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."

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Thats nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

Niggers evolved in shit!

amirite?

And it might have evolved in a Chicken McNugget

[EmbeddedJanitor]

so friggin what? Let's ask and answer some questions that matter **here** and **now**.

Does it really matter how life evolved 200 million or 6000 years ago (depending to which KoolAid you drink)? Answering these questions do nothing to change the important issues of today and the future. We're here so let's make the most of it.