Okay, there is something I never understood about this theory: Why did it only happened once? There are hydrothermal vents in the oceans today and they have been around eversince the begining, yet we don't see random living molecules pop into existence. Is it because: A. Life was a one time accident. B. Life did not start there. C. The vents didn't know enough about the Dark Side to create more life. D. I don't know what I'm talking about.
@Daniel Bojtor: How about, it may have happend any number of times but only one of those ultimately resulted in all the life that we know, since the moment that 'Life' has a foothold it will consume such molecules that could have made new and different life and by that time 'Life' has a big headstart on any upstarts coming later.
I was not only surprised, but deeply gratified with the content of this video. As a long-time watcher of science and science news, and an academic who followed the fortunes and misfortunes of the philosophy of science, I found myself deeply engaged in a play by play story of the beginning of life far more plausible than those preceding it. The cooperation with Eons and Space Time was well done. This trio of PBS channels has outdone themselves recently with well-done documentary and explanatory work. I know this show is a bit older, but it encapsulates a wide variety of issues at the forefront of scientific discovery. Kudos to these producers.
Lol but I wonder if Life started off in another planet or another solar system and made its way through a meteorite that flew off the planet when it was being destroyed by an asteroid...
@@kamranhafeez2236 yes but again as in this video which stated that panspermia Doesn’t solve the problem of how it started in the first place. Watch Dr. James Tours series on abioGenesis. Then comment on how this impossibility called life could’ve formed by chance. God’s best
@@followyourideas Your statement is just the logical contrapositive of the original poster's. More generally: you can't do anything if you don't exist.
y did u post this comment? y did u watch dis vid? y did u make a yt account? y did u click this browser? y did u buy ur compooper? y did u born? y did earth form? y did the sun form? y did the cells start working together why did the atoms in the cells become atoms why did the matter the atoms are made out of form why the did matter that atoms is made out of for????????????????????????????? y did the big bang get sucked into a black hole and exploded? y am I questioninggggg? y am I alive???? y did the small universe get attracted by eachother then explode my theory is gravity won over dark matter that's why the small universe or anything or whatever meh idk y did it exist y does anything exist
@@medchs Experimental science is virgin, it breaks down when confronted to something not observable, that's why physics will never prove multiverse for instance
This video was pretty good but in multiple places it is said that life is a "closed system". In fact, the opposite is true: Living things are definitely open systems (thermodynamically speaking) and they would not be able to stay alive if they were not. I think what you meant to say is "enclosed systems" or some sort of "enveloped systems", i.e. they have a boundary between the interior and the exterior of the cell. We like to call them "organization", since it is this very feature gives the general shape of the organisms. And it makes a clear distinction too: Viruses aren't alive because they have organization ("enveloped system") outside the host cell but they do not have the machinery, or "activity" to sustain their order. The moment they find a host cell, they somewhat gain this activity by stealing the machinery of the cells they infect - but this time they lost all of their "organization". So life requires "activity" (to sustain order, i.e. "metabolism") and "organization" together to create life.
As a student of bioinformatics I must say: Probably one of the best videos on this topic. There is way to much old or misinformation on the internet, it's actually quite infuriating. Thanks for this vid guys!
Lord Murphy 100%. you probably hear this about any course, but bioinformatics is one of if not the best choice regarding the future. With a degree in bioinformatics you get the tools to advance into any other scientific branch. you'll be the link between biology and computers... and that is useful for basically anything anticipated in the next decades. Precision medicine, Spacetravel, Artificial Intelligence, Nanobots or just good old curing cancer and aging. A well-paid job is guaranteed. So yes. 100% worth it. do it. help change the world to the better.
I can though ^^ just because I haven't finished learning, doesn't mean I don't know what opportunities i'll have. If you read enough non-fictional books concerned with our future, you'll notice that most of them contain some form of area bioinformatics will be insanely useful for. So yes, bioinformatics is / will be (for me) worth it. I haven't met anyone who has said otherwise, btw. I'm not just talking about actual bioinformatics-professors. Most of the professors in the fields of biology, chemistry and informatics know the value of this rather new degree course too.
"Life isn't a thing that things have, life is what living things do." @DrJoeHanson, may you be quoted for that phrase, or was it borrowed from another source?
The closest thing that I have in mind is Carl Roger, but it concerns psychology. "Life is a process, not a state of being". In all honesty, that's about 'good life' rather than life in general, but this distinction between process and state has been floating around for some time.
Luis Peña As a biology teacher, are you going to let the students know that they don’t actually answer the question? Instead of tackling the problem of how DNA needs proteins and proteins need DNA he decides to just say “maybe RNA did it” without talking about the impossibility of RNA just popping into existence spontaneously. This is what’s wrong with the “science education” community. Just throwing out an unverified unprovable theory and acting as though it’s fact. I seem to remember that the scientific process involved being able to reproduce results and prove things by experiments.
Why? So they will learn that PBS doesn't know how life began either? How is this video educational it answers no questions and when it comes to hard fundamental problems he just skips them.
Luis Peña Hello. I was just watching this video. I saw a lecture by Dr James Tour at Waterloo University. It is on UA-cam. I think you will find it very interesting. It is 1 hour 23 minutes long. If you have time, I'd watch it. Si
@@russianbot8423 why? because maybe, some youngsters not influenced by idiotic religions, can answer those questions in the future. not all is known. instead of going the dead end way of explaining unanswered questions with something stupidly simple like "reliogion" I rather have unanswered questions. because: SCIENCE
@@Shadowstar79 Your ideas are blatantly self contradictory, first you say you don't know what the truth is and in the next breath you claim to know it is not God and certainlu not answerable by any religion (not having considered it at all) here is a principle for feeble mind, Occoms Razor favors the 'simple explaination' ( God ) over an absurdly complex theory that requires the laws of physics to work opposite, than they actually do, in order to maybe kinda explain the universe. Your belief in science hinges on fantasy and requires complete blind faith in a CHAOTIC UNIVERSE in order to explain an ORGANIZED UNIVERSE. God is just to easy an answer for you Soo you choose to 'Believe' in indefinite irrational contrarian conjecture and proclaim your tomes of defeated and naive notions and unborn theories to be your own God. You are a stuborn fool blinded by emotion and anger. I hope nothing happens when you die.
I saw this video last year and UA-cam recommended it again to me. No wonder why, I really like this kind of video. This has to be one of the best videos in the platform. I love how Life needs almost every field in science to at least make sense.
I always LOVED the struggle against entropy definition of life. Not just for living things, but for MY life in general, and seemingly, most other peoples' lives as well. It feels like we're always struggling against that entropy to put more order into our lives, to build them up from the ground (usually?) and to make them into something considered useful or successful, depending on your goal. Of course these are generalizations. Your mileage may vary. =P
@@scottmalleus4847, as just a small part of what I said that you all ignore, "Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it." What you are is a lazy dumbass. You're too lazy to think. You make excuses for why you shouldn't do a damn thing. It's because your love of truth is way down on the list. Face it, you're a pathetic human being who gets relief just word farting as if you are actually some sort of intellectual. Let me inform you, you are a dumbass.
I’ve watched this video several times. Love it. The perfect compliment to a biology course I’m listening to from great courses. Keep up the great work!
