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This episode of Because Science is sponsored by Captive State. This is how Captain Marvel survives space. Even in the most extreme environments earth has to offer you can find life. Life under constraint is simple but these so-called extremophiles survive and thrive. For example, here in the Atacama Desert a place so desolate that NASA uses it as a stand-in for Mars you can find cyanobacteria here photosynthesizing and dividing and doing whatever else they do. Deep below the ocean's surface you can find the extremophilic archaea Pyrococcus surviving and thriving under pressure pushing down on them equivalent to that at the very bottom of the Mariana Trench. (water bubbling) As far as we know though there are no what I call cosmophiles organisms specifically adapted to survive and thrive in space. So what would it take to turn one of the most extreme environments that we know of into your playground? This thought experiment comes to us from Captain Marvel. In the comics and the f...
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