It’s just three segments, dude. Follow one, if it doesn’t make sense, follow another one. After the introduction segment, you have a 50% chance of watching the correct one. It’s not rocket science (said Neil Degrasse Tyson).
@@davidserlin8097 Do you always complain about things that are not for or about you? If it doesn't bother you what order you watch them in - great! But it clearly does bother some people, and asking for clips to be numbered so people who want to see the whole interview as aired can do that is a tiny accommodation to request, because that's the most efficient way to solve it. If it doesn't happen it doesn't, but you coming in and telling people they're complaining about nothing because it doesn't bother *you* is entirely pointless either way.
Happy to tell you it already exists =] just look up Stephen Colbert interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberly Academy. It's an hour and thirty minutes of pure gold. Cheers
I just have the feeling that if the aliens are watching our TV shows….we’re known to be that neighborhood where you keep the windows rolled up, the doors locked, and you don’t stop for gas.
Decades ago, one of my favorite "news"-papers was Weekly World News, which had the best coverage of news about space aliens. One of their headlines said, "Aliens think Earth is a bad neighborhood," to which I responded, "So do a lot of Earthlings."
FASCINATING discussion...Stephen is the rare late night host that can actually interview Tyson (Bill Maher mostly just interrupts him to shit on trips to Mars or whatever). Stephen is scientifically literate, and knows to just ask a question and actually hear the answer.
Most of 'modern science' is a variation on a theme of "How long is a piece of string?" It cuts the string to a length it sees fit, then measures it with an elitist language of its own design, telling the world it now 'knows' something and can 'answer the question' without hesitation! - We can justify calling this 'Plastic Throwaway Science', to suit the age and mindset it is a product of, and its celebrity mouthpieces, variations on a theme of Ronald McDonald.. "When you encounter a culture totally uncontaminated by logic, it eventually undermines your reliance on reason." - John Cleese
Thanks, Neil, for making the statement @2:55 ... "Life, as we know it." We need to make that clear whenever we talk about searching for "Life" outside of our own tiny blue sphere of existence. "Life ..., AS WE KNOW IT!"
My favorite guest by far. Let's just send Neil de Grasse Tyson speaking to Aliens as Earth's representative. We would appear as a great planet. Put your best foot forward Earthlings 👁️🥰
@@toxicvillain I would hope anyone with the tech to get here would have the intelligence to know that a single individual does not represent an entire species.
I’d say that when the first shows including the Kardashians reach aliens, either the clock for the destruction of Earth is started or the aliens decide that we are devolving back to neanderthals.
@@rezolutionist7715 The dna of most modern humans contains a few percent neanderthal dna. So some of our ancestors must have had something to do with them. 😮
Any type of collaboration I will put my like and subscribe to!! Neil talking exoplanets with Jon going nuts on the Piano and a handful of other increasingly crazy instruments...hell yeah
I'll spot your call and up you one😉: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Elon Musk. Although, there would have to be a moderator because once either of those guys gets to talking about science and technology...you better hold on!
I think Batiste is a very bright and creative guy, but it takes him a long time to piece together his thoughts. It would be Batiste nodding his head and NDT ramblin on.
@@randolphpinkle4482 Have to agree, unfortunately. Batiste is more of a philosopher and Neil is an astrophysicist with ADD who loves the sound of his own voice. It wouldn't work at ALL. I love them both dearly but it's water and oil at that point haha
The idea that aliens are learning about (and judging) humanity based on TV is almost as frightening as the idea of a near-future AI learning about (and judging) humanity based on the Internet.
1:33.."I am pretty sure that based on the rest of the data they will conclude that there is no intelligent life on earth."i've heard Neil say that before, but it's still a strong and sadly true statement✊
We guess to know 0.5% of 100% in science imagen the things we can't understand and maybe never will. Our brain is not capable of it... this is all crazy it hurts my head just think to find answers.
You should watch the 2016 movie "Arrival" by DEnis Villeneuve or read the book. It describes pretty good the problem of communication between two individuals, if they do not share any common concept.
@@sigurdkaputnik7022 try ‘Hail Mary’ by Andy Weir. Pits Earth’s survival on one man’s ability to solve scientific problems, in space, with an alien of relatively similar intelligence that evolved in a completely different atmosphere and they have to learn to communicate.
