All language subtitles for BBC - Forces of Nature with Brian Cox (2016) - Ep.3 BD 1080p

BRIAN COX: The natural world
is beautiful but complex.

The skies dance with color.

Yay! Yes!

COX: Shapes form...

And disappear.

(CROWD CHEERING)

But this seemingly infinite complexity
is just a shadow of something deeper,

the underlying laws of nature.

(HORSE WHINNYING)

The world is beautiful to look at

but it's even more beautiful
to understand.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

GIRL: Watch out for the brambles.

It's a fact

and one of the great mysteries
about our universe

that everything is made out of
a few simple building blocks

that interact with each other

according to a few simple
laws of nature.

And that applies to everything.

Stars and planets and galaxies
and rocks and oceans

but also to living things.

And that raises
an intriguing possibility.

By looking carefully at nature,
by doing science,

we might be able to understand
what life is.

And, just perhaps, how it began.

The origin of life

is one of the great unsolved
scientific mysteries.

BOY: Let's go over to the tree,
there might be some over there.

Its origin seemed to be lost
in the mists of time.

BOY: I've got a really pretty one here.

But in common with
many scientific mysteries,

there may be answers,

if you ask simple questions.

Why do moths like flying
into the light so much?

Do they do it because...

So they can spread out their wings
and get warm?

COX: What's the deepest question
you can ask about a moth?

I think it's, "How did it come
to exist in the first place?"

We can't go back to
the origin of life on Earth.

We don't have a time machine.

But we do have the moth,

and every living thing
on the planet today.

And these are like little history books.

Their story of four billion years
of life on Earth

is written into every cell in its body.

So, in order to discover
the spark of life,

the origin of the flame,

we just have to learn to read the book.

(CHUCKLES) He's gone.

Living things are far too complex
to understand in one go.

So we have to break
the problem down

into simple questions.

What are the ingredients of life?

How does complex life form
from such simple ingredients?

(EXCLAIMING)

And what was the driving force,

the energy source
that ignited the flame

four billion years ago?

For the first 500 million years
of Earth's history,

there was no life,

just the volcanic violence
of a restless young planet

and the bombardment
of countless meteorites from space.

But somewhere, somehow,

the ingredients of the planet
were transformed.

Inanimate became animate,

and once ignited, that spark
has never been extinguished.

We're searching for our ancestor
from a time when there was no life.

If we are to understand
how life emerged from the ingredients

present on the young Earth,

we must first explore
what those ingredients are,

what the Earth is made from.

(WIND WHISTLING)

There are very few places on our planet

where the pure ingredients of the Earth
can be seen.

But here,
beside a lake of sulfuric acid,

one of the basic building blocks
of the planet

boils to the surface.

This volcano delivers
a valuable pure substance.

Sulphur,

emerging at over 200 degrees Celsius.

It's an alien-looking
cauldron of chemistry.

(MAN SINGING)

Bagio and his father Boudie
go to work on the volcano every day.

They labor to protect
the precious pure sulphur.

(BOUDIE SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

(BOUDIE SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

COX: This crater is
a working sulphur mine.

Sulphur is valuable

because it gets used in
the manufacture of many products,

from sugar to medicine.

But keeping the sulphur pure
is not easy,

because it readily catches fire
and transforms into sulphur dioxide,

a noxious gas.

Bagio and Boudie
are here to fight the fires.

(SPEAKING JAVANESE)

(BAGIO SPEAKING JAVANESE)

(BOUDIE SPEAKING JAVANESE)

(WIND WHISTLING)

COX: It's rare to find
the elements in their pure form

because they tend to react
with other elements.

In the heat of the volcano,
sulphur reacts with oxygen in the air.

It burns.

Sulphur burns blue.

Working in the dark,

the fire fighters
can see the flames clearly.

And it's their job
to prevent them from spreading.

(SPEAKING JAVANESE)

(MEN LAUGHING)

(BAGIO SPEAKING JAVANESE)

(BOUDIE SPEAKING JAVANESE)

COX: Sulphur is an element
that is essential to life.

All living things need it.

(BOUDIE SPEAKING JAVANESE)

But here, in such large quantities,
ignited by an active volcano,

it becomes toxic.

