The Habitable Epoch, Mars 2020’s Search for Life, and 4 Research-Based Personality Types
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why the universe may have been teeming with life billions of years ago; why NASA’s Mars 2020 Martian rover mission is going to be a huge milestone; and four personality types people fit into, according to new research.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Billions of Years Ago, the Universe May Have Been Teeming with Life
- We're Officially Sending a New Martian Rover to Search for Life on the Red Planet
- According to New Research, People Fit into These 4 Personality Types
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.6 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.6 | Today, you learn about how the universe may have been teeming with life billions of years ago. |
| 0:12.1 | Why NASA's next Martian rover is going to be a huge milestone, |
| 0:16.1 | and four personality types people fit into, |
| 0:18.6 | according to new research. |
| 0:19.9 | Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning curiosity daily. |
| 0:23.2 | Here's an idea. What if life on a planet doesn't have to do so much with the place but with the time? |
| 0:29.0 | At least one astronomer thinks that billions of years ago, the universe may have been teeming with life |
| 0:34.4 | and that's because of the way the universe was back then. |
| 0:37.1 | You gotta be in the right place at the right time. Yeah, maybe we just came to the party late. |
| 0:40.9 | I mean we're in the right place at the right time. |
| 0:43.2 | Sure. But maybe we're the only ones. Right. That'd be weird. Well right now a planet has to be |
| 0:49.6 | really lucky if it wants to sustain life. It's got to be close enough to a star to keep |
| 0:54.0 | water from freezing but far enough away to keep it from boiling away. We haven't |
| 0:58.0 | found very many planets that sit in that habitable zone. Your favorite thing to |
| 1:01.8 | say on the show. My favorite! |
| 1:03.0 | But we're looking at the universe as it is right now. |
| 1:06.0 | Turns out, the universe has changed just a bit over the years. |
| 1:10.0 | After the Big Bang, more than 13 billion years ago, |
| 1:13.0 | the universe started off really hot, |
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