The Star Spot
Episode 176: Second Genesis, with Jay Melosh
If we should find creatures crawling around Titan or swimming under the ice sheets of Europa or Enceladus, they will almost certainly turn out to be the result of a second genesis, those creatures truly alien in the most profound sense. That startling conclusion follows from a series of groundbreaking simulation that found it exceedingly unlikely that life can be successfully transferred between the worlds of our solar system. Today we’re joined here at The Star Spot by geophysicist Jay Melosh.