Carl Sagan's Cosmos: Life on Jupiter

[FakeMCs]

Just drop an atomic bomb on the mars so the aftermath will create an atmosphere. Anyone disagree?

[NoAirPlayguitar]

very nice work ! thanks for posting



[ArturoStojanoff]

I don't think something like a brain could evolve again :/

[smithey103]

life could be anywhere

[warpowers1861]

When Carl sagan died he was reincarnated as a giant baloonhead and imprisoned on Jupiter

[mabinogfan]

ehh i dont think life exists on jupiter since the surface pressure is incredible o.O anyone or anything would be crushed and dead in an instant before landing on the planet

[Htown20XX]

I reckon its fluid thought its bulk. Also there is so little other than hydrogen and helium. And the gas is so heavy wind so high they would be torn to shreds

[BackwardsCup]

Evolution is a predictive model Carl Sagan. I'm sorry I have to disagree with you.

[cyberdaemon]

I think its silly to look for life on on places with similar conditions to earth. Thats what this video teaches. That life could be made of totally different stuff, hell even dark matter could harbor life somewhere. The point is, there could be infinite number of different types of life and we woulnt even know. The earth-life life is just one possibility. One idea. One experiment so to speak.

[inzxane]

He briefly discusses this in the second 1977 RI Christmas Lecture (Part 2 5/6) which is on YouTube also. A lot of children in attendance there which makes for an even more understandable presentation.

[u3190]

Its cool to speculate on stuff like this, but its not really scientific when you have no evidence that life can arise from non-life, or that there are other worlds capable of sustaining life in the universe.

[dmitriboukalov]

@u3190 Agreed, most people have absolutely no idea that the laws of biogenesis exist. But no one cares, as long as you add the word science to your argument, you are guaranteed victory.

[PojeMetal]

im still watching this, as i didn't 2 years ago xD

[1998davey]

no!! there is not life on jupiter in plus jupiter is not made of solid dumasses

[adambelfast1]

@1998davey no one knows 100% thats its all gas, its is thought to have a solid core no one knows for sure yet

[cityfan22]

the like-dislike bar looks like a joint. carl would have been proud

[shakiin000]

does jupitar have a surface?

[daslimshady1]

@shakiin000 well we dont really no, but we can guess it has a liquid surface of hydrogen and other gasses. the only solid surface you may get is frozen gases.

[theRebelBull]

@shakiin000 no Shakiin, Jupiter does not have a surface, instead they have what would appear to be a giant ocean of compressed gas/ liquidized gas, at the lower levels of the atmosphere. Picture a planet that gradually changes from gas at the top to a solid hot molten core to the bottom.

[richardhaw]

all i need is too look into my toilet everymorning to see sinkers and floaters

[Sereniama]

Jupiter has too much gravity.

[baobubs]

@Sereniama. not for a creature who's weight is supported by surrounding atmosphere. it's like a 200 ton whale underwater -- on land it's crushed, but in the water it doesn't matter how heavy it is.

[newmac]

Its important to know if such creatures exist; and it wouldn't take more than a spacecraft that deploys an inexpensive hot air balloon and a digital camera. Why don't we have an answer yet on this issue of other life in our Solar System and beyond?

[KarbineKyle]

This is so AWESOME! Carl Sagan was such an inspiration! He loved doing what he did! He had such a wonderful mind! He was one smart man! I wish he was still alive... I used to love watching "Cosmos." My grandparents wouldn't let me watch it when I was a young, because they thought it went against the Bible, and all that BS. I LOVE Science! Cheers to Carl Sagan!

[azimebrahimi60616]

you'll be missed carl

u wil

[TheJimzhe842]

more people should know about Carl Sagan

[TheJimzhe842]

this one has animation

[11FreeSpirit]

I love this scene, it is an enhanced version of my favorite part of the entire Cosmos series. These flaoters are like a paradime to who I am, into both outer space and animal life. I also have a unity that started last night between Timon the Meerkat and my Project Orion II interstellar spacecraft concept. I have always been protective of Timon since Lion King first came out. I am a free spirit with a bow tie that I promise to NEVER tie as my gesture of peace:)  Thank you Carl Sagan!

