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Article #491Re: Creating life
From: King Su
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1989 05:29
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1989 05:29
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I have a thought. Rather than to try and synthesize existing life forms, wouldn't it be simpler to synthesize life forms that might have existed billions of years ago, when the ocean is just a pool of simple chemicals? Even the most simple, present-day virus is a challenge to synthesize. Yet a viron is not really alive until it enters a host that provides the viron additional components to allow it to reproduce. If life really came from a pool of chemicals, then there must be an early form of life that is very simple in structure, and is capable of reproducing itself without a lot of supporting components. Maybe we can make such a life form without too much trouble. -- /*------------------------------------------------------------------------*\ | Wen-King Su wen-king@vlsi.caltech.edu Caltech Corp of Cosmic Engineers | \*------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!samsung!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!cit-vax!wen-king From: wen-king@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (King Su) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Creating life Keywords: Life Message-ID: <12500@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 4 Nov 89 05:29:22 GMT References: <2461@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> Reply-To: wen-king@cit-vax.UUCP (Wen-King Su) Distribution: usa Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 14