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- From: dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu (David O Hunt)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Bio-matter clumping
- Message-ID: <8eS=9yy00WB6QiD4h_@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 19:24:46 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.8eS=9yy00WB6QiD4h_
- Organization: Masters student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- There's a theory, jokingly called the "Open-Faced Sandwich Theory of Life"
- in which colloidal particles of clay act as congrgating surfaces for organic
- molcules. Such an affinity has been demonstrated in a lab, and would go
- far in explaining how organics ended up near each other...
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- The theory goes on to state that the byproducts of many reactions are
- fatty acids, the stuff of membranes, which would form little domes over
- the reacting proteins/genetic materials. Eventually they get shaken off
- or just cut loose in some other fashion.
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