Scientists at Imperial College London, have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on 15 June 2008.
The finding suggests that parts of the raw materials to make the first molecules of DNA and RNA may have come from the stars...
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So...we are all aliens from outer space? I don't know about you but I've always known that I, Ghettoblastfrizzlebumpoo, was not of this world. My home lies somewhere amongst the stars. In a far out place (mentally and spatially) where sunshine is purple, the seas pink, the skies a virulent ultraviolet and air teeming with methane and ozone molecules...
Life, as a purely biological phenomenon, is perhaps the greatest and most complex thing our universe has and will ever spawn. Whenever I look at life in that way I am filled with awe and wonder. Life is something that crawls, scuttles, swoops and burrows around, struggling everyday to stay alive and make copies of itself. That is what we do. Survive long enough to make copies. Is that all you wonder? Yes! that is all! - What more do you want?
Isn't it wonderful to be part of this biological phenomenon? And here we are trying to make sense of it all! And we will continue to try and make sense till the day our eyes close forever.
'Don't get lost in life. Let life loose in you'
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