What are the planets outside our solar system like? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jessie Christiansen has helped find thousands of them (and counting), and the variety is more wonderful and wild than you might imagine. She shares details on the trends emerging from the data — including the intriguing possibility of “super-Earths” — and what the discovery of exoplanets means for existential questions like: Where do we come from, and how did we get here?
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AlJabbar [ WestJava ] جــاوة الغــربـيـــة
January 12, 2023 at 1:38 pm
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres with UN Messenger of Peace Yo-Yo Ma at a workshop in Vienna, Austria, bringing together refugee musicians, singers and percussionists to foster understanding and enrich society.
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_“The diverse group is sending a strong message of openness, respect and inclusion through the universal language of music.”_
— António Guterres 🇺🇳
Secretary-General of the United Nations
(May 28, 2019)
AlJabbar [ WestJava ] جــاوة الغــربـيـــة
January 12, 2023 at 1:39 pm
*☭*
إن الكلمات لوحدها لا تستطيع سد احتياجات شعوبنا، ولن نسد هذه الاحتياجات إلا إذا عملنا بشجاعة على مدى السنين القادمة وإذا أدركنا حقيقة أن التحديات التي نواجهها تحديات مشتركة، وإذا أخفقنا في التصدي لها سيلحق ذلك الأذى بنا جميعا.
لقد تعلمنا من تجاربنا الأخيرة ما يحدث من إلحاق الضرر بالرفاهية في كل مكان:
– إذا ضعف النظام المالي في بلد واحد، وإذا أصيب شخص واحد بالإنفلونزا فسيعرض ذلك الجميع للخطر.
– وإذا سعى بلد واحد وراء امتلاك السلاح النووي فسيزداد خطر وقوع هجوم نووي بالنسبة لكل الدول.
– وعندما يمارس المتطرفون العنف في منطقة جبلية واحدة سيعرض ذلك الناس من وراء البحار للخطر.
– وعندما يتم ذبح الأبرياء في دارفور والبوسنة سيسبب ذلك وصمة في ضميرنا المشترك..
Scott's Photography Banzai
January 12, 2023 at 1:44 pm
Super interesting talk on exo-planets! It’s definitely an important topic. It’s cool to think she could be the “photographer” for the first real picture of an earth-like exo planet. 📷
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:51 pm
_Yes—نعم_ 😊
Leslie DeSouza
January 12, 2023 at 1:47 pm
You say we don’t know where we came from and how we got here. Yet it seems you’re trying to find what is not yet there, so you can tell us where it came from, (how it got there).
That sounds to me like you’re looking for a consistent design without acknowledging there is a designer?
I find it amazing that we can pursue theory as fact while we treat facts as theory.
Purpose is evidence of a plan that requires responsibility and that, in turn, requires ACCOUNTABILITY, which we seem to be ultimately in denial of.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to “find” a perpetrator unless we acknowledge a crime has been committed.
Hope you have the interest to “find” what I’m saying worth pursuing.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:48 pm
“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”
*— Mark Twain*
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:48 pm
“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.”
*— Albert Camus*
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:48 pm
“Never tell the truth to those who are not worthy of it.”
*— Mark Twain*
Umer Qaiser
January 12, 2023 at 2:13 pm
Good. But, how to decide who is worthy and who isn’t?
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:48 pm
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
*— Virginia Woolf*
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:49 pm
“Nobody is going to pour the truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself.”
*— Noam Chomsky*
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:51 pm
_❞ إن أدوات التواصل الاجتماعي ، صارت تمنح حق الكلام لفيالق من الاغبياء الحمقى ممن كانوا يتكلمون في الحانات فقط بعد تناول كأس من النبيذ، وكان يتم اسكاتهم فوراً.. أما الآن فلهم الحق بالكلام مثلهم مثل من يحمل جائزة نوبل.. إنه غزو البلهاء..!❝_
—🌺 أومبرتو إيكو 🇯🇵
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:54 pm
“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”
*— Mahatma Gandhi*
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:54 pm
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
*— Mahatma Gandhi*
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
January 12, 2023 at 1:55 pm
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall… think of it, always.”
*— Mahatma Gandhi*
Julipooh
January 12, 2023 at 2:17 pm
Why are you writing that kind of comments?
POLICE STATE
January 12, 2023 at 2:52 pm
we have more to see of earth exploration, in words Jessie used; so much more. Ask an oceanographer, or surgeon, or Vet, or historian. Don’t discourage exploration saying Earth is done for your generation. Great job otherwise good on you.
Didi K.
January 12, 2023 at 3:08 pm
She looks like she’s having fun ☺️..
Ligia Sommers
January 12, 2023 at 3:39 pm
🙏🏻🪐✨🙏🏻
Asım Ünlü
January 12, 2023 at 3:45 pm
I hope you will get to take that photo ☺️
THM - The Healthy Man
January 12, 2023 at 4:11 pm
Successful people don’t become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life..
Unbound
January 12, 2023 at 4:29 pm
I feel like I have been lied to by the title and we learned NOTHING, but the fact this was a waste of time.
BigRalphSmith
January 12, 2023 at 5:06 pm
And here I thought that the title exactly captured the essence of what I watched and I found it interesting on top of that.
Isn’t it strange how we could watch exactly the same thing and come away with such divergent opinions?
Expectations are everything. When expectations are unrealistic, we get one viewpoint. When they are realistic, we get another.
Amazing.
