The other day and pondering how our genes basically use us for nothing but propagation, i was thinking about the inevitability of life with basic building blocks that are everywhere in the universe. I've been very much interested in the universe in the past couple months, reading and watching everything I can.
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They also match those in simulations of early Earth, and most critically, those simulations were performed by other people. The implications are staggering: good news for anyone worried about how we're alone, and bad news for anyone who demands some kind of "Designer" to put life together - it seems that physics can assemble the organic jigsaw all by itself, thank you very much, and has probably done so throughout space since the beginning of everything.
The study indicates that you don't need a miracle to arrive at the chemical cocktail for early life, just a decently large asteroid with the right components. That's all. The entire universe could be stuffed with life, from the earliest prebiotic protein-a-likes to fully DNAed descendants. The path from one to the other is long, but we've had thirteen and a half billion years so far and it's happened at least once.
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Here is a cool clip of something called the
Miller-Urey Experiment first conducted in the 50's with simple basic chemicals simulating the early conditions of Earth and how soon you can make the building blocks of life with these chemicals. Disregard the creepy Indian guy.