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This week on the channel +123K views this week

Venus's acid clouds get a fresh hearing on Event Horizon

Janusz Pętkowski joins John Michael Godier to explain why sulfuric acid may be less hostile to complex chemistry than it sounds.

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Venus Might Not Be a Dead Planet | with Dr. Janusz PetkowskiVenus Might Not Be a Dead Planet | with Dr. Janusz Petkowski

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  1. 3:07Pętkowski describes experiments showing peptides folding into stable three-dimensional shapes in concentrated sulfuric acid.
  2. 14:18Water can break peptides down, making low-water sulfuric acid unexpectedly helpful to their stability.
  3. 29:00The pair consider whether hypothetical Venusian life could have an independent origin or share ancestry with Earth's.
  4. 46:18Pętkowski explains the biological difficulties of an acid-based Alien parasite infecting water-based human hosts.
  5. 50:11The Morning Star Missions discussion introduces an instrument designed to examine particles in Venus's clouds.

Water is usually the starting point in a conversation about habitable worlds. Event Horizon's only new upload takes a deliberately counterintuitive route: what if concentrated sulfuric acid deserves a closer look?

In "Venus Might Not Be a Dead Planet | with Dr. Janusz Petkowski", John Michael Godier welcomes astrobiologist Janusz Pętkowski for a conversation about chemistry in Venus's clouds. Pętkowski describes experiments in which peptides not only remain stable in concentrated sulfuric acid but fold into complex three-dimensional shapes. He explains another unexpected wrinkle: water can break peptides down, so a low-water environment can actually help preserve them.

That is a discussion of possible ingredients and conditions for life, not a discovery of Venusian organisms. But it gives the pair plenty to explore, including whether life there could have originated independently of Earth's. Pętkowski also outlines the Morning Star Missions and an instrument intended to investigate particles in the planet's clouds.

Then Alien enters the conversation. Acid-based biology gives Godier and his guest a way to pick apart the xenomorph, including the awkward question of how such an organism could parasitize water-based humans. Viewers pick up that science-fiction thread, while others wonder whether water would be corrosive to an acid-based life-form. One also asks for the podcast's ambient space music to return.

The interview has reached about 42,000 views and is the channel's busiest video right now. October's Daniel Whiteson conversation about the universe's intelligibility comes next, followed by Pętkowski's "The Galactic Shadow Biosphere".

Subscribers held steady, and daily viewing is close to Event Horizon's usual level. Among nearby science channels, Made Vision and Art of the Problem drew larger weekly audiences; Godier's week found its distinctive question much closer to home, in the clouds of the neighboring planet.

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More from Event HorizonThis week on the channel +118K views this weekEarth's last biosphere, imagined with Jacob Haqq-Misra on Event HorizonJohn Michael Godier's one new episode asks what life on this planet looks like near the very end, and viewers answered with cactuses, Futurama and microbes dee…Channel: Event Horizon · Story of October 9, 2026 Also in Science and experimentsThis week on the channel +216K views this weekArt of the Problem's robot needs more than conversationBrit Cruise's GrowBot experiment explores the gap between an AI that can interpret motion and a body that can recover from a push.Channel: Art of the Problem · Story of November 8, 2026 A different discovery todayA video worth knowing"What's the score?": Jon Stewart's midterm week, from pool talk to a sweepThe Daily Show's 48-minute compilation runs from Stewart's warning against counting on a blue wave to Michael Kosta covering the Democratic sweep.Channel: The Daily Show · Story of November 8, 2026

What viewers say

  • Well it never sent me a xmas card so it's dead to me
    @goodcat1982See it on YouTube
  • I cant help thinking that to sulfuric acid lifeforms, water is a highly corrosive liquid
    @sigurd_snakeintheeyeSee it on YouTube
  • Great timing. About to do a few chores. Time will fly with jmg!
    @liberteusSee it on YouTube
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  • Thanks for the Alien autopsy interview guys :-)
    @highways849See it on YouTube
  • John- this was a fantastic interview. Really good questions.
    Dr Petkowski was very informative and open-minded.
    @timad11See it on YouTube
  • Another great one! I'm so happy to see multiple 2 part episodes, and on such interesting topics! Keep em coming!
    @roberthamilton4380See it on YouTube
  • Hi John - Janusz is amazing and maybe amongst the most inspiring thinkers around today - such broad and deep insights into such fundamental questions. Thank you!

    One ask - is it possible to get that ambient space music back though - miss that loads from the podcasts.
    @juliawinston4692See it on YouTube
  • Just imagine, literally our next door neighbor...this whole time 😍😍
    @joshuasweany7793See it on YouTube

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The videos drawing views on Event Horizon right now

Unsettling Reasons The Universe May Be Beyond Understanding | Daniel …186,730 views The Galactic Shadow Biosphere with Janusz Petkowski34,818 views
The facts
Subscribers
335,000
Channel views, last 7 days
123,012
Videos published this week
1
Video published
November 5, 2026
Video views so far
42,000
Views on its first day
26,122

The numbers

Here is how Event Horizon's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Made Vision
404,647
Art of the Problem
215,936
Emily Calandrelli
178,686
Melissa Maribel
134,830
Bizarre Beasts
133,190
Event Horizon
123,012
Looking Glass Universe
85,503
Fran Blanche
61,748
PhysicsIsFun
57,037
subscribers
335,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
59,077,980
views per day
20,648
typical day: 20,062
first-day views of each video posted this week
Venus Might Not Be a Dead Planet | with…
26,122
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Looking Glass Universe
473,000
Melissa Maribel
449,000
Bizarre Beasts
399,000
PhysicsIsFun
397,000
Art of the Problem
395,000
Event Horizon
335,000
Fran Blanche
299,000
Emily Calandrelli
288,000
Made Vision
259,000
As of November 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
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