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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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