The Cambridge scientist who thinks he’s just discovered alien life 

Yes yes that’s about right in american measuring system.

​@paradiseb5950 Yeah, cause you know those Americans only have more space agencies than any country in the world. Not sure have you heard of NASA and space X??

Roughly thirty cubic litres high

@@paradiseb5950RAHHH🦅🦅🦅

Yes, but how heavy is 124 light years in elephants?

We will meet aliens before the release of elder scrolls 6

We will be in Mars before GTA 7

@@FrancescoCastiglioneChannel I mean that’s not even a joke that’s a sensible statement of fact

We land on Mars before Half Life 3...

@@FrancescoCastiglioneChannel We've been on Mars for decades.

Let's bring democracy to that planet *Plays 'Ride of the Valkyries'*

B2 bombers took off as we speak!!!

🤪 please let there be NO OIL..

red-tailed hawk screech *

If there’s unconquered land, watch out! The British might resort to old tactics

Gotta implement democracy to an alien government raaaah

​@@eesanana7414LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

😂😂😂😂

Then the aliens would invite americans for Thanksgiving 💀

Right and then try to colonize them and steal all their resources

Haha

Multi verse. Universe so big its infinite you and me in different dimensions

I doubt it, this is a water planet

I’m imagining the Spider-Man pointing at each other meme just on a universal level. 😂

😂

I laughed harder at this than I should have

Well there is, so they’re wrong.

@@BluerPanda1411 depends on your definition of intelligence

@BluerPanda1411 considering you didnt get the joke proves the dude correct

@@mitcho5452 doesn’t matter “your definition of intelligence” we are smarter than every other creature on the planet

Is that why physicists at CERN were looking for 5 Sigma when looking for the Higgs?

ermm.. what the sigma

Everything that's claimed here in this video, was claimed back in September. There's no new data added to confirm what was reported 8 months ago. I'm about to research this professor to even see how he's related to this study in the first place

​@@blasemathews806 Exactly!! You got it :)

sticking out your gyat for the sigma..

Methane is also produced in volcanic events or from meteor impacts.

​@brandonvasser5902 not to sound messed up but pretty sure a scientist would know that fact already lol

a true scientist would wait for confirmation

@@joshishmo this coming from a true scientist, right?

This is all fake

Could you repeat the Question?!

I'm curious if you think that your statement is the way any scientists behave.. and if so which ones? because I've never met anyone like that, and perhaps only seen such in the movies.

Agreed!

@@LukeNukem82The ultimate goal of science is to uncover the truth. If scientists fail to convey humility, it is merely because they are human.

Idk….50/50 is pretty ballsy🙃

😮

Hah same goes for us ... They may already have Big FVCKING guns aimed towards us and we're looking at the past 😂🤷🏾

I want to go there lol

That's because he didn't begin with "Hi, my name is Brandon!"

Same for the gas he discovered on K12-18B. We are seeing wat on this planet 124 years ago. Who knows what it will be like when we get there.

Dr.

He's so charmingly proud, and deservedly so.

He’s not better than me.

I was disappointed he didn't ask how far the planet is

I mean interviewer couldn't stop making it about his show, begging the scientist to make him one of the first calls. Interviewer needs to get over himself

Ya he found it Washington DC

🤣🤣🤣

No life was discovered lol

The intelligent part is in question.

They must be the aliens

😂

120 years from now

​@@frosties1123 * 120+ years from now

Dark forest theory, if true we may have revealed ourselves.

😂😂

There are no aliens!

Thanks for this comment, now I'll watch the video😂

The gent is on the complete other end of the spectrum to the guy who announced his room-temperature superconductor.

It's a UK thing

Cautious and serious? Pretty sensationalist more likely since the evidence for life on the planet is solely based on a statistical value that has a 2.4 sigma score... There's obviously a (lucrative) race among astronomers going on to be the first to find life outside Earth.

@@JZsBFFuh… he sounded pretty cautious to me… what about this seems sensational to you?

It is done by spectroscopic analysis of the light passing through the planet's atmosphere when the planet is between us and its sun.

@@fplbrunoo858Not our sun, the sun in its own solar systems

@@fplbrunoo858 its when the planet goes between earth and it's OWN sun. they analyze the tiny gradient of atmosphere you can see as it passes their sun and analyzing the light that's filtered through the atmosphere

@@donnievance1942 thanks for that but the distance still boggles my mind lololol

@@fplbrunoo858 That's not what the comment said lol

It's amazing, I look forward to the announcement!

