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 M¢25  Funded By Mahalo ? |  August 14, 2009 03:07 PM

How improbable is the claim of life from asteroids?

I say improbable because of the astronomically large numbers of combinations to create one functional strand of RNA.

Asteroids carrying water and components friendly to life still seems improbable.

Life from organic evolution is not believable.
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August 14, 2009 03:29 PM
oHere is something I have thought about for while so I will offer my 2 cents, the solar system makes trip around the Galaxy about every 220 million years, and they say the first primitive life arouse around 3.8 billion years, so what if, during that time either we were seeded by some type of life from an asteroid or we seeded some other planet elsewhere in the galaxy? It would seem on the surface that it would be highly improbably but we never really have had any decent tests for life elsewhere not even Mars, the tests for life on Mars are basically a joke and were subject to budgetary constraints. When we finally go and test and image extra solar planets we will be able to come up with better theories, the theories about life are only as good as the information fed into them and I think they are subject to change. I do however think the theory of comments carrying water Earth and being responsible for most of our oceans is a bit improbable.
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August 14, 2009 05:53 PM
Saturn's moon has water, but no life

Mars has evidence of components of life but no DNA

There have been no asteroids that contain biological life

RNA generation of a stable amino acid protein has an enormous space of possibilities to find the right one. Computer simulators have failed to randomly combining components into the functional DNA strands.

Machines can be programmed to create simple self replicating parts, but no stable complex network has been sustained. At best, a binary network was demonstrated to theoretical exist without any chaotic factors distributing the self replicating system. The information to create life from simple components is to vast for it to happen randomly.

Cells can be download with information from computers, but the information download is very elementary. The meaning of the information download is not well understood.

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