Thanks Fractal Trader.
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Posted on 08/28/2013 8:59:09 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Sagan ‘studied’ the problem of interplanetary/interstellar radiation acting as a sterilizing agent on any microbes hitching rides through space (not inside meteoritic material), and concluded (with his coauthor, who probably did all the work) that panspermia wouldn’t occur. Organic material (molecules with carbon-hydrogen bonds, whatever their origin, are organic, for those who dunno) is found on meteorites.
The Origins of Directed Panspermia
[molybdenum connection]
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/01/09/the-origins-of-directed-panspermia/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
The Big Splash is worth checking out:
Small Comets and Our Origins
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1250694/posts
At the very least, at the current rate of arrival, all the water on Earth must have come from small comets hitting the atmosphere. And if the general idea of the nebular hypothesis is correct, the impact rate must have been much higher at one time.
There was no asteroid planet, as far as I’m concerned, but here’s three topics relevant to that:
Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused Lunar Cataclysm, Researchers Say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/653287/posts
An Unknown Planet Orbits in the Outer Solar System
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1876853/posts
Red Planet’s Ancient Equator Located
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1390424/posts
I didn’t notice it, sorry.
I know you didn’t. No problem.
oy vey
It has been years ago that I took organic chemistry for getting my Chem Eng. degree and license. I think that organic molecule probably is in the context of just a molecule and not a bunch of such to form some viable structure. I intend to read the professor’s paper because it appears to have some very fascinating thinking.
Yep. Just ask Professor Quatermass!
In a universe this vast and Mars is the only place it ould have come from? I’d say the scientist is definitely guessing....
> Geeze, take the government grants away form these guys. They are real life “Sheldon Coopers” from the Big Bang Theory, who do their equations and speculate about non-provable theories. There’s a reason they are called “theoretical physicists. It’s all conjecture according to their math.
Siebpntists with a natural left leaning being paid by the government to find any other explanation of human origin or life other than created by God. If they can get men to doubt that God exists they become our god.
> Geeze, take the government grants away form these guys. They are real life “Sheldon Coopers” from the Big Bang Theory, who do their equations and speculate about non-provable theories. There’s a reason they are called “theoretical physicists. It’s all conjecture according to their math.
Scientists with a natural left leaning being paid by the government to find any other explanation of human origin or life other than created by God. If they can get men to doubt that God exists they become our god.
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