StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries - Interspecies Communication

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Wanna talk to animals? On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are answering fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on interspecies communication with Diana Reiss, PhD, Cognitive Psychology Professor and Marine Mammal Scientist.
Is it possible to talk to animals? We’re here to find out. Diana tells us about her recent work that looks to use new technologies to bridge the gap between communicating with other species. You’ll learn why the first step is defining what communication means. What makes something a language? Diana fills us in on her background researching dolphins, and we compare a dolphin’s brain to a human’s brain.
We discuss the film The Cove and the importance of using science to raise awareness. Then, we dive into the film Arrival and how it demonstrates appropriate steps to establish communication with another species. Diana tells us why establishing a common knowledge is vital. Then, we ask, would atoms and molecules look the same to everyone in the universe?
Explore why imitation can be a vital tool to help start communicating. Diana gives us insight into her first encounter with a dolphin mind. We discuss non-verbal forms of communication and how species communicate with themselves. Diana also tells us about the underwater keyboard and “touch” screen created for communicating with dolphins or, as Chuck calls it, the giant iPad for dolphins.
We investigate if animals have different “dialects” based on their geographic location. Lastly, can math be used as a universal language? All that, plus, we ponder if we’ll ever be able to fully understand animal communication.
Thanks to our Patrons Caralee Wahab, Tracy S. Skrabut, Ivan Perez, Joshua Torres, Garrett Jay, Leon Galante, Tyler Miller, and Pat Mallon for supporting us this week.
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29 сен 2024

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@MrJackfaire 3 года назад

I came out my front door once and there was two squirrels I could see. One was standing in a tree staring intently at the hood of my truck. The other was running frantically around my truck. The one in the tree looked at me and then looked back at the truck. The only thing I could think was "There's a third squirrel stuck under the hood," So rather than turn the truck on I opened up the hood and sure enough a third squirrel now able to see its way out booked it from my truck and all three left. It felt like such a surreal moment.

@msmith53 3 года назад

Be careful, they love to chew on the wiring! I had a rabbit chew through my ignition wires! Saw him do it!

@tridking9744 3 года назад

I feel like you had a moment with the squirrelly there. Wish I was there to experience it.

@blackthorne-rose 3 года назад

You have a kind heart.

@kumarlion2133 3 года назад

Idk if this it true or not but...epic bro

@isaiahcorona3940 3 года назад

@higgy8030 3 года назад

I was so confused. I fell asleep to the episode on vaccines and woke up to them talking about tunas!

@zachjacobs6147 29 дней назад

Vaccines cause atunasm?

@juniorlara2394 3 года назад

I can always watch him high asf falling asleep😂😌thanks neil

@Itsnej Год назад

Thought I was the only one 🥹

@user-im6ms1me4y Год назад

Idk why but your comment was the one comment i saw before i click the comments to open fully…is it me hmm seems 😏fishy

@stevenswapp4768 9 месяцев назад

Many of us 👌

@Tiip420 7 месяцев назад

Aka half his viewers lol

@Tiip420 7 месяцев назад

@@user-im6ms1me4yaame

@DiestroCorleone 3 года назад

Thumbs up for Neil bringing the speciesism to the table.

@JoeyPsych 3 года назад

When interspecies communication comes up, I always think of Koko the Gorilla. She was communicating with humans through signlanguage, truely fascinating.

@Yoshirama 3 года назад

Not very well and with huge amounts of training, though. Koko was cool, but her intelligence is overstated and exagerated for flashy news titles and thrilling documentaries.

@squirtylemons8715 3 года назад

@@Yoshiramaare you sure we are talking about the same Koko? She was quite smart.

@Yoshirama 3 года назад

@@squirtylemons8715 If we're talkimg about the gorilla.

@MoonCat49 Год назад

The "co-" in "communication" means it's a two-way street. Before we can expect other animals (non-humans) to understand us, we need to understand their language and mannerisms first. It also means we'll have to adjust the way in which we view other species and our own supposed superiority since the denotation of "co-" is "shared", implying equality. Fascinating stuff.

@kyaintit 3 года назад

I'd love to see more guests like this who study animals and animal behavior!

