This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with the author, Greg Branaka, who is a cosmochemist, his day job.

He's an author, Impact, how rocks from space led to life, culture, and Donkey Kong.

We see on the world's world life because we've established that there's a way of saying what happened before the moon and after the moon.

Right now, Greg, I need a definition. What is a complex organic molecule?

Well, a complex organic molecule is a molecule that contains carbon, usually some hydrogen bonded to it. And then when it becomes complex, I guess it gets a little bigger than just carbon and

hydrogen. So, you know, the definition is quite fuzzy about what complex means, but it just means

something that's got a little bit more to it than just carbon and hydrogen, I guess. And the reason

we're looking at them is because the word organic is highly suggestive. However, we don't have the, at this

point, we don't have the formula that we need to put together organic molecules, amino acids,

and meteorites. But it would appear that you have the elements for it. That's from reading your

reporting. You don't go any farther than that. You just say that you have these elements,

which is why the question is, were they here on Earth when the Earth was built? Did they come

from meteorites? But Greg, you've taught me that Earth and Mars and the asteroid belt and the meteorites

that fall upon us and even the commas that come in from the Earth Cloud.

We're all made of the same thing.

Is that correct?

Essentially, yeah.

So different elements are going to be concentrated in different areas.

But yeah, we're all kind of made from the same blended material from the molecular cloud.

So, yeah, you're right.

We're all kind of the same stuff as just in different ratios.

So I have the page from Greg's book where he gives us a chart of present in meteorites, amino acids, nucleotides, and other

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