17th Century Scientist Gives First Description of Alien Life // "The Cosmotheoros" (1698) 

No, 50 years.

@@ronaldweasley408 Pretty sure it's 500

@@GrunOne A Century = 100 years. Half Century 50 years. 500 years = half millennia.

@@ronaldweasley408 woosh

@@ronaldweasley408 You're definitely wrong. It's 50 years. Use your head.

protec & attac nice one 😂

He isn't so far of... aliens whatever their composition is, quite possibly need a source of energy, we eat organic materials that are converted in energy, entropy is a bitch, and has a tendency to spoil energy all the time. Robots, may be the first form of life we would encounter, robots can be powered by a variaty of sources, solar energy, nuclear... Other life forms like silicon base life forms, may need something else. But if it is organic, most likely they would need a organic food source. Despite the elegant language, the old scientists didn't have all the knowledge we have this days, even among common folks we are more well versed than they are, but even so, in a time where someone like him could literally become a human barbecue just for writing about this, the very idea aliens would be quite genious. It sound stupid for us, and probably sound even more stupid for his people, the same way that i saw watching in the comment sections of youtube a man arguing that a character from an ep. of the Love, Death + Robots antology, just because the creature, a giant telepathic space spider, because it look like a monster, it was evil, only aliens that look like us can be good and decent... despite the creature in the ep, act in a very benevolent manner. Theres folks still today, that belive in such things, antropomorphic aliens! So imagine how the idea if a giant telephatic alien spider would sound for his people? Imagine explain something like this to a priest? Winged man is borderline heresy, a giant space spider? That is a big NOPE!

*laughs in gas giant*

Source? "I made it up"

Yes

also the hippocampus the part of the brain that contains memory

Must be ive never seen a walking sea horse.

Or is it a really cool popotamus ?

@@shaunoco1042 Mitch, how'd you get here?

The search goes on

"It would be unreasonable to think that we're alone in the universe". Oh, shit...

Fermi paradox

But a billion years ago ?

not true. Huygens proved they were filled with animals.

And then there is Johannes Kepler's novel SOMNIUM, published in 1634 by his son Ludwig, as the first true piece of science based fiction. Which also contains descriptions of Aliens on the moon, in what Kepler presents as a dream. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnium_(novel)

>That said, it is ancient science fiction as opposed to scientific speculation. I can imagine this statement not aging very well.

@@isn0t42 how so? True History was written as a parody of mythologies that insist that their obviously fantastical stories are absolute truth.

@@charlesrosenbauer3135 for every truth there is a portion of untruth/falsehood within and vice-versa. Time allows to uncover and/or forget both.

The Archbishop Nicholas of Cusa in his book De Docta ignorantia published in 1440 also wrote about how there might be other life in other planets. In his book he wrote that “life as it exists on earth in the form of men, animals and plants, is to be found, let us suppose in high form in the solar and stellar regions. Rather than think that so many stars and parts of the heavens are uninhabited and that this earth of ours alone is peopled - and that with being perhaps of inferior type - we will suppose that in every region there inhabitants, differing in nature and rank and all owing to their origin to God, who is the center and circumference of stellar regions.”

Exactly.

I was most impressed by how he predicted lasers

It's more of an intelligent design argument. The basic thought process at the time, pretty much immediately after it was conclusively proven that the planets are other worlds going around the Sun the same as the Earth, was that absolutely all of them have life on them, and intelligent life as well, because god would obviously not create entire worlds just to be barren and devoid of purpose.

This is an interesting point and I also noticed it

@Eastern fence Lizard you've never heard a good answer for what?

@Eastern fence Lizard tbf we have only cataloged a small number of exoplanets, most of which are gas giants. We aren't even sure what the conditions of the terrestrial planets we've cataloged are. As for the planets in our solar system - to provide us the resources we need to step out from our world of birth into the wider galaxy. Barren planets are not empty, just devoid of life. They still have gigatons of resources we can use, so I don't really see your complaint.

@@rendawtherockstar silence, child.

You remind me of Beynd the Aquila Rift... And i really saw that, he isn't really all that far of when it comes to source of energy, he lacks the same knowledge we have, but not so far off. Nature indeed has a pattern, that is very apparent, energy comes and energy goes...

Eyes didn’t evolve. They were created by God, along with everything else. It is utterly foolish to look at the extreme precision and design found throughout our bodies, our world, our solar system, and our universe and conclude that it is the result of essentially, random happenstance. If I told you that the design, shape and function of a Coke can evolved to what it is over millions of years, you would probably think it ludicrous, and rightly so. And why? Because, a Coke can shows elements which can only be rationally attributed to intentional and intelligent design, rather than random chance. It’s the same with the eye. It is utterly irrational to conclude that something which is so infinitely useful and vastly more complex than a Coke can evolved over any span of time.

