SO ENDS this second weekend on this excellent paper by Dimitra Ati on extraterrestrial versions of Darwin’s warm pond where hi energy sources can push chemistry to far-from-equilibrium reactions and cross the threshold from chemistry to biology. With increased interest in the news about extraterrestrial life following the military release of UFO video footage, it begs the greatest unanswered question of 21st century biology, namely, how on earth, or elsewhere, did life evolve. It is time to fund intensive research in this direction.