What a planet needs to sustain life | Dave Brain

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  • Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
  • "Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold, and Earth is just right," says planetary scientist Dave Brain. But why? In this pleasantly humorous talk, Brain explores the fascinating science behind what it takes for a planet to host life - and why humanity may just be in the right place at the right time when it comes to the timeline of life-sustaining planets.
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  • @pacoo3712
    @pacoo3712 8 років тому +253

    Wow, looks like TED remember why they became popular in the first place. More of these please.

    • @pgypsyjane
      @pgypsyjane 4 роки тому +2

      TED provides nourishment for hungry minds.

  • @xxxyorks
    @xxxyorks 6 років тому +27

    Glad someone's finally talking about the relationship between magnetespheres and habitability on planets.

  • @EmotionlessGamer
    @EmotionlessGamer 8 років тому +13

    I seriously got chills when I saw the river carvings on Mars....

  • @Miranox2
    @Miranox2 8 років тому +131

    His name is Brain, therefore he is smart. QED.

    • @Leo-wt1cb
      @Leo-wt1cb 8 років тому +3

      Quantum Electrodynamics?

    • @Miranox2
      @Miranox2 8 років тому

      Shrey
      No.

    • @SikkevanderVeer
      @SikkevanderVeer 8 років тому +3

      +Shrey Quod Erat Demonstrandum

    • @davidgafo
      @davidgafo 8 років тому +2

      El Brayan ;)

    • @fghhna
      @fghhna 8 років тому

      I've read some of Brian Greene and liked it

  • @patrickroelant5171
    @patrickroelant5171 8 років тому +159

    confirmed, all life needs moose to survive.

    • @mphelps1013
      @mphelps1013 8 років тому +21

      Nah mate. We need mousse. Chocolate mousse.

    • @avedic
      @avedic 8 років тому +1

      lol....Indeed. Flowers, moose, and vegetables....that's _all_ anyone needs in life.
      And Mike Phelps...what about hair mousse? You know, for windy days and such...

  • @joandudney7818
    @joandudney7818 8 років тому +12

    Dave reminded me today that you can have fun with the science you do and still have a great impact. Congrats on a great talk and I am very glad I was here to listen:)

  • @Nate.mp4
    @Nate.mp4 8 років тому +51

    This was the best seminar in a while.

  • @stillprophet7529
    @stillprophet7529 8 років тому +12

    this dude is pretty hilarious and informing at the same time

  • @junacebedo888
    @junacebedo888 5 років тому +7

    He didn't mention location, size and rotation of Earth. Actually there are 200 parameters (still increasing) needed to accomplish to have a another Earth.

    • @bangrojai4868
      @bangrojai4868 2 роки тому

      Lets say you have 0,1 chance to fullfil 1 parameters. There will be 200 zero. So chance to meet another earth literally almost zero.

  • @113EEBROEDBD
    @113EEBROEDBD 8 років тому +4

    So uplifting to know, we have guys like these working on such important things. Actually reminds me of "Interstellar".

  • @AA-dv3ie
    @AA-dv3ie 5 років тому +13

    a few times I thought he was going to cry out of emotion

    • @aychaross3970
      @aychaross3970 4 роки тому

      I thought the same too. His talk is very engaging!

  • @tecnoblix
    @tecnoblix 8 років тому +8

    This was old school TED fantastic!

  • @howieweed
    @howieweed 7 років тому +4

    This is pretty simplistic thinking. If fact, the worldwide scientific community has come up with a list of over 100 + specific planetary conditions that must all exist together it order to support life. The chances of all 100+ conditions aligning diminishes the likelihood of life by an infinitesimally small fraction of the number of planets theorized to exist in the universe. In fact, it may even lower the possibility to a crap shoot so low that its not unreasonable to being to think "life", like ours, is a very rare mathematical coincidence that may not be repeating anywhere but here, and for only a short time in the universe.

    • @lisadooley3872
      @lisadooley3872 5 років тому

      howie weed science has proven that everything didn’t happen by accident all the factors are so precise that it requires more faith to believe it all happened by accident than to believe that there’s a Creator to our universe

  • @doodelay
    @doodelay 8 років тому +76

    his audience was unusually lighthearted

    • @Logan-ge5qm
      @Logan-ge5qm 8 років тому +4

      TEDx vs TED audiences

    • @00poopmonster
      @00poopmonster 8 років тому +13

      He was a pretty funny guy. And he says jokes in a serious tone which makes it funnier in my opinion lol

