10 Obscure Solar System Locations That Could Host Alien Life

[@deshrektives]

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

[@JohnMichaelGodier]

Indeed, I left them off on purpose.

[@woltersworld]

Hey JMG. Don't have any comments. Just wanted to say thanks for all the videos. Hope life is treating you well.

[@rootuser7206]

What a surprise this late at night. Thanks JMG.

[@kkupsky6321]

It’s pronounced jmg*

[@residentenigma7141]

Cool episode. Nicely paced narration.

[@RealBradMiller]

@@kkupsky6321 😭🤣🤣💀

[@LisaAnn777]

​@@kkupsky6321 no that's an abbreviation not a pronunciation.

[@cronejones5413]

How many planes went missing vs intentionally downing a craft

[@js70371]

I will listen to this on repeat tonight as I fall asleep. As per usual when a new JMG episode drops!! Love the content brother. Learning and dreaming simultaneously. 💫😴🙏🍻

[@landscapingspecialist]

Yes👍🏻

[@johnnyringo35]

Thanks John. You always deliver great content. It gets me through my night shifts and keeps me sane. Thanks again,sir.

[@Mermaider]

Yah, John, thanks a lot!

[@YYmmmYY]

I honestly wish he did hour long episodes talking by himself. The event horizon guests are hit or miss but when he does these solo minis, they're always amazing

[@minimanadam]

Sounds like my kinda job....

[@ericcruz7407]

Prolly makes you fall asleep on the job lol

[@RandhirSingh-wq8yi]

I eagerly await for your new videos John, excitement cannot be described in words how good you’re content is. This Page definitely deserves more subscribers.

[@sergical5]

I was just done reading an article on phosphorous detection on Enceladus and you just posted this! What a start to the weekend!

[@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

[@AceManning18]

Thank god for creators like yourself...in the midst of all this garbage on the internet these days and especially KZbin, you come out with one interesting / amazing video after another. Videos that not only teach us but also get our creativity going and allow us all to dream like little kids again. Thank you so much. I'd love to meet you someday and just learn what you have to teach... But I'll settle for following your channel and watching all of your videos over time as I try and sleep (been rather difficult lately) and ease my mind. Your voice and your fascinating topics of discussion make it so much more tolerable. Again, thank you. I'm not much of a science fiction guy (I prefer straight up fantasy or actual science fact), but given how much I enjoy your videos I've decided I'm going to go ahead and purchase one of your books. I'm sure I will love it. I'll let you know what I think when I receive/finish it! This channel is amazing! Doing amazing work and teaching us primitive apes more and more every single day. A true hero of our time.

[@levilandes1719]

How did you like the book?

[@livetotell100]

Your vids are great. Educational and entertaining.

[@landscapingspecialist]

Yep

[@wxbeany]

You always come in clutch with these uploads. These videos are immensely calming and tonight I really needed it. Thank you for creating such amazing content!

[@jimmyyungg7329]

I think by now i've watched every single one of your videos, for the past 3/4 years, i share these ideas with my friends and family, i tell them interesting things that you teach on this channel, the amount of people your knowledge has reached is uncountable by now, like a star's energy just spreading everywhere in the universe, your knowledge spreading through human counsciousness.

[@LisaAnn777]

I tell my friends and family things like this but they never seem to really care, it's sad how little most people care about stuff like this. I'm glad so many here watch these videos and care about learning more, this is what propels humanity forward with discovery.

[@Nactastic]

Haven't finished watching your vid yet John, but I don't need to to let you know that I love your work, thank you for all the content you've put out over the years :)

[@olegyamleq7796]

Thanksssssssssssssssss John!!!!!!!!!! We really appreciate all your work !!!!!!!!!! Have a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@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.👍

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic research and video, John! Thanks a bunch!!! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@LAMPROS311]

I had a great sleep using this video and later a great wake up coffee listening to its content. Thank you John!

[@tullymonster4182]

Neptune's moon Triton is another likely ice-shell moon, in addition to possessing many similarities to KBOs. Its retrograde orbit suggests it was captured by Neptune and the tidal interactions that circularized its orbit may have given it a warm subsurface ocean that could persist to this day.

[@GladDestronger]

If Pluto's icy geology (it seems to still be active to this day) is anything to go by its possible Neptune's gravity has pushed Triyon's activity into overdrive. It got a boost.

[@z.zshirer2507]

Thank you John, for a wonderful video to wake up to before taking my son to school. Always look forward to your uploads, as well as Event Horizon.

