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Subject: Re: OT: Life from a drop of rain, New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:33:34 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>Life from a drop of rain: New research suggests rainwater helped form the first protocell walls
>A Nobel-winning biologist, two engineering schools, and a vial of Houston rainwater
>cast new light on the origin of life on Earth
> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240821150020.htm
>Date:
> August 21, 2024
>Source:
> University of Chicago
>Summary:
> New research shows that rainwater could have helped create a meshy wall around protocells 3.8 billion years ago, a critical step in the transition from tiny beads of RNA to every bacterium, plant, animal, and human that ever lived. 
>
>There you go, simplicity!

It's easy to form a blob with some goo inside. Like mayonaise.

The hard part is the DNA and all its tousands of supporting
structures.