#518 - Lee Cronin - What Will Alien Life Look Like?

<p>Lee Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, Head of the Cronin Group Lab and CEO of Chemify.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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...</p> <p><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Sponsors:</strong></p> <p class="p1">Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at <a href= "https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM"><span class= "s1">https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM</span></a> (use code MODERNWISDOM)</p> <p class="p1">Get 15% discount on Craftd London’s jewellery at <a href="https://bit.ly/cdwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://bit.ly/cdwisdom</span></a> (use code MW15)</p> <p class="p1">Get 25% discount on your at-home testosterone test at <a href="https://trylgc.com/wisdom"><span class="s1">https:// trylgc.com/wisdom</span></a> (use code: MODERN25)</p> <p class="p1"><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Extra Stuff:</strong></p> <p>Lee's Lab - <a href= "http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/">http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/</a> </p> <p>Follow Lee on Twitter - <a href= "https://twitter.com/leecronin">https://twitter.com/leecronin</a> </p> <p><a href="https://chriswillx.com/books/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → ht