Google's Quantum Computer Just Did the Impossible

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify 🎧 Scientists call this the Fermi Paradox, and in this series we chase its strangest and most unsettling answers. We will visit an exoplanet that briefly looked alive, then quietly stopped looking that way. We will revisit the Wow signal from 1977, and the mysterious visitor that flew through our solar system in 2025. We will sit inside an idea called the dark forest, where silence might be the only way any civilization survives. Before we go further, we started a Spotify podcast. New episodes land there first, free, ahead of this channel. Scan the QR code on your screen, or tap the link in the description, to listen early. Now turn up your volume, and get ready. The silence is about to make sense. Sources

Beneath the rust colored dust of Mars, something impossible is hiding. For decades we pictured this world as a dead desert, dry since the beginning of time. But new data tells a different story. A canyon wider than the state of Texas is hoarding water the size of two Great Lakes. A rover on the far side of the planet just found crystals that could only grow in standing water. And deep inside the crust, scientists have found enough liquid water to drown the entire planet under a mile of ocean. You are about to see the hidden version of Mars, the one buried under rock, ice, and time. If discoveries like this make your jaw drop, hit like and subscribe before we go further, because this journey only gets stranger. Prepare yourselves. We are going underground. Sources

In the vast dark, a small machine has traveled farther than anything humans have ever built. Two golden records ride aboard it, carrying humanity's voice into forever. We ride along as it nearly gets destroyed threading through a field of rocks, uncovers a moon exploding with fire, and finds a planet spinning completely sideways. We follow it to a photo of Earth so small it barely fills a single pixel. Buckle in. This story starts at the edge of everything we know.

Four billion miles from home, a machine built in the nineteen seventies is still flying, alone, into true darkness. It carries a golden record with the sounds of Earth, the laughter of a child, the beat of a human heart, meant for anyone who might one day find it. You are about to follow Voyager past a boiling moon that shouldn't exist, through a wall of fire hotter than anything nearby, and into a silence humans have never touched. Its power is dying. Its instruments are going dark, one by one. Yet it keeps sending whispers back across a gap so wide that light itself needs almost a full day to cross it. If this kind of mystery grips you, hit like and subscribe, more stories like this are coming. Get comfortable. We are leaving the solar system.

Sometime in the future humans will leave Earth to colonize Mars, and in doing so will begin to adapt to life on another planet in surprising ways. Evolutionary biologist Dr. Scott Solomon foresees a series of changes to our species from the size of our hearts and heads to the pigments in our skin. Documentary Central is the home for compelling documentaries tackling subjects like history, climate change, wildlife, conspiracy and more.

Right now, you are not just sitting in your room. You are floating inside a hole so big it swallows two billion light years in every direction, and scientists are still arguing about what that means. This is not a black hole. It is something stranger: a stretch of space with far fewer galaxies than it should have, and we might be sitting almost dead center. Tonight we go inside that hole. We visit a second void so empty it fooled astronomers for years. We follow a cold patch in the sky older than the stars themselves. And we ask the question nobody can fully answer yet: if the universe is missing matter right where we live, what else might be missing from the story we tell about reality.