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Extraterrestrial Origins Of Life on Earth

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Straggler
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06-14-2008 11:42 AM

The following was shown on UK national news yesterday evening.
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http://www.channel4.com/...+of+life+comes+from+stars/2286077
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(click on the 'Watch this report' link on the page to see the actual news broadcast)
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Claims very strong evidence for the extraterrestrial origins of life on Earth.
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Anybody have any more detail of the basis for this story?
Any thoughts?
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Straggler
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06-17-2008 9:08 AM 		Reply to: Message 4 by BeagleBob
06-15-2008 4:43 AM

Re: Biospheres and ET origins
This model would help solve the problem of chirality very elegantly.
I had to look up chirality.
Why is it a problem and how do non-terrestrial factors help solve this problem?
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06-17-2008 9:12 AM 		Reply to: Message 2 by AZPaul3
06-14-2008 4:01 PM

The addition of nucleobases to the list is interesting. It does not show strong evidence, however, of “extraterrestrial origins of life,” but of extraterrestrial origins of lifeless molecules. This lends nothing to the panspermia overtones in the BBC piece.
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Actually not the BBC but Channel 4. Another of the main terrestrial channels here in the UK with generally highly regarded news and current affairs output.
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So how likley is it that life as we know it did originate in space?
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