I have untold respect for Martin Rees. Brilliant minded man.

Can we all thank Lex for letting his guest speak and not making the interview about himself like many do.

It's scary to think we might be the ancient advanced civilisation people talk about.

It's like lex is interviewing an elderly english version of himself hahaha

Consciousness and life feel like a dream where the edges are blurred

Anyone would be extremely fortunate to be at this age and so sharp and well spoken. Much respect

Martin Rees is fabulous. His book on the future is brilliant. So great to see him on Lex.

Are we alone in the universe? IDK but I am alone definitely

would've never guessed lex would get Mr Rees wow 👌 truly incredible

IMO, he's got that spot-on right about the "electronic" progeny and how they may act over cosmic time. Few people 'get it'.

Another great clip Thanks 🙏 Lex

Lex, you are a very patient man!

What a fascinating point of view

Excellent 💥

He so happy, and that makes me happy .

good clip

Wow love this.

Life is everywhere and it’s abundantly clear just as the stars fill the sky with light 🌌

The universe is jam packed with life

Lex in the UK. nice one Lex

If alien civilizations are anywhere near us (in the Milky Way, to be specific), they would be incredibly hard to detect. There’s no guarantee they’re building megastructures we could see. If they were hopping around their solar systems in space ships we wouldn’t be able to see that. We can’t even see our own space probes after a certain point.

It's lex interviewing future lex

The only thing preventing us from figuring it out is the same thing that we’re trying to use to figure it out- the ego. Until we evolve the human ego, we’ll keep seeing from a perspective of being stuck in this dimension, stuck in space/time, and stuck in birth/death.

wonderful

Our universe is just a piece of dust on the back of a picture frame

Good get. Rees still has it.

Yes we are alone! Will forever be until the end.

He’s making a lot of sense

Earth is amazing and everyone should be living and enjoying it. Focus on problems only is a mere existence. Life is meant to be lived - always be optimistic and you will be happier

One of the Legends that are still alive

this man is full of pride

All this wisdom and brilliance pouring out, and all I can think is how does this ancient man have a full head of hair and I lost mine at 25 wtf?

We might not be old or smart enough. I wouldn't, as a grown man, ask a mother to let me play with her child. In the same token, I wouldn't let my child venture too far from home until they're old enough. We tell our kids not to talk to strangers. I just hope I'm still alive if/when we do meet others out there. I want to know the universe has even larger and grander plans than we could have ever imagined.

Damn he's good!

I haven’t seen any so.. yeah keep imagining them.

The more I learned things get more special. Because it is truly the less I know with the more I learn and farther I go. However, I think we all fall victim to that what now moment when we get a very large question finally answered that we know people have spent a lifetime or longer working on. Then we gain this arrogance that we know it all and everything seems dull and boring because it wasn't that special and it was quite simple. In all reality we were just unaware but with this comes the awareness growing

The less you are connected to the matrix the more you will learn about yourself and this reality. We are not alone. We are being watched at all times. Open all your senses. Work on them individually you will see for yourself. Once your on that path there's no goin back

Competition occurs where resources are finite, perhaps in the infinity of space this trait would no longer be necessary.

I really hope we're alone in the universe, I do think there are other forms of live but we'd better never find!! We can't even get along with family members imagine what would happen with alien beings.

Interview Dr. John C Mather, PLEASE!!!! 🛰🛰🛰🚀🚀🚀

Smart man

Yes, we are.

we aren't even alone on this planet... they're everywhere. for those with eyes to see.

Is the origin of life on earth such a high priority as we keep making it in terms of determining whether human consciousness is the only one that exists... I don't think so. It's being over emphasised because we are already here so lets move forwards.

Amazing guest, Altered Carbon future.

Yes we are

In an infinite universe that might even be one of an infinite number of universes, the odds of us being alone seem rather small.

If we are here they are out there , simple

There are between 100-400 BILLION planets just in our milky way and they say there are between 100-200 BILLION galaxies, so there's no chance we're alone For all we know there could be millions of civilizations out there. The distances are so vast we may never make contact though.

One thing to keep in mind is that cellular life as it exists today is not the same as the first cellular life that came into existence on earth. The earliest cells were no doubt simpler. And they had hundreds of millions of years to form.

He's just lex :)

Of course not. I'm here

I think the outcome that we are alone is the scariest but merely because we exist probably means we aren’t alone.

Lex you saying life is not special is like saying computers made themselves and evolved to A.I super intelligent 🧠

JWT can now detect chemical composition of exoplanets.

