on non-human beings. It could be entirely logical, possible and profitable (in both monetarily and intellectually) to keep other being enslaved. Just because the west doesn't currently have slaves doesn't mean they didn't work previously and alongside other leaps in culture and technology look at any previous human leaps prior to the 1800s and you will.fid either slaves or slave-like classes backing the society. I'm not at all advocating slaves but NDT has proven multiple times his ignorance of geopolitics or even historical geopolics and how it relates to science. And there is plenty of evidence showing slavery to be a profitable trade depending on how it is implemented and for what purposes. Tl;Dr don't let your human ideals cloud you to the reality of a situation. And NDT is pretty shit when it comes to anything but explaining science.
William Capps I don't know about that.I doubt that Isaac Newton could have made me feel like the human race was worthy of existing quite like Neil.Thank you Neil.Thank you so much.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson I don't know if you are the real neil DeGrasse Tyson or not but If you are...I just want to say.I love you!Imagine that i'm hugging you right now.
I disagree with NDGT on one point. He's right we don't think about worms because they're not intelligent and thus not interesting. But the moment we see some behavior even remotely resembling intelligence, for example tool use in animals, or elephants possessing memory, interspecies animal cooperation, whales ability to communicate across the entire ocean, dolphins recognizing their own reflection in a mirror, we are immediately fascinated and want to explore their limits. Even though the intelligence they've displayed is very rudimentary by human standards, we still find them very interesting to study. So an advance alien that considers us primitive I think would still find us fascinating just because of how uncommon life is compared to lifeless worlds, and they too would want to see the limits of what we can know or do. After all, we've built cities, we are masters of our world, we have harnessed the atom, we've harvested energy from the earth and the sun. This is nothing to thumb your nose at even for someone far more advanced. We'd be as fascinating to them as dolphins are to us. I do agree with him that aliens would be unlikely to come here just to destroy us. Just as we wouldn't do that if we found non-intelligent life somewhere else. We'd want to study them instead and possibly learn more about ourselves in the process.
+Steven Crowell I'll say this. If we found just simple microbes on Mars or somewhere else in this solar system it would be a profound discovery, and they would have no tech or intelligence to speak of. It would tell us more about ourselves, how we came to be, and how life may have started on our own world. That life could have formed on its own somewhere else means it could have formed anywhere, and could be very abundant in the galaxy (not intelligent life, just life in general). It would give us clues into abiogenesis and people can stop saying god did everything. I believe an intellgient alien would want to study us no matter how primitive we are, just to see how we are different and how differently life could have formed somewhere other than their world.
Neil has also been saying this for some time. "What if Aliens think we are too stupid to interact with" .. "They are observing us and we don't even realize"
The brexit is actually a good thing. European countries are forced to adopt stupid laws because of EU, despite the democracies and non cooperative governments.
So I have this thought in my head which sort of stems from the principle of least effort. This is a fairly worldwide rule of thumb which applies to various fields, including biology. It basically states that creatures (and other forms of matter) will most often choose the path of least resistance, and do only what they need to to survive, and not more than this. To me, this means that a creature will evolve to be as smart as it needs to be, and then stop evolving. For this reason, I believe that the science fiction idea of the hyper-intelligent alien race is not one that is likely to come about through natural selection (though that doesn't mean it couldn't churn out one that is still somewhat smarter than us). There is a caveat to this, which comes in the form of *un*-natural selection: eugenics, gene therapy, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, etc., but at that point, we are quite far down the path of conjecture, where anything is possible. However, in this video, Neil seems to offer the idea that a race capable of traversing the stars is far more advanced than we are, and therefore must be a hyper-intelligent species relative to us. Personally, I do not agree with this logic. The Europeans who wiped out the Native American tribes were the same species, no more intelligent than those they conquered. The Natives were not worms on the pavement, they just didn't have guns (or smallpox, but whatever). Anyway, I have no idea why I wanted to type all this at 8 am on a youtube comment section. As we all know, any viewpoint related to ET's is currently pure conjecture anyway, this is simply what seems logical to me.
wondering if you're still reading this :D but how exactly would that thought lead you to the assumption that there are no hyperintelligent alien species? It's easy enough to imagine a reason or need for them to become hyperintelligent or not?
@@datshitcray Hey there, Martin. Well, it's been 3 years since I wrote that youtube comment, but it seems I never said I thought there would be no hyperintelligent life in the Universe, but rather that aliens who might come across our path, who were able to traverse galaxies, wouldn't *necessarily* be hyperintelligent, which is what NDGT is saying here :)
@@aerobyrdable welcome back haha :D I just cannot follow your thought why natural selection would not lead to a hyper intelligent alien life form. That was the main point from your second paragraph, wasn't it?
@@datshitcray Well, yes. I suppose that was the point I was making: that natural selection will create species that are as strong/aggressive/smart as they need to be to reliably survive, and not smarter than that. So the only way such a process could churn out a hyper-intelligent race would be if there were multiple competing entities with human-level intelligence, and if the path to evolutionary victory was more and more and more intelligence, rather than aggression or strength or fertility. Thinking about it today, there's no reason why this is impossible, but I do agree with my third paragraph, that human level intelligence is enough to traverse the stars, and so there's no reason to assume some more advanced being would need to be more any more intelligent than we are, right?
@@aerobyrdable Hmm, yep. That makes sense actually. I am wondering if humans are smart enough to remain in existence though. I am thinking about a universe that is actually quite hostile to any life form. Also, I don't understand much about astrophysics and the likes but I am reading many times that eventually Earth will become inhabitable. Just like our entire galaxy will develop into a state where there is no more room for life. This would imply that at least there is a natural trend that would drive life forms to capabilities far beyond today's world in order to escape to different planets first and eventually even other galaxies? For this, our level of intelligence does not seem high enough at the moment. Would evolution work in a way that our world is actually becoming more and more complex. So, social systems aside, in order to be able to actively contribute for example to the economy, the skills and intelligence you need, are actually increasing (which is posing a threat to the stability of employment rates of course). So, assuming eventually this would become more extreme and there would be another fight for resources on this planet, the very smart people are "fitter" and this would stimulate evolution to higher intelligence. I don't really know anything about this though and it may all sound extremely naive to someone who is educated on those subjects^^
It truly amazes me the human arrogance I see in some comments that assume that it is not possible for there to be an intelligent life out there is smarter and more advanced than humans or that is capable of interstellar travel. Please think about the following:- 1. The universe is 13.8 billion years old, earth is 4.54 Billion years, so there are planets out there that are much much older than us, but let us say for arguments sake that life there started ahead of us by only 100,000 years, or if you like a smaller number say 2000 or heck even 200 years... imagine what our technology will be like in 200, 2000 or 100,000 years in the future if not more. (if you find that hard, look back that much into our past and then look to now, and then look back 50 years ago and see how much it accelerated with each invention and discovery) 2. The universe is HUGE, infinity HUGE, don't you think there is a chance to have a much smarter life out there? 3. Have you seen humans? I mean I am sorry but we are retarded, and the problem is we know we are retarded... we are very aware of how messed up and dumb we are as a race and we collectively choose to ignore that and just blame it on the rest of humanity. Sure we have potential but come on! we are no where near reaching it. 4. we have, even with our limited understanding of the universe, already hypothesized different ways that interstellar travel could be achieved, we know its doable we just cant do it yet. A more advanced race (or a race with the right brilliant minded scientist and/or resources) might have figured it out already.
you are arguing right against the chance of any intelligent life out there in the universe besides ourselves! why? because if you look at intelligent life here, how long did it take to advance to where we are today, and when? for millions and millions of years there has been life. by the way, made possible by our extremely rare chance that our earth was formed just the right distance from the sun. (1 in a million) , that another planet or body hit us to give us the essential moon (1 in a million) that we had just the right amount of tilt in the earth (you get the idea), that we have juniper and Saturn to absorb flying asteroids, that the sun is just the right size and doesn't cook us nor radiate us TOO much (just enough to allow morphing of our genes. that we did have the dinosaurs that died for our gasoline and that they got hit by an asteroid that killed them all , but a few dog like creatures. Now, whats a million^5. (and that's being kind) that's a 1 with 30 zeros after it. trillions and trillions. that could be one planet in all the galaxies we can see with hubble. Im not saying its not possible, but life as we know it is pretty fragile.. look how long it took for us to evolve? of all the species, we are the only ones capable of writing their name down. let alone go for 10,000 yeas and all of the sudden, with in 100 years, go fly into to space and land on the moon) and we were somewhat of an accident. .. If someone visited us and it wasn't in the last 200 years, we couldn't even fly and communicate via electronics ,and if that alien visited us in the last 100k years or million years ago . (out of the 4.6 billion the earth has been around) they would have just found a bunch of animals that couldn't even cook their own food. sure, there could be a parallel earth somewhere , 1milllion years ahead of us. but by our own stats, that planet probably would have been wiped out by an asteroid or worse. every year we survive, we dodge one in a million odds we can be destroyed... so in a million years, we should all be gone anyway! :) However, by then we might be able to bend time/space and visit our parallel earth and find safe haven after our planet is burned up by the sun. so is there life out there. sure, I think its plausible to think that there should be, or are we all alone? odds are its going to be a long shot at best
I see you are thinking. Good. Fermi did too. That's the Fermi paradox. Judging from the size of the universe and the randomness of life, surely we ought to have encountered an alien life form by now? And from our point of view, it doesn't seem like so. So are we alone in the universe? Seems unlikely. Are we not? Both of these sounds equally terrifying.
I honestly hope we are not visited by aliens, even peaceful ones. I believe as a species we need to grow and advance on our own in means of science and humanity, when there is a meeting between aliens and humans, the aliens should be able to look at us and be amazed how hard we worked and tried to improve ourselves as people and as a society, and honestly i want to be able to say the same thing as well.
...and to me it seems that in order to become such an advanced civilization, means evolving to exist as a whole and unified species. That could mean that any E.T. that we come into contact with, or rather that comes into contact with us, has a more universally emphasized and gratifying perception of life, and their intent is not to harm.. Evil does not exist, it is conceptualized and labeled. But even that can diminish completely someday.. Just how barbaric societies are no longer suit for modern societies, we can see evil is something we grow out of in time. The significance of humanity and our own existence will certainly outweigh fear.
Salvador Suazo Except ants did not invent the internet, flying machines, cell phones, and guns... Naturally, the way we function and live, and weave the fabric of our society is not all dissimilar to ants, but it is certainly more defined and developed than ants. There is a significant difference between humans and ants, and that is our mental capacities. Otherwise, if ants had the brains of humans, they would no longer look like ants, or move like ants, or communicate like ants. They will start to evolve in a way that suits intelligence as a means of survival, just as we have evolved from apes and chimps who are, by the way, at least 3-5 times stronger than modern humans. Do you see where I am going with this..?
According to Enrico Fermi and Francis Crick, both Nobel Prize recipients, the propagation of life follows an exponential curve and this will also apply to "colonization" of space. Assuming we do not know everything about the Universe (especially that we did not even know the intrinsic principle of the force of gravity), we can imagine that given a very advance level of technology, which always progresses, intelligent life has spread out into the universe for a very long time. Some rough calculations would suggest that it would take 1 million years to populate each solar system of our own galaxy and more or less 2 million years to populate all visible solar systems in the known universe. At the beginning of 1940, Fermi was smart and open-minded enough ask this question: Why aren't they here already? This famous question is at the origin of the "Fermi paradox" where an open mind + some calculations lead to a universe full of life, all connected to each other by "Extraterrestrial Seeders", without any sign of them. Well... that was before the UFO sightings that started few years after his statement. But the UFO sightings were an answer to his famous question. But is the UFO phenomenon real? 1. Evidence from the past: all main religions have writings describing human shape beings who came from the sky and who created man in their own image and using the ground as material (genetic engineering would do just that). 2. Evidence from our time: UFO sightings including radar recordings, testimonies from high rank army officers, secret NASA transmission captured by a cable corporation manager [Martyn Stubbs] in Vancouver, etc., etc., etc.). The problem is that, since the assumed technology in the UFOs propulsion system, anything touching that subject becomes very rapidly top secret at the highest degree. And it will stay that way as long as competition exists between nations because there is a race to take advantage of this technology falling from the sky, literally. The top scientists have been incorporated into the secret and this influences the lower level scientists to believe UFO do not exist because the smartest of their colleagues say they do not exist, not suspecting they are into the secret. This being state, I do not think ETs will save us from self-destroying ourselves, even if they put us here in the first place. What would be the incentive to save primitive “animals” that kill each other... They would rather clean up afterward and start again with a selection of the best ones they would have selected so the next growth would have a better chance of controlling their own violence and chose peace. Meanwhile we still got a small chance to survive but it depends of the awakening of the best scientists who, at some point soon I hope, will realize that if they do not take charge of humanity, they will all perish with the rest of us, to leave the premise to the next one that will grow to survive the final test of peace hopefully. For the ETs, they cannot take contact until we pass the test of peace, which is the only thing that can convince them that we are advance enough to meet them. Otherwise, they will wait until the next cycle… the Yin and Yang cycle of creation/destruction until the right humanity emerges to reach the golden age…where intelligence is respected enough to be a requirement to lead society. This is my view. Is that make sense to you?
