We're looking for life as we know it, says Neil Grass-Tyson. We won't know how to recognise it or detect it if it didn't look like stuff that we understand. The solar system is a never ending playground of new hypotheses and the search for life. Paul: I have felt this entire show was just her just obfuscating and just a smoothie. That's all the time we have, Natalie,. Thanks for being a guest once again on Star Talk.
Have we disproven the idea of a “goldilocks zone”? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio learn about space geology, magnetic fields, volcanoes, and the origins of life with cosmochemist Natalie Starkey, PhD.
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