Comments on: Prebiotic Soup and Organic Change http://www.caperet.com/2008/10/prebiotic-soup-and-organic-change/ An eclectic mix of technology, news comment, and personal notes. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: fruey http://www.caperet.com/2008/10/prebiotic-soup-and-organic-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2674 fruey Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:01:04 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/?p=184#comment-2674 Joost, Pleasure to see you here mate! I don't know enough about inorganic / organic chemistry... you are clearly better placed than me to comment on that. I can "get" amino acid formation, but crystals and polymer chains gets a bit lost on me, though on reading <a href="http://originoflife.net/sweet_crystal/index.html" rel="nofollow">the origin of life</a> I get some inkling. Need to buff up a bit maybe. Get in. -Simon Joost,

Pleasure to see you here mate!

I don’t know enough about inorganic / organic chemistry… you are clearly better placed than me to comment on that. I can “get” amino acid formation, but crystals and polymer chains gets a bit lost on me, though on reading the origin of life I get some inkling. Need to buff up a bit maybe.

Get in.

-Simon

]]> By: joost http://www.caperet.com/2008/10/prebiotic-soup-and-organic-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2671 joost Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:07:56 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/?p=184#comment-2671 fella, have you looked at all at the sweet crystal hypothesis (or back a step - cairns-smith 7 clus to the origin of life). very interesting (though a tad unsatisfactory in covering the lack of evidence for his proposed origins). Sweet crystals as "naked replicators" exhibiting 2 of the 3 characteistics for evolutionary life forms (replication and mutation - just missing evolutionary filters) and nicely covering dna as a controlling molecule to the organic "algae" that surrounds it. have it. (Now following your tweet fella!) fella,

have you looked at all at the sweet crystal hypothesis (or back a step – cairns-smith 7 clus to the origin of life). very interesting (though a tad unsatisfactory in covering the lack of evidence for his proposed origins). Sweet crystals as “naked replicators” exhibiting 2 of the 3 characteistics for evolutionary life forms (replication and mutation – just missing evolutionary filters) and nicely covering dna as a controlling molecule to the organic “algae” that surrounds it.

have it. (Now following your tweet fella!)

]]> By: fruey http://www.caperet.com/2008/10/prebiotic-soup-and-organic-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2600 fruey Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:40:17 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/?p=184#comment-2600 Hello, Well if you consider that elements that were required for life to evolve on Earth probably came from elsewhere, you have to be right. It's very likely that the mixture of elements and luck required to create life came from a disparate range of different places. To go from there to imagine that intelligent life developed elsewhere and had a hand in creation of life on Earth is a big step, and rather leaves us asking the question as to why they haven't come back. Sorry for the late reply, didn't get email notification of this comment. -Simon Hello,

Well if you consider that elements that were required for life to evolve on Earth probably came from elsewhere, you have to be right. It’s very likely that the mixture of elements and luck required to create life came from a disparate range of different places. To go from there to imagine that intelligent life developed elsewhere and had a hand in creation of life on Earth is a big step, and rather leaves us asking the question as to why they haven’t come back.

Sorry for the late reply, didn’t get email notification of this comment.

-Simon

]]> By: helen white http://www.caperet.com/2008/10/prebiotic-soup-and-organic-change/comment-page-1/#comment-2598 helen white Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:07:23 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/?p=184#comment-2598 I understand that all these experiments show what could and maybe did happen but are you sure there wasn't just perhaps an alien input? What a huge industry that has built up around this speculation could do without is scientific proof that no alien input was necessary or proof against this being the case! For myself, I still like to think that the "race of giants" referred to in ancient writings were perhaps from another galaxy and had come in peace to "share" or "teach" and spread knowledge especially of lifting those great 200 ton stones seen around the ancient sites! Lovely few days as usual in Argenteuil, speak to you soon. I understand that all these experiments show what could and maybe did happen but are you sure there wasn’t just perhaps an alien input? What a huge industry that has built up around this speculation could do without is scientific proof that no alien input was necessary or proof against this being the case! For myself, I still like to think that the “race of giants” referred to in ancient writings were perhaps from another galaxy and had come in peace to “share” or “teach” and spread knowledge especially of lifting those great 200 ton stones seen around the ancient sites!
Lovely few days as usual in Argenteuil, speak to you soon.

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