*Could* be. Still a low sample size. Could be that it's fairly common in regions such as ours in galaxies like ours, but not in other galaxy types/more central regions etc etc. So many variables and unknowns. Fascinating!

Very exciting. I don't care if it's intelligent beings or single cell organisms, life is life!

"Life" is distinctly uncommon outside of our planet...in fact it does not exist.

@@AutoAlligator You don't know that, I don't know that, nobody who has ever existed knows that... Just as bad as those imbeciles who proclaim life exists elsewhere in the Universe without a shred of evidence.

💯

I, and many others before me, already discovered aliens thru' the use of alternative means of discovery... this is no news, alas it might be for the next hundred of years, cuz people are slow to catch up

Probably got the f signal from his old micro wave 😂

Harvard disagrees

@@kevinac4397explain please. I’m a stoner

Lol 😂

So true!!!😭🤣🤣🤣

Underrated comment

He didn't quite appreciate it, saying "proper life" at the end. The first detection of _any_ extraterrestrial life is significant.

lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll if you call those ?'s intelligent i feel so sorry for your parents!!!

@@SpaceLord2025 "lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll" ...

​@@SpaceLord2025If you can't use actual words to make a mean comment, I feel bad for your parents.

​@@SpaceLord2025 those questions are better than what USUALLY get asked. Get over yourself

Have you looked behind the Moon?

Detect a molecule.😂😂😂 aren't they everywhere?

Do better

The sofa swallowed it

HAH!

Life is a stretch....you step on microbes daily, you inhale them.....is it even life xd

Yep especially with AI which would only accelerate our ability to find alien life.

I’m scared

Don't dream lol.

We couldnt tell the difference of Earth and Venus, if both were an exoplanet. And Venus is absolutely leathal, even for medall. So dont get to excited with exoplanets :D look up who Dr. Anna Gülcher is. She is in a science group indirectly working for NASA to finally get some instruments to Venus to gather high quality data. Two weeks ago she said that in a colloquium at the University in Münster at an geophysical institute (Germany), where I am currently studying.

@@compactreviewSo what I’m reading is that…you don’t want a fishing pole. No extra-solar fishing jamboree for you!

What if there are large sea monsters instead? 😨

Sounds like we’ll need a real big rod then

Wishin I was fishin

And they're probably seeing horse and buggies 😂 The crazy part is by the time they arrive, we are already multiplanetary and have robots with AGI swarming the planet.

Put into perspective, before Australia was a "nation", before Aboriginals were "people", before the t model ford... Also interestingly, before the first atomic explosion. Considering how we began being "investigated" immediately thereafter, would indicate either there is a quicker way to observe at a distance by folding space or something or we had been under close surveillance before that event, but then there are reports of that being the case anyway But who knows if it's the same life forms we have had contact with so far, how many bioregions are there and which of them are aware of us?..

Ww1

@@abrahammagdalena5821 Hold up wdym with "before aboriginals were people"

@@mawinstallation6626 we were legally counted as fauna and property of govt with no rights until 1967

They have been for long time

A video about potentially finding alien life and your concern is if they’re Indian. Lol.

He smells....

​@@watcheronly71man why you hate indians have they did anything to you and also you can't be 1% of him

@@watcheronly71 Come to the tropical region in summer 😊

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The interviewer was amazing. By far the best I have ever seen someone interviewed on hard science

We can all be grateful that this wasn’t the nick ferrari or Alan Dale show

Haha its always unnerving when you speak with experts 😅

He’s one of the few really intelligent talk show hosts. He’s just brilliant.

The CIA released documents last year stating they’ve known about aliens for decades

It is what do you mean get your bull void projector ready

We'll cross it off the list. Thanks.

A leak is still possible

Get in the drainage guys

Is that a Rake reference?

Its what most scientists do. But when their conclusion is against republican politics...ppl say theyre quacks.

He didn't discover anything. You humans have never been alone.

@@universalmotherHe discovered, he didn’t invent anything

@@thatguy2244you really believe the propaganda that republicans are anti science?

​@@universalmother that is a rather unscientific comment, if we have no proof even though the probablity is there, then we didn't discover anything, we only theorize about the likely probability of there being life, however, having absolute proof of unlikely circumstances to happen naturally outside of planet Earth without the existence of another biological organism is indeed evidence, therefore discovered.

As opposed to all the other fake, lying scientists?

