Did Life Evolve in Ice?

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Adam — 11/11/2008 12:00:54 PM (archived)

Hi All

Related, and exciting, article in Discover Magazine... Did Life Evolve in Ice?

Covers work by the late Stan Miller and Leslie Orgel - gurus of biogenesis. Both of them were led to the idea that Life had a better chance of starting in ice, due to the concentration of solutes in unfrozen channels within the ice. Nucleotides and RNA do amazing things when chilled down.

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Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Socrates II - 11/7/2008 3:46:31 AM
- Did Life Evolve in Ice? - Adam - 11/11/2008 12:00:54 PM
- re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Mr Fibuli - 11/10/2008 4:06:39 AM
- re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marcia - 11/7/2008 9:48:44 PM
  - re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marsbug - 11/8/2008 3:39:33 PM
    - re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marcia - 11/10/2008 2:25:51 AM
      - re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marcia - 11/10/2008 2:42:33 AM
        
        re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marsbug - 11/10/2008 11:06:59 AM
        
        re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marcia - 11/10/2008 4:25:28 PM
        
        re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marcia - 11/10/2008 4:32:52 PM
        
        re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marsbug - 11/11/2008 11:37:54 AM
- re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marsbug - 11/7/2008 3:58:18 PM
  - re: Could life have started in a lump of ice? - Marsbug - 11/7/2008 4:13:42 PM
- Well, I know of a friend's wife who got pregnant. - Bowser - 11/7/2008 6:38:43 AM
  - re: Well, I know of a friend's wife who got pregnant. - Mr Fibuli - 11/7/2008 11:08:00 AM
  - The concept of an Eutectic - nick hoffman - 11/7/2008 8:16:42 AM
    - Thank you, Prof. Hoffman - Fox - 11/8/2008 3:24:59 PM
      - At the other end of the temperature scale - Socrates II - 11/11/2008 3:19:24 AM
        
        How about clay? - Socrates II - 11/12/2008 12:42:11 PM
        
        re: How about clay? - Not just clay... - Marcia - 11/13/2008 4:53:14 AM
        
        Every dog had its day..... - Marsbug - 11/13/2008 8:16:31 AM

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