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James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?

Socrates in the City

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The Origins of Life

We don't know how to make the basic four classes of molecules that are needed for life. We've never... people have never made them in a pre-biotically relevant manner, which means that using chemistry that would have been available on an early Earth when you didn't have all the big machines we have now. Maybe talk just about the nano cars, because that struck my... that struck. When I just read what George Gilder wrote about you, we're talking about really astonishing things.

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