Where Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
Follow us to PBS Space Time: https://youtu.be/GcfLZSL7YGw And Eons: https://youtu.be/pk213XSSktQ ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ The origin of life is one of the most important...
========== Hey guys, Joe here. Some people would argue the most important
year in the history of soup was 1962, when Andy Warhol released his soup-er soupy pop
art. But I think soup’s best year came a decade
earlier, in 1952, when a scientist named Stanley Miller first cooked up primordial soup. Miller’s experiment took some simple chemicals,
like those found on early Earth, bubbled them up through a tube, zapped them with electricity,
and after a few days, floating in this soup, he found amino acids–the building blocks
of proteins, and one of the essential ingredients for life. This idea–that life’s origins could be
found in a puddle of chemicals–is an old one. In the 1920s, two different scientists theorized
about life arising from what they called a...