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Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn't Arrive on Prehistoric Comets

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Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn't Arrive on Prehistoric Comets
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CNN reports:

The popular theory that comets were crucial in kick-starting life on Earth billions of years ago may not hold up, according to new computer simulations that counter decades of scientific thinking. The finding suggests the fragile organic molecules supposedly carried by the icy objects would have been destroyed on impact, upending an established origin of life theory that dates back to at least 1961 [with earlier versions postulated in 1908]...

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