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Tracing Our Interstellar Relatives
Centauri Dreams ^
| 9/12/08
Posted on 09/12/2008 6:29:45 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Just find a planet with water that can be pressurized enough to force its molecules into a double-helix.
Should be trillions of them in just this galaxy.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:40:08 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: LibWhacker; SunkenCiv
I’ve heard stories that even in the 1920’s, some scientists speculated that our origins could have come from Mars and I managed to find one article about it in a Popular Science or Mechanics magazine from 1933 where a meteor came down and there were microscopic life forms on it.
Pinging SunkenCiv...
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:50:38 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
To: LibWhacker
I seen it in a comic book.
To: LibWhacker
ok... yeah... life on Earth came from Mars - a dead planet with NO sign of ANYTHING on it... no fossils, no bones, no sign of ANY civilization...
But we all originated on Mars... Not Venus, Not Jupiter... okey dokey...
Anybody looking to purchase a bridge? I got one for sale.
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posted on
09/12/2008 7:38:24 PM PDT
by
J40000
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
09/12/2008 7:58:56 PM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul's vote. - Howie Carr)
To: LibWhacker
All that advocates of this theory have done is move the Origin of Life back one level. Still does not explain how life came from non-life, and doesn't explain the origin of the information that makes life possible.
Nice try guys, but no cigar!
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posted on
09/12/2008 8:15:33 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: Nowhere Man
1933? Really? The first meteorite about which such a claim was made AFAIK was, hmm, maybe it’s time to look this up again...
Evidence of Ancient Martian Life in Meteorite ALH84001?
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/marslife.html
Okay, this is more like it, 1984, discovered in Antarctica, struck the Earth 13,000 years ago, left Mars for its trip 16 million years ago, etc. But anyway, regardless, please post that article you found, it has to be interesting!
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posted on
09/12/2008 11:09:39 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; ..
Thanks Nowhere Man. Panspermia / impact from space topic.
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09/12/2008 11:10:42 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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09/12/2008 11:11:37 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: LibWhacker
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posted on
09/13/2008 12:02:26 AM PDT
by
PureSolace
(God save us all)
To: SunkenCiv
1933? Really? The first meteorite about which such a claim was made AFAIK was, hmm, maybe its time to look this up again...
I'll have to find and post the link. I've also heard a similar case where a meteor fell to Earth with microbes on it back around 1949. There is a site out there with scans and write ups of old Popular Science and Mechanics magazines along with others featuring such articles, some dating as far back as the 1890's. There was another article there that debates whether Pluto was a real planet or not and this was around 1933/35.
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posted on
09/13/2008 11:21:16 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
To: ozzymandus
Superman made such a voyage.
It is plausible that a dying intelligence somewhere did in fact blast a life containing capsule into space. Speculation as to what life forms were in the capsule can be endless. That could have been Mars or from outside our system.
The tale of the Burgess shale is very interesting in the story of multitudes of living experiments that flourished and died. The change from then to now is massive
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posted on
09/13/2008 11:30:28 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
To: LibWhacker
That reminds me. Are we absolutely sure Dennis Kucinich is a native-born earthling?
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posted on
09/13/2008 11:32:35 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: LibWhacker
Just a re-hash of the pan-spermia theory.
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posted on
09/13/2008 3:11:39 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
To: To Hell With Poverty
As I recall, this theory of panspermia was originally proposed by Arrhenius [spelling?] around 1900.
To: LibWhacker
Rather than answering anything, it just begs the question.
Kind of like answering, “from Daddy,” when asked, “where does money come from?”
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posted on
09/13/2008 4:45:11 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/13/2008 6:34:03 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
To: curmudgeonII
I just like the word, 'cause, well, I'm immature... ;)
According to Wikipedia the idea goes back to the Greeks though.
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posted on
09/13/2008 7:01:44 PM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul's vote. - Howie Carr)
To: Nowhere Man
Wow, really is news to me. Looks like whomever wrote up the web page had a similar reaction. :')
Charles B. Lipman
Google
Charles B. Lipman meteorite
Google
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posted on
09/13/2008 8:15:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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