  • @jamessgian7691
    @jamessgian7691 4 роки тому +2

    There are an incredible number of parameters required for complex life to exist on the earth. Here are just a few:
    1) Goldilocks distance from our sun
    2) Goldilocks place in the Milky Way - too far in and too much activity from quasars, pulsars, black holes, asteroids, etc.
    3) Our large moon keeping axis tilted so seasons occur.
    4) multiple large outer planets to gather up most of the asteroids with their massive gravity
    5) Goldilocks amount of plate tectonics to release necessary ingredients for atmosphere, but not too little or too much. So, we need earthquakes and volcanoes and we have just the right amount.
    6) Inner iron core for electromagnetic field to protect from solar radiation and burn up many smaller asteroids.
    7) single star system in solar system as dual stars will disrupt seasons, tilt, etc.
    8)Stable planetary orbits so larger planets don’t cause chaos by having irregular patterns.
    9) Goldilocks sized ocean - too big or little and atmospheric content won’t have proper mixture of elements.
    10) Goldilocks planetary mass within parameters to hold ocean and atmosphere
    11) Goldilocks kind of galaxy. Spiral galaxies are best as they have sections with fewer stars and activity in their arms.
    There are many others. Some lists are up to 200 such features. And without any one of them, we wouldn’t be here. The combinatorial statistics of multiplying one such factor by another by another leads to infinitesimally small odds for finding another planet with complex life. Moose are very rare indeed!
    And as the parameters for life are not just the three broad things mentioned here, but all the long list of other things to prevent life’s annihilation one way or another, it doesn’t matter that there are 40 billion planets with these three features. They are still very unlikely to have complex life due to all of these other factors.
    That is, if the universe and life are dependent upon chance. But since we are here and shouldn’t be by the odds either, it appears there is some sort of teleology inherent to the universe.
    Now SETI and Dr. Brain benefit from not sharing the actual statistics because they wouldn’t receive much funding with odds so against the chances for life. It therefore behooves SETI and scientists like Dr. Brain to advance the legitimate conclusion that the universe has an element of teleology which tends towards increasing the likelihood of life.
    This, however, would be objectionable to many in positions of power in the scientific community as they unfortunately do not wish to admit
    teleology as a feature of the universe.

    • @tpaulhimes
      @tpaulhimes 6 місяців тому

      Thank you for your reply! Your reply save me the time in trouble of responding. This talk may be entertaining, but it is so far from being comprehensive that it is ludicrous. The probability of finding other planets of meet all of the criteria required for intelligent life, are so infinitesimal that it is staggering. What concerns me is the number of people who think that this is actually accurate. TeePee

  • @busytellingjokes1650
    @busytellingjokes1650 4 роки тому +2

    And thats a bold statement saying that other planets dont have a magnetic field like our considered we have never been to those planets

  • @tangyspy
    @tangyspy 8 років тому +6

    Why is life defined by temperature, nutrition and need of water? What if life somewhere around the universe didn't need water? Or they didn't need the same temperature to survive?

    • @Rottensteam
      @Rottensteam 8 років тому +19

      We look for life as we know it. If we would look for life as we don't know it, we wouldn't know where to look.

    • @Rottensteam
      @Rottensteam 8 років тому

      Simon Farre Yeah, haven't even thought about it in that way.

    • @sheikahchu939
      @sheikahchu939 8 років тому +4

      it's actually theorized that there may be methane based organisms on Uranus (I believe that's the right planet). so rather than having lipid bilayers they'd most likely have methane bubbles for structure

    • @coreydoyle4702
      @coreydoyle4702 8 років тому

      Because they're scientists, not sci-fi authors.

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 8 років тому +1

      At the very least you need some liquid suspension, and you need complex molecules.
      The latter are almost ubiquitious. Carbon is the only element able to form almost arbitrarily long molecules which are chemically active in a timeframe shorter than milliards of years.
      The liquid need not necessarily be water, but it has to be at a temperature that allows these chemical processes to happen, and water is the most common compound molecule in the universe.
      So we are looking there because it is the best change of finding something.
      Yet I am still somewhat hopeful for magnetically encoded genes (rather than chemically) in silicium (which can also form complex molecules, albeit at far lower temperatures), though I won't hold my oxygene-rich breath.

  • @melquannshabazz2224
    @melquannshabazz2224 2 роки тому +2

    Fantastic Job he kept it simple with great clarification 💯💯

  • @geraldmerkowitz4360
    @geraldmerkowitz4360 8 років тому +2

    I like his sense of humor.

  • @ahmedibrahimhassanhajiali
    @ahmedibrahimhassanhajiali 5 років тому +2

    I as Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan haji Ali living in Somaliland government saying: we are lodged on Earth by no choice of us. It is very condusive, comfortable to sustain our life. It is crystal blue, manificient and beautiful. Let us we humans maintain it, and try not to corrupt it for there is no elsewhere to go at least in the near future.

  • @abdalgadermohammed4570
    @abdalgadermohammed4570 5 років тому +3

    A question! If there is a discharge system in Mars why then there is no life?
    Moving of material in subsurface makes the magentic field, the absence of this move could remove this field?

  • @bwoodrow5655
    @bwoodrow5655 8 років тому +3

    this guy is an amazing talker

  • @alexajessop4803
    @alexajessop4803 6 років тому +2

    Our daughter just introduced me to TED. I think I will like him.

