From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 17:29:46 MST
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Amara Graps wrote:
> bacteria impacting on target materials. He told me that at impacts of
> >7 km/sec: nothing lives, at 5 km/sec some live, and at 1 k/-sec, all
> bacteria live. He has some resent papers (published as well as just
> submitted) about this topic."
I don't think capture is the bottleneck; I think transfer times (at some
10 to 100 km/s) while exposed to the cosmic background will make anything
living in stasis pretty much scrambled. While I'm not looking closely, I
don't see this point addressed by panspermia types.
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