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  • Amazing woman !

  • The search for ETs?? lol theyre already here. The problem is that certain people would rather you not know the truth about it.

  • I've got a massive cock. Ohhh shit wrong forum. Its out of this world though

  • fallen angels its simple wake up .....

  • @the404man I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. I laughed regardless.

  • After hearing her speech, I wonder how many secret societies she is a member of :P

  • Funny @scottwebb after reading your comment i thought now iv got to add this guy as a friend, went to your page only to find your already my friend :))

  • @the404man :)

  • 12:35 Blackberry phone text (listen closely!) lol- thats about all I gained from this vid :)

  • great speech.Keep up the great work.

  • The idea of SETI is interesting but the odds that we will intercept a signal from a civilization millions of years advanced are infinitesimally small. We've used radio waves for .05% of our species' history and the chances are overwhelming that these will soon be extinct.

    Despite my skepticism, I agree with scientists who think we should be looking for artificial (machine) signals since that it is the way we are going.

  • Deciphering the technical information in such a message will keep us busy for years.

  • Obama is cutting NASA funding.... ;(

  • bitch is a smart woman.she know that extra terrestial exists.she is too afraid to speak up the fact.....

  • id rather find the less advanced civilizations than the more advanced, and fuck with how they think like the aliens do with us

  • she is exceptionally well spoken

  • 18:05 ... watch?v=J2I1_HxCFNM

  • Excellent speech.

  • if you trust SETI for this kind of info - you will be waiting a long time..!

  • You can tell how passionate she is about this. Truly an amazing individual.

    SETI is an amazing quest, too bad it has recently been shut down.

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  • @ErockBitchess Check the news. SETI has been suspended.

  • really inspiring

  • this woman is brilliant. We are not the top dog, we are but one small branch of organisms here. We need to be partners with the other life forms we depend on, all life on earth matters equally. The Old Testament created the original eco-ego imbalance by stating we were masters over the natural world. What a bunch of BS. Most Humans are really, narrow minded, ignorant in the crowd mentality. We aren't very intelligent so how can we recognize intelligent life? inner worlds are full of life

  • this woman is brilliant. We are not the top dog, we are not the culmination of Life's chain on earth. we are but one small branch of organisms here.

  • I laugh at humans. The simple truth is we aren't alone even on this planet. We're surrounded by countless lifeforms, many of which are as intelligent as we were not too long ago. Elephants, dolphins, chimps. They are evolving with us. They are being influenced by us. They are aware of us. And one day soon, if we don't completely destroy this planet first, they will surpass us.

  • @TheGrinninMan

    "they will surpass us."

    ...and how might such a thing occur?

  • live elsewhere in the universe DOES exist! just think of the overall potential!! there MUST be other beings out there cognitively similar to us, staring up at their sky, wondering the same thing...

  • Good speech.

  • Mikolaj Kopernik from Poland.

  • This lady, like so many before, are institutionelised by comerce and the dollar sign.

    All science is been led by the fragment of how to tell the publik what is not treu.

    The cooperations rule this world. Bankers, big mony makers buy and sell these people like cattle, for their own bennefit to gain power for their products to sell by industries. This world we live in is a virtual lie! Reality is told by these people who are guided by their masters!

  • @michelb08 WTF are you? Some kind of dumbass? You're thinking of religion, not science. BIG difference! I hope to live long enough to see yet another nail hammered into religions coffin when alien life is found, but I also hope to live long enough to see the day that genetic engineering cures the world of stupidity such as yours. If not for science, you wouldn't have all the "untrue" technology you take for granted, like your computer. Does Jesus know you're cheatin' on him w/Alex Jones?

  • @ForeverFreeride No, I don't believe in the religious act of theater to gain masterhood of human beings. Real human beings, thats to say! Everyone in these regions are in need for a benefit, to support what they are doing either by the money system or other beneficial means. I'm not a dumbass, or any some of that negative word-abusing what u have learned in school. How would u make sence of, to the fact you think I was making a religious statement? Whos jesus? who is alex jones?

    Peace

  • @michelb08 what a shortsighted and sad view you have.

  • @anepales why? Can u please elaborate on why my views are shortsighted and sad please?

    thank you.

