Re:We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
by jameshart on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:42AM
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Geological-timescale variability is VERY conducive to evolution.
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Re:We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
by XorNot on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @10:03AM
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We also don't have timescales for abiogenesis in a sterile environment - i.e. given the right ingredients and energy input, no existing life forms...how long does life take to appear? There's no particular reason that timescale has to be very long - and we know life on earth got started pretty damn quick after the planet cooled off enough (EDIT: in the sense that the planet is ~4 billion years old, the earliest life is dated to 3.5 billion years old, so the number is somewhere between a little over 0 and 500 million years).