Rife with Life

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

“Follow the water” is the mantra of those who search for life beyond Earth. Where there’s water, there may be life. Join us on a tour of watery solar system bodies that hold promise for biology. Dig beneath the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa, and plunge into the jets of Enceladus, Saturn’s satellite. And let’s not forget the Red Planet. Mars is rusty and dusty, but it wasn’t always a world of dry dunes. Did life once thrive here? Also, the promise of life in the exotic hydrocarbon lakes of Titan. Science-fiction author Robert J. Sawyer joins us, and relates how these exotic outposts have prompted imaginative stories of alien life. Guests: Robert J. Sawyer – Hugo award-winning science fiction author Cynthia Phillips – Planetary geologist at the SETI Institute Alexander Hayes – Planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley Rachel Mastrapa – Planetary scientist for NASA and the SETI Institute Robert Lillis – Space and planetary scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley Descripción en español First released February 27, 2012. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.4	The world is filled with many questions, such as, did giants exist?
0:39.0	What is junk DNA?
0:40.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:41.9	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:46.9	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:50.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
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1:15.0	You know, this virtual reality software has really gotten pretty sophisticated.
1:19.0	I know it looks like you're really traveling through that rainforest.
1:22.0	Well, you can go anywhere, not just the rainforest, you can go to the tops of the trees and look around there.
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