Posted: Mar 25, 2010 9:49 am
by Rumraket
rainbow wrote:
Rumraket wrote:
rainbow wrote:...perhaps then it isn't.
Maybe it's just a rather simple organic compound that shouldn't attract any special attention at all?


What are you trying to say? Is this question supposed to lead us a long some special line of thought?

No, there appeared to be some excitement over the creation of glycine.
I just wondered what it was all about.
A rather boring, little molecule:
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Yes, well, so is H2, CH4 and CO2, yet these substances are somewhere right now being synthesized into various lengths of fatty acids without the help of intelligent agents or some grand conscious orchestration.

The same can be said about any given organic molecule, which itself doesn't make life on it's own.
Whatever fundamental, small and boring crap results in peptides, amino acids, lipids, sugars and/or nucleotides in various forms, is that, on its own : small and boring? Sure, you can say that.

The interesting facts to ponder are that these various compounds are synthesizable under conditions where no mind is investing it's will in their production.