Where Are All The Aliens? | Tim O'Brien | TEDxOldham

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  • We now know of thousands of planets orbiting other stars. But we know of only planet that hosts life - the Earth.
    Most scientists think that life elsewhere in the Universe is likely to exist, but so far there is no evidence that extra-terrestrials exist or that they have visited us. However, we can search for signs of life on distant planets and we are even using radio telescopes to look for messages sent to us by extra-terrestrial civilisations. In this talk Tim will discuss the latest science behind the search for alien life.
    Tim is a Professor of Astrophysics and an Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at The University of Manchester.
    Tim’s research concentrates on the study of exploding stars using telescopes around the world and in space, working across the spectrum from radio waves to X-rays.
    Tim is passionate about astrophysics and its power to inspire. Well known for his regular contributions to science on TV and radio, he is Jodrell Bank’s host for the hugely popular BBC TV Stargazing Live series and has a monthly space discussion programme on BBC Radio 5 Live.

    In 2014, jointly with Professor Teresa Anderson, he was awarded the Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics for innovative public engagement, and in 2016 he was elected as President of the UK’s Society for Popular Astronomy.
    This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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  • @GuerkanHantal
    @GuerkanHantal Před 6 lety +13

    Great presentation. Finally someone describing all that, what I've always thought but couldn't explain.

  • @SunOfRa
    @SunOfRa Před 7 lety +80

    "The surest sign intelligent life exists is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Watterson

    • @MR-ki8ud
      @MR-ki8ud Před 4 lety +1

      Very funny!!

    • @waynespeirs1024
      @waynespeirs1024 Před 4 lety +1

      @Donald Mackay What about all these reports of alien abductions there's your evedance.

    • @MikSaintLaurent
      @MikSaintLaurent Před 3 lety +2

      Watch ancient aliens

    • @samuelcollinsa.mankin2066
      @samuelcollinsa.mankin2066 Před 3 lety +4

      Would you want to contact Earthlings if you are an alien from another system? I don't blame an alien species for not doing so.

    • @bobbybob3865
      @bobbybob3865 Před rokem +2

      Any intelligent being that has developed the technology to travel the immense distances between habitable bodies in space--and nonliving drones with the ability to interact with and learn about interstellar or intergalactic space during the voyage would probably be what is traveling those distances--would most likely not be impressed with the human race. Humans might be given about as much respect as humans do to bacteria.

  • @pethello3845
    @pethello3845 Před 5 lety +232

    Title of the talk: Where are all the aliens? Summary of the talk: "I don't know." -Tim O'Brien.

  • @husqvarna17
    @husqvarna17 Před 4 lety +27

    Should’ve been titled “A short lesson on telescopes.”

    • @craigdavies5302
      @craigdavies5302 Před 4 lety +1

      foosgoalie lol brilliant

    • @tr7b410
      @tr7b410 Před rokem

      For a tutorial on interstellar travel see on utube Zohar-Stargate T.V. investigates Pleadian contactee Billy Meiers material with a narrative by Randolf Winters.

  • @JohnJackson-mn4ts
    @JohnJackson-mn4ts Před 7 lety +347

    "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke

    • @keithmayhewhammond5357
      @keithmayhewhammond5357 Před 5 lety +4

      If we are not alone in the universe it is only terrifying if that being, God, is not loving.

    • @keithmayhewhammond5357
      @keithmayhewhammond5357 Před 5 lety +9

      @Clout Lord That would only make sense if we were 'alone' in the universe. My statement was based on the presumption that we are not alone, meaning that God does exist and is either good or bad. I have reason to believe He is good. Though I do agree that the concept of God not existing would be quite terrifying, which is certainly something that kept me up at night as a child.

    • @keithmayhewhammond5357
      @keithmayhewhammond5357 Před 5 lety +5

      @Clout Lord As I said, my statement was on the presumption that we are not alone in the universe. If you want to base an argument on the opposite assumption then that is your affair. I do not believe personally that it is possible to have no God, but my belief itself is not enough to remove impossibility. It is either impossible or not regardless of me.
      Good and bad are only human concepts in the subjective sense, meaning that we as humans, with often clouded judgement, change our minds out of convenience, needs, and wants, as to what is good or bad. Someone will justify murder to themselves if it benefits them and suddenly it is a good - or even on a societal level. However, good and bad in the objective sense is certainly not a human construct because it goes beyond our blindness. Objective morality has only come to us by means of religion, which the religious believe to be sent by God himself. Considering how self-denying all of God's laws are, if we are talking about the Christian faith, it would seem unlikely to me to be a human construct. No one in the right mind would deny themselves pleasure (if on a surface level seems to harm no one) unless they were told it was wrong by something beyond themselves, and unless they thought there were consequences not only in this life but in the next.
      An example of this would be fasting. Many religious have fasted rigorously, not for health benefits, but to deny their own flesh in order to become holy. There is no way that humans, who love pleasure, would ever come up with such a thing unless necessary for health reasons (other than a small percentage of crazies). And the argument that all religious are insane does not quite work either for obvious reasons that I hope need not be explained.
      Maybe He's in another galaxy? You clearly no nothing of the concept of God, who is beyond time and the material universe. Why do skeptics always mock faith? That is a rhetorical question by the way. If you wish not to believe then that is your choice. But there is no need to mock me with such a ridiculous premise of God. If God were inside space and time then He would not be God obviously, at least not the Christian one.

