“Life makes our planet an incredibly exotic place compared to the rest of the known universe,” says astrobiologist Betül Kaçar, whose research uses statistics and mathematical models to simulate ancient environments and gather insights into the origins of existence. In this fascinating talk, she explores how a deeper understanding of chemistry could lead to the “secret sauce” for sparking life on other planets — and asks us to ponder an important question: If we could kickstart life in the universe, should we?
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Jerry Polverino
May 12, 2022 at 3:21 pm
We invent gods all the time. We play god here on Earth. Why not?
namesurename
May 12, 2022 at 3:40 pm
Cant wait for hadron collider to succeed so astronauts can transform solar wind into stable matter. Biology is as unique as sound isnt it? As for ingredients: are we so unique to survive mass extintions and may be still the only. Wondering if my insticts remember them
Bruce Bennett
May 12, 2022 at 3:47 pm
The assumption is that *’conditions are right’* except for *’secret x’*. Contrarywise, I think it more plausible that life will arise whenever conditions stay right for long enough, i.e. fix the environment to make life pop up (oh, wait – that’s terraforming, isn’t it…). Thought provoking though.
Harry Chris
May 12, 2022 at 4:03 pm
There are a hundred thousand things in the galaxy that could obliterate every trace of DNA from this planet, either instantly like gamma ray bursts, or with hundreds of years warning, like rougue suns passing through our solar system and flinging us off in to the void. I think that we have an obligation to seed life in as many places as possible, in as many varieties as possible. If we don’t and there really isn’t any other life in the universe, I think that it would be a damn shame.
Another Brick In The Wall
May 12, 2022 at 4:10 pm
I haven’t heard this speech in forever! The last time must have been like, what, 3.5 billion years ago?
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May 12, 2022 at 4:20 pm
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Richard Mckeithan
May 12, 2022 at 4:21 pm
Gods ppl dont travel in chariots or anything made…we reincarnate to where we supposed to be…pale and dark ppl leaving planets and going to others isnt Godly and throws everything off
hotkarate1
May 12, 2022 at 4:21 pm
We are so busy trying to get to other planets and not outing that same energy it this one.
D T
May 12, 2022 at 4:52 pm
God put us here for a reason, stop the non sence, u cant protect Earth but u wanna move on elsewhere to invade. U all on Krack
The Fobbit
May 12, 2022 at 5:12 pm
We are to busy giving our money to other countries to help them when we need help ourselves.
Bert Visscher
May 12, 2022 at 5:24 pm
Your presentation made me think of what, in Star Trek is called the Prime Directive. You also made me think of an episode of Star Trek: TNG. More specifically, of the episode Home Soil.
CMDR After Hours
May 12, 2022 at 6:04 pm
All fictional. The wandering stars are not terrafirma. One cannot land on a light in the sky, the idea is ridiculous.
Mirjam B.
May 12, 2022 at 5:30 pm
As someone who worked in the Space industry, I know that we are going nowhere. Earth’s the only option. We wouldn’t survive the radiation and other circumstances on the way to and on another planet. We destroyed our home, and will go extinct. There is no other option, we have done all the research for years. We cannot travel far, and Mars is not for us. The general public must have a dream. But the educated ones know that this dream will never become reality.
Ted F
May 12, 2022 at 6:04 pm
This is the premise of 2001 A Space Odyssey, do we leave an alarm clock buried on a nearby Moon?
CMDR After Hours
May 12, 2022 at 6:06 pm
There is no “outer space”. Wandering stars aren’t somewhere one could travel to or land on. They are simply lights in the sky.
Fighterjet227
May 12, 2022 at 6:10 pm
I’m surprised no one has made the comment wondering if we would really be the first to do this if possible? In other words, what if we are that seeded life created by “aliens”?
Piece Meats
May 12, 2022 at 8:37 pm
Ridley Scott made a pile of movies about that…. some are better than others but overall Aliens is a pretty awesome franchise.
