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Could All Life Have Started on Mars? Are We Martians?

2026-01-05 Science & Technology
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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 the idea of whether life started on Mars instead of Earth Links: https://theconversation.com/are-we-the-martians-the-intriguing-idea-that-life-on-earth-began-on-the-red-planet-265493 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL074480 Previous videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0GQ4okpaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRgi--01kA0 https://youtu.be/whGJkWh3_2Q https://youtu.be/GW8GxvWIr-o https://youtu.be/ujbjQnb3spI https://youtu.be/GkuAzdS-VwA 0:00 Origin of life - did it come from Mars? 0:55 Early Earth and abiogenesis 2:15 Something that doesn't make sense 3:20 Why Mars seems to be better and panspermia 6:05 No evidence yet, but there are hints 7:50 Why this matters 9:05 Conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF 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)

@craptree 2026-01-04

So for the first time, I guess it was aliens?

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@Robobagpiper 2026-01-05

Saw a very well-received talk on this subject - Mars seeding Earth - at 2001 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. One of the arguments was that the common ancestor of all three branches of life has cellular mechanisms to protect against free oxygen, but the divergence between Eukaryota, Bacteria, and Archaea was at a time a billion years prior to the presence of free Oxygen on Earth, but at a time where there may have been free Oxygen on Mars.

266 44 replies
@jamieholmes6087 2026-01-05

Conan the Bacterium. What a great name.

198 9 replies
@wayneharrison 2026-01-05

Anton is, sort of, saying it's Aliens... BUT, it's us? Me, looking in the mirror. 🖖👽

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@jona826 2026-01-06

As a schoolboy I remember having this vivid revelation that we were all from Mars and it made me cry. Quite a weird childhood experience.

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@raphaelsoltero8805 2026-01-06

If you ever feel like the day stops 39mins and 38seconds too early, maybe this is why

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@andrewparker318 2026-01-05

I honestly don’t see how there couldn’t have been life on Mars at one point. Mars once had water like Earth, and our two planets have been exchanging rocks since the formation of the solar system. It would be interesting if we found fossilized life on Mars, but we couldn’t figure out which planet it originated from.

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@johnege7352 2026-01-06

Life May Have Been More Likely to Originate on Mars Than on Earth, Smithsonian article 2021.

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@PLETHEMAL 2026-01-08

I used to feel almost embarrassed that manifestation never worked for me. Everything felt forced and unnatural. Manifest the Divine by Elena River was the first thing that actually acknowledged that struggle instead of glossing over it. Since then things have been unfolding quietly, without pressure. ❤

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@ChadKanotz 2026-01-05

Life is probably absolutely everywhere. But it's all just crabs.

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