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Why have we not yet found proof of alien life? According to astrophysicist Avi Loeb, we simply haven't dedicated the proper resources. Diving into unidentified phenomena such as the Oumuamua asteroid, he explores his scientific search for extraterrestrial technology, envisioning a future where a higher interstellar intelligence helps us improve life here on Earth.
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@Celeste-in-Oz Ай бұрын

“I do not have a footprint on social media, I enjoy nature” … I was expecting applause but the silence was deafening.

@dreamfall77 Ай бұрын

The SETI project is waiting for a call, he is not waiting for a call at all. The truth is in the middle.

@masteronionnorth2341 Ай бұрын

Because only an alien wouldn't have a social media foot print. 😋

@PolarisClubfan Ай бұрын

Emotional shock 😂

@PolarisClubfan Ай бұрын

Can a scientist lead a country better than a politician ?

@dreamfall77 Ай бұрын

@@masteronionnorth2341 This is only if the purpose of the mission is not to make contact.

@DerStreuner Ай бұрын

"Science is better than politics." Applause. 👍

@trappedkitty5335 Ай бұрын

And yet scientists are beholden to politicians for funding.

@danielmartin7838 Ай бұрын

Science has always been political, that’s the irony

@tor2gonzio Ай бұрын

And here he is

@tonydisibio4236 Ай бұрын

Politics is the lowest form of life on Earth

@j.w.r3730 Ай бұрын

Science is unlimited freedom. Politics is about punishment.

@Purified-Bananas Ай бұрын

"We are not the pinnacle of creation. There's room for improvement."

@turinturambar6770 Ай бұрын

Would suggest that anyone unfamiliar with the bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, proposed by the Senate majority leader as an amendment to the FY24 NDAA, should go read the language in that document. That bill would have conveyed eminent domain over any recovered NHI materials, as well as created a nine-person civilian review board which would oversee the release of government documents relating to UAP. That bill passed the Senate, but was stripped of those crucial provisions in the House during conference.

@loffarenerik2914 Ай бұрын

tell Trump that

@tonydisibio4236 Ай бұрын

Who thought we were ? We The Children

@bob2ride Ай бұрын

Senate majority leaderin 2024 was a scientist? Don’t think so. He believes in Bigfoot too. 😂

@tonydisibio4236 Ай бұрын

@@bob2ride DUDE Seriously, If YOU do not Know about Sasquatch ( bigfoot to you ) NOW in 2024, your Way behind and have to Catch way up. Got it, and besides that, there's a lot of other Secrets that the GOVT Has Kept from US. Dude Your Behind - Get it.

@cameronbutton2573 29 күн бұрын

Nice talk - I’m glad there’s a scientist out there brave enough to put it all on the line for something we all want answers too

@beenaplumber8379 23 күн бұрын

The only bravery required is the risk that funding might be hard to come by. That can limit the amount of work a scientist can do. There is no loss of respect for pursuing any research question. Scientists pursue knowledge for its own sake, not because it's in some socially correct field. Funding and urgent social need do influence which questions scientists will study, but there is no ostracism of scientists who study unusual ideas. (Extraterrestrial life is by no means an unusual subject of scientific study. NASA continues to spend massive amounts of money on the question, as do scientists working in universities around the world. It's not a fringe idea in research, and it never has been.)

@CensoredComment-os8py 2 күн бұрын

Science will tell you if youre being visited or not. And right now? Nope. Life in the universe? Sure. I'm 98% sure there is. If it was just 1 life form PER GALAXY or even 1 per 100 galaxies, life would still be abundant in the Universe. But coming here in space ships? NOPE.

@416pp Ай бұрын

I stopped watching TED talks like 8 years ago.. this popped up on my feed for good reasons.. what a great talk!!

@richardvanderwerff7264 Ай бұрын

Same ...and I am so happy also to have bumped into this presentation !

@ETSpaceRocks Ай бұрын

@@richardvanderwerff7264 Me too in a same team thank you

@rjswas Ай бұрын

Same here.

@HiAdrian 29 күн бұрын

Same!

@michi9816 28 күн бұрын

in the introduction he says to see 100 billion stars. they might exist, but can not be seen looking up into the sky.

@ThorPalsson Ай бұрын

Avi doesn't deserve that hate he has received from the scientific community Since when does science not allow curiosity and wonder? He is asking questions that are absolutely fundamental to our existence

@JoeyP946 Ай бұрын

I'm watching a Ted talk with the title "My search for proof aliens exist". I might as well be watching the history channel

@shadw4701 Ай бұрын

The problem is that he's always jumping to conclusions

@hllok Ай бұрын

His isn’t wonder and curiosity. He continues to make claims without evidence, like omaumau and the sheroids.

@Anomaly_Files18 Ай бұрын

@@hllok How is that not evidence? What is evidence to you? Them landing on the White House lawn?

@blueabattoir Ай бұрын

@Anomaly_Files18 That would be strong evidence.

@uapReX Ай бұрын

"4 trillion dollars a year on military budgets" Insane :(

@grilledslug7647 Ай бұрын

Everything we know and have known as a species, every event in our evolution and history happened on this pale blue dot. When you think about it, it is imperative that w fight to the death for every square inch of it.

@mrtienphysics666 Ай бұрын

@@grilledslug7647 with who?

@MiB1313 Ай бұрын

@@mrtienphysics666 Why our Ancient Alien overlords, OfCourse.

@0_3_6_9_0 Ай бұрын

Thank you! Perfect.

@BearOnTheMoon Ай бұрын

@@grilledslug7647 That's the whole point that you lot always miss. I mean it's right there in front of your own nose and you still can't see it. Even a portion of that '4 trillion dollars a year' would INCREASE the size and number of 'every square inch' you insist we need to fight over. Even a school kid can understand this simple notion. Why can't you?

