Building Blocks of Life // Giant Volcanic Activity of Io // Bacteria Outside the ISS

I feel that all the little probes and robots in space do not receive enough coverage. Of course it was a great achievement to put people on the moon, but there was a drone flying over the surface of mars and a mission had gone to an asteroid, collected some diret from it and brought it back to scientists. Anprobe had landed on Titan and the Galileo-mission was the most beautiful and amazing interplanetary mission ever! A camera zoomed by Pluto and brought us back amazing pictures and science. Or when a humanity landed on a comet or touched our sun. I grew up with Voyager and it had me correct my astronomy book about the solar-system with a pencil, since it had outdated wrong „facts“ in it (probably because I am an autist…) and in a time, where we didn‘t know about exoplanets, yet. Back, when the known universe was moving towards some theoretical point in space, the Great Attractor or maybe it was the Great Wall - but today we got those regions mapped out and our universe got so much larger. We live in the future and I appreciate our soulless little friends on their mindblowing journeys and they amaze me so much more than some human mission could. We should put way more research into sample return missions and try to make the scientific instruments on board of those probes better, so we basically don‘t need squishy meatbags in space anymore. I think, space is the perfect realm for AI.

Yes! Ten times yes what you said about your interview with Megan about current knowledge state of Trappist 1 system. Thank you both!