They dont know take it out of the biology books miller and rnA no we cant make rna in the lab its brought in to the lab and nothing happens james tour please blah blah oh boy
@Stefano Portoghesi watch james tour yes it did but why you needs lipids carbohydrates etc in one place time is the enemy create life in the lab and i will agree
@Stefano Portoghesi same old argument politics science and religion watch ravi zacharuis in what are you so afraid of comment and frank turek will calm the common cold
We have no idea how life exactly came about. The building blocks of life as we know it are chemicals called amino acids. We know that they can form naturally, in lightning strikes and other energetic phenomena. But how did we get from amino acids to RNA, the fundamental unit of advanced life, is a complete mystery. How many times did that happen independently? Once? A zillion times? We don't know because we have no idea what the mechanism is. Some people argue that it happened so rapidly on Earth, that the probability must be high. Therefore, there must be abundant life near other stars. But we really don't know. It is conceivable that the probability is so tiny, that if you plug it into Drake's equation you find that we expect life to have formed only once in the entire universe. My own guess (and this is not a scientific theory) is that there was a precursor form of living molecule that was capable of carrying limited genetic information, much less than RNA, and still capable of reproducing. When RNA developed, the more primitive form of life could not compete, and was literally eaten up. There is a science fiction story that illustrates this. A group of advanced computers rules the world. One little baby computer asks, "How did computers come to being?" The mommy computer answers, "We don't really know. We can trace our beginnings back to a microprocessor that was first created in what we call year zero" [in human years, this corresponds to the late 1900s, but mommy computer doesn't know that], "but we can't conceive how that first microprocessor was created. It's too complex to have come about by chance. Maybe there was a primitive life form that preceded it, and which is now completely wiped out. Carbon is on the same part of the periodic table as Silicon, so some people think it might have been a carbon-based life form. But carbon doesn't make very good electronic circuits, so I think this idea is foolish."
The amazing thing is 4 of those amino acids link up in many ways to create the real life, that is all. I saw an article where they tried to insert additional amino acids into the chain and found one other but it had to engineered to work, so 4 is all there is out of 22 amino acids. There could have been 0 or 2 amino acids that were compatible, both which might not be enough for complex programming of life. The periodic table and how thinks link up is another amazing thing that is needed for what we see around us, that probably could be different and break everything. The quantum parameters could be slightly different, which again would mess things up. If you are looking for evidence of some outside force manipulating things, science and how minor variations and just the right balance of things would be a logical starting point instead of fiction written by people with little understanding of how things work.
@@mykofreder1682 what fiction and people that don't know stuff are you referring to? In fact synthetic dna has been created in the lab successfully, it has an extra two amino acids, they named them x and y, so instead of the usual atgc this new one has atgcxy. They needed to use bits of an already existing cell to create the viable synthetic cell.
If the building blocks of life were around and time shuffled them over & over for basically an eternity with trillions of planets; odds say random chance will eventually come up 7 or 11!
Actually, it is the germ line which survives. Every single living thing alive can directly trace it's germ line to our Last Universal Common Ancestor. That is what I call 'One finger up to Entropy.'
Because many of us were taught that life begets life and that's not likely to change until it can be clearly demonstrated how non-living material will self-assemble into a biological organism.
If you believe all of this, then can you please explain it to me how a computer came to be a computer? Even if i say given as much as time as the age of the earth. Would you ever gonna have a comouter who has a cpu that knows how to compute own its own from the start, a cpu fan to keep it cool so that it doesnt over heat, a gpu that output anf compute graphics to help display its enviroment, a motherboard for the setup and everything, some rams to help and compensate its computation, and even has a case for protection when it doesnt know whats coming such the existence of weather like rain and etc? Not to mentiona comouter own its doesnt even know what to do from the start, it cant even do 1x1 until someone created it and programmed it to do so or even anything that its capable of today, so you can find all of these material like the metal or copper that was used to build the sam comouter, but does it mean the comouter came to be what it is by chance, F NO!!!! NEVER!!!! NO for all externity, NO for sure if you brains.
Henry Bones with all the intermediate advanced grammar you’re using it seems you’re giving of the im smart vibe so if ur that smarty answer ur own question
Understanding is not something one can refuse, it is grown from facts, and thinking to become knowledge and integrated into other knowledge to become an understanding or in the Latin a standing in the midst of (facts and knowledge.) If people don't understand something it's because there isn't a group of facts and knowledge to stand in the midst of or it hasn't been portrayed with skill and effectiveness. Making a glamor to give the impression of life from non life doesn't provide the substance of life from non life. If you simply asked for evidence of real life from non life before accepting it as fact you would be with those who think for themselves and hold to the facts. Cheers. Sincerely David
If it is so easy and simple, can you tell us why so far zero scientists have managed to make life from non-life and I'll bet you that will not chance any time soon. If you think the video explained how life automatically comes to exist from non-life I think you didn't understand the video that well.
I think the reason why the question of where life came from is so complex is because we're foolishly looking for one solution when there are probably multiple solutions that all helped get us where we are.
Human life complicated, return to monke Edit: Just returned to monke, but monke life still complicated, return to chemical soup, multicelluar life mistake.
I will return in to a protein Edit 1: how about amino acids Edit 2: i will now be an atom Edit 3: maybe i will be just a Quark Edit 4 : y'know wat about to be *N O T H I N G*
@@Algeriawindows69 I'm glad people are beginning to open their eyes to the serious problems of the origins of life and of evolution! Science knows all about simple life forms. They just don't know how to turn them on! Trust me, they've been trying EVERYTHING since the 50's! Even if science could create the perfect physical human body they still can't give it consciousness as we know it! The sad part is that people would believe in God if they didn't have to worry about being laughed at and called crazy.
@@lordgarion514 which we can’t figure out. We can figure out what happens FROM quantum mechanics, but we really don’t know what’s going on on a sub-elementary level
I have an even simpler definition. God created life. That's much easier to believe than life sprang up from nothing! Did DNA evolve too? I find it remarkable how people will deny the obvious just so they won't have to believe in a divine being!
@@saturn722 LOL, So saying that your God that is infinitely more complex and advanced than any living being in existence sprang up from noting is more rational? I'm sure your going to say, "but but God always existed" as you also claim something far less complex couldn't have always exist. And yes, as any educated person who studied life at all would tell you, DNA did evolve too, from RNA. What I find remarkable is how people with no education on a topic deny all basic facts about that topic just so they can believe in a magic man in the sky.
You're right, the fact that some molecules self-replicate is the reason life is inevitable. May Ling is talking about cellular life. You are talking about life more generally, and you are correct.
Same :P I had heard of it before, but the name made me feel like it was directed towards a younger audience, so I hadn't checked it out yet. It seems to be pretty good though :)
This was awesome. Thank you to everyone at It's OK to Be Smart! Quick suggestion: please make sure your presenters are not speaking at a comprehensible speed. The second gentleman spoke very quickly, so I missed a lot of what he said. I will go back to rewatch and turn the playback speed to 0.80 though just because this episode was so good.
