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This man is so “normal” speaks in plain easy to understand words, isn’t cocky or pretentious, he’s likeable but he’s also soooo damn smart! I want more from this guy! Great show Neil.
Love the longer timeframe. This is easily my favorite episode, and I have been watching for years. I didn’t want it to end. I especially love this format of just two friends having a genuine conversation. Definitely would enjoy more of this! Would also love to see more of J Richard Gott III as well… Please and Thank You.
True...71 year ago,,1953...sci-fi series called Journey into Space was made , deleted, then released/recorded in 1958. Its in YT) Some of the theories given then reflect something like he said!
I just watched your space talk with Richard Gotta.... It's 3 am... Couldn't turn it off.... I'm just a 53 yr old piano player, painter... But I absolutely love science....I guess because the arts, and sciences try to interpret the nature of the universe by looking inward, outward, into, around, and thru the mirror, trying to understand why the reflection staring back is scratching its head..... Embrace the question mark! I'm not sure we exist without it
Language is an Art. I think you need to work on your literary writing skills. Nobody can make a running sentence sound credible. You need to embrace the proper places for punctuation…
I could have listened to you two talk for many more hours! Even though I didn't understand some of it, I do enjoy listening to intelligent conversations. You, Neil, are one of my favorite people to listen to and you have some of the most interesting guests on. I was very disappointed when this video ended, I wanted to hear more. J. Richard Gott III is such a delight to listen to. He's so funny and so so so smart!!! I loved him!!! Please have him on again soon!!!
Thank you so much Neil & Richard for referring to the movie "Somewhere in Time". I just saw it for the first time, and it truly is an incredible classic.
@Neil when i was in 8th grade I was recognized by the department of the gifted and talented also. I am now 41 and am a class A truck driver. I could not agree more that intelligence should not dictate the course of one's life journey.
I was considered a complete idiot by all my teachers and, well, by everyone, but I worked hard and got a job at NASA. I've been a janitor for 20 years and recently promoted to head janitor. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't succeed.
Yea, in 8th grade was in the mentally gifted class, but wound up doing a career in Navy working on defensive guns/missile systems then avionics contractor for the Airforce.Thanks science teacher Mr. K ..
"You can't think of everything" is so simple yet so wise. I wish more people would keep that nugget of truth at the back of their head before judging or ridiculing others.
i love these long format videos, being able to put on your videos in the background while im on my computer, and getting to listen to the top 1 percent of the smartest people in their field. you always teach us something new and its one of the highlights of my day seeing a new video from Neil pop up.
I listen to pods 6 days a week all year around but I thought to myself the same. This has to be the most informative/entertaining conversation I heard this year.
I do to no I'm not giving nobody nothing. It could your off your on you are one year one yellow ouch yoli ondale you only so I don't any person named yo yoma you know you own I don't own you are stalking me Person who always and you the one who works not me.
Yes 1 hr or longer. Long format is suited to material & people that we’d like to ease into more deeply: • We love hearing/seeing you. • Dr Gott was such a pleasure to hear at depth. • Long person interview/co-exploration is rich & fun to hear personal views and windows of experience. In longer format, so appreciate: 1) Themes & topics explored listed 2) time stamps so I can share Outtakes. Excellent everything. Thank you. I have followed you w my son throughout his education. The concentrated mood w Dr Gott is lovely and anchors a field of exploration, intelligence in personable positive spirited ways. The world needs more of this. So healthy. Thank you.
I love this guy! In sophomore year of high school J. Richard Gott got me really into physics with his book "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe". I'll never forget going around with my little cone shaped models made of paper from the diagrams his book trying to explain stuff. In fact, I remember at the end of the day a science teacher walking by who I hadn't had but everyone said was super smart. As he comes near me I asked him "Sir, I'm reading this book and I'm having trouble understanding Cosmic Strings." Without even stopping he said "You should be!" And he kept walking. Hahaha. All my friends and I were laughing so hard. Thanks J. Richard Gott. You are the man! One day I'm gonna get that book signed by him. One day.
Hearing Dr. Gott say “My wife’s name is Lucy; she’s very smart. I’ve yet to catch her levitating things around the house.” might be the most interesting statement I didn’t expect to hear in this discussion. 😂
I picked up his book, "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe" when I was visiting the museum of Science and Industry in Chicago over nearly 15 years ago by now, and I still think about it once a week. The illustrations that I believe his daughter did were so helpful.
