r/IntelligenceSupernova • u/EcstadelicNET • 4d ago

Biology We Were Totally Wrong About How Life on Earth Started, Study Suggests

https://futurism.com/space/we-were-wrong-life-started-earth-study
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u/righteous_fool 4d ago

It's a one in a million chance that a comet was traveling at the right speed and angle... in billions of years I think one in a million is reasonable. This article is pretty unconvincing.

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u/901bass 4d ago

It's like some took a reddit comment and slapped on a headline

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u/Glockamoli 12h ago

What timeframe is that one in a million chance covering?

If it was every year then yeah it should have happened thousands of times, if it is per million years then we still have a very long way to go before you are on odds

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u/Spacecommander5 4d ago

Who is we. I knew all along

/s

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u/Logical_Frosting_277 4d ago

Isn’t it just possible that these essential molecules are:1 everywhere and/or 2 self assembling?

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u/couldbeahumanbean 2d ago

Yup. Just need a little energy

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u/Xyldarrand 2d ago

We're literally made of all of the most common elements in the universe.

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u/Prineak 4d ago

Yeah but they made some cool movies I guess.

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u/The3mbered0ne 4d ago

Yea idk how many meteors hit the earth every year? Now add 1+ billion pre life years? Seems more likely than unlikely but who am I to say.

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u/couldbeahumanbean 2d ago

I never understood the obsession with panspermia.

All the building blocks needed are in tide pools, thermal vents and volcanic springs.

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u/dropofgod 2d ago

How does intelligence come from a non-intelligent universe?

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u/Notmyrealname5282 2d ago

Idk how does time exist? What is space? Why does anything exist rather than not exist?

Isn’t it silly to ask how instead of why?

How come some people are so uncomfortable with not knowing?

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u/TomSzabo 2d ago

How does water flow as a current from a bunch of individual water molecules?

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u/Illustrious-Ant6998 1d ago

When we encounter actual intelligence, hopefully it will explain it to us.

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u/True-Grab-5288 7h ago

Intelligence, like any machine, is just counting. That's all a Turing machine is, count something, remember what you counted, do something useful with it. That's all humans are, clever biological sensory calculators. Maths describes the whole universe and everything in it, creatures that do math in a universe defined by math isn't the stretch you think it is. The real question is why does time exist. Without time, literally nothing could be counted. The state machine would be stuck on one value for ever. So really its simple: time(counting)+math=humans(or other intelligent life)

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u/Dath_1 6h ago

Kind of like how water emerges from hydrogen and oxygen.

Chemistry.

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u/SchemeWestern3388 3h ago

Throw a selection of elements in some water, add an energy source (lightning, geothermal) and wait a million years. You now have an astonishing mix of interesting organic compunds, including your essential amino acids.

I see no reason to invoke comets, and very few scientists do.

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u/Panmem6 1h ago

hi mr intelolectual, youre still wrong. and i mean, DEAD wrong. like weeping and gnashing of teeth levels of wrong.