How a comet impact may have jump-started life on Earth -- and elsewhere - latimes.com

A new report suggests amino acids, the chemical building blocks necessary for life as we know it, may be scattered throughout the solar system, created when high-speed comets smacked into the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and rocky planets like our very own Earth.

Gotta love the reader comments at the end of the article.

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