If there was extraterrestrial life in such a vast, old and life-friendly universe, then all the matter within it would've become self-replicating nanomachines created by it since long ago, which massive collective AI would've figured out faster-than-light intergalactic travel and endless energy sources, with "good" and/or bad intentions. 🤷♂
I've been saying I'll watch this later until I noticed the thumbnail change. I know you'll add it to your data but I'm just letting you know that the reason I clicked to watch wasn't because the thumbnail was better or worse, but just because I noticed it was different. Maybe that's a win-win.
uhhhhhhhm....mr veritasium....i have VERY bad news for ya....sorry for me laughing x'D skip to 07:22 and see how your knuckles move into the white target-cross, right when the temperature goes up. the ball isn't magically heating up by 3-4 degrees whenevver you squeeze it, you're just getting your own hand thermometered........ x'D i love your vids so much and this lil mistake just makes it more lovely, but i'd recommend to pay more attention in future recordings :'D
I'm just doing it with hydrolic pressure, the metal surface that touching the ball is cooler than the surface of the ball but the pressed ball still got heated more then 4 degree in difference. @@Trockenfurz
Watch us land there and accidentally disturb some kind of extraterrestrial thalassic balrog or something that irradiates the entirety of the Earth with ionized particles out of vengeance in its hunt for the intruder.
My Mom was the project manager for the first mass spectrometer you mentioned (MISE)!! and one of the project managers for an instrument on the ESA JUICE mission you talked about (RIME). I had the honor to hear Dr. Pappalardo give a deeply heart-felt speech as well as meet many of the people who played a role in getting Europa Clipper and her various instruments into space the night before the launch on the 14th at the pre-launch event in Florida. Then had the amazing opportunity to be an invited guest for one of the private viewing areas and sitting among the same people I met the night before at Kennedy Space Center. Seeing you specifically talk about a mission that I've been quite involved in just by extension through my mom brought a smile to my face and one to hers when I shared your video. The crowd couldn't stop cheering from engine ignition to atmospheric escape. Thank you for making this video!
As a science fan, I always admired Arthur C. Clarke. I’m proud to be Sri Lankan because he made Sri Lanka his home from 1956 until he passed away in 2008. I think he’s the most respected foreigner in our country. When I was a kid, people celebrated him a lot. Even today, schools here teach about him, and he’s remembered with love and respect. His name is still alive in Sri Lanka, even after his death. 🥰
That is impressive indeed. But the video is bad. It is bad that it's only 18 minutes long. We want more :D I could watch Veritasium talk about space, planets, science for hours. I don t even need food.
My deepest respect to all the scientists, engineers and technicians behind these projects. Such endeavors are the pinnacle of humble collective effort of thousands of talented people. I am not a part of the mechanism, but that does not mean I cannot share my enthusiasm and show support for projects of this kind.
Technically, everyone is sort of part of the mechanism. Public interest is important for funding, and someone must make and deliver food to the scientists, others have to make the machines, roads and everything. This requires an entire civilisation. Think about it this way, if you've sent those scientists, along with all their equipment, back to the stone age, they couldn't have done anything really. No power lines, no easy access to food and water nor medicine. They would've had to hunt and gather to survive and most would die early. We are all contributing in a small way :)
@@Pietrosavr i like the way you think. i think its why butterfly effect theory is very dangerous because it shows how little things could affect major ones
8:48 this guy is a super good communicator. No jargon or science speak. Like I’m sure the actual details are super technical and complicated and he made that so simple.
@@TheCuriousNoob One famous quote (that is often misattributed to Albert Einstein but is great nonetheless) goes "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." and I think this is a great example of that. Only if you have really understood a matter you can come up with analogies for the layman, while people who haven't really understood something tend to deliberately use highly technical language so only someone on the same level of knowledge or above is able to call them out.
@@TheCuriousNoob agree, although I’d say it’s also just a skill one needs to use with intentionality and practice. Engineer nerd stereotypes aside, i feel like with most projects / specialized fields, figuring out the how and then executing are your goals 95% of your time. And it’s super easy to forget that to the audience or consumer, often pretty much the only thing that matters is what you found or build
@@hl2paul it’s good to see they’re focusing and finding more ways to reach a wider audience. Space exploration budget was untouchable during the Cold War. But the moment voters idea of nasa goes from “wow cool” -> “why are they spending my money on that”, that budget gets slashed. That being said, I imagine that there will be increasing use of space in warfar at some point. Which isn’t great - but a nice side effect will be renewed focus. Not as in another space race, but as in - if the military starts spending $100b on space stuff, it’s not gonna be hard to piggy back and use the military pays for and develops to do pure science stuff as well.
Nah he'd probably write a book making fun of them or something. Obligatory reminder that the church was actually quite open to his scientific ideas and it was Galileo's ridiculing of the Pope that got him excommunicated.
@Leyrann This is a factually untrue statement. While I don't doubt there was possibly some criticism of the pope from Galileo, his theories were seen as directly contrary to contemporary interpretations of scripture, and therefore the ideas were labeled criminal heresy. Individual human pettiness drives a lot of the individual actions in a situation like this, to be sure, but it is the threat to a larger power structure that sees dissenters convicted.
I've heard lots of videos and articles say Jupiter has big radiation belts, but this is the first time the "why" is actually explained. Thank you so much!
