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Originally Posted by A.DIM
And that's what's curious about it; couldn't biological processes on the meteorite's parent body as well be a plausible explanation for the excess handedness in these amino acids? Is it not a defining characteristic of life as we know it? Is it necessary to hold to some unknown natural process as the only explanation?
If the ingredients for Life are more abundant off planet than on, chemistry and physics are everywhere the same, and hallmarks of Life like this excess handedness in amino acids are found in meteorites free of earthly contaminates, why not suggest possible et life or panspermia?
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Lack of evidence. There's nothing to suggest that handedness of spaceborne molecules is a result rather than a cause of handedness in known life. And space is also more abundant in conditions hostile to life than Earth is.
All we've proved is that we're made of common materials. Again.
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