There are many races out there. Imagine how the sun supports life on on Terra and our solar system. For every star you see in the sky, is just another sun and more evidence for life. Life manifests where it wants to, in the best and worst of surroundings. If Mr. Sasselov was interested at finding life, it would be wise check the star systems of Andromeda, Orion, Draco, Taurus, Canis Major, Ursa Minor, and Cetus (to name a few) very closely...
This is actually really interesting. I love the TED talks. People who are here, belittling others opinions are so annoying. Stop being so snobbish. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
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Bullshit!God created world 6000 years ago,every intelligent person knows that.Rest is just an illusion,because he's testing us if we're worth to go to heaven and praise him for iternity.Every normal thinking open minded person knows that stars are just a small dots on the sky.Wake up people,stop the science.Otherwise we can easily stop getting CHRISTMASS gifts:)Do you really want that?
@Dogg3dogG What I said was sarcastic of course,however,my point is serious.Very serious.That's what you have to believe in when you believe in personal god(god of Abraham).When you look around,you see plenty of people believing without knowing a shit about what they actually believe in.Therefore I say-no more respect for delusion.I'm not scientist,but I believe in science,humanity and goodness without rules dictated by imaginary father.I believe in power of my brain.Take care:)
imagine the smallest insect and what amazement it must feel in a forest. it s offpring will surely reach areas which its ancestors did not foresee as possible. mechanical devices on earth are killing any chance of real exploration out there
if we are an atom in the larger scheme then why do we destroy them or if we rust metals and waste elements such as helium how can we not realize that nature has a way of replenishing by things coming from hard cored or gaseous spheres regardless of life lost afterall we never take the responsibility of giving proper justice to life forms from all around the world a plant that flowers could be like planetary processes we keep destroying without correct lamentation
oops. I meant 22 minutes. The last 9 minutes is wasted on some crappy animated short. Are we REALLY out there looking? Or are they putting a guy with glasses in front of us to revise the same speeches we've heard since the 1990s.
26 minutes of regurgitated crap we've already heard before. I thought this video was some kind of update on the progress of the search for Earth like planets..
@torontoBluejays87 and here come the belittling remarks from the so called "brainiacs, whose intelligence goes only as far as the textbooks written by those who want you to believe what they want you to believe.
Lots of earths and lots of life on those earths means we (life gizmos on this earth) are even LESS special.
Repeat: Life, in general, if it is more plentiful and has life-bearing places, makes this life-place LESS special, not more.
And, in response to the final message of this video, "Stewardship" becomes even LESS important when you start to imagine that life might be everywhere. After all, why worry about exhausting this one, when you have 100 million others (in this galaxy anyway).
Why? Because we live on it, it's our only home! You can't be objective about how special something is, fuck you!
"there is enough for humans need, but not for human's greed" Said Ghandi, which is a fact, exhausting a planet is worse than all deaths on the planet so far.
Also, you can't judge how special things are for anyone or anything but yourself.
@heheIvan - look, perhaps "special" was too broad of a word... "Unique" is even wrong. "Rare" might be better. If life were rare, it would need to be protected ("stewardshipt"), but if it happens everywhere, then stewardship is less needed.
I was arguing with the conclusions of the argument presented in the video, not making a value judgment about life. I can still value life and disagree with his argument.
I don't think enough emphasis was put getting from knowing a planets size to environment/chemical makeup of a planet, from the title that's what I expected.
@JoesephKatana "Earth-like" has unfortunately come to acquire the meaning of "terrestrial planet," and is used in this way by both the press and scientists alike. I really don't know when or why that ever happened, but I've always disliked it. Journalists are often prone to misinterpretation, or purposely fudge things anyway to generate more interest, so it's hardly surprising when they use it; but scienists like Sasselov should really know better.
people are just curious to know and to discover.They are spending millions and millions of dollars on finding earth like planet.They haven't found any till now.They are stupid.From this long work they can be sure about how precoius is this one planet we live in.I dont know if we will discover any new earth like planet, but i am sure they have forgot to discover their home.If we want to continue living, why not spend those millions on protecting our earth and promting its sustainablility.
I like to think that there is life in other planets. Maybe not so much like us, perhaps in different life formation that we don't understand just yet. Example, rocks, plants, and maybe just maybe they havn't reached their human like formation. Remember human species were brought from dust, atleast thats what I like to believe.
i cant understand why scientists concentrate only on finding life within a certain range of frequencies....ie with the 3d framework.....there is life on every planet ...but it is often on such a high frequency that it doesnt register within our narrow frame of reference.....
Bravo!! In addition, there is also a broad range of 3d life experiencing the same density as humans on Earth... and because we are progressing toward 4/5d life in the near-term future, this knowledge can not be suppressed much longer. Get ready for a paradigm shift!
The next revolution will be realizing that the UFO phenomenon is not just swamp gas and weather balloons. Then there will be parapsychology, etc. etc.
@rockerklaq93 we are the aliens we're probably the less intelligent and less attractive group of lifeforms ...and by reading the comments im sure the brains didnt go to planet earth lol dumb asses
KzrrainzYes- it is because religious folk do not notice but your quaint superstitions intrude into life all the time and must never be allowed to meddle with science.
this guy has started a mad dash for realty state and i'm not talking about earth i wonder if some of the ancesters of mankind came from other panets in our galaxy that explains some people lived in caves and some were building cities
It would appear that this speaker screwed up big time. And most viewers don't know.
He wasn't supposed to release that information. The distribution of planet size and the description of the "super-Earths" was a key announcement that NASA has been withholding from public release for shady reasons.
I had tried to read their publications to find out exactly this information but they were never this conclusive. The Kepler data controversy is coming to a head, and this talk was a big screw up.
@zassounotsukushi I wouldn't say screwed up, but in agreement w/U it feels that he wasn't to give all THAT away! 60 PLANETS w/life? Another possible give away.
