Life here nothing special.....prebiotic molecules in interstellar space

[Adele Edisen]

The creation of molecules to be found in living organisms could have also originated on early earth, an idea first proposed in 1924 by a Russian chemist, Alexander Oparin. In the 1950s, Dr. Harold Urey and his student, Stanley Miller, created an experiment to mimic conditions on early earth by mixing certain gases and water in a flask and exposing the mixture to electrical currents (to simulate lightning strikes).

Analysis of he contents of the flask revealed that amino acids and othe chemicals were produced.

http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_che...iller.html

Adele