(BAGIO SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

On contact with water
in the eyes and mouth,

the gaseous sulphur dioxide
from the flames

turns into sulfuric acid.

(BOUDIE SPEAKING JAVANESE)

(EXHALES)

(BAGIO SPEAKING JAVANESE)

(BOUDIE SPEAKING JAVANESE AND
INDONESIAN)

COX: Sulphur is one of the 92
naturally occurring chemical elements.

There's no difference between
the sulphur in the wings of a moth

and the sulphur
that pours out of a volcano,

or the sulphur in you and me.

We're made of the same stuff
as our planet,

and there's no mystery in that.

It has to be so
because life emerged from the planet.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

Hydrogen atoms, carbon atoms,
oxygen and sulphur atoms...

These basic building blocks
react and combine

to make everything.

A woodland is a complex place.

There are oak trees, and grass,
and mosses, and ferns,

countless animals and plants

all living together
in a tangled ecosystem.

But there's a simpler
level of description.

Everything is made of atoms.

So, an oak tree is really just
carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen

and a few other bits mixed together.

So, when you look at it like that

it's not really
that complicated at all.

The atoms that make up this woodland

have been on an extraordinary journey
to get here.

Think of a carbon atom in this acorn.

It was assembled in the heart of a star
billions of years ago,

out of protons that were built
just after the Big Bang.

It got thrown out into the universe
in a supernova explosion,

collapsed as part of a dust cloud
to form the sun

and then the Earth,
4.5 billion years ago.

It will have spent
a lot of time in rocks.

It was probably part of some of
the first living things on Earth.

It would have got breathed out
as carbon dioxide

by someone that walked through
this wood 400 years ago.

It will have got into
some ancient oak tree

through the action of photosynthesis,

constructed into this acorn,
fallen down to the ground,

and there it is.

It's got a history
that goes back billions of years.

In fact, a history,

in terms of
the building blocks of carbon,

the protons,

that goes back right to
the origin of the universe.

And in billions of years' time,

when the sun dies
and the Earth is vaporized,

it'll be thrown back out into space
and probably condense into a new world

billions of years in the future.

So, life is just a temporary home

for the immortal elements
that build up the universe.

The atoms are building blocks,
they combine to make molecules,

some of which are terrifically
intricate and complex.

The DNA molecules
in the cells in your body

are made up of billions
of atoms linked together,

carrying the genetic code
to make you.

Exactly how this complexity emerged
is still debated.

But everyone agrees on one thing,

there was a very special theater
from which biology emerged.

The vital ingredient for life...

And these children
know where to find it.

(BOYS SPEAKING SPANISH)

(BOY SPEAKING SPANISH)

COX: The elements hydrogen and oxygen
combine to make water, H20.

Hidden deep in this forest

is a rare and magical sight

that only exists because of
a unique property of water,

a property that makes it
essential to life on Earth.

Biologist Tom Isley has brought
a specialist team here to find it.

ISLEY: This limestone is fantastic here.

The way it's pockmarked
and dissolved away

indicates that there's a lot of water
moving underneath.

MAN: We're going to kill ourselves
if we go down that way.

ISLEY: Yeah, it's slippery.
We'll slide on our ass.

MAN: We'll go that way, yeah.

COX: Only a handful of divers

have the skill to explore
this network of caves.

MAN: So, you're gonna need
those two and this one, yeah?

ISLEY: Yeah.

ISLEY: These caves are one of
the last true, undiscovered, unexplored,

unknown frontiers on the planet Earth.

Very few people,
very few scientists,

go out and do anything
any more dangerous

than what we are doing in cave diving.

COX: This underground cave system exists

because water, the liquid we drink,
can eat through solid rock.

It makes easy work
of the soft limestone

and makes things exceptionally fragile.

ISLEY: The worst thing is
your tanks may wedge in

and literally stick you in a spot

where you can't move
forward or backward.

(TANK CLANKING)

A little bit distracting,

when you're trying to do
something underwater,

to have the cave collapsing in on you.

MAN: Hey, there, welcome back.
Glad to see you.

Oh, man,
that tight spot in there,

I could barely fit through.

Even worse, there's, like,
rocks that get dislodged.

