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12-03-2012, 03:26 PM | #1 |
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12-03-2012, 03:34 PM | #3 |
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Dude science is trial and error, experimentation and observation. It doesn't require lab coats and beakers. We are all scientists on one level or another. Who ever was doing the trial and error (spelled experimentation) on the first wheel was a scientist like it or not.
They weren't professional scientists and didn't have a degree, or lab coat. There were "scientists" at Stonehenge and building pyramids. Written language probably was less "scientific" but all advances were basically by "scientists", in whatever low tech existed at that time.
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I get the big news, but I've never understood why it is so important to find "organic compounds". Haven't we already found vast lakes of methane liquids on some moons and other planets? Methane is organic, ethane is organic, etc. Doesn't mean life.
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12-03-2012, 04:39 PM | #5 |
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Methane and ethane are not "compounds" in the classic sense. They are things that exist in all nature, much like oxygen. We know they exist everywhere. The "organic compounds" that matter are ones not normally observed in nature off planet Earth. Compounds that could be interpreted as life that may have decomposed or would be essential elements that could contribute to the formation of life.
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12-03-2012, 04:45 PM | #6 |
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so then, what are "compounds"? Methane, ethane, butane, etc., are all molecules that contain carbon and are hydrocarbons, thus "carbon compounds". I wouldn't be too excited until they said what the compounds were chemically.
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