Everyone coming out of high school should have to watch the section of this video starting at 1:08:00. Just because a test doesn't show that you are exceptional doesn't mean that you aren't.
In order to go to a magnet school in Northern Virginia, I had to sit a number of different examinations, some of which I didn't think about before, like imagining folding a paper to get a cube and which would be the accurate representation of the faces on the cube. Of course a magnet has two poles, one positive, one negative. So if there's a magnet school for the brilliant, does that mean there's a magnet school for the slow, ADHD, unwanted minorities, poor and kids with behavior issues? One solution to busing if you can't do it for integration is to do it to make sure there aren't too many poor kids in one school.
Sending people to a planet that is already in worse shape than Earth, harbors no life, has no tectonic activity, no magnetic field, and only a thin atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide is not a solution. The problem we're talking about is Earth becoming more Mars-like. How then is relocating to Mars a solution to that problem?
I don't say that we shouldn't invest in astronomy, space telescopes, and man-in-space, but we shouldn't go all in and send thousands of brilliant people to Mars. One, it will be extremely dangerous; two, they might do good work on Earth that they wouldn't on Mars. Of course the same is true with scientists and engineers working on weapons in the so-called defense industry.
As others have pointed out, we have the technological and economic capitol to do both. Hess types of arguments are essentially just flawed utilitarian arguments. Why should we send aid and food to people starving in Africa? Wouldn’t those funds, and that energy be better used to stop global warming? There’s enough resources to do both things.
I'm >60yo and still in possession of my 8th grade report card with the hand-written message: "Jim is a lazy math student." I went on to earn a B.A. in Mathematics, graduating #1 in my class with a 4.00 GPA, and then earned both an M.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Teaching & Teacher Education, and finally landed a tenure-track job teaching math at my local community college... What went wrong in 8th grade? Jim was not a lazy math student; Jim was bored out of his skull in his pre-algebra class.
I took pre-algebra in 7th grade, and for most of the first quarter in 8th grade, Algebra repeated what I already learned, so they let me hang out in the library. I guess I should have taken it in 7th grade, then not had a math class in 8th grade? Of course learning BASIC around that time with variables was kind of like Algebra.
This is my newest favorite episode of this but I say that of most of them every time I see one but this one really just blew me away I loved it so much
I'm finally in college after a long break and this podcast definitely helped to keep me curious and invested in learning in the interim; I can't thank you all enough.
In the book "Gambit", written by Rex Stout, our hero, Nero Wolfe, starts to play a game of chess with a person who proclaims himself as a Master of Chess. Wolfe starts off with a completely unorthodox move, to which his opponent declares is, (and i paraphrase) "Irrational! All the best books say that this is the best opening!" Many chuckles were had when Mr. deGrasse-Tyson did this to a computer.
As someone that only experiences American accents through movies or news clips, it’s very cool hearing someone so sharp and educated using this accent.
I love this❤. I can’t understand why my kids and wife just watch a bunch of nonsense on you tube. When we have these videos that are so fruitful. Love Star talk!
pluto itself doesn't care. 😅 but i think, pluto has something to do with the reason the earth is at the right orbit at just the right distance for humans to survive. Jan 25, 2025 all planets will align by the way. 🍺
54:21 Jinn in Muslim metrology/ religion are beings made from fire and live in an alternate universe. Where they can see us (humans) but we can't see them. And they typically reside in lamps, etc . And this is where the whole genie in a bottle mythology comes from.
Life is common. Intelligent life is uncommon. Life that can peer deep into the cosmos is rare. Interplanetary life is epic. Intergalactic life is legendary.
I prefer the long, in-depth discussions -- please more! But in regards to this one, though I take Professor Gott's point about human survival chances doubling with a Mars colony, I have to agree with Neil's point about the resources needed to make that happen. It's not just having the people, the practical means to get there (and back if need be), and a usable infrastructure for food, shelter and water -- those are nearly solved now. But the most difficult problem for a long-term viable colony in my mind: there is no magnetic field to protect those colonists from meteor strikes and comet airbursts, and also devastating cosmic radiation. Also, to long term survival, that colony will require a long period of support from Earth to get to the point that they can develop the technology to survive and thrive, which may include the capacity to terraform Mars, which in my admittedly layman's understanding is a fairly distant goal. I love the idea of spreading out in the galaxy, but I think we need to be able to solve humanity's existential problems on Earth first. I love Professor Gott -- great guest!
