Re: Article: Astrobiology
- From: "roguejag" <roguejag@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:20:31 -0400 (EDT)
There are only two possiblities: A) we are alone, or B) we are not
alone.
All other considerations aside, if we are alone, that only means WE
ARE THE FIRST. That would make our existence more significant than if
we are not alone, because it would be our responsibility, and ours
alone, to ensure the propagation of life in any form possible in as
many places as possible.
Since so many microbes can live in extreme environments, we could
take a combination of all the most likely to survive a long freeze, and
start launching them. Plants scatter their seeds to the wind in great
numbers, and some of them survive. I can think of a multitude of ways
of donig this, and it doesn't matter how long it takes any of them to
end up somewhere else. A billion years from now, some of them will
have found a new home long after we are gone.
And ten billion years from now, there WILL be life everywhere.
.
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