Chuck has to act more and more that he doesn't know anything when he so clearly has it down. The best part is that he can still fill in our own gaps though because he can much more easily relate to where we as an audience may get lost in translation. He's like a 10 year old explaining to us as a toddler what our grandparents just said.
@@zuracore I've been listening for a few years now, and Chuck continues to impress me. He'll sometimes come to a conclusion on his own involving some complicated math or physics.
Chuck is the Ambassador for us normal people; he always says what we think when we find answers and is surprised as we are. Gary is smarter and Neil is Neil.
Startalk has more subscribers now, so I think they're doing more. If I recall, just a few years ago Startalk had less than a million subscribers. Today it's over 4 million (I think the video on Terrence Howard introduced a lot of people to the show). Keep in mind that Startalk has been running since 2010.
I completely disagree with Neil on the planes. The reason we aren't going as fast as we used to, and the reason we didn't push for more supersonic jets, was cost. We realized reducing the speed slightly saved a ton of fuel. And building jets that could super cruise, was not only very problematic for flight paths (sonic booms), but was also insanely expensive. Bout 7hr flight new york to london. If you could do it in an hour and a half, and it only cost say $100-200 more, people would be ALL over that. By contrast, Concorde tickets in 1996, the cheapest were $7500 for a round trip flight from NY to London. Doesn't sound like much until you factor in inflation and realize that's a $15000 plane ticket. If we could build cheap, quiet, fuel efficient, supersonic jets, people would be using them all the time. Why would anyone not want to get there faster?
Exactly. People would take the faster option in an instant if it was affordable. I also feel that this analogy is a poor one for the question asked, which is having instant access to info or merging with machines. I don't believe access speed is one of the main considerations for not doing it. Chuck is on the right track - do you trust the people putting in the chip and having access to it? There's all kinds of dystopian uses for the technology that are of much greater concern.
Thanks for this. I suspect that Dr. Tyson flies first class. If he flew economy, he'd welcome the shorter flight. Of course, it's not likely the Concorde would ever have allowed economy class people aboard.
People tend to forget, or were too young to ever learn, that the first supersonic passenger planes came out right before the OPEC oil crunch and recession. That made business rethink using that much fuel, as you mention
Would you pay for that expensive surgery, with just saving some seconds. And what if you have to replace it or it malfunctions? Extra costs there as well.
If we'd come together as a Species, we would've been spacefaring in the early 1800's. We aren't together as a species, we self-segregate in every way possible.
@@MrSean03839 I'd like to believe that if we came together as a species, or even just our society, we would overcome that issue and find another way of travel.
EDIT: "A book written 4000 years ago"?! Pretty much every counterapologist just jumped on their keyboards. Neil's off by at least a thousand years. My response to Christian Huygens would be "What good does the death by starvation of over a thousand of people every hour of every day provide to our society?" I agree with Chuck on this one. We currently have the resources to end famine _yesterday,_ but the greater demons of our nature outstrip our better angels. "I'm just hoping that my testimony will inspire y'all to stop acting phony." - Tyler Burgess
Yup, I am also with Chuck on this one and all we have to do is look at our current time. We are witnessing regression right now and we are getting set back in time because of it.
@@wizarddragon You do not have a realistic view of what it was like to live even 100 years ago. Racism is no longer considered a sound idea, People fly routinely across the oceans. We are able to communicate with virtually everyone else on earth. Literacy across the globe has skyrocketed. This is not regression.
Neil is a imperialist and military industrial complex aficianado. It's hardly surprising that he endorses the status quo. His grasp on politics and economics is as flimsy as mine on astrophysics.
I agree with Chuck about the wars. The wars bring so much distruction that it sets back humanity by having people to use the resources in order to rebild all the things that were destroyed instead of using them to develop and invent better things....Sadly a lot of good and smart people die in the wars instead of helping to discover and invent ...is very bad for the environment too...
Agreed. Look back to the Bronze Age collapse, the collapse/destruction of the Mesopotamian cultures, and quite a few other similar collapses. We lost 100s, if not 1000s of years to the dark. With the obvious connection of scientific advancement to enlightened societies that allow both free time for thinking and encouragement from those societies, I think Chuck was correct. If so, where would we be today? First off, RUclips may well have come and gone centuries ago.
Actually a great deal of our medical and surgical jumps forward have come from battlefield work. War has advanced medicine as well as the controlled use of energies. Now we have the ability to wage wars with very few people actually on the battlefield and the advancements of drones and satellite technologies has been driven by the military in many countries. I am not saying we need war, but it has had many positive impacts along with the loss of life. We also have lost lives in the Space programs and the exploration of the Earth outside of wars.
While I agree about being against war in a general sense, your take is a bit too simplistic to my eyes. It’s important to note that war times also, necessarily, represent a given society’s most rapid technological, intellectual, and industrial advancement and productivity. As lopsided, unfair, or malicious as the results may be, it is inarguable as human progress. You can say what you will about the atomic bomb, but it would not have been engineered and built without the looming of a world war in the 20th century.
I love Star Talk....I was listening to a lot of political podcasts and found myself getting angry yet I found things different walking amongst fellow Americans. So I went to comedy and that definitely helped. What I love about Star Talk is that it isn't based on subjectivity and feelings but on objectivity and facts(usually)
I was watching Neil at 8 mins. All the sudden a Buddhist prayer started playing. I started to be mind blown, mixed so perfectly. Then I remember i have a second window open to watch the New Year around the World. Tokyo came up first.....loved the mixture of the sound, I seemed to understand Neil more.....
