Did JWST Just Confirm Alien Life on K2-18B?

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have detected signatures of life 120 light years away on a Hycean planet called K2-18B. NASA recently set JWST's sights back at the planet to attempt to confirm the initial shocking results. Have we actually found alien life?!
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[@darkone292]

No. It did not confirm life. You’re welcome for saving you 11 minutes.

[@Plato_Penguins24]

Well idk if you are a scientist

[@oliverlacey3765]

​@@Plato_Penguins24what has the scientists proved? Just alot of talk and speculation

[@oliverlacey3765]

THANK YOU!

[@tyronealfonso]

Thank you. I hate clickbait garbage. Channel blocked.

[@stef2465]

Thanks

[@Mythicalniceguy]

The problem isn’t life developing elsewhere, it’s that the odds of it evolving, advancing and being close enough for us to be aware of AT THE SAME TIME WE ARE LOOKING are beyond astronomical.

[@blueabattoir]

Well now you’re just making sense. That kind of attitude is not welcome. There’s been a lot of talk from scientists lately about how very special the conditions must be to support life, let alone intelligent life.

[@TejasviKumar-ti6ue]

Lucky we are talking bout astronomical objects here

[@kirtjames1353]

I think there are plenty of planets that could potentially have intelligent life on them. Statistically, the chances there is intelligent life that is aware of us right now are astronomical.

[@HorsiMusic]

Exactly. Single cell organisms evolving is one thing, but then multicellular organisms is another huge leap. After that comes intelligent life which is an even bigger leap. We have/had millions of species on earth, yet only humans are truly sapient.

[@kellyrobinson1780]

​@@kirtjames1353I dunno. We've discovered thousands of exoplanets, and so far, NONE of them show potential for complex, intelligent life. I think there may be intelligent life somewhere in our galaxy; but the Drake Equation be damned, considering the HIGHLY specialized requirements we know of, from the one example we have, MY bet is that it's on fewer than 10 worlds in the whole galaxy. Maybe fewer than 5. We can't (yet) confirm even SIMPLE life on any of the thousands of planets we've found. You can bet that complex, intelligent life is gonna be MUCH rarer.

[@user-gs4yj9oh2p]

Of course there is life somewhere else. Very nice we are able to detect it. It would be a enormous waste of space that only our Earth is capable to have life.

[@officialinterstellarnews]

I tend to agree

[@fndmntl5341]

The odds alone...

[@sirbarringtonwomblembe4098]

​@@fndmntl5341are nil, when there is only one example of a phenomenon.

[@sirbarringtonwomblembe4098]

1) Proof? 2) No, we haven't detected it. 3) An unscientific statement made by Sagan; the universe doesn't care whether its space is wasted.

[@Joel-pn3de]

If we are the only ones in the universe then you better start reading the Bible lol

[@TheSonOfMonger]

I don’t get why it would stun the world. It feels long overdue. There must be life out there and lots of it. You see life surviving here in some fairly inhospitable environments. It would be naive to think it was just us in a potentially infinite universe.

[@officialinterstellarnews]

There are a lot of people who would adamantly deny any proof of alien life as it will directly conflict with their long held beliefs. But if we continue to discover bio signatures, eventually we’d find a way to confirm the presence of life elsewhere. Perhaps the average person is too cynical or desensitized right now for it to even phase them. But if there were to be true confirmation of life elsewhere in the universe, perhaps proof on moons of Jupiter or Saturn, then that will surely shift humanities universal perspective. Many will have trouble reconciling the fact that we aren’t alone. The change in humanity wouldn’t happen quickly but it would happen.

[@terrynattress5262]

Why are we looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life outside our planet, when they have been visiting us for decades, if not centuries? There's more evidence here on earth than we can currently find out there... food for thought? 😊

[@spacewombat4569]

I can understand it being a shock considering most average people don't have any clue how unfathomable the scale of our universe is.

[@shaunbauer78]

Ah because of religion, it solely comes down to religion

[@kellyrobinson1780]

​@@officialinterstellarnewsto add to what you're saying, it would be an even bigger stunner to find any kind of alien life in our own solar system. We're at the technological point now where we can send robots off to our sister planets and moons to collect and return samples. Some biolab physically presenting us with actual living alien organisms from a neighboring planet would be spectacularly huge. But let's say that JWST gives us data that would seem to 100% confirm life on some exoplanet light years away, that we can never reach, now, or in the foreseeable future. There's an abstract element to that, that many people will cling to. There could always be a shade of doubt. There might be some mistake in the observation, or the data, or a processing error that just hasn't been caught yet. There's always gonna be some wiggle room, some uncertainty in a very distant observation where data on paper are the only proof. But give us a living, physical specimen, even a microscopic one, and everything changes.

