Should Earth begin seeding other planets?, page 3
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reply posted on 13-6-2007 @ 04:34 PM by Red_Dog_BOM
The concept of Panspermia or Exogenesis is not new, and is considered in some detail by Wikipedia, But the ideas that what we have here is directed exogenesis or that the intended panspermia is designed to create intelligent life is somewhat more controversial.

Hoaglands web site has some interesting information about the possiblity of intended panspermia having occured in this system, and he points to the recent Cassini mission and its coming photographs of the Saturn moon Iapetus as possible evidence of a seed ship. It is a very engaging and interesting arguement.
A moon with a View

A critical aspect of the Cambrian Explosion is that the proliferation of the forms of life was absolutely incredible! For example, in the early beginnings of the Cambrian Era, there were by “roughly fifty” phyla. Today there are approximately 35 phyla.

“The best known animal phyla are the Mollusca, Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata, the phylum to which humans belong. Although there are approximately 35 phyla, these nine include the majority of the species.”
Phylum

"The key factor is that out of the pond scum arose a wide variety of animal phyla – just the sort of thing that an intelligently planned seed ship might prefer, i.e. animals instead of pond scum (aka football players instead of leaching lawyers). Furthermore, the seed ship could not always be certain of the host planet’s conditions, so that 50 or more phyla were dispatched, but within a few million years, a forth of them might have already paid the price of survival of the fittest. It’s not that any particular phylum was better than others. It’s just that Earth’s phylum, Chordata, was the one to begin wondering about Iapetus." Dan S. Ward



reply posted on 14-6-2007 @ 12:35 PM by tyranny22
Red_Dog_BOM:

Very interesting post. So I take it that you're all for seeding other planets?

Originally posted by SG-17
But if we go FTL in normal space, or even just 80% it wont have to be a generation ship, because of relativity, going that fast would slow down time considerably, roughly at 70% 10,000 years in normal time would be around 2 or 3 years on the ship.
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I had heard of Time Dilation but had never researched it before. Very interesting theories. more on Time Dilation. As I look more and more into the idea of traveling at lightspeed, the more I think it could be possible. Are there any experts out there that can comment?

Sorry to take this thread off topic, but when researching the topics of lightspeed and mass and seeing that the speed of light can be sped up or slowed down and also that mass is subject to momentum, it would lead me to believe that there is a small window left open for maniulation of these laws.

Mass
In particle physics, the mass is often calculated as a mathematical combination of a particle's energy and its momentum to give a value for the mass of the particle that is the same for all observers.


Still it would seem at our current place in time, it's not likely that even were these laws further research and developed that they would become common for hundreds of years.


reply posted on 25-6-2007 @ 06:39 PM by Red_Dog_BOM
Originally posted by tyranny22
I agree. Statistics suggest that we are in fact doomed to exstinction if we do not get off this planet. If another global killer like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hits the Earth. I guess one could argue that we could develope the technology to destroy asteroids with out actually having to leave earth. But, eventually, even if it's another 3 million years, there will come one so large that we can do nothing to stop it.


That is a long shot, I'm of the opinion that your looking at the wrong horse. If you want to know which horse will cross the line first, just look at the most active energy source in our solar system, then look deeper at the most active source on our planet. These two horse will hit much, much sooner. And there won't be a damn thing we can do about it either. Which is why its unpopular and underfunded science.

For a country that cares so much about protecting it's oil, it doesn't seem like they care too much about their greatest resource ... mankind.


I am of the opinion that we are not like a resource as much as we are a like a virus.

I don't know that anyone is qualified to answer that question except maybe God. Surely you have an opinion though?


My opinion is that God designed us for a specific purpose, which appears to be linked to this solar system only. I may be wrong, as I'm not anywhere close to being a biblical scholar, but I think there are passages in the Bible refering to this planet as our home, separate from the other heavenly bodies. I'm thinking something in us must change before we can travel into the "heavens". Additionally, the path to our salvation is in that same book, which I don't recall reading anything about seeding other planets.




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