Matt Walsh
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Earth could have received contact 10,000 years ago.
We wouldn't know it, right?
So we've only been searching and listening in this infinite expanse for a very, very short amount of time.
We're still a single lifetime, right?
The entire space age has only lasted for less than a lifetime.
One lifetime.
Okay.
The president of the United States was 10 years old when the first satellite was launched.
My dad is older than the oldest man-made object currently orbiting the Earth, which is a U.S.
satellite that is out of commission and just space junk now.
But the point, like, we just started.
We just started doing this.
That's what's so absurd about these people, and this goes to a larger point.
These people will say, oh, we've been going to space forever.
Why?
We haven't even made it past the moon yet.
It's been like 70 years.
Can you give it a minute here?
It's been 70 years.
That's nothing.