@ZeroOskul 3 года назад

8:04 A Ferenghi stares into the mirror and a look of realization slowly creeps across his face. "Butthead???"

@DanielSanchez-yn4lp 3 года назад

🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

@OGMrWayne 3 года назад

I still can believe Chuck said the Ferengi are smart 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ZeroOskul 3 года назад

@@OGMrWayne ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BtXtZmbjG_c.html Quark knows something about humans...

@firewilson920 3 года назад

Ah. I relate to you. You must have the loves to understand what I mean

@samarnold1839 3 года назад

Man, niel and chuck, my favorite power duo, on the best podcast. Pls consistently release more! Its almost like, no matter what the topic, these 2 make it enjoyable and educational as well as interpersonal and making your think inwards as well as out

@kenbee1957 3 года назад

Unbelievable that all of this is free of charge This is NOT a terrible time to be alive

@j-dubb614 3 года назад

Dr. Tyson is dropping logic bombs about preferential treatment of animals that we deem more important than others arbitrarily.

@cesarmoya7 3 года назад

My favorite show! Love you guys!

@therealjacobtv 3 года назад

When I don’t see Chuck i bounce🙄🤧 Love when these 2 work together

@ktrishan3165 3 года назад

Chuck was awesome the whole the time😂🤩👌!!!

@MikeyBoi1984 3 года назад

You 2 are by far the best duo, keep up the great work from a simple scotsman with an interest in space and animals 😊

@asabelesabelo1060 3 года назад

8:40 Dr. Neil seems like he's asking himself "I wonder how many more neurons are in my head ?" That guy is smart !!!

@sumanrao1739 7 месяцев назад

Of course we are speciesist. We protect ourselves

@huntergreen5 3 года назад

I love these videos and they are a great service to everyone interested in science. But in this one, I felt that there were too many interruptions of attempted mirth. Funny, no doubt but felt could have gotten a bit more out of that lady’s experience! But thanks again! You guys rock!

@hououinkyouma5539 3 года назад

I usually try to get crows and magpies to approach me. Hasn't worked yet but they're always fun to watch

@Watchingthesim 3 года назад

I thought i would have gotten info about how to better communicate with my cat...he'll only play dead & roll over. He's aware of wrong & right. He knows how to tell me when he's hungry, or what he likes. He has so much potential. Is there a missing sensory from both of us that prevents the flow of introspecies communication?

@ayinke1481 3 года назад

Another great show packed with amazing information and so entertaining - Thank you 👏🏾

@andrewolson5471 3 года назад

Chuck mentions interspecies dating... Neil: mentions alien tentacles. Me: I see you are men of culture.

@joeandjoe2 6 месяцев назад

We absolutely have conversations with animals. It just doesn't involve words because they don't speak English. The animals of this world are incredibly intelligent in ways that you cannot possibly even understand. It is morphology mostly precludes general conversation. When humans do not speak the same language body language can often be used to convey meaning without verbal language. This would however be impossible with a whale regardless of how intelligent the whale is because it lacks the morphology capable of portraying intelligence in a way that humans can understand. A whale as the capability of understanding the ocean in a way that a human could never hope to. Birds can see a light from a city 200 miles away. Bears can smell what colour shoes you have from 10 miles away. They are intelligent in ways that we could not possibly hope to match.

@krackeded7236 3 года назад

stumbled across cosmic queries and now its my go to podcast while grinding red dead online

@adrian.tabirca 3 года назад

Amazing episode. Thank you

@RandyLaheySunnyvale 3 года назад

That was great, thank you

@theduder2617 3 года назад

The day we succeed in actual communication with animals is the very day we get belittled on an epic level regarding our excessive numbers and resulting damage to the planet. We may not want to know what the animals are saying about us. We might want our dogs to remain dogs if that makes sense. lol

@ManaBDew 3 года назад

An indiglow ⌚️ watch when the light button is pressed near an A.M. Frequency it gives a audible sound 🔊 🤷‍♂️ 😁👍📻

@drako7222 2 года назад

Have we tried to check if the FRBs are distorted due to travel through space or encrypted in some way

