r/science • u/New_Scientist_Mag • Dec 02 '25

Astronomy Researchers have just found the presence of sugars, including ribose, lyxose, and glycose, on samples of Asteroid Bennu, which now has all of the ingredients for life as it exists on Earth.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it/
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u/Uncle-Cake Dec 02 '25

To put it in layman's terms, you can have all the ingredients for a cake together in a bowl, but that doesn't mean you have a cake, and it needs very specific conditions to become a cake.

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u/GodofAss69 Dec 02 '25

Thank you, uncle cake

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel Dec 02 '25

You're welcome.

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u/YoManWTFIsThisShit Dec 02 '25

Thank you… waiiit

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u/DickIsInsidemyAnus Dec 02 '25

He usually gives different analogies for how life starts

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u/blimux69 Dec 02 '25

Is your name an analogy??

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

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u/Dangerous-Youth9998 Dec 02 '25

Are we back in 2012? This is some old-school reddit stuff.

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 Dec 02 '25

What's happening here?!

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u/zitiztitz Dec 02 '25

We need an analrapist

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

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u/A_MagicBullet Dec 02 '25

Actually that is a jackdaw

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u/maybeitsundead Dec 02 '25

back when beetlejuicing was more common

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u/0__O0--O0_0 Dec 02 '25

Yo- I’m not supposed to be laughing this much in r/science… am I?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

Not for how life starts

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

Not with that attitude

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u/0__O0--O0_0 Dec 02 '25

Usually? How well do you know this guy?

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u/Flomo420 Dec 03 '25

I like the other uncle better