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Panspermia (from
Ancient Gr**** πᾶν (pan) 'all' and σπέρμα (****) 'seed') is the
hypothesis that life
exists throughout the Universe,
distributed by space...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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radical version of
biophysicist Francis Crick's
hypothesis of
directed panspermia,
McKenna speculated on the idea that
psilocybin mushrooms may be a species...
- 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...
