Do Gamma Ray Bursts Solve the Fermi Paradox? with Dr. James Annis

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Why is there a great silence?
Are Gamma Ray Bursts solve the answer to the fermi paradox?

Dr. James Annis of Fermi Lab spoke with John Michael Godier about the possibility of Gamma Ray Bursts being a filter for intelligent life. Do Gamma Ray Bursts kill off alien civilizations before they can travel into space?
Are they an astrophysical explanation for the great silence?

An Astrophysical Explanation for the Great Silence by Dr. James Annis

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Why is there a Great Silence?
Are Gamma Ray Bursts a filter on intelligent life?


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[RockawayCCW]

Maybe aliens, like us, have parasitic rulers that steal all their money and spend it on the wrong things, making space travel impossible.

[thethomascobbgroup]

I’m surprised I’m still alive considering the amount of times I’ve fallen into Event Horizon with John Michael Godier

[pudgeboyardee]

Daddy, tell me stories of the old ones: the first peoples of the galaxy.

One time they almost died and they were fighting over scraps of paper.

Do you mean paper money?

No, something called toilet paper. It appears to have been used in some ritual as there is an accompanying shrine in every home we've found.

[happyhammer]

I'm glad he pointed out more complex is not synonymous with progressive. Simplicity itself is efficiency.

[minicoupe]

Perhaps the best program I have watched. The back and forth conversation, the subject matter, graphics and research were so finely tuned. I heard so much subject matter and your guest was excellent and so knowledgeable. Thank you, can't say enough good about this show.

[TheWeatherbuff]

Here's a dumb question: We're seeing these stars as they "were", millions of years ago. What if they're teeming with life right now, (on our current time line), and their signatures simply haven't reached us yet? We've only been able to even detect exoplanets fairly recently. I'm sure that question is full of holes, but it just popped into my head. Fortunately, I'm a meteorologist and not a cosmologist, because I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about. On a positive note, this episode is excellent. Well, they all are. Thank you JMG!

[hallothar]

There's been some really good videos about the Fermi Paradox. One explanation is that maybe life isn't that rare, but intelligent life is very very rare. It's taken the earth 4 billion years to produce a sentient species. How many "lucky breaks" did it take for it to get there?

[mattaaf]

Lets get to Mars, then we can talk about how "easy" it would be to be "space-faring." I don't think we have the slightest clue when we haven't even gone past the moon yet.

[markyouneva]

just remember whatever the cosmic experts say, the reality will always be infinitely more spectacular and wild than they can ever predict

[SaladFingers_]

I love these Fermi Paradox themed videos, great stuff as always John!

[evanmoyle]

This guy is great. Surprised I haven’t heard of him. He needs to come back!

[Zebred]

Here's the answer to the Fermi Paradox -
1 It's early yet in our search for ET civilizations. We may well detect some yet with new instruments.
2 Kardashev is meaningless. Technology becomes refined as it develops away from heavy engineering. Clunky, heavy expressions of technology like Dyson spheres etc. is just not what will happen.
3 Profound understandings of physics and information will enable our descendants to transcend this physical universe. Our future will be much more profound than the frankly hokey speculations that are still mired in a techno-sociological and political framework of the past few centuries.

[chloewebb]

Absolutely love these discussions!! It's hard to find long, engaging, and intelligent science based conversations on a lot of these topics. I absolutely relish absorbing these episodes! These episodes are great whether I'm flying through the black in Elite: Dangerous, or needing stimulation/inspiration for the fiction I recreationally create♥️🌠✨🚀♥️✨⭐♥️

[sinisterminister]

Awesome!! Some small bit of sanity in these insane times. Thanks John. I hope you and yours are staying safe. Since I'm self quarantining I've been binge watching all your old videos.👍👍👍

[erictaylor]

People are always talking about how old the universe is, or how old the Milky Way is (~13 billion years old). But compared to how long we expect the universe to be capable of supporting life as we know it, (> trillions of years) it seems that the universe is really quite young, like calling a 6 hour old baby "old".
The amount of time the universe will be able to support life is thousands of times longer than the time since it was able to support life.
We have just one example of the evolution of life to intelligent beings (being capable of understanding what we understand about the universe). that the amount of time this has taken us is about average, but what if it is super fast, way faster than average?
After all, in any statistical distribution, you will have outliers. Things that are well outside of what is average.

[cyrilio]

Wouldn’t be surprised that we’d end up as greys. I’m starting to get grey already

[redpillcommando]

Fantastic video John. It's always a joy to see a post from you and Eryn/Anna.

[magneticmonopole]

Great content as always. Fair play for taking sponsors and even more fair play for keeping the sponsorship ads short. Cheers John.

[a-square]

Great Show John.
Reminds me of the Science shows I used to watch back in the early 80s. And it won't surprise me if you get picked up by a network.
Just don't forget your online crowd when you do.