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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 09 2008,10:08) | | Quote (dogdidit @ April 09 2008,09:29) | I am convinced DS is writing hisself a sci-fi novel. Or channeling Arthur C. Clarke. link
| Quote | | A perfectly plausible explanation for this is that the earth, as soon as was able to support organic life in any form, was purposely seeded with it (Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel’s directed panspermia). The purpose of that was to terraform the planet so that it could eventually support oxygen breathing land animals. The first seeding culminated in the Ediacaran biota. A second seeding of modern forms of life took place in the Cambrian. If we suppose that rational man and an industrial civilization capable of repeating the cycle of directed panspermia was the ultimate goal more terraforming was required at least in as much as laying down large stores of easily accessable fossil fuels to power an industrial civilization. In order to repeat the cycle and ensure that life continues beyond the point where the earth is able to support it (the sun will eventually fry the earth into a cinder in another few billion years) there must be some means of identifying young planets able to support life (astronomy), the ability to transport life to them (space exploration), and the ability to customize forms of life suitable for the new environment (genetic engineering). |
Of course, if the space aliens travelled all the way to earth just to stick anal probes up our butts seed the planet with new life and program it to go out an find a new world to live on, why didn't they just perform the latter task themselves? Oh wait, that'll be in the second volume. Tard Wars will be a multi-volume set. |
"Please! We have reached the limits of what anal probing can teach us!"
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One would think that was true, but it's dangerous to make such assumptions without first calculating how far Gil Dogden can stick his tongue up another person's butt.
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