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Message 1805052 - Posted: 27 Jul 2016, 1:54:25 UTC

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/science/last-universal-ancestor.html?emc=edit_th_20160726&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=39317068&_r=0
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Message 1805196 - Posted: 27 Jul 2016, 21:21:23 UTC - in response to Message 1805052.  

Thanks, yes, that is interesting, and further makes me feel life of some sort is bubbling deep down in an ocean somewhere far from earth.
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Message 1805414 - Posted: 28 Jul 2016, 20:08:29 UTC

I was just watching a show about Yellowstone, and it mentioned something similar about life deep inside the geyser vents.
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Message 1805457 - Posted: 28 Jul 2016, 23:16:55 UTC

Rather than being pond scum life may be from volcanism.
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Message 1805477 - Posted: 29 Jul 2016, 0:40:59 UTC - in response to Message 1805457.  

Rather than being pond scum life may be from volcanism.


Q says pond scum goo. When has Q been wrong?
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Message 1805503 - Posted: 29 Jul 2016, 3:16:52 UTC

♫♩ "My name is Luca
I live on the ocean floor
I evolved into you
Yes, I think you've been me before..." ♪♫

With apologies to Suzanne Vega. :^)
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Message 1805537 - Posted: 29 Jul 2016, 7:21:56 UTC

Read a similar article in Scientific American, very interesting.
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