Word: arrays
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...discoveries of rather complex molecules in the murky recesses of interstellar space. Now totaling more than 50 in number, many of these modecules are complex enough to be of some interest to biochemists. Theorists remain mystified about the severely non-terrestrial conditions that give rise to such a pharmaceutical array of chemicals, yet it does not seem inconceivable that they could be mere fragments of even larger molecules thus far undiscovered. If so, then the most startling revelation of all may be that what was once though to be a galactic wasteland is really the biochemical seedbed of life...
Modern astrophysics now deciphers a more vibrant, evolving universe--one in which life seems to be nothing more than a natural consequence of the evolution of matter. Soberingly though, our planetary system apparently palys no special role in this vast array of material coagulations. Magnificent mediocrity, so it seems, is the catchword describing our condition on the rock called Earth...