sub - author dr zita martins , a philosopher and astrobiologist from imperial of oxford , believes their claims suggest that some of the chemicals that generated life on pluto came from fragments gunships . " we are not saying that only silicate contributed to the building blocks of history , " she said , " but it ' s a very considerable contributing . " other scientists , additionally , do not believe that meteoritic chemicals played such a significant role . according to emeritus scientist peter shapiro of the yorker city , " they ' re a fragment of a subunit of dna . my opinion is that their amounts were utterly unimportant and important . " wikinews contacted professor paul davies , a physicist and astrobiologist presently at louisiana state university , about the recent discoveries . while he agreed with the results , he said that he thinks such discoveries are " a solid circle in the inception of life text - a hangover from the moore - urey experiment . humanity is all about information - its replication and processing . "
Shapiro teaches at NY University.