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by aradox66 1031 days ago
We keep finding more and more complex biological precursors on extra planetary bodies.

The interstellar medium, pretty primordial, seems to be filled with phospholipids: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101314118

We have found peptides on asteroids and in meteorites.

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> precursor of phospholipids

Not quite the same thing. Actual abundant phosphorus compounds would be quite surprising. Probably the end of the phosphorus-problem resolution of the fermi paradox, for one thing. But medium-small organic molecules aren't that big a surprise anymore.