Maria Paula Camelo Botero PBS Spacetime is one of the best channels on UA-cam. Not only does it teach you about physics, it also helps you train that awesome Australian accent you always wished to master :)
"why" Is surely the question for science "Logic" is fundamental to science which is a part of broader subject "philosophy". Amazing video I wished my school would play something like this :)
Holy crap... the more I hear about Darwin, the more I appreciate his genius. It amazes me how he had such a clear understanding of life that many of his insights have been proven in one way or the other 200 years later. Truly someone I admire greatly!
One of the interesting theories is that life arose from entrophic tendencies, the need to disperse energy by building organized structures that could transfer energy throughout a closed system much faster.
Yeah I've always wondered that to. People point to humans massive use of energy as unnatural, and I won't deny that it is damaging, but I do wonder if what we are doing is inevitable. The more complex we become the more efficient we become at using larger and larger sources of energy and speeding up entropy. Maybe what we do is natural, and was always going to be the outcome of life's increasing complexity.
The most important step (from organic molecules to self-replicating RNA) still seems to be completely in the dark. It might have happened near that underwater vents, sure, but how you get from Micelles and energy to RNA hasn't been touched on at all in this video. I mean, it's a great video and explains a lot, so I don't want to criticize the video per se but it makes it seem as if we basically know the main steps, which doesn't seem true at all. Also why isn't Abiogenesis happening right now? Or is it?
Well he said that basic amino acid can stick together when bumped into each other. So they can result in a string. But there's still important question? Why would this string replicate itself?
Hi, I would highly recommend Nick Lane's book 'The Vital Question.' If you haven't time to read that, I would recommend the first chapter of his book 'Life Ascending.'
@@DanielWilianto Hi, I will give you a reply. The answer is that the 'string' of amino acids doesn't replicate. However a 50 base long 'string' of RNA does. In fact, so much so, that in the laboratory these are known as Spiegelman Monsters. The fact that RNA replicates, edits itself, carries the genetic code and can act as an enzyme; led to the RNA World Hypothesis. Different combinations of RNA bases also have a natural affinity with specific amino acids. I hope this helps!
At the end of this, you ask why life started, and suggest that it isn't a question for scientists. But Matt O'Dowd offered an answer within this video that perhaps you didn't catch -- life is inevitable because although individual life forms preserve order within themselves, they can only do so by being even better at increasing the entropy around them.
David Stinnett. There is too much BS in the social sciences ATM that are not based on facts. I can identify myself as a transpecies that wants to marry and have sex with animals, but that doesn't make my gender valid. How about a white person that identifies as a black person, is this valid? How about a 60 year old man that identifies as a 12 year old girl? Until the Leftards can set some boundaries on what a gender can be or one can identify as then no you can't keep making up BS for the rest of us to just have to accept.
L ogic science is generally defined as a skeptical inquiry of the world. As long as skepticism is maintained, then so is science. I would be interested in some evidence (preferably from a ‘trusted’ source) for your claim that social sciences are putting out “non-science”
David Stinnett . Science uses the scientific method test the world and form hypothesis/theories that we can all agree on until more knowledge changes these conclusions. So demonstrate how you would test the above examples using science.
This is so well made, told, explained and illustrated. Wonderful work showing the RNA world hypothesis and the most likely way life arose from chemical evolution. Great to see three of my favourite science channels do an epic crossover like this :).
Indeed all in our Universe is events, patterns in the greater Space-Time 4D object that *is* reality. We can only see these patterns in 3D as we are result of these 4D patterns ourselves we see cross-sections of reality, but not the whole thing. That is the illusion of "Time". Bonus: We don't even see the whole of our cross-sections unfortunately, considering it takes "time" for our brains to process what we see there are tons of things much faster than us that we miss, like lightning, watch it in slow mo, it's amazing: ua-cam.com/video/dukkO7c2eUE/v-deo.html. And on the other end of the spectrum we are too fast for things like the evolution of giant space objects like our Earth and it's continents.
2 issues I have with RNA world #1 - The building blocks that make up RNA are difficult to synthesize and are easy to destroy. RNA is composed of 4 nucleotide bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil), phosphate molecules, and ribose (a sugar). However, it is difficult to form and maintain these components simultaneously. Not only are nucleotide bases inherently difficult to synthesize, but they are also unstable at temperatures similar to those of the early stages of the earth when life began to develop. For example, at 100 degrees Celsius, cytosine only has a half-life of 19 days; this is far too short a time period for the first functional RNA molecules to have developed through chance alone. Another issue is that scientists speculate that ribose first formed due to the “formose reaction,” which involves the formation of sugars (including ribose) from formaldehyde. However, this process is inhibited in the presence of nitrogenous molecules... which include both amino acids and nucleotide bases. Both nucleotide bases and ribose are required for the formation of RNA, and yet, it appears as though the chemical conditions that make the formation of nucleotides more likely are "sharply incompatible" with those conditions proposed for the formation of ribose. #2 - It does not explain the origin of genetic information The information capacity necessary to randomly synthesize even one protein of modest length is already astronomical... to speak nothing of the full range of proteins necessary for life. Neither can we appeal to self-organization, because as with DNA, there are no bond affinities that can account for the specific sequence of the nucleotide bases within RNA. Though RNA theoretically has all the properties required of a molecule that could catalyze its own synthesis, self-replicating systems of RNA molecules have not actually been found in nature. Scientists have engineered partial replicators, but in order for these to have formed by chance in a primordial soup (and later evolved into DNA and proteins), one would need a specific sequence of around 200 nucleotide bases. The odds of an RNA molecule randomly forming into functional RNA that could self-replicate are astronomical... In fact, if one considers all of the seconds that have passed since the beginning of the universe, there still would not have been sufficient enough time to have formed even a single, functionally self-replicating RNA molecule.
Thank you very much. Heard Dr. Tour say much the same things. Cool little youtube videos are counting on people not knowing any of this so they can all be amazed at how scientists have it all figured out--except for the fact that they don't.
@Brix Anchor its easier to believe in something that doesn't exist than to face our (subjectively random) harsh and brutal world. How else can we justify all the bad things happening around us? Religion gives us hope and a reason as to why we exist and why we experience traumatizing events. From an evolutionary stand point, religion is a genius way to make us feel life worth like living through. I bet the earliest species of humans killed themselves a lot back then. No hope is truly the worst for an intelligent consciousness. Have you noticed the trend of people becoming less religious every year and the trend of people dealing with less traumatizing events in their life time? We have No need to hunt, kill, fight and run for our lives anymore. What a coincidence that less people get religious every year... It's almost as if our environment is not brutal enough to get an explanation or hope. Maybe one day religious fanatics rule the world again and make the world a worse place to live in. That would skyrocket religion adaption rates.
Add purity of chemical reactants to the list. Mix in a little tar or non-carbon-based compounds and the whole RNA-first idea comes screeching to a halt before it can even come close to getting started.
@@wiredupretro Not to mention the cell membrane and all of the machinery inside necessary to keep it functioning so that it can divide when its time. My prediction is that microbiologists won't get any further on this on my lifetime.
You've done a greater service than my private school science education. When I learned about the experiment making amino acid, our textbook followed that up with, "oh yeah but God still made us." Thank you for educating me more than my paid teachers.
Many of the listed factors in this video match the autopoiesis hypothesis. Nice video, very well integrated. I'm a biologist and I really appreciate the effort of summarizing something so complex in less than 14 minutes.
