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Big Picture Science

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🗓️ 11 February 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Researchers have discovered life in a buried Antarctic lake. But we’re not surprised. Life is amazingly adaptive. Expose it to any environment – heat, ice, acid or even jet fuel – and it thrives. But this discovery of life under the ice may have exciting implications for finding biology beyond Earth. Scientists share their discovery, and how they drilled down through a half-mile of ice. Also, plunge into another watery alien world with director James Cameron, and the first solo dive to the deepest, darkest part of the ocean. Plus, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist tries to create life in his lab to learn more about biology’s origins, and martian fossils abound in Robert J. Sawyer’s latest sci-fi novel. Guests: • Helen Amanda Fricker – Glaciologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego • Jill Mikucki – Microbiologist at the University of Tennessee • Chris McKay – Planetary scientist, NASA Ames Research Center • Jack Szostak – Nobel Prize winning chemist, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital • James Cameron – film director and explorer-in-residence for National Geographic • Robert J. Sawyer – Hugo Award-winning author; most recently: Red Planet Blues Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	The world is filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?
0:09.0	What is junk DNA?
0:10.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.8	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:16.8	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:20.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
0:25.0	Hello everyone, you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything podcast.
0:29.0	And my name is Bruna, and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two
0:34.6	scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many many more in our new
0:38.2	podcast Mystery of Everything available everywhere you get your podcast.
0:43.0	Get ready to geek out.
0:46.0	The Wired Science Podcast explores all the latest and greatest in science.
0:50.0	Everything from strange diseases and biological breakthroughs to
0:54.3	interesting tech and mysteries in outer space.
0:57.2	Listen to Wired Science today wherever you get your podcasts.
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1:05.0	Well, I'm standing outside in a parking lot and the place is relatively empty.
1:10.0	Although I do still see some people right over there in the corner and that guy's getting into his car
1:15.2	But you know there are a few places that you can go and be truly alone
1:19.8	Even if you go into your living room and shut the door.
1:24.3	No other humans or even other easily seen species here
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