Title: Glycine (An Amino Acid) Detected in Comet Sample
Post by: Recusant on August 22, 2009, 12:15:19 PM
Post by: Recusant on August 22, 2009, 12:15:19 PM
So this (http://www.universetoday.com/2009/08/17/amino-acid-found-in-stardust-comet-sample/) isn't huge news, but it's interesting. Fans of the Panspermia theory (http://leiwenwu.tripod.com/panspermia.htm) are probably exited, though. In reading various stories about it, I found the comments on the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1207321/Building-blocks-life-comet.html) website kind of surprising. A fair percentage of the Brits writing about it sounded remarkably similar to the baying hounds of Young Earth Creationism that we're all too familiar with in the US. I guess stories like this are guaranteed to bring them out from under the porch, even in a relatively secular place like Great Britain. 
Title: Re: Glycine (An Amino Acid) Detected in Comet Sample
Post by: Ninteen45 on August 22, 2009, 04:47:56 PM
Post by: Ninteen45 on August 22, 2009, 04:47:56 PM
This is a good one.
"interesting that all the religious comments are worse rated and the science ones best rated. maybe there's hope for the world yet"
- paul, poole, 19/8/2009 12:17
Not hope, We control the internet, They control the TV.
"interesting that all the religious comments are worse rated and the science ones best rated. maybe there's hope for the world yet"
- paul, poole, 19/8/2009 12:17
Not hope, We control the internet, They control the TV.
Title: Re: Glycine (An Amino Acid) Detected in Comet Sample
Post by: Heretical Rants on August 25, 2009, 03:32:47 AM
Post by: Heretical Rants on August 25, 2009, 03:32:47 AM
^^True, dat.