(h) TROM - 2.23 UFOs and extraterrestrial life
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0:06 - 0:08[ UFOs and Extraterrestrial life]
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0:37 - 0:41Here's an idea that demonstrates the lack of education in our society.
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0:41 - 0:45A society which claims to educate the population.
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0:45 - 0:48Due to poor or deliberately bad management,
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0:48 - 0:52the monetary system has placed more emphasis on movies,
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0:52 - 0:53tragedy and drama,
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0:53 - 0:57leading citizens through a hallucinating state.
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1:04 - 1:06In the film "Alien"
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1:07 - 1:11a human being plays host to a parasitic alien,
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1:12 - 1:16until it's ready to be born.
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1:18 - 1:22This has long bothered biologist Jack Cohen.
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1:23 - 1:27Alien is not concerned with the biology.
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1:27 - 1:31You can't have a creature living in your chest, which is bigger than your heart
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1:31 - 1:35and you don't know it's there, and your immune system isn't turned on.
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1:35 - 1:38Particularly, it has never seen a human being before.
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1:38 - 1:41It doesn't work biologically
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1:41 - 1:43but it does work as a film.
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1:43 - 1:46Because you see the thing coming up from the chest and you scream "Ahhhh"!
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1:46 - 1:49And it's exactly what they want - it is a horror film.
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1:52 - 1:58Another classic hard image of extraterrestrials shows them as giant insects.
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1:58 - 2:02The alien of choice for the film "Star ship Trooper".
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2:06 - 2:08But according to the laws of physics
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2:09 - 2:12this kind of anatomy is impossible.
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2:13 - 2:17It's like bringing a mouse up to be the size of an elephant.
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2:17 - 2:21Its little thin legs wouldn't take the weight or they would break.
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2:21 - 2:24You have to redesign.
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2:25 - 2:29It is a lot easier to have a terrifying film with giant ants.
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2:33 - 2:38As unscientific as the oversized insects of the Star Ship Trooper's are.
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2:38 - 2:40At least they don't look like people.
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2:45 - 2:50By far, most films, even the ones with huge special effects budgets,
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2:50 - 2:54depict aliens that actually look like they evolved on Earth.
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2:54 - 2:58Because they have faces that resemble ours.
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3:00 - 3:02Nearly all the vertebrates we see around us,
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3:02 - 3:04humans included,
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3:04 - 3:05have faces.
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3:05 - 3:09With two eyes, two nostrils and a mouth below.
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3:10 - 3:13This configuration came from a common ancestor
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3:13 - 3:16who lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
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3:17 - 3:19Now, when we look at these aliens
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3:19 - 3:23and they've got faces with two eyes, the nose, the mouth,
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3:23 - 3:24they can't be aliens.
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3:25 - 3:26They must've been developed on Earth.
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3:26 - 3:32They must share that same ancestor or they wouldn't have faces like this.
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3:33 - 3:37We expect the living thing-the dog, the cat or even a fish,
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3:37 - 3:38to have a face.
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3:38 - 3:41Therefore, when we invent something for film
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3:41 - 3:43we give it a face.
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3:43 - 3:46And that realy enables the people who are watching
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3:47 - 3:49to get moved by it.
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3:49 - 3:53Real aliens can't be like that.
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3:56 - 4:00Do I believe in UFOs?
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4:00 - 4:03Or extraterrestrial visitors?
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4:07 - 4:09I'm not authorized to answer that question.
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4:21 - 4:23Where shall I begin...
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4:26 - 4:27UFO.
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4:28 - 4:33First, remember what the U stands for in UFO.
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4:34 - 4:39Now, there's fascinating frailty of the human mind,
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4:39 - 4:41that psychologists know all about.
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4:42 - 4:44And it's called argument from ignorance.
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4:45 - 4:46And this is how it goes.
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4:46 - 4:48Ready?
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4:48 - 4:51Somebody sees lights flashing in the sky.
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4:51 - 4:52They've never seen it before.
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4:53 - 4:55They don't understand what it is.
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4:55 - 4:58They say: A UFO!
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4:59 - 5:02The U stands for unidentified.
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5:02 - 5:06So they say I don't know what it is.
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5:06 - 5:09It must be aliens from out of space visiting from another planet.
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5:09 - 5:14Well, if you don't know what it is
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5:14 - 5:18that's where your conversation should stop!
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5:18 - 5:22You know, they say it must be anything.
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5:22 - 5:23ok?
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5:23 - 5:27That's what argument from ignorance is.
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5:27 - 5:30It's common, I'm not blaming anybody.
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5:30 - 5:32Psychologists kow all about it
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5:32 - 5:35and it may relate to our burning need
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5:35 - 5:37to have to know stuff,
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5:37 - 5:41because we are uncomfortable steeped in ignorance.
