#518 - Lee Cronin - What Will Alien Life Look Like?
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Lee Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, Head of the Cronin Group Lab and CEO of Chemify.
The job of deciding what life is, how it originates and the different forms it could take might sound like a task for UFO theorists but it's actually in the realm of chemists like Lee. This means that some of the biggest questions humanity has rest on his lab's shoulders.
Expect to learn why Lee believes that there is life everywhere in the universe, his theory on the origin of life here on earth, why we haven't seen any aliens yet, whether Robin Hanson's Great Filter hypothesis is true, what common traits all types of life will have, the most exotic types of life forms Lee has imagined and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Lee Cronin, he's the |
| 0:04.8 | regiast chair of chemistry at the University of Glasgow, head of the Cronin Group Lab and CEO |
| 0:10.5 | of Chemify. The job of deciding what life is, how it originates and the different forms it might |
| 0:16.4 | take, sounds like a task for UFO theorists, but it's actually in the realm of chemists like Lee. |
| 0:22.6 | This means that some of the biggest questions humanity has rests on his lab's shoulders. |
| 0:28.5 | Expect to learn why Lee believes that there is life everywhere in the universe. His theory |
| 0:33.6 | on the origin of life here on Earth, why we haven't seen any aliens yet, whether Robin Hansen's |
| 0:38.8 | great filter hypothesis is true, what common traits all types of life will have, the most exotic |
| 0:44.4 | types of life forms Lee has imagined, and much more. In other news, this episode is brought to you |
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