Did We Just Detect Life on Venus?
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- The announcement of the detection of a possible biomarker in the atmosphere of Venus has shook up the field of astrobiology and grabbed headlines across the world. Today, we explore why Venus could plausibly host life, how this detection was made, and whether it really means that we've finally found extraterrestrial life. Written and presented by Prof Kipping, featuring guest Dr Caleb Scharf.
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::Paper announcing the detection::
► Greaves, J. et al. (2020), "Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus", Nature Astronomy: doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-11...
::Other references used::
► Sousa-Silva. C. et al. (2019), "Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmosphere",
Astrobiology, 20, 235: arxiv.org/abs/1910.05224
► Way, M. et al. (2016), "Was Venus the First Habitable World of our Solar System?", Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 8376: arxiv.org/abs/1608.00706
► Moses, J. et al. (2005), "Photochemistry and diffusion in Jupiter's stratosphere: Constraints from ISO observations and comparisons with other giant planets", J. Geophys. Res., 110, E08001: doi.org/doi:10.1029/2005JE002411
::Movies/TV scenes used::
► Roving Mars (2006) Buena Vista Pictures
► Exploring Venus (2019) Magellan TV
► Star Trek (1966) Paramount Pictures
::Other video footage used::
► ALMA timelapse by ESO/José Francisco Salgado: • ALMA | Atacama Large M...
► Venus UV footage by Akatsuki/JAXA: www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/00...
► Bill Clinton footage form the Presidential Library & White House Television
► Galaxies fly through by SDSS/Miguel Aragon/Mark Subbarao/Alex Szalay: • A Flight Through the U...
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I knew the 2020 season finale was gonna be aliens.
Ah yes, says the doctor who reattached my head backwards...
I still want my spine back.
Next is sonic the hedgehog being real
I started 2020 off with Rhabdomyolysis. 18 years old, healthy, have never had any major health issues before in my life, then Rhabdo entered the chat and tried to kill me. I’m better now.
ah yes.
100% excited
100% skeptical
HEY JEFFREY, GREAT NEWS THEY FOUND . INTELLIGENT LIFE ON THE EARTH. IT WAS A COLONY OF ANTS.
Life on Venus? Is it coming here? WE’LL HAVE TO BUILD A WALL!
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", to paraphrase Sagan. Best would be an in situ probe in the atmosphere which allowed us to rule out physical chemistry as the source of phosphine. Recently I saw a NASA TV program discussing a proposal to send a probe to Venus. It has been quite neglected despite being our closest planetary neighbor.
@@MyMarsham a wall made of mirror... all around our planet.... That way our planet will look like an actual wormhole.
I mean a Black hole.
*Oil exists on Venus*
America: We have come to rescue you, please do not resist
Me: for the emperor!!!
😝😝😝
we come in peace
It's life Jim...... Shoot to kill, shoot to kill.....
Venus belongs to America and eagerly awaits the arrival of our space men!
“What an exciting time to be alive”, 🤔 I think that’s the first time I’ve heard someone say that this year.
Lmmfao 😆 oh man!!
TwoMinutesPaper
@John Doe Off world vehicles aren't from this earth because they were off ours when they were made.
Otherwise it would just be, world vehicles, or sol system vehicles.
The pentagram will try to fool people with a big bluebeam projector, launching the new god named Aliens, where we should all listen to or else! (they'll explode another beirut or something, showing the almighty power of the aliens.)
Muahahahahaaa
Independence day for real, lol, first we lived through the movie outbreak (orange suprise edition covid19) directed by Fauci.
They just have to create another distraction above the previous distraction, hoping people have no memory.
Ah well, where's ma popcorn?
@@zyrnnh110 My first thought too!
Some life forms on earth actually thrive in acid. They're called, 'hippies.'
So true😂😂
Lmaooo
ohh dang good one!
@@I_Use_Hacks 🥳🥳🤣
Just the most advanced life forms 😎
"Why not just go to Venus and scoop up a bit of the cloud and look at it"
Imagine saying that 1000 or 2000 years ago. We have truly come so far.
Imagine saying that 50 years ago
Even 70 years ago, such a thing was a fantastical pipe dream.
Sputnik wasn't launched until 1957. The first successful lunar rover didn't land until 1970. The first successful Mars rover didn't land until 1997. Maybe we'll have a successful Venus rover, capable of handling the heat/pressure by the end of the decade.
@@dr.zoidberg8666 uh wait the first lunar rover in 1970 and the first man on the moon in 1969? I dont get it
I welcome the day where children can communicate with machines across the solar system. Like a distant penpal relaying the foreign ongoing in a distant land.
Bring back the stock ! Burn on rug . Lol
Germs from the Soviet probe: Alright guys time to evolve.
Communist germs.. Paging Dr Strangelove
They wouldn't have been able to reproduce that fast.
@@anonb4632 why not...that atmosphere would supercharge these thing
@@packjehan9783 what do you mean by supercharge?
@@dragonbane44 meaning they will flourish in an environment made for them at such a high level
Meanwhile we are still looking for intelligent life on this planet
Good luck with that. Might get lucky!
After foolishly engaging with so called flat Earth believers, I sooooo relate to your comment l
Such an old joke...
They are looking at venus because they know they'll find some sketchy shit here on earth.
But fact is, we live on the best planet, but we need to invest in ourselves.
Enough of this money grabbing in the name of science and future.
Science is even weaponised against our own people so that other people can get more status.
We have enough intelligence on earth.
Jef Damen k
Currently, the population of Mars is 100% robots.
