3,000,000 - Q&A
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Three million thank yous! :)
The Great Silence
Description
For the past half-century, humanity has been listening for alien radio transmissions but so far we appear to be the only ones broadcasting into the void. Astrobiologists now seek to narrow down the search by looking for other technological and biological signatures. In this video, I explore some of the methods by which they hope to do so and why the great silence of the universe is such a mystery.
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Audio
Chris Zabriskie - Stories About the World That Once Was
Francis Preve - Seductress
Chris Zabriskie - They Call It Nature
Density & Time - Meadow
Visuals
Visualization of Pulsar Data
Harold Craft
Footage of SEST Telescope
Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO
Visualization of SKA Telescope Array
SPDO/TDP/DRAO/Swinburne Astronomy Productions
Image of Arecibo Observatory
Cornell University Library
Image of Arecibo Message
Arne Nordmann
Image of Wow! Signal
Ohio History Connection
Sónar Calling GJ273b
Sónar
Image of KIC 8462852
Aladin Sky Atlas
Images of Galaxies
NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/D. Milisavljevic/A. van der Hoeven/R. Gendler/A. Fabian/W. Harris/S. Beckwith
Footage of ALMA Telescope Array
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/UHD Team
3D Model of Voyager Spacecraft
Brian Kumanchik/Christian Lopez/NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of ‘Oumuamua
ESO/M. Kornmesser/L.Calcada
Footage of Comet 67P
ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS Team (MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA)
Image of ’Oumuamua
ESO/K. Meech et al.
Visualization of NanoSail-D
NASA
Image of ‘Oumuamua
A. Fitzsimmons/QUB/Isaac Newton Group/La Palma
Visualization of Europa Lander
NASA/JPL-Caltech
References & Further Reading
The Battle of Los Angeles
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On a cloudless night in early 1942 the skies above Los Angeles erupted like a volcano when antiaircraft batteries unsuccessfully tried to shoot down one or more unidentified flying objects. The incident has since become a staple of UFO mythology while skeptics claim it was nothing more than misidentified weather balloons. In this video I dive into the available evidence to better understand what makes this case so mysterious.
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The Battle of Los Angeles
References & Further Reading
My Latest Puzzle
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Read MoreCicada 3301: An Internet Mystery
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In this video I explore an elaborate cryptographic internet puzzle orchestrated by a mysterious individual or group known as Cicada 3301.
Puzzle
The puzzle I hid in this video has been solved.