[meteorite-list] Next vacation: Rajasthan.

From: Dawn & Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jul 10 21:10:29 2005
Message-ID: <041c01c585b3$1c510880$6502a8c0_at_GerryLaptop>

I too. Jerry
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From: "David Freeman mjwy" <dfreeman_at_fascination.com>
To: <MexicoDoug_at_aol.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Next vacation: Rajasthan.


> Dear Doug, List;
> Here is a little quote I have found quite interesting....
> "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with it's several powers,
> having beeen originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into
> one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the
> fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most
> beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved".....
> Charles Darwin's last words in the "Origin of Species By Means Of
> Natural Selection" circa 1859.
>
> I revel in the use of "Creator" and "evolved" being so closely used in
> the same paragraph.
> To our Florida friends "DUCK"!
> David F.
>
> MexicoDoug_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> >Manoj P. wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I do not buy that story of " Life could have
> >>originated outside earth." This theory was originally
> >>raised by Sir Fred Hoyle and Professor Chandra
> >>Wickramasinghe of University College, Wales.
> >>Their publications included ``Diseases from Space''
> >>(1979)...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hola List & Manoj,
> >
> >Please don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, Manoj.
Wickramasinghe,
> >who had the opportunity to study with Fred Hoyle, is a contemporary,
though
> >more limited, Sri Lankan version of what Carl Sagan was to the world.
> >
> >Carl Sagan certainly published his thoughts on panspermia before the
> >gentlemen you mention, and probably is still the most influential voice
for
> >panspermia even after his passing.
> >
> >Manoj, the theory of life originating outside of earth was not
originated by
> >the recent nebular life origins extremists Chandra with Fred's support.
It
> >goes back at least to the ancient Greeks. Anaxagoras a bit after 500
BC, a
> >meteoritical expert at the time (and tutor of Diogenes), discussed
panspermia.
> >
> >The Swede Svante Arrhenius wrote, the same year he won the Nobel prize
in
> >chemistry:
> >"The Propagation of Life in Space", Die Umschau, 7, p. 481 (1903), which
> >integrated the panspermia theory into a relatively rigorous format.
(What Hoyle
> >and Wickramasinghe have been erroneously given credit for by you and
others).
> >
> >Irish-born Lord Kelvin in 1871:
> >...we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are
> >countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through
space....When two great
> >masses come into collision in space it is certain that a large part of
each
> >is melted; but it seems also quite certain that in many cases a large
> >quantity of debris must be shot forth in all directions, much of which
may have
> >experienced no greater violence than individual pieces of rock
experience in a
> >land-slip or in blasting by gunpowder.... The hypothesis that life
originated
> >on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another
world may
> >seem wild and visionary, all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
> >
> >Hope this helps. It cracks me up to always see new guys voming along
and
> >taking credit for ideas that are ancient. What's worse is when others
start
> >repeating these claims!
> >Saludos, Doug
> >
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