Is There Life On Other Planets? | A Research Professor Explains
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we consider one of the most interesting and mysterious questions that humans ponder: Is there life on other planets?
Andrew Watson, a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Exeter joins the podcast to discuss his distinct understanding of planetary science…
Andrew has a background in physics, marine science, and environmental science. As someone who has always been interested in the evolution of our own planet's life, he naturally began to consider the possibility of life on other planets as well.
Where have Andrew's curiosities taken him? Tune in to find out…
In this episode, we cover:
- What early Earth may have looked like.
- The role that comet bombardment played in the formation of the Earth.
- When life started on Earth, and the types of organisms that may have thrived.
- When oxygen photosynthesis was invented, and which organism did it.
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| 0:37.4 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:42.7 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 0:45.7 | My guest today is a really great guest, Andrew Watson. |
| 0:47.3 | He's part of the Royal Society. |
| 0:52.5 | He's a research professor at University of Exeter, part of the Global Systems Institute. and we had to talk about evolution on Earth, |
| 0:55.5 | and does that tell us that there's a likelihood of life on other planets and other systems? |
| 1:00.7 | So welcome, Andrew. Thanks for coming. |
| 1:02.6 | Thank you for asking me. It's a pleasure. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, no problem. It's a fascinating subject. Tell me a bit about your background, |
| 1:09.0 | and then I'm going to ask you how you get into what you |
| 1:11.1 | do and then start asking you about the possibility of life and other planets. Okay. Yeah, I did a |
| 1:18.0 | first degree in physics. And then I worked with a guy called Jim Lovelock, but some of the people |
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