gee Barry, these "jokes" are sort of, shall I say, "lame"
you really don't have anything better to do, do you? have you considered crossword puzzles, or something? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Yet another photo of Richard Williams at Costco. Boring. :-) From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Philae has detected organic molecules Re "So what happens when a chunk of a comet with some molecules in it hits the earth, is able to survive the entrance to the atmosphere and decides this is a new cool place to live?" This is what happens: http://tinyurl.com/pv8bsxd http://tinyurl.com/pv8bsxd http://tinyurl.com/pv8bsxd http://tinyurl.com/pv8bsxd http://tinyurl.com/pv8bsxd View on tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/pv8bsxd Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : On 11/18/2014 11:49 AM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> mailto:s3raphita@... wrote : The Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of its comet, scientists have confirmed. The compounds were picked up by a German-built instrument designed to "sniff" the comet's thin atmosphere. OK - so organic molecules aren't life as we know it, but they were found on a measly comet. Pity we've lost the phone connection - just when the conversation was getting interesting. Cool! That's just the sort of thing it was after. Just think, they'll be more than 3.5 billion years old and the very same stuff that we are ultimately made of, sitting on a comet all that time. That's my sense of perspective satisfied for the day. Cheers! And apparently, they think Philae might come back to life when it gets closer to the sun. So maybe there's more.. So what happens when a chunk of a comet with some molecules in it hits the earth, is able to survive the entrance to the atmosphere and decides this is a new cool place to live? _
