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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

newscientist.com

4 points by wglb 17 days ago · 3 comments

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bediger4000 17 days ago

I guess so what? What are the implications? Ryugu is not covered in cellular life. Fermi's Paradox has not been resolved. There's no obvious life anywhere we've landed robots.

  • gus_massa 17 days ago

    Assuming no magic (that is a big assumption), from rocks to life there are like 20 (or 50) steps. We know the first 2 or 3, and have some guess about the last 2 or 3, so there are only 15 (or 35) to find.

    This is just a good indicator that our idea of step ¿2? is not totally wrong.

    • bediger4000 17 days ago

      What do you mean by "assuming no magic"? Can you elaborate on why that's a big assumption, because "magic" is usually non-existent.

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