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Mars originally had much more salt than the Earth, and when Mars lost 50 to 90 percent of its water through evaporation it became even saltier. The Panspermia theory says that life originated elsewhere and then was transferred to Earth by meteors. If the earliest life forms were halophiles, says Knauth, then perhaps we are really Martians.

Where did the life on Mars come from.

Are they trying to claim that ancient Martian bacteria developed space travel when they didn't even have little hands to build space ships with.

Or are they suggesting that Mars exploded and blew a chunk of itself off and the little bacteria survived the explosion and traveled through space and managed a controlled entry in Earths atmosphere with out burning up.

Or perhaps the little bacteria with their advanced physics were able to pilot the meteor into a controlled entry into the atmosphere of Earth.

[LibWhacker]

Or are they suggesting that Mars exploded and blew a chunk of itself off and the little bacteria survived the explosion and traveled through space and managed a controlled entry in Earths atmosphere with out burning up.

Meteor impacts blasted Martian surface material into space and it eventually entered Earth's atmosphere and rained down on the planet. AFAIK, heat is the enemy of bacteria, not acceleration -- at least not acceleration of the magnitude experienced by such ejecta. Presumably, some of this bacteria would be shielded from the intense heat of impact and entry into the Earth's atmosphere since it would be inside Martian rocks (and these we know do occasionally survive intact). Conceivably, it wouldn't take much to seed Earth with life. What I'd like to know is just how much acceleration a bacterium can survive. 100g's? 1000g's? Has anyone ever done the experiment?