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Immortality's Droplets

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Hydrothermal vents are chemical hot springs near fault lines on the ocean floor. Some, called white smokers, have elaborate mineral pillars or chimneys that are full of tiny chambers in which chemical reactions can take place. At 158 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius), the vents are a bit hot for a bubble bath but, it turns out, just right for the formation of amino acids and structures that could serve as cell membranes.
Scientists suspect that deep hot vents like these might have seeded life on Earth about 4 billion years ago. Some hydrothermal vents release alkaline fluids, which could supply the energy needed to build complex organic molecules. And the basic chemistry of life “appears to match what you might expect if life began in this hot, dark, chemical-energy-powered setting,” says earth system scientist Timothy Lenton of the UK’s University of Exeter, a coauthor of a 2017 article on ocean biogeochemistry in the ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE.

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_gallo_life_in_the_deep_oceans?language=en

Thursday, May 2, 2024


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Immortality’s Droplets

 

From bubbling depths

Infinitesimal life

Surfs the crest of waves.

 

Such are Titan-like droplets,

Often encased in whitecap bubbles

Living on through blazon whispers

Beneath the sun’s exalted presence

.        Into the breaking days of eternity’s dawning.

 

Nights…

 

Ocean’s blushing teardrops

Rest atop low ebbs of darkness,

Marveling at the tail-swishing of a comet.

 

Daybreak…

 

Finds tides joining together droplets of infinite parentage,

Gliding through the ever-present curl of creation’s majesty,

The replicating genesis of life’s forever wave of birth.

 



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Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on May 3, 2024
"a bit hot for a bubble bath" The thought made me laugh. The life around those vents is astounding. An interesting sharing. Thanks. Enjoyed. rlc


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