We Have Never Been Closer To Finding Alien Life | Lightning Round 

As for alien life, I always say “life as WE know it”. I’m sure the universe holds so many more mysteries than we can even imagine that another “life” form may be totally unrecognizable to us.

Joe may not be pregnant, but he never fails to deliver.

I started watching Answers With Joe years ago I think he had around 100k followers or less. So seeing he’s on track to hit 2M makes me so happy. He’s such a humble & hard working person that it makes me really happy to see him succeed. I’ll definitely be here as a lifetime fan and I’m excited to see him hit 10M in the years to come. Let’s go Joe!

I like how he described life on our planet as "our situation here" lol it felt apt

It's funny listening to this after spending my youth reading Arthur C. Clarke books about these planets and thinking life should be pretty much a given at this point. It's amazing how much of his writing has stood the test of time.

Genuinely love how he made a lightning round video and spent an entire normal video length on one question.

That whole concept of lived history is absolutely fascinating to me, and far more interesting than political and military history as we usually learn it. I've always wanted to write a series of short stories about what the lifestyle equivalent would be for me and my wife at various points in the past.

I recently stumbled upon your channel, and I have to say it is such a gem! It's probably in the top 10 of the most uplifting, funny science channels on RU-vid. Thanks, Joe, for being the highlight of my week.

I always imagine that there’s a civilization out there that got it right the first time and live in complete peace.

They were able to fully extend the juice instrument!

Finding life (alive life) in our star system would be terrifying. It would make it far more likely that The Great Filter is ahead of us instead of behind us.

I'm really happy to hear you're ready for another freeze. I'm a Canadian polar bear and never have I ever had to deal with the brutal freeze y'all had in '21. They'll sing ballads about the Texas Freeze for ages. I dealt with a polar vortex and power outage around that time and you all had it much worse and for longer - and a couple'a thousand miles closer to the equator at that!

I'm not sure you did the best job explaining water towers. You described their purpose in terms of both storage and pressure. They're not really about storage, though. They're an incredibly helpful way to maintain fairly consistent pressure levels in the water mains. Without them, the pumps at the water treatment plant would cycle on every time someone opened a faucet, then off again when the faucet was closed. Without sone pretty complex setups, you would end up with significant swings in the water pressure within the mains. Towers use gravity and the weight of the column of water to keep the pressure much more consistent. The pumps, then, only need to cycle long enough to keep the water level within a certain range in the tower.

In regards to living history, that's why I love living history museums. Ross Farm is such a place in my area (for those who watch Oak Island, this is where Carmen Legg worked when he was introduced as an expert on the show before retiring). It's one thing to know how big projects were done, how armies fought, but without the home life none of it could exist at all. Domestic life is the foundation of civilization.

How crazy would it be that there is potential for life all over the universe, but it turns out we're just the first to get this far

You make learning things fun!! I’ll never get tired of your videos

Abiogenisis has got to be the case, it probably helps having a petri dish the size of the whole planet to run the experiment on.

The "I weigh less than a duck" made me howl with laughter. Glad to know you are a fan of Monty Python!

A great personality goes a long way in making education fun and engaging. I love how you explain in simple terms, as oppose to trying to impress me with a bunch of random big words

Keep growing it out! As someone who grew through the awkward phase - you'll love it. You have nothin to lose but your chains!

Love your videos sir, your channel always survives my subscription purges. May as well of won the hunger games at this point.

I so agree about the whole 'losing how people actually lived back then' it's so fucking true. LIke, my next door neighbors last name is 'lightman' and when they traced back their ancestory, they got their name because there was a job...where guys just walked around with fucking lights...and were called lightmen... in a large castle...there could be several hundred lightmen who would walk the battlements and around the town, to make sure there was enough light around for people...

I’ve been watching every thing that Curiosity and Ingenuity do, there’s a great channel that pieces it all together every three months and goes through everything. It’s SO damn COOL! Watching from a rover and helicopters pov on the surface of another planet, it’s just.. amazing. Blows my mind everytime I think about it and have to remind myself it’s real

This is all so cool!!! Hope I'm still around for the results of these missions! 😅

one of the things that made it way more feasible for me to get solar panels eight years ago was working with a solar coop. a bunch of people banded together to select the best company to work with, get the permitting streamlined, and negotiate good rates. once i got involved with them, it was just a matter of signing on the dotted line. highly recommend if the complexity is holding you back. (very glad it wasn’t anything like when my parents installed solar panels back in the early 80s! talk about permit hell…)

27 minutes and 12 seconds well spent. Thank you Joe!

