Panspermia!

[charisma]

Last time on Dirty Word Theater, we had Interrobang, everyone's favorite non-standard punctuation.

This time we have some pseudo-science... seeds of life from space, known as PanspermiaThe first known mention of the idea was in the writings of the 5th century BC Greek philosopher Anaxagoras.The panspermia hypothesis was dormant until 1743 when it

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mos' interestin'

[oregonnerd]

I seem to remember one of the Greeks referring to earlier science. It was a translation, a rare book, and in a library in Japan. Current scientific speculation on the origins of life very much includes this, although I ain't goin' to go look it up. Probably Wired! or El Reg...
--Glenn

Re: mos' interestin'

[oregonnerd]

p.s. how you like my pet dan'lion?