Scientists Think There Could Be LIFE on Europa and It’s Even Weirder Than We Thought!
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2023
- Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa, has captivated the imaginations of scientists for decades. Why? Because below that thick layer of ice, a vast ocean has been discovered, an ocean with potentially the correct ingredients for life as we know it. It is one of the most promising places in the solar system where life may have formed independently. But how could life survive on such an extreme moon? and if it does exist there, what might it look like?
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We have live in the deepst ocians in the coldest ares its even possible that live lives at the bottom of Europe
What are you saying? That we have life at the bottom of the oceans and possibly even Europe?
Or europa
I'm living in Europe and yes - it is really weird!
Take my angry like
Good one..🤣🤣
Mais oui,le vieux continent,habité depuis des lustres.
Sorry, i dont unterstand you! Je ne parle pas francaise!@@antoniomarques5369
I bet the cost of living there is…
😎
*astronomical.*
What's creepier, life on a different planet looking similar to ours or looking completely different? Imagine going to a different planet a million light years away and you're expecting something completely different, but you find a fish or a dog or a human that looks like us.
I've often wondered this. Maybe there comes a point where early life has a common blueprint that whilst has variety, follows similar patterns and species.
@@skycloud4802 I also have thought about this idea. To think logically about life forms depending on the environment it's in if the environment looks like our own then the organism in it properly look also like what we are used too. A organism need arms and legs to move around, needs eyes to see and yes using sonar is also possible but that is'nt really that alien because dolphins and bats also use this method to navigate, to fly you need aerodynamic wings, to eat you need a mouth and so on. Still plenty of variation possible through as is here on Earth.
The older an animal is the more likely it has appeared on an alien world: So fish is probably one of the most common alien animals while a dog not so much.
If we look at convergence on Earth, species that are completely unrelated often end up looking the same because that body shape is best adapted for a particular environment. For example, sharks, dolphins and icthyosaurs are completely different lineages but superficially converged on a very similar streamlined shape. Another example could be convergence in marsupials and placental mammals such as flying squirrels and sugar gliders, or moles and marsupial moles. Many species have converged on the body plan of rodents without being rodents. The list goes on. Bats and dolphins have even evolved the same mutation for echo-location.
If we're looking at conditions similiar to environments on Earth, I'd say it's likely many aliens may look similar and will have evolved to fill similar niches. To find things that are truly 'alien' I think that would be life forms that have sprung up on worlds that by our standards are extremely hostile and impossible to survive in.
@@skycloud4802if that’s the case, then what would mean the lfie is extremely extemeely exteemely extrmeely extemeely rare in the universe. Which is a bummer
I genuinely won't be able to die happy until we find trace of alien life. I don't care if it's a living complex fish thing, or a fossilized microbe, I need to know that something else is out there. astronomy and biology are my two favourite things in the world, the thought of being an astrobiologist and studying and discovering how alien life functions would be a dream come true
Same here, sometimes I wish to live forever so that I can see the many mysteries of the universe figured out with my own eyes one day
There is life out there, but not in our solar system apart from earth, and an advancedciviisation is probably more than 1000 light years away, there are very few of them, It took 4.5 billion years for one to arise on Earth.
You don't think UFOs are alien? They've been verified by the US Government...
But think about it; if a germ from Earth survived the trip to Europa it could kill everything there.
But if bacteria from Earth managed to survive on the spacecraft it could trigger mass extinction event on Europa.
we can call the aliens europeans
As a member of Germany I agree
He knows too much... Time to legislate. 😂
😂😂😂
Not really, it's Europa, not Europe. Think before you speak smh 🤦♂️
@@fitzfitzchivalry4538it’s not that deep fitz
I hope in my lifetime humanity can explore certain moons in the Solar System such as Europa, Titan and Enceladus to determine if there is life there. I know we can't go beyond our Solar System anytime soon but to even explore the moons would be very exciting.
The radiation of Jupiter or Saturn would kill us in a week or two.
If mankind is to expand out in space, these moons around Jupiter and Saturn are to be colonized. Oxygen and water is vital.
Starfield is a cool game hahah... I wish so too.
