Re: panspermia news

From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 09:45:23 MDT


> > "It is very exciting," says Max Bernstein of NASA's Ames Research Center
> > and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, both in Mountain
> > View, Calif. "Such results provide a plausible scenario by which... amino acids
> > could be separated from their mirror images, potentially solving a vexing problem
> > of prebiotic chemistry."
> > http://www.sciencenews.org/20010505/fob1.asp

> Interesting. I suspected quartz to be playing that role. However, life's
> chirality can be adequately explained by autoamplification of a rare
> event.
> Eugene Leitl.

By some "battle" between L and R amino acids ?
- S.



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