Can we create life in the lab from scratch? | Lee Cronin and Lex Fridman 

Consider the simplest form of metabolism (never-mind ATP synthase) Imagine the sequence of events required to generate that from *scratch*

It was sure a lot easier to explain a hundred years ago when we didn't know how complicated the problem is

sure, let's say we find out creating life is easy.. but then you have to ponder how easy is creating habitable conditions ( sun at right distance, axial tilt held stable by large moon, guardian jupiter etc)

I always say we are the creators of the aliens we want to meet … if we start making life now in many ways, making many species , let thousands of years pass and life will be like Futurama … becuz we started it. Idk I’m high asfuck

I wonder how far off we are from actually knowing how DNA works. Right now we're basically replacing scorched wires in an old TV with new wires. A far cry from an electrical engineer who could DESIGN the thing. Being able to create a custom DNA sequence from a clean sheet and KNOW what it will make. . .it makes my head hurt just thinking about it. Which piece of code do you put where to make sure that the seed will sprout but only AFTER it passes through the gut of a mammal, and why?

So we still can't do something that happened at random in nature?

I can make life from scratch. All I need is some cinnamon rolls, a car battery and some pizza pizza creamy garlic dipping sauce.

It's all fun and games until you create the blob.

If we could create life it would give us a big insight on what life can be on other planets one of my biggest questions being is DNA a natural phenomenon or will other forms of life do it differently with their own version of dna or w.e it is we find

From scratch? How about from nothing? That happened . Can you imagine the power that being has?

James Tour!

By the definition everythin new only after it's discovered it is being analyzed and our knowledge develops further. So, knowing this, it is simply not possible to predict if someting kills us all or not.

well said

The trouble with building life from scratch is that you need homochiral nucleotides, homochiral polysaccharides, you have to battle degradation and once you have the nucleic acid, they have to functional enough to code for functional proteins, which means you need functional ribosomes. Also, the cell needs to be metabolic and be able to replicate. That's just scratching the surface, it's actually way more complex than that.

What if we’re the result of “origins of life bomb” from a long gone, or just distant civilization, that could possibly still out there spreading those “bombs” in other galaxies. Maybe the reason we can’t find other life is because we were the first products of the “bombs” to become technologically advanced enough to actually search for other life.

Boston Dynamics: Boy do we have a surprise tomorrow!

Are chemicals, particles, and elements considered living things? Because bonds, and reactions, still exist even if organic doesn't. So in that terms what would be the definition of life.?

Fascinating topic, wonder if they can create life and that life can create some more life :D

To save you almost 11 minutes - so far the answer is no.

Is there any evidence that life has originated more than once on earth outside of the first evolutionary chain?

this is how pokemon began LOL

Guys what do you think is more likely to happen first? The creaton of nuclean fusion or the creation of a self-replicating life form like a cell from dust?

I wish Lex Fridman would invite Steven Meyer onto his show.

I sure hope that Cronin isn't supposing James Tour or Stephen Meyer, for example, in this dumbed down dismissal of creationists' critique of OoL research. And as to good faith, you all have made exceedingly bold claims of what you have and will accomplish in this area of research which have grossly mislead the public.

Surely that can be achieved on a super computer,

It’s already been done. Non results. Just accept it. There is a creator. Life is too complex

The first person to create life inside a lab is probably going to be Bret Chrysler. He does horrible things to dogs.

I honestly feel like we was a lab creation by another civilization of beins and it cycle keeps going which explains the infinity theory of the universe.

Amino acid would be still the same as Miller Ulrey showed.

Do it from atoms and real building blocks.

I wonder what intelligent life would look like that lives not on H20, but on methane, or something else.

I doubt it.

Did he honestly say “ put sand in a box and wait for life to come out” maybe I didn’t hear him properly because that would be incredibly stupid.

Life is so complexed. Just create an atom of Oxigen out of scratch, means joining quarks.

What if it isn’t possible to create life from a sterile environment. That would mean life came from somewhere else. Maybe it came here on an asteroid. Maybe there is a completely different realm of the universe with different rules where life can be created from nothing.

No and we are not close

We even can't creat life from life out side body.we provide environment for test tube babies but we don't grow them out side body as young ones so why don't believe someone is present who created the life from scratch.

Interviewer is interrogating like a spy😅

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Amazing how being illogical has become an emblem of being highly educated!

Better question, why would you want to? Science can probably create manbearpig, but that doesn't make it right. Do science majors just sleep during the required ethics class?