@lc7664 3 года назад

I was disappointed with Neil's constant joking about "how can you ask to save dolphins rather than the tuna? Isn't that just arbitrarily and unfairly valuing fellow mammals as higher status?" I also think that the marine psychology scientist did a very poor job of actually answering this very legitimate question, so to clear things up, here's a better answer for everyone: Dolphins have higher "value" for preservation than tuna because in the given situation their safety contributes more to the development of sentient life in general. It is also easier to stop dolphin killing than tuna killing for various social & political reasons (namely their perceived closeness to us, like Neil said, and them being generally regarded as non-food animals, like Chuck said). All animals, plants, and even inanimate objects should be preserved as best as we can to the extent that they contribute to the furthering of sentience in the universe (based on a value of striving for intelligence and complexity, which is a trait inherent to the human condition and is part of how we've progressed so far in our survival and expansion). In other words, we should stop unnecessary killing of both dolphins and tuna. But, in this case we should prioritize saving the dolphins because they are smarter, more similar to us, less necessary to the activity we're fighting against (collateral damage, not food). In summary, there should be people fighting to save both the dolphins and the tuna. And both are right. But for various reasons, it's easier to make a big impact by prioritizing the dolphins first.

@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος 3 года назад

Be vegan and you preserve both tuna and dolphins, easy

@wbiro 3 года назад

6:49 The EQ doesn't matter (brain size to body size) (mice have us beat there). What matters is neuron density (for mice it is 79K neurons per... I forgot the volume, but for humans, by comparison, it is 89,000K. The neurons of other mammals (such as cows, who have brains larger that humans) do not get denser with useful neurons, but only larger neurons while the quantity remains relatively low, and it is quantity that translated into cleverness and intelligence (which do not add up to enlightenment, but often add up to stupidity - read the Philosophy of Broader Survival for enlightenment). The important area for thinking is the frontal lobe. 7:26 she knows (kind of) because she said she means 'weight' (density) when she says size... the number of neurons in a brain (the density) is determined (counted) by dissolving the brain (meaning the cells), separating the nucleus's, and weighing the aggregate nucleus's. (and I used to get mad at my kids for being contrarians, not realizing that they took after me)...

@ojrlir183 3 года назад

And there was me thinking and hoping that this was going to be all about “ How we are trying to communicate with Aliens 👽 “ 😐

@PedroCosta00011 3 года назад

it is still interesting. Understanding comunication with animals may help us somehow to understand how to tell a joke to a alien.

@2l84t 3 года назад

An understanding of what may constitute communication different from humans can be useful. It's kept me from being bitten on more than one occasion.

@schoolcraft420 3 года назад

Maybe it was 🙂

@PedroCosta00011 3 года назад

@@2l84t 😄 😁 😆

@themitchellbrothers 3 года назад

Practice

@wrenragenwild5767 3 года назад

Huge fan of StarTalk but was hard to watch the lady talking enthusiastically about her career being interrupted for the same joke every 5 mins. You guys got to read your hosts, make them comfy.. but great video as always 👍

@sethhiltzman6050 3 года назад

What are your thoughts on those videos of people making sound boards for dogs, where each button says a word? So the dog can push a button “hungry” or “walk” do they know what they are saying or are they just arbitrarily pushing buttons?

@adnelortiz 3 года назад

16:00 LOL he was referencing on how to communicate with Trump.

@NadaNada-zn8tx 3 года назад

Sunglasses inside. Sick.

@MemphiStig 3 года назад

ok, first... i was making tuna salad a couple of hours ago, but i had to stop and totally forgot until they brought up tuna. so thanks for that. YUM! second, if ET's don't have sight, how would they know about stars in the first place? i don't think even Star Trek has adressed this one. also, stop eating dolphins. except mahi-mahi. (also yum)

@29DPT 8 месяцев назад

Interspciefies connecting

@CB-pf5lb 3 года назад

I love the "dolphin bonk" video.

@chelsealove4452 3 года назад

What about dinosaurs? Can u do an episode on that???

@garytucker8696 3 года назад

If one Dolphin figures out a method of discovery then you put it in an adjoining tank would it communicate the process to the other Dolphin you put i the tank?if you keep repeating the process with other Dolphins and record the individuals communicating sounds.

