Tim Coulson

And so a planet needs to remain suitable for life and enabling life to thrive for long enough for it to become complicated. And we don't know how many planets fall into that category. We just haven't studied enough other planets yet. So in terms of why we're here, do we have a purpose? Well, biologically, the purpose is to replicate, so to produce offspring. But that's a very boring purpose.

And so a planet needs to remain suitable for life and enabling life to thrive for long enough for it to become complicated. And we don't know how many planets fall into that category. We just haven't studied enough other planets yet. So in terms of why we're here, do we have a purpose? Well, biologically, the purpose is to replicate, so to produce offspring. But that's a very boring purpose.

And so a planet needs to remain suitable for life and enabling life to thrive for long enough for it to become complicated. And we don't know how many planets fall into that category. We just haven't studied enough other planets yet. So in terms of why we're here, do we have a purpose? Well, biologically, the purpose is to replicate, so to produce offspring. But that's a very boring purpose.

I don't believe we've been put here. We haven't found any evidence that we've been put here with a specific mission in mind. But I think we can give ourselves a mission. And one of the things that I, so I nearly died when I was a teenager. I got malaria. And shortly after that, I decided I wanted to try and understand what science could tell us about about why we exist.

I don't believe we've been put here. We haven't found any evidence that we've been put here with a specific mission in mind. But I think we can give ourselves a mission. And one of the things that I, so I nearly died when I was a teenager. I got malaria. And shortly after that, I decided I wanted to try and understand what science could tell us about about why we exist.

I don't believe we've been put here. We haven't found any evidence that we've been put here with a specific mission in mind. But I think we can give ourselves a mission. And one of the things that I, so I nearly died when I was a teenager. I got malaria. And shortly after that, I decided I wanted to try and understand what science could tell us about about why we exist.

So started diving into that. So I gave my life purpose to try and understand what it was about why we existed. And I've loved every minute of it. I think it's been absolutely fantastic. And so I think we can give ourselves. So I think we're here by, by luck. I think a lot of things have happened. We have won the cosmic lottery.

So started diving into that. So I gave my life purpose to try and understand what it was about why we existed. And I've loved every minute of it. I think it's been absolutely fantastic. And so I think we can give ourselves. So I think we're here by, by luck. I think a lot of things have happened. We have won the cosmic lottery.

So started diving into that. So I gave my life purpose to try and understand what it was about why we existed. And I've loved every minute of it. I think it's been absolutely fantastic. And so I think we can give ourselves. So I think we're here by, by luck. I think a lot of things have happened. We have won the cosmic lottery.

I don't think we're here for a higher purpose, but we can give ourselves a purpose and we can make our lives meaningful. And I think nearly all of us do that.

I don't think we're here for a higher purpose, but we can give ourselves a purpose and we can make our lives meaningful. And I think nearly all of us do that.

I don't think we're here for a higher purpose, but we can give ourselves a purpose and we can make our lives meaningful. And I think nearly all of us do that.

a good question and it boils down again to the size of the universe and the universe has a maximum speed limit and that's the speed of light and even in terms of light years so that's a distance that light travels in a single year the universe is absolutely vast it's um you know it it takes uh the sun is is our closest star obviously it takes eight minutes and 20 seconds

a good question and it boils down again to the size of the universe and the universe has a maximum speed limit and that's the speed of light and even in terms of light years so that's a distance that light travels in a single year the universe is absolutely vast it's um you know it it takes uh the sun is is our closest star obviously it takes eight minutes and 20 seconds

a good question and it boils down again to the size of the universe and the universe has a maximum speed limit and that's the speed of light and even in terms of light years so that's a distance that light travels in a single year the universe is absolutely vast it's um you know it it takes uh the sun is is our closest star obviously it takes eight minutes and 20 seconds

for light from the Sun to reach Earth. But if you're looking out to our nearest star system, even if you're travelling at the speed of light, it's going to take you about four and a half years to get there. Now, anything that weighs anything, so anything with mass, can't get anywhere near the speed of light. So, you know, it can only get to a fraction of the speed of light.

for light from the Sun to reach Earth. But if you're looking out to our nearest star system, even if you're travelling at the speed of light, it's going to take you about four and a half years to get there. Now, anything that weighs anything, so anything with mass, can't get anywhere near the speed of light. So, you know, it can only get to a fraction of the speed of light.

for light from the Sun to reach Earth. But if you're looking out to our nearest star system, even if you're travelling at the speed of light, it's going to take you about four and a half years to get there. Now, anything that weighs anything, so anything with mass, can't get anywhere near the speed of light. So, you know, it can only get to a fraction of the speed of light.

even if an intelligent uh species on another planet had heard us and set off it's going to take them you know decades if not hundreds or thousands of years to get here so it takes like 26 000 years to get to the center of our galaxy and that's moving at the the universe's speed limit so unless we can come up with ways of traveling around the universe perhaps you know through

even if an intelligent uh species on another planet had heard us and set off it's going to take them you know decades if not hundreds or thousands of years to get here so it takes like 26 000 years to get to the center of our galaxy and that's moving at the the universe's speed limit so unless we can come up with ways of traveling around the universe perhaps you know through