Space rock contains organic molecular feast

[Dragan Glas]

Greetings,

Space rock contains organic molecular feast

Kindest regards,

James

 

[monitoradiation]

Awesome. Directed panspermia isn't that far-fetched afterall.

 

[aeroeng314]

Awesome. Directed panspermia isn't that far-fetched afterall.

Uh, this has nothing to do with directed panspermia unless you're suggesting that we found the aliens that these meteorites belong to. It's also not panspermia since it doesn't suggest that life started somewhere else and "migrated" to Earth. Nothing on the meteorites was alive, it was just complex organic molecules.

What it does suggest is that these molecules may be more common in space than we thought and that they may have seeded Earth with the components necessary for life (but not life itself, which is what panspermia is).

 

[monitoradiation]

Uh, this has nothing to do with directed panspermia unless you're suggesting that we found the aliens that these meteorites belong to. It's also not panspermia since it doesn't suggest that life started somewhere else and "migrated" to Earth. Nothing on the meteorites was alive, it was just complex organic molecules.

What it does suggest is that these molecules may be more common in space than we thought and that they may have seeded Earth with the components necessary for life (but not life itself, which is what panspermia is).

Noted; though it's interesting you wrote about something that's only tangentially related to what I was saying. I think you missed the key word I put in there which is "far-fetched". If I meant to say that this is evidence for directed panspermia having been definitively the case, I would have SAID SO.

I was saying that the idea of directed panspermia would now be more probable than before now that we have evidence that perhaps organic molecules are abundant in space, that alien life might exist elsewhere as well. I wasn't trying to imply a causation chain of aliens -> organic molecules -> life on earth, because of this evidence. I'm saying now that we have evidence that organic molecules exist in outerspace, there may be aliens that CAN plant life on earth. The probability of that scenario increased. I'm only saying that, nothing more.