Candice Wong
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Radiolab
Life in a Barrel
Do you guys have a sort of thing you think about when you think of the origin of life?
Radiolab
Life in a Barrel
So it's this idea that life somehow emerged out of this crazy chaotic soup of chemicals, which I remember learning about in the ninth grade.
Radiolab
Life in a Barrel
Yeah, so he's looking for an experiment to do.
Radiolab
Life in a Barrel
And he thought of this old theory from 1920s, basically that primordial soup theory that we just talked about.
Radiolab
Life in a Barrel
There's like ammonia, hydrogen, methane, all those things that people thought were in the early atmosphere.
Radiolab
Life in a Barrel
Then he was like, OK, I'm going to create a little storm.
Radiolab
Life in a Barrel
And he's watching the cauldron for only a day.
Radiolab
Life in a Barrel
And then he finds that it starts turning a little pinkish.