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Milky Way Star Births May Have Influenced Life

Posted by Hemos on from the changing-the-world dept.

eldavojohn writes "Space.com has an interesting article that speculates that the period when our galaxy was giving birth to stars resulted in huge fluctuations and impact on earth. From the article, 'Some 2.4 billion years ago when the Milky Way started upping its star production, cosmic rays — high-speed atomic particles — started pouring onto our planet, causing instability within the living. Populations of bacteria and algae repeatedly soared and crashed in the oceans.' Causes one to wonder what the probability for life arising on a planet is given that our own seemed to be in a very unique situation on many different counts."

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  1. A long time ago by franksands · · Score: 5, Funny

    2.4 billion years ago, cosmic rays travelled through space to create this first post.

    1. Re: A long time ago by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny

      > 2.4 billion years ago, cosmic rays travelled through space to create this first post.

      Are more on their way for the dupe?

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  2. Re:Not too much different from other changes by Konster · · Score: 3, Funny

    So....what's going to happen after Bush is out of office?

  3. Insert God Jokes Here by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Funny
    Humans seem to want to be perceived as being special on both an individual and a collective level. We don't really want to accept being common or normal or average.
    As God once said to his pangalactic dominion: All Your Base Are Belong To Us.
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