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5:41 - 5:45You can't be a scientist if you are uncomfortable with ignorance,
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5:45 - 5:49because we live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the Universe.
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5:49 - 5:51Unlike what journalists write...
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5:51 - 5:53Have you seen journalists... any journalists here?
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5:54 - 5:56You know, journalists...
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5:58 - 6:00You know, journalists...
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6:01 - 6:03all articles about scientist ... begin:
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6:04 - 6:07Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board.
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6:07 - 6:10As though we're sitting up in our office, you know,
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6:10 - 6:13masters of the Universe, as if ooops...
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6:13 - 6:14somebody discovered something.
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6:14 - 6:17No,we are always at the drawing board.
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6:17 - 6:20If you are not at the drawing board you are not making discoveries.
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6:20 - 6:22You are something else.
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6:22 - 6:23So,
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6:24 - 6:28the public, it appears, seems to have that burning need
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6:28 - 6:30to have to have an answer to what is unknown.
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6:30 - 6:33And so you go from an abject statement of ignorance
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6:34 - 6:36to an abject statement of certainty.
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6:37 - 6:39So, that is operating within us.
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6:39 - 6:40Let's start there.
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6:41 - 6:42Second,
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6:42 - 6:46we know not only from research and psychology,
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6:46 - 6:50but simple empirical evidence from the history of science,
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6:50 - 6:54that the lowest form of evidence,
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6:54 - 6:58that exists in this world, is eye witness testimony.
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6:59 - 7:04Which is scary because that's some of the highest form of evidence in the court of law.
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7:04 - 7:07But we know from the second grade
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7:08 - 7:09where's my guy from second grade....
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7:10 - 7:11Grab the microphone for a minute...
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7:11 - 7:14Grab the microphone! Grab the microphone!
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7:15 - 7:19In your classes have you done the famous experiment where you play telephone
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7:20 - 7:24and you line up all the kids in class and one person starts with a story
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7:24 - 7:26and you hear it and you repeat it to the next person and the next person ....
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7:26 - 7:28Have you done this in class yet?
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7:29 - 7:30Yes.
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7:32 - 7:34What happens by the time you get to the last person
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7:34 - 7:36and they retell the story what happens?
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7:36 - 7:37It's like completely different.
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7:37 - 7:42Completely different, completely different. ok?
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7:42 - 7:45Because the conveyance of information
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7:45 - 7:48was relying on eye witness testimony
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7:48 - 7:50which in that case is ear witness testimony.
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7:50 - 7:53And so, let's take it, so he knows that.
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7:53 - 7:55So he knows it and he is a second grade!
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7:55 - 7:56right, so
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7:56 - 7:59Actually he should be in twelvth grade...
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7:59 - 8:00So...
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8:00 - 8:04So now, so now
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8:04 - 8:09it wouldn't matter if you saw a flying saucer.
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8:09 - 8:14In science even if you have something less controversial than a flying saucer,
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8:14 - 8:18if you're coming to my lab and you say : You gotta believe me I saw it!,
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8:18 - 8:22and you are one of my fellow scientists, I'd say: Go home!
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8:22 - 8:27Go back and retrieve some other kind of evidence that it's not just you saw it.
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8:28 - 8:32Ok? Because human perception system is rife
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8:32 - 8:36with all ways of getting it wrong, ok.
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8:36 - 8:38But we don't like thinking of ourselves that way.
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8:38 - 8:41We have higher opinions of our human biology
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8:41 - 8:43when in fact we should not.
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8:43 - 8:45I'll give you an example of how it reveals itself.
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8:45 - 8:51We've all bought and enjoyed books called optical illusions, right?
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8:51 - 8:55We all love optical illusions, but that's not what they should call the book.
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8:55 - 8:57They should call them "Brain failures".
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8:57 - 9:01Ok, 'cause that's what it is.
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9:01 - 9:07It's a complete failure of human perception, all right.
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9:07 - 9:12All it takes is a few sketches that are cleverly done and you brain can't figure it out.
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9:12 - 9:13All right?
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9:13 - 9:17So, we are poor data taking devices,
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9:17 - 9:19that's why we have such a thing as science.
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9:19 - 9:21Because we have machines
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9:21 - 9:24that don't care what side of the bed they woke up in the morning.
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9:24 - 9:26Don't care what they said to the spouse that day,
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9:26 - 9:31don't care whether they had their morning caffeine to get the data right, ok.
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9:31 - 9:38So maybe you did see visitors from another part of the Galaxy.
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9:38 - 9:41I need more than your eyewitness testimony.
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9:41 - 9:45And in modern times I need more than your photograph,
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9:45 - 9:47which photoshop probably has an UFO button
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9:47 - 9:50today sticked in
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9:50 - 9:53So, your computer!,
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9:53 - 9:58so here is what you do: I'm not saying we haven't been visited.
