Where Are They, All Those Aliens? | Episode 305 | Closer To Truth

Most scientists assume that the universe must be populated with innumerable alien intelligences and civilizations - after all, we humans can't be so special. OK, so where are they, these "innumerable alien intelligences and civilizations"? How come there's zero evidence? Featuring interviews with Jill Tarter, Douglas Vakoch, Frank Drake, Raymond Kurzweil, Francisco Ayala, Steven Dick, and David Brin.

Season 3, Episode 5 - #CloserToTruth

Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.

Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

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This is Episode 5 of Season 3, first aired on PBS stations in 2009.

[cerebellum]

All this talk of no evidence. Our search for life in the universe is like wading into the ocean with a shot glass, scooping some water, and inspecting it with your eye and concluding the ocean must be lifeless. Our search has not even begun.

[browngreen]

Much of this search for aliens reminds me of a family leaving New York City for the Grand Canyon. They're not even out of the driveway when the kids start demanding: "Are we there yet?"

[artisticcreations]

This show is the best on YouTube. Neurologist curious about human consciousness leading him to search for other life and answers to our own existence. Brilliant ! Then he interviews the smartest people on earth about our future. Great program . Thank you.

[cozycottagehome]

If a super advanced civilization hundreds of millions of years older than us wanted to keep Earth isolated as a zoo, blocking out all signs of their existence in the universe would be easy. Like draping a curtain over a birdcage..

[KokoRicky]

Mr. Kuhn has such an ASMR voice. Friendly, calm, inquisitive. Really enjoy listening to him and the fascinating people he talks to.

[BrianPseivaD]

Can I just say you do a fantastic job covering some really difficult to talk about subjects, thanks it’s brilliant!!

[jamesandalotofgames]

There’s no damn evidence because we don’t have technology to look. All we have is dishes to listen for radio signals . That doesn’t tell you squat.

[warrenreid]

The first step in learning is to admit that you don't know. The 2nd step is to declare that I want to know.

[sun]

About 4 years ago I was watching something on cable about this subject. A woman scientist made a very revealing observation. She said, if anyone walked up to the edge of a lake, river or ocean and took a glass full of water and looked to see there were no fish in the water, should they conclude there are no fish in the lake, river or ocean? This is the stage that we are at as exploration and understanding of the universe goes.

And actually, I think we might not even be at that stage of looking at a glass of water to use an analogy.

Another thing, many humans seem to think that there could be no intelligent life like us out there.

Who knows we in comparison to other living entities could be really, really primitive and unadvanced.

We humans have to stop our understanding of this subject matter from our very, very narrow limited perspective.

There could be living entities out there that were at the stage we are now during our Stone Age. And they managed not to destroy themselves and they are out there now.

[williamwmaysjr]

Problem is, all these arguments are based on human intellect and reasoning and our current understanding of physics. I think it's a little presumptuous to think that extra terrestrial life will act or think like us.

[RAVPower-]

“If we are alone in the universe, then we live in a simulation, there must be a intelligent creator behind it”…. This got me.

[planexshifter]

I find it absurd to assume that intelligent alien life would act like we do.

[odinswar]

How can we say we're alone when the furthest galaxies are billions of light years away. There is no way to find a definitive answer unless we find life in our own solar system. The distances are to vast or infinite to assume we are alone just because we can't see proof of them.

[nikitakucherov]

Its like looking in the corner of your bedroom and asking where are all the giraffes 🦒

[Mrhaddock-ee]

Drake spells it out clearly - when you stack up all the improbability’s you realise that the universe is teaming with life, including civilisational and technological but is just too far separated in time and space, to expect a meet-up

[davemmar]

Searching for extraterrestrials with the limited tools we have and expecting results is human arrogance. If we want it bad enough, and I think we do, we will get there some day.

[wkgurr]

8:50 interstellar space flight. The Fermi paradox does not rest on the assumption of space travel. It is the total lack of any kind of "intelligent" looking signal that is the core of this paradox. We're not looking for alien space travel but for any kind of hint - even the weirdest one - that there might exist intelligent life or life at all anywhere else in our solar system, our galaxy or the universe. It is not normally considered good science to state that something exists or must exist but we just haven't found it yet. All you can rightfully say is that with our current observational methods and at this time there is not even a shred of evidence that would point to the existence of life anywhere else but earth let alone intelligent life. That does not mean we should stop looking but we should stop exclaiming that IT MUST be there.

[jererojasg]

this channel is 50% pure knowledge and 50% ASMR

[Coffee-nxuy]

Imagine if they are already millions of years ahead in terms civilization... i think they could not even be bothered with our own existence...