[blam]

I'm reminded of Sir Fred Hoyle's 1975 book, The Intellegent Universe.

[OPS4]

Great, then maybe we can have some hybred herbs that can heal some of my aches and pains.

Ops4 God BLess America!

[billorites]

"modern-day panspermia"

Panspermia?

Just outside of Burlington, isn't it?.

[LibWhacker]

. . . are encouraged in their belief that microbes can survive on such a journey for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of years, by recent discoveries of microbes that have survived for similar periods encased in rock in the Earth.

Hadn't heard there was any direct evidence microbes could do this. To me it's always seemed like the weak link in arguments for panspermia. But if this is true, it really blows the lid off, imo, and we can stop digging around in earth's tide pools looking for the origin of life. Who knows in what strange and utterly bizarre place life might have arisen?

[tet68]

The research advances the case for modern-day panspermia

Isn't that what bill clinton had?
No wait, that was dresspermia.

[The Duke]

Color me skeptical. Given the tremendous forces involved in such as cosmic collision, the same forces involved in re-entry, the harshness of the interstellar envirnment, and the time required to travel, I just don't see any living thing traveling between planets as a result of interstellar collisions.