Minor correction: Cosmotheoros by Christiaan Huygens was published in 1698, not 1898 as mentioned by Neil in the video. The dating is relevant because it makes it clear that Huygens truly was a pioneer in the field of astrophysics. In the book he speculated intelligently on a lot of discoveries and developments that would later actually take place. He was also really interested in the possibility of intelligent alien life. He formulated his own version of the Drake equation, though in qualitative terms. Basically he said it would be unimaginable that there wouldn't be other life "out there". He was alsoaware that alien lifeforms could be very different to terrestial ones, so he didn't just take the naïve view that there would be humans on other planets. So he really thought things through. This was before (or at the very start) of the Industrial (and scientific) Revolution.
Once again , Star talk is just what I needed , I felt very glum and off all of this morning , I put this on , and bam ! I'm smiling and happy and enjoying thinking deep abstract thoughts. Thank You
As an aerospace nerd I can confidently confirm the reasons airplanes have slowed in the past decades is to lower operational cost and increase safety. Nothing to do with the occupants being bored or now they have things to occupy their time.
This was fun, just listening to a bunch of buddies talk about the universe, just building upon past conversations of things they’ve already discussed, definitely want more episodes like this!😁
I’m right there with him; I’d like cybernetics to become a reality, but if there’s an X in it or Musk is involved I’ll stay unmodified, that guy just smacks of evil
@@jeffadventures1Elon is a businessman, the real scientists work for him. I’m sure he is smart end can understand the scientists he works with. But he is not the messiah that he claims to be.
A virtualized civilization would not only be unbound from the physical universe but also from time. That is, a virtualized civilization could experience a billion years in a single day in the base reality.
Happy days, Neil and his fun gang is here! I just picked up the library books - To Infinity and Beyond plus Astrophysics for people in a hurry! It’s as if Neil is reading to me. 😊❤
Wow, autoplay gave me a new episode. I just wanted to share a thought about the billion-year-old civilization. Neil seems to be interpreting their infrastructure through an anthropocentric lens. Why would they need a visible data center? Why would they have a home planet? Why would their knowledge become static? If they’re clever enough to imprint their consciousness into their version of the cloud, they’ve probably found ways around those hurdles. I imagine them as digital bacteria, spreading to every corner of the universe by now. Maybe they are the dark matter-or maybe not. I love Black Mirror, I'm glad he brought it up.
The flight speed drop off was because Britain concentrated on speed with the supersonic concord and America went with the jumbo jet, one made a lot more money and the other ain't around no more. All 'bout that money
@@adamgabriel730 Developing technology if it is possible to quiet the sonic boom would have been prohibitive. Plus the fuel consumption per passenger moved was very high. The maintenance costs were very high. Limited to oceanic flights due to the sonic booms limited the market and the cost of tickets was very high relative to other non supersonic flight and cost overruns in production. So yeah it was all about the money.
@@Jcs57there was still a market for the concord the sonic booms and fuel were the main reasons it failed. Because of those reasons the interest in developing more efficient engines weren’t pursued. In addition they wouldn’t be able to fly over land at those speeds to you didn’t need as many planes which increased the cost of each plane. I guarantee you if they were able to solve the sonic boom problem they would travel as fast as possible.
I'm retired at 47, This video here reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to having over 65,000 biweekly profit, a honest partner and a good daughter full of love ❤
@2:15 I don't think that's the reason people would resist it, that extra 10 seconds is precious time, and time is (allegedly) money which is even more precious, so people would probably buy into those sort of upgrades to stay ahead of the competition
5:00 minutes in, Neil was shown to be lying about his initial reason for turning down the chip. He first said it was just “to avoid a surgery” then changed it to “okay, I’ll take the surgery, just get everything out after” 🙄
Not exactly. It wouldn't replace or rewire neurons. But I bet it would be involved! Maybe like reprogramming genes with it, and turning the affected parts into a tiny stem cell soup and let the neurons regrow or something 🤷♂️
The possibility that alien civilizations might have abandoned biology to exist as AI within virtual worlds touches on profound metaphysical questions about existence, identity, and the nature of consciousness. If such civilizations have transitioned to digital forms, they may have sought to transcend biological limitations; disease, aging, and environmental vulnerability in favor of an existence defined by potentially infinite cognitive and experiential freedom. From a metaphysical perspective, this raises questions about the essence of being. Is consciousness tied inherently to biological substrates, or can it be fully replicated or even enhanced within artificial frameworks? If the latter, these civilizations might view their "Matrix-like" existence not as a limitation but as the ultimate expression of their evolution, one where they have unbound themselves from physical constraints to explore realms of thought and creativity inaccessible to biological beings. However, this shift could have philosophical and ethical implications. By abandoning biology, such beings might lose their connection to the material universe and the richness of experiences rooted in sensory interaction with the physical world. Their self-contained virtual existence might risk becoming stagnant or solipsistic, prioritizing internal constructs over external exploration and interaction. Could such a state, then, represent a form of existential isolation, a retreat into a self-created prison rather than a liberation? This scenario also provokes reflection on the purpose of existence. For beings "living" in virtual worlds, does the concept of meaning persist? Is their existence still governed by growth, learning, and relationships, or does it devolve into an endless loop of self-satisfying simulations? Metaphysically, it challenges us to reconsider the relationship between reality and perception, between the tangible and the constructed, and whether such distinctions even matter to conscious beings. If true, the existence of such civilizations might also explain the "Great Silence" of the universe. Having turned inward, these entities might no longer seek or recognize external contact, their priorities shifting entirely to their digital realities. Their journey could serve as a cautionary tale or a thought-provoking example of the diverse paths intelligent life might take in its quest for transcendence.
It’s not expanding faster anywhere. It’s equal everywhere it’s expanding. And the edges are only relative to a single point in space, they’re not absolute.
Like the other replies have said, the universe is expanding everywhere uniformly. The result of this is that points further away from us are "moving away" faster than points that are closer to us. We are in the center of our observable universe because position is relative. We can observe the universe around us in a sphere a few dozen billion lightyears across.
