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To: smokingfrog
organic compounds (chemicals containing carbon)

lol, "organic compounds" vs "chemicals containing carbon"...maybe they mean the same thing to chemists, but to a layman one sounds like "life" and the other like "yeah whatever".

18 posted on 12/04/2012 11:41:09 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: AndyTheBear

organic compounds (chemicals containing carbon)
lol, “organic compounds” vs “chemicals containing carbon”...maybe they mean the same thing to chemists, but to a layman one sounds like “life” and the other like “yeah whatever”.

They may find complex hydro-carbons and even amino acids, but it’s a long, long, googleplex long way to the self-replicating RNA molecule. I don’t think they will find that, but if they do, then that would be news. We live on an exceptionally rare planet.


22 posted on 12/05/2012 4:16:07 AM PST by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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