  • @pcuimac
    @pcuimac 8 років тому +15

    The scope of this talk is a bit small. Life could be defined as a selfreplicating pattern that needs energy and matter to sustain itself and it's descendents. To define life as only what is known on earth just shows how stupid and selfindulgent we are.

    • @stigcc
      @stigcc 8 років тому

      There are so many planets to choose from, so we can just as well look for life at planets exactly like ours

    • @choeungul
      @choeungul 4 роки тому

      @@stigcc That blind hope, though. Who does not want to see a new planet with life? Scientists now say it is next to zero probability to find an earth-life planet.

    • @giorgirazmadze5102
      @giorgirazmadze5102 3 роки тому

      And information!

  • @Juwon0531
    @Juwon0531 5 років тому +3

    Always making *Valuable* videos. I like it♡

  • @cadennorton7679
    @cadennorton7679 8 років тому +2

    I love this man

  • @goldmeteora5617
    @goldmeteora5617 8 років тому +2

    Fantastic talk!

  • @katherinehayes
    @katherinehayes 8 років тому +16

    the way we define life is relative to us. other types of life and what they would need to live arent even fathomable to us!!

    • @Dartmorin
      @Dartmorin 8 років тому +8

      but life as we define it must have some properties, otherwise it is not really alive. Viruses are not thought to be alive because they lack some of those properties.
      Energy is absolutely needed, i think we can all agree.
      Nutrients are absolutely needed, because life has to be made out of something, and there are a limited number of reactive, common elements out of which it could be made.
      Now, water. We think, and here comes what you said into play, that water is absolutely needed, because from our frame of reference, from our biological makeup, we can imagine no way that life could exist without some sort of medium, which allows the quick interaction of energy and nutrients. that medium does not have to be water, but most other liquids are too rare, to destructive to the flow of nutrients, i.e. too hot, or the flow of energy, i.e. to cold. metallic liquids dont mix well with other things. some carbon molecules are liquid in the right temperature range, but they are too uncommon in the universe, we think.
      so our current understanding really only leaves water aa the medium.
      within these parameters, life as we understand it could develop. however, im not disputing that other life could exist. maybe the interactions of gas molecules in large clouds which are left undisturbed could develop sentience. it however is ununderstandable for us how something like this or similar to this could happen, and even if it did, we wouldnt necessarily even be capable of detecting it.
      until such a time as we can, let us just focus on life as we do understand it.

  • @matthewmark2546
    @matthewmark2546 5 років тому +2

    What a planet needs to survive based on what we know now.

  • @alkmg01
    @alkmg01 4 роки тому

    He's a great speaker. Hope sci teachers are like this.

  • @codgod2677
    @codgod2677 2 роки тому

    I can't belive this, my brain is just like WOW!😶

  • @yuunoaboi21
    @yuunoaboi21 Рік тому +1

    Why is it that speakers always sound out of breath

  • @godlyboy
    @godlyboy 5 років тому

    Thats a really nice presentation. The last part of the presentation is golden.

  • @will2see
    @will2see 5 років тому

    It is really nice, that you have defined what life needs to exist, those 3 criteria - energy, nourishment, water. Great! Now define what LIFE actually IS, so we know what we are actually looking for. I hope you don't think that there is just "biological" life outhere?!
    There some few interesting lines from wiki:
    The definition of life has long been a challenge for scientists and philosophers, with many varied definitions put forward. This is partially because life is a process, not a substance. Philosophical definitions of life have also been put forward, with similar difficulties on how to distinguish living things from the non-living.
    Biology
    The characteristics of life
    Since there is no unequivocal definition of life, most current definitions in biology are descriptive. Life is considered a characteristic of something that preserves, furthers or reinforces its existence in the given environment. This characteristic exhibits all or most of the following traits:
    Homeostasis: regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, sweating to reduce temperature
    Organization: being structurally composed of one or more cells - the basic units of life
    Metabolism: transformation of energy by converting chemicals and energy into cellular components (anabolism) and decomposing organic matter (catabolism). Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life.
    Growth: maintenance of a higher rate of anabolism than catabolism. A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter.
    Adaptation: the ability to change over time in response to the environment. This ability is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the organism's heredity, diet, and external factors.
    Response to stimuli: a response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism to external chemicals, to complex reactions involving all the senses of multicellular organisms. A response is often expressed by motion; for example, the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun (phototropism), and chemotaxis.
    Reproduction: the ability to produce new individual organisms, either asexually from a single parent organism or sexually from two parent organisms.
    Alternative definitions
    Entropy and life
    From a physics perspective, living beings are thermodynamic systems with an organized molecular structure that can reproduce itself and evolve as survival dictates.Thermodynamically, life has been described as an open system which makes use of gradients in its surroundings to create imperfect copies of itself.Hence, life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. A major strength of this definition is that it distinguishes life by the evolutionary process rather than its chemical composition.
    Others take a systemic viewpoint that does not necessarily depend on molecular chemistry. One systemic definition of life is that living things are self-organizing and autopoietic (self-producing). Variations of this definition include Stuart Kauffman's definition as an autonomous agent or a multi-agent system capable of reproducing itself or themselves, and of completing at least one thermodynamic work cycle.
    Biophysicists have commented that living things function on negative entropy. In other words, living processes can be viewed as a delay of the spontaneous diffusion or dispersion of the internal energy of biological molecules towards more potential microstates. In more detail, according to physicists such as John Bernal, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, and John Avery, life is a member of the class of phenomena that are open or continuous systems able to decrease their internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the environment and subsequently rejected in a degraded form.
    So tell me, does your search for signs or markers of extraterrestrial life also include all those general definitons of life (not just life as we know it)?
    I think that there is no point of inventing things like "habitable zone" - except habitable for some finite number of known earthly species, because Universe may be (and I am sure it is) much more habitable then we think. Maybe not necessairly habitable for us, but very well habitable for other forms of life that we have even ever dreamed of.

