Ancient Comet Fragments Found In Antarctic Snow 92
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Cosmos Magazine:
"Two tiny meteorites recently recovered from Antarctic snow contain material dating back to the birth of our Solar System, and may provide clues about the delivery of organic matter to Earth. Researchers believe that these micrometeorites likely came from the cold, comet-forming outer regions of the gas and dust cloud that comprised the early Solar System, and sample its composition. Discovered in 2006, the particles measure less than 0.25 mm across and survived their journey through Earth's atmosphere relatively unscathed. More importantly, scientists found that they contain unusually high amounts of organic matter."
RUN! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:RUN! (Score:5, Funny)
Can you please keep your hentai fueled Japanese tentacle fantasies to yourself?
Thanks,
The Managerment
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Hentai? Sounds like H.P. Lovecraft to me.
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Re:RUN! (Score:4, Informative)
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You're forgetting that we also found a frozen ancient in the ice that was still infected [gateworld.net] with the plague that drove the ancients to Atlantis [wikia.com] several million years ago.
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"I think awesome chair weapon to fight off the Goa'uld."
Just have them meet MicroSteve. Regardless of who loses, the humanity will win.
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Official breakdown of organic matter:
22% crumpets
37% butter
34% strawberry jam
7% tannin from Earl Grey tea.
Conclusion: On the day of the solar system's initial installation, somebody was having breakfast.
Doctor Who? (Score:2)
Space Jizz (Score:1)
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Every-time I look at you I jizz my pants
this theory again (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:this theory again (Score:5, Informative)
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...why couldn't the materials have formed here just as easily?
Because saying "panspermia" is much more fun in a naughty sort of way.
Re:this theory again (Score:5, Informative)
It unfortunately doesn't appear to be freely available online anywhere, but you might be interested in this survey paper [nature.com] if you have access to a university library.
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Sheesh, everybody knows that.
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This is science. We disprove things for a living. Positive proofs are for math. There will never be a scientific discovery that proves the Bible is, like you imply, a completely true book. Instead, there will continue to be discovery upon discovery that--no matter what the book's place as a fantastic piece of history, the collected stories and an artifact of the gestalt of a bronze-age-era tribe--simply proves the asserted fact
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Serious question: Why do Christians not en masse undertake suicidally hazardous activities? Surely offing yourself would be a stronger message than the currency your kind uses today, like pedophile priests, abusive pastors, shouting TV charlatans, and proven fraudulent faith "healers".
Because suicide is a sin. How convenient.
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WOW! (Score:5, Funny)
These fragments are 6000 years old. Truly mind boggling.
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I don't think 6000 means what you think it means.
whoosh!
Megatron (Score:2, Insightful)
hmmm (Score:4, Insightful)
They don't own all those planes for nuttin' honey. (Score:3, Funny)
FedEx - overnite.
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It's not really a paradox, it just isn't an answer to how life originally arose.
(It is perfectly consistent for life to have originated somewhere else and spread here)
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It's not a paradox, but doesn't answer the question we're actually interested in: how does life come into existence.
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Aside from the stupid music, this video is pretty interesting for explaining a possibility for the first few steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg [youtube.com]
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Is there a reason you chose to repeat what I said?
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(You say "organic matter" but I'm assuming you mean "biological matter". "Organic" doesn't mean alive.)
Originally, the idea was that life formed on a planet, once, and was blasted into space by meteor impacts, drifted to infect other planets. Rinse, repeat.
These days, the originators are all fringe science woo-woo.
A better modern form is the idea that prokaryotic life developed in the star-forming nebula that gave rise to our solar system. (Or even the one that begat the galaxy.) Lots of different places
You're confused a little (Score:5, Informative)
Organic matter != Life though. I'm not sure if Panspermia brought life to Earth or not, but the organic matter in comets isn't alive. It's just the building blocks that could potentally have been involved in life coming into being.
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It's just the building blocks that could potentally have been involved in life coming into being.
Or what's left of life after being boiled and frozen...
It's turtles all the way (Score:5, Interesting)
Organic matter can mean a lot of different things. Simple organic molecules may form in the gas clouds in space which give origin to planetary systems.
