10 Obscure Solar System Locations That Could Host Alien Life

And exploration of 10 Obscure Solar System Locations That Could Host Alien Life. These are lesser known ones, instead of the usual Mars, Enceladus and Europa candidates.
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How many planes went missing vs intentionally downing a craft

[@deshrektives]

Congrats on picking fairly obscure locales. I was dreading a list that just went: 1. Enceladus 2. Europa 3. Earth

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Indeed, I left them off on purpose.

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[@KaptifLaDistillerie]

There is a video game called Barotrauma that took inspiration from this to set up their game on Europa, where humans are using submarines to travel the ocean below the ice because the surface is a violent place due to jovian radiations. There are also aquatic creatures. Its a really great game

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[@davidhollingdale5408]

I recall the late,great,Arthur C. Clarke's superb 1971 short story, "A Meeting With Medusa",dealing with an astronaut exploring the atmosphere of Jupiter, and discovering living balloons behaving like animals on the plains of Africa...and predicting the 'machine-superceding-man idea There was also a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, set on Earth,"The Horror of the Heights" published in 1913. Both classics of their respective eras.👍

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Always my favorite type of video: the quest for alien life.

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Thanks for posting tonight. Great content.

[@Lucy-ks9qb]

I remember a video from either John or Isaac Arthur on the ideal meeting place for first contact being non terrestrial for a multitude of good reasons, but can't remember the video. We can only speculate, but it was a compelling case for why someone would prefer to meet you outside of your atmosphere.

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[@martinstallard2742]

1:33 the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn 3:04 the asteroid belt 4:51 Pluto 6:41 the atmosphere of Venus 9:28 Ganymede and Callisto 11:12 the Moon 12:20 Kuiper belt objects 13:43 Mimas and stealth oceans 16:28 the Uranus system 17:27 Io

[@DrMackSplackem]

@ 14:00 Wow, this image is one of the more bizarre ones captured; Mimas appears to be straining against its minor-planet status. "Hey Cassini and folks, my best side can be seen on your right. I had this crazy huge impact a while back. Never saw it coming; nearbouts ringed me to bits like so many others but as we say out here, that which doesn't feed the E ring makes you slightly more spherical.

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[@gregcampwriter]

Arthur C. Clarke's novella, A Meeting with Medusa, offered balloon animals with giant kite predators in 1971.

[@wolfthorn1]

If Uranus has life on it. You should probably take a bath. 🛀

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[@rachelar]

Death Star thumbnail-really was my first thought

[@EksaStelmere]

Geologically active Pluto should qualify it as a planet. Deciding planets based on how the orbit a star never rubbed me the right way.

[@atoyinthebox]

the geology, as well as the mass absolutely make it a world/planet.

[@scottfitzpatrick1939]

Can't wait for us to get out there. Hope we do.

[@dropnoelfield295]

Good stuff thanks mate 👍

[@manydirt2600]

Pluto is a promising one to me, at least as promising as ice shell moons elsewhere. I've never done any looking into it, but i feel like the tidal stress from Charon has to cause some churning. The surface was just so fresh and dynamic. I wonder if it could even get gysers.

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[@mattcanty7313]

Not related but, just a couple of yrs ago I was debating this guy about possible life on other planets and he was dam sure he was correct about no life being possible anywhere. And when I brought up the possibility of life because of the Goldielocks zones on distant planets, he stated loudly that I clearly had no idea what I was talking about and was now just making things up, because the "Goldielocks zone" was the stupidest thing he's ever heard and is no way an actual saying in Astrobiology. Most of the class sided with him sadly. Making me feel stupid in front of everyone. So now whenever I hear that phrase used, it makes me feel super good Inside. Thanks for that JMG. Cheers buddy! 🍻

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[@IIrandhandleII]

We need to put more emphasis on prebiotic chemistry research.

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[@SmartestRick13]

Hi john, you mentioned "the asteroid ceres" in this video. Are you referring to ceres the dwarf planet?

[@richardpaulcaird9192]

I think that literally all the obscure potentialality for life here is real, in that life is previllant throughout the universe, but 'intelligent life' is another story☄️🌌🌐

[@erichtomanek4739]

"It's difficult to get probes to Uranus". I'm such a child .........

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[@thomasvnl]

Venus as hot world with jungles, there's a Dutch book on that (and only Dutch I'm affraid, its a bit old): Torenhoog en mijlen breed

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Always great content

[@tr1p1ea]

So wait, there could be Interstellar icebergs floating around?

[@the_primal_instinct]

Actually life on the moon has been detected multiple times. I think it even played golf there.

[@cosmoflanker]

Personally, I'm suspiciously eyeing that Death Star out there!

[@francoislacombe9071]

Lots of water ice at Mercury's poles. There could be microbes living there.

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Ty.

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I think it's hilarious that we've all seen videos of UFOs and aliens right here on Earth and yet everybody still has fantasies about them being out "there"...

[@view1st]

UFO's and the like are either fake or misperception. If we can't find aliens in our own galaxy I very much doubt that they would be gallivanting across our skys.

[@TheJadeFist]

Venus, what about mountain tops, acting sort of like islands of some solid surfaces that are sheltered somewhat from the extreme heat and pressure further down, are there mountains tall enough for that or what about near the poles, (I would imagine the poles to be colder yes? could still be baking though idk) If there are these places that offer a start to life, it could then spread through the air currents, or adapt to floating permanently. (I doubt anything complex, but like some kind of adaptation that help the microbe have buoyancy, it's a thicker atmosphere so that might be possible)

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[@ThexBorg]

Pluto is very interesting. The gravity of it's moon may be creating heat internally and melting the ice and as the water moves to the surface it freezes and the convection circulates the water. These cycles may allow for life.

