Comments on: Devastating Meteorite Strikes May Have Created Earth’s First Organic Molecules http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/ 80beats is DISCOVER\'s news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:12:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Destroyer of Narnia http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/comment-page-1/#comment-16804 Destroyer of Narnia Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:22:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/#comment-16804 Wow. This is cool. Also, scientists are getting really close to building simple life forms in a laboratory. That will be huge, but if scientists are able to create simple life forms by shooting meteors into water, to me that would be even bigger. Making life in a lab will be cool and benefit us in health ways and such, but proving that life can be created rather simply through random events and inorganic materials... that could mean something huge about our existence and the rest of the universe. It would mean the possibility that life forms are all over the universe AND have been and will be for a long time. To some this is scary, to me this is hopeful. It would connect our own existence to another cycle of life and death (the life and death of planets of life). Wow.

This is cool. Also, scientists are getting really close to building simple life forms in a laboratory. That will be huge, but if scientists are able to create simple life forms by shooting meteors into water, to me that would be even bigger. Making life in a lab will be cool and benefit us in health ways and such, but proving that life can be created rather simply through random events and inorganic materials… that could mean something huge about our existence and the rest of the universe.

It would mean the possibility that life forms are all over the universe AND have been and will be for a long time. To some this is scary, to me this is hopeful. It would connect our own existence to another cycle of life and death (the life and death of planets of life).

]]> By: Denitsa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/comment-page-1/#comment-15869 Denitsa Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:45:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/#comment-15869 Life looks so easy to create from Universal point of view, it could have begun in all the ways we have until now -meteorite, volcano or a lightening. The best thing about it is that you can have it started all over the Universe, because flying rocks and volcanos are pretty frequent events. Even oceans aren't so rare if we believe of our Solar system. Life looks so easy to create from Universal point of view, it could have begun in all the ways we have until now -meteorite, volcano or a lightening. The best thing about it is that you can have it started all over the Universe, because flying rocks and volcanos are pretty frequent events. Even oceans aren’t so rare if we believe of our Solar system.

]]> By: hanky http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/comment-page-1/#comment-15604 hanky Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:54:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/#comment-15604 Recent scientific knowledge gained in the last couple of centuries has increased our knowledge of the universe by .10. So we still have to figure out about the other 90%. Recent scientific knowledge gained in the last couple of centuries has increased our knowledge of the universe by .10. So we still have to figure out about the other 90%.

]]> By: Larian LeQuella http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/comment-page-1/#comment-15576 Larian LeQuella Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:56:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/devastating-meteorite-strikes-may-have-created-earths-first-organic-molecules/#comment-15576 The thing that I actually <I>like</i> about all these different theories, is that there are so many of them. While we may not know for sure how it happened on earth, it seems to me that there are a myriad of ways for life to get started. It's really rather exciting! And before anyone treats the word theory as if it were a guess, please read this: http://wilstar.com/theories.htm Laypeople can make scientific talks so frustrating... The thing that I actually like about all these different theories, is that there are so many of them. While we may not know for sure how it happened on earth, it seems to me that there are a myriad of ways for life to get started. It’s really rather exciting!

And before anyone treats the word theory as if it were a guess, please read this: http://wilstar.com/theories.htm Laypeople can make scientific talks so frustrating…

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