New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe

Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:48PM (#20169145)

Also the moon provides tides. Which meant that the first billion years of wet Earth, every grain of sand on every beach was a little chemical laboratory of wet/dry, sun/shade, hot/cold and with local conditions of pH and salinity. An organic chemistry lab for trying to invent life.

Without the moon it would have just sat stagnant.

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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by jacquesm on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:31PM (#20169536)

Definitely the tides are a huge factor in the development of life but given the fact that the earth would still rotate the wind would still agitate the water and the waves would come in to the shore. Life mostly developed in the oceans from what I've read, not on the land/water interface though there is a good chance that without the tides the first animals to really adapt to living on the land would have had a much harder time to make the transition.

This creature still lives like that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periophthalmus

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