You are fully capable of comprehending this information. You are a human being as are the other human beings that have these hypothesis and then test them. Don't put yourself down, lift yourself up. There is a proverb in Sanskrit that says be humble for you are of the Earth, but so too be noble for you are of the stars.
I'm always amazed at how you manage to make things more comprehensive even when it is some of the most complex theories. Thank you soooo much you wonderful person
Thanks to Anton I can now easily evade the thumbnails that suggests some huge ass discoveries. Because I know, if such discoveries were really there, he would cover them already. And in the most suitable form at that.
Yeah, but forget about the Fermi "paradox".It's not a paradox at all, it's a question. "*If there are extraterrestrial intelligence out there*, where are they?" "There's no intelligent life out there" isn't a valid answer. Don't get me wrong, maybe there is no life out there at all, but it's still not a valid answer to the question. And, by the way, anything could answer it, even crazy ideas. Even "the first directive" from Star Trek.
You'd expect to find something on Mars since there must have been rocks from earth hitting mars from the period when life had started here just like we have rocks from Mars here. Whether or not that life could take hold on Mars is another matter though.
I think we just haven't yet found the exact process that led to our origins. We happened, therefore we must have happened somehow. We've found many "somehows," just not ours (probably).
Biological evolution is very akin to human invention. More successful inventions tend to drive more primative ones to extinction. Let's say you know nothing about human history, having landed on Earth as an alien researcher and find an automobile. Could you guess the progression that led to this artifact? Maybe if you just happened to land in the right part of Pennsylvania, an Amish buggy would trundle by and clue you into the fact that the not too distant ancestors of your automobile were actually fueled by grass put into 1000 pound slave herbivores that outmass the builders of the contraption 8 to one. You probably wouldn’t have guessed that right on 99.99% percent of the highways you hovered your UFO over.
As life can only come from previously existing life it is both logical and reasonable to believe that we were created by God. He tells us in the Bible in the Genesis account of creation that he created the earth and all life on it. He also tells us why we are here and what the purpose of life is. It’s evident from all the beautiful things he’s created on earth for our enjoyment that he loves us. Humans have made a mess of everything but God is going to make drastic changes very shortly so that peace-loving people can have a truly wonderful future.
Boron & silica! The plot thickens... or rather the muddy waters for, de novo origin of life on our very planet clears up quite a bit. Who would have guessed after half a century we would come to realize the boro-silicate glass apparatus of Miller-Urey experiment itself would turn out to be one of the key ingredients, in and of itself! The word that jumps to life in this context is "serendipitous". I had almost given up hope that a couple hundred million years was adequate to cover the 1st act of the leviathan story of, origin of life! Thank you Anton for your continued curated intellectual content, may your tribe increase 🙏🏾
i felt a genuine day of joy and happiness when I read this paper. feels like someone just pulled me off the train-tracks at the last second. we're all so lucky to just be alive.
As a teenager, I loved reading Isaac Asimov’s science essays. He published one per month in the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction. They would gather a year’s worth of these essays into books. It was the books I typically read. One of the books was about what they knew about the underpinnings of life, and things like the “Goldilocks zone” in the solar system (not too hot and not too cold for liquid water). It was so fascinating! I remember coming away with the thought that life is inevitable if water is present. I also noticed how very long it took to make the change from microbes to multicellular life. Just how much was evolution shaping first the single-celled life, and then the multicellular life? Did muscles and nerves evolve together? How did the first differentiation of cells happen? Evolution was doing SOMETHING for some 4 billion years! But what?
Developing the sensory systems, internal structures & molecular machinery within cells, as well as the communication molecules which inevitably allowed cells to form more complex, multicellular colonies & (eventually) organisms just like us.
i believe that the bases in rna and dna are already preprogrammed to create life and if conditions exist intelligent life..a higher being did this maybe a type 5 civilization....i read the entire foundation series of isaac asimov
"Scientists have already made genes incorporating some novel amino acids" from memory, roughly 3 billion years, single celled organisms, 1 billion, multicelled. it took a lot of tweaking to get single celled organisms set up enough to start forming multiple celled ones. complexity generally follows a curve, the initial simpler things take a while to develop, more complex things compound, so develop faster. muscles first, even simple single celled bacteria have mechanical devices.