I guess those who have no idea will get it all in Feb...or will they give info in stages? Hmmm. Let me help! Aliens are/or will b HERE on earth & they're all over our skies NOW!!
that origin of life hypothesis is very steeped in religious thinking... the requirement of clay... hot soup... ext..
I'd suggest that organelles predate cells... that cells originated as a spore. figure the temperature vs pressure for components and look along chemical gradients... enzymes and other methods for catalyzing chemical reactions would seem more logical as a development to move away from such gradients where reactions occur naturally and not a prerequisite.
Aw man... I hate it when the TED Talks video guys thinks they have to intro their subject with a long-winded background that's like "What is SCIENCE?!?" I don't think they realize that everyone in the audience and everyone watching on youtube have already seen like twenty of these things, we don't need any background... we're all on board, we're all on the same page...
@BlueCrystalGem Well I'm not that elite, like pretty much everyone else on here I've just watched a bunch of TED Talks joints on youtube. All I'm saying is, I'm tired of skipping the first two minutes of most of them. Oh but not to be a troll or anything, but I guess it depends on your definition of masses. Do you mean the unwashed kind? They ain't watchin' TED.
@kylebstiff calm down, the intro only takes like two minutes. You must understand that the presenters want to present their research to as many people as they can. And I must disagree that EVERYONE watching them is familiar with what they talk about.
@kylebstiff They have to do that. They're not speaking to scientists, they're speaking to the layman who isn't well-versed in technical sciences and mathematics. If they assumed what you state, then new viewers would be completely disconnected.
@CarnivalNights I swear I'm not trying to be a troll. I'm not saying that everyone who watches TED is a scientist and therefore no explanation for "what is science" is needed, I'm saying that Western laymen in 2011 (that is, 99.99 percent of us) already have a grasp on what science is all about. None of us here are scratching our heads over this strange, newfangled "scientific method" and its *crazy* assertion that the world is older than 6000 years.
Also, I think the average person who watches TED-style videos (you, me, etc.) probably have this bias where we assume we are in the minority, and the majority of people take allegories from the Bible as literal truth... and then we think that we have to spread the truth about how science works, which seems absurd to me because no one who has ever come within fifty mouse-clicks of watching a TED Talks video is even remotely in the dark about how science works.
@kylebstiff Good point. I accept that answer. They probably do it for filler then I suppose or just to maintain professionalism since it's a bit of a standard.
Quite simply one of the most tantalisingly intriguing and fascinating talks I've ever seen. If this doesn't inspire people to go into science, then I don't know what would!
"possible" is unnecessary. This is because even if a planet only shares one like attribute with earth (such as diameter) then it still qualifies as "Earth-like". The size of the planet is very important because the planet's mass will determine the pull of gravity and how heavy we feel on it's surface.
I wasn't trying to impose a defintion to "earth-like". I was merely stating that if a planet has a similar volume or mass, then it does indeed have a like characteristic with earth, making it technically earth-like in at least one respect.
@KzrrainzYes It's the beginning of the new war. It's not enough for atheists to study science and find meaning in that, they have to force everyone to agree with them. Why can't people just accept each other? That's what the problem is, not religion.
@KzrrainzYes Who are you to say anyone is a fool. Religion does not make people fools. Believing that you are right and others are wrong and that being right makes you superior makes people cruel and nasty and even dangerous. This is a human trait and irrelevant to what you think you are right about.
Actually, Baileys' statement was accurate. Religion does indeed take a person's gullibility and mold it in such a way as to make them closed minded. When a christian says "there is nothing anyone can say that can change my mind about jesus" then that christian is defacto a closed minded deluded unreasonable human being.
@drche420 If someone says "there is nothing any can say that can change my mind about X", it obviously makes them close minded. What's the point of stating the obvious?
The obvious is what eludes religious people the most often because they choose to remain oblivious. Scientists, on the other hand, observe any and all evidence as it arises to tweak, change, or replace existing ideas with ones that have more explanatory power. God does not explain anything, it simply ends the curiousity of the question. "God did it" has no explanatory power. Science, however, can explain and predict.
@BaileysBeads Religion does not turn people unreasonable. Believing that you are right and others are wrong and that being right makes you superior makes people cruel and nasty and even dangerous. This is a human trait and irrelevant to what you think you are right about.
Even if superiority leads to cruel and nasty even dangerous things, none of that takes away from the fact that atheists are right and christians are wrong. Turning away from reason due to fear (exactly what you're suggesting) is just terrorism and you should be ashamed for attempting it.
@drche420 Terrorism is thinking that you are right and that being right makes you superior to others.
It is thinking that being correct bestows on you certain rights,such as the right to make decisions that effect others who disagree with you and ultimately the right to kill them.
Nurture those thoughts of superiority if you like, they only have one logical conclusion. This is not about reason or lack there of; this is about showing respect and understanding to those who don't share your view.
@rabbitwho "why can't people people just accept each other". if the religious could do this, than i would not even call myself an atheist. but the religious right votes against equal rights for gays, they vote against women who choose abortion, they vote against certain scientific theories being taught in school, they vote in blue laws, and they insist that this is a christian nation (USA) when it was founded as a secular nation. it is the religious that cannot accept other people.
@greycloud24 Not all religious people do that. And you cannot tell anyone how they should vote.
Religion does not make people fools. Believing that you are right and others are wrong and that being right makes you superior makes people cruel and nasty and even dangerous. This is a human trait and irrelevant to what you think you are right about.
@rabbitwho you are correct, not all religious people vote against the rights of other people and accept each other through their differences. it has not been proven weather religion leads to a lack of inteligence or weather a lack of inteligence leads people to become religious. but it has been shown many times that the more educated you are, the less likely you are to be religious. and if you think i am wrong about my statements and that somehow makes you superior, that is hypocritical.