@jeffmosesjr Ай бұрын

The world needs more curious farm boys. Gods speed Dr Loab!

@dreamfall77 Ай бұрын

In fact, what he said about the farm boy and the adults in the room clearly indicates that he is at least one of the candidates, but how can he be told about this if he is not on social networks?

@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965 Ай бұрын

The owners of pecan farms in israel arent really the same thing as some poor hick buddy of yours from Iowa dude

@JamesTaylor-on9nz Ай бұрын

@@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965 You think a member of God's chosen would do that? Get on a stage and tell lies?

@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965 Ай бұрын

@@JamesTaylor-on9nz antisemitism aside, when confronted at the very end, "yes or no question, will we find evidence of extra terrestrial life in the next ten years" Not only does question reveal that what Avi found last year IS NOT a sign of extra-terrestrial life, he quickly answered YES knowing full and well he is lying to his audience for clicks. So just because this "adorable farm boy" from Harvard doesn't have a social media presence like joe rogan, doesn't mean he isn't selling the same click bait for a future podcast deal.

@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965 Ай бұрын

@@JamesTaylor-on9nz but yeah, he's using flowerly language to manipulate simple ppl into buying his trash points.

@jacobbarr9569 Ай бұрын

"There is room for improvement" Amen!!!!

@tonydisibio4236 Ай бұрын

For the human race, I don't know, all I can Do is Hope.

@appsenence9244 Ай бұрын

He meant that if we are god's creation then god is flawed. It's basically a saying watching science that we can't have been engineered, there's too many flaws with the human body and brain. You saying amen to this is truly ironic.

@kennethnyhus1337 Ай бұрын

Amun*

@riir1893 Ай бұрын

@@appsenence9244 There does exist quite a few Christians, Jews, and Muslims who do believe the universe is ~13.7bn years old and that we, like the rest of life, has been formed via natural selection, though. According to them it's the soul we've been gifted that's perfect and indestructible, not our physical bodies themselves.

@appsenence9244 Ай бұрын

@@riir1893 ok?

@Cyclopsonlyseeshisdeath Ай бұрын

I loved his take on the Fermi paradox, “Single people ask this a lot, but you have to leave your house to meet people”

@Probabilityislife Ай бұрын

All bs. Ets are here. The world is run by a group of small unelected people who already know all this.

@mateusb09 Ай бұрын

That doesn't make anything better at all. You can fit 30 planet earth between us and the moon. The universe is big but at the same time it is so empty and everything is too far away. Fermi paradox: maybe we can't see anybody in the night sky because everything is just too far away to be detected.

@ms0824 Ай бұрын

My planetary comparison would be this. Imagine a single human being at the north pole on earth, and a single human being at the south pole on earth. How long would it take for them to utilize tools, create technology, be curious enough to explore, have the idea of not being alone, and find each other? A likely answer is never.

@prodromosregalides3402 Ай бұрын

We need to first start moving around the solar system . We can do this at the very least. It will greatly enhance our understanding of the universe. But not when we compete for matters the showcases of which is Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Niger and so on. Not when the excuse is a religion or ideology we do not actually believe in. Wanna be Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Environmentalists and so on, being so vocal about their agenda while in reality their only concern is money. We need a humanity with self-awareness.

@ETSpaceRocks Ай бұрын

@@Probabilityislife My Man Love you for kind words respect! There is still smart people left in this world Amen

@cgpsj2194 Ай бұрын

I could listen for hours to this captivating genius

@brianwatson9687 Ай бұрын

I had enough after three minutes.

@Jacobsoetsrto3211 6 күн бұрын

@@brianwatson9687 i could listen for 40 hpurs for professor avi the genius

@justicewillprevail1106 Ай бұрын

He's absolutely right. He's never claimed he knows something for sure. He just simply says there are possibilities. Many science channels I watch refuses to even consider the possibility of intelligence from another galaxy. I find those channel rather close minded. Dr. Lien is much more accepting to new ideas and possibilities.

@DarthQuantum-ez8qz Ай бұрын

Yes, there are possibilities. There are also possibilities for fairies and leprechauns - just no DATA.

@beenaplumber8379 Ай бұрын

That's an important difference between science channels and scientists. A scientist cannot simply dismiss the work of someone who rigorously follows the scientific method, no matter what questions they're addressing, and I've never seen that happen. To do so puts the critic outside the realm of science. The actual problem, as Avi alluded to, is funding. Scientists cannot dispute someone who follows the scientific method, but granting agencies are less likely to fund projects that have a lower probability of success. The question of extraterrestrial life has been studied very carefully (e.g., with every Mars lander or rover), and the accumulation of negative data makes it hard for funders to give massive amounts of money to continue studying a question that has yielded so much negative data. I think most scientists would be delighted beyond expression if extraterrestrial life were to be found, particularly intelligent life.

@njones420 Ай бұрын

@@beenaplumber8379 beautifully put!

@galaxia4709 27 күн бұрын

@@njones420 but it's wrong what he says

@dreamfall77 27 күн бұрын

@@beenaplumber8379 Well, I think it's time for scientists to take a closer look at the fact that the Mandela Effect clearly does not fit into the strict framework of a purely psychological phenomenon.

@cotystiehl7260 Ай бұрын

Wow, this was refreshing to listen to.... It's too bad the few people at the top are more concerned with power and greed, and the the rest of us suffer for it.

@annphillips3704 26 күн бұрын

Avi has been going where many scientists refuse to go for a long time. He is taking the community on one interview at a time. His enthusiasm is wonderful. Tumbling like Oumuamua he is joining forces with the likes of Gary Nolan etc ( minds too great to not take seriously.) It is amazing how much resistance he is encountering from within. . He needs our support Bravo. 👏👏👏

@ycroniyael1976 29 күн бұрын

Professor Avi Loeb is one of the most brilliant mind scientists in the world. I always enjoy hearing him.

@simpsimpson5175 9 күн бұрын

are you serious? he is a handled Mossad asset

@mikemann2053 Ай бұрын

What an incredible human Avi is. He has restored my faith in humanity that we haven't all become certifiably insane.

@JupiterLicorice Ай бұрын

@@mikemann2053 he believes God was an alien and that the coming Messiah is an alien too.

@yngviifromspace Ай бұрын

@@JupiterLicoriceexactly ! Like the old texts describe , they translated it on purpose so we believe in a god that is far from the truth

@silvio5266 Ай бұрын

I wish there were more scientists like Avi Loeb

@cloudie_s Ай бұрын

"And I say, if I go down the street and I see a weird person, and after that I see a normal person. It doesn't make the weird person normal." .. lol .. I am going to add this to my list of grandiose quotes. 💚

@JonnoPlays Ай бұрын

The only paradox is why people keep quoting Fermi.

@ETSpaceRocks Ай бұрын

people know too simple

@mrmathews3670 Ай бұрын

The same reason why people think nobel prize winners are experts in every single field of science. Fact is Fermi was a nuclear physicist not an astronomer, astrophysicist, astrobiologist or cosmologist.

@ETSpaceRocks Ай бұрын

@@mrmathews3670 I deserve Nobel prize lol

@warriorofice33 29 күн бұрын

@@mrmathews3670 His reasoning was fine though, since the milky is much older than earth and our sun, where are they? they would have had time to go everywhere if they only had say 1 million years ahead of us.

@dreamfall77 27 күн бұрын

@@mrmathews3670 The important thing here is that others have picked up on it. It's quite common for an outside observer to notice something that the submerged have missed because he have a fresh set of eyes. Beginner's luck is a well-known saying.

@wade8130 Ай бұрын

A scientist who is more concerned with his reputation than with searching for answers is of little use to the world. Too many of those. Dr. Leob is a scientist who isn't afraid, and that's refreshing.

@nithienbadal6733 Ай бұрын

@@wade8130 owing to his extra terrestrial claims he has risen in popularity. I think he is a populist

@bob2ride Ай бұрын

If you leave the house and it takes 100 lifetimes to get next door ya never meet anyone either

@MikeViker Ай бұрын

@@nithienbadal6733 That's right, he is only a cheater.

@bigdopamine9343 Ай бұрын

He claimed he found an alien spaceship. He did not, he’s a lying grifter.

@Unknown17 Ай бұрын

@@bob2ride This talk is just full of stupid illustrations and examples that can be popped like a balloon with a pin. "I welcome all nature," he says. What if he opened the door of his Manhattan apartment and a Bengal tiger was standing there with a knife and fork? HA!

@BearOnTheMoon Ай бұрын

Thank you for choosing to give a TED talk worth listening to. Shame the management didn't have the decency to let you finish in peace. Hope the next generation gets a chance to hear and understand what you were trying to convey. GOOD LUCK on your next hunt.

@dr.michaellittle5611 Ай бұрын

What? Are you joking? He provided no evidence of anything other than space debris.

@BearOnTheMoon Ай бұрын

@@dr.michaellittle5611 Didn't understand the message huh?

@user-ku2bf1ul1d Ай бұрын

@@dr.michaellittle5611 DUH......DUHHH...Blip....click....Click......DUHHHHHHHHH

@ETSpaceRocks Ай бұрын

@@user-ku2bf1ul1d All negative comments are bots themselves... making new accounts to comment lol

@RockStar-vx8ec 20 күн бұрын

Love the curiosity to ask and find evidence inside the realm of human imagination and outside of modern science boundaries ❤😊

@SgtGuarnereDD Ай бұрын

Avi is taking the risk that was needed by many scientists in the past leading to incredible discoveries for mankind. I'm not going to assume he's right, but I admire his curiosity and stubbornness and just hope for him to get his breakthrough in time. It'd be the discovery of a lifetime.

@bigdopamine9343 Ай бұрын

He’s a grifter that pretended he found an alien space ship.

@SgtGuarnereDD Ай бұрын

@@bigdopamine9343 you obviously know nothing about science. He's never stated he found an alien spaceship, nor did he claim that aliens exist beyond any doubt. He's researching the potential for Oumuamua and the objects he's found to be extrasolar and their likelihood to be of technologically advanced alien nature. Nothing more, nothing less.

@mandogundam5779 Ай бұрын

Not saying you are wrong, your comment is appreciated. Just beware the Dunning-Kruger effect friends, its pretty prevalent these days.

@bigdopamine9343 Ай бұрын

@@SgtGuarnereDD no he literally declared that he’d found pieces of an interstellar object that could not have been produced naturally. Turned out to be industrial waste. I do understand the scientific method and know that he did not employ it. He’s considered a clown by his contemporaries.

@sandypandy67 Ай бұрын

It’s about time TED Talks started addressing the UAP issue. For so many years, they have ignored the subject, even though there are many interesting and important stories and lessons to be told.

@appsenence9244 Ай бұрын

Wtf?

@Uniblab9000 Ай бұрын

Interesting stories, yes. They have nothing to add to science though because there is no evidence to study, only interesting stories to tell and crappy photos...unless you count the amazing photos of flying saucers taken before the advent of ubiquitous pocket-sized digital cameras.

