Any other Michio Kaku fans out there?

[DrPizza]

I've just spent 2 hours watching videos of him. I find him far more interesting than Bill Nye.
here's just one video, in case you don't know who he is.

 

[Baked]

DrPizza fails at > and < sign. Shouldn't the topic summary be Michio Kaku > Bill Nye?

Yeah, he's on a lot of Nat Geo, History Chan, and Sci Chan programs. He seems like a real cool guy. I think he's more genuine when talking about his topcis than Bill Nye. Nye looks like a damn actor.

 

[DrPizza]

Just checking to see if the 1st person to respond agrees. :thumbsup: to you
(I refreshed the Off Topic page and thought "gasp! Wooops!")

Here's Kaku on SETI and our arrogance. (Better video than in the OP)

 

[EvilYoda]

I read one of his books in my teens - it was a few years later that I saw him on TV for the first time. He does a good job at his PBS bits and whatnot.

 

[Special K]

I just finished reading Parallel Worlds last night, and I had read Hyperspace a few years ago. They are very thought-provoking books, although I doubt I will see any practical applications of those theories in my lifetime.

 

[DrPizza]

Laughing about impending doom via the LHC:
here

(And sadly, pointing out that the LHC is in Europe. A much larger collider was started in the U.S., but Congress decided to let other countries leave us in the dust in scientific research.

 

[DrPizza]

Another good one: here

 

[nboy22]

He came directly to my school and talked at the graduation ceremony for this past years graduates. I didn't personally get to see him or talk to him but my room mate did, and my room mate got a signed book from him also. He's got some really interesting work out there.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I love listening to him. I just picked up his latest book, Physics of the Impossible.. He also has a radio show that I listen to when I can, it is called Science Fantastic. It is broadcast on Saturday, but my local station plays it Sunday morning. There are some stations that stream it over the web, too.

He is an incredibly patient man. Listening to him explain basic scientific concepts over and over to some of the people calling in to his show drives me a bit crazy, though. At least it is more tolerable when they are genuinely interested in learning something. I always try to listen to Coast To Coast AM when he is a guest on there, too.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Just checking to see if the 1st person to respond agrees. :thumbsup: to you
(I refreshed the Off Topic page and thought "gasp! Wooops!")

Here's Kaku on SETI and our arrogance. (Better video than in the OP)

I'm just wondering what UFO's have to do with extraterrestrials? And what scientist who understands the scale of the universe doesn't take the possibility of extraterrestrial life seriously?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I've just spent 2 hours watching videos of him. I find him far more interesting than Bill Nye.
here's just one video, in case you don't know who he is.

Love physics and math but how did you ever like Bill Nye!?!

Yeah Michio Kaku is an interesting charcater, similar to Brian Greene (who I like better). I have enjoyed the few times I have seen him on TV or being interviewed. Don't think anyone can beat the grand daddy of them all Richard Feynman though.

 

[ballmode]

I'm a fan.

 

[Jeff7]

Not familiar with him, but bookmarked. (And hopefully Firefox will actually retain the bookmark change, for once.)

 

[secretanchitman]

bill nye and michio kaku are equally interesting. love to hear them speak, highly intelligent.

 

[pray4mojo]

Saw him on the history channel before. IIRC he briefly spoke about finding the "equation for everything".

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Just checking to see if the 1st person to respond agrees. :thumbsup: to you
(I refreshed the Off Topic page and thought "gasp! Wooops!")

Here's Kaku on SETI and our arrogance. (Better video than in the OP)

Better video, except for the severely schizophrenic camera work.

What do they have there, 5 cameras, with 200 different filters? So much video these days seems designed to simulate the effects of either drug overdose, or a severe stroke.

And SETI stuff - maybe ET's communicate in encrypted signals. That might be a problem for detecting their transmissions. And then there would inevitably be lawyers, suing for invasion of privacy.

His thoughts border on something I wonder about: Should we perhaps consider limiting our broadcast into space? I wonder if there might be predatory races out there, things that'd make the ID4 aliens look like comatose toddlers. Things that wipe out planetary populations like we would consume an apple.
Then here we are, broadcasting EM transmissions all over the place, like a mouse in an open field wearing a bright vest that says "EAT ME."

In that sense, you can look at a galaxy as one ecosystem, undergoing evolution. The life that tends to be quiet survives. Life that makes a lot of noise, like us, attracts predators, and dies out.
Natural selection, but on a much larger scale than what we see on Earth.


Concerning visitation by ET's, and the extreme distances between star systems, we also incorporate our own ideas of lifespan. We see long distances as a major problem because of how fragile we are, and how short we live. Some ET species might live for eons, they might be android type life, and they might have no problem with going into stasis for 200 million years during a space flight.



Edit: I made the mistake of reading the Youtube comments. This gem:
"We are human not GOD We can not Create But only destroy threw the help of satan look at Mans History when have we ever made anything that was was good? Never! nuclear weapons even nuclear power (tranoble)"

Yeah, that's.......um, almost close to the correct spelling. Clearly he knows exactly what he's talking about.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I like Bill Nye too, though.

 

[DrPizza]

I don't think we have anything to worry about, re: aliens traveling to Earth to harvest all the humans. It wouldn't be worth the energy expenditure. Then again, I suppose if you and your family were traveling intergalactically, our signals might be the equivalent of 150 foot tall golden arches advertising the availability of a cheap meal. But, why would you think that an advanced life form would still be eating meat? Think of our own human evolution - do you really think we'll still be eating meat in 1000 years?

 

[SirStev0]

Beakmen's world ftw.