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by ncmncm 1495 days ago
When you find a living organism relying on sea foam to construct an organelle, you may file for your Nobel Prize.

Literally all the organisms we know about make all the membranes they use by adding to an existing membrane, not fetching them from out of their environment. And really, why should they?

Finally: a soap bubble film has air on both sides, and water solution between, and is thus the opposite of any membrane in a cell, which has water on both sides and glyceride in between.

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It had to start somewhere, and expecting it to have started with what is currently done sounds optimistic.
It would be somewhat important to use something that works, in preference to one that totally would not.
What a dull life it must be to presume your understanding is complete.