Cool Websites and Videos
Warning: Some of these links may have PG-13 content (meaning: may contain mild cursing that is not bleeped out). If you are a student, please get your adult’s permission before visiting these pages—or any site on the web, really. Be careful on the internet, kiddos!
Chapter 1 - Where is Everybody? Meet the Fermi Paradox
Possible solutions (???) to the Fermi Paradox, maybe.
The universe is big. Don’t believe me, just ask NASA.
Chapter 2 - Where did it all come from? A History of (Known) Life in Our Universe
Recipe for primordial soup. Sorta.
The RNA world hypothesis explained!
A closer look at the Miller-Urey experiment.
Chapter 3 - What’s Up There? This Can’ Be a New Question
All about the geocentric verse the heliocentric model of our solar system.
Images of the Great Moon Hoax of 1835: Lunar Animals, “Vespertilio-homo”, Inhabitants of the Moon
Chapter 4 - What Have Humans Accomplished So Far? A History of the Space Race
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
Chapter 5 - What Will We Find? Life is About the Small Stuff
Chapter 6 - Maybe Mars? Spoiler: No Martians, But Still Much to Ponder
Chapter 7 - What About Not-From-These-Parts Planets? Exoplanet Discoveries
NASA is here to help us understand exoplanet detection methods.
5000+ and counting! Catalog of confirmed exoplanets.
Chapter 8 - Do Calculators Hold the Answers? Let’s Look at the Math
Stephen Webb’s “Where Are All the Aliens!” Ted Talk
Chapter 9 - Do You Hear that SETI Time
Meet awesome astronomer Jill Tarter and hear her thoughts on extraterrestrial intelligence.
Chapter 10 - Dude! What Was That? UFOs and UAPs
Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs on 60 Minutes
Pentagon Declassifies Navy 'UFO' videos: VIDEO 1, VIDEO 2, VIDEO 3 (The dialogue in Chapter 10 comes from videos 2 and 3.)
Chapter 11 - Are Alien Encounter Stories Real? Nope!
Chapter 12 - What Does the Future Hold? Stuff to Look Forward To
JUICE tasks flight. See ESA’s JUICE liftoff and begin its 8-year journey to Jupiter’s moons.