@@vforwombat9915 Things also evolve in parallel - not the one characteristic at a time that we might do when creating a new cultivar with artificial selection. But in nature there are hundreds of novel mutations in each new organism. So genes for senses (eg: chemosensitivity & touch/pressure) would be in play for natural selection simultaneously alongside ones for digestion, improved movement & communication molecules.
@@omgreensexpress5396 Even Hari Seldon didn’t get it quite right. Asimov introduced the idea of random catastrophic change (second book if memory serves) before Chaos Theory came along. I loved when Asimov merged his Foundation series with the Robot series.
"Anton, are you trying to get more views...?" I've watched those videos, buddy. I watch every video you put out, and love your enthusiasm and drive. As well, nothing but love to you and yours, Mr. Wonderful Person.
ANTON …… Are you trying to get more views on some of your OLDER VIDEOS ??? I LOVE IT when you talk to yourself in third person, you are hilarious… and yes I will go watch some videos I may have missed.. .. .. wonderful person, over and out
Thank you for always giving us all insite on possibilities for theory. I always enjoy watching. Keep up the great work :) Your knowledge is a great respect for humanity as a whole. Thank You :)
This reminds of an interview JMG did on Event Horizon with Janusz Petkowski, in that interview Janusz brought up a bacteriophage virus that had a slightly different DNA structure. The reason im reminded of it is because it started off as a talk about rna being the origins of life on Earth
Just like proteins on earth use only a few of the possible amino acids, there are many more nucleotides than life uses here. If we could find life that uses different bases, that would be an argument in favor of pure science in my mind.
Apparently, a lot of them form bonds that are too weak to stay together, or to strong to replicate. There are at least a dozen that could work. Scientists have already made genes incorporating some novel amino acids
"Say what you mean, mean what you say" - often quoted by my martial arts teacher! It's "unholy" to communicate in the negative unless one presumes, truth resides in the dark!
@@revspikejonez "Scientists have already made genes incorporating some novel amino acids" amino acids aren't in genes. amino acids are in proteins. nucleotides are in genes. and yeah, you can sub in different nucleotides into DNA or RNA, or different amino acids into proteins. iirc, and it's been a while, they even find some of these subs in natures. but they are exceptions, no the rule. other possible life might use different sets. or, it might not use DNA at all. or, it might not even be carbon based. in our limited perception, a carbon based lifeform using water as a substrate/foundation is the most optimal. and it might well be. but this is speculation based on a sample size of essentially one.
As life can only come from previously existing life it is both logical and reasonable to believe that we were created by God. He tells us in the Bible in the Genesis account of creation that he created the earth and all life on it. He also tells us why we are here and what the purpose of life is. It’s evident from all the beautiful things he’s created on earth for our enjoyment that he loves us. Humans have made a mess of everything but God is going to make drastic changes very shortly so that peace-loving people can have a truly wonderful future.
It seems to me that failing to find anything on Mars could just as well mean that Mars is unique. A barren mars would only suggest that either planet is unique, but it would PROVE neither.
Yeah, the absence of any evidence of life on mars would only suggest that there are more unknown factors than we currently understand. Finding any evidence of life within our solar system, particularly life that has no relation to life on earth would essentially confirm that the universe is full of life, even if the conditions of our solar system are considered rare. I think it would take thousands of years of interstellar travel finding no evidence of life to make any credible claim that anything about our solar system is actually unique in any meaningful way.
We haven’t sent adequate tech to any external body that has a realistic ability to detect life. I get your point but we haven’t even realistically started to test for life or past life.
Homochirality is explained by the autocatalytic property you described. An RNA molecule catalyzes the formation of RNA molecules having the same chirality as itself. So once dexter RNA is established, forning more goes way faster than sinister RNA. And vice versa. competing autocatalytic reactions with a finite supply of reagents are an instability that must resolve one direction or the other.
Anton, you should check out/ make a video about "the vital question" by Nick Lane which concerns this very questions. Nick has interesting ideas about the thermodynamic limitations and necessities leading to the development of first life. I believe you will enjoy it.
Wow, this is pretty _~bleeping~_ interesting! The rapidity of that one experiment is just astounding! I will be very interested to see what follows in this vein, what others find about this, too. Anton, it wouldn't mean the Earth is unique. It would mean Mars was too inhospitable, with the poor magnetosphere and such. Still, I love what you do!
