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I find the title inaccurate and clickbaity. It was not the gravitational waves that made life on earth possible, but the heavy elements as a result of star coll

I find the title inaccurate and clickbaity. It was not the gravitational waves that made life on earth possible, but the heavy elements as a result of star collision and star collapse. But we've already known that for a long time. The referred paper just makes the case that most of the iodine and bromine on Earth must be created by neutron stars collisions and not by supernovae as previously thought.

pfdietz 3y ago
That bromine is a necessary element was only discovered about a decade ago. It's apparently necessary to form weird sulfur-nitrogen double bonds in collagen IV. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4144415/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4144415/