Personally, I'm not an advocate of the whole 'ancient astronaut' theory. Its not impossible, but there's no sufficient evidence that supports the claim that early human civilization ever had contact with extra-terrestrial life. I don't think that it's a genuinely ''scientific'' theory either, especially when you approach it from the History Channel/'Chariots of the Gods' angle. Just because a few lines on an ancient painting look like a spaceship, doesn't make it a spaceship. Creationists use the same kind of logic to ''prove'' dinosaurs and humans lived alongside one another - its nonsense! The same thing can be said - more of less- of the whole UFO phenomena. Now yes, UNIDENTIFIED flying objects exist, but we're spitting in Occam's face when we jump to the conclusion that these are alien spacecraft (or even spacecraft at all). Almost no scientist questions the existence of UFOs, merely the assumptions people make about them. Most sightings are easily explainable, and there's almost always more reasonable explanations to jump to for the ones that aren't. I like a lot of your speculations on why aliens might not have contacted us though. I mean, try looking at humanity through the eyes of an alien; look at these strange, balkanized animals which knowingly destroy their own planet and each other. If you were an alien, how would you feel about how they represent beings from other galaxies in their movies? How would Star Trek and all those hominid-looking aliens with cheap latex glued to their heads make you feel? Would you want to meet us?
Because of your conviction, you obviously did not research the fields opposing your views. I was like you at the beginning. But I played chess with myself trying to prove me wrong.... I really did research the fields of old scriptures to see if they could contain the clues of ancient contacts. I looked at the testimonies of pilots, generals, retired CIA and FAA operatives. I looked at Martyn Stubbs' capture of secret NASA videos and the possibility that there was a cover up. After all this I proved myself wrong and discovered a new reality. Play devil advocate with yourself. Test your belief! Get out of the crab's bucket to see if there is an ocean out there. So maybe after all this, you would not dismiss the extraterrestrial intervention with a little gesture of the hand...
You obviously don't know me well enough to make the assertion that I haven't challenged by views enough to justify them. If you want to disagree with me, that's fine, and I'd love to discuss your evidence with you. However, I'm not going to put up with being patronized. Yes; there are a lot of people of varying occupations who believe in ancient aliens, NWO conspiracies, and little green men probing cows. Edgar Mitchell, one of the men who walked on the moon, for example, believes that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin. However, one's occupation doesn't always mean their reasoning and conclusions are right. Case in point, David Irving. Irving was a once well respected historian, noted for his knowledge of Nazi military and war tactics... but then it turned out that he was a Holocaust denier. His career was ruined, and any credibility he once had as a historian went with it.
Yes, you are right, so many don't want to go outside the box for fear of having their credibility being ruined. The question everybody should ask for themselves is if one is influenced by this pressure to the point of not investigating some paths because of this fear (most of people are). Just investigate Martyn Stubbs facts and if you your reject this evidence, there will be nothing worth to talk about.Our minds will be too far apart.
I feel like they watch us from somewhere to make sure we don't do anything too stupid, but they leave us alone to develop our own culture. Once we start exploring the universe more, they might decide to contact us.
Same. Maybe we have the genetic potential to understand and develop enough knowledge/technology over the next hundreds of thousands, millions of years, to spark the interest of aliens. If we can survive that long at least.
You seem to think that oppression is a line dividing mankind between an organization like the illuminati or maybe the "13 families" and the rest. Hate to break your bubble, but "oppression" is an incredible refined and ancient human activity, practiced with gusto by any human being that has the chance to left his/her footprint in someone else's ass. Anyway, good, bad or ugly we humans have a (dis)functional way of functioning. We call that "our culture(s)". An extraterrestrial civilization that might decide to squash us as a bug is at the same time several order of magnitude more serious than our lack of basic empathy, and something really ridiculous to worry about. I mean, the possibility is almost nonexistant (according to our current knowledge), and even if it isn't is not like we can actually do something about it. We can do meaningful things for stopping our impulse of marking assess, so that make it by default the more worthwhile endeavor.
the illumuniti is a creration by men, Jesuit society, People look at Jews, Masons, Illumuniti as the evil leaders. The truth is the Vatican ruled the earth for 1260 years. Then the beast was wounded by Napeleon. Now it is back, Gaining power. The Jesuits created the theory of evolution, our entire education structure and the deteriation of God as being the xenter of it all. History tells the truth. Biblical predictions are more accurate than any prediction. Example. 6 of Daniels prophecys 400 years before Jesus came true to a t. A university study on the odds came up with a number of 300000000000000000000000000000 to 1. Now that's science. Jesuits were created by Pope. Vatican is the beast of the sea, The take over of Gods thrown. Now a person brain washed to say religion is man made, is lacking education our society leaves out. Man has always known of a superior being. Yet has been taught that religion alone has devised it. The Catholic Church is where satan established himself. Great way to mislead people. Protestants follow Jesuit teavchings. Jesus said we are the church , one on one with him, not a building nor mans teachiungs. I know this as a fact as I have had a relationship with Jesus for 24 years. No man can tell me I'm lost or my brain misunderstands. that is utter foolishness to my relationship with him one on one. Soon the Papcy will gain more power and lead the world as America is the beast of the earth giving the power to her. While we all fight over our beleifs the truth is unfolding from a book that predicted everything in history and what is coming on us. Love can not be judged by science. yet you all know its real.
George Martian Wow, how pretentious of me. I tried to burst your bubble, but your bubble is clearly made of neutronium-level denseness. I leave you alone, seeing you trying to convince the Chinese or Japanese that they are ruled by the Catholic church should be amusing. Actually, trying to see you convince the 7/8 part of mankind that is non-catholic that they are ruled by them should prove amusing. Good luck!
history tells the truth. the Jesuit influence of religion was the creation of muslims, hindus and many others including athesits. the Jesuit order has created our education system and the creation of evolution. one example. did you know that the profit Mohamad actually married a rich catholic nun, and admitted as well satan fooled him. he came 450 years after Jesus. The Vatican is the beast of the sea in the bible. they changed gods saturdaty Sabbath in 300 ad making sundaty their mark. the mark of the beast. 1260 years went by the bible supressed and the creation and murder of the church. Jesus condemned the church said we are now one on one with him. not what churches of the world tewach is it. thye universities people attend were created for Jesuits, the most high of them. god is not allowed to be discussed is he. as far as all the people and the world srelgions they follow. the main theme is this, love everyone have faith and don't worry about physical death. that's faith. if you know him. I was a criminal and a pretty viscous person 24 years ago, this is who jesus came for. now I am not. I sat in priosn and finally wante dto die for hate of myself never mind all of you., now I have grown slowly over years to understand truths. watch some walter veith on history you will understand it is the Jesuit papacvy influence that creaqted what we were taught to believe as reality, including the worlds religions. the truth is the bible, the word of god, not the physicasl churches and mans teachings. god sohows us truth if we study the word everyday.
Wait, the Jesuit have time travel? Wow, if they were behind Hinduism, whose sacred texts are the Vedas, written between 1500 to 500 years before Christianism existed, and Budhism, when Gautama Buddha lived three hundred years before the supposed date of birth for Jesus Christ, they are really powerful. Wait a moment, they could even have traveled back in time to create they own order! Judaismception! Please, do go on. As I thought, your attempts to convince us of the evil Judaist conspiracy are incredible amusing.
Thank you once again Neil xD I never understood the stupid idea if aliens exist they must/should be visiting us because you know were sooo important. It is very likely that aliens have discovered us and simply just catalogued us in their database and moved on because were not worth talking to on their level yet.
The best outcome, I think, would be if intelligent life came here and they were peaceful, helping us move forward technologically. Then we'd become an interstellar species before there's any chance of a worldwide disaster and everyone would realise the importance of science...
I've always thought that if alien life were to come to Earth, it would be to save the planet from us. Pretty much exactly like The Day The Earth Stood Still.
***** Exactly. They would have no reason to interfere with our growth. We dont have anything on our planet that they cant acquire just by observing us. We have to learn our lessons for ourselves. Not hope that they will save us.
If they have the technology to travel the vast distance it requires to reach us, then they are masters of technology and would have no problem harnessing the fuel found everywhere throughout the universe. All the biomass of the earth wouldn't even provide a fraction of the amount of fuel that a gas cloud would let alone all the solar energy from stars. Our biology would be interesting to them, sure. But learning about that wouldn't require making themselves known. All they would need to do is observe, or maybe take a few specimens, some males and some females, and they could then reproduce us themselves and domesticate them just like we do with dogs.
Come on... He was explaining this with a small globe using inches, and feet as an equivalent measurement to thousands of feet, and hundred-thousands of inches.
Kasseenzettel Everybody didn't grow up using the metric system like you did. I'd love to be a genious like...you! I'm glad he did it that way to help people like 'ME' that grew up in the 60's to understand.
The metric system is only advantageous on a practical level. At Neil's level of expertise the difference between any measurement or counting systems is arbitrary.
***** Neil assumed his audience was mostly American, so he used units most Americans would be familiar with. As for measurement preference, it really doesn't matter. Any simple operations are handled by the computers while the human minds are mostly concerned with more difficult concepts.
I wouldn't say we're entirely devoid of intelligence but more so that we have so much more to learn still. While we like to think we're so smart, sometimes we're also too quick to dismiss ourselves. Don't consider yourself unintelligent, just be self aware that you still have more to experience and see.
First he says aliens wouldn't care about us because how we don't care about worms, then he says that Hawking is wrong because he bases his thought on how humans behave... Kind of contradictory. I for one think that aliens, if too advanced, may visit us but not know how to talk to us, just how we would be amazed of finding a single cell organism on Mars but couldn't communicate with it.
also stephen hawking doesn't say aliens have visited us he just says that they probably exist, which isn't really a stupid thought considering how many planets are in the goldilocks zone, and how many more we haven't even discovered yet... the thing is if they could travel all this way you have to ask yourself would they waste there time with a stupid species like us, they'd probably want us to naturally develop on our own.
N00N3ATALL what's not true? don't you think we would be amazed if we find life on other planets? I meant to say that perhaps advances aliens would also be interested in us even if we are not evolved like them, as we would for other less intelligent species
nachoijp Well, we (HUMANS) would be amazed if we found any extraterrestrial life (even microbes) because we have not found any as yet. An alien who may have encountered or known of dozens or thousands of alien life different from his own, would not get overly excited to find us. That's like if I call you over to my backyard all excited, pick up a heavy rock and show you a new slug. You would say "yeah, it's a slug!". And I'd say "but it's a special slug! It's from my YARD!" And you'd say: "How long have you been out in the sun? Go inside and take your mediation!" . lol
Hector Fernandez lol you have a point there, but if you show me some weird slug with pretty colours I might be interested, I like to think we humans are pretty coloured slugs :)
+Zeldagigafan thats nothing. The twisted concept of virtue and conept of everything..twisted. complete fuck-up of logical consistency. It has to be inflicted with violent abuse by parents to survive.
