#13 David Spergel - NASA UAP Taskforce, Dark Matter, Hubble Tension, Leadership 

What a great conversation! Thank you! The comments on the other hand ... Well, it speaks volumes about the state of objectivity. 😢

thanks for the conversation

The UAP topic does seem polarising but please don’t forget those of us somewhere in the middle with open minds but still skeptical simply asking the question: what is that? I think it is worthwhile to investigate the truly anomalous incidents.

I don’t understand why NASA has this UAP taskforce when there is a program already set up called AARO. Both groups by the way do not have clearance or access to classified information .. eg sensor data .. sensitive military information. This renders their existence pointless in examining and resolving the cases that matter eg .. tic tac etc. The tic tac event was completely ignored by AARO in it’s recent report. I also think that both these groups quite happily tell us about misrepresented cases but never delve into problematic events they can’t resolve leading all in sundry ( including mainstream media ) to wrongly conclude that the phenomenon doesn’t exist or pose a problem to national security.

Hell yeah, new podcast. Love your work Dr Kipping ❤. Sending love from Poland ♥️🇵🇱

the thing is the official uap report already addressed personal testimony.... there is no data confirming abnormal abilities of unknown objects ....and in the very few cases where observers find the objects interesting there is no way to eliminate misinterpretation of what they saw

The President of your institution is.... not worthy. That's the nicest I can say about that. This conversation, on the other hand, absolutely worthy of my time! Thanks for these interviews, Dr. Kipping.

So interesting! As usual! I'm so glad I found this channel! It's an undiscovered gem!

Good to see you're OK.

3rd way to find a needle in the haystack: You know the needle has a high temp melting point and the hay has a low temp burning point. Burn the hay. The needle is now easily findable. 4th way: You learn the needle is a ferromagnetic material. You spread the haystack thin, run a magnet over it. 5th way: Take a "roll in the hay", suitably unclothed. Needle will be found. Stay tuned for more methods. Real world dichotomies (There are 2 ways, implying ONLY 2 ways) are rarely as limiting as our perception.

Nothing gets me more excited than your uploads Dr. Kipping! Appreciate all the work you do and SHARE with us all! Much love!

The Frankfurt School ideological import of the 50s/60s has been devastating to our institutions of higher learning. I'm not sure it's salvageable at this point. I'm rooting for the sciences to pull through, but the consequences to medicine are already being felt. Our leadership class has largely succumbed to narratives antithetical to cooperative flourishing. I wish I could be more optimistic, but we're in big trouble in my view.

Thanks for this post. Excellent watch.

The spirit of Edward Condon lives on in this one. . . .

The burden to confirm UAP is so overwhelming by this gentlemen is that it cannot ever be established. If there are "any" that can't be explained, they should be emphasized and focused on, as opposed to marginalizing and saying, well we can explain most things. Whatever is unexplained, and is an aerial phenomena, is by definition a UAP. You could just as easily conclude here: confirmed! UAPs identified!

Great thanks to both of you for this.

Ah cool. I didn’t realize you had another RU-vid channel! Happy to subscribe and help this grow. Appreciate all the work you do across your channels, and love these long form conversations in particular!

Never A Straight Answer. WE are open, we don't disclose secrets... cutting the argument both ways...

I am sorry for all the unrest in the political climate right now, i truly feel for everyone affected by whats going on with gaza and Israel. BUT, this is a scientific content channel and he is a scientist! This is not a forum for politics or his personal opinions!! Why does everyone feel the need to shove their opinions down others throats! Im here for science content and if i want a political debate I'll go to a channel that is focused on that for their content! Stop condemning him for addressing it in a neutral and brief manner when that was what was appropriate for a science channel. If he had gotten into it and expressed his personal opinions on the situation it would have opened up an attack from the opposition! As well as having all of you that tried to shame him, coming into the comments to make it a debate. Let me enjoy my science content on my science content channel!! Save your political opinions for the political channels and leave us out of it please? Thank you!

I had not heard about this taskforce so thanks for sharing this conversation it was insightful and the one of the few talks about UAPs that make any sense to me. The current events will sort themselves out as those things do with time and open discussion but I appreciate you acknowledging what is happening. Great conversation!

Great conversation.

I think its David's accent. Makes the request for uap discoveries sound like something that is precious to his research. Ngaw so many people have collections of photographs with strange objects, orbs and plastic bag balloons but they dont really see any point in taking it further... probably because it doesn't directly effect them negatively or impact their lives in a life threatening way. This was an interesting topic. Thanks!

I love this guy, and loved this interview..great stuff... even though he looks like a Bond villain... keep up the solid podcast !

Dr No blends in with the back wall a treat lol Serious note, great podcast with interesting content 👌

Science is beautiful. They inadvertently confirmed that cats are indeed liquid! 59:02

Send love and light and open arms to our brothers from other realms in the universe. ❤ Nothing to fear. IMO

@coolworldspodcast DR kipping, first off, a big hi from New Zealand, I find your videos absolutely fascinating when you narrate them it draws me in like I'm spellbound and can imagine myself there, I love the topics and always look forward to the next installment. just wondering what your take is on Terrence Howards claim and if he's right what would some of the implications be? thanks tim

Would love to see Dr. Steven Greer on the show 🌎

How did I only now discover your podcast ? You need to mention it more maybe ?? Cheers

Id recommend chapters for ur videos!

The UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA) was stripped down to 24 pages but has been reintroduced by Congressman Robert Garcia of California. Contact your Senator now and demand that the UAPDA be passed in it's full form. We, the people, must reclaim control over our government and demand transparency.

I see UAP’s with lights every night. I have confirmed they are not aircraft or drones. Also when you look at them with binoculars they appear as a mutating string of colored lights. When viewed with night vision they appear as a fuzzy orb.

They didnt see anything classified. Limited data.

"New people learn in new ways." Profoundly True, and that's what is Bio-logically the consequence of "It's always NOW" everywhere-when pulse-evolution. What, how and why inside-outside holographic presence is Panspermia. UAP are the parallel convergence representation of defensive strategy that is the logical outcome of competitive sense-in-common cause-effect connection. (Don't believe me, think/observe for your holistic Self)

Was there not a time in history not so long ago where pilots were forbidden by law from reporting the sighting of a UFO?

Something weak about the argument regarding us forces not able to investigate UAPs is if a fighter pilot see something weird while flying a local mission then that weird object potencially is an air space invasion and it should be investigated immediatly

Good evening, how are you? My name is Pedro Nazareth, I'm from Brazil, yesterday at around 22:30 05/08/24, returning home I saw a strange object that was spinning and had a very strong light, I took some photos, I believe they are very good photos that may have some value, as there are about 3 photos that, given the zoom, appear to have a creature inside. If you are interested, I look forward to hearing from you.

On the UAP subject he kind of just gave you the jedi mind trick wave of the hand these arent the droids you are looking for spheel....i watched an interview with Charles Buhler (NASA engineer) a few months back where his team has had break throughs recently (2021-2024) on a project that they have been working on for over a decade concerning propellantless propultion...if you look back at the work it is based off of in the 20s you will see the protitype sketches resemble modern day (40s-2000) disk type ufos...couldnt he have just said that.?.

Any kind of protests isn't automatically right. Or wrong. It all comes down to what you believe is true and righteous. A man or a woman of science will know this. After all, they are trained in seeing the objective, unemotional reality.

NASA just announced that we are five years away from being an indertiminate multiple of five year periods away from being five years away from returning to the Moon. I'm very excited.

Dr. Kipping, I watched that entire 4 hour NASA press conference. I specifically remember the part at 2 hours, 5 minutes, and 30 seconds where your former collaborator Dr. Nadia Drake said this, speaking on behalf of the entire NASA panel: "Recently many credible witnesses have reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky, some of which are behaving rather peculiarly. In some instances, these reports include corroborating data from various instruments/sensors. The challenge we have is that the data needed to explain these anomalous sightings do not exist or are incomplete for generating a conclusive analysis." This is a subtle point, but I think you can see the obvious issue: There is no requirement in science that a definitive conclusion or explanation follow an observation. Are you at all curious why this standard exists for this topic? Can you imagine a similar situation where NASA didn't release information about a biosignature related molecule in an exoatmosphere because they couldn't definitively explain it? From your general trend of comments on this topic over time, this isn't surprising to me, but I still enjoy your channel and content, and hold out hope you will genuinely engage this idea with a fair and open minded perspective.

Commenting before watching. I hold the position that of course there are unidentified flying objects, after all they are unidentified. Equally, they are of Earthly origin. Irrationally unscientific of me.

Public Meeting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (Official NASA Broadcast): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bQo08JRY0iM.html

I think it is a miss-nomer to call the tic-tac phenomenon an "event", simply because military personnel see this every day.

I think you'd get more views if you just put this on the main channel

Do optical flares / Ghosts jam your sophisticated, state of the art radar? No

Umm, what are you talking about that happened regarding astronomy and how is a hedge fund guy supposed to help credibility about it?

i hate the scientific industrial complex. but i like the guest. his examples actually made me laugh. that’s a brilliant scientist 👨‍🔬 🥂✅💝

I think the fact that all the talk is about what the Navy knows is the point of what is going on. The Navy has no clue because the Air Force made them and never told them, US military branches do not tell each other what secrat projects they are working on. If you never ask the branch actually responsible, no one has to lie on camera when they say they have no clue. It is a way to spread confusion, legally.