@greycloud24 Hi! Just so you know. There are some religions which are followed almost entirely by people with more "intelligence", as you put it. They are religions which support science, proof, evidence, like Spiritism. Interestingly enough, these religions/philosophies are also the most tolerant, accepting other beliefs and different points of view as necessary for other people to evolve. Spiritism, for instance, has always accepted homosexuals. In fact, it says homosexuality is normal.
@RenataVentura Could you be more specific. Is that a wide spread spiritism-religion club. Certainly is non of religions/philosophies that dominates neither wester, nor easter world. Must be some sort of underground society. Don't get me wrong. I wish this could be the rule, not the exception. Which is obviously not the case. Cheers.
@adb0150 Hi! Spiritism was born in France, but in Brazil it is quite big. About 20 million spiritists there. And spiritist books have been translated into dozens of languages. But it's still not very known in the USA. The problem with spiritism in the USA was that many charlatans decided they wanted to fool americans in the past, and now, when americans see the real deal, they automatically dismiss it as fake, without even trying to search for evidence. Look for spiritism in Wikipedia!
@greycloud24 Another interesting detail: I've read somewhere in a study that people who are capable of having faith can actually be displaying more intelligence than skeptical people. Not that they ARE more intelligence, but that the capability of believing in something extraordinary which they do not see, is a sign of developed intelligence. It's the ability to create fantasy. I find this very interesting. It's just a thought. Just contributing to the discussion, scientifically. :-)
If you are worried about being stupid, not believing in god isn't going to help you. Keeping an open mind and being more accepting of other people's thoughts will however. I read somewhere online, though I can't find it now, that there is a part in the brain that emits certain chemicals at times when someone is having a religious experience. It was found that this was underdeveloped in many atheists.
@rabbitwho rather than citing one study, i advise you to go to wikipedia. now search for "religiousity and intelligence" now scroll down to the bottom. there are several different studies cited, go check em out. these tests span over 100 years, are done both longitudinal and latitudinal, they are done in different cultures, different times, and all show the same result. its not an insignificant fact that low inteligence and lack of education are linked heavily with religion.
@greycloud24 There's a difference between being intelligent and being educated.IQ tests are culturally biased,and the exposure to western culture people get at any university will affect their score as well as many other things. George W. Bush had an IQ of something like 120. Obviously the tests are flawed.I don't see how religiosity could be related to intelligence when it is completely outside of logic and reasoning. It's a feeling. It's like saying love or sexuality is related to intelligence
@rabbitwho IQ tests do score on exposure to culture, but western culture bias is experienced in the west, while IQ tests in japan are baised towards japanese culture. however the majority of the tests are based on mathmatics, memory, pattern recognition, problem solving, and spacial recognition. and people who go to church more often and consider a personal god to be an important factor in thier lives score lower on these tests than those who do not.
@greycloud24@greycloud24 In any case it seems to me you (and I get this feeling all the time when I talk to atheists) that you think this makes you more intelligent. You stop and tell your self you're in a special club with Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins. The people who know the truth. The chosen ones. Even if those tests actually mean something (and they don't), you're confusing cause and effect!
@rabbitwho i don't think i am more inteligent because i am an atheist. rather i find that there are very few rational and inteligent arguements for the existance of a god, and after having talked to people about why they believe in a god, i than believe i am more inteligent. this is not ussually the case with deists, pantheists, and some budhists. mainly it is creationists that show themselves to be extreemly uneducated and non-critical thinkers.
@richmeister4eva Why? Religion and reason can coexist. In some religions, at least. Like Spiritism. I think religion and science got separated some time in history, and this is a pity for both. When Galileo was trying to find out about the universe, he was a religious man trying to understand the work of God. Most scientists of that time were. But religious institutions, in their intolerance, started driving science away from religion. And now most scientists are skeptical.
@RenataVentura ah but you see science seeks to find out the inner workings of the universe with no bias as for religion, religion seeks to fill people with misinformation and destroy rational thought, after all if you doubt something in science you are welcomed to have a civilised discourse, if you doubt in religion you are considered a non believer and are shunned or frowned upon or in most extreme circumstances killed. you don't have that in science
@richmeister4eva It depends on the religion, really. If you doubt something in Spiritism, for instance, spiritists will welcome a discussion on science, because Spiritism is a religion/philosophy that never tried to go against scientific thought. In fact, as science breaks new ground, it only gives more and more proof of what Spiritism has been talking for over a century. So, this religion at least, is all for science. They eagerly await for more scientific discoveries. :-)
@RenataVentura ah but science isn't a belief system its a way of life, spiritualism has its methods of deducting logic but science is totally different as it doesn't make assertions without objective proof.
Yea man you're right, religion and science got seperated because of power and money like most things. The roman catholic church came together as a form of control. It brought together not just the christians but a whole bunch of faith groups at the time under the roman empire. It was a powerful institution which denied reason to control. The gospel was about paying penance and doing what you're told they said, to control. But in fact it's the opposite.
@KzrrainzYes "How do these videos keep turning into religion bashing sessions? Let's stay on topic people, SCIENCE."
Because many religious people want to suppress science because it doesn't fit with their superstitious dogma and some of them even want to do it with violence. Neither one should be tolerated.
He also noticed that bad money elbow-out good money from the market... what's happening with dollars now (and happened with many other fiat or spoiled currencies before).
i hate how people say things like one act launched the so and so revolution.. any historian will tell you that is not the case.. steps have always been taking place some are more influential than others for whatever reasons...
It's the human lust for exploration, set to the last great frontier. the whole planet has been mapped, if you desire to learn something no-one has known before, you look outwards..
@dar482: You are like an ant that doesn't care about things that are more that 10 yards away from its hive, all it cares about is that bread crumb 2 inches away. You just don't want to know about the big picture.
extending my comment below, imagine in there was a female alien similar to human female out there on a planet in the billions of stars, but instead of small tits, she had huge tits and had four of them! LUSH
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kaugmir1 1 month ago
There are many races out there. Imagine how the sun supports life on on Terra and our solar system. For every star you see in the sky, is just another sun and more evidence for life. Life manifests where it wants to, in the best and worst of surroundings. If Mr. Sasselov was interested at finding life, it would be wise check the star systems of Andromeda, Orion, Draco, Taurus, Canis Major, Ursa Minor, and Cetus (to name a few) very closely...
