JWST Searches for Life in Our Solar System

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Can NASA’s most powerful telescope detect key ingredients for life as we know it?
There are three places in our solar system, beyond Earth, that are good candidates to look for life: Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, Enceladus, and Titan, two of Saturn’s moons.
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  • @patray162
    @patray162 Жыл бұрын

    It would be wonderful to have an episode with subject matter experts expanding on this topic. Plants cannot live at ocean depths/under ice or anywhere else that they can't photosynthesize... Hydrothermal vents instead support ecosystems with the primary productivity of chemosynthetic microbes. The possibilities of such vent ecosystems existing anywhere beyond Earth is indeed thrilling however, and I myself would watch many more videos on similar topics if astrobiologists/biologists were included!

  • @stevejohnson5477

    @stevejohnson5477

    Жыл бұрын

    God made the Earth perfect!!😊

  • @MossyMozart

    @MossyMozart

    2 ай бұрын

    @@stevejohnson5477 - You are welcome to your beliefs. The rest of us are free to have ours.

  • @bradwatson7324
    @bradwatson7324 Жыл бұрын

    But we’d rather create weapons of war.

  • @jebes909090

    @jebes909090

    Жыл бұрын

    because they're awesome

  • @vincevincent6984
    @vincevincent698410 ай бұрын

    Definitely life on Europa & Enceladus. & would it be cool to find alien life on Titan a methane world 👽

  • @brainwashed2586
    @brainwashed258611 ай бұрын

    I believe life is a common occurrence under reasonable circumstances

  • @TheJemoore9899
    @TheJemoore9899 Жыл бұрын

    Bought freakin time. We kinda have a moon in our own solar system that's shooting out water. It has an ocean that contains much more water than what we have here. I mean, I don't get looking for life outside the solar system with Enceladus just chilling there. It's kind of infuriating. Sure it will take years for any mission to get a probe there but this should have started a long time ago.

  • @XxThatGuyxX
    @XxThatGuyxX Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @stormrunner0029
    @stormrunner0029 Жыл бұрын

    What’s going to happen to our Petri dish when they finally open the closet door? That’s what I think about. Our spores flying all over the place, looking for life.

  • @RonnyCoalman
    @RonnyCoalman Жыл бұрын

    Damn man, i want one of those Mobo/Nova/Mova Globes.

  • @Hub3rtCumb3rdal3
    @Hub3rtCumb3rdal3 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine meeting aliens on planet Titan and the whole time you're trying not to throw up from the smell of liquid methane 🤢🤮

  • @Alaskan-Armadillo

    @Alaskan-Armadillo

    10 ай бұрын

    Imagine if the aliens were like "This is where we harvest our award winning perfume"

  • @mikeddh2018
    @mikeddh2018 Жыл бұрын

    Just report anything that troll "raw biblical creationism data" says as spam or misinformation.

  • @WillieWeed

    @WillieWeed

    Жыл бұрын

    @Mike ddh • why? Thought NASA, PBS and everyone has to check with them before they can do anything. They're even recalling James Webb because they said it's a waste of time.

  • @mikeddh2018

    @mikeddh2018

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WillieWeed no one is recalling anything. Why are you lying? What do you and your kind gain from spreading blatant misinformation like this?

  • @WillieWeed

    @WillieWeed

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mikeddh2018 it's called sarcasm. You should try it sometime

  • @MossyMozart

    @MossyMozart

    2 ай бұрын

    @mikeddh2018 - My pleasure.

  • @davidrockey7190
    @davidrockey7190 Жыл бұрын

    Life is everywhere 🤫🗿

  • @MossyMozart

    @MossyMozart

    2 ай бұрын

    @davidrockey7190 - Maybe so!

  • @jasonhollister7497
    @jasonhollister7497 Жыл бұрын

    ................................Woderfull outlook of OWER "SOLER System....SIMPLY ("WONDERFUL") .......................................................................................................("WONDERFUL") !!

  • @TheRajmoney
    @TheRajmoney Жыл бұрын

    There's life on europa for sure. Why are we keep looking at other galaxies? Just send lander to Europa

  • @chrisbarnard5679
    @chrisbarnard5679 Жыл бұрын

    If there's any life on a planet like earth. It's because It's not just volcanically active but more likely active with life living in its soil like earth has with its worms and other insects. It's just a perfect chain reaction

  • @charlesbrightman4237
    @charlesbrightman4237 Жыл бұрын

    LIFE: The coherency of energy in a certain format. DEATH: The de-coherency of energy when life no longer exists. (And in a certain context, the entire universe is alive.)

