[FRIAM] Rare Earth

[Marcus Daniels]

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (and mad cow) all involve chirality changes.

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 7:18 AM
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Subject: [FRIAM] Rare Earth


Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00264-3
"Glavin is most perplexed by the discovery of an equal mixture of left-handed and right-handed amino acids on Bennu. He, like many scientists, had thought that organic molecules from primordial asteroids would have had the same left-handed dominance as those from life on Earth. Now, researchers have to go back to the drawing board to understand how life might have been seeded on Earth."

I remember but now can't find a recent article about how dangerous right-handed molecules are to life on earth. Peter Ward's book gifted me some rhetoric for a basic belief I'd held for awhile. Renee' believes in (complex) extraterrestrials. I don't, at least within some observation window (i.e. maybe they're out there but we'll never meet them). But it's completely reasonable that life emerged all over the universe. It's just difficult for me to imagine it (life) jumping through all these gen-phen ratchets.

There must be a sci-fi novel out there where some cluster (alive or not) of right-handed molecules lands on earth and eats away at the biosphere. I can see 2 basic outcomes: 1. death or 2. chirality co-evolution (including where 1 or the other wins out in the "end").

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