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Re:Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields al... by aristus on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:01PM (#14110448)
In the 1950s they discovered that sending high current through a (sterile) organic watery soup would generate a dozen or so kinds of amino acids. The hypothesis was that tens of millions of years of lightning strikes on the ocean could in theory get the party started.
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Re:Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields al... by SomewhatLikely on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:38PM (#14111114)
That experiment is literally described in the first paragraph of TFA.
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