There is always questions on how life started on Earth outside of the religious text. Here is an article on the subject from interestingengineering.com written by John Loeffler dives in how scientists have discovered the way life may have started here on Earth but other planets like Mars.
"The origin of life on Earth is one of the great mysteries of science, but new research says that the answer is so simple that not only could a high school chemistry class reproduce it, but it might have once occurred on ancient Mars.
The study, produced by researchers at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FAME) and published in the journal Astrobiology, claims that basalt lava glass was the key to forming RNA, a simpler analog to DNA that many believe was a necessary precursor to the development of life.
"Communities studying the origins of life have diverged in recent years," Steven Benner, a study co-author., said in a statement "One community revisits classical questions with complex chemical schemes that require difficult chemistry performed by skilled chemists."
Benner and his colleagues say the answer was far simpler. RNA molecules as long as 200 nucleotides naturally form when nucleoside triphosphates interact with basalt glass lava as they percolate through it.
"Basaltic glass was everywhere on Earth at the time," said Stephen Mojzsis, an Earth scientist and participant in the study. "For several hundred million years after the Moon formed, frequent impacts coupled with abundant volcanism on the young planet formed molten basaltic lava, the source of the basalt glass. Impacts also evaporated water to give dry land, providing aquifers where RNA could have formed."
The impacts of iron-nickel meteors on the surface of the early Earth also reduced the atmosphere and created conditions known to facilitate the creation of RNA molecules.
""The beauty of this model is its simplicity. It can be tested by high schoolers in chemistry class," Jan Špaček, who works on detecting alien genetic polymers on Mars and was not involved in the study, said. "Mix the ingredients, wait for a few days, and detect the RNA."
Another important element to the chemical equation is borate, also known as borax, which manages the creation of ribose, the R in RNA. Borate is also produced from the basalt that would have been everywhere across the early Earth.
Could this be the key to finding ancient life on Mars?
There's little evidence that life currently exists on Mars, but that might not have always been the case. When Mars was young, some 4 billion years ago, it may have hosted very similar conditions to the early Earth, and if the chemical processes behind the emergence of life on Earth are as simple as the new research indicates, then it's not just possible but likely that similar processes would have been carried out on ancient Mars.
The problem is that those early conditions did not develop the same way conditions on Earth did. Earth has an active magnetic field, produced by the dynamo of the Earth's solid iron core surrounded by a molten iron-nickel outer core. This protected Earth's atmosphere from the solar winds which in turn shielded Earth from the harmful UV radiation that would have killed primordial life on the surface.
Mars does not have an active magnetic field, and so its atmosphere has slowly been stripped away by the Sun, making the planet's surface inhospitable to life as we know it, and it is likely that it has been this way for billions of years.
But just as Mars lacks an active magnetic field, it also lacks the kind of plate tectonics that Earth has, meaning that the basaltic rock across its surface has not been recycled back into the mantle the way ancient Earth's crust has. That means that signs of these primordial processes might still exist on Mars' surface and that we might be able to detect them.
"If life emerged on Earth via this simple path, then it also likely emerged on Mars," Benner said. "This makes it even more important to seek life on Mars as soon as we can.""
As the article noted life may have started in a much simpler manner. Amazing how you can use hot gasses and martials to create RNA and start forming DNA to result in a life form. Mars may have had life for a time as well. Interesting article for sure.
I have lost a lot of faith with the Medical Community and the Governments over the last several years, but there are a few good things that can raise above the corruption and the pushing of drugs a new approach to heal people. The following is from www.gaia.com and written by Hunter Parsons that does not involve any drug or pushing an ineffective so called vaccine that the drug company is not held accountable in any way but they use sound! The use of sound can regrow bone tissue! Here is the story:
"The future of regenerative medicine could be found within sound healing by regrowing bone cells with sound waves.
The use of sound as a healing modality has an ancient tradition all over the world. The ancient Greeks used sound to cure mental disorders; Australian Aborigines reportedly use the didgeridoo to heal; and Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowls were, and still are, used for spiritual healing ceremonies.