This guy is really funny, i enjoyed watching this although I'm not educated on the topics, you both kept me watching with full interest. Truly appreciate how normalizing the both of you conveyed your points/messages. The ture message of a genius is having a normal person understand what you are say👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Very enjoyable episode. A movie about genius I would have included is "Powder" with Sean Patrick Flanery and Jeff Goldblum about an albino young man, with incredible mental abilities, found living in the basement of his grandparents farm . I found it to be very moving.
Do you mean it's more radiated at the surface because of no magnetosphere, or do you mean the planet itself gives off 50x Earth's radioactivity? If it's the former, I ~agree, if it's the latter, I'm very curious about the source of the radiation.
No, Neil figured out that at the time you could make unusual moves vs an AI opponent and cause the AI to react a certain way to your moves that might give you some kind of advantage. "Playing the game" and "playing the player" are exactly the same thing in chess, deception has always been the key he was just relating to the fact that a computer program doesn't understand that an opponent would be capable of "making a bad move" intentionally.
It's funny that after an A.I. program loses, the programmers have to go in and tweak it. You'd think they would have figured out how to have it record games and learn where it made a mistake. That's assuming that chess is solved such that black can force a draw with perfect play.
I can't begin to express how much I enjoyed this! Both of you rocked this format. I understood the more sciency (lol) stuff and I enjoyed your friendship chemistry and humor. Really the best of the best podcast. We don't have geniuses in my family, but I love math and science and always brought it into our daily lives as I was raising my kids and now visits with my grandkids. Thanks so much!
I fail to understand why it's so hard for us to believe that there are advanced civilizations out there but to bend the laws of nature and the universe to close such distances within the lifetime of a creature just seems beyond reason to think that the amount of time and science involved in in development and research to achieve such accomplishments what happened in our lifetime. The human race has been around for what is perceived as a blipliterally the amount of time in which we have been sending communications out even at the speed of lightis still traveling working its way to the distance reaches of the galaxys out there or solar systems even that could possibly contain life. If there is a alien race so advanced as depossibly close that gap and reach us we are so far behind them that by their own laws they probably aren't even allowed to communicate with us because of the technological gap and difference in knowledge. We are an infant race those advanced enough to get to us should know better to let us develop on our own and to leave us be. Because honestly if they could close that kind of a distance there's no resources that we have here on this planet that they couldn't find elsewhere well beyond the time it took to get to us.
We have a pretty decent ability to detect what is happing in the our galaxy. The idea that an intergalactic alien civilization has mastered some sort of wormhole technology is possible but that they can do that with no energy residue that we can detect doesn’t make any sense considering what we know about the theoretical science involved with that.
I don’t think so, because what woud we do if aliens from lets say a moon in our solar system with liquid water sends us a signal? We would immediately make a plan to send a signal back and maybe even come to them or they to us. It would be a new step for our and their understanding. The exchange of knowledge, our archeological history, our technology, our knowledge if the universe and physics and stuff etc. So yeah i think it would be the same for the Aliens if they would receive our signal. They would be curious and want to meet us.
Because you have no idea what conditions and what amount of time is required for evolution to reach our level of intelligence and for all we know our level of consciousness could be a random mutation that might never appear on another plantet ever again.
@@hunnid17 perhaps, but from what we can tell, the universe is near limitless, we cant even see to its edge, just where light we can glimpse at ends... it'd be insane to think we are the only ones... ever...
This guy is probably my favorite guest I've ever seen on startalk. Wow I really like him. Love the topics they chose as well. Wish there were a few more hours of it though 😂
I listened to this on the podcast which I love while working... Assuming the noise we're making doesn't overwhelm my hearing... I'm a welder/fabricator so that's very hit-and-miss sometimes... I'll watch this later since I might have missed something in the Podcast...
The movie phenomenon, he did not get hit by lightning. He had cancer in his brain that branched out and created new neuron paths. not that this matters, I love that you remember the movie and that you brought it up.
I love these long podcast! I listen on my way to and from work, which is about 40 minutes, so usually I can listen to the whole thing while I drive that day.
I was lucky enough to see Dr Gott give a talk at thr Hayden Planetarium on his book, "Time Travel In Einstein's Universe," when i was 10 or 11 years old, and he took my question from the audience. Still one of my fondest memories.
