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  >https://scitechdaily.com/discovery-supports-a-surprising-new-view-of-how-  
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  > Discovery Supports a Surprising New View of How Life on Earth Originated  
  > TOPICS:DNAGeneticsPopularRNAScripps Research Institute  
  > By SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE DECEMBER 28, 2020  
  > Newly described chemical reaction could have assembled DNA building blocks  
  > before life forms and their enzymes existed.  
  > Discovery boosts theory that life on our planet arose from RNA-DNA mix.  
    
  Okay, sounds interesting -- now why did this new life develop a need to  
  copy  
  itself? Why is DNA so keen on making newly mixed sets of genes?  
    
  Wgt does every living thing on Earth appear to have the Genetic Mandate?  
    
  Of course, if it didn't, the question would be moot, as we'd be just  
  another  
  planet, cold(well, temperate due to our position/distance in Sol's family)  
  &  
  lifeless. . .  
    
  Of course, I'm satisfied that it went as it did, as I'm no Nihilist.  
    
  One has to wonder how dead elements & molecules became alive, questing,  
  reacting, & thinking.. .  
    
  Personally, I believe the universe planned it thusly & here we are.  
    
  If an odd mix of atoms can make a human brain capable of all it can do,  
  when  
  each atom is mostly empty space(ether), kind of like our solar system -- so  
  why couldn't our solar system be one atom in a greater level of existence?  
    
  That's one alternative way of thinking, or how about -- instead of thibking  
  solid is real, because we feel solid, even though we know we are mostly  
  ether,  why can't the ether & other empty space in the universe itself have  
  bonded  togwether & became a giant brain/personality?  
    
  The entre universe is very simply H (1); every other element was formed by  
  the  fusion of Hydrogen atoms, first into Helum, then into heavier elements  
  when  these, too, became smashed into each other & others in a supernova.  
    
  So your carbon was originally, ultimately, 6 Hydrogen atoms; you're just a  
  bunch of ones connecting & held together via various gravity-like forces.  
    
  & we feel we are such hot shots in mental capabilities -- how much more so  
  would a universe-sized Being be?  
    
  This Universe predated us infinitely.  
    
  Wheb the universewas compressed into One, all the universe was present in  
  that  single infinitely massive proton (it was One until It chose to  
  restart a  
  more  dynamic universe, which, per Higgs, is still connected as if it were  
  still that singular pre-Bang "One.")  
    
  Infinity must get boring, that's what I think, so creating a new universe  
  with  a one degree difference in temperature or a 0.0000003% change in spin  
  speed of  one of the initial Hydrogen protons.  
    
  Becauseeverything else beforethat in like incrimemys jad been done before,  
  possibly; so let's see how life evolves this time, with the occasional bits  
  of  help at times, because all living thinking creatures discover it is fun  
  to  
  play with one's parts, to see what'll happen.  
    
  We chewed on our toes as infants, so do pupies & kittens,but mammals don't  
  make uypo an infinite cosmos that is comprised of smaller, somewhat similar  
  life  forms (unless you count bacteria, which we may well can)  
    
  We are now playing with the bacteria that lives on us, to see how we can  
  affect it's behaviour & properties.  
    
  Whuy wouldb't Universe do the same at various points.  
    
  Nobody truly gets(thankfully) how long Eternity is. Look at what we do in  
  our  
  more limited life spans, as individualos,& as aspecies!  
    
  Some idiot thought it'd be interesting to see if the could combine a deadly  
  bat vaccine with the extremely spreadable & mutatable coold virus, & here we  
  have  Covid-19  
    
  I'm all right with experimenting, but not when these experiments can so  
  easily  kill millions or billions.  
    
  There are ways to test hypotheseses in a more controlled & limited manner,  
  but  only the most intelligent have thwe mettle to figure this out &  
  actually  
  put it into practice.  
    
  Laziness (&/or Greed) gets us into today's pandemic me  
    
  Life as a universal concept/process/existence will continue, absorbing  
  every  
  nuance of detail its evolved cosmos has produced for His observation.  
    
  You are as material to the Universe as a single one of the trillion bacteria  
  on your skin is to you.  
    
  Don't sweat it -- work on the big picture, if you're a scientist/seeker.  
    
  Personally, my vision & mission is to make life better for aas many othersas  
  I  can, as well as living long enough to see how that changes societies &  
  Eart's  rtelationship wikth the One.  
    
  Rea inhto this as ytou wilt; I had hno intentions in writing as I did -- I  
  was  inspired by the echo's name & the above link, & let my mind explore  
  outwards on the questions of understanding life as a concept, first, then in  
  how it relates to me & you.  
    
  Reply however you feel moved; Fidonet's not in a position to be overly rigid  
  as to content & topics.  
    
  If you'd rather take this to email, I'm at Cyberpope67@yahoo.com  
    
  I'm going to change the addressee to ALL, putting Charles Pierson in the  
  subject, so he can track the thread he started by addressing ALL.  
    
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