    • @coolmodee
      @coolmodee Před 5 lety +5

      The universe is so large. Time is barrier that keeps us from finding life.

    • @robertstewart4953
      @robertstewart4953 Před 5 lety +4

      @@keithmayhewhammond5357Starting a hypothesis with presumptions and presuppositions, is about as biased as you can get...

  • @asiac8968
    @asiac8968 Před 7 lety +448

    It's funny that we operate our search based off of the assumption that all other life in the universe needs liquid water to survive and not some other substance unique to the evolution of life on their particular planet.

    • @waterkingdavid
      @waterkingdavid Před 7 lety +30

      Yes one could label that tendency as being "terracentric"!

    • @davelospinoso9022
      @davelospinoso9022 Před 7 lety +22

      Asia Cannon water is the only liquid that is adhesive and cohesive... and holds its temperature well.... and floats when it freezes. freeze any liquid and it sinks. water floats.. allows fish to swim underneath frozen lake....etc

    • @Mad.Man.Marine
      @Mad.Man.Marine Před 6 lety +52

      Dave Lospinoso but that is the point exactly. It is the only substance that WE know about. If you think that we have seen or know about all the elements in the universe then you are sorely mistaken.

    • @sasho54
      @sasho54 Před 6 lety +30

      Even more funny is how nearly everywhere and everybody describes alien creatures like some who have a head, two legs and two arms. Just like us. With the only difference in color, face and other minor things. Wake up, men! Even on Earth live includes much more variety than that!

    • @saultigh4304
      @saultigh4304 Před 6 lety +17

      "It is the only substance that WE know about"
      Only substance that we know about? I'm pretty sure water is not the only substance we know :)
      Other than that, every substance stable enough and present in our galaxy would also be present on Earth. Earth is not an isolated system. Matter from our entire galaxy is constantly bombarding Earth in the form of dust and little rocks. When large enough comet hits a planet, some of the matter of that planet is ejected into space. There's not a substance in our galaxy that hasn't been shared across its entirety. Every planet contains some trace amount of matter from every other planet in our galaxy.
      Is that like a news flash for you or what?

  • @beerkenstein
    @beerkenstein Před 4 lety +6

    I love that roughly 40 people are present at the actual presentation, yet on youtube it has over a million views.

  • @zatcharybelltucker735
    @zatcharybelltucker735 Před 5 lety +55

    This talk has been done so many times

    • @SMaamri78
      @SMaamri78 Před 4 lety +21

      And every time about half the comments are the following ....
      "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke

    • @demarcusfaulkner7411
      @demarcusfaulkner7411 Před 4 lety +1

      True and we're learning more and more we may not be

    • @yushamenthari
      @yushamenthari Před 4 lety

      @@SMaamri78 are alone until we see .
      ...
      We
      Should
      Lo e
      Each other.

    • @gentx2160
      @gentx2160 Před 3 lety +5

      Maybe make your own tedtalk. And enlight us with some new stuff.

    • @edgarearly4203
      @edgarearly4203 Před 3 lety

      What could the alien look like if they came into contact with radio signals?

  • @conorsabol
    @conorsabol Před 4 lety +3

    The light from this talk finally made it

  • @podrick11
    @podrick11 Před 5 lety +6

    Great job Tim. Really enjoyed your presentation. Think we’ll know of a few within the next ten to twenty years. 👍

    • @dzerres
      @dzerres Před rokem

      No, we won't. If we send a signal out today it would take 4 years to get to the nearest outside planet and another 4 to get back as received. That's 8 years of your 10 to 20 schedule and we don't even know what to listen for.

  • @Vesbolk
    @Vesbolk Před 5 lety

    Thanks for the talk.

  • @ravindraacademy1999
    @ravindraacademy1999 Před 4 lety

    Amazing information! Thanks alot.welldone

  • @gdlop
    @gdlop Před 4 lety +138

    to sum up the video: where are the aliens ? = we dont know
    i just saved you 15 mins of your life

  • @Yourmomanddadrbrotherandsister

    They are here and have been for awhile. Fasinating and truthful documentary? TRAVIS the travis walton story.

