onlooker wrote:http://www.businessinsider.com/groundbreaking-idea-of-lifes-origin-2014-12
Here is a couple of excerpts " From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat. "
"Jeremy England, a 31-year-old assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has derived a mathematical formula that he believes explains this capacity. The formula, based on established physics, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy. This could mean that under certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life."
"Why does life exist?
Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning, and a colossal stroke of luck.
But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it. Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” Fascinating and this could mean that life is much more common than presumed and maybe thus intelligent life.
kiwichick wrote:@ efarmer
are you on talking terms with her?
can you ask her what the winning Lotto tickets will be this week??
kiwichick wrote:@ efarmer
are you on talking terms with her?
can you ask her what the winning Lotto tickets will be this week??
jedrider wrote:According to George Carlin (find it on YouTube), it was because GOD wanted PLASTICS: Therefore, life evolved until the point where mankind could convert the Earth's carbon stores to plastics. Once that is accomplished, there's no more need for mankind. QED.
...the planet is warming a stunning 50 times faster than when it comes out of an ice age. The implications of the rapidity of this warming, for those who care to digest it emotionally, are horrifying.
...carbon emissions are now the highest they have been since the age of dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. According to the study, the current pace of emissions is even beyond the highest-known natural surge of carbon that exists in fossil records, an event that occurred 56 million years ago...
That ancient release, which drove temperatures up 5 degrees Celsius, is now surpassed by our current surge of carbon release. "Given currently available records, the present anthropogenic carbon release rate is unprecedented during the past 66 million years,"...
...the New Scientist reported in early March that earth had its highest-ever annual increase in carbon dioxide levels ever recorded...
...Greenland is occurring so intensely and quickly that it is "feeding on itself," according to a recently published scientific study. Greenland alone contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 20 feet.
...In North America, millions of acres of forests are...under increasing threat, due to the fact that the speed at which the planetary climate is changing is now far, far ahead of the forests' ability to adapt to the hotter and drier conditions...
... a group affiliated with the UN recently released a study showing that an ongoing decline of pollinating species now poses a very dire threat to the global food supply...
...high-latitude insects, like those in Scotland, face severe declines in population...
...warming temperatures are impacting beetle populations, and hence the entire biodiversity of the Arctic...
...in the Arctic. With the ice disappearing and temperatures continuing to rise, the life cycles and numbers of fish, marine mammals, caribou and polar bears are being altered, which is causing Indigenous communities to face food shortages...
...rising sea levels, melting permafrost and other impacts...have positioned residents of the Arctic in a losing battle to stay in their homes...
...tropical rain forests ranging from the Amazon to the Philippines are vanishing far more abruptly than was previously believed...
In Africa, at least 36 million people are facing hunger due to record-high temperatures and drought...
...[GW] is already driving increases in rainfall and snowfall extremes around the world... This trend...will continue and likely amplify further...
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evilgenius wrote:Then where is all of the life that should be newly forming around us, even intermittently?
SeaGypsy wrote:Nothing new here, Vasu Deva, the Sun god transcribed the first Vedas about 5,000 years ago & they say about the same thing. Life is everywhere in multiple universes, with the true purpose of disseminating the energy of the creator, as embodied in the sun & stars. The Hindus are going to adore this- so much for a thrust against God.
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