[Interview] Venus Could Harbour Non-Water Based Life

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Whenever we search for life, we're searching for 'life as we know it". But are there alternative options? Non-carbon based life? Or life that doesn't use water as a solvent? It turns out, things like that can be as close as on Venus. Figuring it out with Dr William Bains.

📜 Venus' Atmospheric Chemistry and Cloud Characteristics Are Compatible with Venusian Life

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371507931

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Whenever we search for life, we're searching for 'life as we know it". But are there alternative options? Non-carbon based life? Or life that doesn't use water as a solvent? It turns out, things like that can be as close as on Venus. Figuring it out with Dr William Bains.

📜 Venus' Atmospheric Chemistry and Cloud Characteristics Are Compatible with Venusian Life

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371507931

More interviews:

👉 When Did Evolution Start on Earth

https://youtu.be/MeVvreDPI6c?si=8yfmEPE4ZNu2PGxK

👉 Finding Alien Life. A Step-By-Step Instruction

https://youtu.be/1KKOAaG1Kg8?si=DdlkXO0tSXe1wsxu

👉 How Did Early Earth Get The Ingredients for Life?

https://youtu.be/SkWNmkoCelY

🦄 Support us on Patreon:

https://patreon.com/universetoday

📚 Suggest books in the book club:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club

00:00 Intro

01:26 Life as we don't know it

03:27 Defining life

11:44 Evolution

14:02 The role of solvents

18:22 Other fluids

23:33 Venus

29:55 How to look for life on Venus

48:01 Obsessions

56:30 Final thoughts and more interviews

📺 VIDEO VERSION

https://youtu.be/wK9LWHNHuF4

📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER

Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.

Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter

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Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/

Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain

Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday

Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday

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📩 CONTACT FRASER

frasercain@gmail.com

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2024-02-05 58 min
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