The search for extraterrestrials | Douglas Vakoch | TEDxGreenville 

Diogo Sousa Pinto yoooo that was my first thought. “Is this Tom Hanks?”

Mr Rodgers

lmao. You're 100% right there.

LOL!!

Lmao! 😂

From a philosophical perspective, yes it is, but when your doing the same thing for centuries something has to change. Go to the library you'll see there are so many books on certain topics this because its not understood so the same information is then crammed into 100 different books (i.e. Gravity) whereas in the same pool you'll find topics with only a few books because its something that has been mastered and fully understood. I think in its beauty that was in those times, you could see so much more so they developed a curiosity far more craving than ours. We are developing technology that could do some crazy stuff, which opens up quite a few options, however I think we should broadcast to other stars instead of just listening as we have for 100+ years.

@@illproduct8688 beautifully said.

no christian religion, go figure

Cause they “knew”

It is amazing but totally untrue. That statement may be a false attribute to some philosopher back then. In the same way some give false attribute to religious figures for seemingly 'prophecies'. He might have articulated such bunch of words, but the speaker is cheating with the meaning. No way he could have meant that. They didn't perceive space as we do today, its just wrong.

I agree. ET would have sorted out lose radio waves across their part of the galaxy as it is a sure sign to say, "Hey we are here! Just come and release from our existing slavery." Reply would be, "Sure, you are now enslaved by us. What sauce goes with human flesh?" 🤣

Your right..primitive..but does a smoke signal not still work today if someone is lost? Do we not still all have radios in our cars? Some primitive things last more then a lifetimes..es: phone land lines.

Absolutely craig your so right , common sense is a great tool

Even if we had that technology, you think the government would just let everyone know their using it.

@@Tonyphotoplus lol

Yea they want nothing to do with us. I don't blame them because at it's root we are not a peaceful world.

EXACTLY !

Definitely

Exactly. It’s like you being in a dark forest with no idea if there are cougars or bears lurking around you. And then you call out into the dark. That is the analogy of sending radio signals or laser signals in space.

They saw this moron and said let him watch his Zebras for a bit longer

We humans are not what there interested in , the lifeforms such as animals are of high trade value ! The vast plant life is priceless to the galaxy trade blocks ! Trade is the number one asset in the universe ! Technology to travel across the galaxy is the most traded commodity !

I imagine any advanced civilization would have been through that as well.

Aliens aren't going to be any better than us. They're likely the product of the same flawed evolutionary process that we stem from. More likely, they will see how underdeveloped we are and conquer us. Isn't that what all those Christian anthropologists and English imperialists do when they meet a new, "less civilized" society? They conquer and force conformity. That's the way it's always been and still is.

So anyway did he see Navy’s ufo confirmation?

I was a bit confused by that redundancy as well.

I just caught that also

Same thing lol

I caught that too and immediately went to the comments to see who else did/called him out.. He almost said it 3 times but switched to "that planet" at the last second...

He's not wrong, just made a error... He certainly meant to say Mars

We haven’t been alone for many many many years ago

They have always been herexx

@me hee If that was the case they must have rockets up their arses.

LOL

@@marcomaihofer Yes, before our experience we would LOL, we're not laughing now. Scepticism like yours is not uncommon and understandable, but don't be too quick to dismiss.

So have i

Humans were piloting them, or they were unmanned.

I can hear you. The rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!

Sent pictures of Hand signals? How do we communicate with the deaf? Special Needs persons?

The reality is radio waves are universally fundamental because they are electromagnetic radiation. They are photons in the electromagnetic spectrum. So no, we cant hear radio waves, but thats not the point. Our antenna absorb radio waves.

I want you to really think about the question you just asked lmao

The problem is there is no tangible evidence to support this. Just science fiction stories. SETI is looking for evidence, proof that ET is out there.

Are the USS Nimitz & USS Roosevelt objects/anomalies sci fi stories?

@@TheoriginalTHX007 The Nimitz video doesn't show the object manoeuvering as described by the pilots. The fighter's camera remains locked onto the target. It's not going faster than the fighter aircraft, nor is it performing manoeuvers the fighter plane can't match.

