Might have been me. I’ve said that for years. I doubt I’m the first though. I thought of that after seeing this: https://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-

Might have been me. I’ve said that for years. I doubt I’m the first though. I thought of that after seeing this: https://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-earth.html https://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-earth.html Doesn’t prove anything but fascinating. Maybe life began early in the universe and is everywhere, but only in some environments has it been able to achieve high levels of complexity. This is ultimately testable. If this is true we should find life in the subsurface oceans of moons, some comets, etc. and it should be at least somewhat biochemically similar or show other evidence of very ancient common descent. If it’s false then ET life should be very alien with no evidence of common descent and also probably very rare. Rarity is likely because this would suggest that abiogenesis must hop up a very high complexity cliff, which is a highly improbable event.