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    Panspermia (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) 'all' and σπέρμα (sperma) 'seed') is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space...
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  • Pseudo-panspermia (sometimes called soft panspermia, molecular panspermia or quasi-panspermia) is a well-supported hypothesis for a stage in the origin...
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  • Directed panspermia is a type of panspermia that implies the deliberate transport of microorganisms into space to be used as introduced species on other...
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  • Information panspermia is the concept of life forms travelling across the universe by means of transmission of compressed information representing said...
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    Red rain in Kerala (category Panspermia)
    University in Kottayam, Kerala, posted an article entitled "Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala" in the non-peer reviewed arXiv web site...
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    Chandra Wickramasinghe (category Panspermia)
    the pair worked jointly for over 40 years as influential proponents of panspermia. In 1974 they proposed the hypothesis that some dust in interstellar space...
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  • including natural panspermia and directed panspermia are also considered. Further, for human expansion in space and directed panspermia, motivation by life-centered...
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    Another ancient idea dating back to Anaxagoras in the 5th century BC is panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by meteoroids...
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    The possibility of life on Venus is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to Venus' proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no definitive evidence...
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    microbe-laden rock to escape Earth's gravity, suggesting the possibility of panspermia. Calculations indicate that these would encounter many of the bodies in...
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    1007/BF00648361. S2CID 115165958. Crick, F.H.; Orgel, L.E. (1973). "Directed Panspermia". Icarus. 19 (3): 341–48. Bibcode:1973Icar...19..341C. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(73)90110-3...
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    novel scientific accounts of natural phenomena, including the notion of panspermia, that life exists throughout the universe and could be distributed everywhere...
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    radical version of biophysicist Francis Crick's hypothesis of directed panspermia, McKenna speculated on the idea that psilocybin mushrooms may be a species...
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    System Science Organic compound Outer space PAH world hypothesis Pseudo-panspermia Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) RNA world hypothesis Spectroscopy...
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    System Science Organic compound Outer space PAH world hypothesis Pseudo-panspermia Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) RNA world hypothesis Spectroscopy...
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    System Science Organic compound Outer space PAH world hypothesis Pseudo-panspermia Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) RNA world hypothesis Spectroscopy...
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    the International Space Station. These findings supported the notion of panspermia, the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed...
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    found on Titan, it could have originated from Earth in a process called panspermia. It is theorized that large asteroid and cometary impacts on Earth's surface...
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    System Science Organic compound Outer space PAH world hypothesis Pseudo-panspermia Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) RNA world hypothesis Spectroscopy...
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    000 × g for 1 hour. The research has implications on the feasibility of panspermia. An accelerometer, in its simplest form, is a damped mass on the end of...
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    System Science Organic compound Outer space PAH world hypothesis Pseudo-panspermia Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) RNA world hypothesis Spectroscopy...
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    (2021-07-01). "Tardigrade Survival Limits in High-Speed Impacts—Implications for Panspermia and Collection of Samples from Plumes Emitted by Ice Worlds". Astrobiology...
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    agencies List of topics in space Olbers' paradox Outline of space science Panspermia Space art Space and survival Space race Space station Space technology...
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    Francis Crick (category Panspermia)
    forms using space travel technology, a process they called "directed panspermia". In a retrospective article, Crick and Orgel noted that they had been...
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  • setting up and/or adjusting a tournament bracket Planet seeding, or Panspermia, a theory dealing with propagation of simple lifeforms to inhabit planets...
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    life. Impacts may have helped deliver the building blocks for life (the panspermia theory relies on this premise). Impacts have been suggested as the origin...
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    System Science Organic compound Outer space PAH world hypothesis Pseudo-panspermia Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) RNA world hypothesis Spectroscopy...
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  • Fred Hoyle (category Panspermia)
    BBC Radio) in favor of the "steady-state model", and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth. He spent most of his working life at St...
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    System Science Organic compound Outer space PAH world hypothesis Pseudo-panspermia Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) RNA world hypothesis Spectroscopy...
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