What's Up With Those Alien Bodies?

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What’s up with the alien bodies? Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down why he didn’t accept an invitation to Mexico go inspect them and how he is more than skeptical about their extraterrestrial origins.

This video is something we intended to release months ago. Multiple recording sessions attempting to capture Neil's message were plagued with technical issues. Due to the poor video quality resulting from these issues, we decided to leave this one on the cutting room floor… until now.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - What’s Up with the Aliens?
1:22 - Neil’s Invitation to Mexico
4:20 - Skepticism & the Scientific Process
5:43 - Verifying the Bodies
7:42 - Other Issues & Closing Thoughts
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Do you think the alien bodies are real?

StarTalk
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Anyone who had these and thought they were legit real would WANT every scientist on earth to study them to verify them.

rev.chuckshingledecker
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Skeptical Scientists make some of the best scientists. My favourite example is Rontgen, who, the story goes, was so so disbelieving of his initial discovery of X-rays that he conducted every possible test that he could image to disprove they existed but, in doing so, simply compiled more and more evidence that they did in fact exist. He then shared this with all other scientists and asked them to repeat his tests and prove him wrong. This is how Scientific fact is disclosed, not by someone saying, '" I've done the tests, I've seen the evidence, believe me, it's true." This is not science.

stewartfarley
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I love how this was more about how science works/should work rather than just a mocking video. How a student and phd can have their names on paper without rank, but just with their ideas. Wasn't expecting an educational video, but learned some nice and very fascinating info. Bravo.

TiptronicSS
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I love how Neil always makes sure science is understood AS a process to gain knowledge through proper processes like peer reviews.

juicewrld
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I am a biologist. And I feel delighted to see that your arguments about how this should have been put to the test is almost to the letter equal to what I said to a friend who asked about my thoughts on this matter two or three months ago.

ronyorobio
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As an evolutionary biologist and morphologist, i can only agree that this video is spot on regarding the scientific method and the issues with these always "humanoid looking" aliens. Thanks Neil 😊

Amradar
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"If an alien comes and says 'take me to your leader'... don't take him to any leaders."
Probably the best and most logical suggestion for an alien contact situation ever.

whitewalker
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This is the single most entertaining video on the whole youtube!! Humorous, educative, important topic, inspiring presentation. Neil da Best!

horvathmilcsi
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I am a cartoonist and 50 years ago someone challenged me to design an alien that had no features that any creature on Earth had. --I'm still working on it.

garyman
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One of my favorite quotes describes this perfectly:

Neil deGrasse Tyson, a science communicator with a Ph.D. in astrophysics, has said, “One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong”

MyLoganTreks
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I used to live in Mexico, and the guy who presented the "bodies" is Jaime Maussan, who has spent decades talking about aliens. It was always a bit of a joke, and not many really took him that seriously.

FumikoNobuoka
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I don’t understand why people think that ancient indigenous people are not capable of creating large geometric structures or paths.

the.magic.catbus
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I liked the xenomorphs from the Alien franchise. The first one looked humanoid but you find out that it was because it was gestated in a human. The one that was burst from a dog was a quadruped.

llywyllngryffyn
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The thing with the nazca lines is that everyone goes on about how you can't see them from the ground. But there is nearby mountains and hill from which you can see them.
Just from the air you can see all of them at once.

crwydryny
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This has to be one of my top 5 star talk videos. It's amazing that this was released finally, and we got to see it.

johnjob
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I did not know the terminology for the shoulder star/bar/badge racks. I learned something new today. Thanks

mornhammer
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I'm a Canadian living in Mexico and I can tell you there was zero news here about these "aliens". We first heard it on an American news station. Nobody I know here is taking it seriously.
Dr. deGrasse Tyson, where can I get one of those awesome bumper stickers???

robynmorris
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As an alien myself I see this as an absolute fact.

dicejr
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Aliens or not, big thanks to the production team for making this video a reality! Well done!

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