From: Steve Witham (sw@tiac.net)
Date: Mon Mar 10 1997 - 22:36:04 MST
>>Forrest Bishop writes (on the transhuman list):
>>>"[...]astrophysicists theorise [...] such explosions would destroy
>>>advanced life on every nearby Earth-like planet on the average every
>>>100 million years."
and
>This might explain the 'hard step' between unicellular and
>multi-cellular life...
I am lacking something here. How can something destroy complex life on
both sides of a planet but leave the single-celled life unkilled? Do
these explosions last for a whole day of gentle frying, or does the
radiation flash right through the earth? Forrest, are you saying that
single-celled life just starts right up again every time? Not that
that seems impossible since Kauffmann, but isn't there evidence that
microbes from billions of years ago are related to us (i.e., evidence
of a continuous line of life since then)?
--Steve
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