Comments on: Lightning May Have Created Special Food for Earth’s Early Microbes http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:36:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: zach http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-39460 zach Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:45:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-39460 Note how Greenprince thinks I was under the impression that I had ended religious debates forever by a quote, rather than simply displaying a view which I found poetically expressed. Note how Greenprince thinks I was under the impression that I had ended religious debates forever by a quote, rather than simply displaying a view which I found poetically expressed.

]]> By: Greenprince http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-39271 Greenprince Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:28:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-39271 "fascinated by religion." [...] "I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing."- Douglas Adams Note how quoting someone doesn't automatically make the person correct on such subjective issues. “fascinated by religion.” [...] “I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.”- Douglas Adams

Note how quoting someone doesn’t automatically make the person correct on such subjective issues.

]]> By: zachary http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-39230 zachary Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:05:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-39230 Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams

]]> By: Skeptikor http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-39068 Skeptikor Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:24:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-39068 The whole "who" business is a bogus question. You might as well ask "Which vending machine at Disney World did the first phosphites come out of?" or "What happened to the giant turtle that used to support the Earth?" Nature is astounding as is, without interjecting variations of bronze age creation myths or other casperitic fantasies. Casperism: n. The belief in unquantifiable or undemonstrable things, entities, forces or principles The whole “who” business is a bogus question. You might as well ask “Which vending machine at Disney World did the first phosphites come out of?” or “What happened to the giant turtle that used to support the Earth?” Nature is astounding as is, without interjecting variations of bronze age creation myths or other casperitic fantasies.

Casperism: n. The belief in unquantifiable or undemonstrable things, entities, forces or principles

]]> By: I love Turtles http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-38883 I love Turtles Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:45:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-38883 Why would something as random as nature need a source or direction? And who are these people who know how it works? Why would something as random as nature need a source or direction? And who are these people who know how it works?

]]> By: YouRang http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-38882 YouRang Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:13:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-38882 Why would that original spark weaken (enervate) us? Did you mean energize? Why would that original spark weaken (enervate) us? Did you mean energize?

]]> By: Frankensteins bolt http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-38875 Frankensteins bolt Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:34:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-38875 Awesome! I bet there was a lot more lightening back in the day too. Maybe a bit of that original spark got handed down on a cellular level, enervating us ever since. Awesome! I bet there was a lot more lightening
back in the day too. Maybe a bit of that original spark got handed down on a cellular level, enervating us ever since.

]]> By: Nova Terata http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-38865 Nova Terata Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:26:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-38865 The 13th Doctor Who (played by "Blanket" Jackson) did thats who. The TARDIS got stuck in a ditch (again, I know) and the Doctor created life so that someone could help him get it out without dirtying his gold lame' catsuit The 13th Doctor Who (played by “Blanket” Jackson) did thats who. The TARDIS got stuck in a ditch (again, I know) and the Doctor created life so that someone could help him get it out without dirtying his gold lame’ catsuit

]]> By: Tourmalane http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-38846 Tourmalane Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:08:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-38846 Who? Hmmmmmm. Who? Hmmmmmm.

]]> By: Pepito B.Degamo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/comment-page-1/#comment-38841 Pepito B.Degamo Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:31:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/14/lightning-may-have-created-special-food-for-earths-early-microbes/#comment-38841 splendid discovery! This just shows how awe-inspiring Nature works. But who provides the direction? And where does everything come from? splendid discovery! This just shows how awe-inspiring Nature works. But who provides the direction? And where does everything come from?

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