@@johanliljegren4759if mankind is to survive indefinitely we are forced to branch out into space. Or fry 😂
If I remember correctly I’m sure they were already working on a mission using a nuclear heated probe that would slowly melt through the crust and release a submersible into the ocean below. They’ve known there could be life down there for a good while now
The game Barotrauma looking really plausible now.
For those that don't know, Barotrauna is a 2D submarine game that takes place in Europas ocean. There are outposts and pirate submarines and a TON of fauna trying to get inside your sub and eat you alive. Horrifying but fun
Very nice gameplay giving retro vibes, I went to see what kind game is it after reading your comment
Barotrauma 2 looking crazy
I fucking love barotrauma, my top 2 game it is the best fun/horror/party game I tried
2D subnautica BZ
Yeah, Barotrauma is hella fun. Not so much alone, but it is a stellar coop game. You really gotta take care of that submarine.
Latchers are horrifying btw.
I'm from Spain and I was very confused with the title till I realized he was talking about the moon lol
X2
I also live in Spain
just without the S
X3, i was sooooo darn confused
@@Guus115 count me in, except my Spain is just missing the 'a'
@@DustMugsame but remove pa
Barotrauma anyone?
Damn clowns.
Was looking for this comment
My exact thought lmao
Ride the call of the Honkmother, or y'know... give your flesh to the husk!
There's no video games on europa, but there's video games in europe... 😂
For anyone who might enjoy it, the movie Europa Report is a fictionalised movie about the first manned mission to Europa to search for life. I thought it was very well done.
Thank you for the tip!
@@MONTENEGRO420My pleasure!
Agreed! I loved Europa Report!!
@@grahamrich3368 Yeah, it was low key, but that ending alone was worth the watch! Can you just imagine?
Europa Report is underrated in my opinion
I read the expanse series and liked the fact that organisms on different worlds had different chemical bases. You couldn't metabolize alien meat, and alien mosquitoes couldn't digest our blood. If we were to find 'fish' on Europa, we couldn't eat one. Neither could worlds cross contaminate each other as bacteria are built specifically for their own worlds chemical composition. I wonder if the authors were correct.
I don't think so they are correct you can eat anything unless it's toxic human can eat fox meat without any side effects
I bet you could do all those things, just it wouldn't be good for you
ive never seen the series, are these exoplanets in different star systems?
more than likely why we will never really ever "colonize" already life-bearing worlds, because we would have to wipe out the native bacteria and microrganisms completely, and then re-seed the world after totally sterilizing it with our microbes, in order to make it sustainable for human life.
Fundamentals can't really be different. Life could only be carbon or, hypothetically, silicon based
The Europa Report was an unexpectedly good movie. Definitely a must watch for any fan of astronomy that enjoys science fiction.
I did a research paper on Enceladus (similar situation as Europa) a few years back. It's really intriguing how these moons really have a chance of holding alien ecosystems
Me: Dives in a sub into Europa's ocean.
My nav computer: "Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"
"Nope. Get back. I am not certain! Wait what's tha- NO NO NO, STAY AWAY! PLS NO! HELP!!!"
Abandon ship starts playing
If you think the reaper leviathan is bad, wait till you see the Europan latcher
There’s a video game called Barotrauma that takes place in the seas of Europa. A lot is unrealistic but they did make an ecosystem as described in this video.
There's no video games on europa, but there's video games in europe... 😂
Your stupid wordplay works against you here
@@ultrainstinctgoku2509 not funny
@@AttestedFire66 Why?... 🤭
@@ultrainstinctgoku2509because it isn‘t
A distant celestial body that contains a huge amount of water that might have life in it?
Oh boy
*Subnautica flashbacks
If there is life, it’ll probably be very similar to the weirder Earth creatures deeper in the ocean.
It’d be so cool if there’s anything remotely as unique as in the Subnautica games though.
*barotrauma flashbacks
The tittle confused me so much I was like yeah we call them europeans???
Your kidding me😐
For as long as I can remember I've dreamed of the day of seeing actual alien life wirh my own eyes
I really hope to see such an event in my lifetime
Same here that keeps me motivated to live the best and healthy life I can
Same, guys!! The day that some scientists announced they had found possible traces of life on Venus's atmosphere (late 2020, remember?) was one of the most memorable moments of my recent life. The thrill of opening the news site, expecting boring news like everyday, and finding that particular article featured on the main page... _Possible traces of life found in Venus..._
Wow, that was so exciting and transcendental.
