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Proteins... in... SPAAAAACCCE!

posted by Zed on March 28 2002 09:25

Amino acids arise in lab simulations of interstellar ice (okay, not proteins per se. or space. Picky, picky, picky.) It's looking like Hoyle's cometary version of Panspermia is rounding the Hegelian dialectic to synthesis after just 20 years, same as it took for the originally laughably catastrophist thesis that a meteorite impact killed the dinosaurs.

Which begs the question -- in 2022 what will be synthesized that is today antithesized?

And... if the building blocks of life are so easily come by through physical processes, where the hell is everyone?

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