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	Living Dust

FalconHunter

8-13-2007 11:12 AM

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space, dust, life, dna, research, science, physics

FalconHunter says:

This is pretty cool. I think it could also explain more about how we got here on earth.

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SCIENTISTS have discovered that inorganic material can take on the
characteristics of living organisms in space, a development that could
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An international panel from the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck
institute in Germany and the University of Sydney found that galactic dust
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found nonorganic dust, when held in the form of plasma in zero gravity,
formed the helical structures found in DNA. The particles are held together
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