[meteorite-list] Why ET's genetic code could be just like ours

From: Michael Fowler <mqfowler_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:43:00 -0500
Message-ID: <AD670F7D-D3CA-4978-AD10-67D649E1E0F3_at_mac.com>

I think you're misreading the article. To say that alien life might
have started with the same 10 amino acids (out of 20) that ours did
says virtually nothing about what that life might look like, or how
it might have evolved.

Mike Fowler
Chicago

> Interesting article...
> http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23309/
> http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0402
> If true, would this mean that there might be other "humans" out there
> somewhere?
>
> Kind of a cool thought.
>
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
> 904-236-5394
Received on Mon 06 Apr 2009 01:43:00 PM PDT