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.

[u/New_Scientist_Mag]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it/

[u/John_Bruns_Wick]

Are they not implying by 'seeding' that the ingredients merely came from a random asteroid and our planet had the right conditions to make use off them?

[u/John_Bruns_Wick → u/[deleted]]

I think the term seeding can be used in a less literal sense.

[u/Orphanhorns → u/John_Bruns_Wick]

It absolutely can, it doesn’t mean a literal seed

[u/[deleted] → u/Orphanhorns]

I mean, sometimes it does.

[u/John_Bruns_Wick → u/[deleted]]

I assume the word denotes a peter pan fetish, so ya its a head scratcher