[LibWhacker]

I guess this would just about make every living thing on Earth -- including you and me -- an extremophile.

[mnehring]

extremophile

Never have liked the term extremophile because it is a very relative term and contributes to our limited view of under what conditions or how life can exist, thus, narrowing our knowledge. True, we are all extremophiles. The environment we live in would be extremely hostile to say, fish, and vice versa.

[onedoug]

...Ice a Catalyst....

Possibly for simple forms, though I think technological life is rare...in every spiral galaxy.

[Sax]

It’s good to see a alternate view. I’m awfully tired of: mix various elements and chemicals in warm water, zap with electricity, and ta-da!: Life. It seems that there’s damned near certainty that you can zap the right concoction with electricity and get life where there was no life previously.

Life appears to have only begun once, unless I’ve missed something like life has also spontaneously begun at varied other points along the way. I know scientifically that you have to fill in the blanks and try to make leaps to arrive at different hypotheises, but I haven’t read anything really interesting on what went on where one second there is no life and the next second there is. Zapping warm soup leaves me wanting. Are there any specific theories that the layman can understand as to specifically what supposed flipped the switch over to “life” from a scientific standpoint?

[Fractal Trader]

GGG?

[wildbill]

Well, its damn sure a catalyst for a good Scotch and soda

[dan1123]

I just love when desperation comes out in "Science" reporting. Maybe--since we found ice on Mars the other day--life began with...ice! That's it! That way humans are in no way special because we found another planet where life could have begun in some way that a "scientist" can dream up.

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[AndrewC]

The very laws of chemistry may have actually favored ice, says Jeffrey Bada, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. “We’ve been arguing for a long time,” he says, “that cold conditions make much more sense, chemically, than warm conditions.”

Exactly. And the universe is a lot bigger than earth. Even so, life is improbable.

[grey_whiskers]

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