Asteroid Bennu is packed with life’s building blocks, new studies confirm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-latest-asteroid-sample-hints-at-lifes-extraterrestrial-origins/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit
Asteroid Bennu is packed with life’s building blocks, new studies confirm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-latest-asteroid-sample-hints-at-lifes-extraterrestrial-origins/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit
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Awesome stuff so life in the universe might not be so rare after all.
“This brine contained thousands of organic compounds, including 14 of the 20 amino acids found in terrestrial organisms, as well as all the nucleotide bases that make up our DNA and RNA. This means that the basic molecules of life existed in our solar system practically from the start”
The same components given enough energy (sunlight and warm water on prebiotic earth) were able to assemble, order and rearrange, auto-catalyse, build complexity and finally emerged as life on planet earth and the rest is history
” Indeed, he says, this conclusive proof that so many of life’s molecular building blocks were so widespread in the early solar system has increased “the chances that life could have started elsewhere beyond Earth.””
This makes me think that life is as fundamental a physical and chemical process in our universe as anything else.
They always seem to say this about any rock discovered in Space.