Erm, when they fall down,
it rains down like huge amount...

I say we leave it, like,
24 hours at least, so it clears up.

- OK. OK.
- And then come back, give it another go.

You're gonna lose your own visibility
within seconds.

So there is not much time
to stop and hover and think.

ISLEY: The reason why we go
through these narrow slots,

why we push our bodies
to the limits,

is to find something majestic,
something beautiful on the other side.

But unless you go there,
unless you look,

you're never gonna know.

COX: Deeper into the cave system,
suddenly the water changes.

Underneath the forest,
miles from the coast,

they found the ocean.

It's able to flow underground,

working through the pores
and fissures in the limestone

to end up here,

where the denser, salty sea water
sinks below the less dense, fresh water,

creating a boundary,

a beautiful phenomenon
known as a halocline.

ISLEY:. Now we're in sea water,

we've reached the ocean,
the underground ocean, in planet Earth.

We can see the movement of water,

fresh water going toward the ocean,
salt water being sucked inland.

COX: Water dissolves more substances
than any other liquid.

It does this because
it's a polar molecule.

It has positive and negatively
charged regions,

and these can disrupt the forces
that bind other molecules together.

Bacteria that line the cave walls

feed on the nutrients
dissolved in the water.

ISLEY: You can see these
stringy bacteria hanging down

and they kind of wave in the breeze
as you fly by.

COX: The bacteria, in turn,
are food for other life.

Even in these dark,
isolated environments

with no direct sunlight to power it,

a complex ecosystem can be supported.

It's why, as far as we know,

where there's water on Earth
there's life.

(BOY LAUGHING)

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(BOY SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

COX: Our blue planet
is an interconnected matrix

of rivers and oceans,

transporting the dissolved
ingredients of the Earth

that are integral to life.

The salts and nutrients
that are carried around our planet

are also transported
through our bodies in water.

It's an intimate connection
that every living thing shares

with our blue planet.

Water delivers
the ingredients of life.

Water is a simple molecule,

a couple of hydrogen atoms
and an oxygen atom stuck together.

But its simplicity hides
a wealth of complex chemistry,

the chemistry
that makes life possible.

Hydrogen is the simplest
chemical element.

Its atoms consist
of a single proton,

it's called the atomic nucleus,
surrounded by a single electron.

Oxygen is a nucleus of
eight protons and eight neutrons,

surrounded by eight electrons.

Now, the nucleus is extremely small,
compared to an atom.

If the nucleus, er,
were about that big, let's say,

then the cloud of electrons

would stretch out
way beyond that castle.

I mean, atoms are almost
completely empty space.

Now, the way that
the elements combine

is determined entirely
by the way that the electrons

arrange themselves
around the nucleus.

And that's just down to
the basic fundamental laws of nature

that describe the way
our universe is constructed.

It's very simple.

So, an oxygen nucleus

has room around it
for 10 electrons,

but it only has eight.

That means that two hydrogen atoms
can come floating in

and share their single electron
with the oxygen

and that fills up
the oxygen's outer slots,

and fills up the hydrogen slots,
as well.

Oxygen, hydrogen, H20.

Everything is happy
and you get a molecule of water,

which has radically different properties
to the elements on their own.

Oxygen's just a colorless,
odorless gas.

Hydrogen is a colorless,
odorless gas.

Stick them together
to share those electrons

and you get that stuff,

one of the most complex substances
in the known universe,

the theater that allows life to exist.

Water is the universal solvent.

It carries the ingredients of life,

ingredients that are so important

that living things will go
to extraordinary lengths

to get hold of them.

- It's the end of the Alpine winter.
- (IBEX BLEATING)

This female Ibex
has one thing in mind.

(IBEX BLEATING)

Kids.

She's leading her family
down from the snowline

in search of
a life-giving ingredient.

And it's a search
that's not without its risks.

Rada Bionda is a conservationist,
who studies the ibex.

(BIONDA SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(IBEX BLEATING)

(IBEX BLEATING)

COX: At first glance,
the ibex have everything they need.

They have food and water

but the mother knows instinctively,
not enough.

She's craving something else
and she'll take risks to get it.