KnowlegeIsPower1210 1 month ago
makes u think even more :s
OvieTecEJ2 2 months ago
did anyone see the cartoon after the clip it was pretty good ?!:)
diodoubled 3 months ago
looool, while legit scientists are exploring more and more about this universe, there are still crazy creationists walking around
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I vote Dimitar for president for that epic accent :D
MikeMallorca2010 4 months ago
This is actually really interesting. I love the TED talks. People who are here, belittling others opinions are so annoying. Stop being so snobbish. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
jess8112 1 year ago
best part was the ending with the old guy
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affluenceclm 1 year ago
Bullshit!God created world 6000 years ago,every intelligent person knows that.Rest is just an illusion,because he's testing us if we're worth to go to heaven and praise him for iternity.Every normal thinking open minded person knows that stars are just a small dots on the sky.Wake up people,stop the science.Otherwise we can easily stop getting CHRISTMASS gifts:)Do you really want that?
phillozoph50 1 year ago
@phillozoph50 I really hope this isn't a serious post...
Dogg3dogG 1 year ago
@Dogg3dogG What I said was sarcastic of course,however,my point is serious.Very serious.That's what you have to believe in when you believe in personal god(god of Abraham).When you look around,you see plenty of people believing without knowing a shit about what they actually believe in.Therefore I say-no more respect for delusion.I'm not scientist,but I believe in science,humanity and goodness without rules dictated by imaginary father.I believe in power of my brain.Take care:)
phillozoph50 1 year ago
Bravo...Wonderful...I wonder what Dr. Sagan's response would be?
cedarbog 1 year ago
dammit youtube...load load cmon cmon cmon
randikajamai 1 year ago
imagine the smallest insect and what amazement it must feel in a forest. it s offpring will surely reach areas which its ancestors did not foresee as possible. mechanical devices on earth are killing any chance of real exploration out there
winterequinox 1 year ago
if we are an atom in the larger scheme then why do we destroy them or if we rust metals and waste elements such as helium how can we not realize that nature has a way of replenishing by things coming from hard cored or gaseous spheres regardless of life lost afterall we never take the responsibility of giving proper justice to life forms from all around the world a plant that flowers could be like planetary processes we keep destroying without correct lamentation
winterequinox 1 year ago
Wow, so many trolls in these comments. Shame.
DeadWhiteButterflies 1 year ago
oops. I meant 22 minutes. The last 9 minutes is wasted on some crappy animated short. Are we REALLY out there looking? Or are they putting a guy with glasses in front of us to revise the same speeches we've heard since the 1990s.
hillbilly8757 1 year ago
26 minutes of regurgitated crap we've already heard before. I thought this video was some kind of update on the progress of the search for Earth like planets..
hillbilly8757 1 year ago
@hillbilly8757 you are a pretentious idiot.
torontoBluejays87 1 year ago
@torontoBluejays87 and here come the belittling remarks from the so called "brainiacs, whose intelligence goes only as far as the textbooks written by those who want you to believe what they want you to believe.
hillbilly8757 1 year ago
Lots of earths and lots of life on those earths means we (life gizmos on this earth) are even LESS special.
Repeat: Life, in general, if it is more plentiful and has life-bearing places, makes this life-place LESS special, not more.
And, in response to the final message of this video, "Stewardship" becomes even LESS important when you start to imagine that life might be everywhere. After all, why worry about exhausting this one, when you have 100 million others (in this galaxy anyway).
c'mon
homerthompsonman 1 year ago
@homerthompsonman
Why? Because we live on it, it's our only home! You can't be objective about how special something is, fuck you!
"there is enough for humans need, but not for human's greed" Said Ghandi, which is a fact, exhausting a planet is worse than all deaths on the planet so far.
Also, you can't judge how special things are for anyone or anything but yourself.
heheIvan 1 year ago
@heheIvan - look, perhaps "special" was too broad of a word... "Unique" is even wrong. "Rare" might be better. If life were rare, it would need to be protected ("stewardshipt"), but if it happens everywhere, then stewardship is less needed.
I was arguing with the conclusions of the argument presented in the video, not making a value judgment about life. I can still value life and disagree with his argument.
Philosophy is hard, eh?
homerthompsonman 1 year ago
This guy is such a dirty commie, just listen to his voice.
SirPwn4lot 1 year ago
LOL at him trying to be funny but nobody laughing!
dryan22 1 year ago
I wonder how many times the size of the earth a planet can be (how large) and still provide the conditions to originate and sustain life.
dryan22 1 year ago
I don't think enough emphasis was put getting from knowing a planets size to environment/chemical makeup of a planet, from the title that's what I expected.
JoesephKatana 1 year ago
@JoesephKatana "Earth-like" has unfortunately come to acquire the meaning of "terrestrial planet," and is used in this way by both the press and scientists alike. I really don't know when or why that ever happened, but I've always disliked it. Journalists are often prone to misinterpretation, or purposely fudge things anyway to generate more interest, so it's hardly surprising when they use it; but scienists like Sasselov should really know better.
ancalites 1 year ago
Did he just skip over the fact that hundreds of earth sized planets have been detected?
jacksawild 1 year ago
people are just curious to know and to discover.They are spending millions and millions of dollars on finding earth like planet.They haven't found any till now.They are stupid.From this long work they can be sure about how precoius is this one planet we live in.I dont know if we will discover any new earth like planet, but i am sure they have forgot to discover their home.If we want to continue living, why not spend those millions on protecting our earth and promting its sustainablility.
ppnnlearning 1 year ago
I think TED is a propaganda engine with the semblance of truth. I remember their piece on chipping the population and how great that would be.
