• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
  • WordPress
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
Science Update

Science Update

Sharing Science | Satisfying Curiosity | Debunking BS

  • Spotlights
  • Reality Check
  • Why Is It?
  • Radio Archives
  • Sciup @ School
Home » Radio Archive » Daily Show » Alien Life Roundup

Alien Life Roundup

July 27, 2007
https://podcast.scienceupdate.com/070727_sciup_alie.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window

BOB HIRSHON (host):
What might aliens look like? I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.

Could a mission exploring other planets pass right by an extraterrestrial life form—and not even notice? That’s the concern expressed by a National Research Council committee that examined the current state of astrobiology—the search for life beyond earth. They say that we assume that alien life would be like us: water loving, and carbon based. The committee urges astrobiologists to consider the existence of very different types of life—perhaps based on ammonia or formaldehyde—when searching for life in space.

In related news, a team of researchers has confirmed the existence of water on a planet outside our solar system. It’s just over 150 light years from earth. However, its surface is over a thousand degrees fahrenheit, so it doesn’t seem very hospitable to life—at least not life as we know it. I’m Bob Hirshon, for AAAS, the science society.

Category: Daily ShowTag: Astronomy & Space, Biology, Chemistry, Genetics & Evolution, Physics
Previous Post:Yawning
Next Post:Talkative Men

Sidebar

Radio Program Archives

Want to learn more about the brain? The environment? Here you can browse the topics that come up regularly on Science Update.

Search the Archives

Categories

  • Daily Show
  • Station Download
  • Weekly Show

Find By Tag

  • 2020
  • Acoustics & Sound
  • Aging
  • Animal Behavior
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Astronomy & Space
  • Biology
  • Brain Science
  • Bugs
  • Chemistry
  • Children & Families
  • cicadas
  • Climate & Weather
  • Communications
  • Computer Science
  • Economics & Business
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Environment & Conservation
  • Genetics & Evolution
  • Geology
  • Marine Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine & Health
  • Microbiology
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nutrition & Food Science
  • Paleontology & Dinosaurs
  • Physics
  • Plants & Agriculture
  • Political Science
  • Reality Check
  • Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Sports & Fitness
  • spotlight
  • Spotlight Bugs
  • Terrorism & War
  • Why Is It? Questions
  • Wildlife
  • Year in Review

Find By Date

Science Update
  • About Science Update
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • YouTube

Recent Posts

Mayan Honeybee hives
House sparrow wearing top hat rides aboard a red fireworks rocket

Copyright © 2023 · Springtail Media LLC · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Pongos