[Q&A] Why Keep Voyagers Alive, Life with No DNA, Confidence in the Distant Ladder

Is keeping the Voyagers active a waste of money and time on the Deep Space Network? Could you play catch with a baseball-mass black hole? How confident are we in the distance ladder? And in our Q&A+ version, does it make sense to film a movie in space? Answering all that and more in this Q&A show. 🎁 [Q&A+] Same video. No YT ads. BONUS question, totally free : https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 🚀 [Overtime] Even more Q&As https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Start 00:29 [Bentation Funkiloglio] Could we play catch with a really tiny black hole? 01:24 [Aturuxo] How confident are we in the "distance ladder"? 08:03 [Pelican666] Is continuing the Voyager missions just a waste of money? 09:53 [Cooper Levesque] What will finding life in the Solar System actually mean? 12:10 [Edward] Would a microbe without DNA even be alive? 13:48 [Cooper Levesque] The topic I'm bored to cover 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/6egvw2jEHVQ 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)