View Full Version : Did Life Arrive Before the Solar System Formed?
k4kyv
05-07-2005, 04:59 AM
The theory of panspermia proposes that life really gets around, jumping fron planet to planet - or even from star to star. Life might be everywhere! Assuming this is true, how do single-celled bacteria make the journey through the vacuum of space? Easy, they use chunks of rock as space ships, in a process called lithopanspermia. And now, researchers from Princeton and the University of Michigan think that life carrying rocks might have been right there at the beginning of our solar system, keeping their tiny astronauts safe and sound, frozen in statis until the planets formed and the right conditions let them thaw out, stretch their proteins, and begin a process leading from microbe to mankind.
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/lithopanspermia.html?452005
KC7ATO
05-07-2005, 05:18 AM
You keep talking like this and the Kansas Board of Education is going to be all over you!
K8ERV
05-07-2005, 01:07 PM
I don't even care who my Grandfather was!!!
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
W3MIV
05-07-2005, 02:02 PM
About all we can say for sure is that life was created before Uranus.
W2ILP
05-08-2005, 05:29 AM
Whose solar sysytem are we limiting life to?
According to the experts there are many planets orbiting distant stars in distant solar systems. #With so many planets out there, some must have life and some must have intelligent life and some must have intelligent life that is a lot smarter than we are.
I wonder if the very intelligent ETs out there would ever bother to ask the same myopic question that started this thread?
This question is as moot as "Which came first; the egg or the chicken?"
I don't believe that life was ever created. Thus it must have always existed and has been and will always be evolving all over the universe from an infinite past to an infinite future.
I don't know how life got to Earth....but it must have gotten here or we wouldn't be here to ask how.
I think that we are programmed to advance technology so we can survive in the far future when our sun explodes or burns out. Maybe we will have to convert ourselves into photon bundles or electromagnetic waves to make the trip and get reconstuted by a ET ham in a distant galaxy..
Bob w2ilp (Intelligent Life Paradox)
WA5KRP
05-08-2005, 06:02 AM
Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ May 06 2005,23:59)]The theory of panspermia proposes that life really gets around, jumping fron planet to planet - or even from star to star. Life might be everywhere!
If I were God, I'd think that would be a great way to create life on Earth or anywhere else for that matter. After all, my options would be unlimited, right?
WA5KRP
Texas
ke4zhn
05-08-2005, 10:12 AM
Do you hear that? Thats the "Twilight Zone" theme song playing in the background... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
W2ILP
05-23-2005, 03:50 PM
Did life arrive before the solar system formed?
YES.
w2ilp (Infinite Life Perpetually)
k7unz
05-23-2005, 04:27 PM
Yep, life did arrive....but due to the lack of parking facilities, it moved on. #Guess it was "intelligent life", huh??
Jim/k7unz
K0RGR
05-23-2005, 04:43 PM
That theory is somewhat more glamorous than the one that proposes that life on Earth evolved from microbes left behind on litter from some ancient intergalactic traveller.
Sounds like the opening episode of "Battlestar Galatica".
"A hodgepodge fleet asteroids carrying microbes on a journey to a mythical planet called 'Earth'". http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
KW4MW
05-23-2005, 10:09 PM
There is intelligent life in the universe.
Well they're smart enough not to come here anyway. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
W2ILP
05-24-2005, 12:27 AM
If you leave any food exposed and unrefrigerated for long, you will see life forms develop on it.
At some time life forms of some type must have been attracted to the rotten Earth. My question is how could any rotting food exist that would attract any form of life to Earth when earth had nothing but unedible rocks?
Oh well... Anything is possible. There are young people who travel long distances on the roads in the US and get attracted by tiny White Castle hamburgers.
w2ilp (Inviting Lively Protoplasm?)
Actually, life always was.
You see, the universe as we know it is nothing more than a bubble in an infinite vat of mead that the Gods are brewing before they once again engage in battle with the Gods from the "other" infinite universe with, one might suppose, its' own vats of mead and bubbles that think they are the whole universe.
Life (or if you prefer,) mead, happens.
G8ADD
05-24-2005, 09:02 AM
The puzzle of how life came about is not solved by making it's origin external or prior to the solar system. Strategies for diffusing life through space and time, allowing it to get a foothold in any suitable environment that may present itself, are interesting but not as interesting as the question of its origin.
That said, it would be nice to look at the stars and know that somewhere there are other beings looking at the stars!
73
Brian G8ADD
The problem is #that when you are looking at the stars, they are not really there. At least not in the direction that you see them. By the time the light gets here the stars and galaxies have already moved some distance.
I think that there is or was life out there but that we are separated by such great distances that one form cannot contaminate another. Kind of like a double-blind experiment.
KF3EG
05-24-2005, 07:58 PM
3.840 holds the answers, a voice from the mothership said " go forward and multiply" and so he did, got in his space ship and went from planet to planet masterbating in flower pots and he waited. Then they grew. The crop sprung up, behold a bunch of blooming idiots.
# That children is how the Audio God gained his flock
and keeps the secrets of area 51 and the cast iron frying pan.
good night
thought that was better than a T Rex taking a dump on a flat rock.
W2ILP
05-24-2005, 09:54 PM
One new theory is that the pyramids weren't built by the Egyptians, nor were they built by extinct tribes from Atlantis.
I know it isn't easy but...You just have to believe that they were here even before man.
If men came to Earth from outer space, the question is..What attracted the men to come to Earth, before there were any women here?
My theory is:
The first men to come to Earth from another galaxy came here because thay saw the pyramids with their telescopes.
This excited them. They came to see if they could find out who the hell built them.
To this day it is a mystery.
w2ilp (Inticing Looking Pyramids?)