This Vid was about 20mins of gibberish.
MojosGh0st 1 year ago
@MojosGh0st douche
wily4 1 year ago
18:52 so thats where Hitler got to after the war
TigerMilitia 1 year ago
this is so amazing
ThePumbaPower 1 year ago
I like to think that there is life in other planets. Maybe not so much like us, perhaps in different life formation that we don't understand just yet. Example, rocks, plants, and maybe just maybe they havn't reached their human like formation. Remember human species were brought from dust, atleast thats what I like to believe.
slickywicked 1 year ago
He took off his tie like a ninja!
iborrada 1 year ago
i cant understand why scientists concentrate only on finding life within a certain range of frequencies....ie with the 3d framework.....there is life on every planet ...but it is often on such a high frequency that it doesnt register within our narrow frame of reference.....
johnnystarrysky 1 year ago
@johnnystarrysky
Bravo!! In addition, there is also a broad range of 3d life experiencing the same density as humans on Earth... and because we are progressing toward 4/5d life in the near-term future, this knowledge can not be suppressed much longer. Get ready for a paradigm shift!
Eraser7622 1 year ago 5
@johnnystarrysky present your evidence plz..
botlight 1 year ago
@johnnystarrysky
How is 3-dimensional space a "frequency"? Even if we were to accept string theory, it's would still be a stretch to call it that.
mfunke 1 year ago
this guy needs to go to a tailor, his shirt and pants are both way too big
jeembomb 1 year ago
The next revolution will be realizing that the UFO phenomenon is not just swamp gas and weather balloons. Then there will be parapsychology, etc. etc.
MastersOfInfinity 1 year ago
I think this presentation will become historically very significant within a year or two...
jarnoverhoofstad 1 year ago 33
@jarnoverhoofstad
Agreed... time to clean up.. some guests are gonna come knocking and ask for a cup of tea.
TigerMilitia 1 year ago
@jarnoverhoofstad 5 years*
TrueWan07 1 year ago
i cant belive people have time to argue on youtube gosh i wish i did too
SexIsNotForKids 1 year ago
nobody laughed at his joke :D
hullohulloRFC 1 year ago 2
@hullohulloRFC I noticed that too! Probably too shocked by nassa telling them that its all true
iborrada 1 year ago
i knew aliens were out there....
rockerklaq93 1 year ago 2
@rockerklaq93 we are the aliens we're probably the less intelligent and less attractive group of lifeforms ...and by reading the comments im sure the brains didnt go to planet earth lol dumb asses
GerardIsVeryCool 1 year ago 2
"We are not alone"....like Michael Jackson said :D
danutzvd 1 year ago 2
pre-disclosure?? i think ur right!!
mebluewolf2 1 year ago
pre-disclosure
maydaymosley 1 year ago
At last the Drake Equation get some experimental data....
DemokritosAbdera 1 year ago 5
KzrrainzYes- it is because religious folk do not notice but your quaint superstitions intrude into life all the time and must never be allowed to meddle with science.
lwr113 1 year ago
awesome. it's exciting that these discoveries are happening in our lifetime
frozebaby01 1 year ago 3
if i see that fucking Pale Blue Dot one more time....
roidroid 1 year ago 4
this guy has started a mad dash for realty state and i'm not talking about earth i wonder if some of the ancesters of mankind came from other panets in our galaxy that explains some people lived in caves and some were building cities
dcfan07 1 year ago
@dcfan07 yeah your so right. they,you know, just got in their ufo's and drove it down to this earth. -_-...
kymcubus 1 year ago
It would appear that this speaker screwed up big time. And most viewers don't know.
He wasn't supposed to release that information. The distribution of planet size and the description of the "super-Earths" was a key announcement that NASA has been withholding from public release for shady reasons.
I had tried to read their publications to find out exactly this information but they were never this conclusive. The Kepler data controversy is coming to a head, and this talk was a big screw up.
zassounotsukushi 1 year ago
@zassounotsukushi I wouldn't say screwed up, but in agreement w/U it feels that he wasn't to give all THAT away! 60 PLANETS w/life? Another possible give away.
I guess those who have no idea will get it all in Feb...or will they give info in stages? Hmmm. Let me help! Aliens are/or will b HERE on earth & they're all over our skies NOW!!
BadBalenax 1 year ago
Ok, BP - China 1-1. Whose turn is next?
jannevellamo 1 year ago
this is great news...all we need now is warp drive...
jonesey5168 1 year ago
We should start terraforming mars now, so my great great great great grandchildren have a shot at living there.
drche420 1 year ago
@drche420 you might want to add about 50 more greats to that list
jonesey5168 1 year ago
@jonesey5168
True, just too lazy to write all the necessary generations.
drche420 1 year ago
Wow mainstream science is so far behind.
AnotherNutJob 1 year ago
Huh? I did not count but one Earth like planet in this presentation. the third rock from the Sun. Duh?
glycop 1 year ago
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Huh? I did not count but one Earth like planet in this presentation. the third rock from the Sun. Duh?
glycop 1 year ago
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Huh? I did not count but one Earth like planet in this presentation. the third rock from the Sun. Duh?
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glycop 1 year ago
that origin of life hypothesis is very steeped in religious thinking... the requirement of clay... hot soup... ext..
I'd suggest that organelles predate cells... that cells originated as a spore. figure the temperature vs pressure for components and look along chemical gradients... enzymes and other methods for catalyzing chemical reactions would seem more logical as a development to move away from such gradients where reactions occur naturally and not a prerequisite.
abram730 1 year ago
Aw man... I hate it when the TED Talks video guys thinks they have to intro their subject with a long-winded background that's like "What is SCIENCE?!?" I don't think they realize that everyone in the audience and everyone watching on youtube have already seen like twenty of these things, we don't need any background... we're all on board, we're all on the same page...
kylebstiff 1 year ago 37
@kylebstiff I like turtles
baloneyjazz 1 year ago 5
@kylebstiff aren't you an elite. It's a program aimed to spread knowledge to the masses.
