Ancestors

Toot

Written by Guy English on 2025-01-29 at 21:11

Fascinating.

https://www.theverge.com/news/602024/nasa-finds-ingredients-for-life-in-the-bennu-asteroid-sample

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Descendants

Written by Rosyna Keller on 2025-01-29 at 21:23

@Gte it’s not unusual. We’ve found all 20 amino acids required for extant, known Earthican life across various meteorites. It’s pretty neat how readily prebiotic compounds can be formed extraterrestrially.

For example:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC17693/

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Written by Guy English on 2025-01-29 at 23:53

@rosyna Oh for sure! More of a Mr. Spock saying “fascinating” than an entirely new thing. I’m eager for fun and interesting news these days. For some reason.

It is heartening, in a way, that these precursors are so readily available across the part of the universe we can touch.

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Written by Rosyna Keller on 2025-01-29 at 23:59

@Gte I especially like these findings because they feed my philosophy of “anything that can happen once, can happen more than once”, with abiogenesis being the target in this example.

Also, never, ever watch any videos from James Tour.

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Written by Casper 👻 on 2025-01-29 at 21:52

@Gte

Agreed, but a pile of lego blocks isn’t the millennium falcon.

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Written by Guy English on 2025-01-29 at 23:54

@caspercdn I like that comparison! Still, lemme me happy about Lego! 🙂

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Written by Drew Pickard on 2025-01-30 at 03:45

@Gte “….but they escaped”

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