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Is
Evolution from Organic Compounds to Life Inevitable?
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NO
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Any
hostile environment can squelch life
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Life
seems to like liquid water, nice neutral chemical medium for reactions
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Liquid
water needs something pressing down on it
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Atmosphere
or ice-top
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Planets
with no atmosphere like Mercury unlikely to have life
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Sulfur
dioxide on Io might be poisonous
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Io
is a moon of what planet?
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Sulfuric
and other nasty acids on Venus
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Many
ways to keep organic compounds from becoming life
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For
life to evolve from organic chemicals, conditions probably have to be just
right
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