  • @charlesbrightman4237

    @charlesbrightman4237

    Жыл бұрын

    Who and/or What Am I? Do 'I' even exist? (copy and paste from my files): Consider the following: a. I am a human as defined by humans. b. I am an energy based quarkelectronian as modern science claims that all matter is made up of quarks, electrons and interacting energy and I am made up of matter and interacting energy. c. I am a being of 'light', 'if' my current theory of everything is correct whereby the 'gem' photon is the energy unit of this universe that makes up everything in this universe, including space, time and numbers. (Currently dependent upon the results of my gravity test). d. "I" do not even actually exist but eternally existent space time exists as me, currently in the forms as above. * I exist and yet "I" simultaneously do not exist, dependent upon perspective. But yet, do "I" not truly exist in absolute truth reality as only eternally existent space time exists as all things in absolute truth reality? * "I" can mentally change between perspectives thereby experiencing existence from those various perspectives. "My" mind continues to expand, but is it truly 'my' mind that is expanding or is it eternally existent space time's mind that is expanding? In absolute truth reality, it would seem to be the later. * 'To Be or Not To Be'. I am both, 'I Am and I Am Not.' But I Am Not it appears more than I Am. * Consider also: If asked the general question, 'What do you know?'. My current answer would be, 'Not much compared to all that can be known.' (I Am Not, More than I Am). It's humbling. * Is it truly any wonder that the flow of energy in the universe affects species? We are the universe experiencing itself.

  • @charlesbrightman4237

    @charlesbrightman4237

    Жыл бұрын

    ETERNAL CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE ACHIEVED? (copy and paste from my files): Consider the following as well, even utilizing modern science: a. Modern science claims that energy cannot be created nor destroyed (a foundational principal of physics). Hence, energy is either eternally existent, or modern science is wrong. b. Modern science claims that we have new cells that come into existence inside of our body on a daily basis. This appears to be really true. So, since I have a body with energy and cells in it: * A part of me is eternally existent and a part of me is being born anew on a daily basis. * My current body extends from eternity past until now. * Rising to a higher level of thought, the 'now' that I exist in is 'eternal'. * I am currently existing in the 'eternal now'. * I am currently an actual eternally existent conscious entity existing in the eternal now. At least once in my life I reached being an actual eternally existent conscious entity existing in the eternal now. It's just that the current analysis indicates that it will not always be that way. But then again, as I don't know what I don't know, and even what I believe I know to be really true maybe isn't, as well as my mind making up stuff to fill in the gaps of it's perceived existence, along with other items too, I will be the first to admit that I could be wrong. Maybe once attained, I actually have an actual eternal conscious existence in some form throughout all of future eternity. Can I really ever prove to myself that I don't? And also: "IF" my TOE idea is correct, then: * I am currently an actual eternally existent conscious being of light ('gem' photons) existing in an environment entirely made of light ('gem' photons), existing in the eternal now. But then also: "IF" my definitions of Space Time and the TOE idea are correct, then: * Do "I" and all things even actually exist in the first place, OR does ONLY the 'gem' photons exist as all things? How could "I" ever die if "I" never actually existed in the first place but the eternally existent 'gem' photons were existing as "me"? And if the 'gem' photons decided to exist as "me" throughout all of future eternity, whom am "I" to argue with them since "I" don't even actually exist at all in the first place? If the 'gem' photons decided to exist as "me" throughout all of future eternity, they might only have to will it to be so. And note, this would apply to you too. * Added note: One just has to find out how to stay 'life coherent' throughout literally all of future eternity, otherwise, one would eventually de-cohere back from whence one came. One would die and go extinct for all the rest of future eternity. Such it appears is 'life' until life itself is no more. * Alternative: Find a way to keep the energy of our being in a coherent format so as to stay alive in some form to exist throughout all of future eternity, (future eternity being a really, really long time, with literally no end). Plus, one would have to live through many, many, many mass extinction events of all kinds. And then also, one would have an ever growing list of long lost loved ones who either could not, or chose not to, stay coherent themselves throughout all of future eternity. So that life itself has continued meaning and purpose to throughout all of future eternity. Otherwise, if no entity exists one day, then all of life itself would all be ultimately meaningless in the grandest scheme of things as no entity would be left to care about anything or anyone literally ever again throughout all the rest of future eternity. It would not even ultimately matter that any of us ever existed in the first place much less how we existed while we existed. Either at least one species survives throughout all of future eternity (if it's even actually possible to literally do), OR none do.

