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#518 - Lee Cronin - What Will Alien Life Look Like?
Modern Wisdom
The Sand Shaker in My Lab
On planet Earth, the carbon was in the form of methane and probably carbon dioxide. And then what happened is, you know, there's obviously hot rock coming out from the center of the earth with water. Reactive oxygen form tar, sugars, just really, really terrible, gooey black tar. The CO2 would also react. So these polymerization reactions would happen in the sand. But they would happen in a more sophisticated way than shaking your shaker to see what happens.
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