IR intelligence
Yes, and you know because you've been there or what? xD
You can’t know that for sure
id highly doubt the population is 100% robots. Microbial life is most likely all over her. The clam hides its pearl out of sight, but the pearl exists.
@Jam Yup.
As someone on Twitter said: It's either life or new chemistry. Either way, it is exciting!
New chemistry is not nearly as interesting as finding extraterrestrial life... just sayin'
Maybe its some chemistry that cant happen on earth, exclusive to venus
@@iseslc it could, however, give us better insight of phospine as a biosigniature, and how to see if it's a false positive or not. So one way or another, this will help in the search for life.
Father Hippocrates that could be it maybe that will be a requiring thing happening
@Nicholas Ovel I'm not saying otherwise; all scientific advancement is good. But let's be honest, an extraterrestrial form will be the most profound discovery in scientific history, whereas a new way to synthesize phosphine will not. That's all I'm saying. One is not like the other.
“Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don’t.”
oh my god thank you
*quicksave*
I always found that funny, because it’s just a walk up some stairs.
That guy took more than an arrow in the knee in my playthrough
I think I have pick pocketed that guy as well as destroyed him.
I might do it again next time I play that game.
Most punch-able NPC.
Life on Venus?! The Hell Planet?!
Doomguy: loads shotgun with malicious intent...
Scientists: No DoomGuy. You cannot shoot the BFG at venus. You already fucked up mar- and he did it again. Fucking hell.
@@that1nerdyblackgirl736 Also "Sciences": No Doom Slayer, you can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Europa- aaand there he goes again. I'll just stop trying. *shoots self*
Slayer has entered the insanely high pressure atmosphere
Liam McKevitt Slayer lands near the remains of a CCCP probe. Kicks it with gratuitous rage. The Venusian life scatters away in fear.
@@Hodoss rip and tear... until it is done.
Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the universe, but born at just the right time to see where we've been and where we're going.
Hopefully we get something into Venus's atmosphere soon to study and sample things and get a good grasp on the source of this observation.
Venus was the first planet to ever be reached by a space probe. In 1962, Mariner 2 flew within 34,400 kilometers of the surface of Venus and transmitted to Earth information about its temperature and details about its atmosphere and rotational period. The Soviet probe, Venera 7 was the first probe to land on Venus. Unfortunately, it was put out of operation within an hour by Venus' high temperature. In 1982, Venera 13 transmitted the first color pictures from Venus' surface. The Orbiter of Pioneer Venus was launched on May 20, 1978. It entered an orbit around Venus in December of that same year. Its primary objectives were to investigate the solar wind in the Venusian environment, use radar imaging to map Venus' surface and study the characteristics of the Venusian upper atmosphere and ionosphere. Most of the Orbiter instruments were still working when the probe entered the Venusian atmosphere in October of 1992. The Magellan spacecraft, launched in 1989, arrived at Venus on August 10, 1990. Before its demise in October 1994, Magellan was able to collect radar images of 98% of Venus' surface.
@@davebowles1957 It's funny how Venera 7 was designed to only last a few minutes on Venus, as they knew about the harsh conditions. It was just supposed to perform a few tests and take pictures, but it ended up surviving much longer than intended.
There's always the ocean.
95% unexplored.
This comment reminds me of a ancestor simulation. Imagine people in the future observing your remarks & just thinking "oh buddy if you only knew" all while living in Milkdromeda.
@@oscarrodriguez3754 Ooh, Iknow. I've been studying Venus for quite some time, many years. It's my favorite Planet (other than Earth).
Here is what got me interested.
Dr. Carl Sagan.
czcams.com/video/ntV-qFI0Bz0/video.html
I still can’t believe it. I am just 22 and I enjoyed the first picture of a black Hole, the discovery of the Higgs Boson, LIGO and the most important bio signature ever discovered.
I enjoyed a picture of a black hole myself, last night on Xvideos.
@@thegreathadoken6808 Gross...
@@thegreathadoken6808 #giggity 😜
The Great Hadoken
You sure it wasn't Uranus?...
Same here bro
Everyone - *looking at Mars to find life.*
Venus- Hold my climate.
Instructions unclear: nuking Venus now
Brian Is Me no no NO
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Flight wasn’t lying about his crib there😳
LMAO Flight
Mtn dew www
Bruh flightreacts reference here wtf!
12:00 *"I'm cautiously super excited about it"* is such a scientist thing to say lol
thats the most excited we ever get
Cool Worlds “im sigma 3 excited about this sigma 15 find”
Well, I'm not a scientist, but that's actually word for word how I described my first date with my ex to a friend :) It proved to be a pretty accurate anticipation of what was to come.
@@wiseguy8828 but is it causation or correlation?
A lot of my old friends would claim that they thrived on acid too...
:>
Acidophiles
Read this comment 1:47 minutes into the video..... then didn't hear another thing dude said till I drifted back into being halfway through..... ah to reminisce
I just have to say that life here on Earth is grounded, but if it exists on Venus, then life on Venus is high... Whoa ... Check out those cloud's man, check out those freakin cloud's.
Hah hah hah....
As a Venusian, I would like to say nice work finding something in those clouds. But what you need to worry about is what you will find under that ground.
As a Martian! I agree fully! Definitely look under that rock!!
Mercurian here. Don't go under those clouds. I made that mistake and found the rudest people ever. Absolutely ruined my life.
@@sierrahs.2306 ever been through Cincinatti Airport? Got some VERY rude people there...!
Greetings
This is a video I captured from the ISS space cam at the onset of the pandemic...
www.youtube.com/@VenusianSync
It shows some sort of colony/planet type move from unidentified beings. I believe they have since transitioned to the moon where they currently reside. There are several other videos showing multiple objects crossing the moon...
