Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.... Romans 1:22
"A stormy, active sun may have kickstarted life on Earth (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
2 May 2023). Why are they hopeful in the silence? It’s largely NASA’s
fault. NASA has pushed 
astrobiology for decades, and was in cahoots with
SETI believers since the 1960s, until they were shamed out of the
tinfoil-hat look of SETI in the 1990s and switched to “astrobiology”
instead.
The first building blocks of life on Earth may have formed thanks to eruptions from our Sun, a new study finds. A series of chemical experiments show how solar particles, colliding with gases in Earth’s early atmosphere, can form amino acids and carboxylic acids, the basic building blocks of proteins and organic life. The findings were published in the journal Life.
---As we have stated many times, amino acids are simple and easily
formed according to thermodynamics and known chemical laws. But they are
as far from life as tar is from a jet airliner.
The article reviews the old Miller-Urey spark discharge experiments
and admits that Miller used an implausible atmosphere. Lightning was not
available in that atmosphere, and it was likely not reducing enough for
prebiotic chemicals to form. But solar protons have more energy and are
more efficient at producing amino acids.
All else being equal, solar particles appear to be a moreefficient energy source than lightning. But all else likely wasn’t equal, Airapetian suggested. Miller and Urey assumed that lightning was just as common at the time of the “warm little pond” as it is today. But lightning, which comes from thunderclouds formed by rising warm air, would have been rarer under a 30% dimmer Sun.“During cold conditions you never have lightning, and early Earth was under a pretty faint Sun,” Airapetian said. “That’s not saying that it couldn’t have come from lightning, but lightning seems less likely now, and solar particles seems more likely.”These experiments suggest our active young Sun could have catalyzed the precursors of life more easily, and perhaps earlier, than previously assumed.
*Think of the possibilities: protons erupting from the sun hit the
early Earth and created amino acids, which created cells, which created
multicellular organisms, which evolved to crawl onto land and become
reptiles and mammals which, through millions of years of mindless
accidents, developed into scientists writing about life by chance – a
proposition absurdly improbable to the extreme. But this is the
proposition that motivates Astrobiology and SETI." CEH
