Well, in defense of dissenters: There are three papers I showed in this video that were written by lead researchers that also don't like the definition.
: P I'm all in of people having discent and their own ideas, I have some thoughts about this of my own. But there is something funny about people just trying to out-science the scientists while watching UA-cam in between games of League of Legends. Probably some genuine will to debate adding in their own insight, but also mixed in with some innocence and even some worrying lack of humility. Knowing that specialists know and have considerd most of the things we as laymen cassualy think in our spare time and then some, is not an Appeal to Authority fallacy.
Personally, I think there are some flaws in the ways some people define life. That's why people want to leave it up in the air. While NASA's definition of life works for Life As We Know It, but it is entirely possible that life completely alien to how life works on Earth exists. These appear in fiction all the time, and real life scientists have acknowledged the possibility of this as well. Granted, we've never observed Silicon-based life or sentient fields of energy that can move, reproduce, etc. But if we did, would we call these life? NASA's definition isn't perfect, but if we find someone that fits the definition of it out in space or on another planet, then we've officially found "Life", for all intents and purposes.
I'm French, and my understanding of English language is really not perfect... But I love your channel! ^^ Thanks for your incredible work and for sharing knowledge so clearly. ;)
elvon sarza The Okenite are a peaceful people and not easily offended, however, we do share your dislike of Flat Earthers. May their feet slip off the rocks and their spikes shatter.
je suis un chat qui sappelle yoan empire officer Meeting you is a treats to us, too, however I'm sorry to say, but I don't have the authority to accept your declaration of war. You'll have to wait until the President gets back from the Holiday of Lorenz, where he no doubt stuffed himself on goosecreekite, this may take a while, so please be patient...
Well... I hope she's wearing her "First Contact" g-string and nipple piercings when the tentacled alien finally rips the evac-suit off her lithe body. Yeah... I'm a perv.
Can you make a video deriding the horribly unrealistic portrayals of aliens in science fiction? The fact that aliens are often made to be humanoid gray beings with cat eyes just rustles my jimmies!
I mean tbf it isn't a bad guess. As far as we know a humanoid shape is the optimal shape for an intelligent and technological species, assuming that other species will be similar, while somewhat uninspired, is a pretty good guess.
hedgehog3180 The human form is not at all the most optimal form for intelligent life. Sure it's done the job for us, but to say that it's the most optimal form possible is a self centered argument. Trey the Explainer did a video on this, if I can remember correctly.
I like entertainment videos on UA-cam but I mainly only subscribe to educational ones like your , your content is very important to humanity, thank you very much
Hi! A few years ago, while discussing with a fellow virologist, we came out with a very straightforward three-entry list to determine if something is alive or not, it is called the "L2 list". At the beginning, nobody liked it because it excludes viruses as living organisms, but with time, several colleagues started using it in their biology seminars and courses at the university where i used to work. The L2 list: 1. Boundaries. The "organism" must posses clear physical boundaries separating it from the environment and/or delimiting its internal processes. 2. Genetics. The "organism" must posses a way to store, read and inherit information for its growth, development, and functioning. 3. Homeostasis. The "organism" must posses a path for the use of energy in order to maintain a chemical and physical equilibrium, gradient o balance within its boundaries and/or its immediate environment. If the "organism" fails in any of these three entries, it is not considered alive.
PalaeoJoe That's because we strawmanned the absolute hell out of it, you're welcome! :D By overuse of example we have eradicated the little green menace~
Well if we found strange living black goo on an alien world I think it’d hold a few people captive in a crashed spaceship and drown all who dare approach. That’s a terrible reference, wasn’t it? No one will get it...
Not always. For example, if it were so easy, we wouldn't have had long debates if viruses are alive. Or going by that NASA definition, individual genes are alive - would you have thought so before?
Even if one chooses to be doubtful about these 2 cases, still compared to the cases that we can all agree about whether they are alive or not (which includes the remaining of all the beings in the universe that we are aware of at the moment), with a high approximation we can still say that we almost always agree about what is alive and what is not. And about viruses, I personally think that they are alive.
