"Hot" Comets The Source Of Life?
Summary
August 16, 2007 - Scientists estimate that it is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more likely that life started inside a Hot Comet than on the surface of the Earth, thereby supporting Exogenesis and Panspermia theories. The environment inside a Hot Comet is just perfect for incubating life.
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Game and Story Use
- Every time a hot comet hits a planet, it has a chance of spreading (or starting) life.
- The Blob, The Virus, or some other Alien Invasion can come from an impact or near-miss.
- Asteroid mitigation strategies that involve nuking a comet and breaking it into little bits might actually just spread life further, or expose us to more alien single-celled organisms. Heck, if life can thrive in Chernobyl…
- We may have a Shadow Biosphere already in place, made of Shadow Life that arrived in a second wave. It may have come as recently as the Tunguska Event, or it may have arrived just a few million years after the first life appeared on Earth.
- The Blob, The Virus, or some other Alien Invasion can come from an impact or near-miss.
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