Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery

Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by dekhn on Friday October 29, 2021 @01:49PM (#29041476)

this experiment only reduces the uncertaintly that the building blocks are widely available. The big problem wiht this experiment is that it misestimated the nature of the early atmosphere and os they basically simulated another planet. We don't know if any other planets have life, so simulating another planet isn't useful to illuminate anything about life on earth.

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Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by ls612 on Friday October 29, 2021 @06:36PM (#29044303)

Huh? We know whatever the early conditions of earth were they were clearly amenable to the formation of these organic compounds since life arose here. It's absolutely also interesting to know that in certain known conditions this can also arise, even if those conditions are not the only conditions capable of creating the phenomenon.

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Re:Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment an... by Socketier on Saturday October 30, 2021 @10:57AM (#29049271)

That's circular reasoning. We're here so it must have happened in this specific way therefore it happened.

Sure, an expertly guided experiment in a glass tube can make some basic amino acids but they had to be removed from the experiment immediately before the the product was ruined by further reactions. It was a guided process which we've got no further in accounting for in the wild.

We've made no progress since these experiments to answering the questions posted by the theory of abiogenesis.

We've got no concrete answers, only suppositions.

This is not a popular thing to talk about but the fact remains that we are absolutely nowhere close to solving this in the manner in which we are proceeding in OoL studies. The track record for uncondendable conjecture is abysmal.

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