Don't hold your breath

Is been so long since something brilliant has come forth to the anerican public

If he was being honest, he may have mentioned that its expected to have a temperature around 5000C, rather than saying, "Yes there is likely water there" over two and a half times the mass of earth, DNA is misshapen at temperatures around boiling at 100C. The Amount of information you have to ignore is insane. When he finally gets to sleep, hes going to be kicking himself. What a smear on Cambridge and its reputation.

Greta Thunberg: How dare you!

Who told you that hogwash ?

If he was that Intelligent he wouldn't be so excited over nothing, he'd keep his cool, this shows he is easily entertained and probably has a pea for a brain 👍 if an alien walked up to me and said we exist I wouldn't care as it doesn't change anything

@@ChuckFreeman0102 what's hogwash about it. 120 light years away = light taking 120 years to get here showing us what it looked like 120 years ago

​@@c3pno actually it changes just about everything, we'd be living in a different society before long

​@@ChuckFreeman0102hogwash? That's literally what was spoken about in the video, did you not watch?

I noticed that too that he was absolutely giddy about the implications, rightfully so

I liked the question about who do you call in that scenario where you have found signs of life on a planet other than our own

The CIA released documents last year stating they’ve known about aliens for decades

Joke joke joke! He detected alien life in a so far light years away from earth jajaja! Moon and Mars are so close to earth i wonder why he cant detect an alien life or he cant explore Mars and Moon he has the James webb telescope he can easily see the surface and map the whole moon or mars with HD pictures or videos jajaja jajajaja so he decided to go 124 light years away from earth jajaja with all the advance technologies at hand he cant explore moon or mars

But can this prestigious scientist discover the science on how to make a ungrateful wife happy?🤔

IKR? Humble man. He's probably one of those people who is in it for the love of science and nothing else.

That's just the nature of the internet. The narcissists post every day whether they have something interesting to contribute or not.

Seems like a nice guy, for sure.

@@samus598 IDK, man. I grew up when the internet started, and it wasn't like that in the beginning.

@@thejinn99Have to agree with this statement. It wasn’t always like this. I can remember by parents and grandparents saying that “it’ll get ruined the same way that TV did eventually” or words to that effect. I naively didn’t believe them at the time, but here we are, and celebrity culture dominates what we see on the Internet… with the occasional brilliant exception such as videos like this one 🙂

We? Are you Venom or what?

We are the Hive.

@@guzvar 💀💀

​@@guzvar He has two brain halfes so technically everyone is two people working together as one

@@guzvarwe are legion

Possibly, but also possible that only in regions like ours. Conditions towards the galactic centre are quite different

It makes communication difficult.

Makes the fermi paradox all the more interesting

A mere 120 light years away, that's all, lol. I get it, in the grand size of the universe that isn't much but it's still unbelievable far away for us.

@@keithposter5543Because life is most likely uncommon there due to…radiation?

Well maybe you do but my mom says I'm very handsome

We know this. Trump supporters tell us millions are crossing the border every year

​@@stephenrose9845dude im not american but why do you pretend like there isnt a huge issue of illegal immigration into the US and that its made up by trump lol

@stephenrose9845.... Please tell me you aren't implying that immigrants aren't crossing the border in record numbers and infesting our country. Please tell me that you aren't so far removed from reality, that your hate doesn't let you realize what is real and what is not

@@ultratrongeryou gotta be 12

You can tell too though he’s just so excited and rightfully so! The poor guy lol

The CIA released documents last year stating they’ve known about aliens for decades

That's nerve wracking lol

Meanwhile the government is has been tracking them for 70 years

There seems to be a little misunderstanding here. None of this is actually about life on K2-18b. When the planet was first observed in 2019, there were very tiny, ambiguous signs that maybe, just maybe, there could be Dimethylsulfide in the atmosphere of K2-18b. That's what they're looking at right now. It's just about whether this one molecule might be detectable or not. The reason that's interesting is because for all we currently know, DMS can only be produced by biological processes, on Earth it's phytoplankton, and would therefore suggest the existence of life on this exoplanet. Now there are several problems with claiming the existence of life over there based on DMS. First of all, the initial data suggesting DMS in K2-18b's atmosphere was very, very thin. It's very possible that it was just a misinterpretation. But most importantly, we don't have proof that DMS actually means life. We don't REALLY know that it's a biosignature. There were other molecules we thought couldn't exist without biological processes, like whatever we found in Venus's atmosphere recently, and then somebody came out with a purely chemical reaction that produces the stuff. It's just that here on Earth, we haven't discovered a non-biological source for DMS. Long story short, IF it turns out to actually be DMS, we MIGHT have found a biosignature, but we STILL WON'T KNOW for sure if this ACTUALLY means, "Life." If the theories are correct, K2-18b is a massive planet with a hydrogen atmosphere that's covered in deep oceans. We can't just zoom in 124 light-years and see for ourselves. Not even the new iPhone can.

