DrW wrote:... probably partially aromatic, and clearly heteroatomic, organic molecules.
This heteroatomic nature means the Brethren will not have to take sides against carbon-based chemistry. Of course, they might decide that there should be no more than two cyclic rings in any related carbon compounds.
DrW wrote:... probably partially aromatic, and clearly heteroatomic, organic molecules.
This heteroatomic nature means the Brethren will not have to take sides against carbon-based chemistry. Of course, they might decide that there should be no more than two cyclic rings in any related carbon compounds.
Things may not be quite as conflict-free for the Brethren in carbon chemistry world as one may imagine. After all, homologs and trans compounds are to be found in abundance there (no doubt accounting, at least in part, for the Brethren's generally anti-science stance).
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DrW: "Mistakes in science are learning opportunities and are eventually corrected."
DrW wrote:... probably partially aromatic, and clearly heteroatomic, organic molecules.
moksha wrote:This heteroatomic nature means the Brethren will not have to take sides against carbon-based chemistry. Of course, they might decide that there should be no more than two cyclic rings in any related carbon compounds.
DrW wrote:Things may not be quite as conflict-free for the Brethren in carbon chemistry world as one may imagine. After all, homologs and trans compounds are to be found in abundance there (no doubt accounting, at least in part, for the Brethren's generally anti-science stance).
In North Carolina heteroatomic molecules cannot be in the same laboratory as homologs or trans compounds, keeping them separate, the way God intended.
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DrW wrote:... probably partially aromatic, and clearly heteroatomic, organic molecules.
moksha wrote:This heteroatomic nature means the Brethren will not have to take sides against carbon-based chemistry. Of course, they might decide that there should be no more than two cyclic rings in any related carbon compounds.
DrW wrote:Things may not be quite as conflict-free for the Brethren in carbon chemistry world as one may imagine. After all, homologs and trans compounds are to be found in abundance there (no doubt accounting, at least in part, for the Brethren's generally anti-science stance).
MeDotOrg wrote:In North Carolina heteroatomic molecules cannot be in the same laboratory as homologs or trans compounds, keeping them separate, the way God intended.
In carbon chemistry world cis and trans molecular configurations can be extremely difficult to distinguish from one another, even in North Carolina. Without a good knowledge of chemistry and some expensive and sophisticated instrumentation, one has only personal revelation upon which to rely in making these (eternal) life or death decisions. Must be nerve wracking to say the least.
David Hume: "---Mistakes in philosophy are merely ridiculous, those in religion are dangerous."
DrW: "Mistakes in science are learning opportunities and are eventually corrected."
DoubtingThomas wrote:NASA found evidence of complex organic matter preserved in Martian surface. I think the discovery increases our chances of finding alien life somewhere in the solar system.
Did you have access to the article and decide no to share? What's going on here?
Whatever the case may be, the question is, for me at least, this:
How likely is it that life will emerge from dead things? If we were to find a complex animal cell on Mars (eukaryotes are what I have in mind), then I'd basically crap myself because that demonstrates, given the right conditions, that life does emerge and then it evolves. In other words, this universe is programmed, so to speak, to develop life. It'd be really exciting.
- Doc
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
DoubtingThomas wrote:NASA found evidence of complex organic matter preserved in Martian surface. I think the discovery increases our chances of finding alien life somewhere in the solar system.
Did you have access to the article and decide no to share? What's going on here?
Whatever the case may be, the question is, for me at least, this:
How likely is it that life will emerge from dead things? If we were to find a complex animal cell on Mars (eukaryotes are what I have in mind), then I'd basically crap myself because that demonstrates, given the right conditions, that life does emerge and then it evolves. In other words, this universe is programmed, so to speak, to develop life. It'd be really exciting.
- Doc
That discovery was earlier this year and it is a bit over-inflated by DT....they found Kerogen which is way far from "life". This basically proves that if there was organic life on Mars, then it would be possible for Mars to have preserved evidence.....and yet there is still no means to determine the origin of that material should it be found (eg from Mars or interstellar). But yeah, I enjoyed watching Star Trek as a kid, and the new and emerging 2nd church of Mars is entertaining to witness.
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