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Metacelsustoday at 3:22 PM1 replyview on HN

You're thinking of the Miller-Urey experiment. They got some biomolecules (amino acids, etc) but definitely not life


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rdtsctoday at 4:50 PM

Yeah that's the one. Just looked it up it was it the early 1950s. I guess I was either too impressionable or the textbook and/or teacher cut a few corners because I remember it being presented as "we solved the origins of life already" situation.