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Not necessarily. I assumed it was a test to explore the panspermia hypothesis that posits life propagates between planets and stars on ejecta from a planet wit
by tastyfreeze 5y ago
Not necessarily. I assumed it was a test to explore the panspermia hypothesis that posits life propagates between planets and stars on ejecta from a planet with life.
- mumblemumble 5y agoI think that it could still be that, but with a focus on panspermia in general, not the specific case of Earth. For the specific case of Earth, wouldn't we want to instead be investigating the survivability of single-celled microbes? It seems like one could rather trivially dismiss the idea that earth was seeded with tardigrade-like organisms based on the fact that they're too evolutionarily advanced to account for six of the seven kingdoms of life we have on this planet.