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[Jan Whitaker]

At 05:18 AM 3/04/2012, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>Heh ... does a paradox need a reason? Simply stated, the Fermi 
>Paradox asks why, within
>such a vast universe, we have no evidence of other life.

Maybe not completed complex life, but the amino acids required to 
start it are out there. I saw the Asteroids program on SBS Sunday 
night. They talked about a lot of things, like asteroids with tails, 
which is a sign of cold water asteroids, something not seen before. 
They talked about a sighted imminent strike (less than 24 hours) in 
2008 which exploded over the Nubian desert near Khartoum, the first 
time they saw one coming and anticipated its strike location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3
This caught my attention: "The first sample measured was an anomalous 
ultra-fine-grained porous 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conglomerate_%28geology%29>polymict 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ureilite>ureilite 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achondrite>achondrite, with large 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonaceous_chondrite>carbonaceous 
grains. ...Amino acids have been found on the meteorite."
Carbon and amino acids. Hmmmmm...... Two necessary ingredients of 
life. Oh, and nanodiamonds.
Maybe the asteroid belt itself had life at one time-- although the 
current thinking is they are from a non-formed potential planet 
rather than an exploded one. Oh well.

Still, I thought it was interesting that some asteroids contain the 
building blocks of life.

Jan



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