@warfighter1858 3 года назад

I would love to chat about setting up a meeting w dad. Someone got in touch with me in mutiple times

@29DPT 8 месяцев назад

Interspecies communication

@lukep6275 3 года назад

How and where can I submit questions?

@frankenstein6677 3 года назад

I have a little mindfuck for you. Yes, dolphins are mammals, but you can still say they are fish. That's because our branch of the vertebrates has split from one of many that live in water. It means that "fish" is not a real clade in biology. Essentially it just means "vertebrate that lives in the water". Dolphins are that.

@Cavers 3 года назад

Can someone explain to me the upload schedual of Startalk? I mean they uploaded the "Interspecies Communication" episode to RU-vid this week. While uploading an entirely different episode about Climate Change on Spotify.

@fwd79 3 года назад

I _guess_ RU-vid uploads are behind all the paid service. First there then after a while, posted here.

@Cavers 3 года назад

@@fwd79 The problem is that it's not behind at all since last weeks episode on RU-vid was "Hidden Science of music" which was also Spotify's last weeks episode. Both RU-vid and Spotify published two entirely different new episodes this week.

@kflicted 2 года назад

@deanduke5473 3 года назад

I think Rick made something for Morty in an episode and they had some problems with squirrels

@Mr.Nichan 3 года назад

They might not choose to arrange elements in exactly the same way, in fact the cosmetics of any such organization they did would probably be a bit different, even if the content were the same.

@roeintro 3 года назад

Man I love when Chuck is cohosting. His questions are the same I am thinking without fail. Also he is funny

@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 Год назад

Two years on and this statement still rings true! Whether in this episode or the most recent, Chuck never ceases to amaze me with his wit and humor. He can be part of an all-star lineup or just doing one on one with Neil, and yet he still manages to hit a line drive!

@farmaansonghadwala 3 года назад

I hope ya'll realize.. what an Incredible Job you're doing by making these Explainers!🔥💙

@jaredmarr5731 Год назад

-by & that sentence still makes sense…

@ishiharakanzo 3 года назад

Star Talk helps me gets through this tough time

@defenderofwisdom 3 года назад

Me too.

@nghiale1302 3 года назад

so true so true

@joseimpact 3 года назад

no cap

@pseudonayme7717 3 года назад

She's a sweet lady and this was a fun cast. I feel you👌

@athecheat 3 года назад

Hallelujah

@AlfredPotterGuitar 3 года назад

Put a foreign dolphin (different dialect) in a tank with local dolphins and see how the local dolphins attempt to communicate with the new, foreign dolphin. See how they attempt to communicate and then use their methods on them?

@JohnyG29 3 года назад

They just talk really loudly and slowly 😂

@twonumber22 3 года назад

That makes me wonder if any animals play any jokes or tricks on each other just for amusement and not for practical purposes.

@ssgssbeet4133 3 года назад

@@twonumber22 they do, dolphins and chimp play a lot and do play jokes on its each other

@twonumber22 3 года назад

@@ssgssbeet4133 I would assume it happens a lot but I cannot remember anything of the sort.

@blackthorne-rose 3 года назад

Dolphins have been using the telecommunications satellites to hook up with other dolphin tribes around the world for decades. Turns out they not only can hack satellites, but they all have Universal Translator software wet-wired into their enormous brains. Only the French dolphins refuse to use it... which is why they are shunned by other dolphins...

@djrigmarole7077 3 года назад

I know your saying is let's make America smart again, I'm from England and love these episodes. The whole world could do with watching this 👌🏻👌🏻

@fingerboxes 17 дней назад

Honestly, making America smart would benefit the entire world. Having the world's hyperpower run by people who can't even string coherent sentences together or who are blatantly corrupt/criminals is bad for everyone. The anti-intellectual movement within the US has groomed entire generations to distrust the truth.

@sandrawillis8774 3 года назад

I’m glad they acknowledged how smart just our cats and dogs are. They surprise me everyday. We used to have a dog that was so smart that she knew what we were talking about, so we sprayed saying things by spelling them out, and she knew that too. So we started writing things down and she KNEW every time that it was about her. She would practically burst trying to talk as well and would get so frustrated if we didn’t interpret things right, but when we did, bingo! An extraordinary animal.

