
Protocol Labs, with Will Crowley narrating, provide “Life Beyond” (67 min),in two parts, from the Melodysheep channel.
Part 1 (30 min) is called “Alien Life, Deep Time, and
Outer Space”.
Part 2 (37 min) is called “The Museum of Alien Life”.
The series starts with the duality that both the idea
of our being alone in the universe, and the universe having “life” everywhere,
are frightening.
The second film is more engaging. It gives as an animated
look at what life could look like on a small tidally locked planet (more
common), or on a large planet. The
gravity on large water worlds is irrelevant because water would have about the
same density as tissue. Cold worlds without oxygen might be able to support
silicon-based life (Titan).
The film proposes the idea that
self-replicating structures conveying information could exist in the upper
atmospheres of brown dwarfs, in space (plasma crystals) or inside neutron
stars. Other papers have suggested
quantum life with plasma inside regular stars (Michelle Starr from Science Alert).
Picture: electron micrograph of 1996 Martian meteorite
thought to have fossilized bacteria. (Wikipedia embed, p.d., NASA, click for
info).
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