Latest / Armstrong & Getty One More Thing / Interstate Highways...in Hawaii?

Transcript

Interstate Highways...in Hawaii? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Mine would be, how are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. Armstrong and Getty. One more thing.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: That was intentionally stupid. We started talking about this on
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty radio show, which is available via podcast,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: but you know that. It was a list of 100
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: answers to the question. What is the greatest unsolved problem
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: in your field? They asked this of scientists. The New
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: York Times did.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: And I said, in our field of radio, how is
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: blank still on the air is the most unsolved question
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: in our field. And I can't fill in the blank. Meow.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: And just in case you didn't get that segment, this
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: will just take seconds. I'll plow through the ones we
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: already did, although we won't stop to consider them. Did
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: time have a beginning when our universe was very small?
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: What preceded the Big Bang? How many dimensions does it
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: take to describe the formation and evolution of our universe?
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: That one I don't even understand. I suppose I should
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: pause for at least a second so people hearing this
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: can kind of.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: V, what was before the Big Bang? I've thought about
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: many times, and then I get a cramp in my head.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Right, and as you pointed out on the show, if
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: the universe is expanding, what's beyond the edge of that expansion? Farmland?
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know. When and where did the cognitive capacities
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: that made language, mathematics, and complex societies possible first emerge?
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Why and how did the human brain expand so quickly
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: during the Ice Age? You know what? Go back and
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: listen to the segment. I'm tired of this. Let's move
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: on to the new ones. Let's see. Okay, we did
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: that one. We did that one.
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: Although that stuff is really, I think it's really interesting
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: that we actually don't, we don't know why life started.
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: We don't know what consciousness, we don't really have a
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: good definition for all that sort of stuff or why
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: we have it. There's lots of things that it's amazing
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: that it's still unknown.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: And look, if you're a religious person, because inevitably we
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: get emails about the creation, blah, blah, blah. All right, look, look,
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: use your imagination. By what mechanism did God create life
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: on earth?
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Just look at it that way.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: So they asked a bunch of scientists. Here's a marine
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: ecologist at the Scripps Institution at the University of California,
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: San Diego. How many undiscovered animal species live in the
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: deep sea, and do they matter?
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: Right. My son would be into that one.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: Here's a marine biologist who wants to know, why do
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: so many marine organisms glow, including some that live in burrows?
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know. They get scared in the dark. I
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: don't know. How did some animals evolve to be strictly nocturnal?
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: One entomologist wants to know. This is a good, simple one. Biochemist,
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvania. Why do we sleep?
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't know why we sleep. They know benefits
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: we get from sleeping.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: Because I'm frigging tired. What kind of question is that?
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: Here's a neuroscientist, Boston University. Which other animals dream and
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: how similar are their dreams to ours?
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: You think cats have a dream that they're late for work?
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the final exam, and they've never
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: been to their class. Yeah, I don't know.
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: I have that one.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: Like once a week.
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: Biggest, juiciest, tastiest mouse ever, and it's like I'm running
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: in quicksand trying.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: To catch it. Oh, I want to eat it so bad.
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: This is interesting.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: A vertebrate geneticist wants to know, why do animals that
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: fly live longer? I didn't know they did. Mm-hmm. There's
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: a physician scientist at Scripps. Can the human aging process
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: be safely reversed? I mean, that's kind of a universal one, right?
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: Some of these... I feel like if you figured it
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: out today, it would have no effect on anything. Maybe
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: I'm unimaginative. Like, I think it'd be pretty damn interesting.
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: What was before the Big Bang? I feel like that's
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: a mind bender that would be. But if it turns out, hey,
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: birds live longer because, I don't know, they're corpuscles or something.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that has much effect on me.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: Well, you lack curiosity, apparently. Yeah, I mean, like this
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: one from the Swiss scientist. Can we make the wildlife
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: trade sustainable? What? Maybe, probably.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: That's not the same sort of question.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Princeton guy wants to know, will climate change increase or
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: reduce the ocean's biological productivity? And if it increases it,
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: is that good? Let's see. That's not that interesting. You're
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: very dull, sir. Again, dull.
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: I think this is not a question. I guess I
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: answered this question a while back. I was fascinated when
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: they I think this is a new one in the
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: last couple of years that eyes developed independently. They used
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: to think it was just like a one, one stream
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: of eyeballs, the ability to see, but they now there's
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: something like 27 independent examples of eyes emerging in life.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: Which is stunning to think about.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: The idea of, Hey, I've got an idea. How about,
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Some roughly spherical things that could enable
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: you to take in your environment visually. What do you
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: mean by visually? No, no, no. I'm thinking like, you
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: know how we feel our way around and smell? What
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: if we could see all of it? What do you
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: mean by see? The dawn of visual technology. you know, comprehension,
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: but so you had, it's hard to even get well contemplated.
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: So you had some eyeless little tadpoles and you get
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: a mutation where one, for some reason senses light in
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: a way that others don't. And that helps it find
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: the food or air or something. So it's some hot,
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: hot tadpoles to get with procreates better. And then the
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: more light you can take it or something like that,
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: But yeah. Let's see. Why did the first members of
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: our lineage start walking on two legs? A paleoanthropologist wants
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: to know.
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: They don't know that.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Likewise, did Neanderthals, that's my people, and early Homo
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: sapiens share their lives and cultures as well as their genes?
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: They don't know that. They don't know if it was
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: like willingly interbreeding or one basically dominating another tribe and
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: raping its women. Right.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: Here's an anthropologist from the University of Kansas where you
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: were at least briefly a student. What was life like
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: for the Denisovans? Same day, different, you know, different, same, different,
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: different day, same.
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: Who were the Denisovans?
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: Another one of your ancient man type beings, I guess.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: I remember reading about them, but I don't remember a
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: damn thing about them. Why did modern humans and not
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: other homonyms, become so numerous and develop such complex culture
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: and technology. So obviously we're in anthropology here and moving
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: on to neuroscience. Most animals, including humans, find social encounters
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: more attractive than other activities. How does the social brain work?
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, getting to the anthropology stuff, I didn't know this,
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: I think, until I read Homo Sapiens, which is a
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: really great book if you like this sort of stuff.
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: They're The reason you're confused on a lot of these
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: things is there's lots of different theories, and they aren't
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: settled upon. So you hear one, read one, see it
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: in a documentary, somebody tells you or whatever, and you think,
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: or I always thought, okay, that's what they've learned. No,
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: there's all kinds of different. They aren't sure on lots
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: and lots of this stuff.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: Right, right. Okay, here's one we've all thought about, followed
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: by one nobody has thought about. How do ants work
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: together to produce the collective behavior of colonies? It's a
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: Stanford biologist. Deborah Gordon wants to know that. I think
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: we've all wondered that. How do they all know what
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: their job is and what to do and where to go?
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: They're going really fast. They really know it. You don't
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: see one looking around like, I wonder what I'm supposed
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: to do. I guess I'll go grab a piece of sand.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: Again, that one's universal. Then you've got Daniel Lieberman, who's
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University. Here's the question he's
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: desperate to answer. Why are humans the only species with
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: a chins? Seriously, dude?
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: What?
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting question.
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't know we were the only species with a chin,
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: but as I'm thinking about it, I can't come up
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: with anything.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: Do horses? No, not really.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: Monkeys do not have chins.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: No. Well, he's a damn Harvard evolutionary biologist. I'm sure
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: the premise of his question is sound.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: I would assume so. Like, we're going to discover. Hey,
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: wait a second.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to spend the rest of my
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: life looking at beasts. Look, there's a squirrel. Chinless. Hey,
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: a fish. I ordered fish for dinner. No chin on
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: that thing.
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: My son's super into evolution and all this different sort
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: of stuff, a lot of these questions. And as he
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: has pointed out to me, there doesn't have to be
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: a reason for everything because some of them are just,
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: you know, aberration and it just stuck.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: For whatever reason. It's a happy accident.
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the happy accident. Most of it is for a reason,
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't have to be. So it's possible that
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: the chin came along with something else that was beneficial, or,
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: you know, the guy with the chin, yeah, I'm going
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: to have sex with that guy. Look at him with
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: his thing at the bottom of his head. I don't
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: really like the looks of that.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Wow, he's got like a mouth and stuff below it.
