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Dinosaur asteroid 'sent life to Mars'

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Re: Dinosaur asteroid 'sent life to Mars'

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Post by jmpe »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

I have this vision of dinosaur astronauts, clinging to the rock that has been ejected into space, on their way to Mars to establish a new life there. I have always found the pan-spermia theories interesting. It still doesn't answer the 'where first' question but it allows for many places to share similar lifeforms without requiring a recreation of an improbable event in all of them. Of course it would be really weird…

  ... without requiring a recreation of an improbable event in all of them
Just to add to your post: the probability of such a spontaneous event (life emerging from a cocktail) increases as you're no longer looking at a restricted area. If panspermia is the mechanism then you don't require life to originate on a suitable planet in a Goldilocks zone. Every square mm of (often porous) rock flying around is a potential point of origin, carrier or seeding station.

Re: Dinosaur asteroid 'sent life to Mars'

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Post by yepguy »

deletes wrote: post #6
gagege wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you seen the movie Europa Report? I don't want to spoil any part of it for you, but it's really good. If you have Netflix, it's on there.

Is it realistic or do they find aliens/god?

[SPOILERS] There are some Hollywood embellishments I didn't care for, but I would say the movie is still a lot more realistic than 95% of sci-fi movies. It's definitely worth seeing. In the end, they do find complex life, but no "aliens" like you'd find in a typical sci-fi action movie.

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Post by TsiCClawOfLight »

deletes wrote: post #6
gagege wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you seen the movie Europa Report? I don't want to spoil any part of it for you, but it's really good. If you have Netflix, it's on there.

Is it realistic or do they find aliens/god?

aliens. Btw, I find the movie horrible...

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Post by gagege »

Jach wrote: post #8
gagege wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you seen the movie Europa Report? I don't want to spoil any part of it for you, but it's really good. If you have Netflix, it's on there.

> it's really good No it's not.

The acting, story, soundtrack and effects all seemed good to me. What didn't you like about it?

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Post by curtis »

The notion that an asteroid impact could launch life-bearing debris to escape velocity is not new. I remember it being mentioned in one of Lester Del Rey's juvenile science fiction books -- possibly "Outpost of Jupiter", which according to Wikipedia was first published in 1963.

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Post by Zikes »

gagege wrote: post #14
Jach wrote: post #8

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> it's really good No it's not.

The acting, story, soundtrack and effects all seemed good to me. What didn't you like about it?

I liked everything but the "documentary" aspect. Too many flashbacks/flashforwards, needlessly restrictive camera angles, pointless exposition, and it was really easy to lose track of the chronology. They even reveal one of the crewmember deaths before you have a chance to meet the guy, then they jump straight to his death, which was supposed to be a pivotally emotional moment for the crew but you haven't had a chance to care yet.

I don't regret watching it, I think it was a decent film overall, but it needed a different director.

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Post by pwnna »

Panspermia[1] is not a new theory. This whole article is highly speculative. It might sound compelling, but we just know way too little to make any sort of prediction on this matter. Any real findings must come from actual data provided by probes and landers such as the Mars 2020 Rover[2] and the ExoMars[3] mission.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020_rover_mission

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoMars

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Post by baddox »

Zikes wrote: post #18
gagege wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The acting, story, soundtrack and effects all seemed good to me. What didn't you like about it?

I liked everything but the "documentary" aspect. Too many flashbacks/flashforwards, needlessly restrictive camera angles, pointless exposition, and it was really easy to lose track of the chronology. They even reveal one of the crewmember deaths before you have a chance to meet the guy, then they jump straight to his death, which was supposed to be a pivotally emotional moment for the crew but you haven't had a chanc…

I agree. Everything was good until the guy who wanted to show off his After Effects skills got to it. But even that wasn't enough to prevent me from enjoying the movie.
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