  • @troy3456789

    @troy3456789

    Жыл бұрын

    @@charlesbrightman4237 Buddhists answered that a long time ago. It's just conscious creatures asking questions like the most conscious creatures do; most of which are pseudo questions such as "what is the meaning of life?". You are not having an experience. There is no you to have an experience. There is no periphery in which to view the "experience" you think you may be having.

  • @charlesbrightman4237

    @charlesbrightman4237

    Жыл бұрын

    @@troy3456789 And yet, show me Buddhists who have physically died a long time ago and who are still alive today.

  • @charlesbrightman4237

    @charlesbrightman4237

    Жыл бұрын

    @@troy3456789 "It's just conscious creatures asking questions like the most conscious creatures do; most of which are pseudo questions such as "what is the meaning of life?". " Currently, the one singular ultimate answer to ALL questions in existence, including questions never even asked is: "It Does Not Ultimately Matter", or in today's vernacular "IDNUM". (OSICA) Because: EXISTENTIAL PHYSICS: (Current Analysis): (copy and paste from my files): Regardless of how we exist, the future condenses down to a singular outcome: All life (real and artificial) eventually dies and goes extinct, at least those on and from this Earth. (Subject to revision as new information might dictate).

  • @davidrockey7190
    @davidrockey7190 Жыл бұрын

    If there was when we landed on the moon we would have found that out 🤫🗿

  • @qkitselectronics5415
    @qkitselectronics5415 Жыл бұрын

    I would have to say, yes and I'm not thinking about microbes.

  • @djhi-flo
    @djhi-flo Жыл бұрын

    Tease

  • @richbc517
    @richbc517 Жыл бұрын

    Wow just send prove to capture that fumes and send it back to earth to study

  • @davidrockey7190
    @davidrockey7190 Жыл бұрын

    Srote you can have it. ..,.

  • @ScrapPalletMan
    @ScrapPalletMan Жыл бұрын

    There isn't any life in our solar system! Especially on earth.

  • @gaylesundahl1474
    @gaylesundahl1474 Жыл бұрын

    Meethane?? Methane gas/liquid(cold)

  • @MossyMozart

    @MossyMozart

    2 ай бұрын

    @gaylesundahl1474 - British accent.

  • @rebeccadubois8270
    @rebeccadubois8270 Жыл бұрын

    Why did you choose to believe in that flavor of god given the several hundred options?

  • @troy3456789

    @troy3456789

    Жыл бұрын

    Nobody chooses what they believe; not one person ever. All of your beliefs, your opinions, your certainties are all 100% involuntary. Every person on the planet believes they posses the truth, or they are uncertain (and they don't choose that uncertainty either). All those that are certain they know everything cannot all be right, because not all of their opinions and certainties can all be mapped onto reality; but they do not know that. Instead, the insist out loud they are right and that others, with different opinions are all wrong. They spend their time looking for all the evidence they can use that will prove them right, never once wondering if they should be uncertain.

  • @MossyMozart

    @MossyMozart

    2 ай бұрын

    @@troy3456789 = "Nobody chooses what they believe; not one person ever." - - - - What an incredibly silly and short-sighted thing to write.

  • @kahnadah
    @kahnadah Жыл бұрын

    Isn't there life in our solar system...ON EARTH?

  • @thearbyter7953

    @thearbyter7953

    Жыл бұрын

    @Hans Klopek Same goes for Trump

  • @johnnychannel7824
    @johnnychannel782410 ай бұрын

    I saw a ghost when I was a kid. Who believe my story, those people who believe my story, they also believe there are possibilities of life outside our planet. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊😊

  • @MasterBlaster3545
    @MasterBlaster3545 Жыл бұрын

    Believers take the easy way out. They can’t think nor do they want to. Just believing there is a creator is sad.

  • @rebeccadubois8270

    @rebeccadubois8270

    Жыл бұрын

    And that creator is infinite not needing a creator of its own which is absurd. If the creator they believe is eternal and comes from nothing then the universe is too.

