Description:
Adam Frank is an astrophysicist and leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun using advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die.
Timeline:
00:00 - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
01:02 - the first exoplanet discovery
02:49 - Techno-signatures
05:36 - the silurian hypothesis
10:28 - gaps in the fossil record
16:12 - alternate technology of ancient civilizations
17:12 - the 2 meanings of a "theory"
20:30 - Townsend Brown & the Biefeld-Brown effect
24:08 - why there's no such thing as anti-gravity
31:56 - science for public vs. private knowledge
35:28 - military insiders on aliens & UFOs
42:37 - the universe is accelerating
45:35 - why personal testimony on UFOs is useless
49:17 - the greatest minds don't go into government
54:29 - aliens didn't come from other planets
59:45 - where human evolution is headed
01:03:13 - interstellar distances are not travelable
01:07:01 - the dark inspiration behind Arc Raiders
01:09:47 - the danger of current AI technology
01:17:44 - doomsday scenario where AI becomes useless
01:25:11 - the transformation of humans into cyborgs
01:31:08 - how humans change with technology
01:32:52 - what brings down human civilizations
01:36:53 - why moon landing deniers are full of s**t
01:41:42 - commercial space travel
01:46:34 - abandoning a shared reality
01:48:20 - science = national prospertity (china is gaining influence)
01:51:25 - the south pole & weird things about the moon
01:57:04 - the rare earth hypothesis
02:01:41 - how organisms change the atmosphere & climate
02:07:49 - climate patterns throughout Earth's history
02:13:02 - Earth's 5 mass extinction events
02:14:08 - "don't save the earth, save yourself"
02:16:48 - why top scientists disagree on climate
02:24:31 - the state of solar power
02:32:46 - pollution from SpaceX
02:34:56 - the younger dryas impact hypothesis
02:39:22 - the astrobiology field
02:41:54 - the Channeled Scablands
02:44:05 - what really happened to megafauna
02:45:25 - the ethics of human preservation
02:46:27 - human life may have started on Mars
Timeline:
00:00 - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
01:02 - the first exoplanet discovery
02:49 - Techno-signatures
05:36 - the silurian hypothesis
10:28 - gaps in the fossil record
16:12 - alternate technology of ancient civilizations
17:12 - the 2 meanings of a "theory"
20:30 - Townsend Brown & the Biefeld-Brown effect
24:08 - why there's no such thing as anti-gravity
31:56 - science for public vs. private knowledge
35:28 - military insiders on aliens & UFOs
42:37 - the universe is accelerating
45:35 - why personal testimony on UFOs is useless
49:17 - the greatest minds don't go into government
54:29 - aliens didn't come from other planets
59:45 - where human evolution is headed
01:03:13 - interstellar distances are not travelable
01:07:01 - the dark inspiration behind Arc Raiders
01:09:47 - the danger of current AI technology
01:17:44 - doomsday scenario where AI becomes useless
01:25:11 - the transformation of humans into cyborgs
01:31:08 - how humans change with technology
01:32:52 - what brings down human civilizations
01:36:53 - why moon landing deniers are full of s**t
01:41:42 - commercial space travel
01:46:34 - abandoning a shared reality
01:48:20 - science = national prospertity (china is gaining influence)
01:51:25 - the south pole & weird things about the moon
01:57:04 - the rare earth hypothesis
02:01:41 - how organisms change the atmosphere & climate
02:07:49 - climate patterns throughout Earth's history
02:13:02 - Earth's 5 mass extinction events
02:14:08 - "don't save the earth, save yourself"
02:16:48 - why top scientists disagree on climate
02:24:31 - the state of solar power
02:32:46 - pollution from SpaceX
02:34:56 - the younger dryas impact hypothesis
02:39:22 - the astrobiology field
02:41:54 - the Channeled Scablands
02:44:05 - what really happened to megafauna
02:45:25 - the ethics of human preservation
02:46:27 - human life may have started on Mars
