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If there were extra-terrestrial intervention, it would only have needed to be a one-time event. And it wouldn't be technologically hard to do it such that no t
by ethbr1 3y ago
If there were extra-terrestrial intervention, it would only have needed to be a one-time event.
And it wouldn't be technologically hard to do it such that no trace remains over those timescales.
So, yes, that's "crazy". On the other hand, it's unfalsifiable in the absence of other theories.
- adastra22 3y agoThere are much saner theories for panspermia.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoLike? You're coming across as very dismissive for no reason.
- dotnet00 3y agoThere are meteorites on Earth which very likely originated from Mars. They're believed to have been launched into space by an impact, eventually finding their way onto Earth. If we're looking for the most realistic options for panspermia to have occurred, they'd be due to a natural event of this sort.
- throwaway173738 3y agoIt’s very much like how islands in the sea are colonized by life. Some event causes a blob of living creatures to enter the sea on a raft and they drift until they make landfall somewhere else. Sometimes they survive long enough in the new place to reproduce.
- berniedurfee 3y agoRats leaping from a sinking ship swimming to shore we were.
- ethbr1 3y agoI'm not arguing against that. I'm just saying unfalsifiability is a bitch, and it's hard to find hard evidence on geologic timescales.
- williamcotton 3y agoThe burden of proof is on the person making the claim. It is not on someone else to disprove such a claim.