[furball4paws]

That's why it is "Directed Panspermia". The ships could protect the bugs on their way, which would be a very long distance and a very long time. Bugs or viruses floating in space (undirected) wouldn't last long.

[muawiyah]

I think nearly everybody whose thought about it has the viral bodies well protected inside meteors. That raises questions about how they get in there. My preference (among many theories) is that someone somewhere simply manufacturers them.

Let me say right here I didn't think so until a couple of years ago a guy ran an electric current through a strand of DNA.

Also read Penrose's Emperors New Clothes too.

A good case can be made that we are just machines ~