Or so we think, yes

@@oskardelitz5651 so we are told

Idk about space, but I do know that there were/are giants on Earth

@@jjs8426 By giants, are you saying maybe Shaq Yao ming types or 20 ft men?

@@mauriceschaeffer5070 easily 20ft and much taller still.

@@tpower1912 that’s some crazy shizz to think about

@@tpower1912 the idea of convergence in biology must have been being explored a lot considering all of the new life they were seeing in the Americas, basically was an alien world to them!

@@niccudrat That's why they called it the *New* World.

Even Australia has animals that are much like that of Europe, Americas, and Asia. Why it is easy to remark that the opossum is much like that of the roo's and other marsupials.

Deep-sea: 👀

This joke doesn't make any sense. We knew about south Asia for hundreds of years before America.

@@Ulexcool go further south, bub

I think he was referring to convergent evolution. E.g. The eyes of an Octopus and humans evolved completely independently. Both reached a similar end result... dispite it happening independently. Orcas and sharks evolved completely independently, yet there are similarities.

Ah yes, those famous mid 15th century vikings!

Polys and blacks got their A millennium ago

sidenote, but i always felt the viking thing was a bit overstated jn its overcorrection of a technicality. while yes they might have been to the Americas, but it doesnt seem to have had all that much lasting effect on either society. while colobus’s arrival was a lot more significant for both. idk seems like “point out the letter while forgetting the spirit”, since that voyage actually brought the old and new world into a consequential and continuous interaction.

Proto-Asians got there first.

@@kalebb1226 And?

Huygens-belt .......

Until it can be used as a weapon against 'racism' it won't be!

@@wynnschaible troll

@@omarb7164 Are you denying the Soviet-scale indoctrination going on in our schools? A troll by me is somebody resorting to scurrilous untrue attacks on private individuals. The term is not applicable to even partially true attacks on the nomenklatura and not at all to criticism of movements and the like.

@@wynnschaible watch?v=w_Pll7GDVgI

@Landon Littrell sorry it's kind of funny that you're trying to talk down to this person about how language has been "allowed get less intelligent" or something, while your comment is riddled with spelling errors.

@@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 Doesnt that prove his point?

@@comradecommissar1945 lol

No it doesn't

Psycho History

Scared me for a second, I thought you said "afro history." I was like, "What that Neil Degrasse Tyson idiot?"

Now, what does that remind me of ... oh, right ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall

He was told that by dolphins... willing to conceal their 3D water-sound technological capabilities.

Really mind blowing to ponder the notion of alien nutsacks.

That is the current thinking on the development of human intelligence -- bipedalism and a freeing of the hands came first and enabled it -- not the reverse, as the Victorians thought.

@Vanikerch It is definitely an advantage here on earth, but on other planets we'll only be sure if we ever meet such a species.

@@fav8048 no, hands are not perfect maybe but you need a way to manipulate your environment and hands with fingers and an opposable thumb could definitely be argued that they're the simplest yet most effective way to manipulate and interact with your environment, this is just demonstrably true.

Google mid evil tesla coil.... just do it and be amazed at the story you will find

@@gilligan80 medieval

Yeah! Let’s get some videos on prolific serial killer and slave owner Benny Franks! Who wouldn’t want to listen to the words of uneducated nobody racist and prolific compulsive liar, Ben Franklin?

Probably common knowledge for learned Europeans at the time.

"sea-horses and crocodiles...those water-land mongrels" I think he meant Hippos not "sea-horses" LOL SICK BURN GOT'EM

@@letsomethingshine It might be an old name. In German Hippos are called „Flusspferde“ or Nilpferde“, literal translation would be „river horse“ or „Nile horse“. I don‘t know Dutch, but maybe ist is similar in his native tongue.

@@Felis877 -- Thanks for that, Felis. That line about seahorses was confusing. Hippo is of course also the root word for horse.

@@Felis877 yes, hippopotamus is Greek for river horse.

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"The ancient aliens theorists say YES".

I'll just call him George

This is clear proof! There can be no other explanation! Corroborating evidence! Pyramids, Machu Picchu, ATLANTIS!!!

"Hark! Thine Lord's heavenly body doth be none but clouds??" "Verily hath been so..."

Towards what exactly?

@@maseratimitch531 well, just think of the floors atm, waring, corrupt governments, environmental and species destruction, inequality. Human and animal abuse, food water shortages, basic health care. Granted, life's better than its ever been if your on the fortunate side. But we should strive to move forward and better our situation for all humans, animals, and the environment as we have the power to, collectively. Don't you think?

