Comet and asteroid strikes may have seeded Earth with cyanide that prepared the planet for life. ...full story at digg
from digg on Sat, Nov 07 2009
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Deadly planet-smash asteroid was actually Euro probe » the register (uk) Patrick Moore on high alert in space boulder flap rumpus Asteroid-apocalypse experts were struck by a shower of eggs last week, as they prepared to sound the alarm over an incoming space boulder potentially capable of wiping out life on Earth - only to... |
| 22 May 09 |
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How Life May Have Outlasted Early Blasts » digg An asteroid bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago may have actually been a boon to early life on the planet, instead of wiping it out or preventing it from originating, a new study suggests.Asteroids, comets and other impactors from space have... |
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Meteor impacts may have sparked life on Earth » digg While space rocks hurtling in from space threaten to deal modern life a mortal blow, meteorite impacts during Earth's early history may have played a pivotal role in kick-starting life on the planet. |
| 27 Jun 09 |
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Hawking: Asteroids Are Biggest Threat to Intelligent Life » digg Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. We have observed, the collision of a comet,... |
| 18 Aug 09 |
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NASA: Extraterrestrial sample holds ingredient for alien life » the register (uk) Definitely not lab contamination, insist boffins NASA boffins say that they have identified an amino acid, one of the key building blocks of Earth-style life, in material recovered from a comet far out in space. They say this supports the idea that life... |
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