And now, that song will be stuck in my head (Life is a Highway), until I go listen to it, followed by more songs, to get rid of it. 😄😄 But still, a very interesting video, and great collaboration, folks! Love you and all the PBS channels!
Could u do a video to commemorate Stephen hawking on subjects such as hawking radiation, his theory about the beginning of our universe (so basically black holes).
The origin of life… it's a big question. Maybe the biggest.
Head to PBS Space Time and Eons and watch the rest of this collab!
Okay, there is something I never understood about this theory: Why did it only happened once? There are hydrothermal vents in the oceans today and they have been around eversince the begining, yet we don't see random living molecules pop into existence. Is it because: A. Life was a one time accident. B. Life did not start there. C. The vents didn't know enough about the Dark Side to create more life. D. I don't know what I'm talking about.
@Daniel Bojtor: How about, it may have happend any number of times but only one of those ultimately resulted in all the life that we know, since the moment that 'Life' has a foothold it will consume such molecules that could have made new and different life and by that time 'Life' has a big headstart on any upstarts coming later.
I have an idea for another video. What would happen when two black holes come within range of eachother?
In the description: "from the RNA world do the last universal common ancestor"
Pretty sure you meant to write "to" instead of "do".
7:28 RNA comes with guac? Maybe if we kept using it instead of DNA, millenials would be able to afford houses!
This is by far the most ambitious crossover ever
TAKE THAT MARVEL
what is this, a crossover episode
like if you understand the reference
A like and reply by IOTBS. My life is complete
Not a marvel.
Can't give you an exact date but I know it was on a Monday.
David barnes stuff 2 BIGOT IT WAS A TUESDAY! (lol) #mondayists
It ends on a Thursday.
If you're going off Genesis, the first day was a Sunday. It would take another couple thousand years for Christians to move the date
At 213pm
@@mikebe41 Is that UTC or Eden local time? And was it standard or Daylight Saving?
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I was not only surprised, but deeply gratified with the content of this video. As a long-time watcher of science and science news, and an academic who followed the fortunes and misfortunes of the philosophy of science, I found myself deeply engaged in a play by play story of the beginning of life far more plausible than those preceding it. The cooperation with Eons and Space Time was well done. This trio of PBS channels has outdone themselves recently with well-done documentary and explanatory work. I know this show is a bit older, but it encapsulates a wide variety of issues at the forefront of scientific discovery. Kudos to these producers.
there was no science there ..at all.
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Speculation is not evidence.
Her:"life on earth couldnt exist before earth existed"
Me:*shocked at the mind blowing knowledge she bestowed us
Lol but I wonder if Life started off in another planet or another solar system and made its way through a meteorite that flew off the planet when it was being destroyed by an asteroid...
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@@ashwinbabu6837 yes it's actually a popular theory. Could be possible.
@@ashwinbabu6837 its theory of panspermia but it was kind of discared by pasteur and after Miller's expreiment.
@@kamranhafeez2236 yes but again as in this video which stated that panspermia Doesn’t solve the problem of how it started in the first place. Watch Dr. James Tours series on abioGenesis.
Then comment on how this impossibility called life could’ve formed by chance. God’s best
T-shirt I want:
I struggle against entropy, therefore I am.
Holy crap! Me also!
Someone please make this
I want the "I struggle against entropy, therefore I am." one too.
You can't beat entropy if you don't exist
@@followyourideas Your statement is just the logical contrapositive of the original poster's.
More generally: you can't do anything if you don't exist.
It’s awesome to see a collab with you (Joe), Matt and the gang from PBS Eons!
Plz make 1 hour long documentary on this topic.
With lot more elaboration of course.
I just love how you guys explain things.
"Are you still using RNA to store your genetic information? Switch to DNA and get your life started, TODAY!"
Count Doku: Good, double the helix, double the mutations.
I can imagine Earth sky daddy watching advertising/commercials on tv lmao
Why did I read this in GTA SA ammunition guy voice
lmfao
@@shedidmakethispotatohappy1147 oh god
Comment section was surprisingly civil. Good job
Except for the 'russian bot' who keeps popping in with their conspiracy theories, poor little guy is probably lonely
And the anti-red state rhetoric.
Screw you !! Haha just kidding.
Not really
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y did u post this comment?
y did u watch dis vid?
y did u make a yt account?
y did u click this browser?
y did u buy ur compooper?
y did u born?
y did earth form?
y did the sun form?
y did the cells start working together why did the atoms in the cells become atoms why did the matter the atoms are made out of form why the did matter that atoms is made out of for?????????????????????????????
y did the big bang get sucked into a black hole and exploded?
y am I questioninggggg?
y am I alive????
y did the small universe get attracted by eachother then explode
my theory is gravity won over dark matter that's why the small universe or anything or whatever meh idk
y did it exist
y does anything exist
@@medchs Experimental science is virgin, it breaks down when confronted to something not observable, that's why physics will never prove multiverse for instance
Maybe there is no y
*Or is it?*
This video was pretty good but in multiple places it is said that life is a "closed system". In fact, the opposite is true: Living things are definitely open systems (thermodynamically speaking) and they would not be able to stay alive if they were not. I think what you meant to say is "enclosed systems" or some sort of "enveloped systems", i.e. they have a boundary between the interior and the exterior of the cell. We like to call them "organization", since it is this very feature gives the general shape of the organisms.
And it makes a clear distinction too: Viruses aren't alive because they have organization ("enveloped system") outside the host cell but they do not have the machinery, or "activity" to sustain their order. The moment they find a host cell, they somewhat gain this activity by stealing the machinery of the cells they infect - but this time they lost all of their "organization". So life requires "activity" (to sustain order, i.e. "metabolism") and "organization" together to create life.
Watch the companion pbs space time video, life from a thermodynamic perspective in discussed in detail over there.
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ah yeah ,this video was pretty good? on wich levels???there wasn t much scientific points,but only religious atheistic ideology.........
@@smithkarine9678 the lack of any religious belief is religious? are you sure you didn’t forget your crazy meds
i ain't reading allat 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯
This channel gives me life.
Alan Telemishev same
Alan Telemishev no it's the RNA that gave us life
As a student of bioinformatics I must say:
Probably one of the best videos on this topic. There is way to much old or misinformation on the internet, it's actually quite infuriating.
Thanks for this vid guys!
Chribit I’m thinking of taking bioinformatics as my major, is it worth it?
Lord Murphy
100%. you probably hear this about any course, but bioinformatics is one of if not the best choice regarding the future. With a degree in bioinformatics you get the tools to advance into any other scientific branch.
you'll be the link between biology and computers... and that is useful for basically anything anticipated in the next decades. Precision medicine, Spacetravel, Artificial Intelligence, Nanobots or just good old curing cancer and aging. A well-paid job is guaranteed.
So yes. 100% worth it. do it. help change the world to the better.
Too*
Lord Murphy he's a student. He can't answer that yet. ;)
I can though ^^ just because I haven't finished learning, doesn't mean I don't know what opportunities i'll have. If you read enough non-fictional books concerned with our future, you'll notice that most of them contain some form of area bioinformatics will be insanely useful for. So yes, bioinformatics is / will be (for me) worth it.
