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From: Mark Isaak <specimenNOSPAM@curioustaxon.omy.net>
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Subject: Re: Ool - out at first base?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:16:06 -0800
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On 12/17/24 5:12 PM, MarkE wrote:
> On 17/12/2024 6:33 am, Mark Isaak wrote:
>> What makes you think that you know enough about the universe to think 
>> that the problems you put forward will not likewise be obviated by 
>> further research?
> 
> I don't, not with certainty. Hence I put forward possible OoL 
> showstoppers for scrutiny.
> 
> To that end, do you think the following recent examples have any merit 
> at all? I'm not asking if you agree that they're a problem, rather, is 
> there any legitimacy in addressing them as potentional problems for OoL?
> - the tar paradox

Probably not a problem. It's easy to imagine mechanisms that could 
separate productive products from counterproductive ones.

> - supply of concentrated nucleotides unbroken for millions of years

A problem, yes, but only in the sense that solving any puzzle is a 
problem.  A showstarter (where research is the show), not a showstopper. 
Also, millions of years may be unnecessary. I suspect that one 
bottleneck of abiogenesis is for the proper conditions to come together, 
but once they do, a huge step could be taken in months, perhaps hours. I 
might be completely wrong about that, but then, others might be wrong 
about thinking optimum conditions must persist for millions of years.

-- 
Mark Isaak
"Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That
doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.'" - Mary Doria Russell