All it does is confirm the potential. Interesting of course. If it does in fact confirm that molecule formation tends to follow a standard pattern the more interesting thing is that it suggests that the building blocks for life are very widespread in the universe.Meh....not necessarily convinced of life abiotic origin. Finding nucleotides in space rocks is cool, but if they were found as individual molecules or in isolated pockets I don't think it suggests anything other than that molecule formation does indeed follow some sot of standard pattern. Studies have shown spontaneous nucleotide formation and pairing. Could life on earth have originated abiotically? Sure, and that would be cool, but I still think it is much more likely that it originated here.
Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water | Nature Communications
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