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brettmjohnson t1_jd6jrq2 wrote

Reply to comment by More-Grocery-1858 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

> The more reassuring assumption for me is that this means these compounds likely arise everywhere in the universe as a result of natural processes, lending credence to the idea that life might be common.

Precisely.

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