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Life in a Barrel

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The Primal Soup Theory

The primordial soup theory is so widespread all goes back to one singular experiment done in 19 52. It involves a cauldron, but it's kind of barrel ess, or like a glass flask or something. Ansel stanley was like ocamin a testso he took his little cauldron, filledt with all these gases that people thought were in the early atmosphere. The theory had been floating around, but it had never been tested.

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