>Still, while Lane’s explanation doesn’t answer all the questions about how life started, it addresses difficult ones about how the energy-intensive synthesis of proteins and other essential biomolecules could have occurred.
Made me wonder: if the theory was true, how would this change our view of life being created on other planets?
The deep sea vents providing electricity differences sounds pretty important, so I guess that would make Mars and Venus less likely (I've never heard anyone discuss deep sea vents in their oceans, and neither is all that tectonically active, so maybe they couldn't have many?), but makes Europa more likely - it's nothing but ocean, and super-tectonically active.
Made me wonder: if the theory was true, how would this change our view of life being created on other planets?