Timmay Fails Again! - Maybe we're all Extraterrestrials.

[mongers]

Gotta say some of the twitter comments on this photo are just

[11B4V]

He keeps missing 'his stories' nowadays; seriously there's something wrong with lad, it's like he's now gotta social life or something.   

Earth life 'may have come from Mars'
By Simon Redfern
Reporter, BBC News, Florence

Life may have started on Mars before arriving on Earth, a major scientific conference has heard.

New research supports an idea that the Red Planet was a better place to kick-start biology billions of years ago than the early Earth was.

The evidence is based on how the first molecules necessary for life were assembled.

Details of the theory were outlined by Prof Steven Benner at the Goldschmidt Meeting in Florence, Italy.

Scientists have long wondered how atoms first came together to make up the three crucial molecular components of living organisms: RNA, DNA and proteins.

The molecules that combined to form genetic material are far more complex than the primordial "pre-biotic" soup of organic (carbon-based) chemicals thought to have existed on the Earth more than three billion years ago, and RNA (ribonucleic acid) is thought to have been the first of them to appear.

Simply adding energy such as heat or light to the more basic organic molecules in the "soup" does not generate RNA. Instead, it generates tar.

RNA needs to be coaxed into shape by "templating" atoms at the crystalline surfaces of minerals.

The minerals most effective at templating RNA would have dissolved in the oceans of the early Earth, but would have been more abundant on Mars, according to Prof Benner.

This could suggest that life started on the Red Planet before being transported to Earth on meteorites, argues Prof Benner, of the Westheimer Institute of Science and Technology in Gainesville, US.

The idea that life originated on Mars and was then transported to our planet has been mooted before. But Prof Benner's ideas add another twist to the theory of a Martian origin for the terrestrial biosphere.
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Rest of interesting article here, with more on the chemistry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23872765

Well yeah, you don't watch ancient aliens on HC.

[jimmy olsen]

I can't make out what land mass that is.

North America. You can see the Baja penninsula clearly.

[Razgovory]

I can't make out what land mass that is.

Mexico!

[Josquius]

Doesn't need a new thread so posting in this one.




Dark Side Of The Moon ?

That is brilliant.
Nice animation on the nasa site too

[Hamilcar]

This is not a new theory at all.

[The Brain]

This is not a new theory at all.

The 2013 one? Indeed not.