Cosmic Queries – Alien Worlds and Extremophiles with Kennda Lynch
Summary
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice welcome astrobiologist Kennda Lynch to discuss extremophiles and alien worlds. They explore how studying life in Earth's most extreme environments informs the search for life elsewhere. Listener questions cover the weirdest Earth microbes, the possibility of non-water-based or large-scale alien life, the ethics of sample return from icy moons like Europa and Enceladus, and the history of astrobiology.Episode description
What will life be like on other planets? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the origins of life on alien planets and extremophiles right here on Earth with astrobiologist Kennda Lynch.
(Originally Aired February 22, 2022)
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