Fun fact: The novel and screenplay for "2001: A Space Odyssey" were both written at the same time by Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick. The book wasn't published until after the film released. The sequels, 2010, 2061, and 3001, were written independently by Clark.
@@chaomatic5328 It's such a good movie. Problem was that people saw it as the sequel to 2001, even though it had a completely different creative team, so the reviews were inevitably "meh". 2001 is a hard act to follow.
@@gemtun2 you’ve completely lost it .😂 To even think of bringing Nissan Sentra anywhere near the ocean and the salt water would be like sunshine to ice cube 🧊😂🤣🔥 Melt right in front of you’re eyes 👀 🤣🤣😂🔥.
this is actually crazy groundbreaking, to think that if we do actually find life on a microbiological level on europa and that it could evolve one day into something more is absolutely mindboggling. it's like looking back through time to when life on earth was still in its early stages.
According to recent discoveries in mars about the huge water oceans below the surface there's also a chance for mars to have microbiological life @@NatTardis
looks like something you would find on one of the AI-voice misinformation garbage channels. good thing Veritasium is the exact opposite of those channels.
I am a faithful follower of your Spanish channel Veritasium in Spanish and I adore your videos that make me feel part of a large and wonderful Universe and make me enjoy the scientific dissemination that you do. I am in love with your intelligence and how you teach us to understand the physical world around us. 😊
When you showed me the picture of Europa took by Voyager 1, it genuinely brought a tear to my eyes. Humans have gone such a long way from making fire to launching spacecrafts to other worlds. One of the biggest reasons i wanted to become an astronaut when I was little. This video was so emotional to me, thanks Derek!
@@Param_Hayaran the really sad thing about all of this is as far as we know all other planets we knew so far mankind can't inhabitate them without a suit and the only one we can survive without any gear this one we destroy slowly with our greed
The Europa Clipper is space project I've been most excited about since the New Horizons getting good photos of Pluto. I'm really excited about learning more about it. I've never clicked on a video of yours so fast! Thank you for covering this. The animations, the footage, the explanations it's all excellent. I really hope we get Europa Lander as well. One of the things I love to do is take the 360 photos from Mars rover missions and view them into VR. It's a very strange feeling - the closest I can get right now to experiencing what it would be like looking around on a surface of another planetary body. I want to experience that for Europa too. Or any other celestial object possible. We might not be able to travel there ourselves in our lifetimes, but those missions can bring us enough data to get us close.
10:45 - This device was later renamed "NotSnotBot" to avoid offense. Later, it was miniaturized (the TotNotSnotBot) to reduce weight, extending flight-times for the same fuel or battery. It now has containers that are jettisoned when full of sample so that the full weight of sample isn't borne for the entire flight, which is thus lengthened further. Human eyes easily locate the flotation-equipped TotNotSnotBotPots for collection because of the vividly-colored circles (TotNotSnotBotPotDots) decorating each, delivered by the manufacturer a million at a time (the standard TotNotSnotBotPotDotLot).
@@PC-kd7dj I have to say, I did make a list in my find, and I TRIED to include beginnings with double-consonants, but I missed "plot". I tossed and turned all night thinking that I'd forgotten something. Thanks for supplying.
This is my personal favorite astronomical subjects of conversation. The idea and possibility of life existing elsewhere in the solar system is so exciting.
Hey Derek! I'm in med school in Switzerland, and my physics teacher has used clips of your videos to explain some concepts! I thought maybe that would make you smile (or laugh, or cry, feel free to do whichever) :)
There is a caveat After launch it will go back to fly by Earth, then Mars and only then go to Jupiter. This is done to take advantage of gravity assists, which is more efficient meaning the spacecraft needs less fuel and more mass can be spent on science. New horizons probe flew directly to Jupiter and it only took a year but it's a smaller spacecraft and it didn't stop at Jupiter
We *could* get there fast. We'd have to build a much larger spacecraft that could take a direct route and decelerate hard at Jupiter (or air-brake in Jupiter's atmosphere). We don't normally build spacecraft like that so there'd be lots of new development required. That's more money (a LOT more money) and a higher chance of failure, but also a lot more time. Using a design like Clipper is actually faster than developing a spacecraft that could travel there directly. If we had a cheap way of getting mass into orbit, it'd be a different story.
I was not expecting to see the guy that I took an intro to astronomy course at CU Boulder from in 2004 appear randomly in a Veritasium video! I always loved astronomy, and his love for the subject was really wonderful! I may have ended up as a mathematics professor instead, but still love space! If you happen to see this, tell him that a random ex-student says "hi" and is glad that he's living is best life spreading the word of the wonders of astronomy!
3:26 To those who don't know, clippers are a type of cargo ships. To my knowledge, they were never used for leisure or passenger transport. Clippers were specifically used for tea, born from an era when, rather than focus on bulk volume, some traders focused on freshness. So clippers were made, with tiny cargo spaces but lots or sails, and such traders would actually compete with each other for the fastest arrival. The first to arrive in England would get extra payment. That said, of course tea delivered by clippers were way above premium; super fresh and extremely limited amounts meant they were for the nobility.
It's bizarre. Most people don't think on the large scale of the universe (myself included) so it's hard to imagine that could actually generate that much heat.
