RE: Comets and life
January 25, 2015 at 11:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2015 at 11:54 pm by IATIA.)
(January 25, 2015 at 10:10 pm)Alex K Wrote: I find this article is not well-written and rather strange.There probably is a better written article, but as this was the first one I came across, I thought I would post for interest and googling could possibly get one a better written more informative article.
This is just preliminary information.
(January 25, 2015 at 10:10 pm)Alex K Wrote: It's claiming that all kinds of things are unusual or unexpected, but I'm missing clearer statements by some scientists which put those things in context. So it's made up of a lot of co2, for example, and they quote someone that they were taught differently - but how big of a surprise is this to the current scientific community? Why did they expect to find more complex hydrocarbons?The traditional description of a comet has always been the 'dirty snowball'. Finding the hydrocarbons was unexpected, but now found, they expected the same as found in the meteorites.
(January 25, 2015 at 8:31 pm)dyresand Wrote: I seen a article saying that comets and meteors having binary DNA but that is interesting.The headline was DNA found, but what was found were some building blocks of DNA.
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-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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