How are we actually alive?

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darthdevidem01 said:

lestatdark said:

darthdevidem01 said:

Didn't scientists do experiments where they replicated the conditions of early earth and were able to form basic forms of life?

Yes, the Miller-Urey experiment, were they used a mixture of Water, Methane, Ammonia and Hydrogen, connected to two flasks, one simulating the evaporating atmosphere and another containing a pair of electrodes which were stimulated in constant time intervals with sparks, simulating the constant lightning storms of the early earth. 

After a few weeks, carbon based molecules began to form, some aminoacids like Glycine, Alanine and Lysine; Sugars, non-polar liquid solvents such as acetone, and most important, the appearance of Guanidosine and Adenosine (which are the isolated forms of the nucleic bases, Guanidine and Adenine).

Yeah thats the one!!

I am surprised how less people know about this experiment, I only found out a few months ago!

It really is a breakthrough of sorts.

Yeah, I was amazed when I heard about it too.

 

Really was one of the biggest breakthroughs that I've been around for. And it sounds like it was actually fairly simple (not to demean the guy who did it, I'm sure it actually was hard, it just sounds easy)