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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 12/03/2006 : 11:59:30
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Link
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Organic globules found in a meteorite that slammed into Canada's Tagish Lake may be older than our sun, a new study says.
The ancient materials could offer a glimpse into the solar system's planet-building past and may even provide clues to how life on Earth first arose.
Intersting find. Though I feel the conclusions being drawn are highly speculative and probably shouldn't be made at this time. It just gives more fuel for people like Bill who have no grasp of reality.
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The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 12/03/2006 : 12:42:11 [Permalink]
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A lotta "could be" and "appears" and "might" there. I think I'll reserve comment until more is known about it. quote:
"What's really striking about this is that these globules clearly could not possibly have formed where [the meteorite] itself formed," Messenger said.
"Under those extreme conditions the air that you'd breathe would be solid ice. You would never find those conditions in the asteroid belt or anywhere close to the sun."
Never the less, it is a very interesting find.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 12/03/2006 : 13:00:07 [Permalink]
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Interesting, but also very frustrating. They did not name a single organic compound found in the meteorite.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2006 : 18:34:52 [Permalink]
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| A lot of folks who watch TV news or read newspapers might assume "organic" always means some sort of living thing or component of life. In the most basic sense, organic compounds are carbon combined with another element and therefore can be found in both life as well as non-living matter. |
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beskeptigal
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