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Think about that.

And all fertilizer, agriculture, industry depends on this.

Exactly.

That's nitrogen fixation.

That's the biological nitrogen fixation.

It happens abiotically too, like lightning.

fixes some nitrogen so many people think that it's got a lot of energy you can break apart anything oh yeah but we think that wasn't sufficient enough after a while there was such demand for more nitrogen as organisms grew and the more species diverged early on that likely triggered biological production biological production of nitrogen

I'm so glad you asked this question.

So this goes back to survival of life.

Life is about survival.

And it is about how the biological systems find ways to make it, basically, through the good and the bad.

And I think there's a big inspiration out of this.

It's not something that I'm afraid of facing, Chuck, that life finds a way.

And it is through, most of the time, overcoming these insane challenges by coming up with very insane responses.

You know how we are told that in the face of conflict, like find some...

corner, maybe be quiet, be political.

Life doesn't do that.

You punch it, it punches back, right?

So now there's oxygen in the planet.

We are two billion years in and nitrogen fixation has evolved.