  • @loiluc2602
    @loiluc2602 5 років тому +2

    What if "Life" existing in other planet bodies is in a very different form to ours on Earth? We're human and we're searching for something like us out there, something confined by our own foundamental experiences. So what if they're not living on the same conditions as we are, but something beyond, unreachable and inexplicable to our terrestrial comprehension? Are we too rash in concluding that there's no other "habitable planets"? Just wondering :)

  • @highlanderq
    @highlanderq 8 років тому +100

    What a planet does not need to sustain life?
    Humans.

    • @ericthemidget7135
      @ericthemidget7135 8 років тому +1

      unfortunately, jajajajaja.

    • @emmn.4307
      @emmn.4307 8 років тому +4

      Yeah, he is right... as proof, when writing in English it's hahahaha... no one cares how spaniards pronounce j or what jajajaja means.

    • @ericthemidget7135
      @ericthemidget7135 8 років тому

      +Emm N. I'm from Washington state

    • @Luis-Torres
      @Luis-Torres 8 років тому +1

      they also don't need any other animal.

    • @highlanderq
      @highlanderq 8 років тому +1

      Then who is they? The trees? Apparently theyre not concious. So "they" cant be a they.

  • @NeonsStyleHD
    @NeonsStyleHD 8 років тому +4

    Mars also shows, if there was life there, it was made extinct, and we should learn the lessons that Mars teaches us. We too, can go the way of Mars if we are not careful in the management of our planet.

  • @BunnyFett
    @BunnyFett 8 років тому +4

    Wonderful speaker. I'd love to hear him speak about this content a bit more indepth. I study Kepler's ELW findings quite a bit as well.

  • @soobsessedwithcats
    @soobsessedwithcats 4 роки тому

    im really glad we are here too

  • @4203105
    @4203105 8 років тому

    Considering that Venus has a really thick atomospher, while not having a maginetic field, it should be enough evidence to suggest that a magnetic field isn't needed to keep one. It seems like it's much more about mass and thus gravitational pull.
    Ofcourse this data is interesting, but I doubt it will make us reevaluate which plants could have life.

    • @BlueHawkPictures17
      @BlueHawkPictures17 8 років тому

      good point but apparently venus is actually dumping a lot of atmosphere ever day which is consistent with the idea that solar radiation is affecting the atmosphere so taking that into account there can be other explenations

    • @odioaleman
      @odioaleman 8 років тому

      Unless Venus used to have a atmosphere twice as big. In which case is actually really useful.

  • @alexdolgow851
    @alexdolgow851 8 років тому

    At first I thought this talk is pretty standard fare discussing the trinity of things needed for life i.e. liquid water, energy and organic components. But then it caught me offguard about magnetic fields, I knew Mars no longer had a magnetic field but I had no idea that Venus didn't. It makes sense that Mars doesn't because it's smaller than earth so the planets core cooled significantly faster and it no longer produces one,but Venus is Earth's twin so why doesn't it have a magnetic field? I wish he had gone into more detail about that

  • @giorgirazmadze5102
    @giorgirazmadze5102 2 роки тому

    - How many times did life start on earth?
    - once
    - Why didn't it start second time?
    - ............

  • @G_G251
    @G_G251 8 років тому +12

    No governments, no corporations, no monetary system, no global system based on psychopathic competition.
    A non-hierarchical system based on cooperation, access to knowledge, science, technology, sharing and conserving resources.

    • @BlueHawkPictures17
      @BlueHawkPictures17 8 років тому +13

      you just described a theoretical system that will never work

    • @emmn.4307
      @emmn.4307 8 років тому +2

      ... on Earth, but the same system might already be in place somewhere else, an alien race which, through its superiority, will wipe us out for being this lame.

    • @jeremiahbrand5430
      @jeremiahbrand5430 8 років тому +1

      +Emm N. No. That wouldn't work for anyone. What kind of 5 year old thinks the entire human species will just work together for "progress?" It makes no sense.

