Transcript 0:00 [Is it] possible that we're the most advanced 0:02 life form in the universe 0:04 probably not 0:06 uh because on average 0:09 well first of all we've discovered 5 000 0:12 planets orbiting other stars 0:14 and of the 5 000 planets maybe 20 of 0:17 them are earth-like 0:19 and our galaxy contains 100 billion 0:22 stars 0:23 each one on average with one planet or 0:26 more going around it so the probability 0:29 of life in the galaxy is almost a 0:31 hundred percent 0:32 a hundred percent life but what about 0:34 intelligent life that's probably the 0:36 bottom line yeah was that's what i was 0:37 getting to because all the bottlenecks 0:40 all the the issues that keep all the 0:42 other animals on this planet besides us 0:45 from being the intelligent manipulative 0:48 creatures that we are the way we 0:49 manipulate our environment i mean and 0:52 our constant thirst for innovation that 0:54 doesn't seem to exist in other 0:56 animals um yeah so in that sense we 1:00 could be special to the earth but in 1:02 outer space there could be other 1:04 different kinds of life forms dependent 1:05 upon different factors for sure like the 1:08 octopus the porpoise spiders it's 1:11 possible to imagine other life forms 1:12 that could also be intelligent if 1:14 there's an evolutionary pressure on them 1:16 but 1:17 dinosaurs were around for 200 million 1:20 years and to the best of our knowledge 1:23 not a single one 1:25 became intelligent they got lazy 1:28 now we humans we've been around for 200 1:30 000 years that's nothing nothing 200 000 1:34 years and we became intelligent the 1:36 dinosaurs had 200 million years to 1:38 become intelligent none of them made it 1:41 so 1:42 it's not 1:43 common 1:44 on earth 1:45 but there's enough planets out there 1:47 that it's most likely common in the 1:49 universe for some sort of an intelligent 1:52 innovative species 1:54 to exist in not just one planet but 1:57 maybe an infinite number of planets and 2:00 just remember the dinosaurs did not have 2:02 a space program 2:03 and that's why they're not here today 2:06 no space program not intelligent enough 2:09 to have a space program so to have a 2:11 space program could be an evolutionary 2:13 bottleneck 2:14 if your species does not develop a space 2:16 program sooner or later you're gonna get 2:18 wiped out and you gotta develop a space 2:20 program before you get hit with an 2:21 asteroid that's right that's right and 2:23 that's where we we are now either before 2:25 you get hit with an asteroid or 2:27 to become 2:29 one of those 2:30 societies what is it 2:33 level one where you're able to uh 2:36 do something about super volcanoes right 2:39 do something about 2:40 a type one civilization could deflect uh 2:43 deflect asteroids deflect meteors uh 2:46 they're masters of their planet that's 2:48 type one and that's what we need to get 2:50 to and then we need to eventually become 2:52 interstellar so that we can 2:55 escape if our star burns out if there's 2:58 a supernova at a nearby galaxy there's 3:00 something that happens that kills us all 3:02 we at least can propagate the universe 3:05 right and that's type two 3:07 and we actually found evidence of 3:09 something that may look like a type two 3:10 civilization though that's very very 3:12 speculative there's something called 3:14 tabby's star 3:16 that the decreases in intensity by 20 3:20 periodically now that's incredible stars 3:23 don't simply diminish by 20 3:26 in intensity after a few years it's 3:28 intermittently intermittent right 3:31 so the theory is that maybe there's a 3:33 dyson sphere a type 2 civilization 3:35 creates a sphere around the mother star 3:39 to absorb all the energy from the mother 3:42 star that's called a dyson sphere 3:44 and so the thinking was that maybe a 3:46 dyson sphere is orbiting 3:48 around tabby's star diminishing sunlight 3:51 by 20 3:53 well that's a theory 3:55 some people think it's comet dust or a 3:57 smudge on a telescope but there it is 20 4:00 reduction in starlight in a star 4:04 that which is unheard of now if a planet 4:06 goes in front of the mother star 4:08 sunlight diminishes by less than a 4:10 percent if jupiter goes in front of our 4:12 sun 4:13 star light from our sun diminishes by 4:15 one percent 4:17 but 20 percent reduction in starlight is 4:20 incredible that's why some people think 4:22 that's evidence of an intelligent object 4:26 orbiting the star diminishing star light 4:28 by 20 4:29 is that the best evidence that we have 4:31 in in terms of the observable universe 4:34 that's right that's the only evidence we 4:36 have of a possible type 2 civilization 4:39 which is called a dyson sphere a 4:41 gigantic sphere that uses up all the 4:44 energy of the mother star 4:46 how do you think the... [clip truncated]
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20% reduction in starlight from their Sun would mean they have solved Global Warming!....................
I’m still trying to find Intelligent Life on this planet.
Intelligent life elsewhere? We don’t even have intelligent life HERE!?!
The variable brightness of Tabby’s star has already been proven to be circumstellar dust.
Michio Kauku - a non-serious populace scientist in all of the last two decades of his noteriety. Once he got so popular he has to tended more to the truly pure anti-emperical speculation. I barf every time I hear him on TV.
If one believes that there is intelligent life out there, any evidence makes the belief seem more likely.
A good example was Schiaparellis’ discovery of “canali” on Mars. Our “evidence” for life out there may be just as unlikely. Nice pastime. Build a better spaceship and life model to find out.
In re: “and of the 5 000 planets maybe 20 of
them are earth-like”
Machio Kaku’s use of the term “earth like” is anti-science and he never validates it as to what in his view - what varialbles, how many variables and how many important variables are needed to truly, empirically qualify any planet anywhere as “earth like”. All the populist “scientists” like Kaku speculate “earth like” on so few variables that they cannot stand up to the requirements of any true earth like planet.
Mere type of start a planet orbits, the mere distance from the star it orbits, physical size of the planet, existence of water, and other few similar attributes CANNOT in so few number qualify a planet as “earth like”. But that is the sort of think Kaku does.
The true count how many planets we have discovered orbiting 5,000 stars as possibly being “earth like” may in fact be zero and not 20. Multiply 100 billion stars times zero and you still get zero. But give the 5,000 stars .00000002% chances of hosting an “earth like” planet and you might get a possibility of maybe Kaku’s 20, out of his 100 billion star count.
More like “complete lack of evidence”.
Piling up pure speculation on top of more speculation until you convince yourself that there is some tiny probability of a thing existing is not evidence that such a thing actually exists. Otherwise, one could argue by the same method that there should be thousands of planets full of pink Elephant ballerina dancers in the universe, or any other unlikely scenario you could imagine.
Michio Kaku is vying for the long-vacant Carl Sagan chair in Pop-Science Theater.
Joe Rogan Podcast: Michio Kaku Explains Evidence For No Intelligent Life In California and New York
there fixed it
First let’s find intelligent life in the Democrat Party, then in the RINO wing of the Republican Party, then in the Government before we look for it in outer space. 🤓