Re: Organic molecules everywhere in space

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 00:09:01 -0500, JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:

 Pro Plyd wrote:
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Google news search link using terms   organic   molecules  space

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Back in the day, and if you're over 30 this has got to include
you, everyone thought of "Organic" as being life or a product
of life. It no longer means that.

It's near enough 60 years since I studied chemistry at college (high
school) but I was taught even then that organic chemistry was to do
with carbon and any compound containing it. Nothing at all about it
having to be life or a product of life.

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We live on the Clown World where the language is fluid even in
instances when it really needs to be stable, like for science.
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Can you think of ANY useful reason for a change where "Organic"
is applied to molecules associated with life AND molecules
completely independent of any life?
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I can't. If anything screams for two different terms, this
would be it.
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It's even worse than "Tools" which is used as a noun and a
verb, but whenever used a verb is then considered a noun
even when it is not.
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Example:  "Banging" the nut with a rock as opposed to
"Hammering." Nut jobs insist that because they used "Hammer"
as a verb that produces the noun... the rock is a hammer
and a hammer is a tool, thus the rock is a tool and the
primate is a "Tool user."
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Stupid language from stupid people.