Smedley Butler Everything we observe is not possible on a flat earth. During the Summer Solstice, areas within the arctic and antarctic circles have 24/7 sunlight (this will be happening in Antarctica on the 21st of this month). Additionally, stars in the northern hemisphere appear to rotate around one central point (and the star that is the closest to this central point is Polaris) and in the southern hemisphere, they appear to rotate in the opposite direction around a central point, the closest star to this point is Sigma Octantus.
***** It is quite a stretch of the imagination to say that "everything we observe is not possible on a flat earth" You can prove it for yourself, find a large body of calm water water preferably somewhere between 5-25 miles. Set up a telescope 1 foot above the water level. Look and note how far you can see, and if the other end of the body of water is obscured by the amount it should be with the given curvature of the earth. that is 8 inches multiplied by the number of miles squared. so 1 mile is 8 inches. 2 miles is 32 inches. 3 miles is 72 inches etc.... You might be surprised at what you find. I know I was when I did it.
Smedley Butler 1) Explain the seasons, particularly why Antarctica is under sunlight all day on the summer solstice (December 21st for the southern hemisphere) 2) Explain why identical poles on the longitude cast different shadows on the same day at the same time 3) Explain why we can't see the landmass on the other side of the ocean, even with a radio telescope. EVERYTHING we have observed on this planet cannot be possible on a flat earth, everything we observe reinforces a globular planet. Hell, look at the other planets and moons in the system, they are all circular, there is no reason to believe the Earth is any different.
I feel like an advanced civilization like that would either show no regard for less intelligent life and destroy it for their personal gain, or they're all super curious and eager to learn and conserve even the smallest amount of life because it's precious
Stephen kings under the dome nailed this concept. we are seen as ants by the alien children. and what do children do to ants? they torch them among other things just to see what happens haha
This guy is incredible. He always is giving the most fascinating facts or predictions. So as for the size of the universe, wouldn't it in theory go on forever? There couldn't possibly be a wall somewhere that marks the end of the universe, because there would have to be a opposite side to that wall. Just imagine if you could just point at any direction in the sky, and you had an infinite amount of time and energy and could just continue to go in that direction forever, where you would end up. I adamantly believe that alien life has not come to Earth and done this and that, but it is just ignorant and stupid to assume there isn't other life out there somewhere. It would be almost impossible if there wasn't. And in theory, there really isn't a reason they couldn't be exactly like us.
There is a wall because of the Big Bang. If you think of the Big Bang as the first moment of anything than that wall of nothings exists at the Speed of light times the age of the universe. If you were to see that wall you would be seeing the very first and fasted photons that were ejected from that initial explosion. Assuming the Big Bang is where *everything* originated. *BUT* it might not be! It may be that the Big Bang was just one tiny 'pop' in a starfield of tiny universes continually popping into existence. If that were the case then the wall of one expanding universe will eventually cross paths with the photons from it nearest neighbor, occluding and disrupting one another, overlapping like a venn diagram. Like ripples from multiple raindrops crossing in a pond of water, creating interwoven waves of light and matter. Just thinking about it is enough to get my heart racing and my curiosity ablaze.
Geahk Burchill You see, if the big bang is where everything originated, then where did the big bang come from? Who started that? It is the chicken and the egg argument, I'm not saying the big bang didn't happen, but how did everything come about that formed to become the big bang. It will drive someone crazy wanting to know more. It just boggle's my mind to think about stuff like that.
Zditty1029 At this point I have to state opinion because were are talking about things which can only be speculated on. What I think doesn't even qualify as a theory because I have zero evidence for it. If we look closely enough at a cell we see it's molecules. Look closely enough at those and you see atoms and then quarks and then - we don't know. We do know there is mostly open space between each, so much that you can pack it all together and get something incredibly dense and yet occupying nearly no space at all. The constituent parts are *so* *Small* there is almost no *there*, there. Our universe may have simply been a tiny ball of incredibly dense matter. Like a planet forming from gas, it may have slowly absorbed all floating atoms around it until it became a dense ball of such intense energy it had no choice but to explode. It may just be the atom of another, trillions of times more massive, molecule which itself is inside a cell which is inside a life form. The universe fractalizes into infinite complexity and our sense of that scale can quickly become lost because it is beyond our comprehension.
Geahk Burchill I agree. Trying to describe the size of the universe can not be comprehended by us because there is nothing to compare it to. It just fascinates me when I think about hypothetical questions/theories such as if I had an infinite amount of time, energy, and personally did not age and could live forever, if I just pointed at one point in the sky and could go on forever, it makes me desperate to want to know what I would see. See even the molecules and atoms that could have formed the big bang had to come from something. What was it! Were they in a void somewhere? Where did the void come from then? And wouldn't that void also have to be infinite in size? It makes you feel, well at least it makes me feel, when I think about the infinite size of the universe, it makes me feel so insignificant, that everything and everyone here doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. And then there is the whole question of other life. I wouldn't even call it a question actually as much as a mathematical certainty. It leaves me beyond curious, just like everyone else in the world, wanting to know about it. Who, what, where, what do they do, do they require oxygen to live or do they depend on some sort of element we don't even know of. And most of all what do they look like. I thought it was interesting that if we were to communicate with a life form from a different part of the universe, the one language that we should have in common and could be used is math. No matter what you do or say, 2 + 2 will always equal 4 in any civilization in the universe.
Neil Tyson is correct. Aliens used to visit planet earth and have seen how we are destroying planet and commented, "Scotty BEAM ME UP!! There is NO INTELLIGENT LIFE here on Earth !!"
Why is it assumed that if a civilization has the technology to cross the galaxy, they must therefore be more advanced than us in ALL other ways? It's perfectly possible they may not have an understanding of..say..germ theory and will look on our ability to combat disease with awe and amazement. Or what if they didn't have literature? Or music? Or great architecture? Or humour? They would arrive at our planet and be awestruck at our achievements, not just dismiss us as "worms" Just a thought.
No it's not, if you can master traveling to space you can use a microscope. Ofc they've found germs. I'd hope that they'd look at our music and arts with awe and amazement but even that is a long shot.
And he always uses the germ as an example. He contradicts himself when he says that Hawking is reflecting a human thought when he feels an advanced alien race may annihilate us but when Neil himself uses the germ theory its the same human way of seeing things. Also as human we might 'step' on a worm without a second glance but we will definitely be curious when we meet a completely new species of ape or a some other new species never heard of. Neil sometimes becomes obsessed with his ideas that he is not open to others.
Science is a culminating topic. To fly around the galaxy you have to know several pre-requisite sciences. For this I say it is very unlikely that they would be so far in one field and knowledge less in all or most others. The sphere, being the perfect shape, is most likely what their civilization would be like. And ever expanding,consistent ball (figuratively) of knowledge. Unless they where born with a ridiculous, society wide all- encompassing drive, deep in their genes, to ONLY research space travel. (Highly unlikely to impossible) good point, but not very plausible.
***** Absolutely agree, but if we had created things which they were unable to even comprehend, that would suggest to me we are more advanced than them in these areas, which backs up my original argument. And going back to my example of germ theory (this is to everyone) - you DON'T need to understand germ theory to cross the galaxy. This would obviously be the case if germs don't exist where they come from, or that they were born immune from disease. But even were neither of these were the case, if they could reproduce and educate themselves so quickly and easily that anyone incapacitated or dead could simply be replaced, there wouldn't be the incentive to tackle or even investigate the cause of disease. Or disease may take so long to kill them that no one has died yet. All humans naturally drop dead at 154 because we are no longer able to produce hemoglobin. We just don't know this yet because no one has reached 154, so we've not investigated it yet. But we can still reach the moon. I just think people are not comprehending just how different aliens might be, and how massively differently they may have learned about the universe.
I certainly learnt a thing or 2 with Neil's reflection. Although I must say... When you say Alien, you are brushing them all out as one specie or something like that. You see, think how vast the universe is... think of the possibility of how many other intelligent species are out there. Some of them could have the ability to travel and completely lack some basic skills humans have. Some might even be totally inferior than and other might be absolutely superior in every way - my point it, we are not talking about 1 specie, we are talking about the possibility of there being other species from other part of this solar system, this galaxy or even other galaxies. This is a huge debate. Again, thank you Neil... It's good to have a visual perspective of things
yeah, like you don't go in the forest and show yourself to the gorillas "hey, I'm here, I'm human and you're a gorilla" .. same thing with the aliens, they know we're here and don't bother interacting because we're a lousy specie ..
We haven't received any broadcasts from intelligent lifeforms in all the time we've been observing space. How do we know it's not too high-tech for us to comprehend? Simple, it can't be. No matter how highly refined their communication technology is there will always be a recognizable pattern we will be able to perceive. So if there is intelligent life out there, it's pretty damn far away. If aliens did find us, we'd be an anomaly in that we could actually broadcast radiowaves into space which would be something those aliens wouldn't have observed across thousands of lightyears. So in that regard we'd be an anomaly and therefore worth inspection. It'd be like if we came across ape using a spear wielding ape. True, not really indicative of anything close to human technical capability but just the fact that's it's something so rarely (never) observed would make it an object of great public attention.
TheChainsawNinja Well, you can't really say that they "can't be"' too high-tech or intelligent for us to comprehend any sort of contact. It could be an assumption, but your assumption is based on the thought of an alien civilization using our rules of communication. There's not really any room for absolutes. You just really can't say that THIS is how aliens would try to contact us. And THIS is why they haven't. We don't know, and can't know until they do and it's confirmed as such.
Ransom Summer How else would they transmit information? There are essentially three possibilities: 1. They transmit data using the light spectrum. In which case, we'd be able to perceive their communication. 2. They use physical means to transmit data, which makes absolutely no practical sense for a civilization so advanced. 3. They are able to manipulate dark matter, send messages through wormholes, or something of the like. If it's even possible, this would only be practical for communication over large distances of lightyears. Any on-planet communication could be solved much more practically by transmitting data using the light spectrum.
TheChainsawNinja How arrogant and ignorant to think humans have devised a way to detect every forum of communication in the universe. What if aliens have senses that we don't have, and that we have never even thought to learn to detect. If the history of the universe was one year, all of recorded history on earth would be the last 15 seconds. Do you really think we have discovered every form of communication in the universe already? I think you may be attempting a troll with those incredibly stupid posts you made.
There are probably thousands of other species of life more intelligent than us out in the infiniteness of the universe that have risen and fallen extinct. The universe is billions of years old, we've only been in space for about 50 years. A bigger coincidence than actually finding where other intelligent life is, would be finding each other at the same time of existence of that life.
Unless we figure out how to travel faster than light or develop generational ships, it's impossible to even explore any sort of long distances. The odds of finding someone are so bad.
Could be a possibility because only within few hundred years of our existence as intelligent species we have changed the whole planet according to ourselves which was almost same for many millions of years or so..where did that intelligence suddenly came from ? If u say that is result of many years of evolution then let me tell u that comparatively we as humans have just appeared on this planet ... simply see the timeline of earth and u will know how old are other species than us . We have just arrived . If u say that monkeys were there then see the difference between monkeys and us . Even dogs are more similar to wolves and cat to the leopard(differ only in size) but we are way ahead of monkeys and chimps . Every other species is living according to the nature earth except us as if we don't belong to this community .
they would have observed human reproduction and courtship and saw that human 1 likes to lick human 2 butthole and would have come to the conclusion that humanity are still in the same development phase as dogs.
Red Diamond you're still pretty arrogant to think you truly know the answers. there's really no way we can know everything.. or maybe I'm wrong but we just don't know
I doubt that we as a species will ever meet any alien life forms of equal or higher intellect than us UNLESS we develop some way of traversing space in a way similar to that of Star Trek warp engine technology or hyperspace tech. from Star Wars. I think that the likelihood of aliens coming to earth is extremely low simply because of our position in our galaxy - our solar system is nothing special. Finding intelligent alien life will be I think a rather difficult task even if we do attain warp speed/hyperspace cause I just don't think it exists in as great numbers as Carl Sagan says. My thinking is that yes it COULD exist or could have existed but like humans they could also exterminate themselves by war or disease or whatever. For our species and some other intelligent alien life to finally meet would in my opinion be the greatest circumstance in the history of history just due to the unlikelihood of it happening. (distance to travel, same time period, similar technology), and not instantly want to kill the other but instead try to peacefully coexist and exchange knowledge & communicate? That would be quite something to witness in one's lifetime.
if aliens ever found us, we are in deep deepshit, just imagine our armies fighting armies from 100, 200 500 years ago, it wouldn't even be funny. Now imagine a civilization that is millions perhaps billions of years old...
