There could very well be asteroids with liquid water inside them: some are certainly warm enough, it just takes a "crust" able to hold in a bar of pressure to maintain it.
On the other hand, it is absolutely incredible that a virus living on an asteroid would grow a spike protein that fits
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 40.6 ms ] threadIt's not a new idea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_from_Space
The idea that life originated in a comet or asteroid is still as plausible as any origin of life. All the ingredients of an RNA world are there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite
There could very well be asteroids with liquid water inside them: some are certainly warm enough, it just takes a "crust" able to hold in a bar of pressure to maintain it.
On the other hand, it is absolutely incredible that a virus living on an asteroid would grow a spike protein that fits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_...
which certainly evolved on Earth.