[meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!

From: Mark Ford <mark.ford_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:15:02 +0100
Message-ID: <29A9DB45B84970458190D7D39BD42C49724C41_at_gamma.ssl.atw>

Agreed, and there is very likely to be life elsewhere, but that could
just as easily evolve entirely independently of us, doesn't mean all
life originates from just one place only. All life we know of though (so
far) comes from the earth, to assume it must come from 'out there' just
because out there is 'big' is to deny the evidence that is all around
us.

I am not saying it only originated here and has spread out into the
universe, I am saying Earth based life originated here, and if there is
any life outside our solar system, it evolved there on it's own.



Mark




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Becky
and Kirk
Sent: 17 September 2009 14:06
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!

Hi Everyone,
      To me---believing that all life has originated here on Earth and
then
spread out from here is like saying that the Earth is still the center
of
the solar system or Universe. And----we don't believe that anymore, now
do
we??

Just my opinion of course.....:-) I'm sure that here are many other
planets
out there that are warm/wet/ideal/in the right place----we just need to
find
them, and we will.

Best to all,
Kirk........:-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ford" <mark.ford at ssl.gb.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!


>
> There is much documented evidence of microbes in the upper atmosphere
> region, I think the debatable bit though is the suggestion that life
> must have come from somewhere other than from Earth, - This is simply
> not the case. I have seen no evidence to suggest anything other than
> that every single life form we have ever found originated right here
on
> earth.
>
> Some people just cannot accept that life doesn't automatically have to
> have come from outer space, they are entitled to hold that view, but
> where is the evidence to show that life cannot possibly start on
Earth?
> It has to start somewhere, and what better place than right here,
where
> the conditions are warm/wet/cold/ideal?
>
> Sorry but imho panspermia is nothing more than religion by the back
> door..
>
> Transfer of life from planet to planet via meteorites is more
> interesting, though even here we have the dilemma that just because
> highly evolved extreemophiles can potentially survive under controlled
> test conditions doesn't automatically mean they actually have, there
are
> many other complex variables to consider, many of which are still
poorly
> understood.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
Becky
> and Kirk
> Sent: 17 September 2009 01:13
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!
>
> Phil,
> How is this "junk" science????
> Kirk...........
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:11 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!
>
>
>> G'day, Konnichiwa, Aloha, Top 'o the morning to ya!:
>>
>>
>> Microbes from outer space living in the upper atmosphere and bacteria
>> living for millions of years! If I only had more time to read junk
>> science!
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi listees,
>>
>> Some interesting reading...
>>
>> "...To test if meteorites might protect bacteria on their journey
>> through space, Horneck and her colleagues mixed samples of 50 million
>> spores with particles of clay, red sandstone, Martian meteorite, or
>> simulated Martian soil and made small lumps a centimeter in diameter.
>> Between 10,000 and 100,000 spores of the original 50 million survived
>> and when mixed with red sandstone, nearly all survived, suggesting
> that
>> even meteorites a centimeter in diameter can carry life from one
> planet
>> to another, if they completed the journey within a few years. In a
> rock
>> a meter across, bacteria could probably survive for millions of
> years...."
>>
>> Still don't believe?
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