The rock that was used
to build this dam

contains essential minerals
that have been dissolved in water,

minerals rich in the calcium
that these animals need to stay strong.

And they'll scale a dam to get them.

(BIONDA SPEAKING ITALIAN)

COX: Without these salts and minerals,
their bones won't grow,

their nervous systems
and muscles can't function.

Movement and co-ordination can falter.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(IBEX BLEATING)

COX: There's a strong bond
between mother and kid,

and the kid will follow her
wherever she goes.

(IBEX BLEATING)

(BLEATING)

(BLEATING)

(BLEATING)

The ibex eventually
make it to the prize.

Salt from the earth,
dissolved in water,

continues on its journey
into their bodies,

where it's used
in the nerves and muscles

that control dexterous,
pincer-like hooves.

Vital ingredients,

carried around by a simple molecule
with remarkable properties.

If water is the theater of life,

then the actors are
the atoms and molecules

that form the structures
of living things themselves.

There are only about 15 or so

that are vitally important
for living things.

There are the obvious ones
like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen.

But also some strange ones,

like rubidium,
or an element called molybdenum.

The reactions between
the elements are the same

in living and non-living things.

But life fine-tunes and controls
the basic chemistry of the Earth

to do extraordinary things.

(MOISWAR SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

(SHEEP BLEATING)

(MOISWAR SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

COX: Moiswar and her family

are preparing for
a once-in-a-lifetime ceremony,

centered around
the chemistry of one element.

Iron.

It lies at the heart of Maasai culture,
in their land and in their blood.

(SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

- (BABY CRYING)
- (SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

COX: Tomorrow, Moiswar's son,
Andika, will become an elder.

(EAGLES SCREAMING)

COX: The family are almost ready
for their guests

but there's something
they must first collect from the land.

(MOISWAR SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

COX: They're looking for red ochre,

a traditional pigment that's been in use
for over 700, 000 years.

(MOISWAR SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

COX: The rock's red color
comes from iron,

which makes up a third
of our planet's mass,

most of it locked away
in the Earth's molten core.

(MOISWAR SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

COX: The iron here
is not in its pure form.

It's combined with oxygen
to form iron oxide,

a red compound that tomorrow
will provide the color of celebration.

(SHEEP BLEATING)

(MOISWAR SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

- (SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)
- (LAUGHING)

(BOTH LAUGHING)

COX: This is the ceremony

that will mark Andika 's
transition into elder-hood.

A bull will be slaughtered

and he'll drink its blood.

Just like the red ochre from the earth,
the blood is rich in iron.

Today for Andika,
blood symbolizes power and strength,

surrounded by his people,
decorated in ochre, iron oxide.

(MOISWAR SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

(MAASAI SINGING)

COX: It's a proud moment
for Andika and his family.

Wherever there is iron and oxygen,
they can react,

whether it's in the veins of the Earth
or the arteries of life.

(SINGING CONTINUES)

(BOTH SPEAKING OWN LANGUAGE)

(MOISWAR LAUGHING)

(MAASAI SINGING)

COX: Whether it's in you and me
or the rocks of the Earth,

the fundamental chemistry is the same.

But the way life uses chemistry
is exquisite.

Just think about the reaction
between iron and oxygen in blood.

And rust.

Iron is an atom

that really would like to, if it could,
get rid of a few electrons.

Oxygen, on the other hand,

is an atom that would like, if it can,
to receive some electrons.

So if you put them together
and they stick together,

that's what we call rust.

And the process that makes
our blood red is similar.

We're almost rusting, but not quite.

One of the jobs of your blood
is to take oxygen from your lungs

and transport it around your body
to where it's needed.

So that means you need some structure
that can bind oxygen to it,

but quite gently,

so that it can be carried
to where it's needed

and then released easily.

Well, iron likes to stick to oxygen,
so in your blood you have iron atoms.

But they're surrounded
by nitrogen atoms,

four of them.

And that's surrounded by a big ring
of carbon and oxygen atoms.

That whole thing is called haem,

and then four of those
are stuck together

and that thing's called hemoglobin.

Its job is to carry oxygen around.

When the oxygen attaches,
your blood turns a much brighter red.