[@TheRealFervor]

We're getting aliens before gta6

[@Bob_catplays]

Stop talking no one asked

[@allenbee3798]

@@Bob_catplays No one asked you.

[@Bob_catplays]

Same for you to

[@klaatunecktie7906]

Well I thought it was funny

[@akumaswrath6663]

Aliens would be worth the wait though.

[@yukiakito3083]

Born too late to watch humanity’s first step into space Born just in time to see life may exist outside Born too early to get high with some aliens Truly life is disappointing. 😢

[@rafaelramirez8788]

No one went to space. Life what you make it. There's aliens in Mexico.

[@morticias5043]

@@rafaelramirez8788 :'D

[@LevineLawrence]

Thanks for your thought provoking thought 😊

[@michelelanni9205]

AVATAR WE'RE COMING FOR YOU!!!!😂 jokes aside this is so cool

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Gotta find that Unobtainium! Haha. But yeah I agree. Hoping it all gets confirmed.

[@simonethier5793]

Pandora

[@pythanthofficial]

Ikrans, here I come!

[@erikgour3475]

That James Webb Telescope is the shit! Its amazing. Now they've discovered that the Universe is expanding at different speeds in different places. This means the speed of light is different in different areas of the Universe. Crazy

[@oliverlacey3765]

They haven't discovered anything. Just talking and showing computer generated images. They should be able to connect the telescope to a screen for all to see instead of 1 " smart guy "

[@thamadsapien4618]

​@@oliverlacey3765🤣🤣..because we're (the general population) on a need to know basis...

[@Wikchsawa]

@@thamadsapien4618 yes

[@marshlandz]

​@@oliverlacey3765 it wouldn't make sense to a large portion (probably the majority) of the general population, thats why the people who have studied that field of science get to have forst access to the info

[@happychappy492]

the speed of light is not just one speed

[@SewingMink160]

You know, every time I get a chance I go outside at night and just look up into the vastness of space, usually for about 15 to 30 minutes as i sit there and take it all in as i delve into the deep questions. Taking in that beauty of how small we are in this very very large universe is almost comforting, just looking at the expanse ahead of us i see humanity's future, a new frontier, a place of discovery and new wonders for us as a species. Every time I look at a star I hold unto that small hope that life is looking back at us somewhere out there and asking the same questions, feeling the same feelings and seeing a future for their people in the stars. I would recommend this to everyone, just go outside on a clear night away from too many pollutant light sources and take a good loooong look at the beauty of the Milky Way Galaxy and realize all of this is one small grain within a vast sea of sand and that's ok. Every life and every death, every dream and every thought has all taken place on this tiny tiny beautiful blue speck we call home, there's almost an infinite amount of other tiny specks, so how many possibilities are there? Even if there is no life in 99% of the universe that 1% that exists would still be there, which is why it is impossible that we will ever be truly alone out there. When we look into the stars we simply look back into ourselves, our existence as a people, and our hearts and minds.

[@Pow_007]

This is such an underrated comment. I never thought of this when looking at the stars but I will definitely take this perspective from now on. Thank you.

[@TYTY_xxxx]

bro wrote an actual essay 😅😅 i could never if i didnt have to but school forces us to

[@happychappy492]

They want us to feel alone so we turn to them as our one source of truth . The Universe is teeming with life everywhere!

[@MemeGuySky]

Honestly, why would we be alone here in the universe? Theres so many possibilities for life within it, even if it isn't in our galaxy. I doubt that we're alone. And I bet theres another civilization out there staring back thinking the same things.

[@happychappy492]

@@MemeGuySky exactly would be stupid to think otherwise

[@fertileplanet7756]

*Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain that whatever you're doing is worth it?*

[@ItsWazzza]

*Entering Ecological Deadzone*

[@Male_Yandxre]

*Preparing thermal nuclear missiles*

[@officialinterstellarnews]

I love that you all get it ❤️🚀

[@catlikethief1718]

Is this a subnautica reference?

[@ItsWazzza]

@@catlikethief1718 Everything is a subnautica reference, it is the answer to the universes deepest questions

[@michaeltse321]

If they find one planet with life then there will be billions found.

[@officialinterstellarnews]

It’ll certainly make it easier to make these determinations. Here’s hoping! 🤞🏻👽

[@rippinross3238]

We literally live on one. To think we are the only lucky ones to have life is pure ignorance. There 100% is life out there.

[@MysticSage-hg3jh]

@@officialinterstellarnews There are Billions of Palnets Hosting Life You and i have lived on them Before This Life.