@jaxdragon1723 3 года назад

Thanks for your comment :) My -X gave me her female cat.After she fully trusted me.she would come to me & i thought she wanted pettin's,but she would get mad & scratch me.i finally figured out(after6 weeks)she came to show me she wanted something. to go outside,or treats or open a bdrm door etc. She's not as smart as your dog,but she's got a long list.She just can't figure out Mirror kitty..(i think).

@xEvilRaptorx 2 года назад

I had a thing happen, which made me think that some dogs can understand English. When I was a teen I was at home sitting on a recliner. Our St. Bernard wanted to get by and go beg at the kitchen table. I kept blocking her from passing. After about 8 tries and stops, I said why doesn't she go around the couch and behind me where I can't block her... she immediately looked back, turned around and did just that.

@Psartz 10 месяцев назад

My Chihuahua tiny head buy she learn things so quick . recently she learned find and bring her toy if I ask her to bring.if her water pot is empty she starts dragging it me.

@mwhearn1 3 года назад

My dad was a Tuna scientist (this is the first time that my dads occupation was relevant to any youtube video). He was never worried about Dolphins eating tuna, it was the humans that were the problem.

@jeremyowen1 3 года назад

Yeah but no one said the problem was dolphins eating tuna. It was protecting dolphins in nets vs protecting the tuna in nets . Neil was basically saying: YEAH BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TUNA STUCK IN NETS?! And to that my answer would be "Martin Hearns dad and others." The people who study tuna, not dolphins. Dolphin experts tend to stick to dolphins related problems.

@Watchingthesim 3 года назад

Hmmmm chicken

@twonumber22 3 года назад

I bet he knows where to get the best sushi. That's pretty cool.

@knyghtryder3599 3 года назад

@@jeremyowen1 Neils argument was so dumb, I feel bad for the researcher, the easiest rebuttal is just fine so why don’t you eat humans, why don’t you allow humans to be slaughtered in coves, because they’re so similar in communication, intelligence, lifestyle etc.

@SR-lh4rm 3 года назад

@@knyghtryder3599 If we protect dolphins from being slaughtered inhumanely, the next logical step is everyone living on air.

@tylerhogan3676 3 года назад

bruhh if we could effectively communicate with dolphins we could work with them to study the ocean

@simateix6262 3 года назад

The experience with the dolphin who time her out like that just left me in awe. ProfessorDaiana Reiss is a wonderful guest and Startalk is amazing show. Love to watch you guys. Science rules!!

@caincha Год назад

This dolphin time-out story was fascinating to me as well 😃

@GhettoHuerta 3 года назад

OHHHH soo its okay to eat cattle and chickens and pigs etc. But eating dolphins and whales are not okay??? Tell me how this makes sense?

@Gala-yp8nx 3 года назад

Cows, chickens and pigs aren’t endangered species.

@GhettoHuerta 3 года назад

@@Gala-yp8nx okay so lets say we breed them enough, that makes it okay? Still wouldn’t makes sense.. you’re missing my point guy

@GhettoHuerta 3 года назад

@@Gala-yp8nx it’s like saying you’re an animal person with pets.. but you’re eating other animals??

@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος 3 года назад

@@Gala-yp8nx humans arent an endangered species...so now we eat them?

@kevinmhadley 3 года назад

I had a dog that had a very specific bark she used to be let in. Two quick barks. It never varied. After a few years, we got a cat. One day the dog gave her let me in bark. I opened the door and the cat came but the dog ran off. I didn’t think much about it until it had happened multiple times. She was barking to let let us know the cat wanted to come in.

@FelixProject 3 года назад

Last time I was this early, the universe was filled with plasma.

@MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад

@Alexander Balog plasma cosmology was debunked a long, long time ago. Badly, strongly, utterly debunked. So, LOL, no, it isn't! rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe

@ssgssbeet4133 3 года назад

@@MaryAnnNytowl what do you think the sun and most stars are made off..

@amacuro 3 года назад

Last time I was this early, the universe was exploding from a singularity.

