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Hooty
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Re: Solar System May Be Unique After All, Astronomers Say [Re: guri]
#3035228 - 08/22/04 02:12 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Of course there's other earth like planets and even life on them...how else do you explain Papaver?
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Re: Solar System May Be Unique After All, Astronomers Say [Re: ivi]
#3041126 - 08/23/04 07:53 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Life is nothing but a chemical reaction where polymers of nucleinic acids, amino acids and sugars do their dance with salts and simple molecules.
Evolution is inevitable as radiation is ubiquitous.
Stars blow out all the atoms we need for life by the gigaton/second and matter clutters together and if it falls back to the star it getsblown back again.
We've got a nice abundance of Iron and Calcium due to a supernova that popped in our vicinity, but our Iron-hemoglobin for oxygen supply is matched by Magnesium-Chlorophyll and Magnesium minerals or cartilage can easily substitute for bone calcium.
Amino acids consist of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur. All amino acids are formed from the most basic anorganic gases and they can be nothing then ubiquitous. Having some 16 kinds you can create far more data storage in far shorter chains which are far less fragile then DNA.
There are simple self replicating proteins created in the laboratory from those common healthfood store supplements. THat is life, or chemicals, whatever does it for you. But with mutation evolution can take hold of these 30-aminoacid chems and turn them into all-protein lifeforms which would be -very- resistant.
Where did life likely originate? In the liquid phase.
What are gas giants but swirling oceans of thin liquid? Jupiter might hold a million times our earth's biomass, swirling in the winds, airborne creatures of thin oceans, and we wouldn't be the wiser.
We have got
50.000.000.000.000.000.000 stars.
we have researched the planets of
120
of them and they don't look like ours. (not that we can detect planets like hours) but that aside we must seriously concider life cannot be found orbiting the
50.000.000.000.000.000.880
stars we haven't looked into. Or Io.. Or Titan.. Or Mars.. Or on any one of the three zillon lumps of our asteroid belts which collide and exchange matter and energy, shatter and recombine all the time..
err want coffee? we got collectible Space Telescope Science Institute coffeemugs!
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