Cool Video Explaining Why We're Not Visited By Aliens

He's done a number of appearances on NOVA. He and Neil deGrasse Tyson are amazing at explaining things to a level that even a 6 year could understand. Good find.

 

The problem with science that you can't prove is that it's wrong more often than not.

 

Kaku is much better than Tyson IMHO.

 

I could listen to them two talk all day long. Although sometimes I couldn't quite understand. But they're far better than, for example, Steve Hawking. Maybe it's the machine voice... or just the different field of science.

 

I agree. I prefer my answers from my two thousand year old book.

Science. Pshh.

I INT COME FROM NO DAMN MONKEY!!!

 

Where did you get the idea that most of astrophysics is theoretical? In many areas of astrophysics, observations are leading theory.

 

toycen just shat a brick

 

Congrats on being a closed minded insulting jerk.

 

This is where proton collider comes in handy. Isn't it suppose to create black holes and stuff on a super tiny scale?

 

I am an astrophysicist. Not a single astrophysicist I know spends any time working on worm holes, parallel universes, etc. Those are very theoretical. But black holes are actually observed. There are some purely theoretical topics when dealing with black holes, but you can absolutely make observations about what the environment outside a black hole is like, that's not just theoretical.

 

Certainly just look at what we are doing on the Kepler mission -- the first truly dedicated telescope to identifying earth-like planets. There has been success and it's only the first one -- imagine what we will be putting up there in the future with increasingly advanced optics.

 

...or a probe.

 

I like them both, but like Tyson better simply because he seems like he's just talking to you and a down-to-earth guy. Some of Kaku's stuff sounds like it's scripted or something - his delivery is somewhat robotic. I've got a couple of Kaku's books that are pretty good (and cheap).

 

They deal with different fields the areas regarding Cosmology and Quantum Mechanics that Hawking deals with are a lot harder to explain than the issues that Kaku and Tyson usually deal with.

 

I love Kaku and especially Carl Sagan. I can listen to them talking all day long. Man, I really miss NinjaVideo.

I kinda disagreed the the Ants metaphor. I mean even if a intelligent species that's million of years more advanced than we are I'm pretty sure they are able to detect the level of intelligent of other species. I'm a true believer that we could be the outcome from an advance intelligent creator and I'm not talking about intelligent design.