Re: A cool theory of abiogenesis

dkomo wrote:

Did Life Begin in Ice?

February 20008 issue of "Discover" magazine

"Did Hades Freeze Over?"

http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/news_stories/news_print.cfm?ID=153

.....points out about the only plus point of low
temperatures that seems relevant to me:

``it is much easier to start life around the freezing point
of water than the boiling point because an inept high-T
organism [an organism that cannot handle high temperatures]
does poorly.''

This expression of the concept is not very articulate - but I
think it is saying that primitive organisms would probably
have benefited from a low-noise (thus low-temperature)
environment.
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