Unfortunately the study was peer reviewed and the results concluded to be too imprecise, but I still hope that one day we will wake up to such news for real. Those will be exciting times
@@osasunaitor It is largely difficult, to not say impossible. But there's a chance that life sprouts in Venus's atmosphere, because of all the chemicals and the right temperature, as well as the pressure and gravity.
I think this was the thing you're talking about. I was excited too, didn't know they'd have disproven that😢
Dream on!
@@osasunaitor You are filled with false hope. There is NO LIFE anywhere but here on this earth!
This whole line of comments show how ignorant and bizarre people really are!
It's just such a bummer that we have to wait years and years before any missions will get there. I've been watching documentaries for years talking about drilling down into Europa's ocean and deploying a submarine of some kind. If only it was easier and cheaper to launch such missions.
WE will never be able to "drill" thru the ice. But we have already figured it out the best way to get to the ocean below, and that's why part of the Europa Clipper mission is to find a thin part of the ice shell, and designate it for the follow up submersible mission.. because we already have the submersible being tested in Antarctica.. You wanna take a guess how we will get thru 15 km of "hard as steel ice" on a moon around Jupiter, on NASA's tiny budget?
Obviously it would be ridiculous an untenable to "drill" thru the ice, considering the deepest we have ever drilled here on Earth is like 4 miles, and there would be no way to have an unmanned probe with "drill bits" that need to be changed, and for "problems" to constantly arise under the radiation of Jupiter.. But you are gonna be so "wowed" because of how smart NASA scientists are when you find out what they thought of
@@raidermaxx2324 Never say never man. When you look far into the future, there are only 2 options. Either humanity dies out / kills themselves. Or we become gods that can manipulate the universe at will. Therefore we will also be able to drill through some ice if we want to.
I knew I'd find you Paul ! You hit my car you jackass you owe me 453$
@@germansniper5277I think creating a huge amount of heat using a shield of some kind is a much more likely idea
@@germansniper5277Gods that manipulate the universe at will? Never cook again
Guess Barotrauma gets real some day
this video really convince me to think organisms do exist in outer space like by huge numbers, it almost makes me feel like the universe is like the sea
everything is kinda a sea, we live in a sea of air
Brilliant, thank you!
Regarding the "alien" part of Marianas Trench ecosystem, it's all about the sulfur-metabolizing bacteria. The associated arthropods and mollusks have conventional biochemistry but are able to be part of a mini-food chain that begins with consumption of the sulfide-bacteria.
did you know there is a game or simulation more like on Steam, where you start out as a single cell floating around in an alien ocean abyss, and you have to eat a bunch of nitrogen and ammonia and sulfides and phosphate to grow and multiply into a multicellular life form? Its really neat, its called "Thrive" .. My cell just mutated to be able to turn sulfide into glucose or ATP i dont remember cuz im not a scientist.. But i guess it checks out! lol
I absolutely love Jupiter and its moons.
If there is life on it, then it will be even a more unique jewel in our solar system.
Love the content still.
Or it will be some eldrich Horror beyond our comprehension.
Don't forget Saturn. It's moons could harbor water oceans too.
Jupiter and Saturn are the guardians of the solar system. We would not be here without them.
@@richardbroad2848 Yup. Jupiter and Saturn guard us. Uranus and Neptune are like the fun uncle, causing trouble but coming through at the end.
no doubt.. I'm fascinated by what the enormous Jovian thunderclouds and ammonia hurricanes would look like from the perspective of skimming along above the clouds just inside the atmosphere. It must be a sight that would be hard to perhaps even comprehend .. I'm gonna miss out on a lot of the wonders humanity will eventually see. I'm sure im not the only one that sometimes wishes they were born in the future lol
This is straight up Barotrauma lore.
If Barotrauma has taught me anything is that there is definitely life on Europa
every day space is blowing my mind more than the previous one.
🤯
A thing you've never seen and never will. Might as well pretend dungeons and dragons are real life
As a European I'm certain of life in my continent.
I, as a fellow Europian, concur!
We gonna be playing barotrauma in real life? Don't sign me up
One of these days Barotrauma will become real.
If they went to the south pole could they possibly find small organisms that were "spewed out" with the water in the area of the plume?
