The world needs a source of manna to compliment the abundant ZPE that is supposedly "on the horizon". :-)
http://www.deoxy.org/manna.htm http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00.n1839.a03.html I propose that a solar flare could've produced this timely "High-Carb" sustenance. Since the sun's hydrogen content is over 75% with a few hundred parts/million each for carbon, nitrogen and oxygen a solar flare could create large quantities of acetylene, H-C***C-H, (where*** represents the highly endothermic carbon-carbon triple bond), poly acetylene, H-C***C-C***C-C***C-H, ammonia NH3, and water, H-OH. The gaseous H-OH water molecule can exothermally bond to the acetylene carbons to form carbohydrates or sugars. Along with this, ammonia gas NH3 can concurrently react with acrylic acid (a common product of the reaction of acetylene and water) to form the amino acid Serine: http://www.chem4kids.com/files/aminoacids/serine.html Since daylight solar radiation and ozone layer activity would destroy these compounds, they could survive at night and settle out like "morning dew". Beats following sheep around the desert. :-) Frederick