You're comparing apples to oranges. If aliens ever stopped by, they'd be aliens... not human. They wouldn't share our human instincts and behaviors. As a species, I think it's a bit self-absorbed to believe that a much-more intelligent lifeform would be anything similar to us. They would have evolved WAY differently under different atmospheric pressure, gravity, different solvent other than water (like methane, etc). Also, they wouldn't need to colonize Earth like those aforementioned armies did to expand their territory and resources. We're talking about aliens that figured out how to effectively travel interstellarly. Their resources would be seemingly infinite compared to what we have and they wouldn't desire the little speck that is Earth in our huge galaxy.
Besides to evolve as a species you need to be more benevolent and understanding. Advanced aliens may still have crazy people in the population, but they're so tiny and irrelevant they worst they can do is like hurt their spouse or something, and then get arrested in that civilization. If you study history human beings didn't decide to kill and conquer because they felt like it. They conquered because they needed resources and the indigenous population had a major conflict with them and in a sense they had to defend themselves. When you look at history and what was required to advance technology and invent them in the first place most of them were done through benevolent actions and more benevolence and humility and human teamwork compared to when the inventions never existed.
Anyone else thought, when seen Homer Simpson chanting "I am smart" while his house is on fire, that could be the best definition of the human civilization?
Hawking prefaced his statement with "if we have ourselves to use as a gauge" or something along those lines. Meaning, if we use our own behavior as a foundation of what aliens COULD be like....
The thing that boggles my mind on top of all that, is that people think that aliens would want to visit Earth, and furthermore they would pick humans to communicate with out of all spices! Why?! Why do we see aliens in the form of a human? Walking on two legs and everything.
Aliens have visited, and met people like the flat earth believers, came to the conclusion there wasn't intelligent life here, so left.
+Ben Mercer Lmao! XD
+Ben Mercer XD haha
+Ben Mercer I LOL'd
+Ben Mercer Also they counter will smith and where like oh hell no
globe believers are so stupid they believe in aliens
And on top of that, some people think the earth is flat..... Goodbye aliens.
Yes they are so dumb, the earth is obviously a cube.
juste kevin obviously
juste kevin Nope. It's actually a donut.
Edwin Jackson Rlol!
I can't tell if you guys are serious or joking lol
The earth is obviously the same shape as a potato chip
He has some really good points, and they're pretty true. We're intelligent by our standards, but other aliens probably don't see us that way. They may think we're pretty clever, the way we think monkeys, dogs and dolphins are.
One theory I've heard that I really like is that perhaps the universe is in fact pretty crowded, but we're in a "dead zone" part of the galaxy; kind of like Death Valley, I suppose, or any vast open desert with nothing around for miles. This is definitely possible considering our galaxy is relatively young compared to the rest of the universe. If other alien life forms have existed for billions of years, they'd be around before our galaxy even started to form. So, they probably saw it as dead space and thus have no reason to even travel here.
Really good point. If they were to ever return say, I can imagine to much of surprise to the aliens, a "clever" species has evolved and developed primitive forms of technology
Santos Chavez perhaps there are lots and lots of dead places but also places full of life
Bakphoon Its not a fact
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We were once before, ie pyrmaids.
So we are basically the North America before Columbus' time of the Universe?
We still have a "kill or be killed" attitude, clearly shows that we are still savages and are still a long way to go from getting out shit together.
that attitude saved your ancestors from being killed. Don't act like that primitive way of thought is wrong in any way shape or form. And if you come out and say "We should all love each other" I would like to send you to a state prison and make you love people there.
Just what I thought, when this guy who _thinks_ he is such a smart man, thinks it is normal and OK to just walk around killing worms. Psychopaths like Neil are the reason why our species cannot make progress.
No, Aliens are just going hold our hands and sing Kumbaya my lord and we’ll all be best buds. Survival of the fittest is a universal law, not some manmade credos. Animals kill each other daily in order to survive. Plants feed on insects. A strain of microbes and germs die so that a stronger and more adapted strain can be born and take its place and so on. All beings thrive on eliminating competition to subsist. It’s just Pacifists who see the world adorned in rainbows and the sky is pink and the sun is ever so shiny. if an alien is at your door you will get to see just how friendly they are, assuming they choose to let you keep your eyes, brain, body or whatever’s left you.
We also have FlatEarthers.
I just opened up the door for triggered FlatEarthers.. I guess..
Agreed.
Jesus he's so right. He completely convinced me. There is no intelligent life on earth .
You're putting this in perspective of some insanely intelligent life form that's millions of years more advanced than us. You can't compare us to that. It's like comparing the modern human to the ice age human and asking who's more technologically advanced?
Humans are intelligent but we only have ourselves to compare it to. It's the only scale of intelligence that we know of.
Perspective is all relative. Question is, how big are you thinking?
You assume that all alien life is intelligent. There must be life on other planets that don't have the power to travel to other galaxies just like us.
Gabriel Torres There is intelligent life, but they are slowly destroying the planet's resources and ecosystems. ;-;
Gabriel Torres Maybe we aren't actually intelligent life, but proto-types, as we are still evolving
"Where's the nearest star system? FORGET IT!"
First I laughed so hard and then I started sobbing the more I look from the fact that we're so insignificant in this galaxy, let alone the universe.
What you typed was a key factor in my atheism......Religious people think we are so important.The universe doesn't know we exist
n2osrt4 I like to think of it as, "We are the universe discovering ourselves." (Not verbatim) I think it was Carl Sagan that said that.
n2osrt4 It seems to me that your reasoning is the same foundation for religious people to believe.
Virgil Schmidt He said that "the universe doesn't know we exist", but he could have meant that the universe is not an intelligent entity.
That’s the idea your more malleable thinking this way.
*aliens passing by*
human: "cash me outside how about dat"
aliens: *sights* nothing to see here
It makes me sad that i was born at this peak of time and it scares me that there could be life out there far more advanced and just finds us as useless beings
We could be the advanced ones? And if there be intelligently life beyond microbial, they could be supremely primative or not even primative
if our own A.I. doesn't eat our brains out first and then go take them over too.
Don't worry, the AI we create will greatly surpass us - it will be our legacy.
Don't step on the worm! :(
yeah man lay him in the grass or give him a tiny worm shelter :-(
I bought a big, giant bucket of worms from a local fishing shop and stepped all over it, just for you c:
Adrian D
i cut flat worms into pieces and watch them clone themselves.
You guys... suck.
Adrian D
flatworms wont die by cutting. they regrow into clones
Considering our species is now broadcasting stellar programming like the Kardashians, American Idol and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, my suspicion is that the aliens are choosing to give our planet a wide berth. Like knowing to avoid that crazy neighbor's house.
You made me laugh
Yeah, but r music tho. ALL genres. How can they not think we rock! I jus can't picture more amazing music. All genres have bomb songs!!! And music is amazing
Couldn't they just put us out of our misery, though?
@@matthewmoran5297 IF they existed they COULD, but they probably have a relationship to us like "we" do with those people on that island that have "never" come in contact with other humans.
My point is, they'd probably just observe us. Like if we were in a simulation.
I'd think humanity is pretty entertaining if I didn't live on Earth...
I love your comment !! Lol 😂 😂
"Where is the nearest star system? FORGET IT!"
copycat
Hey dummy just because man can't make those distances doesn't mean that aliens can't I assure you that they can travel 100 million light years in the twinkling of an eye but as long as you listen to chubby pork chop chasing clowns like this fool you'll never know shit
U-Haul StarTalk will start talk sucks
Just because he works as an astrophysicist doesn't mean he knows shit about aliens and I can assure you he doesn't this clown doesn't even know that they're all over this planet I've spoken to an alien face to face I don't need some chubby pork chop chasing clown to tell me what exists
@@VG-rj8pn you have spoken to an alien?
Aliens watches this video
*Alien civilization begins slow clapping*
💀
"Forget it" hhaha I laughed so much
imbrawler dubz it is true, we should really forget it
If earth was the size of a tennis ball, how far would be the closest stellar system from us?
Alpha century is in reality 4.3 light years away from us.
If earth was the size of the tennis ball and the solar system also reduced in size, the solar system would be 209,000 kilometers away from the tennis ball.
This is almost the distance from earth to the moon, and that with earth being reduced to a size of a tennis ball
The Moon is 384,400 km from Earth on average so it would be nearer half-way to the Moon but I take your point and your arithmetic is correct.
@@PureExile Ok internet armchair professor
@@nacho74 space...
Aliens probably already visited but saw our presidential candidates and left
Exactly. Scientists are a special kind of stupid: Nurds, who are too stupid to keep morons like Donald Trump from accessing power. Nurds, who distract themselves with the delusion that this is all just a game until reality slaps them in the face with World War 3 and the end of our species.
Nurds, who flatter themselves about how "intelligent" they are and who avoid to face life & death.
Haha yes😂
@@bobrolander4344 Trump 2020
People with money control the world Bob, not scientists.
JT we have been extracting and releasing astronomical amounts of carbon in the atmosphere. Sheets of Meters and meters of thick methane ice (some in not so cold anymore northern places, some at the bottom of the ocean as it’s getting warmer everywhere), we don’t even have an idea of what that’s going to be the result of that... the smartest people in the world are all saying the same thing. Is it a conspiracy theory .... do you believe the earth is flat too? Do you think we never went to the moon too JT?
Where is the nearest star system? FORGET IT!!!
Literally cracked up hearing that part!
Zain Kazani seriously, the distance is insane
forget it
Zain Kazani Even if earth was the size of a tennis ball, what do you think how far the closest star system would be from the tennis ball (also reduced in size)?
In reality, the closest star system is about 4.3 light years away from us.
If earth was even smaller than the globe Mr Tyson used here, say the size of a tennis ball.
Then, the closest stellar solar system alpha century (also reduced in size) would be 209,000 km away.
IF the earth was the size of a tennis ball only, 209 thousand kilometers. Yes, it is creepy
nacho73 for about 5 miles away
Markloweh De Jose no i think it would be like all the way to the sun because nearest star is 4 light years away and one light year is like billion billion miles
“You don’t walk by the work and say...I wonder what he’s thinking ?”
I do that constantly. I think I’m insane
Nah you're the intelligent life which is missing on this planet.
Aliens are coming for you.
You’re probably a liberal white female
I do the same. Gee and wonder what they all think and look at and why?
@@abdullahal-shimri3091
and?
So?
Your point?
@John Stapleton you’re right he’s not a smart as YOU think.
He’s way smarter than that.
maybe I am the alien, I would not step on the worm...
Me neither. Neil is a psychopath.
to Rusty Childers: Me neither, but maybe Neil meant we don't go round checking to see if we might be treading on any worms. Do you that everywhere you walk on grass, soil or leaf litter? Do you check to see if every step you take you might be treading on worms? I don't think any of us do, and so, without bothering to check, we often do end up treading on worms (and ants, and lots of poor wee creatures).
r/wooosh
The worm is a net benefit to the biome, as a "primitive" human I'd much rather it stay alive and nurture the environment.
Why would you step on a worm ... we need worms ...
Only little kids do that
Vax x
We ARE little kids. That's his point.
Vax x: Hahaha that is funny. I love it ;)
I see aliens all the time at my local Wal-mart. Especially during the late hours.
Is this supposed to be funny?
Um, sir that's not an alien
Someone: *says something that sounds smart*
Neil deGrasse: *_ACTUALLY_*
When political parties, countries, governments, mothers/fathers/wives/husbands and so on and so forth can't even communicate with each other, how do we expect to be able to communicate with aliens? We can't.
But we can ask one very sensible question: What do you think we ought to know to help us improve our ways of thinking?
***** In reality? You don't know for a fact that aliens are at all similar to us. In fact, if they have the technology to travel all the way here, they probably aren't anything like us. We have never even spotted alien life on other planets yet, so NO ONE can presume facts about alien lifestyles.
