Thursday, October 27, 2011

"Cosmic dust contains organic matter from stars, study finds
Such chemical complexity was thought to arise only from living organisms"
by Denise Chow (staff writer for Space.com)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45050520/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.TqpHMUZjhdo

msnbc.com headline in October 27 Google News, reporting on a scientific studies at the University of Hong Kong.

Another Keats moment about learning as realizing something we already somehow knew, given our recent discussion about how the heavier elements, those beyond oxygen and carbon and hydrogen, originated far from Earth in the fires of supernova explosions, travel here through space to become the building blocks of everything including us. It makes perfect sense that larger carbon molecules, similar to the ones we later find in the form of plant decay, were out there, floating around as building blocks to be appropriated by the processes of life and living beings.

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