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Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our current theory of evolution holds that all life on Earth originated from a single, simple life form billions of years ago. But what if that life did not originate on Earth? In this episode we'll explore the theory of Panspermia, that origin of life might be extraterrestrial in origin, and that the abiogenesis of that origin life form we descend from might have descended from the sky in a comet or some other alien source. We will explore the impact this concept would have on the Fermi Paradox if true. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode's Audio-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/panspermia Episode's Narration-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/panspermia-narration-only Credits: The Fermi Paradox & Panspermia Episode 171, Season 5 E05 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Gloria Meadows Gregory Leal https://www.gregschool.org/ Keith Blockus Matthew Acker Matthew Campbell Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Kris Holland (Mafic Studios) www.maficstudios.com Krisitijan Tavcar https://www.miragedereve.com Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca De Rosa - [email protected] Music: Paradox Interactive, Andreas Waldetoft, "Stellaris: Leviathans - The Titan" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Lombus, "Goldilocks Analemma" https://lombus.bandcamp.com Aerium, "The Islands moved while I was asleep" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ Dan MacLeod, "Alpha Protocol" https://soundcloud.com/neptuneuk Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon" https://www.kai-engel.com/ Denny Schneidemesser, "Across the Universe" https://soundcloud.com/denny-schneidemesser

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John Michael Godier discusses if there could be life on ice shell moons like Europa and Enceladus and the possibility of interstellar objects such as Oumuamua seeding life on other planets with Dr. Karen Meech of the University of Hawaii which discovered the first interstellar object Oumuamua, with the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope. What is Oumuamua? With Dr. Karen Meech: https://youtu.be/8Q7TzLH2cRA Website: https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/ You can now support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/jmgeventhorizon Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/jmgeventhorizon/

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac5 The galaxy is a vast place with billions of potential new worlds for humanity to colonize, but interstellar space is so enormous that reaching even the nearest stars and planets by spaceship would take decades at best, and maybe many centuries. Even on arrival terraforming those barren planets would take just as long. Two options for overcoming the immensity of space and time are the Seed Ship and the Data Ship, automated vessels able to colonize the worlds for us. We will examine those today, their advantages, limitations, and misconceptions, and variations of them we might use to seed the stars. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode's Audio-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/seeding-the-stars Episode's Narration-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/seeding-the-stars-narration-only Credits: Seeding the Stars Episode 166, Season 4 E52 Writers: Isaac Arthur Editors: Alex Chamak A.T. Long Cooper de Ruiter D. Hemanshi Daniel McNamara Darius Said Edward Nardella Evan Schultheis Keith Blockus Mark Warburton Matthew Acker Safia Postgate Stuart Graham https://beyondnerva.wordpress.com Sigmund Kopperud Producer: Isaac Arthur Cover Artist: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics Team: Bryan Versteeg http://spacehabs.com Darth Biomech https://www.artstation.com/darth_biomech Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/ Jarred Eagley Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Justin Dixon LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com Mihail Yordanov Sam McNamara Serigio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc SpaceResourcesCGI Audio Editing Eric Schneider Narrator: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - [email protected] Music: Markus Junnikkala, "Plotting a Course" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ Paradox Interactive, Andreas Waldetoft , "Dark Minds" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Lombus, "Hydrogen Sonata" https://lombus.bandcamp.com Paradox Interactive, "In Search of Life" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Serena Elis, "Between the Space" https://soundcloud.com/serenaelis Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha-and-..." https://www.discogs.com/artist/625697-Taras-Harkavyi Paradox Interactive, Andreas Waldetoft, "The Birth of a Star" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Ayreon, "The Theory of Everything, Part 1" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihO6uVisilu1mn4x2u-HOA

Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ How did life on Earth get started? Did life on Earth originate on another planet? Either Mars, or in a distant solar system? Could Earth life have spread to have seeded life elsewhere? Let’s see what modern science has to say about the plausibility of panspermia. You can further support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Help translate our videos! https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_... Previous Episode: 'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0&t=455s Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Matt O'Dowd Graphics by Luke Maroldi Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Life existing on Earth is odd. The oldest fossils are now dated to only a few hundred million years after the moment Earth first became habitable. Is it really reasonable to imagine that evolution turned an unliving chemical soup into the first true living cells in that geological eye-blink? Well, maybe. But the discovery of the early appearance of life on Earth was definitely a big “huh, that’s weird” moment. And it’s inspired some creative thinking. For example, what if the first genesis of life – abiogenesis – is actually incredibly unlikely – so unlikely that it only happened once in the entire galaxy. And that “once” was not on Earth. What if primitive life arrived on Earth after having traveled vast distances across the Milky Way. Some scientists think this is the case. This is the Panspermia hypothesis. Special thanks to our Patreon Big Bang, Quasar and Hypernova Supporters: Big Bang David Nicklas CoolAsCats Anton Lifshits Fabrice Eap Justin Lloyd Juan Benet Richard Senegor Shane Robinson Antonio Park Faisal Saud William James Sidis Quasar Tambe Barsbay Mark Rosenthal Mayank M, Methrotra Dean Fuqua ColeslawPurdie Joel Brinton James Flowers Vinnie Falco Josh Hypernova Chuck Zegar Jordan Young Joseph Salomone John Hofmann Martha Hunt Eugene Lawson Barry Hatfield Brent Mullins Danton B Spivey Science Via Markets Matthew O’Connor Ratfeast Brent Mullins Mark Heising Donal Botkin Shaun Williams Edmund Fokschaner Max Levine Vitaly Kovalenko Thanks to our Patreon Gamma Ray Burst Supporters: Alexander Rodriguez Alex Soto Alexey Eromenko Antonio Ruiz Brandon Cook Brandon Labonte Carlo Mogavero Conor Dillon Daniel Lyons David Crane David Matteson Dustan Jones Florian Stinglmayr Fabian Olesen Fauzan Ardhana Greg Allen Greg Weiss Jack Frosch James Hughes JJ Bagnell Jessica F Jinal Doshi Jon Folks John Pettit Joseph Emison Josh Thomas Kenneth F Leonard Kirk Mathews Loro Lukic Kevin Warne Malte Ubl Marc Lagarde Mark Vasile Nathan Leniz Nathan Hitchings Nicholas Rose Nick Virtue Peeter Durocher Scott Gossett Shannan Catalano Shawn Azman Tim Stephani Tommy Mogensen سلطان الخليفي

Jason Preston Wherever you go, There You Are: The Case for Panspermia From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars. #MarsSearchForLife

PSW #2399 November 2, 2018 Lecture Starts at 11:00 www.pswscience.org Comets and the Origin of Life The Proposed CAESAR Mission to Return a Comet Sample to Earth Steven W. Squyres James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences Cornell University Comets are among the oldest and most interesting objects in the solar system. Learning about them can tell us a great deal about the origins and formation of the solar system, and perhaps about the origin of life. For example, researchers have speculated that tholin-rich comets may have seeded earth with organic compounds early in its development, stimulating life to begin. The Rosetta mission studied the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at close range for two years. The trove of information from Rosetta provides a highly detailed basis for designing a sample return mission to this comet. And the detection of tholins on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko make it an extremely attractive object for further study, with the promise of illuminating how life began. The Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return Mission (CAESAR) is a proposed mission back to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko to sample the comet and bring the samples back to earth. Currently, it is one of a pair of finalists selected for further concept development in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. The other is the Dragonfly mission to Titan. If CAESAR is selected, and things go smoothly, it will launch in 2024 and return samples to Earth in 2038. This lecture will discuss the reasons for visiting 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko again and bringing samples of the comet back to earth for detailed study, and the engineering and science mission proposal being developed. Steven Squyres is James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University. Before joining the Cornell faculty, he was a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Concurrently, Steve is the Principal Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Project, a co-investigator on Mars Express and for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, a member of the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Team for Mars Odyssey, and a member of the Cassini imaging team. Previously, he was an associate of the Voyager imaging science team, radar investigator on the Venus Magellan mission, member of the Mars Observer gamma-ray spectrometer team, and co-investigator on the Russian Mars ’96 mission. Steve’s research focuses on the robotic exploration of planetary surfaces, the history of water on Mars, geophysics and tectonics of icy satellites, tectonics of Venus, planetary gamma-ray and x-ray spectroscopy. Research for which he is best known includes study of the history and distribution of water on Mars and of the possible existence and habitability of a liquid water ocean on Europa. Among other awards, Steve is the recipient of the Carl Sagan Memorial Award, the Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in Planetary Science, the Mines Medal, the AAU’s Urey Prize and the Franklin Institute’s Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science. He is an author on numerous technical papers, and the book, Roving Mars. He has appeared often in the media speaking on space and space exploration. Steve earned a BA in Geological Sciences and a PhD in Astronomy from Cornell University, where he worked closely with Carl Sagan.

Subscribe to Naked Science – http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1 Did comets bring water, organic material, or even life itself to Earth? Panspermia is the controversial hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft in the form of unintended contamination by microorganisms. Clip taken from the Naked Science documentary “Comets”. Watch it here – Coming soon!