That’s good thinking, something, small fish, bacteria, whatever is in that water could be caught in a plume
Possibly, thats why the Europa Clipper is designed to fly thru those plumes and "sniff the water ice" for organic chemistry or evidence of life.. the same that Gallileo did on Enceladus, but with better technology this time around
See the problem with your hypothesis is that your ignoring the FACT that organisms come from other organisms. 😇
Also there's no life on europa, but there's life in europe... 😂
@@ultrainstinctgoku2509well that’s the whole goddamn point, use the plume to CHECK for life. There would have to be some sort of organic matter coming out of the plume, too much time has passed for life to avoid the plume forever.
You go, and you check “Hey, there’s dead organisms here!” Or it goes “There is literally NOTHING but ice and boredom here. Nothing organic. Ever.”
Assuming that you know everything about space is just as dumb as the flat earthers knowing that space is a lie too.
Imagine travelling a zillion miles and bumping in to yourself. Now that would be freaky.
yh especially if you are living in a huge ocean under the ice that seems to, at the same time, work as the crust and exhibit tectonics and shit and also sunlight is there under the thick ice because there is like a second sun inside europa. And then, there is you, or a gay fish version of you swimming in the endless water not needing oxygen and fucking underwater to create other fishhumans.
by gay i meant happy not homosexual.
@@az0r22 ??
I just hope that NASA people don't find a planet and call it LV426.
Barotrauma has prepared me for this moment!
Great video! I think the overlap between astronomy and biology is really fun. It's possible that someday aliens won't be science fiction, but common knowledge taught in high schools.
well if Republicans keep getting their way, high schools will just be bible study, and an "alien talk" willl be blasphamey and punishable by crucifiction
That's both incredible and terrifying thinking that we are not alone. Hope the great filter doesn't get to us
Question. Given the much smaller mass of Europa than Earth and the fact that Europa's oceans are much deeper than the Mariana trench; can we work out the likely pressures at the bottom of Europa oceans?
My guess is that if there is life at all, then given the nature of food chains I see no reason why the biggest life forms shouldn't be potentially huge.
It would have had the same length of time to form life as the Earth, so no telling how big the life forms might be? I think scientists are hoping to find anything, algae or something. But no one knows, they could be the size of dinosaurs?
It would depend on what it “breathes” (or draws quick and plentiful resources from the way we get oxygen from air), where it draws its primary energy from (heat from vents? Eating other creatures? Radiation from Jupiter abundant on the surface?) and finally, whether it evolved there or originated elsewhere and just happens to live on Europa (arrived on a comet? Left by aliens?)
There are also limits based on physics the way we need lungs and blood to diffuse our oxygen further into our bodies, whereas plants are thin enough to do this with direct contact with air and without lungs.
Ironically, pressure may help to diffuse these supplies into the creature in the same way that our atmospheric pressure concentrates air around us, and we struggle to breathe as the air gets thinner higher up.
Gravity on Europa is 1,3m/s which is comparable to gravity on the moon at 1,6 m/s and about 6 times less than earth.
After converting from an online calculator, I find pressure at the bottom of Europa's ocean is about twice what you'd find at the bottom of the Mariana trench.
Still a lot but it doesn't seem impossible for life to develop there if we have some here on Earth.
@@WesternUranus Thanks happy new year .
It sounds theoretically survivable to me too.
I seriously doubt all of this. Too strange for me and how can it have so much water for being so small? I dont buy it. You see any frozen lakes on the moon? I dont think so
Don't worry, Barotrauma isn't real. It can't hurt you.
"Through out Space and Time and through out the Universe, I alone am the habitable one"
- Earth
I would think that life would have to exist deep within that ocean in order to be shielded from the powerful radiation from Jupiter's immense magnetosphere.
Fascinating. Thank you. Hope you and Rolo are doing well. 🇺🇸❤🇬🇧
Don't worry, there isn't any life on Europa.
@@ScottBFree don't worry we come in peace. We have no intention to hurt your species.
well only 5-10 ft actually.
Life on Europa and Ganymede could be genetically adapted for the magnetosphere radiation of Jupiter.
@@johanliljegren4759 why would it need to be? The radiation does not penetrate more than a few hundred feet down, and we are talking about 15 km thick ice.