Hey, a tip for you! Whenever showing space clips, put a little "CGI" or "Photo taken by probe/telescope xyz" in the top corner, like Astrum does. There are a lot of amazing pictures out there, would be a shame to assume it all to be CGI!
it's worse the other way around. there are so many "artist's impressions" used to illustrate everything nowadays that people don't appreciate actual new high quality telescope pictures, because few realize that the best actual picture we have of something is often a handful of black and white pixels.
I watched it launch live in person! Huge props to the team who worked on this for the past decade for bringing such an incredible work of engineering into existence!
Thanks for creating this video. It explained a lot of stuff that I was marginally interested in really well, and now I’m even more excited about the clipper project than I was before. I can hardly wait until 2031.
The output of this channel is second to none…any other channel would take weeks or months for one video like this. But Veritasium is putting out multiple documentary-calibre videos a week. Amazing
Derek, I just wanted to congratulate you on, against the odds, maintaining consistent quality while also increasing production value and content volume. Usually we see TH-camrs go down the easy route of becoming corporate puppets and sacrificing integrity for quick cash, but you seem conscientious of the sponsors you allow on your channel and you've never forgotten your name. Not just an element of truth, but highly accurate and engaging!
Woah this is a cool and actually very relevant video for me; a few days ago my engineering teacher at my highschool had the NASA press conference about the Europa Clipper mission on the projector, and it was fascinating to see that there's a chance for "alien" life in our very own solar system. Excited to see how the mission plays out! (in about 5 years)
If you want proof of alien life just watch the Las Vegas kenmore family video. Hasn’t been debunked and it’s been 6 months now since it’s been proven there’s entities in the video no cgi. Only “debunking” has been personal attacks on the people who helped prove it. Disclosure happened though it may have been small it will ripple eventually. You’ll likely need to watch videos where people point out or zoom in on the entities. There’s multiple. A 9 foot tall one. A really short one. All are cloaked though not perfectly. One’s cloaking even fails momentarily and you see it’s head pop into existence for one second before disappearing. Like I said no cgi.
It’s not new information and even I’ve known about it for years, but the concept of a moon of Jupiter having that much water, or really any water to begin with, is just unfathomably amazing. Water has always been considered as the main component of life and is why the Earth is called the blue planet. It’s such a fundamental part of our planet’s identity that it existing elsewhere is just amazing. I’m a structural geologist myself and I often feel like I was born a few hundred years too early-studying the geology of different planets and moons would be such an amazing experience.
Dr. Peter Hand is traveling around the US giving an excellent lecture on the mission. Find it on TH-cam or read his book. Highly recommended. He is in charge of the salt lab briefly covered in this video with JPL.
This video is amazing reporting--logical, beautiful and joyously informational! I learned more here than every before about Europa, Jupiter and space science. Outstanding work and endless thanks, Veritasium!
10:20 What I don't understand is that if single celled life evolved on Europa 4 billion years ago around hydrothermal vents, what's stopping it from evolving into complex life like on Earth? Wouldn't it actually seem likely that it has evolved? The obvious answer I can think of is there's simply not enough energy, but are we certain about that?
@@Astra2 There were design concepts for a lander that used a nuclear heat source to melt a hole and lower in a measuring probe. We already have nuclear RTGs so the tech is pretty straightforward.
Its basically an energy problem. You have a few dozen or even hundred single called organisms. That might support ONE larger multicellular organism. For that organism to eat more than that, to get bigger, it has to be able to travel between multiple vents. Keeping warm is a huge problem at that point, and if you screw up you die. To get to one fish, you'd need to be able to travel between dozens or hundreds of vents, and again, not die or freeze solid. That is a huge problem to have something like a single species of fish. It's not impossible, but as you can see it's highly unlikely. Now that being said there could be energy sources we haven't considered, and if there are, then we could find larger organisms.
The problem with extremophiles on Earth is that these organisms evolved to live in these conditions , but originated from organisms living in more temperate environments. Classic example high temperature polymerase. It's a evolutionary adaptation of a protein to work in high temperatures. The mammalian polymerase becomes inoperable in temperatures above 50C while Taq polymerase has optimal temperature 80C and can work up to 97C for brief time
I thought the leading theory for the origins of life on Earth says it emerged around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. I wouldn't describe those temperatures and pressures as temperate.
This tickles my brain. (edit) Its actually genius how they might be able to study the water by using geysers that shoot through the ice, my only concern would be over time, if ice buildup got too cluttered on Europa Clipper then it might cause stuff to shut. But I'm no rocket scientist so its just an assumption.
I had a similar thought. The plumes could also be corrosive. Passing through them could damage sensors, controls, and solar panels. It makes more sense to have the sensor on a tether so that the craft itself stays out of the plumes.
I've heard the facts of what we know about Jupiter's and it's moons and which missions discovered it, but not how the data told us about the salt. I also loved the basketball demonstration.
Great vid! The idea that we might witness the discovery of life beyond Earth incredible. It’s a "once-in-a-species" event, and we could be the generation to experience it!
Honestly at this point I'd be more shocked if we didn't eventually find (microbial) life in the solar system, sure it would be amazing to confirm it but personally I'm more excited about the reported signal they've found which allegedly confirms intelligent alien life. Now _that_ would be a real game changer.
