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What If There Is Life on Venus?

What If There Is Life on Venus?



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Is alien life really out there? Humanity has wondered about it for decades, and according to scientists, this might finally be a reality. Astronomers have discovered there could be life on Venus. Does this mean we’ll finally meet aliens? Could this help us discover other aliens? And what does this discovery mean for us?

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What If Earth Was the Size of Jupiter?

What If Earth Was the Size of Jupiter?



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Ever feel like the Earth is just too small for the Solar System? Well, let’s make it bigger! Welcome to a new Earth that is just as big as Jupiter. Would the Earth get its own Great Red Spot? How would it interact with other celestial bodies, including Jupiter itself? Would Earth’s growth change the composition of space?

On an Earth of cosmic proportions the size of Jupiter, your body would get heavier with the higher surface gravity. How would you get out of bed if you weighed 11 times your weight? Would Earth attract the planets orbiting the Sun? Take a magical journey through space with us to find out!

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00:00 Supersizing Earth
01:57 Big humans, huge planet
02:44 A new form of gravity
03:56 Destabilizing the Solar System

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What If You Lived on Kepler 22-b?

What If You Lived on Kepler 22-b?



635 light-years from where you are sitting, way out in outer space, lies a planet. The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is located within a star’s habitable zone, it means that there is a chance that liquid water exists on its surface. And where there’s water, there’s also the possibility of life. Human life. What would the weather be like over there?

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00:00 Could this be Earth 2.0?
01:10 Exoplanets
04:10 Kepler 22-b might have an ocean
06:30 Growing plants
08:14 How would we thrive?

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What If All Passengers on the Plane Jumped at Once? #Shorts

What If All Passengers on the Plane Jumped at Once? #Shorts



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What If You Dumped an Iceberg Into a Volcano?

What If You Dumped an Iceberg Into a Volcano?



In a matter of days, a nearby volcano will erupt, spewing debris and lava, and decimating your city. You know that fighting fire with fire usually makes things worse, but maybe you could fight fire with ice. What happens when lava suddenly cools down? How much ice would you need? Does adding ice to a volcanic eruption make it better or worse? Would an iceberg stop the volcanic eruption? What is sublimation? How does tephra form? Would Mount Michael be the ideal place to put an iceberg into a volcano?

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What If All the Planets of the Solar System Were in the Habitable Zone?

What If All the Planets of the Solar System Were in the Habitable Zone?



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Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the planets fit into this Goldilocks zone? What kinds of gravitational chaos would this cause? And could this mean life would exist on the other planets?

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00:00 Goldilocks Zone and all the planets of the Solar System.
00:38 Liquid water and what the habitable zone has to do with it.
03:12 How would we arrange the planets within the Goldilocks Zone?
06:15 New Solar System arrangement and ‘planet hopping’.

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What If Jupiter Never Existed?

What If Jupiter Never Existed?



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Space has lots of different things in it. Planets, nebulas, asteroids, the list goes on. So what would happen if we got rid of a single planet? Specifically, our largest planet Jupiter? How important is this gas giant to our solar system?

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What If China Invades Russia?

What If China Invades Russia?



Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have a positive relationship for now. But as Russia goes to war with Ukraine, what would happen if the Chinese invaded Russia?

The Chinese army has over 2 million troops, double Russia’s military force. But Russia has more nukes. And neither of these turbulent countries have seen war in years. What would happen if China invaded Russia?

What could turn China against Russia? How would it impact Russia’s already- low resources from the war in Ukraine? And what would happen if this war went nuclear?

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00:00 China-Russia invasion
00:51 China-Russia relations
01:37 Russian resource drain
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03:00 Fighting styles
05:01 Allies

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What If Jupiter and Mars Switched Orbits?

What If Jupiter and Mars Switched Orbits?



The delicate balance of the entire Solar System exists in a gravitational dance between planets. Swap the orbits of two of them and you could end up wreaking all kinds of havoc. What would happen to a rocky, red planet stuck between two gas giants? How would Earth react to a gigantic new neighbor? And why would a big shift in gravity trigger an asteroid apocalypse?

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00:00 What If Jupiter and Mars Switched Orbits?
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03:16 The position of Mars
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06:17 Objects of the asteroid belt

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What If Uranus Collided With Earth?

What If Uranus Collided With Earth?



It’s been 30 days since Uranus first appeared in the sky. At first, it looked like our Moon had found itself a stellar partner. But then, we understood something much, much bigger was headed our way. What caused Uranus to become so unstable? How could this epic collision change the ice giant? And what’s with this horrific stink? Ugh.

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