R J
May 12, 2022 at 7:22 pm
Can we just make sure children are fed and not dying here on earth first? Just a small ask …
Fighterjet227
May 13, 2022 at 1:12 am
Except if everyone stopped what they we’re doing and only focused on these kind of priorities, nothing else would get done even if it were possible to end world hunger. Don’t get me wrong, something’s are more important than others but also as crazy it it my sound, simply focusing on those things are not the best means of human survival. You have to understand, that extraordinary things come out of further advancements like this, potentially an actual solution to world hunger or a cure to cancer albeit indirectly. So it’s best to at least have a little interest in everything else besides the necessities
Anna Shvets
May 12, 2022 at 7:46 pm
I can see the Ancient Aliens community reposting this video as proof XD
John B
May 12, 2022 at 9:09 pm
*WHY is it, Scientists are STILL unable to understand or even know the DIFFERENCE, between the human species and “LIFE The Real Self” (“AWARENESS” NOT Consciousness) ???*
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May 12, 2022 at 10:13 pm
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Catsanova
May 12, 2022 at 9:47 pm
Please refund all your taxpayer grant money.
willy956
May 12, 2022 at 10:57 pm
So she doesn’t want to terraform but… In reality that’s what she is really proposing. No terraform but well just maybe a little bit xd okay, fair enough, I agree then! Let’s make the future more interesting
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May 12, 2022 at 11:27 pm
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May 12, 2022 at 11:42 pm
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a vandal named X
May 13, 2022 at 12:38 am
Stop lying, nobody is going to other planets lol
Chris
May 13, 2022 at 1:23 am
“Should we?” Too many times we “did” before asking if we should. Hoover Damn is a perfect example.
Maybe if We change…that’s what kept us around for the last 300 to 400 thousand years🤦♂️
Robert Moulds
May 13, 2022 at 1:40 am
In Calvin and Hobbs they imagine they land on Mars but scare the tiny jelly like creature. Realise our reputation proceed us Hobbs saying “Would you accept an unhouse broken dog.” So maybe save home than move elsewhere.
thegamms
May 13, 2022 at 2:12 am
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eternisedDragon7
May 13, 2022 at 1:46 am
Thank you for this great, well-articulated and concise talk. I think it goes into a for the current time suitably balanced level of depth, carefully approaching the underlying dilemma. I’m interested in what viewers’ thoughts – expressed in comments – on this extraordinarily important topic are, and will be.
REAL TALK
May 13, 2022 at 4:12 am
We have to leave earth by 2100. Or humanity ends.
C
May 13, 2022 at 4:42 am
I learned the meaning of “life everywhere” when watching an ocean video, created by an unusually talented photographer who conceived and created a work of art working under the seas where most of us can not go. In the videos, the creator showed the beauty and perfection and surprise of voluminous unlimited life that surprises at every turn. One of the inherent surprises is that the smallest life is often some of the most beautiful. Watching a slowly approaching fish of great colors and shape and pattern and behavior, and around him even more fish of pulsing beauty such that everywhere you look there is more curious behaving fish of such color and shape and size and pattern and brightness that it takes your breath away. In examining the video, you notice the tiniest elements beat with their own pulse and flashing bright color with patterns and shapes all its own, yet on the smallest creeping slug, there is a much smaller tiny almost imperceptible slug of with its own shape and color and pattern that amazes. It makes one think there are invisible even tinier bits of life that can’t quite be seen that are just as colorful and amazing. I fell on this information and it made a difference.
David Boson
May 13, 2022 at 4:46 am
if we can make other planets worth living on, why cant we reverse global warming, or make life on Earth a Utopia for every human?
Amirreza Shakori
May 13, 2022 at 4:47 am
The fact that she uses the word remarkable a lot is remarkable.
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May 13, 2022 at 5:35 am
*TED* ❤️🤗
Blessed 🌏Friday !!! 🙏.
Each of us has a role to play in protecting our peoples and planet 🌍🌏🌎.
And to- Respect the DIGNITY of all HUMAN BEINGS 🤔.
Thank you.
And may God bless us all 🙏.
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Daem Posers
May 13, 2022 at 6:31 am
This topic makes me re think , to the past 400 thousand years ago , and comparing today . We are so bless that we are in a form of human species, to explore this beautiful earth than empty planets. Sadly we have too short life to stay in this planet so we must live life in a fullest way and taking care our evironment in oder to reserved for the future generations.
Ola Magnus Weisser
May 13, 2022 at 4:11 pm
Immortality is right around the corner, it’s just waiting to be discovered. Hopefully they discover it soon🙏🙏
JustIgor
May 13, 2022 at 8:35 am
How bout we first take care of life on this planet ..
