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   LowRider44M to slider   
   Re: a WILD solution to an age-old questi   
   16 Jan 23 11:59:01   
   
   From: intraphase@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 7:20:05 AM UTC-5, slider wrote:   
   > ### - not long after the earth cooled down enough to no longer be   
   > completely molten, a single-celled bacteria arrived here, either via a   
   > comet or from just drifting through space - pan spermia! the obvious   
   > answer...   
   >   
   > an incredibly simple entity that then proliferated for around a billion   
   > years in earth's oceans without any change, the big question being: after   
   > a billion years of such utter stability what then kick-started the   
   > multicellular explosion history records that eventually resulted in all   
   > the different complex multicellular life-forms we see today?   
   >   
   > well, the full(ish) answer eventually came to me in a dream heh, in a WILD   
   > actually...   
   >   
   > i.e., have been pondering this question of origins for quite some time,   
   > have even asked about it in other dreams only to receive but partial   
   > answers, clues maybe like pieces of an incomplete jigsaw whereby you can't   
   > quite make out the full picture coz it isn't finished enough yet?   
   >   
   > this time tho' methinks i gots it lol :)))   
   >   
   > and it's really rather startling & surprising! (as most solutions found in   
   > dreams often are...)   
   >   
   > i can't, however, swear that's it's true or totally correct as this all   
   > appears to be an answer entirely from the subconscious mind, one that   
   > during the hours of WILDing seemingly has some kinda more   
   > conscious/photographic access to the sum total of memories stored over a   
   > lifetime, which thus then links/weaves forgotten/unconscious ideas &   
   > patterns together in some kinda novel manner that can't otherwise be   
   > accessed under normal waking/rational conditions... genius level, smile :)   
   >   
   > the answer in this case to how & why life originated on this planet and   
   > was completely stable for a billion years as just a single cell, only to   
   > suddenly then explode into ever-changing and ever complex multicellular   
   > forms that eventually exploited every possible niche on earth in every   
   > possible way over the next half-billion years right up to today, is simply   
   > because exactly the 'same' simple life form also reached mars and   
   > proliferated there for maybe a billion years too while mars still had   
   > running/sitting water on its surface!   
   >   
   > the 'difference' being that mars doesn't have all of the 'same' elements   
   > that we have here on earth? (there's one particular organic one that's   
   > missing on mars that's fairly important to life but common here) so the   
   > entity that grew and stabilised on mars, although exactly the same   
   > bacteria originally, was actually very slightly differently evolved in its   
   > chemical makeup, almost like the species of whatever it originally was   
   > split/diverged into 2 slightly different species merely because of the   
   > differing conditions in which it was forced to live & grow etc...   
   >   
   > which, for a billion years, was apparently just fine... both species were   
   > stable enough in their simplicity and respective environments on their   
   > respective planets for simply ages without any change whatsoever...   
   >   
   > mars, however, began to die... whether it was too far out from the sun to   
   > remain warm or just too small to hold its atmosphere, doesn't really   
   > matter coz start to die it did...   
   >   
   > at some point before it died a large meteor strike on mars (one that   
   > killed the planet or not is interesting but irrelevant) for sure threw-off   
   > some mars-rocks into space, some of which apparently traveled to earth   
   > carrying live examples of it its own home-grown bacteria... conditions in   
   > the oceans being similar here it too thrived and proliferated until it   
   > grew in enough numbers to bump into it's cousin here on earth... and   
   > that's when things hotted up heh...   
   >   
   > some probably just attacked and ate each other, others maybe cooperated,   
   > either way an arms race between predator & prey that led to ever-complex   
   > forms & intelligence commenced, simple conjoined forms to begin with (we   
   > still see the likes of today with bacteria living inside other species in   
   > some kinda simple but symbiotic, mutually dependent relationship... our   
   > own gut for example, where scores of different bacteria help us to break   
   > down our food!)   
   >   
   > the end result of the introduction of a slightly different but related   
   > species to each other being all the different life forms we then see today   
   > when their initial meeting galvanised them into some kinda   
   > survival/cooperation mode, this being an explanation for the origin of the   
   > predator/prey dichotomy that people have always wondered about...   
   >   
   > one obvious (contextual) question being: so was it the mars microbe or the   
   > earth microbe that ultimately turned predator?? (heh)   
   >   
   > it all adds up see?   
   >   
   > only how would ya ever know if it's actually correct or not?? (maybe   
   > genetically huh, and/or if/when they find similar fossilised bacterial   
   > mats on mars too)   
   >   
   > correct or not tho' i likes it haha, it's neat ;)   
      
   I'll come back and read slow later.   
   Watching the same micro verse macro as "intuitive" cells organizing here.   
   https://youtu.be/G5LMdhqWvS0?t=2956   
      
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