Joe, forgive me if you’ve already talked about this, but what are your thoughts on the Viking probes having found life back in the 1970’s?

This video takes the subject and wanders WAY beyond improbable.

Hey, the hair looks great ! I am here for the information and humor. I have learned a ton from this channel that has gotten me to look deeper in all the subjects you have brought up.

Despite Dallas’ reputation as an oil town, it’s location allows it be a great place for both solar and wind energy production. Kind of a fun fun wrinkle imo ☺️

Hello "Joe Scott"! Thank you for showing us such a wonderful video! I feel so happy! I'm looking forward to your next work! Have a nice day!

Hi Joe, on the off chance you don't already know this book, you might enjoy 'At Home' by Bill Bryson which deals with the everyday life in previous eras. Thank you for the cool videos!

Encouraging sanitation methods and understanding where disease actually comes from would have been a game changer. Though language barriers and the potential to just die in earlier times prior to any help given is considerable.

I live close to Perkins observatory where the Big Ear captured the WOW! Signal and I've done several astronomy observing sessions on the exact same spot, now a golf course. I hope we get a verified ET signal in my lifetime.

Thankyou Joe. Good content after a hard day at work.

As someone who had a close encounter with a giant ufo, I can’t express how strange and amazing, but also alienating (no pun intended) it is for me to watch everyone debate this topic…since, like many of you, I once didn’t know, but then I found out in a life altering way, and now I just sit back and am amused by the whole thing. I do often wonder if the skeptics will be more able to accept experiences like mine once we inevitably find primitive life or past primitive life in our solar system, but I doubt it. I imagine the argument will just switch from “is there life elsewhere” to “is there intelligent life elsewhere”, which is actually kind of sad to me because I know so many people are desperate to know the answer, yet refuse to hear it. I get it, there are some Gaia TV/History channel profiteers that just make the whole topic intolerable, but those bad actors shouldn’t stunt the knowledge of our incredible place in the cosmos. I used to argue with people who would try and explain it away when I would describe my encounter, but honestly it was exhausting being treated like some feeble child who doesn’t know the difference between Venus and a half mile wide craft floating over me above the treetops. At this point I just take comfort in knowing that in my lifetime at least I know, I found out, I don’t have to quest endlessly on this topic anymore.

Monday is my rest day and I love to relax and watch joe

They fully fixed RIME now after a few heat and cooling cycles they managed to break it free and fully unwind the system this pass week or so

Thank you JOE!! I repeat myself every time I comment but You always deliver !🎉🎉 You’re awesome, keep doing what you’re doing 🎉🎉 Peace

It’s like being 20’ into 1000 mile trip and saying “I’ve never been closer to the end” We’ve never communicated with alien life. So there are two options. 1) it never happens 2) we’ve never been closer

There's a great series from Tony Robinson on "the worst jobs in history". It talks a lot about the life of ordinary people in England across time.

It really depends on how far back you travel if you could communicate with other English speakers. Old English is a foreign language compared to modern English. Middle English is close enough that with enough time and effort, you could probably learn to communicate but it would be very difficult, And by the 1500's you could probably communicate relatively efficiently.

3:30 "habitable life," my favorite statement from the 1979 classic The Black Hole.

I honestly think single celled life would be pretty common. Theres a type of bacteria with only 182 genes. I think life becoming multicellular is the biggest hurdle. Single celled life on earth showed up pretty much as soon as it could have. Multicellular life showed up billions of years after that. Just think of how astronomically rare it must be for bacteria in a germ eat germ world to not only evolve to live together, but to actually survive.

The fact Joe's hair looks a bit different makes me believe this is not Joe, its paranormal SCP imitating him

Love to hear about your house power upgrades Joe. And love to hear people are learning to avoid Tesla like the plague!

It looks fabulous Joe.

I love your channel, I would love for you to do a detailed video with all of this UFO/UAP stuff going on. I mean what the heck is going on with NASA being involved? Anyways from another science nerd your videos are amazing and I appreciate what you and your team are doing. Cheers!

For getting through the 20km ice surface just use a perfectly vertically dropped light saber!