What comes next is unknown.
Ooh, I really enjoy these examinations. So reasonable and balanced and scientific but without loosing any of the delicious sense of wonder and presented in a way a non-specialist can follow. You are doing a fantastic service, keep it up!
The thing i never understood about people’s views on alien life is why they are so quick to assume no life can survive on planets without an earth-like atmosphere and temps with water and stuff? Isnt evolution a thing? Whos to say life on other planets didnt adapt to survive scorching heat, high pressure and no oxygen?
That’s why I really like this theory. It’s results are from the hypothesis that these potential microorganisms may have evolved to survive within the clouds of Venus. 👍🏻
Exactly! And I'm sure that we are not alone in understanding that. Evolution is a process and can lead to some bizarre manifestations of life even on our planet… some can survive even in extremely high temperatures and others can survive without oxygen. And without breaking a sweat, we assimilate them into our overarching view of life as oddities. Labelling them as thermophiles and anaerobes is so much more comfortable than pondering the possibility of life beyond carbon-based life architecture. For example, silicon is a viable although less elegant alternative to carbon as a candidate for forming the backbone of life. But perhaps we are searching for life which is somewhat similar to life on earth because the selfish creatures that we are, we are hoping to find another planet to colonise even though that desire might not be explicit or even viable. At this point with our technological prowess, we can't even colonise mars. But technology evolution is also a thing, and who knows what tomorrow might bring. Terraforming a planet with earth-like conditions would be so much easier if we intend to colonise an alien planet in the future.
Because chemistry and physics are the same everywhere in the universe, and scorching heat cause all sorts of chemical problems.
funny thing, oxygen was toxic to most life and could have halted life on earth
I think the same thing about potential life evolving within black holes.
I've heard this theory before, life seems to be tenacious and has filled every niche on earth no matter how hostile. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be true. I think that we will find life on many moons in the solar system.
Once there has a group of bacteria in Venus,there will be an evolution to higher intelligence
Yea I’d agree with you. If life can evolve to survive in extreme conditions on earth I don’t see why they wouldn’t be able to survive and thrive on another celestial body that’s just as hostile.
@@corrupteddreams8475 i think because they could start in a more "friendly" envoirment and then evolved to survive extreme conditions
@@dannels9360 I highly doubt it. Humans were just super lucky to even make it past the stone age. The life on venus would never even know about rock. They'd need to float to survive. The best the life can do there is evolving to withstand very high temperatures so they can touch the surface. They'd be plants first. It would take like 10 billion years just to discover the minerals below the surface of venus.
Yeah sure...I bet there are unicorns that shit skittles on saturn.....how exciting.....
This is the BEST channel on the whole internet!! Not just CZcams but the ENTIRE internet!!! Thank you for the hard work you put into this channel!!
Your videos never fail to keep me up late at night thinking deeply about subjects I've often never thought of before. Thank you for another great one.
researchers:
"That doesn’t mean it is life. It just means that some exotic process is producing phosphine, and our understanding of Venus needs work" (Sousa-Silva)
"Either this is life, or it’s some sort of physical or chemical process that we do not expect to happen on rocky planets" (Pętkowski)
media and YT commenters:
"Signs of Alien Life detected on Venus!"
"Where are these Microbes from?"
Yea I too saw on MIT YT channel
Stop attacking us dude, we're just exited to hear news like this
This time it's different though.
@@brinceibanez1011 How am I attacking anyone? I'm only repeating what's being said. If repeating this makes some folks sound... gullible, don't blame me
@@DrPOP-jp7ebit's what the researchers are saying *this time*. and how do you know anyway?
Ultimate twist. The life discovered was microscopic Russian bacteria. 👀
@qwervqwe vqwevqwev ????
@@carlpetersson7816 Original comment refers to the fact that Russia had sent a probe to the surface of Venus. I think they're making a joke that the probe was contaminated with microbes from Earth which are now on Venus.
The first comment on my comment is a bot. They activate on key words like “Russia”, hoax etc. best to ignore. 😂
Uh, yeah - worth at least considering.
The way it was described I suspected penguin farts
Brilliant video! Very to the point, I liked the interview section, no annoying sound effects, the narrating is good and most importantly the topic is interesting. I am now subscribed!
I am excited that I live in a time when I can watch interesting people like you speak about amazing stuff.
This reminds me of the finding of complex organic compounds in the vapor being expelled from Europa. The researchers explained it as "We're not saying it's life, but we're saying that the explanation of life suddenly went from option #362 to option #4".
I thought that was Enceladus, not Europa. Cryogeysers have not be 100% confirmed on Europa (data from Hubble telescope strongly points to their presence), nor have they been sampled. At Enceladus, vapor from the cryogeysers were sampled by Cassini and found to contain organic compounds (some strongly suspected to be amino acids).
@@fupopanda Ah, yes, thanks for the correction. Many scientists assume Europa, orbiting Jupiter, has similar features (given an even more cracked surface), but you're right that the actual organics were found in orbit around Saturn and sourced from geyser plumes on Enceladus.
this is more than that. It’s literally only 2 options, chemistry or life
Also ALH 84001, the viking LR test and the proposed stromatolites on mars.
There have been plenty "we have found life. Probably. Maybe not" scenarios by now
@@LovethisNation 2 options does not make it 50/50 though. We should be cautious in assuming anything
“Life on Venus” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it does it Bowie
you 've just got to stretch the syllables
Venus is also Know as a Roman Goddess... and compared to Roman Mars... Venus is more likely able to sustain life. Mars reputation...
