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Life in space?

Author:      ralph c schultz
Last night on TV a Disney program about alien life stated that NASA has
found forms of life in meteors.  I have never heard anything like this
before.

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Author:      hawley
Some simple organic molecules have been found on/in (?) meteorites.  I do
not recall if they were amino acids (which are the "basic building blocks of
life") or precursors to amino acids.  Either way, that is a long way from
actual life forms.

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