I truly wish I had a fraction of the recall that they do i feel like that's where I fail in my intelligence. They so easily off the top of their heads can pull terminology, professors, theory's (and a description of the theory's) up to the point of remembering the smallest details of these movies they see and the actors in them! I can barely remember what I did last week 😫
Good evening Neil and J. Richard Super thankful for this entertaining and most knowledgeable shared conversation. Super smart sensemaking brain gym, indeed. Truly grateful. 💜
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StarTalk Community! Do you enjoy these longer podcast videos (1hr+) or do you prefer them under 1hr? Let us know! 🤓
The konger the better!
I like mine hort and sweet 😋
30 to 40 minutes are the best!!
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This man is so “normal” speaks in plain easy to understand words, isn’t cocky or pretentious, he’s likeable but he’s also soooo damn smart! I want more from this guy! Great show Neil.
He's the opposite of Neil in that regard...
I don't think he's "well" based on his current appearance.
@@davidblackman1586Bro, he ain't dying yet 😂
Would have been perfect without Neil
Not really @@deirdreLaurence
When it's just Neil and guests like this, longer format interviews are engrossing and much more informative and easier to learn from. Great stuff.
Love the longer timeframe. This is easily my favorite episode, and I have been watching for years. I didn’t want it to end. I especially love this format of just two friends having a genuine conversation. Definitely would enjoy more of this!
Would also love to see more of J Richard Gott III as well… Please and Thank You.
I totally agree
Agreed, could’ve listened for another 2-3 hrs like it’s nothing.
Same!!!!!❤
This guy is 77 y.o. and he is so sharp, funny, smart and with excellent memory.
I am jealous!
True...71 year ago,,1953...sci-fi series called Journey into Space was made , deleted, then released/recorded in 1958. Its in YT) Some of the theories given then reflect something like he said!
Almost as sharp and funny as President Trump
@@Zulu333 omg
There's so few of us, it gets lonely 😅😅😅😅
I just watched your space talk with Richard Gotta.... It's 3 am... Couldn't turn it off.... I'm just a 53 yr old piano player, painter... But I absolutely love science....I guess because the arts, and sciences try to interpret the nature of the universe by looking inward, outward, into, around, and thru the mirror, trying to understand why the reflection staring back is scratching its head..... Embrace the question mark! I'm not sure we exist without it
I really enjoy the thought, & at the end, particularly.
I'm not sure we exist without it.
I love that anology. Looking into, through and around....and wonder why guys scratching his head... very funny and accurate
Watching right now at 3am to 😂
Language is an Art. I think you need to work on your literary writing skills. Nobody can make a running sentence sound credible. You need to embrace the proper places for punctuation…
Well never forget to give credit to the one who created science.
"you can't think of everything..." What a beautiful and funny story about Neil's conversation with Stephen Hawking! I lol'd :)
Thank you StarTalk crew, team, and all supporters for this program... We need it now more than every, I certainly do
I could have listened to you two talk for many more hours! Even though I didn't understand some of it, I do enjoy listening to intelligent conversations. You, Neil, are one of my favorite people to listen to and you have some of the most interesting guests on. I was very disappointed when this video ended, I wanted to hear more. J. Richard Gott III is such a delight to listen to. He's so funny and so so so smart!!! I loved him!!! Please have him on again soon!!!
Pretty sure if enough people watch, like and share it, they will bring the guest back sooner or later, I also wish it’s gonna be soon!
I'm lost at chess ♟️ part
Thank you so much Neil & Richard for referring to the movie "Somewhere in Time". I just saw it for the first time, and it truly is an incredible classic.
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@Neil when i was in 8th grade I was recognized by the department of the gifted and talented also. I am now 41 and am a class A truck driver. I could not agree more that intelligence should not dictate the course of one's life journey.
I was considered a complete idiot by all my teachers and, well, by everyone, but I worked hard and got a job at NASA. I've been a janitor for 20 years and recently promoted to head janitor. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't succeed.
Ability is everywhere, opportunity is not.
Yea, in 8th grade was in the mentally gifted class, but wound up doing a career in Navy working on defensive guns/missile systems then avionics contractor for the Airforce.Thanks science teacher Mr. K ..
i was in a 3rd grade special ed class, and i'm still an idiot.
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To the future generation, don't let this show die
Ok
😂😂 chump is "president" again
To the future generation, beware December 14 2072
@@Meewee466Stephen, who shared the incom Tmachine password with you?
@@Meewee466twin setting prophecies 🙏🏾
To the person reading this, I hope you have a good day :)
What if I don't want to have a good day?
OOOOOOOOH THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUUUUUUCH!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤ SAME TO YOU!!!!
