Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time — S01E02 — Aliens: Are We Alone?

00:00:06 For more than a decade,

00:02:44 There are certain questions in science that,

00:05:24 in the early 19405...

00:08:07 ♪ Who never ever learned to read or write so well

00:10:42 and entering a strange, hostile world.

00:12:55 So we've landed, after about an hour of descent.

00:15:10 and what chemical elements or compounds it produces.

00:17:37 and life is rather more ingenious than we thought.

00:20:16 However, they're dormant bacteria.

00:23:49 Curiosity touched down in Gale Crater,

00:27:24 Manoeuvre has started.

00:30:16 formed the island in the centre.

00:32:58 from the naturally occurring proton gradients in the vents.

00:35:12 And we have found evidence of, um,

00:38:10 That's quite incredible.

00:40:12 it strongly suggests that there's both liquid water

00:42:45 with the sort of power that we can generate using our

00:44:58 So this has become known as the Wow! signal.

00:47:43 And when the cells reproduced,

00:49:48 "Yes, I expect to succeed",

00:51:46 waiting for ET's call.

00:54:01 But it's a massive gas giant, a hotjupiter,

00:56:07 And it's my working assumption that there may be, on average,

00:58:32 Holy mackerel!