BlueCrystalGem 1 year ago
@BlueCrystalGem Well I'm not that elite, like pretty much everyone else on here I've just watched a bunch of TED Talks joints on youtube. All I'm saying is, I'm tired of skipping the first two minutes of most of them. Oh but not to be a troll or anything, but I guess it depends on your definition of masses. Do you mean the unwashed kind? They ain't watchin' TED.
kylebstiff 1 year ago
@kylebstiff calm down, the intro only takes like two minutes. You must understand that the presenters want to present their research to as many people as they can. And I must disagree that EVERYONE watching them is familiar with what they talk about.
jeeengeli 1 year ago 3
@kylebstiff They have to do that. They're not speaking to scientists, they're speaking to the layman who isn't well-versed in technical sciences and mathematics. If they assumed what you state, then new viewers would be completely disconnected.
CarnivalNights 8 months ago
@CarnivalNights I swear I'm not trying to be a troll. I'm not saying that everyone who watches TED is a scientist and therefore no explanation for "what is science" is needed, I'm saying that Western laymen in 2011 (that is, 99.99 percent of us) already have a grasp on what science is all about. None of us here are scratching our heads over this strange, newfangled "scientific method" and its *crazy* assertion that the world is older than 6000 years.
kylebstiff 8 months ago
Also, I think the average person who watches TED-style videos (you, me, etc.) probably have this bias where we assume we are in the minority, and the majority of people take allegories from the Bible as literal truth... and then we think that we have to spread the truth about how science works, which seems absurd to me because no one who has ever come within fifty mouse-clicks of watching a TED Talks video is even remotely in the dark about how science works.
kylebstiff 8 months ago
@kylebstiff Good point. I accept that answer. They probably do it for filler then I suppose or just to maintain professionalism since it's a bit of a standard.
CarnivalNights 8 months ago
Why am I trying to sell you a half built bridge.... am I that charming? LoL
Overbruce 1 year ago
loved the little film at the end...and the talk of course
reasonnotgod 1 year ago
See how god loves us ? he made such a HUGE universe just for use !
(lol)
kl431 1 year ago
Quite simply one of the most tantalisingly intriguing and fascinating talks I've ever seen. If this doesn't inspire people to go into science, then I don't know what would!
acs1978aus 1 year ago
The title is misleading, is should be "How we found hundreds of possible Earth-like planets."
AlphaNemesis 1 year ago
@AlphaNemesis
"possible" is unnecessary. This is because even if a planet only shares one like attribute with earth (such as diameter) then it still qualifies as "Earth-like". The size of the planet is very important because the planet's mass will determine the pull of gravity and how heavy we feel on it's surface.
drche420 1 year ago
@drche420
While my 'definition' of earth-like differs, you've raise a good point. Thanks for the insight.
AlphaNemesis 1 year ago
@AlphaNemesis
I wasn't trying to impose a defintion to "earth-like". I was merely stating that if a planet has a similar volume or mass, then it does indeed have a like characteristic with earth, making it technically earth-like in at least one respect.
drche420 1 year ago
@drche420
Yes, I got that. No worries mate.
AlphaNemesis 1 year ago
In Soviet Russia, planets discover you =D
xXAavisXx 1 year ago
13:54 laughter fail
SirSilverMyst 1 year ago
Blessed Russel's Teapot. You've triumphed again.
AmusingYeti 1 year ago
I can't wait to see what Keppler turns up in the next couple of years.
Ramshobraja 1 year ago
6 Christians, 3 Muslims and 1 Mormon disliked this vid. *numbers are subject to change"
JaredPKBC 1 year ago 8
@JaredPKBC hahaha, true, true...
mininow 1 year ago
the excitement starts at 8:38 ...
jahrleriksen 1 year ago
How do these videos keep turning into religion bashing sessions? Let's stay on topic people, SCIENCE.
KzrrainzYes 1 year ago 34
@KzrrainzYes It's the beginning of the new war. It's not enough for atheists to study science and find meaning in that, they have to force everyone to agree with them. Why can't people just accept each other? That's what the problem is, not religion.
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@rabbitwho Religion turns people unreasonable, what's wrong with stopping people from being unreasonable?
BaileysBeads 1 year ago
@BaileysBeads Ignorant statements like those makes people arrogant, whats wrong with stopping people from being fools?
KzrrainzYes 1 year ago
@KzrrainzYes Nothing! I'm all open for discussion! You're the one who tries to stiffle the debate, that's a shame.
BaileysBeads 1 year ago
@BaileysBeads Ignorance =/= debate. Sorry.
KzrrainzYes 1 year ago
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@BaileysBeads Ignorance =/= debate. Sorry.
KzrrainzYes 1 year ago
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@KzrrainzYes Who are you to say anyone is a fool. Religion does not make people fools. Believing that you are right and others are wrong and that being right makes you superior makes people cruel and nasty and even dangerous. This is a human trait and irrelevant to what you think you are right about.
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@KzrrainzYes
Actually, Baileys' statement was accurate. Religion does indeed take a person's gullibility and mold it in such a way as to make them closed minded. When a christian says "there is nothing anyone can say that can change my mind about jesus" then that christian is defacto a closed minded deluded unreasonable human being.
drche420 1 year ago 2
@drche420 If someone says "there is nothing any can say that can change my mind about X", it obviously makes them close minded. What's the point of stating the obvious?
KzrrainzYes 1 year ago
@KzrrainzYes
The obvious is what eludes religious people the most often because they choose to remain oblivious. Scientists, on the other hand, observe any and all evidence as it arises to tweak, change, or replace existing ideas with ones that have more explanatory power. God does not explain anything, it simply ends the curiousity of the question. "God did it" has no explanatory power. Science, however, can explain and predict.
drche420 1 year ago 3
@drche420 Some, yes, not all.