[cibernete1974]

Biology is like history. You can't understand the situation without knowledge of the past.

The most interesting form the biologistic metaphers of historical development assumed in the words of a contemporary scientist.

[glennfryenpie]

carl sagan smoked the bud

[childofreletivity]

i hope this is true cause when i'm 100 i wanna see a floater cause it would make me smile

[100brokensticks]

first off whos to say the organisms will be fried in the heat? just cause we would doesnt mean they would. and 2nd what IS the surface of jupiter like? ive always wondered this, or does it even have a surface? does it just get denser and denser gas or what?

[mrvendetor]

its a shame we know that this shit isnt possible nowadays :(

[chretienproduction]

dude ur high

[EmperorOfMars]

Did someone auto-tune this yet?

[OnyxLyrica]

Four people don't know shit about astrobiology, and disliked the video.

[NizzBomb69]

bring back carl sagan

[HaveFaithInScience]

But these creatures could not naturally form on jupiter, they would very soon die out. Jupiter's environment is too harsh to sustain any life enough for it to evolve to states that could preserve it. Besides, wouldn't Jupiter's intense gravity crush them? I have not done much research on jupiter but I am sure there are many more factors that would prevent such life from arising on this planet.

[SirMeh]

@HaveFaithInScience Who said any potential creatures of jupiter had to obey the rules of life on Earth? By some means that we have no knowledge of, and cannot even begin to comprehend of imagine, they gravity might not even effect them. Other speices could see us on earth, and ask 'How'? How do we manage to survive on earth, which is most likely going to be so so different from their own world.

[OnyxLyrica]

@SirMeh

Agreed. And if we strictly base rules of life as we know them on Earth, we have the extremophiles, who can live in temperatures and places common earth life cannot. So I think that assuming life would follow the exact same rules everywhere else like on Earth is extremely arrogant and illogical IMO.

[903harman]

would be perfect place for wind turbines :D and send the energy to a satellite.

[chrismart2008]

Is jupiter's ground hard like earth?

[swsk117]

@chrismart2008 no its mostly liquid

[belegulo]

Jupiter with blue skies? oh no, this is too mucho for a %4 of the solar light we get grom sun (remember: jupiter is very distant from sun).

[agentham]

@belegulo He said a planet like Jupiter, not the actual planet.

[nzjafa]

@belegulo There is a high layer in Jupiter's atmosphere where the sky is actually blue. Strangely enough, this layer also has a very similar pressure to Earth at sea level, but it's far too cold for people. Down where you get to livable temperatures the winds and turbulence prevent any sort of colony being realistic, which is a pity :(

[OnyxLyrica]

@belegulo

Are you familiar with the effects of hydrogen and helium combined with upper atmosphere models? They would give somewhat similar sky color like the one you saw in the video.

[belegulo]

@OnyxLyrica Oxigen or Nitrogen on surface in a planet maked of helium and hydrogen is very non-probably because nitrogen and oxygen is heavier than helium and hydrogen.

[RubyRequest]

The winds of Jupiter are too strong for life!

[OnyxLyrica]

@RubyRequest

Earth life you mean?

[RideMyBMW]

Sagan the Pagan is on dope...someone shut him the fu%$ up!

[1piecemage]

Gravity and temperture, that is all.

[HeliomasterAtrox]

So great Work!!! All the images and the sequences show with accuracy the words of Carl. Very Beatiful!!! Do you have some sequences for the Evolution or The Last Day of the Earth??Congratulations and thanks for keep alive the words of Mr. Sagan. Peace!!!

[hellzone100]

holy fuck!! THIS GIVES ME A REVELATION!

[4leafmetal]

I love this!!!!!!

how crazy would that be if we found floating organisms the size of cities?!?!?!

my mind is blown to pieces.

