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One weak advantage is panspermia allows you to avoid the question.
by h_r 4y ago
One weak advantage is panspermia allows you to avoid the question.
- dieselgate 4y agoThis made me laugh, yes I agree in a way. Maybe some day we will discover amino acid constituents on earth or another planet and it will fill in more of the blanks. It's the definition of chicken and egg though
- nobody9999 4y agoDone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment You may not have heard about it, as the paper describing the experiment was only published 69 years ago.
- dieselgate 4y agoThanks for the link and for the reminder, did learn about this experiment actually in organic chemistry years ago. Suppose it's a bit nonsensical to look for amino acid "constituents" then. Not a fan of the snark though
- _Algernon_ 4y agoIt doesn't though. It only requires for life to have evolved on another planet, reached space and then potentially traveled lightyears through space to reach earth. Space is really fucking empty. Seems less likely than throwing a rock out of a rocket on the way to mars and hitting a random bucket, without looking. Add to that that it would require life having evolved while the universe was younger and different to the only state of the universe that we know to support life. Is it impossible. No. But at that point the theory has as much explanatory power as creationism, i.e. none.