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The "Hail Mary" List: 45 Planets Where Life Might Be Hiding

2026-04-02 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an exciting new project named after the book by the same name that tries to identify most likely planets to host life Links: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/best-places-look-alien-life-scientists-identify-45-earth-worlds https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/547/3/stag028/8526432?login=false Additional videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmIWzTJYHMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gHfWyny4oY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R2NbXhk-VM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4JiWqBc460 #projecthailmary #exoplanets #alienlife 0:00 Project Hail Mary 1:00 What this study was about (exoplanet search) 2:20 Best candidates so far 4:20 How this was done (methodology) 5:30 Looking for life that's different 6:20 How we look for life (biosignatures) 7:50 Major shift at SETI 9:00 Atmospheric technosignatures 9:35 Conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@jimcurtis9052 2026-04-02

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you.

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@newfreenayshaun6651 2026-04-02

The government: "we found markers.." Good! Go sniff em then and get back to work!😂😂😂

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@Baughbe 2026-04-03

I think we need to leave red dwarf stars out of the search, simply due to tidal locking of any plants that would be inside the habitable zone temperature wise. Stay close to sun type stars for best possibilities of anything similar to earth. I know, the combination is rare.

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@stevenkarnisky411 2026-04-03

Glad we are looking further than earth style life. We do not want to miss something that is staring us in fhe face! Thanks, Anton as always!

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@markorr7125 2026-04-03

I suggest the answer to the problems of tidal locking and flares in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star is a 'warm Jupiter' with a powerful magnetosphere. A terestal type moon could orbit the planet within its magnetosphere. The planet would be tidally locked to the star and the moon would be tidally locked to the planet but the moon would not be locked to the star.

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@RobertBrown-i4r 2026-04-03

Thanks Anton for your clear and articulate comments -- about something I hope to be true

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@John-g6x1h 2026-04-03

I grew up being told that if we ever found life, it would certainly be more advanced technologically. Now I'm thinking if we ever find it, it'll be about as advanced as a bacteria or a virus.

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@Keitosha 2026-04-03

"It's life, Jim. But not as we know it" may be accurate as well.

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@belgariadbelgarath1836 2026-04-03

You know how sometimes people make discoveries in mathematics because they didn't know that what they were working on was "supposed to be (IMPOSSIBLE!!!)", so no one worked on it. Until some mathematician didn't know that it was impossible and solved it. That's the same kind of thinking that the Fermi paradox creates this is impossible stop trying, until one day someone just solve it

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@DarkGodSeti 2026-04-03

Thumbnail said: "Real life Project hail Mary" My mind immediately went to that Cthulhu like creature in the show Invincible. "What? Why?" I just woke up a little while ago... haha!

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