> "J.A.Legris" wrote in message news:fnqeoq$1t88$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
>

>>On Jan 29, 1:48 pm, dkomo comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>Did Life Begin in Ice?
>>>
>>>February 20008 issue of "Discover" magazine
>>>
>>>"One morning in late 1997, Stanley Miller lifted a glass vial from a
>>>cold, bubbling vat. For 25 years he had tended the vial as though it
>>>were an exotic orchid, checking it daily, adding a few pellets of dry
>>>ice as needed to keep it at -108 degrees Farenheit. He had told hardly
>>>a soul about it. Now he set the frozen time capsule out to thaw, ending
>>>the experiment that had lasted more than one-third of his 68 years."
>>>
>>>The vial contained cyanide and ammonia. When Miller and his former
>>>student Jeffrey analyzed the contents, they found it contained
>>>nucleotides and amino acids.
>>>
>>>Who'd have thunk it?

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>
> Not me. I'm reasonably certain the mix contained nucleic acid bases
> such as adenine rather than nucleotides such as adenosine.
>