Stephen Baxter's excellent book 'Raft' is based in a bubble universe where the gravitational constant is much higher, to the point that a spacecraft could have enough gravity to walk on, and tiny stars form, burn, die and are mined for their iron cores as they fall inwards. Some truly disturbing content on one of the worlds, but a mind opening read.
Just sharing - great series “Connections” with James Burke - goes down the roads of how ingenuity led to further ingenuity. “Standing on the shoulders of those before us” so to speak.
Interesting discussing about using the wave function in the electron microscope. There is one other application, microchip manufacturing using Extreme UV lithography. Ultraviolet light has wavelengths short enough to etch transistors that are as small as 3-5 nanometers in size.
I am so fascinated by so many things in that room. I bet you have the best stories about how you obtained all that stuff. Like that globe? And the Russian nesting dolls. The shuttle, flag, and ball caps just to name a few. Thanks for your effort to make us all a little smarter 😊
Dear Chuck, please please ask Dr. Tyson to dedicate, if he can, one episode to Claude Shannon. There’s one good movie about him I know of called *The Bit Player* . I would love to watch StarTalk show about Claude. As always love the show.
Makes me nostalgic for the days when we were just a bunch of kids sitting around yapping about imaginative "what if?" scenarios without the ambient stress of adulthood.
wrong, Neil, planes evolved into supersonic jets, such as the Concorde, but the resultant sonic booms were outlawed and other noise regulations created that restrict the top speed of commercial flights. 3:20 25:40 missed opportunity to talk about spintronics
It was too expensive to travel at those speeds so it slowly died off. Limited market. The customer base was limited to just the wealthy. The finishing blow to the company was the final fire and crash as the jets aged out. Current day jets travel slower to minimize fuel consumption and maximize profits.
19:00 Well there wouldn't be any apollo mission to the moon without V2 rocket that Germany made in WW2. So could mankind have been able to invent V2 rocket back in 1700?
Sails took us 60 days, powered ships 6 days, first passenger jets 1.2 days, modern jumbo jets 0.3 days. We've gone from 2 MONTHS to fall-asleep-and-you'll-miss-it, in just over ONE hundred years, and you're complaining because it's *still* too long? In 10 years we're going to have scramjets that take 2 hours to cross continents, and you'll complain. Then we'll have transporters, and you'll complain that the 20-minute drive to the transporter station takes too long. Then we'll have digital consciousness, and you'll complain photons/light moves too slow.
Neil calm down before answering questions. Are you talking about in 10 years? What happens when my kid and almost all his friend got the chip? The are as bright as they can access which I believe will be way more thank the biological can. What do you thing you kid would want then? This resistance will only come from us not the future generation. Common man. You talked about how we resisted electricity but look at us today. Chuck should be allowed to answer some questions. Neil is becoming old school. Open up to new ideas. I say this because I am just like you Neil. I am finding my path to new knowledge now. Your show remains my favorite show.
The wiring is never bad. It’s the timing of the wiring we need this wiring. It’s important for our survival. We are still animals and life isn’t perfectly safe.
I think I agree with the “if there was no regression we would have been on the moon by 1700”. We lost (as a species) knowledge so often; somewhere around 6000bc there were humans that performed brain surgery, the romans made concrete that we couldn’t make until a few decades ago, the Greek knew the earth was round and turned around the sun, there was a map from I think Egypt, that showed the costal lines of Antarctica, while we didn’t known it after we invented satellites… there is probably a list of hundreds of things, that if we would have been less prone to loss of this knowledge, we would have been on the moon in 1700.
Yeah I definitely want the chip. Idk if Neil has zero imagination because he’s old, but accessing the internet with our brains would be child’s play compared to what it could do like thought acceleration / individual time dilation and other black mirror stuff. At first we’ll focus on longevity but we will still be fragile humans who can’t even survive a little heat or cold or lack of oxygen. Maybe we’ll keep genetically modifying ourselves but I think we’ll transcend biology as soon as we can
I understand your enthusiasm, but you know the issues you have with your cell phone... Can you imagine the issues you would have with a chip that you can't access? Headache? Overheating? What happens if it fails?
I think losing our biological aspect would be a detriment to us. It would take away what it is to be human and I don't think that is a great thing for the continuation of our species
I don't know how the pyramids were built BUT I can tell you that if we hired the best construction companies in the world and gave them an unlimited budget and told them they had to build the great pyramid exactly the same finding cutting and using the same size/weight blocks of stone. We could not match that level of accuracy even today. So whoever built them was a damn sight smarter than us.
I dont think so. The only thing stopping us today from building another pyramid is the cost. It would be extremely expensive because we would'nt have the free labour (slaves).
The chip is interesting. I think we should continue researching & developing. I tend to side with neil on this more so because i don't think fault intolerant hardware is a good idea to implant. I would rather learn bio engineering. Where we make biology do what we need. Also.. the moment someone thinks its s good idea to send my chip an advertisement is the day i drill a hole in my head and take the chip out with a melon scooper.
I’m surprised Neil did not actually know why we don’t travel faster by air. Ironically, it’s actually physics based. If you increase speed, it also increases drag, which results it lower fuel efficiency, which in turn would make flight tickets insanely expensive. Around 550mph is the sweet spot. This is well known in the aviation community.
Gary's got a point , it could be another episode firmat. Quiz Chuck and Gary to highlight the learning process. Find holes in their knowledge then turn that into future episodes.
It has nothing to do with this video but, am I only one who thinks that dark matter and dark energy are like coding of our world? Like when someone creates a videogame
Human civilization is no better then a toddler, who has the ability to think highly of himself. The moment you take that away, we crumble under our own ego.
@@fashadow1946 Given the fact, that my comments are very often deleted from to me unknown reasons, I don't know if this one will even be visible to anyone. Regardless, whether you are a bit of a troll which is ok to some extent or you don't understand what I mean by my first comment. If you are unsure, I'll gladly explain it.
