Researchers just announced the discovery of the nucleobase uracil—one of the building blocks of RNA—in a sample from the asteroid Ryugu. This isn’t the first time a nucleobase has been discovered in a sample of a space object, but it’s the first time we’ve been able to rule out contamination from Earth as an explanation for its presence. Scientists look forward to comparing these results to samples from the asteroid Bennu in the near future, which will be returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission. The team considers these findings to be evidence in favor of the long-time theory that the basic components of life might have originated elsewhere in the universe and been brought here on the backs of objects like meteorites. This is not quite suggesting we came from aliens, but according to the team, there’s every chance that the foundational components of life formed elsewhere and came together to make life as we know it after they arrived on Earth. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a43369141/new-evidence-suggests-earth-life-came-from-space/
Was going to C&P this post from last night to him but he is just too thick to understand the implications.
They let themselves get suckered into it through fear. They daren't have their own politics thread on safespace in case they get made to look arses there too.
Have you ever been stung by a jellyfish, btw? ****ing painful - I'd take ten wasp stings over it any day. Was in Ibiza in '82, Cala Basa beach. Hired an inflatable lilo for an hour, and was drifting away merrily as I floated by the jetty. Some local kid came screaming and shouting at me in Spanish - I thought he'd been sent to get the lilo back, so ignored him, thinking that was what he was pointing at. **** me - the first one got my ankle and I immediately tipped over into the water and realised I was in the middle of a ****ing shoal of them (or whatever the collective noun for the ****ers is). Got at least three on my back and one on my forearm - where I still get a rash now over 40 years later. I tried to dive under them and came back up, right in the middle of more. I lost ****ing count of the stings then. Finally, I saw a boat coming towards me to pull me out, but the bastard went straight past me to retrieve their precious lilo. I managed to cling onto the jetty and start pulling myself out. Only then did the laughing local twats help me out. ****ing agony for days that only abated, bizarrely, when I got back in seawater. ****ing space-demon sponk bags.
I do indeed but used the simple form of explanation for simple people, obviously didn't work with some of you because of chickens. So do you think jellyfish may have formed by meteorite conveyed RNA landing in the oceans and by extension be a form of alien life unlike any other on our planet? (i know it would have taken millenia for this transportation and egg shells would probably have cracked in this time )
Just to recap, Octopi (octopuses?), which is what the original conversation was about, are molluscs, related to snails, for instance, unlike jellyfish, which are not. Hope this helps. https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-octopus-and-vs-jellyfish/
