First and foremost. Before art, I call myself a fan of science. Particularly astrobiology. This field of space science is just chock full of meaty chunks and interesting stuff.
It's as cool as it is, because,
1: I'm a massive scifi nerd, and alien life (plus our interactions with it) are a staple.
2: read number 1.
I have (or had) a youtube channel exploring astrobiology and space science. The channel was pretty rough, and never amounted to much, but the idea of sharing cool science in this way is a neat one. I hope to share some astrobiology and other science news through this blog occasionally.
Get to the point Ben!
Fair enough. Why is this post subtitled "Stirring up the Soup"?
Because essentially life on Earth may have been the result of random factors and elements in the soupy mush from which our solar system formed. It was a vast chemical cloud, full of all manner of coalescing gunk and compounds. It was all acted upon by the enthusiastic and merciless forces of nature. Gravity, heat, chaos, rumbling and tumbling through the miasma.
Think of the primordial solar nebula as a field of raw data: ones and zeroes maybe, being tortured and glitched beyond belief into something that eventually rolls on under it's own steam.
This is, of course, an extremely broad overview of an insanely complex and dynamic interplay of chaotic systems and processes that eventually led to me typing this, and you reading it. All up, our solar system was millions upon millions of years in the making.
I can only hope that all those millions of years of heat, pressure and energy are worth it in the end. Lets make it worth it.
Stuck on Page One..
Ben.