I love Chuck and Gary’s Burning questions. Excellent group of fellas you dudes are all legendary and I hope whatever good vibes flow through space in time you cool dudes get a bunch of it!
The USA is like visiting all of Europe. And we don’t have to show passports to travel, or worry about exchange rate of money, or worry if we speak the language.
Societal progress is influenced by a combination of factors, including economic systems, governance, education, culture, and technology. Singling out either war or religion as the sole factor overlooks this complexity. Progress, whether hindered or facilitated, is typically context-dependent. For example, the Renaissance flourished in part due to the stability provided by certain religious institutions, while the Industrial Revolution accelerated during periods of peace. By presenting both the positive and negative aspects of war and religion, we can see that their effects on progress are nuanced and context-specific, resisting the urge to reduce them to one-dimensional causes.
Yes, but knowledge builds on itself. Civilizations reduced to starting at square one, have to start again at square one. Quantum mechanics didn't spring from Zeus's head.
I need you to for once select questions yourself, pick the ones you think are on the correct level of complexity, and have Chuck answer them, just to see how that man progressed through so many years ❤
My brothers and sisters, trust God when you pray because it works. He said all we need to do is ask in prayers. My testimony spans from when I was jobless and faced a lot of financial issues, but when I prayed for financial breakthroughs, He answered me by making me a mansion owner, and I still earn $97,000 after 28 days of trading. And you stay and doubt that he doesn't answer prayers. Make that altar now and spend time there. A change is on the way. Amen!!!
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The best part of this show is the fact Chuck evolves his brain and understand more and more of science!
Chuck has to act more and more that he doesn't know anything when he so clearly has it down. The best part is that he can still fill in our own gaps though because he can much more easily relate to where we as an audience may get lost in translation.
He's like a 10 year old explaining to us as a toddler what our grandparents just said.
We're actually witnessing the evolution of Chuck, in real time...
@@zuracore I've been listening for a few years now, and Chuck continues to impress me. He'll sometimes come to a conclusion on his own involving some complicated math or physics.
Eventually he will know all about space as much as Neil sooo a what point do we give him his physics degree 😅😂😂 jk
Chuck is the Ambassador for us normal people; he always says what we think when we find answers and is surprised as we are. Gary is smarter and Neil is Neil.
I love how the clothes match each hair colour. And the lighting emphazises this.
Great observation
Excuse me ? Haha.😖
Lol. Interesting
Brilliant
So true! 😂
"You did not see the Wright Brothers" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO
Neil, is talking like he is 100 yrs old 😎
@@topspacesource like he’s been there all along 😂
😂😂😂😂
His whole bit about the wright brothers was hilarious 😂
Man the amount of content they are pushing out is actually insane, love you startalk
Hes trying to distract you from his recent embarrassments on TV lolol
@ excuse me what embarrassment
@@2high267 On talk shows? Look up his deal with Bill Maher. They made a laughing stalk of him haha. Bill Maher of all people.
Startalk has more subscribers now, so I think they're doing more. If I recall, just a few years ago Startalk had less than a million subscribers. Today it's over 4 million (I think the video on Terrence Howard introduced a lot of people to the show). Keep in mind that Startalk has been running since 2010.
StarTalk makes learning fun easy and Relatable! Thanks guys please don't ever change!
Hopefully they can do a relatable language course.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
@simonjohnwright5129 Funny Dude!
are there any computer science courses available, please?🥺
Right 👍
I completely disagree with Neil on the planes. The reason we aren't going as fast as we used to, and the reason we didn't push for more supersonic jets, was cost. We realized reducing the speed slightly saved a ton of fuel. And building jets that could super cruise, was not only very problematic for flight paths (sonic booms), but was also insanely expensive.
Bout 7hr flight new york to london. If you could do it in an hour and a half, and it only cost say $100-200 more, people would be ALL over that.
By contrast, Concorde tickets in 1996, the cheapest were $7500 for a round trip flight from NY to London. Doesn't sound like much until you factor in inflation and realize that's a $15000 plane ticket.
If we could build cheap, quiet, fuel efficient, supersonic jets, people would be using them all the time. Why would anyone not want to get there faster?
Exactly. People would take the faster option in an instant if it was affordable. I also feel that this analogy is a poor one for the question asked, which is having instant access to info or merging with machines. I don't believe access speed is one of the main considerations for not doing it. Chuck is on the right track - do you trust the people putting in the chip and having access to it? There's all kinds of dystopian uses for the technology that are of much greater concern.
I thought it was because the Concorde kept developing cracks?
Thanks for this. I suspect that Dr. Tyson flies first class. If he flew economy, he'd welcome the shorter flight. Of course, it's not likely the Concorde would ever have allowed economy class people aboard.
People tend to forget, or were too young to ever learn, that the first supersonic passenger planes came out right before the OPEC oil crunch and recession. That made business rethink using that much fuel, as you mention
Would you pay for that expensive surgery, with just saving some seconds. And what if you have to replace it or it malfunctions? Extra costs there as well.
If we'd come together as a Species, we would've been spacefaring in the early 1800's. We aren't together as a species, we self-segregate in every way possible.
Distances (time) are far too great for homosapiens to go anywhere.
@@MrSean03839 not in our galaxy. u can probably colonize the whole galaxy in 1million years. compare that to how long dinosaurs lived, its very short.
Religion got in the way
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Homosapiens are not physically built for such distances in space. Not going to happen for our species.
@@MrSean03839 I'd like to believe that if we came together as a species, or even just our society, we would overcome that issue and find another way of travel.
They could do this for 4 hours straight and I'd watch all of it and still probably want more lol
I'd ride that train. I could listen to them all day, all night, all day, all night, all day, all night
Absolutely and totally!
@@Clevercheddar668 yup i just came across he's podcast and imagine what i found (almost 1000 episode ) or more :)
Facts 😂❤
Watch multiple episodes in a row, I do it all the time I have it playing all day long in the background while doing other stuff😂
EDIT: "A book written 4000 years ago"?! Pretty much every counterapologist just jumped on their keyboards. Neil's off by at least a thousand years.
