“Going To Mars Is An Escapist FANTASY!” | Brian Keating On Triggernometry (#358)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Usually, I’m the one interrogating guests, but every now and then, I find myself on the hot seat, too! Enjoy my conversation with Francis and Konstantin on their show, TRIGGERnometry. We discussed the idea of colonizing Mars, aliens, the origin of everything, the complex correlation between science and religion, everything wrong with the Nobel Prize, and much more! TRIGGERnometry is a YouTube show and podcast in which comedians Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster create honest conversations with fascinating people. Key Takeaways: Intro (00:00) Are we too pessimistic, and do we have a future in space? (03:27) Is there anything for us on Mars? (12:48) Storing consciousness & the survival of humanity (19:42) The discovery of extraterrestrial life (28:35) Humility in the field of science (46:24) Criticism of the Nobel Prize (52:49) Will we ever be able to travel space effectively? (58:33) Are we alone in the Universe? (1:03:54) Where does everything come from? (1:11:17) What is the one thing we’re not talking about? (1:32:37) — Additional resources: 🥗 Thanks, HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/50impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months. 📝 With a MasterClass annual membership, you can take one-on-one classes from the world’s best for $10 a month with your annual membership, get unlimited access to every class — and even better, right now, as an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off when you go to MASTERCLASS.com/impossible. 🧑‍💻 Visit LinkedIn.com/IMPOSSIBLE to post your job for free! ➡️ Check out TRIGGERnometry on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=765eeKhO-Fk ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What the Nobel Prize does is it becomes a secular idol. You bow down in front of the King of Sweden and you bow down and you accept a gilded graven image with the visage of Alfred Nobel on it.
0:13.8	So like every religion, it has an origin story, it has patron saints,
0:17.4	and so it has become a secular religion.
0:20.0	And sometimes the most zealous religious adherents are atheists.
0:26.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:37.0	Open the pod bay doors.
0:40.0	Our terrific guest today is a cosmologist which as he just told us is a branch of astrophysics
0:45.5	Professor Brian Keaton working Tregnum to.
0:47.5	Wow it's a great pleasure and honor to be here guys.
0:49.3	Thanks for us to me.
0:50.3	It's great to have you on the show before we get into everything to do with space and everything that's out there and not out there
0:55.9	Tell everybody who are you how are you where you are what's been a journey through life. Yeah, so I always like that that question that's become your trademark because it allows me to segue into what I always ask people, what's the most important day on the calendar?
1:10.0	You know, I say, what is it? Usually if you're smart and you're a guy you'll say my anniversary right or my wife's birthday
1:16.0	But it's always some kind of origin story right everyone's fascinated with an origin and since I was a little kid I was always fascinated with not just my own origin,
1:24.0	which is the only story you come into, that you will have to rely on other people to tell you the truth of what came before,
1:31.0	but the universe. And what is the ultimate, potentially the ultimate origin story of all which is how did
1:35.8	everything come to be and it's interesting because what I do is called cosmology which
1:40.8	a lot of people you know because of the way that I look and you know my my handsome
1:44.1	visage they no I'm just kidding they think it has cosmetology so you know if I if I
1:49.2	don't get that I get you know are an astrology or astrologer whatever can you tell me my horoscope.
1:54.3	I used to say no, I used to say no, but now I take opportunity to actually answer it.
1:59.4	I say, oh you're a Gemini,, that's really terrible.
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