Did newborn Earth harbour life? - space - 02 July 2008 - New Scientist Space

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space.newscientist.com — Researchers have found unusually light isotopes of carbon, a common indicator of life, in the Earth's oldest mineral deposit, found in the Jack Hills in Australia. The carbon dates to more than 4.25 billion years ago, a time known as the Hadean period...

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  1. Recently, I wrote a two-parter about the possibility of there being alien life elsewhere.

    An argument I put forward was the life emerged so early on Earth, that it suggests heavily that life as a force of nature is an inevitable process of the Universe itself.

    If this discovery proves to be correct, it adds weight to my argument...

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