Are comets gods?

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An ambitious new NASA research project aims to answer perhaps the most vexing and profound of scientific mysteries: How did life on Earth begin?
The multimillion-dollar undertaking, led by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, brings together an interdisciplinary team of scientists from around the world to study how organic molecules are created in interstellar clouds and delivered to planets as they form.The research will focus on the role of comets. Many scientists believe there is increasing evidence that comets supplied at least part of the raw material for the origin of life on Earth. The theory is changing the way scientists think about life in the universe and raises the possibility of alien worlds.
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Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News

October 2, 2003
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/10/1002_031002_cometstudy.html

From 1999:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Life/comet_origin.html&edu=high

From 2007:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/cu-cpr081407.php
 
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lone wolf said:
They've been saying pandemics are viruses and bacterium that came from comets for years. What's to say life on Earth isn't one that's really well rooted?
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Christianity and other religions; that's what. lol
Not sure if you read the info I provided links for but the scientists are suggesting that certain conditions existing on comets can produce the building blocks for life in general. This would really set on its backside the dogma that some "supernatural" being made life.
 
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L Gilbert said:
Christianity and other religions; that's what. lol
Not sure if you read the info I provided links for but the scientists are suggesting that certain conditions existing on comets can produce the building blocks for life in general. This would really set on its backside the dogma that some "supernatural" being made life.
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how do you figure that Les? If someone has bought into the dogma, very little ever changes their view. Fossils were just put here to test our faith after all. Perhaps comets are the same. ;-)
 
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and, just because I have a twisted mind.... does anyone else get struck by a resemblance to other biological systems? hmm? Did comets just turn into stellar ejaculate in your mind? heeheehee.
 
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L Gilbert said:
Christianity and other religions; that's what. lol
Not sure if you read the info I provided links for but the scientists are suggesting that certain conditions existing on comets can produce the building blocks for life in general. This would really set on its backside the dogma that some "supernatural" being made life.
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If the Church could control man's thoughts, we'd all still believe the world is flat. Organized religions thrive by preaching their versions of God, imposing their guilts then selling tickts on the train to heaven. Planet of the Apes had a lot of truth in it (...though Karrie's inter-stellar shotspot sounds kinda cool too!)
 
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karrie said:
how do you figure that Les? If someone has bought into the dogma, very little ever changes their view. Fossils were just put here to test our faith after all. Perhaps comets are the same. ;-)
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You have a point there, Karrie. These people are hardly the most scientific sort. Not particularly willing or able to change their views even when presented with incontrovertible evidence against those views. So, there will always be a few who doubt the reality. After all, Yahweh exists just because he exists. lol
 
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Comets Gods? Me thinks not.....

However the concept of life being started on this planet from comets isn't a new idea and has been played around with for many years now.... perhaps this is the first time that NASA itself decided to look into the concept, but it's not an original idea, as I remember hearing about this concept as a kid.... heck, it was even on PBS of all places.
 
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Comets...gods...?

I think not. It may be offensive to the "believer" and even insulting to the amateur cosmologist to consider that "life" based on water (or based on any element or compound for that matter) is unque to this little corner of the universe.

I believe that cometsw are "dirty snowballs" and if a comet carries water-ice, there's no reason to discount the possibility that "life" as we know it is the resul of a cosmic snowball event....

Les...who was the famous astronomer who first suggested bacteria and so on..may have been delivered to earth via comets... His name starts with "H" I believe...

The memory recall ain't what it used to be....:)
 
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Wasn't it Hubble? He also put out the theory that the reason your nostrils point down was so that alien bacteria didn't fall in as they fell to earth from space.
 
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“The radical answer proposed by Fred Hoyle and myself in the late 1970s was that we came from space!1 Our genes and those of all living forms on Earth were brought here by comets, neatly packaged within cosmic microorganisms. The idea was not plucked out of the skies, but was the result of careful analysis of astronomical and biological data over several years. In the paper Evolution of Life: A Cosmic Perspective, posted on this site, Fred Hoyle and I present the main technical arguments in support of our views.”






http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/wickramasinghe.html

 
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Praxius said:
Comets Gods? Me thinks not.....

However the concept of life being started on this planet from comets isn't a new idea and has been played around with for many years now.... perhaps this is the first time that NASA itself decided to look into the concept, but it's not an original idea, as I remember hearing about this concept as a kid.... heck, it was even on PBS of all places.
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Of course the idea has been around for a while. I could have posted the links to a lot earlier info than 1999 but I thought 3 would be enough to get people looking at the research and things. Anyway, who gives a hoot if it isn't a newborn original idea? The point is that people are researching it and finding more evidence to suggest it is very likely that this was the origin of life.
BTW, they aren't suggesting necessarily that comets were just messengers bearing life from another place to here. They are suggesting that comets themselves are bearing the substances from which life can be created.
 
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MikeyDB said:
Comets...gods...?

I think not. It may be offensive to the "believer" and even insulting to the amateur cosmologist to consider that "life" based on water (or based on any element or compound for that matter) is unque to this little corner of the universe.

I believe that cometsw are "dirty snowballs" and if a comet carries water-ice, there's no reason to discount the possibility that "life" as we know it is the resul of a cosmic snowball event....

Les...who was the famous astronomer who first suggested bacteria and so on..may have been delivered to earth via comets... His name starts with "H" I believe...

The memory recall ain't what it used to be....:)
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Halley? The one the most famous comet is named after?
 
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