Panspermia seems to be in season at the moment; as well as a Scots professor testing the ability of microbes to survive space and reentry, one of the theory’s long-term proponents, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, has returned to the fray with a paper that uses data from the Deep Impact mission to suggest that cometary bodies may have the ideal conditions for harbouring primitive life.
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Ahhhh . . . the pieces are falling into place. The evolution/creation debate gets set on a new footing: http://www.starlarvae.org/Star_Larvae_Silicon_and_Biogenesis.html