  • @anepales By second thought, never mind. I think u would come up with just as an intellegence say like u did on the first one. I asume your not ready to hear any treuth, so keep into the fantasy world.

  • primitive in thinking that we are the pinnacle of evolution, like she states. Please be open to new perspectives. God may be real yet, but AH what if he, or she, or IT, is not? What then. All I ask of you radicals, both believers and non believers, is to be open. Humankind depends on it.

  • One cannot assume that we should have been contacted already, therefore there is no other life. We cannot yet comprehend numbers for we have only our current perspective of BIG. BIG to us may be small to extraterrestrials who have seen much bigger. Bigger than we can imagine. We are still pro

  • WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP WHO DOES THIS WOMAN THINK SHE IS?IM SURE WERE THE ONLY BEINGS IN THE UNIVERSE THAT USE RADIO.SETI IS A WASTE OF MONEY,OR ITS A COVER FOR WHAT THEIR REALLY DOING WITH THEM DISHES.SETI IS NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF CON ARTISTS!I WOULD BELIEVE ANYTHING THIS JACKASS IS SAYING.

  • " the story of humans is a story of idead, that shine light into dark corners " <3 symphathy of science

  • That was an amazing speech!

  • im 17 and i have devoted my life to this

  • 500 exoplanets so far; but don't forget; if each hot Jupiter has 10 moons; thats 5000 potential new moons.

  • If earth-like planets are common, and evolution is a universal fact, we should have been contacted by now.

  • Jill Retard.

    Do the Disclosure event already >:(

  • We very much do not have a guarantee that extraterrestrails will be SENTIENT. (on Earth only ONE species human is sentient) AND tech advanced (we have had radio tech for less than a century). Seti is ONLY able to search for radio waves and that is too limited. As a species we need to find a way OTHER than radio communication to find life.

  • omg she is like OPRAH !!!! she is as "real" and believable as reality TV...wot afukn tripper man... Jill - please please put all those billions of dollars - turn your telescope around - right - and focus it on your country "on who we are and why we are?" why are we spending 13 billion dollars on intelligence? if we arnt intelligent?- you may find sum answers to your very deep questions if you just try to decode some terresttrial communications.. maybe of your own cuntry...

  • we are ants building our mound, oblivious to the humanity walking on our trails

  • the story of humans!!is the darkness in the shine light!!!!!!!!and will not get a long!!!

  • Has anyone other than my own so important  self noticed that our "very young knowledge and tech" has been accellerating exponentially in the past few hundred years? Hmmm(?) wonder if our progeny, given increasingly accellerating knowledge and teck 10,000 years hence will be relateatble, (Sp) for them or us? Doubt it. Conclusion, seti is doomed as this project assums "they" are like us. They are most certainly not like us. Further speculation. Suppose our progeny figure out how time works?

  • it seems incredible to me that people can believe in a god but, can,t believe in et life and if they do, claim that the same god made that too. i have faith in life on other planets so this can be my religion.

  • Setti has already made contact.. they are depriving us of it

  • @pwpg06 If they did, then that would kind of be counterproductive of the reason SETI exists.

  • aliens are out there of course, the universe has trillions and trillions of stars don't tell me that there's not life. Now the question is, are they close?

  • I can't wait.

  • Due to different climates, different environments, organisms need to adapt in order to survive. These "other lifeforms" could just have possibly been other humans just made in another part of the galaxy. The different conditions varying in planets can change one to adapt.... Like the impossible man in fantastic four... Just an example.

  • @CosmosPrivateer that is what I have always thought, but if they are able to visit us from their home planet they are more excelled than us. What I would hope is there to be a mutual connection, a mutual and friendly relationship with these people. Think of the bonds, the prosperity, the unity. I yearn so much it aches.

  • @MikeKnight009 If they had the technology to visit us (& avoid self destruction) then it is likely that they have learned to live themselves & others.

  • Why is it that when we try to get proof of these things we only have these freakin faint as hell images?! they might just want to be completely hidden in the first place. If they are able to travel across some major space to observe other life forms, then they got tech goin on REAL good. It's probably childs play for them... If they are real which I hope

  • anyone else realize just how slow she talks

  • She's copying directly from The Pale Blue Dot, and Contact, both of which are by Carl Sagan.