Imagine we discover another civilization in the milky way, then many others, as much, or more advanced than us. Maybe then we would think "We should make sure that we hide ourselves from all of them before they spot us", and build systems to make sure we stay unnoticed despite our technological advancements. Maybe that most advanced civilizations go through the thought of how important it is to not be too easy to be seen. It could make it very difficult to spot any advanced civilization. If humanity evolves into an extremely advanced civilization, we might as well have extremely advanced ways to hide our activities from others in the Universe.

Lex is just a kid, a very smart KID. ✌🏻

Life is life, there isn’t alien life that is separated from us, it is life, the state of being alive

That question has already been answered.

If there're some ahead of us......., what makes everybody think that they will want to be found.

Based on our sample size of '1' i'd assumed that unicellular life was probably inevitable, but that multicellular life - and, thus, brains - required some kind of extraordinary fluke of mutual symbiosis such as the emergence of mitochondria, so as to render its chances all but impossibly slim. Then i realised that the 'Chinese lanterns' i'd often seen out in the sticks actually had a more likely interpretation (more likely than remote farming communities being the main people buying and launching fire lanterns).. that during the day, they appear as squares or cubes or rectangles - six-sided polyhedra (hexahedra!) more generally.. often exhibiting clearly-controlled flight, and intelligent interaction with one another and their surroundings, including humans.. Then i discovered these 'box-orbs' are being released from, and later re-docking with, flying saucers.. confirming that the entire SETI effort has been staring through the wrong end of the 'scope since day one. Feel like i'm taking crazy pills here, yet this is reality.. and not everyone's aware of it, yet..

I mean even discovering bacteria on a distant plant would be considered alien life. Our species is unique to earth and I doubt another plant has life remotely close to ours. I am interested in seeing other life forms and how they look due to the circumstances of their home planet

One hopes that the operators of the Extremely Large Telescope will, in private, simply cut to the chase and refer to it as the BFT.

I thought comment that “earth isn’t so special” was absurd because as noted by learned scholar 1) we do not understand how life began, 2) if earth was just a little closer to the sun we would toast like Venus or, 3) if our planet was just a little farther away from the sun we would be frozen like Mars. It is my belief that earth is truly unique leading to the question why.

The same people who question whether or not we are alone are the same people who believe in UFOs that are not of this world 🤦‍♂️

Off course not...proofs are everywhere..

The first question they need to ask if we are alone on Earth.

Webb has already detected exoplanet spectra with promising results. Exciting times indeed.

Martin says we gonna have humans designing their progeny, can someone please explain to me how we recognize that WE with minds have to make/design intelligence etc..but we ourselves, weren't designed?

There is only one thing that strikes immediate fear within me, one image that gets a response from my fight or flight program and that is of the big eyed Grey. As someone who routinely spends time alone in the wilderness I always thought this odd, where most people ask me aren't you spooked by things in the night? I just assume I'm the scariest thing wherever I am. At least until I mentioned this to a rather lovely clairvoyant woman who responded without hesitation, oh, that's because you've been abducted. Be careful who you take out for dinner.

Some empirical evidence gives strong implications about reality. I get ignored, I think because people prefer what is easy to comprehend or imagine from the conventional view. Mankind is hellbent on finding something interesting off planet. The real fascinating mystery is right here! Sadly, minds have been programmed to fit conventional thinking.

The Eternal Life, is the Only Reality, Life have always been alone, every one knows the feeling of being alone. But, the Life-Unit-Principle, the masses of individual beings, does that, We never feel alone. So, 'Together', We have always been alone.

Before clicking on the video I just knew this guy was going to be English.

bro who came up with that thumnail... straight trolling lmaooo

It’s always in like 10 or 20 years!! Everyone that’s willing to talk about it scientifically have been saying this for 30+ years. Funding pushes the answer till they give no choice. I suppose we’re getting closer, enough money has been spent, oh scratch that. We need more money to detect something else the detectors we have now just aren’t the right ones. On and on!! Great talk!!

The atmosphere is heavy here on Earth.

Lex is going to ask EVERYONE this question.

If there are two trillion galaxies then logically it's very obvious that life is everywhere.

Smart people are clear as they speak.

Ahhh Martin Rees, grandfather of Karl Rees; saviour of mankind

Looks like you were talking to one pleading his case for "we come in Peace" 😂

We are here therefore we know there is intelligent life in the universe but we are so impossibly small and the vast distances in between solar systems and galaxies means we will never be able to make contact with another intelligent life form. Face it, we’re alone for all intents and purposes so love the one you’re with…

The fact we exist I think basically proves other life exists

We are it

Man he drops some westworld plot in 11:02

Lex....I was about to say that you were afraid of Joco (as I would) because of not loking him into his eyes when asking questions.