[TigerMeet2142]

i mean vid of creatures like big creatures in air called "skywhales" and other things

[TigerMeet2142]

idk i saw a  movie about life or jupiter i think about a lot of creatures please if you know what i mean tell the name

[sweepginger]

Anything is possible in this strange universe. Beings with a totally different make up to anything on Earth could live on Jupiter. Imagine a Jovian looking at Earth through an incredibly powerful lens and shaking his (head?) in wonder at how we can exist when poisonous oxygen dominates the atmosphere, and deadly H20 keeps pouring down upon us. We really shouldn't take our planet's make up as the only one viable for life.

[BlackSunSerenade]

@ sweepginger

Yes exactly! I was thinking precisely the same thing today. Why do we asume that the other lifeforms will need water and oxygen just like us? Perhaps there is a logical answer to that question, but I haven't heard it yet.

[dson144]

Water has amazing properties, like high heat capacity heat of vaporization, which help regulate body heat. Water is an excellent solvent so it can dissolve many different compounds. It can accept or donate a proton to become an acid or a base. All life probably needs these processes to survive, but certainly there are other possibilities! It just seems like most lifeforms *would* rely on water, since it's so awesome, but not necessarily that every lifeform imaginable would require it.

[cammo6901]

wow! that was amazing good job! really interesting!

[froogle100]

yeh u guys know this was fuckin years ago we now know life is uterly impossible on jupitar

[Grrrrtt]

they also thought i was impossible for life to exist at the deepest parts of the oceans, but they soon discovered organisms that live on volcanic vents on the ocean floor, they call them extremophiles. so nothing is impossible, just extremely unlikely.

[B4IRUTUARU16]

fantastic .

OK kids that's it we are going to Jupiter

[Ares121288]

FUCK YEAH SAGAN!

[KiljanArslan]

you know I think some of the writers from star wars must have loved cosmos because in one of the books the life of bespin is desribed as how sagan says.

[LordCarlSagan]

yeah maybe the higher layers of atmospheres of some gas giants could be habitable

[necrognomemetal]

What you've done with the artwork is positively stunning.

Anybody know who did the originals, though?

[Justas923]

Beautiful Universe... If I would live forever I would go on this forever trip to explore the Universe...

[MrCrayonInk95]

is this show still on

what channel

[Benishe]

This is beautiful.

[Npowell01]

Getting high, turning all the lights out, and watching Cosmos is a guilty pleasure of mine.

[letskillyoko]

right on haha

one love

[sneakapeek26]

@Npowell01 Exactly what i did tonight excellent idea for all to follow in my humble opinion.

[halfstepdown88]

Floaters? haha. I was digging the vid then it said that. And I laughed inside a bit

[1RadicalOne]

Very nicely done. Cosmos is starting to show its age; I'm glad there are those working to save the series.

[xXopopXx]

ever think that we are the aliens??

[skorthase]

ROFL. Uhhm yeah we would each be alien to eachother. So we would also be aliens to them, especially if WE landed on THEIR planet.

[bloodanddirt]

which is why he need to revive the space program. i say that a new scientific revolution begin before its too late.

[Winobie75]

Being that space is infinite (it cant not be), there must also be an infinite variety of alien life forms.

Though its the concept of infinity I get stuck at.

[JareduPS]

It's not that hard, if you want to visualize it easily, think about a finite amount of objects, but due to spacial warping, it's similar to a video game in which when you get to one side you come out the other in an omni-directional sense.

don't ask how I know this ;)

[bloodanddirt]

the universe is finite. look at it this way, what you conceive as space (not planets and stars, but the open area they inhabit) may not have been here until the big bang. space is not infinite, but the multiverse is and i think thats where you will find your floaters and sinkers. its a great theory btw, check it out.

[Jackthemeat]

After watching this I wept at the sheer Majestic beauty that is this wonderful Series  COSMOS.

...then I masturbated into my sock.

[chesucks]

that comment literally made my laugh my ass off.

LMAO

[FedorCroCop44]

hahahahahaha

[yakomuto]

@Jackthemeat That's funny and I don't say that often.