Where did the drum bits go

Joe, I had to pause the video and say your hair still looks amazing, I really think the longer style suits you and what you're doing with it now is working, so keep it up you'll master it in no time!

The intro had me cackling.. hahah freakin Joe Scott! 😂😊

The BBC did series on how UK farms were run back in history. I think one of them is called Edwardian farm. If you’re interested in lived history, there are definitely a good series to watch

We have large brine oceans in the earth's mantle too. It may be interesting to somehow try to analyse those for life too. The potential life down there has been cut off everything else for millennia.

The parallels between the old kitchen life he showed and spoke of, and the Factor concept, are interesting.

Great one Joe

Very informative and entertaining. A good book to learn "living history", especially about the middle ages is The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. In the year 2154 a history graduate student goes back to the middle ages and finds much of what she learned about the time period was not correct.

The whole 'what would you do to change things in Mediaeval England without risking being branded a witch' thing is worth a complete episode. I think I would just pretend I was a foreigner with a slight grasp of Englishe, to explain why I could understand some words and not others. Perhaps I could say I was Australian, since they wouldn't know where that is. Using the 'foreign' excuse as a reason for all this new knowledge is probably the best route. *I'd try and introduce proper drainage, sewage, water pipes and pipe from clean water sources, explaining that in 'my country' people don't get sick if they pipe fresh, clean water from a spring or clean stream. *Also - deodorant. You can make your own out of beeswax, natural scent extracts. That'll help make the people smell better for starters. *Toothpaste and toothbrushes, and when to use them. Give a few hints as to the reason for tooth decay. *I'd advise against using things like Arsenic and Lead in certain medical and beauty products, which might mean a need to encourage the doctors of the day to conduct experiments to prove the point. *Introduce washing hands well with soap before eating and not spitting on the floor during mealtimes (apparently, our lack of personal hygiene used to appal the Dutch when they came over to work in Eastern England during the 17th century). *And that's another one - learn about how to reclaim land from the sea, draining fenland marshes to improve agriculture and get rid of Malarial mosquitoes. *Rat and mouse traps that work. *To start the process of introducing germ theory - I'd start with the whole Smallpox-Cowpox-oh look at the dairy maids thing. *To explain some of the needs of replacing felled trees, as it wasn't until Admiral Nelson who was the first to show concern at the severe decrease in good, large Oaks suitable for ship-building. To value the trees and hedgerows early on as ways of stabilising soil, soil building and preventing erosion would save us so much grief in the future. The only down side of going back to this era is - you'd have to start attending church. No way could you get away with being an atheist, unfortunately. And you'd have to be prepared to dance back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism at the drop of a hat (or the drop of a monarch). So might be worth learning a couple of simple prayers before you got in the time machine.

Have you ever done a video surrounding oak island? It’s an interesting topic with probably many debunkable theories that could be a cool video

Hey there Joe, thanks so much for these extremely informative and interesting videos. I love watching 🙂 A question: is it possible to publish in such a way that the viewer has the option to turn off background music? If so, may I humbly suggest/request?

Ok I have to do this before watching the video. Until we do find alien life we will always be the closest to finding alien life.

I would love if you could make a short video explaining, for example, how we know the ice there is 20 km deep. I think it is one of those rabbit holes that a lot of us would enjoy and hopefully does not require as much investigation as a regular video. Thank you for creating for us.

Have you ever been interested in the mysterious disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi? I'm sure there would be a lot of people whom love your mystery videos that would love your take on that; the way you research and present it and separate the facts from your own take on it afterwards is one of the key things that made me a fan of your channel. love all the science and interesting (historical and such) facts videos too. Thank you very much for all your efforts in making these wonderfully entertaining yet educational videos.

If you are seeing any switch over time (those power blinks), something isn't right. It really shouldn't have that long of a switch over time.

Love it, thank you

“We’ve never been closer.” Sometimes I feel this way about my lost bank card. But the truth is, though I have turned my car and every room in my house inside out and upside down, and just realized I did not look in the clean laundry basket, the card is in a dumpster behind the gas station.

I'm totally with you on fairly disappointing history education, and I'd like to add. It would also be neat to learn about how settlements were formed. As far as I remember we were taught "and then this city was formed". To be fair for a lot of places it is probably hard to tell when exactly it was settled, but still anything would be welcome.

Yes! Another Joe video!!!