Flash-cooled glasses have been investigated as a catalyst for some time; the idea being that their 'frozen' matrix is rife with unusual atomic spacing. When organic molecules bind to the glass, they react with each other in novel ways due to 'crowding' or 'stretching' of surface bonding sites. Glass isn't consumed in the process, and the 'product' molecules tend to lose their bond to the glass as they are formed. It's analogous to a 'seed crystal' being necessary to grow a perfect single-phase specimen.
The origin of life is like the technology used to build the pyramids or move monoliths like Stonehenge; we have several possible ways to explain it but since we don’t know 100 percent which one is correct we don’t technically have an “explanation” so people say “it can’t be explained. Explanations are one of the few areas of life where having more than one is equated with having none. People like certainty whereas true scientists are comfortable saying “we aren’t completely sure right now”. So people say “to Hell with not being sure, it was God/aliens and you can’t prove it wasn’t”
Glass is an amazingly versatile and natural occurance. From growing molecules to hydroponic plants, from silicon based chips to the gorilla glass on your phone... they all occur in nature, so we just adapt techniques to produce what we want. Thanks Anton, for this unique view into where we may have come from. From stardust to dust in the wind (and the universal solvent: water)
Excellent video - i tried to watch part 1 but i think the link in the description is accidentaly swapped with the one about life starting sooner than we thought.
It makes sense that slow cooling would allow molten molecules to organize into a well balanced isotopic (crystal) structure. When it’s hot, motion and convection scatter the molecules in a randomized structure. Fast cooling locks in this structure
Of course, if the panspermia hypothesis turns out to be correct, then the discussion is how it started not-necessarily-on-Earth -- it still has to start somewhere.
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" T.S Eliot Kind of sheds new "life" into this 🤣 We are getting closer! Very exciting stuff!!!
@@bigzed7908 It's "the red planet" because of iron oxide. Rust. For it to happen you need free oxygen in the atmosphere, in large amounts. We don't have any evidence that there was ever life on Mars... Let alone photosynthetic life. So... How the hell did it happen?
Remember that another way to cause glass on earth would have been quenching from tides. Billions of years ago, when the moon was much closer to earth, standard tides would have been hundreds (even thousands) of feet high. A volcano anywhere *near* the ocean would go through daily cycles of having fresh lava being flooded and quenched by rising tides.
I just had to change my broke car windshield. That glass is like candy glass. You also remind me of my orthodontist 20 years ago that gave me my 6 rooted wisdom tooth he found. Made my emotions strong and I had the superr feels for the hot orthodontist that looked like you then I really wanted French fries.😊🤪🥰😋😶🌫️
This just made realize that it doesn't matter why Earth and not Mars. We know we were created and life has to exist in the universe. The deeper we search the more let down we will be
I like your honesty about trying to get views on older videos. Great job and that is a great video if you are interested in this side of science. Question. Why would no life on mars make earth unique mars is just one planet out of many. For instance, if we found no life on mars then that would be the first planet we did (not) find life on. So now it would be 1 for 1, one planet with life and one without. at that point would it not be a 50-50.
The existing robotic missions to Mars are using laser vaporization, spectrography to analyze rock surfaces for element composition. This is totally inadequate for RNA discovery. Can RNA survive the ionizing radiation of Mars (not likely)? What future techniques can we use to discover RNA sequences on Mars?
I know that in the standard model this "one handedness" is also observed. Consider the tiny scales, I wonder if consciousness is born from this as an anchor
I was thinking about this as well, the recent PBS spacetime Vid about decoding alien physics has really interesting points about the underlying symmetries of charge and spin and time.
I do not believe consciousness exists , it’s just a pseudo scientific term created by us humans as we like to believe that we are unique and different from let’s say a rock or a plastic bag .
@@shukrantpatil I agree. I can't recall the quote word by word, but it went something along the lines of "any sufficiently advanced technology would appear to be magic." I think that our definition of consciousness is an extension of this to biological systems. When it all comes down to the fundamentals, we are just a bunch of atoms doing their thing via chemical processes. The illusion of consciousness is simply a complex process we have given a label to, and are now blinded by in a sense (by this I mean how we measure intelligence based on conscious abilities).
Actually geological deposits of Carbon C60 was the scaffolding for RNA and DNA chemistry to occur and was the original antioxidant of Life. C60 is created in meteoric impacts and is hydrophobic, lipophilic and ammino-philic.