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: Let's get it on. I'm going to have babies.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: With that dude. Yeah. um so here's another great one
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: uh and i've i've wondered about this uh myself when
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: in our evolutionary history did the human pattern of slow
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: childhood development emerge because there are some beasts that are
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: ready to leave the nest i mean quickly yeah we
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: are humans.
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: Elephants we are really an outlier on that.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: Right right our babies are completely helpless um let's see
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: uh obvious one which you brought up indirectly How did
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: the building blocks of life like proteins and nucleic acid
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: first organize into a living cell? We're into kind of
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: theoretical physics and stuff here, which just gives me a headache.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, like this one. Do organisms use quantum effects
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: such as entanglement and superposition?
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: I was wondering that.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: Mostly just weasels. They do.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: Chinless, chinless weasels.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Here's a virologist at the University of Sydney. He
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: wants to know, how did viruses originate? Well, dude, if
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: you don't know, nobody does. So keep digging.
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: It's funny on some of this stuff, like the question
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: that we didn't understand. I had a girlfriend for a while.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: She was a PhD, and nobody could understand what she studied. Like,
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: I never heard her explain it to a single person
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: ever who had any idea, including her own family, when
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: she got awarded her Ph.D. Like her mom or brother, friend, me. No,
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: but nobody had any idea. She tried to explain it.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: It was just like, all right, good luck with that.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: But there's so many things out there that, you know,
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: are not only a mystery to all of us. We
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: don't even know what you're talking about.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. Here's a geophysicist at the University of Southern California, rather,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: USC as it's known. Can we identify any visible sign
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: that a major earthquake is coming?
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: That's a big one. I don't think we can, but
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: what do I know?
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: I like this one. Venus and Earth are of similar
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: size and are similarly close to the sun. Why are
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: they so different? That's a great one.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that really gets to the.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: Life.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: Why here and nowhere else?
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Here's another biggie. How many stars host planets like the Earth?
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: Why has evolution given human females a relatively narrow Goldilocks
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: zone for successful reproduction? In spite of what they're telling
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: you in magazines, you're way, way, way better off, you
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: and the kid, you know, between the ages of Frankly,
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: 15 and 35. Not that it's impossible to go beyond that.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Judy and I did. But anyway.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: Particularly on the younger end, and for all kinds of
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: reasons that I'm for. Yeah, biologically, much healthier and more
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: likely to be able to pull it off well at
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: 16 than you are 36.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Here's Helen Scales, a marine biologist. Her big question is,
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: blue whales are the biggest animals ever to exist on Earth.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: Where are their babies born? We don't know. What? No,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: we don't know.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: In the ocean, I would assume. Las Vegas.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yes, in the ocean. Where in the ocean,
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: damn it? Where, you simpleton?
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: We don't know that.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: No, no. They've never observed it, I think. That's right.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Blue whales.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Did you say blue whales are the biggest thing that
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: ever lived? That's not true.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes. Ever lived? You're supposed to learn that when
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: you're seven years old. It's right there in your dinosaur books.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: It's bigger than the dinosaurs?
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, please. Dinosaurs are pansies compared to the blue whale.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Tiny little dinosaurs. Please, get out of my way, bellows
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: the mighty blue whale. Oh, yeah?
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: Where'd your baby come from? Baby hiding idiot.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: Nobody knows, and neither will you, stupid. Now go get extinct, huh?
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: Most cancers are not genetic, so why do they occur?
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: I've talked about that many times, because when I got cancer,
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: it just happened to coincide with an article in the
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal at the time that said the number
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: one cause of cancer is bad luck.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Right. Here's another cancer doctor. Why does the immune system
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: in some people and not others control cancers and viruses?
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, cancer just comes out of nowhere. Different kinds.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Here's a cell biologist at UC Davis. Who knows? He
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: might be listening to the show. when will we learn
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: how to use stem cells to grow new healthy organs
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: that can replace old or diseased ones soon?
