Betül Kaçar
👤 Speaker
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StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
And I'm glad you asked because I have all these ideas.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
The whole idea of, they said, okay, great, but no respect to elders.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
What can this do for me?
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
Give me like, what is your sort of moonshot experiment?
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
And I said, well, I think there's a lot we can learn from the past for our future.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
And so they invested in this work and then later Keck Foundation supported it and that's our primary funding right now.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
I thought it was a joke because it was my birthday.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
So I thought, who's this?
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
And that's not funny.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
But then it was real.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
I had to write a proposal, of course, but it was an invitation.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
Oh, that would be great.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
We're working on it.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
I used to be on Twitter.
StarTalk Radio
How Did Life Begin? with Betül Kaçar
Now it's X. I'm still there.