I personally believe that our solar system and most stellar systems will produce RNA. Since it’s starting to unfold that you literally only need two simple building blocks, H20 and volcanism. We know volcanism is quite common among our solar system, Mars although most likely dormant, has the biggest volcano in the solar system. Water is also very common through the galaxy. It resides in vast quantities in the ice belts on the edge of our solar system. It could be that simple microbial life is extremely common throughout the galaxy and possibly the universe. The odds do stack in favour of this hypothesis. We on the other hand are the result of billions of years of evolution where habitable conditions have mainly existed throughout. If we can find other OLD planets with water and volcanism in similar size to Earth I believe we are more likely to find complex life there, it may not be as intelligent as us but we may see resemblance in some species for example, species of animals in water. Edit: to further increase our chances, we should look for older stars similar type G to us. These systems would be the best bet since we know it happened here. But the older the star obviously the potential planets orbiting said star would naturally be older as well.
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It's incredible to be intelligent enough to figure things like this out.
I'm only smart enough to watch the videos of them doing it.
You're already one leg up above the rest by watching these wonderful videos.
Right. I wish I had a designated smart person to help me fill in the blanks of my ponderings
You are fully capable of comprehending this information. You are a human being as are the other human beings that have these hypothesis and then test them. Don't put yourself down, lift yourself up.
There is a proverb in Sanskrit that says be humble for you are of the Earth, but so too be noble for you are of the stars.
I feel that I'm not incredibly intelligent however I love watching these scientific videos helping me to learn more about the universe we live in :).
I love how you aren't afraid of tackling any subject. Thank you Wonderful person
You're most certainly welcome!
I'm always amazed at how you manage to make things more comprehensive even when it is some of the most complex theories.
Thank you soooo much you wonderful person
Somene should make an interactive map of all Antons videos. Grouping them by subjects and linking videos that are mentioned together.
Sadly, life (however it started) is too short
Someone should ask googles new language bot to generate an anton... That way when i ask it a question ill know the answer is 💯
That project would take a long time to complete, but that’s a good thing
Do you mean playlists?
Why organize, when they all surprise
Thank you again, Anton! Another small step toward finding out how life begins.
Thanks to Anton I can now easily evade the thumbnails that suggests some huge ass discoveries. Because I know, if such discoveries were really there, he would cover them already. And in the most suitable form at that.
Yeah Anton puts out the real version versus the clickbait. The clickbait versions really get on my nerves. Love Anton 💯
Somedays he is a few days late. Other than that he covers EVERYTHING scientific that comes out, usually within 48 hours
Your channel is so great. Such a rare youtube gem. I appreciate your professionalism.
Hello wonderful Anton! 👋😃
Hello wonderful people! 👋😃
It's nice that this generates predictions of what we should expect to see on Mars, which will have a quantifiable bearing on the Fermi paradox.
Yeah, but forget about the Fermi "paradox".It's not a paradox at all, it's a question. "*If there are extraterrestrial intelligence out there*, where are they?"
"There's no intelligent life out there" isn't a valid answer. Don't get me wrong, maybe there is no life out there at all, but it's still not a valid answer to the question.
And, by the way, anything could answer it, even crazy ideas. Even "the first directive" from Star Trek.
@@MCsCreations you mean Prime Directive, not first. 😉🙃
@@MaryAnnNytowl OPS, that's it. Sorry. 🖖😬
You'd expect to find something on Mars since there must have been rocks from earth hitting mars from the period when life had started here just like we have rocks from Mars here. Whether or not that life could take hold on Mars is another matter though.
Not necessarily, because we already know there has been cross contamination from meteors. RNA on Mars could just as easily be evidence for panspermia.
First time commenter here. You make things easy to understand. Please keep up your great work! Thankyou.
Good morning, Anton!
I know this isn’t directed towards me but good morning kind gentleman!
Yeah... It's surprising how easy the chemistry of life seems to happen... But it still eludes us. Fascinating indeed.
I think we just haven't yet found the exact process that led to our origins. We happened, therefore we must have happened somehow. We've found many "somehows," just not ours (probably).
"But it still [makes fools of] us"? At first I thought you meant _elude,_ as in, we haven't found it yet, but I'm not sure.
@@kindlin Sorry, you're right. I just corrected it.
Biological evolution is very akin to human invention.
More successful inventions tend to drive more primative ones to extinction.
Let's say you know nothing about human history, having landed on Earth as an alien researcher and find an automobile.
Could you guess the progression that led to this artifact?
