The thing that’s always come to mind when I see theories that the building blocks of life came from space is… everything on earth came from space? Where else could they have possibly come from?
I don’t know what this “Sci Insider” website is, but considering the article starts with a huge picture of a flying saucer, I’m guessing it’s more sci-fi than science.
“Mysterious object” = “flying saucer” really does get the kooks frothing though…
i once read a theory that says (i havent checked the validity of this claim) the time required for dna mutates and evolves to the current complexity on earth predates earth by a long shot so it assumes that at one point after the big bang everywhere on the universe is basically a habitable zone and life can be practically found anywhere. assuming some of the building blocks keep on arriving on optimal condition later on.
I think the implication is more that these can form in the absence of life. We'd need a lot of space rocks to get just traces. But if they can form spontaneously there, they could form from conditions on earth, too. And that's more likely to get things started from very simple beginnings.
No and it’s not that crazy surprising either. We know that these things can form in prebiotic atmosphere under influence of things like UV and specific rocks en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller–Urey_experiment
now it’s just confirmation that these things can be found not only on planets but also on meteorites
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