So may you my man!!😆🇧🇷👌🏼
God bless you!!! And protect you!!!
Right back at you, Janger ✌🏼🤘🏼
You too!
"You can't think of everything" is so simple yet so wise. I wish more people would keep that nugget of truth at the back of their head before judging or ridiculing others.
i love these long format videos, being able to put on your videos in the background while im on my computer, and getting to listen to the top 1 percent of the smartest people in their field. you always teach us something new and its one of the highlights of my day seeing a new video from Neil pop up.
13 minute's into this and it's already my favorite star talk of 2024!
I listen to pods 6 days a week all year around but I thought to myself the same.
This has to be the most informative/entertaining conversation I heard this year.
Ditto!!
Loved listening to these two laugh & share with each other. You can tell they hold a great deal of respect for each other.
I do to no I'm not giving nobody nothing. It could your off your on you are one year one yellow ouch yoli ondale you only so I don't any person named yo yoma you know you own I don't own you are stalking me Person who always and you the one who works not me.
Is that space in some game Jamie ate ones oh lots of 1s but that is the subject.
Grief good Geo guy.
Longer is preferable. Never tire of fascinating, intelligent conversation.
That's what she said.
@SatansSimgma 😂 i didn't see that coming... also quoted by her
Yes👍
@@SatansSimgma Dang I came to comment this same thing
Longer is almost always preferable
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Richard Gott was my professor in college. He was amazing.
Dr. Gott is marvelous! Really enjoyed this conversation.
What an absolutely amazing conversation, I put it in the S tier.
It’s the humor more than the brilliance that gives me such joy and optimism 😁
I was today years old when I realized super was short form for superior
Superb?
I think it’s just a prefix dog
@@the1jessebrown thanks for the English lesson
Yes 1 hr or longer. Long format is suited to material & people that we’d like to ease into more deeply:
• We love hearing/seeing you.
• Dr Gott was such a pleasure to hear at depth.
• Long person interview/co-exploration is rich & fun to hear personal views and windows of experience.
In longer format, so appreciate:
1) Themes & topics explored listed
2) time stamps so I can share Outtakes.
Excellent everything. Thank you.
I have followed you w my son throughout his education. The concentrated mood w Dr Gott is lovely and anchors a field of exploration, intelligence in personable positive spirited ways. The world needs more of this. So healthy.
Thank you.
This is pure gold. Rich has a laid back style of casual genius that flows super well with your style Neil. Love the topics!
Hi Neil I read the same book when younger than 10 years old Flowers for Algernon thanks for bringing that wonderful memory back cheers
Whoever is watching this right now, have a goodnight sleep!😂
Lol, you know me too well!
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It's only 7 pm, and I'm getting high.
Watching this show on some D9 cbd gummies. Now I can’t look at the world the same
I love this guy! In sophomore year of high school J. Richard Gott got me really into physics with his book "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe". I'll never forget going around with my little cone shaped models made of paper from the diagrams his book trying to explain stuff. In fact, I remember at the end of the day a science teacher walking by who I hadn't had but everyone said was super smart. As he comes near me I asked him "Sir, I'm reading this book and I'm having trouble understanding Cosmic Strings." Without even stopping he said "You should be!" And he kept walking. Hahaha. All my friends and I were laughing so hard. Thanks J. Richard Gott. You are the man! One day I'm gonna get that book signed by him. One day.
The fact we get two Princeton professors to break this stuff down for us is beautiful!
Hearing Dr. Gott say “My wife’s name is Lucy; she’s very smart. I’ve yet to catch her levitating things around the house.” might be the most interesting statement I didn’t expect to hear in this discussion. 😂
I picked up his book, "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe" when I was visiting the museum of Science and Industry in Chicago over nearly 15 years ago by now, and I still think about it once a week. The illustrations that I believe his daughter did were so helpful.
Everyone coming out of high school should have to watch the section of this video starting at 1:08:00. Just because a test doesn't show that you are exceptional doesn't mean that you aren't.
In order to go to a magnet school in Northern Virginia, I had to sit a number of different examinations, some of which I didn't think about before, like imagining folding a paper to get a cube and which would be the accurate representation of the faces on the cube. Of course a magnet has two poles, one positive, one negative. So if there's a magnet school for the brilliant, does that mean there's a magnet school for the slow, ADHD, unwanted minorities, poor and kids with behavior issues? One solution to busing if you can't do it for integration is to do it to make sure there aren't too many poor kids in one school.
