Arthur C. Clarke on Why Aliens Would Be Superior To Humans | The Dick Cavett Show

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English science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke discusses the on-going research in astronomy into discovering new planets and how he believes there is life on other planets, although we don't know it yet.
Date aired - July 12, 1972 - Arthur C. Clarke and Cassie Mackin
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.

His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.

Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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@fazbell Год назад

Dick Cavett is one of the finest interviewers of the past sixty years. You need that caliber of interviewer to talk with guests like Clarke.

@brianarbenz1329 2 года назад

I watched this 50 years ago as a 13-year-old. Clarke went on to describe the upcoming Apollo 17 launch, which would be the first one at night. It enchanted me and I counted the days until December. The Cavett show was my reason living back then. Never missed it.

@jm1657 Год назад

Great post!

@mudithabandara8575 Год назад

Wow ❤❤

@HistoryTime 3 года назад

Amazing. Arthur C is one of the greatest Englishmen to ever live. One of my heroes and my favourite science fiction author

@VoidHalo 3 года назад

Scratch Englishman. He's the greatest man to ever live. And I wouldn't say he's my favourite sci-fi author, there are so many good ones that I just can't pick one. But I'd have to say my top 3 would be Philip K Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and of course, Douglas Adams. Asimov would probably be on that list, too. But I'm sorry to say I've not read any of his books yet. I've been gravitating more towards non-fiction science over the last decade.. Which is to say, textbooks and papers from peer reviewed journals on various scientific subjects like math, medicine, electronics, computer science and stuff of that nature. It's very difficult for me to read for more than 10-15 minutes at a time thanks to having particularly bad ADHD, so when I do read, I feel it's wasteful if I'm not learning something of practical use from it. Only problem is, because of the ADHD, every time I read, I come up with 15 or 20 more subjects that I want to read about. I can try keeping a list, but it eventually becomes so unwieldy that it's impossible to follow through with anything on it. I mean, at present I have 85 tabs open in the browser on my phone and on my computer, over 300 tabs saved using a session manager extension. Bookmarks are just out of the question. I don't even want to guess at how many bookmarks I have. But they've become so numerous that it's just not practical to use them anymore.

@junaidqasim1 3 года назад

Arthur Clarke mind blowing Genius . AMAZING

@watchmanschannelofdespair 3 года назад

One of the best, no doubt, in the top three along with *Robert A. Heinlein,* and Issac Asimov.

@VoidHalo 3 года назад

@@watchmanschannelofdespair I actually hadn't considered Heinlein. Any recommendations of his to start with?

@dustyshackleford6772 3 года назад

@@VoidHalo None. He is obsessed with polygamy and puts it in all of his books, and all of his characters have the same internal voice. He's not on the same level as Clarke and Asimov.

@robertrowan9893 3 года назад

Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World was a series that left an indelible mark on my youth. The theme music alone was anthemic, then couple it with the crystal skull that brought the programme's intro to its conclusion. Both frightening and awe inspiring in equal measure.

@BigPoppieSeed 3 года назад

You have been decieved.

@phillipecook3227 3 года назад

I remember that series. I had the book which accompanied it. You've just reminded me of the mysterious crystal skull.

@LScouser8 3 года назад

Yes, the two first series. Amazing stuff. Terrified us as children but lasted with us. One of the greatest television series’ ever. Utter masterpiece.

@mikemiller9835 2 года назад

@kaymuldoon3575 Год назад

I used to watch that series. I really enjoyed it.

@descendantoffools9767 3 года назад

Bob Newhart had a comedy bit about a guy abducted by aliens and taken to their planet and then returned to earth. "Sir would you say these aliens are more advanced than we are"? "Yes, they are definitely more advanced" "How far ahead of us are they"? "Two, maybe three weeks."

@JakeMabe1 3 года назад

My god. Imagine anything this intelligent on late night today.

@thehotyounggrandpas8207 3 года назад

I tried but couldn't!

@Geraint3000 3 года назад

All chat shows are these days are actors promoting their latest films, and the interviewers have to sign contracts so they avoid any awkward areas of the interviewee's life.

@johnmarshall4442 3 года назад

Today's society is to dumb'd down.

@ivanmatic618 3 года назад

carpool karaoke with chubby unfunny dufus isn't intelligent you say?

@ivanmatic618 3 года назад

@Just Saying James Corden is pretty wild and animalistic, he's very edgy

@BladeRunner-td8be 3 года назад

Arthur C. Clark is unique in that he is one of the few humans to exist that understood a multitudinous assortment of things on an ultra-deep level. Listening to him was and still is a valuable educational experience. Cheers

@OTOss8 3 года назад

This is one of the very best channels on RU-vid. What a treasure trove of content. God I wish there was a way to get access to the full range of interviews. I wish Dick was still interviewing people, his style stands head and shoulders above his peers.

