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Re: are we alone?

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Subject: Re: are we alone?
From: Darryl Pitt <dpitt@interport.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 18:07:25 -0500
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Panspermia appears so compelling on several levels that while the
extraterrestrial introduction of amino acids may not have resulted in the
introduction of life, there is a significant probability that Earth's
primordial ecology changed as a result of such building-block bombardment.

Life finds a way...

darryl 

At 01:58 PM 3/3/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Is anyone else on the list interested in the recently released photos of
>Europa and the hypothesis that life may have formed in an ocean there?
>Skeptics? Proponents?  Have there been any tenable arguments lately for
>meteorites from a Jovian moon?  How likely is it that comets could have
>delivered useful prebiotics to the (almost) putative ocean versus the
>sterilizing effect of the energy release on anything we'd call "life"
>that might happen to have self-assembled from organics between big
>impacts?
>
>Ron, do you have a favorite picture from JPL that could be email
>attached to the group?
>

References:

are we alone? (slime molds and other primitive life included)

From: Calvin Shipbaugh <calvin@rand.org>

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