She reminds me of my favorite teacher when I was a kid. I could sit here all day and listen to her and learn any subject. Fantastic job!

Ellen Stefan is wonderful and gets you excited on what could be.

everytime i come around your city Bling! Bling!

Watching this for inspo for a paper I'm writing for an APA class.

8:00 - No one ever said it better than Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park. "Life finds a way." Classic line.

I firmly believe that we are not alone in the universe there must be life out there in other galaxies

Tbh I've never understood the point of "looking for life in space" on "habitable" planets - habitable from OUR point of view. Isn't it the whole point that we're looking for OTHER species? Why so sure that they must have the same organic structure as us?

I really enjoy her presentation. Thank You!

The bunch of diamonds in her necklace is like a galaxy. Loved it.

It's unlikely that we're alone in the universe, but the thing is, the universe is just so damn massive that we're probably separated from the nearest planet harboring intelligent life by a distance so impossibly far that even if we travel at light speed it would still take many thousands of human life spans to reach. Sucks huh?

Informative and optimistic.

Informative talk. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.

Fantastic. Fantastic!

Sorry i seem to use this word here more and more. AWESOME

WE need water and oxygen to live.. but other life on other planets, with different conditions wouldn't need the stuff we do.. so we shouldn't presume there isn't life because they don't have water and oxygen

Most interesting indeed

Hope we find life in our solar system!

I never expect that you are best speaker I ever seen in KZfaq..good luck for your new experiment

As a science fiction reader I would like to believe we are not alone, so we could, like the starship Enterprise, contact them! But the older I get the more doubtful I become. There are so many things that have to happen for 'intelligent' life to happen. Maybe if more people would believe the Earth and humanity ARE the only life in the universe, humanity would behave themselves and treat each other more humanely and quit trying to destroy each other...

I don't think we're alone in this universe, but there must be a reason why we're light years apart...

If we are alone, it's an enormous universe to be alone. If we are not, it's too enormous a universe for it to be rare. We are not suited to travel that vacuum in the flesh to search. If there are many others, the distance is too vast for contact. So, where is everybody? Perhaps everywhere, or no where at all. Strange how we are so ill equipped to find out.

Our understanding of life is so meek. we just look at life as we see it. it might be that life on other planets wont need whats needed here. and thats the point i have since a long time and she spoke about it..

I don't think that other planets NEED water for there to be life. We don't know anything about life, elsewhere. It could need something totally different.

Shouldn’t we consider other types of building blocks that we are not aware of? If there is something out there how can we just assume that they live with the same elements

There are also some disadvantages to space Telescopes. 1.) Very limited in how big the collecting area (mirrors) can be due having to launched it into orbit. 2.) If there is a hardware problem it likely takes a space walk using astronauts to fix it. Something not easily done, especially not now since the space shuttle is retired. This is why the ground based telescopes such as the TMT/Magellan/ELT will lead the way in space exploration. They will be exponentially more resolution than any other telescope out there. The advent of adaptive optics also compensates for atmospheric distortion.

We're always searching for places that can harbour life such as our own, like were the only type of life form out there... let's stop and think that maybe life comes in all different forms that we haven't discovered or we can't comprehend yet

Im not gonna lie' If I found out for a fact that we are alone in this really really big universe it would kind of freak me out! lol

14 billion years...and as much as we know about the universe we only know of our planet hosting life. And it took all of 14 billion years for humanity to be where we arer in our knowledge of space and time. So I must conclude that life should be in abundance through out our Universe. But life simalur to us...there exist so many variables...with many of them not being conducive with life florishing. I think only Murphys' Law provides the reason we even exist...if it can it will. Just how often and how many..TBD...

Humanity will never be content... debating whether there is life on other planets... The realization it's a houndred trillian odds.. that we exist... the expectation is haughty the realization is that people cannot settle with being...

The number of habitable worlds is a humongous number. However, the probability of life starting on any world dwarfs this number, and even if life starts, going from prokaryotic to eukaryotic life is unbelievable. In short, we are alone.