@@a000ab Yeah, that's the thing about definitions. They need to work in all cases, not just the easy ones. And I suspect if I went looking, I could find more such cases.
you are on the international space station, and your comrade Johnson has finished checkup on the ship and you promptly let him inside. not too long after, Johnson tells you he is finished with checkup and needs you to open up the airlock, despite the fact he is sitting right next to you.
Perhaps a better definition: a system that can be distinguished from its environment that utilizes complex molecules to change the environment and is constantly changing within the environment.
Meaning and definition are synonyms. I get it, the meaning of life and the definition of life are two different questions but the 42 joke doesn't work with "What's the definition of life?". It's a slight equivocation for the sake of wit.
My personal definition of life: A self sustaining system with a protective cover. The protective cover is to make a difference between self sustaining chemical reactions (like fire) and between life. The „self sustaining“ is in because it is the most important trait of living beings which guarantees its survival. „Reproduction“ is not in because a single cellular organism which can’t reproduce because of a mutation wouldn’t be automatically death. And if this cell can’t reproduce it would also mean that it is not capable of darwinian evolution and therefore I also wouldn’t use evolution as a criteria.
It is not necessary for every individual organism to be capable of reproduction (a mule is alive), just for Darwinian evolution to present in a representative sample of a population.
I like the most-complexity dynamic, which, in a telepathic, post-Higgs mind environment, is like saying evolution's complexity is intrinsically extra-dimensional in mind, not merely in genetic form. In community of mind, that would be deeper, like a shared cluster of stars extra-gravitic, nearly immediate overlaps in consciousness. That would be when, among many minds, space-time is alternately cycled far out, almost inside out, across nearly immediate, back-and-forth resonating time-space, i.e. across a galaxy. The whole universe loves such communications, artful, colorful, often musical.
One should also consider that "life" might take the form of non-carbon based organisms. I wouldn't be surprised if a silicon and germanium based entity existed that had a similar nervous system to Earthbound life.
Fantastic video, if a may suggest something then it would have to be a video about the difference between exobiology and xenobiology. From my understanding exobilology is the study of the poessibility of life outside our solarsystem (as stated in the video) while xenobilogy is the study of how life outside our solarsystem might look like, but I'm not at all sure. :)
ErickuZ not necessarily. There is no way to know if aliens exist. Lets say that its IMPOSSIBLE for us to be alone. Who says that life has cropped up yet? It might be about to form!
FGV Cosmic but how could we be the only things in the whole galaxy i really think there is people like us thinking about the same thing that aliens do exist
+FGV Cosmic It can be forming in many planets and developed on many others. Anyway, because of the size of the universe and the speed of light it's hard to seek for it far away. Aliens maybe can't see us because of relativity, if they can observe planets and stuff, we could be dinosaurs or even bacterias for them, time is not equal (I dont know how to explain)
FGV Cosmic there’s a lot of factors- life could have not started yet on other planets, and even if it did, it might not be in our lifetimes, also, space is infinite and never ending so who’s to say it will happen near us with our current technology? It could be some galaxy 10 trillion light years away, but obviously we do not have the technology to travel that far.... yet, at least maybe not in our lifetime
FGV Cosmic let me give an example and let's look at mass effect, very complex life such as humans 1/3 animals 2/3 microbes 3/3 this number could be the chances of finding life in are Galaxy , advance life would have issues finding other advanced life but finding animals would be easier and micro organisms would be the easiest to find, some star systems probably wouldn't have any known life at all you just gotta keep looking, the chances of finding an advanced race would go up based on technology and exploration
What if their are *Different* types of life , Life A cellular life. and B life, now n cellular reproduces and no matabolism, this is an example of viruses.
chistine lane Cells are the fundamental structural and functional unit of life. Just like chemistry can occur at the level of atoms, Biology occurs at the level of the cells, because the cell is the smallest thing that can be considered living.