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We tend to assume that life began here on Earth. But it’s possible that life originated on an alien world and in some form or another was brought here. In this video, we discuss the possibility that life originated somewhere else, either on a planet or asteroid, then spawned life here on Earth. ►Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0fFWQLZ2oj-FaoDUG_wow?sub_confirmation=1 ►Written, Produced & Narrated by: David ►Share this video: https://youtu.be/PjnWOBext-E Music: “Cylinder Five” by Chris Zabriskie “A Memory of Earth” by Markus Junnikkala

An exploration into the concept of directed panspermia, and seeding life throughout the galaxy. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "DIRECTED PANSPERMIA: A TECHNICAL AND ETHICAL EVALUATION OF SEEDING NEARBY SOLAR SYSTEMS", Mautner and Matloff, 1979 http://www.astro-ecology.com/PDFDirectedPanspermia1JBIS1979Paper.pdf Cylinder Three by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Today's video examines the three variations of Panspermia which could explain how life originated on Earth. Life may have been spread from other places in our solar system or universe and somehow made their way to Earth. Panspermia also explores the possibility that life was intentionally sent here by aliens. Could humans actually be aliens? Find out! More Info: https://goo.gl/hZwvkJ https://goo.gl/2ezrvS https://goo.gl/NOzob5 Music: Nicolai Heidlas - Letting Go https://goo.gl/BmufZk Subscribe for more videos! http://bit.ly/2ptvm6a Connect with me outside of YouTube! ✪Twitter: @joshledore ✪Instagram: @joshledore ✪SNAPCHAT: Joshledore Check out my Trippy Talk videos with my wife Kendall Rae: http://bit.ly/2pr2Lzj Support my channel on Patreon, I'd really appreciate it! http://bit.ly/2oH5WhW Get 20% off your order on ThinkGeek.com using my link http://bit.ly/2qIQ9B4 Get 10% off TRIPPY CLOTHING at INTOTHEAM.COM using my code JOSHLEDORE Link: http://bit.ly/2pOKlX3 Need to chill?! Check out MONQ Portable Oil Diffusers. Receive 10% off with my code JOSHLEDORE10 Link: http://bit.ly/2oZf7OC ✉ Send me mail ✉ Joshledore 8700 E JEFFERSON AVE PO Box 372061 DENVER, CO 80237

Astronomer and director of the multidisciplinary Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, Caleb Scharf, spoke to us about a interesting idea that has plagued scientists for decades: Did life on Earth actually originate on Mars? How is this possible? Scharf explains. You can learn more from Scharf by reading his latest book "The Copernicus Complex." Read more: http://www.techinsider.io/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/businessinsider INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/businessinsider/ TUMBLR: http://businessinsider.tumblr.com/

What if alien DNA led to human existence? This amino acid recently found in comets gives us insight on our potential alien-relatives. Are We Sabotaging Our Search For Life On Mars? - http://bit.ly/29MAiYY Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Comet Landing 2014: Rosetta Probe Philae Discovers Organic Molecules: Report http://www.ibtimes.com/comet-landing-2014-rosetta-probe-philae-discovers-organic-molecules-report-1725228 "The Philae space probe was powered down earlier than expected, but not before an instrument discovered an organic compound that was first detected in the comet's atmosphere, the Wall Street Journal exclusively reported Monday. The find is extraordinary considering the organic compound contains the carbon atom, which is the basis of life on planet Earth." Origin Of Life: The Panspermia Theory https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/origin-life-panspermia-theory "How life originated on earth is a question that people have pondered for ages. Theories abound, from those based on religious doctrine, to the purely scientific, to others that border on science fiction. One possibility that hovers on this border is the panspermia theory, which suggests that life on Earth did not originate on our planet, but was transported here from somewhere else in the universe." 'Necropanspermia' Suggested As A Way Of Seeding Life On Earth http://phys.org/news/2010-11-necropanspermia-seeding-life-earth.html "Panspermia is a mechanism for spreading organic material throughout the galaxy, but the destructive effects of cosmic rays and ultraviolet light tend to mean most organisms would be destroyed or arrive on a new world broken and dead. Now Paul S. Wesson, a visiting researcher at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada, suggests the information contained within damaged organic material could seed new life. He terms this process necropanspermia." ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos daily. Watch More DNews on Seeker http://www.seeker.com/show/dnews/ Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter http://twitter.com/dnews Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez DNews on Facebook https://facebook.com/DiscoveryNews DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here: http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI

Could comets have brought the ingredients of life to Earth? It's one of the questions the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko hopes to answer. Find out more about the mission at http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov/.

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Neil de Grasse falando sobre a "panspermia", a introdução da vida no planeta vinda de fora e de um eventual encontro com seres extraterrestres.

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-comets-be-the-source-of-life-on-earth-justin-dowd While comets were historically thought to be ill omens of war and famine, recent science has revealed that these celestial wonders actually contain amino acids, the building blocks of life on Earth. Justin Dowd explores the implications of this magnificent discovery. Lesson by Justin Dowd, animation by Justin Dowd.

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During the summer of 2012, 40 secondary school teachers from European Space Agency member states gathered in ESA's Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC in Noordwjik, NL to participate in a 3 day Teacher Workshop. Here they participated in activities geared towards helping them use space as a teaching tool. This session, given by Anu Ojha, Director of the National Space Academy in the UK, uses comets as a hook to bring space into geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics classes.

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Interesting notions about how life possibly came to our planet from deep in space