Betül Kaçar

It works.

But the whole point of this paper, though, is that, you know, as I mentioned, your marks can be raised and life, what makes life so amazing on this planet, that it is an evolving system.

It's not like geology where you can find a rock and you're lucky to find one and you can analyze the fossils on them.

But how do you replay the tape?

How do you visit the past of something that constantly overwrites itself?

And if it's not covered by forests, which mostly our planet is, so we're not going to be able to find these rocks.

And we have very few rocks that we can rely on in order to tell the story of the first two billion years of this planet.

Of life.

Well, you know what?

Life and the planet, because the first two billion years, about a year and a billion and a half of that life was present here, right?

Life happened to this planet really rapidly.

So I don't think you can separate planet Earth from life.

It's a pretty, it's been a pretty living slip.

For a geologist, it's like a second.

It's pretty fast.

We're talking about 500 million years.

For us, that's a long time.

But for a geologist, it's pretty rapid.

So it happens fairly rapidly.

And we rely on what life left behind.