A good way to find out is to send humans to Mars

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A good way to find out is to send humans to Mars

Scott Evil — 3/19/2006 11:17:49 PM (archived)

Then find an Earth meteorite...Will it have earth life forms still contained within? Will surrounding rocks be infected?

If the answer to either or both is Yes, then Panspermia has been proven.

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Did Earth Seed Life Elsewhere in the Sol System? - ljk - 3/18/2006 6:33:06 PM
- re: Did Earth Seed Life Elsewhere in the Sol System? - GLORIA WU - 4/4/2006 2:11:38 AM
  - Care to elaborate?? (n/t) - ModBob - 4/4/2006 4:29:06 AM
- re: Did Earth Seed Life Elsewhere in the Sol System? - lance - 3/20/2006 2:08:06 AM
- A good way to find out is to send humans to Mars - Scott Evil - 3/19/2006 11:17:49 PM
  - We might be looking for a while - SteveS - 3/20/2006 2:37:54 PM
    - Earth microbes on the moon - REB - 3/23/2006 9:20:50 PM
    - Did we look? - Scott Evil - 3/21/2006 5:35:26 PM
      - I don't think so - SteveS - 3/21/2006 7:14:58 PM
    - re: We might be looking for a while - ljk - 3/20/2006 3:08:53 PM
      - re: We might be looking for a while - SteveS - 3/20/2006 8:13:40 PM
- Our "gravitational well" is very deep. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/19/2006 9:55:40 PM
- Better to pponder when we FIND life elsewhere in the Solar System. (n/t) - et - 3/19/2006 7:29:50 PM
- Possible. - Tom Brosz - 3/19/2006 5:30:37 PM
  - Deinococcus radiodurans - ljk - 3/19/2006 6:30:18 PM
- Unlikely, but plausible. The problem is the survival time - David F Mayer - 3/19/2006 6:10:08 AM
  - re: Unlikely, but plausible. The problem is the survival time - ljk - 3/19/2006 7:33:59 AM
    - But at what radiation levels? (n/t) - DFM - 3/20/2006 4:08:48 PM
- Did it seed the Galaxy? - Adam - 3/19/2006 6:05:51 AM
  - re: Did it seed the Galaxy? - ljk - 3/20/2006 4:14:33 PM
  - re: Did it seed the Galaxy? - ljk - 3/19/2006 6:56:38 AM
    - That's the one - Adam - 3/19/2006 8:23:48 AM
      - re: That's the one - ljk - 3/19/2006 3:51:07 PM
- re: Did Earth Seed Life Elsewhere in the Sol System? - SteveS - 3/19/2006 12:26:51 AM
  - Earth life is much older than that - ljk - 3/19/2006 1:07:12 AM
    - re: Earth life is much older than that - Marcia - 3/19/2006 2:55:42 AM
  - Lot longer than 500 million - dtb - 3/19/2006 12:46:54 AM
    - That's right they are talking bacteria, my bad (n/t) - SteveS - 3/19/2006 12:56:21 AM
      - Earth rocks could have taken life to Titan - ljk - 3/19/2006 9:40:22 PM
        
        re: Earth rocks could have taken life to Titan - SteveS - 3/20/2006 2:47:36 PM
        
        re: very dubious - Andrew - 3/20/2006 6:09:57 AM
        
        Meteroites - Adam - 3/20/2006 9:25:29 AM
        
        re: Meteroites - ljk - 3/20/2006 3:33:52 PM
        
        re: Meteroites-still dubious - Andrew - 3/21/2006 12:42:17 AM
        
        re: Meteroites-still dubious - ljk - 3/21/2006 7:30:53 PM
        
        re: Meteroites-still dubious - pwokenyaw - 3/21/2006 5:43:07 PM
        
        Did life shape Earth's evolution? - ljk - 3/23/2006 6:27:41 PM
        
        Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars - ljk - 4/4/2006 2:54:16 PM

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