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Re:60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation? by saas_sam on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:10PM (#27201198)
I think we know more about abiogenesis than you are giving us credit for.
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Re:60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation? by tsimionescu on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:29PM (#27201444)
We know a few things about the formation of organic compounds that life uses from inorganic compounds, and how some specific organic compounds crucial to life appeared, but not much more than that. Nothing even close to the formation of a simple self-replicating cell, for example.
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