> Demonstrate the emergence of life from chemical precursors in a laboratory setting
Wait, isn’t this an already solved problem? I remember in the 90s school books (material written in the 80s-70s likely) it was presented as “so and so did electric discharges in an atmospheric gas mixtures and they got organic molecules” therefore the origins of life is solved. I remember thinking how cool that was. I guess the “therefore” step was sort of a lie if it’s still an open problem…
biologists got even further - experiments managed to make RNA longer than a different team's self-replicating RNA
still not all the way to something alive-like
I recently watched this video on the topic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXGgrXwllc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXGgrXwllc
rdtsc · · focus · HN ↗
Wait, isn’t this an already solved problem? I remember in the 90s school books (material written in the 80s-70s likely) it was presented as “so and so did electric discharges in an atmospheric gas mixtures and they got organic molecules” therefore the origins of life is solved. I remember thinking how cool that was. I guess the “therefore” step was sort of a lie if it’s still an open problem…
NooneAtAll3 · · focus · HN ↗
still not all the way to something alive-like
I recently watched this video on the topic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXGgrXwllc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXGgrXwllc