From: me22over7@gmail.com   
      
   Q: "As you guide the next generation of young investigators and assist   
   new laboratories to set up their experimental simulations and field   
   work, what is your best-case scenario for the state of the inquiry into   
   the origin of life a decade or two from today?"   
      
   David Deamer: "I would guess we know maybe 1% of what is necessary to   
   understand how life can begin. The other 99%...well, wherever you look   
   in origins of life research, there are vast gaps of ignorance that are   
   within the reach of anyone who wants to try their hand. I identified   
   some of these gaps in Chapter 11 of my book, Assembling Life. For   
   example, how did life become homochiral? How were polymers synthesized   
   non-enzymatically for life to begin? How did metabolism begin? How was   
   light captured in primitive versions of photosynthesis? Where did   
   ribosomes come from and how did the genetic code emerge?"   
      
   https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/9/2/36   
      
   An elder statesman of OoL summing up 50 years of research he has   
   witnessed: "wherever you look in origins of life research, there are   
   vast gaps of ignorance..."   
      
   Prediction for the next 50 years of OoL research: the "vast gaps" will   
   actually increase, making even more room for the   
   God-of-the-ever-widening-gulfs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)