I heard about it, dream about it since probably 2012, the wonder of such thing is so fascinating I also love the pixel and low resolution effect on this video, kind of giving me the old alien game vibe, or like lethal company
i think i'll cry for a day, if we find life outside of Earth during my lifetime like, even if this is barely affects me, this would be the greatest achievement in the human history, future altering even...
Head to 80000hours.org/veritasium to start planning a career that can help change the world for the better.
If there was extraterrestrial life in such a vast, old and life-friendly universe, then all the matter within it would've become self-replicating nanomachines created by it since long ago, which massive collective AI would've figured out faster-than-light intergalactic travel and endless energy sources, with "good" and/or bad intentions. 🤷♂
I've been saying I'll watch this later until I noticed the thumbnail change. I know you'll add it to your data but I'm just letting you know that the reason I clicked to watch wasn't because the thumbnail was better or worse, but just because I noticed it was different. Maybe that's a win-win.
uhhhhhhhm....mr veritasium....i have VERY bad news for ya....sorry for me laughing x'D
skip to 07:22 and see how your knuckles move into the white target-cross, right when the temperature goes up. the ball isn't magically heating up by 3-4 degrees whenevver you squeeze it, you're just getting your own hand thermometered........ x'D
i love your vids so much and this lil mistake just makes it more lovely, but i'd recommend to pay more attention in future recordings :'D
I'm just doing it with hydrolic pressure, the metal surface that touching the ball is cooler than the surface of the ball but the pressed ball still got heated more then 4 degree in difference. @@Trockenfurz
Waiting for a new video on ANN, which got the Nobel prize in 2024 : physics.
Please never stop making these astrophysics videos, they're so good.
True that
This one will most likely fall under the category of astrobiology
Space vids are the best
@@mobilePCreviews astronomy is the most interest scientific topic imo
Hot take
"ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE" still gives me the chills.
Yes, I read that single sentence and at once I knew where it was coming from.
"Attempt no landings there" ... anyways, scientists are attempting landings there
@@zeycuseven the aliens are terrified of oceans
Watch us land there and accidentally disturb some kind of extraterrestrial thalassic balrog or something that irradiates the entirety of the Earth with ionized particles out of vengeance in its hunt for the intruder.
@@ythegamerita that's because they're smart enough to know they don't belong there.
My Mom was the project manager for the first mass spectrometer you mentioned (MISE)!! and one of the project managers for an instrument on the ESA JUICE mission you talked about (RIME). I had the honor to hear Dr. Pappalardo give a deeply heart-felt speech as well as meet many of the people who played a role in getting Europa Clipper and her various instruments into space the night before the launch on the 14th at the pre-launch event in Florida. Then had the amazing opportunity to be an invited guest for one of the private viewing areas and sitting among the same people I met the night before at Kennedy Space Center. Seeing you specifically talk about a mission that I've been quite involved in just by extension through my mom brought a smile to my face and one to hers when I shared your video. The crowd couldn't stop cheering from engine ignition to atmospheric escape. Thank you for making this video!
your mom is a Chad genius
Veritasium is fr one of the best channels on TH-cam
Especially the space videos
Vsauce enters the chat
Real
I am one of the best whales on TH-cam
The best
The thought of a 100km deep ocean on another planet is terrifying and fascinating. Hope we get answers in our lifetime!
Hey
i wonder whether cthulu lives in europa or enceladus
Ayo a Minecraft youtuber in comments of veritasium video damn
What are u doing here 😂
Make this moon in your hardcore world
As a science fan, I always admired Arthur C. Clarke. I’m proud to be Sri Lankan because he made Sri Lanka his home from 1956 until he passed away in 2008. I think he’s the most respected foreigner in our country. When I was a kid, people celebrated him a lot. Even today, schools here teach about him, and he’s remembered with love and respect. His name is still alive in Sri Lanka, even after his death. 🥰
Are the allegations about him false?
@@Ignirium yes, all allegations are fake
@@Ignirium Yes, they were.
NOOO WAYYY! 3 Veritasium vids in about 2 weeks. Bro is cooking 👨🍳👨🍳👨🍳
Chillax
That is impressive indeed. But the video is bad. It is bad that it's only 18 minutes long. We want more :D I could watch Veritasium talk about space, planets, science for hours. I don t even need food.
@@rangerrick5660 No YOU chillax buddy! This is an incredible event!
@@dragoda Please don't say its bad, its better than my cooking, and my cooking is pretty good.
Inflation is hitting hard. Derek needs a new house in LA
My deepest respect to all the scientists, engineers and technicians behind these projects. Such endeavors are the pinnacle of humble collective effort of thousands of talented people. I am not a part of the mechanism, but that does not mean I cannot share my enthusiasm and show support for projects of this kind.
Technically, everyone is sort of part of the mechanism. Public interest is important for funding, and someone must make and deliver food to the scientists, others have to make the machines, roads and everything. This requires an entire civilisation. Think about it this way, if you've sent those scientists, along with all their equipment, back to the stone age, they couldn't have done anything really. No power lines, no easy access to food and water nor medicine. They would've had to hunt and gather to survive and most would die early. We are all contributing in a small way :)
project failed, they've wasted money and acknowledge faulty components, current year is historical shame for american space industry
Most impressively NASA is consistently pulling these kinds of things with less than half a percent of the national budget
@@Pietrosavr i like the way you think. i think its why butterfly effect theory is very dangerous because it shows how little things could affect major ones
it does mean you cannot share it
Dude chill you don't have to release bangers every week for months in a row 😂
8:48 this guy is a super good communicator. No jargon or science speak.
