[Ogmios]

I believe that if they run experiments that closely resemble what the smokestacks at the ocean floors are like, they might come up with some better luck.

The heat, the pressure, the chemicals etc.

I am seeing a lot of study around the smokestacks now, and I believe that if an experiment like Millers was done with these conditions, things may become clearer.

[Virginia-American]

I believe that if they run experiments that closely resemble what the smokestacks at the ocean floors are like, they might come up with some better luck.

I was thinking along the same lines. The Urey-Miller apparatus with a lot of different minerals, some submerged, some at the water-atmosphere boundary.

[qam1]

I believe that if they run experiments that closely resemble what the smokestacks at the ocean floors are like, they might come up with some better luck.

I agree, Mainly because in that environment at the bottom of the ocean the first lifeforms (which were probably very fragile) would have had substance to survive/reproduce while at the same time they would have also been protected from UV light (No ozone layer back then) and/or other radiation from the sun which would take care of any (real or imaged) "Irreducibly complex" problems of having to develop an extensive DNA/RNA repair system at the same time as forming.

I too am really pissed at NASA for wasting money on studying Tomato seeds on the space shuttle which could have been better spent on attempts to probe Europa