How Earth’s Tides Gave Us Life As We Know It

While astronomers are busy searching for life beyond Earth, they’ve also started asking another question: If life seems so difficult to find, then why is our world so full of it? One answer might be overhead right now: the Moon! Hosted By: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://phys.org/news/2008-10-tides-major-impact-planet-habitability.html https://www.universetoday.com/32350/add-heat-then-tectonics-narrowing-the-hunt-for-life-in-space/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/plate-tectonics-may-be-essential-for-life-20180607/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4786-no-moon-no-life-on-earth-suggests-theory/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/definition/phosphate-backbone-273/ https://phys.org/news/2015-02-tides-deep-atlantic-arctic-ocean.html https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016PA002997 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moon-life-tides/ https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/148/europa-water-world-infographic/ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens/Heating_ocean_moon_Enceladus_for_billions_of_years Image Sources: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/426/juno-observes-jupiter-io-and-europa/?category=planets_jupiter https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/239/crescents-of-neptune-and-triton/?category=planets_neptune https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/663/saturn-taken-from-voyager-2/?category=planets_saturn https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/hubble-sees-martian-moon-orbiting-the-red-planet https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6657 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_seafloor_crust_age_1996.png https://www.videoblocks.com/video/edge-of-magma-overlay-bfoptmjmioiidnw9 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/scientific-model-dna-and-rna-transcription-and-translation-vector-isolated-on-white-gm1161002183-317982665 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/phosphate-anion-molecule-structural-chemical-formula-and-molecule-model-gm951321658-259694012 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/coastal-tide-pool-behkltp https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3912 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gulf_Stream_Sea_Surface_Currents_and_Temperatures_NASA_SVS.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/panama-map-on-gray-base-green-view-gm1174767673-326840234 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA07759 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7227 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/3d-rendering-messenger-rna-model-brzjf4-leiuu7xcni https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA01669 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/world-map-of-all-sea-currents-gm864154274-143364615