@@RJones-gk3cl is there life on veeeeeeee...ee...ee..ee..eeeeynusss ? and so on.
It’s a god awful small affair
I suspect this has to do with culture affecting how we perceive the words... So it's not that interesting of a point to make.
I would just like to say I really enjoy the channel. Keep up the great videos and work to everyone involved in the Cool Worlds channel.
Outstanding video and your narration is superb. You’re a good story teller and can keep audience engaged.
Humans: nope.
Earth Ocean Volcano life forms: bruh, Venus is paradise.
@Jotaro Kujo ...
Recent discussions of missions to other planets and moons, have included some concerns over the possibility that we could ultimately contaminate "pristine" environments with bacteria from earth that "hitches a ride" aboard our probes; thus making it impossible for us to know for certain if we have discovered "new" life on another world, or simply introduced life to said world when we first "arrived" there.
I wonder... should we be expecting "life" on venus, to speak with a Russian accent?
@@bobinthewest8559 The worst part is our own bacteria killing of dozens if not hundreds of those life-forms.
Humans: **think life exists on mars**
Venus: I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move
We kinda already knew. The spectral analysis was VERY indicative of life.
Okay
And you must an alien
Unfunny comment with normie overused meme coming from a user with an anime profile picture.
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This is a interesting plot twist
First time I have watched your stream channel, very well done in my opinion. Thoughtfully put together and a great interview too. You have obviously researched your information and are also as excited as I am about this discovery. I hope it turns out to be biologic, and a sample return mission to a level 4 lab on the space station (andromeda strain) where it could be researched in safety.
I am not an intellect, I was not born with the gift of understanding the details of Maths and physics, however I do have a passion for science and it may take me many readings or viewing to grasp a little of such things. I am someone that wants some answers.
After having spent time, over the years, online and in books looking for answers, I find your take on our understanding of the universe, excellent!
As you say If there is indeed independent life in the atmosphere of Venus, even I can understand the mind blowing discovery, that will be, life!!!!
You’re a grounded Person and I enjoy your videos a great deal. I feel I learn more from you than many of the others online.
Many thanks.
NASA actually had a concept for going to Venus called the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept or HAVOC. You can just change Concept to Craft if you do it. The idea was a blimp that floats in the clouds of Venus where a pair of scientist can do experiments and make observation before climbing into a rocket in the back, dropping down and then launching back into orbit. Eventually this would lead to an idea of a cloud city. Isaac Arthur has an episode about that too Colonizing Venus. Personal, I hope this discover gets more people interested in Venus and maybe even get people interested in going to Venus.
The Russians did this already in the Soviet era with Vega 1 and 2. Prior to that Venera 1 and 2.
Nobody denied we already landed there for the other reply. And the blimps wouldnt be in orbit thats wayyyyy to high its like a 10min flight up at most depending on accention speeds. Also sibce its orbit is so close even its longest launch time is still shorter then mars shortest launch window
The Soviet probes landed on the Venetian surface, a very inhospitable place. In the clouds of Venus life would be possible.
@@kdegraa yes thats why he was talking about the project
An interesting idea would be to send a longterm robotic mission which explored the zone of the atmosphere which is hospitable to life (and presumeably probes) in situ using a buoyancy concept to remain aloft. They could combine this with an orbiting satellite which synched up regularly and relayed data to Earth. We could learn a lot about chemistry of the upper atmosphere by direct measurements in the clouds combined with spectroscopy from an orbiter.
Great discovery. I bet there is alien life under *Europa's ice and Titan's lakes.*
I bet my life that there is life under Europe's lakes
Well then maybe also on enceladus
Love your channel !!
Enceladus, Europa, Titan, Mars and now Venus...So many other chances for life to arise in our solar system. I truly hope that we will find life out there in my lifetime. Evidence for a second genesis or panspermia would completely change the way we view ourselves in the context of the cosmos
How much?
Love your channel. In another life I would have been an astronomer. Easily my favorite topic.
A well made video. Not gonna lie. Good editing and all. Good stuff man!
For me, the coolest part of science is when you find something that needs more answers. Something this exciting, as you said, kickstarts massive interest and further experimentation due to the human drive - TO KNOW- what is really going on. This is why science is so exciting to me. The implications of this discovery and further research has the potential to change the way we think about ourself’s, and our place in the universe forever. Just incredible, and I’m excited to see the results future research driven by these findings presents!
i feel the same way 👏 this is so exciting
This!!
Just like humans on mars
Can we do it?
What oppertuneties open up when we achieve it?
There are a lot answers to That last question because there are a lot of resources on mars
Only keeping people there alive is a really big challange
I am pretty sure that is one of the best things that can happen while doing science. Except for maybe a proof...
@@slowburntm3584 proof for something really exiting is defenitely the best
Why of course there is life in the universe. Why are we so scared to know otherwise? Why do we listen to those naysayers who say with conviction, "No, there is no life out there in the sky but here on Earth." Why do we give our power away to these small minded folks, when we can truly know otherwise. Maybe because our mindset is geared towards belief rather than knowledge - where we believe what others say because they look professional, look good in a suit, or is very persuassive in their speaking and manner. But any of these folks can be small minded, since they also do not know everything more or less than you and me. Therefore, the only one you and me can truly rely on is our knowledge and our striving for the truth, sharing knowledge in true form of sharing, and the striving of the truth from listening to those who talk but always we ourselves have the last word in our thoughts and feelings in mulling over what another say - we develop skills to know if what we hear is true or is false. And if we judge what other says is true, we still have to be open minded that in future, with new better apparatuses, new better measuring instruments, what we see as truth can be proven false, wrong or better yet crystallize to a greater truth, to see what we work at as truth is in reality true.