    • @emmn.4307
      @emmn.4307 8 років тому

      Jeremiah Brand Well, if you argue with "what kind of 5 year old"... then it stands to reason you're not mentally equipped to understand the answer.

    • @emmn.4307
      @emmn.4307 8 років тому

      ***** I have to disagree... see, in recent times of war, russia-us-syria-other islamic states etc, the scientific community doesn't care about embargoes and politics, they work together nevertheless, from US to China, if the gov doesn't hawkeye the project, they are willing to share data and get different prespectives and ideas on how to move forward. It's not a lot but it's something in that regard as Goodguy001 layed out. Humans, but which ones? Yes, the frustrated ones, the ones who never achieve the intellectual threshold needed to do good in this world, those are the ones who meddle and try to stop a unifying progress through self serving politics and governance. This only holds as long as the foundation of society, the working and middle class, allow to be lied to, since these frustrated meddlers never achieve what they promise.

  • @chuckbryan4817
    @chuckbryan4817 5 років тому

    Excellent.

  • @Dentrag47
    @Dentrag47 8 років тому

    This is terrific

  • @turbohead971
    @turbohead971 5 років тому +1

    He downplays the necessities for life and makes it seem too easy.

  • @BrianRedWaterDragon
    @BrianRedWaterDragon 8 років тому +3

    I disagree, we have not studied all of life outside of our planet, nor all of life on our planet considering there are places even on earth that we have not been. so this is only based on the evidence that we have from the places we have been on our planet and the life we have encountered on earth. in fact we are still finding new species on earth. I believe life can exist without water and that not only do I believe that but I believe highly intelligent life exists that does not need water to live.

    • @iouliosp.1821
      @iouliosp.1821 8 років тому +2

      Good for you. I'm just waiting for Jesus to come down here and shoot lasers at the bad guys.

    • @b4u334
      @b4u334 8 років тому +2

      You're right. Scientists love to tell you "truth" even when later this "truth" is proven false. Not to mention the extensive political lobbying done to produce scientific "truth"...

    • @adj789
      @adj789 8 років тому

      I agree this whole video becomes innocuous when you think we have no frame of reference, a lot of science shows we could put tardigrades on a lifeless planets and by all accounts they could live

    • @b4u334
      @b4u334 8 років тому

      adj789
      I'm not sure I see your point; Science has a frame of reference? That's all well and good, but that does not address the issue. The problem is that science is neither always right when they claim to be, nor does it really have that great of understanding of much at all.
      This problem is not new. At any given point in time, people think they know much more than they actually do.

  • @NeonsStyleHD
    @NeonsStyleHD 8 років тому +1

    It's a shame you didn't do the talk after you had the data from the probes, then we'd get an answer.

  • @ward9
    @ward9 6 років тому +1

    Wait. We have discovered traces of living microbes on mars. It may not be alive now but it once was.

  • @mrstrypes
    @mrstrypes 6 років тому +1

    These are the things that are required to sustain life. (Energy, nourishment, and water.) What are the requirements for life to come into existence?

  • @Heavy-metaaal
    @Heavy-metaaal 5 років тому

    Very good.

  • @paulnewcombe7183
    @paulnewcombe7183 5 років тому +1

    This presentation narrows down the necessary parameters for planetary life to an extreme degree. There are literally hundreds of parameters currently identified, all of which are necessary simultaneously for a planet to be life-sustaining. If we give each one of them a super-inflated one-in-ten chance of occurring on a given planet... we are looking at probabilities so small that the negative odds vastly outweigh the number of estimated planets in our galaxy. From the data we currently possess, it appears that the existence of other life-sustaining planets is, if we are being honest, a mathematical improbability which is so vast that many are now suggesting that the term “impossibility” is in line with the science.
    While I enjoyed the presenters excitability, he is simply wrong to suggest that life sustaining planets are likely to be found throughout our galaxy.

  • @FreddyFrazzer
    @FreddyFrazzer 5 років тому +2

    life *as we know it*

  • @Heavy-metaaal
    @Heavy-metaaal 5 років тому

    Flying bears are funny and dangerous.

  • @noviceprepper5397
    @noviceprepper5397 8 років тому

    good talk and he's funny

  • @harbin9er
    @harbin9er 8 років тому +1

    this guy should do standup

  • @quelchfoxy
    @quelchfoxy 2 роки тому

    Im also glad im in this planet....

  • @reecehayden7731
    @reecehayden7731 7 років тому

    To use Mr Brain's analogy, if mama bears porridge was once hot, is there a chance that daddy bears porridge may one day be just right. Baby bears porridge may be too hot by that time and so then it would only be logical to then switch.

  • @2bigvtwins
    @2bigvtwins 6 років тому

    Any one noticed the two in the front row 0:40 - Dead stare while the other looks over as if to say " What are they laughing at?" LOL

  • @raywilliams5044
    @raywilliams5044 6 років тому

    Thank you.