@mr.zafner8295 on earth they do because of DNA mutations. But nothing says elsewhere in the universe that DNA is the only molecule that can carry genetic information. Or that mutations without environmental pressure are a necessary requirement or consequence. I think it's a more common misconception to assume life elsewhere needs to even be remotely similar to that on earth.
I wonder what happens when you take the "Chemical" part of that Nasa definition, and replace it with another arguably applicable term. Arguably a program is capable of being self-sustaining, and capable of darwinian evolution; but that already has its own term (A-Life, or "artificial" life)
I still think the Mars LR experiment showed potential signs of life, but since the other 2 experiments were inherently flawed (both have now been replicated on Earth w/ microorganism positive material but still came back w/ no sign of life in multiple experiments) due to a lack of instrument sensitivity. I hope NASA decides to replicate more precise versions of these experiments on Mars one day within our lifetimes, but the most interesting work right now IMO is that of Professor Milton Wainwright.
Yes, but it's still a part of the mother. The unfertilized eggs that are discarded once a month are alive to, so are you proposing that we force women to stop having their periods? The sperm are alive too, so when you get off to your tentacle hentai you end up killing millions, even just existing your cells die and are replaced very often, sometimes daily
I think NASA is doing it wrong, because they only look in places close to the Goldilocks zone, or places in the Goldilocks zone, but what they don't think of is the fact that life adapts to their environment. Here is an example; it is possible for an animal to live in a volcano, as long as it has all the needed properties.
We aren't really looking for life outside our Solar system right now. We're just looking for planets that could potentially support life. When it comes to that we don't really have anything to base our search on other than Earth. At the current time we don't really have the technology to spot life or even signs of life outside of our solar system.
"To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant." -Terence McKenna
With the Viking landers, it was the test experiment that couldn't verify the result initially produced by the main life-searching experiments. But the test experiment wasn't capable of performing the verification to as high a degree of detail of measurement as was the main experiments with each their greater focus on a narrower perspective. This is the inconsistency that has led us to believe that part of the mission to have been unsuccesfull. It is as Carl Sagan commented on it: Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidense.
+Nothing Matters I don't understand what you mean... I meant that an alien is something not from OUR planet so if theirs a "copy" in a parallel universe and they somehow can come into ours then they would be "aliens" also humans are too stupid and greedy to even advance that far.
Among an enormous universe that is infinitely expanding containing trillions of galaxies with billions of solar systems and each system containing a varied amount of planets you say that it’s likely that One planet among such qualities is habitable, I don’t think so either. How ever it may be true that Life forms not on Earth may not exist or be able to contact Earth in only a million years we’d be sentient because to the universe, a million of years doesn’t really matter in comparison to other quantities of time.
A fair enough definition, but I feel like having them be chemical systems rather than generic systems is restrictive VonNeumann Probes aren’t chemical systems for the most part, but they’re still alive at some point.
The only thing that bothers me is the evolution part. If there was an animal that stopped evolving and ever version of the animal after that point was somehow a clone, it wouldn't be considered alive anymore.
> live is a self sustaining chemical system capable of darwinian evolution I just wanted to mention that by this definition of life, i'm not alive. not only because i'm not self sustaining (i need air), but i'm also hardly capable of darwinian evolution on my own. alas.
Titantr0n noth are you are immature calling each other names on things with no purpose what if there is not god it doesn’t matter and same if he exist will never know but evolution does exist and so did the Big Bang it’s a fact but it’s more primitive to argue and fight then to believe in a creator
Oh my, well thank you kind netizens for the lesson in civism!! Everyone saw just how nice people you are, congratulations :) But, at the risk of disappointing you, I'll keep on telling off retards that shit all over reason and science in the name of their genocidal god as much as I want. I'm that terrible.
@@skullbatch2054 You said if "he" exists well never know well then how do you know that this god has a biological sex? And who is "he" mating with? I mean, aside from underaged Hebrew virgins.
