[John Locke]

Wickramasing's interest in the red structures is related to the modern theory of panspermia – the idea that Earth was seeded with life from space – which he co-proposed in 1974.

Nope: as another poster reminds us, the theory was first proposed by Svante Arrhenius in 1903. It was the basis of a couple of classic 1930's science fiction stories by P Schuyler Miller.

[Almagest]

<< Nope: as another poster reminds us, the theory was first proposed by Svante Arrhenius in 1903. >>


The article did not say that the first such proposal was in 1974, only that Wickramasing had co-proposed it in 1974 -- and that is the truth.