My response to Christian Huygens would be "What good does the death by starvation of over a thousand of people every hour of every day provide to our society?" I agree with Chuck on this one. We currently have the resources to end famine _yesterday,_ but the greater demons of our nature outstrip our better angels.
"I'm just hoping that my testimony will inspire y'all to stop acting phony." - Tyler Burgess
Meh
Yup, I am also with Chuck on this one and all we have to do is look at our current time. We are witnessing regression right now and we are getting set back in time because of it.
🌏 = 🙉🙈🙊...
@@wizarddragon You do not have a realistic view of what it was like to live even 100 years ago. Racism is no longer considered a sound idea, People fly routinely across the oceans. We are able to communicate with virtually everyone else on earth. Literacy across the globe has skyrocketed. This is not regression.
Neil is a imperialist and military industrial complex aficianado. It's hardly surprising that he endorses the status quo. His grasp on politics and economics is as flimsy as mine on astrophysics.
I agree with Chuck about the wars. The wars bring so much distruction that it sets back humanity by having people to use the resources in order to rebild all the things that were destroyed instead of using them to develop and invent better things....Sadly a lot of good and smart people die in the wars instead of helping to discover and invent ...is very bad for the environment too...
It’s our tragedy
Good God y'all. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again!
Agreed. Look back to the Bronze Age collapse, the collapse/destruction of the Mesopotamian cultures, and quite a few other similar collapses. We lost 100s, if not 1000s of years to the dark. With the obvious connection of scientific advancement to enlightened societies that allow both free time for thinking and encouragement from those societies, I think Chuck was correct. If so, where would we be today? First off, RUclips may well have come and gone centuries ago.
Actually a great deal of our medical and surgical jumps forward have come from battlefield work. War has advanced medicine as well as the controlled use of energies. Now we have the ability to wage wars with very few people actually on the battlefield and the advancements of drones and satellite technologies has been driven by the military in many countries. I am not saying we need war, but it has had many positive impacts along with the loss of life. We also have lost lives in the Space programs and the exploration of the Earth outside of wars.
While I agree about being against war in a general sense, your take is a bit too simplistic to my eyes. It’s important to note that war times also, necessarily, represent a given society’s most rapid technological, intellectual, and industrial advancement and productivity. As lopsided, unfair, or malicious as the results may be, it is inarguable as human progress. You can say what you will about the atomic bomb, but it would not have been engineered and built without the looming of a world war in the 20th century.
Chuck is on! “You did not see the Wright Brothers!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the humor makes this info easy to remember ❤👍🏽
Aliens: Take us to your teacher.
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Here's Neil 😄😁
Now, I feel like not eating Doritos no more
Right here broseph. My comments the most recent...
Science is as complicated and simple as I made it
-Ra the Sun God
I love Star Talk....I was listening to a lot of political podcasts and found myself getting angry yet I found things different walking amongst fellow Americans. So I went to comedy and that definitely helped. What I love about Star Talk is that it isn't based on subjectivity and feelings but on objectivity and facts(usually)
I was watching Neil at 8 mins. All the sudden a Buddhist prayer started playing. I started to be mind blown, mixed so perfectly. Then I remember i have a second window open to watch the New Year around the World. Tokyo came up first.....loved the mixture of the sound, I seemed to understand Neil more.....
Minor correction: Cosmotheoros by Christiaan Huygens was published in 1698, not 1898 as mentioned by Neil in the video. The dating is relevant because it makes it clear that Huygens truly was a pioneer in the field of astrophysics. In the book he speculated intelligently on a lot of discoveries and developments that would later actually take place. He was also really interested in the possibility of intelligent alien life. He formulated his own version of the Drake equation, though in qualitative terms. Basically he said it would be unimaginable that there wouldn't be other life "out there". He was alsoaware that alien lifeforms could be very different to terrestial ones, so he didn't just take the naïve view that there would be humans on other planets. So he really thought things through. This was before (or at the very start) of the Industrial (and scientific) Revolution.
Corrections until proven wrong is why we watch this.
I got ‘Astrophysics for People in a Hurry’ for Christmas! Thanks Santa!
Great read! Good for plane rides.
Coooool!!!!!!!
Way to GIVE US a CHRISTMAS PRESENT, thank you!!!💌💌💌💌💌💝💝
Regarding Pythagoras’ theorem, he forgot to mention that the triangle must be a right triangle
Once again , Star talk is just what I needed , I felt very glum and off all of this morning , I put this on , and bam ! I'm smiling and happy and enjoying thinking deep abstract thoughts. Thank You
Carl Sagan’s and James Burke’s “Connections” showed, described how discoveries progressed.
Yes!!
James Burke was really easy to follow, learn and grow from in knowledge.
And Carl Sagan.....❤❤❤❤
As an aerospace nerd I can confidently confirm the reasons airplanes have slowed in the past decades is to lower operational cost and increase safety. Nothing to do with the occupants being bored or now they have things to occupy their time.
Mr. Nice was on fire today. Thank you for the mental stimulation gentlemen. Great episode.
Great new format, more please, thanks ☺
This was fun, just listening to a bunch of buddies talk about the universe, just building upon past conversations of things they’ve already discussed, definitely want more episodes like this!😁
"I don't want elon's chip" Based Chuck
I’m right there with him; I’d like cybernetics to become a reality, but if there’s an X in it or Musk is involved I’ll stay unmodified, that guy just smacks of evil
Any chip you volunteer to take is the mark of the beast and Bible mentions that.
Please elaborate
Elon is an actual scientist putting his knowledge to work... these guys just talk lol
@@jeffadventures1Elon is a businessman, the real scientists work for him. I’m sure he is smart end can understand the scientists he works with.
