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On 01/07/2025 02:03, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 6/30/2025 11:37 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

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Dafuq?

It looks like a bible-style description of
applied panspermia, or else terraforming.

It seems to involve "God", who could be the
spaceship's AI, and some pre-programming
of genes in the first appearance of life whose
function is relevant later on, which I think is
an idea in Christian "Creationism" or "intelligent
design" - that instead of genes coming into
existence by evolution, they all existed in the
original created entities but were suppressed.
I think it's describing the development of life
on Earth, but perhaps being partly fictional.
And not just because "God" is involved.
Successive forms of life themselves don't emerge
from the "Ark"; they don't appear until their
due time - according to actual prehistory if or when
this account really is following that.

I don't recognise "a matrix of amorphous silicate
and hydrogenated carbon". Could it be a description
of eggshell?

This might be an excerpt from or a response to
_Science Fiction By Scientists_, but nothing fits in
a skim read of the detailed review "reprinted" here <https://featuredfutures.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/science-fiction-by-scientists-edited-by-michael-brotherton/>
including the "obvious" "Spreading the Seed".

And it doesn't seem to be known by Google.

However, the appearance of very technical scientific
terms, or what looks like such, suggests that it's
from a scientist's hand.
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Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

This might be an excerpt from or a response to
_Science Fiction By Scientists_,

It all kicked off in this out-of-the-way newsgroup called
"de.etc.sprache.deutsch".

Someone there got curious about a word from Switzerland,
"Biolade" (health food store/organic food store).

That word made me think of "Bundeslade" (the Ark of the Covenant).
It really got my imagination going, trying to figure out what
a "Biolade" could be, and I started thinking my text should be
a mix of biblical and scientific language. I was also influenced
by a certain sci-fi story from a scientist I'd recently read.

So first, I put together a post in German for "de.rec.sf.misc",
and later followed up with an English one here. The biblical
vibe in the German version is based on Martin Luther, and in
the English one, it's based on the KJV.


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On 7/4/2025 3:36 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:

Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

This might be an excerpt from or a response to
_Science Fiction By Scientists_,

It all kicked off in this out-of-the-way newsgroup called
"de.etc.sprache.deutsch".

Someone there got curious about a word from Switzerland,
"Biolade" (health food store/organic food store).

That word made me think of "Bundeslade" (the Ark of the Covenant).
It really got my imagination going, trying to figure out what
a "Biolade" could be, and I started thinking my text should be
a mix of biblical and scientific language. I was also influenced
by a certain sci-fi story from a scientist I'd recently read.

So first, I put together a post in German for "de.rec.sf.misc",
and later followed up with an English one here. The biblical
vibe in the German version is based on Martin Luther, and in
the English one, it's based on the KJV.

....

Dafuq?

:P
--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.
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