Solving the Mystery of Earth’s Deep Biosphere: How Can Life Live Miles Underground?

Описание: We descend into the deep Earth to audit a staggering claim: vast ecosystems may live miles underground, powered not by sunlight but by rock chemistry. From sterile core samples and contamination controls to hydrogen-fueled metabolisms and ultra-slow “whisper” life, this investigation flips habitability inside out—and changes how we should search for life on Mars and ocean worlds.

Main Video Chapters:
00:00 Your headlamp sweeps across the mine...
03:08 Because if we drill into the...
09:46 So the deep biosphere can run...
11:36 Cells can survive on energy budgets...
14:08 Because once you accept that life...
18:02 So alive is not moving Alive...
21:16 Suddenly dead worlds become quiet worlds...
23:39 And we stay humble because Earth...
25:29 And it humbles our sense of...
28:14 The question is no longer Is...

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