The sphuirs i think should be cald parshal life becouse it unarably life like but not unless something strange changes it can have mutations so i think it shoukd ve classified as parshal life they are almost alive things but not quite i think that should be what its called instead of not alive.
This is by far the best channel about evolution out there
"A gathering of the brightest experts and geniuses at NASA are wrong; here is what _I_ think..."
-The comment section.
Well, in defense of dissenters: There are three papers I showed in this video that were written by lead researchers that also don't like the definition.
Yeah, because it's not the validity of a given argument that matters, but whether its source has wide social recognition. Totally.
: P I'm all in of people having discent and their own ideas, I have some thoughts about this of my own.
But there is something funny about people just trying to out-science the scientists while watching UA-cam in between games of League of Legends.
Probably some genuine will to debate adding in their own insight, but also mixed in with some innocence and even some worrying lack of humility.
Knowing that specialists know and have considerd most of the things we as laymen cassualy think in our spare time and then some, is not an Appeal to Authority fallacy.
Personally, I think there are some flaws in the ways some people define life. That's why people want to leave it up in the air. While NASA's definition of life works for Life As We Know It, but it is entirely possible that life completely alien to how life works on Earth exists. These appear in fiction all the time, and real life scientists have acknowledged the possibility of this as well.
Granted, we've never observed Silicon-based life or sentient fields of energy that can move, reproduce, etc. But if we did, would we call these life?
NASA's definition isn't perfect, but if we find someone that fits the definition of it out in space or on another planet, then we've officially found "Life", for all intents and purposes.
To be fair, everyone's human and I've seen experts in numerous fields getting things wrong, from economists to Stephen Hawking.
I'm French, and my understanding of English language is really not perfect... But I love your channel! ^^
Thanks for your incredible work and for sharing knowledge so clearly. ;)
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Parle-je francais assez bien? Je vais devoir faire un examen francais demain, alors j'essaye de preparer.
Pardon moi, si vous ne voulez pas m'aider.
Adam Collins You wrong France has contributed a lot to science and it's still the case today they can't be the worst :)
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as a biology teacher, i enjoyed this. brilliantly simple.
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Jon, if you keep this up you'll be the toast of NASA in no time.
3:24 I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
Top Weeb look at it shape, it is ready to breed that humie.
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Jive Junior you know it
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Gross!
We need to know what's alive so we know what to purge.
Why would you want to kill it
I wouldn't want to, just making a 40k joke.
As an Ambassador for the Okenite Crystal Community, I'd like to object to this video!
pineapplepenumbra Fuck you and those who are from Flat Earth Society!
elvon sarza
The Okenite are a peaceful people and not easily offended, however, we do share your dislike of Flat Earthers. May their feet slip off the rocks and their spikes shatter.
pineapplepenumbra we are the foundation of life empire and your nation is a treats to us we declare war
je suis un chat qui sappelle yoan empire officer
Meeting you is a treats to us, too, however I'm sorry to say, but I don't have the authority to accept your declaration of war.
You'll have to wait until the President gets back from the Holiday of Lorenz, where he no doubt stuffed himself on goosecreekite, this may take a while, so please be patient...
What even is that
Welcome back stated clearly, it’s been a while..
Covid 19 needs deep knowledge on life.
The efficacy of making the sophisticated issue simpler is the matter of competence and expertises in journalism
I've seen enough hentai to know the fate of that astronaunt in pic
Honeysmile13 You've come across a terrible fate, haven't you?
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Well... I hope she's wearing her "First Contact" g-string and nipple piercings when the tentacled alien finally rips the evac-suit off her lithe body.
Yeah... I'm a perv.
Shooting ropes? What else could the astronaut's fate? Hmm...
Tla walter?
You deserve way more subs than you currently have!
4 years later and still a valid point.
Absolutely fascinating, thank you!
Why the reupload?
Found a typo. Proof-reading is for squares, right?
Thanks John!
