Organic Matter Found In Canadian Meteorite

eldavojohn writes "From what sounds like the opening of an X-Files episode, Canadian scientists have reportedly found in a meteorite organic matter older than the sun at Tagish Lake in Canada. From the article: '"We mean that the material in the meteorite has been processed the least since it was formed. The material we see today is arguably the most representative of the material that first went into making up the solar system." The meteorite likely formed in the outer reaches of the asteroid belt, but the organic material it contains probably had a far more distant origin. The globules could have originated in the Kuiper Belt group of icy planetary remnants orbiting beyond Neptune. Or they could have been created even farther afield. The globules appear to be similar to the kinds of icy grains found in molecular clouds — the vast, low-density regions where stars collapse and form and new solar systems are born.' The article implies that life could potentially survive in these meteorites and maybe even travel through space — supporting the theory that life may have arrived on earth and evolved from that point on."

Comments

The forming of the first nations.

[Enema]

Quite frankly, I fail to see how this affects the recent rise of lolography on the internet. Perhaps we can harvest the organic material to create a device to aid humanity in frying bacon shirtless, without risk of trauama.

Re:More like "Deception Point" than the X-Files

[From A Far Away Land]

Dissing girls who like mystery novels, is not cool.

This being Slashdot, dissing girls is not cool, period ;-)