Scientists Are Cracking the Primordial Soup Mystery 278
derekmead writes "Scientists have had a basic understanding of how life first popped up on Earth for a while. The so-called 'primordial soup' was sitting around, stagnant but containing the basic building blocks of life. Then something happened and we ended up with life. It's that 'something' that has been the sticking point for scientists, but new research from a team of scientists at the University of Leeds has started to shed light on the mystery, explaining just how objects from space might have kindled the reaction that sparked life on Earth. It's generally accepted that space rocks played an important role in life's genesis on Earth. Meteorites bombarding the planet early in its history delivered some of the necessary materials for life but none brought life as we know it. How inanimate rocks transformed into the building blocks of life has been a mystery. But this latest research suggests an answer. If meteorites containing phosphorus landed in the hot, acidic pools that surrounded young volcanoes on the early Earth, there could have been a reaction that produced a chemical similar one that's found in all living cells and is vital in producing the energy that makes something alive."
Spunk? (Score:3, Funny)
Think about it. Who lives in space? Who can shoot hot spunk into space? This spunk then hit the primordial soup pool.
Now if god created man in his own image, god obviously must have had a penis. So where is god's missus?
Phosphorus in acidic pools (Score:5, Funny)
It's the diet soda theory of evolution.
Re:But who sent the meteorites???? (Score:1, Funny)
mods must be jews
Re:Here we go again...... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Here we go again...... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, if the Matrix is maintained by EA, we might be in trou---- AUTHENTICATION FAILED, DISCONNECTING.
Re:Here we go again...... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here we go again...... (Score:4, Funny)
Try getting bit by a radioactive spider. It might help.
Re:Here we go again...... (Score:2, Funny)
I sat in a login queue for nine months!