Fwd: Panspermia

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Subject: FW: Panspermia

 

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Subject: Panspermia
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:20:11 -0600

 

 

This is interesting:

 

 

 

Panspermia proposed by Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr Chandra Wickramasinghe

Michael Salla

 

In surprising support of an earlier Russian discovery of microbes growing on the surface of the International Space Station (ISS), Swiss scientists have confirmed that DNA samples can survive the extremes of outer space. A November 26 report from Science Daily announced that a team of scientists from the University of Zurich attached DNA samples to the exterior of a TEXUS-49 rocket launched into space from the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, North Sweden. Upon the rocket's return the DNA was found to be preserved and able to perform vital communication functions. The Swiss scientists' findings were published on 26 November in the scientific journal, Plos One. The Swiss scientific finding supports an August 19, 2014 announcement from Russian scientists who had discovered a form of sea plankton growing on the windows of the ISS. Both sets of scientific findings support the radical theory of Panspermia that microbial extraterrestrial life can exist and travel in the vacuum of space on comets, and radiation pressure.

According to the chief scientist for the Swiss study, Professor Oliver Ullrich from the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy:

This study provides experimental evidence that the DNA's genetic information is essentially capable of surviving the extreme conditions of space and the re-entry into Earth's dense atmosphere.

The findings of the Swiss scientific team gives vital support for an August 19, 2014 announcement by Russians scientists of the results of a yearlong study of a strange substance that had been obscuring the windows of the ISS. The substance had been collected by astronauts during a prior spacewalk. Vladimir Solovyev, chief of the Russian ISS orbital mission said:

Results of the experiment are absolutely unique. We have found traces of sea plankton and microscopic particles on the illuminator surface. This should be studied further.

One explanation for the Russian discovery comes from Professor Ulrich who points out from the Swiss study how terrestrial DNA can be accidently carried into outer space and be confused as alien in origin;

The results show that it is by no means unlikely that, despite all the safety precautions, space ships could also carry terrestrial DNA to their landing site. We need to have this under control in the search for extraterrestrial life.

While the Swiss scientific finding provides a possible explanation for the Russian discovery, it does not explain how the sea plankton on the ISS was actually growing, rather than just surviving in the vacuum of space. This suggests that it was a form of plankton indigenous to outer space rather than carried into space from the Earth's surface by wind currents.

Nevertheless, the Swiss scientific discovery, together with the August 19 announcement by Russian scientists, gives critical support to the theory of Panspermia proposed by Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr Chandra Wickramasinghe. In 1974, they proposed and were able to confirm that dust in interstellar space was largely organic, thereby making it possible for life to exist in interstellar space despite the harsh conditions there.

The implications of the Swiss and Russian scientific studies suggest that extraterrestrial life cannot only exist in the extreme conditions of space, but can find ways of thriving there. Importantly, NASA's silence in response to the August announcement by the Russians, is harder to maintain now due to the Swiss discovery. The Swiss and Russian discoveries takes scientists one step closer to eventually concluding that microbial extraterrestrial life has ways of adapting to the extremes of outer space, and can be easily dispersed throughout the universe.