More complex molecules are a different thing, many of those require liquid water to form. The most plausible answer is that compounds such as methane were formed in space and accreted into earth and the other planets.
Then chemistry in the earth atmosphere and oceans built those into more and more complicated structures until life began.
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And more importantly, how did it form?
That's easy. When a star goes nova, it does nucleosynthesis, which means that carbon (and lithium and oxygen etc) are synthesized by helium, which has been synthesized by hydrogen.
Now, Sun is third or fourth generation star, which means that it is made of leftovers of other stars which have gone nova (or supernova). Part of the staff of other stars was carbon.
As Carl Sagan used to say, our bodies are made by star dust.
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I wouldn't say it was a paradox, more of a cop out.
Re:Preparing for 2012?? probably! (Score:4, Insightful)
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not mine, but there is one at the center of our galaxy.
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The only proof there is, is that there are those who don't like my presence on the internet, anywhere on the internet. And that is the findings of mindspring investigation into complaints and the hacking of their server to make it look like I was complaining about myself. But they saw past they attempt.
There is a reason for the title "Anonymous Coward" and ultimately what are you really attacking here? NOVA and a research Scientist at the LHC?
The article is about organic matter found on earth but identified
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Well, I certainly know who the dealer was.
I heard it was some dude’s pop, Ben Addict (16).
Must be tough to have a child at that age. But I also heard he likes kids very much, so I think he’s OK with it.
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someone should mod you up seeings how relevant to the article your post is.
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hmmm, so quick to judge, no surprise here on slashdot.
then someone asks what is my source. Only if they would have read the blog entries and accessed the links given on the blogs.
But then who here thinks NOVA (pbs) or scientist using the Large Hardon Collider have any clue what they are talking about?
Oh wait, such fast judgements and quick comments haven't taken the time to review the sources....
Go figure....
There is actually a good bit happening in and around 2012, from a science POV. But to many maybe cau
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Someone said redundant so I shouldn't let them down but rather make the post connection they broke, while being almost redundant about the following.
hmmm, so quick to judge, no surprise here on slashdot.
then someone asks what is my source. Only if they would have read the blog entries and accessed the links given on the blogs.
But then who here thinks NOVA (pbs) or scientist using the Large Hardon Collider have any clue what they are talking about?Oh wait, such fast judgements and quick comments haven't take
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Christ, you must be one of those boring smelly people at parties that everyone tries to avoid.
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And you obviously are someone who thinks a mod score is what you are suppose to do to the poster modded.
try writing something relevant to the article. It may help hide your otherwise obvious intent.
Let me help: What do you suppose is going to happen when the LHC experiments advance our knowledge of what happened one millionth of a second after the big bang?
Play catholic in denial (history repeating it self.... Galileo).
Or maybe you have some idea as to where the organic matter came from, before it was in sp
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lol.
My, my, you certainly are a plank. You strike me as a follower of Blossom Goodchild et al.
How do you find it (Score:5, Interesting)
To find these sub-millimetre-scale particles, Duprat and colleagues melted and sieved untainted snow that fell near the French-Italian CONCORDIA station in central Antarctica between 1955 and 1970.
I suppose since there isn't much dirt in Antarctica, any that you find has as good a chance of being a meteorite as anything else.
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When reading the summary, I wondered how they could find such a small thing.
Maybe they just looked for the yellow snow . . . ?
hey (Score:2, Funny)
WTF? (Score:2)
How does one find a grain of sand in the snow of a polar ice cap AND figure out that it is from outer space!?
How big?!? (Score:1)
I dunno what the hell's in there (Score:2)
but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.
I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.
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Imagine (Score:1)
Reading this, I started wondering why no religions form around new scientific discoveries about the origin of life. Widespread spiritual beliefs and offshoots still seem to form in these latter days, like Scientology, but none seem to form around scientific indications of the origin of life. Scientology, for example, prefers to believe in aliens - something unproven - rather than, say, panspermia, which is a more likely origin story.
Why aren't there worshippers of great panspermia being, whose seed rains do
What kind of meteorite? disappointing (Score:1)
comet found in arctic snow (Score:2)
Also in the news:
Bear poop found in the wood.