The discovery appears to show for the first time that compounds that are key to life can form in the vast expanse between stars and fuels optimism that other molecules important for the origins of life might be found in space.
A team led by astronomers at Spain’s Center for Astrobiology detected the sugar, called erythrulose, which is made of four carbon atoms. Sugars play a pivotal role in living systems, helping to provide energy, build biological structures and form parts of genetic material such as RNA and DNA.
To make the observations, the team used two radio telescopes, one at the Yebes Observatory north of Madrid and the other at the Institute for Radio Astronomy in the Millimeter Range, known as IRAM, in the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, to study a molecular cloud known as G+0.693−0.027 near the center of the galaxy.
Researchers identified the sugar by comparing its molecular signature in the radio wave data from the molecular cloud with the wavelength pattern for erythrulose measured in the laboratory. The team initially searched for simpler sugars with three carbon atoms but didn’t find any.
Think about the brain level on that. Thinking they could actually find something they recognize billions of miles away, and then actually finding it?
What are the odds...
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Research has shown that exposing sliced white button mushrooms to direct sunlight before cooking dramatically increases their vitamin D₂ content because UV-B light converts ergosterol in mushrooms into vitamin D₂. Slicing the mushrooms first increases the exposed surface area, making the process more effective.
One well-known study found that just 15 minutes of midday sun significantly increased vitamin D₂ to levels comparable to fatty fish (about 704 IU per 100 g of fresh mushrooms). Other studies have reported even larger increases depending on sunlight intensity and exposure conditions.
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The copywriter's brain probably exploded immediately after he concocted the headline, so they just repeated it as the body copy. The ad is placed - or created - or credited to - someone or something called 'Bindright', whoever the fuck they are, so that adds a level of credibility to it, also, doesn't it?
Somebody somewhere is paying somebody somewhere to create and place that ad in the hopes you will respond.. And you tell me this isn't a great country? What was it that P. T. Barnum said about every minute?
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this garbage bin had to show ID to get in. Not to vote,
no - no ID required there. But to get in to visit Obama's
vision of his own greatness? Yup - ID required at entry.
How fucking twisted is that?
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According to pageant regulations, participants can be foreign-born residents if they have lived in Italy for at least ten years.
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