Redux:
We come from neutrinos, and amino acid rain:
Filer's Files #14
SEEDS OF LIFE ARE EVERYWHERE, NASA RESEARCHERS SAY
Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer says that sugar-packing asteroids may have seeded life on earth In two separate studies, scientists mimicked conditions of outer space, doused frozen interstellar cocktails with ultraviolet radiation and created amino acids, which are critical components of life. The work shows that amino acids could be created around many developing stars, which emit high doses of UV radiation, and that life would have had just as good a chance of forming on planets that might exist around those stars as it did here on Earth. The studies also support a growing expectation among many scientists that life on Earth may have been seeded from space, rather than having been forged only from raw materials that developed on Earth. All known life is made up of cells built and operated by proteins, which in turn are made from 20 building blocks called amino acids or Life's building blocks.
Already, scientists have found amino acids in meteorites -- chunks of asteroids or comets that landed on Earth. Amino acids, though not life itself, may have jump-started life on Earth with their arrival, some scientists have long suspected. Another theory has held that life on Earth developed out of a soup of lesser materials. Remarkable as it might be to think of life's ingredients arriving on a space rock, researchers have sought to show that amino acids might also form in interstellar space and thus be ubiquitous. If so, then the raw material of terrestrial life would date back to an earlier time, before comets and asteroids were born. "Amino acids are literally raining down out of the sky," said one of the team's leaders, Max Bernstein of NASA's Ames Research Center, "and if that's not a big deal then I don't know what is." "And, since new stars and planets are formed within the same clouds in which new amino acids are being created, this increases the odds that life also evolved in places other than Earth." Thanks to SPACE.com and the Journal Nature. March 28, issue.
Editors Note: These new scientific findings hurt Darwin's Theory of Evolution, that life started by chance rather than by a designed creation. Life is likely throughout the universe carried probably by neutrinos which are neutral particles with almost no mass. Bob Beckwith presented a paper to the Florida Academy of Science 66th Annual Meeting on March 9,2002. He says, "Neutrinos pick up information regarding material, including living organism, as they travel throughout the universe. This can explain where the information came from that produces living organisms in hot lava coming from a volcano. It also explains the emergence of life forms around hot vents coming from deep in the Pacific Ocean surrounded by seawater that is totally devoid of life. A further application is in the formation of a set of related microorganisms that produce methane, gasoline, light oil, heavy oil, and finally tar in oil wells that are pumped out too rapidly for the organisms to get down from the surface. It has long been recognized that there was not enough dinosaurs, etc., to rot and produce the Earth's petroleum Basic elements appear to come from nuclear reactions at the core of the Earth. These seep upward. Does this not imply that knowledge of all life forms of the universe is contained in the neutrino spectrum? Just how neutrinos effect the intelligent combination of elements into life is left for future research."
Thanks to Bob Beckwith, Beckwith Electrical CO. http://www.beckwithelectric.com/ |
