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Life on Giant Moons (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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As science begins showing us our first real Exo-Moons, we may discover that some already have life on them. This raises the question of if life could naturally rise in systems similar to Earth, but on their moons rather than on planets themselves. To see what that truly means, let's imagine I live on Endor for the moment. We will use the term war generically for any planet, moon, dwarf planet, or even very large space habitat. Wookiee Pedia tells me it has a rotational period of 18 hours in orbits every 400 or two days - this would be an exo-moon with its own sun. A good fictional example of this would be

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