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Life in a Barrel

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What's Missing From the Chemistry?

In these hygotherma events, there is a beautiful link between the geology of the planet and active volcanic systems. It's as if a living planet gives rise to living cells, which have the same structure. Both the planet and the cell is a little bit like a battery. They're got a positive charge outside, a negative charge inside, th a membrane surrounding it. And they're both, they're both like that. There's a lovely, lovely sense of continuity that a planet gives rises to living cells.

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