Absoluut truth
I could listen to Dr. Gott and Dr. Tyson all day long.
Only Dr.GOTT
Tyson is becoming a arrogant “practical hater enthusiast “
J. Richard Gott III is a VERY interesting person. I fully enjoyed this talk. It was a feast for the eyes, a banquet for the mind ❤
Dr. Gott is the first guest that I have seen on StarTalk that can school my hero Dr. Tyson in an almost fatherly way.
Dr Gott is a great guest. Enjoyed this episode. Cheers.
Wow! What a hidden gem why have we never seen him!
I'm with Dr Tyson 100% on the idea that protecting Earth is a LOT easier & cheaper than populating Mars. That makes perfect sense.
Sending people to a planet that is already in worse shape than Earth, harbors no life, has no tectonic activity, no magnetic field, and only a thin atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide is not a solution. The problem we're talking about is Earth becoming more Mars-like. How then is relocating to Mars a solution to that problem?
Why not do both?
I don't say that we shouldn't invest in astronomy, space telescopes, and man-in-space, but we shouldn't go all in and send thousands of brilliant people to Mars. One, it will be extremely dangerous; two, they might do good work on Earth that they wouldn't on Mars. Of course the same is true with scientists and engineers working on weapons in the so-called defense industry.
As others have pointed out, we have the technological and economic capitol to do both. Hess types of arguments are essentially just flawed utilitarian arguments. Why should we send aid and food to people starving in Africa? Wouldn’t those funds, and that energy be better used to stop global warming? There’s enough resources to do both things.
The longer the better. I like stars, but I really like the talk the most. I never get enough of intelligent conversation. It's really rare these days.
I knew from the thumbnail that he would be cool, but I didn’t realize how cool. I could listen to these two chop it up for hours.
I love this interview / coversation. Makes my brain hurt but I love it.
If an alien landed on earth once a year for 4 billion years they would not find humans. Timing is everything.
I don’t see what that really has to do with anything being discussed here.
Maybe they weren’t looking for humans
I'm >60yo and still in possession of my 8th grade report card with the hand-written message: "Jim is a lazy math student." I went on to earn a B.A. in Mathematics, graduating #1 in my class with a 4.00 GPA, and then earned both an M.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Teaching & Teacher Education, and finally landed a tenure-track job teaching math at my local community college... What went wrong in 8th grade? Jim was not a lazy math student; Jim was bored out of his skull in his pre-algebra class.
blah blah blah, me me me.... 8th grader.
I took pre-algebra in 7th grade, and for most of the first quarter in 8th grade, Algebra repeated what I already learned, so they let me hang out in the library. I guess I should have taken it in 7th grade, then not had a math class in 8th grade? Of course learning BASIC around that time with variables was kind of like Algebra.
This is my newest favorite episode of this but I say that of most of them every time I see one but this one really just blew me away I loved it so much
Every time I listen to one of your videos, I walk away smarter and for that I am eternally grateful
7k in one hour? Love it, I wanna see everyone trying to educate themselves
Ikr
That's just to push it to the top of RUclips
Slow start.
Literally the one I’ve been waiting for on this show!!!
i love richards sense of humor....and accent
U just love Richard.
He has an accent?
Hwhy?
@@SatansSimgma Hmmmm…you comment like a connoisseur…☎ me. 💋
@@BradleyKunz😂
I'm finally in college after a long break and this podcast definitely helped to keep me curious and invested in learning in the interim; I can't thank you all enough.
I've watched several star talk episodes, this one was by far the one I enjoyed most. The two of you were great.
I almost didn't click on this "where are the aliens" video, but I'm so glad I did.
Wonderful episode. We're eavesdropping on truly great conversations!
This conversation was probably my favourite so far of ST
I loved this conversation. It’s worth listening to…several times!
Most riveting part of this conversation:
0:00 - 1:33:52
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So true!
Is this the nerdiest episode ever?! absolutely loved watching it!
Two geniuses in one room 😮
One room containing two geniuses 😮
@@tomasbar1101 ty 🤜🤛
If they are then why didn't they once mention the UAP Phenomenon considering there is a UAP hearing tomorrow with the House?
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@Anomaly_Files18 exactly. Let me tell you. Academic hubris and/or being pushed to contain the narrative
In the book "Gambit", written by Rex Stout, our hero, Nero Wolfe, starts to play a game of chess with a person who proclaims himself as a Master of Chess. Wolfe starts off with a completely unorthodox move, to which his opponent declares is, (and i paraphrase) "Irrational! All the best books say that this is the best opening!" Many chuckles were had when Mr. deGrasse-Tyson did this to a computer.