And then the hemoglobin
can carry that oxygen around.

But because of that structure,
it's so delicately tuned

that when the oxygen
gets to where it's needed,

in your brain for example,
it can be taken off.

Your blood gets less red

and goes back to your lungs
to get some more oxygen.

So, biology is really about using

the natural chemical reactions
of the elements,

but tempering them and fine-tuning them
with intricate and complex structures,

in order to do something useful,

which in your case is to live.

We are of the Earth,

constructed from a ready supply
of chemical elements,

forged in the stars.

Elements that react
on our oxygen-rich planet

and play their roles
in the theater of life,

water.

But there's one more
vital thing life needs,

energy.

The final clue we need
to search for the origin of life

can be found in the details
of how living things control energy.

Every year, between March and June,
an animal rises from the deep.

It harnesses
the chemistry inside its cells

to produce an almost
supernatural display.

For the locals,

this alchemy makes
the creature a delicacy.

But for fishermen, like Mr Urakami,
it makes them highly profitable.

(URAKAMI SPEAKING JAPAN ESE)

COX: Mr Urakami
is banking on this being

the most lucrative catch of the year.

And it's not fish he's after.

(ALL SPEAKING JAPANESE)

COX: Away from the fishing boats,
these people are having a bit more luck.

Glowing lights signal the arrival
of the firefly squid.

Tiny organs called photophores
emit a deep blue light.

In the depths, this light
may be used to attract prey.

But the greatest light show
is saved for the shallows,

where they come up to spawn.

(MAN SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(WOMAN SHRIEKING)

COX: It's a one-way trip.

After they've spent
their last remaining energy,

their glow fades
as they give themselves up to the tide.

Out at sea, the squid are also rising.

(URAKAMI SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(URAKAMI SPEAKING JAPANESE)

COX: The squid are exploiting
something fundamental.

Chemical reactions can release energy.

Here the energy is released
thanks to the reactive nature of oxygen.

It wants to combine with other elements
in a reaction known as oxidation.

In the squid,
biological molecules called luciferins,

built out of simple elements
like carbon, sulphur and nitrogen,

react with oxygen
to form oxiluciferin.

When that process releases energy,
there's a blue light.

(MAN SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)

COX: An exquisite display.

(MAN SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

COX: For Mr Urakami,
this is the spectacle he lives for.

(URAKAMI SPEAKING JAPANESE)

COX: It's a rare
and beautiful sight in nature.

But the chemistry of oxidation
is fundamental to all animals.

There's a reason we breathe oxygen.

It fuels the chemical reactions
that power us.

They release the energy
to build and maintain

the complex structure of our bodies.

But it's the precise way
life controls this flow of energy

that's the difference
between a volcano and a squid,

between raw chemistry and life,

between a moth and a flame.

GIRL 1: See, that one
looks like an old man.

GIRL 1: That one there.
GIRL 2: Oh, that's nice.

(LAUGHING)

COX: Moths and flames
always seem to go together.

And in fact, in a basic chemical sense,
they're very similar.

Candle wax is essentially food.

It's a collection of long-chain
carbon molecules.

And in the candle,

that food reacts with oxygen
to produce carbon dioxide, water,

and release energy,
which is the flame.

Inside the moth,
exactly the same thing is happening.

Food is reacting with oxygen
to produce carbon dioxide and water,

and release energy,
the energy that powers life.

That's called respiration.

It sounds quite simple.

We burn our food to release
the energy we need to live.

What do moths eat in the winter?

COX: It's not that simple.

But simple questions
lead to the deepest answers.

In this case, to the origin of life.

The moth doesn't use the energy
released from food directly.

It does something way more complicated.

It uses that energy to pump protons,

the building blocks of atomic nuclei,
across membranes.

Billions of them.

And so do you.

And so does every
living thing on the planet.

In the time it's taken me
to say this sentence,

you have pumped more protons
across membranes

than there are stars
in the observable universe.

And then all those protons are allowed
to cascade back down proton waterfalls,

and little nano machines
with little water wheels

stick into that waterfall
and spin around,

and produce molecules called ATP,

which are the universal
batteries of life,

which are then finally used
to power your biology.

It is incredibly complicated
and, to be honest, a bit weird.

This complicated and weird chemistry

powers practically
every living thing on Earth.

But it had to start somewhere.

And it may have begun
before there was life.

There is a place where
this strange chemistry exists today.

But not in a living thing.

This may be the clue
to how you get from the Earth

to you and me.

This fjord in Iceland
is one of the few places on Earth

where you can see
how life could have emerged

from a restless young planet.

BOGASON: My next-door neighbor
was this old lady,

telling me the stories about
the things she saw from the sea.

I have been diving there many times,
so I knew this place.

I didn't believe this old lady.

COX: Curiosity drove
diver Erlendur Bogason

to an extraordinary discovery.

BOGASON: So, I called my friend Arm}
the fisherman,

and asked him to take me to this place.

(LAUGHING)

(BOTH SPEAKING ICELANDIC)

COX: Biologists knew of places

where the chemistry of life
emerges from the Earth.

But they're all thousands of meters
below the surface of the ocean.

These two men stumbled on a place
where you can literally touch it.

BOGASON: I was, like, stressed because
you are going alone somewhere to dive

and you don't know what
you are going to find.

And when I just see
this huge, white thing,

it looked like a giant.

It was an unbelievable sight.

Wow! It's beautiful.
It's something incredible.

COX: Erlendur had discovered
a hydrothermal vent.

But unlike those in deep ocean,
you can swim right up to this one.

The vent is an outpouring of fresh water

that's been heated by Iceland's
geothermal energy.

BOGASON: I took my glove off,
put my arm into hot water,

it was, like, burning hot.

COX: By studying vents like these,

scientists discovered
that the chemistry of life

exists in a non-living thing,

in the Earth.

BOGASON: I called this scientist
and told him about this.

We went back for him
to take water samples.

COX: To create a spark of life,

all you need is a battery
with a flow of charged particles,

in this case protons.

And to power the battery
you need nothing more

than water from the vent
and some sea water.

Thank you.

To show it works,

you just need to connect it all
to a voltmeter.

And that is the spark of life.

Now, why would I say that?

Well, this water,
taken from the vents,

is alkaline.

And this sea water
is relatively more acidic.

That means that there's
an excess of protons

on this side of the battery
than this side.

And there's that waterfall,
that cascade of protons.

The same thing that's happening
in the cells in your body,

in the cells
in the body of seagulls,

and, in fact, the cells in the body
of every living thing on the planet.

Waterfalls of protons powering life.

And that's the clue.
That's the smoking gun.

The theory is
that the chemistry of life,

the beginnings of the assembly
of complex molecules

all the way up to
the first living things,

to DNA and everything
we think of life today,

was built, was constructed,
in conditions like this.

The waterfall,
the cascade of protons,

is the driver of complexity,
the spark of life.

It's the exquisite control
of the proton waterfalls

that separates life from chemistry,
the moth from a flame.

So just spare a thought
for what your body is doing now.

I mean that sandwich you just ate
before watching this program,

you're burning that in oxygen,
it's the oxygen that you breathe in.

But you are not using the energy
that gets released directly.

You're using it to pump protons around.

You pump them
across little membranes,

creating a voltage,
about 30 million volts per meter,

in the cells in your body.

That's the voltage of a lightning bolt.

That's the spark of life.

And that's the clue
that tells you the origin of you.

The most distance ancestor of you
wasn't a living thing at all.

It was a geological thing.

It was most likely to be a vent,
like the one we're floating over now,

in some ocean four billion years ago.

The very earliest
life of our planet.

From a sandwich to a bolt of lightning,
you are a remarkable machine.

For me, this theory
of the origin of life

is the perfect example
of the power of science.

It's a grand, sweeping idea
that comes from exploring in detail

the way that living things
control their energy.

Look, it's slightly
vibrating its wings.

COX: From asking questions

like, "What's the difference
between a moth and a flame?"

GIRL: This one's going for a walk.

(LAUGHING)

COX: But the answer
is a wonderful story.

At this instant,
in the cells in your body,

you're recreating the conditions
that were present

in the oceans of the primordial Earth.

You are just chemistry.

But what chemistry!

The Earth is your ancestor
and a restless planet is your creator.

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