Should see some of the other presenters on LBC, they aren’t all like this 😂

​@@james505ismbeat me to it 😆

Why lol. This is useless

@@jacobclement8150 not really. I wouldn't have heard about this story without this interview...

​@jacobclement8150 and random opinion pieces with certain facts withheld that go against the media's bias is better? Are you looking for an entertaining tv show, or the actual news?

Beautifully put

But how would you really confirm it? Okay, there are strange gases on the planet, then what? What if you observe the planet for the next thousand years and nothing happens? You would have to visually detect some spacecraft floating around or something of true significance before declaring victory.

@@genx7006 agreed

Meh many times I hear there might be micro life forms etc etc. Of course their is life out there if there is the right conditions. I want to know if there is intelligent life

​@@genx7006They detected a gas that is only produced by life. At least on this planet.

​​@@Iz7zI give it a thousand years and a gorillion of funds, and maybe they'll discover some sort of crab living in the depths of some ocean planet ....and that's about it nothing else

It's never Aliens.

It's not 50/50.

@@jimmyzhao2673 Most likely bacteria.

Since there was water on mars its save to assume it also supported life at some point in time

@@asburycollins9182no it is not

Hahaha superb 👌

...planning a planetary take over.

You ever think life for aliens could be completely different than how we live?

@@RSCALES11I sure hope so

😂100% doing that right now

This

The scientist.

Why is everything so surprising to everyone nowadays?

​@@Gainzster Standards lowered for the weak and inept makes anyone who is competent seem like a gem when it should be the standard.

R u a real commenter

Yes I agree,

Lol, so not those who actually made the discovery

Lets name the planet Nikku

@@1antti At least until the aliens tell us what it's called.

Tremendous. What a word!

You sound ridiculous

⁠@@giovannifederici673I’m sorry you feel that way Giovanni. Mind telling us who shat in your Carbonara?

I can't help but think back to the time President Bill Clinton made a similar announcement...turned out to be nothing much. So lets tone down the proclamations that we found "proper life" as the interviewer put it. Still waiting on evidence.

The CIA released documents last year stating they’ve known about aliens for decades

Booo. Boooooooooo. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Well... maybe this time, right?

More specifically: Scientist: Statistically possible chance we may have detected markers of biological systems on an exoplanet News: Aliens! Later: It’s dust

Yeah, since I was a kid (30yo now), the news has always been "water on some moon" somewhere like it was a big thing. 25 years later and things did not advance much...

Too many dinosourous and big trees

I would like to know why the amount is lower on Earth. Is there some mechanism which removes it from our atmosphere over time?

@@ThursoBerwick Biomass ?

​@@ThursoBerwickThe planet is over twice the size of earth and could have a population density far greater than ours. Plus as you mentioned, there could be a environmental factor that means the molecule chains remaining intact longer.

To be honest this seems suspicious to me - we know that there is a lot of life on earth (duh) and this planet which shows no other signs of habitation by life other than this has has more of it than we do? Until we have more information, I think it’s more likely that on this planet, for some reason, there exists a way for this gas to be produced naturally without any biological process, rather than for it to have an ocean with orders of magnitude more life than on our planet,

alien farts 😂😂😂

This is not true. Extraordinary claims require the same evidence as any other type of claim, not some special type of extraordinary evidence. Not trying to argue, I just hate that phrase 🤣

Give me a look that way but he's not telling you that there's a whole host of researchers that went before him who have suspected that exoplanet of harboring life for a long time. He's soaking up the Limelight but it shouldn't all be his.

@@BrunetteVignette Wow, you're bitter.

He clearly mentions the effort of his team.

Like Eddie howe

​@@Xboxlegand874 agreed, just different job titles.

He is only there be cource he is from India (the Country without toilets)

@@VicGreenBitcoinsomeone else who gets it. Staged story

Exactly, NASA telescope was used.

Let's not forget the generations of scientists, engineers, etc who made great discoveries but were silenced so the cover-ups could continue.