It is truly a wondrous time to live, but we can't truly know if we listen to others in belief. So it is now time to develop knowledge, to develop understanding about our universe and our role in it. To have hope for a better tomorrow, a better today, since our world is truly majestic since it is part of a wider ever expanding universe. A universe, with furthering gathering of knowledge, can be seen for what it is, the wonder of all wonders.
"We Did Not Just Detect Life On Venus And Life Could be Possible But We are Not Sure Yet"
maybe life just did not develop yet and is just a beginning
LOLONO62 Life isn’t like a Polaroid film man! Things are either alive or not, no in between. Unless you wanna say we were fricken zombies glued to smart phones before uh.... **sigh** ummm never mind.
@@sloggnznorgin6285 I'm a smartphone glued to a zombie.
That's the worst part about space exploration. If I had a penny for each time I've seen a video or article saying: "We found life on (Insert place here)... POSSIBLY"
I'd have enough to go to Mars or Venus myself and look for answers.
If we don't know for sure, it's not interesting, because it's probably going to either take endless years to be sure, or it's not even correct.
Thank you for saving me the trouble lol
I know this video is old but man is this channel the best or what? I mean , I listen and watch as many of cool world lab vids as I can. For a research team to post their work and write papers on majorly big space related exploration just makes me tumescent. I feel more like I can vicariously keep flying though space and the heavens and be apart of these awesome discoveries, I eat this shit up though am not an astronomer, just with I was. Thank you cool world labs. Aloha
finally a theory video without background music so i can choose my own favorite music while watching
It's probably nothing, let's just ignore it for 50 years.
Russia did you build a secret base on venu-
Oh shit! I’m off to the gulag! Noo! Hail daddy Putin, Putin for life!
*cracked throat*
@@SparseB is that you aka Dolan tuck aka doneld trump aka syphillisampfetamine junky aka potus
Tell me Russian bot. Crimea yes? Crimea no?
Crimea river
Yeah,like they do every other earth shattering discovery,forget about it
even if they're just micro-organisms in the clouds: the "life will find a way" notion is both beautiful and horrifying.
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If Venus' hypothetical life isn't transplanted life from Earth, that would be utterly amazing. We have about a dozen other places in our solar system that are more favorable to life than the Venetian atmosphere.
even if is simple... its life.
What is with people finding innocuous phrases terrifying. Stop.
Awesome content. And I must say, the view of your surroundings is beautiful.
Now that there’s a jawline. Great vid!
This is so exciting! Dr. Kipping, I watch this channel obsessively. 25 years ago, my dream was to be an astrophysicist, and it was absolutely heartbreaking to realize I just wasn’t “getting it.” I don’t know if it was my own ability to understand, these concepts, or my professors teaching styles, and my learning styles, but the end result was my giving up. I still have dreams where I am doing research, working at CERN, or studying the stars from MKO. All that to say, this is so exciting, and I LOVE watching the Cool Worlds channel!
You can still do it
Ashoka you’re good. Just keep your dream alive.
you can, even by distance, im doing an astro msc by distance at the moment
@A B To be fair, Brian Cox was in a band WHILE doing his Bachelors and PhD. He quit "professional" music during his PhD. But I agree that it's never too late to start. Although starting late also means you have less time to invest.
@A B Then learn the difference between "you're" and "your". Not everyone is Brian May or Brian Cox. We all have our limitations academically. Better to recognize that than spend an entire life falling short of our goals. Was Brian Cox also in a band? Confused.
NASA: We need to send a probe to venus to check.
Soviets from the grave: I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you.
@@tobyrix7082 just make it simple: there's a nuclear missile platform in space. Who should have control of it?
@@sirdeadlock north korea
@bulletsholes who do you think is funding those private agencies?
bulletsholes why defund NASA? Lol, they need money like everyone else
@@RiftVaulter they been here our whole lives and can't even get to the moon. NASA are scammers and if you support them you are the enemy
I'm very excited, and hopeful about this.
who's thinking that something big could have lived in venus when it was still habitable, and that fossils are hiding underneath Venus's ground.
Yes something evolved to be "big" under 1km below sea level pressure its whole existence.
Xanthos the atmosphere wasn’t always that thick. However I agree with you that finding fossils is unlikely but instead because of the thick layers of solidified lava and ejecta from the intense volcanism that takes place on venus
Venusian scientists meanwhile: 'Frenetic activity detected on Earth. Could be a possible sign of life on Earth!'
Wow! Turns out those floating hunks of metal are satellites!
It appears the life on earth has the same intelligence of a used condom that has poked holes on it.
Earthings: Yes.
Venusians: We regret this.
also Venusian scientists: "More fossil fuel consumption! It's getting chilly up here!"
“Earth, unlike Venus, is too cold and hostile to have life. It’s so cold that lead turns to a solid! Can you believe that the surface pressure is as low as it is high up in the Venusian atmosphere? How would they even survive?”
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." Arthur C. Clarke
Frederico see ‘To the Stars Academy’
* sees this quote one time *
If there is life there, that life is a reverse "alien". It evolved in acid. We can't make anything to survive Venus, it bloomed there. Amazing.
Xenomorphs have acid for blood. :)
@@serenablackroseheartlink xenomorphs don't exist
@@danielwoods3896 you don't know that
@@danielwoods3896 due to the near infinite nature of the universe they probably do
Daniel Woods If we have parasitic wasps on Earth, xenomorphs probably exist somewhere else in the universe.