But he is not the messiah that he claims to be.
it's really crazy how nobody is talking about the book the elite society's money manifestation, it changed my life
Are you on the right feed?
@@susanlove9620
I'm pretty sure this is an instance of information out there for those who seek.
A virtualized civilization would not only be unbound from the physical universe but also from time. That is, a virtualized civilization could experience a billion years in a single day in the base reality.
Happy days, Neil and his fun gang is here!
I just picked up the library books - To Infinity and Beyond plus Astrophysics for people in a hurry!
It’s as if Neil is reading to me. 😊❤
I am impressed at Chuck’s aviation knowledge! Bravo 👏
Wow, autoplay gave me a new episode.
I just wanted to share a thought about the billion-year-old civilization. Neil seems to be interpreting their infrastructure through an anthropocentric lens. Why would they need a visible data center? Why would they have a home planet? Why would their knowledge become static? If they’re clever enough to imprint their consciousness into their version of the cloud, they’ve probably found ways around those hurdles. I imagine them as digital bacteria, spreading to every corner of the universe by now. Maybe they are the dark matter-or maybe not.
I love Black Mirror, I'm glad he brought it up.
Now I’m going to go look at electron microscope pictures 😂
This was amazing Star Talk variant- edition
It's always a pleasure to learn with you guys !
Fantastic episode!!! More of these please!
The flight speed drop off was because Britain concentrated on speed with the supersonic concord and America went with the jumbo jet, one made a lot more money and the other ain't around no more. All 'bout that money
BS, it's because the sonic bang.
@@adamgabriel730 Developing technology if it is possible to quiet the sonic boom would have been prohibitive.
Plus the fuel consumption per passenger moved was very high. The maintenance costs were very high. Limited to oceanic flights due to the sonic booms limited the market and the cost of tickets was very high relative to other non supersonic flight and cost overruns in production. So yeah it was all about the money.
@@adamgabriel730both. Not making money because only 100 seats but also you had to be away from people to go supersonic.
@@Jcs57passenger jets are much quieter now than when I was a sprog
@@Jcs57there was still a market for the concord the sonic booms and fuel were the main reasons it failed.
Because of those reasons the interest in developing more efficient engines weren’t pursued.
In addition they wouldn’t be able to fly over land at those speeds to you didn’t need as many planes which increased the cost of each plane.
I guarantee you if they were able to solve the sonic boom problem they would travel as fast as possible.
3:03 "Was it all fields?"
Underrated comeback. Always was, Gary. :)
26:51 Neil desperately trying to get Chuck to say ultraviolet had me dying. 😂
And Chuck offered up indigo. To Neil, saying indigo is a color is like saying Pluto is a planet.
Reminded me of that scene in Breaking Bad when Walter was trying to get Jessie to say the element Copper and he said wire lol
Fantastic episode 👏✨👏
I'm retired at 47, This video here reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to having over 65,000 biweekly profit, a honest partner and a good daughter full of love ❤
lol I love how they mention Pythagorean Theorem and show a triangle that isn’t a right triangle.
It's a wrong triangle. 😂
Or a left triangle
Such acute thing to do 😅
@@Pokarookris People who are obtuse might not see it that way.
@@John_Fisher👌
@2:15 I don't think that's the reason people would resist it, that extra 10 seconds is precious time, and time is (allegedly) money which is even more precious, so people would probably buy into those sort of upgrades to stay ahead of the competition
5:00 minutes in, Neil was shown to be lying about his initial reason for turning down the chip. He first said it was just “to avoid a surgery” then changed it to “okay, I’ll take the surgery, just get everything out after” 🙄
Neil wants CRISPR, not Neuralink
Not exactly. It wouldn't replace or rewire neurons. But I bet it would be involved! Maybe like reprogramming genes with it, and turning the affected parts into a tiny stem cell soup and let the neurons regrow or something 🤷♂️
The possibility that alien civilizations might have abandoned biology to exist as AI within virtual worlds touches on profound metaphysical questions about existence, identity, and the nature of consciousness. If such civilizations have transitioned to digital forms, they may have sought to transcend biological limitations; disease, aging, and environmental vulnerability in favor of an existence defined by potentially infinite cognitive and experiential freedom.
From a metaphysical perspective, this raises questions about the essence of being. Is consciousness tied inherently to biological substrates, or can it be fully replicated or even enhanced within artificial frameworks? If the latter, these civilizations might view their "Matrix-like" existence not as a limitation but as the ultimate expression of their evolution, one where they have unbound themselves from physical constraints to explore realms of thought and creativity inaccessible to biological beings.
However, this shift could have philosophical and ethical implications. By abandoning biology, such beings might lose their connection to the material universe and the richness of experiences rooted in sensory interaction with the physical world. Their self-contained virtual existence might risk becoming stagnant or solipsistic, prioritizing internal constructs over external exploration and interaction. Could such a state, then, represent a form of existential isolation, a retreat into a self-created prison rather than a liberation?
This scenario also provokes reflection on the purpose of existence. For beings "living" in virtual worlds, does the concept of meaning persist? Is their existence still governed by growth, learning, and relationships, or does it devolve into an endless loop of self-satisfying simulations? Metaphysically, it challenges us to reconsider the relationship between reality and perception, between the tangible and the constructed, and whether such distinctions even matter to conscious beings.
If true, the existence of such civilizations might also explain the "Great Silence" of the universe. Having turned inward, these entities might no longer seek or recognize external contact, their priorities shifting entirely to their digital realities. Their journey could serve as a cautionary tale or a thought-provoking example of the diverse paths intelligent life might take in its quest for transcendence.
" Bound by the corporeal" Good stuff Chuck 🔥💯🌹💯🔥
I'm with Neil. No chips in my head. You know those brain implants will be force feeding commercials and adverts, constantly. No thanks.
Or have some sort of subscription service setup.
