Blog Post 12:
In this episode, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses how life has developed on earth and the potential of other life in the Cosmos. Tyson emphasizes DNA as a structure that can help us explain the evolution of life on earth. After describing the origin of life on earth and how material can “transfer” from one plane to the next, Tyson moves on to discuss how life can exist on other planets and our attempts with radio waves to contact other life in the Universe. Tyson emphases the various reasons why contacting other life may prove difficult due to Mass Extinction events, but he states that through science, we can transcend earth and move to other planets and even solar systems before our sun dies.
I liked this episode because it discusses the importance of science to humanities future. This episode could be used as an argumentative piece as to why it is important to fund space exploration. Overall, with the recent defunding of NASA, we need to be able to provide more evidence on why space exploration is so important.
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