"Anyone who's studied the problem would answer without hesitation that we are not alone."
"We're made of the most common ingredients in the universe. So life, if anything, was opportunistic, working with the materials that it was given in the early Earth. So, anyone who's studied the problem is ready for the universe to be teeming with life."
"Of course, we're ready, because movies have been prepping us ever since War of the Worlds. We've already been told the government has them in the back shed; they just haven't brought them out yet. So, society didn't collapse in the face of that knowledge, the scientist declared."
"Science and math would be universal languages. They would need to know science and math to get here. They don't know English, they don't know Latin, they don't know any of our languages, they don't know our culture, but they'll know science. It'll be a first step towards endearing them to us, and that we're not just worms crawling beneath their feet."
The universe is expected to contain extraterrestrial life. Neil deGrasse Tyson said anyone who studies the problem would conclude that humans are not alone. He linked the possibility of life to the common ingredients found throughout the universe and to life forming opportunistically from materials available on early Earth. He expressed skepticism that US intelligence would reveal a living alien or a corpse, while believing society is prepared for confirmation of life on other planets. He suggested that first contact would require demonstrating intelligence using universal knowledge. He emphasized science and math as shared languages, including the Pythagorean theorem and the periodic table, since visitors would not know human languages or culture.
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