Ribose, a basic ingredient for life, can arise in comets, say scientists:
WE WERE SEEDED!
THE PLANET WAS SEEDED!
I actually think there is quite the chance life did get seeded from distant comets striking it.. And now these new studies confirm some old thoughts..
An experiment mimicking our early solar system reveals that the complex sugar ribose, the ‘R’ in ‘RNA,’ can form in the icy grains of comets.