PANSPERMIA: NEW VENEREAL DISEASE OR THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE ON EARTH? or ?

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Panspermia According to the AMA, and good news to men everywhere, panspermia is not a VD = ?

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Panspermia According to the AMA, and good news to men everywhere, panspermia is not a VD Actually, it’s a theory about life’s origin from the cosmos = ?

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Panspermia According to the AMA, and good news to men everywhere, panspermia is not a VD Actually, it’s a theory about life’s origin from the cosmos Crazy? = ?

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Hypothesized in 1864 that life must have come from an extraterrestrial source ‘There is no known circumstance in which it can be confirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves’ Louis Pasteur

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 The Experiment Using a sterile glass flask, he showed that cultures cannot be formed from plain air Only after adding germs to the air would this form: Louis Pasteur Scientific Gold!

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Can bacteria survive the long, harsh journey to Earth? Can bacteria then survive entering Earth’s atmosphere? Finally, can bacteria survive the impact with Earth and then flourish?

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Found in the most EXTREME- EME- EME- EME conditions on Earth Can lie dormant for millions of years Able to survive entry into Earth’s Atmosphere

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Cometic Tragedy Comets are icy, giving the bacteria nourishment Cold, which makes them good insulators They break up in the atmosphere

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 …and then Pasteur said, ‘LET THERE BE PROOF’, and it was done, and Pasteur was happy

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 It’s a bird; It’s a plane; It’s…the fossil record? Life seems to have appeared very rapidly in the history of the planet

“in a closed system, you can't finish any real physical process with as much useful energy as you had to start with — some is always wasted”

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Tree of Life Widely believed that without new genetic material, the tree of life would be horizontal, not vertical New genetic material from space would account for the genetic diversity we see in early life

Eric Mazzone Astro 230 Panspermia: Were we brought here by comets? Well that’s up to you to decide