fergalish

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   by fergalish 7y ago

   > proper curated quoting Indeed, it would be nice if the netizens of the world would wake up to this. Sadly, I think it's unlikely to improve any time soon and so I'll stick to top posting and threading in the email client.
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   by fergalish 7y ago

   Well, it would seem to have occurred only once in all the universe we've looked at. That's as rare as it can be, given the anthropic nature of the observation. :) Statistically speaking... as in mean civilisations per galaxy, yep
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   by fergalish 7y ago

   Thanks for the reference, will try to look it up. I guess here I'm referring to the passage in the linked article that says: "...simple [chemicals] spontaneously polymerize and self-assemble into [bigger chemicals] when dried at m
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   by fergalish 7y ago

   Since reading it somewhere in the distant past, I have become convinced that the moon played a vital part in the origin of life, by creating the tides. Picture a coastline in early Earth. Tide washes up a bunch of chemicals that get baked i