00:00Set of revelations here from Cambridge University. Tell us more. Seems we're not alone.
00:05Yeah, good afternoon, Martin. David Bowie, you're right, in the lead-in said, you know,
00:10there may be life on Mars, but there is a star man waiting in the sky, it looks like,
00:14120 light years or so away. You like that one?
00:18We've been here before. The scientists, the astronomers involved have found potential
00:24signs of life on other planets, and perhaps it's not quite gone the way we hoped when
00:28the additional data has become available. But this time, this isn't the first time
00:32they've detected signals from this planet. And bear in mind, they're not looking at the
00:36planet through a HD telescope and looking at pictures. They're measuring the star's light
00:41as it passes, the planet's light as it passes in front of its star. But this is an experiment
00:46now that's been repeated several times, and they are very excited that perhaps there is
00:50a marine life on the planet, some kind of ocean covering its surface, which would be fascinating.
00:55And it seems to be a giant oceanic globe, what is it, about 2.6 times bigger than Earth.
01:04And crucially, it appears to be in that sweet spot, the corner of the Goldilocks zone, not
01:09too hot, not too cold, plenty of nutrients. And so it seems to be that ideal chemical soup,
01:16the right temperature for life. I mean, it makes the mind boggle.
01:20Yeah, and we have to be fair, they have also stated it could also be a rock planet covered
01:28with a magma ocean. But they do seem very, very certain. All things right now point to
01:34this being a water planet, where there's water, as we know it, there tends to be life, where
01:39there's life. And even if it's small microbial life, perhaps there's bigger life as well, which
01:44is obviously what we're really looking for. Now, this is a long, long, long way away, Captain
01:49Kirk type distances away. So it's not like we're going to be zooming there anytime soon.
01:53We can't even get to Mars with a manned craft yet. But it does get the imagination absolutely
02:00sparking, Andrew McGrillen, that this is the stuff of childhood dreams, the stuff of scientists'
02:06dreams, of astronauts' dreams. We may not be alone.
02:10For people like me, I think this is how the conversation could really get the public at
02:16large invested and involved in the UFO topic, the conversation about extraterrestrial life
02:21or just what non-human life may look like. And for me, if we can get confirmation from
02:27academics and scientists, we'll find some form of life, no matter how far away it is, it
02:33opens up that door and possibility that perhaps there are other forms of life out there that
02:38maybe have been visiting us and, you know, those famous sightings throughout the years
02:42crashing like Roswell, suddenly have another air of credibility with the public.
02:47And Andrew, they're saying this could be phytoplankton, krill because of the gases that
02:52they're saying, but that's how life on Earth began, right? Started small and evolved to where
02:56we are now. So the only limits potentially are our imaginations.
03:01That and potential funding being cut from NASA right now, the United States, you may have
03:08reported on some tumultuous tariffs and whatnot happening over there, budget restraints, and
03:14NASA's budget may be cut in half. So there's even potential this study, as fascinating as
03:19it is, stops in its tracks because of lack of funding. So I would hope the public get behind
03:23things like this and encourage any government to keep looking for life elsewhere.
03:27It's absolutely fascinating. I've got my kids talking about this at home. It's the stuff
03:32of fancy. Thank you for joining us. And that's the podcast host of that.
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