You got yourself a new subscriber :)
Can you make a video deriding the horribly unrealistic portrayals of aliens in science fiction? The fact that aliens are often made to be humanoid gray beings with cat eyes just rustles my jimmies!
trey the explainer did something on this
I mean tbf it isn't a bad guess. As far as we know a humanoid shape is the optimal shape for an intelligent and technological species, assuming that other species will be similar, while somewhat uninspired, is a pretty good guess.
hedgehog3180 The human form is not at all the most optimal form for intelligent life. Sure it's done the job for us, but to say that it's the most optimal form possible is a self centered argument. Trey the Explainer did a video on this, if I can remember correctly.
I like entertainment videos on UA-cam but I mainly only subscribe to educational ones like your , your content is very important to humanity, thank you very much
Hi! A few years ago, while discussing with a fellow virologist, we came out with a very straightforward three-entry list to determine if something is alive or not, it is called the "L2 list". At the beginning, nobody liked it because it excludes viruses as living organisms, but with time, several colleagues started using it in their biology seminars and courses at the university where i used to work. The L2 list: 1. Boundaries. The "organism" must posses clear physical boundaries separating it from the environment and/or delimiting its internal processes. 2. Genetics. The "organism" must posses a way to store, read and inherit information for its growth, development, and functioning. 3. Homeostasis. The "organism" must posses a path for the use of energy in order to maintain a chemical and physical equilibrium, gradient o balance within its boundaries and/or its immediate environment. If the "organism" fails in any of these three entries, it is not considered alive.
That's more or less what's in every elementary school text book.
Viruses disagree with you.
Love your vids!! Please upload more often! Been a fan for years
Really there are very few little Green men in actual works of Sci-Fi.
PalaeoJoe That's because we strawmanned the absolute hell out of it, you're welcome! :D
By overuse of example we have eradicated the little green menace~
Alexis Andell now isn’t much better, we usually just have a human bug or something like that
+ PalaeoJoe
"Offended, I am."
- Yoda 34 ABY
PS: 34 ABY is when 'The Force Awakens' and 'The Last Jedi' takes place.
Well if we found strange living black goo on an alien world I think it’d hold a few people captive in a crashed spaceship and drown all who dare approach.
That’s a terrible reference, wasn’t it? No one will get it...
+Psychic Hedgehog - are you talking about Armus from next generation?
Stated Clearly yup!
The Black goo from Prometheus?
Of course not Number One!
Life reference... Thats a good one 😉
This channel deserve more attention.
Although defining life might not be easy, but distinguishing it is so easy for everyone.
Not always. For example, if it were so easy, we wouldn't have had long debates if viruses are alive. Or going by that NASA definition, individual genes are alive - would you have thought so before?
Even if one chooses to be doubtful about these 2 cases, still compared to the cases that we can all agree about whether they are alive or not (which includes the remaining of all the beings in the universe that we are aware of at the moment), with a high approximation we can still say that we almost always agree about what is alive and what is not.
And about viruses, I personally think that they are alive.
@@a000ab Yeah, that's the thing about definitions. They need to work in all cases, not just the easy ones. And I suspect if I went looking, I could find more such cases.
What if fire is alive?
Notkoi
*hits blunt*
Yeah man, what if fire has emotions?
Run.
Did you watch the video? Doesn't fit the description
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As per definition, it's not
this is a fantastic channel.
The best video I've seen on UA-cam.
Self-sustaining chemical systems capable of Darwinian evolution are life
The most alien looking aliens I've seen in any kind of fiction so far are the Combine Advisers from Half Life.
I love your voice, it's so amazing.
I love the topic - Genetics, and also your Animations !!
As enlighting as always. Keep it up!
you are on the international space station, and your comrade Johnson has finished checkup on the ship and you promptly let him inside. not too long after, Johnson tells you he is finished with checkup and needs you to open up the airlock, despite the fact he is sitting right next to you.
Dude that’s scary shit....
The NASA definition: It’s life, Jim as we know it.
Wow I actually learned something. Great video!
