Showing posts with label Primordial Soup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primordial Soup. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Primordial Soup


Our always-brilliant friend El Pollo Raylan wrote in his most recent post:
Lastly, Lem posted an intriguing story about life on other planets. I think the unspoken question is, "but did they have the spark of life?"  I'm not being creationist here. The famous Miller-Urey Experiment was anything but that.
This reminded me of one of my most favorite little digressions from one of my favorite people, the great writer, cook and personality Julia Child. This video, produced for a 1970's exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum called "Life in the Universe", features Child cooking up Miller & Urey's (and Cyril Ponnamperuma's) recipe for Primordial Soup.