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Apr 30, 2013

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --William Shakespeare

Books of Ice

Did you ever think that comets were more than interstellar rocks and dust, that they might contain amino acids and nucleotides that build living things? Today, many scientists think that perhaps that's the way life began on Earth 4 billion years ago. Imagine the spinning arms of the galaxy casting comets over the planet, protolife smacking onto the broken lava plains, like seeds of ice, until basins gather the meltwater into oceans, and the oceans nurture onrushing life. Read more and see a video of Basia Irland's sculptures, Seeds of Ice, in her artistic attempt to gather the Earth's wisdom and carry it like sunlight into the future