Apparently it's for both reasons, but I think both are bullshit. I love Star Trek, but the Prime Directive is not my flavour of Kool-Aid. In the case that life

Apparently it's for both reasons, but I think both are bullshit. I love Star Trek, but the Prime Directive is not my flavour of Kool-Aid. In the case that life has only evolved here, it is our duty as the agents of DNA to spread it far and wide! We should be initiating panspermia to anywhere, starting with the places it is most likely to take hold. Send cultures of every extremeophile available and hope that sentience re-evolves after millions of years. I just found this and expect to agree with their manifesto: http://www.panspermia-society.com/ http://www.panspermia-society.com/