Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:39:39 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Life (really)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
Life took root more than four billion years ago on our nascent Earth, a
wetter and harsher place than now, bathed in sizzling ultraviolet rays.
What started out as simple cells ultimately transformed into slime molds,
frogs, elephants, humans and the rest of our planet's living kingdoms. How
did it all begin?

A new study from researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, CA, and the Icy Worlds team at NASA's Astrobiology Institute,
based at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA, describes how
electrical energy naturally produced at the sea floor might have given
rise to life. While the scientists had already proposed this hypothesis \342\200\224
called "submarine alkaline hydrothermal emergence of life" \342\200\224 the new
report assembles decades of field, laboratory and theoretical research
into a grand, unified picture.
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<http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/04/new-study-outlines-water-world-theory-lifes-origins>

mark