We are starstuff

Biggles

[url]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/news/stardust_amino_acid.html[/url]

Stingray

Great, we already know this. Don't these guys watch scifi? :D

In other news: 2 + 2 = 4

I hope this was just someone's PhD thesis.

Random Chaos

At this rate they will find the space ship we arrived in buried under the Sahara desert before long and then we will begin our quest for our homeworld.

CurZ

I'm not.

Biggles

[QUOTE=Stingray;183674]In other news: 2 + 2 = 4

I hope this was just someone's PhD thesis.[/QUOTE]

Why?

Stingray

Because it's a subject matter that lends itself to PhD theses and I have read some NASA news reports that stated as much. A lot of research is done that way, but I don't have to tell you that. :D Why are you asking?

Biggles

I was just curious why you think there's a difference between research done for a PhD and research done after a PhD. There isn't, really, and the way you worded it sounded like you were implying that PhD research is simplistic and doesn't make new or important discoveries. Typically only the organisational structure of the project (in terms of funding, etc) changes between research done by a PhD student and research done by a full scientist. PhD students just make good grunt researchers. :D

Stingray

[QUOTE=Biggles;183696]PhD students just make good grunt researchers. :D[/QUOTE]

Exactly. :D I see some every day.

I didn't say it was easy or simple. I was just implying that we already know that the components of life were introduced to our planet from star stuff and that program managers tend to let PhD students do the actual research work. :)

Biggles

It was posited due to finding amino acids in meteorites that life was seeded by comets, but this is the first real proof. So we thought, but we didn't know. Now we have evidence, so we think stronger, but we still don't really [i]know[/i].

Stingray

I'm always amazed how much those astrophysicists can say so much about the universe with such confidence just from looking at it or their fudged numbers. :D

Shuup Nick

I nearly crapped my pants when I read this.

I don't really buy the whole "life came to Earth from comets / asteroids etc" theory because it just seems like passing the buck: if life was introduced here from comets etc., then how did it get there in the first place...?

Anyway, the fact that they found this amino acid on a comet is amazing. I'm surprised more of an issue hasn't been made of it.

Stingray

When they talk about the components of life then they don't mean life forms, but chemical elements and molecules. It's not like sperm cells travelled through space. :D

CurZ

[QUOTE=Stingray;183719]It's not like sperm cells travelled through space. :D[/QUOTE]

I see a movie idea forming here..

Directed by Michael Bay. Starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Music by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard The Beach Boys.

croxis

It was also suspected due to the predominance of left (or is it right?) handiness of these basic molecules, and the prodominant left handedness of minerals found it meteorites.

DarthCaligula

What the hell are you talking about, Croxis?

sinclair

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ShadowDancer

[QUOTE=CurZ;183728]I see a movie idea forming here..

Directed by Michael Bay. Starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Music by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard The Beach Boys.[/QUOTE]

It would have to be explosive space sperm for Bay to be involved

CurZ

[QUOTE=ShadowDancer;183738]It would have to be explosive space sperm for Bay to be involved[/QUOTE]

I like how you think. How does executive producer sound to you?

Messiah

Explosive space sperm flying around in low-flying helicopters at dawn..

ShadowDancer

Good to be working with you Curz! :D

Low flying space helicopters?