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Old 24-November-2008, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by mugaliens View Post
That's the spirit. Think of a humanoid race that measures birthdays in centuries. Perhaps ejecta lead to the early panspermia, but for the last billion years they've been doing it deliberately. How would there be discontinuities if the Martians were the ones introducing incremental changes?

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Heh, now you're adding periodical 'updates' to hide the DNA/fossil evidence, while I understood your original premise to be a pre-existing world based on one old seeding, followed by a far more recent 'adjusting' using the Chicxulub meteor to clear the playing field for the Mars exodus. Someone more knowledgeable than me might calculate how often those 'updates' would need to be done to hide artificial changes in DNA history. Fun idea though.
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