New Theory for Life's First Energy Source

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

http://www.mindat.org/min-7261.html

I wonder why they chose to describe the Pyrophosphite as a product of the combustion of a living organism's feces: "A pyrophospate originated from bat guano combustion in Arnhem Cave, Namibia, about 2000 years ago. Cause of combustion unknown." Almost sounds like a joke. In the Yahoo News article on Pyrophosphite, the chemical is described
"Kee's team has found that pyrophosphite would be "relatively straightforward to prepare from minerals that are known to exist in iron meteorites." The routes to the production of this molecule are simpler than those proposed for pyrophosphate, Kee said."

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All that's missing from Pyrophosphite is Carbon, nevertheless it is possible for it to have ignited life, all life discovered on our planet is carbon-based as it can form long chains for which the other elements can bind to, thus making up our chemical composition, though it is conceivable for silicon or ammonia based life forms to exist in reality as well.

I read up on NewScientist and if you were to brake me up right now into single atoms (taking into account they have differing masses) you'd see the empirical formula H15750 N310 O6500 C2250 Ca63 P48 K15 S15 Na10 CL6 Mg3 Fe1.

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interesting.

More research is needed, I doubt pyrophosphite is all that's required for abiogenesis.

Yeah i agree. even in the article, they don't suggest that pyrophosphite is the only chemical required for abiogenesis. The article suggests that pyrophosphite works as a substitute for ATP somehow.