Collin Schultz
May 13, 2022 at 10:10 am
Done manifested cocreated now worldwide
Denise Fuentes
May 13, 2022 at 11:14 am
Oh god no!
May Moreshet
May 13, 2022 at 2:04 pm
everyone is always tiptoeing around this issue like there is some sort of ethical boundary to be crossed here. We are in fact ethically obligated to seed other space objects… can and should, and should do so in a hurry before our civilization loses the capacity to do so!!
eternisedDragon7
May 15, 2022 at 5:50 am
Except you should flip your opinion on this matter once you realize wildlife animals of all kinds of species are sentient and can suffer, and dominantly have had a miserable life on earth for billions of years, after thoroughly reading through Wikipedia’s page on Wild animal suffering. Absence of life is preferable over the presence of miserable life afterall.
Dirt Films
May 13, 2022 at 4:05 pm
Scientists are changing the human body using tech so we can travel through space (radiation resistant) Schumann resonance makes it so we can reside here… Anything living anywhere else HAS to be in a conducive resonance or it will get “homesick” and die. Interesting that supposedly they say Earth’s atmosphere extends beyond the moon also.
Ola Magnus Weisser
May 13, 2022 at 4:08 pm
Yes we should!
eternisedDragon7
May 15, 2022 at 5:41 am
With this opinion, you should probably better inform yourself & others on what it means to live as individual animal part of an r-selection strategy species, because that should help guiding your opinion on this matter for the better.
Benjamin Dover
May 13, 2022 at 10:23 pm
We can’t even find a purpose for life on Earth. So I’m not sure why we’d be planting it elsewhere.
Lauren Alexandra
May 14, 2022 at 9:31 am
Elon Musk should watch this.
crash over
May 14, 2022 at 10:01 pm
Assunto muito bonito de falar beleza está superada pela cientista que fala.
D S
May 15, 2022 at 12:02 am
Just because we can doesn’t always mean we should. Considering human beings haven’t done a good job caring for this planet…what good could come from playing God somewhere else?
Chris Bingham
May 16, 2022 at 1:23 pm
I consider myself a speck smaller than a grain of sand on a beach in comparison to the universe, so I don’t think we will have the slightest effect on it any time in the near future.
Extra Google Account
May 15, 2022 at 1:49 am
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macrider7able
May 15, 2022 at 4:29 am
Mankind has endeavored to persue many things, throughout time.
These are not bad things in and of themselves, but every time has failed because of the absence of one ingredient.
We walk away fr ok m out “First love”.
This is in no way meant to discourage your effort to press forward….Tis this that is central to what it means to be human. But success will be achieved only after all pieces are obtained and then placed in their proper place. If you achieve all but one piece, success will slip through the fingers. This one piece has been sought after throughout all of time. It you seek this final piece with all your heart, kind and soul, success will be your. But it is very difficult or challenging for this one piece to be found.
Most people look for it earnestly, but don’t know that it can only be found is one location. This location eludes most people and they don’t know why
eternisedDragon7
May 15, 2022 at 6:09 am
I have to say I’m positively surprised by either people’s intuitions or level of education to come far more often to the – at least for our current times – correct conclusion than I expected. So here is the solution rationale which allows arriving at the correct conclusion on this issue:
On the topic of space expansionism, I think there would be books to fill with considerations about it, and I have many (what I think would be) noteworthy informally documented points on the topic, but for now, some of the most important ones that I’d like to forward would be the following. I hope my slight intellectual dishonesty (used as maybe psychologically manipulative means to press on the matter) in using mathematical nomenclature that alludes to the following statements to appear as if they were in a mathematical, absolute sense proven when that isn’t quite true can be forgiven, but I genuinely am of the opinion that for the time being, it would be safer, better if humanity were to think of it as proven:
1. Axiom: The ethical importance of an issue increases alongside the number of therein involved sentient lifeforms, the time duration during which they are affected by it, and the vastness of the affected space to the extent to which changes of it affect the lifeforms.
2. Extremal case: By the above statement set abstract general standard, according to the current body of humanity’s knowledge, general forms of evolution of life (if on earth or on exoplanets) forever constitute the most ethically important issue to exist in the universe: With billions of species – each with numerous individual lifeforms – together with durations on the scale of billions of years, and spacial extension of at least a whole planet, it dwarfs any other conceivable ethical issue’s level of importance.
