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Ingredients of Life Found Around Sun-Like Star
smooth wombat writes "NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope has detected the basic organic building blocks of life in a ring orbiting in the 'habitable zone', that area where Earth orbits the Sun and where water exists on the borderline between gas and liquid, in a nearby stellar nursery. When acetylene and hydrogen cyanide combine with water they form adenine, one of the four bases of DNA. The detection supports the widely held theory that many of the molecular building blocks of life were present in the solar system even before planets formed, thus assisting the initial formation of complex organic molecules and the start of life itself." Though it was a little shakier than this observation, we've discussed the possibility of life elsewhere in the galaxy before.
Ok, this is OT, but I've heard this several times in the last couple of days, and I need to quash this nasty little piece of christian propaganda.
My christian friends are fond of telling me, especially this time of year, that famed computer scientist Donald Knuth is a christian.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Knuth is NOT a christian; in fact, he is an atheist and has said so on several occasions. So if a christian tries to tell you he is, tell him to cram it.
Knuth is WAAAAY too smart to fall for a crock of shit like christianity.
You suck ass. Thank you. That is all.
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so does that mean our body has 14% cyanide ? O_o /me is scared