{"id":915,"date":"2022-12-18T22:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2022-12-18T22:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:49:13","slug":"prof-david-kipping-on-why-we-might-be-alone-in-the-universe-nov-18-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/18\/prof-david-kipping-on-why-we-might-be-alone-in-the-universe-nov-18-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof David Kipping on \u201cWhy we might be alone in the Universe\u201d Nov 18, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Why we might be alone&quot; Public Lecture by Prof David Kipping\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zcInt58juL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Press Red Arrow above to play<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an excellent lecture on the question of life in the Universe and why we should be hesitant to make pontifical statements in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We just do not know enough in many areas to even present an hypothesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the odds of you being here to read this statement? Think of all the fantastic coincidences that must have taken place for you to be here to read this. Just the fact that your Mother and Father had to meet to produce you may have been highly improbable. Go back in time with all the pairings which had to have taken place, and eventually you arrive at some primitive RNA molecule attempting to survive and replicate 4 Billion years ago. Think of all the steps necessary to arrive today at you reading this line.            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excellent lecture on the question of life in the Universe and why we should be hesitant to make pontifical statements in this regard. We just do not know enough in many areas to even present an hypothesis. What are the odds of you being here to read this statement? Think of all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/18\/prof-david-kipping-on-why-we-might-be-alone-in-the-universe-nov-18-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prof David Kipping on \u201cWhy we might be alone in the Universe\u201d Nov 18, 2022&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}