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9:58 - 10:02I'm saying the evidence thus far brought forth
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10:02 - 10:07does not satisfy the standards of evidence that any scientist
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10:07 - 10:12would require for any other claim that you're gonna walk into the lab with.
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10:12 - 10:16Then you're done, you come back and say: Look what I got!
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10:16 - 10:21Like I stole the ashtray off the shelf of the flying saucer
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10:21 - 10:23and then you bring that to the lab.
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10:23 - 10:26It's not about eyewitness testimony at that point
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10:26 - 10:28cause you have something of alien manufacture.
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10:28 - 10:32And anything you pull out of the flying saucer that cross the Galaxy
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10:32 - 10:35is gonna be interesting, ok.
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10:35 - 10:39Because even objects within our own culture .....
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10:39 - 10:42I got this device here,ok,
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10:42 - 10:44the iphone.
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10:44 - 10:47Ten years ago they would've resurrected the witch burning laws
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10:47 - 10:49had you pull this thing out.
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10:49 - 10:50Ok?
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10:50 - 10:53And that's in our own culture.
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10:53 - 10:56Our own culture produced this over 10 years back.
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10:57 - 11:01So if this is some technology that crossed the Galaxy,
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11:01 - 11:04that's gonna be some serious stuff to look at in the lab.
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11:04 - 11:06Then we can have the conversation.
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11:06 - 11:09Until then - I can't, I'm sorry.
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11:09 - 11:12Go ahead, keep trying to find it, I'm not gonna stop you.
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11:13 - 11:15But get ready for that time you are abducted,
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11:15 - 11:18because I'll be looking for your evidence when that happens.
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11:18 - 11:20and...
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11:20 - 11:23And last point on that is
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11:25 - 11:28there are people who look up all the time,
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11:29 - 11:32like for example the Community of amateur astronomers in the world.
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11:32 - 11:36I was an amateur astronomer. We come out of a building and we look up.
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11:37 - 11:39We are looking up.
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11:39 - 11:45UFO sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public.
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11:45 - 11:48In fact, they are lower. You'd say why is that so.
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11:48 - 11:49Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at.
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11:54 - 11:56Because we study this stuff!
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11:56 - 12:00Do you know there was an UFO sighting reported by a police officer
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12:00 - 12:04because you think that when you have a badge or you are a pilot or whatever,
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12:04 - 12:07that your testimonies are somehow better than the average person.
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12:07 - 12:10It's all bad because we are human. ok?
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12:10 - 12:15So there was a police officer who was tracking an UFO
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12:15 - 12:18that was swaying back and forth in the sky.
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12:18 - 12:22ok, reported on the ... what it called the cop?
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12:22 - 12:27On the squad car chasing an UFO and the UFO was moving back and forth like this.
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12:27 - 12:29Ok? Later it turned out
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12:30 - 12:32the cop car was chasing Venus
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12:33 - 12:35and he was driving on a curved road.
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12:36 - 12:41but was so distracted by Venus he though Venus was the one moving
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12:41 - 12:45and he wasn't even thinking why he was doing this
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12:49 - 12:53I had a conversation with a layman about flying saucers -
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12:54 - 12:57because I am scientific I know all about flying saucers!
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12:57 - 13:01I said “I don’t think there are flying saucers”.
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13:01 - 13:04So my antagonist said,
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13:04 - 13:05“Is it impossible that there are flying saucers?
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13:06 - 13:08Can you prove that it’s impossible?”
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13:08 - 13:12“No”, I said, “I can’t prove it’s impossible. It’s just very unlikely”.
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13:12 - 13:15At that he said, “You are very unscientific.
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13:15 - 13:17If you can’t prove it impossible
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13:17 - 13:20then how can you say that it’s unlikely?”
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13:20 - 13:21But that is the way that is scientific.
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13:22 - 13:24It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely,
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13:24 - 13:27and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.
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13:28 - 13:31To define what I mean, I finally said to him,
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13:31 - 13:35"Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me,
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13:35 - 13:37I think that it's much more likely
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13:38 - 13:44that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence
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13:45 - 13:50rather than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence."
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13:57 - 13:59If you look at our closest genetic relative
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13:59 - 14:02to human beings- the chimpanzees-
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14:02 - 14:06we share like 98+% identical DNA,
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14:07 - 14:09we are smarter than a chimpanzee.
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14:10 - 14:14Let’s invent a measure of intelligence that make humans unique.
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14:14 - 14:16Let’s say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry,
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14:16 - 14:21symphonies, do art, math and science, let’s say.
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14:21 - 14:22Ok?
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14:22 - 14:25Let’s make that as the arbitrary definition of intelligence for the moment.
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14:26 - 14:28Chimps can't do any of that
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14:28 - 14:33yet we share 98% - 99% identical DNA
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14:33 - 14:34Ok?