I am always excited for any new discoveries we make in the world of astronomy. So yes! Very excited at the newfound possibility of life on Venus!
Even considering that I was fired from my job today, this news about the possibility of life on Venus is by far much more exciting than the other news that I became today. Some decades ago I read about a mysterious "absorber" in the clouds of Venus (sorry I don't have the references any more, it was in some old book about the planet, perhaps a book from the 60th years). When we gaze at the planet in ultraviolet light we see certain patches of dark in the clouds of Venus, indicating the presence of some unknown absorber to UV-light in the clouds. Could the phosphine be related to this weird UV-absorber? Or are they both indications of life? Since I read these speculations about the mysterious UV-absorber I never gave up the idea of someday discover life on Venus.
It seems that was recently found to be caused by sulphur oxides. Possibly related, probably not.
@@alansmithee419 Wow! I am surprised that someone knows what I was talking about. Thank you.
I thought nobody would have such an interest in Venus nowadays.
Sorry to hear about you getting fired from your job yes the mysterious absorber is still unsolved and in fact the case for possible Venusian biology has only grown thanks to recent discoveries that have tied the absorber to chemical in balances in the planets atmosphere and even the sustained atmospheric super-rotation. With each discovery the case only grows stronger.
There is even somewhat controversial evidence from the Venera descent probes for elongated rod shaped micron sized particles in the upper cloud tops of Venus. Of course another similarly controversial finding was the presence of phosphorus identified by X ray spectroscopy but this finding here kind of directly confirms that which serves to strengthen some of the other soviet probe findings. Only further studies will be able to assess whether these claims continue to hold up but the evidence seems to be growing stronger!
Sorry about the job friend!
Sorry about the job situation... Hang on there...
Think about this for a second, IF there really was life on Venus in the clouds, us going there and scooping up clouds would that not be Abductions xD
How the turns tabled
doesn't count without the anal probing
They'll demand welfare if we bring them here.
Some microbes may even swirl around in, and then fall out of the "scoop"... but, I doubt that other microbes will believe their story.
You know we could just swoop in our magic school bus and get a sample of Venus clouds like when Janet got the Red Spot cloud
This is my favorite channel on youtube. Thank you for all the work you do David.
Super video , very very interesting news. Thank you for bringing the info to us.
It would be pretty funny if the physical hell of all places would have life.
Right?? It would make us think, what if instead kf looking for planets similar to ares we stary looking for planets with the WORSE conditions ever, and end up finding life? Cause the WORSE conditions for us, could be the best conditions to them.
Carl Petersson that might not be true, as long as the information can be distributed it can eventually be deciphered, everything is a reflection of us.
This was a pleasant surprise when i woke up today. I certainly hope this will push a lot more space missions to Venus now.
There literally is no life anywhere else. Sorry buddy, but this is the truth. The only truth is Jesus Christ. God is real, and you better repent before it is too late.
The patent ID number on ID2020 (the cashless system approaching by the end of next month) is literally 060606. Published by Microsoft Inc themselves. patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606 Bill Gates said that anybody who does not take it will be excluded from society - both economically and societal.
And if you've read the Bible, the Book of Revelations exactly, you'd know that this is the mark of the beast. Anybody who takes this is headed automatically straight to hell. There is no salvation for that person. They will face the wrath of God.
Revelation 13:16-17
King James Version
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
The reason they are doing all these life on Venus and alien video is because they know the rapture is going to happen soon. So they are trying to delude you guys into thinking that the Christians who suddenly disappeared were taken by aliens. This is not the truth. Repent and turn to God before it is too late. Only Jesus can save you. Only He can save your soul, and He loves you. He wants to save you because He loves you. God bless and take care. May His peace be with you.R
@@faithalways8537 Bro. This is a science channel. Don't palute it with some overly religious babling!
@@mr.boomguy Religious babbling yet the patent number for ID2020 is literally 060606. But go ahead and trust these same scientists who make a vaccine which is supposed to take nearly a decade in a couple of months. Sure that will help you out.
faith always did “god” make anime? No? K idc
@@faithalways8537 well Gods not helping is he...? As always! It's almost as if he doesn't exist.
"Excellent video my cosmic friend and family!" A channel chalk full of great knowledge and enticing images of the universe around...Too bad you were not our science teacher in grad school! Sri-Vitu, Ananda!
Amazing I’m so happy to hear this
When the headline is a question, the answer is probably "no".
Exactly, we all know that there's no actual life on Venus. This question is like the "Have we finally found the cure to cancer?' questions.
Probably but not always
Hmmm; I don't know. This looks worth checking to me, but the only way I'll buy it for sure is if we scoop up some Venus air and see microbes in it. And even then it might turn out it's Earth life and meteor bombardment activity moved it from place to place.
@@maxstone2380 For you to state as a fact that there is no actual life on Venus, this means that your knowledge and qualifications must be superior to that of the scientists involved. Please state those qualifications so your comment can be evaluated. They have not made a claim that they discovered life.
Of course the answer is "No" but the scientists have not claimed that they have found life. The headline is to grab attention, one has to dig deeper to get the details.
“Life was on Venus all this time?”
“Always has been.”
😂
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😂 nice one.
Kevin O
“Women are from Venus”
Venus turns out to be scorched hell hole. All my previous relationships make so much sense now.
Calm down ladies. Is joke. After all, Mars is a cold, barren wasteland, just like the emotional capacity of men.
I really don't have anything intelligent to say, I only replied because you're cute.
Thanks for telling, nice
I am starting to think that we will find life during my lifetime
It's so exciting!!
