Article-M. Livio "...carbon-based life...7 billion years ago."

Article - "Life among the stars" by Robert S. Boyd (Apr. 25,'04)

"Increasingly, the building blocks of life are being found throughout
space, giving scientists hope of finding organisms elsewhere. First,
they're combing Earth's least hospitable environments for clues.?"

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twinci...8505901.htm?1c

"...According to Mario Livio, a physicist at the Space Science Telescope
Institute in Baltimore, carbon-based life could have originated in
planets around other suns as long as 7 billion years ago..."

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Article - "Life among the stars" by Robert S. Boyd (Apr. 25,'04)

"Increasingly, the building blocks of life are being found throughout
space, giving scientists hope of finding organisms elsewhere. First,
they're combing Earth's least hospitable environments for clues.?"

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twinci...8505901.htm?1c

"...According to Mario Livio, a physicist at the Space Science Telescope
Institute in Baltimore, carbon-based life could have originated in
planets around other suns as long as 7 billion years ago..."

This seems more and more plausible since life (with DNA & all it seems) is
found very early in the history of the Earth (0.5 or so billion years after
the Solar System and Earth formed there is already evidence of life on Earth
....)


Keep searching, Jason H.

"Jason H." wrote in message
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Article - "Life among the stars" by Robert S. Boyd (Apr. 25,'04)

"Increasingly, the building blocks of life are being found throughout
space, giving scientists hope of finding organisms elsewhere. First,
they're combing Earth's least hospitable environments for clues.?"

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twinci...8505901.htm?1c

"...According to Mario Livio, a physicist at the Space Science Telescope
Institute in Baltimore, carbon-based life could have originated in
planets around other suns as long as 7 billion years ago..."

This seems more and more plausible since life (with DNA & all it seems) is
found very early in the history of the Earth (0.5 or so billion years after
the Solar System and Earth formed there is already evidence of life on Earth
....)


Keep searching, Jason H.