Perhaps a better definition: a system that can be distinguished from its environment that utilizes complex molecules to change the environment and is constantly changing within the environment.
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Excellent work as always
What's the meaning of life? Capable of Darwinian evolution. Done. I like it. It's a simple answer to a complex question. Kind of like 42.
That’s not a meaning, it’s a definition. Life is what you make of it
Meaning and definition are synonyms. I get it, the meaning of life and the definition of life are two different questions but the 42 joke doesn't work with "What's the definition of life?". It's a slight equivocation for the sake of wit.
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My personal definition of life:
A self sustaining system with a protective cover.
The protective cover is to make a difference between self sustaining chemical reactions (like fire) and between life.
The „self sustaining“ is in because it is the most important trait of living beings which guarantees its survival.
„Reproduction“ is not in because a single cellular organism which can’t reproduce because of a mutation wouldn’t be automatically death.
And if this cell can’t reproduce it would also mean that it is not capable of darwinian evolution and therefore I also wouldn’t use evolution as a criteria.
It is not necessary for every individual organism to be capable of reproduction (a mule is alive), just for Darwinian evolution to present in a representative sample of a population.
I like the most-complexity dynamic, which, in a telepathic, post-Higgs mind environment, is like saying evolution's complexity is intrinsically extra-dimensional in mind, not merely in genetic form. In community of mind, that would be deeper, like a shared cluster of stars extra-gravitic, nearly immediate overlaps in consciousness. That would be when, among many minds, space-time is alternately cycled far out, almost inside out, across nearly immediate, back-and-forth resonating time-space, i.e. across a galaxy. The whole universe loves such communications, artful, colorful, often musical.
One should also consider that "life" might take the form of non-carbon based organisms. I wouldn't be surprised if a silicon and germanium based entity existed that had a similar nervous system to Earthbound life.
You should consider that life might be meaningless distinction and there is no clear border between life and non living matter
7:00
A very good visual depiction of natural selection. I'm keeping that one in mind (it's easier to explain than f'ing zebras)
What about A.I.? Even if/when we create it ourselves, there will be debate as to whether it is truly alive.
I love this channel. I wish you did more videos.
Fantastic video, if a may suggest something then it would have to be a video about the difference between exobiology and xenobiology.
From my understanding exobilology is the study of the poessibility of life outside our solarsystem (as stated in the video) while xenobilogy is the study of how life outside our solarsystem might look like, but I'm not at all sure. :)
Of course aliens exist we cant have all of the universes by ourselves, but we just dont know it yet
ErickuZ not necessarily. There is no way to know if aliens exist. Lets say that its IMPOSSIBLE for us to be alone. Who says that life has cropped up yet? It might be about to form!
FGV Cosmic but how could we be the only things in the whole galaxy i really think there is people like us thinking about the same thing that aliens do exist
+FGV Cosmic It can be forming in many planets and developed on many others. Anyway, because of the size of the universe and the speed of light it's hard to seek for it far away. Aliens maybe can't see us because of relativity, if they can observe planets and stuff, we could be dinosaurs or even bacterias for them, time is not equal (I dont know how to explain)
FGV Cosmic there’s a lot of factors- life could have not started yet on other planets, and even if it did, it might not be in our lifetimes, also, space is infinite and never ending so who’s to say it will happen near us with our current technology? It could be some galaxy 10 trillion light years away, but obviously we do not have the technology to travel that far.... yet, at least maybe not in our lifetime
FGV Cosmic let me give an example and let's look at mass effect, very complex life such as humans 1/3 animals 2/3 microbes 3/3 this number could be the chances of finding life in are Galaxy , advance life would have issues finding other advanced life but finding animals would be easier and micro organisms would be the easiest to find, some star systems probably wouldn't have any known life at all you just gotta keep looking, the chances of finding an advanced race would go up based on technology and exploration
1960: I bet they will have flying cars in future
2017:How to spot an alien
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What if their are *Different* types of life , Life A cellular life. and B life, now n cellular reproduces and no matabolism, this is an example of viruses.
this is an interesting comment
5:09 that satellite looks like a beer can with wings.