I think our tv/communication signals & what they reveal about us as a species are one of the reasons why intelligent alien species have not revealed themselves to us. As much as I would love to experience contact, I have to admit that we simply aren’t evolved enough to handle disclosure.
lol, nonsense! the incomprehensible vastness of interstellar space means that any alien civilizations will never "visit" earth and we will never visit them, and the inverse square law says that our broadcasts would be undetectable at even a couple light years from earth. neil degrasse tyson is just pandering to people with wishful thinking and no science background. feh!
Then again, it has seen how "Warm & Welcoming we are to aliens" They had space movies back in B&W and we are the nasty ones. We just don't like huge insect people. All aliens were insects. I watched "District 9" on YT. Stargate, Star Wars, and much older ones. Also attack of the Killer Dinosaurs, or Sharknado7, War of the Worlds, etc.
@Tommygun 264 I watched something about the 1932 Berlin Olympics, and apparently the radio signals (because the German chancellor was announcing the opening of the games) had broadcast around the globe, and those broadcast signals had made it out to space. Whomever picks up those signals would be, understandably, very apprehensive about approaching Earth, because that German chancellor was none other than Adolf Hitler. And everyone knows, he wasn't a cuddly sounding person.
I have sent Neil deGrasse Tyson personal emails about some subjects and I find it really gratifying that he himself responds. The only other big public figure that I know that responds to his own personal emails is Gabe Newell (CEO of Steam). [aka:Gaben] We trade B-Day email barbs even today
I won't compare chimps to humans. The latter figured out scripture that helps to communicate beyond your small circle, and even over time, reading books from the smartest people. I w'd rather go with Forrest Gump, he might need longer to comprehend, but eventually he got it. Futhermore even brighter people can learn from those human beings. So we are not only standing on giants, but on dwarves as well. They maybe figured out a dead-end, but you can also learn from that.
@@mohammadzekereya9311 - It's not at all secret - as the director of the Hayden Planetarium he has a very public email address. Which may not be the same email address his wife and kids use.
That analogy about chimps and beings 1% separated from us blew my mind. I always kinda thought intelligent life would have to dumb things down for us but putting it that way was interesting
Neil is a blast! I never miss a RU-vid episode of StarTalk with him and comedian, Chuck Nice, as well as some very interesting guest stars from various fields of science and entertainment.
I can see the wisdom in getting our own house in order and laying low instead of yelling "OI!" out the window and attracting who knows what kinds of trouble to come calling...
I have always loved his 1% difference comparison bit! Yes, we have learned a way to communicate at a base level with chimps (the majority of which is them learning sign language), but our simplest level of speech is completely lost on them. There is only a 1% difference in our DNA compared to a chimp. Imagine an alien that is also only 1% away from us in the direction we are from a chimp. We would have no clue how to communicate with each other. Over time, we might be able to learn from them a basic way to communicate. In this comparison, he also typically continues it with the most basic things the aliens would do are the absolute most complex things our smartest people are trying to figure out. Their toddlers would learn what dark matter is, the equations for warp engines, or build a spacecraft like we put Legos together.
The most incredible thing about the human mind is that not only is it capable of knowing that it is defective but that it can create tests to prove so.
This is why high school is inadequate for education. I left high school in 1995 with 8 planets and now there is 5000! We really should be encouraged to keep learning and learn to think critically cause the actual stuff you learn means little in 25 years.
Assuming that our radio signals aren't completely degraded by the time they reach other planets, an advanced enough species could figure out where we live by piecing together the outer "shell" of stars in the sky (most of which would be the same as their own at 80LY) and tossing out any sky mattes that don't fit into the majority of actual sky shots.
The photons that make up our radio waves would be so dispersed that any broadcast from Earth would be completely indistinguishable from cosmic background radiation long before it reached the nearest stars. We can only communicate with Voyager 2 with very high powered, tight beam radio waves pointing directly at it, and even then the bandwidth is so low because most of the photons we fire off never actually hit the probe, and vice versa. You'd never be able to piece together a television carrier wave that we just spewed out in all directions at that distance.
The human mind: comprehending that there are certainly limits to it's comprehension, yet never being able to determine when those limits have been reached.
What he said reminded me something of what alan watts use to talk about like about looking inward and trying to understand ourselves. He also brought up language barriers and like i love neil and alan so this was awesome.
