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- luet, on 06/15/2008, -9/+117I'm really sorry for doing this... "it's" is not possessive, "its" is. That's all. Carry on. Sorry again.
- Alex2, on 06/15/2008, -5/+103
" life here — or at least the necessary components of it — began out there. "
Original Battlestar Galactica wants it's theory back. - shaunj66, on 06/15/2008, -4/+92*Peeks through your living room window*
- DiggLive, on 06/15/2008, -9/+84Xenu knows all.
- PabloMac, on 06/15/2008, -1/+69I'm not sorry to digg up the most polite Grammar Nazi I have ever seen.
- Gbobrt4, on 06/15/2008, -4/+29"So remember, when you go outside at night and look up, the sky is filled with far more than just the stars you see. Our future is up there, and our past. And, not incidentally, our present as well."
Well said by the author of this article. - inactive, on 06/15/2008, -3/+27"It’s been hypothesized for years, decades, that the basis of organic chemistry may have fallen to Earth from space. And now we know that it’s true."
No. We know it's possibly true. The fact that chemicals found on earth were found on meteorites does not imply that these chemicals were introduced to earth because of meteorites. It implies the same chemicals that are part of the origins of life on earth can be found elsewhere.
And if they can be found elsewhere, they originated somewhere. If they can originate from something that's not a meteorite, earth could've been one of those things. You'd have to demonstrate that earth couldn't have "generated" these chemicals in order to demonstrate that life on earth originated from somewhere else. - gkiltz, on 06/15/2008, -5/+21I've actually worked the weekend shift in a grocery store, so I know as well as anybody: We aren't aliens, just apes that haven't advanced as much as we insist upon believing!
- GordonClass, on 06/15/2008, -3/+17To go where man has gone before.
- BadAstronomer, on 06/15/2008, -2/+15Hey, thanks! That's nice of you to say.
- viciouspictures, on 06/15/2008, -2/+14Well, we are aliens to aliens already in space! (so says my brilliant 5 year old son)
- jmp478, on 06/15/2008, -3/+14we can all say the same about you.
- colto, on 06/15/2008, -0/+11*Misses obvious reference to recent supposed alien "proof" video*
- tomh218, on 06/15/2008, -5/+15Ask Tom Cruise.
- downwiththeking, on 06/15/2008, -2/+11"is and idiot" ftw!
- BadAstronomer, on 06/16/2008, -1/+8Heh. Heh. Heh heh heh... hahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!
[sniff] Yeah, thanks for that. I haven't had a good laugh in a while. - alperea, on 06/15/2008, -2/+8Kind of a sensational headline. While interesting that some of these building blocks came from space, doesn't mean that we are aliens. If you think about the Earth's history, even the earth was born from a bunch of space rocks clumped together. Those space rocks came from dust floating around space, which came from super-nova'ed stars.
One cool thing I can agree on is what Carl Sagan said-that we are star stuff! - inactive, on 06/15/2008, -1/+7Now begins an epic quest of humanity on the search for our true home...and nuke the ass of whoever lives there.
- Gimjee, on 06/15/2008, -0/+6Aliens to who?
- arobicha, on 06/15/2008, -0/+5None. Where the building blocks of life form doesn't change the fact that life does form.
Also, This may come as a shock, but the Drake equation doesn't have a single bit of evidence to back it up. It's just a back of the envelope estimate. - Acglaphotis, on 06/15/2008, -2/+7There's an xkcd for every ocasion.
- Kristijan12, on 06/15/2008, -0/+4The kid is really an allien.
- solidus636, on 06/15/2008, -2/+6http://www.xkcd.com/428/
- diskit, on 06/15/2008, -0/+4Smart kid.
Raise him well. - CeeJayDK, on 06/15/2008, -0/+4And you're colourblind.
- bitterman316, on 06/15/2008, -0/+3Oh no, WE are the final Cylon!
- xeomage, on 06/15/2008, -3/+6Wait, so then I'm not American, I'm European? No, we're still Earthlings because we evolved here. Some bits of proto-biotic matter don't change that. It doesn't matter where it came from. Besides, just because it *can* come from space doesn't mean it *did*.
- luet, on 06/15/2008, -0/+3: ( Jeez man, don't be down on redheads. I get enough of this from kids in my school, and I'm not even an actual "ginger" (no freckles/pale skin). Additionally, daywalker is NOT better. :P
- gordonj, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2neither does he.
- lintmonkey, on 06/15/2008, -1/+3Error: tag not recognized, "/sarcasn". Line 3
- umbrae, on 06/15/2008, -2/+4What sort of ramifications might this finding have on The Drake Equation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
- debuggercll, on 06/15/2008, -2/+4Bible-God learned HOLY WRATH!
- CeeJayDK, on 06/15/2008, -0/+2No, junior.
- daonlyfreez, on 06/15/2008, -0/+2If life on earth started in the "early" stage (when the earth was formed due to condensation/collapsing of dust/matter) we are "locals", but if it was formed "afterwards" (when the earth was further formed due to bombardments of meteorites), we are "aliens"?
I always thought science was related to logic, I must have been mistaken. - Briii, on 06/15/2008, -0/+2*Blows both your heads off with a shot gun and stares in your moms window*
- 64mhz, on 06/15/2008, -0/+2http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080515-am-as ...
related - RSMiller, on 06/15/2008, -0/+2Rarity : R
Casting Cost : 2 White Mana
Card Type : Sorcery
Card Text : Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. - twishart, on 06/15/2008, -2/+4What? Bible-God is evolving?!
*presses B* - inactive, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2Ignorance is bad. Having no sense of humor is just worse! His link doesn't lead to any sneak preview. Click it...
- lintmonkey, on 06/15/2008, -0/+2Humans from Earth searching for the planet Kobol. That could make for an interesting spin-off.
- TheAmazingBob, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1No *****, because your car is identified. It would be an IFO.
- Transporter2000, on 06/15/2008, -4/+5dugg for "I’m quite sure the panspermia folks are having nerdgasms over this news as well."
- TheAmazingBob, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1*Films it, becomes an internet phenomenon.*
- Dracker, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1Other animals are capable of evil.
In one study, some monkeys have groups that have rules such as "Call when you find food" - and some do not call, so they can keep the food all to themselves.
They are punished by the other group members when found out. - JasonCox, on 06/15/2008, -1/+2*raises hand*
I have green blood. - aboyd, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1Wow. You actually worked the weekend shift in a grocery store?
- pthomas1172, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1"Your too scared to know the truth!"
- Talena, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1More like IDO
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