As someone that only experiences American accents through movies or news clips, it’s very cool hearing someone so sharp and educated using this accent.
You don’t watch PBS or other educational channels?
I love this❤. I can’t understand why my kids and wife just watch a bunch of nonsense on you tube. When we have these videos that are so fruitful. Love Star talk!
Please invite Professor Charles Fields to talk on your show.
“Why Pluto is not a planet- chapter 9”…I will never forgive you for this.
pluto itself doesn't care. 😅 but i think, pluto has something to do with the reason the earth is at the right orbit at just the right distance for humans to survive. Jan 25, 2025 all planets will align by the way. 🍺
I'm just starting to read their book.
In phenomenon he wasn’t struck by lightning, he had a brain tumor which made him super clever, and he thought he was stuck by a meteorite!
This conversation is mental gymnastics, I love it!
Thank you so much for giving us these chances. Its unusal to feel so included, sitting in a room with amazing &❤ intelligent people.
54:21 Jinn in Muslim metrology/ religion are beings made from fire and live in an alternate universe. Where they can see us (humans) but we can't see them. And they typically reside in lamps, etc . And this is where the whole genie in a bottle mythology comes from.
Ohh, so the word 'genie' probably comes from the word Jinn.
Life is common. Intelligent life is uncommon. Life that can peer deep into the cosmos is rare. Interplanetary life is epic. Intergalactic life is legendary.
@Could be, its just a horse with an horn. They are like deers with a straight horn
We wouldn't have had Leon Russel if his mother hadn't noticed his talent at 4 years old. Then put him in 10 years of classical piano lessons.
This was the best episode of yours. The topics discussed felt fresh and exciting.
I prefer the long, in-depth discussions -- please more! But in regards to this one, though I take Professor Gott's point about human survival chances doubling with a Mars colony, I have to agree with Neil's point about the resources needed to make that happen. It's not just having the people, the practical means to get there (and back if need be), and a usable infrastructure for food, shelter and water -- those are nearly solved now. But the most difficult problem for a long-term viable colony in my mind: there is no magnetic field to protect those colonists from meteor strikes and comet airbursts, and also devastating cosmic radiation. Also, to long term survival, that colony will require a long period of support from Earth to get to the point that they can develop the technology to survive and thrive, which may include the capacity to terraform Mars, which in my admittedly layman's understanding is a fairly distant goal. I love the idea of spreading out in the galaxy, but I think we need to be able to solve humanity's existential problems on Earth first. I love Professor Gott -- great guest!
There has never been a boring conversation on StarTalk.
Love this episode. The guest is so intelligent and isn't being cut off by your comedic friend all the time.
Every time I watch a star talk episode I always say to myself
- “man…I’m not high enough for this” 😂
I used to get high everyday. For years . Decades... i stopped. U dont need it.
Just found this show! And it's amazing 😢
This guy is really funny, i enjoyed watching this although I'm not educated on the topics, you both kept me watching with full interest. Truly appreciate how normalizing the both of you conveyed your points/messages. The ture message of a genius is having a normal person understand what you are say👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Very enjoyable episode. A movie about genius I would have included is "Powder" with Sean Patrick Flanery and Jeff Goldblum about an albino young man, with incredible mental abilities, found living in the basement of his grandparents farm . I found it to be very moving.
Mars is 50 times more radioactive than earth. 😳
Do you mean it's more radiated at the surface because of no magnetosphere, or do you mean the planet itself gives off 50x Earth's radioactivity? If it's the former, I ~agree, if it's the latter, I'm very curious about the source of the radiation.
@@thirstfast1025It is the first one
@@julko28 thank you for subjectively clarifying some one else's comment.
That’s what they tell us.
Neil figured out that in chess you can play the game and you can play the player!
No, Neil figured out that at the time you could make unusual moves vs an AI opponent and cause the AI to react a certain way to your moves that might give you some kind of advantage. "Playing the game" and "playing the player" are exactly the same thing in chess, deception has always been the key he was just relating to the fact that a computer program doesn't understand that an opponent would be capable of "making a bad move" intentionally.
It's funny that after an A.I. program loses, the programmers have to go in and tweak it. You'd think they would have figured out how to have it record games and learn where it made a mistake. That's assuming that chess is solved such that black can force a draw with perfect play.
