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Top 10 Unsolved Space Mysteries

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the robert-stack-voiceovers dept.

Joe Jordan writes "Space.com is advertising the Top 10 Space Mysteries for 2003, and perhaps for all time, given the current rate of discovery." Some of them are obvious, like the origin of life, and the possibility of alien life forms, but the list is still a good compilation of space's greatest questions.

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  1. Origin of life a mystery? Yeah, right. by pyth · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It is common knowledge that life originated by first starting with some fundamental materials (primordial soup), then an electric discharge created amino acids, which then self-assembled into various proteins, some of which which then evolved into fully functioning metabolic and reproductive systems.

    How is it a mystery when everybody knows this?

  2. Re:Just to pick one out of that mess of gobbledygo by rppp01 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ohh! Oooh! Me me!

    What fields? Well, corn fields, of course!

    MKS units of these potentials? Little yellow ones!

    Units of the fields? Well, corn comes by the cobb.

    What other forces are involved in radioactive decay? Why radioactive maggots and worms. I hate them. That's why they use radioactive pesticides to kill them. :-)

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    They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself