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Topic started on 9-7-2011 @ 07:27 PM by game over man

Could panspermia technology exist?

If you really think about a comet or an asteroid flying through the universe with the elements that make up life, why couldn't an alien race theoretically want to do the same thing? i.e Travel across the Universe with elements to create life on a planet?

From Wiki

Panspermia (Greek: πανσπερμία from πᾶς/πᾶν (pas/pan) "all" and σπέρμα (sperma) "seed") is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids and planetoids.

So my stretch of the imagination started going on full blast while watching a tv show on Animal Planet, Man Eating Super Snake, which is about the increase of African Rock Pythons in Florida.

They mention in the show the possible threat of interbreeding between African Rock Pythons and Burmese Pythons would be a combination of the most aggressive and biggest snake. Just the way the show started pitching the fear factor, I started to think what if.....these snakes started becoming way more advanced than humans.

What if snakes could break there way into a lab kill all the scientists and give themselves arms and legs? I know it sounds like a movie, but imagine how scary that would be!

Snakes do kind of have tiny arms and legs that are used in mating to grip. Wiki Snake-Evoultion

Based on comparative anatomy, there is consensus that snakes descended from lizards.[9]:11[10] Pythons and boas—primitive groups among modern snakes—have vestigial hind limbs: tiny, clawed digits known as anal spurs, which are used to grasp during mating.[9]:11[11] The Leptotyphlopidae and Typhlopidae groups also possess remnants of the pelvic girdle, sometimes appearing as horny projections when visible.

Snakes Can Learn Too

Dr. Holtzman says this research probably doesn’t mean we can domesticate snakes, but it does show that snakes are smarter than we think. They are not just wandering aimlessly. Perhaps now snakes can be trained, using the right motivation and method.

University of Rochester Review of Dr. Holtzman

Wouldn't it be "fun" if you were in a space ship above Earth and somehow with your "technology" you were able to manipulate nature to do what you please?

It doesn't have to be snakes, it can be insects, plants, anything.

Can you imagine if a species on our planet started taking over? Can you imagine how "alien" their mind would be?

reply posted on 9-7-2011 @ 07:39 PM by Ladysophiaofsandoz

Nice read. It reminds of a science fiction book by David Gerrold "Chess With a Dragon." In the book man joins the other life in the galaxy. The book goes on to say that insect and reptilian species are the most likely to evolve into intelligent life forms and that it is only because of a fluke comet that on our planets monkeys evolved to be the highest life form. I have often wondered if they would start to evolve and challenge us for dominance. Its a good read if you enjoy science fiction.

Only problem I could see would be the weather. Snakes don't like snow.

reply posted on 9-7-2011 @ 08:14 PM by iversusvsversusi

reply to post by game over man

Read Dolores Cannon Keepers Of The Garden / The Convoluted Universe

Youre not too far off.

reply posted on 10-7-2011 @ 06:11 AM by Pimander

If arrived on Earth via, "panspermia technology," then that would be something called directed panspermia. The theory was proposed by Francis Crick who co-discovered the structure of DNA and Leslie Orgel.

It now seems unlikely that extraterrestrial living organisms could have reached the earth either as spores driven by the radiation pressure from another star or as living organisms imbedded in a meteorite. As an alternative to these nineteenth-century mechanisms, we have considered Directed Panspermia, the theory that organisms were deliberately transmitted to the earth by intelligent beings on another planet. We conclude that it is possible that life reached the earth in this way, but that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present time to say anything about the probability. We draw attention to the kinds of evidence that might throw additional light on the topic.
Crick and Orgel: Directed Panspermia

Maybe life was directed in this way to Earth from a less oxygen rich planet. Mysteriously, oxygen is toxic to practically all life forms. That would hardly be surprising if it first arose where the element was less abundant.

In fact the earliest mass extinction is thought to have been caused by oxygen about 2.4 billion years ago. It has been dubbed the Oxygen Catastrophe.

The rising oxygen levels may have wiped out a huge portion of the Earth's anaerobic inhabitants at the time. From their perspective it was a catastrophe (hence the name)
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