I haven't met anyone who has said otherwise, btw. I'm not just talking about actual bioinformatics-professors. Most of the professors in the fields of biology, chemistry and informatics know the value of this rather new degree course too.
biologists failed to consider the possibility of primordial tacos
You’re a genius.
@@Indoraptoad what about pizza
Crazy Dave would like that.
Is that why RNA comes with extra "GUAC"?
@@xavier4563 i have never met anyone who dont like tacis
I feel like this is more informative than my online classes so i am bunking it to see this....... And guess what I will never regret that!
"Infinity war is the most ambitious crossover event in history"
Crossover? I watched it live on FOX News.
Arolema Prarath this video is the most ambitious crossover event in history
Arolema Prarath you really don’t get it?
I was about to make this joke but someone was 4 parallel universes ahead of me
When did that happen ?
Chemical soup, served up hot and fresh. Made with gnarly space ingredients.
Taste the SUN :D
And much, much later:
Question 2: steal the spice trade.
It wasn't a question, but the Dutch did it anyway
Hey, we can make a religion out of-
No, don't
The sun is a deadly laser
MNNZT BZTT TZT
There’s something ALIVE IN THE OCEAN
Everyone is asking "what is life?" but one is asking "how is life?"
sup
WHY is life? :(
Life is Calvin
Life is pretty depressing
I'll do you one better.... Why is Gamora!
These are timeless topics. Still wonderfully informative after three years.
*5 years*
@@daniyal-syed 5 years and 2 months
If RNA is GUAC how do you get it without avocados being there first.
Checkmate atheists 😤😤😤
Cute
Rewatch minute 6-ending
The same way BaCON preceded bacon.
@Anthony Maurice so? Doesn't mean we can never figure it out. We've been working on it for about 60 years.
"Life isn't a thing that things have, life is what living things do." @DrJoeHanson, may you be quoted for that phrase, or was it borrowed from another source?
That's all me! (as far as I know)
The closest thing that I have in mind is Carl Roger, but it concerns psychology. "Life is a process, not a state of being". In all honesty, that's about 'good life' rather than life in general, but this distinction between process and state has been floating around for some time.
@@RajinderYadav So menopausal women aren't alive?
Sean Nolan You idiot.
@@jeremygilmore3208 they make a point, we shouldn't base 'living' on whether something can reproduce or not
Thanks!!! As a biology teacher, this is one of the best videos about the origin of life I've seen!
I'm posting it to my students right now!
Luis Peña As a biology teacher, are you going to let the students know that they don’t actually answer the question? Instead of tackling the problem of how DNA needs proteins and proteins need DNA he decides to just say “maybe RNA did it” without talking about the impossibility of RNA just popping into existence spontaneously.
This is what’s wrong with the “science education” community. Just throwing out an unverified unprovable theory and acting as though it’s fact. I seem to remember that the scientific process involved being able to reproduce results and prove things by experiments.
Why? So they will learn that PBS doesn't know how life began either? How is this video educational it answers no questions and when it comes to hard fundamental problems he just skips them.
Luis Peña Hello. I was just watching this video. I saw a lecture by Dr James Tour at Waterloo University. It is on UA-cam. I think you will find it very interesting. It is 1 hour 23 minutes long. If you have time, I'd watch it. Si
@@russianbot8423 why? because maybe, some youngsters not influenced by idiotic religions, can answer those questions in the future. not all is known. instead of going the dead end way of explaining unanswered questions with something stupidly simple like "reliogion" I rather have unanswered questions. because: SCIENCE
@@Shadowstar79 Your ideas are blatantly self contradictory, first you say you don't know what the truth is and in the next breath you claim to know it is not God and certainlu not answerable by any religion (not having considered it at all) here is a principle for feeble mind, Occoms Razor favors the 'simple explaination' ( God ) over an absurdly complex theory that requires the laws of physics to work opposite, than they actually do, in order to maybe kinda explain the universe. Your belief in science hinges on fantasy and requires complete blind faith in a CHAOTIC UNIVERSE in order to explain an ORGANIZED UNIVERSE. God is just to easy an answer for you Soo you choose to 'Believe' in indefinite irrational contrarian conjecture and proclaim your tomes of defeated and naive notions and unborn theories to be your own God. You are a stuborn fool blinded by emotion and anger. I hope nothing happens when you die.
I saw this video last year and UA-cam recommended it again to me. No wonder why, I really like this kind of video.
This has to be one of the best videos in the platform. I love how Life needs almost every field in science to at least make sense.
Mitochondria : THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL!!! (⚡Thunder Sounds⚡) 😂😂😂
Ha ha Johra Akter :D
Would that be the ooglederm or the chocoderm in the picture? 1:39
Drum rolls please 😁 ok 😊
I love me some PBS Spacetime! I seriously can’t get enough of that channel. Awesome collab, great video!
I always LOVED the struggle against entropy definition of life. Not just for living things, but for MY life in general, and seemingly, most other peoples' lives as well. It feels like we're always struggling against that entropy to put more order into our lives, to build them up from the ground (usually?) and to make them into something considered useful or successful, depending on your goal. Of course these are generalizations. Your mileage may vary. =P
It's so cool that such a notion applies to different levels of analysis!
Entropy should be seen as motion.
@@waldwassermann Why?
@@waldwassermann : Everything is in motion. Entropy is increasing disorder.
the effects of civilization to evolution is a very interesting subject
This isn't going to sit well with the Kentucky school board.
Or Texas, Tenn., MS, AL, etc.
Yup. All these could haves over a long time span stuff sure proves a lot. How many could haves are in this 15 min video?
@@brittanybatrez4537, and I love how they talk so confidently; so matter of factly, like they have hard evidence with no opposition.
Brittany Batrez even if everything in the video gets proven incorrect, it still doesn’t mean god did it.
@@scottmalleus4847, as just a small part of what I said that you all ignore, "Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it."
What you are is a lazy dumbass. You're too lazy to think. You make excuses for why you shouldn't do a damn thing. It's because your love of truth is way down on the list.
Face it, you're a pathetic human being who gets relief just word farting as if you are actually some sort of intellectual. Let me inform you, you are a dumbass.
I’ve watched this video several times. Love it. The perfect compliment to a biology course I’m listening to from great courses. Keep up the great work!
This is the most ambitious crossover even in history . PERIOD !!!
Avengers: Infinity War
FULL STOP*
Wow. The RNA origins actually answers so many questions I had! Thanks so much for explaining this!
“As a biologist I can tell you this is much harder than it sounds”
Exactly this is not really science
They dont know take it out of the biology books miller and rnA no we cant make rna in the lab its brought in to the lab and nothing happens james tour please blah blah oh boy
I hope no one takes it as a deep explanation, it's obviously harder, but this video is a great overview
@Stefano Portoghesi watch james tour yes it did but why you needs lipids carbohydrates etc in one place time is the enemy create life in the lab and i will agree
@Stefano Portoghesi same old argument politics science and religion watch ravi zacharuis in what are you so afraid of comment and frank turek will calm the common cold
A mega-collab between my three favourite UA-camrs! THAT's life!
We have no idea how life exactly came about.
The building blocks of life as we know it are chemicals called amino acids. We know that they can form naturally, in lightning strikes and other energetic phenomena. But how did we get from amino acids to RNA, the fundamental unit of advanced life, is a complete mystery. How many times did that happen independently? Once? A zillion times? We don't know because we have no idea what the mechanism is.
