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Viruses could travel via asteroids.

• scotty79 13y ago
  Travel, but not replicate. The only idea I can come up with to fit viruses into exponentially self-replicating alien probe goes like this: Life is abundant in universe, chemistry everywhere leads to DNA, and life mostly comes out of DNA. Smart aliens designed viruses to travel by asteroids. Those asteroids at some points meet planets with life. Viruses hijack this life to replicate themselves and change the life to develop intelligence. Intelligence that will eventually develop and use technology powerful enough to blow up whole planet. That event will release cloud of asteroids containing viruses that will infect other life bearing planets. I don't like this idea. It's slow and has many assumptions that I don't believe are true.