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		hurrdurr2 on May 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extraterrestrial organic matter preserved in 3.33 ... Just more evidence that life on earth may have been helped along by all this carbon containing/organic matter deposited via meteorites.

bayareanative on May 30, 2019 | [–]

That's meaningless. The Earth coalesced from supernova remnants, which included organic compounds, but that doesn't imply living organisms.

smartial_arts on May 30, 2019 | [–]

Very unlikely, as the concentrations would be quite minute. Nick Lane expands on this in "The Vital Question" book.

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