Beautiful. In another life I would study astrophysics instead of finance. Or maybe I’ll do a bsc/msc after I retire

Just start learning on the side for fun now.

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Everyday astronaut. Guy is a college dropout and explains rocket science better than the pros. Just start reading /watching, you can learn it all yourself

Sometimes I’m thinking about this too but I’m afraid I’d end up with playing with numbers in spreadsheets just like in finance.

Ive just started an astronomy BSc part time, thought about it for years, so glad i jumped in. It's so much fun

Just switch dude you get ONE life

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That is so funny, seeing the invisible, I think you mean detecting them by some other means YES?

Lensing perhaps or maybe Gravitational Mapping through the movement of objects?

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Self education is great for becoming a dilettante, but it sadly won't help with accreditation.

He works in finance. I don't think that is his goal.

well...i'm rather good at what i do and i love the challenge/reward that comes with it. a goal for retirement is more likely...

nice. maybe in 10 years time i would do it.

i'll check his channel out. thanks!

and i will. looking to crash my local college's classes too

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When will they finally say “hey we found aliens” were all desperately and anxiously waiting for that moment. We all know it’s imminent

You can instead do it as a hobby. There's lots of stuff you can do without a degree and fulltime employment

I agree that extraterrestrial life is statistically assured but even if/when humanity finds irrefutable proof of it we will not be ready. We humans are a self centered, narcissistic, and arrogant lot who would instantly be threatened by the idea that another life form actually exists. Look around at how we fight over pieces of dirt or personal beliefs or who/what we love. Adding actual “aliens” to this mix would be terrible. Best we continue to roll along with the fact that we are the only ones out here. At least until humanity has advanced beyond these petty notions of superiority.

A perceived common enemy even if not actually an enemy might help unite at least a portion of humanity. The rest will behave like ill-mannered children regardless.

I’m at the point to where I see my existence as futile, no one knows why we exist and wander about our meaningless jobs and activities. I think finding proof of alien life would give hope to us who haven’t been brainwashed by religion, I believe our consciousness lives on, I’m tired of being misled by society about why we do what we do.

Existence is too much to bear, if there is a god who created him, if the universe ends what’s on the other side? It’s infinite, I’m ok with risking this life to learn more before I die ignorantly.

I've never understood the belief that one would feel threatened by the existence of alien civilizations. Having spent decades learning about the nature of reality, space, physics... Confirmation of lifeforms elsewhere would be spectacular, humbling, exciting and nothing short of hope inducing. We would not be alone, how amazing, how thrilling. The infinite expanse would not be so empty of meaning nor so seemingly pointless, in all its incredible beauty and diversity.

How about space friends? Why would they become our enemies? We could swap science, music, art, comedy, maybe even food too would be compatible if they are also carbon based life forms. If they aren't carbon based lifeforms, imagine the differences in perceptions that would lead to differences in scientific methods, theories. Maybe they would see things we simply cannot and vise versa, we could trade perceptions, growing each other's understandings. It would be magical and only the first of many as their existence would imply the existence of many others too.

Mainstream media does typically give clickbaity titles to space news, but CNN did label this article "...once invisible" and yeah the IR capabilities of the Webb telescope does indead allow us to see (detect) things that were literally invisible to other telescopes like Hubble

Now random thoughts come to my mind of how Europeans discovered the Americas. In my vision not to gain more knowledge, but for more power. Alas.

If we can find a way to make being space friends profitable then it's possible I guess. But otherwise I think it's more likely they're declared as enemies.

We would probably eat them as we have done to everything else on this planet

They wouldn’t be our enemies, they would be our competitors and given how we have treated our own species, let alone the other species which inhabit this planet alongside us (we ate or killed the majority of them) the likely scenario is WE would either eat, kill or enslave them.

This scenario is guaranteed if contact is made by Americans first

I keep feeling bad for people that got slaughtered by barbarians and am thankful we didn’t live during that era but the chance of that happening to us by aliens is not likely but not zero. Nightmare fuel

Plenty of resources out there for everyone, zero reason to compete.

If we make contact with aliens its because they're able to contact us, which means they're way more technologically advanced than us.

They probably also went through some sort of an evolution process and are probably all too familiar with predation and violent power struggles, whether or not that it's in their distant past.

So they're likely equipped to cope with human hostilities and not niave enough to be caught off guard by it. We're not enslaving any extraterrestrials.

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We would give it the good ol college try though!

“Fire photon torpedos! Not a full spread though, we are trying to keep costs low and get maximum ROI. For the investors Number 1!”

Let’s say in few hundred years we have the tech to travel all over our galaxy with the knowledge of where there are planets with civilizations. We would be able to know where they are technologically, if we were to visit them we would try to not interfere if we believe they’re not ready for contact. The universe is littered with precious metals, it rains diamonds in some planets, I find it hard to believe we would want anything minerals from their planet. However we might want to observe, get to learn something from their advances but the main interest would be biological. That falls in line with what is happening here on our planet. Any thoughts on this theory?

Why do you think it's imminent

Extraterrestrial life is not statistically assured, because we don't know how often it occurs.

That only works if leaders don't manipulate things for petty political gain, covid really shattered that illusion

You can never have enough monopoly. The infinite is 75% finite, just to begin with!

What? And there’ll be no social status in “coming out” as an internet comment debutante?

Is that why we evolved to feel pain? So that it will hurt when a “Jesus” touches us?

Space is pretty big though. I'd unfortunately say it's pretty likely our great great grandchildren won't see this.

There's no way humanity is using up all available resources in space, our species will be long extinct before we scratch 0.00000000000000000001% of the surface resources out there.

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I agree, it will prob take 200-300 years

1 x 10 to the minus 20th (100 quintillionth) power? Aren’t you the optimist? Or pessimist?

Sounds great! But I just feel too sorry for myself to carry on with it.

Either way, there is no lack of resources out there.

But what if the school yard bully doesn’t want to share? Oh! That’s why you have a space force?

A very human concept.

I don't have a space force. Do you have one?

Same here, for my family too. I’m tired of the pointless 9-5 every week every year, it’s pointiest. I think DMT might be worth trying. People that take it once say they understand the universe, not so sure about that but what if it’s true

Always the old standby: It’s all a joke - just step back, be amused (bemused) and continue respiring

My country is working on one, but needs to resolve some economic issues by going off of the coconut standard and basing economy on gold reserves, IMF indebtature or something else.