I really don't get the cells part. It seems a bit earth centric
chistine lane Cells are the fundamental structural and functional unit of life. Just like chemistry can occur at the level of atoms, Biology occurs at the level of the cells, because the cell is the smallest thing that can be considered living.
There's no better configuration for building organisms than cells.
as far as we know, i guess
But the actuall definition by NASA doesn't say anything about cells. That was just part of earth-biologist's possible criteria for life.
Ever heard of "Life as we know it"?
It means, "the definition of life so far".
So far all life we discover and confirmed is here on earth.
I have a question. Why "capable of"? Why not experiencing? Or subject to? Or in the process of?
Thank you for creating another excellent video
The organism would only evolve if it needed to in order to survive, typically because of changes to it's environment. No changes, no need to adapt.
@@Beerbatter1962 this is incorrect. Organisms change over time, regardless. Common misconception.
@mr.zafner8295 on earth they do because of DNA mutations. But nothing says elsewhere in the universe that DNA is the only molecule that can carry genetic information. Or that mutations without environmental pressure are a necessary requirement or consequence. I think it's a more common misconception to assume life elsewhere needs to even be remotely similar to that on earth.
Earth:Why are you so dry
Mars:I'm you from the future...
*Earth starts to rain on every country*
I wonder what happens when you take the "Chemical" part of that Nasa definition, and replace it with another arguably applicable term.
Arguably a program is capable of being self-sustaining, and capable of darwinian evolution; but that already has its own term (A-Life, or "artificial" life)
I don't know but it's really hard to get rid of
I still think the Mars LR experiment showed potential signs of life, but since the other 2 experiments were inherently flawed (both have now been replicated on Earth w/ microorganism positive material but still came back w/ no sign of life in multiple experiments) due to a lack of instrument sensitivity.
I hope NASA decides to replicate more precise versions of these experiments on Mars one day within our lifetimes, but the most interesting work right now IMO is that of Professor Milton Wainwright.
Thank you.
What is life?
Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more
This made my day. 😹
Ok but is a fertilized human egg alive?
Yes, but it's still a part of the mother. The unfertilized eggs that are discarded once a month are alive to, so are you proposing that we force women to stop having their periods? The sperm are alive too, so when you get off to your tentacle hentai you end up killing millions, even just existing your cells die and are replaced very often, sometimes daily
Very nice!!
Does this mean that mules aren’t alive, since they can’t reproduce?
3:58 Is that a Miller-Urey experiment I see?
ARGRGGGGG! This makes me want to go to some other planet similar to Earth and just collect every single plant and thing I could find.
I think NASA is doing it wrong, because they only look in places close to the Goldilocks zone, or places in the Goldilocks zone, but what they don't think of is the fact that life adapts to their environment. Here is an example; it is possible for an animal to live in a volcano, as long as it has all the needed properties.
RileyPlaysGames nah thats bs
Well everyone has got their own opinions
I’m pretty sure nasa is looking there not just for life but for a new earth
No not really
We aren't really looking for life outside our Solar system right now. We're just looking for planets that could potentially support life. When it comes to that we don't really have anything to base our search on other than Earth. At the current time we don't really have the technology to spot life or even signs of life outside of our solar system.
"To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant."
-Terence McKenna
Codex Machina true, except electromagnetic radiation is a universal carrier of information.
With the Viking landers, it was the test experiment that couldn't verify the result initially produced by the main life-searching experiments. But the test experiment wasn't capable of performing the verification to as high a degree of detail of measurement as was the main experiments with each their greater focus on a narrower perspective. This is the inconsistency that has led us to believe that part of the mission to have been unsuccesfull. It is as Carl Sagan commented on it: Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidense.
Finally, NASA did something that is useful to ALL of us.
How to spot an Alien:
1. You can't!
We don't even know if Aliens Exist or not, even if they do we don't what they look like.
