Friday, May 15, 2015

DNA Via Cosmic Barbecue?

News of recent lab experiments --- demonstrating how chemical “cosmic barbecues” around nearby dying carbon-rich stars might have created life’s prebiotic building blocks --- glossed over one key point. That is, would enough of such material have survived the journey from interstellar space through Earth’s atmosphere to a violent impact on the surface of our young planet?

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