[Interview] How Did Early Earth Get The Ingredients for Life

We still don't know how did life start on Earth. But in order to do so, Earth had to have all the building blocks for life, such as organic molecules. How could they get to Earth? Looking for a solution to this problem with Dr Richard Anslow. 🎙️ More interviews: Finding exoplanets via magnetospheres: https://youtu.be/p1PnoSoH0ys Direct imaging of exoplanets: https://youtube.com/live/aMPz1pSeDyo?feature=share 📜 Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2023.0434 👉 Dr Richard Anslow's website https://richard17a.github.io/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:19 Why the mystery? 05:32 Traditional ideas 09:52 Comets 16:18 Delivery mechanism 21:17 Why not on Earth 25:12 How often can comets come in 31:13 What evidence can we have 33:23 Current obsessions 39:26 Final thoughts and more interviews 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SkWNmkoCelY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast