ETH Global Lecture: Life on Earth and Beyond

How did life on Earth begin and proliferate? And is there life beyond our planet? At this ETH Global Lecture, Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz and former NASA research head Thomas Zurbuchen discuss what is already known about the origin of life on Earth and beyond, what projects are underway at ETH Zurich – and what life itself has taught them.
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[mattm]

Fantastic to have these two guys at ETH! Makes me proud to work there.

[rjung_ch]

As you say, the best University of the world, it's a bold statement and I think you are right, brave ETH.

[virendrapratapsingh]

Thank you sir, I watched you on world economic forum few days back. 👌

[Argacyan]

I'm a geography & geology academics guy, so there were things discussed that are interesting to me.
20:10 One thing I always want to point out whenever it comes up, because it comes up too often, is that it is "wrong" to say Copernicus was a Polish scientist. He was a German working for the Polish kingdom, from a German city annexed by the kingdom just before his birth, at a time where neither Germany nor Poland existed as nation-states. When people say he was "Polish" the misinterpretation many derive from that claim is that they start assuming everything surrounding his life was Polish - when a lot of it also had nothing or a tangential relationship with Poland beyond the fact that it happened in a region today controlled by the Polish state. The ascribing of him as a "Polish scientist" thus functions as a national myth similar to comparable cases elsewhere in the world.

[Dr.Z.Moravcik-inventor-of-AGI]

There is no such thing like 'life', sorry. People will be very surprised that they have to go.