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Re:How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft by gruez on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:18PM (#17229372)
>This theory would explain why LUCA [0] is so complex and why life appears almost as soon the Earth had liquid water [1].

from the wikipedia article:

>LUCA should not be assumed to be the first living organism on Earth

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Re:How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft by danieltillett on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:58PM (#17232385)
On the other hand it should not be assume that it is not. The complexity of LUCA is a problem since LUCA is not much less complex than a modern bacteria which is very, very complex.
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