What If the James Webb Telescope Found Alien Life?

The infrared James Webb telescope is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. It has 18 separate mirror segments made of ultra-lightweight beryllium.

This telescope launched into space on December 25th, 2021. The mission of the James Webb Telescope? To study the history of our Universe from the afterglow of the Big Bang to the formation of solar systems like our own.

This telescope could be the key to finding alien life. If aliens were discovered, what would you say to them?

00:00 Telescope background
01:48 Signs of life
03:33 Discovery announcement
05:33 Public reaction

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[Tjimbob]

Honestly, I think we are not alone in the universe. There are millions and millions of galaxy’s and planets, so there has to be at least some life out there. It could be bacteria or even a weird looking lizard.

[khalilahd.]

My favorite info-tainment channel. This is one heck of a telescope 😂

[wanzhengyu]

We can never be sure about how aliens would really look like.

[horsepowermultimedia]

Imagine if the James Webb telescope was used and the operators saw a telescope made by aliens staring back at the telescope.

[mystxc]

Man, I just love it when he says "Well, that's a story, for another, What If." It's sounds so cool and a perfect way to end an episode.

[MeerModii]

I just hope we make a great discovery about our universe in next 50 years so that we all can be present to see it. I will have no words if I had to hear about something like aliens in reality It would just be amazing.

[donhuang]

With trillions of gallaxies out in the Known and Unknown Univeres it would be crazy to believe that there aren't any Alien Life out there. Even if we can see that there are Intelligent Beings living in some Universes we still can't reach them through communication due to the vast distances between or amongst us and them.

[rgodase]

There is a big chance of existence of other planets with some form of life with different degrees of advancements. And even bigger chance of us not contacting them effectively due to huge distance, like even light takes years to travel.

[theunderdog]

The fact that they found planets that are similar to ours, is already enough proof for me. We're not alone in the universe. Think about how vast the universe is and how small we are compared to it. I can't imagine anyone but hardcore religious people thinking Earth is the only planet with life

[wonderpets]

Not a james webb related but what if we already found planets that host life.... But were looking at their past where life didnt exist yet.

[matt]

All right, I'll add my two cents on to this. If alien life was looking back at Earth to see if there was life on this planet, more than likely, depending on their distance all they're going to see is the dinosaurs. If by chance they have almost instant travel, they're going to be surprised when they get here and find NOT the dinosaurs.. same thing goes for us if we find life, by the time we get there it could have been wiped out.

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[kanelucero]

i love how us humans come to different
theories and what ifs itself. The vastness in the cosmos zone to more infinite possibility of discovery, is just fascinating to think about. But, can u imagine we still haven't fully understood our own world?

"There are just things that is not meant to be known"

[abhi]

I was once told, everything that humans can think and imagine, does exist or has existed somewhere at some point in time. So does the aliens.

[asteromorphs]

Also imagine the aliens finding us in the way because of how thick the atmosphere the effect of pollution 😂😭

[RobBoy]

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[Manav_k]

Alien: we see you...
Humans: we see u too.
Alien: Well this is awkward...

[IKEMENOsakaman]

Even if we do find alien life, the aliens are gonna be like "Okay."

[DanD_]

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