Do Aliens Exist? Seth Shostak on Space Exploration | FURTHER: Episode 1
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FURTHER is an original series exploring the intersection of science and humanity. In the wake of Kepler-452b, Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at SETI Research weighs in on the potential for alien life. Producer: Marco Patricio & Vinny Verma Director: Vinny Verma & Stuart Langfield Animation: Stuart Langfield Additional Animation: Jennifer Mackie Original Composition: Jim Guthrie Click here to subscribe to our channel » https://www.youtube.com/user/shopify ------------------------ "On July 23rd 2015, NASA's Kepler Mission confirmed the existence of a near earth-size planet in the habitable zone around a sun-like star. Kepler-452B, the older cousin to earth. One of the strangest questions I ever get at cocktail parties - not that I got to a lot of cocktail parties, but - is do you really think the aliens are there? Of course I do. I mean, you know, I didn't take this job because I like the color of the furniture. Right. It's because we now know enough about the sky. We now know enough about how the universe came into being to say, you know, this is probably not all that special. You know when I was a kid I was interested in astronomy. I'd go to the local planetarium and they'd give you a show and show you dull constellations and everybody fell asleep but they would also tell you that doggonit planet might be very rare. You know obvious they're nine planets around the sun - well these days eight - but you might not find too many other starts with planets. Now we know that's wrong. Most stars have planets. That's new. That's new information. That's something in the last couple of years. And in the last year we've learned that maybe one in five stars will a planet that might have liquid oceans or atmospheres. In other words a planet that could have life. So that gives a lot of encouragement I would say to the kind of experiment we're doing here because now we know yeah it's not just an interesting idea that there might be aliens out there but there's a lot of real estate for them to live on and that's been shown by observation. That's proven science. What if we found a signal? People ask that all the time. So how will that effect me? I think in the beginning it's just going to be a huge news story that's all. Everybody will want to know so you found life in space? Everybody's going to want to know tell me more. I want to know more. How far away are these guys? Where are they? And you'll say well it's that star system there and they're so many lightyears away and so forth. Every telescope in the world will immediately begin looking in that direction hoping to see if they can find any planets around there. If they can learn anything. We might be able to learn more. We might even get a message. If we get a message who knows what it might be. It might be really very informative. On the other hand let's assume that - in the conservative case if you will - that you don't get a message. You can't pick it up or you can't decode it. You'll never know what it means. All you know is that there's somebody up there who's clever enough to build a radio transmitter. And how does that affect you? Are you gonna say I'm not going to work this week because doggonit they found aliens. You're not going to say that! You're going to go to work you're going to go to school - of course you are. But at least you'll know something that's really important. You'll know that what's happened here on earth has happened many other places. Something similar."
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You sure you want to know? Ignorance is happiness.
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2020 the yahyel race showing up.
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Arthur C. Clarke — 'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.'
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Pretty sure there's life out there, but..
Problem #1: The vastness of space - Self explanatory & getting bigger.
Problem #2: The vastness of time - Look how far we've come in the last 50 years, in comparison to the age of our planet. The odds of another species, on the same "timeline" as us, is very very small. If they are on a similar timeline as humans, but say, 100 000 years behind us (which is an incremental proportion of 3.8 billion years), they'd be cavemen, who cannot communicate.
What we should really be scared of is an advanced civilization.. Someone that's overtaken us by 100 000 years.. -
I honestly believe that in the next 50 years we will be able to say without a doubt that we're not alone.
I'm hoping though that we'll go to Europa in the next 10 years and discover that we've had an ocean full of Alien friends all along. -
Subtitle please!!!
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no they don't. same as gods. they are all fake delusions
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"There have been a hundred thousand generations of humans before you, and I'm quite confident that members of every one of those generations have looked up into the night sky and wondered whether there was something or someone up there looking back. We build our society here on Earth and celebrate our slow accomplishments. Our art, our technology. In our generation, it has finally become possible to more than merely discourse and philosophize on these matters. This is about a quest. Are there thinking beings elsewhere in the universe, island societies separated by the vast reaches of interstellar space. Brace yourselves, put on your seat belts particularly, and let's get underway here." Quoted from Seth Shostak, but does anyone know what it is from?
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Surprised but impressed to find this here
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Gentleman explain :)
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So.. Is FURTHER going any further? :P
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What does this have to do with Shopify e-commerce?
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FUCK religion, pray to Physics!
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Absolutely love this, can't wait for more.
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When is the next episode?? Can't wait to find out what possibilities we will come across!!
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What does hemlock really do? and if Socrates gave virtues, then how was that corruptive? I will give him free lunch forever.
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So you have told us whats above. What is below or within? such as underworld or middle earth? Does magic like sorcery exist? the fey? vampires? it would be such a colorful wonderful world if we had all this in reality. including merlin. or dragons.
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Seth....You REALLY blew it on the recent Huffington Post article on the creatures of Curiosity Mars sols 707 / 710. There is no was these are pareidolia or "Rock Mirages". Please do yourself a BIG favor..go back and look at the images of these 4..thats right, FOUR creatures on this hillside, and open your eyes...I am a very skeptical person of the majority of YouTubes that profess hidden buildings and relics in Mars images...but these 4 "plants, Animals, or artifacts are the real deal....Please retract your foolish statements, quit BS'ing the sheepeople...
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