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Cosmic 'DNA': Double Helix Spotted in Space
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| 15 March 2006
| Bjorn Carey
Posted on 03/15/2006 11:29:27 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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Infrared signal (the negative image) from the Double Helix Nebula. Credit: M. Morris, UCLA
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Maybe this is just the beginning of a REALLY BIG COSMIC MONSTER that is gonna come down and eat us up.
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posted on
03/15/2006 11:33:56 AM PST
by
wildbill
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"The double helix shape is commonly seen inside living organisms, but this is the first time it has been observed in the cosmos."
Is that true. Steely Dan sung about a "Double helix in the sky tonight" in the song Aja.
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posted on
03/15/2006 11:34:15 AM PST
by
jaydubya2
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
God's signature on his masterpiece.........
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posted on
03/15/2006 11:38:11 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: Pharmboy; CobaltBlue
Really, REALLY distant relative.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Oh! Sorry! I thought the headline read Double Neelix!
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posted on
03/15/2006 11:40:39 AM PST
by
uglybiker
(Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The origin of this phenomenon is nebulous.
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posted on
03/15/2006 11:53:57 AM PST
by
Defiant
(Muslim Unitarian:There is no God but Abraham's, and Mohammed said he was his prophet.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
It reminds me of fractal's; a math equation that you can see. The theory is everything looks the same from small to big: a pebble of sand looks like a rock, a rock looks like the planet, or a stick looks like a limb, a limb like a tree.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Just as I always suspected. Our universe is a tiny speck in some other living creature. I just hope it's a conservative.
To: American Quilter
Our Universe was created by a sneeze from the Great Arkleseizure.
Woe to those living in the days of the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief!
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posted on
03/15/2006 11:58:40 AM PST
by
BeHoldAPaleHorse
(Tagline deleted at request of moderator.)
To: wildbill
a REALLY BIG COSMIC MONSTER that is gonna come down and eat us upThen again the Rats may be right, we are the virus that will disrupt that double helix and turn it to our own means, cosmic polio.
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posted on
03/15/2006 11:59:03 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Islam the religion of piece, any piece they can take.)
To: jaydubya2
I was wondering who was going to quote Steely Dan first.
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posted on
03/15/2006 11:59:29 AM PST
by
stevio
(Red-Blooded Crunchy Con, American Male (NRA))
To: American Quilter
LoL! I always thought the ME was the arsehole, or darn near it.
To: martin_fierro
Would that be on my mom's or dad's side??
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posted on
03/15/2006 12:05:06 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: wildbill
Maybe this is just the beginning of a REALLY BIG COSMIC MONSTER that is gonna come down and eat us up. A Mutant Cosmic Star Goat perhaps?
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posted on
03/15/2006 12:05:17 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Well, prophacy says Gods sword will strike deep into the universe and it will dissapear.
That could be our host sticking a needle in it's arm and getting rid of this infection (us) Imagine, we are just a boil on someones arse...
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
03/15/2006 12:08:13 PM PST
by
meanie monster
(http://guptonator.myvideochat.net)
To: American Quilter
I too think we are but a molecule in something else and God will make sure it's conservative.
mc :-)
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posted on
03/15/2006 12:08:13 PM PST
by
mcshot
(Rusty but trusty or vice versa.)
To: wildbill
Exactly ... nebula, schmebula, we're seeing the inside of a single REALLY big cell
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posted on
03/15/2006 12:08:20 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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posted on
03/15/2006 12:09:44 PM PST
by
Orlando
(Do away with 42/666 ( The Bradley Amendment is a father killer))
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