Comments on: Meteorite, Maybe Older Than the Sun, Shows Chemistry of Ancient Solar System

By: k

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:31:47 +0000

Could be the bathroom/garbage dump before activating the FTL drive.

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:09:29 +0000

Of course there is life on other planets. There is no way in the infinite size of the Universe could Earth be the only planet with life on it. I suspect that is life on Titan and other moons already. Why we haven’t gone there is completely beyond me. I’m guessing the mission to Mars are test drives in space travel as it’s the easiest and closest to land on safely. They should just go there and be done with it. Nothing really stopping us.

It’s not really surprising that a rock from outer space contains things like this. I’m surprised we haven’t discovered it before. The whole planet is in for a wake-up call in the next 50 years as we travel to other planets, discover life, develop new and better tools for observing our surroundings, to larger telescopes to better microscopes and ways of analysing alien materials. In 50 years time (probably less) there will be no doubt that we are not the only planet in the Universe to support life.

By: The Baldchemist

The Baldchemist — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:53:52 +0000

All that time to make people like George Bush and those behind The Central banking systems. Send it back!
But how fabulous. Now let’s hope that the research shows us more than theories.

By: Stan the man

Stan the man — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:55:28 +0000

#3 Fatkid said “came in her box”!! HA! Who says science isn’t fun?

By: Bear

Bear — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:45:09 +0000

Message in a bottle…..boggles the mind.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:44:41 +0000

The imagination blurs at all the potential data that could be found in one crumbled sample of the rock. Millions of GB’s of data, and it’s all tucked away in a stone older than the sun. Tell me a great sci-fi story can’t be found in something like that? ^_^ Heck it’s a fascinating non-fiction article by itself.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:14:51 +0000

Even so, but is 4.5 billion years long enough to create something as complicated and information-rich as DNA and RNA from “uracil, a nucleobase found in RNA, and xanthine, an intermediate in the synthesis of DNA and RNA”?

By: fatkid

fatkid — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:04:40 +0000

Crazy to think of all the life kicked up in the dust of stars. With the Pandoras box chock full of compounds in meteorites, wonder if prions and viruses came in her box, to Earth.

By: mymuse

mymuse — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:24:23 +0000

imagine the possibilities!
if an asteroid or comet brought these subunits of dna and rna to earth, what are the possibilities of there being life in other parts of the solar system or the universe? :)
this is so cool!

By: Femme Fatale

Femme Fatale — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:55:30 +0000

I know it doesn’t add anything to the article, but this is just so freaking cool! It’s hard to fathom anything even 10,000 years ago, let alone more than 4 billion years!