"The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday."

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE57H02I20090818


whoa.

PAN-SPERMIA

L. Ron Hubbard was right. We're doomed.

lol haven't they been saying for years that comets play the role of both the creators and destroyers of planets?

people say alotta things

I guess they confirmed it. I remember learning this in astronomy class in college

wait, so if the raw ingredients of life came to earth through comets, where did they come from in the first place?!

ancient chemical reactions and molecules

SPACE JESUS...duh.

Sounds like a Christian based Saturday morning cartoon.

I hope the world goes Maximum Overdrive tomorrow.

Galactus' jizz. FACT.

Space jizzus.

i wish i was made of legos... that way it would be more fun to play with myself.

interesting. i was under the impression that the building blocks of life originated from supernovas.

The infamous question that has no proven answer (yet):

What existed before the big bang?

or, for you religious nuts:

If God created the universe, then what created God?

um hello, he just is. duh.

It's the Xel'naga.

All the answers you seek are right here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_history_of_the_Marvel_Universe

If Stan Lee didn't write it and Jack Kirby didn't draw it, IT DIDN'T FUCKING HAPPEN.

This guy right here:

The universe did, it's the only thing that could have collapsed on itself to create a force of that magnitude. It wasn't the first big bang, and right now the universe is still expanding from the force of the blast, but eventually inertia will be overcome by gravity and the universe will slowly begin to collapse on itself again. Deal with it.

http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr1/en/astro/universe/universe.asp

Don't you want to know what it's like to be sucked into a black hole?

Of course that raises more questions, like why atoms are organized the way they are, or why getting bit by a radioactive spider makes you jizz everywhere and cry about it...but I don't know. Ask God.

Interdimensional beings...

REPTILIAN HUMANOID HYBRIDS

Big Bang THEORY.

Precisely.

i'm skeptical of anything reuters publishes.

i'm skeptical of most corporate media but at least its not as bad as that tabloid news site known as CNN.

all mainstream news is false and distorted.

that's why I love laughing at fox news and CNN. as far as mainstream news goes, I think CNN does a better job than fox news.

but when are they going to cover the stuff that really matters?
what really irks me is when they care more about a missing person on a mountain or a murdered rich girl, than international issues that really affect the future events of the world.

best reference.

or; can god create a twinkie SO BIG that even he can't finish it?

Obviously, god hating liberals flew into space and planted this so-called building block of life on the comet. How un-American. Palin in 2012!

the state of journalism is really disgusting these days.

Careful dudes, I always have to point this out when I see this word thrown around..the word THEORY in science is a principle that can't be refuted by any current scientific methods. All principles of modern physics and science in general support the Big Bang theory.

Hollow Earth? What?

hahahah....are you serious?

No, but I do love reading/hearing about alternates to the unanimous "theories" in the scientific community. As we advance in knowledge and technology, you never know what can be disproven.

bloodletting works.

there's always groups of scientists where their ideas are shunned by the community.
most recently, there was the huge debate about the pygmy people they found. I'm sure you remember that.
also, the great debate about demoting pluto. the overwhelming evidence showed that pluto was near an object much like it, but a little bigger and further out.

MOON NAZIS FTW

PROTEIN IN SPACE! STRAP ON YOUR MOON BOOTS


YEEEEAH BUDDAY

This isn't mentioned in the Holy Bible. End of discussion.

Neither were women that had rights and/or political positions.

End of argument.

This is the best thing I've ever skimmed.

LOL

Is it a M'Kraan comet?

Damn it Jim!