Life in Space WITHOUT Planets
We're used to look for life on exoplanets. But what if we're looking in the wrong place? Can life exist without a planet? Finding out in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Robin Wordsworth https://eps.harvard.edu/people/robin-wordsworth
📜 Self-sustaining living habitats in extraterrestrial environments https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.14477
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Comments (4)
Partway in, I ask myself, if Enceladus wouldn‘t be a prime target to look for extraplanetary biomes? This moon forms its own ring around Saturn and shoots organic crap into space at a constant rate. Wouldn‘t it make sense, that in such environments something could happen, that creates such a membrane or a livable condition for space-bacteria to thrive? Just imagine such bacteria evolving into bioluminescent crap that lights up the saturn ring in an eerie green glow on the night side. Well that all under the presumption, that there was already life on that moon. Very basic life, not Ewoks. I can imagine those places in the universe to be the origin for life in space drifting through the vast expanse, happily mating with others they cross orbits with, maybe pansperming all over the inner solar system due to some gravitational shenanigans or maybe comets plunging through the ring with breakneck speeds. 🤔
My first Patreon-Video I watch and it is straight up my alley (Is that the correct idiom?) 🤔 I am just starting, but I really hope there will be a mention of space whales! 🤞 I am a big fan of space whales, maybe my favorite scifi animal after the sandworm. 🐋 🪱
Although interesting I did nearly fall off my chair when Dr. Wordsworth suggested a space lifeform 100 metres across. It's the old chicken and egg problem but more so!
Very informative!👍