  • @thedarkriver1
    @thedarkriver1 5 років тому

    excellent

  • @VestigialHead
    @VestigialHead 6 років тому +2

    Wouldn't other liquids be able to flow and carve riverbeds? Why does it have to be water?

    • @joanietaulbee7085
      @joanietaulbee7085 5 років тому

      Yeah true i forget what planet it is but one has liquid methane on the surface. I wish i could remember what planet it is.

  • @SealMeall
    @SealMeall Рік тому +1

    You forgot to mention Internet :/

  • @MrDFgamer
    @MrDFgamer 8 років тому

    loved this Ted talk, funny and interesting. who is the one giving this talk?

  • @RemusKingOfRome
    @RemusKingOfRome 8 років тому +1

    Not necessarily liquid water, could be liquid anything!

    • @mphelps1013
      @mphelps1013 8 років тому +1

      Beer!

    • @skybite95
      @skybite95 8 років тому

      nah, I beg to differ. All living things need water to survive because water has a unique ability which is that it is neutral and things are able to dissolve in it. E.g. for biochemical processes to occur.

    • @mphelps1013
      @mphelps1013 8 років тому

      +Mohd Hakim Beer joke aside, I do wonder about our definition of liquid water. what we have in our oceans and "freshwater" lakes isn't actually pure water.

    • @RemusKingOfRome
      @RemusKingOfRome 8 років тому

      I was replying to his point about the photo he showed of mar's weathering. He stated - "river beds cut by flowing liquid water". it may not be water, it could be liquid . plus he states that these water created river beds are very old ? really ? then surely they would have been covered by dust storms ? Could be young produced by liquid gases ?

  • @stristan6302
    @stristan6302 8 років тому

    Great talk! Thanks!

  • @sonicase
    @sonicase 8 років тому

    mama bear's porridge was poured way before baby bear's was

  • @coreydoyle4702
    @coreydoyle4702 8 років тому

    I hadn't heard of the hypothesis that the magnetic field may indeed be causing the escape of atmosphere. I'm sure there's good hypothetical science to it, but sounds doubtful to me unless they can prove it. Evidence, as I understand it, seems to point at Mars' atmosphere once being protected by a magnetic field which has since faded as it's core cooled, allowing the escape of it's atmosphere.

  • @TheTukTuk2008
    @TheTukTuk2008 8 років тому

    Great TED!

  • @jiblazed
    @jiblazed 8 років тому

    Love this guy!

  • @huongne5135
    @huongne5135 5 років тому

    Great topic ☀️

  • @fanofscience8803
    @fanofscience8803 4 роки тому

    I imagine this person as my teacher , i would not escape any lesson ;)

  • @charle7242
    @charle7242 8 років тому

    honestly i thin it's so ignorant that we think as a tiny little life form that we think we can decide what can support life or not, like compared the the actual universe we are literally nothing, so i don't think we even have the right to start saying we know what can support life, it's just life as we know it.

    • @Luis-Torres
      @Luis-Torres 8 років тому

      I think what you fail to realize is that everything this guy said is based on what we know about the definition of life and based on what we know on the many different species of this planet.

  • @dmitryminaev5368
    @dmitryminaev5368 8 років тому

    So those planets are close enough to reach them? Thats cool cuz I thought that space is big and we might not be able to produce enough fuel for reaching closest suitable planet.

  • @nemanjat1096
    @nemanjat1096 3 роки тому

    We must absorbe materials from space to increase the volume of our planet; instead of trying to inhabit other planets.

  • @l0g1cseer47
    @l0g1cseer47 8 років тому

    Wow! The thing i can retain from this talk, "EMF". so that's really a smart idea to implement suits and future spacecrafts. So we don't lose energy in space explorations or travels. Maybe it's us that's going to populate life or spread life in the universe. We just need to start build those robots that going to do the job for us. I mean Mars it is not red for nothing there plenty of iron there already. No wonder there so many 4x games on space exploration. it's amazing how the word hope rests upon science fiction. Just saying, thanks for the video. ..

  • @chendy3140
    @chendy3140 5 років тому

    i love this talk!!

  • @lumri2002
    @lumri2002 4 роки тому

    Those are the factors that support life in this world as have been studied in science. However, there may be other things that may have not been considered or probed such as the presence of chi. Perhaps there is no chi in the other planets that had been probed by humans. It may be waste time and resources to further send rocketships in search of habitable planets.

  • @simo947
    @simo947 8 років тому +7

    i just think different environments would sustain different life :/ or even life that isn't even what we define as "life", maybe those forms are not matter nor energy. and human concepts like intelligent lifeforms may not even apply at all

    • @simo947
      @simo947 8 років тому

      ***** yeah i understand :) but it seems like no scientists have ever acknowledged this part of the study. even if we can't comprehend it maybe machines can

    • @simo947
      @simo947 8 років тому

      ***** yep ofc i know but they are not even addressing it, at least they address that there is this possibility

  • @_CloudyBunny
    @_CloudyBunny 5 років тому +3

    This is good to learn English.

