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What would life look like on an alien planet where one side experiences eternal daylight and the other remains in permanent darkness?

This cinematic science visualization explores a speculative ecosystem inspired by GJ 3378 b.

The imagined world contains a blood-red star, enormous dark vegetation, heavy armored creatures adapted to stronger gravity, extreme atmospheric winds, a permanent twilight zone, and a frozen dark side where hypothetical organisms could survive beneath enormous layers of ice.

This video is a scientific thought experiment and artistic visualization. It does not show actual extraterrestrial life, actual footage from GJ 3378 b, or evidence that life has been discovered there.

The photorealistic environments and organisms were created with AI-assisted visual tools to illustrate the hypothetical scenario.

One planet. Three dramatically different environments.

What would life become under conditions unlike anything found on Earth?

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Transcript
00:00If life exists on GJ 3378b, it would not look like Earth.
00:06Its sun is three times bigger in the sky, but blood red.
00:113,303 Kelvin.
00:13It never sets.
00:15Because the planet is tidally locked, one side is eternal day, one side eternal night.
00:22Plants would not be green.
00:23They would be pitch black, with giant leaves, absorbing every drop of red and infrared light.
00:30A forest of black glass, all facing the same unmoving sun.
00:36Animals would feel heavy.
00:38Gravity is 1.3 times Earth.
00:41They would be low, armored, built to survive constant wind, as hot air rushes from day to night at hundreds
00:48of kilometers per hour.
00:50The best place to live is in the middle.
00:53The twilight ring.
00:55A band of endless sunset, where ice melts into ocean.
01:00And on the dark side, under miles of ice, in a night that has lasted a billion years, blind creatures
01:07would hunt by sound, singing through the ice.
01:11Three worlds.
01:13One planet.
01:14Only 25 light years away.

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