Interesting story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391682,00.html
Water is essential for life as we know it. Also, the tests found electrical conductivity that could have been key to forcing chemical reactions needed to generate the first birth.
When primitive molecules landed on the surface of these hydrogenated diamonds in the atmosphere of early Earth, a few billion years ago, the resulting reaction may have been sufficient enough to generate more complex organic molecules that eventually gave rise to life, the researchers say.
Interesting story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391682,00.html
It would not surpise me. Diamonds are made of carbon. Many meteorites have been found to contain loads of micro-diamonds of a specific type called Fullerine. that lead to the synthesis of “bucky balls” in the lab. This material, if made in large quantities would be harder than anything and virtually unbrakdable. The molecular structure is spherical, hnece the connection with Buckinster Fuller.
We are pretty sure that many, many meteors and larger bodies struck the earth in the pre-60,000,000 years ago timeframe so it is not at all farfetched that many of these diamond-laden stones introduced carbon into the equation (for which Al Gore has not forgiven God; and also for the fact that he flunked Divinity school)
The presence of Fullerine is sought to solve the riddle of Clovis points, “Peleo-indians” of coastal European descent; Silutrian (sp), the extinction of Mammoths, Sabertooth tigers, short-faced bears and a North American liion and the disappearance of human life from the Delmarva Peninsula some 10,000 years ago.