[TruthPorn]

@Jackthemeat 

[Knossos22]

@Jackthemeat

You are disgusting... I can't stop laughing! :=)

[TonyShootgun]

nice thinking, but not true

[MrZzytre]

you dont know were life could form it could be micrscopic or as big as a city you just dont know whats out there.different beings could maybe breath different types of air you dont know whats out there

[researchityourself]

fantastic claims require fantastic proof, right? It's okay to talk about balloon creatures living in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, of all places, probably one of the worst inhospitable environments in the solar system, and yet calls Betty Hill's ufo abduction a pure fabrication. Why was he so against advanced technological aliens visiting earth or so skeptical about very specific things like that when obviously he admired notions about creatures that lived in the corona of the sun even?

[britoca]

they're both hypothetical scenarios... And Carl didn't propose this "as fact" it's just to show that other kinds of life forms, based on chemistry different than life on earth would no be impossible. Betty Hill (whoever that is) I bet claims her abduction as fact. Without concrete evidence other than her testimony, nothing can be concluded. Enough said.

[mohfoz77]

EXCELLENT.

CARL SAGAN is an inspiration.

[joryoreo]

lmfao FLOATERS hahahaha Floaters the size of cities! lol

[codecrax]

let's drop a bomb or something and see what happens =]

[camilleri63]

Very nice :)

[haron848]

Carl Sagan je fenomenalan!

[NoGodNoReligion]

Keep an open mind to the wonders of science and nature. Humanity is still in its infancy, we have a lot to discover and even more to understand. Great video!

[1gregmichael]

Underground.

[micahdude123]

could there be "organic" life with an elemental base other than carbon?

[Isaacian27]

I've heard that silicon is very similar to carbon, so it might be possible that there could be silicon based life forms out there.

[avdm]

but then they'd breathe sand...

[Isaacian27]

Hey, it could happen. Just not the whole inhalation part...unless you could get the silicon in another form other than sand, or could dissolve silicon in an aqueous solution in the lungs. Or perhaps the organism wouldn't be using a lung system at all. Like Sagan said, you can't tell with biology.

[WordIndTV]

Dolly Parton

[Grrrrtt]

straight out of star trek....

[pimpface3000]

Nooooo. :( I don't want the video to end.

[moviemaker933]

I have tons of movies about life in our solar system, and I talk not about Jupiter, but one of it's moons Europa, and one of Saturn's, Titan. (And another one can't remember)

I think the chances of these beings living on Jupiter is next to the impossible. But on Venus, there might be small organisms in the clouds there.

[ZionNeo1]

One of the first extrasolar planets detected was from 51 Pegasi (1.06 solar mass star). It's companion was discovered to orbit 0.0520 AU's; planet b (0.472 Jupiter Mass) orbits it's sun every 4 Earth days.

70 Virginis "B" has 7 times the mass of Jupiter with a radius of roughly 70,000 km - 80,000 (Jupiter 71,500 km). Due to it's high mass it is almost a Brown Dwarf star.

[holzfallen]

I don't know what the original looked like bu tthis looks great - good job.

[crickettitties]

great work!

[kamal10928]

no crap dude

[RobAstor]

Very good work! :-)  Is COSMOS going to be updated and re-released in the near future?

[huluvu38]

Well done! This was certainly impressive.

[adamredwine]

Those are beautiful effects.

[mohfoz77]

Excellent.

CARL SAGAN was the wise man of the 20th century.

We miss him dearly.

[OjoDeOrus777]

Micros-cosmos !!!

[kamal10928]

can this shit eat u alive?

[yeoldebrian]

HAHAHA, awesome!

[artemis12061966]

Beautiful !

[PojeMetal]

nice I'm sure this is real and thank you werry much how you explained everything thank you!!!!!!! those these creatures realy exist??? please tell me.

[theDisto]

No, it is what creatures could potentially exist. Not what creatures are there. They have not explored Jupiter.

