Matt Kielty

Like what you see?

Somebody took a sexy pic of him.

I see Bill Nye, the science guy with no hair, fondling a globe full of lightning.

This is the sexy photo you're talking about?

Yeah, it's kind of... I kind of feel like, come on.

I mean, I think sexy is too much.

It's too much, but look at... He's got swagger.

He's got science swag.

Anyway, Candice, sorry, please go on.

The theory had been floating around, but it had never been tested.

Yeah, and so Stanley was like, okay, I'm going to test this out.

He took his little cauldron, filled it with all these gases.

Like a bolt of the early Earth's lightning.

turbid red like smoky red yeah it's like rusty blood red water that's collecting at the bottom oh the water's becoming red i see i see yeah so it is kind of like a little like red soup at the bottom so he pulls this red borscht out of the cauldron and he looks to see what's in there and he finds amino acids amino freaking acids wow the stuff of life

So, like, does anyone know what an amino acid is?

It's the ingredients of DNA, right?

Well, no, but it is the ingredients of pretty much everything else in the cell.

So the little motors and enzymes and all the stuff that actually makes a cell work.

So this is Nick Lane.

And he says that as beautiful and scientifically fantastic as Miller's experiment was, the idea that it explains the origin of life...