This article triggered a great wave of nostalgia. Back in 1971, a high school buddy and I attempted to replicate the Miller experiment with a glass apparatus built to our specifications by the local college chemistry department. More than once we almost blew up my garage sparking the methne gas in the mixture with electrodes attached to a Neon sign transformer (10,000 volt+), because of persistent air leaks in our apparatus. But it nevertheless was a "blast".
My buddy went on to a Chem degree from Caltech, but I never touched science again save for reading popularized accounts. But the implications of this simple experiment were profound, even to a public high school kid in 1971.
What a difference a day makes.