    • @semiauto3148
      @semiauto3148 Před 5 lety

      thischannel of course. Just like people say they found some Bigfoot hair or seen lochness monster. It’s all for ratings or to make a little money....they always find gullible people that believe their stories..

    • @DeputyNordburg
      @DeputyNordburg Před 5 lety

      here like at your house?

    • @Yourmomanddadrbrotherandsister
      @Yourmomanddadrbrotherandsister Před 4 lety

      @@DeputyNordburg Last seen at your mom's.

  • @rajeshn8067
    @rajeshn8067 Před 2 lety

    great explantion. answered many of my qestions

  • @SWest00072
    @SWest00072 Před rokem +1

    “We Are Not Alone. We Have Never Been Alone.”

  • @julittok
    @julittok Před 7 lety +289

    Carl Sagan said all this things 40 years ago in the Cosmos series, I like this guy he is cool but come on I was expecting something more.

    • @mickelodiansurname9578
      @mickelodiansurname9578 Před 7 lety +12

      I have a feeling he was not talking to a room packed with astrophysicists and chemists. Even then dumbed down as it is, there's an awful lot of bewildered faces and arm folding going one there.
      Real lucky he gauged it well, could you imagine if he pulled out probability charts and spectroscopy images of other stars during planetary transit. Their little head would have melted into their necks.

    • @jeerapaul
      @jeerapaul Před 7 lety +12

      like you would understand it too conceited twerp

    • @cuban9splat
      @cuban9splat Před 7 lety +19

      julittok: Yes he said it 40 years ago. But, that was 40 years ago. It needed to be said again because the population under 40 years old has not yet heard it and they outnumber the rest of us!

    • @alancrabb
      @alancrabb Před 7 lety +5

      "It needed to be said again." True. Also, 40 years ago the chorus was 'give us the technology and we will find the evidence.' Well, we are developing the technology, so it is valid to ask 'where is the evidence?' Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but maybe it hints at it.

    • @orangedrone
      @orangedrone Před 7 lety +14

      julittok Most TED talks ultimately say nothing.

  • @sherrieb7133
    @sherrieb7133 Před 4 lety +23

    "Innumeranble suns exist, innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds." -Giordano Bruno 1584

    • @johnnolan33177
      @johnnolan33177 Před 4 lety

      And they burnt him alive, for saying so! Compare their science, to ours, its very similar, Religion then, Science is like a cult religion now. Dont dare say something that isnt mainstream, watch this.. UFOs are real

    • @thewaythetruthandthelife4952
      @thewaythetruthandthelife4952 Před 4 lety

      ☝️did the government take that guy out? 😂

    • @johnnolan33177
      @johnnolan33177 Před 4 lety

      @@thewaythetruthandthelife4952 No the church did

    • @johnnolan33177
      @johnnolan33177 Před 4 lety

      @@thewaythetruthandthelife4952 Hilarious, getting lit on fire by people that say they follow Christ, for saying the truth. But they didnt believe that. Same as science today. Like a cult they have their beliefs and if some evidence doesnt match up they ignore it, fire people, ridicule them. See Hueyatlaco. See Nampa Figurine. See see see see see........

  • @elizdonovan5650
    @elizdonovan5650 Před 5 lety

    Thank you for a wonderful talk.
    🌲🌝☘️

  • @CaptainMarmite
    @CaptainMarmite Před 4 lety +1

    Never learnt so much in such a short time. Nice one.

  • @andrewbutler9533
    @andrewbutler9533 Před 5 lety +12

    I'll answer it for you - we are not alone!

  • @vaxx9922
    @vaxx9922 Před 7 lety +222

    We are the aliens

  • @clintwolf4495
    @clintwolf4495 Před 6 lety

    Very interesting video. Thanks.

  • @shemya93
    @shemya93 Před 5 lety

    Very well explained

  • @odin9607
    @odin9607 Před 4 lety +23

    Why must we assume that ' other ' intelligent extraterrestrial life need water to survive. We seem to base this research on our earthly needs.

    • @lekanswansons3646
      @lekanswansons3646 Před 3 lety

      like exactly they could be made of phsyically superior biology than us humans, might not need to eat, or breathe, I know it sounds science fictiony and unbeilievable but its not as crazy as trying to imagine before the big bang to the beginning and then going back even further than that. Basically these aliens could possibly be superhuman in biology to the point where they could just wipe earth out. Yeah lets give them an invitation before we even figure out how to work together as a species.

    • @Yo1shadyfan
      @Yo1shadyfan Před 3 lety +4

      Water is one of the most abundant elements like silicon and carbon, thats way.

    • @jeppestubtoft4292
      @jeppestubtoft4292 Před 3 lety +2

      Well assuming we know all of the most common elements of the universe. WE can pretty much guess, that the solution for life. Could very well be the same, everywhere in the universe.
      When we look at earth. All of life needs water. Water is really common. Water is the key, for more than just life.
      You need water to have a sustainable atmosphere. Unless, life can begin in just blank space.

