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originally posted by: Stupidsecrets
Panspermia is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms.
If one day it is determined that we either contaminated a planet or moon in our solar system causing life to form, would that move the bar in terms of finally accepting that life does in fact exists on other planet or, would it be more of a meh...we did it so it doesn't really count for anything.
I personally think it would move the bar quite a bit. It's not intelligent life but it would be fact life does and can exist / survive out there on its own. Life would be confirmed at that point even if we kinda helped it out even if by accident.
originally posted by: Stupidsecrets
a reply to: LocalGenius
Not arguing with that at all. We are yet to find it though. If we cause life either on purpose or accident to form out there I think it's a big deal. It changes the argument from there likely is to there is life out there.
originally posted by: Stupidsecrets
a reply to: LocalGenius
Not arguing with that at all. We are yet to find it though. If we cause life either on purpose or accident to form out there I think it's a big deal. It changes the argument from there likely is to there is life out there.