NOVA — S32E02 — Origins: How Life Began
2004 · 55 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · DIR. Alice Harper
Overview
"Origins: How Life Began," zeroes in on the mystery of exactly how it happened. Join the hunt for hardy microbes that flourish in the most unlikely places: inside rocks in a mine shaft two miles down, inside a cave dripping with acid as strong as a car battery's, and in noxious gas bubbles erupting from the Pacific ocean floor. The survival of these tough microorganisms suggests they may be related to the planet's first primitive life forms. Host astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson deepens the search by investigating tantalizing and controversial chemical "signatures" of life inside three-billion-year-old rocks and meteorites found around the world.
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00:00:04 SUBTITLED BY ANDROMEDA
00:02:45 One of my favorites
00:04:50 the Earth had a reddish tinge to it.
00:07:47 you begin to get these faint whiffs of the rotten egg smell.
00:09:59 colonies of single-celled bacteria
00:12:32 Conditions on early Earth may have been far worse,
00:14:36 in the harsh conditions of early Earth
00:16:50 That recipe is hotly debated today,
00:19:37 So what we have left behind then
00:22:11 that the ingredients of life
00:24:59 in the seeds of life.
00:27:02 they're like little capsules coming in the atmosphere.
00:29:35 And just what happens to things like amino acids
00:32:20 Charging now...Okay, bringing up the X-rays...
00:34:56 the great leap from non-living to living.
00:37:34 Microorganisms have been shown
00:39:41 but what we think is that these organisms may be taking
00:42:35 that we think existed on the Earth.
00:45:06 These microbes may be similar to life forms
00:47:39 were formed by microbes like the ones
00:50:05 and the fact that they're all different sizes on this one surface,
00:53:13 at different times of the year.
00:55:43 from the sun's lethal ultraviolet radiation,
00:58:35 Without them, complex life, humans included, would have never evolved.
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NOVA, season 32, episode 2: Origins: How Life Began.
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