lol, "organic compounds" vs "chemicals containing carbon"...maybe they mean the same thing to chemists, but to a layman one sounds like "life" and the other like "yeah whatever".
organic compounds (chemicals containing carbon)
lol, “organic compounds” vs “chemicals containing carbon”...maybe they mean the same thing to chemists, but to a layman one sounds like “life” and the other like “yeah whatever”.
They may find complex hydro-carbons and even amino acids, but it’s a long, long, googleplex long way to the self-replicating RNA molecule. I don’t think they will find that, but if they do, then that would be news. We live on an exceptionally rare planet.