NASA discovers DNA building blocks in meteroites

since the 60's, they've thought there was DNA in meteorites, but thought it could be contamination from us or the earthly surroundings.

now they have evidence for A and G bases being present in meteorites, as well as various biological and non-biological derivatives of these bases.

pretty cool if u ask me

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/11/dna-discovered-in-meteorites/?hpt=hp_c1



"Prebiotic" material found on meteorites since the 1960s.

 

^^interesting speculation, skip

 

Perhaps the building blocks to life were delivered here as a result of a cosmic collision elsewhere in the universe.

I read about the moon having experienced some sort of collision- either creating it or diverting what was once an asteroid into an orbit around the earth and rendering its mass off center so one side is always being pulled toward the earth resulting in us seeing the same face of it.

Cool article- thanks for posting.

 

So...god threw an asteroid at the earth? Or did he set in motion a series of events that PUT the asteroid in motion? Or is it just a chemical reaction that would have happened anywhere the right circumstances were?

Does this have any ramifications in the rationale of religion? Does it change anything at all?

 

Or it was blasted out of the atmosphere by a super volcano. My geology teacher in high school told us that there are strange streaks on the moon that look like it was hit all at the same time from this direction, as if it was hit with a giant shotgun. He said some people think a volcano with enough explosive force could easily have made those marks on the surface of the moon.

If that is true at all then there has to be a whole lot of earth rocks floating around the solar system that did not immediately impact the moon or come straight back down.

Of course he was sort of a dork.

 

Legos In Space, awesome.. now if they can just find Mr Potatohead on Mars.. :clown:

 

no, because in general, religious people ignore scientific facts:devil:

 

the chances are extremely small.

 

it is ignorant to believe we are the only planet that harbors life.

 

^^^i agree

 

So we're little more than a trace ingredient of a primordial porridge? This inspires possible parody of the children's story- perhaps to be posted elsewhere. It could be that in another corner of the universe where life has evolved there are similar beings pondering the possibility of life existing here and contriving a few chuckles out of the science and speculation themselves.

I wonder what they'd come up with if they found enough genetic material to map it and see what terrestrial specie it's closest to... it might might fill in a few gaps in our understanding of how life progressed here- or just bring more questions to light.