SciShow Space | Maybe Life Doesn't Need Water, After All

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Episode Title: Maybe Life Doesn't Need Water, After All
Produced by: SciShow Space
Description: Scientists have been searching for alien life by honing in on the existence of liquid water, but we might be overlooking some types of life out there that doesn't need water at all. Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/water/water_index.html https://www.britannica.com/science/habitable-zone https://nrich.maths.org/7273 https://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-solvent.html http://www.mpikg.mpg.de/rl/P/archive/164.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassinif-20090722.html https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL073159 http://chemistry.elmhurst.edu/vchembook/212inorganic.html https://www.nap.edu/read/11919/chapter/8 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/in-depth/ http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_hydrogen_bonding.html#a https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0019103505002009 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9661199 http://www.nue.okstate.edu/Crop_Information/Nitrogen_Facts1.htm https://phys.org/news/2015-07-neptune-moon-triton.html https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/321c/abdb19e7debb78613ef38b925475b9f4580d.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC33372/ http://www.ewart.org.uk/science/patterns/pat1.htm Images: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/slow-motion-splashing-water-qsyvdm- https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12886 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/water-ripple-blue-3-b7dzp53 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/slow-motion-water-bubbles-galore-zrq1zg8 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liposome_scheme-en.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ammonia-3D-balls-A.png https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22944 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17770/last-enceladus-plume-observation/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21030/closing-in-on-jupiters-north-pole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Methane-3D-balls.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethane-A-3D-balls.png https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17655 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/water-ripple-blue-2-4nruetj


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