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'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth

atemerev

Assumed age of LUCA: 4.2 billion years. Age of Solar system: 4.6 billion years. LUCA had ribosomes. A ribosome is assembled and shaped by about 200 different proteins, it is an ultra-complicated molecular machine.

Conclusion: pre-LUCA evolution and abiogenesis did not happen on Earth, or even in the Solar system.

Corollary: life (at least on some primitive level) is probably common in the Universe, or at least in our local area of the galaxy.

ForTheKidz

I find it curious that you're choosing an article that strengthens the general case for abiogenesis on which to opine this point.