Like I’m sure the actual details are super technical and complicated and he made that so simple.
It takes a very intelligent person to explain extremely complex ideas in terms a teenager can understand.
@@TheCuriousNoob One famous quote (that is often misattributed to Albert Einstein but is great nonetheless) goes "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." and I think this is a great example of that. Only if you have really understood a matter you can come up with analogies for the layman, while people who haven't really understood something tend to deliberately use highly technical language so only someone on the same level of knowledge or above is able to call them out.
His PHD is in physics education
@@TheCuriousNoob agree, although I’d say it’s also just a skill one needs to use with intentionality and practice. Engineer nerd stereotypes aside, i feel like with most projects / specialized fields, figuring out the how and then executing are your goals 95% of your time. And it’s super easy to forget that to the audience or consumer, often pretty much the only thing that matters is what you found or build
@@hl2paul it’s good to see they’re focusing and finding more ways to reach a wider audience. Space exploration budget was untouchable during the Cold War. But the moment voters idea of nasa goes from “wow cool” -> “why are they spending my money on that”, that budget gets slashed.
That being said, I imagine that there will be increasing use of space in warfar at some point. Which isn’t great - but a nice side effect will be renewed focus. Not as in another space race, but as in - if the military starts spending $100b on space stuff, it’s not gonna be hard to piggy back and use the military pays for and develops to do pure science stuff as well.
The fact that they named the probe "Galelio" is so beautiful.
Galileo would be so happy if he knew about these researches
Nah he'd probably write a book making fun of them or something.
Obligatory reminder that the church was actually quite open to his scientific ideas and it was Galileo's ridiculing of the Pope that got him excommunicated.
@@Leyrann is this true? can you provide sources?
@@Leyrannsource?
@@Leyrann I too, want to know the source
@Leyrann This is a factually untrue statement. While I don't doubt there was possibly some criticism of the pope from Galileo, his theories were seen as directly contrary to contemporary interpretations of scripture, and therefore the ideas were labeled criminal heresy.
Individual human pettiness drives a lot of the individual actions in a situation like this, to be sure, but it is the threat to a larger power structure that sees dissenters convicted.
15:39 The question and the answer that followed gave me a smile.
I've heard lots of videos and articles say Jupiter has big radiation belts, but this is the first time the "why" is actually explained. Thank you so much!
also the way they showed how the magnetic fields would look from earth
You know it's a great day when Veritasium uploads
facts
Take a knee
especially about math or physics (astronomy)
yes 🎉
i have seen this type of comment on a lot of videos, it's a quick effortless way to get likes
Fun fact: The novel and screenplay for "2001: A Space Odyssey" were both written at the same time by Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick. The book wasn't published until after the film released. The sequels, 2010, 2061, and 3001, were written independently by Clark.
So cool, that you used clips from " 2010: the year we make contact" THE most underrated scifi sequel of all time.
😂😂 All I see is fiction.
Yeah, I really loved that movie.
I didnt even know it existed, eveybody is about 2001 😅
@@chaomatic5328 it's a much better movie, with Helen Mirrin, Roy Scheider, and John Lithgow.
@@chaomatic5328 It's such a good movie. Problem was that people saw it as the sequel to 2001, even though it had a completely different creative team, so the reviews were inevitably "meh". 2001 is a hard act to follow.
Genuinely exciting. I can't wait to start seeing half-meter/pixel images of Europa 7 years from now!
"And as you can see from these 30 pixels, this is clearly a Nissan Sentra."
ocean aliens with nissans
@@gemtun2 this is so funny to me
@@gemtun2
you’ve completely lost it .😂 To even think of bringing Nissan Sentra anywhere near the ocean and the salt water would be like sunshine to ice cube 🧊😂🤣🔥
Melt right in front of you’re eyes 👀 🤣🤣😂🔥.
Bruh
Your videos on Astrophysics are so good. I find them best in the whole TH-cam.
Veritasium pumping out videos like there no tomorrow, I’m not complaining.
Uhh ohhh
Exactly
@@Kavaitsuhold up; I guess he would know
@@GJgators24 wait what happened
@@adhirathpatil like there’s no tomorrow
I'm currently in Florida as I have been invited by NASA to see the launch of Europa Clipper! I can't wait! :D
Congratulations!! That's so cool
Wooow! That sounds so cool! By any chance, how is it possible to get an invitation from NASA?
Eret you lucky ducky
Cool! Congrats on the invitations
bruh
Jupiter imploding and turning into a star is one of my favorite movie moments, I replay it at least once a year. So well done.
Name?
@@sanujop51812010: The year we make contact
this is actually crazy groundbreaking, to think that if we do actually find life on a microbiological level on europa and that it could evolve one day into something more is absolutely mindboggling. it's like looking back through time to when life on earth was still in its early stages.
congrats, your comment was so good that a thot bot decided to copy it.