Some people argue that it happened so rapidly on Earth, that the probability must be high. Therefore, there must be abundant life near other stars. But we really don't know. It is conceivable that the probability is so tiny, that if you plug it into Drake's equation you find that we expect life to have formed only once in the entire universe.
My own guess (and this is not a scientific theory) is that there was a precursor form of living molecule that was capable of carrying limited genetic information, much less than RNA, and still capable of reproducing. When RNA developed, the more primitive form of life could not compete, and was literally eaten up.
There is a science fiction story that illustrates this. A group of advanced computers rules the world. One little baby computer asks, "How did computers come to being?"
The mommy computer answers, "We don't really know. We can trace our beginnings back to a microprocessor that was first created in what we call year zero" [in human years, this corresponds to the late 1900s, but mommy computer doesn't know that], "but we can't conceive how that first microprocessor was created. It's too complex to have come about by chance. Maybe there was a primitive life form that preceded it, and which is now completely wiped out. Carbon is on the same part of the periodic table as Silicon, so some people think it might have been a carbon-based life form. But carbon doesn't make very good electronic circuits, so I think this idea is foolish."
Brilliant :)
The amazing thing is 4 of those amino acids link up in many ways to create the real life, that is all. I saw an article where they tried to insert additional amino acids into the chain and found one other but it had to engineered to work, so 4 is all there is out of 22 amino acids. There could have been 0 or 2 amino acids that were compatible, both which might not be enough for complex programming of life. The periodic table and how thinks link up is another amazing thing that is needed for what we see around us, that probably could be different and break everything. The quantum parameters could be slightly different, which again would mess things up. If you are looking for evidence of some outside force manipulating things, science and how minor variations and just the right balance of things would be a logical starting point instead of fiction written by people with little understanding of how things work.
@@mykofreder1682 what fiction and people that don't know stuff are you referring to? In fact synthetic dna has been created in the lab successfully, it has an extra two amino acids, they named them x and y, so instead of the usual atgc this new one has atgcxy. They needed to use bits of an already existing cell to create the viable synthetic cell.
@@mykofreder1682 they successfully added two making a synthetic form of life with 6 letters of dna code
If the building blocks of life were around and time shuffled them over & over for basically an eternity with trillions of planets; odds say random chance will eventually come up 7 or 11!
10:17 the only thing the education system teaches around the world lmao
What is life?
Baby don’t evolve me,
Evolve me,
No more.
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I guess life is life (nanananana) was too easy.
I LOLed
“Must work to avoid decay” so people who gave up are already dead.... depressing...
Use it or lose it
Actually, it is the germ line which survives. Every single living thing alive can directly trace it's germ line to our Last Universal Common Ancestor. That is what I call 'One finger up to Entropy.'
As something that is so elegant and understandable as this, why do so many people refuse to understand it?
Because many of us were taught that life begets life and that's not likely to change until it can be clearly demonstrated how non-living material will self-assemble into a biological organism.
If you believe all of this, then can you please explain it to me how a computer came to be a computer? Even if i say given as much as time as the age of the earth. Would you ever gonna have a comouter who has a cpu that knows how to compute own its own from the start, a cpu fan to keep it cool so that it doesnt over heat, a gpu that output anf compute graphics to help display its enviroment, a motherboard for the setup and everything, some rams to help and compensate its computation, and even has a case for protection when it doesnt know whats coming such the existence of weather like rain and etc? Not to mentiona comouter own its doesnt even know what to do from the start, it cant even do 1x1 until someone created it and programmed it to do so or even anything that its capable of today, so you can find all of these material like the metal or copper that was used to build the sam comouter, but does it mean the comouter came to be what it is by chance, F NO!!!! NEVER!!!! NO for all externity, NO for sure if you brains.
Henry Bones with all the intermediate advanced grammar you’re using it seems you’re giving of the im smart vibe so if ur that smarty answer ur own question
Understanding is not something one can refuse, it is grown from facts, and thinking to become knowledge and integrated into other knowledge to become an understanding or in the Latin a standing in the midst of (facts and knowledge.) If people don't understand something it's because there isn't a group of facts and knowledge to stand in the midst of or it hasn't been portrayed with skill and effectiveness. Making a glamor to give the impression of life from non life doesn't provide the substance of life from non life. If you simply asked for evidence of real life from non life before accepting it as fact you would be with those who think for themselves and hold to the facts. Cheers. Sincerely David
If it is so easy and simple, can you tell us why so far zero scientists have managed to make life from non-life and I'll bet you that will not chance any time soon. If you think the video explained how life automatically comes to exist from non-life I think you didn't understand the video that well.
I think the reason why the question of where life came from is so complex is because we're foolishly looking for one solution when there are probably multiple solutions that all helped get us where we are.
No. Only one according to infinite regress or reverse reasoning.
@@waldwassermann Which is why we will never find the answer, there isn't just one correct answer.
Then the search should be easier given more chances for discovery!
Woah...I just Now Realized..as he said 'Why?' is not the question for science, the question science answers is 'How'
How is for science and why is for philosophy.
Did anyone catch the moment at 1:43 where the parts of the bacteria are rubber, a nougat core, and a chocoderm?
PBS Space Time + Eons + It's okay to be smart
Greatest crossover in the nerd history!
Human life complicated, return to monke
Edit: Just returned to monke, but monke life still complicated, return to chemical soup, multicelluar life mistake.
I will return in to a protein
Edit 1: how about amino acids
Edit 2: i will now be an atom
Edit 3: maybe i will be just a Quark
Edit 4 : y'know wat about to be *N O T H I N G*
Return to squirrel-like monkey ancestor noob
What if monkey have shotgun and money 🤪😳
@@Algeriawindows69 I'm glad people are beginning to open their eyes to the serious problems of the origins of life and of evolution! Science knows all about simple life forms. They just don't know how to turn them on! Trust me, they've been trying EVERYTHING since the 50's!
Even if science could create the perfect physical human body they still can't give it consciousness as we know it! The sad part is that people would believe in God if they didn't have to worry about being laughed at and called crazy.
Ight so my oldest ancestor was made in a hot lake? Cool
chilling with hot hydrogen bubbles. Even it got more action than me
Wait.... Are you cat giorno?!
In simplest terms I personally define life as "a looping chemical reaction". Biology is really a sub branch of chemistry.
@Shreya Yadav
Actually, chemistry is not only physics, it's 100% quantum mechanics. Since that's what governs chemical reactions.
@@lordgarion514 which we can’t figure out. We can figure out what happens FROM quantum mechanics, but we really don’t know what’s going on on a sub-elementary level
I have an even simpler definition. God created life. That's much easier to believe than life sprang up from nothing! Did DNA evolve too? I find it remarkable how people will deny the obvious just so they won't have to believe in a divine being!
@@saturn722 LOL, So saying that your God that is infinitely more complex and advanced than any living being in existence sprang up from noting is more rational? I'm sure your going to say, "but but God always existed" as you also claim something far less complex couldn't have always exist.
And yes, as any educated person who studied life at all would tell you, DNA did evolve too, from RNA.
What I find remarkable is how people with no education on a topic deny all basic facts about that topic just so they can believe in a magic man in the sky.
