🤓 Grammar pet peeve: @5:40 between vs among.

I can't remember what video you did it on but you'll never top the "Now for the most ironic sponsorship on KZfaq.." intro you gave them one day.

He's got to be squirming in his seat having to promote products that are either utterly unsuitable to him or just plain garbage. He certainly looks both embarrassed and disingenuous.

Fascinating eggskull

I just imagine that whoever writes the Keeps briefs for Simon just sits down and thinks "what can we get the bald dude to say this time?🤣"

I don't know how he pulls it off. While Simon says the phrase, he doesn't really take the angle "Don't be like this guy". Makes me wonder how well he could sell the "Slap Chop"

He"Keeps" his beard...Its so virile it looks fake., Simon probably turns his camera or head upside down when talking to keeps...

And shout out to Simon for supporting those who still have time. Hairless Hero.

Tbf the day Simon turns up with a full head of hair I'll buy the product

Simon was never talking about his head 😅

So many AI channels these days

@@PhoenixRebirthed Too many yap AI's for cheap video production and reaping ad money

20:30 - Chapter 5 - No, just me

Chapter 1 - Gravitational frame shifts. Chapter 2 - the center of gravity of the local cluster. Chapter 3 - Ejected asteroid from a distant system. Chapter 4 - no there are others at similar levels to humans everywhere

His spelling, less so. 🤔✌️

He IS the great attractor.

I wonder how many of his viewers are dedicated Fact Boi Fan Bois and how many are just casual viewers that don't even realize how deep the beard of knowledge goes.

​@@hibaakaiko3888allegedly..... in my opinion.....

He's a talking head, a face. There is no Whistlerverse. Grow up.

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This made me wince as well

19:06 Almost as cool as the Fermi Praire Docs

Apparently it attracts great typos.

You got that to a T.

Completely agree. I've heard a lot about both the 'rare earth' hypothesis, or the other theory that states the universe should be teeming with life. But given the absolutely insane scale of the universe we're talking about, both in time and space... I liken it to a giant warehouse, filled with a penny dropping every 5 minutes on every inch of space. Every penny turning up heads is no life, every one turning up tails is microbial life. And every penny landing on its side is a planet with intelligent life. Taking that into account, how infinitesimally small are the odds that two pennies would fall on their side in each others vicinity and at about the same time?

And to add to the mix. The Easter Islanders were not disadvantaged by time. On a galactic scale, we have 13 billion years of a couple Easter Island races putzing around trying to find someone else to talk to

Pale Blue Dot photo from Voyager is a good show of what we really are. A spec.

Your presuppositions fail because you're using your perspective in place of an actual Easter Islander, when you close extrapolate from other Polynesians. Is it like Easter Islanders (direct comparison) or "as if" (hypothetical)? I'm from pedantic because it affects your subsequent points so I want to make sure I'm understanding your argument.

Absolute Nonsense. Those that first colonized Easter Island knew there was human life outside the island and passed this knowledge down through generations.

Also, just because we can’t detect it, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there… Or hasn’t been there in the past… Or won’t be there in the future.

Professor Tyson have only so much time to popularize science, so maybe he doesn't want people to focus on something that unimportant. The real scale of Fermi paradox cannot be adequately describe in such analogy. Think about that this way, for example. The process of living matter originating from non-organics is not very well researched, because it happen, like 4 billion years ago. We have some ideas, how it could happen, but we probably will never know how exactly it did. What we don't know is any particular thing, that would make it difficult on Earth-like planet. You have an Earth-like planet (with water, atmosphere, and temperate climate in parts, basically) - give it a billion years or so and you should have life on it, or so it seems. Now, there are statistically about 8 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way. That seems like a lot, until you realize, that they actually pop up with a rate of about one every 5 years (just years here) or so, which mean that there were more of them in the past. Now, the universe is 14-something billion years old, and our galaxy is not much younger. Some people will point out, that first stars had no planet and they had to die before planet would appear. Yes, but first stars were supermassive and had different stuff in them, so their lifetime was literally dozens of millions of years. We, with all our limitation, already found planets, which age is more than 10 billion years (e.g. PSR B1620−26 b). So not only we should have a bunch of people around now (we might indeed be not able to detect them if we imagine that they are on the same technological level), but we should have absolute bunch of people with billions upon billions years head-start upon us. And we are only, like, 150 thousand years old. These guys should be flying around, spreading radiation with their fancy drives like nobody's business, and building Dyson spheres and whatnot everywhere. And where are these? We observe not a tiniest trace of them for dozens of thousands of light years around us for dozens of thousands of years back in time. 1 billion seconds is 32 years. Imagine, what several billion civilizations developing for several billion years should produce. And compare it to deafening silence we witness. That is why a lot of scientist find Fermi paradox disconcerting.

Yes, I remember this.. 😃

Don't listen to that man. He's no better than the homeless nutters.

also, Tyson is a rabid lunatic. just saying.

Read "The three body problem" books to add to it even more lol It's called Space horror for a reason ;)

It really doesn't matter that much.

Nothing to fear, if they come they come, if not then life goes on like it did for millions of years.

The one I dread is "Lights Out," when the last star in this universe goes dark. If there are intelligent, technologically advanced beings out there by then (maybe our descendants, what we will become when we are no longer human), what will they try to do? How will they survive? Reignite the last star? Create an artificial one? Kill each other in a fit of despair, like the people in Asimov's story "Nightfall?" (different circumstances, yes, but "world ending" to say the least.) For something that is not expected to happen until, what, ten billion years in the future? it still gives me goosebumps.

