Re: The Cyclical Part


"Tom Hendricks" <tomhendricks474@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> > > Yes. But at least Tom is right to be fixated on solar
> > activity, in that
> > > without the universal process of sun and solar system
> > formation the
> > > buildiing blocks
> > > of the first of the to us ancestral self-replicable
types
> > of molecules
> > > would not have
> > > seen 'the light of day'. :-)
> > >
> > > P
> >
> > LOL. Yes, but could we not also say that, on planets
with
> > deep sea thermal vents, alien chemical volcanic slushes,
or
> > strong
> > electromagnetic or sub-crustal tidal frictional heating,
> > such building-block molecules might possibly be formed
which
> > do see the light of the stars? :)
> > ...tonyC
>
> Well as De Duve says, "There is... ample evidence that a
number
> of biogenic compounds can form spntaneously under
primitive
> Earth conditions, in interstellar space, and on comets and
> meteorites." BUT
> that ain't life - and in due time I think you'll see that
you need
> 1. water
> 2. wet dry cycle (not all water all the time)
> 3.. UV from the sun.

OK Tom, I will go along with [1] and [2]--I really don't
know enough to rule out life that doesn't need need UV or
even visible light (other energy may do.) But I do have to
restrict this all to life "as we know it (AWKI)." There may
be all sorts of life in the galaxy though that is _not_
exactly L-AWKI. :) ...tonyC



> It's the sun that makes the planet, supplies the chemicals
> forces them to change, and adapt to the heat cycle or be
destroyed.
>
> PS Ventists are all wet!
>
> Tom
>
>


.

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