We Asked an Astrophysicist About Aliens, Mars and the Origin of Everything

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Dr Brian Keating is an American cosmologist who holds the position of Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is the author of two books, Losing The Nobel Prize and Into the Impossible. He is also a podcaster and YouTuber - check out his channel here:
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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
01:22 Brian Keating’s Background
04:09 Do We Have a Future in Space?
10:47 Are We Too Pessimistic?
12:38 Is There Anything for us on Mars?
18:11 Storing Consciousness & the Survival of Humanity
28:47 The Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
32:33 Why is Travelling to Another Planet Important?
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40:43 Science Replacing Religion
48:02 Humility in the Field of Science
54:37 Criticism of the Nobel Prize
1:00:13 Will We Ever be Able to Effectively Travel Space?
1:05:36 Are We Alone In The Universe?
1:13:06 Sponsor Message: easyDNS
1:14:16 Where Did Life Come From?
1:23:22 Incorrect Scientific Views
1:35:38 What is The One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

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0:00.0	Since I was a little kid I was always fascinated with not just my own origin
0:04.5	you know which is the only story you come into but the universe and what is the
0:08.1	ultimate potentially the ultimate origin story of all which is how did
0:11.2	everything come to be to say what happened on the Tuesday before the Big Bang
0:14.8	that may have an answer for the first time in history by technology that my
0:19.1	colleagues who are far smarter than I am are helping to build via what's called
0:23.2	the Simon's Observatory. Going to Mars is fundamentally I believe and
0:29.2	an escapist you know kind of fantasy. Do you think it's pointless? Is there anything
0:33.9	for us on Mars I guess is what I'm asking. Well so there's something for us
0:38.4	right the question is is that worth the price you'll have to pay. There's a
0:42.6	famous quote by one of my heroes Richard Feynman he said science is the
0:47.2	belief in the ignorance of experts not the wisdom not the knowledge of
0:51.6	expert but the ignorance of what the hell are you talking about? Feynman was a
0:55.3	genius. Feynman was a genius. Yeah they were genius because they doubted what
1:00.3	came before them. Science has never settled.
1:12.2	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen. And
1:17.8	this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
1:22.9	Terrific guest today is a cosmologist which as he just told us is a branch of
1:27.1	astrophysics professor Brian Kissen. Welcome to Trigonometry. Wow it's a great
1:30.4	pleasure and honor to be here guys thanks for listening. It's great to have you on
1:33.4	the show before we get into everything to do with space and everything that's
1:36.8	out there and not out there. Tell everybody who are you how are you way you are
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