Outstanding video, Best I've seen or heard on Europa. Well done, Kudos for excellence and analysis.
the radioactive waste blob known as the elephants foot powers a certain species of black mould
It’s pronounced “Europe”, and yes there’s life here.
What would it mean to find crustaceans, siphonophores and sea cucumbers in Europa? To know life is easy to come by but alien civilizations are still statistically unlikely to coexist with ours due to space and time but actually extremely likely to have existed and that it will still develop in multiple places around us? What would realistically change for us?
It would mean that the idiots in Israel and Palestine would have no reason to murder each other anymore, since all world religions would basically be rendered ridiculous at that very moment.. And then we would find a way to exploit it to our benefit.
Our perception of ourselves and our place in the universe
It may give religion a serious knock, but I don't think it would topple them
@@SamuelBlack84 well considering how delusional most evangelical christians are, here in America, who are just able to make up some more nonsense to justify why their initial "Qanon" cnspiracy didnt come to pass, you are probably right. They will somehow find a way to justify their beliefs, despite the facts looking them in the face.
@@SamuelBlack84Not really. That would take another humanoid
We probably won’t. No oxygen will be present in Europas ocean, and that severely limits energy. Singled celled life like Xenophyophore and Gromia are possible though
The kid in me can till imagine there are sea monsters swimming in Europa’s ocean.
Play Barotrauma to scratch that itch
Where Americans would locate Europe on a map:
Sorry we have to memorize where 50 different states the size of countries are
You know that every country has at least 15 regions right?
@@BioTheHuman not as large as the states
@@kde09 the size doesn't matter on the memory lol It actually helps.
Also, one thing is a federal state and another a full country.
Like for example, would you be able to name Germany federal states? Of course not, because you only hear about the German ministries and such.
@@BioTheHuman then the education system failed us ig
Subnautica players gonna go crazy over the ocean planet
barotrauma players:
Our MilkyWay galaxy goes exponentially unexplored as well as the universe so a pivotal point in expansion is looking at what’s surface deep on Europa to determine if the requirements for life are as universal as theorized.
Wait so europa is technically subnautica?
IT'S BAROTRAUMA
I applaud you for having such great subtitles for this 👏 🙌
I think life will always converge to similar forms. Like it’s not gonna look different for the sake of it, it’ll just be similar but slightly changed to suit the planet it’s on.
If life exists on Europa, it will almost certainly be bacterial or archaean similar to life on earth prior to the prokaryotic eukaryotic transition on earth.
Life is insanely tentatious and can thrive in environments where our species would drop dead immediately
I love videos about moons, especially about Europa, triton, enceladus, etc..u my favorite rob..👌👌💙💙
Reminds me of the movie Europa Report…an underrated gem of a movie.
Amazing video! Great commentary as well 😃
Barotrauma IRL!!! LESGO!!!
Awesome videos as always say 💖🌍🔥
Absolutely fascinating!!! I def think organisms have formed down in the ocean there, especially huddled around thermal heat vents. I wouldn’t be surprised if even complex animals such as a form of octopi exist much like that movie they created. What we do know is whatever life forms do exist there, it sure isn’t evolved enough or intelligent enough to escape its own habitat. They certainly have remained below its icy surface.
How you know? Mabe they here allready with their UFOs studying this strange surface creatures ;D
Amazing video, Subscribed!
There's a game on pc called Barotrauma that takes place on Europa. There are indeed some skin-crawling creepies on that moon..
When did european life began to look like australian life 😭
Subnautica players are foaming at the mouth.
Turns out Atlantis was on another planet the whole time
I’ve been to Europa a hundred times. Just a bunch of Vex, and Fallen there along with Clovis Bray’s seemingly abandoned research facility.
That was a very interesting and fascinating video.
Barotrauma irl??? Man it would be terrifying but also epic if we had to send submarines down into the depths of Europa to discover life forms
Thank you for adding the Freedom unit conversion in the upper left corner.
Every other comment joking about the continent of Europe. HOW HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL
Awesome Video 😄😄
Fun Fact: because of the small mass and density of Europa compared to Earth, the pressure at the bottom of Europa's abyssal depths (100km deep) is roughly the same give or take as 6-7 km's deep(the deepest point at Mariana's trench, on Earth)
I was wondering if this would be the case, thanks!
