Did lightning help spark life on Earth?

[Admin]

Could lightning strikes have helped to spark life on planet Earth billions of years ago?

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[Helio]

10^18 lightning strikes ought to do it. Perhaps this will prove to be another important step toward a working abiogenesis model. Energy is critical, hence the use of electrical spark in the Miller-Urey experiment.

 

[rod]

When I read about the bolts I thought we have plenty of lightening bolts in nature today but no observations of abiogenesis and life arising from non-living matter hit by those bolts. There are reports out now on JCVI-syn3A, synthetic organism. Livescience.com published a report recently on this too. Lanese, N., Scientists built a perfectly self-replicating synthetic cell, livescience.com, 30 Mar 2021.

Did they use lightening strikes to create this synthetic cell that reproduces? I hear the life is very delicate and needs special protection too in the lab