Four Places We Might Find Aliens
Four Places We Might Find Aliens with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science, lipid world, lipid divide, k2-18b, enceladus, europa, membrane, electrochemical membrane, venus
We don’t actually know if aliens exist. But if they do, their cells probably have a special type of membrane. And that knowledge alone tells us where we can look for them and maybe even what they’ll be like.
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- Lipid world hypothesis: The hypothesis that life on Earth began with self-maintaining lipid membranes rather than nucleic acids like RNA
- Spectroscopy: The study of how matter interacts with light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation
- Tidal friction: The resistance created when the gravitational pull of one celestial body deforms another, dragging its tidal bulge out of direct alignment.
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David Goldenberg | Script Writer, Narrator and Director
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Segré, Daniel, Dafna Ben-Eli, David W. Deamer, and Doron Lancet. “The Lipid World.” Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, vol. 31, no. 1–2, 2001, pp. 119–145.