@@FullMetalFeline No worries! Yea you take into account that here on Earth, you have the entire weight of our atmosphere, plus the h20 in the ocean itself, pressing down on any given point..
Since Europa is so much smaller, and made mostly of silicate rock, and frozen water ice, it means that there is no impervious layer of "Ice-7" at the bopttom of the ocean, formed by the immense pressure which in turn theoretically "seals off" the mineral rich rocky mantle from mixing into the ocean water above..
This is in fact, why most astrobiologists do not think that newly discovered class of super earth's known as Hycean worlds(water worlds that are at least one and a half times bigger and more dense than our planet) have the capability to support a biosphere, because those oceans are 1000 km's deep, and have so much more atmosphere crushing down on it, that hypothetically it forms an exotic form of ice which is as "hard as steel" and "fiery hot"..
This "Ice -7" completely encapsulates the rocky mantle which not only prevents plate tectonics, but also stops the heat transfer from the magma core(like the hot chimney vents found by James Cameron during his expedition to the deepest parts of our oceans) to the ocean above, which is what life as we know it, thrives on.
But these ice moons are a totally different beast..
One more fun fact for you: There are 7 of these moons in our solar system alone, (including Titan) that seem to have deep, warm salt water oceans that are potential habitats for multicellular life.
Europa is my favorite planet!! I can't wait till the Europa Clipper starts exploring in 2030. Seems like a long ways a way.. but it's not too bad, i reckon.. :P
@@raidermaxx2324 Titan is the one with hydrocarbon oceans, i.e. the one you would go for free fuel, not the one you would look for life.
@@erkinalpcurrent research suggests Titan has a brine/water ocean underneath the hydrocarbon shell
You don’t know that, you have no clue how deep Europa gets
I can't wait to be chilling in my submarine until suddenly the power goes out and I drop into the abyss until meeting and endworm and being eaten whole
>mysterious metal crate
>shotgun in my hand on standby
>friend opens crate
>evil worm thing appears
>panick
>shots
>screaming
love the europan wildlife experience
Europa clipper engineer here! Very cool info and seems accurate! Important to mention, Europa clipper also aims to measure ice thickness so that future missions can determine the best way to get through the ice!
Well its time to play some Barotrauma at this point
A europa video always triggers me to play some Barotrauma! :P
Brilliant. I really did not have 20 mins to spare... so I thought I would ff through boring footage. There was no such footage. In fact I had to rewind to rewatch a bunch of sections. Thank you
Fascinating. Thank you!
Good video. I've been fascinated with this moon for a while now. Has anyone seen europa report?
Oh well it looks like we are going to have some company
Wot?
Excellent video. Thanks 👍
I appreciate the american conversions and you crediting who you get the images from.
Good Job Awsome Video🎉
I'm no scientist but I can tell you for sure there is life on Europe, I have a cousin living there 😅😂
Imagine how incredible it would be if they made a little submarine with HD camera to go underwater in Europa's ocean to search for creatures
The very important difference between life in Marianne trench and Europa ocean is that life in the Marianne trench feeds mainly on debris of organic matter falling from above.
There are no such organic debris falling from above on Europa…
I've played Barotrauma, i know what life there is down there
The moons of Jupiter are really fascinating and beautiful, and quite often I have observed them in their orbits, which is intriguing in itself, and identified them, as my mind is thinking of possible life out there, on Europa…great video, thank you.
I really wish we find out in our lifetime, amazing work!
Even the shallowest depths of Europa would put aliens in a pressure of over 100,000 pounds, anything that lives down there is either a rock with legs, or a puddle of gooe.
Bro barotrauma could be real
What if there are mermaid aliens living under the ice and they just never got advanced enough to go to the surface?
Highly Unlikely. That would imply that life on Europa would’ve evolved almost identically to that of Earth which under different conditions or the same conditions is practically impossible.
I live in Europe, so I can confirm there may be life here
I really want NASA to send a ship to find a way to drop a drone into the potential ocean. I would love to see it. The life down there must be so creative in ways we can't even fathom.
Based on examples of convergent evolution on Earth, it’s very possible that life on planets similar to ours would evolve into familiar forms.
Idk would have to be almost identical conditions. Even in our own history compete alien like lineages have come and go.
