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A rare earth? Is there a possibility that life evolving on earth got the primary kick from the collision that created our moon? With the elements being in a supermassive centrifuge by their very nature, is it not at least feasable that life here got the first boot by that encounter, mixing the necessary elements. A hyper rare earth, if you will.
Comment by Indemnity4 at 25/07/2024 at 02:08 UTC*
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Abiogensis[1] is your key word for today. Study of how life was created from non-living materials.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
That scenario is not the most likely. Doesn't require a supermassive collision.
We don't know the origin of life, but we do the know the building blocks. We can find all the building blocks on many comets and in the interstellar space. As in, you could fly out into space and collect enough stuff to make a cell.
The two main candidates for that initial spark are underwater volcanoes and surface bodies of water that dry out / re-fill.