Brian McInnis
January 12, 2023 at 5:29 pm
Planets. They’re called planets. We don’t call people from other families exopeople or other people’s houses exohouses. If the planets in question are extra-Solar, you’re welcome to specify that.
Andriy Palamarchuk
January 12, 2023 at 5:32 pm
Why people post all these junk unrelated quotes under this beautiful video?
Cedie Garcia
January 12, 2023 at 7:18 pm
Bro I’m thinking the same, what is even the goal of these bots
Andriy Palamarchuk
January 12, 2023 at 7:42 pm
@Cedie Garcia , thank you for the comment. I hope we can push this thread to the top. Perhaps the point is to build up some kind of history for bot accounts? I don’t know.
Andriy Palamarchuk
January 14, 2023 at 3:57 am
We can also downvote all those junk comments.
आदित्यAditya मेहेंदळेMehendale #BringBackDislikes
January 12, 2023 at 7:13 pm
Holy crap – spam-bots. Sooo many bots. YT – please use Google’s famed “algorithm” and so sth about this..
Andriy Palamarchuk
January 14, 2023 at 4:02 am
We can do something as well. I just went through the comments and dowvoted the bad comments and upvoted good ones (like yours 🙂).
Krištof Nemček
January 12, 2023 at 9:40 pm
Very interesting Ted Talk, one of the best ones so far imo
Gleyson Santos
January 12, 2023 at 9:54 pm
She is so passionate about his job
It is inspiring
John Meyer
January 13, 2023 at 12:59 am
Why is there so much spam?
Andriy Palamarchuk
January 14, 2023 at 4:01 am
Not sure. Asked myself. Lets upvote the good comments and downvote this junk.
Simon Gross
January 14, 2023 at 6:31 am
It’s almost like the comments from some other video got posted here by mistake
Andriy Palamarchuk
January 14, 2023 at 11:31 pm
@Simon Gross, I don’t think so. As you see all those junk comments contain quotes by famous people, not actually any meaningful feedback. Lets upvote and comment good comments, and downvote bad comments.
Simon Gross
January 14, 2023 at 11:44 pm
@Andriy Palamarchuk Can we do better than the upvote bots that are liking the spam posts?
Michael Trower
January 13, 2023 at 1:33 am
waaay too short for a TED Talk.
Rick Cullarn
January 13, 2023 at 7:36 am
Good on yer Lady!
Andy Cordy
January 13, 2023 at 7:41 am
Inspirational. Thank you.
Malik Chrom
January 14, 2023 at 2:49 am
I think this delusional girl is wasting a lot of money!! Mankind has actually never seen a planet outside of our solar system, they think they have detected some indirectly, but i call BS!
Andy Cordy
January 14, 2023 at 6:41 am
@Malik Chrom That “girl” is a highly educated and experienced scientist. It is statistically impossible, to all intents and purposes, in a galaxy with trillions of star systems, that no other star should have planets. Ok. You are right, we have not yet “seen” one but we have seen where they are and in some cases the gravitational impact they have on their parent star. To “see” deep space requires more than our eyes. Without telescopes, we see hardly anything at all but wish to see more.
I would accept that the argument that scientific endeavour is a waste of money to some people and that to some there is no benefit to knowing that the skies are populated by trillions of planets, some of which will be habitable.
Far more money and effort is wasted in the pursuit of superstition and myth.
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January 13, 2023 at 7:46 am
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January 14, 2023 at 12:22 am
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January 14, 2023 at 12:30 am
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cybersekkin
January 13, 2023 at 8:26 am
suspected exo planets – the process she is using just identifies candidates it is not confirmation. It is great and a necessary step and excited, but vastly over stated here.
KJ
January 13, 2023 at 1:31 pm
It’s incredible. 5000 in our limited view suggests they’re everywhere. It’s absurd that life developed here as it did if there’s no natural law that pushes it to happen.
Ocean McIntyre
January 14, 2023 at 1:45 am
I hope you get to take that photo, too, Jessie. Thank you for doing your incredible job and for not giving up early on before you finally found your first exoplanet.
Floyd Dwayne Viernum
January 15, 2023 at 5:58 am
The Milky Way is simply the label on the jar we are in. Our universe is in some kid’s science experiment. Can you imagine the size of the table she’s going to need to present us? I hope she wins first prize for her human ant farm.
The Exoplanets Channel
January 15, 2023 at 8:02 am
*More than 60 habitable planets found!*
Daffa Akmal Nugraha
January 16, 2023 at 2:30 am
a question pop up in my mind when I finished this video. If it’s really exist a planet that is similar to earth which support life of a creature, wouldn’t it be mean that planet will already has life on it just like the earth have humans, animals, and plants? If the statement of some religion believe we are the only living creature in the world, doesn’t that mean that there will be no planet similar to earth? hahaha
Sam NotLoading
January 16, 2023 at 11:29 am
We have found similar planets already. We do not know if life is out there but it’s an extremely low chance to have such developed life as we have on earth for all i know, so it’s unlikely. So far no earthlike planet is possible to travel to though, they are all to far away.
king Jerry
January 16, 2023 at 8:21 am
With all this crisis happening around the world one needs to have different portfolio,I already invested in forex and crypto which are really profitable.
Epifanio Torres
January 17, 2023 at 2:54 pm
👋👋👋👋I can only say, there is more to come, and I’m happy for it even if I don’t live to see it. My hope is that the anti-science establishment, (to whom science is their greatest threat), doesn’t derail your efforts.