Re: Beginning of Life

Glenn Morton (grmorton@psyberlink.net)
Tue, 06 May 1997 16:28:15 -0500

At 05:21 PM 5/6/97 -0400, Murphy wrote:
>Dick Fischer wrote:
>
>> Here are some questions:
>>
>> 1. Could early planets, lacking in heavy elements, sustain life?
>
> In the usual scenarios, only H & He isotopes, with slight traces
>of Li-7 etc were made in the big bang. C & 0 would have been
>negligible, & it's hard to see how you could have life without them.

Given this chemistry, it would be hard to have a solid planet upon which
life could evolve. What you would have mostly is gas planets, no
terrestrial planets.

glenn

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