MarkE wrote:
Has talk.origins run its course, with this incarnation (post-GG meteorite impact) the last of the dinosaurs?
If you ask me, which you never would, the debate has long switched
way from evolution-v-creation to Panspermia-v-Abiogenesis.
Which is weird because it's VERY testable, this Pansermia, and at
a lower lever has already been tested (and passed). Life has
traveled to the moon and back -- stowaway microbial life, not the
astronauts -- it's been found on the outside of our orbital tech...
life CAN survive the journey into space. This much has already been
confirmed. And although this is a long way from "Proving" Panspermia
it is certainly consistent with it.
I'd like to see it taken to the next level. I'd like to see the
circumstances where life would be ejected into space replicated, and
I'd like to see the circumstances where it would plunge to the
surface replicated. Maybe on Mars?
The danger is "Contaminating" a foreign body with earth life, especially
if we had not yet ruled out indigenous life...
Another experiment would be to fly collectors with various growth
mediums around our solar system, maybe send a few voyager-like
towards distant galaxies.
The beauty of this is that you don't necessarily need a return trip!
You can have all manner of sensors, all the cameras and beam what
you're collecting back to earth.
Life tends to produce gases, life tends to produce heat... we can
even be monitoring the composition of the medium, because life has
a habit of altering THAT!
Would it be expensive?
No. Not at all. The problem was never money, it was always (and
remains) one of priorities. Our corrupt government would rather
risk nuclear war, paying for other people's wars with superpowers,
than answer the fundamental questions of life.
...Biden threw away more than $9 billion on the Palestinians
when numerous experts assure us that they are willing to hate us
for free.
South Africa is in the G20! They're one of the richest 20 economies
on the planet, and we're still gifting them hundreds of millions of
dollars...
Our priorities are *Whacked!*
Let Elon cut his $2 trillion from the budget, and then let's pump
at least $100 billion of that into science.
-- https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Book%20of%20JTEM/page/5
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