August 15, 2007
You're Not From Around Here, Are You?
Brainy egghead types say we came from flying space rocks. Or, more succinctly: "The researchers calculate the odds of life starting on Earth rather than inside a comet at one trillion trillion (10 to the power of 24) to one against."
Hehe. "Panspermia". Ewww!
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...one trillion trillion (10 to the power of 24) to one against. Could happen.
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It would explain teh quidster.
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Naw, dude, we're totally living in The Matrix. Pass the Doritos.
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Naw, dude, we're totally living in The Matrix. Pass the Doritos.
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WHOA!
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"Panspermia" - it's gone everywhere! Fascinating link, petes. These books discuss this possibility quite well - exciting stuff. What if a truly native lifeform had a resurgence? Would we aliens be compatible? Thanks briank, now I've got this song in my head. Early Matrix.
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I got their flying space rocks RIGHT HERE.
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Ah, remember the days when Panspermia was a proper crank theory!
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Excellent link, briank, FPP worthy on it's own, I dare say. Too late now, though, I think.
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Here's a good link for the simulation argument (the matrix thing). I think the hypothesis doesn't work, but it is interesting. I don't think we'd ever be able to develop the simulation technology without also evolving morally enough to respect the rights of all beings, virtual or otherwise, precluding using them for ancestor simulations.
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Depends on your definition of life, I guess. Damp bits of clay mixed with a few organic molecules don't necessarily constitute 'life'. They may however have formed some of the original constituents of life on earth. The Cardiff theory would certainly add support to the argument for the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
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eep oop ork ork
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Mr. Smith was right. Flying over space like an airborne virus after someone coughs.
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At present, no-one has anything better than vague and general ideas about how life originated, so it's quite unreasonable to suggest we need to invoke an extra-terrestrial origin.
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/flings poo /ooks quietly while rocking in corner
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Damp bits of clay mixed with a few organic molecules don't necessarily constitute 'life' Maybe carbon isn't needed at all.
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Well, there are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. They may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis, or something, I guess. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens. At least that's what this guy told me.
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So, can we say before Bernockle's owl semen, there was Panspermia? Good links, and interesting questions, but I doubt I'm anyone's computer sim. Boooooooorring. Coyote did it! That's why my life is such a riot.
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Well I've had sex with a lot of Greek gods, and I can assure you that not only is panspermia a really wonderful theory, but it also tastes delicious.
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Cockpunchia!
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Damn! This explains those pesky antennae that keep coming out of my head.
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Did Zeus come at you dressed like a swan? Damn, I hate that.
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Maybe carbon isn't needed at all. Well, duh!
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Did Zeus come at you dressed like a swan? I thought he said Bruce. Y'know, that makes a lot more sense now that you mention it.
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So Bruce came swanning up to you?
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At least he didn't manifest to you as a golden shower... *whimpers*
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No, that was Medusa.
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/faints
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We create life, we search for it, we manipulate and revere it. Is it possible that we haven't yet defined the term?
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A Shadow Biosphere
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Seeds of Life Came From Space
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Scientists say that a meteorite that crashed into Earth 40 years ago contains millions of different carbon-containing, or organic, molecules.
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Sugar Found In Space: A Sign of Life? Organic molecules found in gas swaddling a young star.
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Just can't keep those kids outta the honey pot.
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Maybe that's where the stolen maple syrup went... PANCAKES! IN! SPACE!
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Oh noes!! Did they leave any kind of trail? Sticky hand prints on the doorknobs, perhaps.
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No, Life Has Still Not Been Found in a Meteorite
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I would gladly foul my beard on this meteorite if I were fortunate enough to gain admittance...
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Anyway, if I was a calciferous diatom hell-bent on invading Earth, I wouldn't fly in on a a rock the size of a car, and on fire.
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Solving a 3.5 billion-year-old mystery: Team determines life-producing phosphorus was carried to Earth by meteorite