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Umm Voyager 2 is almost 30 AU CLOSER to Earth than Voyager 1. So Voyager 1 is the farthest man-made object from the Earth at the moment, not Voyager 2. Just a little nitpick of an otherwise AMAZING video! Please keep them coming Prof. Kipping!

The "cost discussion" is kind of out of place. Imagine Egypt's Pharaons haggling the cost of the pyramid builds...

I saw that cornball movie in the theater when I was about 7. I was always disappointed that real black holes didn’t look like a big whirlpool in space…

Mouth Piece for Carl Sagan's poetry. Bravo.

"How can we explain these interactions?" I don't know. But I do know one thing. It won't be gender theory.

and 15 years later, we have JWST who finally discovered the best signs of microbial life on a water planet only 124 light years from us, K218B, the scientist who discovered the signs said that he is putting a 50% chance that what he sees is the signs of early life developing on a alien planet, ofcourse they havw many more studies to do to confirm this but 50% is rhe highest we have EVER gotten to finding living organisms on another planet outside of our solar system

Very poignant tribute... Thanks!

Ugh.. other science channels have said the Sun emits green wavelengths, from space appears white to our eyes, and becomes yellow by passing through our atmosphere. So, which scientist is correct?

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Yet it does exist?!? So Maybe we are dumb and don't know our Butthole from a Black Hole!!!

This video inadvertently makes a strong case for creation. How interesting.

Well if the ice blocks light it's not "totally transparent".

What a wonderful perspective...i absolutely felt this as i would probably be one to join the ranks of the digital world as i have so much more to do before i die, thank you for this it made me happy sad smile and dream even more.

If it's aliens then they are sufficiently advanced enough to make it to their sun, but how far away is this star and in terms of light speed and age, how much have they progressed as a civilisation since then? If it was dumping of waste, they would have been advanced at the time, now millions of light years more advanced, or dead, and would have already been travelling the universe. But if it was salting as a way to light a beacon, this is the equivalent of smoke signals and makes you think maybe the best way to communicate is not via radio waves, but send out light. However the problem for us remains, FTL. We can send out signals, we can see them, we cannot do anything about it. Why this star is emitting elements that do not exist except in theory? Why is the universe the way it is? None of us will ever understand unless we can break physics.

Pretty sure this would be in violation of all current ABM treaties. Any nuclear power that had this would be incentivized to first strike.

Got this and Veritasium's new black hole video recently served up to me by YT as a recommended entangled viewing pair. 👍

If you were an Alien would you come here?

2:07 it really is such a TEASE 😂

Only god know that can be unlimited big universe

Time to remove the salt from the sea 🌊 😅

If we don't leave soon, our intellectual earth brothers may never evolve to share the future.😮😮🤓😹🦜

Try answering this: Imagine an indestructible rope, millions of light years long. One end of said rope is going into a supermassive black hole. The other end is going into a supermassive black hole in a different galaxy. What would happen?

Ummm...I had to Speed up the Video to "Max Playback 2" to have you talk faster. I don't know if you're trying to speak slowly to get longer content but felt myself falling asleep. Once sped up it got more interesting. This is my first time watching you so don't know if it's your tempo or voice. I'm 51 Years old. Just constructive criticism. Great Content though.

Nobody can destroy world except GOD no mattet what new nuclear bomb they invent

Just playing Helldivers 2 and the ships AI mentions the Alcubierre drive.

I miss the hopeful days…we will never reach this level if war continues

What happened to urVenus

Wow. That was f’d up.

15:00 Imagine if, come the end of the century, we realise that we barely, barely avoided the end of humanity and the COVID year dip helped keep us from crossing that final threshold.

I think there's still reasons to be hopeful. It feels like between generational change and when things really start to enter multi-crises mode on a level unseen before, eventually the world will start to accelerate its responses. The question, though, will be whether or not those reactions will be sufficient. IMO, the 2030s to 2050s may be the most important decades in human history and will determine whether or not our species will survive. Humanity will put up a fight but at least for now we can all play some part in tilting the odds of humanity avoiding collapse later this century and surviving into a potentially prosperous and more peaceful future in the 22nd century and beyond. We're all playing a role in this.

Thank goodness that all of this exists in the macro simulation we live in.. just need our benevolent matrix programing overlords to iron out the software bugs.. and we'll all will be fine... right ?!

WOW.

Much probably there is alien life in the universe, they are as alone as we are, the distances, time, effort and material to travel through interstellar space won't let us reach each other

Hot take: Someone on Earth, who was familiar with the Big Ear telescope's operation, intentionally aimed a narrow-band radio signal at where one of the horns would soon pass over.

Could we now discuss the number of universes and other entities that exist....past, present and future. Are there multiple infintiites? Is infinity just a spec on the horizon? What lies beyond infinity? Mind boggling indeed.

The little fact that we don't know how.

What happened was that proto-Venus was hit by its ow "Theia", but on the wrong side (left side of approach from behind, or right side, if approahing from the front). It stopped the planet from turning and all the moons that were created, fell onto new Venus or flew away. No rotation+ no large, gut-churning moons=no magnetic field and no plate tectonics. The new crippled planet became a hellhole in about a few hundred million years as the Sun kept getting hotter., and the greenhouse gasses built up in the static atmospher or the static planet. Voila! Only if it was hit on the right side instead of the left side by its Theia.....

If there was another earth near us the first thing that would happen would likely be war

It's one thing to be curious about finding life, intelligent or otherwise, but it's quite another to dump billions of dollars into a project that will take multiple generations to bear fruit... if any. We haven't even gotten a human to land on our nearest planet yet, mainly due to money, not technology, so while you can dream about extraterrestrial life, anyone actually reading my post will be long dead before it ever happens. I think we'll have to be satisfied with ever more capable telescopes than the JWST with the hopes of finding it.

The LOTR part sounded like he was describing Turley, Oklahoma. Swear to God.

Assuming that intelligent and technologically advanced aliens existed, you would also have to assume they even cared about contacting a primitive species like us. Electromagnetic radiation (radio) takes too long and the signals get weaker and weaker the further they travel. No, once a civilization is advanced enough to generate gravity waves, not simply detect them, you would have a viable means of communication and prove your worthiness for contact. Even then, they still may not be interested or want to expend the time, effort or resources to make contact.

Bro looks he just came from Krypton 💀

It’s called “Creation” fools 😂.

Nice use of a cover of the Interstellar theme.

19:12 poor kid got scared by the thunder lol

great story but you can hardly claim credit, its basically a retelling of Isaac Asimov's the last question

I am a regular human being ,but I think worm holes

Considering the rising metallicity of stars having a inverce proportion to long gamma ray bursts , the universe may have a rising availability of life , or a beginning of a universal population explosion. However due to expansion, civilizations may become more cut off and isolated.

What about time, time still move forward. Even if we could still time has to pass to travel to Vega