In my opinion, being able to explain an extremely complicated subject simply and in a way anyone can understand is much more impressive than using a slew of long and technical terms that only a few extremely versed in the subject would understand. And this talk was definitely part of the former. The subject of the talk was means by which researchers on earth can deduce whether or not an alien planet could support life, and the effectiveness of each of these methods. In order to fully understand this subject, he had to spend many years studying a large variety of fields, from biology, to astrophysics. However, in a brief hour he was able to effectively get the whole room to understand the topic to some degree. And that topic was truly fascinating. Whenever you hear about aliens, it tends to be in the frame of science fiction, and very rarely grounded in reality. Yet, the main topic of this talk was the very likelihood of life being on other planets(perhaps not intelligent but life none the less), and it sounded extremely plausible. Using earth as a working model, researchers are developing more and more advanced ways of detecting this life, and anticipating how it may be different from the type of “life” we’re used to here on earth. Hopefully in time these methods will yield positive results.
Hello! It’s always nice when people spoon feed you. In the business world, as far as I know, it seems to be that language is the one barrier that keeps out a lot of people which is just unfortunate. Besides that, it’s cool how scientists are using earth as this benchmark for life and trying to find similar beings. I watched The Arrival and that was pretty cool. Sometimes I think these things are so out of our thinking frames that it is impossible to figure out the question. There’s also a lot of religious stuff involved like how Darwinist theory collided with Catholic views of the world.