Creating Aliens in a Lab - Dr. Lee Cronin, University of Glasglow

Professor Lee Cronin is an organic chemist, but he isn't just
interested in the usual research path of describing new
chemicals, though he does do that - he's interested in
understanding the fundamental principles of chemistry, and how
they can be used for the search for life on other planets... and
for the creation of life, de novo, on our own.   

And that's tricky, because the origin of life is one of those
contentious theories where the truth of what happened here on
Earth will never be fully known. Instead, people like Lee Cronin
are going to have to build devices in the laboratory that allow
them to create organisms capable of undergoing generational
selection... but even then, will we have truly answered the
question of what happened way back when?   Likely not,
but as the conversation with Professor Cronin shows, we'll at
least have a stellar definition of life from the process that can
be used consistently to search the cosmos.
   

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