I remember when I was 6, watching some sort of show that was meant to encourage young people to cultivate their interest in science in general. It honestly wasn't a typical kid show. They'd interview all kinds of scientists from people at NASA to people explaining how kevlar vest worked. Strangely enough it fascinated me when I was 6 and would probably still fascinate me up to this day. One of the first concept I remember from that show is this. You can't possibly ever know everything because every answer brings an exponential number of new questions. Are we intelligent enough to ask the right questions? Are there such a thing as the wrong questions? There definitely are wrong answers...but the quest for knowledge, understanding, and my favourite part of it all, creativity, probably is a never ending fascinating and existential cycle.
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Wunderbar - the "life on other planets"-topic never gets old. Unfortunately, extra-solar planets are so far away, i dont expect any contact in the next 500 years.
Aliens believe our world is ruled by vehicles. Bikes have 1 butler, cars have 1-5, buses have 1-50 and planes have 5-500. They are very impressed by the care for the rulers.
I tell people I'm agnostic because I don't think we could ever know the answers of the universe...Every time Neil deGrasse Tyson, this view is confirmed.
there's no way earth broadcasts will have any signal distinguishable from background radiation at the scale he's describing. It'd be easier to hear a whisper in the next building over.
Thank you for posting this. We calculated that after a 2 light-year distance, our radio signals would not be distinguishable from the radio noise from our Sun.
@@HH-mw4sq from our limited human intelligence & perspective. From an advanced civilization perspective whose average IQs are 100x ours ....... be like reading a simple X Y chart
@@mteokay1246 - signal to noise ratios have nothing to do with IQ scores. If the noise is 100 times the signal, there is no way to retrieve said signal. A more advanced civilization would know that, and not waste its time looking for signals in the radio transmissions from our Sun.
Wait... You mean you guys CAN'T hear people whispering in the next building over? I guess that explains why all of my neighbors are whispering for me to BURN things.
The point is, that though chimpanzees are our closest relatives, and share 99% of our DNA, the gulf in intelligence is overwhelming. We are building cities and computers and playing sports and creating art as we fly around the planet and into space, meanwhile the chimpanzees are sitting around in trees and throwing their own shit at each other.
@@renejean2523 There are a group of apes who sleep underground in a cave. (I think it was David Attenborough who presented it, easy Google and a fascinating watch). David pointed out that being able to sleep soundly allows the brain to significantly develop, so who knows what the future holds…
@@Ruintheus no. Neil is an ASTROphysicist, and Carl was brilliant and funny, but nowhere as educated as Neil. They’re both great, but Neil is far superior.
So while the discovery was big news in 1992 it still took scientist UNTILL 1995 to PROVE it moved around a main sequence star like the sun. FYI Evidence of an exoplanet was first noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. 1988 a different planet was initially detected but was not confirmed untill 2003. Just saying,, Science likes its proof.
*"There's stuff in the universe that we will never figure out."* hopefully, humanity will survive long enough to evolve a properly functioning brain P.S.-- It's not that we're not smart, it's that the operating system of our brains was designed to run video games and is terrible at processing real-world data.
Tyson's point is well taken. It likely is beyond our intellectual ability to pose the questions needed to understand what we cannot understand. The most important phrase is always "life as we know it" which is an admission that life could exist in ways we have no ability to fathom. The sobering part is the ability to realize we likely will never know the answer to questions we are able to pose. And, although he does not say so here but has elsewhere, this is the human invention of gods to answer the questions the way we wish them to be. Intellectually and scientifically there is no justification for these conclusions or the power we allow them to have over us. It is so much more intellectually honest to say "we don't know" rather than say "god".
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I am with Mr.Tyson. I too lose sleep over the lack of intellectual wisdom in our species. I’m an old broad and it seems to me that human intellect has gone downhill in my lifetime. *sigh*
While you may think that, it's actually wrong. Worldwide scholarity has been massively increased, health and hygiene for millions of people, incredible scientific breakthrough and so many amazing things coming . Maybe you need to turn off the doom tube for a minute and look out the window into the real world. People were not smarter in 1972, that's a delusion.
@@Tubepoacher All I have to do is walk outside and watch people walk straight in front of cars, faces buried in their phones, to know that overall human intelligence (at least in America) has dropped precipitously.
@@MachaMongRuad well, for one, that's not really happening at a problematic rate, also not a significant measure of intelligence by any metric. Just the fact that everyone carries the world in their pocket should mean something to you , if you had any traces of good faith that is.
That's projecting our horribleness on the universe... maybe it reaches a benevolent species that decides to give us a hand and we'd see progress in a few weeks that would've taken us millennia on our own? But trying to contact them seems futile, to borrow a joke from a Dutch comedian: There's two options. Either they're smarter than us... in which case they'll find us first. Or they're more stupid... in which case I wan't nothing to do with them!
i respect you Neil, heck i'd even go so far as to probably jump in front of a car for you, cause you are decent, honest and straightforward... but come-on.. why would the conclusion to aliens finding us be "there is no intelligent life" you know as well as i that that entirely depends on their definition of what intelligent life is, and of which you have absolutely no idea, and as a scientist, you have a responsibility to watch what you say publicly, theory craft all you like, but you've said it so much, and it brings people down, for absolutely no reason, is it enough to cause someone distress and depression?, probably not... is it another stone on the shoulder of people with other stones on their shoulder.. yeah, i'd say so.. -Brownie points for you
Probably the aliens will look at us and say "The majority of these bi-pedal carbon-based mammalian lifeforms still worship some forms of deity. Let's not interfere with their simpleminded constructs."
He meant that as a joke with it carries some truth to it as well. Yes we have achieved great stuff, but at the same time, we are the kings of deception, war, misinformation, misjudgment, etc... The list is too long. It depends how you define "intelligence".
I wouldn't worry, aliens may be dealing with their own superstitious, religious, flat earth nut jobz too. If you think that those people are highly evolved intelligent people than you've proved Neil's point and should get over him pointing it out.
Damn Stephen the Russian bots hate you. They flood this channel. Maybe tell RU-vid moderators to do their job. It's not like they are humans typing... it's copy paste. copy paste.
I remember Cena bit of a documentary on this and they mentioned that if we ever encountered alien life we would be different from them we would actually be a threat to them automatically simply because of the bacteria in our bodies and how we have grown over the last few million years. If there is a threat to your literal entire species you would hit them first and continue on your way. Well what happens if aliens see us as I threat as they should then hit us first that would be it for our species you would attack full force and knock out as much of the population as possible destroyed my to do technology as possible you try and wipe them out or at the very least send them back to the Stone Age. The same is true for us if we ever encountered another species they would be a threat to our very existence not because I did anything wrong but simply they would be built differently than we are their DNA or whatever material their construct enough would be different than ours interactive ours and literally be contagious to us it would literally kill us. When faced with a threat that could exterminate your entire speech cheese you don’t make friends that’s an enemy intentional or unintentional you go after them hard take them out and you’re done. If you want to study them you would study them after they are wiped out.
Seriously, I can't imagine our radiotransmission have really gone that far in 80 years in the vast space of universe.. I mean the closest light to us is ancient, but radio transmissions are slower. We haven't had enough time to observe nor send, just a miniscule area of human sound is out there... And vice versa. There could be vast civilizations of aliens, yet we see the distant past, as do they. Our short span tells very little about the occupation of space. We see thousands to billions of years into the past, not today..
Radio transmissions are not slower. They travel at the speed of light, just like all EM waves do. I think the bigger question is whether our radio noise will be decipherable to aliens, or if it would be drowned out by the sun.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has a very Ameri-centric way of explaining things. Basically, it's ramped up infotainment. His dialog in this video seems very smug, like he's prepped a clever answer for dipshits to laugh and clap their hands to and immediately forget.
He has been regurgitating the same answers and keeps going back to the same topics for the past decade. Like a skipping record. Nothing new in this interview either... oh except he has a book to sell.
I frickin love this! I'm all about his opinion of us transmitting Earth's "return address" via radio waves. It's been traveling as a "radio bubble" thru the galaxy at the speed of light for 50 years! I am now vibing for the movies "Contact and "Galaxy Quest".
Carl Sagan's book "Contact" (and the subsequent movie) explored the idea that our television signals were being heard and observed by aliens "out there."
This is just how I imagine a conversation would go: 👩: hi, how was the flight? 👽: long, and the in-flight movie was _meh_ at best. 👩: so, my name is Stephanie.. what's your name? 👽: Wqpewpewpew. 👩: oh.. could you say that again? I didn't quite hear how to pronounce that. 👽: you can just call me Steve.
I don’t know about the chimp thing, there are dogs who were trained to talk using buttons and have some understanding of time including accurately using past tense.