[neujack]

This entire series "Cosmos" was one of the most sublime educational programs ever created. I just explained to my wife this program was one of the reasons why I studied physics at university.

[TheFluffyDuck]

I just brought it and watched it for the first time. Im not ashamed to say there were times of pure emotion in which I cried. Ive changed carrer this early in my life and Im going back to uni. Carl sagan is an inspiration for me

[NatiAlNatural]

Don't worry, we all cry... it's touching.

Watch 'Pale Blue Dot', right here on youtube.

[NatiAlNatural]

He inspired me, too... and still does, I'm considering going back to college...

I studied geodesy, whenever astronomy classes became boring -the teacher was boring, actually- I imagined Cosmos, and how Sagan would have explained it. I often smiled when comparing him to my teacher...

Sagan was the best!!

[TheFluffyDuck]

Listening to carl sagan is so uplifting, he inspires me to believe we can do anything. Then I have to turn on my TV and watch the news watching humans do nothing :(

[NatiAlNatural]

Humans do nothing? You are doing something: you are concerned about our fate! That is fantastic... if we could make a lot of people feel the same way you just did, then we could begin changing the world.

My advice: TV nowadays don't offer much, try not to watch it for too long... read instead, educate yourself, teach others, talk to people. It's more rewarding and less depressing -and the news programs don't reflect reality, they show what they want you to think reality is...

[FighterOfTheBest]

great great. I've always wanted to see jupiter. It all makes sense now, The 2 planets that i think may have life on it is Mars and Jupiter.

[NatiAlNatural]

Europa, Jupiter's moon, may also harbour life. Aparently it's geologically active and it is thought it may have water, which by the heat generated by the geological activity might be -deep down- in liquid state. This are all asumptions, perhaps some day we'll send a probe to discover it's not true... but there's hope.

What do you think about it? What are the odds?

[joemozzone]

whoa that was crazy, can you imagine what things are like on other planets? just because ours is based on certain laws and matter and needs certain substances for life to be present doesn't mean others follow the same..if you have an imagination the possibilities are endless..we would be and are ingnorant to think that what we know is all there is to know and that everything in existance in the universe would follow the same principalities..

[gregkirchner]

it looks like a chocolate planet

[GeniusIdiot]

Too impressive.

[deadprez55]

dude you are sick

[ibach80]

Very nice work.

[customstuff]

Isn't jupiter made out of gas?

[welcomegohome]

yeah, but you don't necessarily need LAND or some kind of surface for life. life came from the sea here on earth, the possibilities are out there. it'd just be different there. what i don't get is how the "hunters" would work in such turbulent winds.

[customstuff]

That's true, I'm positive that there is something esle out there because we're here... We could be aliens to somebody else!

[HoweGavin]

well its only theoretical

[NatiAlNatural]

All physic laws were once 'theoretical'. Dreaming, imagining things, asking questions no matter how ridiculous they sound are the source of scientific investigation.

Keep asking yourself ridiculous questions and speaking theoretically, you never know...

[NatiAlNatural]

Agree.

We are thinking in earthly terms... the universe is vast and misterious, and there are lots of things we don't know and we'll never see. Perhaps there are other environments capable to harbour life, beyond our imagination.

[ldl21]

This is tremendous work.

[justas116]

I believe that in Jupiter there could live life. But the Jupiter very aggresiv planet i think.

[PojeMetal]

it is justas116, but you can't live on it because there is too much gravitation and you can't walk because you weight too much and you can decay, in smaller planets you weight lower.

[Zotoaster]

Well, it worked with jellyfish.

RIP Sagan

[foxbat68]

Very, very nice work - I initally thought that 70's graphics weren't ever that good until I read your synopsis.

[tribunalfunk]

So deep.

[AndromedasWake]

Amazing. RIP Carl. We miss you.

[alexrulz911]

the saganator lives on in our hearts

[mekanda1]

Wow!! pretty impressive...you stayed faithful to Sagan's concept,ideas and design. Excellent work and thanks for posting the video!

[evilchimp69]

more more more please

[thesheep91]

Nice video!