@milosnenadovic7334 3 года назад

@@ssgssbeet4133 all stars in the universe make less then 4 % of everything.So yeah...plasma is not so common as u think :)

@ssgssbeet4133 3 года назад

@@milosnenadovic7334 name your source

@alanedmunds936 3 года назад

Ya it's me again... I also want to recall something I remember hearing a few years back... from somewhere... But as best as I can remember, they were researching dolphins at one time, basically a diver was in the water with the dolphins, but doing his best to be subtle and not alter the dolphins interactions while recording their clicks and whistles, then later he would go back down, lay on the ocean floor to be subtle, and play back the recording, and observe the dolphins reactions to the sounds. At one point in the playback, several dolphins suddenly stopped what they were doing, turned and looked at the diver, swam to him, and then carefully maneuvered themselves to lay on the ocean floor like him. This was such an interesting reaction that they snipped that soundclip that caused such a reaction, and the diver jumped back in, this time not taking the time to lay down, he was standing on the ocean floor. He played the soundclip, and the other dolphins came over and began to maneuver themselves until they were standing on their tails, on the ocean floor, as much like the diver as they could manage. As I said this is from memory from a few years ago but hopefully I got the basic facts correct, but it seemed to be a big breakthrough as it seemed that they had found the dolphin phrase for "hey can you do this?" or "copy me"

@susanjimenez5500 3 года назад

Niel's sleep tape was awesome! Chuck, you're hysterical! 🤣

@triscuitfarms 3 года назад

I think we’re gonna need two hour episode. It’s like that always..

@DoveSimon 3 года назад

Once again Chuck Nice proves that he is an extremely intelligent being with that chemical communication inquiry! You, sir have the best gig on the planet... just chillin with geniuses. This is Best channel on youtube. Thank you so much for the quality content!

@donaldsmith8648 3 года назад

Love yall Neil and Chuck!!!

@Mortalware 3 года назад

I would love to see an interview with Peter Gabriel on StarTalk!

@TheLadiGigi 3 года назад

Octopuses are extremely intelligent. I think she needs to expand her research.

@schoolcraft420 3 года назад

yeah, but they seem grumpy, like cats

@troywalker8078 3 года назад

Along with some squid and cuttlefish

@JohnyG29 3 года назад

@@schoolcraft420 Cats are nice.

@BrianMcInnis87 3 года назад

*Octopodes*

@Anti-HyperLink 3 года назад

Octopi

@seand4196 3 года назад

Chuck no one follows Cardi B, you know this

@Synthwave89 3 года назад

No one who watches this channel, anyway.

@origamimasters5626 3 года назад

Me drinking my coffee as i watch Brain Transfering MAGIC

@CyberSystemOverload 3 года назад

These shows are so wonderful, thank you so much Dr. Tyson, Chuck Nice!! Dr. Reiss is awesome :D

@acemcplane 3 года назад

I'm rooting for lab grown meat. I hope the technology advances fast and ends up being cheaper than animal meat for fast food places to use.

@joecrablone286 3 года назад

Make sure you support early entries like labgrown shrimp tissue. Artificial meat has to work to reduce emissions or folks will riot over meat/carbon taxes.

@RonenTokayer 3 года назад

Chuck: "I feel your Zero's and One's" 😆😆😆 🤘😎

@Hecata_Harbinger 3 года назад

::Sigh:: If only I had the same interest in learning when I was in school as I do now, I wouldn't have made the mistakes I made had I been more interested.

@jeremyowen1 3 года назад

I'm in the same boat. Even when I went to school I wasn't really at school - I mean, on the premises sure but the actual learning and attending class part was amiss. I'm only 27 and still found myself saying "oh it's too late now." After getting some well needed perspective, I realized I have plenty of time to move into a career. Honestly, I'm glad I waited because I'm still not 100% sure about what I wanna be when I grow up - how you're supposed to know at 18 is beyond me. I recently did a refresher on highschool biology, chemistry, and physics so that I'd have better fundamentals moving into college and then possibly university. If you're feeling like its too late just know that it isn't, there's always the opportunity to learn something new. Sure, it's going to take a lot of effort, more so than when you're young, but it's definitely do-able. I had a gentleman in my class that I ended up gaining a ton of respect for. He was a paramedic for 34 years and decided to go back to school to become a civil engineer. It's never too late.