    • @freebirdjackson5511
      @freebirdjackson5511 Před 3 lety +1

      We also drink Mountain Dew and buy lottery tickets. Which I consider a guilty pleasure…I hope the Aliens engage in similar behavior on their planet(s).

    • @devesdeves2299
      @devesdeves2299 Před 2 lety

      Gotta work with what we know, I see what you are saying though.

  • @petermorelli5925
    @petermorelli5925 Před 4 lety +10

    Imagine some far off civilization being taken over by robots that we sent off

    • @billyhndrsn4542
      @billyhndrsn4542 Před 4 lety +1

      I do worry about the propulsion systems on probes to go so deeply into space. If the probe has a difficulty and crashes onto one of these planets, the outcome for any life on this planet is grim, because of us.

  • @sentientthundertank2079
    @sentientthundertank2079 Před 4 lety +1

    Love his Manchester joke at the start, had about four days of sun this summer....

  • @ivanvincent3684
    @ivanvincent3684 Před 4 lety +1

    Aliens are just the future version of us as we are to our past.

  • @rh-paving4642
    @rh-paving4642 Před 6 lety +3

    I was smiling at my wall about a quarter of the way in

  • @madelikeagunridelikeabulle7395

    "beam me up, scotty"

    • @williamanderson4395
      @williamanderson4395 Před 5 lety

      An adventure in speed-speech mostly. Not much content packed in there,

  • @timfabre1142
    @timfabre1142 Před rokem

    .....And He spoke it into existence!

  • @zigfield723
    @zigfield723 Před 4 lety +1

    Their already here. Get with the program, Hello!!!

  • @byronharano2391
    @byronharano2391 Před 4 lety +3

    Thank you for your information. I truly don't believe these "things" are interstellar travelers, but inter dimension travlers of both theirs and our time and space.

    • @jacoblang2331
      @jacoblang2331 Před 4 lety +1

      Right..there home would be so far away that we would see them as they was billions of years ago ..so they would have to travel like you said

    • @nominus1138
      @nominus1138 Před rokem

      I wish your belief was more of an opinion. I wish more people required more hard evidence to form those beliefs. The fact that I want something to be true is not enough to believe that it is true.

    • @byronharano2391
      @byronharano2391 Před rokem

      @@nominus1138 You belive in an expanding univers like most people yet you never studied the phenomenon for yourself correct? You believed in a Theory called the BIG Bang with ever shifting information? Only to find James Web telescope is proving this theory false. How many "things" you actually believe in without any research yourself to prove a matter as fact?
      My proof is how YAHWEH changed the direction of my life for the better by the Blood of Yeshua in the Gospel truth Romans 10:9-10, 13. Not a fairlytale nor unproven to me. Research for yourself.

  • @gentx2160
    @gentx2160 Před 3 lety

    I like him. A great person from the universe. It makes sense. Somehow.

  • @hulltra8949
    @hulltra8949 Před 5 lety +1

    Goodness , I could give this presentation and I left school at 16 with 6 'O' Levels and a CSE in Motor Vehicle Studies.

  • @billyjohn9192
    @billyjohn9192 Před 5 lety +6

    I think if there is life out there it is very spread out. Because in the history of the earth (the best place we know of for life to have started) life started once in 5 billion years. It was nearly wiped out several times and life evolving beyond single celled organisms took a very long time to start. There may also be a great barrier. So I'm not to optimistic.

    • @yelsmlaugh
      @yelsmlaugh Před 4 lety

      Life comes first. Matter later. Everything starts with a thought and the thoughts accumulate into a mind. This mind never dies, though a lot of its memories fade quickly away at the end of life in a body. The essential you remains, regardless of your own belief in that body.

    • @SWest00072
      @SWest00072 Před rokem

      The Universe is almost 14 billion years old, the Sun is 6 billion yrs, and our Earth is 4.5 billion yrs. That gives other stars and solar systems a few billion years head start. I think Earth and the human species, is very late to the game. “We are not alone. We have never been alone.”

  • @shuddupeyaface
    @shuddupeyaface Před 4 lety +2

    I've been thinking long and hard about this. I am a Alien. There it is.

  • @kicknadeadcat
    @kicknadeadcat Před 4 lety +1

    In the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy they also asked the question what is the meaning of life and everything. The answer was 42.

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 Před rokem

      Ah, yes. The year of menopause.

  • @willpowers4762
    @willpowers4762 Před 4 lety

    Yes, life is everywhere throughout the Universe.

  • @JAydUBr6
    @JAydUBr6 Před 4 lety +11

    Wanna find aliens? Point those things toward the ocean.

