Re: What did the first single-celled organisms eat?
- From: Cemtech <cmrv@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:38:14 -0700
In article <dPK0i.2015$UU.796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jimmenegay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
"Cemtech" <cmrv@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MPG.20ac0c4a39bf26679898bd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <5v0443h1tb5ujuvmaoj7i103jjm5ho574f@xxxxxxx>,
Kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
What did the first single-celled organisms eat?
I bet 10,000 quatloos it was light or sulfur or methane.
I'll offer you very good odds that it was not methane. You can't
get energy from it by fermentation, it is not easy to 'grab ahold of',
and it is not very reactive, unless you have some strong oxidizing
agent available.
I'd almost rather believe it was glycine or acetic acid from a
Miller-Urey 'soup' than that methane was used directly. And I
hate the whole idea of a 'soup'.
I tossed in methane since I saw a show on deeps sea exploration. Along
with the deep sea sulfur vents and the ecosystems that live off that,
they also showed an ecosystem living methane. It didn't look as diverse
and the surrounding temperatures were much lower than at the sulfur
vents.
--
Steve "Chris" Price
Associate Professor of Computational Aesthetics
Amish Chair of Electrical Engineering
University of Ediacara "A fine tradition since 530,000,000 BC"
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