@@supercyberdigi i hope the thot bots comment gets thousands of likes and for mine to be in the wastelands, it'd be funnier that way
If there is life on Europa, how many more planets/moons harbor life in our solar system? And outside of it? It would be mind-boggling.
According to recent discoveries in mars about the huge water oceans below the surface there's also a chance for mars to have microbiological life @@NatTardis
@@bigtomar and I woner if it could change our perspective on life here on Earth
Veritasium + Space is my favourite combo
Fr man
I really love when Veritasium makes content about Science History and Astrophysics. It really motivates me to learn more
This is one of the few channels that seriously delivers.. every time
As opposed to delivering nonchalantly?
from the thumbnail did not think this was a veritasium video... but it is! 😀
he experiments a lot with thumbnails, I wouldn't be surprised if it changed soon x)
looks like something you would find on one of the AI-voice misinformation garbage channels. good thing Veritasium is the exact opposite of those channels.
i was like oh, a new astrum video
When I read your name in my head i read it with your voice for some reason
A C Clarke blew up the wrong planet
I am a faithful follower of your Spanish channel Veritasium in Spanish and I adore your videos that make me feel part of a large and wonderful Universe and make me enjoy the scientific dissemination that you do. I am in love with your intelligence and how you teach us to understand the physical world around us. 😊
When you showed me the picture of Europa took by Voyager 1, it genuinely brought a tear to my eyes. Humans have gone such a long way from making fire to launching spacecrafts to other worlds.
One of the biggest reasons i wanted to become an astronaut when I was little. This video was so emotional to me, thanks Derek!
And there we are try to kill each other becouse of idiology and diffrent views
@@TheGesoxsome people can't see world beyond themselves
@@Param_Hayaran the really sad thing about all of this is as far as we know all other planets we knew so far mankind can't inhabitate them without a suit and the only one we can survive without any gear this one we destroy slowly with our greed
The Europa Clipper is space project I've been most excited about since the New Horizons getting good photos of Pluto. I'm really excited about learning more about it.
I've never clicked on a video of yours so fast! Thank you for covering this. The animations, the footage, the explanations it's all excellent.
I really hope we get Europa Lander as well. One of the things I love to do is take the 360 photos from Mars rover missions and view them into VR. It's a very strange feeling - the closest I can get right now to experiencing what it would be like looking around on a surface of another planetary body.
I want to experience that for Europa too. Or any other celestial object possible. We might not be able to travel there ourselves in our lifetimes, but those missions can bring us enough data to get us close.
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Yeah what he said
Total genius, I take my hat off to you sir/ma'am.
Wow! That’s quite the TotNotSnotBotDotLotPlot!
@@PC-kd7dj I have to say, I did make a list in my find, and I TRIED to include beginnings with double-consonants, but I missed "plot". I tossed and turned all night thinking that I'd forgotten something. Thanks for supplying.
This is my personal favorite astronomical subjects of conversation. The idea and possibility of life existing elsewhere in the solar system is so exciting.
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Very unlikely, maybe some micro organisms at best. By now we would have discovered intelligent life in our solar system. It's lonely at the top. ;D
@@BillAnt they're a bot. Look at the pfp
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Even easier is to Right Click the name and Open in New Tab. You can see it's a botnet. You can even report them for scams on that page.
Have found this channel while i was cursorated at rikers island, re-entry has been awesome, thanks to veritasium.
Hey Derek! I'm in med school in Switzerland, and my physics teacher has used clips of your videos to explain some concepts! I thought maybe that would make you smile (or laugh, or cry, feel free to do whichever) :)
thats really sick ngl
So it takes 7 years to reach just Jupiter, god we are slow. Mad respect for the patience of scientists and engineers working on the project.
I feel like that too. We are actually slow, unless there is alternative for rocket fuels
There is a caveat
After launch it will go back to fly by Earth, then Mars and only then go to Jupiter. This is done to take advantage of gravity assists, which is more efficient meaning the spacecraft needs less fuel and more mass can be spent on science.
New horizons probe flew directly to Jupiter and it only took a year but it's a smaller spacecraft and it didn't stop at Jupiter
Its not like we are slow, its just space are stupidly big
Its so damn far, much further distance earth to sun. Damn space
We *could* get there fast. We'd have to build a much larger spacecraft that could take a direct route and decelerate hard at Jupiter (or air-brake in Jupiter's atmosphere).
We don't normally build spacecraft like that so there'd be lots of new development required. That's more money (a LOT more money) and a higher chance of failure, but also a lot more time. Using a design like Clipper is actually faster than developing a spacecraft that could travel there directly.
If we had a cheap way of getting mass into orbit, it'd be a different story.
I was not expecting to see the guy that I took an intro to astronomy course at CU Boulder from in 2004 appear randomly in a Veritasium video! I always loved astronomy, and his love for the subject was really wonderful! I may have ended up as a mathematics professor instead, but still love space! If you happen to see this, tell him that a random ex-student says "hi" and is glad that he's living is best life spreading the word of the wonders of astronomy!
3:26 To those who don't know, clippers are a type of cargo ships. To my knowledge, they were never used for leisure or passenger transport. Clippers were specifically used for tea, born from an era when, rather than focus on bulk volume, some traders focused on freshness. So clippers were made, with tiny cargo spaces but lots or sails, and such traders would actually compete with each other for the fastest arrival. The first to arrive in England would get extra payment.
