Heather Radke
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The same amino acids that Stanley Miller had produced, all of those have been found and more.
Because they arrive on meteorites, or people have occasionally taken samples of things, but mostly from meteorites.
Bits and pieces of building blocks of DNA have been found there as well.
It's amazing that this cosmic chemistry happens and is delivered to the Earth.
And so maybe they had something to do with the origin of life.
How do you get it to do the things that cells do, which is to say grow, divide and copy itself?
I personally think life started in deep sea hydrothermal vents.
Some of them can be very deep, five or six kilometers down.
They can be beautiful spires, pinnacles of rock, 60 meters tall.
I mean, I like to think of them as Gothic cathedrals or something.