  • @OnKeyboards
    @OnKeyboards Před 5 lety +17

    I say after the us navy incidents, one needs to be mighty brave to say “no evidence”.

  • @sam6stringestrada31
    @sam6stringestrada31 Před 6 lety +1

    It's crazy to think when u look up at a shining star that light could be years if not decades old that is beautiful to know

    • @jjthomas2297
      @jjthomas2297 Před 3 lety

      And in many cases, millions of years ago..

    • @nominus1138
      @nominus1138 Před rokem

      Most of the time the light is much older than that ...

  • @gerardmiller7364
    @gerardmiller7364 Před 5 lety

    They are right there. As they are able to communicate in telecanises.

  • @Greenhead24
    @Greenhead24 Před 6 lety +4

    i like how he simplifies big numbers into comments like 50 stars each per person on earth.

  • @dearheart2
    @dearheart2 Před 7 lety +5

    There exist a number of mathematical formulas that describe the probability for life in the universe. And with the age (14++ billions, 200+ billion light-years across) etc there is no doubt (in my opinion) that there are plenty of life out there. Now, how much is advanced, simple, complex is then still very open.
    And who knows, maybe one day we will be able to find intelligent life in the universe...

    • @SWest00072
      @SWest00072 Před rokem +1

      The Astrobiological Copernican Limit equation says there may be up to 44 advanced alien civilizations living in the Milky Way Galaxy.

    • @dzerres
      @dzerres Před rokem +1

      This whole talk was about intelligent life. There probably is some form of life under the ice of one or more of Jupiter's moons right now but that doesn't count.

  • @tonnywildweasel8138
    @tonnywildweasel8138 Před 4 lety +1

    Waldorf : I wonder if there is life on another planet.
    Stattler: Why, you don't have one on this one!

  • @Forever-411
    @Forever-411 Před 5 lety

    Seeing is believing and I have seen!

  • @LJDS1979
    @LJDS1979 Před 4 lety +13

    Somewhere, Bob Lazar sits shaking his head , quietly saying "I tried."

    • @linguist2k
      @linguist2k Před 4 lety +3

      Well said, Jahi! In the description of this TEDx talk, Tim O'Brien says "there is no evidence that extra-terrestrials exist or that they have visited us." The fact is, there is a MOUNTAIN of evidence that extra-terrestrials exist and that they have visited us. But the so-called "experts" simply refuse to accept that this evidence has merit. So I'm shaking my head right along with Bob Lazar.

    • @LJDS1979
      @LJDS1979 Před 4 lety +1

      @@linguist2k You, me and the thousands of eye witness accounts from aviators, scientist and the list goes on. Reputable people with something to lose. I guess according to people like O'Brien, THEY ARE ALL JUST SIMPLY LYING.

    • @tonystephen6312
      @tonystephen6312 Před 4 lety

      how do you define it from false news?

  • @silverado611
    @silverado611 Před 5 lety +3

    Our own human writers for star trek write into their stories about aliens what is know as the prime directive. If we can see that this prime directive makes sense why would aliens not actually feel that same way about us.

  • @Mozart1220
    @Mozart1220 Před 4 lety +1

    Where are all the aliens? Too far away to ever visit here.

  • @hamiltonjames2191
    @hamiltonjames2191 Před 5 lety +1

    Maybe plenty of aliens have observed us. Then they decided to move swiftly on. Can't blame them.

  • @gbennett58
    @gbennett58 Před 4 lety +6

    It seems that the question has now been answered, by of all things, the U.S. Navy.

  • @JCResDoc94
    @JCResDoc94 Před 4 lety +5

    HE KNOWS TOO MUCH, GET HIM!

  • @timotot123
    @timotot123 Před 4 lety

    I'm personally not so interested in whether or not there are extraterrestrials, but there is definitely compelling evidence of aerial technology that has been witnessed and filmed that significantly defies any known aircraft that we have. I've witnessed myself on a few occasions these and they had no wings or any characteristics of any aircraft I've ever seen. One sighting I had was a very irregular shape and was rolling around in all directions, all the while going at a terrific speed

  • @SaiSanthoshSandilya
    @SaiSanthoshSandilya Před 5 lety

    Never seen a Ted video like this. Seemed like a grad presentation on telescopes

    • @SWest00072
      @SWest00072 Před rokem

      I didn’t get any smarter watching it.

  • @Lamenteinglesa
    @Lamenteinglesa Před 3 lety +5

    Question: 'Where are the aliens?' Answer: 'we are way too unevolved at a personal level yet for them to even be interested in an encounter....'

    • @marcelperera1630
      @marcelperera1630 Před 2 lety

      There are no aliens. It's a spiritual universe.

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 Před rokem

      Then again, we study bacteria.