@darthvader6109 Ай бұрын

As a human from planet 200million light years away from earth, i can confirm this guy is looking in correct direction

@DeAlpineBro Ай бұрын

'Oumuamua Finally Explained Using a Brilliant Analysis by Anton Petrov “as someone once said, keep your mind open but not so open your brains fall out”.

@dreamfall77 27 күн бұрын

I looked. There are no answers to the questions of why Vega and why now.

@franciscoalvarez659 28 күн бұрын

I can listen to this man talk all day

@aljoschalong625 21 күн бұрын

The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert writes, "It seems a good deal more likely that [Loeb's book about this topic] will be ranked with von Däniken's work than with Galileo's"

@13thravenpurple94 Ай бұрын

My worry is that the "Smarter kid" in the block normally does colonization. I think we must also assume that not all aliens would be friendly a happily exchange knowledge, after all at our current age data is the new oil. Therefore IMO knowledge would be the new oil in the inter-galactic age

@karih9592 21 күн бұрын

"You do not need to go to another world to realize you live in a Greater Community, for the Greater Community is at your doorstep. It is looking into your windows. It is in your neighborhood. It is here." [Greater Community Spirituality, What is the Greater Community?, October 20, 1993]

@AndreaTedesco2002 15 күн бұрын

Do not be afraid of the unknown. We have come to the progress we have today because of continuous exploration and the open-mindedness of many scientists who have dedicated their lives to being accepted by their scientific community by addressing questions that were destabilizing to the logical minds of their day. What is known, is already known! It is only by investigating what one does not know or understand that one will know! We can learn many new technologies and cure all physical and mental illnesses and solve war without killing anyone. Everything is possible, be optimistic and have hope!

@dg-ov4cf Ай бұрын

"My Search for Proof Aliens Exist" (with no interest in any other outcome) is quite a telling summary of the whole field of UFOlogy

@dreamfall77 Ай бұрын

Even assuming that we are the only ones in the entire vast infinite universe now, there will still be a question about time travel. Another result is impossible.

@malakiblunt 4 күн бұрын

you cant prove they dont exsit

@MiPDarnok Ай бұрын

The problem with Dr Loeb is not that he is trying to find other possibilities for some questions. It's the fact, that he sees an asteroid and says "it must be alien!" and is not interested in any other explaination. I see a lot of people commenting how he "thinks outside the box" and "trying to expand borders of science" - the problem is, that he is not. If he would not stick to his alien origin but start to think outside the box, he would be able to uncover the real origins of the Oumuamua and spherules. But he didn't. Instead, he tries to dismiss people who did real job around these topics.

@darrenscriven3963 Ай бұрын

The actual problem with Dr Loeb is having to put up with what seems to be nothing else but critics' insecurities. This world needs many more curious farm boys like Dr Avi Loeb.

@AkiraYuki5150 Ай бұрын

Not a problem. He is not being fraudulent with his assessments and conclusions. He's just not closing the door on non-standard possibilities. He might discover he is wrong - he is still following scientific procedure. Let him do his thing.

@MiPDarnok Ай бұрын

@@darrenscriven3963 It's not insecurities - look at the history of Oumuamua and how he was gaslightning every explaination. It's literally oposite of what you (and others) write here. I know it's way easier to just watch youtube video and apploud. Truth is harder.

@tirthachakrabarti5912 Ай бұрын

Have you read his works? Where have you come up with this notion about his approach from?

@darrenscriven3963 Ай бұрын

@@tirthachakrabarti5912 is your question directed at me?

@Vabex 28 күн бұрын

Nice last words of this beatiful speech! I hope humanity will stop killing each other and start working together instead...

@kajcsapapa 3 күн бұрын

Science > war. Great talk

@alejandravillanueva2292 24 күн бұрын

I'm always way more intrigued by someone's work when others are trying to silence them.

@KF-bj3ce Ай бұрын

Avi Loeb certainly thinks outside the box. Thanks

@timphillips9954 Ай бұрын

He just uses logic, can think for himself and has not been brain washed by our educatores and leaders. I would have more hope if he was working for a Europian university.

@Getsmore Ай бұрын

These objects are moving so fast around the world that you only get a glimpse. So even with cell phone cameras, if you do slow motion and scan the skies, you might actually find something.

@gianpaulgraziosi6171 Ай бұрын

Avi, raise your vibration.

@otorishingen8600 Ай бұрын

Thank you sir for your brave attempt to get rid of the stigma surrounding this topic - definitely a video I will show the "know-it-alls" I meet

@aaZhan Ай бұрын

Excellent talk, Avi Loeb! Thanks TED for giving the platform! 👏👏

@srmxe417 Ай бұрын

I have no problem being in awe of cosmic phenomena. Great talk!

@frinoffrobis 21 күн бұрын

that blew 😳 my mind.. so much hope and emotion .. may we find some one

@PROTAGONIST_48 Ай бұрын

I once posted on social media saying how it is mathematical impossible that we are alone in the universe and to my surprise there were people who were throwing remarks at me stating how I was ignorant to believe that, heck one person said "ignorance is bliss huh?". I mean we are literally in a universe with trillions upon trillions of galaxies with each galaxy potentially having millions of Earth-like planets. Some people are just ignorant beyond belief.

@RockinRobbins13 Ай бұрын

It isn't mathematically possible or impossible. The odds are 100%. Either alien civilizations 100% exist or 100% don't exist. There is no middle ground. There is no way to calculate an absolute. The honest thing to say is we don't know. And the people doing 100% of the research are targeted by the science denialists like Avi Loeb, who abandoned the scientific method long ago. Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman would be ashamed of Loeb.

