In your lecture at Bath you made mention of 'vast clouds of proteins' found via telescopy in deep space. My simple web-searches are unproductive on this topic. Can you please direct me to more information on this? Thanks a lot!
Tremendous fan of your work! maathazelgrove at gmail
I am thinking that the amino acid observations might have been communicated to me in person, at the 10-year anniversary of Herschel that took place in Madrid a few years ago. I am not finding published material - but it is not the sort of thing I would make up.
If I come across the papers I will try to remember to send them along to you.
It's too bad this will likely inspire more attention for the manufacture of artificial life for profit than it will humble us to acknowledging nature's profound consciousness beyond our grasp. I tell ya, the audacity of the LUCA tree trunk model & miracle of life ONLY ONCE concept is so much religious dogma that just needs to end.
Hi Michael,
In your lecture at Bath you made mention of 'vast clouds of proteins' found via telescopy in deep space. My simple web-searches are unproductive on this topic. Can you please direct me to more information on this? Thanks a lot!
Tremendous fan of your work! maathazelgrove at gmail
Thanks for the kind words.
I am thinking that the amino acid observations might have been communicated to me in person, at the 10-year anniversary of Herschel that took place in Madrid a few years ago. I am not finding published material - but it is not the sort of thing I would make up.
If I come across the papers I will try to remember to send them along to you.
Looks as though you or your source may have been referencing these, no?
All from Ames with no publication dates:
http://www.astrochem.org/sci/Amino_Acids.php
http://www.astrochem.org/sci/Cosmic_Complexity_PAHs.php
http://www.astrochem.org/sci/Sugars.php
http://www.astrochem.org/sci/Amphiphiles_Vesicles.php
http://www.astrochem.org/sci/Nucleobases.php
And from 1973, this is interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/23/archives/chemicals-basic-to-life-found-plentiful-in-space-found-in.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4552-space-molecules-point-to-organic-origins/
Thanks very much. I'd sincerely appreciate anything you can muster.
I just rewatched the talk. "Hydrocarbons, sugars, and amino acids." Very provocative; I love it.
The Gagler, et al. paper published on 3.1.22 reminded me of the import of your stated finds. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35217602/
It's too bad this will likely inspire more attention for the manufacture of artificial life for profit than it will humble us to acknowledging nature's profound consciousness beyond our grasp. I tell ya, the audacity of the LUCA tree trunk model & miracle of life ONLY ONCE concept is so much religious dogma that just needs to end.
Keep up the stellar work!