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jimrybarski
11y ago
Earth was a sealed environment, but it was also completely sterile. Exposing the experiments to a large amount of cells of any kind would totally distort their results.
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They could have run control experiments where they didn't actually start the reaction and just looked at how much background polymer to expect from contamination. Of course, if there's a lot it would drown out any signal they got