  • IT takes so long for a signal to reach us, what ever is out there probably won't be there when it get's to us. The same for our signals we have been putting out there for the past 50 years or so. Food for thought.

  • who's to say these ET don't want us dead? or who's to say they are MORE advanced? or who's to say that they WANT to be found? Who's to say that us humans are even READY to find them?

  • @TheHitez Re: who's to say they are MORE advanced

    If they have any technology at all, statistics says they are likely to be millions of years ahead of us. Just like, if you are able to speak, statistics says you've been able to speak for over a decade. Not guaranteed, but very statistically likely.

  • @TheHitez Who is to say that we ARENT?

  • Nice column on CNN Jill :)

  • They have found other life forms out in the universe. They are preparing us for their visit. The powers that be have been warned to stop the BS they have forced on this planets people for thousands of years.

    We are not alone and they are coming for a visit. They are not coming to take our resources they are coming to teach those that do not understand the meaning of life. These are not gods, leaders, kings or rulers they are beings like us.

  • of course we aren't alone that's stupid...

    we have never been alone, people are so blind to the truth..

  • She's no Sagan, but it was a good speech.

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  • Say this to the 5 million americans who has been abducted by greys and Millabs/greys on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. Most will not admit it but many have came forward and undergone hypnosis and other therapies to help in their condition.

    The question is what can THEY (the ETs) do for us ?. We need to learn about the the rules and protocols of engagement because Full Contact is not just a scientific event, it is a humanity event. For some who can live long enough to witness it ....2030.

  • i dont wanna hear no dumb ass women when learning

  • She is the only person that can even make me consider the existence of extraterrestrial life. But when she's done talking logic comes back to me and I forget all about it.

    However, great speech!

  • @WhiteRussianBC

    What logic?

    She's a scientist and so was Sagan. Granted, the probability of a signal being DETECTED is small yet we do not know exactly how probable it is for a civilization to reach our level -this is most likely the smallest term in Drake's equation. In other words, as far as we know it is very probable for life to exist on other planets, this is why I ask...what logic?

  • First of all, the Drake equation does not calculate how possible it is for a civilization to reach us, it calculates how possible it is for a civilization to exist.

    And as far as we know life on other planets is NOT very probable. We know that there has been life on Mars, but we have not found other planets where life is enough probable to be invenstigated.

    Life is not something natural, like many people think. Life is a mutation of organic materials, which is very rare to say the least

  • lol did you stop reading the drake equation half way?

  • @zero705 No. I didn't.

  • how could you exclude the idea or possibility that life exists out of this planet, or even galaxy?

  • She is wrong. She needs to study Vedanta.

  • brilliant speaker

  • So If this superior race exterminates defencless spices on this planet of less intelligence DO YOU REALY THINK THEY WILL HELP US! get real there is some alien kid with a big magnifing glass about to focus the sun on us and burn our asses!

  • The Spice must flow!

  • The Spice extends life...

  • @sparklymage YES!!

    = )

  • so consider we find alien life. its like dating a bitch in california... we send a message and then what? time for a visit? besides messaging anyone farther than pluto takes... ya know... 140 years.

  • they would probably eat us like how we eat pigs and chickens etc they might like human meat

  • we'd have nothing to gain in finding a younger or less technologically advanced civilization then us. Also, even if there is a civilization for advanced then ourselves, don't you think they know about us and there's a reason they haven't tried to communicate with us? I think this is a terrible area of study to fund, even from a rational perspective. Just sayin'.

  • did you even watch the video? if there are more advanced civilizations, they are hundreds of light years away, and any signals they send would take as long to reach us. and we're not embarking on this endeavor to "gain" technology. we're searching for something out there to prove that we're not alone.

  • which is exactly why it is a waste of money, the knowledge of them being there is worth nothing to our civilization. we'd have nothing to gain by knowing that another planet has life. maybe we should deal with the problems on earth before trying to get information that we don't even need from light years away.

