Giannis Kiosis asks Abdul: What will be more groundbreaking as a discovery and why? Understanding dark matter or discovering life outside of our solar system. If it's made of DNA, either we're shared DNA and life got around in the early formations of solar systems, or DNA is an inevitable consequence of complex organic chemistry. So that wherever you find life, it would then be DNA based. It would be even more interesting if it had nothing to do with DNA yet still was life self replicating. That could open up our understanding of what life is. But behind closed doors, it's pretty much the same.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer a grab bag of fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on black holes, dark matter, aliens, colonizing planets, Sir Isaac Newton, and a whole lot more!
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Photo Credit: Image Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT).
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