As a biochemist, I am skeptical about this. I'm curious enough to want a thorough analysis done, but mostly for my chemical curiosity. Chemistry is VERY dependent on temperature, pressure, and other conditions; every reaction can be reversed by playing with these variables, so Venus chemistry may not resemble Earth chemistry. I would need to see a very detailed accounting of the atmosphere before I'm convinced that it is truly out of equilibrium.
David Hand yes I’m looking forward to seeing chemists weigh in on this paper too
i'm a biochemist myself too, it is true that life as we know it could never survive on Venus, but it might still be possible for the development of extremophiles, and probably not even carbon based ones, that would be groundbreaking
Well put mate. I don’t actually think it’s much to get too excited about when really thinking about the reality of Venus. I think it’s most likely going to be the result of Venus’s behavioural chemistry rather than an indication of life based on our earth biochem knowledge. I do however strongly believe that under far more favourable conditions on other planets, in other solar systems the possibility of non intelligent life is highly probable, from my own knowledge and understanding I suspect suitable conditions and a bit of luck is what it comes down to.
You could always just...read the original paper outlining what they did, and didn’t analyse...
@@amineabdz if not carbon based, then what? Silicone?
"The Vex have no hope. No imagination, no drive, no fear. All they have is the Pattern. Everything must fit."
"In these things, there is symmetry. The gateways have opened, the Vex are coming."
🗿 gang
Ew
Destiny?
@@tranhongduong yep! :)
Very Informative. Great video.
Check out @bullaki for the real explanation of the Venus phosphine discovery
Yes, my science tescher said that to us yesterday.
Good thing NASA is already working on a mission to Venus!
Yet another one! Its so bad there - temp, pressure Ph of 1.6
Literally far worse than Mars
NO BAD ONE BAD ONE OH GOD NO ITS A BAD THING
pyrexia the astronauts will melt alive
No they aren't, they have a concept and are thinking about it.
@@mikehawk9773 It's an unmanned mission! 😂
Whether there's life or not, we'll still come out of this knowing more than we did before, so I'm excited either way.
I'm cautious over this but hopeful as this will renew interest and open up so much new research in astrobiology.
I'm currently looking at this announcement and extremeophiles as part of my access to science course assignment, so have been reading a lot about it. It's certainly making my unversity choice between astrophysics and astrobiology harder, unless of course I can combine them.
Here's hoping life is confirmed Prof David Kipping @Coolworlds
*AMAZING VIDEO*
Wow !!! Imagine, if there is life on two planets in our system, then it is probably everywhere. Let's go to Venus, confirm it and then combine all our human efforts, forget all of our differences and do whatever we can, just to discover the next evolutionary step, somewhere out there, multi cellular life. There are waiting still so many surprises for us humans, if we can make it through our "dark age" and survive the nuklear and industrial threats.
While I appreciate your sentiment, there is a reason Star Trek is and will remain fiction, in my opinion. I’m skeptical that humans will ever collectively be forward thinking enough to leave our solar system. I wish we were, but I doubt it. More likely whatever machine intelligence we birth will be the ones to head out.
Oh, yeah! Then we can hold our hands together to form a full circle around our earth!!! Idiot.
There are a lot of icy moons in the outer solar system that are predicted to have subsurface oceans. They're not exactly perfect, likely containing some ammonia and possibly missing minerals and carbon in some cases, but if we can find life on just one of those moons, that's basically a strong indication for life on all of them. Which is spectacular to think about. It would basically suggest life in half of the star systems in the entire galaxy. Intelligent life, maybe not so much, but it's still very exciting.
In any case we wont live to see it
@@breadloaf666 ????
If they can find life on Venus of all places, it must be everywhere.
They didn't find life on Venus.
Perhaps that would be a good assumption. Orrr, it exists on Venus and Earth only with the origins of life on earth evolving first on Venus ;)
Or Panspermia occurred with Venus, Earth and Mars
@@glorymanheretosleep that's why he wrote "If they can" - if stands for "possibilty" 😉
Every planet could have some form of life, that's what I think. Life evolves in many ways. Even Jupiter has life(in a way,) BUT it is in a certain part of the gas clouds, that's because the asteroids that Jupiter basically eats can have microbes that drop off in the gas clouds of Jupiter(In fact, all the gas planets can have life by just microbes dropping off from asteroids). Even pluto might have some life, and if the Kuiper belt was hotter, there would be hundreds of planets that could have some form of life.
aliens on venus: there’s no life on earth. the surface is too cold and most of it is water.
I think, ‘get on with scientifically investigating the possible explanation for phosphene in the atmosphere of Venus ! Selfishly I want to know soon, because I am old ! But confirmation would give me enormous joy ! It would be like all the fairy lights on the tree lighting up ! What a joy of possibility !
Feels like we're so close to definitively proving the existence of extra terrestrial life. Hope it happens in my life time, and in the meantime I'll try not to get too excited by announcements like this one.
Maybe we will find flying tux's somewhere.
My thoughts EXACTLY! 😊🤞🏻 (to the original comment)
@Walker Jennings what?
I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING NO WE ARE NOT. get over yourselves. Humans don’t know Jack sh#t
@Walker Jennings The tic tac craft and others we've seen leaked have decent enough terrestrial explanations, they may be aliens but it's far from difinitive. As for rumours and "insider info" regarding recovered crafts or segments/materials that's really just not good enough. We need solid proof, not interviews with a guy who knew a guy who worked at a place where there were these guys and they had a warp drive.
Wouldn't it be something that of all the bad to happen in this year, we make our biggest discovery yet the very same year.
