Betül Kaçar

Well, it wouldn't be for fertilizer, but to create more efficient nitrogen fixation.

It would be the opposite thing to maybe lessen our dependence on fertilizers.

So this is a beautiful example, in my very biased opinion, of how astrobiology and studying life in the universe by starting...

from here, our own place and our own past can actually help our future.

If we understand that how these essential systems made it thus far, we may be able to re-engineer them and repurpose them for better efficiency because our planet has gone through a lot.

It's gone through many ups and downs and we should not treat past as some useless waste.

because of our understanding, maybe limited understanding of evolution, we think that if something didn't make it, it was failure.

But there are many reasons for an organism to just, to not make it.

For no fault of, nothing to their own.

I mean, also they were not that bright, I think.

I'm sorry about that.

If any T-Rex is watching this, don't come eat me.

Well, they didn't have a planetary protection program.

Exactly.

This is not where it started, I'll be very honest.

We just had this very basic curiosity about very basic processes of how and why.

And how did things evolve?

We don't have any understanding of any protein or any metabolism.

How did they evolve at first place?

I mean, think about that.