@@SniperScope99 quantum mechanics is just the “tip”. 😂
Could you make a video on smell?
Already did! ua-cam.com/video/-yEtBps-BnI/v-deo.html
It's Okay To Be Smart hadn't seen it before, will be sure to check it out.
Loved this video btw :-):-)
Diffusion
It's Okay To Be Smart or diiiiiiiiidddd!!! You!!!
smellivision! Oh wait you didn't say a video that smells
Normie: the building blocks of life!
Me an intellectual: mmmm primordial soup.
In other words, once molecule(s) could copy-paste itself, life began.
@May Ling isnt that copy-paste?
You're right, the fact that some molecules self-replicate is the reason life is inevitable. May Ling is talking about cellular life. You are talking about life more generally, and you are correct.
@@crowmollymedia6480
Glad someone get it.
I think its more kinda like, copy -> edit -> paste
@@niko-ni6ps the editing happen when sexual reproduction happen. Back then, its only about making copies.
Not followed this channel before, but I've learned to trust PBS Spacetime and Eons' recommendations.
Andrew Wright +
Same :P I had heard of it before, but the name made me feel like it was directed towards a younger audience, so I hadn't checked it out yet. It seems to be pretty good though :)
All the channels from PBS Studios are great and there's something for everyone. Do check them out if you haven't.
You're not going to regret it.
This was awesome. Thank you to everyone at It's OK to Be Smart!
Quick suggestion: please make sure your presenters are not speaking at a comprehensible speed. The second gentleman spoke very quickly, so I missed a lot of what he said. I will go back to rewatch and turn the playback speed to 0.80 though just because this episode was so good.
I really liked the voice of the Space Time guy, it felt nice to listen :)
I was not subbed to him but his video endded up being my favorite of the three
PBS Spacetime was the only one I was subbed to until now :P
It's ASMR SpaceTime.
PBS Spacetime was the first thing I subbed (I mean PBS ones)
they have THE best black hole theory explanation :D
Maria Paula Camelo Botero PBS Spacetime is one of the best channels on UA-cam. Not only does it teach you about physics, it also helps you train that awesome Australian accent you always wished to master :)
What happened! I got a notification for this just as I finished work, planned to watch it later and it was gone! 😮
That version… was not supposed to go live. OOOOOOOPS
Oh dear!
It's Okay To Be Smart hello I like physics you like biology but we both like is curiosity .stay curious ....
It's Okay To Be Smart how am i able to watch it? I’m reaching the end of this video!
GooGoowa, this is the version which was supposed to go live.
"why"
Is surely the question for science
"Logic" is fundamental to science which is a part of broader subject "philosophy".
Amazing video I wished my school would play something like this :)
I love science. So many questions can only be answered by science. But there will always be questions science simply can't answer.
Holy crap... the more I hear about Darwin, the more I appreciate his genius. It amazes me how he had such a clear understanding of life that many of his insights have been proven in one way or the other 200 years later. Truly someone I admire greatly!
Turtleman
He wasn’t the 1st or only person, many other biologists came to the same conclusion around his time.
Charles Darwin did not invent the concept of evolution.
One of the interesting theories is that life arose from entrophic tendencies, the need to disperse energy by building organized structures that could transfer energy throughout a closed system much faster.
Yeah I've always wondered that to. People point to humans massive use of energy as unnatural, and I won't deny that it is damaging, but I do wonder if what we are doing is inevitable. The more complex we become the more efficient we become at using larger and larger sources of energy and speeding up entropy. Maybe what we do is natural, and was always going to be the outcome of life's increasing complexity.
i remember the RNA alphabet because my favorite dip is guacamole, and the letters are GUAC
God said Pass the GUAC and life started 👌
Great , very precious information. Thanks.... from Kathmandu
I have to watch this once I get back from work. I just wanted to remark that that is such an "Invader Zim"- esque looking thumbnail.
The most important step (from organic molecules to self-replicating RNA) still seems to be completely in the dark. It might have happened near that underwater vents, sure, but how you get from Micelles and energy to RNA hasn't been touched on at all in this video.
I mean, it's a great video and explains a lot, so I don't want to criticize the video per se but it makes it seem as if we basically know the main steps, which doesn't seem true at all.
Also why isn't Abiogenesis happening right now? Or is it?
Well he said that basic amino acid can stick together when bumped into each other. So they can result in a string. But there's still important question? Why would this string replicate itself?
Hi, I would highly recommend Nick Lane's book 'The Vital Question.' If you haven't time to read that, I would recommend the first chapter of his book 'Life Ascending.'
Checkmate atheists
@@DanielWilianto Hi, I will give you a reply. The answer is that the 'string' of amino acids doesn't replicate. However a 50 base long 'string' of RNA does. In fact, so much so, that in the laboratory these are known as Spiegelman Monsters. The fact that RNA replicates, edits itself, carries the genetic code and can act as an enzyme; led to the RNA World Hypothesis. Different combinations of RNA bases also have a natural affinity with specific amino acids. I hope this helps!
@@suelane3628 I look it up and.. it's fascinating. Does this mean an RNA string is the most basic living being?
*Life finds a way!*
At the end of this, you ask why life started, and suggest that it isn't a question for scientists. But Matt O'Dowd offered an answer within this video that perhaps you didn't catch -- life is inevitable because although individual life forms preserve order within themselves, they can only do so by being even better at increasing the entropy around them.
Close but no cigar.
Also, I have a daughter, and I just realized that you had hank and the rest of you wonderful people are going to be her Bill Nye the science guy :)
David Stinnett you mean bill Nye the gender guy?
M Blake Jr social science is a valid scientific pursuit. Accept that people can be different from yourself. Grow up and engage with society.
David Stinnett. There is too much BS in the social sciences ATM that are not based on facts. I can identify myself as a transpecies that wants to marry and have sex with animals, but that doesn't make my gender valid. How about a white person that identifies as a black person, is this valid? How about a 60 year old man that identifies as a 12 year old girl? Until the Leftards can set some boundaries on what a gender can be or one can identify as then no you can't keep making up BS for the rest of us to just have to accept.
L ogic science is generally defined as a skeptical inquiry of the world. As long as skepticism is maintained, then so is science.
I would be interested in some evidence (preferably from a ‘trusted’ source) for your claim that social sciences are putting out “non-science”
David Stinnett
. Science uses the scientific method test the world and form hypothesis/theories that we can all agree on until more knowledge changes these conclusions. So demonstrate how you would test the above examples using science.
This is so well made, told, explained and illustrated. Wonderful work showing the RNA world hypothesis and the most likely way life arose from chemical evolution. Great to see three of my favourite science channels do an epic crossover like this :).
"life is meaningless"
- everyone having an existential crisis
This channel should replace my intro to evolutionary biology class. Taught me the same information, just faster and better.
"A self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution."
- NASA's definition
Well that makes viruses living, right?
@@chloepechlaner7806 I always thought viruses were living
Chloe Pechlaner not actuall, they don't sustain themselves chemically, they basically float around until they find the correct cell to reproduce.
@@chloepechlaner7806 Nope. Viruses are not SELF-sustaining. They are only sustained by hijacking some cell's machinery.
I love how science talk nowadays is full of jokes, easter eggs and movie references!
