Talk:Auroran/@comment-5870856-20140214031039/@comment-5135903-20140215183748

By the way, an interesting extract that did the rounds a few years ago was a closing paragraph from Evidence for the Likely Origin of Homochirality in Amino Acids, Sugars, and Nucleosides on Prebiotic Earth by Doctor Ronald Breslow of Columbia University...

"An  implication  from  this  work  is  that  elsewhere  in  the  universe  there  could  be  life  forms  based  on  D  amino  acids  and  L  sugars,  depending  on  the  chirality  of  circular  polarized  light  in  that  sector  of  the  universe or  whatever  other  process  operated  to  favor  the  L α‐methyl  amino acids  in  the  meteorites  that  have  landed  on Earth.   Such  life  forms  could  well  be  advanced  versions  of  dinosaurs,  if  mammals  did  not  have the  good  fortune  to  have  the  dinosaurs  wiped  out  by  an  asteroidal  collision,  as  on  Earth.   We  would  be  better  off  not  meeting  them."

Admittedly, the comment was slightly tongue-in-cheek.