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Meteorite may hold secret to life outside earth
CBC News via sympatico.msn.cbc.ca ^
| 30/11/2006 2:21:19 PM
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Posted on 12/04/2006 9:59:23 AM PST by FYREDEUS
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"Perhaps these are like little condos arriving on earth and biology can move in later on,"
Unoccupied condos?
Maybe unoccupied in THIS meteorite...but while this may be a unique FIND it is unlikely it was a unique occurrence among all the uncountable billions of space rocks in our solar system and beyond; if this one has developed such structures it's likely others did as well...
...and were ALL of them unoccupied?
Life abhors an unoccupied ecological niche even more than Nature abhors a vaccuum.
Prospects for Panspermia are looking up methinks...
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posted on
12/04/2006 9:59:26 AM PST
by
FYREDEUS
To: FYREDEUS
A spelunker on Coast was talking about some creatures he found chowing down on silica rocks. It is suspected that all rocky planets have bacteria inside the rock. Everywhere in the Milky Way. What might be beyond the Milky Way is not likely to be of direct interest to earthlings, ever.
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:02:57 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: FYREDEUS
Hoyle and Wickranshandie (sp?) theorized exactly this many years ago- life arriving from space.
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:05:00 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: FYREDEUS
But we've found since that it's even more unique than that. It's a totally unique meteorite." Something is either unique or it's not. Not more unique, or totally unique. Just unique.........
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:13:23 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
To: FYREDEUS
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:14:31 AM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: FYREDEUS
I believe a comet would be more likely to transport life, comets are frozen many hundreds of degrees below zero and would be perfect for preserving small, if not microbial, life forms.
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:19:37 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: FYREDEUS
Brook stored the meteorite in a freezer to keep it intact, a move that helped give researchers a chance to study it before it could be influenced by the environment on earth. "Influenced by the environment?
You mean, like, hockey and beer, eh? How could that be bad?"
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:20:17 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: DBrow
A dorm rat back in my college days suggested this is how citrus fruit came to earth...
To: HEY4QDEMS
A comet could, undoubtedly, deliver flash frozen produce anywhere ~ but now we are talking about an environment where life could survive ~ even thrive~ while in transit.
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:24:47 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: FYREDEUS
Simply being organic is still a long way aways from being life.
To: FYREDEUS; editor-surveyor
To: FYREDEUS
A meteorite that crashed in northwest Canada almost seven years ago might have been able to host the very earliest life forms...
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:32:21 AM PST
by
Bon mots
To: FYREDEUS
"Perhaps these are like little condos arriving on earth and biology can move in later on,"
Perhaps? yes perhaps, to what order of probability.
A common theme from articles on these topics are speculation and statements like 'opens the door to the possibility of' add belief here
Neither is science.
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:57:10 AM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu; Aetius; Alamo-Girl; AndrewC; Asphalt; Aussie Dasher; Baraonda; BereanBrain; ...
This is an old saw. They have been demolished here on Earth, in their attempts to promote a godless origin of life, so they now choose to move the argument to some imaginary, distant, inscrutable location, so that their theories cannot be demolished by the abundant physical evidence as has happened on earth.
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:58:35 AM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: FYREDEUS
"
Prospects for Panspermia are looking up methinks..." Looking up the anus of absurdity, that is.
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posted on
12/04/2006 11:01:05 AM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: RightWhale
What might be beyond the Milky Way is not likely to be of direct interest to earthlings, ever.Andromeda and M31 both have tendrils of matter that extend to the Milky Way.
So you never know.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
M31 is the Andromeda galaxy, which, happens to be coming right at us or the Milky Way at it if you are not a Milky Way Centrist, and we will collide eventually. It will be disruptive, no doubt.
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posted on
12/04/2006 11:22:28 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: FYREDEUS
A meteorite that crashed in northwest Canada almost seven years ago might have been able to host the very earliest life formsWow, that is really neat.
Talk about unreasonable expectations of their abilities. Solving how life began just by examining a piece of meteorite.
Guess grant money needs to be justified or maybe they just need more. /sarc
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posted on
12/04/2006 11:31:19 AM PST
by
Dustbunny
(The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
To: editor-surveyor
To: editor-surveyor
The Tagish Lake Meteorite:Unlike Murchison, the Tagish Lake meteor shows no signs of amino acids, but shows a number of cyclic and ring-aromatic carbon chains. Evidence of carbon buckeyballs, or fullerenes, have a characteristic cage-like connections that resemble the geodesic domes promoted by architect and futurist, Buckminster Fuller.
...
Compared to Murchison, Tagish Lake rocks reflect a distinct evolutionary branch for carbon in the early solar system. What carbon-rich material that is soluble, shows a more primitive, less complex category of chemistry.
Oh, well.
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posted on
12/04/2006 11:59:17 AM PST
by
AndrewC
(Duckpond, LLD, JSD (all honorary))
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