Naphthalene Found In Outer Space

Adam Korbitz writes with an excerpt from his blog on an exciting discovery in space: "A team of researchers led by Spanish scientists has published their discovery of the complex molecule naphthalene in an interstellar star-forming cloud, indicating many prebiotic organic molecules necessary for life as we know it could have been present when our own solar system formed. According to the new research — published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — the naphthalene molecules were discovered 700 light-years from Earth in a star-forming region of the constellation Perseus, in the direction of the star Cernis 52."

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Re:Spiffy spacesuits

[Anonymous Coward]

My nigger spacesuit is mod-free, because mods were fags back then and they're still fags now.

Re:Would it really be that hard?

[Profane MuthaFucka]

You dumbass, stop with the science. We all know you want to say that Jesus did it.

If only people were that clever.

[twitter]

People would rather rule the Earth in relative squalor than conquer and share the infinite resources of space. We could have gone to Mars and come back for the price of the Iraq war. Think of that when you are drafted and lie dying in the dust someplace far from home.