[@MysticSage-hg3jh]

@@rippinross3238 yeah there are billions of planets hosting intelligent life Some planets even have humans just like us living in them

[@blueabattoir]

@MysticSage-hg3jh You are talking garbage.

[@EdenRust]

I'm blessed to be alive in this beautiful world. Hopefully one day we will find alien life and start going out of bounds to find the real answers behind the universe and what it holds. We just need people to start caring more about it - hopefully not destroy it as it blesses us to live. Personally I find it hard to believe that the universe will die forever at some point. I think it will start again but maybe not within a universe. Makes you think...

[@wcdrobbo4483]

🫢

[@nospodd]

we making subnautica irl with this one 🔥🔥

[@SumMfGoober]

We scannin’ leviathans with this one 🗣️🔥🔥

[@agentbutter]

"Detecting Multiple Levithan Class Lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing here is worth it?"

[@brandongerth8277]

I was just thinking of subnautica

[@TheRedReaper754]

Welcome to 4546b

[@quipsilvervr]

The dude actually said that there is a chance of there being life, but it could take months of study of the data to be able to know more. There was no absolutes in his explanations, but he is hopeful. Also there are a huge number of Scientists out there trying to debunk any potential ideas of Alien life outside of Earth, and I can only conclude it's because they either don't want there to be life, or they are worried that any discoveries they have made, might be obsolete. All I know is that when we inevitably discover life, there will be a lot of textbooks that need replaced, and a lot of Scientists who are going to be bitter as all hell about it. I'm positive there is life out there, and it's only a matter of time until we find them. I consider the notion that we are alone based on us not being able to find them with our primitive means, to be raw hubris. Until then, all we can do is fantasize about what they might look like, and if they are like us where the entire species all have microvariations in appearance.

[@officialinterstellarnews]

You made some valid points here. There’s absolutely a huge practice of denial of new evidence for the risk of being disproven. On some level, I can completely understand that feeling. When you’ve worked your whole professional career on something, it’s hard to just have it ripped away. You wrap a lot of your identity up in that. It’s just human nature to resist that. However, in my experience more come around than not. Younger generations are stepping in who have had the luxury of an ego reducing amount of information constantly available to them. I’m hopeful the bad actors will slowly decrease. But yes, he was very open about how early the research is and how cautious he is about the findings. But anytime I see a big deal made about early detections I get cautious about the motivations for the scientists. For now, I’m cautiously optimistic at best.

[@hanzocloud]

The ocean is full of fish, if you scoop a bucket up from the boat you’re sitting on, guarantee there is no fish. So can you say based on no fish in cup that there is no fish in the ocean? (Let Ocean=Universe, Boat=Earth, Cup=Telescope)

[@wumbosaurus9121]

It's important to have opposing positions in the scientific field, it means that they require undeniable proof before something is confirmed, and the scientists trying to research the find cannot release every single discovery that might possibly have the tiniest chance for life. It's not necessarily that they "don't want there to be life," but that they want the researchers to find definitive information before anyone gets too excited.

[@bolajioyedele1495]

@@hanzocloud life aint written in JavaScript bruh 😂😂

[@KeelanJon]

It's the nature of science to actively try and debunk others discoveries. As much as it can seem malicious at times, it is a necessary process to root out bad actors. But if the evidence is sound, then it will hold fast against any ridicule.

[@benjiii751]

Imagine if K2-18B telescope discovered life on Earth 😂

[@albin2232]

It found concrete signs of clickbait.

[@wout123100]

hahahaha yes

[@PhotonicRap]

How is it clickbait? The title is accurate to what the video discusses.

[@kevinmarshall3198]

This is the actual news dummy.

[@shadowdstarguy8427]

Subnautica fans, ready your scanners were goin in

[@officialinterstellarnews]

🫡

[@faeriedragon348]

I'm just excited we detected something like DMS on a planet orbiting in its star's goldy locks zone. That's an achievement in and of itself!

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Absolutely agree. Groundbreaking regardless

[@TheDavidPoole]

Be even better if they discovered DMT. I'm sure there'd be a race to get there 😆

[@LennoxMarr]

imagine they zoom in on that planet and see Spongebob 🤣😆

[@ZeroDividedByZero]

Bro imagine playing 2K online in the year 2900 with aliens 🤯

[@ThatCerealKiller.]

something that brings me down is how complex cells are, like sure there could be microbial life but still organisms are so complex

[@rpgadventurer32]

This type of discovery would be great, but at the same time may also act as a distraction for the public from other matters. As long as the Pentagon is hiding and outright refusing to cooperate and be open with the public about what it keeps when it comes to the subject of UFOs and in various unexplained incidents, then it doesn't really matter. The Pentagon has refused to cooperate with the American Congress in the latest bi-partisan committee that was set to examine the claims by what appears to be legitimate testimonies about strange and unexplained incidents involving UFOs since the inquiry last year. The Congressmen and congresswomen who participated in the "closed sessions" can't say anything. So, are these attempts to verify the existence of microbes on an exoplanet more than 120 million lightyears away from us truly advance the "crux" of the matter? Which is finding not only the possible microbial life signs on other planets, but the undeniable proof of the existence of advanced life forms and advanced civilizations on other planets, not to mention the existence of various hospitable planets for life on Earth.