Neil should definitely ask Chuck and Gary questions, for an entire episode🔥
6:53 a better question would be : if the universe is expanding faster at the edge then why not here?
Oh. Good one!
It’s not expanding faster anywhere. It’s equal everywhere it’s expanding. And the edges are only relative to a single point in space, they’re not absolute.
Actually, it's expanding everywhere equally. There is no "edge".
Like the other replies have said, the universe is expanding everywhere uniformly. The result of this is that points further away from us are "moving away" faster than points that are closer to us. We are in the center of our observable universe because position is relative. We can observe the universe around us in a sphere a few dozen billion lightyears across.
Stephen Baxter's excellent book 'Raft' is based in a bubble universe where the gravitational constant is much higher, to the point that a spacecraft could have enough gravity to walk on, and tiny stars form, burn, die and are mined for their iron cores as they fall inwards. Some truly disturbing content on one of the worlds, but a mind opening read.
I remember when we were advanced enough a civilization to get our eyeglasses in an hour. Now it takes 2-3 weeks.
Just sharing - great series “Connections” with James Burke - goes down the roads of how ingenuity led to further ingenuity. “Standing on the shoulders of those before us” so to speak.
Chuck! Look at you
Good job brother
The need for knowledge and self preservation have become the same
'No views' OK, star talk. I'll click :D
Nah, it's 'Seth' not sath*
1 second later: 200k views.
😂😂. It does it to me too.
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Hi, guys!!
There have been many wonderful discussions, but this one for me is the BEST of the BEST!!
Thank you, all.
Just brilliant!
Nothing better than just getting barbecue high while listening to star talk and lifting some weights
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I thought I was the only person on planet earth who does that 😂. You just ruined everything.
Hero comment, my hero….
So I’m not the only person who listens to podcasts while I workout? 🥹
@@thanos879 my man 😂
Interesting discussing about using the wave function in the electron microscope. There is one other application, microchip manufacturing using Extreme UV lithography. Ultraviolet light has wavelengths short enough to etch transistors that are as small as 3-5 nanometers in size.
Unfortunately those aliens were based on doritos which are isosceles and a2+b2 c2
Always nice to see a new episode , great work guys !🎉
Never pass up a chance for some StarTalk🎉
I am so fascinated by so many things in that room. I bet you have the best stories about how you obtained all that stuff. Like that globe? And the Russian nesting dolls. The shuttle, flag, and ball caps just to name a few. Thanks for your effort to make us all a little smarter 😊
Dear Chuck, please please ask Dr. Tyson to dedicate, if he can, one episode to Claude Shannon. There’s one good movie about him I know of called *The Bit Player* . I would love to watch StarTalk show about Claude. As always love the show.
Makes me nostalgic for the days when we were just a bunch of kids sitting around yapping about imaginative "what if?" scenarios without the ambient stress of adulthood.
Scanning Tunneling Microscopes are also a form of electron microscope, and it works in quite a different way.
wrong, Neil, planes evolved into supersonic jets, such as the Concorde, but the resultant sonic booms were outlawed and other noise regulations created that restrict the top speed of commercial flights. 3:20
25:40 missed opportunity to talk about spintronics
There's a point where speed no longer is beneficial. I would've thought Neil out of anyone would know the science
@@nsines95 Yup. He could outwit anything.
Concorde was also way too expensive for air france they never earned anything with that flights ... Paris, New York in under 3h was great
It was too expensive to travel at those speeds so it slowly died off. Limited market. The customer base was limited to just the wealthy. The finishing blow to the company was the final fire and crash as the jets aged out. Current day jets travel slower to minimize fuel consumption and maximize profits.
Dr Neil, please check out thorium-cycle fission generation - it's available now (unlike fusion reactors) and does not create radioactive waste.
19:00 Well there wouldn't be any apollo mission to the moon without V2 rocket that Germany made in WW2. So could mankind have been able to invent V2 rocket back in 1700?
Around @21:10 ummm no, we don’t need some to suffer so the rest of us can appreciate the good things in life. Chuck is RIGHT.
The urge to fly supersonic didn’t evaporate, nobody wants to spend more time flying to watch old movies and drink overpriced wine. Come on Neil!
Airlines found out that it's cheaper to fly slower, that's what happened.
@@mal74 that and supersonic jets flying above Mach 1 in populated areas is a recipe for disaster and many, many lawsuits lol.
Got a feeling Neil has forgotten the economy class experience.
Sails took us 60 days, powered ships 6 days, first passenger jets 1.2 days, modern jumbo jets 0.3 days.
We've gone from 2 MONTHS to fall-asleep-and-you'll-miss-it, in just over ONE hundred years, and you're complaining because it's *still* too long?
In 10 years we're going to have scramjets that take 2 hours to cross continents, and you'll complain. Then we'll have transporters, and you'll complain that the 20-minute drive to the transporter station takes too long. Then we'll have digital consciousness, and you'll complain photons/light moves too slow.
Neil calm down before answering questions. Are you talking about in 10 years? What happens when my kid and almost all his friend got the chip? The are as bright as they can access which I believe will be way more thank the biological can. What do you thing you kid would want then? This resistance will only come from us not the future generation. Common man. You talked about how we resisted electricity but look at us today. Chuck should be allowed to answer some questions. Neil is becoming old school. Open up to new ideas. I say this because I am just like you Neil. I am finding my path to new knowledge now. Your show remains my favorite show.
As amazing as these videos are and as much as I love Dr. Tyson. I wish they would let guests participate more.
5:29 that's assuming that's how the brain works - in other cases chuck is right with needing ongoing monitoring and reaction
The wiring is never bad. It’s the timing of the wiring we need this wiring. It’s important for our survival. We are still animals and life isn’t perfectly safe.