@MrSupernova111 2 года назад

Many of Dick's full interviews are on youtube.

@tomstarin1574 2 года назад

@@MrSupernova111 qQQq1

@tomstarin1574 2 года назад

@Hard-Boiled-Bollock 3 года назад

Arthur C. Clarke was from Somerset, one of the few parts of southern England to retain the accent most people in southern England had round about the time of 18th century. I think his accent is much closer to that of the original colonists than a modern 'standard' southern English accent

@billbogg3857 3 года назад

I was thinking that I had never heard his accent anywhere else. .It appears to be a perfect cross between an English and American accent which means your explanation makes perfect sense.

@sticky59 3 года назад

He loved the younger man ....if you catch my drift.

@jeff__w 3 года назад

That’s a fascinating comment. Clarke’s accent sounded, to me, a lot more “North American” than English. If his accent is, in fact, much closer to that of the original colonists, that would go some way to explaining why North American accents are what they are today.

@josephyearwood1179 3 года назад

@@sticky59 Cavett looks the size of a ‘younger man called “Dick”. Also seems to have markworthy ‘tongue action’ …0:33

@powerbite92 2 года назад

@@sticky59 watch Steven Spielbergs Amblin' .. his debut film, for more on this reference.

@Engineer_Who 3 года назад

"There was just one flat-earther, but I think he died of a broken heart." The '70s were such an innocent, relatively sane time.

@LiradeTerpsichore 3 года назад

?????😧🤷‍♀️

@mowazalvi8531 3 года назад

vietnam had a lasting impact, watergate, the war on drugs, the rise of several epidemics in the US. Sir, there has never been an innocent, sane time in the US.

@FLATSWISS 3 года назад

History will have some major revisions in the near future... optics are exposing mistakes and more likely lies... with an open mind and true heart ask yourself were the 69-72 moon landings real or fake? Truth is Paramount... Peace

@mrcoiganable2988 3 года назад

@@mowazalvi8531 oh give over fs, u may aswell say the world is bad so lets just end it. Theres evil everywhere, wtf is ur point

@brachiator1 3 года назад

@@FLATSWISS Truth is that the moon landings were real. No question about it.

@egverlander 3 года назад

It was my honor and privilege to have met Sir Arthur in 1971 at Central Connecticut State University.

@kirkwilson5117 2 года назад

DAng! Back when I was born!

@SamMcDonald83 3 года назад

Wow, back when Pluto was still a planet and there was just one flat earther…

@castorphans 3 года назад

We won't have interviews like this in our time. When serious meant "interesting", not "boring" entertainment;

@johnbyrne2127 3 года назад

I love this channel. What an amazing man Sir Arthur was writer, inventor and undersea explorer. He had a vast imagination and mind to match.

@warhorse2034 3 года назад

Clarke is a legend. His TV series in the 70s and 80s was amazing.

@ellie-tk4jy Год назад

What series?

@warhorse2034 Год назад

@@ellie-tk4jy Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World. It’s on dvd.

@jamesdrynan Год назад

A brilliant and innovative writer.

@solcutta3661 3 года назад

Arthur c Clarke... Visionary author and inventer of the communication satelite (as it said on his awesome series)... We wouldn't be here right now watching and commenting on this is without this man.

@louduva9849 3 года назад

Love that West Country accent!

@silverkitty2503 3 года назад

its lovely

@AlanCanon2222 3 года назад

The Robert Newton ("Long John Silver") of Science Fiction.

@AlanCanon2222 3 года назад

@@silverkitty2503 1:45 "alTERRRnate endings" ARRRR!!! Aye, me mateys, close the innERRRRR aiRRRRRlock dooRRRR."

@wizkidsvideos 3 года назад

Wonderful interview. Please post the entire interview.

@phillipecook3227 3 года назад

Man he never lost his Somerset accent.

@gregorysagegreene 9 месяцев назад

The first science fiction novel I ever read was 'A Fall of Moondust'.

@VCYT 3 года назад

'' My mind is going. I can feel it '' -- HAL, circa 2001

@tjmusa Год назад

we only had 4 t.v. channels back then and we watched dick cavett. clarke was a great brain. as kids he layed the path for the future. thanks for posting.

@sabercruiser.7053 2 года назад

what a great footage this is

@deecee784 3 года назад

There was a few Flat-Earthers in Canada. One of them was a professor in Ontario. I watched an interview on him and he said that most of the members of the Flat Earth Society (real thing) joined it pretty much as a gag ---- and that part of admission was writing out an essay to prove our planet's flat. He said that so many of the society members has made pretty convincing arguments --- if you ignored some facts. He said most members did it on a lark.

