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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:33 PM Original message |
Astronomers discover complex organic matter in the universe |
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AngkorWot (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. PAHs aren't particularly complex. |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. It's the quantity and ubiquitousness that this implies that excites me. |
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AngkorWot (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. But why? |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 08:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Mundane because no extraordinary conditions or processes are required |
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Lochloosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Actually, the article says it's NOT PAH's ... |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 09:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. I didn't mean that I'm taking it as evidence of life |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 10:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. My comments added on editing address that. |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 11:51 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Admittedly, I'm prone to letting my enthusiasm wash away my skepticism. |
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Evasporque (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. We have been slowing digesting in the belly of a giant space goat... |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I'm not looking forward to the end result of that. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Personally, I welcome our complex organic compounds overlords. nt |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Great. We are going to be ruled by petroleum products nt |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. You mean we already aren't? |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. true dat |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
10. A fart in the cosmic wind. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. ... |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
17. That means we are literally standing on a living breathing entity. |
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