Was life on Earth sparked by Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes?

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Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes simulated in a biosphere mimicking conditions on a young Earth led to chemical reactions resulting in "remarkable yields" of the building blocks for life.

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[rod]

This idea about lightening has been discussed in 2023 too.

Life on Earth quickly became independent from lightning as a nitrogen source, says new study, https://phys.org/news/2023-05-life-earth-quickly-independent-lightning.html

Other sources for life origin from non-living matter is dust traps in gas clouds.

The building blocks of life can form rapidly around young stars

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how the complex building blocks of life first formed, finding dust traps around young stars could make an ideal formation location. The building blocks of life can form rapidly around young stars : Read more

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Charles Darwin in 1871 postulated the warm little pond but knew that life today would eat non-living matter trying to evolve into life in that warm little pond so you could not see this take place in nature today. Apparently creating that warm little pond involves much catastrophism now when combined with astronomy and lightening strikes.

 

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An earlier discussion noted that life's precursors might have had a boost from radiation due to elemental decay in the rocks around a seafloor vent. There was no UV down there, no high energy particles like in space.