How Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?
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Top Comments (10)
everybody gangsta until its actually aliens
I find it so fascinating that we can now just measure spectra of planets' atmospheres. I remember discussing that possibility as a teenager with my dad, more than 25 years ago after reading about the idea. He told me I was crazy and this would never happen in my lifetime. Sadly, it didn't happen in his.
I always love it when you say, "It's never aliens, until it is." I wish more people would come to that conclusion. Too many people, say things like, "I can't explain it so it must be aliens."
It still amazes me how fast we've progressed in the last 150 years. Also going from the first powered flight to landing on the moon in 66 years is absolutely insane.
One of the problems with finding life seems to be that the places that are easiest to look, planets close in to stars where a lot of transits can happen in a short time, are nothing like the one planet we know has life. Not that this is useless, there's a lot of science that can be done besides searching for life and if we did find life in such a different world that would be VERY eye opening about what life actually needs. But it does mean that our threshold for believing a signal is life will be higher in a system/planet that's so different from our only confirmed life. All reminds me of this joke: You're walking down the street at night when you see a person looking on the ground under a lamp post. You ask them what's happening and they say they're looking for an earring that they just lost. So you offer to help and after looking with them a while you ask "are you sure you dropped the earring here?" The person you're with looks up surprised at the question and says "oh heavens no, I lost it over there" pointing down the street into the dark. So you respond confused "but if you dropped it over there why are we looking here?" The searcher replies "well this is where the light is."
Long time watcher. I just to say thank you for always being truthful about the tentativeness of discoveries. So many YouTube channels would have made a video about the same information saying we discovered life on other planets. You guys always stay true to the science and the healthy skeptical approach. It’s appreciated.
What scifi movies will Matt watch this week? I'm not sure, all I know is - it's never Aliens...
"It's Usually Human Delusions" - Would be the most truthful T-shirt.
This is why the Dark Forest hypothesis falls apart. The aliens already know where we are, and soon, we will know where they are. In space, staying hidden is impossible.
As a certain Vulcan would say: Fascinating
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Top Comments (10)
everybody gangsta until its actually aliens
I find it so fascinating that we can now just measure spectra of planets' atmospheres. I remember discussing that possibility as a teenager with my dad, more than 25 years ago after reading about the idea. He told me I was crazy and this would never happen in my lifetime. Sadly, it didn't happen in his.
I always love it when you say, "It's never aliens, until it is." I wish more people would come to that conclusion. Too many people, say things like, "I can't explain it so it must be aliens."
It still amazes me how fast we've progressed in the last 150 years. Also going from the first powered flight to landing on the moon in 66 years is absolutely insane.
One of the problems with finding life seems to be that the places that are easiest to look, planets close in to stars where a lot of transits can happen in a short time, are nothing like the one planet we know has life. Not that this is useless, there's a lot of science that can be done besides searching for life and if we did find life in such a different world that would be VERY eye opening about what life actually needs. But it does mean that our threshold for believing a signal is life will be higher in a system/planet that's so different from our only confirmed life. All reminds me of this joke: You're walking down the street at night when you see a person looking on the ground under a lamp post. You ask them what's happening and they say they're looking for an earring that they just lost. So you offer to help and after looking with them a while you ask "are you sure you dropped the earring here?" The person you're with looks up surprised at the question and says "oh heavens no, I lost it over there" pointing down the street into the dark. So you respond confused "but if you dropped it over there why are we looking here?" The searcher replies "well this is where the light is."
Long time watcher. I just to say thank you for always being truthful about the tentativeness of discoveries. So many YouTube channels would have made a video about the same information saying we discovered life on other planets. You guys always stay true to the science and the healthy skeptical approach. It’s appreciated.
What scifi movies will Matt watch this week? I'm not sure, all I know is - it's never Aliens...
"It's Usually Human Delusions" - Would be the most truthful T-shirt.
This is why the Dark Forest hypothesis falls apart. The aliens already know where we are, and soon, we will know where they are. In space, staying hidden is impossible.
As a certain Vulcan would say: Fascinating