I really can't tell if your comment is just a troll or just stupid, pardon my bluntness.
I think it's quite clear who I am referring to. I'm going to let you figure that out for yourself.
Quite an odd way of looking at things. I was referring to the scientific research community.
lets start by being consistent and stop being hypocrits. taxation is theft, lets recognize that.
maybe when society stops letting itself be enslaved by governments through violence then maybe we can start bettering ourselves as a society.
This thread is a prime example of why we (that is: human beings) would not be able to communicate with aliens.
give us a break will ya...we went from horse to space rockets in less than 100 years...
Gazi If they do exist, it is impossible for them to visit us or vice versa. By the time the light from us reaches them, they won't see who we are today. If they were to zoom in right now, all they'd see are dinosaurs.
111mmgg yup. And thennnn we hit cruise control instead of keeping with that momentum, unfortunately. ☹️
Skimtar actually no, light is delayed through time (measurement) and forces acting on it. current present is present in all state matter.
Is that supposed to be impressive? What if there was life out there that did that same thing in 1/4 of that and 10x further and faster. Without another species to gauge our accomplishments against, we'll never know if your accomplishments are worth praise.
Angelo Gopaul probably not, but more realistic thought is that aliens population has lived much more than human race and the time would actually be the difference.
Humans aren't ready for alien face to face interaction simply because the general populace would be waaay too afraid. Such a shame really. But I could understand.
And also because their sense of ethics may be different from ours
+rsuriyop lol look a at this tough guy
God Emperor Trump a tough guy talking about other tough guys who aren't tough, how tough.
rsuriyop I definitely agree. There'd also be no way for us to communicate unless the hypothetical aliens prepared vaccinations for foreign diseases and studied human linguistics and communication enough to understand us and allow us to understand them.
Today ive had the Epiphany of ALL Epiphanies... You,(They) all very kind and sweet souls!!!!
I completely agree with Tyson about Hawkins’ pessimism about the aliens. Subjugation and slavery are typical inferior beings behavior. High civilizations only evolve having ethics, moral and compassion, and I’m not saying this based in any religious belief, but this is LOGIIICC, nothing can get out of a simple solar system without EXTREME coordination and cooperative natural character. Hawking sometimes throw balls further than a home run in his ideas.
Well a civilization billions of light years away would be completely different from us so :/
If that's the case, there's never been high civilization here, and anything we would surmise about one would simply be a guess.
@@DeborahMacaoidhSelim that is the case.
Humanity Isn’t a high civilization.
Never has been.
And any say on aliens, is an educated guess. Because we haven’t met any.
Well this is late but that's imposing human characteristics on non-human beings. It could be entirely logical, possible and profitable (in both monetarily and intellectually) to keep other being enslaved. Just because the west doesn't currently have slaves doesn't mean they didn't work previously and alongside other leaps in culture and technology look at any previous human leaps prior to the 1800s and you will.fid either slaves or slave-like classes backing the society.
I'm not at all advocating slaves but NDT has proven multiple times his ignorance of geopolitics or even historical geopolics and how it relates to science. And there is plenty of evidence showing slavery to be a profitable trade depending on how it is implemented and for what purposes.
Tl;Dr don't let your human ideals cloud you to the reality of a situation. And NDT is pretty shit when it comes to anything but explaining science.
Who is that handsome guy ?
The greatest man in science since Einstein
Jay Sheeler ...you mean since Isaac Newton? ;)
William Capps I don't know about that.I doubt that Isaac Newton could have made me feel like the human race was worthy of existing quite like Neil.Thank you Neil.Thank you so much.
blank blank No problem.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson I don't know if you are the real neil DeGrasse Tyson or not but If you are...I just want to say.I love you!Imagine that i'm hugging you right now.
I try not to step on worms.They make dirt and I don't want their worm guts on my shoe.
Not just dirt but organic earth.
I disagree with NDGT on one point. He's right we don't think about worms because they're not intelligent and thus not interesting. But the moment we see some behavior even remotely resembling intelligence, for example tool use in animals, or elephants possessing memory, interspecies animal cooperation, whales ability to communicate across the entire ocean, dolphins recognizing their own reflection in a mirror, we are immediately fascinated and want to explore their limits. Even though the intelligence they've displayed is very rudimentary by human standards, we still find them very interesting to study.
So an advance alien that considers us primitive I think would still find us fascinating just because of how uncommon life is compared to lifeless worlds, and they too would want to see the limits of what we can know or do. After all, we've built cities, we are masters of our world, we have harnessed the atom, we've harvested energy from the earth and the sun. This is nothing to thumb your nose at even for someone far more advanced. We'd be as fascinating to them as dolphins are to us.
I do agree with him that aliens would be unlikely to come here just to destroy us. Just as we wouldn't do that if we found non-intelligent life somewhere else. We'd want to study them instead and possibly learn more about ourselves in the process.
Unless our technology and intelligence isn't even considered primitive to them, or unique.
+Steven Crowell I'll say this. If we found just simple microbes on Mars or somewhere else in this solar system it would be a profound discovery, and they would have no tech or intelligence to speak of.
It would tell us more about ourselves, how we came to be, and how life may have started on our own world. That life could have formed on its own somewhere else means it could have formed anywhere, and could be very abundant in the galaxy (not intelligent life, just life in general).
It would give us clues into abiogenesis and people can stop saying god did everything.
I believe an intellgient alien would want to study us no matter how primitive we are, just to see how we are different and how differently life could have formed somewhere other than their world.
+lostn65 what makes you think we'd be the first life form they've found?
We aren’t masters of our world In the slightest…at the moment humanity is a cancer to our planet
I will now count to a trillion:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10^ 12.
Why count to a trillion, when you can count to a BILLION?! (Dr Evil smirk)
The Ultimate Reductionist 😂
So, who else thinks about what that worm is thinking?
+Bbzije1 Nah man. Fuck the worm.
+Bbzije1 When I put it back on the soil I'm sure it feels better than being on the hot sidewalk lol
I do so I stopped fishing with them. I now use rubber worms
Brilliant, love the way he puts everything into perspective ....
But in reality, _we're_ the alien invaders! We're trying to colonize MARS! I can't blame them, though. Snickers bars are good.
You should of kept that awfulness to yourself.
+Benswan187 Should've*
that's exactly what I think
What exactly would we invade in mars... thats just a dead rock
We would steal land from Curiosity.
Neil has also been saying this for some time. "What if Aliens think we are too stupid to interact with" ..
"They are observing us and we don't even realize"
Aliens might be so smart that they DON'T fly around space with flying saucers, because that's stupid
They would be doing that in a long space travel also
How do you know? NASA is currently working on a spaceship that is similar to a flying saucers.
"Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Worried That Humans Are Too Stupid For Aliens"
Considering the US elections and the brexit i really can't blame him
You're right. But it gets a little more complicated. These are just the ethic/moral reasons. Which are subjective.
Quote Neil: "Make America Smart Again."
"Make the world smart for once"
The brexit is actually a good thing. European countries are forced to adopt stupid laws because of EU, despite the democracies and non cooperative governments.
Karim Ettahiri Oh, you poor thing.
I'd be scared to know what aliens would think of humanity's television and radio broadcast propaganda
They'd glass the entire planet.
Jovan Mitrić I fucking hate it when I get glassed
They probably wont mess with us if they did they do it through our minds or some other sneaky way.
Calling it now, aliens will treat us the us humans treat ants
So I have this thought in my head which sort of stems from the principle of least effort. This is a fairly worldwide rule of thumb which applies to various fields, including biology. It basically states that creatures (and other forms of matter) will most often choose the path of least resistance, and do only what they need to to survive, and not more than this. To me, this means that a creature will evolve to be as smart as it needs to be, and then stop evolving.
For this reason, I believe that the science fiction idea of the hyper-intelligent alien race is not one that is likely to come about through natural selection (though that doesn't mean it couldn't churn out one that is still somewhat smarter than us). There is a caveat to this, which comes in the form of *un*-natural selection: eugenics, gene therapy, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, etc., but at that point, we are quite far down the path of conjecture, where anything is possible.
However, in this video, Neil seems to offer the idea that a race capable of traversing the stars is far more advanced than we are, and therefore must be a hyper-intelligent species relative to us. Personally, I do not agree with this logic. The Europeans who wiped out the Native American tribes were the same species, no more intelligent than those they conquered. The Natives were not worms on the pavement, they just didn't have guns (or smallpox, but whatever).
Anyway, I have no idea why I wanted to type all this at 8 am on a youtube comment section. As we all know, any viewpoint related to ET's is currently pure conjecture anyway, this is simply what seems logical to me.
wondering if you're still reading this :D
but how exactly would that thought lead you to the assumption that there are no hyperintelligent alien species?
It's easy enough to imagine a reason or need for them to become hyperintelligent or not?
@@datshitcray Hey there, Martin. Well, it's been 3 years since I wrote that youtube comment, but it seems I never said I thought there would be no hyperintelligent life in the Universe, but rather that aliens who might come across our path, who were able to traverse galaxies, wouldn't *necessarily* be hyperintelligent, which is what NDGT is saying here :)
@@aerobyrdable welcome back haha :D
I just cannot follow your thought why natural selection would not lead to a hyper intelligent alien life form. That was the main point from your second paragraph, wasn't it?
@@datshitcray Well, yes. I suppose that was the point I was making: that natural selection will create species that are as strong/aggressive/smart as they need to be to reliably survive, and not smarter than that. So the only way such a process could churn out a hyper-intelligent race would be if there were multiple competing entities with human-level intelligence, and if the path to evolutionary victory was more and more and more intelligence, rather than aggression or strength or fertility.
Thinking about it today, there's no reason why this is impossible, but I do agree with my third paragraph, that human level intelligence is enough to traverse the stars, and so there's no reason to assume some more advanced being would need to be more any more intelligent than we are, right?
@@aerobyrdable Hmm, yep. That makes sense actually. I am wondering if humans are smart enough to remain in existence though. I am thinking about a universe that is actually quite hostile to any life form. Also, I don't understand much about astrophysics and the likes but I am reading many times that eventually Earth will become inhabitable. Just like our entire galaxy will develop into a state where there is no more room for life. This would imply that at least there is a natural trend that would drive life forms to capabilities far beyond today's world in order to escape to different planets first and eventually even other galaxies? For this, our level of intelligence does not seem high enough at the moment. Would evolution work in a way that our world is actually becoming more and more complex. So, social systems aside, in order to be able to actively contribute for example to the economy, the skills and intelligence you need, are actually increasing (which is posing a threat to the stability of employment rates of course). So, assuming eventually this would become more extreme and there would be another fight for resources on this planet, the very smart people are "fitter" and this would stimulate evolution to higher intelligence.
I don't really know anything about this though and it may all sound extremely naive to someone who is educated on those subjects^^
My dream is to turn on the news one day and the headline says, "WE STILL DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE FUCK WE ARE DOING HERE!"
Aliens have visited, met people who believe we were fish once, and left.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, is simply brilliant! Thanks for the upload!
@DotaJunkie at least he's smarter than you
aliens look at us like donald trump looks at mexicans..
They built a wall around our solar system.
ootie extreme
there actually is a wall around the solar system..its called the kuiper belt.. lol..
Marc Touss Damn never heard of that before. After looking at it it looks like interstellar space travel is impossible.
***** I mean, I don't see how those beings could survive the gravity.
+ootie extreme
even with that we still have so much space to discover, even the solar system alone is too much for us.
I love how positive and happy mr. deGrasse Tyson always sounds even when he's explaining the most bitter and cynical facts of life :D
Does anyone knwo the title of the music playing in the background until 00:35 ?
Illuminati song
It's called illuminati song
ALPHA ARX i mean the remix part of the illuminati song . I men the part form 0 to 35th second
Aliens: Oooh we might have found intelligent life!!!
Religion: *Exists*
Aliens: Nevermind, Venus next.
That’s really disrespectful mate
It truly amazes me the human arrogance I see in some comments that assume that it is not possible for there to be an intelligent life out there is smarter and more advanced than humans or that is capable of interstellar travel.
