What do you want to name your respectively chosen organisms?
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By the way, if we went extinct completely again, would we witness an another panspermia event or would something more unique happen?
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Not sure yet. I think I have a tentative idea, other than starting in the Hydrothermal vents.
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So like a secondary abiogenesis?
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Donβt forget those cell chunks and DNA from extinct cells dropping down as Marine Snowβ¦
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I am not sure it would last very longβ¦
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Hydrogenium Acus. That will be the name for it
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It seems that large Marine Snow aggregates can travel to the bottom the ocean in a few days.
A single phytoplankton cell has a sinking rate around one metre per day. Given that the average depth of the ocean is about four kilometres, it can take over ten years for these cells to reach the ocean floor. However, through processes such as coagulation and expulsion in predator fecal pellets, these cells form aggregates. These aggregates, known as marine snow, have sinking rates orders of magnitude greater than individual cells and complete their journey to the deep in a matter of days.[8]
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How does this help preserve the cell matter though?
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Dust from land going into the oceans can contain clay. DNA can bind to clay to form aggregates as a part of the Marine Snow formation process, and is something like several order of magnitude times more stable than simply free floating nucleic acids, which is why we have been able to sequence 2.5 million year old DNA. Those same clay particles aggregates can trap cell matter, too. So, it could be possible for cell material at the surface to be transported to the bottom of the ocean within a few days.
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The thing then would be for the material to become βzombieββ¦
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You mean material for the next biogenesis, right?
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Of course. The planet would need to be lucky to have so many chances at life thoughβ¦
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Considering how far back we are in time (over 3.65 Bya), who knows if life originated multiple times in that bygone eonβ¦
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Iterum hero postus is what Iβll call it.
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Well we can never know for sureβ¦
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It looks like all previous quotes have the same shifted appearance.
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Will probably be fixed soon unless this for some reason is how theyβre supposed to look like nowβ¦
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Quick question, do you see the Mayan unicode characters as they are, or as boxes? When viewing on a University Computer, they are viewable. Perhaps it is a Windows 10 versus Windows 11 thing?
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No I still see them as boxes
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