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Old October 18th 17, 02:32 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default Sick of scientists pushing "panspermia" with no real evidence

On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 06:12:49 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 19:31:54 UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:09:48 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

Why is they are so bent on proving life didn't originate on Earth without outside influences?


Why the hell do you care if a handful of scientists investigate this
possibility? It's not like it's engaging thousands of people and
consuming billions of dollars.

It's not a bad thing for people to be looking at unlikely but possible
hypotheses, in any field.


In all the thousands of meteorites ever collected, have they ever found any bacteria or anything close to it? The basis for panspermia is life transport by meteorite.


Panspermia does not require that asteroids/meteoroids were the
carriers of life. Or that it involved more than one carrier
(meteorites all come from just a few sources, which are bodies formed
with our solar system). Nor does it require that actual life was
transported between stars, just organic material.

Again, what do you care if a few people want to explore this line of
investigation?