(March 28, 2012 at 6:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Both of you bible-thumping morons had best take heed. Science is passing you by.
(You and your fucking "god!)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...215607.htm
Quote:Blank and colleagues at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., set out to check whether amino acids could remain intact after a comet's descent through Earth's atmosphere. Previous analyses of comet dust samples returned to Earth by a NASA spacecraft eliminated any doubt that amino acids do occur in comets.
Their experiments show that not only could the amino acids survive, but the heat and pressure enabled the amino acids to create the peptide bonds needed to fuse them into proteins.
Quote:The amino acids did not break down due to the heat and shock of the simulated crash. Indeed, they began forming the so-called "peptide bonds" that link amino acids together into proteins. The pressure from the impact of the crash apparently offset the intense heat and also supplied the energy needed to create the peptides, she explained. In other experiments, Blank's team used sophisticated computer models to simulate conditions as comets collided with Earth.
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