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Video Playlist

Before moving on to Fermi, The Kardashev Scale, and some mind blowing thoughts....  here's a video playlist 

290 Seconds That Will Blow Your Mind

Changing Educational Paradigms and How Schools Kill Creativity
Juan Enriquez:  The Next Species of Human (also see the Ars Technica article We are becoming a new species, we are becoming Homo Evolutis)

​The History and Future of Time (or the remastered version)

Fermi

Where are all the aliens via Quartz

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” II: Questioning the Hart-Tipler Conjecture via Universe Today (Paul Patton)
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence via Universe Today (Paul Patton)

11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox via io9 (George Dvorsky)
The 7 Least Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox via io9 (George Dvorsky)

​This Animated Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox Is Fantastic  and ​Where Are All The Aliens? This Short Video Offers Some Solutions via io9 (George Dvorsky

​Side note...  George’s posts on io9 are awesome, if you like science, I definitely recommend you check them out!

The Surprisingly Obvious Way We Could Hunt for Alien Life via gizmodo
The Fermi Paradox via Wait But Why?
How Often Does Life Emerge in the Universe?
Want to Find Aliens?  Look for Planets That Have Become Stars
Why We Should Look for Alien Megastructures Around Pulsars
Why haven’t we found aliens yet?  A new paper on the Fermi paradox convincingly shows why we will probably never find aliens.

Are we alone? Setting some limits to our uniqueness

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What makes you, you

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What Makes You, You via Wait But Why?
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​What Are The Odds?  What are the odds that you exist, as you, today? (Infographic)

​​Miracle of life (Video)

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The Kardashev Scale, The Universe, and more

The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization 
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Dyson Sphere:  Capturing the Power of a Star infographic
Advanced alien civilizations rare or absent in the local universe  via Physorg.com

Why is the Scale of the Universe so Freakishly Large?
Science Says Earth is One of 700 Quintillion Planets in the Universe 

Will Mankind Destroy Itself?  (video)
Elon Musk Is Right: Colonizing the Solar System Is Humankind’s Insurance Policy Against Extinction

Websites

Planetary Society
​NASA

One Last Thought

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“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified façade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.”

— Michael Collins, Gemini 10 & Apollo 11 astronaut

More astronaut quotes on seeing planet Earth from space: http://www.spacequotations.com/earth.html

See also