Alien.Planet.Discovery.Channel.-2.avi

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Documentary | Animation | Sci-Fi

A computer-animated speculative documentary created for the Discovery Channel, ALIEN PLANET posits a situation not far in the future, when human technology has developed artificial intelligence advanced enough to be sent into space to search for alien life. Scientists have identified Darwin IV, a planet 6.5 light years from the Earth, as a possibly life-sustaining environment, with two suns and 60% of earth's gravity. They send two AI probes, Newton (Ike) and da Vinci (Leo), to investigate the planet, expecting to find microscopic life forms. Instead, they find an ecosystem teeming with a diversity of life that rivals earth's own, with danger and wonder aplenty. The ensuing action was written according to the speculations of a team of top scientists in the field, including Stephen Hawking (A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME); J. Craig Ventor, who mapped the human genome; string theorist Michio Kaku; biologist David Moriarty; and many others.

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Education

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[Zareznr]

I luv SPACE!!!

XD

[kingofdice66]

this is one complete bullshit

[Saibrock]

@EatCarlSagan But we can make an educated guess, based on our understanding of how life works. There are a few specific functions that a cell needs to be able to perform in order for "life" to occur (reproduction, consumption, and various self-regulation processes), and there are a minimum number of proteins required to make those things happen. The minimum number of proteins for the most basic conceivable cell is estimated at 50,000, of approximately 100 different configurations.

[EatCarlSagan]

@Saibrock Nobody knows the probability of such an event occuring. Anyone who says they do is engaging in sophistry. We don't yet know what conditions were like 3.8 billion years ago. We do not know how the first protocell formed or what it even looked like. Once we have all the pertinent information maybe then we can attempt to calculate probabilities. Ultimately we will probably need to see abiogenesis in action before we can calculate the probability of it having happened on earth

[Saibrock]

@Blasphemisaurusaoe3 But he's just flat wrong. The odds against an abiogenesis event is greater than the number of elementary particles in the universe, much less the number of stars.

[Blasphemisaurusaoe3]

@Saibrock Michio Kaku is his name. He's one of my personal heroes. He does such a great job of explaining something and making it stick.

[weedisgood4thesoul]

wait...wheres my lollipop? OH I LAWS MAW LAWLY PAWP

[Saibrock]

I like the guy at 1:53 who counters the argument against alien life with his assertion that he feels like alien life could exist. I notice he avoids using any real figures, because the figures are actually against his position.

[mralanv]

@StarkeyRK I think money seeking people have hindered our own technological evolution. It's a shame that we still have the need of fossil fuel, when the technology to replace it has been around for years. No one had ever taken any interest in investing on environmentally friendly technologies before because the exploitation of fossil minerals seemed to be much more lucrative to money-hungry entrepreneurs.

[domalaonric]

scientist made the ufo :D thats true