Extremophiles are organisms that thrive in harsh environments where you would think nothing could live. When looking at extremophiles on Earth and the environments they live in it does make you wonder why organisms haven’t been found on other planets yet. Extremophiles may have been the first life that existed on Earth. They don’t exist, [...]
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How Did Those First Organic Molecules Get to Earth?
How did life start? You would be talking to a Nobel prize winner if I could tell you that. Unfortunately nobody knows. There are a few theories around and a few advances have been made in this field but I will talk about the one that is most widely accepted in scientific circles. The starting [...]
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Is Nothing Nothing Or Something?
I was tempted just to post a blank page, but that still wouldn’t have been nothing and would have been cheating. So here we go… Let’s say you walk into a room and there is “nothing in it” — no objects of any kind, no furniture and no people. It’s just four walls, a ceiling [...]