  • @Lahmacunmatik
    @Lahmacunmatik Před 4 lety +9

    TEDx Talks but each time he says "hoondred", you gotta take a shot whiskey.

  • @1stdanclaire
    @1stdanclaire Před 4 lety +2

    This needs more views v interesting

  • @zvoyarakel2842
    @zvoyarakel2842 Před 4 lety +3

    The aliens are out there we just cant see them.

  • @stevenhoman2253
    @stevenhoman2253 Před 4 lety +3

    Gee, imagine that, aliens who have a way of thinking that is alien to humans.

  • @Peter7966
    @Peter7966 Před 4 lety

    Not much to add to the conversation about the possibility of alien life here. But a nice presentation. Of course any sort of radio telescope device would only detect technologically advanced life, advanced enough to send signals. 150 years ago we couldn't do that here on earth.

  • @HUNDREDACREWOOD.
    @HUNDREDACREWOOD. Před 4 lety +1

    Why do we think anyone from another planet would even want to come here, when its obvious, that they are far more advanced than we are...

  • @mads205
    @mads205 Před 7 lety +34

    What if aliens have visited us, but in a form that we can't comprehend or understand (yet)?

    • @carefulcarpenter
      @carefulcarpenter Před 7 lety

      Doom Wizard Talks like this focus our attention on the exterior, the Macro. What if aliens exist at the Plank scale?

    • @JohnSmith-ix5gx
      @JohnSmith-ix5gx Před 6 lety

      we would appreciate it if you did not speak of such things.when we are ready you will all know at the same time.

    • @leloodallasmultipass
      @leloodallasmultipass Před 6 lety

      john- that is pretty much it, in a nutshell. they've never NOT been here and when earth can take it, they'll be all up in our grills. it just so happens that time is now.

    • @JohnSmith-ix5gx
      @JohnSmith-ix5gx Před 6 lety

      +leloodallasmultipass please do not pester me with blithering brain diarrhea, as I said before ,when I'm ready to tell you ,I'LL TELL YOU ALL!!! now begone peasant ,back to the primordial swamp you just oozed out of

    • @leloodallasmultipass
      @leloodallasmultipass Před 6 lety

      there's nothing for me there now.

  • @SteveBlom
    @SteveBlom Před 7 lety +137

    You could just say Drake equation and save yourself 15 minutes here

    • @jeremywestern7067
      @jeremywestern7067 Před 7 lety +24

      Pop singer drake knows nothing about astronomy

    • @JohnJackson-mn4ts
      @JohnJackson-mn4ts Před 7 lety +18

      The Drake Equation only calculates how many civilisations we should be able to detect. I've seen and heard several figures thrown around, someone even suggested that even with the lowest possible "settings" the equation came out with around 10,000 civilisations out there in our Galaxy alone.
      With all that possible life you would think we would be able to hear something and yet our heavens are silent.
      So we are left with a few possibilities:
      A) We are indeed alone in the universe.
      B) We are the first civilisation to reach our current stage of development - A very scary thought!
      C) Other Civilisations have developed different methods or more direct ways of transmitting information.
      D) Other civilisations know something we don't and have adopted radio silence in an effort to hide their existence.

    • @chrisgibbs3509
      @chrisgibbs3509 Před 7 lety

      I wonder if there were 6 Earth like twins that had our exact level of technology that all would pop up evenly around the Universe. For discussions sake, lets also assume they are in similar types of galaxies and locations within that arm of their galaxy and orbiting sun like stars like our own, etc. Most of them would likely be expanding away from us also as the universe itself expands. My question would be, how long would it take for us to detect a signal coming from their planet if we knew where exactly to look?

    • @skytrainii8933
      @skytrainii8933 Před 7 lety +3

      John, let me make one small yet very significant change to your first statement. The Drake Equation only calculates how many civilisations we should be able to detect if all the assumptions the terms represented are true and correct. As we learn more and more about our local solar system and our local view of the universe, we necessarily make changes to the values of the term and even the terms themselves. As we view more and more exoplanets, we will have to make changes to the equation.
      Right now, however, the equation does not represent our current evidence and observations. In other words, the equation says one thing and we have nothing. But we must keep looking because what we find will point to the truth; whatever that truth may be.

    • @nathanguyette8772
      @nathanguyette8772 Před 7 lety

      Sky Train II one cell talking to the other

  • @keithdouglass3618
    @keithdouglass3618 Před 4 lety +1

    I know where craft are seen often. I did 8 years in my area of research. Keith Australia

  • @jimmycranier3668
    @jimmycranier3668 Před 5 lety +2

    The real question should be.....Why have the Aliens NOT introduced themselves to us ? .....we are a war planet.

    • @kevinmerdy9189
      @kevinmerdy9189 Před 5 lety

      What makes you think they haven't made contact? ....and what makes you think you would be privileged enough to be informed about it?

