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“These results indicate that ethanolamine forms efficiently in space and, if delivered onto early Earth, it could have contributed to the assembling and early e
by hirundo 5y ago
“These results indicate that ethanolamine forms efficiently in space and, if delivered onto early Earth, it could have contributed to the assembling and early evolution of primitive membranes.”
This would not by itself be panspermia, but if these complex molecules can be delivered to the surface of a planet intact, why not nucleic acids?
- 14 5y agoCan you explain what you mean by the nucleic acid comment?
- hirundo 5y agoNucleic acids compose DNA and RNA. If a membrane containing these, and a certain amount of other cellular mechanisms, can reach the surface intact, then it becomes possible that the Earth was passively seeded by extra-terrestrial life, and that life need not have originated here.