Best podcast. Prof K is the bollocks!

We live in a 4k world and all they can ever show are some grainy film and a handful of quotes from a 'security personnel'... Until a physicist comes out and says something definitive, I'm very suspect of it all.

I find the Prof. Spergel's evaluation of MOND (around 27:00) really hard to swallow. Sure, MOND doesn't predict lensing, microwave background, etc., but Einstein's GR doesn't predict, e.g., the flattening of rotation curves, or violation of Bell's inequality or quantum tunneling... It never anticipated any of those. While I'm not an astrophysicist, I gather that MOND has some really nice success with just one free parameter (something Prof. spergel upholds while discussing the Lambda-CDM). Sure, we would all love to have a single theory covering all known physics but .... Secondly, the failure of ST Gravity, the suggested generalization of MOND seems like a strawman argument against MOND to me? Does ST Gravity fail in the MONDian regme? The most relevant argument against MOND seems to be its claimed failure for XRay clusters.

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I just wished the head of the UAP task force had an experience of his own, he’d look at it from the angle most of us would like him too. He said if it emits a light then it’s ruled as an airplane, then explain the blue orb that illuminated the inside of my car for 10 seconds, it was the size of a football and definitely not a plane. I’m not hating on him, I would just like him to be a little more open minded. Millions of people throughout the years have experienced something from sightings to abductions, even crop circles, there’s so much to look into to get the bigger picture.

Please have Terrance Howard on and debate some of his ideas.

I can't get past the sensitivity of the microphone picking up every small noise his mouth is making whilst talking.

Is this the same guy who makes Astrum, sounds like the same.

Does the universe care about our ridiculous racial squabbles?

If Larry Lawton never went to prison

The biggest problem with studying UAP is that the intelligence behind them is superior to ours.

The problem is the college Administration is weak.

there are more than a handful of publicly available of UAP reports from military pilots of their radar being jammed by UAP’s, when the pilots were trying to “paint” or lock onto the UAP. For the military, electronic jamming is considered an act of war. why isn’t David S. talking about these unexplained events?

The main concern with the 'new' UAP stuff is the probability of it being a distraction technique for something much more worthy of all our attention. Our governments are that cynical it makes it more likely to be misinformation than a first contact, which is a sad indicator of where our civilization stands.

This UAP Task force, interesting name choice - why name it the same thing as the DoD program which David Grusch was part of. An intelligence officer from the NRO has seen all the classified stuff. This seems like a blatant attempt to muddy the waters.

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FREE PALESTINE

Lost me after “we don’t look at eye witnesses data”. Sorry

Your opening comments are disappointing. I had expected a more enlightened attitude. However, the rest of the video is fine.

pfft this interview is so disingenuous...

What a load of crap

I love your work and channel but i still want to say: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸❤️🇵🇰

Centering the distress of faculty and admin rather than highlighting the actual underlying reason for the protests (institutional complicity in an ongoing genocide) is, frankly, disappointing. You acknowledge the "enormous pain" within the academic community, but where is the support for students who are risking so much to stand up for what they believe in? The condemnation of the blatant use of state-sponsored police brutality and suppression of free speech? Think about how you would have responded to the campus protests against the Vietnam war, to the civil rights movement, or the "war on terror". This is not the time for "enlightened centrism", these are issues that require moral clarity.

It's disgusting

Columbia is experiencing the most violent outburst of antisemitism among student and faculty alike. Hosting a Jewish-American scientist such as David at this time without mentioning the current situation in Columbia seems shady.

If you don’t condemn genocide - you condone it. One would hope that you of all people would be aware of such an inherent truth Professor Kipping. I will not hide my disappointment with your ignorant and inconsiderate statement in regards to the brave and moral student protesters across the country (and soon the WORLD) and I will not be giving this episode the usual “like” of approval which I normally would. I sincerely hope it was Columbia who put you up to this and that it wasn’t done of your own accord - which in someways actually makes it worse and even more unacceptable. You are better than this Professor, so please, BE better. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🙏

From the opening statement on the crushing of free speech that said NOTHING! To the conversation that said nothing. This is by far the least interesting and useful video from this channel.

The UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA) was stripped down to 24 pages but has been reintroduced by Congressman Robert Garcia of California. Contact your Senator now and demand that the UAPDA be passed in it's full form. We, the people, must reclaim control over our government and demand transparency. "Citizens For Disclosure"