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Thanks for making that statement Rob. (I failed spectacularly !).
But it really is fascinating just comparing the two number scales.
Of this number of possible ordered sequences of a single chain of DNA (ie: huge), one, or some of these, evolved to result in DNA chain(s) we recognise today - here on Earth.
Lots of things must have influenced these chemicals, to result in the arrangements we now see. We still don't really know the magnitudes of the numbers of these influences yet, either.
The probabilities of these influences occurring, (perhaps even in specific time sequences), anywhere, also seems to be mind-blowing.
Fantastic stuff !
I don't know what this means in the context of the current discussion, though.
Somehow the scales must be linked .. and discovering these linkages would be/is awesome. (Some have been discovered but these discoveries seem infinitesimal, compared with what remains to be discovered).
We skim over these thoughts when we read information about the scale of the universe, but the scale of what's going on in our own backyard, is even more mind-blowing !!
Cheers
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