Last winter, the James Webb telescope, the web for short,
a technological marvel went into orbit.
>> Good to have it, very wonderful.
>> And now we have some images from that telescope.
Everyone's talking about it.
Everyone's fascinated by it, everyone's excited by it.
Including my husband who interrupted me in the middle of something I was doing that I
thought was much more important, to show me the images.
So, they're all inspiring.
But, the bungled rollout of the images was fitting for the Biden administration.
So there is an important element to this,- >> Yeah.
>> An interesting element to this.
>> I think it's a very interesting element.
>> Yeah, I know.
Everyone's like, my God, space, it's so interesting.
>> [LAUGH] >> And sure it is, but
it's hard to be interested in what's going on in space, when our country is a mess.
Our planet is about to shake us off, because we've destroyed it for
humans to live on it.
>> Good news, universe is big.
>> No, but I know, we all know, we all know, we all know.
>> I know.
>> We all know that there's all these galaxies,
and there's all this stuff going on outside of the planet.
Yes, it's very likely there's life outside of Earth.
>> Okay. >> I got it, I got it.
>> We're gonna get you the images in a second.
But first, Earth is a planet surrounded by space, big space, okay?
[LAUGH] >> And then the whole thing with, there's
gonna be another eclipse, there hasn't been an eclipse for 25 years or 100 years.
There's an eclipse every year.
Every year there's a story about an eclipse.
>> [LAUGH] >> You know
it,- >> Okay.
>> You know it, you know it.
>> Okay. >> [LAUGH]
>> You guys all love to get excited about
this stuff.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, hold on, hold on.
So listen, we're gonna show you pictures, but I'm split on this.
>> No. >> Half of me totally agrees with
Anna, okay?
>> The other half does not, for reasons that I'm going to explain.
But when you said eclipse, two things two were fun.
One is, I always remember Trump.
There's an eclipse, don't look at it without sunglasses on.
But just don't look at it, right?
You're supposed to look around it, but don't look at the sun, right?
And so Trump comes out into the balcony.
You know he's gonna look at it, you know it?
And he comes in, he's like, [LAUGH] what's right at it?
[LAUGH] Okay, [LAUGH] Anyways, but first, let me agree with Anna.
Yeah, I don't get it man, there's an eclipse every other year.
And people are always like, this is the world, just happens once every year,
sometimes even 75 years.
No dude, it happened in March.
>> I'm positive it happened in March.
>> [LAUGH] >> And they're like, no,
no, that was like a purple eclipse, and this is orange-red-gray eclipse.
>> I know, I know.
>> Little difference that's really not that different to the naked eye.
>> Yeah, and I've seen the eclipses, and I'm like-
>> Great.
>> It's okay, it's- >> It's nice.
>> It's okay, it's slightly interesting.
>> Yeah, look at that.
This guy is covered, and I think back in the day, and
the ancient people probably thought it was God doing something else.
So, whatever. Okay, [INAUDIBLE]
>> Back in the day.
>> But it's not that interesting, okay?
>> But I think there is something interesting.
So, let's keep going.
>> All right, so let's first talk about what went wrong with the rollout, okay?
>> Yeah. >> The Biden drum.
So NASA was always planning to show the first images from the web on January 12th.
So, I'm sorry, July 12th, meaning today.
But the Biden administration desperate for any good news to cover up all the bad
stuff that's been happening in the country under his leadership,
decided that they would actually steal some credit from NASA.
[LAUGH] So they ended up releasing some images a day early.
They showed one of the images early in a webcast.
The webcast then started 70 minutes late.
Biden later said he was planning for a trip to the Middle East, with viewers
subjected to repetitive hold music, and no indication of when the event might start.
Can you imagine sitting around for 70 minutes waiting for
Biden to show up to show you these images?
You guys, let's wrap this thing up.
I's gonna be all right, okay?
>> You see the images seconds later online.
>> I wouldn't wait 70 minutes to eat at a restaurant that I'm dying to eat at.
I'd rather die.
I'm not waiting for that.
The idea to wait 70 minutes for these images, you're waiting for Biden for
70 minutes.
>> I was- >> I get it you guys love space, I get it.
Don't do it though, don't do it.
You have better things to do.
Let me continue.
Do you see how passionately I feel about that?
