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I get the impression that this article is mostly about dating bones. When people talk about DNA-based-panspermia, I've always assumed that they meant either a
by asfarley 7y ago
I get the impression that this article is mostly about dating bones.
When people talk about DNA-based-panspermia, I've always assumed that they meant either a living or dormant organism (with the potential for DNA replication/error-correction), rather than a completely inert blob of DNA.
- Balgair 7y agoI always figured that the extremes of interstellar space automatically precluded anything that was even remotely alive. The temperature swings, vacuum, radiation, and ejection and re-entry violence always seemed to me to be so crazy that I assumed that nothing could survive it; just bits of genetric material, a dead ameoboid carcass, etc. I'll have to ponder on the idea that anything could get past all those 'gates'. If it did, woah, what a hardy little thing!