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Has it ever been determined where the first seeds of life came from? Hydrogen atoms don't spontaneously mix with whatever else is needed for a cell and just bec
by firefoxman1 15y ago
Has it ever been determined where the first seeds of life came from? Hydrogen atoms don't spontaneously mix with whatever else is needed for a cell and just become a bacterium or virus. It is widely accepted that everything on earth evolved from single cells, but where did the very first "parent" cell come from in the universe?
- NathanKP 15y agoAssuming that 100% unassisted evolution is feasible (an assumption that I personally don't believe in) then the random interactions of basic building blocks within an early primordial soup plus external factors such as temperature, atmosphere, and lightning eventually resulted in random combinations which eventually connected to each other to form proteins and other cell building blocks which eventually formed the first cell.
- Drbble 15y agoWhy was this downvoted? Does HN etiquette have a sentence length penalty?
- firefoxman1 15y agoThey're just downvote-happy nowadays. I gained "downvote priviledge" two weeks ago and still haven't used it. If I don't like something, I don't read it. And if the comment is legitimately against HN community guidelines, usually 5+ people have beaten me to the downvote, so I don't waste my time.
- Daniel_Newby 15y agoIt could have been a failed upvote on a mobile device.
- i2pi 15y agoHydrogen atoms fuse in stars to create heavier atoms. Rocks form. Organic molecules form given heat and time. Pre-cellular life forms. Some theorize that the first cells formed inside bubbles in rocks. Others think otherwise http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17987-how-life-evolved-10-steps-to-the-first-cells.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17987-how-life-evolved...