  • I see what you're saying, but if the only thing that results from SETI is a change in human perspective, it will still be a monumental achievement. right now, we see ourselves as distinct societies, separated from each other by culture and geography. with the discovery of other civilizations on entirely different planets, we could find a sense of unity that has been lacking since the human race began. it sounds unlikely, but I really think that it's what the earth needs.

  • i 100% agree that there is another life form out there, but if we really want to connect our civilizations together, we should do it directly like with the U.N. and other groups similar to that.

  • Exactly, there most likely is a far advanced race that is very aware of our existence, but knows that humans are irrational and dangerous.

  • lol what ever

  • help feed the hungry, help child abuse,help the homeless,figure out why there is evil among us!help man kind love each other, why are there wars , hate .jealousy ,fine out why do man kind love one and hate another,where did deception come from! you may be on to some thing may be you can help find truth!

  • your mentality is an inside job. i'm a twoofa. i see some of the people that the stae here feeds trade their EBT cards for half value as long as they can get some more cash for crack. lets spend money on improving the lives of the intellectuals. with the sigularity coming soon and the inevitable proof that religion is a fraud, we intellectuals can live wonderfully amongst ourselves, we will automate the jobs that the cretons used to grovel over. the most beautiful day, when religions die. love:)

  • 2009 I saw UFO but, come to find out it was here.

  • I saw a bright shiney silver disk up close and personal in 1978. I've since read that some et's are like children with the minds of a thousand men, our thought streams a trickle compared to their river, like watching 5 videos in 5 D simultaneously! In other words, why would we assume that we might understand or even hope to understand intelligences many millions of our years more advanced than us.  Might as well try to teach a dog calculus. Get it? No, probably not, too vain.

  • @ehswan

    No offense, but what an incredibly vapid, illogical and insulting comment. I wish I could understand why it was one of the highest rated comments.

    (I'm sure you're a very reasonable person - I'm only talking about this one comment you made, and the effect it had on the people who read it)

  • @LeatherCladVegan "vapid" I'll have to look that up. "illogical" got that, "insulting", well yeah, I think I get that. Here's my problem with common everyday "reallity", such as it is. It is a lie! Science is the new dogma and science is a lie. Like the Catholic church, along with most others science has become corrupt. They are here, childhoods end!

  • We'll almost certainly have confirmation of life on other planets within the next few decades, once various spectroscopy programs come to fruition.

  • Ye sure shes an alien u fu*cking looper.

    I think your watching to many utube videos mate.

  • LOL

  • Am I the only one under the impression she may be an alien herself...?? something about the way she talks and moves...

  • And what tells you that aliens move and talk like that?

  • We are still way too slow in developing and conceiving new technologies because of greed and arrogance. If you call a Hummer the product of modern technology, ETs will definitely destroy us.

  • ETs would probably just destroy us if they are indeed far more advanced with their intelligence. lf they are able to find us and could figure out ways to travel unimaginable distances, i don't think they would waste their time sorting through the imperfections of the dominant species on this planet. I just can't see the practicality of this foolish idea of making contact with ETs that may never understand our stupidity. Tell me if having George W. Bush as leader of the free world not stupid.

  • this even makes the fact that she did not mention his name even worse. Excuse me for being so pro-Sagan, but he definitely deserves more popularity and appreciation for what he had achieved fir popularizing science.

  • it is a disgrace that half of her presentation is Carl Sagan's ideas and own words and she even does not mention his name. Shame.

  • Carl Sagan was Jill Tartar's colleague and collaborator in the search for extraterrestrial life. Many sources also credit her with being the model for Contact's heroine Ellie Arroway. Quite possibly some of Sagan's signature cosmic prose was in fact Tartar's.

  • @Hottides I think its the other way around. Jill Trater's prose was in fact Carl Sagans.

  • @Hottides .. but must she continuously and cringingly use exact lines from Cosmos and The Ascent of Man? :-/

  • Sweet presentation :)

  • The one thing I do not like about Jill Tarter is that she has all the charisma of a boot and none of its "sole".

    In other words, she has great things to say but even the most elite intellectuals are probably bored by her.

  • The astounding truth and implications that Jill Tartar relate are imbued with their own charisma. No need to embellish what's already so astronomically captivating.

