Basic Elements of Life Discovered On Classic Atari Game Nemesis

Basic Elements of Life Discovered On Classic Atari Game Nemesis

Astronomers at NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii have discovered water, in the form of ice, and organic compounds on the surface of an asteroid called 24 Themis, which circles the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This supports the theory that an asteroid collision seeded the earth with the elements that developed into basic forms of life. “They have found something that a lot of people, including myself, have been chasing in the solar system for a long time, and that is water and organic material,” says Dale Cruikshank, a planetary scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. And here we’ve spent all this time in our little triangular spaceship, trying to blast these things out of the sky.