[@Aureonw]

124 lightyears, not 124 million.

[@nicholasgerken9934]

Shame we will never be able to actually reach 120 light years. We might as well be equipped with balsa wood rafts at the moment in terms of our technological abilities and expertise in basic space travel. We’ve managed to get Man to the Moon. That’s like not even putting the balsa wood raft on the edge of our own shoreline. If we detected life on Próxima Centauri at 4 light years away, it might be possible to think optimistically but 120 LY, no way will we ever get out that far.

[@fabriziobiancucci7702]

Even with current technology is possible. You need an immense amount of resources and materials and the ones that will arrive at destination will be the third generation of colonizators, but it is possible

[@jonathonsmith8871]

@@fabriziobiancucci7702it’s not possible. With the fastest technology available today, we can travel 1 light year in 38,000 years. Anything that has mass can’t travel at the speed of light

[@fabriziobiancucci7702]

@@jonathonsmith8871 We have already projects based on actual science that can travel at 94c, like the relativistic rocket. The problem is that the amount of resources necessary to build them is so high that the entire global economy pales in comparison. But if we had enough resources, we could travel the closer as phisically possible to the speed of light.

[@cthulhu4411]

Aliens farting on distant planet 😂

[@markomlikotic6673]

Alien farts!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@cthulhu4411]

@@markomlikotic6673 🤣🤣🤣

[@simonethier5793]

😅😅😅😅

[@cthulhu4411]

@@simonethier5793 💨

[@SewingMink160]

Space cows over there farting like Earth cows.

[@spacewithspo]

Incredible video man! Editing was next level! 🔥🔥🔥

[@officialinterstellarnews]

I appreciate that! Trying to deliver a better experience for you with each video. 🚀🚀🚀

[@IsaacHarvison-mt5xt]

​@@officialinterstellarnewsit's 2 time's bigger than earth and is in a habital zone and plus life doesn't need to evolve like earth today scientists are closed minded life as we don't know it

[@YT-Scott]

To believe we are the only ones in this seemingly infinite universe is just nuts. Just like if I’m alive here sitting at home, someone else is. If we’re here, something else is out there too. The universe is too massive for us to be the only ones. We only think we’re special because we’re the only ones we know of

[@MrManfly]

I never had any doubt that there’s microbial life everywhere in the universe but I remain sceptical about alien beings 👽

[@zosodivine3693]

Faxxxxxxxxxxxx 🤌🏾

[@VeryCoolPhoenix]

The universe is like a big house with thousands of rooms. We live in the Milky Way which is like a room, but we only have discovered less than a centimeter of the room which means we simply cannot assume there is no life out there since we haven’t searched enough.

[@MrManfly]

@@VeryCoolPhoenix I can’t disagree with this opinion either, the odds of having intelligent life somewhere in the universe is probably very high but because organic beings cannot simply travel across the universe to find it I’ll remain skeptical 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Anakin500]

Really good video but super good editing😊

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Hey I really appreciate that! Trying to provide a better product each and every video. 🙏🏻 You might like my Earth 2.0 video if you havent seen it already! 🌎

[@corwinzelazney5312]

You have 'extreme reservations' based on what exactly? Why is it okay to make assumptions in one direction but not the other?

[@MichaelHarto]

based on statistics and probability. if you know you have 20% chance of survival in a car collision, would you risk being in that crash test car?

[@officialinterstellarnews]

To be specific, when I first saw the data from back in September I didn’t think the DMS readings were much of anything. There was too much uncertainty there. I would have hesitated to even suggest anything of the sort until a second survey was done to confirm. However, it’s a part of science today. You gotta build hype to get anything done. It feels like a tactic to make these extended claims, despite very low levels of certainty, to make the case to get to use the JWST again for your project.

[@IsaacHarvison-mt5xt]

​@@officialinterstellarnewswho say life needs to evolve like earth life is resilient what if an organism evolved not to be carbon based and still needs water and produces dms lol can't rule that out

[@user58541]

Doesn't matter if its microbe life at least we know we aren't alone

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Exactly!