@ETSpaceRocks Ай бұрын

word

@mikel2934 Ай бұрын

Or maybe the sceptics have a good point. The earth seems pretty unique for intelligent life to have developed. If it exists In other places, it would be so far away we would never be able to have contact with them. That may be for the best seeing how things have gone on earth, we should keep quiet and hope they don't find us. Thinking that some benevolent alien will save us is kind of like a religion. Like a preacher he needs more money for his insteller ministry.

@tims.2832 Ай бұрын

Are you aware of the time-component of space? The amount of stars and planets you are referring to with you mathematics are not only far away. I doubt you really understand how breathtaking long ago they are.

@PROTAGONIST_48 Ай бұрын

@@tims.2832 Oh trust me, I am fully aware of that. In regards to your point of stars/planets being very far away, not too long ago humans took weeks-months to travel to countries by boat and now we can travel far faster by airplane. Don't be surprised if there is a way to travel in interstellar space far faster and more efficiently. Perhaps there might be a way to manipulate space/time. I'm fully aware that light takes a long time to reach us due to the incredible vastness of the universe, heck there could be some stars that we can currently see that no longer exist anymore but I don't really understand why you brought up that point.

@Just_Sebastian Ай бұрын

I'm so happy to have him on 'our' team. Scientists swimming against the current is what we need more of. Of course he's not the only one. Professor Jacques Vallée, Professor Garry Nolan, Professor Diana Walsh Pasulka, etc., etc. Many good people unafraid of following the evidence, even if the evidence is something completely unexpected. All the scientists calling BS on the UAP/NHI question haven't even tried to look into the data. They dismiss it at forehand, which of course is very UNscientific. Thank you Prof. Loeb! ✨🛸🌟

@sarcasticnews1195 Ай бұрын

All of the best discoveries are unexpected! Avi will be remembered as an extraordinarily great scientist -- and all of the naysayers will be quickly and easily forgotten in the dustbin of history.

@DarthQuantum-ez8qz Ай бұрын

WRONG. There is NO EVIDENCE for alien civilizations and , YES, we HAVE looked at the data .

@ETSpaceRocks Ай бұрын

They got to fallow principle the GODE or you wont be Scientists after braking the CODE... some of them seems to have found the way around interesting!

@njones420 Ай бұрын

"All the scientists calling BS on the UAP/NHI question haven't even tried to look into the data" I've tried, at length ... I ai-upscaled the first video the pentagon released...which is without a doubt 100% just a goose flying over water (on my channel with all the calculations). If you look at the _actual_ data (like the onscreen avionics telemetry) it's clearly all a joke, there's no way any real scientist would take it seriously, very surprised more people haven't realised and publicised it. Sorry, but the data is all either badly interpolated (like all the _trans-media_ wild-claims), just missing, or completely misinterpreted (like the goose). I've been into this stuff for 35+ years, working in aviation/avionics for 20 years, and doing astrophotography for 20+ years...I used to believe it, until i was working in the field. Most scientists just don't waste their time with UAPs, as most of it is "anecdotal evidence" which is the lowest form of evidence and has zero credibility. Provide actual data (like they do constantly with potential dyson-sphere's etc in cosmology, and the scientific community will objectively look at it.). The same reason scientists don't waste their time with stories of ghosts.

@Raptorman0909 11 күн бұрын

Avi is a science influencer, albeit a knowledgeable one. He pumps out paper after paper on a very wide range of topics almost like he wants his name next to all these issues.

@aaqidmasoodi 26 күн бұрын

Consciousness is extremely rare. Extremely rare.

@benwillvv Ай бұрын

The end of the talk was not graceful to him. Give him the stage.

@brianwatson9687 Ай бұрын

He knew what the time limit was. He probably would have prattled on for another 30 minutes.

@paisleywright6791 Күн бұрын

Sharing uncommon lost forms of common sense to the commonly formed masses is a game changer. Something our corrupt rulers can not allow if we allow them to continue leading us down this path of turmoil for our world

@slaval6087 15 күн бұрын

How can he be so sure that the Neighbours will be friendly? And will share share technology with us, instead taking advantage and use us?

@Dodomba 9 күн бұрын

same reson ai wont kill us

@StrobeFireStudios 10 күн бұрын

avi is a legend for bringing up these topics. he is opening himself for ridicule from his fellow peers, but he's steadfast in his approach and findings. good luck to you Avi Loeb. you are a real one.

@stant7122 10 күн бұрын

Considering how often we detect interstellar objects, it’s seems like we could put together a plan on collecting more data from the next one.

@Davidrcobb Ай бұрын

Avi has been doing amazing work.

@blueabattoir Ай бұрын

Mildly amusing work.

@Davidrcobb Ай бұрын

@@blueabattoir we're glad you stopped by though.

@HansVanIngelgom Ай бұрын

This man turned jumping to conclusions into an Olympic sport.

@Chris.Davies Ай бұрын

It's the only exercise he gets.

@Saturn_Enslaved Ай бұрын

85% Yapanese, 10% Science, 5% Intrigue.

@Northumberlandbasssman 29 күн бұрын

He knows a lot more than what he can tell you just yet

@HansVanIngelgom 29 күн бұрын

@@Northumberlandbasssman How do you know that?

@Northumberlandbasssman 29 күн бұрын

@HansVanIngelgom look into what he's doing with the galileo project. He has a huge team of world experts looking for signs of life in outer space, in our atmosphere, in the oceons using all manner of sensors. He has hinted many times he has proof/inside info we are being visited/live alongside another lifeform but he is compiling the evidence to prove it to people like you.

@holoduke51a 12 күн бұрын

10 billion dollar for a groundbreaking telescope and 61 billion dollar for weapons and destruction.

@drmabuse1050 25 күн бұрын

Very interesting and important, Thank You.

