Comment on Was Life Seeded from Space? ‘Complete Set’ of DNA Ingredients Discovered on Asteroid
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 week agoI’ve heard, and may be incorrect now so please nobody repeat this as absolute science fact:
The way the earth was when it formed would have destroyed these building blocks for the most part, their arrival after the earth stopped being a molten hellscape helps get around that.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
There are also plenty of tests confirming those circumstances naturally lead to nucleotides forming.
Finding them on asteroid isn’t proof of panspermia but it is evidence that life is a natural and expected feature of the universe.