Of course, that's a cisgendered term, so "pangametia" is preferred.
Posted on 04/18/2023 8:08:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A new paper by a Japanese researcher says that microscopic forms of alien life from other planets outside of our solar system may hitch a ride to earth on particles of space dust. According to the paper, even if these life forms don't survive the trip across the cosmos, researchers should still be able to find ancient fossils, or possibly DNA fragments from these particles of space dust, if there is life on the planets from which they come...
When space bodies like comets and meteors collide with planets, they are often powerful enough to eject some of that planet's material into the void of space. Therefore, the theory goes, if there are microscopic life forms within these particles of space dust and they end up traveling across the cosmos to reach earth, those microscopic organisms could still be there.
Of course, the vacuum of space and the potentially millions of years these types of particles would take to get from any life-harboring planet to earth means that the chances of any of these life forms surviving the journey are effectively nil, at least to our understanding of life. However, the signs of this alien life should still remain in either fossilized form or as small fragments of life frozen for the long journey by the sub-freezing temperatures of deep space...
Although there is no easy way to count the number of particles of dust in space that come from planets outside of our solar system, Totani's models suggest that this number could be much larger than you think. In fact, he calculates that a surprisingly large number of particles of extrasolar space dust from exoplanets could enter our atmosphere on a regular basis.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedebrief.org ...
Who CREATES them? Where do they come from? How can a replacement be there minutes after I pick them all up? Life’s eternal mysteries.
“Panspermia” LOL. Now I’ve accomplished my goal of learning at least one new thing every day.
Of course, that's a cisgendered term, so "pangametia" is preferred.
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