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meegja t1_jd3uxqk wrote

>“The discovery of uracil in the samples from Ryugu lends strength to current theories regarding the source of nucleobases in the early Earth,”

As per usual the headlines are misleading. The findings are exciting for sure, but there is no suggestion whatsoever.

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CremePuffBandit t1_jd3uzhg wrote

No, it just means that if we find life on other worlds, it might share similar biology with us. Humanoids are the result of hundreds of millions of years of natural selection on Earth. Other planets would have different selection pressures, and would produce very different types of creatures.

It's still possible that some alien species might resemble us. But it's just as likely they would resemble lizards, or insects, or birds, or they may be completely unlike anything on Earth.

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NotAHamsterAtAll t1_jd3vvbw wrote

It would just mean that the chemistry that is needed to make life is found a lot of places. Aka, bacteria is abundant around in the universe.

Multi-cellular organisms are a fluke.

Humans are a super-fluke on top of a fluke.

So no, don't count on meeting extraterrestial humans speaking English anytime soon.

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