Yes you are:)

I think finding intelligent alien life is the only way to have peace between humans as we would then focus our prejudices fears etc to these aliens

Mathematically seems an impossibility that we are alone. Also life that we are able to directly perceive is only one possible form. There could be way more to reality that we aren’t evolved to even conceive of at this point, undetectable and undiscovered as yet..

Aggression and Darwinian survival presupposes that there is a competition for resources, but other planets may have unlimited or near unlimited resources and may spawn life with a completely different motivator.

"I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance, in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." J. Edgar Hoover-Director of FBI The security guard called and said, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I’ve got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.” We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs were in the area… (A high-ranking Air Force officer) said, “Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final report. I heard that many of the guards that reported the incident were sent off to Vietnam." Captain Robert Salas, USAF, during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program. "A few insiders know the truth...and are studying the bodies that have been discovered." -Dr. Edwin Mitchell Apollo 14..the 6th NASA employee to walk on the Moon. "Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.” CIA Director, Allen Dulles, 1955. "It's still classified above Top Secret." - Senator Barry Goldwater, 1975 “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960. “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” -William Casey, CIA director, 1981 “Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out. ” ― Edgar D. Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical World AFFIDAVIT (1) My name is Thomas Jefferson Dubose (2) My address is: XXXXXXXXXX (3) I retired from the U.S. Air force in 1959 with the rank of Brigadier General. (4) In July 1947, I was stationed at Fort Worth Army Air Field [later Carswell Air Force Base] in Fort Worth, Texas. I served as Chief of Staff to Major General Roger Ramey, Commander, Eighth Air Force. I had the rank of Colonel. (5) In early July, I received a phone call from Maj. Gen. Clements McMullen, Deputy Commander, Strategic Air Command. He asked what we knew about the object which had been recovered outside Roswell, New Mexico, as reported in the press. I called Col. William Blanchard, Commander of the Roswell Army Air Field, and directed him to send the material in a sealed container to me at Fort Worth. I so informed Maj. Gen. McMullen. (6) After the plane from Roswell arrived with the material, I asked the Base Commander, Col. Al Clark, to take possession of the material and to personally transport it in a B-26 to Maj. Gen. McMullen in Washington, D.C. I notified Maj. Gen. McMullen, and he told me he would send the material by personal courier on his plane to Benjamin Chidlaw, Commanding General of the Air Material Command at Wright Field [later Wright Patterson AFB]. The entire operation was conducted under the strictest secrecy. (7) The material shown in the photographs taken in Maj. Gen. Ramey’s office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press. (8) I have not been paid or given anything of value to make this statement, which is the truth to the best of my recollection. Signed: T. J. Dubose Date: 9/16/91 Signature witnessed by: Linda R. Split Notary Public, State of Florida "There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. “ - Daniel Inouye Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (Iran-Contra hearings) (1987) Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; MEANINGFUL congressional hearings, ala the Watergate hearings, including aerospace/defense contractors and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson must be held to address a vital issue that transcends politics and we will never properly advance until it happens: The 75+yr ongoing-constitutionally illegal, EXTRATERRESTRIAL and associated TIME TRAVEL cover-ups. How can we truly believe anything our elected officials say? The dog n pony shows must cease.

I’m almost convinced that there are other human civilizations throughout space… some may be more advanced than others…

It's terrifying to imagine that we could be the most intelligent life in the universe. We are collectively dumb as shit.

If you fill up a box with gears, springs, rods etc. What are the odds, when you shake it a million years, that you get a wrist watch ? Of course, the smallest self-replicating cell is much more complex, created from much more basic components. So it is just as much possible, this has happened only once, over the course of the lifetimes of many universes and big bangs. Then we would be the only ones who can ask the question "are we alone ?" We tend to think that this universe is big, from our perspective. So of course we deduct, there has to be more life out there. This man's answer is simple: We don't know. We can't even know the odds.

At the very least one civilization in each galaxy. I imagine more.

#3!

Intelligent life is everywhere.

“Is there alien life?” Looks at guest: yup, they are definitely here

Short answer, no we are not. I don't think we need to try prove life is out there, it should just be common sense by now knowing what we know.

In 150 years we went from the horse to the smart phone as the two most important parts of human progress. Imagine a species with a million year head start?