Wednesday, March 18, 2015

It Seems that Chemists have Figured Out How Life Began on Earth: Time to Look for these Things in the Stars

This is a pretty interesting study.

The chemists with this new effort believe they have found a way to show that all three arguments are both right and wrong—they believe they have found a way to show that everything necessary for life to evolve could have done so from just , hydrogen cyanide and ultraviolet light and that those could have all existed at the same time—in their paper, they report that using just those three basic ingredients they were able to produce more than 50 nucleic acids—precursors to DNA and RNA molecules. They note that early meteorites carried with them ingredients that would react with nitrogen already in the atmosphere, producing a lot of . By dissolving in water, it could have very easily come into contact with hydrogen sulfide, while being exposed to ultraviolet light from the sun. And that, they claim, would have been all that was needed to get things going. 
So time to look for those three things on any planet that Astronomers are scanning. If you get them all at once then there might be a chance that there is basic life on that planet. Also I wonder if you can get these things together and create your own "life?" Sounds kind of creepy actually.

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