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I firmly believe that life on Earth was triggered by spores meeting water and developing mycelium networks breaking down minerals into nutrients and slowly taki
by Hani1337 4y ago
I firmly believe that life on Earth was triggered by spores meeting water and developing mycelium networks breaking down minerals into nutrients and slowly taking advantage of photosynthesis to develop more complex life forms. Spores can easily resist the vacuum of space, and pass any form of great filter. They do help create enzymes and uptake nutrients, they do help break down minerals, they do communicate with entire ecosystems, and so much more we barely understand. This would mean that fungi are of alien origin.
- yamasanama 4y agoIs your belief based on any kind of evidence in which case I'd love to hear your best arguments, or is it a religios belief (like in Jesus) in which case there is not much to discuss?
- darkerside 4y agoHypothesis is a key step in the scientific method
- yamasanama 4y agoSure. But stating a belief without any reason why this would be true, or more precisely, why this hypothesis would be preferable over the currently accepted hypothesis which does have supporting evidence, is just not very convincing.
- darkerside 4y agoI'm just pointing out that you presented a false dichotomy. Just because it isn't proven science does not make it a religious belief.
- polishdude20 4y agoCheck out some stuff written by Nick Lane. He's got a very well thought out theory of how life started.
- dieselgate 4y agoThis is actually a fairly reasonable theory given the information we currently have access to - not "spores" per se but rather by amino acids entering our atmosphere. Check out the "panspermia theory" as well as the "Murchison meteorite", I believe there may have been amino acids found on other meteorite samples since and perhaps one within the past 5 years or so. It's possible though our planet is very "ripe" for harboring life and there are multiple avenues through which it has evolved over time.
- yamasanama 4y agoWhat advantage does this theory have over the more common (?) assumption that the amino acids came to existence on earth itself? Serious question, I'd like to know. For example, this theory sti doesn't answer the question how they came into existence in the first place. It's certainly not obviously better than assuming they suddenly appeared on another planet and then transported to earth..
- h_r 4y agoOne weak advantage is panspermia allows you to avoid the question.
- dieselgate 4y agoThis made me laugh, yes I agree in a way. Maybe some day we will discover amino acid constituents on earth or another planet and it will fill in more of the blanks. It's the definition of chicken and egg though
- nobody9999 4y agoDone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment You may not have heard about it, as the paper describing the experiment was only published 69 years ago.
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- rhn_mk1 4y agoThe interesting implication of panspermia is that is yes, we would recognize alien life. I find this optimistic. Anthropocentric perhaps? Like a version of living in a slightly more sophisticated sci-fi show.
- asdff 4y agoThats assuming there is one single common origin for all panspermia. There could be multiple events and independent lineages. These are not mutually exclusive hypothesis because even with panspermia, life would have to originate somewhere to be seeded elsewhere.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoFungi are eukaryotes. They aren't a nascent life form.
- Hani1337 4y agoSays who? They do present properties of thinkers when they regulated entire ecosystems via their networks of mycelium. They even communicated with micro electric impulses. Start thinking outside of the box, not within boundaries of definitions.
- _Algernon_ 4y agoAre you suggesting that these eucaryote spores were the only source of life on earth? That would require them to have evolved into procaryotes which seems unlikely. It also doesn't really solve the question of how the alien life arose in the first place, so it lacks explanatory power.