We could be alone, we could not be alone, either way its terrifying to think about it, one way or another

There is another TED on this Kepler mission titled "The most mysterious star in our universe" . Go check that too

It’s not rare to have habitable planets in the universe. But it’s extremely extremely extremely rare to evolve to intelligent species like humans. If dinosaurs were not extinct, there would be no humans

Damn she's iced out !!

Z if you think your going to find an earth like planet in this galaxy , your dreaming , enjoy life while you are alive and take care of Mother Earth . Having said that if you want to live on Mars then go ahead , problem is it's a one way trip , if you don't like it when you get there then tuff

are we alone? -no. the question should be :" where are they?"

as long as we live in the greed is good mentality .. humanity will never move forward ... we will destroy ourselves .. and our demise will be deserved

Even with our sophisticated understandings and science etc..etc.. our planets are on the cusp of enfant ignorance. We are so stone age when it comes to planetary travel. We know nothing about life outside ours. Our vision is limited and hearing limited to certain frequencies. Outside those frequencies we are blind and deaf. To use our ignorance to look for life when we have no clue what we are truly looking for.. we will never find life because looking in the dark isn't helping our cause and refusing to think outside our planet. We will always be enfants to other higher intelligent beings.

We keep discovering microbial life here on earth in places we'd never expect them to be. Im sure there is microbial life everywhere, on every planet.

Hello darkness my old friend...

I always wonder how different their biology is from ours on earth. Or is it the same. All elements are the same. Then species could be the same as well?

I think we will find lots of microbial life in the universe. Complex life will be more rare and intelligent life will be extremely rare. If we do detect intelligent life out there it will be too far away to communicate with.

Cool, the James Webb telescope is going to be launched this December. I am excited for its discovers.

We don't need people on Mars. Just build better robots and send them

her necklace blingin brighter than the night sky

THE ANSWER IS NO NEVER HAVE BEEN ALONE!!! IT WOULD BE MORE UNBELIEVIBLE IF WE WERE ALONG !!!

same information, same questions, same facts. This has been over done. Its time to actually do something and provide some results. After all this time. there should be at least some new update or anything!

Only when we as a species change our thinking on the order of magnitude similar to those believing the earth would be flat finally understanding that the earth was indeed not at the center of the universe but rather we revolved around the sun and that we were only part of a larger system, will we be able to move on to solve questions like this.

Does anyone have a link to pics of what is ahead of us instead of towards the big bang? Where are we headed? Point Kepler and Webb towards the future not the past.

Think of it this way. In nature is anything unique in the universe? I can't think of anything. Life can't be unique either.

Are we alone might be more of a question of how we communicate. Simple example is two people that meat each other for the first time that speak totally different languages. They can use pictures or hand movements like pointing to go that way. But they are both human beings to start with and have a basic common way of thinking about the world around us allowing them at least a rudimentary form of communication. Alien live in a totally different solar system could follow a totally different form of communicating that we have no hope of receiving and if so understanding.

Pretty clear we are alone in the universe

JWST only needs to identify chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Not a naturally occurring molecule. The second it finds some... "Jackpot" -- Ellie Arroway, Contact

5:00 - I.e., maybe WE could live there someday.

2+ planets, on average, around every star in the universe... we are not alone. A civilisation that can travel between stars can make their own resources... they only need raw materials and energy..

How long does this Verge denote?

You know, we ask this question so often; if an individual does, it indicates loneliness. Is that what this is? Perhaps. A great man once said if we ever allowed all sizeable animals to become extinct, we'd die of loneliness...

I still don't understand why we are looking for life, like ours, on planets like ours. Seems as though we should be looking for something much different.

It seems that planet earth started to early. It takes a lot for the universe to cool. So their is probably why we are alone right now..