Great guy! Love the video!
I can't begin to express how much I enjoyed this! Both of you rocked this format. I understood the more sciency (lol) stuff and I enjoyed your friendship chemistry and humor. Really the best of the best podcast.
We don't have geniuses in my family, but I love math and science and always brought it into our daily lives as I was raising my kids and now visits with my grandkids. Thanks so much!
I fail to understand why it's so hard for us to believe that there are advanced civilizations out there but to bend the laws of nature and the universe to close such distances within the lifetime of a creature just seems beyond reason to think that the amount of time and science involved in in development and research to achieve such accomplishments what happened in our lifetime. The human race has been around for what is perceived as a blipliterally the amount of time in which we have been sending communications out even at the speed of lightis still traveling working its way to the distance reaches of the galaxys out there or solar systems even that could possibly contain life. If there is a alien race so advanced as depossibly close that gap and reach us we are so far behind them that by their own laws they probably aren't even allowed to communicate with us because of the technological gap and difference in knowledge. We are an infant race those advanced enough to get to us should know better to let us develop on our own and to leave us be. Because honestly if they could close that kind of a distance there's no resources that we have here on this planet that they couldn't find elsewhere well beyond the time it took to get to us.
Sorry driving and voice to text really sucks! 😂
We have a pretty decent ability to detect what is happing in the our galaxy. The idea that an intergalactic alien civilization has mastered some sort of wormhole technology is possible but that they can do that with no energy residue that we can detect doesn’t make any sense considering what we know about the theoretical science involved with that.
I don’t think so, because what woud we do if aliens from lets say a moon in our solar system with liquid water sends us a signal? We would immediately make a plan to send a signal back and maybe even come to them or they to us. It would be a new step for our and their understanding. The exchange of knowledge, our archeological history, our technology, our knowledge if the universe and physics and stuff etc. So yeah i think it would be the same for the Aliens if they would receive our signal. They would be curious and want to meet us.
Because you have no idea what conditions and what amount of time is required for evolution to reach our level of intelligence and for all we know our level of consciousness could be a random mutation that might never appear on another plantet ever again.
@@hunnid17 perhaps, but from what we can tell, the universe is near limitless, we cant even see to its edge, just where light we can glimpse at ends... it'd be insane to think we are the only ones... ever...
No YOURE a colonist! Lmfao!!
I started ctfu 😂😂😂
I really appreciate how you both make complex science understandable.
Thank you
This guy is probably my favorite guest I've ever seen on startalk. Wow I really like him. Love the topics they chose as well. Wish there were a few more hours of it though 😂
The job of president sure has lost the prestige these dinosaurs think it had.
I listened to this on the podcast which I love while working... Assuming the noise we're making doesn't overwhelm my hearing...
I'm a welder/fabricator so that's very hit-and-miss sometimes... I'll watch this later since I might have missed something in the Podcast...
This was one of the most entertaining episodes I've watched in a while. You two have a great chemistry.
The movie phenomenon, he did not get hit by lightning. He had cancer in his brain that branched out and created new neuron paths. not that this matters, I love that you remember the movie and that you brought it up.
incredible conversation...love these guys
I love these long podcast! I listen on my way to and from work, which is about 40 minutes, so usually I can listen to the whole thing while I drive that day.
One of the best guests!
As a parent of a 4yo, thank you for talking about identifying gifted vs hard working. I needed to hear that.
I was lucky enough to see Dr Gott give a talk at thr Hayden Planetarium on his book, "Time Travel In Einstein's Universe," when i was 10 or 11 years old, and he took my question from the audience. Still one of my fondest memories.
This...This is what I subscribed for!
I love the longer podcasts,
There's time to go into topic deeply and learn so much more!
I truly wish I had a fraction of the recall that they do i feel like that's where I fail in my intelligence. They so easily off the top of their heads can pull terminology, professors, theory's (and a description of the theory's) up to the point of remembering the smallest details of these movies they see and the actors in them! I can barely remember what I did last week 😫
Listened to the podcast. Never heard of or seen J. Richard before. I enjoyed listening to him. There’s a ‘twinkle’ in his voice. 😊
Good evening Neil and J. Richard
Super thankful for this entertaining and most knowledgeable shared conversation.
Super smart sensemaking brain gym, indeed.
Truly grateful.
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This was great. May be my favorite conversation that I've heard on this channel so far.
Love to hear you both talk about space. It helps me forget about earthly problems!😊Jane, Florida