@richardburnett-_ 3 года назад

Can't believe how much we've devolved since then.

@stardolphin2 3 года назад

Until a few years ago, I didn't think they took themselves seriously, either...

@brianarbenz1329 Год назад

The proud boast of the Flat Earth Society is “we have members all around the world!”

@penduloustesticularis1202 Год назад

What a wonderful human being.

@lotusalivelight24 3 года назад

“...HARD TO IMAGINE THE REVERSE !”. LOL. He is SO ASTUTE. 💜. You could spend at least a year, reading all that Sir Clarke ever wrote... i’ve never had the chance to do that, but i would !

@rr7firefly 3 года назад

"Only a few extreme fundamentalists will be upset..." This interview was in 1972. Clarke called it fifty years ago.

@jorgeespinosa3179 3 года назад

Charles Kettering was quoted to saying he lived in the future. Clarke explored it prolifically; imagined it, invented it, predicted it, and, most amazingly, most of it came to be.

@CASoxFan12 3 года назад

Same man who predicted the tech in 2000 in 1964...genius!

@reinforcedpenisstem Год назад

Wrote a paper in 1947 that came true too (com. satellites).

@tomzeeh6618 3 года назад

I have no idea what Mr. Clarke is talking about, but I love it.

@adamhg7040 Год назад

I live how the host sounds like he has not come fully prepared haha But seriously amazing stuff

@Petra44YT Год назад

What a great video! ... I mean, I was no fan of 2001, but then, that was the Science Fiction of the 1960s, and he's still a very smart man.

@johnaspinall5457 3 года назад

Can you please upload interview clips of the late, great Robert Shaw. He was such an interesting and engaging guest appearing on the show at least 5 times. E.g: Woody Allen/Robert Shaw/Beverly Sills/Jacqueline Wexler (29 Dec. 1969)

@adrianbrowne7962 3 года назад

A true Visionary with an " Unquestionably " Giant intellect whose theories did see the " light of Day " !! And we have certainly benefited as a result, may Arthur C Clarke continue 2 RIP !! From Adrian Browne @1965.Com

@garyproffitt5941 Год назад

2001 the Space Odyssey including Leonard Rossiter with cubic state of the🏛 Gods🏛 Rest in Heaven Arthur C. Clarke.

@jan_phd 3 года назад

A very likable guy, Arthur C. Clarke.

@DrCrabfingers 3 года назад

Minehead...in Somerset produced that very clever man. Not every West Country man is a red faced cider drinker with baling twine for a belt. But most are I'll grant you...say's he sitting here drinking a tankard of cider adjusting his baling twine...

@AlanCanon2222 3 года назад

I have been to Somerset (from Kentucky). It is beautiful. Give my love to Wookey Hole Caves.

@Pulsonar 10 месяцев назад

Arthur would be enormously excited by what AI could do today. That Blink comparator task he mentioned would only be a few seconds work, rather than a huge mind numbing exercise that eats up the life of a scientist.

@guacamoleg 3 года назад

How about that introduction music?

@reason827 3 года назад

He was a rational man. He wrote about space travel, computers and contact with extraterrestrial life.

@cratecruncher6687 3 года назад

Even 60 years on Clarke's novels still engage me where Asimov, Bradbury, and Heinlein just seem sophomoric. Philip K Dick holds up as a great story teller but Clarke engages my brain!

@dr.calebrobbins.3177 Год назад

Imagine , indeed !

@Bootrosgali 3 года назад

Perpetual motion machines get to look like they'll go on and on but they lose energy little by little due to friction

@Gannooch 2 года назад

Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades network.

@phrtao 3 года назад

Fascinating. The idea of alien life being different from us is always assumed but it could be just like us but slightly more evolved. I think that is what Charles Darwin was getting at in his book the "On The Origins of the Species" - that all evolution of life is evolving towards a single species and we are a step on that path (maybe not the final destination ?)

@lapislazuli7876 2 месяца назад

Except we know now via the experiencers over the decades that they are millions. If not billions of years ahead of us. That hypothesis of Clarke and others is just wrong. All the abduction literature tells us otherwise. Sorry to have to break to news to you by that way. If you’ve been keeping up with the Grusch and congress hearings after the tic tac debacle you will also know that to be true. “They” / whoever they are , are light years and so far ahead you wouldn’t even be able to recognise them except anything but pulsating light.

@tiroa3267 3 года назад

I don't know if it's sad or reassuring that there were flat-earthers even back then!

