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NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls

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277 points Gaishan | 2 comments | 10 Sep 25 00:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.722s | source
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metalman ◴[10 Sep 25 10:21 UTC] No.45195635[source]▶
This article is a wonderfull fever dream of genisis.Though it's starting point is mundane. The whole vesicle theory is built on a physical/mechanical process ubiquitous in nature,that so far has no connection with life. Wildly suggestive and so so close, but when you look at the actual way vesicles are made, and cell walls are made, they are not the same, but have the same properties, as it lkely that physics and chemistry only allow for tiny bubbles(cue track), to form in a limited number of ways, one is an accident, and the other a mystery.
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1. IAmBroom ◴[10 Sep 25 15:48 UTC] No.45199456[source]▶
> The whole vesicle theory is built on a physical/mechanical process ubiquitous in nature,that so far has no connection with life.

To be fair, the conditions that were ubiquitous on Earth when life first formed are now extraordinarily rare, if they exist anywhere at all on the planet.

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2. metalman ◴[11 Sep 25 10:42 UTC] No.45209994[source]▶
yes, and many experiments have shown.that analigs of those conditions have yielded various amino acids usedby life forms, but never amino acids inside vesicles. foams/vesicles are ubiquitous positing there existance and conflating that with life on Titan is a big ask, if, IF they has included a statement along the lines that "vesicles are certain to be found anywhere in the universe where liquid water exists" then it would be completly acceptable and could be viewed as an exercise in creative chemical theory to be investigated, but as is, it's a fever dream
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