Uracil: NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory

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First Posted: 11-10-09 08:21 AM   |   Updated: 11-10-09 08:30 AM

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NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life.

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NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to u...
NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to u...
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Everyone except those science-believing heathens knows that the Great Pink Unicorn farted us all into existence.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:44 AM on 11/10/2009
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S'cuse me... It was (Puff) The Great Purple Dragon that belched us all here....Your Pagan Unicorn is a figment of imagination...Sad but True.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:20 PM on 11/10/2009

Nope, Its the Anunaki from Planet Nibiru scheduled to collide with us Dec 21 2012. Just as stated in the book of Enoch.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:32 PM on 11/10/2009

Hey now, that was insulting! Now I'm going to call for a griblackyloo on you, which is kinda like a fatwah, only we come after you with supersoakers loaded with cherry koolaid. Hahaha, we will RUIN all your white and brightly-colored clothes!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:19 PM on 11/10/2009
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You are all wrong. It was the FSM who created us all with his noodly appendage.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:37 PM on 11/10/2009

Thank you all for playing along :)

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:14 PM on 11/10/2009

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