In parallel to existing approaches we need to concentrate also on developing technologies that can detect, at incredible distances, the telltale signs of life, such as the presence of photosynthesis or gaseous elements indicative of biological activity. Such technologies, if it's possible to develop them, should increase the probability of finding carbon-based life if it exists and serve to guide astronomers as to what specific planets, solar systems and galaxies they should concentrate their efforts on studying.

Waldorff : You think there's life on another planet? Stattler : Why?! You hav'nt got one here!

If you think we are not alone, watch ,Are We Alone video and comment on what you see!

If aliens much more advanced looks at how we treat life on our planet less intelligent than us how can we expect to be treated any different?

Dowload the seti home software, keeps saying my cpu is busy, wtf, its not busy, an Intel i5 can't do the job is that it ? I pretty sure i use way more complex softwares with it

we already know we're not alone , but finding other intelligent life is harder , and with Mars we'd have to dig into the surface to find out more about its passed

Even the best known exo-planet is uninhabitable.

2:12 water is a solid.

The life on Mars came here!

If we are referring to intelligent extraterrestrial species, the answer is no. There may be generic life which would be amazing in itself hut we will never contact or communicate with intelligent extraterrestrial life. We are and always will be, forever alone.

We think , we think, we think, yep that definitely sums it up, cuz WE DON'T KNOW, NOW THAT'S A FACT!

See 'Richard Dolan - best speech ever' puts all this in it's proper perspective.

I found People on Mars 2004,so we are NOT ALONE.

Let us hope we are alone because if they land anytime soon and ask to be taken to our leaders -well it's just going to be embarrassing for all concerned.

Why does every where need water ....just because that's what we need on this planet .....I don't get that 🤔

I think it's kinda funny how we've been locking for planets who resemble our current atmosphere, even tho the Earth was frozen for millions of years, then life appeared by a short period, got blasted and the Earth looked like a complete desert.

It's interesting to find methane on these moons of Saturn and on Mars. As René Descartes would no doubt have said "I fart therefor I am" (Je pète donc, je suis).

Everything said in this talk keeps me humble.

They need to focus on industry on the moon and asteroids before bothering with mars. Especially sending humans there; what's the point? Plus, what makes her think she can't do the work remotely? If she wants to get the job done, robots are the most cost effective.

We are not alone, when I was in Africa in bush in the night around 1 am we saw something up big light,we cannot explain, it was very light like jet but no sound. The alien are more intelligent. They look like birds. It difficult for us to find them. But when we try we will find them

we will never find complex life, its either too far away or it occured long ago. We need to focus on saving our planet not chasing fairytales

Assume we are alone until proved otherwise....that proof will never come.

I don't think so, even if true we could never get there

It freaks me out just to think we’re on this giant rock, floating through space, so far far away from anything like our own planet.

The best evidence for life elsewhere in universe surely must be our existance, way out in the milky way...

It's 20,000 light years to the edge of the Milky Way. Maybe 25-70000 light years to the nearest galaxy. There is probably life out there and probably highly intelligent life out there but the reality is that they will likely wind up being too far away to ever know for sure. They will have the same limitations with space travel due to relativity that we do.

Life can live in harsh and extreme environments but that does not mean that it originated there. I tend to believe that life originates in only the most conducive of environments and only then afterwards does it adapt to these other harsher places.

yep, seems to me that we are.

A real life Ellie Arroway, intelligent, curious and gorgeous :-) Btw: Keplers field of view is not the size of your thumb but about the size of your hand.