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: I hope that would be wild.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. There are just a few more. I want
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: to squeeze in, um, uh, growing, uh, virtual tissue so
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: we can try things on it. Um, decoding the genetic
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: code to figure out who's really headed for what diseases. Um,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Which will be wild if we ever unlock that. It
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: would be really, really wild to be able to find
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: out at age 10, oh yeah, you're clearly like you're
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: a tier one going to get heart disease.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Probably ought to get tested every year. Yeah, that sort
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: of thing. Here's one that's ripped from today's headline. Edward Wasserman,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: who I'm pretty sure I've heard quoted from Iowa. Will
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: we ever understand consciousness in a way that could apply
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: to non-living entities?
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Well, I would imagine we're going to get closer to
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: it with this whole AI thing.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, here's one close to my own heart from North
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Carolina State. When did hominids first begin to ferment foods,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: and what role did that invention play in human evolution?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it, was it driven primarily by people's need to, uh,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: you know, take the edge off of a long day.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Was that, was that what drove the whole thing once
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: they discovered it?
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Right. Right. All right. We're down to the final few.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: I'm picking my faves.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Uh, attractive cave people look more attractive so you can
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: get together and have cave babies.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: You know, some nights it's closing time down at the
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: rock or the, stream or wherever. I don't know. Uh, blah, blah, blah.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: How will the universe end? I'm not going to be
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: around for it. So, um, uh, here's an astrophysicist at Stanford.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Why is there any matter at all in the universe?
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Wow. Are we alone in the universe? A classic. Yeah.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: And the final one, an astrophysicist from Yale, Can we
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: ever know everything about the universe, or must some of
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: its mysteries always remain beyond our reach?
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I would assume the mysteries will remain.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: The second one, dude.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Having spent my whole life as a yes, of course,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: there's other life in the universe. I'm a no now.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I think we're the only life in the universe.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: So you're a flip-flopper. Yeah. You're a no. Why?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: I listened to a very long podcast about it, and
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I was just convinced. Part of it is the... Furman
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: question is that the right then where are they that
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: whole thing how could there possibly if life exists anywhere
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: exists everywhere that's a pretty agreed upon thing there's no
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: way it's like there's one other place it either is
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: replicable lots and lots of places right like gazillions of
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: places or not at all and if it's replicable gazillions
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: of places then how have we not heard a peep
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: from anything ever since it's been around for billions of
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: years and would have had time to come up with
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: any technology to put out signals or spaceships or whatever.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Well, this, like most things, is beyond my expertise. But
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: the time problem answers part of your question. I mean,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: the human capacity to send out such signals and hear them,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: if it's even a similar technology, has existed in a
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: tenth of a blink of an eye over the last
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: billion years.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: For us, but it should have existed. I mean, if
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: life exists other places, it's existed probably, could certainly, why
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: wouldn't it have existed for billions of years, many billions
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: of years, other places.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: But how would we know?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: We would hear some signal. We'd get something from somewhere,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: get a deet, deet, deet on one of our big
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: telescopes from something.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And again, I haven't really contemplated this for
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: a long time, but had a college class in it
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that was ridiculously easy, but it was thought-provoking. That if,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: you know, over the course of a hundred billion years,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you know, the limitations of technology and development, and so
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: there were like 50,000, well, see, there'd be 50 million, though,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: wouldn't there?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there'd be just be endless noise out there, you
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: would think. If life existed.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe we're the only ones who've developed like radio waves
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and such because we're so cool.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Earthlings kick ass. Just like the mighty blue whale.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: With our chins and whatnot.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: That's right. Come and look at me. What do you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: think of this, apes, huh? You got the strength of
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: ten men. I got a chin, dumbass.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: That's the one that's going to stick with me out
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: of this whole thing that I'll remember the rest of
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: my life.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And I will bore generations of people with that information.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to hit my son with that today
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: when I pick him up from school. Yeah. Why?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Blowing my mind yet in a stupid way.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. In an unimportant way.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: The fox? The cow? No? I'm going to go to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: every zoo in the country until I find an animal
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: with a chin.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna, according to that scientist.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Natural History Museum. I'm walking through there all the life.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I'm gathered around the no chin, no chin, another lack
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: of chin, still not a chin.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Chinless loser.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.