Are We the First Intelligent Life in our Galaxy? with David Kipping

In this video, John Michael Godier and David Kipping discuss new research from the Cool Worlds Lab, applying a classic statistical result to the search for alien life. The findings suggest something suprising; join us to explore how this conclusion was reached and its potential implications.

Crowded or Lonely? The Statistics of Alien Life

Do SETI Optimists Have a Fine-Tuning Problem?

More JMG

Want to support the channel?

Follow us at other places!
@JMGEventHorizon

Music:

FOOTAGE:
NASA
ESA/Hubble
ESO - M.Kornmesser
ESO - L.Calcada
NAOJ
University of Warwick
Goddard Visualization Studio
Langley Research Center
Pixabay

[Splucked]

I see 'David Kipping', I click. My favorite guest.

[JonnoPlays]

I truly appreciate people in the YouTube community who also participate in the real scientific community and publish papers and get time on JWST etc. David is a real hero in the science community. Pushing science forward and explaining it in laymens terms for the rest of us and producing top quality content for us all to consume. Great work having him on the program so many times. Best of the best.

[cabanford]

Kipling!!! The two best voices in cosmology ❤❤❤❤

[davidreiter]

JMG w/ David Kipping, an instant recipe for a great and insightful podcast!

[edibleapeman]

Y'all're The Avengers of internet space-thinkers. This was a delightful meeting of minds - please do it again!

[EliasAlucard]

Great, now I have something interesting to watch tonight. Kipping is one of the best guests on this podcast, along with Stephen Webb!

[SirAntoniousBlock]

_'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not, both are equally terrifying.'_
Arthur C Clarke.

[stricknine]

David Kipping is one of my favorite guests! Great interview! I personally would love an AI Octopus. Thanks for the episode.

[thegreenman]

First time listening. That was one of the most interesting conversations I’ve heard in a while. Thank you I am now hooked on your channel.

[DConnectEmpire]

This is one of these nights where everything just goes right.

[wheredowegofromhere]

The host was born to be a narrator, his voice is really uncannily good

[nathan-d]

David Kipping. This will be a good one.

[rb]

Always nice to have David back in the show!

[Aitch]

it's crazy how far the cool worlds channel has come. I remember when david first came on and even made a whole presentation about subbing that i just had to

[greysonwolf]

Much needed relaxation for tonight. Thanks for what you do, and easing this restless mind!

[gardenlizard]

We have just found out there is a 13 billion year movie running at the local cinema, have rushed to the cinema bought the popcorn and without time to clean the smudges from our glasses, walked in to the cinema and are now trying to find a seat in the darkness of the cinema, all all while only one frame of the movie has been shown.
Don't expect to find ET anytime soon.
Am 😊 with this expectation.

[LeeGoddard]

I rarely if ever hear about what importance access to fossil fuels had on our evolution to a technological society. What if it was common to have a species get to where we were 500 years ago but they didn’t have hundreds of millions of years worth of stored hydrocarbons to accelerate their growth? Is it even possible? If everything was the same in our history but there was no coal or oil where would we be now?

[Grim-Crusader]

Dr. David Kipping...? Always a must watch 😊

[robotaholic]

Dr. Kipping please come on more! Never enough!

[romanovskie]

This is gonna be a good one. Really like Prof kipping and the work he and cool worlds do.