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Re:Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields al... by Someone on Thursday April 13, 2017 @07:01PM (#14111518)
"Did there have to be any eating?"

Define "eating".

"and self-replicates simply when it encounters the molecules needed to do so."

It self-replicates, destroying those molecules. One could call that "eating", and probably should, as, if one calls this self-replication, there's an underlying assumption that there is life.

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