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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 01:22PM

ad infinitum ...

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Posted by: Roy G Biv ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 02:50PM

Well, I suppose we'll see some new life springing forth in England right?

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 02:52PM

Might ramp up the Neanderthal percentages!

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Posted by: schrodingerscat ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 03:02PM

The ingredients are there, including amino acids, necessary for building DNA structures, which was a big question I have been asked by creationists,”How’d life start in the first place?”
My answer up until now has been,”Well viruses are not considered life forms, since they cannot reproduce independent from bacteria or other life forms as hosts, but they do carry DNA and RNA, the genetic code for life, so they could have arrived here via comet from another planet that already had life and seeded Earth with their DNA, which over time, could have developed into cells containing DNA, primordial life forms, capable of reproducing on their own.”
But now, it appears just having amino acids arrive here via meteorite is another possible explanation for abiogenesis occurring, not involving transpermia or viruses traveling between star systems.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 03:05PM

hahahahahahaha!

Feel better now?

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 03:15PM

Whoosh.

The straight man in everyone's use of sarcasm.

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Posted by: Soft Machine ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 03:19PM

I like the idea of new life anywhere. Although it's not the first time this sort of amino-acid mix has been observed, I think.

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Posted by: Brother Of Jerry ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 03:59PM

Amino acid spectra have been observed in deep space, so they are more or less everywhere as far as we can tell.

Yes, they could have been seeded by meteorites, but I don't see why that is necessary or even remarkable. They have been shown to form in the kind of atmosphere/oceans we think existed on the primordial earth.

I think a more interesting question would be can there be an alternative inheritance mechanism to DNA/RNA? Based on life on earth, the answer appears to be no, so far at least. I find that kind of surprising.

OTOH, carbon is the only atom capable of complex very long chain molecules that are also fundamental to life, so maybe there really is only one path through the intergalactic desert to forming life. It does appear to be a path not that hard to find.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 04:36PM

Yes, carbon is special. Silicon is probably the second-best possibility, is it not?

It's a fascinating question.

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Posted by: Roy G Biv ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 05:16PM

>> "Yes, carbon is special. Silicon is probably the second-best possibility, is it not?"

So you're saying carbon based life forms with big fake boobs will spring forth in England now?

Fascinating indeed!

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 05:19PM

Roy G Biv: Big Thinker!

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: March 09, 2021 05:36PM

> So you're saying carbon based life forms with big
> fake boobs will spring forth in England now?

I think you are living proof that it is possible for a big boob to appear spontaneously among hominids.

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Posted by: Roy G Biv ( )
Date: March 10, 2021 10:39AM

That means I must have an identical twin somewhere out there!

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: March 11, 2021 03:17PM

Just hope he's not an antimatter boob, because then . . .

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