>> Yeah, I do, I do.
>> I'm not sure if it's in a positive way, but okay, keep going.
>> When the webcast did start, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden gave speeches about
the photo, how important science is, etc, without actually showing the photo.
>> Come on.
>> They didn't even show the photos?
>> But you know what, it's the people who are waiting for it, it's their fault.
>> No, it is their fault.
>> It's their fault.
Quicker aside here.
>> Go home.
>> So, I once got invited to a call with Nancy Pelosi.
And I'm like, it ain't gonna be a call with Nancy Pelosi.
And of course it wasn't.
So what it was, was, it was activists that they had invited, right?
So I got put in the activist bucket, and you weren't allowed to talk.
It was Pelosi and a bunch of unbearable politicians droning on,
and doing these smarmy.
And now, the honorable representative Jim Gabowski, who's just the most amazing.
And then they come and they're like, you see Pelosi?
Yeah, I'm so honored to be on the same car.
It was the most boring thing I have ever, ever heard in my entire life.
They share nothing of interest, or importance.
They just did a a circle jerk of ask-kissing each other, okay?
It was just, that's what these calls are like.
>> Yeah. >> To sit through that, and
then you don't get the pictures and then,- >> Well, okay, so
eventually they did show the image, but not in its entirety.
So here's what they finally did show.
Let's go to this next [INAUDIBLE]- >> Finally, we're showing you.
>> Yeah. After [INAUDIBLE]-
>> Yeah, I know, I know.
>> Right, sorry.
>> All right, take it easy, take it easy.
Here's another one.
At no point did they show the image in full, which, let's all calm down,
because it's not that different.
So, [LAUGH] all right.
>> All right, so there it is.
>> All right, there it is, okay?
>> So, here is, I guess the image in full.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> [LAUGH] >> Wow, wow, that's amazing.
>> So, okay, if you se the light with points spikes on it.
>> Yeah. >> So those are stars, right?
And then the other lit up objects are galaxies.
>> [LAUGH] >> And everyone's like, whoa,
galaxy is real cool bro.
And it is, it's cool.
Yes, galaxies exist, yeah.
>> [LAUGH] >> Outside of the galaxy that we exist in.
>> Okay.
>> Lots of galaxies out there.
>> So, look, the Hubble was, now let's get to the relevant part.
Okay, so, if you're looking at that picture, you're like, when I first looked
at the picture, I was like, okay, that's a picture of stars, I got it.
It looks a little bit sharper than I guess I'm used to.
And then I had to see it side by side.
And I was like, wow, it's much sharper than the Hubble telescope.
So, Hubble Telescope was launched in 1990.
This thing is 100 times more powerful.
>> So, it not only gets you much sharper images, but
what the Hubble telescope took weeks to get, this gets in about 12 hours, okay?
>> Amazing.
>> So now, the reason why I think this is relevant, and
I thought of this as I was reading the top of the story, and
at the bottom of the story that they confirmed it is possible, right?
This thing is powerful enough that we might be able to spot
life on the planets, okay?
Like that.
It's possible.
I'm not saying that's it, I'm just saying it's possible.
No, but seriously, now, the United States Government has acknowledged,
yes, there are unidentified flying objects.
And they do not act in any way that is possible on earth, okay?
Even Barack Obama acknowledges it.
So, it's now out and open.
There's almost no question that that they've been here, okay?
And it looks like different kinds of objects that you can't,
one doesn't look like the other at all, right?
>> And so, yes,
I think there's interesting things we can learn about the university existence.
>> I just look at- >> So, for example, hold on,-
>> Yeah.
>> The first 400 million years after the Big Bang has not been seen yet,
cuz it takes a lot of time to travel.
So if you can see to the beginning of time.
Well now we're having a conversation, okay, that is super interesting.
>> Just looking at a bunch of dots, and a picture is less interesting,-
>> Agreed.
>> Right, okay, that looks cool by the way they color it, let's keep it real, okay?
And that's neat, and it gives you some sense of awe and wonder.
But to me the pictures are not that relevant, except when they show you things
like the beginning of time, or life potentially on a different planet.
And it could be that life on a different planet, there's water, and
there's amoeba in the water, and that's not that exciting.
It's important, but that's not surprising either at this point, right?
