[garjog]

This is interesting if confirmed.

But, just because you have a bunch of organic chemicals doesn’t mean that a planet covered with it would produce life.

You still need: RNA, DNA and cell protein structure to permit amino acid chains to link in a rather complex sequences.

No one has any idea how the “primordial soup” — if it existed on earth — might spring to life.

[GSP.FAN]

The conditions for life may not be that rare after all.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

The earth is only ~8000 miles in diameter. The Milky Way alone is around 100,000 light years across, and is only one of ~3000 visible galaxies and an estimated 500 billion galaxies in the universe. It doesn’t seem surprising to me that there would be organic matter elsewhere in all of that. Incidentally, for those who say that they don’t believe there is a reason for all of this, and say they don’t believe in God, how can you truly believe that all of the vastness of the universe exists for no reason?

[onedoug]

Well, when life has been found elsewhere, please ping us.

[SkyDancer]

I just wonder when one molecule decided that splitting into two parts was boring and stopped and then noticed that cute guy molecule over there ....

[TASMANIANRED]

Organic......contains carbon...

[R_Kangel]

In an infinite universe an infinite number of permutations and combnations of all things are possible.

It's just a matter of where and when.

Or is it?

[SoFloFreeper]

There it is, proof positive we came from a bunch of rocks. Well, maybe the liberals did.

[reagan_fanatic]

To understand the diversity of organic chemicals that were floating around a primordial solar system will help us understand how life may have appeared on Earth

Which doesn't discount a God who created life, either. It would seem logical that, in creating life, he would use the elements already in existence around him.

[Randy Larsen]

100 Kg X $20-?30 per gr=???

I need FR help!