3. Valuation Axiom for the extremal case: According to many scientific studies, such as by Richard Dawkins, Brian Tomasik, Alejandro Villamor Iglesias, Oscar Horta, pain and suffering dominates over joy for animal wildlife in general forms of Darwinian evolution of life, and therefore – when accumulated across all logically entangled parameters such as duration and count of involved individuals – instances of such forms of evolution of life has to be kept at a minimum in the universe, as there never was and never will be anything that could be more important, to change the conclusion of this Anti-Panspermia-implying directive.
1. Special Cosmos Ethics Theorem: Exoplanet-Wildlife-Development-Control-dependent Anti-Panspermia Directive for Humanity
The current state of the art of scientific evidence and ethics without exception imperatively demands that humanity does NOT engage in outer space activities of kinds that could even just infinitesimally likely risk introducing life to for any kind of lifeforms habitable worlds, for at least as long as humanity’s practical capability of controlling the up to astronomically vast consequences of interstellar space projects doesn’t sufficiently improve in a for interstellar space endeavors safety guaranteeing, critical manner.
Proof (by contradiction):
This conclusion deductively follows from the concerningly plausible, by many scientific studies supported, Axiom that general animal wildlife – not only as it has been throughout evolution on earth, but on a more general level that would apply to exoplanet life of our biological kind, too – for the vast majority of it is dominated by pain and suffering rather than joy (reference: Center for Long-Term Risk).
Assume the existence of a counter-example:
It could be argued that IF overall worthwhile to exist life on a larger scale were to rely on previous evolutionary animal wildlife’s existence and that the former were to safely come from the latter, that THEN it could possibly be better for evolutionary animal wildlife to come into existence than not.
Proof (by Ethical Dominance Principle) of the impossibility of the existence of counter-examples:
However, given that aforementioned, dominant wildlife animal pain and suffering in its amount and hence importance and priority for macro-scale decision-making increases by the duration throughout which such a miserable, in itself unwantable state persists, and that in the case of general forms of evolution of life, we have to expect that it can last for extraordinary long times of what essentially is involuntary, if avoidable unnecessary torture by the banal means of nature’s own ruthlessness, namely that it can last for billions of years, and furthermore that these time-spans are unavoidable if it shall lead to intelligent species, we can therefore conclude that the severity of this issue dominates every other to this date conceivable, plausible ethical issue, since all other ethical issues absolutely pale in comparison to the magnitudes of magnitudes by which this central ethical issue overshadows them all, in such a uniquely outstanding way that risking billion years full of suffering for thousands of individuals of at any time billions of wildlife exoplanet animals each can for nothing in the world be a by any standards reasonable sacrifice to make.
Therefore, by humanity’s current full body of knowledge, what happens to wildlife animals part of any actual, prospective, or potentially risked to exist instances of evolution of life constitutes the single most dominating, for ethical macro-scale decision-making behavior sole determinant factor of consideration.
Corollary 1.1: Time-Global Anti-Panspermia Directive for Humanity
If humanity is never able or can never be able to safely control exoplanet wildlife’s entire development for the purpose of guaranteeing its & all by its own activities potentially emerging foreign exoplanet wildlife’s pain-less flourishing, for any exoplanet wildlife risked to emerge or exist as consequence of humanity’s outer space activities, then it follows that humanity shall NEVER engage in activities that risk causing such.
2. Central Cosmos Ethics Theorem: General Anti-Panspermia Prime Directive
If the result of wildlife well-being evaluations of enough and sufficiently in time extended initial or lasting portions of expected or prospective cases of evolution of life is generally among all other ethically relevant factors the dominant ethical concern, and if furthermore a large enough unavoidable negative expected wildlife well-being has to be assumed of sufficiently common forms of expected or prospective cases of evolution of life, then imperative necessity of complete prevention of all preventable forms of panspermia follows.
Corollary 2.1: Anti-Panspermia Directive on local Star System Contamination
Any at least infinitesimally panspermia risking contamination of a celestial body within the local star system with (not necessarily extremophile) micro-organisms is to be prevented. This includes causing the emergence and spread of micro-organisms on a celestial body of the local star system, potentially followed by eventual interstellar transportation of by it emerging (extremophile) micro-organisms on the celestial body via natural panspermia, such as meteorites entering such celestial body’s atmosphere to pick the organisms up and continue towards interstellar space via sling-shot.
