Brian Cox On Odds Of Alien Life In The Universe 😳

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[cjitaya]

In other words, we are enormously blessed to have a planet like ours that's remained stable for four billion years.

[SpiteBellow]

We're sending Brian Cox as our ambassador alien

[HHHDeadzone]

I hope this guy is as happy as he appears in these clips

[gdok]

We are truly blessed to live on a beautiful planet. We all need to work together for peace and to protect our earth.

[ivanivanovic]

Such a great man! Brings you knowledge without any narcissism or arrogance. Thank you!

[bostarl]

This dude always seems so excited and happy about what he studies like he genuinely enjoys talking about it. So pure

[SeaWindy]

Key words...Stable for that long...Brian is so amazing in the way he explains...He is a treasure for sure.

[skunk]

NEVER stop teaching Brian Cox. You can put together explanations while others just confuse. A proper Degeneration X scientist. The Carl Sagan of our time.

[illchangelateridk]

That's the most reasonable take on the subject I've heard, nuanced, yet concise

[UBGeSports]

If I had this guy as my professor, I would have 100% attendance in his class.

[anthonyhewitt]

Not only all the time it took and the 100s of millions of years of natural selection taking place but the amount of sheerluck i think is insanely rare as well.

[gurnblanstein]

To compare how little of the universe we've searched for aliens, You could use the analogy of taking a drinking cup, dipping it in the ocean, and not finding any fish in the cup. And then concluding that it means there are no fish in the ocean.

[Cornholio]

i like the way is explaining things and his voice is somehow very calming

[d.rodrickeamon]

We're very lucky to have a stable star. "You are, my lucky star..."

[Doofito]

He makes me feel so smart when he talks because of how he can break down complex topics like this 😭

[Hendo-Swirl]

Took not only stability but multiple mass extinctions and near perfect conditions for human life to evolve. Even a million other Earth-like planets in the Goldie locks zone might not yield similar results

[physicssimulator]

Another thing to think about is that we may’ve never existed if the asteroid never hit Earth. Even when a planet is stable, evolution doesn’t have to lead to intelligent life, once a stable system, or a very dominant predator emerges it could stop there.

[puffsniffy]

I love this dude. You can tell he loves his work😊

[woodrobin]

I always think of the the story "They're Made of Meat". It's a science fiction story about an alien explorer/scientist who is trying to explain to its supervising entity the rather disquieting discovery it's made on a planet called "Earth". Living, sentient beings made of meat. They communicate by forcing air through their meat. They think by transmitting electrical signals through their meat. It has probed them, and they're meat all the way through (it mercifully removed the memory of the probing by smoothing small portions of their thinking meat).

Because they are made of meat, they can only enter space by taking containers of their atmosphere with them to preserve their meat, and they can therefore not exceed the speed of light. They can never participate fully in the travel, information exchange, and community of the vast array of intelligent beings in the galaxy.

The decision is made ex parte to wipe the logs of the discovery and leave the meat people of Earth unaware of the larger community they can never fully join. After all, who would want to meet meat?

[blakeyyboii]

Could anybody else listen to Brian Cox talk all night?