How many habitable planets are there in our solar system, in our galaxy, and in our universe? And how does this affect the possibility of us finding Alien Civilizations? And how does AI affect this possibility? Also this Episode introduces this new channel. This is the first of a series of questions to answer before we can truly imagine where we are headed.
References:
1. Brown Dwarfs - why they start burning Deuterium between 13 and 80 solar masses: https://earthsky.org/space/definition-what-are-brown-dwarfs/
2. Fountains on Europa: may be taller than Everest, latest news: https://www.antarcticajournal.com/jupiters-moon-europa-may-have-water-geysers-taller-than-everest/
3. Fountains of Encaledus: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11688/
4. Evidence of Ocean on Europa: https://europa.nasa.gov/why-europa/evidence-for-an-ocean/
5. Phosphorus on Encaledus: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/nasa-cassini-data-reveals-building-block-for-life-in-enceladus-ocean/
6. Plume dive movie: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/enceladus-plume/
7. Fermi's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox Coming up next week: Are we going to destroy ourselves or become Gods?