We Have Never Been Closer To Finding Alien Life | Lightning Round

In this month's Lightning Round video, I answer a couple of questions about life in the universe, both how close we are to finding traces of life outside of Earth, and the experiments regarding how life began on Earth, and possibly other places. Also questions about solar panels, water towers, and time travel.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - New Hairstyles
0:22 - Definitive Proof of Alien Life
10:58 - The Miller-Urey Experiment
15:49 - The 2021 Texas Power Crisis
19:38 - How Do Water Towers Work?
21:36 - Useful Knowledge in Medieval England
24:36 - Sponsor - Factor

[floridafan]

As for alien life, I always say “life as WE know it”. I’m sure the universe holds so many more mysteries than we can even imagine that another “life” form may be totally unrecognizable to us.

[johnh]

It's funny listening to this after spending my youth reading Arthur C. Clarke books about these planets and thinking life should be pretty much a given at this point. It's amazing how much of his writing has stood the test of time.

[nomadbynature]

Joe may not be pregnant, but he never fails to deliver.

[paparoo]

I like how he described life on our planet as "our situation here" lol it felt apt

[watt]

Genuinely love how he made a lightning round video and spent an entire normal video length on one question.

[EmazingGuitar]

I always imagine that there’s a civilization out there that got it right the first time and live in complete peace.

[joelcarson]

Abiogenisis has got to be the case, it probably helps having a petri dish the size of the whole planet to run the experiment on.

[laurengillette]

I recently stumbled upon your channel, and I have to say it is such a gem! It's probably in the top 10 of the most uplifting, funny science channels on YouTube. Thanks, Joe, for being the highlight of my week.

[JonMartinYXD]

Finding life (alive life) in our star system would be terrifying. It would make it far more likely that The Great Filter is ahead of us instead of behind us.

[K.KILLORAN]

As someone who had a close encounter with a giant ufo, I can’t express how strange and amazing, but also alienating (no pun intended) it is for me to watch everyone debate this topic…since, like many of you, I once didn’t know, but then I found out in a life altering way, and now I just sit back and am amused by the whole thing. I do often wonder if the skeptics will be more able to accept experiences like mine once we inevitably find primitive life or past primitive life in our solar system, but I doubt it. I imagine the argument will just switch from “is there life elsewhere” to “is there intelligent life elsewhere”, which is actually kind of sad to me because I know so many people are desperate to know the answer, yet refuse to hear it. I get it, there are some Gaia TV/History channel profiteers that just make the whole topic intolerable, but those bad actors shouldn’t stunt the knowledge of our incredible place in the cosmos. I used to argue with people who would try and explain it away when I would describe my encounter, but honestly it was exhausting being treated like some feeble child who doesn’t know the difference between Venus and a half mile wide craft floating over me above the treetops. At this point I just take comfort in knowing that in my lifetime at least I know, I found out, I don’t have to quest endlessly on this topic anymore.

[anotherpeasant]

In regards to living history, that's why I love living history museums. Ross Farm is such a place in my area (for those who watch Oak Island, this is where Carmen Legg worked when he was introduced as an expert on the show before retiring). It's one thing to know how big projects were done, how armies fought, but without the home life none of it could exist at all. Domestic life is the foundation of civilization.

[scifieric]

The "I weigh less than a duck" made me howl with laughter. Glad to know you are a fan of Monty Python!

[robsquared]

They were able to fully extend the juice instrument!

[brockjames]

I started watching Answers With Joe years ago I think he had around 100k followers or less. So seeing he’s on track to hit 2M makes me so happy. He’s such a humble & hard working person that it makes me really happy to see him succeed. I’ll definitely be here as a lifetime fan and I’m excited to see him hit 10M in the years to come. Let’s go Joe!

[smellthel]

I honestly think single celled life would be pretty common. Theres a type of bacteria with only 182 genes. I think life becoming multicellular is the biggest hurdle. Single celled life on earth showed up pretty much as soon as it could have. Multicellular life showed up billions of years after that. Just think of how astronomically rare it must be for bacteria in a germ eat germ world to not only evolve to live together, but to actually survive.

[sirleebutler]

one of the things that made it way more feasible for me to get solar panels eight years ago was working with a solar coop. a bunch of people banded together to select the best company to work with, get the permitting streamlined, and negotiate good rates. once i got involved with them, it was just a matter of signing on the dotted line. highly recommend if the complexity is holding you back. (very glad it wasn’t anything like when my parents installed solar panels back in the early 80s! talk about permit hell…)

[raphaelkern]

27 minutes and 12 seconds well spent. Thank you Joe!

[TJRune]

Encouraging sanitation methods and understanding where disease actually comes from would have been a game changer. Though language barriers and the potential to just die in earlier times prior to any help given is considerable.

[funnyitworkedlasttime]

Joe, forgive me if you’ve already talked about this, but what are your thoughts on the Viking probes having found life back in the 1970’s?

[MrGreenotwo]

Hey, the hair looks great ! I am here for the information and humor. I have learned a ton from this channel that has gotten me to look deeper in all the subjects you have brought up.