PANSPERMIA:

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PANSPERMIA

• NEW VENEREAL DISEASE OR THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE ON
  EARTH?

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Panspermia

• According to the AMA, and good news to men
  everywhere, panspermia is not a VD

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Panspermia

• According to the AMA, and good news to men
  everywhere, panspermia is not a VD
• Actually, its a theory about lifes origin from
  the cosmos

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Panspermia

• According to the AMA, and good news to men
  everywhere, panspermia is not a VD
• Actually, its a theory about lifes origin from
  the cosmos
• Crazy?

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Bacteria in TUBES???

• Hypothesized in 1864 that life must have come
  from an extraterrestrial source
• There is no known circumstance in which it can
  be confirmed that microscopic beings came into
  the world without germs, without parents similar
  to themselves

Louis Pasteur
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Bacteria in TUBES???

• The Experiment
• Using a sterile glass flask, he showed that
  cultures cannot be formed from plain air
• Only after adding germs to the air would this
  form

Scientific Gold!
Louis Pasteur
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Bacteria in SPACE???

• Can bacteria survive the long, harsh journey to
  Earth?
• Can bacteria then survive entering Earths
  atmosphere?
• Finally, can bacteria survive the impact with
  Earth and then flourish?

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Bacteria in SPACE!!!

• Found in the most
• EXTREME-EME-EME-EME conditions on Earth
• Can lie dormant for millions of years
• Able to survive entry into Earths Atmosphere

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Cometic Tragedy

• Comets are icy, giving the bacteria nourishment
• Cold, which makes them good insulators
• They break up in the atmosphere

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and then Pasteur said, LET THERE BE PROOF, and
it was done, and Pasteur was happy
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Fossil Record

• Its a bird Its a plane Itsthe fossil
  record?
• Life seems to have appeared very rapidly in the
  history of the planet

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics

• in a closed system, you can't finish any real
  physical process with as much useful energy as
  you had to start with some is always wasted

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Tree of Life

• Widely believed that without new genetic
  material, the tree of life would be horizontal,
  not vertical
• New genetic material from space would account for
  the genetic diversity we see in early life

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A Final Note...

• Panspermia Were we brought here by comets?
• Well thats up to you to decide