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14:34 - 14:37The most brilliant chimp there ever was
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14:37 - 14:40maybe can do a little bit of sign language
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14:40 - 14:42well our toddlers can do that
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14:42 - 14:44Toddlers.
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14:45 - 14:47So
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14:47 - 14:51here's what concerns me deeply, deeply
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14:53 - 14:58Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps
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15:00 - 15:04emerges from that 1% difference in the DNA
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15:05 - 15:07It has to because that’s the difference.
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15:07 - 15:12The Hubble telescope, the grand… that’s in that 1%.
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15:14 - 15:17Maybe...
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15:18 - 15:21everything that we are that is not the chimp
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15:22 - 15:27is not as smart compared to the chimp as we tell ourselves it is
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15:29 - 15:34maybe the difference between constructing and launching a Hubble telescope
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15:34 - 15:38and a chimp combining two finger motions as a sign language
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15:38 - 15:43maybe that difference is not all that great
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15:43 - 15:45we tell ourselves it is
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15:45 - 15:48just the same when we label our books
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15:48 - 15:50optical illusions
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15:50 - 15:54We tell ourselves it's a lot. Maybe it's almost nothing.
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15:55 - 15:59How would we decide that? Imagine another life form!
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16:00 - 16:03That is 1% different from us!
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16:04 - 16:08In the direction that we are different from the chimp.
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16:10 - 16:11Think about that.
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16:11 - 16:14We have 1% difference and we are building the Hubble telescope.
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16:14 - 16:17Go another 1%.
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16:17 - 16:20What are we to they?
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16:21 - 16:24We would be drooling, blithering idiots in their presence.
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16:24 - 16:27That’s what we would be.
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16:28 - 16:34They would take Stephen Hawking and roll him in front of their
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16:34 - 16:37primate researchers and say well
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16:38 - 16:40this one is like the most brilliant among them
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16:40 - 16:42cause he can do sort of astrophysics in his head
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16:42 - 16:47Oh isn't that cute! Little Johny can do that too
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16:47 - 16:48Oh!!
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16:48 - 16:53Let me get it it's on the refrigerator door here it is
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16:53 - 16:56he did it in his elementary school class
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16:57 - 16:59Think about how smart they would be!
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17:00 - 17:04Quantum mechanics would be intuitive to their toddlers.
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17:05 - 17:11Whole symphonies would be written by their children, and like I said just put on the refrigerator door
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17:11 - 17:16the way our pasta collages are on our refrigerator doors.
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17:18 - 17:23So the notion, that we're gonna find some intelligent life
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17:23 - 17:28and have a conversation with it!?
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17:28 - 17:33When was the last time you stopped to have a conversation with a worm?
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17:35 - 17:37Or a bird?
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17:38 - 17:42Well, you might have had a conversation but I don’t think you expected an answer, alright.
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17:42 - 17:44All right? So...
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17:44 - 17:47We don't have conversations with any other species on earth
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17:47 - 17:50with whom we have DNA in common.
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17:50 - 17:53To believe that some intelligent other species
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17:53 - 17:58is gonna be interested in us? Enough to have a conversation?
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17:58 - 18:03they’ll look at our Hubble telescope and say, “isn’t that quaint… look at what they’re doing.”
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18:03 - 18:09So I lay awake at nights wondering whether simply we as a species
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18:09 - 18:13are simply too stupid to figure out the universe that we are investigating
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18:14 - 18:18and maybe we need some other species 1% smarter than we are
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18:19 - 18:21for which string theory would be intuitive,
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18:21 - 18:26for which all the greatest mysteries of the universe, from dark matter, dark energy, the origins of life
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18:26 - 18:29and all the frontiers of our thoughts
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18:29 - 18:32would be something that they would just self intuit.
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18:33 - 18:36I'm jealous of that possibility
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18:36 - 18:40because I want to be around for those discoveries.
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18:49 - 18:54[ Alternative solutions ]
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19:02 - 19:05UFO associated with extraterrestrial life
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19:05 - 19:10presents, very well, the aberrant approach of the monetary system.
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19:11 - 19:14Thus, the solution is proper education of human beings
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19:14 - 19:16and a reorganising of our system
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19:16 - 19:20so that our priorities are aligned with natural necessities.
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19:21 - 19:24The monetary system is unable to achieve this
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19:24 - 19:29because it's main concerns are profit and consumption.
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19:56 - 19:59It's disheartening that human beings consume their curiousity
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19:59 - 20:04Through films or discussions rather than inquire through science
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20:04 - 20:08What is even worse is that this organization called the monetary system
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20:09 - 20:11allows and perpetuates this situation
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20:13 - 20:16It does not give enough attention to science
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20:16 - 20:20Instead it focuses on consumption and profit
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- (h) TROM - 2.23 UFOs and extraterrestrial life
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