Seth Shostak on SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)

[martinbondesson]

Always loved Seth, he's awesome and very funny. Great talk, too.

[Scarecrow0089]

Get a telescope and point it at a bright point like a star or planet. You'll soon notice the view hole also glows with light. Position a bowl of water so it absorbs that light form the distant star or planet. Test that water.

[goldenageism]

does anyone know how they distinguish artificial emission from natural ones?

[Nueroactive]

Ironic the symbology of astronomy is based upon spiritual entities,I wonder if he knows Levi Setti and about spiritual inseminating or aborting spirits using neuroscienctific applications. Wonder if they know Levi Haim whose investment education detail the spiritual treasures and how to exchange spiritual treasures. Jewish conspiracy? The technology to be able to block out the spiritual light. And the hard wiring the brain for spirits, regardless if natural.How to get a direct deposit of spirits

[MrGuitartramp]

Imagine how much lunch money we could take from these nerds?

[7Alankrit]

I just love SETI , i think they can find out something probaly in the near future . Seth Shostak is amazing and the video is brilliant .

[Zurround100]

If we were to use the trillions of dollars we waste on stupid wars for science not only would we be more likely to find them but our species would be one the aliens would actually WANT to encounter. Our species must look pathetic as it is now.

[mrdrumsauce]

great vid, thanx!

[laughingcrows]

Shostack is an idiot. He believes the only way to find aliens is if you do it HIS WAY. And his way transmits radio signals which we now know radio signals break up way before they leave our solar system. So there is NO WAY his way will work. So screw him for saying everyone else is wrong.

[hunntyl2010]

If I could only be a part of the deepest research. I feel like i understand diferently than most. Its way deeper than our brains can comprehend. you must have an open mind and get rid of all the nonsense of it cant be because of religion. once we as a society break free of this we will have the whole planet as one giant brain to understand. Maybe a thousand years from now. but look at how much we have advanced in 500 years. I know ppl who think the government lied about ever going to space. wtf

[bernie17x]

what a lame crowd

[Alectr0n]

It's interesting that in 2015-2020 we'll also have the freshly launched James Webb Space Telescope up there ready to observe the signal source they expect to find at that time with never before available sensitivity.

It's pretty overwhelming that one of our BIG questions could be answered before I even graduate from university.

[doowop62]

Dr. Shostak probably receives Federal funding, therefore falls under the veil of secrecy implemented by our government. He cannot tell us about the extraterrestrials which he knows about, but I can tell you and show you the reality of those extraterrestrials which dwell within our Solar System. The unedited Moon image he used was a "bennie." To learn more from an old Constitutionalist visit my channel. Note, those created on the Sun Photosphere are created sentient adults.

Dave Stacey

[hjpop]

@doowop62 Veil of secrecy? Really? Please take off the foil hat you're wearing. The sun must be cooking whatever brain cells you have left.

[runcycleskixc]

Thank you! 

[JeremyKilroy]

I don't think SETI is going to find anything. That would be like us still using record player. What advanced civilization would use a communication device that takes years to get a message across space. They would use interdimensional radio. It is real just not made yet, publically. All you need is several entangled particles to transmit digital 1's and 0's for instantaneous communication. No matter how far apart.

[Horathgar42]

@JeremyKilroy The fact is, If they are advanced enough to at one point ever use radio frequencies to communicate, we might hear it (especially if they have used them in the past few thousand years (because if they are a few hundred light years away their old 'i love lucy' episodes would be getting to us while they've adapted some new technology that doesn't use RF we'd still technically 'hear into the past') So it would be useful.

[sachibbsr]

massively awe-inspiring ... Seth kept me glued to my chair till the very end ...

[rishikiran]

Thoroughly interesting and enjoyable!

[celshader]

Where would synthetic intelligence go?

Moon-like worlds.

Worlds with no atmosphere to block solar energy or water and oxygen to corrode materials.

Worlds rich in minerals like iron and silicon.

[Youmakemefart]

@celshader certainly an intelligent theory...

[Armacalypse]

I'd argue that the rational response for an extraterrerstrial would be to destroy us. Why risk us getting more advanced and become a threat?

[magoo1908]

@Armacalypse 'cause you are a moron that only thinks in that terms. Good God the makes us all different and there's a lot of people more positive than you.

[kasuskasus]

I really enjoyed this lecture. Mr Shostak seems like a really sympathetic - and funny! - guy. Thanks for sharing, SU.

[rtsownage]

@kasuskasus Yeah, definitely a funny guy :D

[pillsareyummy]

@kasuskasus I agree. Check out his radio show 'Are We Alone', it's great. Also, if you're into science, check out 'quirks and quarks', it's another great radio show (out of Toronto, Canada, where I live). Both programs have archives to listen to past shows...

[zassounotsukushi]

The computronium doesn't make sense either. There are two problems:

1 - Reproduction: for advanced life, effort for sending out far flung self-replicating probes (copies of themselves) is very little. Why wouldn't they spread?

2 - Limits: advanced life is still limited by end of universe, large clusters of matter experience time dilation and thus they would balance density with time loss