  • @troy3456789

    @troy3456789

    Жыл бұрын

    They didn't choose their beliefs anymore than you chose yours. This is really important to consider when dealing with faith-based religious people such as devout Christians and Muslims. We can and should engage with them with compassion for their situation for which they did not choose. Instead, consider yourself extremely fortunate if you were raised in a home that taught you to value evidence to guide belief. If you outgrew your religious compulsions and your family didn't give you an honor killing, or you were not jailed for blasphemy or atheism; consider yourself very very lucky. I'm not saying to pity religious believers, but urging to curb the appetite to make fun of the religiously devout. There is no free will for us (the whole concept of free will is an illusion), and they don't have it either. We just have to get better at liberating people from the yoke of religion.

  • @TomTom-xp2jb

    @TomTom-xp2jb

    Жыл бұрын

    So you're saying Einstein took the easy way out? Can't you conceive of science and spirituality being harmonious? Both have their place imo. ✌️

  • @troy3456789

    @troy3456789

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TomTom-xp2jb I guess defining what you mean by spirituality would be helpful.

  • @TomTom-xp2jb

    @TomTom-xp2jb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@troy3456789 Spirituality is a feeling. It's understanding that we're part of God but it's not just organized religion though. It's what prophets have been saying since the beginning. In other words God is the love energy that we are blessed with whether we know it or not. Also I believe science and faith can coexist because it's all knowledge. Hope that helps.

  • @Repunza
    @Repunza Жыл бұрын

    All that damn money on a telescope that gives you pixel imagines. What is this 1980s or 2023?

  • @ChadwickTheChad

    @ChadwickTheChad

    Жыл бұрын

    How does your space telescope work?

  • @ogedeh
    @ogedeh Жыл бұрын

    Point it at the sun

  • @troy3456789

    @troy3456789

    Жыл бұрын

    Sorry pal, can't allow you to do that. All that water will put it out.

  • @juanitogamboa
    @juanitogamboa Жыл бұрын

    Protect earth better

  • @perniciouspete4986
    @perniciouspete49867 ай бұрын

    JWST is searching for life in our solar system? Did they point it toward earth? Not the place to look for intelligent life, though.

  • @davidrockey7190
    @davidrockey7190 Жыл бұрын

    They didn't go nowhere.

  • @ChadwickTheChad

    @ChadwickTheChad

    Жыл бұрын

    You accidentally posted a comment to the wrong video.

  • @davidrockey7190
    @davidrockey7190 Жыл бұрын

    😂🌛🤯

  • @davidrockey7190
    @davidrockey7190 Жыл бұрын

    So that says everything they lied and we should be thankful for what we do have.

  • @MarYSoldePuertoRico
    @MarYSoldePuertoRico Жыл бұрын

    How I hate photoshopped videos and you all should read The Book of Enoch for how the luminaries move.

  • @strongbelieveroftheholybible
    @strongbelieveroftheholybible Жыл бұрын

    They cannot break the strong firmament of GOD🙏🏼❤️🕊Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon🙏🏼REPENT, believe in the Gospel, Be Born Again

  • @MasterBlaster3545

    @MasterBlaster3545

    Жыл бұрын

    Moron

  • @charlesbrightman4237

    @charlesbrightman4237

    Жыл бұрын

    God does not actually exist except for as a concept alone. a. Modern science claims energy cannot be created nor destroyed, hence energy is eternally existent. b. An absolute somethingness cannot come from an absolute nothingness, so an absolute somethingness always existed, most probably being energy itself. c. Universe ALWAYS existed in some form and NEVER had a beginning, No Creator Needed. 'a' is true, is it not? 'b' is true, is it not? If 'a' and 'b' are true, then no creator is needed in 'c'. * Some people for some reason (social conditioning/brainwashing/wishful thinking) believe in future eternity without end but do not accept eternity past with no beginning.

  • @rebeccadubois8270

    @rebeccadubois8270

    Жыл бұрын

    Why did you choose to believe in that flavor of god given the several hundred options?

  • @strongbelieveroftheholybible

    @strongbelieveroftheholybible

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rebeccadubois8270 these demons that are playing gods knows their time is short! Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon🙏🏼❤️🕊 REPENT or perish 🔥

  • @troy3456789

    @troy3456789

    Жыл бұрын

    @@strongbelieveroftheholybible That's really what the bible meant: exact opposite of what it said. "Behold I come quickly" really means the exact opposite. It was written for humans to understand it, so it says "coming soon", and it is opposite world, where "soon" means thousands of years later or never (same difference). Matt 16 vs 28: Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom". It really means never. *It is all bologna*

  • @georgesanford3719
    @georgesanford3719 Жыл бұрын

    key word pictures. the nonsense these quacks spew is hilarious

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