NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Uracil, Lightning, Protein Production
24 Feb 2014
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Chapter 15 - section 1, 2 & 4. The planets formed from the same cloud of gas and dust which gave birth to the sun, about 4, 6 billion years ago Being made of the same stuff, the terrestrial planets likely looked very similar to one another at first. But current conditions on mars and venus suggest what the primordial earth might have been like. Earth"s original atmosphere probably looked a lot like those of venus and mars do today. The gases likely to have been present include: Every culture has a creation myth based on ancient myths, beliefs, and/or faith. The accepted scientific view of our origins begins with the conditions on the newly-formed planed earth. To reproduce the conditions believed to have existed on the earth after its outer curst had solidified. H2, h2o, nh3, ch4 were combined in a flash: Electrical sparks in the flask simulated lightning. After one week the flask contained a reddish brown muck.
