RE: NASA Finds Amino Acids on Impossible Meteorite, Improves Chances E.T. Exists
December 19, 2010 at 4:23 pm
(December 19, 2010 at 3:57 pm)Chuck Wrote: I think laboratory experiments should first be carried out to determine the viability of any amino acid in 2000 degree temperatures before we take the fact that we can't think of how this rock might have been contaminated by earthly amino acid to mean there hasn't actually been any contamination.
I think there wasn't any previous suggestions that where conditions are amenable to life, life can be forestalled by the lack of amino acids. So I might think this discovery does't change anything fundamental.
It is possible that this fragment wasn't subjected to the high temperatures, and was simply thrown off during the impact. That said, I don't know what analysis was done on the meteorite to determine if it had been subjected to high temperatures (other than entering Earth's atmosphere). I wish I had access to the original paper.
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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