    Tartar's far more charismatic than you are humorous. You're as funny as your own proverbial boot. And more stupid.

  • I hope to live long enough to see life elsewhere in the universe.

  • would you laugh if i told you we all have we just haven't realized it yet

  • @Ramshobraja You will between now 2010 and 2012.. that is a fact

  • @Ramshobraja there is a way to go there.to prove my point.i will show u a maracle. this no 19 ,u will see everywhere as from today. 19 remember

  • @Ramshobraja ...might it be, maby, if you look good...other lifeforms from outher space already here!?!?

  • The thing I do not understand is that Seth Shostak (senior scientist at SETI) does not belief that Earth is being visited by ET. His argument is that the distance for a visit is too far. Such thoughts are too narrow minded for a scientist working at an organisation like SETI.

  • So what if life exist over there so what..we have enough lives on this planet which you reuined enough. crazy humans

    /watch?v=nNjrzarORSw&feature=c­hannel_page

  • Remember what Sagan thought would happen outside the VLA observatory when news of the message came out? All the religious fanatics came there. Wake up people this is not about God.

  • WHERE MY ALIEN COMMENT

  • I THINK I KNOW WHERE A ALIEN IS AT

  • Socrates stated beware what the scientists give you to drink how about a few trillion years is that enough you extrapolate time like you know what it is what is time if it was not for Galileo, Newton and Emanuel Kant all men of GOD where would we be today thank you GOD

  • Have you forgotten to take your medication today?

  • If god existed why would he create something as stupid as you?

  • Socrates did not say that. in his day, he WAS the closest thing to a scientist.

  • a thousand year ahead of where we are if your talking about the christian god

  • tell me if we are not infinite why can we count to it and who gave as the ability to contemplate mathematics? thank you god

  • You cant count to infinity you twit. You mentioned a googleplex earlier - you couldnt even write that. Science gave us the ability to contemplate mathematics, toothpaste, youtube and everything that matters. Your god is a made up story (a collection of stories from people) and nothing more.

  • Evert school should show this ounce a week befor classes!5 stars

  • i remember this woman from a show on the discovery channel a few months back, not sure when the actual show was recorded but i remember her last name tarter and she did say that the idea of aliens was laughable, and that she would be very shocked if we ever saw aliens within the next two centuries.

    yes she can change her mind but scientists tend not to.

  • Technology will ultimately lead to our salvation and bring a greater unity to human beings, I mean look at the internet I'm speaking to you people and sharing my ideas where without technologies such as this would not be possible!.

  • 7:10 woooo!! go tardigrades!!!

  • Take a look at the videos on my Youtube channel, greggh71. You will see what they look like, how they travel and even the suits they wear.. I took these pictures in 1974-1980 in Palm Springs Florida.

    The images have never been seem before by anyone, anywhere, until now.

    We are not alone. Take a look at the videos,then you wont have to speculate.

  • Yes, the ideal situation on planet earth would be that us Wandering Stardust humanoids would stop being so ego-based...

    It's not that the ego is so bad..it's that most people can't tell the difference between their EGO and an EGGO!

    For the international readers of this comment..an EGGO is an American food product ...Frozen waffles that you put in your TOASTER . It's a breakfast food. (* for some)..Most people serve it with fake maple syrup. Mrs Butterworths.... Made of petroleum. YUMMY.

  • This blows my mind. It is bittersweet, the idea that a signal we could receive would be "old" by the time it reaches us. Could you imagine hearing a signal of peace and a promise of beauty from another human-inhabited planet, only to have us travel there somehow and find it in ruins? How interesting, yet bittersweet...

  • I hope the aliens have emailed us their math and physics books and plans to a cold fusion energy plant. Some day we'll pick up a signal that teaches us things beyond our wildest dreams.

  • more like this, TED

  • Excellent quality.

    One thing to point out about her comment regarding Andromeda being the closet galaxy, though; What she means is that Andromeda is the closet large spiral galaxy of kind similar to our own.

    The actual closet galaxy that can be called as such is a small "dwarf" galaxy known as the Canis Major Dwarf - just 25 000 light years from Sol.

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  • A Scientist doing her primary work.