[@user58541]

​@officialinterstellarnews 120 light years is pretty far so just imagine how much would change if we managed to ever get there

[@fbefecan619]

@@user58541not really. In the universal scale 120 ly is the next door neighbors

[@TimeToGetAGoodLife]

@@fbefecan619 And they weren't talking about the universal scale, they were talking about the scale of how far and fast WE can travel. Even at light speed it'd take over 124 years to reach that planet. Our fastest rocket ship was 0.064% the speed of light. It would take millennia to reach this planet with our best modern technology. And that's not accounting for the fact that this planet is still moving around. The calculations required to land something there would be almost impossible.

[@muhammaduddin9268]

Use Alien technology from Area 51.

[@ruffadamsthegreat.2662]

Whoops!😅 Its highly improbable that there is not.☺️ But, not necessarily Intelligent Life. And that's the Biggie.

[@kamaltahir6440]

At this point it doesn't really matter, as long as there is life. That's big enough. It opens the door to other planets, suddenly we're not so alone anymore

[@dot1298]

other bacteria.. so what?

[@dot1298]

it wouldn‘t change *anything* here on earth, everyone would just shrug

[@dot1298]

but.. if we found a primate-like colony that would already be different..

[@dot1298]

even if these were just on the level of our Bonobos

[@leosh9026]

Ruh roh. Also, extremely huge props to melodysheep for these stunning animations (and you crediting melodysheep)

[@officialinterstellarnews]

His work is inspirational and head and shoulders above anything else in the space. I am extremely careful about making sure there is proper fair use protocol being used and full transparency in any footage we use, especially his.

[@leosh9026]

c:

[@BELLA-lt2ws]

It still amazing 👏 the most important part we need to understand is it not a question if there is life on other planets the question is when and what planet will we find it

[@malleshrenatla2849]

We r not alone in the galaxy , actually thinking of the universe, oh life only exist on earth its not correct , billions of earth like planets are in the galaxy, life is common in the galaxy

[@officialinterstellarnews]

I find it hard to believe we’re alone.

[@Legend-mg2ry]

Maybe we’re alone in our galaxy when it comes to “intelligent life” at the very least.

[@maurygardner1843]

For anyone thinking we are alone something is wrong seeing is not believing

[@2147B]

For anyone thinking this ISN'T part of the AI science scam crisis on youtube, maybe it's to late for you.

[@bbailey7740]

@@2147B😂

[@jonathanc3001]

Finally a video on this topic that discusses the caveats and is honest about what we don't know, instead of just sensationalizing and only giving one side of the topic. Good job

[@officialinterstellarnews]

I appreciate that. Really. 👊🏻🚀

[@MrMick560]

Only 124 light years away, can we book now ?

[@naveenrana4976]

WOW...Hope it gets confirmed.

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Agreed! 🤞🏻

[@itzdcx7991]

I don't

[@bearwithnicehair]

I hope not. I’d rather be alone

[@BurnAmazonDown]

Its approximately 110 light years away so unfortunately we will never know

[@officialinterstellarnews]

I wouldn’t say never

[@dwrldgster3151]

Never

[@NickJoeBeg]

Thought the speed of light was fast? This guys never is fast af

[@kellyrobinson1780]

​@@NickJoeBegI never speak in absolutes! 🤭

[@user-sj1ne2op8m]

@@dwrldgster3151never ever too far

[@paradelights]

...and here on our planet we don't consider a human "fetus," life outside of the womb. This is dripping with irony

[@hectormoncayo6519]

What about the fact that K orbits a red star? Doesn't this find contradicts the data that said such planets have a unstable environment and are unable to sustain life due to one side being totally locked ? What is the point of finding dms in a planet that is bound to be stripped out of its atmosphere sooner than the appearance of aminoacids "if" ?

[@fabriziobiancucci7702]

Such hipotesis found many contradictions in the scientific community. Many think that a strong magnetic field would be enough to avoid the atmosphere to be blow away by the star's radiation

[@vonsowards1297]

9:22 in what way would the news that there is life on another planet change everything on a societal level? Most people already believe that.

[@kiiturii]

Are you stupid? It doesn't matter what joe schmoe believes, it's an entirely different thing to actually have real observable evidence.

[@Anomaly_Files18]

All we need is for the UAP Disclosure Act to be passed fully made by Chuck Schumer and Rounds, and we would know our answer.

[@trygswyrmwoodside3229]

The whole point of that bill is so other governments can get a closer look at unrelated secrets.

[@fivefives8043]

It's hilarious that some people are falling for that obvious espionage ploy. It's like everyone forgot about the cold war already.

