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Notes on interstellar hitchhikers and the origins of life.

Notes on interstellar hitchhikers and the origins of life.

  Some 65 million years ago the greatest asteroid impact in a billion years may have sown life throughout the solar system, even as it ravaged life on Earth. Blasted debris escaped Earth’s gravitational force forming irregular orbits around the sun, eventually finding its way to the planets and moons of the solar system. Mars was eventually dusted with the debris and according to a 2013 study in the journal Astrobiology, the 14-kilometer-wide object ejected tens of thousands of pounds of impact rubble that may have landed on Saturn’s moon, Titan and on Europa and Callisto, which orbit J...

Any debate concerning life – intelligent or otherwise – in our solar system is almost certainly going to focus on Mars. After all, whether you buy into the “life on Mars” controversy or not, there’s no doubt that the planet is filled with anomalies. Chiefly, those anomalies can be seen in NASA’s very own photographs. NASA personnel are content to conclude it’s all down to pareodilia. That’s the phenomenon of seeing – for two examples of many – the face of a dog in the clouds, and the image of Elvis in a couple of coffee. It is a fact that, though, that some of the photos c...