Hey Lex, thanks for this video and I think your apology at the end is off base! ( ???)  You're ideas and convos are never boring - indeed I specifically listen to you because your pod is almost always thought provoking - which is where I like to be, (in a place where thoughts are provoked 😁). I like listening to your thoughtful, coherent and interesting 'ramblings'.  Keep them coming.<br><br>I do believe that human consciousness, and perhaps non human consciousness (take our pet cats and dogs for example) and even in the future galactic consciousness when we meet our galactic neighbors is/ will be the key to everything..  and that that is where our science needs to be focused. Just my two cents.<br><br>So on the topic of aliens (I prefer calling them our galactic neighbors) and so many others that you cover I have one thing to say: more, please!