  • @Kapsones33
    @Kapsones33 8 років тому

    More like what a planet doesn't need to sustain life, which is humanity.

  • @davidecannavacciuolo4661
    @davidecannavacciuolo4661 7 років тому

    Which are the 6 chemical elements that make the food,the nurishment?

  • @Siddharthswamy18
    @Siddharthswamy18 8 років тому

    *goosebumps*😍😍😍

  • @spitfirered
    @spitfirered 4 роки тому

    The Answer Is More Life!!!!

  • @will2see
    @will2see 5 років тому +1

    BUT WHAT IS LIFE? WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF LIFE? NOBODY TELLS THAT, EVENTHOUGH IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, i.e. TO DEFINE SOMETHING BEFORE YOU START TO SEARCH FOR IT.

    • @zulfizakarya5703
      @zulfizakarya5703 5 років тому

      Bro without the concept of God it is impossible to define life..
      I am a Muslim and I believe in God (I don't have blind faith, I have done a lot of research)...
      The main thing about is the soul.... Our body is like a super computer and the soul is like electricity..

  • @tcchannel6402
    @tcchannel6402 6 років тому +3

    Actually, 1.5 million catalogued species. The 8.7 number is purely mathematics, and if those species existed, they are not known or catalogued.

  • @lukehanson7554
    @lukehanson7554 8 років тому

    9:55 correct me if I'm wrong, but that inconclusion is because of the big Atheist vs Christian debate about, in short, how long the magnetic field could stay alive - either through millions of years or 6,000. I take personal pride in saying the Christian tests were promising while the Atheist tests were inconclusive.

    • @DorianMattar
      @DorianMattar 8 років тому

      +Luke Hanson
      What are you talking about? Earth has existed for 4.5 BILLION years.
      What promising evidence do you have that it is $6000 years old and what is inconclusive about our understanding of the age of our planet?

    • @lukehanson7554
      @lukehanson7554 8 років тому

      Science and Truth 2 Rock No, I'm saying the age of our magnetic field. Atheistic scientists don't know how it could have lasted for 4.5 billion years, sorry I got that wrong, while the Christian scientists showed a realistic decay over the 6000.

    • @DorianMattar
      @DorianMattar 8 років тому

      Sorry, I have no idea how you believe such things, but they are utterly wrong.
      Geomagnetic reversal alone happen 780,000 ago! How can the earth be 6,000????
      "Tarduno and his colleagues had studied similar rocks in 2007 and found that a magnetic field half as strong as today’s was present 3.2 billion years ago. Using a specially designed magnetometer and improved lab techniques, the team detected a magnetic signal in 3.45-billion-year-old rocks that was between 50 and 70 percent the strength of the present-day field, Tarduno says."
      Please provide evidence that scientists don't understand how the magnetic field of our planet could have lasted 3.5 billion years.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field
      Then provide peer reviewed evidence that these so called "christian scientists" that show that they can account for only a 6,000 year old magnetic field.
      FYI, Jupiters is as old as earth and it has a LARGER magnetic field.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Jupiter

    • @lukehanson7554
      @lukehanson7554 8 років тому

      Science and Truth 2 Rock Okay, how far down the rabbit hole am I going, this is turning into a fully fledged online debate.
      Okay, first, it seems like you got your information from a news site. This doesn't really matter for this debate, but keep in mind that the news is not even close to accurate most of the time, and sometimes is just plain wrong. I would recommend going down to the sources or whatever method and finding the scientists' original study reports. Not like you always have to read all twenty pages of it.
      Okay, I don't know much about how they date things but I do know the most common way, carbon dating, which uses calculations from the origin and longevity of the earth itself to find the correct age and half life of said material, both (creation and age) being disputed heavily with Atheistic and Christian scientists.
      Of course, myself being a Christian, I want to put the best evidence for my side first so take this with a grain of salt, but they just recently measured the half life of I think the Rosetta stone as well as some other things, which they already know the half life of, and carbon dating was DEAD WRONG. I don't know much, so before some atheist starts raging in the comments, please go look that up. For the better of us all. Maybe even a link.
      And there has been a lot of talk within the scientific community (and so on the news) about a lot of important scientific achievements we rely upon today to be unreproducable in a controlled environment under close scrutinization from a team of scientists. Again, someone please provide a link. And I know I keep saying this so I will be so easily undercut by whomever sees "Christian" and immediately looks for any weaknesses in my argument, I know you're out there, but I don't know much about this. But I do know it's a problem. People, do your research. Please.
      And finally, the whole thing about the magnetic poles reversing, well the Christians have that backed up too. When Noah (or God using Noah) flooded the Earth, the magnetic field during that 40-day period flipped polarity about I think 8 times and then settled down again.
      Okay that's about as in-depth as I can go without taking another hour researching and citing everything and another 45 minutes rewriting to make fit. No it's not getting peer-reviewed, this is the UA-cam comments section! I already have enough essays to write for my classes. How about you do the research and maybe you come back enlightened. I took about 30 minutes writing this, so please people, do me a favor and respond without shouting at me and go read Genesis or something.
      And yes, I am a Christian, so I can wrap this up by saying God made you, God Loves you, and as cruel as it seems, sent what he loves most, his son, to come and die and save you - and forgave all your trespasses and wrongdoings so you can live with him forever. I will go to bed tonight praying that this whole debate comes to something and that maybe my "ministry" will bring someone on this earth to Jesus.