That said, of course tea delivered by clippers were way above premium; super fresh and extremely limited amounts meant they were for the nobility.
7:23 that is astoundingly fascinating. I would've never guessed tidal stretch-induced friction is what maintains the oceans liquid. Impressive.
It's bizarre. Most people don't think on the large scale of the universe (myself included) so it's hard to imagine that could actually generate that much heat.
Fascinating video. Always love when astrophysics like this are explained in such an easy to understand way.
Hey, a tip for you! Whenever showing space clips, put a little "CGI" or "Photo taken by probe/telescope xyz" in the top corner, like Astrum does.
There are a lot of amazing pictures out there, would be a shame to assume it all to be CGI!
Left lower corner
it's worse the other way around. there are so many "artist's impressions" used to illustrate everything nowadays that people don't appreciate actual new high quality telescope pictures, because few realize that the best actual picture we have of something is often a handful of black and white pixels.
You do see the lower left corner yeah?
So happy that Veritasium made a video on Europa Clipper after I made one few days ago. Now I learn from the master. Thank you for inspiring us!
you got Derek'd!
I respect the subtle plug
I watched it launch live in person! Huge props to the team who worked on this for the past decade for bringing such an incredible work of engineering into existence!
My Space Exploration professor actually worked on the IR camera on the Clipper, we’re all so excited to see it launch
17:55 Sir I wanna thank you for making such an informative video
This is phenomenal. Thanks Veritasium and all the scientists that made this possible
I literally just finished reading the odyssey series a few days ago. Such an exciting time that we can see this happening in real life 🤩
read the "three body problem" series instead, it's absolutely suicid@I to search for aliens
Literally never stop making videos, the world needs it
Thanks for creating this video. It explained a lot of stuff that I was marginally interested in really well, and now I’m even more excited about the clipper project than I was before. I can hardly wait until 2031.
Veritasium’s graphics production continues to get better and better. The explanation for Jupiter’s radiation zone was brilliant.
The example with the blow torch was fire!🔥
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Thanks for breaking it all down so clearly!
The output of this channel is second to none…any other channel would take weeks or months for one video like this. But Veritasium is putting out multiple documentary-calibre videos a week. Amazing
You're content is consistently good and never feels forced. Love it
I can't even comprehend the math behind all this. It is fascinating, I wish them all the success.
I love that this channel never died
Derek, I just wanted to congratulate you on, against the odds, maintaining consistent quality while also increasing production value and content volume. Usually we see TH-camrs go down the easy route of becoming corporate puppets and sacrificing integrity for quick cash, but you seem conscientious of the sponsors you allow on your channel and you've never forgotten your name. Not just an element of truth, but highly accurate and engaging!
This is one of the few channels that seriously delivers
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"
Oh no
Woah this is a cool and actually very relevant video for me; a few days ago my engineering teacher at my highschool had the NASA press conference about the Europa Clipper mission on the projector, and it was fascinating to see that there's a chance for "alien" life in our very own solar system. Excited to see how the mission plays out! (in about 5 years)
If you want proof of alien life just watch the Las Vegas kenmore family video. Hasn’t been debunked and it’s been 6 months now since it’s been proven there’s entities in the video no cgi. Only “debunking” has been personal attacks on the people who helped prove it. Disclosure happened though it may have been small it will ripple eventually. You’ll likely need to watch videos where people point out or zoom in on the entities. There’s multiple. A 9 foot tall one. A really short one. All are cloaked though not perfectly. One’s cloaking even fails momentarily and you see it’s head pop into existence for one second before disappearing. Like I said no cgi.
It’s not new information and even I’ve known about it for years, but the concept of a moon of Jupiter having that much water, or really any water to begin with, is just unfathomably amazing.
Water has always been considered as the main component of life and is why the Earth is called the blue planet. It’s such a fundamental part of our planet’s identity that it existing elsewhere is just amazing.
I’m a structural geologist myself and I often feel like I was born a few hundred years too early-studying the geology of different planets and moons would be such an amazing experience.
Never heard "Jupiter kills everything" growing up
Boys/girls go to Jupiter to die.
For some reason you remind me of my wrist
"All these worlds are yours except Europa"
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Neptune always said his brother was, and I'm quoting him here, "Kind of an A-hole."
In mythology, it's more like "Jupiter fucks everything."
He does kill a lot of things too, though.
15:23 okay 2030 and 2031, let's wait
I've got all 10 years
@@maliciousrobot9595 its moreso five to six, luckily
@@JNJNRobin1337 6/7
@@sino_diogenes 2025 is approaching rather quick, so i mean
id be an adult by now
Veritasium is lowkey on a legendary run! So much quality back to back
Leaving this comment so that in 2031 I can reply with updates.
Brilliant!
Looks like no time travel yet
Genius dude
I'm from the future. We didn't find any alien life yet. You'll see when 2031 rolls around.
Gimme the notification
Veritasium has been cooking recently 🔥🔥🔥
How do you pump out so many high quality videos so quickly??
Dr. Peter Hand is traveling around the US giving an excellent lecture on the mission. Find it on TH-cam or read his book. Highly recommended. He is in charge of the salt lab briefly covered in this video with JPL.