Maybe if you just happened to land in the right part of Pennsylvania, an Amish buggy would trundle by and clue you into the fact that the not too distant ancestors of your automobile were actually fueled by grass put into 1000 pound slave herbivores that outmass the builders of the contraption 8 to one.
You probably wouldn’t have guessed that right on 99.99% percent of the highways you hovered your UFO over.
As life can only come from previously existing life it is both logical and reasonable to believe that we were created by God. He tells us in the Bible in the Genesis account of creation that he created the earth and all life on it. He also tells us why we are here and what the purpose of life is. It’s evident from all the beautiful things he’s created on earth for our enjoyment that he loves us. Humans have made a mess of everything but God is going to make drastic changes very shortly so that peace-loving people can have a truly wonderful future.
Hey Anton, I watch your videos all the time, I just want to say keep up the good work! Thank you.
Boron & silica! The plot thickens... or rather the muddy waters for, de novo origin of life on our very planet clears up quite a bit. Who would have guessed after half a century we would come to realize the boro-silicate glass apparatus of Miller-Urey experiment itself would turn out to be one of the key ingredients, in and of itself! The word that jumps to life in this context is "serendipitous". I had almost given up hope that a couple hundred million years was adequate to cover the 1st act of the leviathan story of, origin of life!
Thank you Anton for your continued curated intellectual content, may your tribe increase 🙏🏾
i felt a genuine day of joy and happiness when I read this paper. feels like someone just pulled me off the train-tracks at the last second. we're all so lucky to just be alive.
love you anton inshallah hope you have a great week 💚
More importantly, my take-out of this video: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Well done Anton, thanks for your content.
As a teenager, I loved reading Isaac Asimov’s science essays. He published one per month in the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction.
They would gather a year’s worth of these essays into books. It was the books I typically read. One of the books was about what they knew about the underpinnings of life, and things like the “Goldilocks zone” in the solar system (not too hot and not too cold for liquid water).
It was so fascinating! I remember coming away with the thought that life is inevitable if water is present.
I also noticed how very long it took to make the change from microbes to multicellular life. Just how much was evolution shaping first the single-celled life, and then the multicellular life? Did muscles and nerves evolve together? How did the first differentiation of cells happen?
Evolution was doing SOMETHING for some 4 billion years! But what?
Developing the sensory systems, internal structures & molecular machinery within cells, as well as the communication molecules which inevitably allowed cells to form more complex, multicellular colonies & (eventually) organisms just like us.
i believe that the bases in rna and dna are already preprogrammed to create life and if conditions exist intelligent life..a higher being did this maybe a type 5 civilization....i read the entire foundation series of isaac asimov
"Scientists have already made genes incorporating some novel amino acids"
from memory, roughly 3 billion years, single celled organisms,
1 billion, multicelled.
it took a lot of tweaking to get single celled organisms set up enough to start forming multiple celled ones.
complexity generally follows a curve, the initial simpler things take a while to develop, more complex things compound, so develop faster.
muscles first, even simple single celled bacteria have mechanical devices.
@@vforwombat9915 Things also evolve in parallel - not the one characteristic at a time that we might do when creating a new cultivar with artificial selection.
But in nature there are hundreds of novel mutations in each new organism. So genes for senses (eg: chemosensitivity & touch/pressure) would be in play for natural selection simultaneously alongside ones for digestion, improved movement & communication molecules.
@@omgreensexpress5396 Even Hari Seldon didn’t get it quite right. Asimov introduced the idea of random catastrophic change (second book if memory serves) before Chaos Theory came along.
I loved when Asimov merged his Foundation series with the Robot series.
Another excellent video, dear Anton! Please keep them coming!!!
Also thanks for having the recap of part 1 for those of us who had watched it but couldn't remember the specifics anymore ^-^;
Or, we are unique, and there are other unique life forms (the word "life" being the higher question).
Always love your content Anton!
Anton, are trying to make me enjoy all of your content?
Of corse you are! And that's exactly what is happening.
... most enlightened and enlightening presentation on 'Origins' yet!
Thank you mr Anton
Hello Anton, I love your videos !
"Anton, are you trying to get more views...?"
I've watched those videos, buddy. I watch every video you put out, and love your enthusiasm and drive. As well, nothing but love to you and yours, Mr. Wonderful Person.
Great video. Life itself is such a trippy mystery. How can something as complex as a human not know it’s own true origin? Amazing stuff.
Are you kidding me ? Read the Bible.
