What Would Alien Intelligences Mean? | Episode 904 | Closer To Truth

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Published 2020-08-16

Do intelligent aliens exist? Who knows? But here's what I do know: The potential existence of intelligent aliens probes meaning and purpose in the universe. Featuring interviews with Martin Rees, Frank Drake, Lawrence Krauss, Gregory Benford, and Jaron Lanier.

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Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.

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Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

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All Comments (21)

@dustincondon5557 2 years ago

I do not understand how I've just now come across these videos. This series has become my favorite thing on YouTube. The quality is ridiculously high. It reminds me of the old Cosmos
@leom.5330 3 years ago

Taking care of our world should be a top priority regardless of Alien existence.
@AngryCanadian1971 3 years ago

I like the idea that we've been quarantined. We, as a living organism, are quite insane. We are arrogant, greedy, self delusional and self destructive. What makes it worse is that we KNOW this about ourselves as a whole and we keep on being that way.
@Kumurajiva 3 years ago

I’m going to ask my dog about these questions 😂
@matthew944 3 years ago

I can't believe you get to discuss the possibility of alien 👽 intelligence with Frank Drake! That is so cool!
@boredstiff100 3 years ago

Greg Benford comes closest to the real real reason we're all hoping there is intelligent life out there - to expand the boundaries of online dating
@robbierude9833 3 years ago

I love this series! Thanks 😌👍 Great production! Deserves more views and likes than it has. Way more
@ShannonSpurrell 3 years ago

Fantastic piece. Well devised direction. Thank you very kindly.
@malentique 3 years ago

This is literally the best thing I have EVER seen on YouTube.
@abj358 3 years ago

I am astonished that it has taken me over a dozen years to hear another, namely Jaron Lanier, say that once we build the right instrument, the sky will light up (with intelligent signals). I tried to express this to Seth Shostak back in the nineties and he brushed it off out of hand. We need to build that instrument! No doubt it will be convolved with entanglement properties.
@jamesruscheinski8602 3 years ago

Finding intelligent alien life may mean technology not enough to overcome great filter for life. Probably better to focus more on own development of humanity and then if happen to meet intelligent alien life all the better.
@hemant05 3 years ago

Alien invasion in 2020 will make it complete 😂👽
@browngreen933 1 year ago

With the latest UFO whistleblower disclosure and upcoming Congressional hearing, CTT needs to revisit this subject.
@1956ernie 3 years ago

The fact they haven't contacted us, prove their intelligence.😁
@randymarsh7577 3 years ago

Such a fascinating episode !!
@TheMoonchild1969 3 years ago

We humans still need to come to terms of how enormously vast the universe really is and how miserably short are lives spans are.🌹
@jefferee2002 3 years ago

What a well done episode. The talent of the people you interviewed is amazing. Thank you for this.
@SumNutOnU2b 3 years ago

Greg Benford! Oh wow! I hope he took advantage of that interview opportunity to talk about other subjects too. Such a prolific writer and thinker, surely he has a lot of interesting ideas for Kuhn
@jrichardjacobs34 3 years ago

This was a good one.
@bruinflight1 3 years ago

Ooo this is gonna be a good one!