Could there be exoplanets that have life?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Our universe is enormous and filled with lots of planets. We call planets outside our solar system exoplanets. Could one of these distant places have aliens living on it? We asked astrophysicist Ian Hall to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on this is moment of um. |
| 0:04.0 | Answering those questions that make you go |
| 0:08.0 | um... Moment of Am I um, um, |
| 0:22.7 | Moment of Um, comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm Sandin Totten. |
| 0:27.6 | Um, and one more eyeball right there. |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, a few extra legs and some spikes on the back. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, lots of ooze. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, yeah, okay. I think I'm done. Oh hey I'm just finishing the latest drawing for the |
| 0:46.3 | Alien of the Month Club. It's a subscription service I started where I send people a |
| 0:51.6 | drawing of a wild new alien I invented every month. |
| 0:57.0 | Last month, it was a lava octopus. |
| 1:00.0 | Before that, it was 60 foot long cyborg slugs. |
| 1:04.0 | Blaar! |
| 1:06.1 | This one is some kind of Godzilla Venus fly trap hybrid. |
| 1:10.5 | I don't have any subscribers yet, but I'm pretty sure the orders will come flooding in any second now. |
| 1:17.0 | I mean, who wouldn't want to stare for hours at a pencil drawing of an extra-trestral creature whose eyes are hairy and also on their knees. |
| 1:26.5 | Of course, all of these aliens are made up, because we haven't seen any real ones yet. |
| 1:32.2 | But hey, the universe is a really big place. And scientists now |
| 1:36.6 | know there are lots of planets orbiting faraway stars. Those are called exoplanets. Do you think there could be aliens on those exoplanets? |
| 1:46.9 | Alex must have started an alien drawing service too because they asked us, |
| 1:51.5 | could there be exoplanets that have life? |
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