@@chuckdotson5861 Are you kidding me? A compendium of stolen mythology is not a credible source of anything but laughs.
@@brianedwards7142 I will never understand why these bible thumpers have nothing better to do than spam science videos with this crap.
@@chuckdotson5861 honest question- was that comment made in earnest or as a joke? And if in earnest- what brought you to a channel like this?
Must be a troll.
Love your work Anton!
Thanks Antone, always over my head and always worth watching! Also, thanks for the tip on Netflix Dark
Great work on your video's!
ANTON …… Are you trying to get more views on some of your OLDER VIDEOS ??? I LOVE IT when you talk to yourself in third person, you are hilarious… and yes I will go watch some videos I may have missed.. .. .. wonderful person, over and out
Thank you for always giving us all insite on possibilities for theory. I always enjoy watching. Keep up the great work :) Your knowledge is a great respect for humanity as a whole. Thank You :)
Excellent presentation thank you!
This reminds of an interview JMG did on Event Horizon with Janusz Petkowski, in that interview Janusz brought up a bacteriophage virus that had a slightly different DNA structure. The reason im reminded of it is because it started off as a talk about rna being the origins of life on Earth
Just like proteins on earth use only a few of the possible amino acids, there are many more nucleotides than life uses here. If we could find life that uses different bases, that would be an argument in favor of pure science in my mind.
Apparently, a lot of them form bonds that are too weak to stay together, or to strong to replicate. There are at least a dozen that could work. Scientists have already made genes incorporating some novel amino acids
What’s “pure” science? Lmao
"Say what you mean, mean what you say" - often quoted by my martial arts teacher! It's "unholy" to communicate in the negative unless one presumes, truth resides in the dark!
always thought about this and how life like that could continue to change/ evolve
@@revspikejonez "Scientists have already made genes incorporating some novel amino acids"
amino acids aren't in genes.
amino acids are in proteins.
nucleotides are in genes.
and yeah, you can sub in different nucleotides into DNA or RNA, or different amino acids into proteins.
iirc, and it's been a while, they even find some of these subs in natures.
but they are exceptions, no the rule.
other possible life might use different sets.
or, it might not use DNA at all.
or, it might not even be carbon based.
in our limited perception, a carbon based lifeform using water as a substrate/foundation is the most optimal.
and it might well be.
but this is speculation based on a sample size of essentially one.
I am excited about the journey you are on! Looking forward to more.
As life can only come from previously existing life it is both logical and reasonable to believe that we were created by God. He tells us in the Bible in the Genesis account of creation that he created the earth and all life on it. He also tells us why we are here and what the purpose of life is. It’s evident from all the beautiful things he’s created on earth for our enjoyment that he loves us. Humans have made a mess of everything but God is going to make drastic changes very shortly so that peace-loving people can have a truly wonderful future.
Oh wonderful. :D I love glasses in all shapes they come.
This is the third time RUclips has recommended a video i have watched.
Thanks Anton for how much early life really rocked!
Fantastic video, Anton!
Anton is the best
This is incredible
It seems to me that failing to find anything on Mars could just as well mean that Mars is unique. A barren mars would only suggest that either planet is unique, but it would PROVE neither.
Or neither is unique, it's quite possible that many planets have life, many don't.
Yeah, the absence of any evidence of life on mars would only suggest that there are more unknown factors than we currently understand. Finding any evidence of life within our solar system, particularly life that has no relation to life on earth would essentially confirm that the universe is full of life, even if the conditions of our solar system are considered rare.
I think it would take thousands of years of interstellar travel finding no evidence of life to make any credible claim that anything about our solar system is actually unique in any meaningful way.
Agreed. We also need to keep in mind that there may be nothing left to find. The universe is a pretty dynamic place.
We also have not really searched a lot of Mars and we may also be massively biased about what we expect to find.
We haven’t sent adequate tech to any external body that has a realistic ability to detect life. I get your point but we haven’t even realistically started to test for life or past life.
Anton = Awesome
My 2 favorite RUclipsrs are Anton and Sabine. Everyone else is low rent or guilty pleasure
LOL Keep going, I’m sure we’ll figure it out one day 😂👍
I love at 11:10 into the video I glanced away and when I looked back, it looked like Anton’s head was erupting like a volcano 🌋. 😂
Homochirality is explained by the autocatalytic property you described. An RNA molecule catalyzes the formation of RNA molecules having the same chirality as itself. So once dexter RNA is established, forning more goes way faster than sinister RNA. And vice versa. competing autocatalytic reactions with a finite supply of reagents are an instability that must resolve one direction or the other.
