Space dust may transport life between worlds, research suggests

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Space dust may transport life between worlds, research suggests

Life on our planet might have originated from biological particles brought to Earth in streams of space dust, a study suggests. Do you think this is how life may have started on earth?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171120111326.htm

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Randomhero1982's picture
More plausible then by an

More plausible then by an invisible cosmic mage

Alembé's picture
Well, scientists are

Well, scientists are beginning to work out mechanisms for how the components of life as we know it could have started here. That does not preclude the possibility that life may also have come drifting down from space. I will resist conjecturing about an ancient War of the Worlds before you chop me off with Occam's Razor.

Cognostic's picture
Just another version of

Just another version of Panspermia. Actually, the dust might have more difficulty getting through our atmosphere than large meteorites or asteroids. The theory of Panspermia has long asserted that life has spread throughout the universe on larger bodies as extremophiles. There appears to be some good evidence for this in the meteorites collected from sites in the polar regions.

MCDennis's picture
It is a hypothesis. Now

It is a hypothesis. Now scientists will look for facts that prove or disprove the hypothesis

Chica__2009's picture
Life on our planet might have

Life on our planet might have originated from biological particles brought to Earth in streams of space dust, a study suggests. Do you think this is how life may have started on earth?

When you say "life" do you mean humans or just the other animals? Are you saying that it's possible that any form of life started on earth through space dust? Does space even have dust, lol

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HelloWhatamIdoi

HelloWhatamIdoi
It states in the article that space dust could have brought life to the earth. Humans are just another animal on this planet. I don't believe that a god created the first humans. I believe that humans evolved over time.

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