I saw a Nova last night that had some interesting info about a sort of modified panspermia, not whole cells, but amino acids. (Making it panacidia, maybe? Or panamino-ism? Panamino sounds like someone from The Magic Flute, though.) It involved setting up a reaaally big gun and actually shooting at the amino acids, to see what the impact generally does to them.

According to that woman's experiment, they actually combine into peptides. Which make up proteins, which make up yours truly.

I think my SO is rather impressed with my psychic powers at this point, or else my scientific knowledge. 8) There was one transition in the program where I said, "Ooo, stroma-thingies!" before the scene even changed. Practically the next word out of the narrator's mouth was, "Stromatalites . . ." (I know I haven't spelled that right, but you know what I mean.)

Next week's NOVA is going to be about SETI, I think, from the ads. Do I even have to mention that I'll be watching it?

Izunya

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