Re: scientists find RNA nucleotide in a metorite
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loeve
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Date: June 15, 2008 01:28PM It's an appealing idea to me that the basic building blocks of life may have come to earth via meteorites 4 or more billion years ago.. why couldn't they have been drifting around the universe or even intelligently directed to a promising solar system like ours.... I'm talking fossilized raw materials that could remain stable for billions of years.. Re: scientists find RNA nucleotide in a metorite
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Joanne81
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Date: June 16, 2008 02:39PM I read recently in a book called "The Cosmic Serpent" that there is a line of thought that thinks the DNA from even the most simple organism is far too complex to have come to being in the amount of time between the origin of our planet and the first speck of life on it. This made sense to me and this article confirms it a little more in my mind. It is a cool thought.
We have already discovered over 100 gaseous jupiter-like planets in our immediate vincinity in our galaxy. Small fluxuations point to the likely hood of the gravitational pull of smaller planets near by. To me this seems to say that the universe is probably full of life. We have found planets nearby. There are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way alone. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies. Maybe at some level we are all linked through DNA. Some of the animals on earth are alien-like. For example octopus and squid are intelligent creatures, but had a far different evolutionary path than mammals. The earth is teeming with diverity, but we all share a similar DNA code. It is crazy to imagine the possiblilities of other life in the cosmos. I imagine a race of human-like creatures who get their energy directly from thier star. There are probably clusters of planets that have creatures who are in contact with one another (somewhere in the grand universe anyways). Re: scientists find RNA nucleotide in a metorite
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loeve
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Date: June 20, 2008 04:02AM "I read recently in a book called "The Cosmic Serpent" that there is a line of thought that thinks the DNA from even the most simple organism is far too complex to have come to being in the amount of time between the origin of our planet and the first speck of life on it."
The estimated age of the earth (4.5 billion yrs) is a small amount of time, especially if you believe in infinite time and an infinite universe as did Giordana Bruno (1548-1600), the italian priest, philosopher and poet [www.answers.com] .. he believed in an infinite number of inhabited planets (and paid dearly for it). Infinite time would have given DNA or other modes of existence an eternity to develope.. even as our known universe has been supposedly expanding, there could have been relics of multiple universes drifting in. Re: scientists find RNA nucleotide in a metorite
Posted by:
arugula
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Date: June 20, 2008 10:04AM Joanne, cephalopods ROCK! They make eye contact with humans, they are mischevous and wily. Some biologists think that octopuses are smarter than cats, and in the UK the animal protection people have designated the octopus as an "honorary vertebrate" because they are so smart. Re: scientists find RNA nucleotide in a metorite
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Joanne81
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Date: June 20, 2008 03:05PM I met three squid once while snorkeling in Costa Rica. Thet were so cute and strange. They were lined up next to eachother and swam together. I thought of them as triplets. They were about a foot tall. They followed me around for about 15-20 minutes staring at me. It was awesome. I love them. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/20/2008 03:06PM by Joanne81. Re: scientists find RNA nucleotide in a metorite
Posted by:
Jose
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Date: June 24, 2008 02:38AM
The rest here [www.slate.com] Cheers, J Re: scientists find RNA nucleotide in a metorite
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Joanne81
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Date: June 25, 2008 12:27AM Cool article Arugula. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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