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I think JoeAltmaier (your parent commenter) still has a point. If the leap in complexity of octopuses is so obvious that we can tell it's an alien, do you mean
by foo101 8y ago
I think JoeAltmaier (your parent commenter) still has a point.
If the leap in complexity of octopuses is so obvious that we can tell it's an alien, do you mean other earlier life in our planet was not alien? That would not make sense because it would be hard to imagine that two independent evolutions of life led to the same protein-based, DNA-based life. So the only reasonable theory is that both the earlier life in our planet as well as octopuses are aliens which is JoeAltmaier's point.
- Nomentatus 8y agoThe 33 scientists do not mean that. I think, in fact, to make their argument go forward, you pretty much have to assume that squid arrived earlier from a different branch of the same alien lineage, but were quickly - so quickly - followed by vasty more complex octopi, that we know that octopi didn't evolve here. The authors aren't anti-panspermists. JoeAltmaier's wasn't the one introducing the idea of panspermia. His point was, instead: "why even write this paper focusing on octopi if all life is alien" and my answer was, 'cause this is the one time you can really prove that (according to the authors.)
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoBut it also then supports the much larger issue of Panspermia. That should have been the title/main point then? Yes this is quite a strange article.