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Cool Stuff Daily

Finding Life on Saturn and Jupiter's Moons, Affordable Antivenom, and TDIH - The First American Typewriter

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We may be closer than ever to discovering life outside of Earth, and there’s more promise in developing an affordable snake antivenom than ever, plus on This Day in History, the first American typewriter – err, typographer – is patented. Signs of Life Could Be Found Close to the Surface of Two Nearby Moons (gizmodo.com) Life signs could survive near the surfaces of Saturn and Jupiter's moons Encleadus and Europa | Space CRISPR Identifies Commonly Available Drug That Works as Cobra Venom Antidote (goodnewsnetwork.org) New antidote for cobra bites discovered - The University of Sydney A Brief History of Typewriters (xavier.edu) 1829 Detail, William Austin Burt Invents the Typewriter - America's Best History, U.S. History Timeline: The 1820's (americasbesthistory.com) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home. Marcus Baff with Reggie Rizzou on today's episode, we may be

0:39.0

closer than ever to discovering life outside of Earth. We'll have the details. And there's more

0:44.8

promise in developing an affordable snake antivenom than ever, a potential godsend for alien countries.

0:52.0

Plus, on this day in history, the first American typewriter.

0:55.7

Oh, typographer is patented. That's coming up on cool stuff. We may be closer than ever to discovering

1:02.6

if there is life outside of Earth. Pergizmodo and space.com, evidence continues to mount that

1:08.1

life could theoretically survive in two moons currently orbiting planets in our solar system.

1:13.5

Scientists have made a number of discoveries suggesting that Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, and Saturn satellite Enceladus,

1:20.2

contain the conditions necessary for life. There is evidence that Europa is able to produce ample amounts of oxygen,

1:26.3

and both moons have subsurface oceans.

1:29.7

Phosphorus, an element vital for life, has been found in plumes of ice and water ejected

1:34.5

from Enceladus. Scientists have long theorized that both Enceladus, one of Saturn's 146 known moons,

1:40.9

and Europa, one of Jupiter's four large Galilean moons among its total 95 moons,

1:46.2

could host vast liquid water oceans that harbor life. If this is the case, then complex

1:51.7

organic molecules like amino acids and nucleic acids, the building blocks of life as we know it

1:56.7

could serve as biosignatures of life on the moons. The problem is both moons are bombarded with

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