

There’s another study from the same team about successfully modifying the species to resist oxygen “at key moments” lol
This article has more specific details about the research. Not to be too reductive but quorum sensing is the mechanism that typically flips an infection from passive growth into “start killing this bitch we have the numbers now”
So what they think they’ve done is create a mechanism to lets them turn the oxygen resistance on and off, but what’s going to happen is the cells that then mutate out of turning if off are going to be the simply superior organism.
I understand why they thought the mechanics check out. I don’t understand why they think they can control all the variables outside of a lab.

There are also plenty of tests confirming those circumstances naturally lead to nucleotides forming.
Finding them on asteroid isn’t proof of panspermia but it is evidence that life is a natural and expected feature of the universe.