John Michael Godier's Event Horizon

What is Project Hail Mary? How does it relate to the Fermi Paradox and Drakes equation. Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manne...

Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire of Applied Physics join John Michael Godier to discuss their new paper, Introducing Physical Warp Drives. Can a Warp Drive Go Faster Than Light? What is a warp drive? Alexey Bobrick is a theoretical astrophysicist at Lund University, where he works on questions related mergers of stars, the supernova explosions they produce and their populations in the Galaxy and...

If UFO and UAP are of Alien origin, what do we do about it? Do we try to communicate? Or passively observe? Avi Loeb details the Galileo Projects plans. Avi Loeb linkshttps://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/homehttps://avi-loeb.medium.com/

Nick Bostromhttps://nickbostrom.com/Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is the most-cited professional philosopher in the world under the age of 50.He is a Professor at Oxford University, where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director....

Is Anyone Else Out There? with Dan Werthimer

Unexpected James Webb Discoveries including Multiple Oldest Galaxy Candidates and galaxies that do not fit predicted models and may contradict when our universe began. Scientists with the CEERS Collaboration have identified an object—dubbed Maisie’s galaxy in honor of project head Steven Finkelstein’s daughter—that may be one of the earliest galaxies ever observed. If its estimated redshift of 14...

An exploration of the recent announcement of the first potential detection of a dark matter particle. My Patreon Page:https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodierMy Event Horizon Channel:https://www.youtube.com/eventhorizonshow Papers:"Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment", Akerib et al. 2026https://arxi...

The Interstellar Comet Borisov C/2019 Q4 Featuring Leah Crane

Why we need AI to compete against each other. Does a Great Filter Stop all Alien Civilizations at some point? Are we Doomed if We Find Life in Our Solar System? David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. A 1998 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on...

Do We Have Hard Evidence for Alien Life? The Enigma of Allan Hills 84001

The curiosity rover detects methane on mars. Is methane on mars a sign of life? Mars is giving off a large amount of methane gas. Recently detected by the mars curiosity rover. This news gives new thoughts to old ideas about life on mars. Dr. John McGowan wrote a paper while at NASA ames research center, discussing methane and mars oil. John Michael Godier spoke to Dr. McGowan about that paper and...

A breakthrough in RNA research has been found, life may be far easier to get started than we previously thought possible.https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2022.0027Steven Benner heads the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, which he founded after serving on faculty at Harvard, ETH Zurich, and University of Florida. His research combines two traditions in science, one from nat...

Better than Earth: Superhabitable Exoplanets with Prof. Abel Mendez

Can SpaceX Get Starship to Mars? Featuring Fraser Cain

Blake Lemoine a computer scientist and machine learning bias researcher for Google released an interview with Google's LaMDA a conversation technology and AI. Blake proposes, based on his time testing LaMDA, that it is a super intelligence and sentient. Blake details just what made him come to this conclusion and why he believes we have passed the singularity, last year. Blake's links:http...

The Worst Nuclear accidents explained. Kyle Hill joins John Michael Godier to explain the worst nuclear accidents and why nuclear energy is far safer than you think. Watch Kyle Hill's videos here: https://www.youtube.com/c/KyleHillScienceBecome a member! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow

Why the Flores Hobbit May Still Be Alive...In 2003 on the island of Flores in Indonesia something was discovered that was both surprising and mysterious. A previously undiscovered hominoid related closely to modern humans. Termed at the time a hobbit, this species lived on Flores Island until modern humans arrived sometime around 50,000 years ago. The problem with the find is that skeletons of Hom...

Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics and most recently, in 2022 the Templeton prize. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. His current research focus includes Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. These are con...

The recent Congress UAP report has lead to them calling witnesses from the Pentagon for the first Congress UFO panel in 50 years. Congress is having a hearing on UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (Open and Closed) hearings on Tuesday, May 17th. For the first time since 1970 and the closure of Project Bluebook, the US air force’s probe into the UFO/UAP phenomenon, the US congress has taken on a ne...

Are these Lurkers? Researcher Beatriz Villarroel found bright, shiny, possibly flat or complex shaped objects that were in geo-synchronous orbit with Earth in the early 50's. Well before Sputnik or any other attempted satellites. Also, three of the objects travel in a straight line. We live in a world where we are constantly observing ourselves from orbit. We don’t even think twice about the s...

NASA New Horizon's Photos of Ultima Thule Featuring Emily Lakdawalla

JMG - Is The Universe Real? Or Is It a Computer Simulation?

A new interview with Dr. Abraham "Avi" Loeb from Harvard and update on the subject of Oumuamua. We detailed point for point his findings that Oumuamua is an extremely strange object, regardless of its origins, and that it may be consistent with a light sail of some type. This is part one of a two part interview with Dr. Loeb. Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious I...

John Michael Godier is joined by Dr. Avi Loeb a theoretical physicist and serves as the Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, where they discuss how dangerous events like solar flares, such as the 1859 Carrington Event, and asteroid impacts can be on Earth's infrastructure. Website:https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/You can now support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizo...

An update on the KIC 8462852 story as of August 7, 2016 as part of my continuing coverage of the story. Links:For backstory, see my earlier update:    • KIC 8462852 Alien Megastructure Star Updat...   My video on advanced nanotechnology:    • The Promise of Molecular Nanotechnology   Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license ( https://creativecommons...