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I don't think millions of years is long enough for anything interesting to happen life-wise, is it?


On the one hand, (primitive) life appeared on Earth almost as soon as conditions allowed it.

On the other, the early universe — this particular "warm bath" era — had approximately zero oxygen with which to make water. Right temperature, just (IIRC, but I'm not certain) zero stars yet, so nothing to make things heavier than what came out of Big Bang nucleosynthesis.


hard to know with so few data points


"insufficient data for meaningful answer", one might say.


>hard to know with so few data points

i've yelled at the interns several times but none have been able to set up a haldane soup focus group yet




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