Anton, you should check out/ make a video about "the vital question" by Nick Lane which concerns this very questions. Nick has interesting ideas about the thermodynamic limitations and necessities leading to the development of first life. I believe you will enjoy it.
Thank youvanton and bye for now
Great video
Wow, this is pretty _~bleeping~_ interesting! The rapidity of that one experiment is just astounding! I will be very interested to see what follows in this vein, what others find about this, too.
Anton, it wouldn't mean the Earth is unique. It would mean Mars was too inhospitable, with the poor magnetosphere and such. Still, I love what you do!
Woah this is amazing!
holy moly! this is pretty profound
As Brian Cox says, it's the development of biochemistry from geochemistry. We're just looking for the route taken, but many routes are possible.
Flash-cooled glasses have been investigated as a catalyst for some time; the idea being that their 'frozen' matrix is rife with unusual atomic spacing.
When organic molecules bind to the glass, they react with each other in novel ways due to 'crowding' or 'stretching' of surface bonding sites.
Glass isn't consumed in the process, and the 'product' molecules tend to lose their bond to the glass as they are formed.
It's analogous to a 'seed crystal' being necessary to grow a perfect single-phase specimen.
The origin of life is like the technology used to build the pyramids or move monoliths like Stonehenge; we have several possible ways to explain it but since we don’t know 100 percent which one is correct we don’t technically have an “explanation” so people say “it can’t be explained. Explanations are one of the few areas of life where having more than one is equated with having none.
People like certainty whereas true scientists are comfortable saying “we aren’t completely sure right now”. So people say “to Hell with not being sure, it was God/aliens and you can’t prove it wasn’t”
Well said!
I hope life is everywhere.
Glass is an amazingly versatile and natural occurance. From growing molecules to hydroponic plants, from silicon based chips to the gorilla glass on your phone... they all occur in nature, so we just adapt techniques to produce what we want. Thanks Anton, for this unique view into where we may have come from. From stardust to dust in the wind (and the universal solvent: water)
Excellent video - i tried to watch part 1 but i think the link in the description is accidentaly swapped with the one about life starting sooner than we thought.
Thank you. 😎👍
The depicted volcanic glasses also seem to have a high surface area. More surface area = more catalytic activity!
Anton! You really are a Wonderful Person. How do you manage it? Thanks a bunch for your service!
It makes sense that slow cooling would allow molten molecules to organize into a well balanced isotopic (crystal) structure. When it’s hot, motion and convection scatter the molecules in a randomized structure. Fast cooling locks in this structure
For me as a Vulcan that makes perfect logic. 🖖
Hello wonderful anton this is person
So, so cool!
a big step for the fermi paradoxe less random variable
Dragon Glass?! I knew it! :D
Anton: "They did something really simple: *incomprehensible science stuff*"
Me: Whoa, why didn't I think of that?
Of course, if the panspermia hypothesis turns out to be correct, then the discussion is how it started not-necessarily-on-Earth -- it still has to start somewhere.
The most brilliant discovery is Antov learning how to get more views!
I wonder if the ironic reflection, wich was entertaining, delays or completely hinders Antons corruption. Now I will watch the older video.
ah geesh y'all just gotta love Anton ❤️
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" T.S Eliot
Kind of sheds new "life" into this 🤣
We are getting closer! Very exciting stuff!!!
I wonder if hunting for volcanic glass on Mars could be a good place to look for past or even present life on Mars?
About Mars, a great oxygenation event happened there and it's kind of obvious. Here on Earth it was caused by life... What about there?
How so?
@@bigzed7908 It's "the red planet" because of iron oxide. Rust. For it to happen you need free oxygen in the atmosphere, in large amounts.
We don't have any evidence that there was ever life on Mars... Let alone photosynthetic life. So... How the hell did it happen?
@@bigzed7908 the planet is covered in ferric oxide, or in layman's terms, rust. How does rust come to be? Oxidation of iron.
Interesting... I didn't know that. I'll have to look into it!
Remember that another way to cause glass on earth would have been quenching from tides. Billions of years ago, when the moon was much closer to earth, standard tides would have been hundreds (even thousands) of feet high. A volcano anywhere *near* the ocean would go through daily cycles of having fresh lava being flooded and quenched by rising tides.