Corollary 2.2: Anti-Panspermia Directive on Space-Faring
Any at least infinitesimally panspermia risking space-faring activities are to be prevented. This includes von-Neumann-Probes (self-replicating Spacecraft), (replicating) seeder ships, and space-faring of individuals where the Anti-Panspermia abiding behavior of them and later generations after them cannot be ensured.
Corollary 2.3: Natural Anti-Panspermia Directive
Any at least infinitesimally panspermia risking, preventable natural litho-panspermia processes are to be prevented. This includes (extremophile) micro-organism transportation methods via space dust, meteorites, asteroids, comets, planetoids, planets, and debris ejected into space upon celestial body collisions.
Corollary 2.4: Anti-Panspermia Directive on Mega-Structures
Any construction of a mega-structure that at least infinitesimally – due to literally far reaching psychological influences – risks panspermia being risked or pursued via outer space activities from any other – for the detection of such mega-structure in astronomy engaging – alien civilization is to be prevented.
Corollary 2.5: Anti-Panspermia Directive on Super Volcano Eruptions
Any at least infinitesimally panspermia risking, preventable natural super volcano eruptions on a by life inhabited planet that can reach beyond its exosphere are to be prevented, or altered so they safely don’t risk panspermia anymore.
Remark: The importance of prevention measures for types of panspermia (according to the above general line of reasoning) depends on the level of (lack of) controllability of the potential long-term consequences (in terms of kick-started evolution of life) that may emerge as result from such, and for the purpose of differentiating in a reasonable manner that has this control-related parameter in mind, it makes sense to differentiate between interstellar and interplanetary panspermia, as at least it seems more plausible that interplanetary panspermia – if it were to happen – would be easier and more timely to control (although not necessarily sufficiently controllable).
Kristopher Leslie
May 15, 2022 at 9:12 pm
God created us to create life and expand
Fred
May 16, 2022 at 10:35 am
We are eternal beings. If we live without God in our lives, then our lives are empty & meaningless. See John 15:1-7 and Alma 12: 10-11 (Book of Mormon)
Nona Manis 🌺
May 17, 2022 at 1:25 am
Why? 🤷
The world has reached the pinnacle of materialism, killing, and war.
Never in history did the world have such an urgent need for the culture of peace amongst people and nations as today.
A basic understanding of the current painful reality suffices further explanation.
Nona Manis 🌺
May 17, 2022 at 1:26 am
We
have a RESPONSIBILITY to join TOGETHER on behalf of the world that we seek
— a world where extremists no longer threaten our people🌏!.
When long as we are denied our security by CRIMINALS,
who PREY on our communities 🌏,
and who do VIOLENCE against our ♀️# WOMEN and CHILDREN.
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TODAY: 🇺🇳
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has a dual RESPONSIBILITY:
That experience guides my conviction that partnership between 🇺🇳
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MUST be based on what Islam is,
not what it isn’t√.
Thank you.
And May God’s peace be upon you | TED!.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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Nona Manis 🌺
May 17, 2022 at 1:27 am
Each of us has a role to play in protecting our planet 🌍🌏🌎.
Niruta Rijal
May 17, 2022 at 5:53 am
Thank you for your motivational word. Considering human beings haven’t done a good job caring for this planet and people .❤
Andrea Calaon
May 17, 2022 at 6:34 am
Galaxies don’t explode. Planets meant to?
A- H
May 17, 2022 at 9:43 am
Boring
Pintu Khan
May 18, 2022 at 7:34 am
Read the books by Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin they’re an awesome than ye no,.1 in world and they have told us what’s in this universe and out of it.!
God created us an all he know what’s better for us
Pintu Khan
May 18, 2022 at 7:36 am
I’d love to live in an empty but should be human kind an all I need
Luckytime
May 18, 2022 at 6:25 pm
All cells are made from nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids… which are all made from elements. All cells are made from non-living things arranged in a unique way that expresses a bias toward self-preservation and replication. The logical conclusion is that “life” is an emergent property of that unique configuration, and all life follows the same cause-and-effect paradigm that permeates the rest of the universe, at every scale. Life itself is nothing more than a long list of tiny cause-and-effect reactions.