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On the phone with Alexis!

Right now listening to Fresh Air interview with an astrobiologist. I believe that life spontaneous generates whenever the right conditions are present, anywhere in the universe. I don't think that the building blocks are distributed via comet (panspermia) necessarily, but I kind of like the idea that life was on Mars first and then made its way to Earth. I don't know why, I guess because of a sci-fi fan's innate love of Mars.

Wild speculation worded as if it were science, published in a "science journal," proves wacky theory of panspermia.

I especially like the figure of "one trillion trillion times more likely" that life originated in the non-frozen heart clay-and water filled of a comet than on earth. Not that anyone has proven that any comets contain liquid water, or clay. That's a big number. It must be true.

If someone can mine a comet, and produce the building blocks of life from it, then we can talk about comets "seeding life." But in the meanwhile, Panspermia is just a way of saying that Earth isn't special enough to have produced life--it's just the telescope owner's version of Special Creation or Intelligent Design. Magic ~~Man~~ Comet done it.