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Old 03-November-2009, 11:05 PM
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Curious, what's abnormal about this UT story?
I consider a "normal" story one that is published on the frontpage, with comments enabled, and a post in the UT Stories forum here. This one does not seem to follow that format.

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I'm of the opinion we're reading so much about panspermia because it is not only a "sexy" subject but the evidence seems to be leading us off planet, and Science is recognizing it.
Sorry for not being more clear. "It" in my post meant the article you linked to, not the idea of panspermia itself. UT has many different short articles on certain topics, and they seem to mainly exist as explanatory aid for the regular frontpage stories. This seemed one of those, hence the character of just listing what panspermia is, rather than adding new stuff to the debate. Which was your question, in the OP, no?
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I disagree, as you know.
Extremophile findings over the last 15yrs or so have changed our thinking significantly with regards to survivability; space, other planets and moons have become considerably less inhospitable to life as we know it. Microbes, bacteria and spores are plausible candidates. The ingredients for life so early in Earth's history, and still today, are more abundant off-planet than on, and are of course thought to have been brought to Earth. Numerous "prebiotic" (I daresay we begin calling them biotic) molecules have been discovered in space.

By contrast abiogenesis on Earth is frought with incomplete competing theories and has yet to experimentally produce anything remotely resembling life as we know it.
But anything's possible ...
Quite, Abiogenesis, spontaneous generation and the like.
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