Astrophysicist on the Latest Discoveries of Potential for Alien Life and How We Might Not be Alone

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Are UAPs real? Is an extraterrestrial sighting even possible on Earth? What are the scientific explanations for alien sightings? Is a human-like civilization possible on another planet? Astronomer and astrophysicist Adam Frank (author of Little Book of Aliens) joins Mayim and Jonathan for an MBB Explores to discuss the scientific possibilities of aliens, UFOs, and why we all need to be more excited about what recent technological advances are enabling us to discover in space. Adam Frank discusses his feelings on the government reports on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs), his and fellow scientists' analysis of UFO videos, and why SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) took so long to be funded and taken seriously. Find out the staggering percentage of planets that likely hold potential for intelligent life and why we all feel such wonder looking at the stars. Plus, Adam Frank discusses his time consulting on Marvel's “Dr. Strange” and his feelings on the possibility of a metaverse in real life. You don’t want to miss this mind-blowing exploration of what space has to offer!

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0:00.0	Can you explain a little bit the issue of the scope of the universe?
0:04.0	It's really hard for people to understand how freaking big space is.
0:10.0	We figured out that there were 10 billion trillion habitable planets in the universe.
0:17.0	Now we've discovered that every star you see in the sky has a family of worlds orbiting.
0:22.9	There's definitely snow falling. There's definitely oceans washing up on beaches. There's snow-capped
0:29.1	mountains. There's deserts. There's so many worlds. Each one has its own story. If you count up
0:37.0	five of those, one of them has a planet in the right place in what we call the Goldilocks zone.
0:42.3	Think of how many stars he's telling us there are.
0:47.3	There are 400 billion stars in just our galaxy.
0:51.3	And there's almost an uncountable number of galaxies.
0:55.0	Every other experiment in the universe would have to fail for us to be the only ones.
1:01.0	You have a giant, extraordinary claim, a claim that if true, would be the greatest
1:07.0	scientific discovery in the history of humanity. Whether the government lies or not has
1:12.7	nothing to do with whether or not that's true. Can you explain why it's important for us to understand
1:21.1	what we've done to our planet in order to understand how other things could have done that to theirs.
1:28.4	We have the capacity now.
1:29.5	We can actually see into the atmospheres of worlds that are 40 light years away,
1:33.8	and we can see the fingerprints in the light of what chemical compounds are in the atmosphere.
1:38.7	And we just need to stop the moment and go, holy shit, that is amazing.
1:42.4	A bunch of angry hairless monkeys, us, figured out how to see into the air of a distant
1:49.6	world and then use that to figure out whether there's alien life there.
2:01.7	Hi, I'm I'm Bialik.
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