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From Celestium

A capsule returns ancient asteroid dust to Earth, revealing water, carbon, and DNA building blocks. Bennu’s secrets suggest life’s ingredients arrived from space, rewriting humanity’s cosmic origin story forever changed.

Pretty surprising discovery. This isn't the normal finding of methane and other simple organic molecules like that. They found full blown amino acids and nucleotides.

69 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fenix 4h

If they find it in asteroid the same could be found here in earth. Could be from asteroids or could be from here. Anything change I suppose.

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True, but we didn't know that these compounds existed anywhere other than Earth. Now, it would be surprising if they aren't ubiquitous.

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix 3h

Right, I didn’t think about that. If those compounds exist in a so aggressive environment like an asteroid, they could exist in another places too.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 24m

Simon Whistler. He seems like such a good person that I'm just waiting for him to turn out to be some kind of psycho.

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