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Whence Come We?

Recent discoveries might indicate that life originated elsewhere.

The team found amino acids in two ancient meteorites called CR chondrites, which were found in Antarctica in the 1990s. By analysing the carbon content of these meteoritic amino acids the scientists were able to determine that, unlike Earth based amino acids which prefer a lighter variety of carbon, their samples where made from a heavier carbon which could only have been formed in space.

All that agonizing by already stressed-out humans to put together a plausible explanation for the complexity of DNA and RNA and its ineluctable path to the joys of human life and it might turn out we will never know how life first appeared. There is something of a joke in this, a cosmic joke.

Gauguin gave his last painting the title, “Whence Come We? What Are We? Whither Go We?”, before attempting suicide. He took arsenic, but he survived.