Light speed is the limitation - quantum entanglement on the other hand . . . 😉

Having read the books of the first scientist God known as Thoth and as a result understood the underlying harmonic geometry and number of creation the main question became is such geometric proportionality balance, perfection that gave rise to life on earth common or a rarity? All the evidence gathered so far strongly points to the latter. The next question that arises is the speed of light a constant or does it somehow depend on the star and of course we all know it is a constant, this question arises as according to the venerable Thoth there is direct relationship between the speed of light and life on planet earth. Its peculiar in a way that we havn't found another earth because the work of Thoth would seem to predict many earths as so many of the numbers and much of the underlying geometry is present in the singularity at the beginning of time, and its from this very real science that one understands where the notion of an embryonic earth present befor the existance of the light, the big bang, found in the book of Genesis comes from. I also suspect that this is also why the glitterati of science repeat the mantra "Its impossible to know what came befor the big bang" as part of their doctrinal beliefs. The books of Thoth or extracts from its many topics will never be published by any science journal as they strongly present real science that strongly contradict the overiding corporate assumptions based on zero evidence presented daily by popular corporate science that in light of the of the work of the venerable Thoth can now be shown to mistaken. Untill the so called planetry scientists, a realitivley new discipline on the science tree, graduate out of kindergarden and raise their science above the level of fairy stories the question must be asked should they really be allowed to even call themselves "scientists" if they don't even know all of the underlying conditions that came together perfectly here on earth, thats an anagram of heart by the way, and this is not a coincidence as the books of Thoth make clear the heart is the center of our being, just as it is the earth that gave birth to us and is the center of our being. Freedom of the expression of ideas is hard won and cherished part of modern thought so I have a right to express my findings and make them public where I hope some day someone will wish to debate their relavance. The scientist Thoth was revered not only by the ancient Egyptians but also the Greeks and Romans as Hermes and Mercury, messenger of the Gods no less and this is one reason we hear so little of his work from modern scientists who make no secret these days that they have collectivley in their own minds at least completed the "scientific" disapearance of the divine from any "intellgent" persons belief system lest they lose all credibility amongst their peers, fait accompli so they would have us all believe as "science fact" when the truth is its much more likley to be science fiction and can be seen as such once Thoths works are given due care and consideration they deserve, if for no other reason than the works of Thoth are the pristine orginal science of mankind that three separate carbon 14 dates all suggest was a science that was fully formed 10,333 years ago. Thoth it turns out was not only revered in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome but also in Neolithic Britian which is where Thoths most important work was successfully preserved to make itself available again when the time was right, and that time was always planed to be when the earth tilt again reached 66.6° for the first time in 20,666 years, the balance point of the earths natural tilt cycle that fell on the date of the last millenium and was marked by the return of the phoenix, the great firebird and calandrical marker of the ages that lit up the night sky for months on end, a firebird, given the name this time round of comet Hale Bopp, and despite what wickiepedia may say, this was the brightest comet and longest lasting visible in recorded history, nothing like it has been seen for many thousands of years. Stonehenge is a book of Thoth, preserved in stone to survive the ravages of time and mans destructive hands, pristine, intact, far more than the sum of its parts, written built by Horologists in the unversal languge of science and number so any reasonably educted person can successfully read them, but what one pulls from them depends on the knowledge of the reader. They are being made available for anyone to read on my youtube channel should anyone wish to read them.

An astrophysicist that would flunk an elementary school English exam. Now that’s mind blowing! Can’t believe how many remedial mistakes she made while speaking.

She looks like Cinder Flame of Cindytalk !

Yes, we are definitely alone. Nobody is going to pull up in spaceship. All 9 Billion humans already here are all alone. Close your legs.

evolution of intelligence is unique to us and imposible that will happen in other galaxy or universe

We're obviously not from this planet and like most animals . Most tigers,lions,elephants,... look the same . Only domesticated animals come in different sizes and colors like humans . Cats and dogs are a great example. Someone or something made humans with different sizes and colors. Figured we would a be one race

They did not think it

"are we alone" ask those that have been abducted since the 50s, ask them how they were taken out of the homes,rooms without the doors and windows being open, ask them if they believe humans on earth had that kind of power in the 50s, 60s and 70s

Since when is Saturn only 90.000.000 Miles away ? Thats not even one Astronomic Unit. 1 AU = 92.955.810 Miles. Saturn is roughly 7 AU, from the Earth when the two are at their closest approach to one another.

Are We Alone? No.

Contact within 20 or 25 years!