"Why we might be alone" Public Lecture by Prof David Kipping

I know why I’m still alone, I keep watching videos like this instead going out 😂

Videos like this make me grateful to be alive in the time of the internet.

Brian Cox actually changed course. Respect to Brian 💯

Finally! Michael Crichton made similar points some years ago (it would take a fiction writer with a scientific mind to sniff out BS so keenly). The compounding of UNKNOWN variables still make them unknown. That popular scientific personalities talk about the Drake equation and other similar notions with such bias has seriously dumbed down the scientific dialogue in our society. We also talk about modeling in other areas in the same way, as if these equations are not speculative but somehow predictive. Kudos to Dr. Kipping for treating science like a process, not a corruptible worldview.

"Oracle. Are we alone in the universe?" she asked. "Yes," said the Oracle. "So there's no other life out there?" "There is. They're alone too."

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” -Arthur C Clarke

Dr. Kipping is a bracing gust of cool logic. 🦉

Such an informative and well spoken individual. Thank You.

A true scientist is supposed to think this way. Great Lecture!

The fact that intelligent life only formed shortly before Earth becomes uninhabitable is really interesting. I'd never thought of it that way.

I really liked the way Professor Kip lectures/teaches. He has a genuine smile and its more like he's conversing with you about something so casual, except it's about the universe and scientific equations lol.

incredible lecture, professor kipping. a breath of fresh air after hearing so many scientists conclude there has to be life in the universe other than us.

“I don’t know” is often the only honest thing a wise man can say.

We may be alone or we may be effectively alone. It is a distinction without a difference...

It’s not just that space is vast, but also that time is vast. Perhaps there was once a civilization in our galaxy that sent out radio signals hoping to find other life, but it ceased to exist billions of years before humans discovered how to detect those signals.

This guys knows his stuff for sure. Impressive.

Brilliant and also very graspable for any semi intelligent non scientist. Appreciate his agnosticism on the topic…He speaks very clearly and supports a specific point of view…but entirely without arrogance…Thank You for sharing this lecture

FINALLY someone speaking straight about this subject. Thank you.

It is refreshing to see a science teacher so well rooted in reality!

wow, excellent logic. wish we could all think this way about all things.