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NASA Discovers Life's Building Block In Comet
xp65 writes "NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. 'Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet,' said Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 'Our discovery supports the theory that some of life's ingredients formed in space and were delivered to Earth long ago by meteorite and comet impacts.'"
Are we sure it is not an alien spaceship ?
Strange, we think that a comet wiped out the dinosaurs, and yet another comet like this one could sustain the glycine-deficient dinosaurs at Jurassic Park!
Don't they make a claim like this every other week? It isn't getting any more interesting. Elements of life found in an old pile of pancakes left behind in an abandoned nuclear power plant, now that would be interesting.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
So now we know
Obviously, the discovery of sentient life "abroad" is going to be anticlimactic now.
Way to ruin it.
That only works on intelligent falling theorists.
but the prime constituent of the soya bean got their 1st. Just one small fart for man one giant harumph for mankind
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What's all this I must wait & try again stuff about did someone
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Quick! We've got to try to render this planet as depleted and undesirable as possible as swiftly as we can...
It's not that complicated. Shouldn't we be waiting to get excited about something more complex?
Yeah, I'm waiting for: 'Scientist find building blocks for taco's in comet, decide to build lunch.'
Glycine is the only thing they are willing to admit. NASA believes the world is not in a position to digest, (ha, ha) the more significant finding in the comet: High Fructose Corn Syrup.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
only thing we're missing from most plots is a hive mind!
Don't Rush Limbaugh fans qualify?
Putting the "anal" back into "analyst"...
Apparently they can't be bothered to pick up a textbook and learn that Redi and Pasteur proved it doesn't work like that a couple hundred years ago.
It's call the law of biogenesis.
Stop spending tax dollars trying to prove your Theory when there is already a scientific law disproving it.
If you want to spend your own money on it fine, just stop spending mine on your junk 'science.'
he said "Hive Mind".
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
When I first read the headline, I saw "NASA Discovers Life's Building Blocks in Cement". I figured they had found Jimmy Hoffa.
So what you're saying is that we only have a 25% chance of being able to digest the alien species, but a 75% chance of being able to use them as a calorie-free artificial sweetener?
Queue the countdown to NutraSweet funding the SETI program in 3...2...1..