[@joeblackman100]

Hard days work in a heatwave, driving home, great stuff from John in my ears and van air con just fixed, all good

[@drmantistoboggan2870]

Hells yeah. Working with the ear buds in and learning all day. Thats the way to go

[@scottlemurianboxer]

Sir, JMG. Ive been following your channel for many years now (and frazer cain and Issac) but idk if I’ve said it before publicly?? But this channel and event horizon’s channel are my FAVORITE space related KZbin channels! THANK YOU 🙏🏻

[@Kani_Modaressi]

Hi John 👋🏼 thanks for all amazing content!

[@michaelshortland8863]

I have to say Mr Godier, you have a very unique voice that is very pleasurable to listen to, making all these video's easy to watch and listen to.

[@orrinsjuice1]

I love the endings of your videos…” in which we LIIIIIVE!”

[@adriank8792]

I watched most of your videos multiple times. Very inspiring stuff and your voice is pleasant and calming

[@waffles9771]

This is becoming my favourite youtube channel!! Thank you for your hardwork!

[@alfredsutton4412]

The best day of the week is the day JMG uploads! Doesn’t matter whether it is early morning or late at night. When the phone goes “ding”, I watch.

[@arms1036]

Thanks for posting tonight. Great content.

[@jesnoggle13]

Always something new with this guy. Thanks!

[@brandonbrown5671]

I love your videos John!

[@roadkillanonymous4807]

Yes!!!!! Best video in a while and you’ve been on a heck of a winning streak!!!

[@cougar2013]

This channel is amazing. A crime that it doesn’t have 1M subs

[@ruthmckay9086]

Wtf?! How can I only just be finding this amazing channel, when I spend half my YT time looking at astronomy videos? Well I'm here, now - and not only am I intrigued by the content, but also gratified to hear a perfect (albeit in an American accent ;) pronunciation of a word that seems very recently to be beyond the capabilities of many - on both sides of the Atlantic, btw. "COMParable" - Subbed!

[@dustyfeller]

Really great video. I think, because these are things to look forward to that are possibly within our lifetime. Once we find just one, we can all die with the knowledge that we’re not alone, and also that our descendants have a chance.

[@SeekerStudiosOfficial]

They just disclosed that we're not alone... And that were genetically engineered.

[@bozo5632]

​@@SeekerStudiosOfficialNo "they" didn't.

[@TheSoundrookie]

There's only one way our descendants have a chance. That is if we finally begin to do things right. We haven't so far, and we still don't. We don't need that knowledge yet, since there's nothing we can do with it. And continuing the way we do will kill us off before we get a chance to do anything with it. Knowledge has no value when you're dead. We know the sun will last for millions of years. If we can keep asteroids of our back, and refrain from destroying everything around us, we'll have all that time to figure things out. And in that time we can learn. Learn to make sure that life ain't a suffering for way too many people. Learn that greed, carelessness, aggression, and stupidity is the direct pass to extinction etc etc. We need to learn how NOT to have a success rate of a lethal virus - Then comes the time for the next level, and then we need the knowledge. Until then we're wasting resources in all the wrong places. If UAP's are aliens they probably won't pose any danger to us, because to get as far as to come here, they necessarily must have learned the basic requirements for survival: Doing things right, and in the right order. Have a great weekend Mate.

[@maltheopia]

*You* can die in ignorance and futility if *you* feel like. Me? I plan to merge with the machine and see these worlds for myself.

[@ConnorFlynnNo1]

Perfect! Just in time to listen and fall asleep to a new video 😁

[@strangeostrichgamer158]

It's a great morning when I can watch you amazing videos.

[@MrJocklimewood]

Thanks, John. Needed a good video to listen too tonight.

[@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.

[@AnnieRegret]

❤

[@pmajudge]

JOHN MICHAEL GODIER -- OUTSTANDING AS EVER !! MANY THANKS! ENJOYED THE VIDEO . FROM, U.K. (2023).

[@roadkillanonymous4807]

I’m surprised neptunes moon Triton isn’t on your list John! Cryogenic as they may be, it nonetheless has volcanoes and some semblance of an atmosphere! If Titan, why not Triton?

[@yoshimansxl]

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

[@budwhite9591]

13 minutes after it dropped! Time for a before bed story. 11:50est. Love what you do, John!!!!

[@mrouncervideos2905]

Thank you. I'm always watching out for your videos! Great job!

[@cfctidcfc]

My man john, coming in clutch just as im about so sleep , thank u from Ireland!!

[@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.

[@RealBradMiller]

Love the Sun- flower idea! 😳🤯

[@MattsCollection]

Looking at what we know now, I believe microbial life is present in a lot of different places in our solar system and beyond. There could be more complex aquatic life on Enceladus and Europa. Titan could have some very interesting life based on a completely different chemistry. What I want to find is advanced life and the best way to find that is techno signatures.

[@hattorihanzo2705]

Thanks for the nighttime treat, Organism JMG! We love you!