[@whitneymiller3809]

Can you explain to me what that is? I mean can you dumb it down for me?😅

[@Anomaly_Files18]

@@whitneymiller3809 It’s basically disclosure for Non Human Intelligence, everything the US has on UAPs like crash retrievals or bodies or any kind of documents would have to be revealed to the public. But it was gutted by a few members of congress even though it was bi-partisan. It only talks about NHI not human tech.

[@abbiravindhran8424]

You forgot to mention that only sliver of hope is that the DMS on K2-18B is HIGHER than that off Earth. It is possible that there is more marine algae and other photosynthetic microorganisms but no complex multicellular organisms

[@shaunandrews1197]

What's interesting is the chemistry and carbon chemistry that goes on inside of PROPLYD's as the young star forms and pushes out the remaining material that will form planets and the other bodies around it, the diversity of molecules and chemical compounds is simply amazing for 1 example clouds of alcohol like immense clouds of the stuff exist in space and on Earth it's a byproduct of life so taking that into consideration this is an example of why not jumping to conclusions about certain molecules being made by lifeforms is a good thing but it also shows how seeding of planets that are in the goldilocks zone works and it shows the possibility of life forming is quite high if conditions are right.

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Good point. One thing I didn’t mention, and I realize I should have, is that a lot of these detections could also be explained by how the photons from the star are interacting with the planet to create these signatures. It’s also likely these chemical signatures are not being produced by processes on the planet itself, but rather by photons from the star influencing these readings within the atmosphere.

[@kellyrobinson1780]

Immense clouds of alcohol in space? When's the next outbound ship???🥴🍸🥃🍷🍾

[@shaunandrews1197]

​@officialinterstellarnews It was good as it was to be fair the thought popped into my head after I watched the video, I love learning about anything to do with science and origins of life it's so interesting especially nowadays with all the tech and whatnot, I remember reading as a kid about anoxic Earth and stromatelites being made by cyanobacteria and being awww struck that a few still exist today how animals and humans are like a symbiosis or merger of 2 different single celled entities that make us what we are.......I could go on and on just thinking these things amazes me, thank you for the effort you put into making these video's and also replying, respect man.

[@tallesrodrigues5994]

I haven't even watched the video yet, but I bet at the end he'll say something like "it's possible, but at the end of the day, we can't be sure".

[@CasIsCuriousAboutScience]

5:16 Is that a StarTalk reference?

[@officialinterstellarnews]

I was showing StarTalk on screen but more making it a reference to notable figures within the field expressing their opinions on the matter, not necessarily Dr. Tyson specifically.

[@CasIsCuriousAboutScience]

@@officialinterstellarnews Huh? Edit:ok

[@karlvann5840]

I think a higher intelligent life has been here the entire time we just recognize it

[@TheWalkingMeme360]

The thing is that we found the same thing on Venus recently. there's either a separate way to make methane or there's life on both K2 and Venus

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Few people have said this and not sure where this information is coming from but we have not found DMS on Venus.

[@KevinGulling]

We've done it, we've detected alien flatulence 😂

[@robst247]

Nah -- it's just humans farting around. Business as usual.

[@globetrottingtore.640]

Donald trump has an alien counterpart.

[@robst247]

Nothing new: my former [ahem] 'partner' was productive in that department.

[@InanimateObject123]

I feel like it really doesn't matter how strong the evidence is, people will always find ways to explain it away as some unknown natural process

[@Runemations]

Cientists think there might be bacterial life in the upper layer of the atmosphere of Venus.

[@vincelupo8419]

4:30 in. As I recall, water is a good buffer for radiation. So if there's life there, mostly underwater especially, it's got some nice shielding.

[@sunflowii9420]

Just did a presentation on astrobiology on the topic of Webb, it blows my mind how on Earth we have such a unique forms of life; I can only imagine how cool it would be to confirm the existence of other life in another system or galaxy. I whole heartedly believe there’s other living entities out there. We may not have met them yet but they must be out there

[@user-ts3qp4dg3k]

The compilation of pictures and audio is great

[@lucploegman]

I'm 32 right now.. I have watched Kepler discover plannets to fill in a bit a Drakes equesion.. Webs potential is huge.. It can fil in drakes equesion.. Finding life, it could us humans help to grow up faster..

[@gyros69420]

I just wanna live long enough to see submarines under the ice of europa or Enceladus.

[@bazpearce9993]

More data is needed. JWST has to take lots of looks at things like this. It helps to filter out any noise and false signals.

[@vilmoswinkler3050]

so 4546b might be real? (the plnet from subnautica)

[@WLightTheme]

0:27 Okay who summoned the Desert Titan???

