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Re:First Support for a Physics Theory of Life by gnaritas on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:16PM (#14862167)
> That seems unlikely of lifeforms arising from independent abiogenesis events.

Not at all, you're presuming there are many different ways life could work, that might not be the case at all. It's entirely possible there's only one or very few possible recipes for life so no matter how many abiogenesis events occur, they produce the same kind of life.

A simple analogy, wood burns, fire is fire, you don't expect every different occurrence of fire in nature to produce a new and incompatible type of fire. Life could be the same, it could be that anywhere carbon based life forms it's basically the same basic recipe and thus biologically compatible with all other forms of carbon based life.

Re:First Support for a Physics Theory of Life by didgeoridoo on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:24PM (#14862205)
> It's entirely possible there's only one or very few possible recipes for life so no matter how many abiogenesis events occur, they produce the same kind of life.

Presumably this is even MORE likely if the independent lifeforms both emerged in similar physical & chemical environments.

Re:First Support for a Physics Theory of Life by gnaritas on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:07AM (#14865977)
Agreed.