The Fermi Paradox explained: show me the phosphorus (science video).
In this half-hour-long video, Isaac Arthur examines how the genesis and origin of life may require a very rare and delicate mixture of certain chemicals.
One of those is phosphorus, and trying to figure out how we ever got enough of it in Earth’s primordial soup for life to form in the first place has long puzzled scientists.
Is this the Fermi Paradox explained?
