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Avi Loeb - Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
Thu, Jan 14, 2021 · Loading views
Avi Loeb is an astrophysicist at Harvard.
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Timestamps
- 2:31 - Are we alone in the universe?
- 6:46 - Consciousness
- 11:23 - Sending digital copies of humans to space
- 16:01 - Oumuamua
- 38:04 - Alien space junk
- 42:03 - What do aliens look like?
- 59:21 - Drake equation
- 1:00:23 - Industrial polution from aliens
- 1:12:15 - UFO sightings
- 1:20:11 - How long will human civilization last?
- 1:22:51 - Radio signal from Proxima Centauri
- 1:26:12 - Breakthrough Starshot project
- 1:29:11 - Space race
- 1:34:22 - Human space exploration
- 1:39:38 - Social media is a threat to society
- 1:44:26 - Are humans ready for discovering an alien civilization?
- 1:48:38 - Mayans used astrology to wage war
- 1:49:53 - Black holes
- 2:08:43 - Stephen Hawking
- 2:12:21 - Grigori Perelman
- 2:16:46 - Theory of everything
- 2:23:45 - Dark matter
- 2:26:28 - Advice for young people
- 2:29:32 - Memories of my father and mother
- 2:34:01 - Existentialism
- 2:36:15 - Mortality
- 2:38:49 - Meaning of life