[@officialinterstellarnews]

🙋🏻‍♂️ my bad

[@robertrossi3788]

It would have been interesting to see a comparison of graphs with one being Earth’s DMS and other elements above and K2-18B below. So many possibilities out there.

[@naifthegamer9451]

Warning detecting, multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you’re doing is worth it ?

[@prattoychanda3322]

Great video. Covered up the topic fair and square from ever angle.

[@user-bp9xw3ht8s]

I'm betting somewhere in the universe there are stars that make Stephenson 2-18 look like a speck of dust.

[@jay2bnvd]

A team led by Nicholas Wogan (NASA Ames Research Center and University of Washington) tackled this question by applying two sets of models to the JWST data. The first set describes rocky planets with surface oceans, with and without life, and the second set describes gaseous planets without a surface and without life. The models predict the planet’s photochemistry - chemical reactions in the atmosphere driven by photons from the host star - and climate. Wogan’s team found that K2-18b is unlikely to be a lifeless water world, since this type of planet wouldn’t contain enough methane in its atmosphere to produce the signal seen in the JWST observations. Intriguingly, a water world with microbial life is more promising: acetotrophic methanotrophs - a tongue-twisting name for simple methane-producing organisms - may be able to produce the supply of methane seen in the planet’s atmosphere.

[@dot1298]

„unlikely“ - how unlikely? and could it be a world with volcanos, explaining the methane?

[@aegaeon117]

If it was announced that microbial life was found, a small niche would get excited and the rest of us wouldn't get excited or, feel any different but, if it was announced we have AGI... That would be news worthy.

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Wouldn’t be surprising. One is local, one isn’t. I’d understand if someone was less excited about it.

[@kamaltahir6440]

Greatest discovery in human history. Any form of life. Let's hope so

[@viciousyeen6644]

That’s the thing, either all the super religious people go ham or they ignore it out of ignorance

[@TimeToGetAGoodLife]

Microbial life being found on another planet would be the biggest discovery in all of human history, actually. Because if there is a form of life on another planet, that would automatically mean that life CAN form on other planets, and going off of statistics, that'd mean space is more than likely teeming with life in every corner. In just our Milky Way galaxy alone there are hundreds of millions of planets that humans could theoretically live on.

[@thebclpoonilli3098]

If we get the tech to travel to another star system, can we go to a few that don't have life before barging in on someone's home.

[@Minepro306]

fuck... they found 4546B

[@whatever_itis_itis_4tobe]

i remember back in 2017, i jus happened to catch tha news one day, an there was a lady on from nasa, an she said in 20-30 years they should be able to find life on other planets but yet they have tha technology in todays age, was her words,,,,,,, i believe life out there looks like humans like us, or star trek people,

[@p-k98]

If it is still not confirmed whether or not that planet is a Hycean, then i will have to hold my horses 😢.

[@kevinmckown3193]

🎵🎶Little life forms 🎶you Precious little life forms 🎶You lovely little life forms🎶 Where are you🎵🎶🎶

[@the_joe_reynolds_foundation]

“Is this a video that will actually give you an answer to the clickbait title, or are we just going to string you along for 11 minutes and give no conclusion one way or another?”

[@jaxonfreeman1756]

The best we can hope for is to say words like "potentially" or "possibly" when it comes to life on other planets. Short of physically visiting another world, there is no amount of data that can conclusively say there is life on any given planet.

[@drrmagneto4176]

how they detect things so far?

[@towoperations]

I love how these videos make a ridiculous "claim" on the thumbnail but put a question mark at the end 🤣🤣

[@lowi5630]

Its so cool and so frustrating at the same time, knowing we will never be able to go there :(

[@viciousyeen6644]

Someday someone will be. It’s human nature to find a way to

[@alienz2384]

“I was shell shocked” 5:46 “we are not very confident about it”

[@daveninjaneuro7089]

In another interview, he put the odds at 50/50. Welp.

[@mattisketels8939]

I have a question where did the first life cell on this planet come from ????

[@kellyrobinson1780]

We don't know. Could have occurred in a small pool on some shore, or in a warm, shallow sea, or at the bottom of the ocean near a geothermal vent. Or, we could have been seeded from space. Some meteorites have been found to contain organic molecules, proteins, amino acids (those 3 terms overlap each other, btw) and such in pockets and crevices, having survived the trip through our atmosphere and impact with the surface. We'll probably never know exactly where, when, and how the first primitive cell formed.

