[NY Post] Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside "space gum" on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.
The 74-ton, 1,600-foot-wide asteroid named Bennu, first discovered in 1999 and harvested for samples by NASA in 2020, contains a five-carbon sugar ribose and a six-carbon glucose — key building blocks of DNA and RNA, according to two studies published in Nature Geosciences and Nature Astronomy on Dec. 2. The discovery of ribose is particularly significant, as that molecule is needed for RNA — which operates inside DNA — a crucial factor in "the origin of life," according to the study in Nature Geosciences from Tohoku University in Japan.
"All five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA, along with phosphates, have already been found in the Bennu samples brought to Earth by OSIRIS-REx," Dr. Yoshihiro Furukawa from Tohoku University said.
"The new discovery of ribose means that all the components to form the molecule RNA are present in Bennu," he said.
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Like when the EMF causes an ant colony to mutate and they start evolving faster and become sentient and before you know it, it's Ants vs Humans in a battle for Earth.
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I listened to a podcast in which the astounding theory is propounded, first written in 1981, that comets contain the elements of life placed in cryogenic freeze by a long-dead galactic civilization and launched in every direction to seed life anywhere they landed, including Earth.
They did this to preserve their own DNA, the imperative for any life form. To avoid extinction, perhaps by a nearby supernova.
Unprovable but getting more plausible as we learn moreabout what comets contain. Graham Hancock on Lex Fridman, he's fascinating.
He takes all this conspiracy theory stuff about the Great Pyramids being aligned with the stars and the Sphinx being modeled after what the constellations looked like 10,000 years ago and made it make sense.
Archaeologists have barely looked anywhere on Earth where it was habitable during the Ice Age, the Sahara had rivers and forests.
Mind-blowing stuff, but we won't know for decades, and archaeologists themselves are frightened out of their wits at losing their jobs and prestige if t Graham is right.
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