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We didn't find evidence of life on the asteroid; rather, we found the necessary building blocks for it, which, in the right environment (e.g. earth), could beco
by ksymph 6mo ago
We didn't find evidence of life on the asteroid; rather, we found the necessary building blocks for it, which, in the right environment (e.g. earth), could become life.
If anything it slightly moves the scales toward abiogenesis, since it implies the necessary precursors to life were common in the early solar system, though it's certainly not conclusive either way.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> moves the scales toward abiogenesis Or the warm early universe hypothesis. In its early life, the entire universe was at a temperature that could sustain liquid water literally anywhere. The idea being, in this hypothesis, life was literally everywhere and then went dormant.
- ben_w 6mo agoI thought that temperature era predates the availability of oxygen with which to form water?
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago[dead]