Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments

生活在边缘:极端环境中的生活

The Forum

社会与文化

2016-04-06

40 分钟
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Bridget Kendall explores extreme living and what it tells us, from human exploration to deep sea fish and synthetic biology. Bridget and her guests explore hot dry deserts and sub-zero polar ice, deep sea vents, salt heavy lakes, acid hot springs and outer space. NASA scientist Lynn Rothschild is a pioneer in the field of astrobiology, interested in probing the limits of life on earth, to better understand where we might find life signs elsewhere in the universe. Oliver Crimmen is the Fish Curator at the Natural History Museum in London. He’s an expert on how some sea creatures can survive both freezing and hot water – and several miles beneath the surface of our oceans. And explorer Rosie Stancer takes her own body to the edge – with solo trips to both the South Pole and the Arctic North, and a new expedition planned across China’s largest desert. (Image credit: Science Photo Library)
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  • Hello, and welcome to the forum with me, Bridget Kendall.

  • Have you ever tested the limits of your physical endurance?

  • And if so, what does it torture you about yourself?

  • In today's program, we want to explore the extremes where life teeters on the edge.

  • Not just challenging environments for humans like hot dry deserts and sub-zero polar ice,

  • but the deep sea vents and salt heavy lakes and acid hot springs,

  • which sound inhospitable, but where some extraordinary creatures still thrive.

  • Challenging assumptions about where on earth and in outer space, life can exist.

  • Joining me here in our forum studio in London are three people involved in very different areas of extreme environment.

  • NASA scientist Lynn Rothschild is a pioneer in the field of astrobiology,

  • interested in probing the limits of life on earth to better understand where we might find life signs elsewhere in the universe.

  • Oliver Criman is fish curator at the Natural History Museum here in London,