@jasongauthier8567 Ай бұрын

Mr Loeb is such an interesting individual

@kobusvanstaden3388 Ай бұрын

Professor Leob, you should create a fund project where all the citizens of Earth can donate funds towards your truth seeking mission. Any one should be able to donate any amount from a one dollar upwards. Maybe a nice website with your details and findings as you find new updated evidence on a regular basis to have everyone glued to it. Regards- Kobus (South-Africa).

@Unknown17 Ай бұрын

I wouldn't give a DIME to anybody who puts down fellows, colleagues, and other important scientific inquiries (particularly SETI). He talks like someone who is upset because he's not getting enough telescope time.

@kobusvanstaden3388 Ай бұрын

@@Unknown17 they should give him unlimited telescope time, anywhere on the globe and pay all his expenses free of charge.

@Unknown17 Ай бұрын

@@kobusvanstaden3388 Oh, please. There are hundreds if not thousands of other deserving candidates and missions out there.

@AmigoAmigo-w5p 18 күн бұрын

Most of the audience can't even comprehend what a number billion means. Let alone grasp the vastness of space

@theinfamouspropagandalf Ай бұрын

One of the only true scientists out there with the proper mindset of a scientist.

@punkdigerati Ай бұрын

What is with the title? Is it his search for if aliens exist, as in "my search for proof that aliens exist"?

@LuffNarChigo Ай бұрын

You can never disprove if aliens exist as there can always be somewhere you haven't looked. So the only thing you can do is search for any evidence that they exist which can obviously go on forever if they don't exist but since you can never be sure you have to keep looking!

@aafsterlife9647 Ай бұрын

Excellent talk! I wish he could've gone on another 17 minutes! He's a wonderful speaker.

@VicTheFigGuy 12 күн бұрын

I love his book. I am happy to see scientist having courage to breakaway from the science establishment to ask the hard question and do the work. I didn't realize how funny he can also be. Lol

@jmanj3917 Ай бұрын

1:30 spot on, Doc.

@Fafafafoolin Ай бұрын

I would just like to point out that a large number of us have seen evidence right here on earth so it might be a good idea to keep looking locally too

@blueabattoir Ай бұрын

Ha ha, no you haven’t. There is nothing to be found.

@highpriestofseti Ай бұрын

@@blueabattoir I was a witness during the well documented Belgian U.F.O. wave from 1989-1990, look it up, even pilots and the those days belgian airforce commander talked about it and there's even radar proof.

@bratis99 Ай бұрын

having witnessed some of that mind-blowing evidence I'm convinced we have neighbors

@lukintagi Ай бұрын

Me too, I'm one of them

@streetsurfer420 Ай бұрын

Sure you have bud

@thebatt6183 Ай бұрын

theres over 200 billion stars

@cosmiccreator Ай бұрын

Astronomers estimate that the universe could contain up to one septillion stars - that's a one followed by 24 zeros. Our Milky Way alone contains more than 100 billion, including our most well-studied star, the Sun.

@sortesnogmrstayathomedrago4150 Ай бұрын

yes there is over 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone - and then there are billions of billions other galaxies with just as many stars

@johnharris199 Ай бұрын

At best guess, truth is we don't know!

@JustReed Ай бұрын

1000000...X 200 billion.

@galaxia4709 27 күн бұрын

400 billion stars in the Milky Way

@letuinchi 29 күн бұрын

Love Avi. Amazing presentation, thank you.

@jaggerlags 29 күн бұрын

He didn’t just want a yes or no, he wanted a yes.

@nancykraus5127 Ай бұрын

Most of these talks are usually only 15 minutes. I think he went iver his time. The Delaware Art Museum hosted a TED talk event and they were on a tight schedule one speaker after another.

@TheLusion Ай бұрын

they definitely exist in our large universe, the only problem are the distance troubles

@BrianPeiris Ай бұрын

Don't forget time. 20,000 years of human civilization and only a few centuries of technological progress. That's just a brief moment on the cosmological time scale. Even if we last another million years, the next advanced civilization may be too far away in both time and space, and the last one may be long gone.

@ColinHD Ай бұрын

@@BrianPeiris Add an expanding universe to that equation as well and things start to look bleak.

@danielekirylo Ай бұрын

But time isn't linear, nor is it ditinct from space, Einstein told you that space and time are the same and spacetime is curved, blackholes bend space-time so much till it becomes a singularity, space-time stops.

@MementoMori_2070 Ай бұрын

Or we may be too small and Isolated to be detected. Remember space is terrifyingly massive.

@MM-xc2zk Ай бұрын

*problem for US. It’s a logical fallacy to assume that a potentially non-human intelligence shares our technological limitations.

@DJS-DJ 16 күн бұрын

Advanced Aliens are operating on frequencies higher than our little spacetime bubble.

@scottduncan92 Ай бұрын

I was suggested this video because I'm currently watching "3 Body Problem" 😂

@Jimmy1972 Ай бұрын

In the jungle, the most effective survival strategy is camouflage and stealth. The universe is a jungle. To think that all the creatures that we can potentially meet will be exclusively peaceful is naive and short-sighted. Where is everyone? They hid. This makes sense in the jungle.

@shenqiangshou Ай бұрын

yup, the dark forest theory... especially as a species still facinated by digital watches

@Jimmy1972 Ай бұрын

@@emptychristbuddha The universe is a jungle, there are herbivores and there are predators, so it makes sense to camouflage and hide. You are naive. It's like thinking that all people are good.

@wizzerdsuntzu Ай бұрын

@@Jimmy1972 Hence, The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu !

@YassenChapkanov Ай бұрын

To think a species intelligent enough to be able to communicate let alone travel between planets will obey the amoral principles of primitive survival on our planet is comically absurd. In the long run compassion is the most powerful meme. Our history is one of acquiring power, using it irresponsibly, suffering, learning and as a result extending our circle of moral concideration.