The long hairs looking good, Joe! Nice flow.

Very excited for all these missions, and the life condition experiements are fascinatong… One of your best episodes imo… even if the thumbnail left me at least somewhat disappointed 👽

If you live on a moon near Jupiter, doesn't that make Jupiter your version of a moon in your night sky??? Altho, knowing Jupiter, it would take up the entire sky XD Also, loving all the talk about Jupiter and Europa, especially since I named my new kitten Europa! And I just love hearing that name, and all about Jupiter's system.

I liked the segue from alien life to solar panels.

Thanks joe

A friend of mine went through permit purgatory and never got solar power but spent a lot of money paying the contractor to hear him say he can’t do it.

Here in Europe we have lakes that are routed through tunnels dug in the mountain, they're used as dynamos. Renewable energy is used to pump the water back up and going down, it's generating electricity, efficiently. Essentially, the lake is a huge battery.

hearing him talk about the miller-urey experiment reminded me of the primordial soup jokes i see around sometimes , one of my favs is 'i would've stayed in the primordial soup if i knew it was gonna be like this'.

20km thick, holy shit. I'd been excited about Europa probes, but I'd never heard the exact thickness of the ice.

Quite literally. All points in the past will have been further away from work discovery than now.

Before we drill through ice, we should consider if we are potentially bringing in outside viruses or contamination that would destroy a pristine alien biota.

Creeping Closer and Closer to that 2 Million Subscriber Milstone = Congratulations Joe

0:46 your hair is just "unbelievably random thing". I kid, I love your vids Joe, and your hair! Keep it up!

I think I was just able to diagnose myself with ADHD after fixating on the moving shadow on your forehead instead of what you were saying. 😊

I've found evidence of alien life on Earth already. Obviously none of you have met my ex-girlfriend.

I am glad you mentioned the brown outs of your system as I went with two Tesla Powerwalls, covering the entire 2150 square foot house, including AC. There is no interruption in power, which is exactly what we needed for the way our house was set up electronically. The only way we know that the power failed is through a Tesla app message after five minutes and/or a text from the power company. Kind of fun as we loose power frequently. Since we got our system in Jan 2021, the batteries worked during 48 events, totaling 48 hours, with the longest event lasting 6 hours.

Thank you

Personally, I feel if we ever do find life elsewhere in the universe, unless we already have, the government is definitely going to either stagnate or absolutely not release that info to the masses. I hope they just come right out and say as soon as proof is found, but I feel there will be something to lose if they did I feel.

your hair looks amazing joe!!!

The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Joe Scott.

Great stuff Joe! I've also thought about how I would function in various historical situations. I've concluded that my best option would be to hide away in the woods somewhere and STAY there until i could figure out some advantageous methods to survive even longer. As far as interacting with humans, it's generally a dangerous proposition. If we've learned anything by learning about history, it's that. In fact, if you can imagine how an individual might be better off at any point in history, the lone wolf always has the advantage, exactly because they don't interact with humans. Always enjoy your content! Peace

Thanks man.

I was going going comment on your hair too. I thought it looked great, well worth the effort.

Speaking of alien life forms… your hair has been looking good! Keep up the good work… on the videos… and the hair.

Joe-stradamus, you're too funny sometimes! 😂

Yes hello. Hey Joe, I really enjoyed the video. Good job. Oh, and your hair looks nice. Take care bro.

Hello Joe, I am a new subscriber.

I too have been growing out my hair for the past two months. Having to fight myself every so often from cutting it. Keep it growing man, we can be each other's support, lol. Just have to make it to winter and then it'll be to far and too long to go back.

we have always been closer to finding life than ever before because the more we explore and not find stuff we know to look somewhere else

1. love the new hair (you look younger) + better skin ? 2. New setup + music = cool

I have studied at Mac and had conversations with both Dr. Putridz (on the left) and Dr. Rheinstadter (on the right) who lead the experiement. I find it so interesting that you need input from state-of-the-art models about things ranging from planet evolution, climate in young planets, pre-biotic chemistry, etc. and the theory, observations (astronomical) and experiments kind of go hand-in hand. In fact, one of the reasons JWST is so phenomenal is because it is expected to build our catalogs on chemical composition of exoplanets - which is crucial in studying bio signatures and modelling the bio-chemistry of these systems.

Joe, your hair looks great! I believe in you 😊