Fully-formed building blocks of DNA have been found in meteorites, suggesting an extraterrestrial origin for some of the chemicals deemed necessary for organic life.

In results reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team analyzed the chemical makeup of a dozen carbon-rich meteorites plucked from different locations in Antarctica and Australia. They not only found nucleobases widely found in organisms on Earth, compounds such as adenine and guanine, two of the four bases found in DNA. They also found related compounds, which the team dubbed "nucleobase analogues," that aren't found on Earth and in effect are new to science.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0812/Are-we-all-extraterrestrials-Scientists-discover-traces-of-DNA-in-space.

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At least now we know where the Platypus comes from.

We aren't yet, but we will be. Maybe that's how we get resurrected.

I mentioned this in the camera- shy aliens thread.

It assists the primordial soup theory....makes it more plausible.

Some people are more alien than others, IME

I mentioned this in the camera- shy aliens thread.

It assists the primordial soup theory....makes it more plausible.

The catch phrase, everything you know is wrong, comes to mind.

We tend to fear what might be true and real.

Some people are more alien than others, IME

Care to name names?

Some people are more alien than others, IME

Care to name names?

I could make a list for ya!

Some people are more alien than others, IME

Actually all the falangs in Thailand are aliens

Some legal some illegal

Yes you are all extra terrestrials

Given that we are all made from matter formed from the fusion of lighter elements in stars, I would say everything on Earth actually qualifies as being of extra terrestrial origin.

Claiming the origin of anything as being terrestrial is simply a matter of perspective.

As for the original meaning of the thread though, panspermia has been an accepted scientific theory of the formation of life for at least as long as I have been going to school. It is only just recently however that we are starting to find physical evidence for it. I find the confirmation of some of these old theories as fascinating.

Cor..........I thought I was from Shropshire..........!!!

Cor..........I thought I was from Shropshire..........!!!

That's what they'd like you to believe.