We all die. But this is not exactlyExtraterrestrial life: how and who are we looking for in space? Part 1
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People thought about the existence of extraterrestrial life long before the first flights into space. Scientists have been searching for aliens for more than a decade, but what exactly and how are they looking for? How long it might take for life to originate, how the transit method works, what biosignatures are, and why we haven't found anyone yet.
Is life possible, for example, on Titan (saturn's moon) with its ice sand dunes and methane rains ? How and why do scientists study the atmospheres of distant planets, what is affected by «sampling bias», and what is a «habitable zone».
Questions were answered by a senior researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Biochemistry of the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology named after V.I. A. N. Belozersky at Moscow State University, author of the book «The Origin of Life. From Nebula to Cell» Mikhail Nikitin and astrophysicist, employee of the Astrospace Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute and author of the «Shklovsky Street» project Vyacheslav Avdeev.
Both guests have already appeared in our podcast. You can hear Mikhail in the episodes «Tail, appendix and extra nipples. How rudiments differ from atavism» and «Unobvious doomsday scenarios. Part 1».
And with Vyacheslav, we released podcast episodes under the titles «Signals from space. For what purposes are radio telescopes used» and «What is the Russian radio telescope for?» episode «Accidents are not accidental. How quantum theory explains the appearance of the universe».
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Episode produced by: Artyom Buftyak, Artur Arushanyan
Sound engineer: Anastasia Panioti< br />Ask us, offer us, argue with us: podcasts@ria.ru