From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 12:19:07 MST
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, John K Clark wrote:
> "In recent years and months there has been a growing body of evidence
> that can be interpreted as support for the theory of panspermia - e.g.
> the space survival attributes and general space hardiness of bacteria. "
Panspermia is old hat, but 41 km is not space, and it's not obvious how
bacteria riding micron-sized dust at some 100 km/s a) will survive a
~lightyear journey b) will survive reentry.
Pebbles are easy, but interstellar pebble transport doesn't happen.
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