From Newsgroup: talk.origins


Something batted around in another newsgroup for years and
made mainstream by Vince Gilligan's new show...

They're here!

The solution to the Fermi Assumption oops I meant "Paradox"
is that they are here and we see them all the time. We just
never knew they were aliens.

Okay, so in Vince Gilligan's show it's not bacteria but I'm
talking about bacteria...

START WITH ABIOGENESIS

Let's assume abiogenesis is a genuine possibility, that it
can happen. Well. The universe is just so vast, so old that
no matter how small you make the odds it had to happen
countless times.

Right?

WRONG!

It only had to happen once. Just once.

The worlds of our universe aren't just separated by space
but by time. And just a little time, in universe terms, is
still a very, Very, VERY long time. How long? Too long!

Meaning, if life arose even within a galaxy away from us,
and this happened even a little before the earth had cooled
to the point where it could support life, chances are it
reached our galaxy before it ever had a chance to
spontaneously form here!

Get it?

Supposedly there's life that has remained alive, dormant,
inside of rock for a quarter of a billion years. This
is more than enough time to reach other solar systems or
even the very closest neighboring galaxy! So if life was
already here on earth even a quarter of a billion PLUS 1
years before it could arise elsewhere, even a galaxy away,
chances are we seeded that world with life before
abiogenesis ever got the chance to get it all rolling!

Right?

A super volcanic eruption of asteroid impact throws debris
into space, out of orbit... bacterial life encased in this
debris... it floats through space at escape velocity or
beyond for a quarter of a billion years then lands on some
unsuspecting world that hasn't spawned it's own life yet.

Done.

AND IT ALL GETS REPEATED!

It only has to get as far as the next world, this life. Then
once it takes root, spreads across it's new planet any
eventual super volcanic eruption or asteroid strike starts
the process all over again!

By the time the earth was even forming life had already
been spreading across the universe for billions of years,
in every direction, and we still had a billion or so
years before conditions here could even host life!

There. There's your Fermi Assumption oops I mean Paradox.
Life colonized the whole galaxy, or everywhere it could
take root. It just wasn't technological life.
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