[@landscapingspecialist]

Love the swords!! 🥷🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@hwplugburz]

Im rooting for Umbriel,, that moon just looks so primordial ancient to me, it has always filled me with awe.. how insanly cool it would be if it one day proved to have a subsurface ocean.. 🤔 I So hope NASA prioritise that uranus mission that came up on the decadal-survay last year.. (and that I live long enough to see the end of it..)

[@RealBradMiller]

Umbriel sounds like a horned, clove footed god that enjoys chocolate and dancing, and he sounds like the fainting couch robot from Futurama... 😋😂

[@dropnoelfield295]

Good stuff thanks mate 👍

[@rogersnick17]

Thank you John

[@uladzimirdarozka3882]

Thank you JMG 😊

[@w8iteds848]

a wonderful birthday gift for me to fall asleep with, thank you!

[@metalskirmish]

Always great content

[@TheEyez187]

I thought there could be simple microbial life on the icy bodies of the Kuiper belt. If so it could be a genuinely interesting look at evolution. Occurring from a panspermia initially and then spread across 1'000's of bodies with similar make-up each would evolve separately. Europa's always interested me, although after watching the Europa Report (found footage film), which I highly recommend.... I kind of don't want to go personally!!! >XD Captures various aspects of space exploration and issues very well; especially helplessness and knowing if/when you get in to trouble, you're in serious trou-F-ble!

[@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.

[@robbabcock_]

Intriguing ideas!

[@hardikgurung6027]

Thanks ❤

[@Bearkat87]

Thanks for the vid

[@sunsaverfromnhh9184]

Cool shot of one of those dark-grey, ice-slugs (or whatever they are) on Pluto, along with their respective, two-lane trails in the snow between settlements or colonies, complete with intersections between distant settlements, and at least one, dead-end street from the looks of it.

[@richardlbowles]

Wouldn't it be great if _all_ these places harboured life?! What would _that_ do to both the Drake equation and the Great Filter?

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

10:41 Rare JMG enunciation here

[@landscapingspecialist]

A Stealth Ocean World🤔 magnificent!!

[@the_primal_instinct]

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

[@DarkMetalOmega]

Microbial life: "I fell into the burning rings of Saturn, I went down down down, of the rings with patterns, and it burns burns burns, the rings of Saturn, the rings of Saturn."

[@gregcampwriter]

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

[@francoislacombe9071]

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

[@wolfthorn1]

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

[@janthony721]

Since you mentioned Mercury, have there ever been any plans, even hypothetical, to land any probes there?

[@SmartestRick13]

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

[@MrJbooker33]

Johns the man!

[@L9_LOGHAN-GHZT_2]

great content.

[@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! 🍻

[@landscapingspecialist]

AHHH 12:34 right on time 👌🏻

[@JohnEdgin-t2t]

I know some aliens who live in East LA.

[@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.

[@kineticshrimp4530]

Could we get a video on the Boötes void?

[@donaldgutierrez1486]

thank youuuu

[@horticasey]

You're fucking awesome, dude.

[@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☄️🌌🌐

[@ryang.5094]

Nice 👍

[@scottfitzpatrick1939]

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

[@raydavison4288]

Ty.

[@Legitti]

Last

[@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.

[@michaelfriscia8166]

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.

[@aserta]

There's a high probability that the building blocks of life are all around us. I say that because seeding Terra wouldn't happen from one rock, rather many and it would have to happen over a pretty long period of time. Because not only do you have to account for the rarity of Terra, you also have to account for the rarity of the exact environment that allows all the building blocks to mix and party. It's like this. Triangular prism crystals, rare as heck, the building blocks are everywhere, but they only form in specific pools of specific conditions and heights.

[@shaivayogi]

Love the content from a fellow Missourian. If you're ever down Farmington way, breakfast and coffee on me 👍🏼

[@mrln247]

I like the Venus music shift.

[@rachelar]

Death Star thumbnail-really was my first thought

[@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)

[@darrinwebber4077]

I knew all this... But still good video.

[@IIrandhandleII]

We need to put more emphasis on prebiotic chemistry research.

[@SiriusSphynx]

Your thumbnail gives me Mystery Science Theater vibes

[@rutabagasteu]

With the venting some of the ice moons are doing, they could be shrinking. And tossing any life there out onto vacuum.

[@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

[@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.

[@pjkaf1346]

Is there any good reason that we don’t panspermia life into habitable planets or moons ourselves? Say we sent an amount of different things, cockroaches, mammals etc then watched to see how it goes?… bacteria, viruses, seeds, fish released into waters etc etc etc

[@lolmao500]

Damn the day we are able to find out if Callisto has life in its underground ocean is the day humanity will be very advanced technologically. 250 km deep oceans? Damnnnnnnnnnnn

[@L.P.1987]

11. The Sun