Nicholas Chia

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308 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 27 Mar

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The Last Show with David Cooper · Could Star Eating Microbes Exist? · 27 Mar 2026 podcast

So imagine like, you know, fusion is now forget fusion.

We don't even need fusion anymore.

We can just immediately turn mass into energy.

All all energy problems in the world solved.

So survival definitely... I mean, okay, so yes, absolutely.

So there's a lot of extremophiles, right?

I'm going to throw some names out, right?

But there are organisms... Well, I'll try not to.

But there are organisms that live...

and breed at 130 degrees Celsius, you know, deep under the sea.

So it's super high pressure, super high temperature.

There are organisms that eat radioactive waste.

Fun fact, you think about radiation damaging the DNA.

One trick those microbes have is that they shatter their DNA into thousands of pieces and reconstruct it at will.

Right, right.

I mean, there's some chemical and physical limits, right?

Why don't they just boil off or why don't they just burn?

But if you can accept that they can turn mass into energy and energy into mass, then you think if the sun has a lot of heat and light energy, they're converting it into mass is a way to think about that.

It's brilliant.

Yeah.

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