@richardburnett-_ 3 года назад

Funny then, sad now.

@VCanisMajorisY 3 года назад

@@richardburnett-_ It depends, I like the debates that stem from questions put forward by the flat Earther community.

@davetate1155 3 года назад

entertainment really has regressed

@chezzachezza7325 3 года назад

2021

@Gannooch 2 года назад

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rare much like the other ones.

@junaidqasim1 3 года назад

He was a special gift from God. Mind blowing Genius

@tacticalix 3 года назад

Which 'god'?

@goawaytours 3 года назад

He was a gift of science

@Ephilly-rz2pb 3 года назад

@@tacticalix one that u apparently don’t know…I know u don’t believe and blah , blah but can u say or can anyone involved with science prove “god” doesn’t exist?!?! If so, I’d love to hear your undeniable proof!

@JustJessee Год назад

@@Ephilly-rz2pb prove to me Odin doesn't exist. Heck, can you provide us "undeniable proof" that your preferred god exists? We'll keep waiting.

@Ephilly-rz2pb Год назад

@@JustJessee you texting back in this chat proves he exist! U just don’t realize it yet. One day, u will know him G. Have a blessed weekend

@blindazabat9527 Год назад

Examining 50 million pairs of star pictures. That's 1.5 year non-stop if you look at each pair for 1 second. I think Mr Clarke is exaggerating slightly... :P

@Amal757 3 года назад

Did he get to observe modern computers and the internet?

@franmellor9843 3 года назад

YES he did he predicted the internet too

@spikespa5208 Год назад

Right up to 2008.

@lapislazuli7876 2 месяца назад

@@spikespa5208so what did he have to say about the internet and other tech like mobile phones?

@spikespa5208 2 месяца назад

Never heard, myself. He's been kinda quiet last decade and a half.

@Photoshotgun 3 года назад

Science fact ☝️

@MrDaiseymay 2 года назад

Even the great predictors of the past , like Jules Verne and H.G.Wells made ludicrous predictions. I bought a very interresting book about past predictions, from the 18th 19th centuries, mostly. BUT, Well's predicted, in 1911, that all future Wars, would be fought from Hot Air Balloons. Forgetting that the heavier than air Aircraft of the Wright Brother's , had flown 8 yrs before, AND, Frenchman Louis Bleriot had flown the English Channel, only 2 years before; I find his prediction incredible. I think he was in ore of the massive Zeppelins flying longish distances then. Of course, within 3 years, WW1 had begun, and maybe he changed his mind, especially as Huge German Bomber's had Bombed London by then.

@brianarbenz1329 Год назад

But hot air still is the most crucial technology in warfare. Hot air like “there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” and “North Vietnam blatantly attacked us in the Gulf of Tonkin.”

@shamiemcguire1588 3 года назад

Absolutely adored the man. A real Genius!. Elon Musk got lucky???

@QuadMochaMatti 3 года назад

Star Child looks down and weeps.

@tacticalix 3 года назад

The only 'Star Child' I know of is George Clinton.

@jamesalanstephensmith7930 3 года назад

Where is Clarke from?

@franmellor9843 3 года назад

Somerset England

@dylantaylor9375 3 года назад

He is alluding to Planet 9.

@fullerexplanations7872 Год назад

volume is so low

@DavidRLentz Год назад

Arthur C. Clarke

@catheadmoon 2 года назад

Well if they're we're any it's because they would be smart enough to stay away from us, basically, which of course would only make it easier for us to detect them. Pretty sure...

@samslick9000 3 года назад

What happened to this mystery planet?

@Pedro8k 3 года назад

It is pretty obvious if they made it here from wherever they came from they would be far more advanced in terms of technology

@spikespa5208 Год назад

And, if having been in existence a lot longer than us, somehow solved the issue of self destruction.

@assi47 3 года назад

The gravitational findings have proven to be an error: the used telescope was rotated by gears. The moving of the gears caused a small vibration, which éxactly was the gravitational error. Sorry guys: no planet X.

@markmarsh27 3 года назад

50 years ago Arthur C. Clarke predicted EVERYTHING that exists now but didn't exist back then. ... and he NEVER made a mistake or miscalculation ... not even ONE.

@madbadger85 Год назад

I agree, they would! Because no intelligent alien would ever come to earth!!! They’ed either get shot, eaten or corrupted by us, they would get a million miles from earth, see us killing each other for no good reason and say , ‘let’s give this one a miss’

@solcutta3661 3 года назад

Could have watched hours of this.. Too damn short

@joselucca2728 2 года назад

5:20 Since then, flat Earth has made come back. That dead fellow had relatives and friends that kept things alive.

