browncoat_girl t1_jd5c9if wrote
Reply to comment by Brain_Hawk in A crucial building block of life exists on the asteroid Ryugu. Uracil, a component of RNA, was found in a sample collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft. by Science_News
That's a pretty big leap. Water is a "crucial building block of life", but nobody acts amazed that water exists in space.
Brain_Hawk t1_jd5ciwo wrote
I agree that uracil is certainly more interesting didn't finding water, and is much more a building block of life. I think a lot of these headlines are written quite cleverly so that if you read it fast you misreaded, which is what I did, and I thought for a second it was saying RNA was found in an asteroid. Now that would be a groundbreaking discovery
Was still a good read. But so much of science news now is attempts to sensationalize things.
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