Are We Alone in the Universe? – Hank Green

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46:43 Hank, you will never read this, but these flare-ups might be directly tied to your nervous system. Unfortunately, that makes it incredibly hard to track down because our healthcare system is so compartmentalized (e.g., 'stomach hurts? go to a stomach doctor' rather than looking at the whole system). Sometimes people who have endured massive physical or emotional trauma—like cancer and chemotherapy—can have their nervous system get trapped in a repeating state of 'fight or flight' (sometimes called central sensitization), which amplifies pain and fatigue. This is a very brief version of a complex issue, but my only goal is that if you aren't aware of how trauma loops in the nervous system, looking into it might help you find some relief.

1:06:00: I think the answer lies in the question itself, about what science is. Like, what would constitute explanation rather than description to you? It sounds like what you're referring to is either underlying purpose, which presupposes a worldview that the universe has an underlying meaning or purpose. Or you're describing intentionality, which is a very theist presumption when describing stuff like the laws of physics or other natural sciency things. So the underlying question is perhaps whether, if that's your definition of "explanation", explanation of anything is even possible

Their voices are low-key the same. I only listened to this video and was able to differentiate them by their accents lol

1:29:30 How many guest get a reaction out of Alex like this. Hank is awesome. I wish this was a monthly podcast.

FYI, people, even non-blind people echolocate… we just do it poorly and usually under a conscious threshold. That's why blind people can become quite good at it.

"Can we put words together in such an order such that we have proved that God exists" – Exactly how I feel about most apologetics.

You are never alone with chatgpt on hand

my two favourite youtubers

Some questions carry no value. The "why' questions obfuscate between "why" and "how" without any specificity. This has always been the case at any limit, whether it be a mathematical function, or in reality. An example of this is a question like asking "How do I travel north?" While you're standing at the North pole.

I don't know if someone else more famous than me came up with this theory or not, but here's a fun one for the Fermi paradox. Maybe aliens don't come here or contact us or hide from us because they have no concept of fiction. They've just never evolved it. And so when they do their research on us, and they see movies like Star Wars, stuff from Marvel, Harry Potter, Alien, etc. they think it's all our reality and they just simply get absolutely scared shitless of us and what we're capable of, so they just leave us alone and avoid us as much as alienly possible.

I feel good about my relationship with social media. Don't Facebook, don't Instagram, don't tweet, don't tik tok. YouTube only and in the large part educational content like this 🙂

bro that f*ckin ad for ground news you had somewhere around 56 mins. f*ck off. i was super into that conversation

Vera Harts archetype quiz came up on my feed again. I ignored it the first two times but now it feels personal 😂 Fine, I’ll see what the hype is.

Jesus healed my mental health issue

alikes occonor

6:10 water is too easy. green did a different video on evolution and the idea that we are fish keeping the sea inside of us in a place that wants to bake us dry is relevant here i feel. were always trying to not die so we must advance ourselves. you cant go out into more ocean you have to go up. our precious liquids smdh.

According to physicist, Brian Cox, we are NOT in the middle size-wise. We are 400,000,000 times CLOSER to the size of the observable universes than to the smallest measurable scale, the Planck length.

If people, anywhere in the world, could actually tell the truth about someone they've been manipulated to hate, the world would be better.
Some of you know exactly what that means, which is good! …but too many others are unwilling to adjust their beliefs, mindsets, or even to do the work to know the truth, even if that work is right in front of their faces. The cult will banish them for walking out of line, or for just thinking about it.
Check out the UK. Look at what they've been willing to push under the rug and enable for decades. And look at what happens when the truth comes out. The problem there is it's hard to notice anything when there isn't any acknowledgement or effort to adjust. It's almost like acknowledging and doing the right thing would show some sort of admittance of guilt, so they play pretend.
I'm not going into details for a reason. If you know what I'm talking about, it's very clear. If you have no idea, then you are part of the problem and should at least try to pierce that bubble.