[@kineticshrimp4530]

Could we get a video on the Boötes void?

[@slidecatch]

If and when we eventually discover life elsewhere in the universe, it'd be cool if all the newspaper headlines consisted of two words: "They liiiiiiive."

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[@norml.hugh-mann]

More life in the uni other than just the klingons around Uranus

[@Essman614]

"Minor Planet" Pluto still can't get any respect

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I giggled at "gasbag."

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[@olddecimal2736]

Brian Cox and I over here giving each other fork burns for every time you accidentally pronounce ‘ancient’ correctly. Lolol! Peace be the journey mang.

[@Wonderwhoopin]

Oh yeah!

[@zebonautsmith1541]

If there could be intelligent Octopi swimming in the Oceans of Eceladus; Why aren't we THERE already? And when Sagan's "floaters and sinkers" are discovered on Jupiter; we'll call them "Sagons"

[@senecaflint6853]

The upper atmospheres of gas giants also have the advantage of being protected by substantial magnetic fields. An underrated abode indeed.

[@imthemoeron]

Perhaps life that survives long term simply doesn't disturb the environment around it as much as life that won't survive long term

[@tubetube7025]

Ya know if life is existant on many of our outer worlds but they aren't so advanced (lets say they are like fish or something) and they look weird, space tourism in the future is going to get a massive boom.

[@richardaitkenhead]

New horizons was best mission bar the voyagers

[@baalzhamon8491]

Just realized that Venus in UV looks like Eve in KSP

[@slavesdetach]

If we are talking Alien spacefaring species, discussing locations in our system and beyond for their bases is probably mute, as their level of tech would undoubtedly include cloaking incl gravitational cloaking possibly even to the point of target cloaking of our individual devices like the JWST so we could not detect alien megastructures orbiting stars and suchlike.

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Meow, cool stuff!

[@ricknielson1947]

The moon's habitable period. Hope I live long enough to watch microbial paleontology on the moon. Macros more than welcome.

[@islandtech1963]

I have a totally unprovable feeling life is more common than currently seems, and that we might dismiss candidates too quickly with a too narrow 'habitability zone' and carbon 'bias'. Thats just me though lol.

[@landscapingspecialist]

I have considered this too. Definitely something to acknowledge imo.

[@Chris.Davies]

It seems incredibly likely that pond scum can exist almost anywhere there is water, energy, and chemistry. And I would argue that life exists practically everywhere those three things exist. Sadly, this idea makes it far more likely that The Great Filter is ahead of us, and that humans won't make it.

[@bozo5632]

​@@Chris.DaviesI wouldn't sweat the Great Filter. There's no real reason to believe in it except to explain the Fermi Paradox, which might not need explaining in the first place.

[@808bigisland]

Where are the alien motherships parking?

[@matta6385]

Just found phosphorous on enceladus and that doesn’t rate??

[@simonehudspeth861]

ok I lost it when he said it was difficult to probe Uranus sorry but yeah lmfao

[@doctorcrankyflaps1724]

You sound a bit down, John ❤

[@jamesparker4471]

Mercury the hand sanitizer of the solar system.

[@ToucanSonofSam333]

It's difficult to probe Uranus

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Comment for the algorithm.

[@davidlhamilton3305]

If all life lives off the death of other life. This begs the question, which came first life or death?

[@chrislong3938]

Plutonians are probably thinking, none of the inner planets are in the habitable zone. They're too close to the sun! Life as we know it can't exist there! It's too bright and hot!

[@Julius_Hardware]

The chances of anything coming from Mercury Were a million to one said everybody but John Michael Godier... Doesn't really scan does it? I'll work on it.

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Probably your browsers settings, or something with KZbin. It doesn't do that for me, and I just post on KZbin, I don't have a connection to them otherwise. There's nothing in the creator studio that would cause it.

[@vapormissile]

11. Everywhere

[@akaroth7542]

The sad thing is: every probe we have and will send will be seeding microbes. The voyager probes are projected to still have microbes on them. We currently can't sterilize anything enough to avoid this. That said, the positive would be us possibly spreading life to places that didn't have it before. A future Europa probe might do just that.

[@defeatSpace]

At this point, science will find extremophiles in the sun.

[@DrMackSplackem]

What if life (let's keep it to 'as we know it' for simplicity) is actually quite commonplace throughout the galaxy, with thousands of suitable abodes provided by planetary bodies within our own system? For all we know today, biospheres consisting of single-celled organisms, protected from radiative damage and temperature swings by kilometers of ice and rock (and thus also hard to discover from the outside) may be the norm, while a biosphere which has developed to present detectable forms on any planet or moon's surface is an extreme anomaly. This may be the situation we find ourselves in presently, hypothesizing 'habitable zones' which are only appropriate to the latter, rare, sole example we have to work from, and whatever biospheres we are likely to discover and characterize locally will be much more primitive than ours, much harder to access for study, and very much like each other (possibly even sharing many of the same species with only minor adaptations to their specific host worlds). When I was a kid becoming interested in this stuff, nobody would have thought of Titan as being a candidate for a host world, let alone Ceres or Pluto, but if the question is restricted to simply 'life', then we could be on the cusp of a huge transformation, and past speculations about life elsewhere (arising from our studies of the only example we have ever known) have led us somewhat astray (IOW, fallacy of composition). Or, perhaps not...

[@monkeeseemonkeedoo3745]

Uranus, like it happened with South Park

[@Prickly_G]

Good content, as always. But this should be renamed "10 unusual" or "10 unexpected" locations.... "Obscure" doesn't really fit.