Yes and pkare tectonics would spread a lot faster too because the tidal stress would move the plates more than it does now.
@@lawneymalbrough4309 _plate_ tectonics?
10:04 Unapologetic and funny response
I just had to change my broke car windshield. That glass is like candy glass. You also remind me of my orthodontist 20 years ago that gave me my 6 rooted wisdom tooth he found. Made my emotions strong and I had the superr feels for the hot orthodontist that looked like you then I really wanted French fries.😊🤪🥰😋😶🌫️
Amazing
This just made realize that it doesn't matter why Earth and not Mars. We know we were created and life has to exist in the universe. The deeper we search the more let down we will be
I think we just need one or more "AHA" moment for it all to come together. We'll figure it out, eventually.
i actually agree, the only unique beginning it had a lot of volcanic activity in the beginning
The glass RNA abiogenesis theory sounds promising.
Wonderful as always anton. Thank you. 😊👍
I like your honesty about trying to get views on older videos. Great job and that is a great video if you are interested in this side of science.
Question. Why would no life on mars make earth unique mars is just one planet out of many. For instance, if we found no life on mars then that would be the first planet we did (not) find life on. So now it would be 1 for 1, one planet with life and one without. at that point would it not be a 50-50.
The existing robotic missions to Mars are using laser vaporization, spectrography to analyze rock surfaces for element composition. This is totally inadequate for RNA discovery. Can RNA survive the ionizing radiation of Mars (not likely)? What future techniques can we use to discover RNA sequences on Mars?
Someone should give Bruce Damer credit for his researchbon the origins of life
Best salutation on yt
Sweet, we are the silicon based lifeforms Trekies!
Check out in "The Phenomenon of Man ".... "... Life no sooner spawned than it swarmed."
I want to see a video demonstration of the experiment that you said can be done in a classroom
I know that in the standard model this "one handedness" is also observed. Consider the tiny scales, I wonder if consciousness is born from this as an anchor
I was thinking about this as well, the recent PBS spacetime Vid about decoding alien physics has really interesting points about the underlying symmetries of charge and spin and time.
I'm curious about how exactly you jumped to this conclusion. What does consciousnsess have to do with chirality?
I do not believe consciousness exists , it’s just a pseudo scientific term created by us humans as we like to believe that we are unique and different from let’s say a rock or a plastic bag .
@@shukrantpatil I agree. I can't recall the quote word by word, but it went something along the lines of "any sufficiently advanced technology would appear to be magic." I think that our definition of consciousness is an extension of this to biological systems. When it all comes down to the fundamentals, we are just a bunch of atoms doing their thing via chemical processes. The illusion of consciousness is simply a complex process we have given a label to, and are now blinded by in a sense (by this I mean how we measure intelligence based on conscious abilities).
@@flambambam consciousness still needs a determinate definition. Some view it as a universal organizing principle.
Life itself is a mere reflection of chemistry upon which every galaxy is a nursery for life by default folks.
I wonder if JWST will find a picture as old as Anton's RUclips picture? Was Earth still cooling when that picture was taken?
i like the mud theory, diffrent layers of clay and mud creating life
In the description you have one link repeated and one link seems to be missing (the one on rock glass)
Actually geological deposits of Carbon C60 was the scaffolding for RNA and DNA chemistry to occur and was the original antioxidant of Life. C60 is created in meteoric impacts and is hydrophobic, lipophilic and ammino-philic.
Everyone that likes this comment thinks Anton is the best RUclipsr
I personally believe that our solar system and most stellar systems will produce RNA. Since it’s starting to unfold that you literally only need two simple building blocks, H20 and volcanism.
We know volcanism is quite common among our solar system, Mars although most likely dormant, has the biggest volcano in the solar system.
Water is also very common through the galaxy. It resides in vast quantities in the ice belts on the edge of our solar system.
It could be that simple microbial life is extremely common throughout the galaxy and possibly the universe. The odds do stack in favour of this hypothesis.
We on the other hand are the result of billions of years of evolution where habitable conditions have mainly existed throughout. If we can find other OLD planets with water and volcanism in similar size to Earth I believe we are more likely to find complex life there, it may not be as intelligent as us but we may see resemblance in some species for example, species of animals in water.
Edit: to further increase our chances, we should look for older stars similar type G to us. These systems would be the best bet since we know it happened here.
But the older the star obviously the potential planets orbiting said star would naturally be older as well.