I went along with my son to listen to your “Aliens..” lecture at Riddlesdown Collegiate last week – and enjoyed its balanced content, i.e. not just Physics and Astronomy, but History too.

The mathematical assessment of there being other life forms “out there” however put into sharp focus the ultimate end for human kind. It must inevitably die – for once the Earth ceases to be there is no other planet capable of sustaining Man (I refer to your numbers): even if we could de-camp to it on mass anyway!

Many thanks for an interesting hour and a half.

Dr Franciso Diego,

Your “Aliens… Where are you?” talk at Riddlesdown Collegiate on March 21st 2013 was amazing! I was taught many brilliant facts on how the universe began and the theories of existence of extraterrestrial life in our galaxy!
AMAZING!
Thank you for coming and letting me hold the ancient meteorite too!

Dr Francisco Diego,
Your “Aliens.. Where are you?” talk at Riddlesdown Collegiate on Thursday 21st March was a very interesting experience that me and many of my peers found extremely useful to know, thank you for coming as we thoroughly enjoyed it. Your meteorite was quite heavy indeed!

I watched the program “Seven Ages Of Starlight” on TV and noted what you said with respect of our sun, when it dies and starts growing to swallow everything in its path.
Mankind has no chance whatsoever to escape extinction.

The vast space that the sun would expand to, would be further than mankind would be able to travel to.
That is, if he knew which direction to travel in.

He could take thousands of years to crawl across the universe. He would not have any way of knowing if he was traveling into a safer area or whether he was going towards another sun about to ………. get my point.

The vastness of space is against us, its ok to go to the moon, or maybe Mars, but find a safe home…no

Regards, Gordon.

Several years ago I was invited to fill an empty bunk on a cruise on the ship Queen Mary II. It was there I stumbled upon a presentation by Dr. Diego. This was the most enjoyable experience and all the incredible information he shared remains like a taste-sampler. I want more!!!! His lecture changed my life and how I have chosen to look at the world around me.
Can anyone help me find the DVD of that presentation? And how does one go about bringing Dr. Diego to their town???? I want to share him and I want another dose of him!!!!

We had the absolute pleasure of meeting Francisco recently on the QM2. He gave 6 lectures on the World Voyage segment Singapore-Southampton and after the first lecture we looked forward to the additional 5. Although we have no background in such complicated material–his material provoked many new thoughts and questions with respect to life, life beyond this life, the universe–it goes on and on!!! Although there was much we didn’t quite understand we DID understand enough to follow his discussions and were left with an impressive amount of provocative and new information. He was a delight to meet and we hope someday to see him again!!!!

In January I was pleased to welcome Dr Francisco to our Secondary School in Milton Keynes. He presented to those present a history of the Universe – in only 50 minutes. It was a tall task, but starting with the big bang Dr Diego introduced the forces that led to everything we see today along with the formation of the periodic table and the development of life on Earth.

Through use of a timeline to represent the development of the Universe I was particularly surprised by the length of time between some developments and the relatively tiny amount of time that human life has existed on Earth.

Dr Diego was a hugely enthusiastic speaker who drew lots of people out of their warm homes to listen to his lecture (some people even came from Mexico to attend)!

Just a few of the comments we got from the talk:
“The talk tonight was actually really interesting… am now debating whether I can squeeze in an accelerated Physics A Level next year so i can do Astrophysics as my back up to Medicine!”
“Clear speaker who managed to cover a lot in a relatively short amount of time”
“A truly inspiring talk”
Thanks again for coming!

What an informative and accessible (for non-scientists) lecture at the City of London School last Thursday. The lecture flowed in a very easy and comprehensible fashion. Though the facts were not new – rather the opposite when we were told when the universe started – they were put over in a lucid and enthusiastic way, which made the listening pleasurable. Next time, perhaps, we will all get to know what happened before the Big Bang.

A great lecture as usual from Dr Francisco Diego, he is a master at bringing complex subjects to life, and the “Aliens…. where are you “ talk was no exception, with a new take on the Drake equation and the Fermi paradox. The props were simple but really helped in the visualisation of the timescales involved. It will certainly be a lecture to remember. Thank you so much for sharing it with the Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society.