The ingredients are Sugar,spice and everything nice.
vijay sekhar
No chemical X?
CHEMICAL X
Nah, that's just the ingredients for little girls. 😄 What about about rest of existence? 😄
Best UA-cam collab ever. More please. Thank you for helping me understand stuff.
Life is...
....a highway?
Also eagle squeak for powerhouse of the cell is editing gold
11:22 So the GUAC came before the tacos...
It is settled science.
I love this channel. they never disappoint me with fascinating things they should teach at school.
But they do
What a brilliant video... now subscribed.
Life: " Anything that can act independently irrespective of its sorrounding or external influence" .
Robots could be classified as life by that, give a year or two
@S C many things can
So stars, black holes, and other celestial objects are technically life?
so literally nothing then
Life is less of an object but an event, a process.
Indeed all in our Universe is events, patterns in the greater Space-Time 4D object that *is* reality. We can only see these patterns in 3D as we are result of these 4D patterns ourselves we see cross-sections of reality, but not the whole thing. That is the illusion of "Time".
Bonus: We don't even see the whole of our cross-sections unfortunately, considering it takes "time" for our brains to process what we see there are tons of things much faster than us that we miss, like lightning, watch it in slow mo, it's amazing: ua-cam.com/video/dukkO7c2eUE/v-deo.html. And on the other end of the spectrum we are too fast for things like the evolution of giant space objects like our Earth and it's continents.
2 issues I have with RNA world
#1 - The building blocks that make up RNA are difficult to synthesize and are easy to destroy.
RNA is composed of 4 nucleotide bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil), phosphate molecules, and ribose (a sugar). However, it is difficult to form and maintain these components simultaneously. Not only are nucleotide bases inherently difficult to synthesize, but they are also unstable at temperatures similar to those of the early stages of the earth when life began to develop. For example, at 100 degrees Celsius, cytosine only has a half-life of 19 days; this is far too short a time period for the first functional RNA molecules to have developed through chance alone.
Another issue is that scientists speculate that ribose first formed due to the “formose reaction,” which involves the formation of sugars (including ribose) from formaldehyde. However, this process is inhibited in the presence of nitrogenous molecules... which include both amino acids and nucleotide bases. Both nucleotide bases and ribose are required for the formation of RNA, and yet, it appears as though the chemical conditions that make the formation of nucleotides more likely are "sharply incompatible" with those conditions proposed for the formation of ribose.
#2 - It does not explain the origin of genetic information
The information capacity necessary to randomly synthesize even one protein of modest length is already astronomical... to speak nothing of the full range of proteins necessary for life. Neither can we appeal to self-organization, because as with DNA, there are no bond affinities that can account for the specific sequence of the nucleotide bases within RNA.
Though RNA theoretically has all the properties required of a molecule that could catalyze its own synthesis, self-replicating systems of RNA molecules have not actually been found in nature. Scientists have engineered partial replicators, but in order for these to have formed by chance in a primordial soup (and later evolved into DNA and proteins), one would need a specific sequence of around 200 nucleotide bases. The odds of an RNA molecule randomly forming into functional RNA that could self-replicate are astronomical... In fact, if one considers all of the seconds that have passed since the beginning of the universe, there still would not have been sufficient enough time to have formed even a single, functionally self-replicating RNA molecule.
Well theres no impossible for god
Thank you very much. Heard Dr. Tour say much the same things. Cool little youtube videos are counting on people not knowing any of this so they can all be amazed at how scientists have it all figured out--except for the fact that they don't.
@Brix Anchor its easier to believe in something that doesn't exist than to face our (subjectively random) harsh and brutal world. How else can we justify all the bad things happening around us? Religion gives us hope and a reason as to why we exist and why we experience traumatizing events. From an evolutionary stand point, religion is a genius way to make us feel life worth like living through. I bet the earliest species of humans killed themselves a lot back then. No hope is truly the worst for an intelligent consciousness. Have you noticed the trend of people becoming less religious every year and the trend of people dealing with less traumatizing events in their life time? We have No need to hunt, kill, fight and run for our lives anymore. What a coincidence that less people get religious every year... It's almost as if our environment is not brutal enough to get an explanation or hope. Maybe one day religious fanatics rule the world again and make the world a worse place to live in. That would skyrocket religion adaption rates.
Add purity of chemical reactants to the list. Mix in a little tar or non-carbon-based compounds and the whole RNA-first idea comes screeching to a halt before it can even come close to getting started.
@@wiredupretro Not to mention the cell membrane and all of the machinery inside necessary to keep it functioning so that it can divide when its time. My prediction is that microbiologists won't get any further on this on my lifetime.
You've done a greater service than my private school science education. When I learned about the experiment making amino acid, our textbook followed that up with, "oh yeah but God still made us." Thank you for educating me more than my paid teachers.
I like the cheeky 2001 Space Odyssey reference at 9:42 🙂👍
1:28 "Regular non-life stuff can easily become cool life stuff."
Me: * looks at homeworks *
Gosh no :(
Many of the listed factors in this video match the autopoiesis hypothesis. Nice video, very well integrated. I'm a biologist and I really appreciate the effort of summarizing something so complex in less than 14 minutes.
Interesting that one aspect of Schrodinger's "What is Life" is ignored: the importance of "consciousness" to the question of "what and how is life?"
can someone cut the "THE POWER HOUSE OF THE CELL" Scene and turns it into either GIF or Video
@Matthew Morycinski why
Here you go, better late than never huh? gifs.com/gif/powerhouse-of-the-cell-3QMBoA
@@marienbad2 Good job!
@@marienbad2 well done
The "It's Okay To Be Smart" guy looks like diet Johnny Knoxville.
Heil Wirklichkeit yessss 😂 i was thinking the same thing
You explain science muuch better than my teacher!! Thank you! ❤
lol
"Life is just a thing that happens," may be the best explanation for life I've ever heard.
"Life on Earth couldn't exist before the Earth existed" No sh*t Sherlock...
We do know where life started, in France, Q showed captain Picard.
Lol
So is guac a source of life?
Millennial life anyway.
Booysens
Very educational and engaging! Learnt a lot from this!
Are we just not going to acknowledge the opening segment...?
YoungTheFish
"Julia Child and the Primordial Soup" at www.smithsonianmag.com. It contains a 9 minute video.
Most satisfying answer to this question I have seen. Great job guys!
Alex Leung , so is the earth alive?
Makes absolute sense, since we're nothing else but neatly arranged molecules...evolution is awesome...
Btw, you guys are so much better than my biochemistry professor!
So catchy, interesting and funny, too!
And now, that song will be stuck in my head (Life is a Highway), until I go listen to it, followed by more songs, to get rid of it. 😄😄
But still, a very interesting video, and great collaboration, folks! Love you and all the PBS channels!
1:43 Best bacteria figure ever X'D
spoodles
Ha ha ha ha ! It's still funny XD
😄 Thanks for pointing that out.
Did all these people go to the same "talking with your hands" school?
It’s called deaf school dummy
Joe: hey guys, it's Joe here.
No one:
literally no one:
Me: JoE MaMA!!!
Truth
one of the best videos on this channel
Could u do a video to commemorate Stephen hawking on subjects such as hawking radiation, his theory about the beginning of our universe (so basically black holes).