@@LuckySSU I may be in the minority, but the China-centric Three Body Problem was a big "nah" for me: hyped, poorly written (or perhaps poorly translated, IDK), with the appearance of depth but the reality of shallowness, I just cannot understand the fandom it has developed. To each their own, of course.

Much less Earth life. :) This needs more likes.

That's true. But it still doesn't necessarily mean that the universe is teeming with life. Luck is more important than environment when it comes to forming life.

There are actual *chemical* reasons to suspect that "Earth adjacent" conditions are far, *far* more likely than any other. Chemically speaking, a liquid water, hydrogen/carbon/oxygen environment is the one that works the best for the necessary types of chemical reactions for basic processes necessary to equate "life". Other combinations of chemicals don't hit that nice sweet spot of "chemical bonds strong enough to stay consistent" and "chemical bonds reactive enough to allow metabolism of any sort". Even one of the best alternate substitutes for oxygen (chlorine) has quite a lot of short comings as a life sustaining oxidizer. Temperatures significantly outside the range of liquid water either becomes far less reactive (losing down chemical processes that would be necessary for any variation of life, or the additional heat makes for almost instant chemical bond breakdowns and the degradation of complex chemical compounds that can readily change bonds to allow metabolism. Substitute silicon for carbon (silicon being the best alternate for carbon)? Unfortunately, silicon has far fewer useful compounds that could form the backbone of life in the same way carbon does. Water is almost the perfect solvent for the kinds of chemical compounds that would be necessary for any metabolic processes. TL;DR - Science (specifically the atomic structure of the candidate elements and their resulting potential molecular bonds) is what says that life is almost certainly going to be found in "Earthlike" conditions (which, note, doesn't even remotely mean "conditions current life on Earth could survive" - it means a handful of key chemicals in reasonable abundance, within an astronomically narrow temperature range). It isn't that "Earth is uniquely perfect for life", but rather, "Earth falls within a broad range of chemically similar environments where life is far, far more likely to develop," and while it is "average" for a life bearing world, it is still unusual compared to the universe at large.

is she hot?

The idea is if there are hundreds of thousands, SOME of them should have our technological capacity, and we do not find a trace. Indeed some of the great filters suggest that intelligent life will always eradicate itself.

Couple that with interstellar travel might also be impossible for us life forms due to some unknown reason we haven't discovered yet, Like artificial gravity might not be the key we think it is. Or we need some magic secret sauce that only inner star systems can provide to survive. Which leads to ask why haven't we seen machine tech life forms then yet? Or maybe faster then light communications is also impossible rendering any advanced civilizations to stay close together until absolutely necessary to move on.

I think a better qustion is why haven't they found us? von Neumann probes

​​@@facetubetwit1444 if I didn't misunderstand how cables work, ftl communication is technically possible, but it would require a connected wire to whatever we're communicating with. Because when the electrons in a wire push on eachother all of them push on eachother at once, meaning the end of the wire moves at the same time as the start. The information essentially doesn't have to travel any distance. Wireless on the other hand would be limited by the speed of causality (light). Communicating with people on Mars would already be hit with long delays. We're talking about having to wait almost half an hour on the phone to get an answer because it takes fifteen minutes for your message to get to them and fifteen more to get back to you.

​@@johnbox271 first born hypothesis? It could be there wasn't enough metal (in the astronomical sense) for life to exist. And we're just early to the party.

Ah yes another existential quandary to add to my list of Things I Am Displeased To Read About™

original tangent channel is allegedly Brain blaze

@@pretzelgtr Alegendly...

Honestly I prefer the channels where he includes the tangents and his own thoughts, it's more fun. Just reading a script gets dry

​@@aneasteregg8171same, for the most part! CC and DTU win though, because podcasts I can listen to in the car... I wish Into the Shadows was podcasted too

@@aneasteregg8171 I like both

No becayse that would go against all observable evidence.

Change gravitational pull with dark energy and you might have a leg to stand on there

where is it draining to, in your model?

@@micahfoley9572 the great attractor?

@@cmecre8629 yeah yeah, that's the drain, but i'm more wondering about the pipe and where they think it goes. cuz you hear people talk about "outside" or" before" the universe, and setting aside that such a thing is essentially impossible as far as we know, it's always interesting to hear what people think that would entail.

*gray matter jiggling intensifies*

With our host Simon "Brain wrinkler" Whistler

I have gained another wrinkle...

... My brain must be full, they're forming on my face instead.

It's been a long road. But my time is finally here.

Stroking it while watching this video and reading this comment

@@MORE_BEANS_PLZ horny jail. You're going to horny jail

Worst theme song ever.

explain pls

​@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070photons (light particles) interact with everything else, that's how we "see". That's the joke. The only thing photons don't interact with is with other photons, but as they don't have any mass, the joke still stands.

Good to know. ❤

MOND theories modify the strength of gravity at different accelerations - but they can't move the center of mass to make gravity's arrow point in other directions away from the visible matter, as the Bullet Cluster suggests.

Nope, no big deal at all... Except, your 4x great grandchildren will have died of old age 200 years before we get a peak..lmffao And that is with projected life extension technologies.

Is that a joke I don't get? What do you think the "main channel" is?

​@@cheekyb71You haven't found his main channel yet? Oh my Gosh, you've got to! It brings together the best parts of all the others.

His love of chatGPT makes a lot more sense now…

Well, his smooth noggin is a part of his brand identity.

some people are fine being bald, shocker