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We keep finding more and more complex biological precursors on extra planetary bodies. The interstellar medium, pretty primordial, seems to be filled with phos
by aradox66 3y ago
We keep finding more and more complex biological precursors on extra planetary bodies.
The interstellar medium, pretty primordial, seems to be filled with phospholipids: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101314118 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101314118
We have found peptides on asteroids and in meteorites.
- andrewflnr 3y ago> precursor of phospholipids Not quite the same thing. Actual abundant phosphorus compounds would be quite surprising. Probably the end of the phosphorus-problem resolution of the fermi paradox, for one thing. But medium-small organic molecules aren't that big a surprise anymore.