Are we alone in the universe? | Martin Rees and Lex Fridman

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GUEST BIO:
Lord Martin Rees is cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

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SOCIAL:

[mckenzie]

It's scary to think we might be the ancient advanced civilisation people talk about.

[Elliotmeijer]

Anyone would be extremely fortunate to be at this age and so sharp and well spoken. Much respect

[rontron]

Can we all thank Lex for letting his guest speak and not making the interview about himself like many do.

[Michael-tqxm]

I have untold respect for Martin Rees. Brilliant minded man.

[RenewedAmbience]

It's like lex is interviewing an elderly english version of himself hahaha

[mellstroy_unfazed]

Are we alone in the universe?

IDK but I am alone definitely

[bri_____]

Lol
Let's find intelligent life on earth first

[robbiepeterh]

Our universe is just a piece of dust on the back of a picture frame

[jacqi]

If alien civilizations are anywhere near us (in the Milky Way, to be specific), they would be incredibly hard to detect. There’s no guarantee they’re building megastructures we could see. If they were hopping around their solar systems in space ships we wouldn’t be able to see that. We can’t even see our own space probes after a certain point.

[danball]

Consciousness and life feel like a dream where the edges are blurred

[teodorgeorgiev]

This guy gives me the creeps. Seems to be withholding a ton of info he has on the topic and those little random grins give me goosebumps. Reminds me a lot of the way reptilians are described to talk and behave in stories. There's just something about his demeanour.


(He's probably an innocent old man, fuck knows!)

[PaoloLery]

Martin Rees is fabulous. His book on the future is brilliant. So great to see him on Lex.

[j.m.b]

I really hope we're alone in the universe, I do think there are other forms of live but we'd better never find!! We can't even get along with family members imagine what would happen with alien beings.

[PattyDung]

IMO, he's got that spot-on right about the "electronic" progeny and how they may act over cosmic time. Few people 'get it'.

You are always braguing about your capacity for wonder, but you think earth is not special... Amazing.

[PlatinumState]

There are between 100-400 BILLION planets just in our milky way and they say there are between 100-200 BILLION galaxies, so there's no chance we're alone
For all we know there could be millions of civilizations out there. The distances are so vast we may never make contact though.

[torsmork]

The aliens knows it's probably best to just shut up...

[fermentedfruit]

would've never guessed lex would get Mr Rees wow 👌 truly incredible

[JMRxYM]

So we have fossil records dating back tens and hundreds of millions of years for life on this planet. Humans, (cro-magnon or anatomically modern human) however have only been here for 200, 00 years but the craziest part is that we have remained relatively unchanged in terms of cranial capacity and intelligence. If anything, we have started to regress in certain aspects because of the modernization of our world. Based on everything I've seen or read, I'm more inclined to believe the panspermia thesis ESPECIALLY given the fact that ancient religions mention UFO's quite often and even Christianity claims they "came down from upon high", that's literally outer space. We've been through multiple cataclysms and I wouldn't be surprised if we've been more advanced before.

[Gentlemanclub]

We dont even know what happening in our oceans .