Panspermia from Mars (split from can life be random chemical reactions)

[Robittybob1]

But how we're these chemicals present to begin with? :L

Years ago I learned about panspermia and I was fascinated by the idea. Life might not have started on Earth, but was brought to Earth. After much further study I came to the view that if life didn't start on Earth it had to at least start in our Solar System but where?

It dawned on me that a possible place for life to start was on the planet Mercury during the late Proto-sun period.

NASA has said it is going to plan a mission to check out the frozen water filled craters on the Mercurian poles. I have a hunch they will discover masses of organic material there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auT6xF3wSys

 

NASA Announces Water Ice and Organics on Mercury

Now everyone will say it is too hot for life on Mercury, and it definitely is today but way back then before the Sun was thermonuclear?

Well that is my best guess, and I'll leave it to NASA to prove it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

 

 

Panspermia is a hypothesis proposing that microscopic life forms that can survive the effects of space, such as extremophiles, become trapped in debris that is ejected into space after collisions between planets and small Solar System bodies that harbor life. Some organisms may travel dormant for an extended amount of time before colliding randomly with other planets or intermingling with protoplanetary disks. If met with ideal conditions on a new planet's surfaces, the organisms become active and the process of evolution begins. Panspermia is not meant to address how life began, just the method that may cause its distribution in the Universe.

Edited October 11, 2014 by Robittybob1

[Robittybob1]

There was a better documentary but that one will suffice for now.

If you have a spare hour and really interested in astrophysics

"Watch NASA Presser on Messenger's Evidence for Ice on Mercury"

Edited October 12, 2014 by Robittybob1