  • @guyjonson6364
    @guyjonson6364 Před 6 lety +6

    They would need to apply for tourist visas. Stay permit is out of the question

  • @mokshaGyanRam
    @mokshaGyanRam Před 7 lety +7

    aliens exist ask the alien

  • @rich4444hrsm
    @rich4444hrsm Před 3 lety

    5:26 I saw 3 people put their hands up! :p

  • @abistonservices9249
    @abistonservices9249 Před 4 lety

    Space is big, really BIG, humungustly BIG, ginormously BIG, fantasticall BIG, and I am feeling really really tired - MARVIN.

  • @Quantum3691
    @Quantum3691 Před 4 lety +15

    Aliens learned from what happened to Jesus.
    _"Nah, were good up here."_

  • @carlpen850
    @carlpen850 Před 6 lety +5

    Where are all the aliens ? well half of them are living next door and a bunch more are just up the street

  • @Deku28947
    @Deku28947 Před 4 lety

    I could have done this presentation with an hour of googling. Reminded me of a school presentation.

    • @cek128
      @cek128 Před 2 lety

      Why didn’t you?

  • @5cloudwalker
    @5cloudwalker Před 5 lety +1

    Watching a violent society crucify itself

  • @daneoman1000
    @daneoman1000 Před 5 lety +5

    We are NOT alone, the nearest star with habitable planets is 137,000 years away with current tech.
    If we all evolved at a similar rate as other planets in our galaxy then no one has travelled to another planet, have we?????
    No one has the tech developed to travel that distance yet.

    • @bennyl7224
      @bennyl7224 Před 5 lety +2

      Narrow band of time to develop technologically from Stone Age to where we find ourselves today. So Stone Age lasted 3m years until 4000 years ago when we started working with metal. Electricity hasn’t been around for very long. Flying has only been around for 100 years and 60 years after it was invented, we were walking in the moon. It’s exponential. We also exponentially develop weapons to use against each other. One exponential curve will negate the other. If good tech wins, our technological development will accelerate. If the bad technology wins, our civilisation will become the myths carved into stone for future civilisations to discover. Other worlds would have a similar path. They’d only need to be 300 years further along the good exponential curve to be so far advanced we’d call them aliens.

    • @DeputyNordburg
      @DeputyNordburg Před 5 lety +2

      If we all evolved at a similar rate as other planets in our galaxy then we'd have detected the radio waves from someone only 137,000 years away with current tech. Thats the point.

    • @crangonvulgaris9820
      @crangonvulgaris9820 Před 4 lety

      No one? you sure?

    • @user-ko5nt4ym2l
      @user-ko5nt4ym2l Před 4 lety

      @@DeputyNordburg Exactly

    • @nominus1138
      @nominus1138 Před rokem

      @@DeputyNordburg at 137,000 light years away radio signals would be undetectable against the background noise of the cosmos.....

  • @Haannibal777
    @Haannibal777 Před 7 lety +31

    He should start the lecture by saying he doesn't know where are the aliens instead of wasting my time to listen to his full clip. Otherwise half of what he said I knew and the other half I am not interested in.

    • @Jm20375
      @Jm20375 Před 7 lety +16

      Oh, so you thought he was going to tell you which planet in which galaxy all of the aliens have been chilling on all this time? You needed him to tell you upfront that he didn't know that information? I find that incredible that you couldn't figure that out yourself.

    • @jeerapaul
      @jeerapaul Před 7 lety

      funny josh

    • @mackhomie6
      @mackhomie6 Před 6 lety +4

      Gerry C after about 100, we (humans) are unable to really grasp a number. 1.8 million and 8 trillion all just comes across as a shitload. you're not special

    • @DJMacnificus
      @DJMacnificus Před 5 lety

      @Gerry C agreed! Is not difficulty to comprehend but to quantify, which is a very different thing.

  • @benjacobs1622
    @benjacobs1622 Před 3 lety

    The light from our sun to the nearsed other star has reached its destiny.

  • @lukeschannel650
    @lukeschannel650 Před 4 lety +1

    The speed of light is not the fastest measurement of speed... the speed of thought is faster.

  • @mr.dingo1kev739
    @mr.dingo1kev739 Před 5 lety +4

    Join us... we are among you! We👽are, watching you.. we've been here before an will be there after.

    • @not_So_Random-Dude
      @not_So_Random-Dude Před 3 lety

      @@vitali-opal-and-gem toned down version of god/ knowledge is hidden from us?

  • @flavio2727
    @flavio2727 Před 7 lety +20

    "Where are they" is no question. The right question is: where are people who deserve their attention?. Excluding big ego cientists, generals and polititians. Better they stay away.

