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Life’s Ingredients in Space

Started by MommaSquid, August 08, 2006, 05:46:06 PM

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The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia hasn't yet found radio signals from alien life, but it has picked up other kinds of unexpected signals from space: the chemical signatures of biologically significant molecules, swirling around in the clouds from which stars and planets are made. The discovery of more and more organic compounds in interstellar space has led researchers to suspect that if life were to develop somewhere else in the universe, it wouldn't have to start from scratch.

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Is this god's debris?

Whitney

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very interesting...I hadn't heard about this discovery.

Aullios

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Perhaps the early comet impacts that brought water to the young Earth brought some of this stuff as well?