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25:37this challenges the idea that complex life and chemistry only happens >> on planets. It also boosts the odds that life friendly ingredients are widespread across the universe. And for those of you who know me, you know my reaction to that is them aliens and they are out there. >> They are out there and apparently they're out in deep space. >> In deep space, >> right? This is a pretty pretty cool study. They recreated the conditions of the interstellar medium in the lab. Now that's first of all incredibly hard to do. You have to maintain a very low vacuum. You have to have extremely high energy particles because you know in the interstellar dust you've got low density but you also have like particles that are like whizzing back and forth at near
26:18the speed of light. So what they did was they simulated cosmic rays using particles from an accelerator Hun Ren atomi in Hungary and they had a little compartment that was close to the conditions of interstellar media. And we already know that amino acids like glycine can form in the interstellar medium. But what these guys wanted to do was figure out can we have complex peptide bonds meaning amino acid with another amino acid with another amino acid together to create a kind of you know protein but a smaller version of a protein. So they could form these peptides and the implications are immense, right? Because
26:58>> this means that this is a process that can happen anywhere in the interstellar medium, right? So if you have exoplanets all over the place, when the exoplanet forms, you could have >> stuff in the interstellar medium that has already created complex molecules that are the precursors for life that then get deposited on the exoplanets and then perhaps life is even more abundant than we thought. I mean, right now we think it's just on Earth, but this kind of research lends credibility to the idea that maybe life, just simple life, is not all that rare. The the ingredients necessary for simple life.
27:38Previously, it's like it has to be water rich, oxygen rich, all these variables needed to be true. >> Yeah. >> In order for us to see the the ingredients, not even life like just the ingredients. >> Ingredients. Yeah. Now it's like, okay, well actually these ingredients can formulate in a a much much larger larger surface area than before. >> Yeah. >> So, who knows? I I thought that was a pretty cool story. >> Very good. Very good. And we're going to space with Artemis 2, which we will go back to our main story to continue. So