@Jimmy1972 Ай бұрын

@@YassenChapkanov we are direct proof that predators exist in the universe. It would be absurd if we were the only predators in the entire universe.

@lassereden1574 Ай бұрын

The Spanish Inquisition is in the chat again. With those people science can't evolve, they know already everything. 🙉🙊🙈

@Wokerati Ай бұрын

@@lassereden1574 what scientists have claimed they know everything as you said ? Can you name them ?

@sirduke2684 Ай бұрын

@@Wokerati English not your first language? or is comprehension hard - he didn't say scientist know everything read again please

@danielmartin7838 Ай бұрын

Don’t poke fun at Yoda’s vernacular

@user-ku2bf1ul1d Ай бұрын

@@Wokerati Neil De Greasy Tyson, Brian Keating, Brian Cox...I could go on.....

@thekaiser4333 Ай бұрын

Judging from your comment I suspect that you have no idea what the Spanish Inquisition actually was and was all about… And with such people as yourself I will deliberately ignore facts in this case deny and misrepresent historical facts, science has no chance to evolve at all. Worse, it has no chance to prevail.

@AlexanderJamesHurley Ай бұрын

I believe i saw an alien disguised as a mannequin in the audience. At 4:18

@drmabuse1050 23 күн бұрын

-Very interesting and important, thank you

@ManishKumar-pn2oy Ай бұрын

I suggest a business model. planet will be yours if you sponsor to search for it :)

@emom358 Ай бұрын

Fascinating talk, thank you Dr. Loeb.

@bronney 23 күн бұрын

Bang on Christopher Walken impression.

@Traktmouse Ай бұрын

How come you haven't seen a single UFO with those telescopes?For years I have seen with the naked eye from ordinary to entire fleets entering our Milky Way...

@LuhTorah Ай бұрын

Drops marbles in ocean gets Ted talk

@alexeykulikov2739 Ай бұрын

Proof?

@sitbone3 Ай бұрын

@@alexeykulikov2739 ...iron nodules are naturally occurring and have been on the floor of the ocean for millions of years. We studied this in an oceanography class I took back in the '70s. Loeb thinks they are remnants of a space ship. Google "ocean iron nodules" and see for yourself.

@rjswas Ай бұрын

Your comment just made you look a fool, he didn't drop marbles in the ocean, he dragged magnets on the floor of it and brought up WAY smaller than marbles of metal from the ocean. Small tip, marbles are made from glass, not metal.

@LuhTorah Ай бұрын

@@rjswas he dropped the metal marbles before he dropped the magnets. I thought I was clear I guess not everybody understood.

@LuhTorah Ай бұрын

@@alexeykulikov2739 I’m speculating, however my speculation favors Occam’s razor

@thanatosor Ай бұрын

Even when it land on your backyard, Gov will still say it's air balloon 😂

@Uniblab9000 Ай бұрын

When what lands on your backyard?

@ETSpaceRocks Ай бұрын

kind of

@tonyd7996 Ай бұрын

Good on you Avi 🙏❤️going beyond mainstream 🙏love you guy!100%thinking outsideof the mainstrean is current stream 100%🙏

@etric4947 Ай бұрын

I saw one 20 years ago waiting for the bus with humans. It was dressed like and old lady with a green visor hat and rolled up stockings , . I was in my parked car across the street. When it saw that I was looking . It just went a few steps back. I did not pursue and just like watching a wild animal. Live and let live.

@OEFarredondo Ай бұрын

I can confirm Aliens exist. As a child of illegal aliens....

@yngviifromspace Ай бұрын

Can u elaborate please 🙏

@youtubecommentor4480 Ай бұрын

Great presentation Avi. Keep it going! Thank you!

@sophiapukhrambam7340 Ай бұрын

"A smarter kid on the block that may provide a better role model than our politicians" That's something we wanted

@monaxp606 24 күн бұрын

A tiny sizes of debris collected from one mile deep ocean floor...very cinematic.

@psylocyn Ай бұрын

I’m glad that an institution like Harvard still has enough respect left for academic freedom (at least outside the humanities) that they let someone as outside the mainstream as avi continue in his position.

@brianwatson9687 Ай бұрын

He has tenure. They can't fire him. But they could give him an office the basement of the sports complex.

@tryscience Ай бұрын

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan

@blueabattoir Ай бұрын

There will never be any evidence. The aliens are too far away from us.

@sarcasticnews1195 Ай бұрын

"Extraordinary" is in the eye of the beholder. To me, the claim that we are the only life in the universe is a claim so extraordinary as to require quasi-religiosity to believe it. The sun does not revolve around us, and neither does the universe. Avi will be remembered as an extraordinarily great scientist -- and all of the naysayers will be quickly and easily forgotten in the dustbin of history.

@livefree1030 Ай бұрын

One must investigate and find the Evidence

@tryscience Ай бұрын

@@sarcasticnews1195 science is not baseless speculation. The fact that the universe is vast may warrant creating testable hypotheses, but it does not warrant conclusions about alien intelligence. It could well be that intelligence and rapid technological advancement, leads to self-destruction after a few centuries. We don't know. What we do know, is that stars are so far away, that even if a technology can go close to the speed of light, it would still take years to arrive at another system, and the odds of that system being capable of supporting life, are extraordinarily small. When you are dealing with galaxies hundreds of thousands of light years across, It may not even be possible to detect their existence because radiation intensity falls with the square of the distance.