But we could see a civilization.
if we see another civilization on a different planet, that's kinda cool.
>> Okay, now we go to our local curmudgeon,
okay, to sprinkle some salt on this galactic meal.
>> No. >> Go ahead.
>> Look, I get that people are interested in this stuff.
>> I'm not trying to in any way discourage them from being interested in this stuff.
I personally don't care as much, right?
And it's not that I don't know, I don't care.
I'm not gonna pretend like I do, I don't, I don't at all, not even a little bit.
>> [LAUGH] >> I'm glad that this kind of exploration
is happening, okay?
I would not put a stop to it.
I just have a difficult time getting excited about stuff that has
absolutely no impact on my life at all.
>> Yeah.
>> Not even a little.
In fact, the only thing I get from this, especially when you were talking,
is, yeah, there's life outside this earth.
And there is a possibility that they will make their way whatever life form it is,
to our planet, and I don't want that to happen.
I'm not interested in that.
>> [LAUGH] >> I feel like our generation has had to
live with all of these insane historic events all crammed together,
all crammed together within a few decades.
All these crazy traumatic things that usually would happen in the time span of
a century or more.
I don't need the aliens to show up.
>> We don't need it.
>> Can we just get a break?
Let's get a break.
I want a break.
>> [LAUGH] >> Right, so if you get excited like,
[SOUND] Life outside the plan.
[SOUND] No, why?
Why are we excited about this?
>> [LAUGH] Maybe they know something we don't know.
Maybe they can tell us.
>> Yeah, murder, they'll murder us.
>> No, they're not gonna murder us.
>> No, they're not gonna murder us, yeah, okay.
>> I can tell you later why?
>> They're gonna murder us.
>> [LAUGH] >> But, because that's our luck.
You guys get that, right?
>> That is our- >> That's our luck, [LAUGH] as a planet,
that's our luck.
Okay, no guys, last things then, let's see if there's interest in it.
So first of all, why are they not going to murder us?
Because, hold on, hold on, let me explain.
In popular culture, there is the idea of aliens, and they're gonna eat us.
We do not exist on their planet.
>> There is 0% chance that they evolved in a way where they would
eat humans that don't exist on their planet.
>> I'm not worried about- >> So they're not gonna eat us.
So then, are they gonna colonize us, why?
Our planet is likely very uninhabitable to them, because it's a different planet.
>> It is, stay on your planet bitch, don't show up over here, okay?
>> No, they're probably looking at us out of curiosity, like,
what are these little monkeys up to, okay?
And so, and then finally on the vastness of space, I'm with Anna on,
just looking at dots is not that interesting to me.
And the eclipses on it.
I'm sorry to everybody who finds that endlessly fascinating,
everybody's different.
It's okay, right?
>> Different stories for different fellows.
Exactly, but, the vastness makes a difference.
Because guys, look at how we're literally microscopic.
You know how we have microscopic beings inside of us,
like cleaning out our stomach, on our skin.
>> And so, we never pay any attention to them.
>> Exactly, bacteria.
>> Even though they're actually literally on our bodies, cuz they're microorganisms.
Guess what?
We're microorganisms.
If the universe was a petri dish, we're so smallnyou couldn't see us.
And so my point is, have fun.
Nobody's watching.
There is no cosmic accountant who thinks we're really important to the universe.
We're not at all important to the universe.
There's no judgment at all.
You know what happens when you die?
You die, okay, life ends.
So while you're here, do you boo, have fun.
If you like eclipses, go watch the eclipses.
If you hate the little dots on a pick a picture, don't look at it [LAUGH] okay?
Go have fun in your own way.
>> Because we are microorganisms and completely irrelevant.
>> By the way, one final thing.
Let's go to that picture of the nebula again, because,
I wanna explain what we were looking at.
Because Taylor did do good work here.
Okay, so that's a nebula.
Nebula is a a gas cloud surrounding a dying star.
Nebulae exist for tens of thousands of years,
meaning that stars die in really slow motion.
>> Yeah, and so every star grows, a and then it dies.
And it dies very, very, very slowly.
So for example, the sun is gonna run into the Earth in seven billion years.
But in 1.5 billion years, the earth will be so hot, it'll be uninhabitable.
So have fun.
It doesn't mean a goddamn thing.
Just go out and have the time of your life.