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[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

well, we need RNA before DNA. and we already have rna origin theories, so no, space dna doesn't seem to fit there as an emergent property of rna to self replicate.

here's a good one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world