• Scientists bring us one step closer towards the origin of life
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[quote]Chemists report today that a pair of simple compounds, which would have been abundant on early Earth, can give rise to a network of simple reactions that produce the three major classes of biomolecules - nucleic acids, amino acids, and lipids - needed for the earliest form of life to get its start. Although the new work does not prove that this is how life started, it may eventually help explain one of the deepest mysteries in modern science. [...] In the current issue of Nature Chemistry, Sutherland's team reports that it created nucleic acid precursors starting with just hydrogen cyanide (HCN), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and ultraviolet (UV) light. What is more, Sutherland says, the conditions that produce nucleic acid precursors also create the starting materials needed to make natural amino acids and lipids. That suggests a single set of reactions could have given rise to most of life's building blocks simultaneously.[/quote] [url]http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/03/researchers-may-have-solved-origin-life-conundrum[/url] I'm reading the original paper now, I'll see what I can get out of it.
Plot Twist: We are are all in the matrix.
[QUOTE=Ceil;47336341]Plot Twist: We are are all in the matrix.[/QUOTE] Bigger plot twist: We are in a Dot Matrix printer.
Start at the top left [IMG]http://objects.readcube.com/publishers/nature/figures/c6cfdf9ac922bba4a0b31ac9c2845703431830eaeb57e781473cbf2826e2fc1c/1.jpg[/IMG] Amazing how a bunch of the same small molecules with some UV light can make so many bigger molecules, and even more with the H2S.
[QUOTE=uitham;47336465]Start at the top left [IMG]http://objects.readcube.com/publishers/nature/figures/c6cfdf9ac922bba4a0b31ac9c2845703431830eaeb57e781473cbf2826e2fc1c/1.jpg[/IMG] Amazing how a bunch of the same small molecules with some UV light can make so many bigger molecules, and even more with the H2S.[/QUOTE] Oh god. I've been studying for an organic chemistry exam for hours now. You just gave me chills looking at that.
[QUOTE=uitham;47336465]Start at the top left [IMG]http://objects.readcube.com/publishers/nature/figures/c6cfdf9ac922bba4a0b31ac9c2845703431830eaeb57e781473cbf2826e2fc1c/1.jpg[/IMG] Amazing how a bunch of the same small molecules with some UV light can make so many bigger molecules, and even more with the H2S.[/QUOTE] I'm not a scientist but I think I can say the origin of life is the tiny men in the center of the image
[QUOTE=uitham;47336465]Start at the top left [IMG]http://objects.readcube.com/publishers/nature/figures/c6cfdf9ac922bba4a0b31ac9c2845703431830eaeb57e781473cbf2826e2fc1c/1.jpg[/IMG] Amazing how a bunch of the same small molecules with some UV light can make so many bigger molecules, and even more with the H2S.[/QUOTE] This is uncanny, its like I'm looking at Lego instructions for life.
[QUOTE=uitham;47336465]Start at the top left [IMG]http://objects.readcube.com/publishers/nature/figures/c6cfdf9ac922bba4a0b31ac9c2845703431830eaeb57e781473cbf2826e2fc1c/1.jpg[/IMG] Amazing how a bunch of the same small molecules with some UV light can make so many bigger molecules, and even more with the H2S.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/Cuz6Atd.png[/img] d-did i do it?
[QUOTE=uitham;47336465]Start at the top left [IMG]http://objects.readcube.com/publishers/nature/figures/c6cfdf9ac922bba4a0b31ac9c2845703431830eaeb57e781473cbf2826e2fc1c/1.jpg[/IMG] Amazing how a bunch of the same small molecules with some UV light can make so many bigger molecules, and even more with the H2S.[/QUOTE] which one is god
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;47338178]which one is god[/QUOTE] The one on the left
Top left to be exact.
now we can just drop some of these suckers off on some planet and wait a few hundred million years and we'll become god
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;47338178]which one is god[/QUOTE] these [t]http://i.imgur.com/o7a4xjj.png[/t]
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