"TomHendricks474"  wrote in message
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> << Thanks for the post...  Is there a reason why you avoid fresh water
> souces?  I've always assumed - likely based on my obvious bias - that
> a fresh water primal soup might allow presumably delicate first
replicators
> more readily than salt water.  Or do you mean any shallow waters? >>
>
>
> I don't really know one way or the
> other so I'll leave it an open question.
> What advantages do you think fresh water would give?
>

Just purity of the source...  that is, since water is a necessity, the
impurity of salt (, etc.?) might be just one more issue to overcome.  But my
comment was also based on my reading of your text as NOT leaving it an open
question, as "primal soup in shallow oceans and tide pools and shore lines
around volcanoes" seems to me to apply to salt water sources alone.
Regards, Brett.
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