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Was Life Seeded from Space? ‘Complete Set’ of DNA Ingredients Discovered on Asteroid (www.404media.co)
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[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

DNA ingredients just means organic chemistry. Which, sure, is awesome and critical to explaining our origins, but "seeded from space" has fuzzy open ended implications. Our DNA itself, what with all its specific protein building instructions, wasn't seeded from space. It's like we found ink and pages in space, but we didn't find shakespeare. The writing happened on Earth.