RegularJoeRyugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks, bolstering origin-of-life theories
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funkajunk đšđŠâGod put it thereâ
FlyswatâO humanity! If you are in doubt about the Resurrection, then Ëčknow thatËș We did create you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then Ëčdeveloped you intoËș a clinging clot, then a lump of fleshâfully formed or unformedâin order to demonstrate ËčOur powerËș to you. ËčThenËș We settle whatever ËčembryoËș We will in the womb for an appointed term, then bring you forth as infants, so that you may reach your prime. Some of you ËčmayËș die ËčyoungËș, while others are left to reach the most feeble stage of life so that they may know nothing after having known much.â
MinnesotaGoddamno iâm gonna keep worshiping a giant space crab. this does not disprove the existence of a giant space crab coming to eat us all.
Or we should at least tax and regulate them.
Honestly, thatâs a very, very cool discovery and now Iâm thinking that means we can be somewhat confident that the building blocks of life can be found floating in space but yet we donât see any kind of evidence of life in our decades of searching and thatâs kind of sad to me and thinking of that instead of working.
Sample size of 1, admittedly, but weâve had life on earth for 4 billion years. Weâve had life capable of radio communications for about 50 years. Thatâs .0000000014% of the time life has existed. Maybe it wouldnât be a bad assumption to think that only that proportion of stars would have even had the time to get to this stage.
Well, the building blocks of life are far from being life. Itâs like finding bricks and randomly a building appears. Sure, given enough time, samples, and agitation, itâll eventually happen. Itâs far from saying that if you find bricks you should expect to find buildings though. As far as we can tell, even on Earth, all life has come from one source (they all share common traits), yet we have even further developed building blocks for DNA and RNA. Hell, we have actual DNA and RNA floating about.
Maybe weâre slow learners and aliens are better at hiding than us because they know better. Maybe Mars is teaming with life under the surface. Though, I guess weâd detect some pretty huge signals like methane exhausts and what not, unless theyâre just also very good at hiding that. We could also be a lot physically closer than we think to dormant alien AI left over from long dead civilizations.
Cesar Menor Salvan, an astrobiologist at Spainâs University of Alcala not involved in the research, emphasized that âthese results do not suggest that the origin of life took place in space.â
However, âwith this and the results from Bennu, we have a very clear idea of which organic materials can form under prebiotic conditions anywhere in the universe,â he added.
âïž-honestly forget about origin.
if an asteroid has this readily, we can much more safely assume the universe is teeming with life.
An interesting hypothesis I read about focused on the era of the universe when everything was lukewarm. Literally an entire universe in the âsweet spotâ for the building blocks of life to form and propagate.
The idea is that the molecules would form, and then once the universe cooled further would freeze and be spread literally everywhere in similar asteroids. The rare part would be a location sufficiently stable in the goldilocks zone to evolve advanced life, not life itself.
explodicleImagine being in a civilization back then. They would see our time as so cold, dead, and isolating.
Which makes us metal af.
Which makes us metal af.
Would love to read more about this, I couldnât find it on Google, but im a bit stoned rn
There is a Kurzgesagt about this âAncient Life as Old as the Universeâ starting at 5:00
Ancient Life as Old as the Universe
And that we should probably stfu instead of, you know, shooting golden maps to our planet out into the solar system.
At this point in the timeline I for one welcome our alien overlords. Maybe theyâll bring unthought science advances, exotic cuisine from another galaxy and unredacted epstein files
I too want to have sex with a hot alien babe
If there is intelligent life in the universe I think it has a moral imperative to fix or eradicate humanity. Let them come here and judge us, they canât do much worse than we have.
Aliens are probably wiser than that and would see the value in letting us fix ourselves.