Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Genetic building blocks may have formed in space

The find might bolster claims that meteorites delivered some of the chemicals needed to create life. "It boosts the idea that the origin of life on Earth may have had an important contribution from an extraterrestrial object," says lead author Zita Martins, a chemist at Imperial College London in the UK.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Seems obvious to me... If our "creator" was an alien, then so are we. Earth's just another stopping off point for life.