I love this channel. The fact the Galileo model had part of its antenna closed was so cool. Very thorough. ☺
This video is amazing reporting--logical, beautiful and joyously informational! I learned more here than every before about Europa, Jupiter and space science. Outstanding work and endless thanks, Veritasium!
Loving the frequent uploads
yea it da best
yeah I'm honestly shocked by these coming out so fast. these are not easy videos to make at all
10:20 What I don't understand is that if single celled life evolved on Europa 4 billion years ago around hydrothermal vents, what's stopping it from evolving into complex life like on Earth? Wouldn't it actually seem likely that it has evolved? The obvious answer I can think of is there's simply not enough energy, but are we certain about that?
They're probably keeping their expectations low, it's also a lot easier to confirm the existence of bacteria than something like a fish.
@@Astra2 There were design concepts for a lander that used a nuclear heat source to melt a hole and lower in a measuring probe. We already have nuclear RTGs so the tech is pretty straightforward.
Its basically an energy problem. You have a few dozen or even hundred single called organisms. That might support ONE larger multicellular organism. For that organism to eat more than that, to get bigger, it has to be able to travel between multiple vents. Keeping warm is a huge problem at that point, and if you screw up you die.
To get to one fish, you'd need to be able to travel between dozens or hundreds of vents, and again, not die or freeze solid. That is a huge problem to have something like a single species of fish. It's not impossible, but as you can see it's highly unlikely.
Now that being said there could be energy sources we haven't considered, and if there are, then we could find larger organisms.
No fire underwater
@@prosysus Ah, that explains it
Beautiful presentation. Cheers from a New Zealand enthusiast.
The problem with extremophiles on Earth is that these organisms evolved to live in these conditions , but originated from organisms living in more temperate environments. Classic example high temperature polymerase. It's a evolutionary adaptation of a protein to work in high temperatures. The mammalian polymerase becomes inoperable in temperatures above 50C while Taq polymerase has optimal temperature 80C and can work up to 97C for brief time
I thought the leading theory for the origins of life on Earth says it emerged around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. I wouldn't describe those temperatures and pressures as temperate.
This tickles my brain.
(edit) Its actually genius how they might be able to study the water by using geysers that shoot through the ice, my only concern would be over time, if ice buildup got too cluttered on Europa Clipper then it might cause stuff to shut. But I'm no rocket scientist so its just an assumption.
I had a similar thought. The plumes could also be corrosive. Passing through them could damage sensors, controls, and solar panels. It makes more sense to have the sensor on a tether so that the craft itself stays out of the plumes.
I think it might not be that big of a problem. If I remember correctly, Cassini did that in Enceladus on the Saturn mission
Water ice evaporates in the vacuum so it'll dry off over time
There could be tiny salt deposits left over
I have been waiting for this since 2008. Just a few more years!
Thanks!
Veritasium semiweekly upload schedule is a gift from the gods
🦆
Your ability to pump out quality videos is incredible
Thanks!
And when we find the aliens living in the oceans of Europa. We shall call them...
Europeans
Only 30 seconds in, and I already low it's gonna be a banger, as usual. What a beauty Veritasium 👏
I've heard the facts of what we know about Jupiter's and it's moons and which missions discovered it, but not how the data told us about the salt. I also loved the basketball demonstration.
There's no way the "ATEMPT NO LANDING HERE" thumbnail wasn't made just to get people like me to comment about it.
Sorted by new to find this, was not disappointed.
You are a gift to humanity Derek! Please keep up the good work!!
12:18 Love seeing the snatoms come out again
THIS CHANNELS IS AMAZING
@@mandamiddle0278 There’s no need to shout.
“This channels…”, or _these_ channels are?
Man, you guys are on fire lately. Great job.
Great vid! The idea that we might witness the discovery of life beyond Earth incredible. It’s a "once-in-a-species" event, and we could be the generation to experience it!
Honestly at this point I'd be more shocked if we didn't eventually find (microbial) life in the solar system, sure it would be amazing to confirm it but personally I'm more excited about the reported signal they've found which allegedly confirms intelligent alien life. Now _that_ would be a real game changer.
I love that the astronomer has a Star Trek book in his library xDD 15:30
Not to mention the stuffed tribble and glommer (both from the animated series because the tribble is pink!)
I heard about it, dream about it since probably 2012, the wonder of such thing is so fascinating
I also love the pixel and low resolution effect on this video, kind of giving me the old alien game vibe, or like lethal company
8:47 oh so they’re stretch marks
Flesh moon.
Totally
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Veritassium's channel is very educational and fun at the same time.
This is both true and a very sweet comment ☀
Can't wait till it gets there! Also waiting patiently for an Enceladus mission.
2:49 Missed an opportunity to use a Clipper lighter here
sounds nice but i still want to know when are we going deep into uranus aswell
Wow! Derek and all the guests in his videos explain the topic real good. Keep up!
make a video about Uranus and its moons and start with "deep inside Uranus"
i think i'll cry for a day, if we find life outside of Earth during my lifetime
like, even if this is barely affects me, this would be the greatest achievement in the human history, future altering even...
😂❤ same
2010 is so underrated. Chills when thinking about the ending.
Jupiter is pretty protective of it's moons
Pimpiter
@@toni6194 🤣
@@toni6194 does that make Europa a professional whore?