There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system - Augusto Carballido
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Deep in our solar system, a new era of exploration is unfolding. Beneath the thick ice of Europa; in the vapor plumes on Enceladus; and within the methane lakes of Titan, scientists are hunting for extraterrestrial life. These moons are ‘ocean worlds’— they contain liquid oceans, which can support the formation of life. Does life exist on ocean worlds? Augusto Carballido explores the possibility.
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Meet The Creators
- Director Igor Coric
- Animator Nemanja Petrovic
- Illustrator Jelena Vasiljevic
- Music Bozidar Obradinovic
- Educator Augusto Carballido
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
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The discovery of extraterrestrial life (even microscopic life in our solar system) would be perhaps the most important discovery made by humans. What implications would such a discovery have for humankind?
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jack lee
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Discovering extraterrestrial life would be a huge discovery for humanity because we can study about universe broadly. Also, from this discovery would tell us about more specific development of humankind.
Silas Young
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Yes
Ariana Ensign
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Almost everything would change
LET R
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It might change how we see the truth e.g. we might find dinosaurs.
Tyler Combs
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it wud be hard because our bacteria can kill them and their's can kill us so it may be cool to find but it is like is it good or bad if they die it is our fault and if we die it is our fault. that is just my outlook if it does not happen yay if so we found it if in dd we found life there is definitely more out there.
Omkaar N
, India
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The discovery of simple life would be the biggest breakthrough in human history, but if we discovered a complex species which was extinct, it could be dangerous for us. We would also get extinct at some time. This is called the Great Filter. It wipes away all life of a kind. This means that all life will always get extinct. Watch this video to know more about the great filter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM.
Harrison Swift
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Personally, I don't think that there's more life out there, the Universe isn't Star Wars.
Nina Chand
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we could help the planet or we could help our planet by getting what ever is on there.
Emily Deck
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Humans could study many different species.
Julianna Kreider
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It would show that maybe there would be available life on another planet. We could study new organisms and land. Also, we could face scary things like dangerous wars or maybe even invasions from new species.
