nothing. locals put out calls, we need to gather donations. first came the water. now you can see there s clothing, furniture, toys. we just learned tomorrow there will be prepaid cell phones. the building blocks of life as they lost everything in these floods. the problem is, this tragedy might still be ongoing. this is going to be a real challenge with such a large area hit to get good unaccounted for numbers. reporter: homes destroyed, roads washed out. rescuers working around the clock as the governor of kentucky warns the death toll from another round of catastrophic flooding could more than double in the coming days. the latest heartbreaking discovery, the bodies of at least six children recovered from the floodwaters. rushing waters tripped homes off their foundation and pushed cars into piles. judy butler and her husband made it out of their house just in time.
For the first time, scientists discover the building blocks of life an asteroid. More than 20 amino acids have been discovered by Japanese researchers on the space rock Ryugu, which is more than 320 million kilometers from Earth.
about looking for other life, in the universe, or other places where life could be. well, that s exactly right. that s what we re doing right now on mars, getting samples to see if there are building blocks of life. we re going to have those samples returned. we re doing this with other planets as well. we have got a mission going to venus right now to do the same thing. so this is an exciting time for not only america but also for planet earth and this is an international mission. europeans and the canadians are our partners on this mission. hubbell, of course, was revolutionary in our understanding of the universe for scientists, but also for average people, right? because you and i well, you re in the an average person, but people like me, i got to see stuff far away and in this in
prompted a new push to clarify once and for all whether aliens exist 10 years later the search for extraterrestrial intelligence or seti got underway its search for radio transmissions from space efforts are continuing but so far without success. some warn against seeking to make contact with alien life forms saying they might want to plunder earth s raw materials in view of what we know so far that s unlikely. highly sensitive telescopes have it best discovered only the building blocks of life and space. in the vicinity of young stars organic compounds have been found such as nothing at all and simple sugars along with mork. plex molecules that are important for the formation of proteins. our galaxy alone is home to up to 300000000000 stars many are similar to our sun and our orbited by planets.