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1.61803
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Message 4 of 138 (124455)
07-14-2004 11:35 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by tubi417
07-14-2004 3:03 AM


tubi417 writes:
How likely is it that one of these cells is going to have a mutation for the process of protein synthesis? A mutation that would create anything beneficial to the cell? If any of these cells had a mutation they would probably die.
Well tubi how likely is it that the density of water is 1? Or that the solid form of water floats? Or the fact that Iron binds with O2? Life on every level is riddled with complexity and unlikely processes that have taken place. The fact that you are reading this is evidence of this.
If the density of the universe is not what it is nothing would live. How unlikely is your very birth? (to quote monty python) But yet you are here. Abiogenesis has occurred and perhaps someday mankind will discover how it did, just as man has discovered every other taboo subject the church has deemed was heresey to explore. The moon is not made of cheese and flageston does not exist. edit typo.
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1.61803
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From: Lone Star State USA
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Message 12 of 138 (124494)
07-14-2004 2:38 PM
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07-14-2004 12:21 PM


i dedicate this song to jar
Galaxy Song by Monty Python
Whenever life get you down Mrs. Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid obnoxious or daft And you feel that youv've had quite enough.. Just remember that you are standing on a planet thats evolving And revolving at nine hundres miles an hour Its orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so its reckoned A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day. In an outer spiral arm at forty thousands miles an hour In a galaxy we call the milky way. Our galaxy itself, contains a hundred billion stars Its a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle , sixteen thousand light years thick But out by us its just three thousand light years wide. We're thiry thousand light years from galactic central point We go round every two hundred million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can wizz, As fast as it can go the speed of light ya know Twelve million miles a minute and thats the fastest speed there is. So remember when your feeling very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth. And pray that theres intellegent life somewhere up in space Cause theres buggers all down here on earth.

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