KzrrainzYes 1 year ago
@BaileysBeads Religion does not turn people unreasonable. Believing that you are right and others are wrong and that being right makes you superior makes people cruel and nasty and even dangerous. This is a human trait and irrelevant to what you think you are right about.
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@rabbitwho
Even if superiority leads to cruel and nasty even dangerous things, none of that takes away from the fact that atheists are right and christians are wrong. Turning away from reason due to fear (exactly what you're suggesting) is just terrorism and you should be ashamed for attempting it.
drche420 1 year ago
@drche420 Terrorism is thinking that you are right and that being right makes you superior to others.
It is thinking that being correct bestows on you certain rights,such as the right to make decisions that effect others who disagree with you and ultimately the right to kill them.
Nurture those thoughts of superiority if you like, they only have one logical conclusion. This is not about reason or lack there of; this is about showing respect and understanding to those who don't share your view.
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@BaileysBeads
Very good point.
drche420 1 year ago
@rabbitwho "why can't people people just accept each other". if the religious could do this, than i would not even call myself an atheist. but the religious right votes against equal rights for gays, they vote against women who choose abortion, they vote against certain scientific theories being taught in school, they vote in blue laws, and they insist that this is a christian nation (USA) when it was founded as a secular nation. it is the religious that cannot accept other people.
greycloud24 1 year ago
@greycloud24 Not all religious people do that. And you cannot tell anyone how they should vote.
Religion does not make people fools. Believing that you are right and others are wrong and that being right makes you superior makes people cruel and nasty and even dangerous. This is a human trait and irrelevant to what you think you are right about.
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@rabbitwho Believing that you are right is normal, if you thought you were wrong, than you would change, and would then be right.
Being right is superior.
You can tell someone how to vote.
willowtreephoto 1 year ago
@rabbitwho you are correct, not all religious people vote against the rights of other people and accept each other through their differences. it has not been proven weather religion leads to a lack of inteligence or weather a lack of inteligence leads people to become religious. but it has been shown many times that the more educated you are, the less likely you are to be religious. and if you think i am wrong about my statements and that somehow makes you superior, that is hypocritical.
greycloud24 1 year ago
@greycloud24 Hi! Just so you know. There are some religions which are followed almost entirely by people with more "intelligence", as you put it. They are religions which support science, proof, evidence, like Spiritism. Interestingly enough, these religions/philosophies are also the most tolerant, accepting other beliefs and different points of view as necessary for other people to evolve. Spiritism, for instance, has always accepted homosexuals. In fact, it says homosexuality is normal.
RenataVentura 1 year ago
@RenataVentura Could you be more specific. Is that a wide spread spiritism-religion club. Certainly is non of religions/philosophies that dominates neither wester, nor easter world. Must be some sort of underground society. Don't get me wrong. I wish this could be the rule, not the exception. Which is obviously not the case. Cheers.
adb0150 1 year ago
@adb0150 Hi! Spiritism was born in France, but in Brazil it is quite big. About 20 million spiritists there. And spiritist books have been translated into dozens of languages. But it's still not very known in the USA. The problem with spiritism in the USA was that many charlatans decided they wanted to fool americans in the past, and now, when americans see the real deal, they automatically dismiss it as fake, without even trying to search for evidence. Look for spiritism in Wikipedia!
RenataVentura 1 year ago
@greycloud24 Another interesting detail: I've read somewhere in a study that people who are capable of having faith can actually be displaying more intelligence than skeptical people. Not that they ARE more intelligence, but that the capability of believing in something extraordinary which they do not see, is a sign of developed intelligence. It's the ability to create fantasy. I find this very interesting. It's just a thought. Just contributing to the discussion, scientifically. :-)
RenataVentura 1 year ago
@greycloud24 Intelligence = atheism? [citation needed]
If you are worried about being stupid, not believing in god isn't going to help you. Keeping an open mind and being more accepting of other people's thoughts will however. I read somewhere online, though I can't find it now, that there is a part in the brain that emits certain chemicals at times when someone is having a religious experience. It was found that this was underdeveloped in many atheists.
whether/weather. I am not superior.
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@rabbitwho rather than citing one study, i advise you to go to wikipedia. now search for "religiousity and intelligence" now scroll down to the bottom. there are several different studies cited, go check em out. these tests span over 100 years, are done both longitudinal and latitudinal, they are done in different cultures, different times, and all show the same result. its not an insignificant fact that low inteligence and lack of education are linked heavily with religion.
greycloud24 1 year ago
@greycloud24 There's a difference between being intelligent and being educated.IQ tests are culturally biased,and the exposure to western culture people get at any university will affect their score as well as many other things. George W. Bush had an IQ of something like 120. Obviously the tests are flawed.I don't see how religiosity could be related to intelligence when it is completely outside of logic and reasoning. It's a feeling. It's like saying love or sexuality is related to intelligence
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@rabbitwho IQ tests do score on exposure to culture, but western culture bias is experienced in the west, while IQ tests in japan are baised towards japanese culture. however the majority of the tests are based on mathmatics, memory, pattern recognition, problem solving, and spacial recognition. and people who go to church more often and consider a personal god to be an important factor in thier lives score lower on these tests than those who do not.
