Posted: Aug 31, 2016 9:15 pm
So just to take human origins out of the picture for a moment, and to concentrate on the idea of panspermia itself, I have a question...
Suppose we were to explore (remotely or with un-manned drone-type craft) thousands of planets that could support some form of life, and we crafted some sort of genetic material that was custom-engineered to thrive on each of those thousands of worlds, and sent that material to those worlds in the hopes that it would do just that.
This suggests that civilizations on other planets that are comparable to ours in technological ability and exploration both could, and likely would, do likewise, meaning that for every comparable civilization in the universe, there are potentially thousands of inhabited worlds where life was originally seeded from somewhere else.
Which seems to suggest that every inhabited world might have a much greater chance (like...thousands-to-one) of having been, not the scene of a past abiogenetic event, but the object of a life-seeding experiment conducted from a great distance.
Right? Maybe?
Suppose we were to explore (remotely or with un-manned drone-type craft) thousands of planets that could support some form of life, and we crafted some sort of genetic material that was custom-engineered to thrive on each of those thousands of worlds, and sent that material to those worlds in the hopes that it would do just that.
This suggests that civilizations on other planets that are comparable to ours in technological ability and exploration both could, and likely would, do likewise, meaning that for every comparable civilization in the universe, there are potentially thousands of inhabited worlds where life was originally seeded from somewhere else.
Which seems to suggest that every inhabited world might have a much greater chance (like...thousands-to-one) of having been, not the scene of a past abiogenetic event, but the object of a life-seeding experiment conducted from a great distance.
Right? Maybe?