Showing that the ingredients for life in the universe may be distributed far more widely than previously thought, scientists have found traces of a key building block of biology in dust snatched from the tail of a comet.
Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have uncovered glycine, the simplest amino acid and a vital compound necessary for life, in a sample from the comet Wild 2. The sample was captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which dropped it into the Utah desert in 2006. Full story:
* The Guardian: Charles Darwin was wrong about the tree of life...
- Fred Hoyle (1983), a world renowned astronomer said, that life appeared on our planet following an interplanetary travel...
- Francis Crick, Nobel prize laureate for discovering the DNA, in his book Life Itself, its Origin and Nature, wrote that "life on Earth was brought here by micro - organisms from another planet, these micro - organisms traveling inside a spaceship sent to Earth by a superior civilization, developed somewhere else, billions of years ago":
* MODERN SCIENCE AND THE ANCIENT WRITINGS ON THE GENESIS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM:
* Earth texts planet Gliese 581-d with Hallo messages... Planet Gliese 581c and Planet X/Eris/Nibiru:
