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> if it did I would have thought it would have appeared in the past 5 billion years or so It may have appeared and been outcompeted. That doesn’t suggest its (
by ejstronge 1y ago
> if it did I would have thought it would have appeared in the past 5 billion years or so
It may have appeared and been outcompeted. That doesn’t suggest its (artificial) reintroduction would again be outcompeted
- XorNot 1y agoIt does actually, because it implies it fought and lost that battle the first time. Now, with L-amino life everywhere it would have an even bigger starting problem. We see this with extremophiles: organisms which can grow in nuclear cooling ponds full extremely badly when transplanted to nutrient rich environments with other, less capable organisms.