@@VicGreenBitcoin What's with all the right wing stuff, at least India has a space programme, they are the first to land on one of the moons polar region's. They are the first to find water on the moon, the UK sent a probe to mars and that failed. You should not be throwing shade at India. The UK has all the history of empire, and industrial revolution the UK should have sent a British man on the moon from the 70s on British made rocket , USA or the soviets were going to win but the brits should have been not that far behind. They should be looking to send a brit to mars, all they are doing is piggy backing off the American's. What ever motivation British the British had to go around the would, and do empire stuff they lost all that drive after WW2. The reality is the UK does not have enough wealth for a space programme, yet you are making negative jokes about India, the jokes on you because Indian will soon in the next 2 year send an Indian space on an Indian built rocket. Great Britain yeah you guys were great once but others have risen, look at china compared to the UK.

Thanks😂 I enjoyed that !

It would be cool if they asked to meet our leaders and then sent them all into the vacuum of space. if they are super advanced they will recognize who the tyrants are and who is holding us back from flourishing

That's a really small space ship then.... ar.

It’s disappointment spooked the horses 😂

Rishi would refer them to Netanyahu.

😂😂😂😂😂 stop

Because its not confirmed yet and like he said its a 50/50 chance so they’re still not 100% sure if life exist on the planet

People are too preoccupied by themselves and their socials to care about anything going on in the world.

Because with current technology it would take about 2.2 million years to send the fastest probe we have. It's just not relevant yet or possibly ever.

it has been huge news my friend but im guessing your algorithm doesnt show much news like this. It has been in the on and offline media for a bit now. Dimethyl sulphide REMEMBER.

Greenscreen!

And how can you be so sure? ​@@axel_r_

NERDS!!!

Chemistry & thermodynamics

I hope not because that name is hard to remember and pronounce

@@boltzmannbrain6607racist

@@boltzmannbrain6607 I expect some couldn't say Einstein either.

@@TechnoViking__ cmon pls some light banter to a science video isnt too bad..

@@TechnoViking__ It is alright and I'm an Indian.

That's because he didn't begin with "Hi, my name is Brandon!"

The CIA released documents last year stating they’ve known about aliens for decades

So unassuming and humble. Exactly what the world needs.

Absoduckinlutely. What a decent, enthusiastic teacher. Noble peace prize incoming...

For the amount of organic compound they've found I can easily imagine a planet of mega fauna. What an amazing time to be alive!

Don't worry, I'm sure rebelling against our alien overlords will bring us together

Yeah humans will colonize it soon

Interplanetary travel and discovery will continue

Maybe we need to find aliens to hate them and love each others

They might have oil

Because it could go other way and hurt his reputation. If some (powerful) fool gets a hold of info and uses incorrectly

In scientific research, any result could mean anything, either being true (which requires further proof) or appearing to be true but is false (example due to corrupted data). In physics many other researchers and scientists will judge your data rigorously. And by this his reputation could be in the line, which could translate to things like loss of funding and credibility. It’s a whole system where you’re “credibility” (based on your research work) is like your credit, which qualifies you for many important achievements and funding. That’s why I understand that he kept it to himself for a bit, he mentions that before he told his team, which they then did further test to prove his data was correct.

​@@MrDimitrus yes. Or in other words: Not saying "this is true" to the very first results that you obtain is the reason for science to be reliable.

I kept my feelings to myself for this entire life from a person, he's not special duh

Tell me what makes a real scientist. If I conduct experiments based of observations and run these postulations through the scientific method, me performing science makes me a scientist, yeah?

@@williamborregard6384 by definition but you'll need a degree and publish papers to be recognized by the establisment

​@williamborregard6384 What is this comment? Dude is right, it's nice to see a real scientist give us data and update of a possible discovery. I don't understand what is so incomprehensible to you? Simple, the one who has devoted his life to science and has high education for any of the scientific fields and also has access to high grade equipment for searching around universe is a person you can trust about this information. It's not just as simple as "doing scientific calculations". It's his position, his diplomas etc.. Regarding your intelligent comment, I would say if you even manage to do a "scientific calculation" it would be a breakthrough on its own.

@@VoodooWalterWhite 😂you’re a real winner

@@VoodooWalterWhite I suppose you’re operating at a real high level of intelligence . Given you think space is real and “alien life” exists . A level of irony I wasn’t ready for . While your attempted insult was there, I find it far more hilarious than insulting . Space 😂what a joke

Well played.

"If there's one. There's more"

In space no one can hear you meme.

I’ve seen them myself. They aren’t interested in us. We are just ants to them.

As opposed to our current leaders with their microbial-sized brains.

The CIA released documents last year stating they’ve known about aliens for decades

What is he getting a noble prize for?

Yes, for what?

Fr bro aint getting no nobel prize🤣🤣

If he’s actually found verifiable alien life he should win a Nobel Prize in Astrobiology.