Water Came Before Earth; Implications "Exciting" for Alien Life

[Ylla]

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I think you just failed with the quote or completely misunderstood my post. None of what i said is against what you said and i do agree with you.... Dude do you even read? XD

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Same goes with this one, im saying chances of alien life as we know it are high. Can you explain me why post what you did?... You say; the chances of life someplace else are even higher if we can expand our understanding of what is life.

What the hell is wrong with this thread??? Everybody is denying points of view very similar to their own??
Im out of the internet, this has gone too far...

 

[FalloutJack]

You know, stuff like this should be the end of all religions. Isn't it sad that people still can't accept simple facts?

Since there is no reason god can't be scientific, religion endures. By my reckoning, one cannot actually disprove the influence of an entity believed to be omnipotent and omniscient without reaching those points themselves. By doing so, you then become what you seek to disprove, and therefore prove and disprove god existence at the same time, no contradiction.

For more mindscrews, please attend classes involving Heizenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Quantum Mechanics, and Political Psychology.

 

[ryukage_sama]

Any bets as to when someone will sincerely state, "The water isn't that old, God just deuterated the water."

This is a fascinating conclusion. I wonder if the same experiment could be done with methane (CH4) found on other planets and moons.

 

[Tarfeather]

The deuterium they're talking about is a hydrogen isotope. It doesn't have shit to do with molecules. Their data isn't about water, it's about an atom that happens to be part of water, and the conclusions they come to don't seem to relate at all to the things stated in the article.

 

[happyninja42]

Interestingly enough, one of my former professors from college (he's an astrophysicist) used to talk about this a lot. It was his pet theory. He didn't believe for a second that life began on Earth, and he thought that panspermia is too convenient, but he didn't rule it out. This was his favorite theory of how life came to develop on Earth. It already existed in the water according to him. He's probably ecstatic now.

You know, stuff like this should be the end of all religions. Isn't it sad that people still can't accept simple facts?

When you are willing to accept things as "facts" without any evidence to confirm them, and lots of evidence to refute them, paltry things like evidence is hardly going to chip away at your belief structure.

But cool, glad to see there is more evidence to support the idea of life in the universe. Hope we get to Europa soon with some submersibles and go exploring, see what's swimming around in there.

 

[Maze1125]

Water is a very finicky molecule. It splits into it's component atoms very easily thusly destroying it

No it doesn't. Water splits easily into two ions, but not its component atoms. Water is actually a very stable compound despite being an unstable molecule.
Of course there ARE situations in which is can be broken down completely, but that's true of every single compound.