[@mattisketels8939]

@@kellyrobinson1780 hmmmmm weird

[@viciousyeen6644]

The thing is, new cells develop rn everywhere around us, at places like the guy above said, or even just your backyard. It’s just very small and unnoticeable and such processes take unimaginably long to perpetuate into a full fledged ecosystem like what our planet is now. Evolution never stops just because there’s already something there, it’s always keeping up the competition. Also, in the end the chemistry of life is nothing but laws of nature at play. Then there’s the driving force of entropy and negentropy, chaos and order of energy systems, that will result in ever more complex systems of matter, so in a way life needs to exist

[@thunderkrux7745]

33 day orbital period? Meaning it orbits very close to its star. That likely means it’s tidally locked and getting broiled on one side of the planet. That alone should discount any thoughts of a liquid ocean

[@coresimson3825]

How far back in time are we looking at this planet.

[@1lionmurrill]

It’s more surprising that we haven’t found any life, then it is if someone found life!

[@quorthonsinferno5119]

I mean if it is true, we've only been able to categorize a very very miniscule portion of visible space, let alone do actual analysis. So if we found life this quickly after the industrial revolution, than life has to be pretty common in the universe

[@derek-64]

Whether this planet has life or not we can still learn a lot from studying it. So even if it has no life we can still get some valuable information from it.

[@josephnebeker7976]

3:51 - 4:00 When a definition of nature is "that in which life occurs," a chemical produced from life is naturally occurring.

[@MrPulimen]

I don't mean to ruin the party but although as exciting as this sounds, people need to be aware that this happens very often in science. There are numerous errors (both which we are and are not aware) regarding observational instruments, especially considering JWST was launched recently. This type of optimistic thinking has the potential to overlook mistakes, thus science rewards those who maintain themselves very skeptical. News media also don't do a great job sharing these news and confuse people with no formal background (or even formal sometimes) in STEM to believe life has been found.

[@doc-vg9lq]

this is probably where those Las Vegas aliens came from.

[@hawg_tv]

It’s extremely ignorant to think in a billion Galaxy’s we are the only life. Wild to me some still believe that

[@SeverinHawkland7855]

If it's just 120 light years away, we're basically seeing it as it is right now. In geologic timescales.

[@ChristopherShipe]

Awesome video, thank you, exciting for humanity regardless of the outcome 🛰️

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Thank you so much!

[@pgc6290]

But why does a scientist give interviews before actually discovering the thing.

[@dustinhaus1165]

Thinking there is no other life out there somewhere is one of the last rings of the geocentric model

[@johnmiller2689]

I wonder if they turned the JWST towards Earth and showed the reading to scientists without telling them it was from Earth, if they'd say "There's no evidence of life here."

[@naiyo87]

I'm sure they'd figure out it's Earth right away

[@officialinterstellarnews]

Haha, I know it’s a joke, but in reality if the JWST was turned back towards Earth the sun would burn it up before it could even take a single reading. That’s what the heat shield on the bottom is for 😬

[@cyriloboco3083]

The statistics for intelligent life on another planet is so astronomically low that there is no way we would even be near enough for us to discover one another givin how slow light travels compared to the vast infinity of space. Intelligent life probably exists somewhere on the other side of the universe, and the universe is infinite

[@Brinta3]

2:27 “It’s a little over twice the size of Earth” Then why does it say 2.7x onscreen? That’s closer to three times.

[@Michaelmyerzofficial]

We need to invest more money into space exploration, imagine all the cool finds and advancements we could make

[@the_unknown2024]

I still dont get why some people find the idea of alien life a fantasy. Fantasy would be to think that, in an infinite space that is the universe, we are the only planet, along billions and billions, to have developed life I think we have known long ago that we are not the center of the universe, so life is not exclusive to us

[@minheritance]

I look over at my cat realizing both her and I are aliens to some other life out there. Existence is crazy

[@kellyrobinson1780]

I think the significance here is that we think we have any DMS at all; but ALSO in the presence of methane and carbon dioxide? These early results are not definitive, of course, but they ARE, as Arte Johnson used to say, "VERrrry EENteresting"!

[@TheRealCesarLeo]

Aliens pull up and need to restock fuel " WERE MY EGYPTIONS AT "

[@rafaeru_]

Here's my engagement to you: I liked the video. Im commenting and im sharing it to a friend who i am 100% certain will say the same thing i wanna say: please, stop the goddam clickbait. i clicked on the video already knowing it was about the "microcosm of life". But you made it so the less educated people think they found "actual aliens". The "Green little guys with big heads". appart from that, nice video. keep up the good work!

[@gigachad6844]

Methane was also detected on Mars but that doesn't mean there is life on Mars methane can also be produced due to geological processes

[@SeanY-wx9ht]

imagine it became a little too hot in one area and all the hydrogen exploded 💀💀