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Transcript to an online chat with panspermia theorist Brig Klyce.
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Brig Klyce Chat: Cosmic Ancestry The Modern Version of Panspermia Our guest speaker today is panspermia theorist, Brig Klyce. Brig is the writer and creator of the internet's most comprehensive website on panspermia. Brig has actively studied evolution, the origin of life, and panspermia since 1980. In 1995 this activity...The Cosmic Ancestry hypothesis - about which this site has a large amount of information - treats all of evolution, not just the origin of life on Earth, as due to interaction with cosmic microorganisms.
http://www.panspermia.org/
Panspermia overview and technical papers.
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Panspermia Society for Life in Space (SOLIS Dedicated to promote the future of life in space through directed panspermia. Payloads of selected microorganisms will start evolution in new solar systems. Panspermia missions can start in this century. Directed Panspermia: Targets and Propulsion We can soon launch panspermia...Interviews with experts on panspermia and in other fields shows rising interest in the idea.
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SPACE.com Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia Nestled safely inside the belly of a comet orbiting some unknown star, a microscopic alien sits dormant. Somewhere in this vast universe perhaps a place like Earth a greater destiny awaits the microbe. A place to flourish, become a nematode...Short scientific article by John R. Gribbin. "Spreading of life-bearing spores across the Galaxy (panspermia) may be easier than is usually acknowledged."
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909013
Descriptive entry in The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight.
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panspermia Anaxagoras is said to have spoken of the seeds of life from which all organisms derive. Panspermia began to assume a more scientific form through the proposals of Berzelius (1834 Richter (1865 Kelvin (1871 and Helmholtz (1871 finally reaching the...