Rowan Hooper

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1,427 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The World, the Universe and Us · How to Be Hopeful: Caitlin Moran and New Scientist Look to the Future · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

And she was, to be fair, she is trying to give it away.

I said, Let me help you out though.

There's loads of things we could do.

You

The other thing about on in this sort of field is um finding the building blocks for life.

So all the uh nucleotides for RNA and DNA have been found on asteroids in space.

So I think that so people say, oh, that means maybe they seeded our planet back in the day.

But what I find really interesting about it is that there's a lot of evidence saying that biochemistry is such that just because of the way biochemistry.

chemistry is we might get m the molecules for life and and even the processes of life just happening.

on their own.

And they they might be happening ev like really commonly.

We if you find the nucleotides on asteroids, they i it means that these conditions for for finding for getting biology going could be all over the place.

That life could be quite an easy thing to get going.

And I think that's an extraordinary thing if we manage to find that.

So I don't think there's trees, but there definitely were ri there were rivers.

Yeah.

There were river systems and there were deltas.

We know that we can see that and and see all the all the sediments there.

It was probably more just microbial though, all on Mars, but still.

You know, Mars.

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