Please think about the following:-
1. The universe is 13.8 billion years old, earth is 4.54 Billion years, so there are planets out there that are much much older than us, but let us say for arguments sake that life there started ahead of us by only 100,000 years, or if you like a smaller number say 2000 or heck even 200 years... imagine what our technology will be like in 200, 2000 or 100,000 years in the future if not more. (if you find that hard, look back that much into our past and then look to now, and then look back 50 years ago and see how much it accelerated with each invention and discovery)
2. The universe is HUGE, infinity HUGE, don't you think there is a chance to have a much smarter life out there?
3. Have you seen humans? I mean I am sorry but we are retarded, and the problem is we know we are retarded... we are very aware of how messed up and dumb we are as a race and we collectively choose to ignore that and just blame it on the rest of humanity. Sure we have potential but come on! we are no where near reaching it.
4. we have, even with our limited understanding of the universe, already hypothesized different ways that interstellar travel could be achieved, we know its doable we just cant do it yet. A more advanced race (or a race with the right brilliant minded scientist and/or resources) might have figured it out already.
***** Better than the shit that spews out of your mouth. All I see come out from you is negativity backed by horrible arguments.
***** When did I say i believed in a god.
***** Lol you are so bad. You use bad logic. Stay mad brah. See how I use crappy vocab yet still have better logic than you?
you are arguing right against the chance of any intelligent life out there in the universe besides ourselves! why? because if you look at intelligent life here, how long did it take to advance to where we are today, and when? for millions and millions of years there has been life. by the way, made possible by our extremely rare chance that our earth was formed just the right distance from the sun. (1 in a million) , that another planet or body hit us to give us the essential moon (1 in a million) that we had just the right amount of tilt in the earth (you get the idea), that we have juniper and Saturn to absorb flying asteroids, that the sun is just the right size and doesn't cook us nor radiate us TOO much (just enough to allow morphing of our genes. that we did have the dinosaurs that died for our gasoline and that they got hit by an asteroid that killed them all , but a few dog like creatures. Now, whats a million^5. (and that's being kind) that's a 1 with 30 zeros after it. trillions and trillions. that could be one planet in all the galaxies we can see with hubble. Im not saying its not possible, but life as we know it is pretty fragile..
look how long it took for us to evolve? of all the species, we are the only ones capable of writing their name down. let alone go for 10,000 yeas and all of the sudden, with in 100 years, go fly into to space and land on the moon) and we were somewhat of an accident. .. If someone visited us and it wasn't in the last 200 years, we couldn't even fly and communicate via electronics ,and if that alien visited us in the last 100k years or million years ago . (out of the 4.6 billion the earth has been around) they would have just found a bunch of animals that couldn't even cook their own food.
sure, there could be a parallel earth somewhere , 1milllion years ahead of us. but by our own stats, that planet probably would have been wiped out by an asteroid or worse. every year we survive, we dodge one in a million odds we can be destroyed... so in a million years, we should all be gone anyway! :) However, by then we might be able to bend time/space and visit our parallel earth and find safe haven after our planet is burned up by the sun.
so is there life out there. sure, I think its plausible to think that there should be, or are we all alone? odds are its going to be a long shot at best
I see you are thinking. Good. Fermi did too. That's the Fermi paradox. Judging from the size of the universe and the randomness of life, surely we ought to have encountered an alien life form by now? And from our point of view, it doesn't seem like so. So are we alone in the universe? Seems unlikely. Are we not? Both of these sounds equally terrifying.
I honestly hope we are not visited by aliens, even peaceful ones. I believe as a species we need to grow and advance on our own in means of science and humanity, when there is a meeting between aliens and humans, the aliens should be able to look at us and be amazed how hard we worked and tried to improve ourselves as people and as a society, and honestly i want to be able to say the same thing as well.
I'm sure your wish will come true, since no aliens have ever been found.
Maybe they have been watching us this whole time?.. Considering we have only existed on this planet for about 0.003% of its entire span of existence..
...and to me it seems that in order to become such an advanced civilization, means evolving to exist as a whole and unified species. That could mean that any E.T. that we come into contact with, or rather that comes into contact with us, has a more universally emphasized and gratifying perception of life, and their intent is not to harm.. Evil does not exist, it is conceptualized and labeled. But even that can diminish completely someday.. Just how barbaric societies are no longer suit for modern societies, we can see evil is something we grow out of in time. The significance of humanity and our own existence will certainly outweigh fear.
I sometimes admire the hard work ants do constructing their complex homes... before I kill them all. Because this is my lawn.
Salvador Suazo Except ants did not invent the internet, flying machines, cell phones, and guns... Naturally, the way we function and live, and weave the fabric of our society is not all dissimilar to ants, but it is certainly more defined and developed than ants.
There is a significant difference between humans and ants, and that is our mental capacities. Otherwise, if ants had the brains of humans, they would no longer look like ants, or move like ants, or communicate like ants. They will start to evolve in a way that suits intelligence as a means of survival, just as we have evolved from apes and chimps who are, by the way, at least 3-5 times stronger than modern humans. Do you see where I am going with this..?
Plot twist: Aliens created us. We’re genetic hybrids.
Great video. How can they handle aliens if humans can't even handle each other. I think they should learn boundaries first before we meet them 👽.
Plot twist: *aliens are hiding from us*
According to Enrico Fermi and Francis Crick, both Nobel Prize recipients, the propagation of life follows an exponential curve and this will also apply to "colonization" of space. Assuming we do not know everything about the Universe (especially that we did not even know the intrinsic principle of the force of gravity), we can imagine that given a very advance level of technology, which always progresses, intelligent life has spread out into the universe for a very long time. Some rough calculations would suggest that it would take 1 million years to populate each solar system of our own galaxy and more or less 2 million years to populate all visible solar systems in the known universe. At the beginning of 1940, Fermi was smart and open-minded enough ask this question: Why aren't they here already? This famous question is at the origin of the "Fermi paradox" where an open mind + some calculations lead to a universe full of life, all connected to each other by "Extraterrestrial Seeders", without any sign of them. Well... that was before the UFO sightings that started few years after his statement. But the UFO sightings were an answer to his famous question. But is the UFO phenomenon real? 1. Evidence from the past: all main religions have writings describing human shape beings who came from the sky and who created man in their own image and using the ground as material (genetic engineering would do just that). 2. Evidence from our time: UFO sightings including radar recordings, testimonies from high rank army officers, secret NASA transmission captured by a cable corporation manager [Martyn Stubbs] in Vancouver, etc., etc., etc.). The problem is that, since the assumed technology in the UFOs propulsion system, anything touching that subject becomes very rapidly top secret at the highest degree. And it will stay that way as long as competition exists between nations because there is a race to take advantage of this technology falling from the sky, literally. The top scientists have been incorporated into the secret and this influences the lower level scientists to believe UFO do not exist because the smartest of their colleagues say they do not exist, not suspecting they are into the secret. This being state, I do not think ETs will save us from self-destroying ourselves, even if they put us here in the first place. What would be the incentive to save primitive “animals” that kill each other... They would rather clean up afterward and start again with a selection of the best ones they would have selected so the next growth would have a better chance of controlling their own violence and chose peace. Meanwhile we still got a small chance to survive but it depends of the awakening of the best scientists who, at some point soon I hope, will realize that if they do not take charge of humanity, they will all perish with the rest of us, to leave the premise to the next one that will grow to survive the final test of peace hopefully. For the ETs, they cannot take contact until we pass the test of peace, which is the only thing that can convince them that we are advance enough to meet them. Otherwise, they will wait until the next cycle… the Yin and Yang cycle of creation/destruction until the right humanity emerges to reach the golden age…where intelligence is respected enough to be a requirement to lead society. This is my view. Is that make sense to you?
I will give it a try.
Personally, I'm not an advocate of the whole 'ancient astronaut' theory. Its not impossible, but there's no sufficient evidence that supports the claim that early human civilization ever had contact with extra-terrestrial life. I don't think that it's a genuinely ''scientific'' theory either, especially when you approach it from the History Channel/'Chariots of the Gods' angle. Just because a few lines on an ancient painting look like a spaceship, doesn't make it a spaceship. Creationists use the same kind of logic to ''prove'' dinosaurs and humans lived alongside one another - its nonsense!
The same thing can be said - more of less- of the whole UFO phenomena. Now yes, UNIDENTIFIED flying objects exist, but we're spitting in Occam's face when we jump to the conclusion that these are alien spacecraft (or even spacecraft at all). Almost no scientist questions the existence of UFOs, merely the assumptions people make about them. Most sightings are easily explainable, and there's almost always more reasonable explanations to jump to for the ones that aren't.
I like a lot of your speculations on why aliens might not have contacted us though. I mean, try looking at humanity through the eyes of an alien; look at these strange, balkanized animals which knowingly destroy their own planet and each other. If you were an alien, how would you feel about how they represent beings from other galaxies in their movies? How would Star Trek and all those hominid-looking aliens with cheap latex glued to their heads make you feel? Would you want to meet us?
Because of your conviction, you obviously did not research the fields opposing your views. I was like you at the beginning. But I played chess with myself trying to prove me wrong.... I really did research the fields of old scriptures to see if they could contain the clues of ancient contacts. I looked at the testimonies of pilots, generals, retired CIA and FAA operatives. I looked at Martyn Stubbs' capture of secret NASA videos and the possibility that there was a cover up. After all this I proved myself wrong and discovered a new reality. Play devil advocate with yourself. Test your belief! Get out of the crab's bucket to see if there is an ocean out there. So maybe after all this, you would not dismiss the extraterrestrial intervention with a little gesture of the hand...
You obviously don't know me well enough to make the assertion that I haven't challenged by views enough to justify them. If you want to disagree with me, that's fine, and I'd love to discuss your evidence with you. However, I'm not going to put up with being patronized.
Yes; there are a lot of people of varying occupations who believe in ancient aliens, NWO conspiracies, and little green men probing cows. Edgar Mitchell, one of the men who walked on the moon, for example, believes that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin. However, one's occupation doesn't always mean their reasoning and conclusions are right. Case in point, David Irving. Irving was a once well respected historian, noted for his knowledge of Nazi military and war tactics... but then it turned out that he was a Holocaust denier. His career was ruined, and any credibility he once had as a historian went with it.
Yes, you are right, so many don't want to go outside the box for fear of having their credibility being ruined. The question everybody should ask for themselves is if one is influenced by this pressure to the point of not investigating some paths because of this fear (most of people are). Just investigate Martyn Stubbs facts and if you your reject this evidence, there will be nothing worth to talk about.Our minds will be too far apart.
I feel like they watch us from somewhere to make sure we don't do anything too stupid, but they leave us alone to develop our own culture. Once we start exploring the universe more, they might decide to contact us.
Same. Maybe we have the genetic potential to understand and develop enough knowledge/technology over the next hundreds of thousands, millions of years, to spark the interest of aliens. If we can survive that long at least.
I agree! 😊🤫😎
Activate the pyramids bet they come back
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We do not need to worry about Aliens stepping on us. We have an elite force of Huimans doing it. Right now.
You seem to think that oppression is a line dividing mankind between an organization like the illuminati or maybe the "13 families" and the rest. Hate to break your bubble, but "oppression" is an incredible refined and ancient human activity, practiced with gusto by any human being that has the chance to left his/her footprint in someone else's ass.
Anyway, good, bad or ugly we humans have a (dis)functional way of functioning. We call that "our culture(s)". An extraterrestrial civilization that might decide to squash us as a bug is at the same time several order of magnitude more serious than our lack of basic empathy, and something really ridiculous to worry about. I mean, the possibility is almost nonexistant (according to our current knowledge), and even if it isn't is not like we can actually do something about it. We can do meaningful things for stopping our impulse of marking assess, so that make it by default the more worthwhile endeavor.
the illumuniti is a creration by men, Jesuit society, People look at Jews, Masons, Illumuniti as the evil leaders. The truth is the Vatican ruled the earth for 1260 years. Then the beast was wounded by Napeleon. Now it is back, Gaining power. The Jesuits created the theory of evolution, our entire education structure and the deteriation of God as being the xenter of it all. History tells the truth. Biblical predictions are more accurate than any prediction. Example. 6 of Daniels prophecys 400 years before Jesus came true to a t. A university study on the odds came up with a number of 300000000000000000000000000000 to 1. Now that's science. Jesuits were created by Pope. Vatican is the beast of the sea, The take over of Gods thrown. Now a person brain washed to say religion is man made, is lacking education our society leaves out. Man has always known of a superior being. Yet has been taught that religion alone has devised it. The Catholic Church is where satan established himself. Great way to mislead people. Protestants follow Jesuit teavchings. Jesus said we are the church , one on one with him, not a building nor mans teachiungs. I know this as a fact as I have had a relationship with Jesus for 24 years. No man can tell me I'm lost or my brain misunderstands. that is utter foolishness to my relationship with him one on one. Soon the Papcy will gain more power and lead the world as America is the beast of the earth giving the power to her. While we all fight over our beleifs the truth is unfolding from a book that predicted everything in history and what is coming on us. Love can not be judged by science. yet you all know its real.
