Comment Re:Grifty grifty (Score 1) 24
I have to ask, what's it like defending a narcissistic ketamine soaked billionaire online? They have no idea who you are and would think you're sucker if they did. Bravo.
Well, first of all, hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and carbon makes up something like 0.5% of the total observed mass of the universe (it's the fourth most common element), so along with other trace elements like sodium, phosphorus and the like, we're simply looking for places where there is sufficient energy to create the necessary reactions to produce organic compounds. No lack of energetic sources, in particular stellar system formation. Indeed many comets and asteroids host a lot of precursors, indicating that some fairly sophisticated organic chemistry was going on early in the solar system's development.
Panspermia would require that life itself was raining down on the terrestrial planets. Precursors would simply indicate there were a lot of strange and complex organic compounds falling on to the surfaces of planets like Earth, Mars and Venus, and were also likely constituents of bodies like Europa and Titan (well, we know Titan is covered in a literal hydrocarbon stew). What this discovery indicates, at the very least, is there was indeed a lot of organic compound in the early solar system and these organic compounds, at least on Earth, led to abiogenesis. Panspermia would advocate abiogenesis happened at some undetermined point further back.
If we find other life in the solar system, such as in Europa's or Ganymede's oceans, and it has DNA or some very close relative, with similar translation and transcription systems as we find in archaea and bacteria on Earth, then that would be a very strong argument that life in the solar system had a common origin. If however, there is no clear relationship between the two populations; say, they use something similar to DNA, but the genetic codes are different (all extant life on Earth uses the same canonical genetic code mapping codons to amino acids, strongly suggested the canonical code evolved prior to the Last Universal Common Ancestor), then we're very likely looking at an example of convergent evolution, and not in fact at two related populations.
Western civilization ended slavery
Uh-huh.
Even supposing you are right (which you are not), it's not much of a badge of honor to end something you started.
What a painfully naieve take. Who "taught" you this?
My office is only about 10 miles away.....It's clear you've never owned an EV
It's clear you have no concept of what an average commute looks like for most people and simply want to demonoze someone who you little about.
But the cops can still track you using a feed from the telecoms triangulating you within a cell site.
You seem to be having trouble separating the fictinal police procedurals you've been watching with reality.
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