Tech | August 09, 2011 | 21 comments

NASA: DNA Found on Meteorites Indicates Life May Have Originated in Space

source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/195073/20110809/nasa-dna-meteorites-building-blocks-life-on-...

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NASA researchers have found the building blocks for life on earth in meteorites, indicating that the components for life on Earth may have originated in outer space.

According to the findings from a group of NASA-funded researchers, the scientists found that ready-made DNA parts could have crashed to earth's surface on objects like meteorites, and then assembled under earth's early conditions to create the first DNA.

The researchers, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, made their discovery using samples from 12 carbon-rich meteorites, nine of which came from Antarctica. Then, the team extracted small fragments of the meteorite and ran them through a process to determine their structure. What they found, was adenine and guanine. These are two of the nucleobases needed to make DNA that form the rungs of the ladder (in addition to thymine and cytosine, which were not present in the sample).

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The Panspermia theory seems more and more to be absolutely correct. So, we are all Aliens, every single one of us!
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21 comments // NASA: DNA Found on Meteorites Indicates Life May Have Originated in Space

  • rosyjane
    • rosyjane  
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  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • rosyjane:

      What is your mother tongue? I don't think you really understood the article nor understand the science. Amoebae, viruses and bacteria have DNA yet they don't breathe. Meteorites are not ashes.

    • 10 months ago
  • rosyjane
  • EthicalVegan
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      EthicalVegan  
    • rosyjane:

      Merriam-Webster Dictionary...

      Definition of AMOEBA

      : any of a large genus (Amoeba) of naked rhizopod protozoans with lobed and never anastomosing pseudopodia, without permanent organelles or supporting structures, and of wide distribution in fresh and salt water and moist terrestrial environments; broadly : a naked rhizopod or other amoeboid protozoan

      .

      Where's the diarrhea connection?

    • 10 months ago
  • rosyjane
  • EthicalVegan
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • rosyjane:

      I meant amoebae, which is the plural of amoeba. Amoebae are not bacteria (which is the plural of bacterium), and there are many kinds of amoebae. The term "amoebae" covers an enormously diverse group of protists that have adopted a crawling like method of locomotion.

    • 10 months ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • EthicalVegan:

      I think the hospital staff use that simplified term for Amoebic Dysentery, although that is not common in industrialized countries but occurs there when people are not following basic hygiene.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebic_dysentery
      Amoebic dysentery (or amebic dysentery) is a type of dysentery caused primarily by the amoeba Entamoeba histolytica. Amoebic dysentery is transmitted through contaminated food and water. Amoebae spread by forming infective cysts which can be found in stools, and spread if whoever touches them does not sanitize their hands. There are also free amoebae, or trophozoites, that do not form cysts.

      Amoebic dysentery is most common in developing countries although it is occasionally seen in industrialized countries, and not just in travelers. Although it is commonly associated with tropical climates, the first documented case was in St Petersburg, Russia which is near the arctic circle. Amoebic dysentery is often confused with "traveler's diarrhea", or "Montezuma's Revenge" in Mexico, because of the prevalence of both in developing nations. In fact, most traveler's diarrhea is bacterial or viral in origin. Liver infection, and subsequent amoebic abscesses can occur. Blood may be present in stool.

      It can be considered equivalent to intestinal amoebiasis.

    • 10 months ago
  • rosyjane
  • Vierotchka
  • freehit
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      freehit  

    • Oh come on. All it proved is that some ET's kid whacked off in mom and dads saucer and wiped his whozit on a convienient rock which he then chucked out the window and threw at Earth. Kinda like Texian kids shooting at road signs with a gun while driving, all the space brats do it. It's a phase they go through and then they grow up and analy probe hicks in the country for chuckles when they're drunk on holiday. There's a reson it's called panSPERMia, they just don't want the natives (us) to become alarmed, that's all. Move along there's nothing to see here but sticky rocks. I know, I know, but it's like an itch I have to scratch and the set up was perfect for my twisted sence of humor.

    • 10 months ago
  • gepma44
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  

    • Nice find V, this really is exciting news.

      It's so bizarre to think that the building blocks of life could appear in the most hostile environments imaginable. Truth really is stranger than fiction.

    • 10 months ago
  • gepma44
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      gepma44  

    • first they have to make a cover story for the jesus christ stuff, then they have to tie it in with the catholic pedophiles, then they have to make an excuse as to why all the depictions of god are white, finally they have to hide all the priests in the vatican, THEN they will tell us....

    • 10 months ago
  • keithponder
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • keithponder:

      I hear these comments a lot and I'm kinda sick of them now. I really have to say something.

      No, no you have not known this for a while.

      We *still* don't know this. So what on earth are you talking about?

      Do you understand what the word "know" means? We have no idea exactly where life came from, we only have good ideas. We may never know.

      Seriously, it's like saying you "know" the length of Ghengis Khan's left foot when he was 12. No you don't, no one knows that. It probably can't *be* known.

    • 10 months ago
  • squarethecircle
  • alexsmith01
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      alexsmith01  

    • while this might be new to many this is not news. this has been known for a while. this is just new data on it. "jesus was a alien god was a astronaut" to most people they will never ever follow something like this and always say it is fake and bull. once again Vierotchka is ahead of the others and finds info others refuse to even face. good job Vierotchka.

    • 10 months ago
  • chew_chew
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      chew_chew  

    • This is fascinating and something I (and many others, I'm sure) have thought for some time now. The place is simply too big for earth to be the only spec with life.

      Thanks for sharing this, Vierotchka.

    • 10 months ago
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