…remarkable correlation and when I leave here I'm going to have this disappointed sense of a sort of superpower lost. You know, William Huggins was a mild mannered 19th century astronomer who scared the world. He didn't mean to he was just minding his own…

…absorption spectrum of olive oil, which I imagine was sitting around more in the French Labs than in the English Lab of William Huggins, and to their amazement, olive oil looked like comets. Now if only it were true, we would have an economic motivation…

…word organic, but I hope it won't offend anybody. I'm going to just use the word organic, as chemists routinely do well. So Huggins discovered some organic matter in comets big deal. But he continued over the years and then in the 1880s he found evidence…

…in Rome. A smattering of people all over the world committed suicide because they didn't want to die by poison gas and poor William Huggins was responsible for all of this and he had never talked to a reporter in his life. Now what's more there were…

…worried. Well except for the people who committed suicide, nobody died in 1910 because of Halley's Comet, except for the fact that William Huggins died in 1910 but not from cyanide he was 85 years old. Well the curious fact is that the molecule in…

…to the comets coming to us we can go to the comets. In 1986 Halley's Comet made its next return to the earth after the Huggins 1910 apparition. It orbits the sun every 76 years, so 10 plus 76 is 86, just like clockwork. It was back, but by 1986 for…