Coo1 Gam3r well anything that isn’t on earth and is living is an alien
+Nothing Matters I don't understand what you mean... I meant that an alien is something not from OUR planet so if theirs a "copy" in a parallel universe and they somehow can come into ours then they would be "aliens" also humans are too stupid and greedy to even advance that far.
Among an enormous universe that is infinitely expanding containing trillions of galaxies with billions of solar systems and each system containing a varied amount of planets you say that it’s likely that One planet among such qualities is habitable, I don’t think so either. How ever it may be true that Life forms not on Earth may not exist or be able to contact Earth in only a million years we’d be sentient because to the universe, a million of years doesn’t really matter in comparison to other quantities of time.
LIFE IS SOMETHING THAT FINDS A WAY
If you allowed for a couple assumptions, then to our knowledge and by that definition, the universe is a life form.
so would fallout 4's gen 3 synths be considered "alive" by nasa's definition?
PMMillard Windowlicker They don't reproduce, so no.
I am no pro about them but do they grow?
PMMillard Windowlicker fallout 4 gen 3 synths are sentient, but they do not age or have the capability to reproduce.
What about a self developing species of robots from another planet?
A fair enough definition, but I feel like having them be chemical systems rather than generic systems is restrictive
VonNeumann Probes aren’t chemical systems for the most part, but they’re still alive at some point.
I am a 13 year old aspiring to be a paleontologist.... can you give me any tips
The only thing that bothers me is the evolution part. If there was an animal that stopped evolving and ever version of the animal after that point was somehow a clone, it wouldn't be considered alive anymore.
So you say a gene that can produce a protein which can protein the gene at the start is a living thing and start of life?
So... Is the terminator alive? Skynet? If we found aliens like them I'd think we'd call that living, but it doesn't fit the definition.
i could go behind this theory, nice job NASA!
now i'll wait the discovery of non-molecular sentient species
Awesome
by that definition.. wouldn't Learning A.I.'s be alive?
(by which I mean, current Learning A.I. not future or fictional Sentient A.I.)
It needs our electricity though. So it isn’t self sustaining.
Darkil2 holy shit
TheBigChicken well it could learn to make electrify but I don’t think it would ever be alive with nasas definition
TheBigChicken couldnt you consider the computer its environment
Darwinian evolution would mean biological. Computers are artificial
So is Data from Star Trek TNG alive, according to NASA’s definition?
Good stuff
> live is a self sustaining chemical system capable of darwinian evolution
I just wanted to mention that by this definition of life, i'm not alive. not only because i'm not self sustaining (i need air), but i'm also hardly capable of darwinian evolution on my own. alas.
Thats not what self sustaining means, and individuals can't evolve, its populations that evolve
I could almost hear the creationists' screams of anguish as you dropped *that* definition.
Titantr0n That's just the sound of Dawkins fanboys masturbating, over the pedestralization of their favourite pseudoscience.
Titantr0n noth are you are immature calling each other names on things with no purpose what if there is not god it doesn’t matter and same if he exist will never know but evolution does exist and so did the Big Bang it’s a fact but it’s more primitive to argue and fight then to believe in a creator
Oh my, well thank you kind netizens for the lesson in civism!! Everyone saw just how nice people you are, congratulations :) But, at the risk of disappointing you, I'll keep on telling off retards that shit all over reason and science in the name of their genocidal god as much as I want. I'm that terrible.
Actually, as an evolutionary creationist, I'm quite alright with it.
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You said if "he" exists well never know well then how do you know that this god has a biological sex? And who is "he" mating with? I mean, aside from underaged Hebrew virgins.
I really like this definition. It helps explain some mitochondrial diseases as conflicts of interest between the mitochondria and host DNA.
The sphuirs i think should be cald parshal life becouse it unarably life like but not unless something strange changes it can have mutations so i think it shoukd ve classified as parshal life they are almost alive things but not quite i think that should be what its called instead of not alive.