Dark Oxygen in Deep Ocean // Solar Cycles // Starliner Suspense

We’ve learned much more from the DART mission, dark oxygen is being generated at the bottom of the ocean, Starliner is almost ready to come home, and we might not need to dig deep to find life on Europa.

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00:00 Intro
00:15 DART findings
04:06 Dark Oxygen
06:53 Kepler and the Solar Cycles
08:36 Starliner suspense
09:37 SpaceX returns
10:56 Vote results
11:45 Europa and Enceladus
13:49 Starship hot fire test
14:14 Astroscale's ADRAS-J
15:13 More space news
16:01 Future of Universe Today

Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov

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[EquilibriumTelevision]

Thanks for the great space news, been a follower for years. Consistently good quality. ❤

[cyclonasaurusrex]

“Avenging the dinosaurs” Revenge is a dish best served cold.

[SuperYtc]

How to make something sound cool:

Just put “dark” in front of it.

Dark matter.
Dark oxygen.
Dark Uranus.

[neliotuga]

The amout of quality and thrustworthy content You put on youtube is insane. I don't miss a single question show and space bites.

[johannesekman]

Always watch your news and question videos

[LibertarianLeninistRants]

The Discovery of Dark Oxygen is by far the most exciting news this summer

[thedenial]

Landing and then sinking into Dimorphos sounds like a problem but if you can extend a sufficiently long antenna maybe it's a good way to study the interior?

[brookels]

I just have to say Fraser, you're a phenomenal creator. You explain things well & passionately. You seem like a genuine nice guy & I thank you SO MUCH for your videos!

[theemissary]

I remember during the Columbia disaster, it was narrowed down to a lump of foam as the cause. Hopefully, the stranded astronauts come home safe and sound, otherwise, the cause for not only a disaster, but an inevitably huge backwards step in space exploration will be narrowed down to the company boeing.

[davidmurphy]

An admittedly trivial correction but one which you might find interesting: it's a common misconception to see the solar cycle as 11 years when it's actually 22. The reason is that the polaroty is swapping so it actually takes two cycles to return to its original state.

That said, from the point of view of the Earth, it obviously doesn't make a difference and the 11 year states are effectively equivalent.

Interestingly, the maths describing the solar cycles is very similar to quantum objects called spinors which likewise can take two rotations to return to their original state.

Meh, maybe someone found that interesting.

[gilgingras]

I read the Dark Oxygen paper and the amount of oxygen that is produced above background is smaller then trivial. I don't know what is going on but to say that it's a new source of oxygen that is useful is a stretch. Count me as not convinced.

[Goatcha_M]

Dark Oxygen also poses yet another challenge for discovering potential life, because previously it was thought that you needed life to generate free Oxygen, but now its confirmed that there is a natural process for it.

[ax]

I'm glad someone out there is trying to figure out ways to rid of space junk, i don't know if we can vacuum most of it away but at least parts that could pose threat to future missions.

[robertoliver]

Thank you for minimizing the advertising!

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[markwentz]

A question about the YT inserted advertisements,

Does watching them all the way through help the channel?

If not i'll just keep skipping as soon as possible but if it helps i'll watch them

[CaliforniaBushman]

This gives some hope for Waterworlds & Hycian planets developing life.

[darrellcherry]

I've several proposals about removing large pieces of space debri. Yes, it's important to clear the large pieces. I'm wondering if there are proposals to remove small pieces. I'm talking about marble size or untrackable objects.

[dawsonrivers]

I cant give enough of my thanks for the minimal adds

[leightonmacmillan]

Regarding the whole space tug concept. I'm not getting the emphasis on "de-orbiting" of objects in decaying orbits. It cost a bloody fortune to get whatever is up there, up there. Why are we not talking about cleaning up the mess of potentially hazardous objects and round up essentially free raw materials. Robotics is developing at such a pace I can't believe it will be long before we develop the ability to fabricate in orbit. An orbiting scrapyard would seem an obvious business model. It has to be a damn site cheaper to round all that shite up than it took to get it up there.