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Scientists Propose Deliberately Infecting Another World With Life To See What Happens
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Isn’t that how earth came to be?
Actually we do know.
Most precursors to life have been found in asteroids.
Life is everywhere in the universe, we are just too tiny and incapable to know that.
Edit: also too fucking arrogant. It is very clear to anybody with a scientific mind that has paid any sort of attention, we, like everything else, are products of exploding stars. There is not one single thing unique about Earth.
great point man, people downvoting you for nothing lol. are they earth worshippers.
It's all the flat earthers who lurk in this community.
Precursors aren't life. I agree life is somewhat abundant in the universe, but amino acids on an asteroid is not life.
I will believe this when you can point to the planet our life came from.
I think you mean "hypothesis"
There was a significant - over half a billion year - gap between the formation of the Earth and the earliest traces of life.
Was the gap between Earth and the Sun habitable during this period?
In 2018, he suggested that alien space craft may be in the Solar System, using ʻOumuamua as an example. In 2023, he claimed to have recovered material from an interstellar meteor that could be evidence of an alien starship, which some experts criticized as hasty and sensational, and other experts showed that Loeb mistook ordinary truck traffic for a seismic evidence of the meteor, causing him to look hundreds of miles in the wrong direction.