@msmith53 3 года назад

The real sign of intelligence is that mature realization. It was an opportunity delayed, not lost!

@sweiland75 3 года назад

I am 45 and still learning new things really just for the sake of keeping my brain active.

@miguelsuarez-solis5027 3 года назад

You did. You just weren't being taught things you were interested in

@jeremyowen1 3 года назад

@@miguelsuarez-solis5027 I mean maybe, it's really hard to say. At least for me I find myself fascinated in plenty of things that were taught in school when I was younger. I really can't explain why over the last 7 years I've been fascinated by everything but wasn't when I was young.

@Emily-8914 3 года назад

Neil, staunch defender of all life. Chuck: BUT TUNA ARE DELICIOUS Love what you all do, but I found the contrast humorous.

@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος 3 года назад

I found it dissapointing Further, Neill is not vegan, so first statement is incorrect

@Emily-8914 3 года назад

@@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος I did not mean to imply he was, but he was the only person there making a point about the Tuna caught in those nets as well. Also, Vegans eat things that were once alive as well, so I'm not sure how that is a prerequisite.

@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος 3 года назад

@@Emily-8914 plants are not sentient, animals are. Plants cannot suffer, animals do.

@LeDeyo 3 года назад

Chuck is quite great at knowing when and when not to intervene with a joke.

@siriusblack7714 3 года назад

Oh yeah it's truly a talent

@dirtymike3329 3 года назад

Lol if anything he over does it

@pharaoh2537 3 года назад

Yeah I noticed that too. Sometimes I'll be Hoping he do that joke. You can see it and he's about to do it. but he'll fade away and let it go...

@LeDeyo 3 года назад

@@pharaoh2537 Yee and as a comedian he must be keeping so many jokes in his head that naturally come to mind. That's some next level moderator control

@garnetmcbride3629 3 года назад

Another facinating episode.. thank you! Small suggestion.. Chuck's audio often comes across much louder then Neil's and the guest's. Any chance to lower Chuck's audio a tad? Thank you!

@ikocheratcr 3 года назад

maybe better raise the others

@Ptaaruonn 3 года назад

Dolphins in 2020 saying "Goodbye and thanks for all that fish."

@illinoisman1893 3 года назад

@cliffordball440 10 месяцев назад

One thing that is apparent is that, like dogs and cats, dolphins really like humans. My dad was in the navy in WWII and said the dolphins across the pacific would join the ships and guide them into the ports.

@oldcowbb 3 года назад

23:28 basically like when you set up a computer network, you always test with echo first

@nightfox6738 3 года назад

bash: echo: command not found

@MRarvai 3 года назад

That Cardi B joke was underrated asf! IM DEAD

@MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад

Cardi BEE! 😄🤣😄

@kumarlion2133 3 года назад

😂😂

@msmith53 3 года назад

See Cesar Milan about the connections and communication between dogs and humans... The influence of the “the nose” prevails and we certainly do not have receptors or the brain activity as highly developed. Similar topic...? Neil, he would be a great guest who used to share your channel...

@visakhrajendran741 3 года назад

Just wanted to point out the inference made at 50:50. EQ can be less than 1 for instance Rabbit has EQ of 0.4 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient

@helsiclife 3 года назад

We need a second episode about this topic! very interesting!

@lathamrowe 3 года назад

This is the best topic of the moment. I know that some species have elaborate and intelligent communications methods. We can benefit between our own species with better communication. That can extend to intelligent species we share the planet with. I think also we shouldn't underestimate the importance of non verbal communications that even we ourselves between humans may take for granted in understand what and how something is being communicated. We would need to take in all aspects of an animals communication methods to understand what they are saying and how in depth that communication might actually be. Obviously some species will be more capable than others. But yeah, I suspect that over time less of these species will end up on the dinner table due to these types of emerging technologies. Having said that, the smartest animals don't tend to be the tastiest. Funny that.

@Tiip420 3 года назад

I was here at light speed. Ask my broken finger

@taijusatomi-defoe42 3 года назад

Hey broken finger did you get here at light speed

@vikranttyagiRN 3 года назад

😂😂

@ZeroOskul 3 года назад

Finger!!! Hey, finger!!!

