Re: OT: Natural recycling at the origin of life

On 27/03/2024 2:50 am, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:13:35 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

Natural recycling at the origin of life
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240322145524.htm
Source:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Summary:
How was complex life able to develop on the inhospitable early Earth?
At the beginning there must have been ribonucleic acid (RNA) to carry the first genetic information.

 That's the hand-waving theory. Nobody has figured how that could have
happened, even in a hospitable environment.
 

To build up complexity in their sequences, these biomolecules need to release water.
On the early Earth, which was largely covered in seawater, that was not so easy to do.
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So, simple :-)
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Then us, then chips, AI, what's next?

 What we need is a test to find the most dangerous people, thieves and
jihadists and Putins, and a genetic modification therapy to make them
safe.

Since we don't yet know what makes them dangerous, we don't know if a genetic modification could make them safe.
Robert Plombin's "Blueprint"
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262039161/blueprint/
suggests that most complex human behavior is influenced by thousands of single nuclear polymorphisms, and each dangerous individual would require a whole raft of individually tailored genetic modifications.

It could even be a pandemic virus.

Only in John Larkin's over-simplified universe.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney