Scientists Discover a Self-Replicating Protein Structure, And It Could Have Built The First Life on

[Procrustes Stretched]

No, we don't have all the answers, but we're still looking.

Scientists Discover a Self-Replicating Protein Structure, And It Could Have Built The First Life on​

Stop with the science!

We need our myths and superstitions.

 

[ding]

You probably feel sorry for Einstein too.

You'll forgive me if I don't put much stock in your feelings.

Or your science.

Says the guy who says rocks are alive. After that it's hard to take anything you say seriously.

 

[ding]

Stop with the science!

We need our myths and superstitions.

Apu knows even less about science than you do.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Apu knows even less about science than you do.

impossible.

A Stable Genius like you should know that

 

[ding]

impossible.

A Stable Genius like you should know that

You should be embarrassed but you're not. The stupidity that you - and the others like you - spew is mind boggling. Apu can't compose a coherent sentence to save his life, you don't have any thoughts of your own, one guy thinks long chains of organic molecules evolve and another guy thinks rocks are living.

 

[ding]

If there were natural, repeatable and predictable folding sequences of long chains of organic molecules life would be popping up everywhere.

 

[ding]

No, we don't have all the answers, but we're still looking.
We'll never have all the answers as they just generate new questions.

Scientists Discover a Self-Replicating Protein Structure, And It Could Have Built The First Life on Earth
Mike McRae - 4 Mar 2018 - sciencealert.com
Scientists Discover a Self-Replicating Protein Structure, And It Could Have Built The First Life on Earth

Roughly 4 billion years ago an assortment of complex organic compounds went from being mere carbon soup to replicating biochemistry – the first steps to life on Earth.​

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The order of these steps has been a source of debate for decades. Now, a recent discovery about a common protein structure could help tip the balance, bringing us closer to understanding just how we came to be here.​

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Researchers from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich have demonstrated that short strands of amyloid protein structures can direct the selection of amino acids to build even more amyloids.​

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If the word amyloid doesn't sound familiar, they're a protein structure that's increasingly being found all over the place in nature.​

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Don't proteins come from plants and animals?

 

[scruffy]

But you think rocks are alive.

Everything is alive.

 

[scruffy]

But you think rocks are alive.

It doesn't matter what I think.

It doesn't matter what you think either.

Life goes on without either of us.