@reinforcedpenisstem Год назад

They played his fanfare wrong.

@tacticalix 3 года назад

Nibiru

@keithbickerdike4621 3 года назад

Its all about time distance and coincidence...

@bdogthegreat1 Год назад

Why tho? Alien life would have started evolving at the same time. I don’t understand why there would be an assumption that alien life would advance faster.

@kiq654 Год назад

Well universe is not that much older than solar system but consider how fast humans evolved and how genetically similar we are to simpler life forms. Difference of one year can be sequence evolved to comprehend nature of stars. Difference of billions of years wont necessarily make us interior design objects for superior specie, but they wouldnt understand how evolution made us so imbecile we barely speak in vocals.

@caterinadelgalles8783 3 года назад

West Country accent comes through there, despite his fake posh one!

@lapislazuli7876 2 месяца назад

He sounds half america and half English. It’s a very strange accent but it’s pleasant.

@bargainwallart653 Год назад

PDFile same as Pieter Overmeire Anglican Church

@wurzelausc 3 года назад

How come he s got an American "r"? I almost mistook him for an American in thre beginning.

@lukestephenson2704 7 месяцев назад

He’s from the south west peninsula of England, what we call ‘the west country’. It’s the norm (or at least was). It’s where a lot of the early American colonial accents originated.

@lapislazuli7876 2 месяца назад

@@lukestephenson2704a rather peculiar accent. Half the English/half american by today’s standards.

@tacticalix 3 года назад

Not ALL 'people' have been here for a long time. And I'm NOT talking about EBEs.

@UnderSprayedWhiteSkies 2 года назад

(EBEs?) Are you referring to the ruling clan responsible for gargantuan lies like the official 8+1 slash 10+1 story, Charlie Victor 20-1 scam "public health sisirc", as well as heavy sky spraying w/murky white chemicals?

@jeffwelshJedidivemaster Месяц назад

I know a faster way of doing the blink comparotor

@pauls.6360 3 года назад

"Magic" is just science beyond our capability to understand. Hence the baggy-armed woman who seems unnaturally present at the beginning of this vid. Who is she?

@JustJessee Год назад

'why can't you just look in the telescope and see it [an undiscovered planet]?'..... 😒

@stephenpaxman6180 Год назад

as if no one would know aliens would be more superior than us DUH !!!!

@richardchingas5997 Год назад

Flat earthers still exist today

@jonb4020 3 года назад

Clarke was an excellent writer, a highly intelligent and fascinating man and, it seems, a really pleasant and friendly character. Unfortunately he had a blind spot in that he thought science could explain more than it can and failed to give due weight to other philosophy. The fact that there are so many billions of planets most certainly does not logically mean that there is life, let alone more intelligent life, on any of them. The laws of probability are scientific in one sense but by their very nature cannot be conclusive.

@robert8884 2 года назад

But if there are billions or for all we know infinite planets and or even galaxies, doesn't it then follow that there are billions and or infinite possibilities?

@jonb4020 2 года назад

@@robert8884 Yep. Agreed. I'm not arguing against possibilities. I'm arguing against using probabilities to underpin theories that they cannot possibly validate.

@lapislazuli7876 2 месяца назад

@@jonb4020you’re wrong either way. We know from so many credible eyewitnesses, experiencers and even investigative journalists that non human intelligence has been interacting with planet earth for a VERY long time. Your scientific allusions sound quaint. You need to follow the whistleblowers and exploitive commentators. You’re simply wrong.

@vgfxworks 2 года назад

flat earthers, perpetual motion machines, it's all around, on youtube, still ..

@firouz256 11 месяцев назад

His entrance music was waaaay too dramatic! Jus' sayin'

@daleboxsell2805 3 года назад

I guess the crazy alien theory is nothing new.

@krm398 3 года назад

that was so old that the ideas there are either totally redone by now or dead. just because someone 20 years ago said something doesn't mean its any more true than people today.

@alexdarby9392 8 месяцев назад

Fusion energy

@Scalihoo 3 года назад

It's been revised humans have been on earth between 5 & 7 million years

@uprebel5150 3 года назад

Imagine that. More "Flat Earthers" now than back then. Where's the ice wall? On the internet..!!!

@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada 2 года назад

Is this the Matrix pill?

@FredPlanatia 3 года назад

Cavett was a bit too self deprecating here. Just let the man talk though, its Arthur C. Clarke! And flat-earther's even get a mention, who'd have thought they've been around that long.

@josephyearwood1179 3 года назад

From about 0:33 your man (or the reptilian in him) whips out two inhuman tongue flicks!