Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a popular theory that that's how life on earth started; the google term is panspermia iirc.
And how did life start on the asteroid? :D
By similarly frozen microbes from other asteroids of course.
Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
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Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#12Login required? Why why why? Could someone copypasta the site somewhere login-less, pretty please?
Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#13Login required? Why why why? Could someone copypasta the site somewhere login-less, pretty please?
Archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20210113211350/https://charliest...
Edit - even on the Archive page, there is a weird issue where the page keeps refreshing every few seconds, I have found out that hitting ctrl-s / cmd-s (as if you intended to save the page locally) stops the page from refreshing.
Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#14Login required? Why why why? Could someone copypasta the site somewhere login-less, pretty please?
Archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20210113211350/https://charliest... Edit - even on the Archive page, there is a weird issue where the page keeps refreshing every few seconds, I have found out that hitting ctrl-s / cmd-s (as if you intended to save the page locally) stops the page from refreshing.
Thanks a lot!
Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#15Original paper (July 2020) which TFA is based on: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17330-1
Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a popular theory that that's how life on earth started; the google term is panspermia iirc.
And how did life start on the asteroid? :D
The idea is that life starts on one planet and can spread from there to other planets (for example on rocks ejected through volcanic activity). We have found Martian rock on earth [1]
Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a popular theory that that's how life on earth started; the google term is panspermia iirc.
And how did life start on the asteroid? :D
I don't want to derail anything. Also disclaimer that I'm not religious.
Off topic: This reminds me of what annoys me about "Intelligent Design" vs science.
It's always about how the Earth is 6000 years old, he/she/they created all animals separately with no evolution, etc, etc.
And likewise what came before the big bang? Ultra dense, hot steady state? And before that?
While If I were any denominational god, I'd have created the rule set and frameworks for the entire system and then boot it up.
Why can't "god" have created the big bang, evolution, the physics ruleset and just let it play out?
Of course we'll never get the answer to any of that before (or not) the inevitable event horizon of death, but I don't get the antagonism within the evangelical movement... other than the obvious loss of power to secularity and science/agnosticism.
End of rant.
Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
And how did life start on the asteroid? :D
The idea is that life starts on one planet and can spread from there to other planets (for example on rocks ejected through volcanic activity). We have found Martian rock on earth [1] 1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite
I think the intended point was "and before that?".
Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#19A better link (actual paper aside):
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-livi...
Re: Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
#20"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
My thoughts exactly, prepare for the end times as they have been foretold since the dawn of time.