George Martian
Wow, how pretentious of me. I tried to burst your bubble, but your bubble is clearly made of neutronium-level denseness. I leave you alone, seeing you trying to convince the Chinese or Japanese that they are ruled by the Catholic church should be amusing.
Actually, trying to see you convince the 7/8 part of mankind that is non-catholic that they are ruled by them should prove amusing. Good luck!
history tells the truth. the Jesuit influence of religion was the creation of muslims, hindus and many others including athesits. the Jesuit order has created our education system and the creation of evolution. one example. did you know that the profit Mohamad actually married a rich catholic nun, and admitted as well satan fooled him. he came 450 years after Jesus. The Vatican is the beast of the sea in the bible. they changed gods saturdaty Sabbath in 300 ad making sundaty their mark. the mark of the beast. 1260 years went by the bible supressed and the creation and murder of the church. Jesus condemned the church said we are now one on one with him. not what churches of the world tewach is it. thye universities people attend were created for Jesuits, the most high of them. god is not allowed to be discussed is he. as far as all the people and the world srelgions they follow. the main theme is this, love everyone have faith and don't worry about physical death. that's faith. if you know him. I was a criminal and a pretty viscous person 24 years ago, this is who jesus came for. now I am not. I sat in priosn and finally wante dto die for hate of myself never mind all of you., now I have grown slowly over years to understand truths. watch some walter veith on history you will understand it is the Jesuit papacvy influence that creaqted what we were taught to believe as reality, including the worlds religions. the truth is the bible, the word of god, not the physicasl churches and mans teachings. god sohows us truth if we study the word everyday.
Wait, the Jesuit have time travel?
Wow, if they were behind Hinduism, whose sacred texts are the Vedas, written between 1500 to 500 years before Christianism existed, and Budhism, when Gautama Buddha lived three hundred years before the supposed date of birth for Jesus Christ, they are really powerful.
Wait a moment, they could even have traveled back in time to create they own order! Judaismception!
Please, do go on. As I thought, your attempts to convince us of the evil Judaist conspiracy are incredible amusing.
Thank you once again Neil xD I never understood the stupid idea if aliens exist they must/should be visiting us because you know were sooo important. It is very likely that aliens have discovered us and simply just catalogued us in their database and moved on because were not worth talking to on their level yet.
The best outcome, I think, would be if intelligent life came here and they were peaceful, helping us move forward technologically. Then we'd become an interstellar species before there's any chance of a worldwide disaster and everyone would realise the importance of science...
Im pretty sure Phillip K Dick wrote about something similar.
This probably wouldn't happen (you dont see humans helping monkeys to build a peacefull and advanced civilization)
Spectral DnB Well.. his aliens usually enslave us under a false reality. Which could be true, but I'd not wish for it!
The beset outcome would be to have them simply pass us by.
I dont think they can, we're pretty hostile. Barely peaceful with each other.
I think the scariest thing we could find on another planet is more human
I've always thought that if alien life were to come to Earth, it would be to save the planet from us. Pretty much exactly like The Day The Earth Stood Still.
***** Exactly. They would have no reason to interfere with our growth. We dont have anything on our planet that they cant acquire just by observing us.
We have to learn our lessons for ourselves. Not hope that they will save us.
If they have the technology to travel the vast distance it requires to reach us, then they are masters of technology and would have no problem harnessing the fuel found everywhere throughout the universe. All the biomass of the earth wouldn't even provide a fraction of the amount of fuel that a gas cloud would let alone all the solar energy from stars.
Our biology would be interesting to them, sure. But learning about that wouldn't require making themselves known. All they would need to do is observe, or maybe take a few specimens, some males and some females, and they could then reproduce us themselves and domesticate them just like we do with dogs.
***** Ah, no no, save the EARTH from US. We're destroying this hunk of rock, which other species might well have a better use for.
bruh neil just put steven hawking on blast
and hawking still hasn't responded.
Inch ? feet ? What ? I thought we are talking science here D:
Come on... He was explaining this with a small globe using inches, and feet as an equivalent measurement to thousands of feet, and hundred-thousands of inches.
Come on, start using the metric system like... everyone else.
Kasseenzettel Everybody didn't grow up using the metric system like you did.
I'd love to be a genious like...you! I'm glad he did it that way to help people like 'ME' that grew up in the 60's to understand.
The metric system is only advantageous on a practical level. At Neil's level of expertise the difference between any measurement or counting systems is arbitrary.
***** Neil assumed his audience was mostly American, so he used units most Americans would be familiar with.
As for measurement preference, it really doesn't matter. Any simple operations are handled by the computers while the human minds are mostly concerned with more difficult concepts.
I wouldn't say we're entirely devoid of intelligence but more so that we have so much more to learn still.
While we like to think we're so smart, sometimes we're also too quick to dismiss ourselves.
Don't consider yourself unintelligent, just be self aware that you still have more to experience and see.
First he says aliens wouldn't care about us because how we don't care about worms, then he says that Hawking is wrong because he bases his thought on how humans behave... Kind of contradictory.
I for one think that aliens, if too advanced, may visit us but not know how to talk to us, just how we would be amazed of finding a single cell organism on Mars but couldn't communicate with it.
But a single cell organism on mars is not aware nor capable of communication..nor does it even realize we are present...
also stephen hawking doesn't say aliens have visited us he just says that they probably exist, which isn't really a stupid thought considering how many planets are in the goldilocks zone, and how many more we haven't even discovered yet... the thing is if they could travel all this way you have to ask yourself would they waste there time with a stupid species like us, they'd probably want us to naturally develop on our own.
N00N3ATALL what's not true? don't you think we would be amazed if we find life on other planets? I meant to say that perhaps advances aliens would also be interested in us even if we are not evolved like them, as we would for other less intelligent species
nachoijp
Well, we (HUMANS) would be amazed if we found any extraterrestrial life (even microbes) because we have not found any as yet. An alien who may have encountered or known of dozens or thousands of alien life different from his own, would not get overly excited to find us. That's like if I call you over to my backyard all excited, pick up a heavy rock and show you a new slug. You would say "yeah, it's a slug!". And I'd say "but it's a special slug! It's from my YARD!" And you'd say: "How long have you been out in the sun? Go inside and take your mediation!" . lol
Hector Fernandez lol you have a point there, but if you show me some weird slug with pretty colours I might be interested, I like to think we humans are pretty coloured slugs :)
where is the nearest solarsystem, FORGET IT!!!😂😂😂
FORGOT IT
We have idiots who believe: some deity made the universe and all that is in it in 7 days.
A flat earth
Need I say more?
+Zeldagigafan thats nothing. The twisted concept of virtue and conept of everything..twisted. complete fuck-up of logical consistency. It has to be inflicted with violent abuse by parents to survive.
+Zeldagigafan earth is flat n00b
Smedley Butler Everything we observe is not possible on a flat earth. During the Summer Solstice, areas within the arctic and antarctic circles have 24/7 sunlight (this will be happening in Antarctica on the 21st of this month). Additionally, stars in the northern hemisphere appear to rotate around one central point (and the star that is the closest to this central point is Polaris) and in the southern hemisphere, they appear to rotate in the opposite direction around a central point, the closest star to this point is Sigma Octantus.
***** It is quite a stretch of the imagination to say that "everything we observe is not possible on a flat earth"
You can prove it for yourself, find a large body of calm water water preferably somewhere between 5-25 miles.
Set up a telescope 1 foot above the water level. Look and note how far you can see, and if the other end of the body of water is obscured by the amount it should be with the given curvature of the earth.
that is 8 inches multiplied by the number of miles squared.
so 1 mile is 8 inches. 2 miles is 32 inches. 3 miles is 72 inches etc....
You might be surprised at what you find.
I know I was when I did it.
Smedley Butler
1) Explain the seasons, particularly why Antarctica is under sunlight all day on the summer solstice (December 21st for the southern hemisphere)
2) Explain why identical poles on the longitude cast different shadows on the same day at the same time
3) Explain why we can't see the landmass on the other side of the ocean, even with a radio telescope.
EVERYTHING we have observed on this planet cannot be possible on a flat earth, everything we observe reinforces a globular planet. Hell, look at the other planets and moons in the system, they are all circular, there is no reason to believe the Earth is any different.
I feel like an advanced civilization like that would either show no regard for less intelligent life and destroy it for their personal gain, or they're all super curious and eager to learn and conserve even the smallest amount of life because it's precious
Stephen kings under the dome nailed this concept. we are seen as ants by the alien children. and what do children do to ants? they torch them among other things just to see what happens haha
Im SO unable to convey my deepest regret! i am Deeply apologetic!
Man, NdT is such a cool dude
This guy is incredible. He always is giving the most fascinating facts or predictions. So as for the size of the universe, wouldn't it in theory go on forever? There couldn't possibly be a wall somewhere that marks the end of the universe, because there would have to be a opposite side to that wall. Just imagine if you could just point at any direction in the sky, and you had an infinite amount of time and energy and could just continue to go in that direction forever, where you would end up. I adamantly believe that alien life has not come to Earth and done this and that, but it is just ignorant and stupid to assume there isn't other life out there somewhere. It would be almost impossible if there wasn't. And in theory, there really isn't a reason they couldn't be exactly like us.
There is a wall because of the Big Bang. If you think of the Big Bang as the first moment of anything than that wall of nothings exists at the Speed of light times the age of the universe. If you were to see that wall you would be seeing the very first and fasted photons that were ejected from that initial explosion.
Assuming the Big Bang is where *everything* originated. *BUT* it might not be! It may be that the Big Bang was just one tiny 'pop' in a starfield of tiny universes continually popping into existence. If that were the case then the wall of one expanding universe will eventually cross paths with the photons from it nearest neighbor, occluding and disrupting one another, overlapping like a venn diagram. Like ripples from multiple raindrops crossing in a pond of water, creating interwoven waves of light and matter.
Just thinking about it is enough to get my heart racing and my curiosity ablaze.
Geahk Burchill
You see, if the big bang is where everything originated, then where did the big bang come from? Who started that? It is the chicken and the egg argument, I'm not saying the big bang didn't happen, but how did everything come about that formed to become the big bang. It will drive someone crazy wanting to know more. It just boggle's my mind to think about stuff like that.
Zditty1029 At this point I have to state opinion because were are talking about things which can only be speculated on. What I think doesn't even qualify as a theory because I have zero evidence for it.
If we look closely enough at a cell we see it's molecules. Look closely enough at those and you see atoms and then quarks and then - we don't know. We do know there is mostly open space between each, so much that you can pack it all together and get something incredibly dense and yet occupying nearly no space at all. The constituent parts are *so* *Small* there is almost no *there*, there.
Our universe may have simply been a tiny ball of incredibly dense matter. Like a planet forming from gas, it may have slowly absorbed all floating atoms around it until it became a dense ball of such intense energy it had no choice but to explode.
It may just be the atom of another, trillions of times more massive, molecule which itself is inside a cell which is inside a life form. The universe fractalizes into infinite complexity and our sense of that scale can quickly become lost because it is beyond our comprehension.
Geahk Burchill
I agree. Trying to describe the size of the universe can not be comprehended by us because there is nothing to compare it to. It just fascinates me when I think about hypothetical questions/theories such as if I had an infinite amount of time, energy, and personally did not age and could live forever, if I just pointed at one point in the sky and could go on forever, it makes me desperate to want to know what I would see.