Change "yet" into EVER
Bruh what is wrong with you if we mess it up by doing some stupid shut which we probably will we can't even quarantine cause the earths not gonna exist cause the aliens gonna destroy it.
@@galaxia4709 yeah finding life on another planet, let alone the same solar system as ours, I don't think many revelations would come close to it !!!
However isn't it theoretically clear that there is other life in the universe? I mean even if the probability is less likely than winning the lottery, still millions of planets :)🌌🌌🌌
@@galaxia4709 Only reason not ever is because it may not be intelligent life.
To me, that would make up for the entire year. It would excite and motivate me for the first time of my entire life for some reason.
Thank you for the video.
I was waiting for this news
Them Venusian bacteria be members of the mile high club.
OK, incel.
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@No Body important AND THE REASON IS WHY?????
@@NareshDhokia THANK YOU. 🖖 LIVE LONG,AND PROSPER.
At 20 parts per billion, that phosphine concentration is too high to explain through volcanism or other known means. Very exciting discovery!
exactly my thoughts, love it
Atmosphere of Venus doesn't contain oxygen to oxidize PH3 molecules(and lower its concentration). This molecule is stable at over 500 °C. So it can accumulate. Inorganic (abiotic) formation is perfectly possible.
@@petersvancarek Unless they totally misread the signal and it is not phosphine at all. Don't you think there might be completely different elements and chemicals out there in the universe not just the ones we have so far found on earth. I must admit this is all very pie in the sky and VERY earth centric. People will be loling at this in a few years time.
@@indivestor No. We know all of the elements in the universe. The periodic table is complete.
@@Steven-ze2zk naaah. One day in future, the modern periodic law will be proved wrong by a scientist
great channel mate 👍
Love the work my view is simple if it happens once it will happen again
So the sinkers, floaters and risers that Carl Sagan had thought of can actually be a reality!!
A planet with a lot going on chemically seems like a plausible place -- a lot chemical reactions and somehow some stability occurs. I would bet that this is a very different sort of multicellular life than on Earth unless of course both planets were seeded by meteorites Very exciting if true. Amazing that more than 50 years ago the Soviets landed on Venus -- most people who don't know this already I am sure are surprised.
Is nobody planning a trip back? I'm sure I read something the other day about a new planned trip to Venus (maybe it was even the Russians again) but I can't remember now.
Those were theorisef for Jupiter not venus
@@antoinelachapelle3405 does not mean they would not also be possible on Venus and if Venus does turn out to have life it sounds like most likely it floats in atmosphere.
@@animalntelligence3170 maybe, just saying What works on one planet may be impossible on another
I really like your guest. He is an articulate professional in a world full of ET cultists.
Commenting before I watch the video to help the algorithm along. (I already know this video will be great no matter the outcome)
Imagine if whatever we find is an organism that we already have inventoried here on earth
Underrated comment
It’s a plausible explanation. If there were any acidophilic bacteria on the Soviet probes, then there’s a non-zero chance that they were introduced into the upper atmosphere.
then ot would still be an amazing achievement as its life on another planet. which obviously exists but its the first we found.
Those chances are... I dont even want to think about how improbable that is. Especially within only a couple of lightyears of earth.
@@WilliamFord972 "Non-zero chance" - That is appalling English. Are you even a native speaker?
This is a very intriguing idea. Even if it turns out that there is no life responsible for this phenomenon, the study of the chemical processes involved will only serve to increase our understanding of chemistry. Which is a win in itself. Additionally, as you said, it will also increase our engineering expertise as a whole when it comes to the attempt to study it on-site.
Great video, and thank you for the news!
This is the most strange times we are living in.
But i did not shoot the deputy
Loads of speculation, that's it!
@@sumedhhhh but did you shoot the sheriff?
@@krokodil191 ohhh yeah
It does sort of make sense - science has struggled to see how Earth could be warm enough for liquid water and life when the sun was young and cool. But if it got an early start on a warm Venus and then percolated out through the solar system via large impacts and meteorites problem could be neatly solved. Let’s see if the evidence supports this!
I need help, what is a sigma announcement? He stated that the paper regarding the results as 15 sigma announcement, what does that mean? I cannot find anything explaining it. Thanks
We interviewed one of the authors of the phosphine on Venus paper.
I watched the press briefing livestream. One of the most exciting parts of this, at least personally, has just been learning and getting excited about the process of discovery and dissemination itself! It's too early to tell of course but I feel like being (relatively) hooked into the initial stages of this might be a turning point in my own life, a signal that eventually I will be able to contribute to developments like these!
I welcome our Venusian overlords.
I would like to apply for a Visa
just make sure they aren't blind....
i read about it ,but it's not true and not confirmed because the scientists say that the venus chemistry is different and complex so they don't know for sure. and it's stupid to jump to conclusions very quickly when we have not taken a portion of the soil there and there are planets that doesn't operate like our planet for example what we have is solid, liquid and gass and up there it might be something out of understanding like something far different from liquid, gas and solid.
for example color is an illusion because color comes from the reflection of the sun and all colors we see are from our sun and there are many suns if we replace them with ours we might see different colors and so on and so on.
there are many frauds about planets like Jupiter and also the moon itself.
There were some old movies that suggested that we would find life on Venus and romance it. 2020 is just the year of bizarre predictions coming true.
@@ahmadfrhan5265 colour depends on the wavelength of the light, when you see a red book, that is because red is strongly reflected. It's the same everywhere.
After showing this to my Alien mate, he replied
“WOW”!
I feel like that's a reference to the "wow" signal but also feel like it's just a coincidence.
And there we thought the aliens were coming in 2019. Turns out it was just a teaser for 2020.
We better get that artillery ready