Recently, a study showed an hour-long sound bowl meditation reduced anger, fatigue, anxiety, and ...
Not a fan of a Defense Agency studying Anti-Gravity and other Exotic Tech, but if the commercial world and make this technology cheap that will change our world yet again. The following is about three minute read and from www.gaia.com. The below was written by Hunter Parsons:
"Wormholes, invisibility cloaks, and anti-gravity — it’s not science fiction, it’s just some of the exotic things the U.S. government has been researching.
A massive document dump by the Defense Intelligence Agency shows some of the wild research projects the United States government was, at least, funding through the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program known as AATIP.
And another lesser-known entity called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program or AAWSAP
The Defense Intelligence Agency has recently released a large number of documents to different news outlets and individuals who have filed Freedom of Information Act requests.
Of particular interest are some 1,600 pages released to Vice News, which ...
As our technology gets better we are discovering more about the history of mankind and pushing the timeline back further and further. The following article is from www.gaia.com and written by Michael Chary that discusses this new find that changes the historical timeline:
"Over the past decade, there have been a number of archeological revelations pushing back the timeline of human evolution and our ancient ancestors’ various diasporas. Initially, these discoveries elicit some resistance as archeologists bemoan the daunting prospect of rewriting the history books, though once enough evidence is presented to established institutions, a new chronology becomes accepted.
But this really only pertains to the era of human development that predates civilization — the epochs of our past in which we were merely hunter-gatherers and nomads roaming the savannahs. Try challenging the consensus timeline of human civilization and it’s likely you’ll be met with derision and rigidity.
Conversely, someone of an alternative...
Not sure if you have heard of a show on YouTube called "The Why Files". If not you should check it out it is interesting and has some humor with it on different subjects. Last weeks was on a different theory how the Universe works and how main stream Science is attempting to shut it down like is always seems to do if it goes aguest some special interest. Today it is akin to what happened to those who questioned the Earth was the Center of the Universe that main stream so called Science all believed during the Renaissance period, They called any theory that the Earth was not the Center of the Universe misinformation. Does this sound familiar today? People laughed and mocked people like Leonardo da Vinci, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg Purbach as crack-pots, conspiracy theorists, nut-jobs and they were suppressed and even imprisoned for their radical thoughts and observations. Again it sounds like today in so many ways. In any event this is a good one to ponder and see even if a bad idea ...
Seemingly chaotic systems like the weather and the financial markets are governed by the laws of chaos theory.
We all have heard about chaos theory, but if you have not or have forgotten what chaos theory is well here you go from interestingengineering.com:
"Chaos theory deals with dynamic systems, which are highly sensitive to initial conditions, making it almost impossible to track the resulting unpredictable behavior. Chaos theory seeks to find patterns in systems that appear random, such as weather, fluid turbulence, and the stock market.
Since the smallest of changes can lead to vastly different outcomes, the long-term behavior of chaotic systems is difficult to predict despite their inherently deterministic nature.
As Edward Lorenz, who first proposed what became commonly known as the Butterfly Effect, eloquently said, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.""
You may have heard the term about chaos theory as a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil,...
I for one have lost trust in Medical Doctors due to COVID and reflection that they seem to push pills for everything and untested so called vaccines that is using a unproven technology because the Government and the Medical Boards of the State told them to. There are a very few exceptions. Thus they do not address the key problem just prescribe more and more pills to keep you alive an sick longer for them and Big Phama to profit from you. Will AI do any better? Well that depends on what was used for the training of AI. If it also pushes pills and vaccines without question then you have the same problems noted above. However, if the AI Training includes all possible forms of treatment and they zero in on the right issues for the true problem then there is possibilities they would be way better than most of the current Medical Doctors today.
The following is from an article from interestingengineering.com and written by Paul Ratner:
"A new study looks at how accurately AI can diagnose patients. We interview the researcher, who weighs in on AI's role ...