See even the molecules and atoms that could have formed the big bang had to come from something. What was it! Were they in a void somewhere? Where did the void come from then? And wouldn't that void also have to be infinite in size? It makes you feel, well at least it makes me feel, when I think about the infinite size of the universe, it makes me feel so insignificant, that everything and everyone here doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
And then there is the whole question of other life. I wouldn't even call it a question actually as much as a mathematical certainty. It leaves me beyond curious, just like everyone else in the world, wanting to know about it. Who, what, where, what do they do, do they require oxygen to live or do they depend on some sort of element we don't even know of. And most of all what do they look like. I thought it was interesting that if we were to communicate with a life form from a different part of the universe, the one language that we should have in common and could be used is math. No matter what you do or say, 2 + 2 will always equal 4 in any civilization in the universe.
Neil Tyson is correct. Aliens used to visit planet earth and have seen how we are destroying planet and commented, "Scotty BEAM ME UP!! There is NO INTELLIGENT LIFE here on Earth !!"
Ha ha "lol" 😁
Why is it assumed that if a civilization has the technology to cross the galaxy, they must therefore be more advanced than us in ALL other ways? It's perfectly possible they may not have an understanding of..say..germ theory and will look on our ability to combat disease with awe and amazement.
Or what if they didn't have literature? Or music? Or great architecture? Or humour? They would arrive at our planet and be awestruck at our achievements, not just dismiss us as "worms"
Just a thought.
No it's not, if you can master traveling to space you can use a microscope. Ofc they've found germs. I'd hope that they'd look at our music and arts with awe and amazement but even that is a long shot.
And he always uses the germ as an example. He contradicts himself when he says that Hawking is reflecting a human thought when he feels an advanced alien race may annihilate us but when Neil himself uses the germ theory its the same human way of seeing things.
Also as human we might 'step' on a worm without a second glance but we will definitely be curious when we meet a completely new species of ape or a some other new species never heard of. Neil sometimes becomes obsessed with his ideas that he is not open to others.
***** That escalated quickly...
Science is a culminating topic. To fly around the galaxy you have to know several pre-requisite sciences. For this I say it is very unlikely that they would be so far in one field and knowledge less in all or most others. The sphere, being the perfect shape, is most likely what their civilization would be like. And ever expanding,consistent ball (figuratively) of knowledge. Unless they where born with a ridiculous, society wide all- encompassing drive, deep in their genes, to ONLY research space travel. (Highly unlikely to impossible) good point, but not very plausible.
***** Absolutely agree, but if we had created things which they were unable to even comprehend, that would suggest to me we are more advanced than them in these areas, which backs up my original argument.
And going back to my example of germ theory (this is to everyone) - you DON'T need to understand germ theory to cross the galaxy. This would obviously be the case if germs don't exist where they come from, or that they were born immune from disease. But even were neither of these were the case, if they could reproduce and educate themselves so quickly and easily that anyone incapacitated or dead could simply be replaced, there wouldn't be the incentive to tackle or even investigate the cause of disease. Or disease may take so long to kill them that no one has died yet. All humans naturally drop dead at 154 because we are no longer able to produce hemoglobin. We just don't know this yet because no one has reached 154, so we've not investigated it yet. But we can still reach the moon.
I just think people are not comprehending just how different aliens might be, and how massively differently they may have learned about the universe.
if aliens see the Kardashians and their fan base... well, nothing to see here.
Dudes from the Bronx so of course he's a genius..
I certainly learnt a thing or 2 with Neil's reflection. Although I must say... When you say Alien, you are brushing them all out as one specie or something like that. You see, think how vast the universe is... think of the possibility of how many other intelligent species are out there. Some of them could have the ability to travel and completely lack some basic skills humans have. Some might even be totally inferior than and other might be absolutely superior in every way - my point it, we are not talking about 1 specie, we are talking about the possibility of there being other species from other part of this solar system, this galaxy or even other galaxies. This is a huge debate. Again, thank you Neil... It's good to have a visual perspective of things
yeah, like you don't go in the forest and show yourself to the gorillas "hey, I'm here, I'm human and you're a gorilla" .. same thing with the aliens, they know we're here and don't bother interacting because we're a lousy specie ..
We haven't received any broadcasts from intelligent lifeforms in all the time we've been observing space. How do we know it's not too high-tech for us to comprehend? Simple, it can't be. No matter how highly refined their communication technology is there will always be a recognizable pattern we will be able to perceive. So if there is intelligent life out there, it's pretty damn far away.
If aliens did find us, we'd be an anomaly in that we could actually broadcast radiowaves into space which would be something those aliens wouldn't have observed across thousands of lightyears. So in that regard we'd be an anomaly and therefore worth inspection.
It'd be like if we came across ape using a spear wielding ape. True, not really indicative of anything close to human technical capability but just the fact that's it's something so rarely (never) observed would make it an object of great public attention.
TheChainsawNinja Well, you can't really say that they "can't be"' too high-tech or intelligent for us to comprehend any sort of contact. It could be an assumption, but your assumption is based on the thought of an alien civilization using our rules of communication. There's not really any room for absolutes. You just really can't say that THIS is how aliens would try to contact us. And THIS is why they haven't. We don't know, and can't know until they do and it's confirmed as such.
Ransom Summer How else would they transmit information? There are essentially three possibilities:
1. They transmit data using the light spectrum. In which case, we'd be able to perceive their communication.
2. They use physical means to transmit data, which makes absolutely no practical sense for a civilization so advanced.
3. They are able to manipulate dark matter, send messages through wormholes, or something of the like. If it's even possible, this would only be practical for communication over large distances of lightyears. Any on-planet communication could be solved much more practically by transmitting data using the light spectrum.
I enjoy this debate, go on
TheChainsawNinja How arrogant and ignorant to think humans have devised a way to detect every forum of communication in the universe. What if aliens have senses that we don't have, and that we have never even thought to learn to detect. If the history of the universe was one year, all of recorded history on earth would be the last 15 seconds. Do you really think we have discovered every form of communication in the universe already? I think you may be attempting a troll with those incredibly stupid posts you made.
There are probably thousands of other species of life more intelligent than us out in the infiniteness of the universe that have risen and fallen extinct. The universe is billions of years old, we've only been in space for about 50 years. A bigger coincidence than actually finding where other intelligent life is, would be finding each other at the same time of existence of that life.
Unless we figure out how to travel faster than light or develop generational ships, it's impossible to even explore any sort of long distances. The odds of finding someone are so bad.
maybe WE are the aliens put in an alien planet Earth were the original species were wiped out
Could be a possibility because only within few hundred years of our existence as intelligent species we have changed the whole planet according to ourselves which was almost same for many millions of years or so..where did that intelligence suddenly came from ? If u say that is result of many years of evolution then let me tell u that comparatively we as humans have just appeared on this planet ... simply see the timeline of earth and u will know how old are other species than us . We have just arrived . If u say that monkeys were there then see the difference between monkeys and us . Even dogs are more similar to wolves and cat to the leopard(differ only in size) but we are way ahead of monkeys and chimps . Every other species is living according to the nature earth except us as if we don't belong to this community .
Let's be honest, most humans would either try to have sex with aliens, or kill them or both.
Sometimes Neil degrasse Tyson is admiring and sometimes he thinks he is the only smart ass out there.
Dhruv Singh he's one of few
Because he’s in a very rare and small group of intellectuals.
you sound like a full blood christian.
Dhruv Choudhary That’s usually a red flag the person in question is an asshole
Aliens saw that some of earth was religious and said fuck that
they would have observed human reproduction and courtship and saw that human 1 likes to lick human 2 butthole and would have come to the conclusion that humanity are still in the same development phase as dogs.
+Trance Kowhai you're clearly scientifically illiterate
Red Diamond you're still pretty arrogant to think you truly know the answers. there's really no way we can know everything.. or maybe I'm wrong but we just don't know
this dude is a boss.
I agree because we are so full of ourselves that we don't pay attention to the wonderful things that are occurring around us.
I doubt that we as a species will ever meet any alien life forms of equal or higher intellect than us UNLESS we develop some way of traversing space in a way similar to that of Star Trek warp engine technology or hyperspace tech. from Star Wars. I think that the likelihood of aliens coming to earth is extremely low simply because of our position in our galaxy - our solar system is nothing special. Finding intelligent alien life will be I think a rather difficult task even if we do attain warp speed/hyperspace cause I just don't think it exists in as great numbers as Carl Sagan says. My thinking is that yes it COULD exist or could have existed but like humans they could also exterminate themselves by war or disease or whatever. For our species and some other intelligent alien life to finally meet would in my opinion be the greatest circumstance in the history of history just due to the unlikelihood of it happening. (distance to travel, same time period, similar technology), and not instantly want to kill the other but instead try to peacefully coexist and exchange knowledge & communicate? That would be quite something to witness in one's lifetime.
if aliens ever found us, we are in deep deepshit, just imagine our armies fighting armies from 100, 200 500 years ago, it wouldn't even be funny. Now imagine a civilization that is millions perhaps billions of years old...
You're comparing apples to oranges. If aliens ever stopped by, they'd be aliens... not human. They wouldn't share our human instincts and behaviors. As a species, I think it's a bit self-absorbed to believe that a much-more intelligent lifeform would be anything similar to us. They would have evolved WAY differently under different atmospheric pressure, gravity, different solvent other than water (like methane, etc). Also, they wouldn't need to colonize Earth like those aforementioned armies did to expand their territory and resources. We're talking about aliens that figured out how to effectively travel interstellarly. Their resources would be seemingly infinite compared to what we have and they wouldn't desire the little speck that is Earth in our huge galaxy.
Besides to evolve as a species you need to be more benevolent and understanding. Advanced aliens may still have crazy people in the population, but they're so tiny and irrelevant they worst they can do is like hurt their spouse or something, and then get arrested in that civilization. If you study history human beings didn't decide to kill and conquer because they felt like it. They conquered because they needed resources and the indigenous population had a major conflict with them and in a sense they had to defend themselves. When you look at history and what was required to advance technology and invent them in the first place most of them were done through benevolent actions and more benevolence and humility and human teamwork compared to when the inventions never existed.
Neil is one smart SOB
Aliens are watching us and going "how stupid can these things be, it's right freaking there"
Yep no, sign of intelligent life here
Didn't we go to the moon??
+DarkInvader The moon is so close to earth it's not even classed as an achievement
+Distant System THIS IS A DAMN GOOD POINT!
Distant System agreed, that is how american propoganda works, distract people, fake things up and promote hatred
No moon landing. NASA controlled media frad
+DarkInvader Most of the responses to this post illustrate wonderfully why aliens will never visit us.
they probably seen feminists and were like NOPE NOPE NOPE!!!
an advanced species likely wouldn't have sexism, so when they saw that feminism was necessary on earth, they didn't want to mess with those humans
I wish you got that spin in the end, would've been pretty cool
This planet has intelligent life it's just not humans.
I'm confused. What is an inch?
We've just called their intergalactic vehicles Tic Tacs... "Forget it!" 😅😂🤣
The SMRT clip from the simpsons has always been funny to me. Probably my favorite scene other than when Homer shot a seagull with a crossbow.
Anyone else thought, when seen Homer Simpson chanting "I am smart" while his house is on fire, that could be the best definition of the human civilization?
Can you imagine aliens having an existential crisis? That shit would be terrifying.
Oh damn! Why do I love this man so much. I'm so convinced right now esp his last lines regarding Hawking's fear! He is perfect! One of my favorites!
I like how he said space station is just like driving around the block
Hawking prefaced his statement with "if we have ourselves to use as a gauge" or something along those lines. Meaning, if we use our own behavior as a foundation of what aliens COULD be like....
0:09 whats that beat?
The thing that boggles my mind on top of all that, is that people think that aliens would want to visit Earth, and furthermore they would pick humans to communicate with out of all spices! Why?! Why do we see aliens in the form of a human? Walking on two legs and everything.
That awkward spinning of the earth in the end lmao He tried to be smooth lol
If humans can treat each other badly imagine what advanced aliens can do 🥺
Probably treat each other kindly with compassion. After all they’re light years more intelligent than humans