Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
The Mars rover appears to have found evidence of the building blocks of life on the red planet. Pretty striking. What do you guys think of this? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-detects-largest-organic-molecules-found-on-mars/
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Peter Ogilvie
@pogilvie
I assume the reference to fragments indicates detection via mass spectrometry. All of these organic molecules are common in crude oil which is a degraded by product of life not really a building block of life. Maybe there was life there at some point.
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