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Space Sugar Discovered Around Sun-Like Star
Space.com ^ | 29 August 2012 Time: 06:01 AM ET | SPACE.com Staff

Posted on 08/30/2012 10:16:01 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass

What a sweet cosmic find! Sugar molecules have been found in the gas surrounding a young sun-like star,
suggesting that some of the building blocks of life may actually be present even as alien planets are still
forming in the system.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Reference; Science
KEYWORDS: molecule; star; sugar; xplanets
something (lighter/interesting :) apart from politics...
checked/searched..no results

1 posted on 08/30/2012 10:16:06 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass
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To: SunkenCiv
science ping.

2 posted on 08/30/2012 10:17:42 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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To: skinkinthegrass; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

3 posted on 08/30/2012 10:21:01 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: skinkinthegrass

We saw them in the Quisp commercials back in the 60’s.


4 posted on 08/30/2012 10:24:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: skinkinthegrass

Thee was a story about this posted yesterday but you wouldn’t have found it. The title was obscene. Something like....

“Young alcoholic star found covered in fluids that could lead to alien life”


5 posted on 08/30/2012 10:27:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Revolting cat!; Admin Moderator
*sigh*...so much for the "search" feature.
please cancel, If duplicated.

6 posted on 08/30/2012 10:34:48 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Last thread on this was better


7 posted on 08/30/2012 10:37:02 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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To: skinkinthegrass; JoeProBono

8 posted on 08/30/2012 10:42:38 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Oztrich Boy; cripplecreek
Which thread?

9 posted on 08/30/2012 10:44:06 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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To: Alex Murphy
a giant Hostess Twinkies?
really bizarre.

10 posted on 08/30/2012 10:46:46 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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To: skinkinthegrass
Not surprising -- after all, we're in the

11 posted on 08/30/2012 11:33:46 AM PDT by mikrofon (Maybe another Mars?)
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To: skinkinthegrass
Where there's sugar and where there's heat, there's fermentation....

OMG, a whole planet of BEER!

12 posted on 08/30/2012 12:19:41 PM PDT by SwankyC
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To: skinkinthegrass

Sugar Sugar!
Ah, honey honey!
You are my sun-like star.....

Nope....just doesn’t work


13 posted on 08/30/2012 12:56:45 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: skinkinthegrass; Ernest_at_the_Beach; KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; ..
Thanks skinkinthegrass.
 
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14 posted on 08/30/2012 9:34:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: skinkinthegrass
It's a different soure....The haeadline writers went crazy at the Register....they love to do that ...the thread:

Young alcoholic star 'covered in fluids needed for birth of alien life'

15 posted on 08/31/2012 1:48:53 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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