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NASA Finds Sugar Molecules Essential to Life in Meteorites That Crashed to Earth
www.theepochtimes.com ^ | November 25, 2019 Updated: November 25, 2019 | By Katabella Roberts

Posted on 11/25/2019 11:07:33 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: TexasGator

That’s not difficult to do.......................


21 posted on 11/25/2019 12:17:07 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Red Badger
WE ARE NOT ALONE!
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ALONE!

22 posted on 11/25/2019 12:24:03 PM PST by Savage Beast ( The curse of high intelligence:having to watch the unintelligent try everything you know won't work)
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To: Red Badger
Maybe he brought them.


23 posted on 11/25/2019 12:27:24 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

That was a weird and sad movie...................


24 posted on 11/25/2019 12:28:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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25 posted on 11/25/2019 12:32:42 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Red Badger

True.


26 posted on 11/25/2019 12:33:07 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Red Badger

Is the one with all the makeup the female of the species?


27 posted on 11/25/2019 12:33:34 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Huskrrrr
[“On Earth, life uses left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. Since it’s possible that the opposite would work fine–right-handed amino acids and left-handed sugars. Scientists want to know where this preference came from,” the report explained.”]

I’ve wondered that for years.

The best explanation for chirality that I have found is that the galaxy's magnetic field causes sunlight / starlight to be circularly polarized in one direction only, which preferentially degrades D-amino acids and favors L-amino acids.

Also, the weak nuclear force is (supposedly) chiral. The electrons emitted during beta decay favor one spin state; again making D-amino acids slightly more unstable than the L forms.

28 posted on 11/25/2019 12:36:21 PM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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To: antidemoncrat

Most snails are hermaphrodites................but it still takes two................


29 posted on 11/25/2019 12:37:04 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Red Badger

“All these meteorites could have once come from a planet that had life and was destroyed by a nova or nuclear war or global warming or some such...”

Or greedy capitalists, ala James Cameron’s Avatar.


30 posted on 11/25/2019 12:39:39 PM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: Red Badger

I knew there was a logical reason for my sweet tooth!


31 posted on 11/25/2019 12:45:32 PM PST by AlaskaErik
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To: Red Badger

Thank, I get it, but of course, species who choose to hold them 180 degrees to this fashion might call them right and left-handed versions of the same species.

Unless one is 90% more prevalent? ;-)

So much is so subjective, one of the reasons I enjoy math rather than taxonomies and ontologies, etc.


32 posted on 11/25/2019 12:48:45 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: TexasGator

“In before anyone interested in science makes a serious post.”

Einstein attributed philosophy to be the foundation of scientific progress and a serious inquiry into it as the “distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth”.

Where does this place you on the spectrum of “serious” truth seeking?


33 posted on 11/25/2019 12:51:28 PM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: Spirochete

Thank you, that makes sense since enantiomers differ only in the direction of rotation of plane polarized light.


34 posted on 11/25/2019 1:03:15 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Red Badger

Yes but David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing together will also bring great joy


35 posted on 11/25/2019 1:07:42 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Red Badger

Brings new meaning to the phrase go f yourself


36 posted on 11/25/2019 1:09:06 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: al baby

I saw that..................


37 posted on 11/25/2019 1:09:08 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: unlearner

please define “serious” truth seeking spectrum.


38 posted on 11/25/2019 1:22:38 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Red Badger

Left handed people have an IQ 30 points lower than the general public. It is due to them believing in phony fake statements.


39 posted on 11/25/2019 1:33:06 PM PST by TheNext (LeGaBiT)
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To: TheNext

8 presidents were left handed:
Barack Obama.
James Garfield.
Herbert Hoover.
Harry Truman.
Gerald Ford.
Ronald Reagan.
George H.W. Bush.
Bill Clinton.


40 posted on 11/25/2019 1:35:12 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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