    • @lukehanson7554
      @lukehanson7554 8 років тому

      Science and Truth 2 Rock Okay, I don't know why I assumed news site, my bad. Pseudo science, Christian scientists aren't a thing, okay you win. I am obviously not qualified to deliver this information.
      But why are you so mad about it? At least now I know who I'm talking to, it just so happens I am talking to someone with credentials. If there really was no problem with this Jesus thing, science would have taken over a long time ago. And here you are still raging at a UA-cam comment thousands of years later.
      Okay, now to be completely honest we're not having a scientific debate since you shot everything down. Good job. And so yes, I will go into detail to something I know better, theology.
      When I talk to people face to face I think I know enough about what I'm talking about to get around, scientifically and spiritually, so I sincerely thank you for the challenge.
      God does love you, although he stays just behind the horizon of getting everyone to be blown away by his creation and bow down to him. Isn't that nice for us Christians.
      Yes Jesus did die. Didn't you know he got up three days later and carried on for another month? No, God didn't have to give up his son, but it shows just how much he loves you as well as anyone else. Yeah he could've just snapped his fingers and suddenly we all teleported into Heaven. But he didn't, he wanted to show us that he loves us more than anything. At least that's my opinion.
      I don't really have a well-formed answer to the Genesis thing, but it's just something I found interesting - the Big Bang probably started at some point, from when time and space and everything we know about physics and quantum mechanics is so tightly packed together that time or space doesn't have meaning any more. So, maybe God set that out to happen when he saw fit, and there's a universe.
      Hey the whole thing about praying too, well, first I want to say that technically you're wrong, praying is a stress reliever. It also binds together a community, makes us feel safer, and through the amazing Placebo effect, actually can and does do something. For example someone in an ISIS terrorist camp will endure torture better knowing there is someone praying for him. That's cool science if I ever heard it.
      And you being angry, it's not like I'm a tarot card reader or gifted ESP or anything, but I do think that something has happened that you blame God for, and, take comfort in knowing I am praying for you.

  • @johnthesailor2933
    @johnthesailor2933 4 роки тому +1

    I like how more people laughed here than usually on comidians standup

  • @TheRealEstateMan
    @TheRealEstateMan 4 роки тому +1

    Given the amount of time for his delivery, talk was interesting but hardly touched on the other requirements for life as we know it to exist. There are at least 100 more, any which are missing, no life.

  • @lindaclement3407
    @lindaclement3407 8 років тому

    Fun and interesting!

  • @MrGatoradeSkater
    @MrGatoradeSkater 8 років тому

    Why would TED or y'all upload this soo late?

  • @fleXcope
    @fleXcope 8 років тому

    Informative

  • @diantedavis6788
    @diantedavis6788 4 роки тому

    Nice job

  • @TheMichaelRN
    @TheMichaelRN 8 років тому

    that's the issue, we define life as we know it, we're already limiting its meaning. you can't tell me that the building blocks of life is the same for the entire universe let alone milky way.

    • @coreydoyle4702
      @coreydoyle4702 8 років тому

      "for the milky way, let alone the entire universe."
      They define life as what they can prove it is. Until scientists encounter or create a life form other than that which we're familiar with, they cannot define it as any other. They can, and do however, postulate the possibility of other forms of life. They're scientists, not sci-fi writers. Their definitions are based on fact, not fancy.

  • @vmwindustries
    @vmwindustries 6 років тому

    The energy is not getting in so much as more energy is being reflected out. Hence the Arora is brighter closer to the planet the cores power is reflecting it out! Seem very clear! The EMP from the solar flares are being pushed back from our magnetic cores charges

  • @ketymary3097
    @ketymary3097 6 років тому

    It is beatiful

  • @vadimev
    @vadimev 8 років тому +3

    What is this guy, a comedian?

  • @valaha
    @valaha 8 років тому

    magyar feliratot kérnék szépen, pleeezeee! :)

  • @mrmillisecond1416
    @mrmillisecond1416 4 роки тому +1

    has anybody realized the magnetic field looks like a spider

  • @TamYi3d
    @TamYi3d 8 років тому

    Who else was thinking of a spider when looking at the Sun vs Earths magnetic field?