  • I like this lady.

    I like her writer even better.

    It is absolutely true that the more we learn, the more likely extraterrestrial life can occur and survive.

    Praise the Great Attractor.

  • One thing that occurs to me with all this - there are probably 10s of millions of species on Earth and we are the only one that could really be said to be "intelligent", so that makes the search for such life even harder, considering we have not yet even got evidence for any ET life of any kind yet.

  • Outstanding speech but the speaker did not address about the probability of extraterrestrial civilizations being hostile ones or that Earthlings may be considered too hostile for extraterrestrial civilizations to want to contact us.

  • all of you are way too negative. you undermine human beings potential. how about the fact that we can have a disagreement with each other after starting out from stardust billions of years ago. we are stardust that can comprehend our existance on the universe. i believe that is extremely powerful

  • I really hope if and when we discover an (more)intelligent alien life form they laugh (or any other means by which they may express similar sentiments) at our concept of god and religion

  • ask the starving africans if they give a shit if aliens exist.

  • your point?

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  • She is using too many assumptions that are being disproved today,one of the most important assumption is the theory that humans have existed on this planet only for the last few hundred thousand years which Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson have disputed with vast amount of hard archeological evidence.The speech is nice but misdirected and the conclusions are shallow and pointless.Too bad she's poorly informed about the origins of the human race. This imposes serious disqualification.

  • but it's "the very narrow range of time over which humans can claim to be the dominant intelligence on the planet. It's only the last few hundred thousand years that modern humans have been pursuing technology in civilization" I don't think that means humans have only existed for the last few hundred thousand years.

  • But she's clearly using and supporting the claims of modern archeology and science which tells us the story about the advancement of human kind, spawning from the apes and primitive life style. She wouldn't have said that unless she believes that humans have pursued technology only in the past few hundred years, because that is not the fact. Humans have had an advanced technology for millions of years and we have lots of hard evidence to support it.Seems to me that she's misinforming the public.

  • OMG seriously what planet do you live in??? Lots of hard evidence like what?? If what you are saying is true, there would be so much evidence that it would be impossible to coverup or miss. Every time someone dug a hole they would find some remnants of our long past. Have you intentionally suspended all logic and sane judgment.

  • I've read M. Credo & R. Thompson. I agree with you Kakudmi

  • Thanks! The fact is that humans cannot live a truly happy and fulfilled life merely by advancing our technology and means of extending our gratification methods. This quest for mundane pleasures via advancements in technology and economy is futile and has kept human species under the mechanism of slavery and exploitation for the past 5 millenniums of known history. Human consciousness hasn't developed ever since we've lived by exploitating each other, as well as natural resources.

  • Technology and scientific advancement has brought enlightenment to the human species. Our lives are better and more fulfilling because of it. The advancement of science has broadened our consciousness immensely. What planet do you live in?

  • I live on the planet Earth, a planet on a brink of destruction caused by the same technology you're boasting about. Almost every applied invention of modern science has brought or encouraged more destruction, pollution and reduction of freedom and happiness. Maybe I am blind to the external world, but I clearly see crisis, crisis, crisis, one country after another, globally, facing imminent economical, social, and ecological suffering. I ask myself the same question, what planet am I living on?

  • I live on the planet where pepole extract and exploit from each other as well as from the nature in order to satisfy unnatural life-style. I live in a world where most people cannot feed themselves and live a life of imaginary games while the creators of their games provide their food, water and shelter, as well as the toys (money, economy, cars, guns, gadgest...). Most humans are unable to care for themselves although the land to grow food is everywhere. That is the lifestyle of mere children.

  • All the problems you describe here can be attributed to human population, and incompetent sometimes evil, political structures. Scientific advancements and technology are not the root causes.

    "Unnatural life-styles" what is unnatural about anything in this world. how do you even define the word? Do you suggest we start wearing loin cloths (are they natural?) and live in the jungle. If any human on this planet lives past the age of 50 it due to scientific advancement and technology.

  • So people weren't surving longer then 50 years before scientifc advancements, which I am sure you associate with mordern science? But good point on "Unnatural life-styles". Everything we do is natural, because there is no set objective purpose for life.