Episode 176: Second Genesis, with Jay Melosh

The Star Spot by Justin Trottier

Jan 6, 202043:54Science & Medicine

Feature Guest: 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 creatur...

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