@blackthorne-rose 3 года назад

I stuck my hand through an event horizon to see what would happen. Don't bother asking.

@Tiip420 7 месяцев назад

@@taijusatomi-defoe42yes lol 3 light years later. My finger was far away

@donuttoy8482 3 года назад

She's the Lorax, she speaks for the dolphins!

@jasondean88888 3 года назад

I'm 45 year old physics major and have been self teaching for decades. I have a theory on dark energy (why the acceleration rate initially increased when it did, and why it continues to do so) that I have not heard or read anywhere. My professor (I've had the same one for all my physics classes so far) can't disprove it but he's not really into astrophysics. He's more obsessed with wave/partical duality of light and quantum topics. My sister got her 1st degree is astrophysics before going becoming a surgeon. Her physics are rusty, but she can't find any fatal basic flaws in the idea either. Anyone know my best chance of getting this hypothesis in front of NDT? It only takes about 2 minutes to present the basics of the idea, but maybe a couple paragraphs to clearly communicate if typed out. I have considered doing the $6,000 patron that gets a 10 minute in person segment with Neil, but I'm by no means rich...but it's a serious consideration for me if it means finally getting a legit review of the hypothesis. Even if I spend the next 10 years paying off that credit card. I would do the $5 patron, but I don't know how many people do this and what the odds are of my question getting selected. I support him financially through book purchases, watching YT ads, and if he ever tours my way I'll jump on a ticket. I don't have a problem with that, but money is tight (for most people right now) so I'm just trying to find the best way to approach him. I had to stop college due to no lab classes being offered right now, so I don't really have access to any professors. There are no tours or events to attend. I've thought about just sitting outside LIGO with a sign asking for a physicist to stop and talk, but it's 400 miles away and I need to work 6 days a week. In short, how do I get NDT's attention for 5 minutes? I would like SOME credit for the idea of there is something there, so I don't want to send it through a channel that would allow someone else to claim it for their own before Neil got it and knew it was from me.

@rhythmrana249 3 года назад

Neil is the only one that can interupt a dolphin 🤣

@sumanrao1739 7 месяцев назад

Chucks humour is brilliant oftentimes.

@Kavon94 3 года назад

Thank you for everything!

@AtypicalPaul 3 года назад

" no better nation than a donation" haha love chuck's silly humor

@lucasmtg483 3 года назад

I remerber Peter Gabriel narratives with its song ''ANIMAL NATION'' was about that project theme ! Love you PETER !!!!!!!!!!

@GlassDeviant 3 года назад

I find it disturbing that someone who studies animals makes a distinction between humans and great apes, when humans **are** great apes. Also that Neil refers to dolphins as fish, when they are mammals.

@haltsinberg 3 года назад

Probably meant humans and (other) great apes

@MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад

He is using the term fish loosely, like regular people use the term. He is an astrophysicist, not a marine biologist, after all.

@jeremyowen1 3 года назад

You're being a bit too pedantic.

@haltsinberg 3 года назад

@@jeremyowen1 I dunno. He kept bringing that point up as if it was a slam-dunk. Poor argument in my opinion. Shows that he hasn't thought much of animal sentience or rights.

@vinnie666 3 года назад

humans really are a way apart from pretty much every other species. making the distinction is pretty fair- especially when the entire point of the conversation is the difference between species and how to understand each other better.

@diegofernandez4789 3 года назад

Wow, Chuck really shines in this one.

@GBLynden 3 года назад

You co-host takes away from your content Neil....

@InnerLuminosity 3 года назад

The great awakening has begun

@schoolcraft420 3 года назад

just 1 more snooze button, 5 more mins pls

@Synathidy 3 года назад

Well it's only possible due to the great night's sleep.

@diegohofschulterodriguez5630 3 года назад

Yesss, the old intro is back!!

@cleverusername9369 2 года назад

I love how Neil not only asks questions he knows the answer to on behalf of his audience, but he has debates with experts who he most likely agrees with more often than not, but again he puts himself in the position of the viewing audience who may have their own arguments to make. Just another display of how he is actively working to educate us, by asking the experts the questions we would ask 😀