The building blocks of life

[Ming the Merciless]

What an amazing result

Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vd1zjlr5lo

 

[wafter]

Great news - everyone loves Lego!

 

[fossyant]

We are not alone !

 

[wiggydiggy]

 

[Time Waster]

We are going to minecraft the hell out of those asteroids one day. I wonder what nasties we will find, in the nether of them?

 

[bikingdad90]

This is controversial view; who gives a stuff!

Enjoy the life you have with the friends and family you have and don’t look into the universe of unknowns, searching for answers that you can only guess are true or false based on your educated knowledge.

We are very unlikely to meet another form of life as although possible, the journey times are too long to get there and/or they could come to us.

 

[Oldhippy]

In our technology we have those distance and time issues. Other civilisations may have conquered that already.

 

[Drago]

Stars are the building blocks of life, every element that exists naturally having come from then. Every atom in our bodies has been through a star.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Interesting. I suspect that amino acids can be made fairly straightforwardly so likely to be reasonably common. The big step to DNA is the unknown so likely to only happen very very infrequently. We only know of one example and evolutionary evidence suggests it only happened once on this particular cosmic grain of dust. Given the enormity of the cosmos it's likely happened elsewhere. But enormity multiplied by very very infrequently is a number we don't know.

 

[Profpointy]

Stars are the building blocks of life, every element that exists naturally having come from then. Every atom in our bodies has been through a star.

Except for the hydrogen of course

 

[Moon bunny]

And* who doesn't want to know about how life started?"

Idle curiosity is one phing**, spending millions on it is getting a bit ridiculous.

* One for @Drago

** Today is International intentionally misspell a word day.

 

[Psamathe]

We've known about amino-acids in in space for years. Papers published back in 1983 (and probably earlie)r. I don't quite know why this current analysis has gained traction.

Apart from our local asteroids, we've detected amino acids (Tryptophan) is star formation regions 1000 light years away.

Ian

 

[Drago]

** Today is International intentionally misspell a word day.

I didn't no that.

 

[bikingdad90]

In our technology we have those distance and time issues. Other civilisations may have conquered that already.

If that’s the case, why haven’t we ever met them/he/her/it/they/alien/it and any other pronouns I’ve missed.

 

[Oldhippy]

We may be of no consequence in the same way ants are to us. Very intelligent communities but of little interest to us.