Background science links

Here’s a bunch of stuff from me on various Thrive-related things/science. If you read any of these papers and want to discuss or have me help you understand the jargon that’s probably in these papers please reach out. Primary sources are inaccessible at the best of times.

If there is a paper you want to read that is behind a stupid paywall message me and I’ll try and get it. The authors of paper make ZERO dollars on you paying to read their papers so you’re only hurting money-hungry journals.

Most of the papers linked here are going to focus on warm little pond origin of life rather than vent origins. Currently warm little pond origins is the more accepted dogma but astrobiologists argue about this all the time. I’m biased to ponds.

Here’s a powerpoint presentation I made for some community outreach. It’s an astrobiology primer for amateur astronomers. I dunno if it’s helpful to anyone here.
astrobiology primer powerpoint

Here’s a review paper on origin of life as a planetary phenomenon. This focuses on a “warm little pond” origin rather than a vent origin.
Sasselov 2020 Origin of life planetary phenomenon.pdf (2.2 MB)

Here’s a paper about why warm little ponds are better than vents for the origin of life
You can’t have membranes in seawater

Life on Enceladus
Deamer, Damer - 2017 - Can Life Begin on Enceladus A Perspective from Hydrothermal Chemistry.pdf (191.4 KB)

A paper by my friend Ben K.D. Pearce on RNA in warm little ponds. If you have questions about this paper definitely just email Ben.

RNA nucleobases in ponds

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