@dreamfall77 Ай бұрын

@@tryscience It requires, if you want to find them, positive assumptions, and not something like yours about self-destruction as a result of development. Otherwise, the SETI project looks like nonsense. There is a lot we don’t know yet, but we already know that the closer the movement is to the speed of light, the more relative time becomes. And that someone is changing reality right before our eyes, making the unlikely, like an incorrect copy of a famous painting masterpiece for a famous movie, exist.

@rianamohamed300 8 сағат бұрын

'It would be arrogant to think otherwise' What an emotional and unscientific argument.

@dionisioss.4008 15 күн бұрын

Enjoyed his talk, I could listen to him for hours.

@user-uu5us3dt3b Ай бұрын

This man is honest and finally speaks out. He deserved the standing ovation ❤ Thank you for your research and not letting the government shut you down.

@Uniblab9000 Ай бұрын

He's been speaking out, petulantly, for a few years now.

@astyanax905 Ай бұрын

i always love to hear from this guy. Professors at Harvard generally speaking know exactly what they're talking about

@brianwatson9687 Ай бұрын

This is the exception that proves the rule.

@rrh2918 Ай бұрын

If I find a Tennis ball in my yard, I would be more inclined to think my neighbor has a dog.

@raymarshall2995 20 күн бұрын

I was following your research, the day that your crew set out to locate the objects. I was most pleased that you found some of the things that you had hoped to find. I'm surprised that the items were not much grander in size. There should have been bowling balls down there. I appreciate your work, and lecture! 😊

@user-ku2bf1ul1d Ай бұрын

They had cut him off because of what he said about the US Defense department...

@andyhoughtaling6319 Ай бұрын

There are roughly 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. There are roughly 300 million planets per galaxy that land in the "Goldilocks zone". That means that there are roughly 30 quintillion potentially habitable planets in the observable universe. Some unknown percentage of those planets likely contain life. If we assume that 1% of the habitable planets contain life, that means that there are 300 quadrillion life-bearing planets in the observable universe. These planets have an average age of roughly 6 billion years, which is slightly older than our planet. On Earth, complex life existed for half of a billion years, and then in a matter of only a couple hundred thousand years, we suddenly have extremely advanced technology. Life on Earth was complex enough to do this hundreds of millions of years ago, but by completely random chance, it didn't. With 300 quadrillion planets potentially having life, which has also likely evolved for hundreds of millions to billions of years on those planets, it seems almost certain that some of those life-bearing planets would have life that was at our level hundreds of millions of years ago, and has continued to evolve for hundreds of millions of years past where we're at now. The implications behind that level of controlled evolution is beyond comprehension. They might have a completely detailed map of every planet in the universe, with a full catalog of every species of life in the entire universe. They might be able to travel hundreds of lightyears instantly. They might have lifespans of millions of years. Their entire existence might completely transcend physics as we know it. Anyway, my point behind this rant is that the idea that aliens may have visited Earth is actually pretty plausible. There could be this kind of life surrounding the very closest star to our Sun for all we know.

@stateazure Ай бұрын

Nothing plausible about that which you stated at all. It's equally as likely, probably more so actually, that Earth is an extreme fluke of the universe, and intelligent life is even more rare than that. We have one sample to go on, and that's it. If you have to invoke magic/fantasy that allow aliens to travel around the universe instantly with some kind of physics beyond our reality, then you're already well outside the realm of plausible

@andyhoughtaling6319 Ай бұрын

@@Natty1620 I'm sorry that I can't represent an idea this complex with a "bro+💀" comment.

@mrmathews3670 Ай бұрын

The Fermi paradox really should be called the Hart-Tipler paradox as these were the people that first proposed this question. It has very little to do with Fermi who never actually asked the question given in this paradox. Fermi asked in 1950 over lunch with colleagues whether or not interstellar travel was possible, he never mentioned alien life, it was Hart that first asked this question in a peer reviewed paper in the 1970s, and this question was extended by Tipler later on.

@sortesnogmrstayathomedrago4150 Ай бұрын

looking for life in space is like looking for a golden needle in a giant burning stack of hay from an ants pespective

@plopdoo339 Ай бұрын

Depends how you define 'life'. Not a single one of these scientists have come together to mathematically define the word 'life' yet they argue about whether it exists elsewhere. If we somehow discover that planets and stars are alive then wouldn't they technically be life?

@sortesnogmrstayathomedrago4150 Ай бұрын

@@plopdoo339 oh there is life out there - plenty, once the whole universe was lifefreindly for millions of years, so life is everywhere - but our kind of life is rare, because our conditions are rare

@testingreadaboutit Ай бұрын

This is not true. The benefit of finding a golden needle in a giant burning stack of hay is meaningless. There is GREAT meaning to finding life is space. Incredible meaning. Don't discount the REASON that we seek to achieve what you believe impossible.

@sortesnogmrstayathomedrago4150 Ай бұрын

@@testingreadaboutit no its not true, its called a metaphor, you know, a mental picture in less words, you could say finding life on other planets is meaningless - we have all the life right here. what i was trying to convey was the enormous emencety of space - the fact that it takes light 4 years 3 months to get from here to the nearest star - so going to visit is out of the question and since radiowaves travel lightspeed a communication with set star would have a delay of 8 year 6 month - traveling lightspeed going across the galaxy would take 100.000 years, even if you could go 1000 times lightspeed it would still take 2500 years to travel to andromeda galaxy - but in much less words

@testingreadaboutit Ай бұрын

@@sortesnogmrstayathomedrago4150 Metaphors can be better and worse at capturing the essence of what they represent. My claim is that the metaphor is flawed. I believe there is a lot to gain from finding life in space. You seem to think that "getting there" is most of the value, which shows a deep lack of understanding of the topic. The value gained from finding life in space is not tied to our ability to physically get to it. Good luck with your thoughts here.