Cosmos 1x02 One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue

I love this show.

vampire shock

“How did the molecules of life arise?”

Q took Captain Picard to mix it up.

They have found that a lot of the “Junk” DNA is actually used or acts as a backup to the primary DNA. The stuff I read is really complicated, (More complicated than I can understand) but some of that ‘Junk’ allows changes to happen in the DNA without killing the organism, and allow possible benificial changes to appear more often.

Dr. Frankenstein, apparently.

Oh no, I’m counting on it. Other kids will provide the fodder that will keep my nephew safe from harm. As the saying goes, he doesn’t have to outrun the bear. He just has to outrun the other kids. :stuck_out_tongue:

Dr. Frankenstein was right!!?!!

Something crawling out of the flask

shiver

This is the part in the monster movie before it all goes horribly wrong.

Hivemind

billions

They recently went back to the Miller and Ury experiment and found that they had created even more different types of the organic molecules then they had originally thought.

The notes of the music of life, but not yet the music itself.

Heh. :stuck_out_tongue:

Like parity bits?

I’m disappointed that he didn’t scream “It’s alive! Alive!” :smiley:

Whatever was in that looked pretty icky. Cool but icky.

he!

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“Nature does not abide to our speculation.”

I want that on a t-shirt.

Look like it would smear good on some toast.

They look like jellyfish :slight_smile:

Wow!! Ten years later.

Now that you mention it, it did kinda look like Marmite.

Wow, he aged badly over 10 years. :frowning: