Quote from jem:
have they found any evidence of this pan spermia? I have been suggesting some biologists have said that life must have come from outerspace because there was not enough time for it to have evolved from earth... but Stu did not like that suggestion... he seemed to be insisting he knew it evolved here on earth.
As far as pam spermia I don't know. I don't believe life could survive in outerspace but hydrogen crystalls frozen as water sure could. You get some hydrogen mixed with oxygen and there's plenty of evidence that that is where our water supplies came from. Everything had to be external, but life didn't have to be.
Really, watch the lecture, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BWolinsky?feature=mhee#p/c/08EF19FC8C3D9F13/0/cEyqT2_ricA
In the lecture he talks about how the universe is one giant torsion field, and how if you take some sand, silicon dioxide, diluted water and heat it to exactly 1000 degrees amino acids start to form and we've started classifying unicellular organism into somewhere between 20 and 35 different primary types of organisms.
These organisms exist anywhere there is water, and in high heat areas. It's not that life as a single cellular organism came and landed on this planet, but the water from Earth's early years and the cataclysmic start with planetoids colliding with each other bring water to the earth. It is probably water that starts it. But the theory is not pam spermia in the sense that life literally came from space, but we've done experiments creating inanimate matter in a vaccumm and heat basic elements like water, silicon, some other elements that I forget, and you get single celled amino acids when you heat this mixture in a hyperbaric vaccumm like environment heating it to exactly 1000 degrees.
These experiments show new types of creatures being created under an exact set of circumstances. This process exists everywhere there is water and anywhere there is a water cycle. Oxygen is not necessarily required but through evaporation oxygen eventually disapates and this is how life was formed.
As far as this process going on anywhere other than earth, absolutely. I'm sure there are trillions of impacts by comets on essentially stone planets leaving the water they had and spreading it into estuaries.


