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The thing I was hoping to see in the comments is discussion around the complexity of these compounds and thus how likely they are to form abiotic. Looking at v
by ianai 4y ago
The thing I was hoping to see in the comments is discussion around the complexity of these compounds and thus how likely they are to form abiotic.
Looking at vitamin b3, it seems very simple.
My take away is more that the chemistry of life as we know it is pretty prevalent and probably forms readily under many circumstances. I am not shocked this wasn’t an actual DNA strand. Even if someone left some DNA out on an asteroid over enough time I expect it would deteriorate. The universe just bombards stuff without an atmosphere too much for naked DNA to survive in those conditions.
This is basically the biggest success I could rationally hope for from this probe. Great work for those scientists and I am so amazed!