@@stevemumbling7720 seti search with radio frequencies, say they dont transmit using radio frequencies ,

@@jumbo7165 Then SETI won't hear them.

Very Nice

@C. Fecteau On Wednesday, May 9th, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. The weight of this first-hand testimony, along with supporting government documentation and other evidence, will establish without any doubt the reality of these phenomena. "The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously." - Mikhail Gorbachev "I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth." - President Harry S Truman "I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on these Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources." - Honorable John McCormack, Speaker of the House "I believe that these ET vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth." - Astronaut Gordon Cooper "I believe the American people are entitled to a more thorough explanation that has been given them by the Air Force. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject." - Former President, Gerald Ford "Of course the flying saucers are real, and they are interplanetary." - Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding "We have, indeed, been contacted perhaps even visited by extraterrestrial beings and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public." - Former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the CIA, Victor Marchetti "I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one." - Former President Jimmy Carter "It is time for the truth to tbe brought out, behind the scenes high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects." - Former CIA Director, Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter "I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement in danger of the excommunication by the scientific theocracy." - Frank B. Salisbury, Ph.D

@@jigglypuff4227 AN ABOVE ALL THEY WERE ALL RELIGIOUS, AN THERE IN IS THE PROBLEM FOLKS.

most people who thinks they're special are mostly not right in the head and had more than one screw loose

Tell us how much of a miracle abiogenesis would be.

iamsuperfritz he does sound like one of his characters

Thought it was John lithgow lol

iamsuperfritz ~ Mr. Forrest Gump.

Sounds just like him!

It's a Steven Spielberg clone hybrid with a voice modifier that makes him sound like Tom Hanks.

Make yourself public to the entire world then, not just the military?

I bet Zeppelin would get aliens to come here immediately.

Less than invisible blip

Why are you always replying

I know

They're not using radio waves

I do not think so. Humans love to think themselves special. I bet the whole Universe is alive with intelligence.

Ah. A poet among us street urchins.

The signal isn't powerful enough. Same reason why you might not have service on your phone. Then of course, extremely advanced civilizations might have super antennas capable of receiving the extremely weak signal, but it's unlikely they're watching the big bang theory. Also if they're so advanced, radio signals are probably prehistoric to them. They might have developed faster than light communication, which is kinda essential if you're traveling millions or billions of light years among the stars.

Too ambitious, there are thrillions of galaxies in the universe, the possibility that we can find a civilize organization is like 99.9999999% Keep in mind we only saw about 1% of what is in our own universe, and that is being nice, not to mention we haven't even visited these planets, most of them is by telescope and that is it, many of those planets could even have life, we just don't know.

@@xdxxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdx8578 No man, there are no trillions of galaxies, 200 billion is the highest expected. And not all galaxies are as habitable as Milkyway, even in Milky way the temp goes pity high near the center. So there are a billion things you can eliminate from your permutation. And in 5billion years of earth, we have only made it for a century with enough tech to call ourselves species that can explore space. So, you see earth had more years than NO. of galaxies, What I mean that people should consider timing a much bigger factor than, (Habitable Planets/ Total Planets) is incomplete It should be like (Habitable Planets * Habitable Time at a particular portion of the universe)/ (Total Planet * Total Time) No, a very good depiction, but I guess you understand what I mean.

@@rogerthat365 The fact that we only know the known universe, because keep in mind it is what we know so far, the thing is, life can survive in different ways than us, so we should not compare ourself to extraterresial beings, for example some sea creatures can live deep in the ocean and survive very hard water pressure that a few decades back that we thought was impossible. You could be right, but base on pure maths and probability its more likely that we are not alone and there are probably millions of more advance civilization out there. Remember when we thought that we were at the center and the universe revolve around us? Only to realise that we are just one out of many planets orbiting our sun. We think or want to feel specail but the reality is, we are not.

Why would it be a bad idea? Exploration was always frowned upon by some supposed intelligent persons. No one has dibs on the thirst for getting out there and trying to see what's on the other side of that "Mountain". Not even that bear that went over the mountain to see what it could see.