Not necessarily. All life on Earth is descended from a single living being and has the same basic biochemistry. That could be a limitant on what evolution may or may not be able to do here on Earth. Though silicon-based life is probably impossible, carbon-based life with completely different biochemistry might be possible. For example, we share the same four nucleotids with the simplest bacteria in the world. Even the genetic code (the correspondence between codon and aminoacid) is very conserved across the tree of life. In another planet, none of this is guaranteed. In fact, if the first life we find outside of Earth has those exact same biomolecular traits, we should seriously start considering panspermia... or life-seeding.
I think only very basic things and basic aerodynamics would be the same. We live in a world where a lemur and woodpeckers fill the exact same niche through different biological functions.
If it's all crabs with different ancestry, I'm losing my shit.
“All these worlds are yours, save Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together, use them in peace.” - Arthur C. Clarke
What work of his is this from?
@@samuelaraujomedeiros66822010: Odyssey two
@@samuelaraujomedeiros66822010 Odyssey two
@@samuelaraujomedeiros6682 2010.
Everytime i watch something about space it always explodes my mind cause i think of whats out there and i think of the past it just rattles my brain.
I misread the title and was like
"What ?"
"Oh no it's those dang French people isn't it"
Brilliant upload thanks for sharing
👍🙂👍
Making some predictions before I watch this:
1.) There is no discussion of macrozoology.
2.) Lots of comparisons to theories of early life on Earth.
3.) "It might very well be possible that under the right conditions..."
4.) Turns to a discussion of why there can't be any crazy life on Europa
Oml I desperately hope I’m alive when they find alien life in Europa, like that would be so cool dude omg
As someone from Sweden I can assure you there is no life here in Europe.
Good fucking god, barotrauma could happen
I'm really itching to see what's beneath that layer of ice? A mission to drill and put a mini submersible in Europa's ocean should be one of major importance. Perhaps what we might find will shock everyone 🤔❓️
Great video as always Rob. 👍
we will never use a drill. Experiments are already being done to test the submersible that will be used in the oceans, in a vast underground lake under the surface of Antarctica. But the way wew will pierce the 15 km thick ice shell, will be to use data by the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to designate the thinnest point, and then use radioactive decay, (which we already use to power the probe to visit Europa, by putting a piece of the plutonium or Uranium in the nose of the submersible(think of a bullet , with the submersible encased within) and then using gravity and the constant heat from the gamma radiation from the radioactive rock, the probe will slowly(melt) its way down ~15 km of hard as steel ice. It qill take about 5 years. But there is no way possible to transport the equipment needed to drill 15 km deep, when we cannot even get close to that with our drill technology on our own planet.
@raidermaxx2324 It looks like you've done your research. It would make sense to do exactly, as you mentioned, with using heat to bore through the ice and come to think of it, it would be a logistical nightmare to firstly transport a drill rig and secondly drill that far down, way to many things could go wrong. I'm more than happy to take some constructive criticism, my friend 👍
Maybe there would be a way to enter the water around those areas that the plumes come from. The ice would, by necessity, be weaker or less structured there. It would still be fraught with dangers for the machine, but it should take a lot less time to get submerged.
@@mykelevangelista6492 still, not going to transport a drill system that would need to penetrate a few km's at least, all the way to Europa. And yes, of course they will target the most optimal place, in terms of thickness of the ice, but the only viable way is to use radioactive heat in the form of gamma rays, which are a constant, and non-dissipating source of heat energy..They will use the same plutonium that is used to power all our NASA probes, and is the same source of energy that keeps the Voyager spacecraft STILL, working to this day. They will just put it in the nose cone of a cartridge, housing the submersible like a bullet, and let it melts its way down in 3-5 years... This is already been agreed upon years ago.
@@raidermaxx2324 Nobody will ever use plutonium or uranium to drill into europa, the potential risks are too high for any life living there, NASA already takes a lot of care to make sure no living matter is carried aboard their spacecraft, why would they ever intentionally drop radioactive material into a possible source of life? Cool idea, wont happen.
One of the foremost science fiction authors of all time, Arthur C. Clarke, wrote a bunch of short stories which were later expanded by Paul Preuss into the series Venus Prime, in which life is discovered on Europa. Or, more precisely, IN Europa.