    • @alexhennigh5242
      @alexhennigh5242 Před 6 lety +1

      flavio chab Truth! Aliens more than likely made earth a no fly zone once the Chinese invented gun power way back when. I can see it now, "Oh no not again, why does this always happen"

    • @SuperKilroy123
      @SuperKilroy123 Před 5 lety

      You are speaking as if these once tribal A N I M A L S are morally better, incredibly good angel type beings. The truth is that all beings in this universe will act similar to us.

  • @crazyduck1254
    @crazyduck1254 Před 5 lety

    i use scientists and ted talks to help me get off to sleep

  • @mjs6157
    @mjs6157 Před 4 lety

    I was not interested or cared if other life exsisted until this happened to me. Driving from one small farm community to another passing open fields ready for planting season. I saw a unusually large metallic oblong object on the ground about 100yds from road in a field. My thought was this is part of a construction project. A oil or gas tank going into ground, but unusually large. 15 to 30 minutes later passing thru same area object was gone.( i know from experience how to load and unload heavy object on to flat bed semi's). My point is, it would be impossible for large moving equipment to get into area, lift the object, load it on flatbed, secure it for movement and all vehicles involved leave the area without me seeing them come into or leave out of area in less then 30 min.

  • @MrABSENCESEVEN
    @MrABSENCESEVEN Před 4 lety +3

    If you think the BBC and Fox News would tell 7 billion people aliens have come to earth, you need a Tin foil hat.

    • @kennethhacker1341
      @kennethhacker1341 Před 4 lety +1

      Yup sooo true!!! Wonder why they didn't air gram Hancocks speech ..

    • @igorkrashunsky7193
      @igorkrashunsky7193 Před 4 lety

      When they do tell us, it will be a staged alien invasion

  • @mechanicjobs
    @mechanicjobs Před 5 lety +12

    No evidence? Watch The disclosure Project.

  • @bootstrapperwilson7687
    @bootstrapperwilson7687 Před 5 lety +1

    + Nathan Guyette
    Do you mean "Mickey Finn?" I never heard of a Mickey Fin.

  • @samuelcollinsa.mankin2066

    Speculations and conjectures!

  • @AbhishekYadav-fm5yx
    @AbhishekYadav-fm5yx Před 4 lety +10

    What if aliens can't be perceived because of limits of our perception?

    • @SCHEY101
      @SCHEY101 Před 4 lety

      The fact is they can be perceived, take a look at some of the most famous UFO cases and documentaries like "I know what I saw" and the evidence is in your face.
      Most people are aware of their existence so perhaps that's why we perceive them. 🤔

  • @jackjack-sm2jg
    @jackjack-sm2jg Před 4 lety +4

    Didn’t they build the pyramids though?

    • @48sydney
      @48sydney Před 4 lety

      Well will modern technology it is not possible to do it now with such precision or cut the granite without diamond cutting machines and transport it. We are a bit backward right now.

  • @darrenwilliams4339
    @darrenwilliams4339 Před 4 lety +2

    Haven't the US air force already released images?

  • @damnglenn7158
    @damnglenn7158 Před 5 lety

    They keep re serving us

  • @MagicalMonkey
    @MagicalMonkey Před 7 lety +4

    I believe aliens have visited this planet before they probably just went somewhere where no one lives and thought "Ok next planet."

  • @wolfman8325
    @wolfman8325 Před 7 lety +39

    In Uranus

  • @tomfuller4205
    @tomfuller4205 Před 5 lety +2

    Michio Kaku says they are generally ignoring/avoiding us as they are so advanced that we have nothing the need or want from us.

    • @user-gd7fx4jf5c
      @user-gd7fx4jf5c Před 4 lety

      Tom Fuller He is a phenomenal physicist, but I’m not convinced by his ant hill by the side of the road theory.

  • @plasticbudgie
    @plasticbudgie Před 4 lety

    i enjoyed this, why the dislikes ?

  • @winegeek2949
    @winegeek2949 Před 4 lety +4

    we could start by referring to them as our galactic family and not aliens.... just sayin' :)

    • @shaunsmith7651
      @shaunsmith7651 Před 4 lety

      Wine Geek , don't say that, families kill each other here on earth all the time!

  • @trevormendez5363
    @trevormendez5363 Před 5 lety +3

    Every time I see a human being I see an alien cuz people treat each other like they're from another world

  • @chuckschillingvideos
    @chuckschillingvideos Před 5 lety

    The lack of skepticism in today's society (as evidenced by so many of the posts in this thread) is beyond frightening.

  • @eryruleslondon13
    @eryruleslondon13 Před 6 lety

    Space was big, very big, extremely big

  • @davidhall1684
    @davidhall1684 Před 6 lety +3

    Well thats 15 mins gone.

  • @eXtremeDR
    @eXtremeDR Před 7 lety +4

    They are all around us, we just look into the wrong direction. Say: "Hello!" ^_^