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rabbitwho 1 year ago
@greycloud24 @greycloud24 In any case it seems to me you (and I get this feeling all the time when I talk to atheists) that you think this makes you more intelligent. You stop and tell your self you're in a special club with Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins. The people who know the truth. The chosen ones. Even if those tests actually mean something (and they don't), you're confusing cause and effect!
rabbitwho 1 year ago
@rabbitwho i don't think i am more inteligent because i am an atheist. rather i find that there are very few rational and inteligent arguements for the existance of a god, and after having talked to people about why they believe in a god, i than believe i am more inteligent. this is not ussually the case with deists, pantheists, and some budhists. mainly it is creationists that show themselves to be extreemly uneducated and non-critical thinkers.
greycloud24 1 year ago 2
@KzrrainzYes hey if you preach skepticism and reason you automatically bash religion, lol it kinda goes hand in hand
richmeister4eva 1 year ago
@richmeister4eva Why? Religion and reason can coexist. In some religions, at least. Like Spiritism. I think religion and science got separated some time in history, and this is a pity for both. When Galileo was trying to find out about the universe, he was a religious man trying to understand the work of God. Most scientists of that time were. But religious institutions, in their intolerance, started driving science away from religion. And now most scientists are skeptical.
RenataVentura 1 year ago
@RenataVentura ah but you see science seeks to find out the inner workings of the universe with no bias as for religion, religion seeks to fill people with misinformation and destroy rational thought, after all if you doubt something in science you are welcomed to have a civilised discourse, if you doubt in religion you are considered a non believer and are shunned or frowned upon or in most extreme circumstances killed. you don't have that in science
richmeister4eva 1 year ago
@richmeister4eva It depends on the religion, really. If you doubt something in Spiritism, for instance, spiritists will welcome a discussion on science, because Spiritism is a religion/philosophy that never tried to go against scientific thought. In fact, as science breaks new ground, it only gives more and more proof of what Spiritism has been talking for over a century. So, this religion at least, is all for science. They eagerly await for more scientific discoveries. :-)
RenataVentura 1 year ago
@RenataVentura ah but science isn't a belief system its a way of life, spiritualism has its methods of deducting logic but science is totally different as it doesn't make assertions without objective proof.
richmeister4eva 1 year ago
@RenataVentura
Yea man you're right, religion and science got seperated because of power and money like most things. The roman catholic church came together as a form of control. It brought together not just the christians but a whole bunch of faith groups at the time under the roman empire. It was a powerful institution which denied reason to control. The gospel was about paying penance and doing what you're told they said, to control. But in fact it's the opposite.
cloudedjourney 1 year ago
@KzrrainzYes religion bashing is part of science :P Its the part that here is how its not, then there is a part thats here is how it really is
princeofexcess 1 year ago
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@KzrrainzYes "How do these videos keep turning into religion bashing sessions? Let's stay on topic people, SCIENCE."
Because many religious people want to suppress science because it doesn't fit with their superstitious dogma and some of them even want to do it with violence. Neither one should be tolerated.
dlandon2000 1 year ago
@KzrrainzYes
because it just tends to be that religion relies upon the subversion of knowledge - science is just one of the most objective forms of it?
FeL0niOuSmOnK 1 year ago
@KzrrainzYes Religion started it!
anoutsideobserver 1 year ago
@KzrrainzYes
only because creationists are idiots and are constantly trying to say that earth is young and bla bla bla.
TheGreatAlexandre 1 year ago
He also noticed that bad money elbow-out good money from the market... what's happening with dollars now (and happened with many other fiat or spoiled currencies before).
grraadd 1 year ago
why do the TED intros have to be so loud?
i hate how people say things like one act launched the so and so revolution.. any historian will tell you that is not the case.. steps have always been taking place some are more influential than others for whatever reasons...
Th3Wab3 1 year ago 3
To infinity.. and beyond.
PeeeU 1 year ago
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I will never understand the fascination with space.
dar482 1 year ago
@dar482 *sigh*...
infinitenight2093 1 year ago
@dar482 i feel really sorry for you.
JesusEclipse 1 year ago
@dar482
It's the human lust for exploration, set to the last great frontier. the whole planet has been mapped, if you desire to learn something no-one has known before, you look outwards..
JimbleBass 1 year ago
@dar482: You are like an ant that doesn't care about things that are more that 10 yards away from its hive, all it cares about is that bread crumb 2 inches away. You just don't want to know about the big picture.
turkosicsaba 1 year ago 3
this is exciting =]
screammoofyscream 1 year ago 2
I KNEW it.
wheatable 1 year ago
Double pleats make me homicidal
facemanwheatus 1 year ago
extending my comment below, imagine in there was a female alien similar to human female out there on a planet in the billions of stars, but instead of small tits, she had huge tits and had four of them! LUSH
stuartwwillis 1 year ago
if there isn't life.. its amazing, we are unique, one of a kind, each of our lives is sacred and remarkable.
If there is life out there.... nice maan. get your alien dicks out and we shall pro-create!
stuartwwillis 1 year ago
This has nothing to do with the talk, but the Dimitar Sasselove reminds me of Jar Jar from Star Wars :0 I don't know why.
The talk is awesome, and makes me amazingly excited for the future.
apocaRUFF 1 year ago
he kinda drifted off at the end of that talk. would have been better to hear more about planets than the neck tie "how small is life" thing.
BinaryReader 1 year ago
12:55 is there a pigeon on the camera ?
foravaine 1 year ago
@foravaine looks like it
Rusvi1 1 year ago
what a funny little cartoon at the end there.
morganseathomson 1 year ago
all praise flying spaghetti monster for his awesomeness and that it created life on all those planets
fragelius 1 year ago 90
@fragelius
rAmen!
UserNameForYeeTube 1 year ago
@fragelius whooo whooo and his noodly appendages
earthangelrojanie 1 year ago
@fragelius
let the congregation say amen...lol
eldogg4life 1 year ago
Huh? I did not count but one Earth like planet in this presentation. the third rock from the Sun. Duh?
glycop 1 year ago
Ah... it's people like him that make me say 'I'm proud to be Bulgarian'... nice speech!
BGDaemon 1 year ago 8
@BGDaemon "Bulgarian" i thought his indian
earthangelrojanie 1 year ago
@earthangelrojanie
Indian? lol :) Just look at his name, he can't be Indian. He's Bulgarian, born in the capital Sofia.
BGDaemon 1 year ago 4