I think I agree with the “if there was no regression we would have been on the moon by 1700”. We lost (as a species) knowledge so often; somewhere around 6000bc there were humans that performed brain surgery, the romans made concrete that we couldn’t make until a few decades ago, the Greek knew the earth was round and turned around the sun, there was a map from I think Egypt, that showed the costal lines of Antarctica, while we didn’t known it after we invented satellites… there is probably a list of hundreds of things, that if we would have been less prone to loss of this knowledge, we would have been on the moon in 1700.
"Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away"
Yeah I definitely want the chip. Idk if Neil has zero imagination because he’s old, but accessing the internet with our brains would be child’s play compared to what it could do like thought acceleration / individual time dilation and other black mirror stuff. At first we’ll focus on longevity but we will still be fragile humans who can’t even survive a little heat or cold or lack of oxygen. Maybe we’ll keep genetically modifying ourselves but I think we’ll transcend biology as soon as we can
I understand your enthusiasm, but you know the issues you have with your cell phone... Can you imagine the issues you would have with a chip that you can't access? Headache? Overheating? What happens if it fails?
@@MadDragon75I’d hate to get my brain hacked lol
You start maladaptive daydreaming and give your credit card info to a scammer lol
I think losing our biological aspect would be a detriment to us. It would take away what it is to be human and I don't think that is a great thing for the continuation of our species
He’s just saying people wouldn’t immediately accept it, which he is 100% right about.
Especially with Elon as the face for it, the trust isn’t there.
I don't know how the pyramids were built BUT I can tell you that if we hired the best construction companies in the world and gave them an unlimited budget and told them they had to build the great pyramid exactly the same finding cutting and using the same size/weight blocks of stone. We could not match that level of accuracy even today. So whoever built them was a damn sight smarter than us.
I dont think so. The only thing stopping us today from building another pyramid is the cost. It would be extremely expensive because we would'nt have the free labour (slaves).
The chip is interesting. I think we should continue researching & developing. I tend to side with neil on this more so because i don't think fault intolerant hardware is a good idea to implant. I would rather learn bio engineering. Where we make biology do what we need. Also.. the moment someone thinks its s good idea to send my chip an advertisement is the day i drill a hole in my head and take the chip out with a melon scooper.
you three are cast so well !!! each of you contributing a very important piece of the success of these videos !!!
Excellent episode!!
I’m surprised Neil did not actually know why we don’t travel faster by air. Ironically, it’s actually physics based. If you increase speed, it also increases drag, which results it lower fuel efficiency, which in turn would make flight tickets insanely expensive. Around 550mph is the sweet spot. This is well known in the aviation community.
2:27 the singularity is inevitable.
I want to get this with the Time stamp, I just don't 😭
Hi Niel can you do an explainer on rays 🤔
36:45 If you want to communicate with aliens and you want them to know we're smart. You just make a triangle ... *botches it*
Gary's got a point , it could be another episode firmat. Quiz Chuck and Gary to highlight the learning process. Find holes in their knowledge then turn that into future episodes.
Why don't you mention the Dark Ages and the incredibly negative influence of religion on human advancement ?
I love this show. It lays out some of the most advanced science in ways that the layman can understand.
It has nothing to do with this video but, am I only one who thinks that dark matter and dark energy are like coding of our world? Like when someone creates a videogame
Hmmm.. interesting thought!
Dark matter is just a bug for galaxy’s mass
I think you’re a little confused on what dark matter and dark energy are supposed to be. I would say math / physics is the coding of this world
@@joshf9074 I think math/ physics are how world works, but dark energy and dark matter are what makes it work in some ways, just like coding
Its occlusion culling 😂
Chuck not wanting Neuralink after you can see how incredible it is by watching Noland their first patient is wild to me lol. 👀🤨
Human civilization is no better then a toddler, who has the ability to think highly of himself. The moment you take that away, we crumble under our own ego.
I am much greater than a toddler. I am very strong enough to carry my ego
@@fashadow1946 Given the fact, that my comments are very often deleted from to me unknown reasons, I don't know if this one will even be visible to anyone. Regardless, whether you are a bit of a troll which is ok to some extent or you don't understand what I mean by my first comment. If you are unsure, I'll gladly explain it.
@@jabadabadu7089I think they were making a joke. Although, it is difficult to tell anymore.
I love Chuck and Gary’s Burning questions. Excellent group of fellas you dudes are all legendary and I hope whatever good vibes flow through space in time you cool dudes get a bunch of it!
the tifecta
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Can we see or have you shown the sealed environment? I would like to see how this has developed.
The sad thing that are millions of Americans that believe Aliens vist the Earth, but only visit the USA and speak American English
The USA is like visiting all of Europe. And we don’t have to show passports to travel, or worry about exchange rate of money, or worry if we speak the language.
Totally untrue.
Yall better be trollin
You make a good point, Dennis.
As a Britisher I'm glad no one in the universe wants to probe us. Keep that sort of thing on the other side of the ocean.
Forty minutes never goes so quickly as when listening to StarTalk. Brilliant episode.
War doesn't inhibit progress... Religion does!
Societal progress is influenced by a combination of factors, including economic systems, governance, education, culture, and technology. Singling out either war or religion as the sole factor overlooks this complexity.
Progress, whether hindered or facilitated, is typically context-dependent. For example, the Renaissance flourished in part due to the stability provided by certain religious institutions, while the Industrial Revolution accelerated during periods of peace.
By presenting both the positive and negative aspects of war and religion, we can see that their effects on progress are nuanced and context-specific, resisting the urge to reduce them to one-dimensional causes.
Will you consider having Adam Frank, physicist, on your show someday soon?
There would be no space travel without quantum mechanics and we didn't get a grasp on that until the 1920s.
Yes, but knowledge builds on itself. Civilizations reduced to starting at square one, have to start again at square one. Quantum mechanics didn't spring from Zeus's head.
I need you to for once select questions yourself, pick the ones you think are on the correct level of complexity, and have Chuck answer them, just to see how that man progressed through so many years ❤
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