Woops

to err is human

@@reeyees50 But is it planetarian, as well? That is the question...

@@brianwhite2104 well, you can say it is... universal

larp

Whoever made out our ancestors to be complete fools?

They are us

There is no evidence of intelligent life outside earth. To assume the opposite is conjecture that might well be proven wrong as was his idea of life on others planets in our solar system having life Who knows … we might be all there is in the entire universe.

Early-Modern-Era-Aliens

Good. Intend your puns, people!

That's interesting. Where did you read that?

Magellan was Portuguese and he was on a mission of exploration and conquest (and perished in it). What did he discover other than the Strait of his name?

@@LuisAldamiz That's interesting. I always thought he was Spanish because he was sailing for Spain. Anyway, virtually everyplace he made landfall was a new discovery for Europeans.

@@odysseusrex5908 - Columbus sailed for Castile (Spain did not exist yet) and he was Genoese (and had been trying to sell his absurd theory of a tiny Earth to the better informed King of Portugal for years before knocking at Castile's gates, where he got lucky). John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) was also a Genoese who sailed for England. There are other cases, like the unnamed Phoenicians who first circumnavigated Africa for the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho.

"Based" or "biased"?

@@LuisAldamiz based

@@5thMilitia - How is believing in the superiority of "man" genuine?

@Luis Aldamiz I think it's a warhammer 40k meme

@@LuisAldamiz Because he was not a human hating tree hugger such as your self

Hear hear!!

Well said my good man. All the best and godspeed.

Allow a suspicion and extinguish your passions. I say with no hesitation that this fellow's wit and clarity is no match to that of Scottishman David Hume. Concede me this suggestion and approach his delightful enquiries on the natural state of human beings and their intellects. You will not find resemblance anywhere in the sphere of classical scholars, guaranteeing your masquerade endeavor to end in unassailable felicity.

Well, the thesaurus helps!

Ditto!!…

They would've loved "Star Trek"!

My fair lady, wouldst thou consider to lay thy hand upon my parts serving generation.

@@Maddin1313 Here Here🍻

They wouldn't understand you unless they normally dress 17h century style, which I dare you to find one outside of carnival.

@@LuisAldamiz The internet is a buffet of the abnormal my friend 😁

Gotta love people

These days the common assumption is that everyone from the past was evil.

@@MrBottlecapBill because they were all racists cis gender homophobes

@@cv4809 Or they were just men and women of their time

Christiaan Hyugens’ Bizarre Planets

17th century Schizoid Man.

In what books?

@@Game_Hero De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the celestial orbits, 1543) and De Docta Ignorantia (1440), or On Learned Ignorance.

@@Game_Hero you could just use wikipedia

@@faeking2223 Thank you

At least he understood the importance of the Sun unlike modern climate change theory and models that all ignore the impact of the sun on the earths climate. We’ve regressed since then.

@@thesatisfiedcustomer4869 Scientists are much more aware of the effects of the sun on climate than Huygens would have been. They also understand how carbon dioxide, along with other greenhouse gases regulate the average global temperature. Pining for the wisdom of the past goes against everything Huygens would have believed in.

@@jasonkinzie8835 it’s exactly this blind worship of scientists, naively thinking they are impartial, that has got us into this mess. The scientist in the white lab coat is the revered like previous generations did the priesthood, Wise up. There are loads of scientists who challenge the official narrative who are silenced & threatened to keep quiet. Trust the science has become the opposite of the scientific approach which is to question and scrutinise & not just blindly believe what you are told. You keep putting your scientists on a pedestal as they keep removing all your freedoms and rights as you squeal “ it’s science “ What a scam. You’ve been had over kid. Wise up.

@@thesatisfiedcustomer4869 First of all I'm 49. Second of all where are you getting your information? Give sources. And I'll do the same. Just not now.

@@jasonkinzie8835 facebook groups probably

Actually, a better answer is most of them. Cheng He never got to America, but the Vikings, Columbus, and the Polynesians all did so, independently, and it was a new discovery for each of their peoples.

Yes, thought provoking indeed. How wonderful to consider possible life on other planets from this learned historical perspective.

The humanities? Did you mean the sciences?

Jeiku This is only the justifications of one scientist on one subject. Have you read at least five other scientists from the period who talked about the same subject? One scientists’ words do not represent all of 17th century opinions.

*Captain Kirk intensifies*

Yeah, but that is a modern idiocy.

modern flat earth theory is a psyop

Most libraries (particularly university libraries) have access to sourcebooks, books that compile historical sources based on different time periods or themes. Another way is to simply read history books, see which historical primary source is being referenced, and then look up that source.