From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 02:46:22 MST
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> If panspermia is true it might affect the Great Filter in interesting
> ways. The emergence of life can be extremely rare, but interplanetary
We have a plausible interplanetary mechanism.
> and interstellar spread makes this low probability be multiplied by a
While having interstellar panspermia would be cool, we so far can't see
how. It can't ride the dust while having no metabolism. If we say
interstellar panspermia, we must also say vacuum life.
> macro multiplier. On the other hand the spread might be patchy - the
> seeding will be random, and the drift rate can be so slow that large
> regions have had no time yet to be reached by any spores.
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