This wonder is on words 'beginning' & 'end' not regarding from 'birth' to 'death' but from both ends of a spectrum where either pray or eaten, & between where not defenseless. Re. retrocausality. I'll explain this in layman's terms using nature as a guide rather than machines & particles & scientific terms which I tend to think keeps people in the dark. I"m said to take an interest in quantum' mech. I wonder it's actually quantum that took an interest in me. No one seems to be able to tell the difference. Suits me just fine. So here goes..✍️😉🌞✍️ The feathers over some birds, & the human head of hair come speckled, meaning rings of glowing light expand & retract upon it under sunlight as an observer approaches or backs away. We appear as though we're (1) watching an observer with eyes in our blind spot as does a butterfly & (2) are an observer between ourselves & an observer, shadowing them, as retracting & expanding rings give the illusion something without body be same proximity to them whether we remain still or not or whether they're backing away or drawing near. Does a butterfly which can't see have circles that look like eyes on its wings, to compensate for those wings making it appear bigger than its body & the colours they are making them look more spectacular in the daylight to be eaten for, then what is it we can't do when we be an invisible shadowing creature besides ourselves? Perhaps we can't see we live in a uni-multirealm of different sized same universe, not unlike the expanding & retracting rings of light in our hair. Are Alpha & Omega proximity relative & not relative to birth & death? The way we're born relative to the way we die may not be relative to life as lived about the uni-multirealm which has neither beginning or end besides at what point observed at. If God & our & the uni-multirealm be expansion had used deduction & vice versa (expansion & retraction both are once when 'beginning' just means from when so close observing us our shield be active, & 'end' mean where from we're observed from either too far or so close it inactive, then does it make sense that one would die should they see god if to die is all there is left to do besides begin & end as in expand & retract which go on forever? Is to be Alpha & Omega (as in expansion & reduction both) proximity relative & not relative to birth & death, however is birth & death also proximity relative otherwise but have to do with when too far or too close we're able to be observed? A predator stalks its prey from a distance the light ring defence be down, to race close enough to that prey the light ring defense be down too. Our only seeing this one universe & not the uni-multirealm of different sized same universe, might this mean we're either too close or too far from it or both, & that 'beginning & end' to who see their home as theirs alone & defenseless could only mean 'birth to death'? Is that we're blind to what & where we are proven by the rings of light we not observe ourselves being other than ourselves, the way that the butterfly being colourful & larger than itself proves it's blind to how it's observed & as to its proximity? So. Once were blind & now we see? Or is it we're like the butterfly, with defence mechanism respective & irrespective of we're born prey, where beginning & end could only mean from birth to death? ✍️😉✍️ All I write is free. please help yourself. Free. From scratch.

I create life every night 😊

God lex is kinda asking some slow questions

Answer: NO Because that would require God-like intelligence and we are severely lacking there....ALL OF US!

If we could create biological life from sand imagine where this research could eventually lead to, what if we discovered/created the ultimate biological life form that can survive on Earth, I wonder what it would be like

It's already been done using frequency... some dude did experiments in the early 1900s and he put a test tube in a beaker, the test tube had pure fresh distilled water, and the beaker had dna suspended in the solution, using frequencies he was able to form the exact same DNA in the test tube.. there was also more testing done with microbes and such getting similar results.. I guess it's not creating new life, but he did create life forms from clean water, obviously his research was rejected by the mainstream and his colleagues, the research never ended up going anywhere just like the countless other researchers that either got ridiculed or had funding pulled and labs shut down, there's plenty of tech that's been hidden and kept from public.. it's undeniable and if you believe everything is open and nothing has been supressed, then you my friend are a fool and just simply havnt studied history..

Abiogenesis.

We're nowhere near, and, there's really no benefit to doing so.

7''00"....By the way, whos the guest? Let the man talk!

You can’t make carbon or electrons

but thats the point it is a terminator tomorrow I mean if ya can't figure out how it began in PRIMORDIAL earth which should be relatively easy if it was that easy then it shouldn't be that difficult to replicate. I know throw some stuff in a sterile water drum and wave some magic spells over it. Maybe that'll do it.

Look up "xenobots".

Its never going to happen. What ever you create guy, if it cannot replicate its not life. Good luck. And your "poor" description of a life form seems to be a foreshadowing for what you would like to deem life but won't be.

Is Lex stoned?

Blahaha

Lol this kid was demolished by James Tour… get him on.

Can’t you just keep perfecting the sex robot…and robots designed to kill people….which are men’s two favorite things to do in life!!! Can’t you just perfect that - and create sports robots for your personal entertainment, who can fight each other in arenas? Do that with your billions instead of feeding the starving, and don’t solve the pollution problems whatever you do!!! DON’T DO THAT!!

Only the creator can make life from non life, all any scientist can do is take Gods work and manipulate it using the laws he created.

(22:73) إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ لَنْ يَخْلُقُوا ذُبَابًا وَلَوِ اجْتَمَعُوا لَهُ O people, an example is presented, so listen to it. Indeed, those you invoke besides Allah will never create [as much as] a fly, even if they gathered together for that purpose. And if the fly should steal away from them a [tiny] thing, they could not recover it from him. Weak are the pursuer and pursued.

You can’t don’t waist your time

God created Life from Nothing no Atoms no nothing . Good luck with your science and your Quantum Computers 😂😂😂😂

Humans will never duplicate the lord's creation no matter how hard they try.

U see this is the problem , When our scientists instead of solving current problems, would create life or play with viruses just to prove something to some fanatics 😑

Harbouring psychopath and talking about philosophy about life??? No MERCY for any Criminal not even life sentence.

This guy spitting up nonsense.

Short truthful answer…. Not even a clue…. Not even in right field in the tall weeds!!

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