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Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
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08-09-2006 18:46
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=20556From: someone The new discoveries are helping scientists unlock the secrets of how the molecular precursors to life can form in the giant clouds of gas and dust in which stars and planets are born.
"The first of the many chemical processes that ultimately led to life on Earth probably took place even before our planet was formed. The GBT has taken the leading role in exploring the origin of biomolecules in interstellar clouds," said Phil Jewell of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)."
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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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08-09-2006 19:09
Nope! It's all a lie! Those are particles from when God sneezed & created the universe.  |
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Einsman Schlegel
Disenchanted Fool
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08-09-2006 19:15
I thought it was that he farted?
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Arthax Bachman
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Join date: 26 Aug 2005
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08-09-2006 19:49
Uh, these particles in space aren't news. We've known about them for a long time, already.
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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
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08-09-2006 20:02
From: Einsman Schlegel I thought it was that he farted? Oh No no no.... Thats how Humans were created  |
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Alvin Newcomb
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08-09-2006 20:42
Lest this be interpreted as getting even remotely close to explaining the origin of life, note that biological polymers (DNA and protein chains) do not form spontaneously. In fact water (which is necessary to suspend them and allow them to interact with each other) cuts them to pieces. Speculation on the origin of life usually notes that some minerals can stabilize polymers as they are forming; but then what you end up with is completed polymers, but glued to the surface of a rock where they are neither replicating nor folding up into a form which might catalyze replication.
And we haven't even gotten to the bit about getting the components in the right order. The smallest RNA chain which has been found to facilitate RNA replication is about 50 nucleotides long. Even suggesting that there are shorter ones which we haven't found (say 30 nucleotides) and thousands of specific 30-long chains, leaves a one in 300 trillion chance of it forming by accident.
Evolution can create information, but evolution doesn't start until you have a system which can replicate faster than the environment damages it. And this must happen without the many mechanisms (all based on metabolism, which requires a lot more than a 30 nucleotide catalyst) which have evolved to speed up replication and avoid or repair damage to the genome.
This is still a huge mystery.
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Jon Rolland
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08-09-2006 21:06
From: Tod69 Talamasca From: Einsman Schlegel I thought it was that he farted? Oh No no no.... Thats how Humans were created And that is why so many people are full of shit. |
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Richie Waves
Predictable
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08-09-2006 21:16
hey there could be kids reading the forums, keep your "science" to yerself.. we need more Kevns around here 
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